The Ninja Sumo

When Inaka was young he like to watch the Ninja fighting and Sumo wrestling show.  He particularly liked and enjoyed watching these two sports in action as it involved the quick, swift and stealthy movements of fighting while the other dealt with wrestling. Being a fat and medium size person wouldn’t defer him to be in fighting sport one day. However, his parents were opposed to his sports dream as they wanted him to excel in his academic study while wanting him to lose weight and stay healthy. It seemed like his parents and he couldn’t reconcile the idea of letting him to be in the fighting sports.

As a fat person he knew that he was disadvantaged and how would he convince the Ninja and Sumo Schools to let him learn the fighting sports. The desire for him to learn about fighting was so great that he would sometimes challenge anyone to a fight with his peers whom had insulted him. He was once caught by the school disciplined master when some bad ass guys tried to bully him. He was reprimanded and warned by discipline master to watch over his behaviours Inaka was warned by the discipline master never to pick a fight with anyone in the street though Inaka tried to explained that he was the victim. Inaka didn’t argue with the disciplined master and accepted his warning and punishment.

When the school lesson was over, he would quickly sneaked out of the class to go to the nearby garden near a village. Here, he would see some people practising some form of a martial arts, its moves looked like a mixture of karate, Tae Kwon Do, Judo wrestling styles. These people were the retirees, some were ex-military soldiers while some were avid fighting sports lovers. These people was puzzled why a fat young kid was so engrossed in watching them doing those fighting stunts and moves. Inaka was exuberated and wanted to learn the fighting skills with them.

Initially, they were reluctant to take Inaka as their student because they need his parent consent and he was also fat. Nevertheless, they had allowed Inaka to watch them practising those fighting skills. He was amazed by those kicks especially jumping kick, side and turning kick, bare hand sparing, Sumo wrestling, fist punching, pole fighting, dodging, defensive and deceptive attacks, grapping and throwing an opponent, leap jumping to tree and attacking opponent with surprises. There was another move when a practitioner would loosen himself from a rope that was tied around his body and many techniques to escape when you were a captive. These fighting skills were rarely seen by the outside world and he want to acquire these skills eagerly.

After school, he would visit the place almost every day and those people were happy to see him and would sometimes allow him to learn and practise those fighting skills after some persuasion. Inaka finally was permitted to learn on condition that he never tell anyone about it and observed the fighting discipline, rules and decorum. In the beginning, it was very hard for him as he lacks the fundamental skills and techniques for fighting. After some countless attempts and perseverance, he was able to practise those fighting stunts. Time flies and he became a young guy now. He was called upon to spar with some retires. Inaka was able to counter his opponent with some pretty good fighting moves and this has caught some retires by surprise. They were amazed how much this young fat chap had advanced his fighting skills after a span of about six years. Inaka soon graduated from this informal school of that place and left quite reluctantly.

One day while he was walking in the city he chanced upon an advertisement about some fighting tournament with some rewards for the winners. He wasn’t interested on the reward but want to take this opportunity to proof his fighting skills that he learn to a real fight. He signed up and took the challenge. On that day of the competition, he saw many competitors of diverse backgrounds and fighting skills. He went through the initial, quarter-final and semi-final rounds of the competition. He was tired and exhausted when he reached to the final. Fighters were allowed to rest for a certain period after that the final sparring round continued. The final he was met with a stronger opponent with powerful kicks and punches. The opponent was very aggressive, blow upon blow coming after Inaka, he tried to dodge those punches and kicks but were being knocked down on the floor. It was a very bitter fight. Inaka was on the verge of giving up as his mouth was bleeding and his eyes suffered bruises by the opponent’s heavy punches. Just when he was about to lay down flat, he saw one of his instructor retiree coming to cheer for him. He got up and carry on to fight. He recovered and he found the opponent’s weakness. He made use of his Sumo-like weight and adopt the Judo-like stunt coupled with a punched at the opponent’s head to knock the opponent out of balance. This moves made the opponent KO and Inaka emerged as the winner of the fighting competition.  Later, his parents found out about it and had forgiven what he has done. Inaka went on in his life to be a Fighting Master and opened up his form of Fighting Techniques and was well received by many of his students.