Family's Family

"Yeah, that's worked great for you so far, too. How's that going to work when you're in our house?" Taylor raked her bangs to the side and tossed her hair. "You keep up with this attitude and I won't go quite as easy on you. Now seriously, let's do this before I realize what a terrible idea it is."

She already had a good idea of how insane it was to try to fight her mother in law on their first day together. But she wasn't planning on fighting her... She was just more comfortable in a ring with new people than she was at a kitchen table, especially when the new person was trying to call herself mom. That fact alone was reason enough to fight her, Taylor thought. Probably just because of how long Taylor wanted to fight her own mom, or something.

"Maybe I'll give you that respect." Junko chirped. "But, I am the elder here, as you so colorfully pointed out. Fufufu~" Junko pulled her head back in and strutted off. It wouldn't be too hard to change into something ring worthy. She slipped off her skirt and put on some tight workout shorts. She removed the blouse and bra and put on a sports bra.

Junko checked herself over. Whatever Taylor had to say about her, Junko made girls half her age envious with how well she kept up her figure. Johnny had gotten his workout ethic from somewhere and it was definitely his mom. Ever since she was a manager, she wanted to try and make sure that she was in decent enough shape to be able to at least spar with her clients when she was a manager. It was true she never had the in ring experience, but in practice she could keep up and that was good enough. She'd gotten even more fit whens he decided to actually wrestle on her own in AFW. But still, she fully expected Taylor to lay into her and doubted that she could keep up when it came to actual wrestling experience.

Johnny, meanwhile, had decided to bring Taylor into their training facility. It seemed like the house was specifically built to accompany a full scale gym. It was. When Junko had success with Rosie, she came into money. She used the earnings to put back into her managing business and decked out her house with all the accoutrements a budding young professional wrestler could dream of. In the end, it had been one of the points of contention when it came to Junko's marriage with her husband. But when she eased into the ring and looked around, she got nostalgic. She seemed to be doing that a lot these days.

"Wow," was Taylor's only reaction to seeing the place. The rest of the place gave no indication that this was here too. It was a little surreal.

Taylor got a running start and leapt into an aerial cartwheel, landing on the ring apron with her knees tucked up against her chest. She steadied the landing, stood upright, and leaned against the top rope before rolling back over it and into the ring.

She stomped her bare feet to test the mats as she paced across, leaned into the ropes to test them. She ran, rebounding off the ropes and when she reached the opposite side she jumped, grabbing the top rope and easily slipping her body between the top and middle ropes and landing on the apron. She grabbed the top rope behind her and jumped up to plant both feet on it, wobbled for a second while she started to stand, and then jumped back into a graceful backflip, her blue skirt fluttering behind her in the air. She stuck the landing and presented like a gymnast, with a big grin for Johnny.

"Fun stuff."

She stayed in her skirt and tanktop and bare feet. She didn't need to change. She didn't plan on working up too much of a sweat. She spoke up when Junko appeared.

"I know you're just used to Kirin Sumomo and everything, so I'll make sure to go extra easy on you. You've never been in a ring with someone like me."

Johnny grinned at the show Taylor put on. It was exciting and thrilling and he loved the fact that he was married to a girl who could do that. It made him a little tingly but he kept quiet other than to grin goofily at Taylor.

When Junko walked in, she smiled at Taylor. "You certainly are full of disrespect for your elders, aren't you? I'd take Rosie-chan over you any day of the week in her hay day. I am not so sure I'd totally bet against her TODAY, either." Junko said flashing a grin as she slid easily inside the ring and bounced on her heels.

"And I've never been in a ring with anyone, really." Junko said and rolled her eyes at Taylor. "But I've been studying film and watching the best there is pass in and out of rings since long before you were born."

Junko stood up and raised her arms in the air. "I don't know how you want to do this exactly, so let's just start. Fufufu." She said as she offered a lock up.

And that was the million dollar question. Now that they were in the ring, what the hell was she going to do? She had just assumed that it would take care of itself. She had never needed encouragement, being in the ring was always enough of a thrill to motivate her. She hadn't really thought that maybe Junko would just not be into it.

"Yeah."

While she swung her arms back and forth, stretching out her shoulders, she wondered exactly what it was that she wanted to prove to the woman. Her mother-in-law. Or maybe why did she even feel the need to prove anything to her? What problems would that solve? What was her problem.

She huffed and clenched her fists. Too much thinking. She stepped up to Junko and flexed her slim, muscular shoulders back. Of course she was stronger than some old woman, she knew that, and chances are that even if they had the same body, Taylor would still be the better wrestler. She reached up and laced the fingers of each hand with Junko's, and prepared herself to push back.

She caught Junko's eye, and grinned. She wasn't making the first move.

Junko watched as Taylor laced her fingers together. She could feel the girl's palms pressing against hers and she smiled when their eyes locked. She eased her body into a position that was good for a test of strength but only put the faintest pressure on Taylor's palms. She remained statuesque for a moment and then dropped.

Taylor was probably going to kick her butt no matter what happened, so Junko figured she might as well get one good move in on the girl. She dropped to her butt, looking to pull Taylor with her as she pushed up her legs and tried to monkey flip her daughter-in-law up and over her in the quickest motion she could manage!

Taylor didn't know what she expected, but it wasn't that.

"Ack!" She squawked as she tumbled head over heels over Junko. While her trip began without her consent, she landed very deliberately, hitting the mat in a neat recovery roll and coming back up to her feet almost immediately.

She bounced away a couple steps, shuffling like an elusive boxer and grinning all the while. "That was fun," she said. "What else ya got?" She planted her feet and put one hand up for a tie up, though she didn't know if Junko would bother to take it.

"Don't worry, you can try to hurt me. Try to punish me for being oh-so-disrespectful." She turned her hips and patted her butt at her mother in law. She wondered how much provocation it would take to send her into some kind of motherly rage.

Junko eased up in an agile manner and was back on her feet. She stared at Taylor as another offer was locked up. She grinned. "Aren't YOU the one that wants to punish me for pushing you, Taylor-chan? For DARING to love you? For having the audacity to call you my daughter? For having the unmitigated gall to think that a woman should be respected in her own home by her family? I know it's very hard to comprehend but I think you're crossing your wires up a bit, fufufu~"

Junko stepped forward and went in and accepted the tie up and this time tried to put her strength in it, to actually see just how strong Taylor was. She had to admit, she WAS a little curious.

Taylor dropped her hand for a moment, and tilted her head at Junko. "So now I'm stupid?" She said. She shook her head and put her hands back up.

She hadn't expected the woman to take the second tie up, she figured she'd try something trickier, but her eyes lit up when she put up her hands. She eagerly grabbed onto her hands and exploded forward, shoving with all her strength and pressing forward like she wanted to set a land speed record on top of forcing Junko back into the ropes.

Junko was planning on using all her strength, just curious to see how she matched up against her youthful daughter-in-law. But When Taylor burst out of the gate when the lock up was barely established, Junko was easily forced back towards the ropes. She bent against them holding onto Taylor's palms with her own.

"Tut, tut, Taylor-chan." Junko clicked her tongue. "Now it's like you just want to be offended. Of course you're going to fly off the handle all the time if you go looking for reasons to do it." Junko tried to push back with all the strength she could muster to at least get herself off the ropes.