[All-Star] Poliro vs Mayuko, Round one!

Her fingers ran along the dual blades she held. There was a sort of comfort in knowing that these two were here to guide her, even when she had no one else. But their soft pushing, and a bit of poking from the outside world, had allowed to take a semblance of normality. But her movements had always been mechanical and dead : the heart that once resembled fire had extinguished. And then,s he had found the reason to feel again : with a twist of fate, she was here, with the man that had become her pillar since she had died. The red haired girl let out a sigh, feeling her body shake a little : she was afraid, because of the difference in their powers.. but the girl wanted to learn shikai. There was no other sort of desire : she wanted to fight and get stronger, in order for her to be able to keep pace with her beloved captain.

She knew she would lose, but because of it, she would try even harder. Mayuko had this determination that wouldn't let her down : she felt this sort of flare in her heart. The shinigami seat had not felt this sort of desire, determination and purpose, in a long time. It definitely felt good : it was beyond something she expected to have felt again. But she had never expected to come to depend on Poliro so much : the world worked in funny ways. For a moment, the girl giggled, surely making said man question her. But in honesty, she couldn't help but think what humans would do when facing her beloved, and well, the image of a buff man throwing toy firetrucks was beyond amusing to her. Not that she would ever tell him thought.

It was still something to giggle at.

"Why is she doing something so bloody stupid..?" were Poliros thoughts as he arrived to the fighting realm called the F-Zone. He had been telling himself over and over why Mayuko had stooped down to be this dumb to simply challenge him with the differences in power. Was this really the only way for her to get Shikai? Poliro knew other means other than hurting her. He didn't want want to do this. He really didn't. He knew what was going to be happen, and.. he just felt really conflicted. He didn't want to deny her the chance to become strong, cause he knew she wanted to follow in his footsteps, but if it meant hurting her... he just wouldn't be able to bring himself to do it. He was going to go as easy as he could, aka; massive holding back was basically going to be this fight. He wasn't going to deny Mayuko, as he knew she would otherwise probably tear his balls or something violent would happen to him. He figured he'd get less hurt if he fought her, funnily enough. So he was going to do it for her sake. For the woman he loved. Despite the conflicts, he finally found Mayuko in the F-Zone, the fighting realm.

He gave the best smile he could, trying to seem not conflicted, but rather a bit more calmer rather than being a whiny emo about it, he was keeping this inside. "So then.. you wanted a challenge with me? I turned up. If I didn't, you would of ripped my balls off probably." He sighed as his nervous feelings simply got more and more intense as the fight neared the beginning. He just didn't want to go through this, but he was forcing himself to for the sake of Mayuko. Oh, what love does to people. What it does to Poliro though, hasn't been too thankful in the past decades for him. He stood infront of Mayuko, a good distance. "How far are you taking this? You know i'm very strong. Do you want me to hold back, just even a tiny bit?" HE was mainly using this as a taunt to get Mayuko going at him, to get her into the mood of fighting. HE waited for Mayuko's response, but pretty soon it'll be time to shut up and commence the battle.

Poliro did know deep down he loved Mayuko too much go truly all out on here. He wasn't sure how far he was going to let himself go, but probably no further than his Shikai.. without a doubt. However, he didn't know she had Shikai, the bluff wasn't exactly called, so Mayuko had a chancethere to surprise him, as he'd have no idea of what she was capable of after discovering that. However, it didn't really change the fact Poliro's power level compared to Mayuko's was like the heavens to the earth. Poliro had far gone beyond was normal for a Vizard, while Mayuko was a shinigami. Poliro had another fear he may accidently hurt her too much... but as the battle started, he cast off his fears and decided he was just going to fight her fairly and properly.

It seemed Mayuko made the first move, drawing out her weapon and aiming to thrust into Poliro's eye. But ontop of this, Poliro's arms found theirselves locked behind his back, as Poliro recgonised the sign. Bakudo 1. A very simple restraining techinque. However, this wouldn't quite cut it to stop Poliro counter attacking. Mayuko was reaching his eye, but Poliro simply used Shunpo to move behind her. He then was able to break the Bakudo rather easily. Poliro created a simple short sword of fire made out of his hands. "Rawr!" he said this to give himself away and to prepare her for his attack. It was also obvious which direction he was coming from by the heat. He lunged his arm at her back to hit. However.. maybe Poliro was making this JUST A tad too easy..

Poliro thought this was just going to be a simple childs fight when he started. He wasn't even expecting what just happened. Mayuko had succesfully intercepted him with what seemed extreme ease. Poliro for a moment was rather shocked. He had realised the most important thing about that strike - He could of died if Mayuko really tried there. This suddenly made him realize that Mayuko, the one he loves dearly.. may be much stronger than he ever imagined. Despite Mayuko's lack of a murderous aura, or the likes. Poliro is no fool and understands what could of just killed him. Poliro then sighed and took a breath, feeling he looked too deeply into this. He decided not to greately underestimate her, and not make it super easy for her. A smile came across his lips.

In his mind now he understood there was a very small chance she would hide her full ablity from her just to fight him, so Poliro dismissed this and simply told himself to be more careful, he felt it was his fault she could of made a lethal attack, not her skills. This underestimation wasn't going to be very good for him however. Poliro kept the tempo going, running at her again to try and make another attack. This time, he would do a lunge attack at her chest, with a lot more speed. He didn't give her any warning this time. He was taking things a tad more seriously now cause of the paranoia he began to feel about her skills undiscovered by him...