Samurai Blue (Kazuya's House)

"H... hey Sarah...! Door's open, come right on in...!"

Sarah would hear a familiar but muffled voice call out through the closed wooden door, in between what sounded like grunts of working out. If she looked through one of the windows of the dojo, she would see Kazuya dressed in just a pair of white Karate gi pants with a white hachimaki (headband) tied around his head, keeping his hair out of his face, and white training bandages wrapped around his forearms and half of his hands, doing one thumb pushups, one arm held behind his back while balancing on top of the tilted chair he's using. He was at 490.

"Mmm... My triceps brachii, brachioradialis, rectus abdominus... and possibly my deltoids. Oh, and my gluteus... maximus. I can't... forget that."

Giving Sarah a slight smirk, sweat dripping off his face, he was nearly done his daily morning training, which consisted of 500 one thumb push-ups, 500 one leg squats, and a 5 mile run. After doing 10 more one thumb pushups, he would push off from the chair with his fist on the last push up, landing flat on his feet with a dull thump on the wooden floor, as the chair righted itself.

"... It gets enough stretching before I begin my daily training every morning. Either wise I'll be sore from the rest of the day. Though one-handed push ups are nothing to sneeze at either, given your circumstances."

Continuing to smirk slightly at Sarah, he would quickly take a seat in the chair and casually fold one leg over the other, both his hands resting on top of his knee. Noticing Sarah's one closed eye open, so her vision was perfect it seemed, seeing as more than likely, she could see out of both eyes. Curious, but he wouldn't dwell on it too much. Rising up off the chair, he would grab it and head to the back, disappearing inside before coming back out with two bokuto's in his hands. Holding one out to Sarah, once she stood up, he would begin.

"Kenjutsu, it's generally a term used to describe any martial art technique that makes use of the Japanese sword. It includes basic techniques without any opponent, and techniques where two people paired practice detailed choreographed patterns of movements, featuring full contact strikes in some styles. The bokuto can be used offensively and defensively, and requires quite a bit of strength and flexibility to use."

His lecture done, Kazuya would then stand in front of her, spaced apart, holding the bokuto in front of him with both hands, though in Sarah's case, she'd be holding it with just her left hand. Though holding the bokuto was more effective with both hands, because there was more control, grip, and power when striking, it was do-able with only one hand.

"Now, try and strike me."

Kazuya would then suddenly rush forward, without any word or indication, holding the bokuto above his head. His footwork extremely choreographed, once getting with range, would bring the wooden sword down at an angle, attempting to land a blow on Sarah's left shoulder, a look of intense focus on his face, he wasn't out to injure Sarah, all he really was doing was trying to get her to defend against his strike. Kenjutsu, was much like a dance, the movements perfectly coordinated and choreographed, each strike flowing with the other.

As his bokuto was caught by Sarah's bokuto near what would the hilt on an actual sword, as she went to kick out at his midsection with her left leg, he would slide his bokuto along the length of hers before proceeding to swipe his bokuto out to the side, aiming to swat Sarah's bokuto away from him. Using the momentum from the swipe to strafe to the side, he would just barely managing to avoid the kick, which would end up grazing the side of his ribs, causing him to wince slightly.

Without missing a beat though, holding his bokuto in his right hand and darting forward, he would then stretch his left hand out, and gripping the handle of the bokuto, would swing his bokuto out in a tight arc, aiming to strike at Sarah's side, not hard mind you, they were just training with each other. Besides, he knew she would be able to react to his strike.

She managed to react to his first strike after all.

Thanks to Sarah blocking his bokken with her armored bracer and twisting her wrist, resulting in Kazuya's bokken being knocked down and off to his right, his bokken was in a good position to allow him to simple sweep it to the left and block her strike to his kneecap, although just barely. Instead of trying to strike her once more however, he would take a leap back, and hold one hand up, indicating for her to pause momentarily.

"... I think it would be best if we started over again. I know as a fighter, your first instinct when seeing a wooden sword hurtling at you is to prevent the strike from even reaching you and strike back. Hell, even a bit of my fighter instinct surfaced when I evaded your strike, but that is not what Kenjutsu is about. To be effective, a kenjutsu strike or counter-strike is a composition of several techniques: feigning, cutting, jabbing, thrusting, parrying or binding, footwork, choice of weapon, and even knowing the opponent's weapon."

Putting some space between himself and Sarah one more, he would hold his bokken in front of him with both hands, the point of his sword directed at his opponent, who in this case, was Sarah. All he really wanted was for her to get the basics down. Once she did, she could then tailor her swordplay to suit her style, such as adding in punches and kicks with each strike of her sword. Kind of like Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia.

"Now then, let us try once more. Try and strike me again, but this time, with just your bokken.

Keeping the point of his bokken pointed at Sarah, he would thrust his bokken at an upwards angle, so that he would properly counter her strike, his bokken clashing against hers, just barely stopping her bokken mere inches away from piercing his collarbone. Quickly pulling his bokken away, he would then flip the direction the point of his bokken was pointed at Sarah and then go to slash her from the top of her collarbone to the left side of her hip, keeping his bokken close to his body and ready to counter if needed. If he had been able to counter her strike, albeit just barely, he had no doubt she would easily be able to counter his.

As his bokken was engaged to his left side and then knocked away to the right side of his body, while Sarah spun on her right heel counter-clockwise, to bring her bokken around and hit him on his lower back, he would quickly spin on his left heel and end up sideways while simultaneously bringing his own bokken around to block the strike, hopefully colliding with hers and blocking the strike.

If he was successful, he would then pull his bokken back on his right side, before trying to jab Sarah in the side with the point of his bokken, aiming for her ribs.