Stress Relief at the Dojo

"I'm fine." Kozue said, with a little more venom than she really should have put into it. It wasn't directed at Alaina, more at herself for getting squashed so easily, so damn fast, but that didn't mean her partner was going to take it the right way.

"I'm fine. Really." She said again, calmer this time, as she started to pick herself up and dust off. "Keep coming at me, don't let me rest up if you can. Never gonna get better if we don't get close to the real experience, right?"

She stood back up with a little effort and came back at Alaina, her face as determined as ever. Kozue moved in and threw a flurry of punches at Alaina - nothing heavy, just a bunch of weak jabs that wouldn't even do much if they did hit. Trying to dazzle her unti the end, where she lunged forward and came at her with the only true punch - a right straight, going for her face.

"Yeah, sure I just didn't want to take it too far." Alaina said in a serious tone. "OK, real it is."

Kozue stayed grue to her word as Alaina was being struck by a flurry of punches! They didn't hurt too badly, and she had blocked more than a few. However, the final, true strike hit home when it slammed Alaina right in the jaw! Alaina staggered backwardx, holding her jaw with one hand gently rubbing it.

"Damn it! Argh...."

"Me neither." Kozue managed to squeeze a few words in while she threw the barrage in Alaina's face. "We got sensei here, though, so she'll stop us if gets too crazy."

Kozue should've have added a 'presumably' somewhere in that last sentence, now that she thought about it. Junko could be a little extreme, at times, and there was no real way of knowing what she considered acceptable within a spar. Best to get used to it now, at least.

When Kozue managed to knocked Alaina back and stagger her for a moment, she saw a golden opportunity. This wasn't likely to last too long,  so she decided to just go for broke - she dashed forward, jumped up, and tried to wrap her legs around Alaina's head for a hurricanrana, hoping to drop her flat to the mat before she even knew what was happening.

Talk about from bad to worse. Alaina recovered from the shock just in time for Kozue to be sitting on her face and whipping her down to the mat with her legs!

Alaina let out a yell of pain and surprise as she came crashing down. Alaina kicked against the mat a couple times, still stunned by the sudden turnaround!

Alaina had to do a better job about pressing the advantage when she had it, Kozue was absolutely right. It had cost her a couple matches early on. She couldn't let it stop her now. Kozue seemed like shecould forgive and forget.... right? All of that was a moot point though as Alaina wasn't in much of a position to do anything...

The timing felt a little off - maybe Kozue could have started the spin a moment earlier, lessened the risk of Alaina turning it into a powerbomb and pancaking her to the mat. But, otherwise, the hurricanrana came off nice and crisp, doing the job it was meant to do: slamming Alaina down to the mat with her on top, and she had a short laugh on the impact. "Gotcha, big girl!" Getting more into the mood, now.

It seemed to take the breath right out of her bigger opponent, so Kozue immediately went to capitalize. She reached back, grabbed her tree-trunk legs with both arms and pulled forward, going for the pin. She wasn't likely to get enough points to even the score, but it would be a start in the right direction.

1......

"Ungh......"

2......

Alaina kicked forward as hard as she could while lifting her shoulders off the mat. She was free but Kozue drew blood so to speak. Alaina rolled to her side betting back up to her feet. Inactivity got ber nowhere so she decided to do something. Seeing Kozue not far from her she moved forward, aiming a dropkick at Kozue. Alaina had plans incase it hit, but if it didn't she wpuld find herself in a very bad spot....

Two to six, and she still hadn't gotten at Alaina's well-protected back. But she'd proven the big girl could be consistently take down, it just required the proper application. Hit hard, hit fast, hit often. Difficult, but doable.

One of the biggest tricks was taking her recovery rate into account - the few times she did get struck down, she didn't stay there very long. Kozue was greeted by a dropkick, knocking her off her feet right after she'd managed to get back up on them. It sent her flying into the corner, and only drapping her arm on the ropes kept her from plopping down.

She leaned against the turnbuckle with her eyes shut tight, as the pain took a tour through her entire back.

Alaina moved towards Kozue, feeling slightly guilty about having such a weight advantage but that quickly subsided. Underestimating anyone led to more losses in AFW. Alaina reached in, wrapping one arm around the back of Kozue's head while grabbing onto her waist with her other arm.

Alaina wanted to get a good suplex grip then hit Kozue with a suplex aimed at landing her opponent in the center of the ring. "Ready for a ride?"

Ah, crap.

Well, Kozue'd asked Alaina to give the sparring match a little more punch, and she was definitely following through on that, so she couldn't really complain as she was lifted up in a suplex and held like a light stack of hay. "If I say 'no', will you-"

Kozue let out a shriek as she was flung back towards the middle of the ring, flying through the air with the greatest of ease and coming down hard on her back, with more impact and sound that a girl her size had any right to make. She sat up straight immediately and reached around to rub her tortured spine, before the pain became too much and she fell back again. Flat on the mat and staring at the ceiling.

Alaina chuckled at Kozue's response. She found her sarcastic humor to be amusing, even in the middle of a match.

"Even if ya say no.... you are still going." Alaina said as she got up and made her way over to Kozue's legs. She had a couple pins on Kozue, but Junko.... err, sensei mentioned that submission holds had a 3 second limit to escape. Alaina grabbed onto Kozue's legs, holding them under her arms and sitting back, attempting to lock in a boston crab. She didn't want to hurt Kozue..... but she didn't want her escaping, and the ropes were far so she locked in the hold firmly enough to hopefully prevent an escape.... which meant that Kozue might feel a little bit more pain than earlier in the spar...