I woke, with a start as a bucket of ice cold water had been unceremoniously dumped over my head. I gasped from the cold and shock. Shaking off the excess water, I could see Mr Nakamura standing in front of me motionless, a Ken do sword in one hand; prone in front of his face, black eyes boring into my very soul. His face revealed nothing. He wore a black and red fundoshi with a dragon symbol stretched over those thick, juicy Japanese balls. He was glistening with sweat and I immediately noticed how hot it was. I looked around and saw a fire burning in the pit, located in the middle of the training center.
I felt a deep pain in my shoulders and a burning sensation in my arms and groin. I was suspended in mid-air, lashed to the yoke with leather straps. My arms were pinned behind me with a wooden yoke in front of my biceps, holding my forearms straight out in front of me and pulling and straining my arms tightly back where the middle of the bar was attached to a collar around my neck. The collar was thick leather that allowed very little movement. If I moved to the side or front it pulled on my arms and hurt my neck and shoulders. If I moved my head back, the front of the collar had two shiny silver chains attached to my nipples with two brass butterfly clamps, that pulled and squeezed my already aching and swollen nipples. My only position of comfort was with my neck straight looking straight ahead. I couldn't move and it was agony.
My legs were tied taught, ankles to thigh by thin white ropes around my ankles and behind my knee. I was floating in air, kneeling with my arms and head completely immobilized. I couldn't feel my legs which were stretched wide by the leather yoke straps. I felt very exposed and vulnerable. I could sense a trembling in my body and was powerless to stop it.
I looked at my master and tried to offer a look of submission and respect, but found it difficult to concentrate in this awkward position with all of my muscles seizing and contracting seemingly at the same time.
Mr Nakamura's eyes bored into my brain and made me feel even more out of control. I kept my eyes on him even as I felt myself beginning more and more desperate.
Finally he spoke,
"Students like you who submit to weakness and temptation leave their master and temple vulnerable to attack. Your ego controls you and clouds your vision. You will learn today what true pain is. I will stop when I am done. If you beg me to stop, it will go on longer. You will not speak unless I ask you to. Do you understand."
I nodded
"In my hand is a practice sword. I have customized this one, it does many things."
I looked at the sword as he swung it smoothly through the air, in swirling circles and arcs.
"I think you will come to like this sword."
He walked around me, moving like the wind, graceful, powerful. I felt him tapping the sword on my exposed buttocks.
"It can strike like a cobra, " and whack it stung against my ass with speed and veracity. I choked back a cry of pain. I could feel the sting on my ass as I swung helplessly in the air.
"It can bark like a dog,"
and I felt a whoosh as it whipped by my head with blinding speed. I was terrified, at not knowing what was coming.
"It can dance like a spider," sleek black shaft sliding up my balls and into the crack of my ass.