An old Friend, A New Rival (Kazuma, Open to All)

[koenig]

(It was a beatiful sunny saturday afternoon. The time was exactly 11:37. As I rose from my bed I looked outside to see what kind of a day it was. Seeing the sun I decided to do something I had wanted to do for a long time. Opening my closet I grabbed my Muay Thai shorts which were black with gold and orange flames.

I then took my white tape and taped up my hands all the way to my elbows. I then took off my socks and taped up my feet and ankles. Now for the final part. Grabbing my cellphone I called an old friend Kazuma. Leaving a message on his phone I said)

"Hey kazuma It's bruce, long time no see been months man, look come meet me in the clearing by the pond at the forest. Make sure you wear something...comfortable"

(I had a good feeling he would know what i meant by wear something comfortable. I then took off my shirt and walked outside. Jogging to the forest I smiled as I stopped.

Walking into the forest i made my way to the clearing. When I got there I layed down in the grass with my eyes closed waiting for kazuma to show up)

[Kazuma]

Kazuma was at home with his girlfriend teneile when his cell phone went off, he was surprised to see that it was bruce on the other end. He went to his voice mail and checked out what exactly he wanted, having a good idea though before the message even began to play. “Oh Bruce…it really has been a while” he said aloud. He told his girlfriend he would be taking a trip to the forest to meet an old friend and then went upstairs and changed into a pair of grey karate gi pants and put on an old black A shirt. He then grabbed his boxing wraps and bound his fist quickly in the worn red cotton wraps

He took his chopper to the to the forest making sure not to keep his old friend waiting. Only stoping quick to pick up a pack of cigarettes, he had quit for some time now but had a feeling he would want one after his meeting with bruce.

When he arrived he walked quickly directly to the spot Bruce had told him to meet him in. He was surprised when he saw his friend there resting with his eyes closed. “What you wanted me to come here to nap?” he said aloud chuckling at his own comment

[koenig]

(Hearing my old friends words I laughed as I rose to my feet)

"A nap? not now, but i know we will both be needing one after"

(I said as I continued to smile. Looking him up and down i noticed right away that he came here ready for a fight, that was good because that was exactly what i planned to give him)

"We can catch up on old times after we have our fun, how does that sound?"

(I said as I slightly bent my knees. My left leg was forward and my feet were spread shoulder length apart)

"don't worry my old friend, This will not be boring for either of us, but Don't hold back on me, otherwise you may find yourself napping a lot sooner then expected"

(I said to my long time friend. I then brought my hands up in a traditional boxing stance with my left hand forward. I knew that the only way i was going to get stronger then i was now, is to fight strong opponents, no opponent can come much bigger or stronger then kazuma)

[Kazuma]

This is why Kazuma respected Bruce so much, he cut right to it and as soon as he noticed Bruce getting into his own stance Kazuma did the same raising both his arms and resting his weight on the balls of his feet.

“Same goes for you…though I am pretty sure you knew that already”

He began to close in, he was careful when it came to bruce just for the fact he was such a talented fighter when it came to kick boxing and he had the resilance to stand toe to toe with him. Kazuma’s eyes had a spark in them as he closed in.

He first threw a right jab aimed at Bruce’s head to distract him, right after he would throw a left hook going for Bruces body. Nether were extreme like they would get later on right now he was sizing up the opponent he had not seen in so many months

[koenig]

(Smiling once I heard his words my smile was instantly gone when he started moving in, instead was a face full of seriousness. Eyes that blazed with fire, eyes that longed for what was to come.

As he threw a quick right jab for my head I did nothing, Letting the punch hit my head snapped back slightly. As my head was snapping back My whole body jolted and lurched to the side suddenly. Feeling the pain in my side I stumble backwards. Regaining myself to full height a slow smile crossed my lips, good good, now the fun would begin.)

"hehehe now we can truly have fun"

(I said with a smile as I shuffled forward bringing my hands back up in front of my face. The pain was still evident in my side, but I was no stranger to pain. In fact i rather enjoyed it, and embraced it as i would a friend. Pain was a necessity to win. As I shuffled withen striking distance I shot my left hand out with my hand open. The arm would look like a jab but would stop in front of his face. Instead of a strike this would obstruct his vision, not to mention any normal person reaction would be to blink or lean back a bit. The feint jab was a cover up for the real attack, which was a hard right uppercut aimed for his abdomen. I wasn't unleashing my attacks at full strength quite yet, that would be saved for later, I knew kazuma and I both wanted to enjoy this)

[Kazuma]

He wasn't surprised Bruce took his blows so well, he could take hits from the mass monster and still move even when he threw them full force, he remembered that much from thier first fight back in Varron, the only difference was now Kazuma had grown since then becoming stronger, but he knew Bruce in the same sense had probably trained in his arts making him stronger as well.

He smiled at Bruces words. Only to have his vision taken away from and open handed jab. Kazuma could only see from his left eye to begin with so the one hand was more then enough to blind most of what was around them. He felt a fist slam upward into his abbs . As his body naturally curled he forced himself to throw a hard left striaght toward Bruces chest, even if it missed it would keep bruce at a distance till he striaghten (Bastard still has it...this is going to be fun)

[koenig]

(Aas my blow connected I instantly brought my left hand back to its former position. As I did this I saw out of the corner of my eye a straight left being thrown for my chest. It was a well placed attack for kazuma to throw since My right side where his punch was thrown from would be exposed.

As the punch came for my chest I shot my left hand across my body to connect with his wrist with an open palm. Since there wasn't much power behind me throwing my arm across all it did was cause his punch to hit my right shoulder instead of my chest. As the blow hit I was launched a couple of feet backwards while spinning. Hitting the ground I rolled tot he side and regained my feet in one motion. Still smiling the whole time I moved my right arm around to loosen up the now tense and hurting muscles)

"nice nice, hehehehe"

(I said with a smile as I began to chuckle, It was time to step it up a notch. Shuffling forward withen kicking distance I smiled. Quickly I sent my right leg for a spinning roundhouse kick aimed for right in front of his head. I only put about 40 percent of my full strength into this kick, the reasoning for that was for when my kick would continue on its path I would in one fluid motion pull my leg in when it would pass his head and shoot it out hard in a side kick aimed for his chest in an attempt to send him back the same way he was sending me back. He had gotten much better and faster then he was before, but luckily for me so had I)

[Kazuma]

He straighten out as Bruce took his tumble, he was impressed with his quick reactions to try and divert the hit to a place it would cause less damage then his chest.

He could not help but chuckle along with Bruce, both men were fighters who loved the exchanging of thier fist, fighting didn't need a true purpose to be done for them. His eye kept on his as he came toward Kazuma this time stopping in kicking distance. Kazuma remember though that when it came to bruce his punchs and kicks were nothing compared to his elbows and knees.

The kick came and he already began to move his head to the side in hopes of avoiding it, but he was tricked and it slammed into his chest, It was a good and powerful shot that made the top heavy giant fly back off his feet but as soon as he hit the ground with his back he force himself to do a backward summer sault onto his feet. He forced himself up quickly with his muscluar legs, pain ripped through his chest but it was a bareable welcome pain he had not felt in quiet some time

"Not bad Bruce" he said the fire in his eyes growing as the fight was getting more and more enjoyable. He shuffled foward his feet carrying him quickly. He got within his reach and started to throw the hard punches that made his a force on any feild of battle. First was a right striaght aimed for bruces chest if it hit he would then go for a left uppercut for bruces ribs , if block or dodged he would thrust himself foward and try and hit Bruce with a hard right knee to the midsection

[koenig]

(Hearing his words I continued to smile. The fire in both of our eyes showed our true emotions towards our fight. This was more then simple pleasure, this connection we shared was pure and utterless joy. something only a true warrior felt at the end of a beating. As he came forward I readied myself.

As he threw a straight for my chest I did something that I rarely did in a fight, something I hoped would catch kazuma off guard. Pivoting my left leg backwards as his punch came this caused my right shoulder to be facing him, this would also cause his punch to graze my chest but pass in front of it now that i was standing sideways, but that wasn't all I had in mind. As I pivoted I waited for the punch to just pass in front of me, at the same time I continued to pivot my leg around so that my backw ould be to him. In one fluid motion My left leg would extend backwards hard in a mule kick, this kick was aimed for his chest at the area I had hit him with my side kick. If there was anything I knew about fighting huge fighters like kazuma, I would have tow ork on one part of the body more then any other.)

[Teneile]

Since kissing Kazuma goodbye Teneile had been very busy making things for Kazuma and his friend. While he hadn't asked her to come she figured that it really wouldn't be a problem if she showed up, especially since she was bringing food for them to eat. She hummed as she finished packing the last batch of freshly made brownies into a tuperware container before closing the large and encumbersom picnic basket. She remembered to feed Bella and Rocky their dogs who were munching happily side by side. They seemed to get along and Rocky had taken on being Bella's protector when she was out and about with him and Bella had taken to being Rocky's cuddler at night. It was cute really.

"Allright guys, see you later." she said giving each dog a kiss and smiling as she left getting into Kazuma's car that he had left the keys to for her at home in case she wanted to go somewhere.

Which had definatly come in handy seeing as she did want to go somewhere. To his meeting. Even if they asked her to leave she would, she really just wanted to drop off lunch. Still, in case it was okay to stay she had brought things for herself to do. She had seen how Kazuma was dressed and knew they were either working out or fighting so she had made a large meal for them and now was heading out that way. Turning on the car she shifted into gear fiddled with the radio to find her station and took off for the forest.

Once there she saw Kazuma's bike and smiled parking next to it she locked the car and grabbed her things. It wasn't cold but it definatly wasn't warm so Teneile had worn a pair of jeans that hugged her as mostly all her clothing did, and a black skin tight spaghetti strapped tank top, under a apple green hoodie with the hood down. Her hair was pulled up and back in a pony tail and she had hoops hanging from her ears. Around her neck was the necklace Kazuma had given to her for her birthday. She made her way through the trails of the forest til she heard Kazuma's voice and headed towards it. Breaking out in the clearing she smiled.

"Hey boys." she said with a bright smile. "I brought lunch. Figured when kazuma left the house in those clothes you would, at the very least be workiing out, so I brought a home cooked meal when you're done fighting. And don't worry I won't get in the way, I brought books and stuff, so don't mind me, just the delivery service so to speak."

She looked over at the boy that was Kazuma's friend and offered hm another smile.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Teneile." she said with a smile and a nod. She moved the perimeter of the clearing and sat herself down on a quilt from home and opened a book letting the boys go back to fighting she was serious about not wanting to ruin their day she had merely wanted to make them a nice lunch.

[Kazuma]

OOC: sorry if I seemed to stop only to reset the match. If wanted I will change the entire thing

Bruce pivoted the initial blow having it just barely graze his chest (He’s clever) he thought to himself . Kazuma had very little time to react as the mule kick came towards his chest. Kazuma planted his feet and tensed the muscles in his chest taking advantage of the layers of rock hard muscles he had gone out of his way to build over so many years. He was able to keep his ground by doing this and prevent him from losing his wind

Avoiding the worst of it, all but the pain that ripped through him. He stepped forward and bent slightly at his knees he was going to take advantage of Bruce’s exposed back and through a hard left uppercut that was aimed at Bruce’s lower back. It was then that her voice rang out through the air and his fist stopped. “Time out” He said to Bruce as Teneile approached them, letting him know to lower his guard for a moment.

Introductions were made , He was happy she was there and they would soon get aquianted better with one another but this spar still had to be fought. “Alright let’s get back to this” he said to Bruce he knew the both of them still had a lot of fight left in the both of them

[koenig]

(Waiting for the inevitable blow to come towards mye xposed back I smiled. Only to be slightly let down it did not come, hearing the twow ords "time out" I turned around. Seeing a girl who brought us lunch I continued smiling, this must have been kazumas girlfriend.

Hearing her introduce herself I did the same)

"Bruce gills"

(I said with a slight incline of my head i then turned to akzuma)

"you got yourself a cute one there buddy, but now it is your turn"

(I said as I cotninued to smile. This time I squared up in a southpaw stance, now I was going to start fighting for real. Now was the time for the old bruce to resurface, the one me and kazuma loved so much)

[Kazuma]

He watched as Bruce took his southpaw stance, Kazuma knew what that stance meant for their little spar was now turning into a fight between friends. Kazuma could only smile, he had a decent fight on his hands with a good friend, and a fresh lunch that had been brought by his beautiful girlfriend who would actually get to see what her normally dosile boyfriend was capible of.

Both of his fist riased up in front of him again, his fighting consintrated on his fists it always had but that was because he knew he could easily be thrown off balance if his leg was caught while trying a kick. Instead of a normal shuffle he dashed toward Bruce leaving barely a foot between the two, he threw a hard left striaght toward Bruces head which if succsful would be followed up by a hard right to Bruces side

[koenig]

(As He dashed at me I smiled, that was a mistake my good friend would pay for. As he threw the hard left straight I Pivoted my left leg back even more so that his punch would grave my right temple While I would turn. This turn would cause his punch to keep going with his added momentum from the dash. While I turned I shot my right leg out hard to trip up his legs.

The only problem with being as big as Kazuma was, was the fact that when he had so much momentum, it would be nearly impossible for someone with that much wieght to just stop it.

This would cause my little trip, if succsesful that is, to turn into a headlong tumble with all of his momentum behind it)

[Kazuma]

He took the tumble doing his best to arch into it so he would roll instead of slamming head first into the ground. Bruce knew kazuma's weakness alittle to well from thier previous battles and he used them agianst him very well. When the roll stopped he managed to get back onto his hands and knee's and quickly pulled himself up, but he was large so the trip up was slow giving brice enough time to close the gap between them.

Knowing he would be open his eyes quickly found Bruce and he turned to him but he had only been able to raise his hands up enough to about half way, leaving him open to an attack

[koenig]

(Instead of doing the logical thing and following up with my attack i waited for kazuma to be able to regain his feet, When he regained his feet I smiled to him before closing the distance between us with a couple of quick shuffles.

When i came withen striking distance of kazuma I threw a quick right jab aimed for his face, the jab didn't have much power on it but it was meant to distract him from my left hook that would follow up behind the jab. the hook was aimed for the right side of his jaw. Now I was using my full strengths, now I knew was the time both me and kazuma would fight with everything we had, not because we hated each other, not because we had a grudge, simply because we respected each others abilities enough to not hold back on each other.

Now was the time I would start using my strong techniques the ones I would use against someone I was trying to hurt. Not because I was trying to actually hur tmy friend, but because I knew that he would become a better fighter when facing him. Just like I would become a better fighter facing his)

[Kazuma]

As the right jab came in Kazuma shifted his head to the left, though it was unintentional when Bruces left hooked slammed into his jaw it took some of the brush of it off though not much. Kazuma's body twisted, it looked like he would go down for a second but instead he forced his body to do a full 360.

This spin was just not for balance but it was to build up force. His right fist would spin with him and using all the momentum gianed he would throw a right hook into the left side of Bruces bady aiming for his ribs. It the hit was a sucsses it would stop the momentum of his body as well helping to regian his balance.

[koenig]

(As my hook connected I began to bring my arm back into place, but due to kazumas spin it only got halfway there. The massive punch he would throw would graze my elbow taking off some of the force from his blow. This however was not enough force to change the outcome. As the blow hit I was sent flying to my right. Hitting th eground hard I continued rolling before I stopped laying on the ground in a heap.

Getting up slowly I could feel the immense pain in my side, If I had not brought my elbow back in time my ribs would of definatly been broken form that strike. Getting up slowly I started coughing up blood. Smiling I coughed the blood onto my hands. I then stood at full heigh facing kazuma)

"This i do out of respect my friend, now you see what happens when I bruce Gills get serious."

(After saying that I took the blood and wiped it on my face in a total of three lines on under each eye and curling down to my cheek bone to connect at my jaw line. I then wiped the blood that was in my palm across my forehead. it had been many many months since I had used my blood dye technique, no one had pushed me hard enough to do it, but now was different. My eyes turned suddenly emotionless except for the small fire that could be seen in them. i then stood traight and motioned for kazuma to come at me)

[Kazuma]

Kazuma was a bit shocked his blow had hit that hard, hit had been so long since he had fought someone he had forgoten the amount of force he could put into a blow. Kazuma did not feel any better when his friend started to cough up some blood into his hands. But this was a fight and he could stop it at anytime it was the only benifit of fighting a friend.

He watched as Bruce got up striaght which must not have been the greatest feeling in the world after that last shot. "Good...if this goes to the level I think it will you might meet the beast that earned me my title" He said with a smile, though he was not sure if he wanted to let that monster out with Teneile around to see.

The blood on the face raised Kazuma's brow but it didn't phase him, it was the look in Bruces eyes that got to him. Kazuma charged Bruces stance looked like it would be good for a quick strike but it didn't look like it was made for defense. Kazuma Would slam his right shoulder into Bruce and then at the last moment before he went fly would sneak in a quick left uppercut to his abbs.

[koenig]

(As kazuma charged at me I did nothing, I waited until he was close and would have to drop his shoulder for his shoulder attack to work. Finally I did something quite unexpected, Instead of doing the logical thing and move out of the way of the oncoming behemoth of a man. I took a step forward and launched off my left leg to jump up high, While jumping I would extend my right knee for a flying right knee aimed for his jaw.

DUe to his onward momentum It would be quite hard to stop or dodge effectivly, the only problem with what i did was the fact that even If the attack hit, I would still have his momentum and his charge carrying me through the air since I would have nothing to plant myself onto to try and stop his charge)