Fearless Knight

she quickly snapped back into reality as nel came close up. As lost as ever, due to the fact that she only caught onto the last few words.

“ahhhhhh. now that you mention it sensei….” her stomach began to growl loudly, she blinked a few times “I’ve brought a few slices of cake, it’s about lunch time wouldn’t you say? And I’ve brought plenty. too much for me alone to eat. would you like some?

She got into her new learned position “Am I doing it right sensei?” Now learning where to place her hands, not only how to spread her feet. the weapon being heavier than it actually looked. She tried not to loose her balance. Gazing at her sensei. She seemed soo cool, and like she had done this for a very long time. Orihime was now determined to be like her.

"Yes you've done it! Well done!" Clapping in praise as Nel's student quickly got a hang of swinging her sword. Seeing that her student was getting a hang of swinging her sword, Nelliel thought that it was about time she explained a bit more about the training. "Swinging your sword like this for a couple of minutes every lesson will start to get boring, but you'll learn knew techniques. Also when you start a lesson, every in your group will line up in a straight line beside one another in front of their sensei. Once lined up you can preform two types of bows; which depend on your teacher. One is bowing you head, will you sword held at you hip and the second one is quietly lowering your body to the ground and having your hands in front of your knees and then slowly and quietly lower your head; with the hilt of your sword lined up with your left knee."

moments later her exciteful look turned into a blank stare as she caught a glimpse if the wooden stick. Was this really a geisha class? Were her geisha magazine’s really that out dated that it didn’t include this? Had times really changed that much? Or was this apart of a new or hidden secret geisha art?

"Alright then, Let's begin."   Getting herself ready to begin, Nel thought she might as well go through the basic rules that her new student needed to know. "There are a few rules that you'll have to follow with learning this art. One being; be careful where you point you sword, I would advise you to point the tip of the wooden sword facing the ground when resting or walking around. Second rule is to be very aware of you're surrounds, mainly if someone is behind you; you wouldn't want to hit anyone fro behind...Haha I've done that once." Sheepishly laughing to herself.

"That is all you need to know right now, those too basic rules, for your own safety as well as the safety of others. You'll get to know the rest of the rules down the track." About around this point Nel hoped she wasn't starting to sound boring to Orihime, so just telling her pupil two main rules should be easy enough to learn as well she didn't want to bore the girl. 

"Now enough of rules, let's actually start doing something." Taking her wooden blade, Nel lined herself along side the orange head and spaced her feet apart. "Okay so to get started, I'll teach you how to stand. Spread your feet out, so that they line up with you shoulders. and once you have done that hold you sword up, with your dominate hand placed on the top of the handle and your less dominate hand below the dominate." As the green head lifted her sword up, she placed her right hand on the top of the handle where her index and thumb touching the guard, while her left hand sat below the right.

“Nel Sensei it’s nice to meet you too! my names Inoue Orihime. I will try my best and be your number 1 student! let the lessons begin!”

   When suddenly her over active imagination starting to kick in. She said she would be a geisha and a geisha she would be. even though everything wasn’t as she had imagined

and the technique’s were probably completely off from what she had thought they would be. she was sure this was the way to becoming a geisha, and the girl in front of her was her way of making it happen. That’s when a bulb went off in her head and she finally understood what was going on… or so she thought. ”ahhh, I get it your holding back on me. Don’t worry sensei, maybe I am not worthy yet, but I will try my best, teach me your ways!” she smiled

Neliel tu oderschvank

*heart attack* i fell in love

“I’m going to teach you how to stand up on the surf board, don’t panic if you can’t do this the first few times, not many can” he calmly said, trying to reassure her that it’ll be okay even if she does’t succeed the first time. 

“Now, I’m going to do this slowly and in stages but don’t copy what I do just yet, I want to show you what it’s meant to be like first”

Shiki lay back down on the surfboard and looked up at Nel. Then he put his hands on the board beside his shoulders, palms down. He tried to make every movement as slow as possible so she could see it clearly but it was a little hard to perform it at such slow speed without losing your balance a little. Then he pushed his upper body up and swept his feet underneath himself and lined them up on the silver line that run down the middle of the surfboard.

“Always make sure your feet are on the stringer”

When he was finally standing still, he made sure to lower his body a little, elbows and lower arms out a little to aid his balancing. 

“Never stand straight on the surf board or look down, you’ll lose your balance” Shiki commented, eyes flickering down at Nel. After a couple more seconds Shiki dived into the water and resurfaced next to his surfboard with a concerned look.

“Do you have a rough idea of what you are supposed to do or should i demonstrate again?”

"...don’t panic if you can’t do this the first few times, not many can"

Taking in what Senri said made her feel reassured that if she does fall, she will be among the many that fell off their board and into the ocean as well...

Listening and watching Senri, Nel wasn't too sure about standing. She always thought that it was simple, just get up on the board and stand up straight, however there was more to it. Becoming serious Nel took into count where her hands should be as well as where her feet should be placed when standing on the board. "I think I got it..."

She sort of understood, he'd shown her as slow as he could go without losing her balance, and call she has to do is copy his actions; how hard could it be?

Lowering her body flat on her board and lifting her legs onto the board. Placing her palms on either side of the board, Nel lifted herself up- just high enough to shift her legs underneath her body and copying the position where Senri placed his feet. Trying to balance herself, Nel took a deep breath and pushed herself up. 

Standing on the wet surf board, Nel was happy that she was able to conquer that task, grinning with triumph. However that didn't last long, the couple of seconds she stood on the board, she began to wobble and soon enough she lost her balance and slipped right into the water. 

Making back up and spitting out the salty water, Nel climbed back onto her board and tried it again. Placing her hands on either side and shifting her legs under her; and remembering not to stand up straight or look down or even backwards, Nel stood up again, it was better then last time but again she fell into the water.

Popping back on her board, she moved her hair away from her face and tried again. This time she had more control over her balance and when she stood up on her board, she really had conquered it. Standing on her board, she looked to Senri with a big grin. "Hahah! I did it!"   But not paying attention to what she was doing, Nel once again dived straight into the salty water.

 Knowing that she would possibly be late Orihime grabbed a fresh piece of french toast, running out of her apartment. Seeing as it was summer vacation, she had signed up for many things to keep her busy. As of right now she was on the way to her geisha school. She had never had a fascination for it, but liked trying new things. and thought geisha’s looked elegant and graceful and hoped to learn a thing or two. Somewhere between the path’s she seem to have taken a wrong turn. Instead of the Geisha school, she had ended up at a Kendo school. 

 But of course she wouldn’t come to realize this till much later. She rushed into the building into one of the rooms. Wondering where the geisha’s were at. Carefully observing her surroundings, this was definitely very different from what she had imagined it would be like. There were no fancy table’s or quilt’s, or tea sets, or cherry blossoms everywhere, or even fish ponds with rare fish. Then again she had never seen a geisha in person or had been to geisha school before. She began to wonder if the magazine’s she had seen a while back were outdated. “yes that must be it” she thought to herself. After much walking she finally stumbled into someone. The room was a tad dark, there was girl in the center of the room, although she could only see her back from this point, orihime guessed they were about the same age. She watched her for a minute “woahh, so these are geisha’s” she thought to herself. Till she finally ran up to the girl and bowed “hello hello, sorry, I’m late, I’m ready to learn!I’ve come so you can teach me your ways master!”

Finishing after a full hour of swinging her wooden sword, it was about time she took a break. Using her sleeve to wipe the sweat off her forehead, Nel lowered her sword and relaxed. "I'm so out of shape..." Muttering to herself.