Assistant instructors (Part 5)

The mission:

The fifth period was drawing to the end of the day. For this Tadara was thankful as being an academy instructor was proving exhausting. This next lesson he wouldn't really be the main focus of it. He expected his partner was more of one for the physical arts while he was...not so much. Tadara was a weakling. Especially when it came to close combat. He understood moving into proper stances but was yet to excel at it. Nor did he have a truly good swing. However Katsumi seemed more physically evened out just by looking at him. So for now Katsumi would deal with the primary portion of this lesson. Explaining proper grips and practicing slashes and whatever those physical types did. For Tadara it was exhausting to even watch. However there was one thing he had talent with. He would hold off until the last fifteen minutes for that though. For now he would sit down on a chair in the training yard away from the sharp objects and observe while taking notes. Handing weapons to children in mass was asking to get stabbed accidentally so he would simply observe until they got the hang of it.

A couple of the kids excelled but the weaker ones of the group were feeling discouraged. Clearly more intellectual than the others. Katsumi likely was trying to be supportive but they were struggling to even grip it right. For a while Tadara just observed before the time was up. Fifteen minutes left. He would clear his throat before rising from his seat and attracting the attention of the class. He would explain that a weapon was a tool to even a playing field against those physically stronger in things such as taijutsu. With that said he explained that once one understood weight and trajectory they could attack from a hidden position in such a way that one would find it more difficult to tell where the attack came from. Taking a kunai he would feel the weight of it. Judging it to almost an exact measurement as he calculated distance and wind speed. After about a minute passed in silence he would lob it under handed up into the air almost like he had just lost his grip. However the kunai would drop down and stick with the help of gravity into the top of the head of one of the training dummies. With that the less physical kids lit up understanding their version of weapons use. They actually thought Tadara could be pretty cool as class ended after a few of them tried it to no avail. They took off for their break before the last class of the day.

Exit thread
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