Training (and confidence boosting) (for Kitten)

Tomomi was feeling pretty mopey after her loss to Adrian, especially considering how she felt that she disappointed her fans and her sempais. The idol seemed to loose a lot of her motivation to keep on fighting. Seeing this, Drake knew he had to step in. He couldn't let Tomomi's depression and inferiority complex get the better of her again, not when she was becoming so much more popular and visible, and she was truly beginning to blossom into her talents. The girl needed a little pick-me-up after that fight. Drake decided that maybe if Tomomi met someone new, someone nice, someone who would job to her, that she would get out of this rut she threw herself into. With that in mind, he decided to see if he could find someone for Tomomi to have a spar with. It was pretty easy to arrange thankfully, setting Tomomi up for a fight with what was deemed a "sacrifice fighter" to score an easy win and boost her confidence.

Tomomi walked into the gym, dressed in her typical gym wear, a duffle bag on her shoulder and a rather dejected look on her face. She kept her head down, hoping nobody would look at her. Of course, nobody really payed much attention to her, since they were all busy working out and Tomomi was doing quite well at being inconspicuous. She moved over to the empty practice ring, setting down her bag. She took a look around, wondering where her sparring partner way. Drake set all this up for her, but she had no idea who her opponent was supposed to be. Tomomi was already dressed in her gym clothes, a blue t-shirt with a pair of tight red shorts on, form-fitting and showing off her nice ass.

She stood in the ring, stretching herself out, waiting for her sparring partner to show up. She looked around, hoping to find someone who was coming into the ring...

Natsumi was almost happy. This was certainly much better than what she was usually commanded to do. It was almost good. She was in the gym for actual trainning and not in an arena surrounded by a rowdy horny crowd. She was wearing a wrestling trainning leotard that ended in shorts, a mini t-shirt, wrestling boots and elbow and kneepads; instead of some slutty tiny attire that left her fully exposed. And it was a normal, trainning spar, not some hentai, harcore, toys and weapons, tables-on-fire, winner-fucks-loser match. Natsumi's only worry now was who would be her opponent, and as she walked along the gym to the ring where she was told she would be practicing she muttered 'please be someone nice' all the way.

Natsumi finally reached the ring and saw that there was her opponent already. "Tomomi?!" Natsumi asked aloud a little surprised. She knew Tomomi, both from her singing and her wrestling career. Natsumi had even seen the PPV match that Tomomi lost...and had been cheering for her. "You came here to practice?" the cute blonde asked as she slid under the bottom rope to get in the ring.

Natsumi stood up and walked to Tomomi casually. "l guess that means...I'm your... ... Practice partner" Natsumi said blushing, intentionally avoiding the word 'opponent'. "Nice to meet you, Tomomi-senpai..." Natsumi said doing a polite bow and smiling happy at Tomomi. ^_^

The idol definitively counted as someone nice in Natsumi's book. This was good.

Tomomi saw a girl entering the gym and heading over to the practice ring, knowing that it was her sparring partner for today. Tomomi didn't recognize the girl, at least not by name. She had seen her sometimes with Cassandra Sellers, and at other times in non-feature matches getting beaten up by much tougher girls. But it wasn't like she knew who Natsumi was. The other girl seemed to know her quite well though.

"A-ah, yeah, I got a message from my manager saying he set up a practice match with someone," Tomomi said, "Tomomi Watanabe, at your service!" She gave a quick bow as well, matching Natsumi's.

"Umm... I'm sorry, but I don't think I know you very well," she said, "You are?"

"I'm Natsumi!" the cute blonde said cheerful. She wasn't surprised that Tomomi didn't knew her, afterall why would she. The only place where Tomomi could have seen her was during one of her matches, and Natsumi really wished Tomomi had never seen one of her matches.

Natsumi then remembered she had seen Tomomi's match at the PPV and she felt kind of sad for her. "euhm... Sorry about your match at the ppv..." Natsumi began saying trying to sympathize with Tomomi but quickly realizing she should have kept her mouth shut. "I think you should have won that one...you fought much better than that Adrian girl..." Natsumi said quickly like trying to fix things, blushing deeply.

Tomomi looked a little bit down when Natsumi brought up that PPV match. But then she quickly snapped herself out of it and put on a smile. "Ah, it's alright!" Tomomi said, "I'm pretty much over that already. And besides, I'm gonna get a lot stronger so she can't do that to me again!" Tomomi pumped her arms, a look of burning determination in her eyes.

"So then Natsumi-san," Tomomi said, "How do you normally train? Do you want to just get started with a quick spar? Or do you want to warm up a bit first somehow?"

Natsumi felt much relieved to see that Tomomi was not brought down for long because of her defeat, the fire in the idol's eyes was truly inspiring...and then Natsumi remembered she was going to spar with Tomomi and kind of wished the idol wasn't so spirited.

"Uh...well... I don't train much..." Natsumi said doubtful. "I mean I do train and keep fit and that...but don't get to spar much..." she explained. "I guess warming up first would be better...to avoid like...injuries and stuff..." the cute blonde said getting a little nervous with the thought. "Lets warm up first, yes..."

Tomomi nodded. "Alright then. I guess the easiest thing to do is to stretch out," she said, "Don't want to pull a muscle or something like that!" She sat down, extending a leg, and began stretching it out. In the meantime she looked at Natsumi. The girl was a cutie, which made Tomomi wonder why she wasn't featured more. AFW seemed more interested in showing off hot girls than wrestling talent after all. But maybe this girl was special in some way.

There wouldn't be any harm in asking. "Hey, Natsumi-san," Tomomi said, "I'm wondering, why haven't I seen you around much? I mean, I'm pretty sure you've been in the league for a while... why aren't you more well known?"

Natsumi nodded and mirrored Tomomi, sitting down and begining to stretch one leg and her arms. The cute blonde didn't get much sparring sessions or wrestling trainning, but she did some conditioning trainning, so she was actually fit althought not very athletic.

"I...well...I...I don't get much fights..." Natsumi said quite nervous. She didn't wanted Tomomi to know what was her real status in the AFW. Afterall she was Cassandra's sacrifice fighter, a reason why she was never allowed to get much actual wrestling trainning. She wasn't here to make a career or money, actually she was here to pay up her family's debts to the Japanese mafia.

"I'm not like...famous or anything..." she said trying to avoid the subject.

Tomomi frowned a little, wondering why Drake got her a spar with this girl, when evidently she wasn't the very experienced type. Natsumi seemed nice enough, but she didn't look like she was famous or anything, nor has Tomomi ever heard of what this girl actually did in the AFW. But then, it wasn't really Tomomi's place to judge. After stretching out her legs, Tomomi stood up and began working out the kinks in her body and her arms, stretching up high so her muscles all tensed up and then relaxed, loosening out.

"Hmm... I see," Tomomi said, even though she really didn't. She didn't push the subject though, perhaps Natsumi would tell her in due time. "Well then, shall we get started?"

Natsumi followed Tomomi is suit almost replicating the idol's warming exercises, thankful that her soon to be opponent didn't pressed her on the matter of what she did in AFW.

"Yes...lets start..." Natsumi said nodding and then she stood there confused about what to do. This was so awkward. There was no bell signaling the start of the fight. The cute blonde felt lost and stared blankly at Tomomi as if waiting an indication from her.

After a couple of seconds Natsumi decided to go with her instincts, she reached for Tomomi's shoulders with both hands and brought her right knee up aiming for the idol's tummy with a vicious kneestrike.