Stress Relief at the Dojo

Kozue'd scoffed at the idea of doing Friction matches when she first started. Seemed way too big on fetishes, and many of the girls didn't understand the rather simple concept of 'no means no' - sure, Tension had King and his merry band of assholes, but Friction had more than its share of girls who were every bit as fucked up. Some even worse. Plus, the Kawaii league creeped her right the fuck out.

She still had that opinion, but dealing with Alaina was making her soften it. This was fun. Most of her official matches hadn't been this much fun. So, maybe a Friction match every now and then would be a fun little change of pace? Alaina was wholesome, there had to be other girls like her. So long as she made sure to steer clear of the craziest bitches, it wouldn't be a problem. Besides, Friction girls moonlighted on Tension all the damn time. Wouldn't hurt for her side to dabble, too.

It was a fun little thought, and it brought  a smile to her face as she rolled off Alaina and got to her feet, readying another kick to keep the pressure on. That smile quickly faded, though. This time, the Amazon was ready for her.

"Fuck!" She hit the mat hard with Alaina on top, and the impact drove the air clean out of her lungs. All of the sudden she was back in the worst spot she could possibly be in, and all she could do was get her arms up to defend and prepare herself for the retribution.

Alaina was happy to catch a breather finally, although her chest still hurt. Kozue had her hands up to defend very quickly, but Alaina wasn't interested in landing blows to Kozue's face. That seemed a bit too nasty, and Alaina was sure of her ability to punch things. This was about trying to work on things she wasn't too good at. Lord knew there was a lot of that in terms of wrestling technique.

Instead, she grabbed onto one of Kozue's arms and pulled it out. Alaina moved herself up and wrapped her legs around her opponents head and extended arm, attempting to place her in a triangle hold! Alaina wanted to lock in the hold to make sure it was held correctly, but she did her best not to really wrench or choke on Kozue too much.

"Its about time you finally sat still!" Alaina said. Indeed, her opponent seemed to constantly be in motion non-stop. The only thing that seemed to slow her down was her opponent doing something or countering a move of hers. In that way Kozue reminded Alaina of her old roommate Charlie.

Kozue's eyes widened, and it wasn't just from the pair of python's squeezing her head into paste. A triangle hold? Where the hell did that come from? It was more of a technical move, not the sort of thing Kozue would expect a power wrestler to use, and really not the sort of thing she'd expect a power wrestler to use well. If the girl was trying to widen her moveset, she was on a good track.

But that back-patting could come later. In fact, about ten seconds later, if she didn't figure a way to get out of the hold. Powering out of it? Not a chance. Even if body didn't still need some good fine tuning, this position was too solid. Reversal? With what? If there was a good one, it wasn't coming to mind.

Her only hope was the ropes. She squirmed in the hold, writhing around and trying to get her foot on the nearest one.

Alaina had worked on this hold for a while, and was happy that its practical aplication had gone well. Unfortunately Kozue had squirmed over towards the ropes and Alaina made the mistake of applying the hold close to the ropes.

As soon as Kozue reached the bottom rope Alaina let go and backed off, allowing Kozue a chance to get to her feet.

"You are a resourceful one ya know that?" Alaina said as she backed away. She knew that giving Kozue breathing room wasn't smart, but Alaina was always sporting when it came to rope breaks. Hopefully this didn't come back to haunt her.

Kozue had no idea why rope breaks were a thing or who came up with them, but she was glad they'd had the idea. She'd been saved by the ropes a handful of times in her short career, tonight was another one for the pile, and she'd probably rack up a few more by the time she was done, no matter how good she got.

"Not half bad yourself." She grabbed the ropes and pulled herself up, grateful for Alaina's break. She had to be cautious, now - she was running low on tricks, and this was not a stupid woman she was up against. The same moves wouldn't work twice.

Kozue started to get back into the grove, bouncing along on her heels and staying just outside of Alaina's impressive range. "Nice move with the triangle choke. Where'd you pick that up?" Kozue darted in, threw out two quick jabs towards Alaina's chest, and tried to dart back out before she could get caught. Stick and move, stick and move.

Junko had left the girls to spar on their own while she took care of business. Now that her house was full again, it felt really good. She liked having people to talk to and she liked that her nest wasn't empty anymore even if her own children weren't around as much as she'd have liked.

When she finished what she was doing, she came back to the gym and saw the two girls breaking up a spare. She smiled, carrying a small tray in her hands. She set it near by and blew her whistle sharply to get their attention, whether or not they noticed her.

"Time to hydrate, ladies." She said. On the table were water bottles filled with special juice and small cups of nuts. "I can see you're both nice and sweaty, fufuf~ Not sweaty enough, though." She said. "Tell me what you're doing and let's see if I think you need to run ropes or not." She said with a gleam in her eyes.

Alaina took two quick jabs to the chest, and before she could reach out Kozue had slipped away.

Thats when the whistle blew.

"Hi Junko!" Alaina said as she walked over. She gave Junko a small hug so as not to rub off the sweat she hsd worked up. "We ran ropes, did a couple other drills and went right to the spar. We are doing a 2 count pin and you "submit" if you can't break out of a hold in 10 seconds. That way technique is worked but we aren't injuring each other."

Alaina smiled as she drank, hydrating felt great right about now. "How have you been lately? How are Taylor and Johnny holding up?"

Kozue was starting to wonder how many hen pecks a rhino could take when a familiar whistle peirced the air and drove a lance straigth through her brain. She almost started doing rope drills on reflex, but fortunately this was break time. She'd come to savor her break times with Junko. Like little oases in the middle of a sweltering desert.

She slid out and took a bottle of water along with a handful of nuts. "Much appreciated, Higurashi-sensei." Kozue had gotten to the point where she was comfy enough to call Johnny's mother by her first name when they were outside of the dojo, but she liked to keep it respectful in training. She wouldn't have tried for a hug, though, even if she hadn't been dripping from head to toe. Not much of a huggy person.

"Yeah, we've been going at it." She plopped down in an indian-style sit and laid the bottle in front of her. "Surviving so far, but it's hard to really get any headway with Alaina. She's as big as the guys I fight and smart on top of it. Been trying to stay one step ahead, but, well..." She smirked up at her sparring partner. "She's pretty good."

Junko pushed her palm flatly and deeply into Alaina's hand as she swooped in for the hug and gave her a firm, hard shove. The girl was nice beyond all belief but she was still not understanding the difference between boyfriend's mother time and Sensei time. Junko knew she'd pick it up eventually, unless she liked running ropes.

"Sensei, Alaina-san." She said as tersely as Junko could. She ignored Alaina's idle chatter about her daughter-in-law and son and looked her over. "1 count pins and 3 second submissions. You girls need to learn how to kick out. Like everything else, it has to become second nature so WHEN you're ground into paste your body still just does it. You can spar until you reach 20 of one or the other." Junko flashed a smile. "Whichever comes first, not adding them together, fufufu~ Loser runs ropes."

Junko then turned to Ninjette. "If you're fighting someone bigger, it's your job to attack them where big doesn't matter. It's her job as the bigger girl to anticipate your strike and , well.. catch you."

Junko looked at Alaina and smiled. "Ok, Alaina-san, stand still." She said and slipped behind Aliana. "No matter how big she is, she doesn't have eyes in the back of her head. And no matter how big she is, there are places where there just isn't any armor."

Junko lifted up her foot and jabbed it into the back of Alaina's knee. Not hard enough to hurt but definitely not gently. She wanted Alaina on her knees. She then lifted up her arm and thrust her Elbow at the base of Alaina's neck, stopping before the strike hit and pushing her elbow gently into the flesh.

"Those are two good spots." She said. "If you want homework, why don't you think of a few others. In fact, if you can get Alaina down using that, you can take the rest of the afternoon off." She said as she looked at Kozue.

"And, what about you? Alaina-san?" She said. "I guess if you stop her, you won't have to run extra ropes. If you win on top of that, then you can leave for the day."

Junko smiled at both of them and raised her whistle. She blew into it as loudly as she could. It was all she needed to make sure both of them got to it.

Alaina felt bad for disrespecting Junko more than rejected by the shove away. "Right, my apologies sensei."

Alaina stood still as Junko instructed and grunted as she was struck, dropping to one knee and feeling the elbow touch the base of her neck immediately after. She got back up, looking Junko in the eye and nodding as she listened intently.

The whistle blew and 1 count pins, 3 second holds with the first to 20 winning was going to be tough. Tough but very informative. Alaina turned towards Kozue and ran towards her as quickly as she could. As soon as she was close enough she would duck down and try to sweep kick Kozue's legs out from underneath her, following up by laying on top of her for a potential pin. Alaina could only hope the nimble Kozue could be caught off guard, otherwise she would be in a lot of trouble....