Eiyo knows he did not need to express the frustration he felt out loud. As much as he tried to hide his true feelings to everyone else on the outside there was something about Yuuei that always saw through how he felt on the inside. How suffocating and angry playing the good firenation servant made him. He shouldn't of let this feeling affect his outside mask but he just felt so.... full of rage to anything everything that represented this horrid nation. Not even his sweet sweet prince was safe from their grasp.
He didn't react to the confident smile on Tai's face which was of the first things that showed he wasn't thinking straight. He knew it wasn't Tai's fault, knew deep down this sweet man cared for the real him, the water tribesman he should have been. He knew it and that made it feel just slightly better. He gave him a 'we're going to be here for a while' look and moved.
In one quick movement, Eiyo went from standing still to attacking. Whilst he wasn't moving to kill everything about he moved said this was a fight to harm, a fight to win, he never went easy in training and he knew Yu-Tai could take it. He rounded the staff around the very hard end heading right for Yu-Tai's head. It was full of power behind the movement not the quick jabs he liked because whilst it hurt if it hit. It was easy to avoid. He followed up with a quick kick to break the distance and bunkered down for the defensive.