A 100% Platonic, Non-Romantic Training Session

[BlackAkuma]

Valerie wouldn’t blurt it out, but she was more than a little pleased that she was able to counter Kyo in that way, putting her training to good use. This was all about experimenting, figuring out what worked and what didn’t, so she was gathering valuable intel for future matches. They’d been going at it for around a minute, tops, and she was already improving.

Of course, the knife cut both ways, with Kyo showing off his acumen, as well. Most would’ve been caught flat-footed after being thrown off in such a manner, but he was quick to get his bearings back and come after her. She’d only started to sit up when he moved over and caught her around the neck, trapping her with a north-south choke. One that had his face against her chest, a sensation she didn’t altogether hate…

Focus. Focus, focus, focus.

The most problematic thing here was that her shoulders were close to being pinned. He was too strong for her to just push her head free, but she did have idea on how to flip the situation - literally. She brought her legs, twisted her body to one side, then flung it hard in the opposite direction, using the momentum to roll the two of them over, a complete 180°. It wouldn’t be enough to get her head free, but it would put him on his back with her on top, where she could post up with her feet and go for a pinfall. As far as she could see, that would give him two choice - hold the choke and take a pinfall, or escape and let her go.

[Underdoggo]

Kyo prided himself on his quick reaction time, and now was no exception. Valley had demonstrated considerable skill throwing him off with that bridge of hers, he had to admit that; he didn't, however, waste valuable time on being shocked or surprised that his experienced foe had thrown him off. She was arching up off the mat right now; he was quick to use that to his advantage, wrapping an arm over Valley's throat and trapping her head under his armpit in a north-south hold, pressing the whole of his weight down into this simple but effective choke hold.

It did, however, mean that his head was now braced against Valley's considerable bosom. Red-faced, he tilted his head to the side slightly, trying not to think of the warm orbs cushioning him as he--

--as he suddenly went rolling over onto his back as Valley very simply flipped the two of them over. Now it was Kyo who was on his back; while he still had his arm around Valley in an applied choke, he also had her chest pressed forcefully over his face. His eyes widened as he realized that his mouth and nose were now covered completely. For a brief moment, panic seized his brain. Panic, embarassment...maybe a bit of arousal as well...

"ONE! TWO--"

He heard slaps near by, and realized that Makie was doing a countdown. With his shoulders now on the mat, Kyo was in a pinfall predicament! With a ragged gasp from under Valley, Kyo twisted his body sharply to the side, releasing the grip on her head as he tried to roll away and get some literal breathing room between the two of them...

[BlackAkuma]

It was just a pinfall. Nothing special about. Just a basic maneuver, planting his shoulders to the mat with a deft move. She’d done stuff like this plenty of times, no reason to be bothered by it. She shouldn’t think about the way his breath felt against her chest, the way his mouth moved against it, the mixing sweat between them…

Maki’s count snapped her back to reality, and she stood on her tiptoes to apply more pressure, fully into the moment, even thinking this might do it. Kyo was too good to be beaten like this, however, and he flipped things around at the last moment, escaping her hold with only a second to spare. Valerie broke away, rolled to her back, and popped up an instant later, already on the move - there was a window to exploit. She couldn't let it slip from her grip.

She rushed him, scrambling up to her feet and charging straight towards him, her heavy footsteps shaking the ring ropes as she approached. Valerie reached out the moment she was close enough, tried to snag his wrist, and fell backwards as she pulled him in, attempting to launch him with a quick arm drag. Not a big move, but if she could get him disoriented, she could set him up for something more substantial.

[Underdoggo]

Kyo was gasping in relief as his head was freed. His face was practically beet red by that point, a testament to how brutally effective Valley's smother. And it was only due to the smother, he told himself, and no other factor: not the fact that her boobs had been planted over his mouth, of how he had the sensation of Valley's warmth and sweat pressing over him...

Damn it, Kyo, focus!

The moment he told himself to snap back to reality, Valley was already on him, grabbing for his arm. He didn't even have time to respond before he was flying sideways, crying in alarm as he ended up smacking onto the ring. Instinctively, he rolled, trying to be ready for whatever follow up Valley had planned...

[BlackAkuma]

Valerie didn’t fail to notice how red Ryo was looking a the moment. Was he getting winded already? That didn’t sound quite right, the two of them had gone hammer and tongs in their match and she was willing to bet he couldn't hung on for another ten or so minutes, maybe more. Maybe he’d gotten a little winded on the ride over, hadn't stretched enough?

Whatever the case, there was nothing to be done about it right now - she had to press her advantage, had to keep on coming, the window she’d created would only be open for a short while.

Valerie rushed to her feet and came after him, moving quick to capitalize before he could stand. She pounced, leaping on his back, and tried to wrap her arm around his neck to secure a rear naked choke, pressing laying on his back to keep him pinned.

…a not-unpleasant sensation, if she was being honest. She hadn't noticed how soft Kyo’s body was despite all the muscle, but they fit together well. And his hair smelled nice, too. Reminded her of how Garfield’s smelled when he came out of the shower, though she better liked whatever this brand was. Scent of lilacs, she was fairly sure.

[Underdoggo]

Kyo was focused back in the moment, consciously putting distance between himself and Valerie. The Californian was definitely showing her strength and grappling skill, out-muscling him on the mat and coming within moments of knocking him out with a smother. He needed the time and space to recover, to regroup, to get his head back in the game and not think about how Valerie's boobs had been pressing into his face--

Valerie wasn't letting him go that easily. He gasped as he felt Valerie slam down against him, the impact flattening him against the mat. Then he felt her arm encircling his throat, and he gagged, his arms immediately grabbing for Valerie's forearm. With his air neatly cut off, his face started to go red again; the fact that he was now feeling the contours of Valerie's finely sculpted body against his, or his warm breath on his neck, only added to the redness.

His mental discipline kicked in, and he steadied his rasping breaths, not giving in to panic. Rotating his lower body, he tried to swing his legs forward, bringing one arm down to block a potential body scissor from Valerie as he tried to push up into a sitting position. For a brief moment, he would lean forwards, seemingly pulling Valerie down with him as he rasped and started to sweat in her grasp...

...before he snapped his legs up, trying to lock them tightly around Valerie's head and catch her in a head scissor, hoping to pry her off of him! Whether he was successful or not, he would topple onto his side, hopefully driving Valerie down to the mat as well as he squeezed her head...

[BlackAkuma]

Valerie took a triumphant breath as she clamped on tight to Kyo, securing the hold and pinning him down. It was certainly the noise of someone who had managed to get the better of a rival in a tight contest, and it had nothing—nothing—to do with the way her chest felt against her back, the smell of his hair in her nostrils, or the way their hips perfectly fit together like a pair of spoons.

Right.

Kyo surely wasn’t having similar problems, though. He showed professionalism and quick thinking, not letting the situation overwhelm him. Valerie kept a tight hold of him, unsure of what he was going for. He sat up, and she tried to get his arms around him, but he put his arms in the perfect position to kill that in the crib—a smart man, he was.

Even so, she couldn't fathom his intentions until his legs shot up, wrapped around her head, and pulled down to the mat, freeing him in an instant and trapping her with a tight headscissors. Counters on counter on counters. The two of them were too good on the mat, they would go around for a good while before either one of them scored a definitive advantage…or Valerie could try something a little wild and catch him off guard.

Instead of fighting her way out of the hold, she kept his legs close, doing her best to endure as she swung around and planted her knees on the mat. With Kyo still attached, she planted one foot on the mat, then the other, and began to stand up while he was draped around her neck like a cape. She had plans, but the first step to anything big was just getting him up, no small task by itself.

[Underdoggo]

Kyo was starting to feel lightheaded now, trapped as he was in Valerie's crushing grip, feeling her muscled bicep curled tightly around his throat. "Hkkkgh...ggghhk..." he rasped, pawing at her encircling arms. Even as his brain panicked from lack of air, his body moved of its own accord, years of training kicking in. Little by little, he managed to get his legs under him. Little by little, he managed to shoot them up, locking them around her head. Clenching his teeth, he brought Valley down with a head scissor, gasping through clenched teeth as his head was finally freed from her crushing grip.

He didn't have time to keep the scissor applied for long, however: as much as he would have liked to keep it locked and start squeezing Valerie's blonde head, she wasn't taking this lying down, literally. She immediately rose up to her knees, pulling Kyo up by his legs with her. Little by little, Kyo realized she was going to lift him up completely off the mat, and from there...a pinfall attempt, a sharpshooter, a boston crab...a lot of potential moves would be in her reach.

And so Kyo chose to deny her those possibilities instead: unclamping his legs from around Valley, he allowed himself to fall to the mat. Rolling over onto his hands and knees, Kyo sprang forwards, hoping to to grab for Valley's legs while her back was turned and swipe them out from under her so she fell on her front. If he managed that, then he would try to take control of this match, leaping against her back and grabbing for her arms, trying to slide his arms under her armpits and lock his hands behind her head in a grounded hammerlock...

[BlackAkuma]

Valerie’s mothers had warned her about being too reliant on her power, and she tried her best to take those warnings to heart, fostering a wrestling style that would’ve worked well even if she didn’t have such a powerful frame. She was often compared to her grandmother, the first Valley Doll, a true powerhouse of a woman not unlike Alaina Sanders, but she never thought of herself in that regard, wanting to be less like the hammer and more like the scalpel.

But there were times when the hammer was needed, and this definitely felt like one of them. Kyo could keep up with her technical aspects, but she was fairly sure she could edge him out in terms of power, if only just barely. It was a good way to push things, which might show some results if she stuck with it.

However, Kyo proved quick on the draw and unlocked his legs at a crucial moment, coming down behind her. He moved fast, tripping her up with a swift move, then leaped in to take her from behind with a hammerlock. Valerie gritted her teeth, putting up with the pain momentarily, before she threw her body into a roll, forced him to come along for the ride to maintain the hold, and put her foot on the rope to break things up.

[Underdoggo]

Kyo had a few ideas of where he was going to go from here. Taking control of Valerie's arms was merely the first step: from here he could have easily transitioned to a classic hammerlock, or an armbar, or a lotus lock, or even an STF or a classic rear naked choke hold. There were a lot of possibilities: the main and most important thing was that he was keeping Valerie down, in a position where she couldn't use her prodigious strength to fight back effectively

Of course, it also meant that he was pressed up slightly against her backside, in such a way that her ass inadvertently ended up rubbing against his crotch as she rolled--

The roll brought him snapping back to reality as she grabbed the rope, forcing a rope break. Taking a deep breath, Kyo rolled to his feet, his face flushed with exertion. Yes, exertion, that was it. Even as he got back to his feet, he noted that Makie was grinning mischievously at the two of them. What the hell was so damn funny to her?

"Care to try again?" Kyo breathed, keeping a sportsmanlike distance away from Valerie as he waited for her to get back to her feet.