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

Naoko bowed respectfuly to Akashi to then take a step back and raise her fist getting into a relaxed combat stance. "Akashi-san..". Stephanie meanwhile took her place outside the ring in their corner, only to hear Taylor's taunts. The redhead face turned bright red and she clenched her fist, barely resisting the urge to go there and murder Taylor with her own hands. She got hold of the top rope and twisted it just like she would like to twist the punky girl's neck.

Naoko on the other hand couldn't care less about Taylor's clowning, all her attention was focused on Akashi, to do otherwise would be suicide. She had seen the champion fight before this match, and the brief exchange Akashi had with her friend Steph confirmed Naoko's observations: the sumo cutie was extremely powerful and way faster than she appeared. When the champ lowered her body and placed her hands on the mats, Naoko knew Akashi was going to charge.

The Japanese gangster smiled slightly. She had wanted an opportunity like this to test the champ and her sumo technique and match it against herself and her own karate technique, and so when the champion let out a yell and charged, Naoko did the same.

"Kiyaaaaaa!" Naoko yelled as she lunged into Akashi, turning her body sideways to then lift her right knee up and extend the leg aiming to hit the sumo cutie with her boot either in the face or throat. Naoko made no attempt to block or avoid Akashi's palm strike, counting that her long leg will impact the champ before she was taken down. It wasn't a very smart move, but Naoko was a very proud and stubborn woman, and she considered worthy to take the hit, show how tough she was and make the champ taste her sole.

Akashi always knew that her initial charge was pretty reckless. But it was her style and something that, surprisingly, worked most of the time. And while she probably shouldn't have fought Naoko like that, she felt the need to. The Yanki probably didn't deserve respect in that way but the relationship that had been made between the four girls was both strange and interesting.

When Naoko turned her body, Akashi's eyes narrowed and she clenched her fists. As the boot went up into her throat, She couched and stuttered, her eyes widened as she gasped. "G-uhnn!" Her pace slowed and she nearly went crash diving into the ground but as she was wobbling, she planted her foot and threw herself at Naoko. Her slap turned into a grab at Naoko's chest as she tried to ram her head into Naoko's stomach and slam her backwards into the turnbuckle.

But even if she succeeded, she wouldn't be able to follow up with much except a terrifying assault of coughing pants as she tried to recover.

Naoko's kick hit right in the perfect spot, compressing Akashi's windpipe. The Japanese gangster could tell by the way the champ's face twisted that she had hurt her and more importantly slowled the sumo cutie. Naoko didn't expected this to be enough to fully stop Akashi, but seeing how the champ started to go down, she got her hopes high that she had actually done more damage than she had predicted. A sly smile formed in her lips.

But then Akashi seemed to recover her momentum and came up. Naoko's eyes opened wide when she felt Akashi's hand on her chest and then a headbutt. "ughhh" Naoko groaned as the champ's forehead sunk in her uncovered tummy. Still standing in one foot, Naoko was easily propeled backwards, her back slammed into the corner making her groan louder as the ring ropes trembled.

The pale yakuza wannabe leaned in the corner with one hand grabbing the top rope for support, while her other arm remained wrapped around her aching tummy.

"Are you ok?" asked Stephanie who was outside of that same corner, slightly concerned. Naoko simply nodded as she began to pull herself off the turnbuckles.

Akashi dropped to her knees as she pushed Naoko into the turnbuckle. She clutched her throat and coughed, trying to breath again. She knew she didn't have time to waste trying to catch her breath and after a few seconds, she inhaled and let out a gasp and pushed off her feet to try and drive her shoulder back into Naoko and smash her against the Turnbuckle once more. But she couldn't just keep pounding on Naoko, even if she hit. It was bad to stay in the enemies corner.

If she could stun Naoko then she would try and grab her by the arm and Irish whip her away from her corner and over to Taylor.

Taylor shut her mouth. She resisted the urge to yell encouragement to Akashi. That could only sound like she thought Akashi was doing badly. She stood up straight, held the top rope tightly, and looked on intently with concern. She saw Akashi going for Naoko's arm, and readied herself in case she threw the yanki ho-bag across to their corner.

Naoko tried to pull herself out of the corner but Akashi recovered too quickly from the kick and soon Naoko was crushed against the corner. "Oughhh!" the Japanese gang-girl groaned and blew a lot of air as she felt her body compressed against the turnbluckes by Akashi's big body, and before she had time to even suck air back, her arm was pulled, dragging her off the corner to be whipped across the ring into the opposite corner.

Naoko rushed out of control from one corner of the ring to the other, barely managing to turn herself around to slam on the turnbuckles with her back instead of her face. "Arggg!" she groaned again as she found herself once again tucked in a corner painfully, made worse this time, since it was the enemy corner.

Fully aware that Taylor was behind her back as surely plotting something, Naoko took a much needed deep breath and then fired an elbow back to where she had hear Taylor's breathe, trying to hit the punky girl square in the mouth with a preemptive attack.

Meanwhile in the other corner, Stephanie had no intention to just stand there while Akashi manhandled her partner. As soon as the sumo cutie turned her back on the redhead to whip Naoko, Stephanie, holding the top rope with her hands, sneaked her leg between the top and middle rope to deliver a hard furious side kick aimed to Akashi's ribs.

Taylor grabbed the top rope and threw her leg up over it so that Naoko would face plant into the sole of her foot when she hit the corner. She braced herself for the hit, but all she felt was Naoko hitting the turnbuckle on her back.

She... missed? She didn't have time to wonder how before Naoko clocked her with an elbow and knocked her silly. She held on to the top rope to keep from falling off the ring apron, and then dropped down to the floor to recover. Spitefully, she lunged under the bottom rope and grabbed hold of Naoko's ankle. If she couldn't pull her down, at least she'd be a sitting duck for Akashi. She wouldn't miss.

Akashi grinned as she was able to whip Naoko to the turnbuckle. She saw Taylor lift her leg and and admired her partner's commitment to the team. But as she watched the fruits of her labour, Stephanie launched her kikc. Akashi's eyes widened as the foot slammed into her ribs. "Gah!" She cried out and with one hand on her ribs, spun around to swing her hand out in the direction of the attacker. It was a poorly executed move, more of a flail than anything but with her ribs on fire, it was all she could manage.

Stephanie was sure there would be retaliation as soon as Akashi became aware of her kick attempt, which happened exactly when said kick connected with the champs rib. Knowing very well that like Sun Tzu said, the best defense was not being there, as soon as she connected the kick, Stephanie brought back her leg and jumped back, dropping off the ringside to the floor below to effectively end out of range of Akashi's retaliatory attack. "Watch it bitch! You ALMOST hit me" Stephanie taunted with a wicked smile trying to keep Akashi's attention on herself.

On the other side of the ring, Naoko was still recovering from the hit, both to her back with the turnbuckles and to the back of her head with Taylor's boot. That added to the air she had lost after the two collisions with the champ had her stunned, but despite this, the Japanese girl knew she had to pull herself out of the corner, or she was going to be easy target for more attacks by Taylor or Akashi.

Naoko stumbled forward, still rubbing the back of her head with one hand, and once her vision stopped being so blurry and she could clearly see were Akashi was, she attacked, despite being still hurting a lot, trying to slam a straight out punch to the champion's solar plexus, twisting all her body to put her weight on the punch.

Taylor looks down at her palms, and then back up at Naoko as she stumbles off into the middle of the ring. Frustrated, horrified, kicking herself for what has seemed like an endless wave of screwing up in her tag matches with Akashi, she hops nimbly back up onto the apron. She doesn't appreciate the trash talk coming from the other side of the ring.

"IT'S REAL EASY TO TALK AFTER RUNNING AWAY, ISN'T IT? COME OVER HERE AND TALK YOUR TRASH YOU SILLY BITCH!" Taylor screamed at the top of her lungs at Stephanie. Her taunting Akashi filled her with rage and she really just wanted Akashi to hurry up and tag her back in so she could work some of it out.