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Sakuraba Masami 桜庭雅美 (sakurabamasami) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-11-12 13:12:00

Entry tags:

masami, open thread, shirou

KENDO TOURNAMENT IS GO!
Who: Masami, Shirou, Ito-sensei, most likely the Cheer-Wrestling Club, open to all others
What: Kendo Teams Prefecturals
Where: Nanakamado gym
When: Sunday, July 14
Why: Because Masami needs to beat down some evil. Or just some people from other schools.

A few of the other school teams were already there when Masami arrived at Nanakamado. Masami could pick out a few of the other teams by recognizing members who had been at last year's prefecturals: Shirokin High, Tsuruga High, Seimei High... She could feel the eyes of most of the other teams on her and catch parts of whispers pointing her out and the like. She even heard more than one person hoping out loud that they didn't get matched against her.

It wasn't very long before she heard a call of "Sakuraba-senpai!" and turned her head to see Shirou running over to her.

"Oh, Shirou-kun. Who else is here?"

"Well with you the whole girl's team is here! And of the boy's team we're still waiting for Karasuma-senpai and Sakaguchi-senpai! I saw Ito-sensei here before but he's probably busy with organization or something!"

Masami simply nodded. "Well, things should be starting up soon. It looks like some of the spectators are already here too. We should go get ourselves ready."

"Yeah! We better hurry!" Shirou began. Masami knew what was coming next before he even started.

"ALL RIGHT! I'M PUMPED NOW! HERE WE COME, NATIONALS!"

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sakurabamasami
2009-11-15 06:49 am UTC (link)

It was another half an hour, perhaps a bit more, before the tournament actually started. After standing there listening to Ito-sensei give a short speech, the tournament schedule was displayed. Nanakamado's teams were both in for relatively tough brackets. The boy's team had it slightly easier than the girl's team, but chances are they'd have to face off against Shirokin High in the finals of their bracket, whose boy's team had gone to nationals last year(they had lost relatively early in nationals, though, and rumor had it that they had been going through some incredibly strict practice to make sure that wasn't repeated this year).

The girl's team had it even harder, but of course they already were considered to be the team to beat. Still, they'd have to fight Seimei high in their bracket finals, and Seimei was always a very strong contender.

Ito-sensei had let the team organize their positions on their own. On the boy's team, Shirou was senpou, meaning that he would be the first one to fight in each match. This was partly because he was a first-year and partly because he was the stronger of the two first-years, so starting off with a win was a good way to raise morale. Also, even though some teams were known for starting off with their aces, Shirou would likely still be able to put up a good fight.

For the girl's team, Masami had been placed as the taishou position, which often was reserved for the team captains. In this case it was because the team wanted their ace to be able to finish off rounds that they were already winning anyway, and to make up for any potential bad luck in earlier rounds of each match.

The girl's team's first match was against Mizukoshi All-Girls High. Mizukoshi's team had been very strong in the past but most of their best members had graduated and the team was now rebuilding. As expected, the matches went generally well overall for Nanakamado. Class 1-A's Kuwahara Noriko, the team's senpou, lost, as Masami had expected. It took her a couple rounds to get warmed up so she usually didn't do that well in the beginning but got better as the day went on. Next the Jihou, Andou Miyuki of class 2-C, stepped up and won her match - she tended to do better under pressure, so she was a good second if Kuwahara lost and could hold her own even if that wasn't the case. Third and fourth, in the chuuken and fukushou positions, were Tousaka Youko and Ueno Hitomi, both of class 3-C. Both of them won, though Tousaka had a bit of trouble in her match.

Finally it was Masami's turn to go up. The moment the judge called out "Start!" Masami instantly sprung forward and with a shout of "MEN!" hit her opponent squarely on the head for her first point before the other girl could even start moving. Her second point came in a virtual instant-replay, and with that the first round was done.

With her own match done, Masami decided she'd go look around a bit, maybe check on how the boy's team was doing. She'd spotted a couple of familiar faces among the spectators too, so maybe she'd stop and talk for a little before the next round.

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	pinksunbeam 2009-11-15 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Hey lets give a cheer for Masami-chan?" Misaki suggested to Suzume. She posed in the ready to giv it her all. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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