10 Marine Based - 10

The thing about One Piece Kaden knew, was that Haki grew stronger during stressful situations, especially in live combat. More especially in life or death combat.

And the same applied to other skills.

Mihawk's idea of training Zoro to reach heights far beyond what he was capable of, was tossing him into combat against massive sword wielding gorilla's.

Training was all well and good when it came to getting a technique down or increasing physical abilities, but true experience and ability, would shoot through the roof in the process of live, deathly combat.

Thankfully for Kaden in that regard, he was stationed at one of the few marine bases that heartedly came at each other with full strength with no regard for each others lives.

"You're open Kaden!" Commodore Yarisugu shouted with glee as he blitzed forward at blurring speeds, huge sword coming down in a diagonal swing meant to bisect Kaden from shoulder to hip from behind.

His sword locked against another large, bald and incredibly muscular behemoth of a man, Kaden tensed his muscles with all his might until they reached a hardness iron would be proud of.

A loud clanging sound reverberated through the air as the sword struck his shoulder, sliced his flesh, but did not go any further.

"Oh!?" Commodore Yarisugu's eyes widened and a noise of interest left his mouth, while the one Kaden was facing off against, gaped at the failed slash, allowing Kaden to overpower him and launch a front kick into his stomach and launch him flying back, and take the chance to spin, sword flashing out aimed at his superiors neck, only for his own larger blade to zip up with a jerk of his hand and block it easily, "That was Tekkai was it not? Another one already? You're doing quite well." the queerly dressed marine complimented, before slamming the palm of his other hand into the flat of his blade and completely overpowering Kaden and launching him back just like he did his previous opponent.

Unlike him though-

Flipping around mid air, Kaden slammed both of his feet through the air and the air itself rumbled as he kicked off of it and launched himself back towards Commodore Yarisugu.

A tingle in the back of his head had Kaden's eyes widening though and he quickly thrust his feet down and kicked off the air again, just in time for Commodore Yarisugu to swing his blade and launch a massive blade of air towards him that tore a massive trench through the ground.

Commodore Yarisugu stomped his feet on the ground and disappeared in a blur so fast Kaden barely saw it-

Clang!

He spun at the last moment, his sword coming out to clash against Commodore Yarisugu that struck at his neck from behind. He was the type that always liked to strike at blind spots.

"Tekkai isn't really my thing," the much taller man said conversationally, a massive grin on his fish-like lips, "I prefer Soru and Geppou, and some Rankyaku too! I'm all about cutting bastard pirates down you know?" he giggled.

"I'm aware!" Kaden bit out through gritted teeth, bouncing back through the air blocking a volley of lightning flash slashes from the man as he followed him, blade slicing out in dozens of slices with each breath.

Catching the taller mans blade with his own, Kaden slid his blade down the length of the bigger mans, bleeding the momentum behind the strike into himself, before using it to kick off the air and spin around aim mid-air, lashing out with his free hand, the air rippling as something invisible coated his fist.

One thing he'd learned about this man over the past two months of fighting him every single day and getting his shit kicked in for the vast majority of those days by him, was that, just as he said, he was all about offence.

Not so much defence.

His fist struck the man on the cheek and the queerly dressed commodore shot down through the air towards the ground like a cannonball, where he smashed into and through the ground creating a large crater.

A moment later, Kaden felt the invisible coating around his fist sputter and die out and grimaced.

He couldn't hold it for any more than a few seconds.

"It's my win this time, Commodore." Kaden declared as he landed. His marine uniform was torn with dozens of slashes and stained with his blood.

"Hehe, I suppose so." Commodore Yarisugu laughed as he pulled himself out of the crater his body had caused, a bit bloodied and bruised, but no worse for wear.

It was pretty much the only rule of sparring at G5, after one good powerful hit, they were out. At least as far as the free for all training went.

This made the ninetieth time he'd fought Commodore Yarisugu, and out of ninety fights, he'd lost eighty nine.

This one, he'd won, though it was more of a technicality than anything else.

The commodore shook the debris covering him off, before he stepped forward, and disappeared in a blur, appearing at Kaden's side a split moment later, "I wasn't expecting you to have Tekkai down, I figured I was actually gonna kill ya there for a minute," he laughed, "Not bad, I mean it took ya' a near full three full months to get to this point where most would have only taken half that amount with someone to get an example of, but hey, who's counting."

He was.

…He'd only found out Commodore Yarisugu could use three of the six powers when he attempted to use Soru in a fight against him the very day after he'd found out how he ended up here.

Only for the man to laugh at him, do it in return and kick his ass all over the training field.

"Screw you." Kaden shot back with a dry glare. Seriously, fuck this guy as well. Fuck everyone here.

"Not my type blondie, I prefer giant tits," Commodore Yarisugu shrugged him off, before nodding as he looked him over, "You know, you're way too good to leave sitting as a lame petty officer, why don't you just get promoted? You don't even go out solo hunting like a ton of us, you just sit around here training and reading, you're so lame."

….He said lame twice.