Bookstore Encounter (for k0hryuu)

On a day off from both wrestling and training, Navi and Melody decided to go shopping around the city of Tokyo. As a result, the 2 girls split up to buy different things for themselves, Melody going to buy some grocieries in the nearby supermarket, while Navi stayed at a bookstore to buy several books. She used the pretense that she would be buying some books just for herself (actually craving to read some fantasy novels after finishing Dance with Dragons, and the author still taking his sweet time to release the next book). However:

"M...N.....O! There we are!", Navi thought to herself while scouring the English language manga section of the shop. Checking online, she saw that Melody's favorite manga's latest volume was being released today, and she jumped at the chance to surprise her friend by buying it for her.

"I don't know what she finds in this...anyway...Actually, maybe I could find something for myself right here."

Despite living in Japan for a couple of years now, Navi's progress with learning the language was very slow. Thankfully, all the major shops close to their house had at least one English speaking person working there and a lot of the bookstores (including this one), had a section for books and comics in English. Navi started looking at the manga and a few light novels before her eyes, hoping to pick something to read for the next couple of weeks...

Following their night of vengeance upon Alicia, the mood among the Black Feathers improved significantly. Having gotten over what happened at Avalanche, it actually felt nice no longer having that pressure of holding the tag team titles while they had no idea what to do with them.

Today, the three of them had gone out on a shopping trip in the city. However, they all had different items in mind, so they split up for now and had planned to meet up again later before grabbing dinner somewhere. Akiko had gone off to a hole-in-the-wall manga shop to pick up recent doujin, while Maddie was in need of some new shoes after her old sneakers finally gave out. Yukiko was off to buy a recent BluRay disc set for an anime she liked about a high school concert band, though she had made a quick stop at the local book store, looking to catch up on some light novel series she'd fallen behind on.

As it turned out, there were quite a few volumes she had to catch up on. And so the blue-haired girl, dressed in jeans and a light blue tank top, was squatting down in front of the shelf, contemplating deeply on whether or not she wanted to buy them all at once, or just pick up a few at a time.

"Hmm...this looks alright..., Navi thought to herself, picking up a few volumes of a fantasy light novel she read a few good reviews about. Swiftly hiding them behind her back, she planned to make her way to the counter...

...until she saw a familiar-looking blue-haired woman in the Japanese-language section.

Going closer towards the squating girl, Navi took a look at her face to check her suspicions, confirming that the woman was indeed, Yukiko Kuzuryuu.

"Well, well, well! Ms Ex-Tag champion herself! Dealt with your little issue, then?", Navi asked Yukiko.

Recalling the last time she went out into town on her own, with Alicia no doubt in the hospital licking her wounds, there really was no one Yukiko could think of whom running into would ruin her day again.

Well, at least until she was rudely reminded of one.

Glancing upwards, the blue-haired girl quickly recognized the blonde who tried to start shit with them right after Avalanche. She couldn't recall the girl's name, whatever it was, but she did know this was going to be trouble.

Standing up so that her and Navi were eye-to-eye, Yukiko clearly showed a displeased expression on her face as she responded, "Oh yeah, you... from that time... Here to lecture me on how to live my life again?"

While listening to Yukiko, Navi tried to read stuff from the shelves and even pulled some books off of them to check if she could read the titles in Japanese. She couldn't and swiftly put them back.

"Well, I would've loved to, but given that the "Ex-Tag Champion" is the best thing I can call you, you shouldn't be worth my time. Really doubt you could get any higher than that. Even though, I am curious on what you and your friends would do next...", Navi would taunt the former champion.

Yukiko scowled slightly at Navi's attitude, although it wasn't like her own was any better. Turning back to the shelves she shot back, "So what am I supposed to call you then? That green-haired girl's pet dog?"

"And what we're doing next is none of your business." she added on, "Unless you want that to involve kicking your ass."

Navi took offense at being called Melody's "dog", and would've gladly slapped the blue-hair, but quickly regained her wits and thought better of it.

What she didn't think better of is continuing to provoke her.

After hearing Yukiko's other statement, Navi would burst into laughter so audible, a few people in the shop actually turned around in surprise.

"AHAHAHAHAHA, please, hahaha, don't kid yourself. The only good thing all 3 of you do well are goddamn groin shots. Get to my level before actually claiming you can kick my ass in a fight"

Yukiko looked at Navi in shock as the girl started to make a scene in the shop. Grabbing the blonde by the collar, she pulled her in close, "What the fuck is your problem!?" she seethed, glancing around to make sure no one was staring at them, before shoving her back.

"If you think you're so good, why don't we settle it, in a real match then!?" she challenged, eager to shut the noisy blonde up for real.

Navi yelped in shock as Yukiko pulled her by the collar of her yellow top, before promptly releasing it. Navi was furious at the woman at this point.

"Want me to prove that? You're on."

"Also, just a bit of friendly advice...", Navi said, before pulling Yukiko in closer by the collar of her tank top: "Do this again, and I will make sure that not only you will pay, but so do your friends. Got it?", she said, before releasing it and glaring at Yukiko.

Though that was probably just an off-hand comment by Navi, Yukiko still felt a tremendous guilt over the way Alicia assaulted Akiko and Maddie just to get to her. And though they weren't completely un-involved with this situation, the blue-haired girl didn't want her friends to get hurt again because of her own personal business.

Yukiko's face shifted in an expression of pure rage as Navi released her, incredibly upset by that a threat like that. "If you got a problem bring it up with me! Don't you dare fucking lay a finger on them!" she screamed, pulling back her fist and sending a hard straight punch towards the blonde's face.