Rangiku Open sparring in squad 4!

While the laughter of his opponent swirled in the background of his wind strike, Tento’s sickle sliced through towards Rangiku’s figure after his own body appeared some distance before her out of a flash step. The melee strike found air once again as Rangiku predictably flashed stepped out of the way once again. At this point he had noticed the pattern of her liking to go for the back, and so as she moved to do so Tento had used his own superior speed to shift forward, weaving out of the way of her chop as he bent forward twisting his torso in a maneuver to stick out his leg in a back kick to her gut. In the flow of motion, Tento took the closer proximity so had created to his advantage, swinging his body around to face her while bringing his fan with him, swinging his fan as a ball of wind shot out as he quickly spun around, flashing in front of Rangiku before expanding into a violent howling miniature tornado with her at its epicenter, the cutting slices of air pinning at her from all sides.

“And I hope you dont expect to get me with repeated attacks”, Tento said from outside the wind attack hopefully catching her off guard. With a quick follow through, Tento would let loose a wordless incantation while flash stepping to the top at the one opening within the tornado. Sticking out his fan hand while spinning Shiomaru creating a medium sized ball of fire generated at high end temperatures that threatened to sizzle and shake the air around him. Shooting out the orb as it discharged in a crimson red energy coating the tornado in its flames while Tento’s Hadō #31 Shakkahō streaked down toward’s Rangiku from above. “I have a lot more I haven’t shown you yet, Rangiku!!”.

With a WHAM Tento felt his kick land, but it was a well guarded defense. Solid bone with a sturdy foundation from Vice Captain Rangiku. With Rangiku wrapped around the current of wind from all sides. With the fanning flames adding to her burns, the dust cloud she tossed out acted like a choker. Striking the wind and spinning gradually hindering the wind strike of the needed oxygen to continue the combination.

Still airborne after using his kido. Tento watched with a spinning sickle behind him as Rangiku jumped out of the one gap of the wind before rushing upward towards him. It was something he expected giving her only way of escape, but he was surprised that she chose to go to a close quarter combat approach again. With a grunt he shifted his zanpatuko in front of Rangiku’s target area, bracing for impact. With a crash he got pressed by her attack, getting moved back by a few meters from the impact.

While moving from the momentum Tento quickly lifted up his hand as he flailed his weapon, sending its metal end to retaliated against her. This was a feinted attempted though, for regardless if he managed to land a solid blow or not against her, Tento would quickly move the long chain of Shiomaru with a practiced skill. Coiling metal around Rangiku’s waist in a vice grip as Tento yanked his chain to apply pressure. With one of the feather’s quickly disappearing from Tento’s fan, the sickle head his Tento’s blade would endure a transformation. Creating a temporary vacuum around her designed to suck out all the air briefly causing a shock to the body to stagger her. Taking the chance possibly given by the shock, Tento would wave his fan and stand out a devastating wind slash that threatened to overtake her frame as the current of wind approached her.