Rise of Rivals: Ayane Tokegawa vs Kimiko Danzaki

Suddenly, Kimiko's smile didn't quite look so goofy and funny anymore now that she was looming over Ayane... With the dark shadow cast over her face contrasting the overhead lights beating on the back of her head, the smaller girl could only feel a very SLIGHT sense of intimidation as her opponent locked herself in place, fists being cocked back and ready to FIRE!

...And that creepy little warning(?) didn't really help things either!

"GGGH! DNNNNGH! UGH!" Ayane grunted as Kimiko BEAT down on her with heavy blow after heavy blow, her mighty power, size and LEVERAGE making every punch come DOWN on her defenses to the fullest! It was like a siege engine beating down HARD on the gates of a castle, knowing that it was only a number of swings away from busting right through! While initially, Ayane was TOO focused on keeping her guard up... Over time she was starting to notice that these punches... weren't really hitting her! Sure, they were SLAMMING into her arms, brutishly trying to bust through but... It wouldn't have been hard to just... like.. readjust the aim and attack from an angle, right!? Peeking between her forearms as another punch ROCKED them, her dark eyes taking in Kimiko's fun-loving face as she threw her punches down into her!

What was UP with her...? She couldn't figure it out... Ayane loved a good scrap as much as the next girl but... WOW!

She couldn't stay here forever, though. It wouldn't be long before her arms gave out, leaving her at Kimiko's... tender mercies. She couldn't have that! She couldn't lose in her opening fight AGAIN! No... NOOO!

"NO!" Ayane cried, her hands SHOOTING out to grab Kimiko's head... just as a punch SLAMMED into her jaw! "Uurrrrhg..." She groaned, the sheer strength ROCKING Ayane's world to the point she nearly lost all strength in her arms! The SHOCK Kimiko brought to her jaw, the fist drilling into her cheek and forcing another spray of saliva from her lips, leaving a scuff that... would take a few days to heal...

...But then Ayane's eyes hardened, as did her resolve! Tightening her grip on EITHER side of Kimiko's head, she would SHOOT up as she pulled her rival down, SLAMMING their foreheads together in an utterly BULL-ISH headbutt!

Each blow was like raining down sledgehammer strikes onto a rock but she could feel the cracks forming as beads of sweat started to gather on her brow. If nothing else, Ayane was making this one hell of a workout for her and she was loving it! Just a few more and she was sure she could break through. If nothing else all of these free blows on the other girls arms might cripple some of her punching power… which was a mixed blessing. It was good for her prospects of winning but she wasn't super keen on handicapping the girl.

Kimiko logged a brow in surprise as the girl beneath her gave up her guard entirely and shouted up at her. Since it hadn't been anything along the lines of a verbal surrender, the brunette felt obligated to punish the obvious blunder and put some extra force into her next punch. She dropped forward, leaning her weight into the massive stroke, catching Ayane square in the face with a hard knuckled haymaker that would make any professional combat sport practitioner jealous. But why stop at one? She brought back her left fist, primed to clobber Ayane a second time.

She hadn't really been paying attention to where Ayane had thrown up her arms to or why. It seemed irrelevant while she had a wide opening to just beat on the smaller girl. It wasn't until her opponents hands clapped the side of her head that she understood, far too late to stop herself from being yanked closer.

Kimiko had always been told she had a thick skull. It was hard to gauge if that was a good thing or not though. People said it like it was supposed to be an insult but as far as she could tell, in her preferred field it sounded like a benefit. Regardless of what it was, she personally tried not to ever use it for headbutts unless necessary… or in the odd case an opponent cracked her with one instead.

The loud crack of both women's skulls colliding was a gruesome sound, one that most people didn't want to hear ever, especially not coming from two young ladies. The effects were immediate on Kimiko as she bounced off of Ayane's head, wavering in her dominant position, blinking in a visible stupor. She swayed, arms dropping to be side loosely before calling forward to lay directly over top of Ayane with her face buried in the other girls shoulder as if they were cuddle buddies. It hadn't been intentional, but this position had actually worked in her favor.

"One!" After circling the two women the referee had been sure, with Ayane's shoulders down and Kimiko on top, tho constituted a pinning situation in her eyes.

It was only after her head CRASHED into Kimiko that Ayane had second thoughts about her little master plan... and even then, they didn't last for too long. The skull she crashed into was so thick, so tough, so utterly ROCK HARD, she might've thought she just headbutted a slab of granite! Pain wasn't even the operative feeling she sensed upon impact with Kimiko... but utter disorientation, a feeling that the world around her was coming undone at the most abstract levels! She could no longer sense gravity, the placement of the room around her was constantly spinning, the lighting seemed to grow brighter and darker at it's own whims...

Even Kimiko's behavior post-hit didn't go the way she wanted! Instead of falling backwards or even drooping off to the side, the larger girl simply... fell on top of her, the woman's face pressing lightly into her neck. Even with her world COMPLETELY rocked, Ayane's cheeks flashed a very soft shade of pink, feeling the warm, shallow breaths tickle her skin... Amidst her own confusion, she didn't feel... angry or embarrassed, just... feeling it... and it didn't even feel bad or 'nothing... Coincidentally, her own face would find itself touching her rival's neck, her own breath softly touching her skin...

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh...." Ayane groaned, her hands reaching up to try and cup her face... only to be stopped by Kimiko! Her arms instead looped under her larger opponent's on their way up, hugging the woman closer as she attempted to feebly gasp at her throbbing forehead! "That suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked......"

"................One!.................."

"H....huh...?" She muttered softly, slowly coming to grips with reality. Kimiko was so close on her... warm and heavy, the Ref practically in her face, hand coming down in an arch, palm slapping the canvas beside her cheek! Slowly, Ayane's eyes would widen, watching in slow-motion as the hand of judgement came down for the second time... her jarred brain starting to kick itself into gear!

"TWO!"

Grunting loudly, Ayane would JERK up, trying to push Kimiko up and off her to the side, Ayane trying to break this accidental pin, lifting one of her gloved hands off the mat to raise her shoulders off the floor! She had to get out... She wouldn't lose here! It would be the most EMBARASSING WAY TO LOSE IF SHE WAS PINNED HERE!!!!

Laying face down on top of Ayane, not much passed though the hazy blackness swirling through her mind. Aside from the massive headache racking her brain, this wasn't all that uncomfortable… though if she understood where she was or who she was on top of wasn't really clear… she also may have drooled just a smidge on the other girl's sleeve.

When the ref hit the mat, she didn't seem to care at all. Eyes closing a bit tighter, features scrunching up as she snuggled up even closer to her prone adversary, mistaking her for a large pillow instead of her current opponent. "Five more minutes." She grumbled, voice muffled into Ayane's shoulder, wholly unaware of the panic gripping the girl beneath her.

With all the grace of a cadaver, Kimiko flopped across the ring as she was hoisted up of Ayane into a light tumble and harder her awake again. "Huh, what?! They were my cookies I swear!" Her roll came to a stop as she lay on her back, blinking up at the ceiling lights. Her first attempt to sit up was met with a sharp pain in her forehead so she did the reasonable thing and laid back down. The brunette brought her forearm to her face, wiping a bit of moisture off her lips and chin. None of it seemed to be blood thankfully.

"Well that was weird." The cheerful combatant murmured to herself, rocking over onto her eyes to glance Ayane's way, mindful to keep track of her as Kimiko started to make a labored did to her hands and knees. Had she just almost won there? She wasn't exactly sure. This wrestling match had been a very confusing affair for the most part.

Ayane sent Kimiko TUMBLING off of her like a rolled up mat... before flopping back down hard on her back, clutching at her head now freely with agony! Fucking... headache... God damn, it wasn't the best decision she ever made... In fact, it usually WASN'T a good decision at all, no matter the situation... but she'd done it anyway... and now she'd have to live with the consequences... Those damn, painful consequences... After letting out another low moan of dissatisfaction, Ayane would sit up slowly, an odd expression over her face as she sensed a sort of... cool, sticky wetness on her shoulder...? What the devil was...

Oh... Gross...

A nice, juicy drool-stain dotted her shoulder around where Kimiko rested her face, the feeling of her spit soaking into Ayane's shirt forcing a disgusted frown to spread across her lips! Ugh... of all the... DISGUSTING! Feh... Damn it... Whatever! It didn't matter! She'd take care of it later! At the moment, she had more pressing matters to attend to!

Glancing over at her opponent, Ayane would spot she was being given a similar look, the two locking eyes as Kimiko remarked how WEIRD that whole situation just was! The girl--in-red opened her mouth to spew some snark, ready to remark how "Captain Obvious" should have been her stage-name or some such insult... but then she remembered... NOTHING about Kimiko was how she expected her to be! That reality FORCED her comment back into her throat where it died in silence, Ayane simply letting out a low growl of annoyance as she would roll onto her knees, slowly pushing herself back up to her feet...

Once up, Ayane would stare down her foe, her eyes locking with Kimiko's in a hard, battle-hungry glare! For a moment, she would stand still... as if waiting for something... BEFORE SUDDENLY CHARGING DOWN KIMIKO IN A COMPLETELY UNPROMPTED RUSH-DOWN! Just a few feet from her foe, Ayane would SPRING up from the floor, SPRINGING HIGH into the air before extending her leg, aiming to CRASH her knee into the taller girl's jaw! Her signature Maiden's Rage would ROCK Kimiko's world, she thought, and put her FLAT on her ass!

"TYAH!" She'd roar, bringing her knee up right under Kimiko's jaw! "TAKE THIS!"

Standing up proved to be easier than she had anticipated. Finding the proper balance was what took a bit of noodling around with with figure out. Hands slightly out to the side, stumbling q bit over herself until she found proper equilibrium. This wasn't the fun sort of dizzy she was really into something like a festival ride and she was ready to get off.

When she looked back to Ayane, the other girl looked pretty serious. She wondered if she had done something especially wrong to upset her, though couldn't recall anything really. Kimiko took a moment to shake out her arms and legs before fixing her top which had shifted slightly out of place. "Do I have something on my face or...?"

The brunette was startled at Ayane's sudden charge, quickly taking a step back to drop into her now familiar fighting stance. They were back into it she guessed! What round was this now? How were they supposed to know when a round started and ended anyway without any sort of signal. Wrestling, what a trip.

She was primed and ready to intercept another punch, already intending to cut it off and move in to lay on some hurt… then Ayane left the ground. Unexpected! Kimiko's eyes wired in surprised but also delight as the smaller girl came right at her, smashing the underside of her head with a hard knee strike.

Kimiko fumbled backwards, arms circling to keep her balance before she stopped, peering over at Ayane with a slightly confused look on her face. She remained upright for a few awkward seconds before dropping to her knees, then falling forward, face down with a heavy thud.

Kimiko fell like a statue being pushed from it's podium, the look of utter DISORIENTATION upon her face making Ayane almost GIDDY with excitement! Her knee STRUCK the woman's jaw with an almost scary amount of force, that thick forehead of hers doing little to protect her brain this time around! Ayane landed deftly... as Kimiko FLOPPED back down to the ground face-down, the smaller girl quickly climbing atop her, straddling the woman's waist just as she had done a moment ago... but this time with Kimiko on her face! It was PAYBACK TIME!

"Heheheh... Now you're gonna get yours, Kimiko!" Ayane announced, cracking her knuckles as she loomed over her foe! Planting her knees so that she couldn't easily be dismissed, the smaller woman laying slightly down across Kimiko's back so that she could get a better angle at her head from behind! Ayane would line up her fist carefully... before throwing a hard HOOK around to her opponent's face as it lay down against the mat, Ayane wanting to capitalize on this position of power as much as she could! If and WHEN he opponent got up... she wanted it to be as hard as possible for her to recover! She wouldn't just stop with the head, however! There was a whole upper-body to attend to! More often than not, she would dip down, scooch back a bit along Kimiko's hips for a better angle... before throwing a BIG punch right into the woman's sides and ribs, hoping to go RIGHT through them and beat the air right out of her lungs!

Oh, the power she was feeling... the domination! Ayane felt alive, strong, POWERFUL! She was fighting... and winning against someone this strong and it felt... goooooooooooooooooooooood! She missed this... Why did she ever stop!? What could have possessed her to ever take a break from this thrill!?

"What's wrong, Kimiko!?" Ayane would taunt, growing arrogant in her position of authority! "Is this all you got!?"

Face down on the mat, Kimiko's body flattened against the canvas as she exhaled, lidded eyes blinking unevenly as her brain rattled around in her skull. She would have congratulated Ayane on the nice hit, we're she capable at the moment. She could feel the small tenors of movement through the ring followed by the heavy feeling of the other woman lowering herself down on top of her. She didn't put together the danger until the first strike cracked her upside the head, slamming her face into the mat.

The brunette let out a muffled grunt, her arms coming up to fold around her head in a protective shell, not really able to protect herself in this position from everything coming her way. When Ayane switched up her aim and started drilling punches into her back and sides, she was forced to take each one, letting out a pained cry with each. When was the last time someone had brutalized her this badly? She couldn't recall ever.

She couldn't stay like this though, it was nothing but a shooting gallery for Ayane at this point. The other girl was even taunting her about it. That didn't seem entirely nice given their positioning but Kimiko kept that to herself… and she wasn't exactly in a place to respond at the moment. She didn't want this to be how things ended, they had just started having fun after all.

When Ayane scooted down off her waist to get better shots at her side, she made a move. Dropping her hands off her head she slapped her palms to the mat, straining through the groggy hair and breathless physical motion to push her upper body up. With a hard flop she threw her weight to the right, rolling her body with Ayane on top of her. She hooked her legs, tucking her knees to trap the other girls legs with her own, so when she rolled over she would be laying across Ayane with their legs tangled together… and the other girls back pressed to the mat again with Kimiko's dead weight on top of her. Not exactly a graceful solution, but the last time this happened Ayane seemed to freak out to it was worth a try.

"One!" Had been looking ready to end the match if Kimiko wasn't able to defend herself for too long. Instead she watched the train wreck of a counter play… fair enough. She would drop back to the mat again to start another count.

Kimiko was putting up, like, next to nothing of a fight! Her punches met resistance that had the toughness of water, her initial punches to the head going through cleanly and sharply before moving down to the body that she battered with ease. Her punches rocked the taller girl's from again and again and only began to slow when her arms began to burn with exertion! She could feel her opponent beginning to wind down under her powerful strikes, sense her energy being beaten out of her one punch at a time... All it took was a little more attention on that body, maybe even a submission if the fancy struck her... Then this match would be-

"WHA-!" Ayane CRIED out as her entire plan fell to pieces! It wasn't like Kimiko CRASHED her head into her face or anything... but she turned the tables on her in the most literal of senses! While Ayane was practically punching Kimiko into dead-weight, that there was the problem! She was doing her job too well and not well enough at the same time! Entangling their legs together in some sort of lock, Kimiko would proceed to simply ROLL over like some bear with an itch on it's back, Ayane being SQUISHED underneath her as her beaten body, in all it's weightiness, PRESSED HER DOWN TO THE FLOOR!

"What in the... get off me, Kimiko!" Ayane demanded her hands now shooting up to PUSH on her shoulders, to try and shove her away... or at least roll them both over! Their locked-in-legs kept her from even BUDGING her an inch, Ayane being practically CHAINED underneath her opponent, the Ref SLIDING right on in, just as confused as Ayane herself was... but still determined to do her job!

ONE!

"W-wait! N-no!" Ayane was starting to panic, beating and slapping all over Kimiko's back, pulling at her legs, DESPERATE to taste freedom!

TWO!

"NO! STOPPIT! STOP COUNTING!" She pleaded, grunting harder, shoving harder, PUTTING IN MAXIMUM HARDNESS into her efforts... but Kimiko wouldn't BUDGE! It was like trying to move a boulder... BUT IF THAT BOULDER WAS LAYING ON TOP OF YOU!

"NNNNNGHHHHAAAAAH!" She ROARED, putting in ALL her energy to BRUTE-FORCE Kimiko off of her!

If the brunette was sure of one thing, it would be that this change of position was very, very uncomfortable. If she were sure of two things though, it would be that this was a far better place to be in as Ayane hitting her in the back didn't seem nearly as impactful as her earlier punches. It wasn't as if she had much of a choice in the matter after spending so much energy to get to this point. She was just going to stay like this for a bit.

"You started it." Kimiko groaned, blaming Ayane for having climbed on top of her to begin with. This was just some sort of karma. Ayane kept shoving and hitting her though… which was really not helping the fact she had done this to stop being hit. She shifted slightly with each shove from below until… with a roll of her shoulders she let Ayane's arms push past her body, under her arms. Tucking in her elbows, she looked her arms around the other girls to trap them in place, hugging them to her side to keep Ayane from striking here again. Much better.

The two flopped and bucked on the floor, not unlike one of those mechanical bulls she had heard about but never gotten the opportunity to ride. This was probably a good introductory level version of that though. Kimiko leans back, just smothering Ayane with her body while keeping hold of her limbs, just trying to juggle her yelling… boy was she loud.

"Three!"

The road was roaring now and another bell sounded. Had a round finally ended? The referee was calling down to her, telling her to break apart from Ayane, so she did, untangling from the woman with a graceless flop to the side. She was helped to her feet by the official on wobbly legs before having her arm raised. She blinked in confusion, looking back to Ayane then to the referee.

"Wait, did I win?" The referee gave her a nod, and Kimiko looked even more confused than before. Slipping her hand free from the official she moved over to her opponent with shaky legs, offering the girl in a red a helping hand to rise.