Kamikaze (Akashi+Taylor) vs Shiro Shinde (Naoko+Stephanie)

Taylor slapped Akashi's hand and vaulted over the ropes. "Don't worry, I got this."

After having to watch Akashi get double teamed and beaten up, Taylor certainly wasn't lacking motivation. The adrenaline was flowing and she felt lighter than air as she skipped quickly out to the middle of the ring and began to circle Naoko. Her feet glided over the mat as she flitted back and forth around the girl, throwing plenty of feints. Her smile was absent. She had enough reasons to take Naoko seriously, and she was going to give the gangster some reasons to take her seriously too.

"Sounds like your girlfriend is going to be out of commission for a while. Why don't you tag her in so I can finish the job? I promise I won't pin her. I just want to finish crippling her. But really, I'm pretty happy about where she is now. Out of my ring, on her knees... seems about right." Taylor taunted viciously, never breaking eye contact. "Man, she looks like she's gonna cry, how pathetic."

Taylor took note of the way Naoko set her feet. She quickly jumped into a big step toward Naoko's left, her blind side, where she wouldn't have her feet in line to counter her with any real power. Then she jumped high and swung her right leg like a baseball bat, arcing it across at the back of Naoko's head.

Akashi was all too eager to tag in Taylor. She flashed Taylor a half-hearted smile as they passed. Not because she lacked confidence in Taylor but because she was starting to feel really sore form the punishment she took. Once she was behind the ropes, she in haled and then let out a deep sigh. She then perked up and leaned forward.

"Kick her butt, Taylor-san!"

She then grimaced and leaned in to rub her back. "Ow." She pouted as she rubbed her temples and tried to blink some of the soreness away as well.

Naoko remained in her combat stance barely moving at all. Taylor's words had absolutely no effect on the cold Japanese woman who prefered to use her time studying her opponent than paying heed to the taunts. Stephanie, on the other hand, was majorly pissed off, although she could not hear everything Taylor said, she realized the blue haired girl was talking about her and she infered the rest. The anger helped the redhead put aside the pain and she slowly pulled herself up the ring apron to reach the ropes from outside. "...You are dead..." Stephanie groaned as she tried to use the ropes to get up outside the ring.

The storm of feints that Taylor threw didn't managed to get any reaction from Naoko. The yanki girl assumed that as long as Taylor talked
she wouldn't attack. Only when the punky girl shut up did Naoko took her movements seriously... A big step to the left... Then... A jumping kick?... Enziguri? Naoko would have raised a condescending eyebrow if she had had time, but although Taylor's attacks were boringly predictable, they were fast. So all Naoko decided to better use the time she had before Taylor's foot hit the back of her head to crouch, so that the blue-haired girl's foot would swing above her head, and once in this position Naoko extended her left arm forward, with a twisted grin on the lips. It wasn't a very powerful punch, but it was aimed directly at Taylor's crotch.

Taylor yelped and fell back into a backward roll. She came up on her feet and backpedaled rapidly until she was back at the ropes, and only then did she allow herself to favor her hurt girlie-parts.

Bent over a little, one hand down in the appropriate region, she glared incredulously at Naoko. "WHY?!" She screamed. "Why is it ALWAYS THE CROTCH WITH YOU DIKEY PSYCHOS?! Gawd!" It seemed like not a day passed where some crazy girl didn't try to punch or kick or otherwise be a jerk to her mound. It was so uncalled for.

She shot the ref-girl a look, and then returned her focus to Naoko. "Look, I know you're new, and you probably don't speak English very well, and you're a little retarded, but there are RULES! Both Friction rules and Taylor rules CLEARLY STATE that there is ABSOLUTELY NO PUNCHING OF MY PRIVATE PARTS!"

With a grunt, she pushed herself back off the ropes and resumed circling, moving faster this time. She'd taken enough time to shake off the pain, and now she had something to prove. Maybe this time she wouldn't commit so much on the attack with this girl... considering what she did with Akashi. She had to repay her for that. But first thing's first.

Taylor bounced just outside of striking range with the gangster-ette. Without thinking about it, she quickly darted in and turned her hips over into a kick with her lead leg to the inside of Naoko's lead thigh. As quickly as she got in, she got back out again, and went to resume her circling.

Akashi was livid when she saw Naoko go for the groin shot. She was nearly ready to come charge towards Naoko and start beating the hell out of her. She was halfway over the ropes when the ref was on her and pointing back to her corner.

"But! What the fuck! That was clearly an illegal move!" Akashi shouted but the ref wanted to hear none of it.

The Sumo wrestler had actually considered suplexing the ref and moving on to Naoko but she clenched her teeth and fists tightly and stayed on her side of the apron. She looked past the ref at Taylor who seemed to be yelling hotly as well. That was a good sign. If Taylor could scream and deride Naoko that loudly, then she probably wasn't too bad off.

"Kick that bitches FUCKING ASS!" Akashi shouted angrily.

Naoko was stopped by the referee from continuing attacking Taylor, giving the blue haired girl time to recover. The Japanese girl raised an eyebrow as the referee girl warned her not to do that again.

"She is doing a favor to us all..." Stephanie started to talk, speaking to the referee from the corner. Still in pain and favoring her knee, but clearly enjoying what had just happened, Stephanie couldn't resist the urge to taunt Taylor a bit and get some verbal vengeance. "Spaying that bitch is a sure way to improve humanity's gene pool..." the redhead added with a wicked smile.

After a few more seconds, the referee managed to control the situation, although the booing of the fans was just not going to stop, and resumed the fight. Naoko got back into her fighting stance and waited for Taylor's attack. This time the blue haired girl tried a much less risky maneuver, a fast kick to the inner thigh, much faster than trying hit the back of the head and much less announced, which made it impossible for Naoko to avoid.

"Ughh!" the yanki girl groaned as she was hit, forced to take a couple of steps to the side. She smiled at Taylor as she saw the punky girl step back quickly to avoid a counter attack. Despite all evidence of the contrary Taylor wasn't completely dead in the brain. She was pretty tough, quite fast and learned quickly, Naoko had to admit she may be a challenge.

The Japanese girl circled with Taylor studying her for a couple more of seconds and then decided to attack. She lunged forward and raised her left knee as if she was going to kick high with it, but then brought it down, extending it towards Taylor knee, trying to hit with with the sole and push it in the wrong direction, at the same time she twisted her body and swung a cross hand punch to the blue haired girl solar plexus.

As happy as Taylor was that she'd successfully bruised Naoko's thigh, she had no intention at all of staying in close with her. She backed off and circled, and when Naoko came forward again she let her get just in range before she moved again.

Fake or not, as soon as Naoko brought her knee up, Taylor bounded quickly back and to the side, making it miss completely. Staying in tight and trying to counter would be more productive, but also more stupid, and Taylor was allergic to being kicked in the throat. She'd go after Naoko when she was ripe.

"Eep!" Taylor had to lean back while she moved away to avoid the punch that followed. She felt it, though, the energy from it. It looked strong. Like something she really didn't want to be in front of. She moved nimbly to a safe distance, wary of Stephanie's corner and staying far away from it.

"Wow, dude, you stand there for an hour and a half doing nothing but studying my movements, and that's what you come up with? You dickhead. You'll never be a real ninja. You're not even a gang-sterr." She jeered. This one was obviously much more dangerous than Stephanie, and each of them was trying to draw the other into their fight. Taylor was impulsive, but she wasn't stupid.

Naoko watched as Taylor jumped to the side, not surprised at all that the blue haired girl had doged her attack. It only proved how fast her opponent was, and Naoko knew very well how to deal with the type. The Japanese ganster also noticed that Taylor couldn't keep her mouth shut, and decided it would be nice to help her with that severe flaw.

Without stopping, the Japanese ganster girl turned to face Taylor again and moved to her swinging her fists fast towards the blue haired girl babbling mouth, mainly trying to make Taylor see the fists coming, so her eyes wouldn't look lower, on Naoko's right leg that will come up aiming to hit on Taylor's kidney area with a round house kick.

Taylor flitted and danced around the ring, keeping a safe distance from Naoko. She couldn't just run around forever, though. She just had to pick her shots.

Naoko lunged in with what looked like some clumsy punches. Taylor made them miss and moved to retaliate but Naoko's shin slammed into her side, buckling her.

"Aagh!" She cried and fell to one knee. That changed things. So much for staying elusive and dancing circles around the girl and picking her apart, she couldn't do that from the mat. She had to do something, though, and without thinking she took the direct route. She pushed off the mat and launched herself straight into Naoko, coming in low to bury her shoulder in the gangster's stomach while she went to wrap her arms around the girl's legs. She'd seem a lot less threatening on her back.

Naoko kept close to Taylor after the kick, she wanted to corner the faster fighter to neutralize the speed advantage. The kick had surely got the desired effect, but the Japanese martial artist felt more were going to be needed to slow down the blue haired girl. And then Taylor charged at her. Naoko wouldn't understand why a fighter that relied in mobility would suddenly decide to go for a grapple; she attributed the strategic mistake to Taylor's inexperience and impulsive behavoir, and cheerished the opportinity to teach her another lesson.

The Japanese ganster girl barely had time to harden her abs, avoiding the collision was simply impossible, and there was neither a way to avoid going down with Taylor's commitment to the charge, so Naoko didn't tried to keep her balance and instead opted to go down...on her terms.

Leaning her body forward and pushing her legs back, Naoko simply dropped down to her knees, her arms reaching around Taylor trying to hug her and trap her uinderneath herself. As soon as she landed, Naoko tried to slid her body some more over Taylor's back... And then lift a knee back to bring it down hard, aiming to hit Taylor on the top of her blue head.