The first step in the training of a student of the Chuutenshimakuiruken is a harsh physical regime, designed to bring the user to the peak of personal health. It is taught that to be able to manipulate chi within herself and her opponents, one must first be able to control the nuances of one’s own body. The user is trained from the time they walked to begin this physical schedule.
The second step if the teachings of the celestial gates. Before any practitioner even learns her first punch, they must first be acutely aware of everything. This training is an intense study of both biological and metaphysical, for the flowing of the Chi coil with, and are directly related to the inner organs of the human body. By training their minds, the user of the Chuumakujin can eventually transcend human sight, and see these flows as if they were veins upon the skin.
The third step is to learn to use the body to manipulate the flow of an opponent’s chi. Unlike most martial arts, the Chuutenshimakuiruken neither focuses on damage to the person’s joints or muscles, or other ‘outer’ points, but instead directly go for the enemy’s inner chi. By manipulating their own chi, and by hitting particular points (one of two hundred and fifty six individual gates upon a human’s body), the user can constrict a chi conduit of an opponent. A master of the style can thus prevent their opponent from using any of their chi at all by constricting sixty-four key points, and can even (upon closing focal points), cause their opponent’s chi to cause damage to themselves.
Another name for the Chuutenshimakuiruken is the Bifuuken (Gentle breeze or Gentle wind fist), for the actual implementation of the style’s techniques do very little damage on the outside. However, because of the relationship between Chi and the inner organs, most every attack the style has damages internally in some form or another. Those who have seen it in use worry, for training muscles to stop blows is easy, but how can one train to protect internal organs?
Unlike most any other style, the practitioner will do less physical damage the further he goes in the style. At the point where she is able and allowed to use the style, she is a most deadly foe, but at the point where she becomes a master, she is even more deadly than any force in the world. All fear the master who can destroy a man without causing him a single bruise, or destroy a fighter’s future by preventing the energy she needs to grow.
The style itself is very circular in natural, always moving as if flowing through water. That’s not to say that it isn’t fast, for the user has no need at all to worry about the power or pressure of her strike. As a result, the user of the style often focuses on creating an almost impenetrable defense. In that fact, she can change from a defensive blocking and evasion, into a series of palm strikes and thrusts and return to defense within a blink of an eye. The opponent my not even notice he has been hit until he feels a vital organ begin to give out, or the lack of chi he feels right when he needs it for a special move.
Needless to say, from the point she could be walk, she was training for that destiny. The path to the Shintai-Chuutenshimakuiruken was not an easy one, and had a way of consuming a young one’s life. While other children were playing, she was training. While others slept, she was awake studying collegiate level anatomy. While others were going out shopping, she was tending a Zen garden …. Blindfolded.
Such training didn’t go without consequences. Because of her rigorous schedule, and almost abusive father (He loved her, and didn’t hit her out of training, but was overly critical of everything), she had never uttered a single word until her eighth birthday. After that one word: “Duty”, she spoke no more for four years.
Her entire childhood up to adolescence was entirely uneventful, with only training and study being her goals. However, when she began to blossom into womanhood, she began…branching out. Oh, she kept on her training with rigor, now beginning to master the basic art of Chuumakujin, but her mind also began reaching out to other things. In her sparse sections of time alone, she began drawing… soon forming a private passion for art, and culture.
Of course, it was not to be for long. Soon her father found out, and almost killed her by tripling her training schedule. Out of desperation, her mother offered a compromise: Send their daughter to Toudou academy to further her education and training. Her father agreed, but upon one condition: Should Sata return without being the best, she would be disowned.
Those at the school would see Sata as a …different sort of girl. Though beautiful in a porceline quality, she never, ever, speaks, and tends to keep to herself. Unlike most other, she doesn’t seem to fight, and can usually be found on off hours near a tree or a lake, drawing it with an elegant hand. But those with the right eyes, and a nose for the future can see the tides of destiny behind her serene eyes… and an inner Tsunami hiding underneath the gentle ripples of her water.