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

Taylor was more than a little alarmed by how easily Naoko stuffed her takedown attempt. She certainly didn't look like she knew her way around a sprawl, but there she was, face down on the mat with her knees tucked under her and Naoko's weight pressing down on her back. She felt an overwhelming urge to get back out before something terrible happened.

"Ungh!"

She let go of Naoko's legs and went to spring back up to her feet, but before she could she caught a hard knee on the forehead. The impact snapped her head back and dazed her, she fell back down to the mat and caught herself awkwardly on her hands and knees. She sloppily scrambled back to dislodge herself from under Naoko, and tried to roll away to freedom so she could create some more space and recover before something else happened.

"Yeah! Beat that lil piece of shit!" Stephanie cheered pounding a fist on the ropes as she celebrated. The only way the redhead could be happier would have been if it had been her knee striking Taylor's head. Stephanie couldn't remember when was the last time she had wanted someone to get beat as bad as she wanted Taylor to get beat.

Naoko was quite pleased too. At least Taylor had finally shut up. Although the Japanese yakuza wannabe wasn't remotely as angry with Taylor's taunts as Stephanie, she was clearly annoyed. On the other hand, that the blue haired girl had stopped babbling also meant she was now more focused. Naoko hugged Taylor, trying to keep her pinned by leaning against her full body, but the blue-haired girl was much more lively after the knee shoot than Naoko would have liked.

When Taylor began to shake to disloge herself, Naoko quickly realized there was no way to keep her, so the Japanese gangster girl decided to give her opponent a good-bye punch and let her go. Naoko raised her left fist as Taylor almos completed her escape maneuver, and then brought it down hard from the side, trying to sneak it under Taylor's arm and hit the punky girl right on the kidney, just were she had previously kicked her.

"Gah!"

Taylor winced from the shot to her side, favoring it heavily, but at least she was out from under Naoko. Maybe Naoko expected Taylor to back off now that she was free, try to find some space so she could recover. Dazed and off balance as she was, that's not what she did.

As soon as her feet were under her again, she took a step in, jumped up high and threw a knee all the way up at Naoko's face. It didn't come off as cleanly as it would have if her head weren't swimming, but she was not about to back off. If she kept up pressure on Naoko, she was sure to catch a break, and she wasn't going to just tag back out to Akashi the moment she got hurt. She had pride to protect. And wannabe gangster teeth to break.

Naoko certainly expected Taylor to fall back and try to get some room, something she didn't wanted to give her that. So as soon as she got up, Naoko tried to close the distance to attack Taylor again to fall directly into the incoming knee. Although the Japanese gangster hadn't dropped her guard down, the knee came so unexpectedly that Naoko was barely able to get her arms in the way, doing very little to stop the impact with her jaw.

Naoko stumbled backwards after the loud bone on bone impact and finally dropped down to one knee, holding her jaw with one hand as she struggled to stay up straight and not fall completely to the mats.

Stephanie almost jumped into the ring after seeing her partner take that hit, but she remained in her corner seeing that Naoko had managed not to fall. Still the redhead pointed at Tayler with one finger and yelled at her. "You are so fucking dead, bitch!"

Taylor barely noticed Stephanie yelling. All she saw was Naoko down on one knee. It was like a christmas present, or a pinata dangling on a string, waiting for Taylor to put her other knee through it.

She was still unbalanced as she pushed forward, keeping in close with one big step before planting a foot on Naoko's outstretched thigh. She almost missed, but she would only use it for balance for a second while she jumped again and threw her other knee up at Naoko's face, with all the sense of urgency that only being hurt can provide.

Naoko was still trying to clear the cowebs of the first knee when Taylor came in to hit her again. The Japanese ganster girl felt a foot on her thigh and immediately guessed what was going to happen. She raised her arms up to cover her face, which was made easier since one of her hands was already on her face. Still the impact was brutal and she was sent down to the canvas badly stunned and disoriented.

Stephanie had seen enough and decided to do something about it. It was horrible to hyave had her ass kicked by Taylor, but to see her do the same to Naoko was just too much. The redhead slid under the bottom rope into the ring and despite the fact her knee was hurting like hell, she avoided the referee girl and went directly for Taylor, aiming to hit her in the belly head while she recovered from the shinning wizard with a big boot kick.

Akashi had been watching the scene, angry and in pain. Naoko was good. She hoped Taylor's stubbornness and skill would be enough to survive through it and press on.

Akashi was thankful for the rest a chance to rejuvenate and rest but She was wary of the two and when Stephanie decided to get into the fight, Akashi was only a step behind her.

"You stay out of this, bitch." She growled to herself as she practically dove through the ropes and made a bee-line to Stephanie, hoping to hit her with a spear before she could get to make an attack on Taylor.

After the impact with Naoko's arms and head, Taylor's foot slipped, sending her down to the mat on her butt. As she pushed up to her feet, she was oblivious of Stephanie making her entrance. She turned to see Akashi charging into the ring, and the ref girl immediately stepping in front of her, demanding, pleading, that Akashi get out of the ring, pointing repeatedly to her corner.

If Akashi was getting involved that could only mean...

Taylor turned the other way in time to get a face full of Stephanie's boot. It floored her, and she laid flat out on her back, stunned. She stared up at the lights while everything around her spun, put one hand to her aching forehead.

"Ohhh..."

A wicked smile formed on Stephanie's face as she saw the referee blocking Akashi's way. The sumo cutie had moved a little too fast and too eager, although Stephanie attributed the success of the maneuver to her perfect timing. And now that the referee and the champion were busy, the redhead could do what she had been wanting to do since the start of this match...probably since she first meet Taylor, beat the crap out of her.

The only thing Stephanie regretted was not having her shinai to really pummel Taylor, so she had to use her leg, which was a little problematic, since her knee still hurt like hell. Anyway, the redhead gansterette moved to Taylor and began to stomp on her back and the back of her head furiously. She wanted so bad to mock and insult her, but she prefered to save her breathe... And not alert the referee.

Naoko meanwhile began to recover slowly. She got to her hands and knees and shook her head trying to get rid of the cowebs she felt all over. Noticing this, Stephanie stopped the stomping to go an help her partner stand. And then the two of them moved to Taylor, picking her up to drag her towards their corner.

The first stomp slammed into Taylor's lower back before she even knew what was going on.

"Fuck!"

As more painful stomps rained down, she covered the back of her head with her hands and tried curling into a ball. She tried to get onto all fours to crawl, but every time she did another stomp sent her back down to the mat. This was exactly where she didn't want to be, getting beat the fuck up with Stephanie there to enjoy every moment of it.

Once there was a pause in the stomping, she threw herself up onto her knees and swung her fist out wildly. It didn't hit anything, Stephanie was off helping Naoko now. "'Kashi, get out..." She called out weakly, knowing that her best chances were to free up the referee so she could remove Stephanie from the ring, but the odds in her current state were only slightly better against Naoko alone. She began trying to crawl to her home corner, reaching for Akashi's hand, but before she made it Naoko and Stephanie grabbed her and started to drag her into hostile territory.

"You fucking pussies!" She snarled, breathing heavily while her opponents dragged her off. "Remember that you couldn't touch me without cheating! Remember that!" She coughed and groaned. She needed to get out of the ring, the beating she'd taken took the wind out of her, but she wasn't ready to quit. They could do what they wanted, she'd still find a way to make them pay for it even if it killed her.