Old Friends, Old Rivals (Chigusa Vs. Mai)

Chigusa wasn't good at submissions. She had the technique to pull them off, but lacked the strength to hold them. Still, she put all her strength into the Boston Crab, intending to make it as uncomfortable as possible for Mai. She pulled back hard on her friend's legs, bending her back in a way it should never be bent, and also put extra pressure on Mai's toned thighs.

"C'mon Mai! Give up!" Chigusa said, trying to not let the tired desperate tone creep into her voice.

"Ah... Ahhhhh!" Mai finally yelped, unable to hide the pain. "N-no!" She cried out. She puashed against the mat to try and push herself up and some how do something. The weakness from the attack and the match caused her to fall and slam onto her shoulder and onto her face, a tear rolling down her cheek. Her arm slipped out and she was getting ready to tap out but she tried to hold on for just a few more seconds.

Chigusa couldn't hold on for long. Already she was panting from holding Mai down in the submission, her arms were weary and so was the rest of her body. A bead of sweat dripped onto her eyelid, irritating her eye, but Chigusa had no way of wiping it away; her hands were busy. Still, she had Mai trapped, and from the sounds she was making she would tap out very soon.

But then, Chigusa felt a jolt of pain shoot up the leg Mai recently kicked. She gritted her teeth and let go of the Boston crab, hobbling over to the ropes to inspect her leg. She saw a nasty bruise beginning to form right where Mai kicked her, and where Mai put pressure in the figure four.

Mai gasped as Chigusa let go of the crab. Her head slumped to the ground and as though she was unconscious but she was just catching her breath. Her long brown hair was matted against her and after a few seconds, she began to crawl to the ropes. Weakly, she crawled up to a standing position. She turned around and looked at Chigusa, wincing as she trie to smile. "You almost had me Yuuki-San. My poor legs are on fire. I can barely stand. Y-you've gotten even stronger since the last time."

She stepped off the ropes, her leg shaking as she took her first few steps forward, bringing her fists up in a fighting stance but it was clear that she was on her last legs

Chigusa leaned against the ropes, panting heavily. She was tired as well, the submission taking a lot out of her, and it was obvious that she was more hurt than Mai. Mai was the one who had gotten stronger than before. Chigusa thought it would be an easy win for her, but Mai proved that she could endure Chigusa's best moves. She gritted her teeth as she got up off the ropes, flashing a grin at Mai.

"It looks like you're almost done," Chigusa said. She tried to hide the fact that she was limping by walking slowly. "Lets end this."

Mai smiled as well."Yeah." She nodded, knowing she couldn't fool Chigusa with a bluff. "But so are you." She gave a knowing wink and inched forward towards Chigusa. She had to do something to surprise Chigusa but she wasn't sure what it could be. Suddenly her eyes let up. She crouched low to the ground as if she were going to go for a take down on Chigusa's injured legs, but when she got close enough grunted and used her remaining strength to send herself forward and upward, closing the gap like she was going to tackle but instead hurling herself upward for an uppercut to Chigusa's jaw. She just hoped that it would be enough.

Chigusa moved slowly towards Mai as well, her hands raised in a defensive position. She watched Mai carefully, trying to get the girl to attack and present an opening before she moved. They had only one attack left, she had to make it count. Suddenly Mai went low. Chigusa quickly tried to sidestep, but her leg gave her too much pain. She lowered her arms to block the tackle that she knew was coming. That proved to be a bad idea. Mai suddenly straightened and her fist shot upwards. Chigusa leapt backwards, trying to avoid the punch. It barely grazed her, but she fell back onto the mat anyways. Her pained leg finally gave out beneath her.

Mai stumbled to the ground as her punch barely connected. She seemed to fall near Chigusa's legs and knew even if the punch didn't knock her idol friend out, it may have succeeded in winning the fight. She quickly tried to grab Chigusa's injured leg and swing her own legs around. She would try and put Chigusa ina single leg, leg lock submission. Her own legs were on fire and she really didn't have the strength but she hoped both of her weak legs working against Chigusa's bad leg would be enough to finish her off. One thing she did have going for her if she could pull the move off was her arms were relatively fresh and she could use them to wrench Chigusa's ankle tto add even more pain to the hold.

Chigusa wasn't fast enough to get away. Mai's hand grabbed her injured leg, keeping her trapped. Then Mai snapped her into another submission, putting pressure on the rapidly forming bruise, making the poor idol girl suffer through even more pain.

"AHHHHHH!" Chigusa screamed, "MY LEG!" The pain didn't even make her squirm, it just paralyzed her. Chigusa lay on the mat, screaming as Mai wrenched her wounded leg and ankle.

Mai winced as Chigusa screamed. It pained her heart to do that to her friend but she knew that she was so close to ending the match. "Yuuki-San! Please submit!" She pleaded. Her tone begged Chigusa to give up the fight.