four ☆ the world on his shoulders

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[Yuuto shows up on the beach looking a little dirty, but he's fine otherwise. His jacket is unzipped and the shirt he's wearing shows the outlines of a leather harness and weights beneath. He pauses to strip off his shoes so that he can jump around on the sand.

Finally, he's ready. His knuckles whiten around his quarterstaff, which has somehow managed to survive all this time (also despite getting owned by the rogue Imagin a few weeks ago). He practices a few defensive stances, then one of the attacking ones he's been taught. He goes on to attempt a few he's seen... er... felt Urataros using for some time, then steps back and leans on his staff. He needs... more. This isn't enough.

It's worth a shot.]

Aniki?


[ooc: Feel free to bother/stalk/whatever. They just got a canonbump, and Ryotarou is officially out of cards, so Yuuto has to pick up the slack now.]

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[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[Yuuto glares momentarily, then takes the proffered hand and gets up. The next ten seconds are filled with him spitting out sand and trying to shake it out of his hair.]

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Ryotarou steps back to let him do that.] I don't use staffs, so I can't really tell you much more than the fact that you're using too much force, but... I guess it's not my business anyway, is it?

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[pleh pleh ew pleh]

Everything else I do is your business. There's no point in stopping now. [Harsh words, but then ...] I have to take what I can get.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

... eh? You want me to keep doing this?

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

You can't fight anymore, right? [He resumes a ready stance with the staff.] So if I screw this up, it's over. Until I can prove myself... [He starts going through the set again.]

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Takes a few more steps back to give him room.]

... like I said, I don't know how to fight with staffs.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

But you can tell when I'm being sloppy, right?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Well... yes.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

Then that's all I need. I guess. This is stuff I should already know.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Why is that?

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

I get too comfortable with something so I slack off. And that's how mistakes happen. Haven't you told me that before?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

No. Staff fighting is what one of your Imagin uses, isn't it?

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but he isn't here to help me with it.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

... I don't want to depend on the Imagin for everything.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

... But that doesn't mean you should know what they do right off the bat.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

I've been training for a while.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Since you've been wearing the weights?

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

... Ah.