Tornado-style rules: No disqualifications or countouts. Tag-ins are not required, and all wrestlers may be simultaneously active.
Backstage, Natsuki and Yuri squatted in the darkness, hiding behind a shower curtain.
"Natsuki..."
"SSHT! Shut up Yuri!!"
Yuri sighed. The space in this shower was designed for a single occupant. The walls had not quite begun to close in on her ever-shrinking self, but. Her shoulders felt crushed. Cramped. Especially holding the kendo stick.
She had said no to this. All of this. Three times she'd said no.
But. Natsuki had been in possession of the perfect comeback: You DROPPED me Yuri.
I got disqualified because your uncoordinated ass!
You OWE me.
Alas. She had erected an unassailable wall, Natsuki. And now here Yuri was. Signed up for a match with Lou Bélair.
"I don't know if an ambush is really to our advantage here..."
"Oh my God SHUT UP YURI WE'RE HIDING."
"Even if we do manage to, as you say, get the drop on her...Won't it simply make us look bad to have to rely on such underhanded tactics?"
Natsuki gave a long, exasperated groan as she rubbed her face into her hands. "It'll prove the only thing that matters, Yuri..." She glared into the dark, serious as a guerilla warrior in the haze of a jungle battle. Dressed in her school uniform style gear, she had even painted black stripes of tar along her cheeks. "That we can beat her."
The Dokis
"What?"
"That we can't...beat her. In a real fight I mean."
"She ambushes people all the time, stupid! You think that means she can't beat people?"
"Well. Yyyyyes. Fair point. However, I believe she does in order to inspire terror and humiliation, whereas we're doing it out of fear."
"WE ARE NOT SCARED OF HER YURI."
A long pause followed. Somewhere down the hall, a faucet was dripping.
Drip drip drip.
"We're not?"
Before Natsuki could loose her apoplectic response to that particular nudge, someone entered the locker room. Someone whose feet were huge and lumbering, attached to legs like tree trunks—they must have been to clunk like that.
CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK
Both dokis had gone quiet now—so quiet they forgot to breathe. They waited until whoever it was who had joined them passed by their stall on their way to what they knew to be Lou's locker.
Then, Natsuki charged out of the stall at that person's back, screaming her war cry with her claws raised, her eyes flashing, her teeth bared.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!"
Yuri...
Hung back in the shower stall