In need of a confidence boost

[Dragonofdarkness]

Rebecca was training in the gym or she would be if her mind wasn't thinking about Aoi and her own passed matches. she Still felt terrible for allowing Aoi to fight that monster Rose gold and getting injured. what made it worse for Rebecca was that Aoi Refuses to see her even going as far as banning her from visiting her while she's at the hospital. Her mind set and confidence was at an all time low. she even been looking at her passed fights thinking she should have done better.

"Damn it....Aoi why...why. Do you hate me now....?" she teared up but would wipe her tears trying not to cry. She knew crying wasn't going to help and even remember Aoi hating seeing her crying. "if i didn't cry fighting that monster maybe Aoi would have never fought her.." Rebecca said to her self thinking on what she could have done but already knew Rose wasn't going to stop she knew Rose wanted Aoi's title so even if she didn't cry that wouldn't have helped. "damn it why did this happen to us.... am...am i really cute out for this. "Rebecca said looking down as she would move her legs up and curl into a ball wallowing in self pity. "am i really good.." she asked her self.

[Scourger X]

Daichi had a lot in his head at the moment. Normally he wouldn't even go to the gym for consolation, walking around in his gym clothes looking for something to help him relieve some of the stress that he had builded up recently. With some water in hand and looking for something heavy to lift, the androgynous teen would walk around with a blank stare.

Gym clothes!

For probably the first time in his entire life, Daichi felt like his problems wouldn't go away if he talked them over with his sister Akiko. She was, after all, a part of the reasons why he felt like this. He decided to join LAW for financial issues, and while his situation did got better thanks to that, he was dealing with another thing; Losing every match you're in will do that to you, no matter how little you say that it affects you, nobody likes to just lose.

He sat on a bench nearby to get his stuff together, he hadn't even done anything yet and he already felt tired. Perhaps it was mental? Akiko always told him about being lazy for things, that he needed to stop slacking in his mind to become better. Words that felt like scoldings then, today feel like bullets to his heart. He gave the bottle of water a big gulp, getting a little choked by the liquid and spilling some of it on his shirt "Grrh! Why do I suck at everything?!"

He asked to himself in frustration, his own voice resonating at the same time with Rebecca's question. Daichi turned his head to stare at the sad girl that was curled next to him. She had been there the whole time and he didn't even realize that until they practically yelled at the same time. The shock made him get up form the bench in surprise, looking at the cute girl that was in front of him.

"Uhm... Hi?... How long have you been there?" He asked, now fully ashamed of his little outburst.

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Rebecca was so deep in her own self wallow that after asking if she was any good she heard someone say something to. Looking up she saw what she assumed to be a female until she heard him speak again and tilt her head. "a...guy?" she asked and got up shaking her head. "oh um sorry i been sitting her for a while i came here to train and get better but....i started to feel depress and was just sitting here." she said looking down she would stand infront of Daichi and her size almost made her look like she was some child minus the face her chest size was fairly big for someone her size.

"oh! um im sorry my names Rebecca im a wrestler here im assuming youre a wrestler for the intergender ring right um sir?" she felt odd saying sir since Daichi looked very feminane that she still didn't think he was a boy with out the voice. she would bow to him politely and looked at him he wasn't tall but still taller then Rebecca was by a large margin.

[Scourger X]

Just as he heard Rebecca's slight surprise of hearing his voice and telling that he was a boy, Daichi's eye made a little twitch of subconscious annoyance, not something notable or long-lived. Mostly because he did heard her kind words. She introduced herself like a wrestler, pretty much like himself, and even called him sir. Now he felt pretty scummy about his lack of touch. Specially since she did mentioned being sad.

"Oh dear! I am a wrestler, please call me Daichi! I'm so sorry for coming near you like that, I apologize for interrupting you!" He said very fast while he deeply vowed in return. It didn't help the awkward situation that she was indeed a very adorable girl. She was pretty short, even more so than he or his sister. As well as... ehem... pretty stacked for her size. Good thing that he didn't ogled her body, that would have been very rude.

"I- Uh, was also a bit out of it, that's why I didn't saw you there, that was on me as well" He said, not wanting Rebecca to believe that she was the only one who missed him. Daichi was about to skedaddle out of there, but she said something about being there for training, and that she wasn't in a good mood.

Normally, he would choose to avoid any and all uncomfortable interaction, but he felt something here. She was in what he assumed to be a similar situation to his own, he came close by. Perhaps he was meant to speak with her? Uhm... Excuse me? Miss Rebecca? He swallowed a bit hardly as he willed himself to speak to another person, quite an act of courage for an introvert like him. "If it's not too much of me to ask... Would you like to open up your troubles to me?" He said, fidgeting his hair with his hands while he looked at the floor. "I... normally don't tend to butt in... but I kinda need someone to talk to as well right now..."

[Dragonofdarkness]

Rebecca looked at him as he spoke his name and bowed "I see then mister Daichi as i said before it nice to meet you" she said and would look up at him her hands behind her back. she smiled a little "its okay daichi-kun we were both spaced out. " she smiled. she was about to leave until he spoke out to her again and looked at him.

she nodded to him and smiled tearing up abit. "yes i dont mind, I can also listen to your troubles to" she said as she sat back down. waiting for him to sit as well she would speak once he did so. "I had a horrible loss recently to someone named Rose gold. but its not the lost that's got me down my best friend was ring side watching my match and she got Rose to stop humiliating me by giving Rose a title match. when that match happen Aoi was already injured by rose and she got really hurt." she teared up. "she lost and was sent to the hosipital and she refuses to see me even going as far as to ban me.... I think its my fault she got injured if i was stronger if i won that match she wouldn't had to fight that vile woman. " Rebecca said fighting back the tears as best she could.

"I'm okay with losing but lately I been in a rut and i hate it" she said sighing abit. "Aoi refused to train me saying i shouldn't be a wrestler... I don't want to admit she's right but i feel that maybe i should give up... even though at the same time i dont want to give up its just hurts alot and i have no one to turn to." Rebecca said wiping her tears.

[Scourger X]

This girl Rebecca was quite polite, and that meant a lot for Daichi, who wasn't precisely at his best right now. In fact, he always prefered people who was collected, pretty bizarre for someone who tended to be a cloudcuckoolander, but it just made him comfortable. He wasn't sure how she would take the whole, a shoulder to lean thing. They just met after all, but a part of him already knew that she would probably accept. When you wanna be heard, you don't tend to get picky, he guessed.

Her troubles seemed... complicated. He could tell that it affected her, not because she was in the verge of crying the whole time, but because she wouldn't go for a lot without putting the blame on herself, on her weakness, her reliance on her friend Aoi. It was painfully similar to something from not too long ago. He guessed that the best way to go with this, would be to tell her what he wished someone told to him back then.

"I don't think that it's healthy that you put all of this in your conscience. And I also don't think that you should." He was starting to feel a knot in his throat. "I mean, yeah, I get that your friend got mad at you, I won't tell you that she isn't. People gets angry all the time. My sister gets plenty angry at me..." Akiko... Her image made Daichi clench his fists unconsciously.

"In fact, your friend sounds a lot like my big sister. She's so much stronger than I'll ever be. Tries to look out for me, and gets angry at me when I'm not strong enough. Take a guess how she felt when I told her that I wanted to make a living out of wrestling?" A slight chuckle left his mouth, she did joined the same league he did just to pay attention to his screw ups. "But... no matter how angry she gets, I never, ever doubted that she does all of this because deep down she cares. She cares about me... And Aoi cares about you..."

His voice began to break. Daichi paused for a second before continuing. "Give her some time, she probably is angry. When you're angry you are burning up and need to chill, pretty much like when you're sad and cold. You want to warm up. Just like we're doing right now" The brunette boy started to look at the floor, mainly because he didn't thought that he could keep looking at Rebecca in the face without beginning to tear up. "But that's the thing, nobody can be angry all the time. And once she bounces back, she'll need you there, because no matter how strong Aoi is, or how strong Akiko is. Everyone needs to rely on something, on someone..."

By this point the femboy thought that he would be worse than this. That he would break down or something, but he didn't. Perhaps talking about this made him loosen up as well? He didn't knew. But he needed to keep doing it for Rebecca's sake. "I'm sure that she doesn't want to hurt you. She know that by talking right now, she would hurt you. So she's calming up before letting you in. Once she does, she'll want to see you happy to see her. She doesn't want to see you hurt, not in a match, or in your heart. So she does all of this, in hopes to prevent that from happening..."

How many times was he ordered around by Aki with no explanation? He ended up giving himself an explanation, and now someone else needed that reassurance as well. "Rebecca... Can I call you Re-chan? Don't let something like a dumb match, or a dumb Belt put your love for each other in danger... Be happy, for your sake. For Aoi's sake. And hey! I don't think you're alone. No one is ever really alone... You just need some warm in your heart..."

With a slight smile, Daichi would open up his arms, looking at Rebecca like he was hoping for her to come at him. "...If... you miss Aoi very badly right now..." He started to blush, at this point he didn't even know if it was embarrassment, or the words he said before. He just closed his eyes and rolled with it. "Perhaps you can settle with a hug for the time being...?"

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Looking up at Daichi Rebecca Listened to him speak. he made a lot of good points, as he spoke about how Aoi was angry but didn't want to hurt Rebecca some how. She remember the day of the match Aoi seemed off that she even went to lock Rebecca in her locker room to not interfere. Daichi was right about alot of things. She would wipe her tears and smiled a little the words Daichi said were comforting she felt happy to have talked to him about this then Pent it all up. Hearing him say that if she could settle for a hug and seeing him open his arms for one Rebecca would hug him without a second thought and sighed in Relief.

"your right Daichi-kun..." she said she felt a bit of the weight lifted off her shoulder as she looked at him and giggled a little. "you can call me Re-chan i guess" she smiled up at him staying in the hug for a full minute before pulling away. "okay well you listened to me whine, its my turn to listen to what's bothering you." she said smiling at him. she was worried she might give him bad advice but will do her best to help Daichi with what ever it was ailing him.

[Scourger X]

Rebecca was quite fast for her... extra packing. Daichi, as difficult as it is to make him flinch did flinch as the girl glomped him with a hug. The boy just took charge of the situation by continuing the hug for as long as she needed to. This was pretty nice, he wasn't really used to being the rock that supported others. That was one fallback of growing up with two strong women like his mom and sister. But actually seeing that his words managed to make someone feel better with themselves. He decided that he needed to do this more often, it felt very good.

Once the hug ended, Daichi gave Rebecca a gleaming smile upon hearing that she would allow him to call her by a cute nickname. He always wanted to have friends, and be able to call them cute nicknames! She then asked for his woes. He somehow forgot about that part of the theal. Yeah. "You're right!... Wow, your life and troubles will probably put mine to shame, heheh" He scratched the back of his head, ready to remember the things that made him sad. "Well, I did told you that I had a sister, she's super awesome. Pretty, smart, mature, she's the whole package... And she also is a wrestler here at LAW. So much better than me in everything..."

He started to remember, the reason as to why he was sad in the first place. He had forgotten, and now it was all coming back. "And I'm glad that she's doing fine... But I became a wrestler because I wanted to be of help for her and our mom... Pay for her studies or something, anything, really... I just..."

Just a second ago, he was the one cheering Rebecca up, and now he felt as if someone was grabbing his heart and squeezing it. "I wanted to be helpful, but Akiko doesn't need me... She never did, she was always the one who ended up helping me... And I can't be useful for her... Just once?... And I-I" Sour tears started to run down his red cheeks, dripping from his chin as his feminine shoulders shook with every audible breath he made. "I- I feel like a burden... Is that what I am, Re-chan?"

[Dragonofdarkness]

Rebecca listen to him speak and would keep listening. he almost had a similar relationship with his sister like she did with Aoi, as Daichi spoke, rebecca would think hard on how to cheer him up listening to everyword and trying to find a way to cancel any negitive thoughts he had about him self it was the least she can do for him. When he finished Rebecca would take in a breath and hug him again. "You are not a failure. Daichi you seem to be a great person. I know how it feels to think your not doing enough or you can do better. "Rebecca said as she would hug him tighter.

"Right now I think you should start thinking about you're self Daichi. You saying negative stuff about yourself. You need to stop thinking about supporting your sister and do things you want to do... I know how that feels Daichi before this mess with Aoi i confronted her about feeling like I'm not amounting to stuff I had some wins but look at me im tiny compared to other lightweights in this league. But Aoi said i should focus on getting better not to her or for others but for myself and to enjoy myself.... after a while i was enjoying training and had some wins." she looked at Daichi trying to look into his eyes.

"It doesn't matter if your sister is better what matters is you wanted to help her but cause of that you're not Doing things for yourself you need to see what makes you happy and how you can get better for yourself." Rebecca stated. "you are a good person but don't let lose sight of yourself yes you wanted to financially support you sister but if that's making you feel bad then emotionally support her if shes capable like you say then all she needs form you might be a shoulder to cry on or someone she can vent to when she's frustrated about things. thats an other way you can help her." she said as she pat his back softly. "and if you're thinking your not a good wrestler than practice Aoi always says to train hard and get better to look for the little improvements then the big ones." She smiled.

"I hope that was helpful i know you probably didn't want to hear some of that after you helped me but i want to help you Daichi " she said.

[Scourger X]

This wasn't the first time that Daichi received a cool down hug from someone, it normally was courtesy of his sister. But truth be told, Rebecca was doing a pretty nice job at it. Her body was warm and soft, yet it gave him an incredible feeling of supportiveness. He looked at her eyes as she spoke how he needed to put his needs before others. And he realized; she was right. It wasn't good for him to put his self esteem on things like that, especially if there was people so willing to care for him, family or friends. And he made a new friend that day, he owed her to show some gratefulness and a smile.

Feeling like he was appreciated, Daichi would wipe his tears with his forearm before giving Rebecca another hug, this one was more short lived, but more than something for him, it was more for her, a token of appreciation. "Thanks, I needed that" He would say before breaking their hug and giving her a smile, adorned with the red of his cheeks and a gleam in his emerald eyes.

After that, he would give her some space. Feeling a lot different than how he entered the gym, more relaxed and light, as if a heavy weight was lifted off from his shoulders. It made him feel happy, to see how he managed to regain that cheerfulness that represented him. "That was... very needed, thanks Re-chan!" He would thank her once again for everything, realizing that he came there to work out, and that the only thing he has done at the gym was to exercise his tear ducts. "Hmmm, still feel like I haven't done quite enough in here to go home. Care to join me?" He would ask her rather happily.