Haruka vs Toshio, Fall of an Amazon

Tenou Haruka made her way down to the ring ready for another fight. She was to be paired with another male opponent tonight so she realized this was another chance for her to fight someone of skill that might rival hers. It was all fine to her. All the more chance to increase her martial prowess.

She marched down the ramp throwing practice punches at air and wearing her combat leotard get up. She already had a slight sheen of sweat on her as if though she had seriously warmed up for this match anticipating how grueling it might be.

A minute later, Toshio Akamatsu's theme music began to play as he entered the ring. He was in a good mood in the days following his tag-team match with Kyo and Mika against Haruka Tenou, Midori and Daisy Cry. If he was honest with himself, it felt good to finally settle things with Midori and just be friends with her. He knew that Makie would probably be annoyed with him for deliberately going all-out against her teacher, but he knew she wouldn't stay mad. Either way, it felt great to be back in the ring again after his disastrous defeat at the hands of Shizuka Tsuzaki.

As he walked down the aisle, he gesticulated to his fans with a few extreme poses, playing up on the laid back and charismatic persona that set him apart from Kyo. As he walked, he glanced ahead to the ring, and froze.

There, standing in the ring, was Haruka Tenou. Toshio paused, and raised an eyebrow. Hadn't he already fought her before in the big tag-team match? If so, why was he slated to fight her again?

For a brief second, he went into a cold sweat. Oh damn...Kyo kind of has a thing for her. If I go too rough on her at all...

He quickly snapped out of it. Kyo was an adult, and he would understand the situation perfectly. Even so, Toshio's outward confidence seemed to melt as he made his way to the ring, sliding under the ropes opposite Haruka.

"Uhh...hi, Haruka-san. You don't mind if I call you Haruka-san, do you?" he asked nervously.

Haruka was jogging in place trying to get her mind into the match. She seemed slightly annoyed by Toshio's nervousness.

"You came here to fight me right? Let's have a match."

She then straightened up and threw out some elbow strikes at the air over and over as she continued to warm up.

"Wha--" Toshio blinked. "Uh, right. Sure. You're going down, Tenou." His words sounded hollow, though: all of his earlier confidence had evaporated at the prospect of wrestling the girl his brother was dating. At least....he had thought he was dating her. Come to think of it, the status of the relationship was still something of a mystery to him.

He put his mind off it. Haruka was right, he was here to wrestle, as was she. Stepping back a bit, Toshio stretched his arms, clenching and unclenching his hands as he waited for the bell.

As the bell rang, Haruka went to circle Toshio, arms out, fists up. She gave him a little smirk.

"Come now, where is that bravado you were showing me in our previous matches. I am going to feel insulted if you are not going to take this seriously."

Toshio grinned back. "If its bravado you want, bravado is what you'll get," he replied as he circled her as well. "Well...bravado and an asskicking."

And with that, Toshio would start things off off by digging his heels into the mat and springing forward, aiming to make a sudden grab at Haruka's arm and twist his body, hoping to flip Haruka onto her back before she could defend herself.

Haruka was anything but flat footed since it had been stated that her defenses were up. As Toshio lunged at ehr she would sidestep his attempt to flip her and raise her powerful leg to kick him right in the side as he overextended himself with the grapple attempt.

Toshio winced as Haruka's knee nailed him hard in the side, sending him staggering sideways. Damn, I left myself open to that one. Although Haruka's blow had hurt, though, he wasn't the type to be incapacitated by a single hit, and as he doubled over, he suddenly took the opportunity to drop down and try for a leg sweep. His hurting side, however, might make this move a bit slower than he would have liked.

Haruka ended up taking the sweep to her foot. Due to Toshio being somewhat weakened by the kick to the side, Haruka would not fall right away. The sweep hit her in the ankle causing her to stagger back a bit and perhaps giving Toshio time to get up and do soemthing. She winced slightly.

Toshio winced as he pushed himself upright. That hadn't worked quite so well. This was why he always left the faster, sneakier moves to Kyo, he thought to himself. With him, what you saw was what you got.

Bearing that in mind, Toshio sprang upright, running and leaping forwards to nail Haruka with a drop-kick.