Down Time

"Yeah well.." Akashi said, her cheeks a bright shade of red as she motioned to the bartender to have another round sent over to the booth they were in. She'd hit her peak and would be riding a nice buzz for a long time now. She just hoped that she didn't end up with another tattoo in the morning. Akashi looked at Lia with a goofy grin on her face as Taylor looked at them and darted to the booth. "H-hey wait" She said. "You don't get to leave the party halfway through!" She then stopped and looked back at Lia. She rwched up and grabbed Lia's tie and began to walk to the booth with her. "You've been sitting out on the sidelines this whole time. Don't think you're getting away either."

About halfway to the booth, Akashi let go of the tie and put her arm around Lia and drgged her to a seat where Akashi was between her and Taylor and grabbed a fresh sake. "To me!" She said teasing Taylor's confident toast. "Who's gonna do things to you in and out of the ring for being such a brat!" Her words holding only affection for Taylor. She nodded and decided that they indeed what she wanted to say" She tipped her beer back and chugged it, her arm still around Lia and leaned her head against the bunny's shoulder. "What about you, Lia-san?'

Lia yelped as she was dragged by her tie back to the booth. "Ah! Wouldn't dream of it, Chesty." She winked at Akashi as she was guided back to her seat by the sumo. Raising a drink warily, she joined in on the toast. "To both of you, for almost, but not quite, failing to show me what a fight is and how it is different from homoerotic foreplay!" Lia mimed taking a big sip of her alcohol, but she was beginning to approach her limit already. She only downed barely a few drops. "Hah! There's two words I can always pronounce when I'm sosh... slus... sloshed!" Lia stuck her tongue out at the other two girls.

Taylor leaned forward to look around Akashi at Lia. She tightened her eyes. "I'm not usually one to talk about people's attitudes and stuff, but I got a funny feeling you have a worse attitude than I do."

She squirmed a little bit in the booth, feeling a bit crowded. Eventually she slipped under the table and came up on the opposite side. She stretched her legs out down the other seat and put her hands behind her head while looking Lia over.

"Yeah, you definitely seem like... like, I've met people like you. So, man, like what is your problem?" Taylor knew that Lia hadn't really even said anything that would warrant her attitude. She wasn't totally sure why, but she suddenly didn't like Lia so much. "Do you just need a hug? Or a tissue? I'm sure Akashi would let you cry on her shoulder. Or maybe you got dumped bad and that's why you went all dikey and bitter. Getting warm?"

Akashi listened to Lia and Taylor with a crooked grin on her face. her cheeks were quite rosy and she looked back from Lia to Taylor. When Taylor moved, Akashi stretched out as well, throwing a leg up against the booth and leaning into Lia even more. She turned her head, throwing it back to look up at Lia. "Do you need a hug?" She asked, repeating Taylor's words and turned her body, wrapping an arm around Lia's chest and nuzzling into her, clutching the arm opposite of her and nearly pressing her face into Lia's breast. She then sat back up and patted her chest. "You can cry right here... if you need to." She said raising her eyebrows hopefully. She then turned and reached for her bottle and took another swig, eying Taylor.

"H-hey... Taylor-san." Akashi said suddenly. "W-what's so bad about liking girls?" She asked suddenly. She looked down. "I'm... mostly... just teasing you about it, right? But you seem offended. I guess someone has to like cock around here, though? Is that it?" She leaned in and rolled her tongue across the tip of her bottle and then pressed the neck into her mouth part ways. After slowly removing it, she looked up at Taylor. "Is that more to your liking?" She asked and then her head fell a little. "Fuck... already wasted..." She muttered and slumped back against Lia. "No need to stop though.." She said as she snatched her beer and took another drink. "At least I know it's not going to get any worse."

She then looked up at Taylor and bowed her head a bit. "Gomen-Taylor-san. I guess you're rubbing off on me a bit." She said and then grinned.

Taylor held up her hands defensively. "Hey, man, whatever floats your boat or whatever. I just call it like I see it. I'm just saying that there seems to be something...things... wrong with our little bunny-girl here."

Taylor looked at Lia and lifted her bottle to her lips, but then thought better of drinking at this point and just put it back down.

Akashi grinned at Taylor. "What floats YOUR boat then?" She asked, snickering to herself before turning and looking up at Lia. She pouted at Lia. "Awww..." She said as she patted Lia's breast, presumably aiming for something more appropriate if she had been sober. "What's the matter with the cute Bunny girl?"

"That's what I'D like to know." Taylor said, taking a little sip.

Lia arched both an eyebrow and an ear at Taylor's sudden shift in demeanor, "Pardon?" She returned Akashi's caresses with a small amount of friendly affection, letting her know it was welcome but not quite egging her on... at least up until the sumo had shifted up into full-on molesting of the rabbit. Lia squirmed a bit, fingers twitching in air in surprise, but she relented, patting the sumo's head softly. "I'll... take a raincheck on.. you know, the boobs." she mumbled to Akashi, still trying to figure out what Taylor was getting at.

After a second to collect her loose thoughts, Lia shook her head and sighed, "You're right again, Case Ball." She shrugged toward Taylor before sitting up, her face suddenly becoming quite serious. "I was eighteen. He was a young boy, still in high school. Definitely younger than me." Lia wrinkled her nose, "I... He... He and I... we..." Lia clasped her hands together, twirling her fingers nervously, looking away from the two girls, "We almost, kinda sorta, but didn't have sex... but did... but didn't." Lia faced Taylor again. "I'm... You remind me of him. He was annoying and whiny and a total piss-ant creep with a huge chip on his shoulder and absolutely no self-awareness, so he was almost exactly like you." Lia sniffled softly, "Plus, you look almost exactly like a bratty, self-absorbed little boy so you're practically a dead ringer for him... Oh! These awful memories!" Lia cried out, hands raised in a hammy approximation of emotional turmoil before letting her head fall to the table. As if realizing that she had made a mistake, Lia quickly pulled her head back up and buried it in Akashi's bosoms, letting out fake sobs.

Taylor smiled back at Lia, amused. She looked to see what Akashi's reaction was to this whole thing, and then back to Lia.

"Bravo. That was... tremendous. Really, just, very moving. I can see how I'd remind you of this guy, though. I imagine he has something in common with anyone who doesn't buy your bullshit... plus I mean I'm young, you're over 30, by the looks of it you've got a few kids somewhere, I can see you'd resent me just for being young. Ya know, like this guy was."

Taylor leaned forward and clasped her hands on the table. "So, not that I"m expecting you to answer or anything, but at least it should be entertaining... why are you here? It really doesn't seem like you're motivated to train hard, work your way up, and challenge for the title. If I had to guess, and now this is a long shot, I'd say that you're either a perv who couldn't get into the porn industry, or maybe you followed someone else here... or maybe you were trying to get away from something in the states, though there are a million other places to go to do THAT. Hah.

"You remind me of someone too. Total brat, no direction, and you speak your own language made up entirely of sarcasm and bitchiness. That must make you pretty tough for other people to put up with."

Taylor smiled at Lia and leaned back again.

Akashi purred a bit as she was petted, clearly enjoying the fact that her drunken advances weren't being rebuked in an overt and loud fashion. She she groaned and turned away from Lia, sitting up as she grabbed her beer and began to drink some more of it, listening to the two girls trade barbs.

Though Akashi was focused on the story, she hadn't been looking at Lia directly. Mostly just at Lia's general direction. She supposed it was pretty interesting all things considered and only briefly got her attempts to mock Taylor. She gasped then grinned when Lia pushed her face into her boobs, and began to run her fingers through Lia's hair. "That's right..." She said with a grin. "My bosom will take all the pain away. eheheh."

Akashi turned to Taylor after her words and looked at her carefully. "There's... something about the AFW..." She said thoughtfully. "It seems to be a sort of magnet for all the freaks." She then looked down. "Well... I say that in the nicest way and... I include myself... so..." She turned her head a bit snatching her beer up again but holding it instead of drinking. "People that don't belong anywhere else. It's like it's saying. "Here is a home. You'll be safe here with me.' Does that make any sense?"