Description: Sakura Kasugano is one of Taiyo High’s most recognizable and brightest stars. She’s fought alongside her idol Ryu, beaten up countless villains and done her fair share of selfless effort over the years. Today, Sakura must fight to prove her meddle against Justice High’s devilish nurse, Kyoko Minazuki, in an effort to bolster a bit of school spirit amidst the winter and exam-time blues! Can Sakura’s fighting spirit outmatch the wits and COUNTLESS YEARS of experience that Kyoko possesses? Or will Sakura find herself at the losing end of one of Kyoko’s fearsome grapples? Who knows? No one--YET. Fight on, ladies! Thousands of impressionable youths depend on you! (Winner: Kyoko)
Sakura Kasugano has been drafted. NO, not into the military, because that would be all kinds of not legal and she'd make R. Lee Ermey and Charlie Nash both have heart attacks and then their wives would flip out and it'd be a thing, but drafted by TAIYO HIGH. This is not really weird in that Sakura already goes there, so it's not like they had to do much work to find her, and she got to miss part of pre-calc, so worst case scenario she just loses some naptime, right?
If only things were that easy...
Her mission, and she chose to accept it, was to go on international television as the /FACE/ of Taiyo High. As the VOICE of a GENERATION, as her prinicpal put it. And Sakura somehow /believed/ this. Which is why she emerges from the locker room, dressed as the single most emblematic icon of Taiyo there possibly could be...
The school mascot, the Taiyo Frenetic.
Sakura basically looks like a big green Grimace with a horn for a nose and a Taiyo jersey and baseball cap on. The suit was probably made for $5, and it really shows. She also seems to be having a difficult time moving in it, which could just be exhaustion, as she didn't want to change at the arena and thus has worn this suit around all day. Still, she manages to run around, raising her arms (and thusly the roof) and doing some jigs that, if she were in blackface, would manage to compound the blackface's unspeakable racism into something so offensive Mike Bison's head would explode.
"YEEEAAAHHH TAIYO!"
BACKSTAGE:
"What do you mean this is a dry school!?"
Looking horrified, Justice High's nurse, Kyoko Minazuki, stares in disbelief at an equally-horrified looking student. Nodding her head uneasily, the Taiyo girl tries to gingerly explain.
"W-well, you see...this is a school...a-and we're all underage...and d-drinking is b-bad--"
Throwing her arms into the air, Kyoko cries out in defeat. "No, this cannot be!" she exclaims, all but crying tears of IMMENSE PAIN at this revelation. "I haven't had a drink since yesterday evening! I'm so parched! So in need of alcoholic embrace! How can your school do this to me!?"
The student looks confused. "S-so Justice High allows drinking?"
"Of course not!" Kyoko immediately retorts. "That would be terrible, promoting drinking!"
The student is confused.
NOW:
Sakura runs around in some horrible suit, rousing the crowds of students and faculty. From backstage Kyoko walks out, looking to be what can be described as 'pretty agitated.' SNF crew try to get near the woman to give her the pre-fight babble, but Kyoko just pushes them away, huffing toward the center of the arena. When she gets there, the agitated drunkard just points a finger at Sakura INCOGNITO.
"What the hell is this!? Who the hell are you!? Where is that Kasugano girl!? I need to fight!"
Sakura stops her /clownin'/ and the TAIYO FRENETIC turns to face Kyoko while she shouts. The big goofy green mascot reaches up and scratches its head, which seems to serve no actual purpose other than to convey confusion, as it's not like the suit is dextrous enough to afford the ability to scratch well, and it's not like Sakura can /feel/ the exterior of a mask anyway. It does, however, accomplish one thing, and that's to knock her big mascot mask off. "Crap!" Sakura squawks.
Underneath, her signature headband has soaked through so much that it is actively dripping onto her face, colored kind of a gross sweaty grey. Her hair, normally wild and shaggy despite it short length, is slick and droopy. There are dark circles of exhaustion under her eyes, and her face looks like someone has splashed her with a bucket of water. "It's me! I just gotta -- crap, little help?!" Sakura tries to bend over to pick up the Taiyo Frenetic mask, but because she can't really bend her knees too well and because the torso of the suit is basically a big padded pear, she can't really reach it. "Aw, come on -- dangit--"
As she tries to pick up her mascot hat, Sakura is faced away from Kyoko. Her big fat padded mascot ass wiggles with every attempt. It is, admittedly, rather like the broad side of a barn, target wise.
COMBATSYS: Sakura has started a fight here.
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Sakura 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Kyoko has joined the fight here.
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Sakura 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Kyoko
"What??" Peering intently at the massive green mascot suit, Kyoko seems mildly puzzled. Sure, the voice certainly sounds familiar, but is it REALLY Sakura? Or is it some pre-show crap that Taiyo put together as part of all of this? Kyoko is certainly a bit confused.
Then the head falls off. It is a sweaty Sakura Kasugano. So it is her!
"Good to see you!" Kyoko chimes, though her voice has an edge of agitation to it. Shifting her weight, the woman folds her arms beneath her chest as she watches Sakura try to bend over and pick up that huge helmet-mask thing. Help?
No, Kyoko is plotting. Thinking. Sketching Sakura's figurative demise. That is such a tempting target…
"Forgive me, Kasugano!!" the woman cries as she dashes in and attempts to practically punt the ass as if it were some big green soccer ball. "I know you will! I am SO SORRY!" Is she REALLY?? (no)
COMBATSYS: Kyoko successfully hits Sakura with Light Kick.
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Sakura 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Kyoko
You know how when Charlie Brown goes to kick the football and then Lucy yanks it away and he kind of frictionlessly slides off of the ground like he was on a loop-de-loop track and then just crashes to earth with lots of little spirals coming out of the impact zone because it's a cartoon?
Sakura basically does that. The kick sends her in a flip that has her landing on her back, groggy and sweaty and startled. "H-Hey!" Sakura says, struggling to clamber to her feet (this takes a minute or two, until a cameraman finally helps her up). "I have to wear this thing for the fight, my principal said! To show my TAIYO SPIRIT!" Sakura strikes a dramatic pose, and the crowd mildly applauds, mostly to be polite. A lot of them don't care, because this is effectively a high school pep rally. Some of them are really into it. Some of them appear to be texting, sleeping, or both. It's a mixed bag.
"But if that's how they do things at Justice -- excuse me, JUST LESS High," Sakura says, smirking proudly and pausing a beat for laughter and applause, neither of which actually occur, "then it looks like I'll have to teach you how to do things... the TAIYO WAY!"
Sakura suddenly charges forward -- she's awfully fast in that suit, even if she looks dangerously off-balance and like she could hurtle off in any given direction at any moment. Her fist, wrapped in felt and foam, pulls back -- and then shoots up, in a flourish of an uppercut! "SHOU'OU KEN!"
COMBATSYS: Kyoko dodges Sakura's Shou'ou Ken.
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Sakura 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Kyoko
Part of Kyoko feels a little bad, taking advantage of a prone Sakura like that. But, damn it, she didn't get her pre-fight drink in. How the hell else is she supposed to feel, besides 'agitated' and 'frustrated?' It's just that poor Kasugano is stuck at the receiving end of her drink-less anger. And as result, the poor girl is punted.
"I said I was sorry!" the nurse whines, even as Sakura explains her reasoning. So she was forced into the suit? HOW CRUEL AND UNUSUAL. Maybe she should talk with Raizo about getting Taiyo's principal fired. But it's guaranteed that she'll forget all about it in a second.
"We are, in fact, a /classy/ sort over at JUSTICE High, I'll have you know!" Kyoko states, pointing a finger at Sakura with an angry Muppet-like frown. (It looks kind of like :<, you know the look) "But feel free to TRY and teach me! You'll just be barking up the wrong tree, miss Kasugano! I know all about school spirit!"
Rule number one? Get the hell out of the way--which is what Kyoko does as she's nearly on the receiving end of Sakura's FIGHTING SPIRIT given form. "That was dangerous!" she barks before she dashes in and, attempting to feint into a sidestep, seeks to deliver an uppercut to Sakura's prone chin. "Hah!"
COMBATSYS: Kyoko successfully hits Sakura with Shusseki Kakunin.
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Sakura 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Kyoko
"Dangerous?! I'll show you DANGEOW MY FACE" Sakura cries as she's punched right in the chin, toppling backward and grabbing at her head with big fuzzy mascot muppet hands. She seems to need another minute to get up. "I think I have heatstroke," she groans, more to herself than anything else, before finally forcing herself to her feet.
"Anyway, I'll show you DANGEROUS! Because that's the kind of school Taiyo is! A DANGEROUS ONE!"
To one side of the crowd, the principal of Taiyo High's expression sinks into one of ashen, wide-eyed horror.
"Why, any day you could be walking down the hallway and then you might get one of THESE! What do you do, hot shot?!" Sakura brings her mascot hands back, and tries to generate enough chi for a big sweet mega fireball. Unfortunately, obnoxious costumes interfere with chi (ask Katana) and the most she can manage is kind of a wimpy little blue spark that floats toward Kyoko as if on a breeze. "...yeah..." Sakura mumbles, unimpressed by her own effort.
COMBATSYS: Kyoko blocks Sakura's Small Hadouken.
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Sakura 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Kyoko
"Oh dear," Kyoko remarks as Sakura topples backwards and recoils from the pain. Glancing to her fist, she half-wonders if, maybe, she's MUCH MORE POWERFUL when she has not had a drink. A short laugh at her thoughts follows, before Kyoko looks to the Taiyo girl with a slight frown. "Are you okay? Heatstroke is no laughing matter!"
Obviously, Sakura is O-K and gets back onto her feet. Kyoko, on the other hand, maintains a neutral stance, arms slightly held out before her as the girl speaks. "Dangerous? Oh, well, I guess we need to clean your school up then!" she remarks, taking the defensive as Sakura reels back and then shoots off the tiniest Hadouken that could. Arms shield her body, though her lab coat sleeves are singed by the effort.
"Ow, that was a minor inconvenience," offers Kyoko, before she marches forth and attempts to push Sakura over before striking at one of her thousands of pressure points! This one might hurt just a bit though.
COMBATSYS: Sakura fails to interrupt Medium Throw from Kyoko with Shou'ou Ken.
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Sakura 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Kyoko
Sakura is shoved over roundly. In her suit, this is more problematic than it would otherwise be -- the bloat of her mascot outfit leaves her proportions overblown in such a way that she can't quite account for (she trained with Ryu and Ken, not E. Honda, for god's sake). The Taiyo student wriggles, and in her dazed, weary state, she flashes back, back toward the past...
SOME TIME AGO
It's early summer, and Sakura is eyeing swimsuits in a department store with her mother. She's dressed in the same obnoxious 'ha ha I'm only half dressed' fuku that she wears to school, and totes her backpack as well -- as in, she just came from there. Her mother, meanwhile, is dressed like a normal person.
Sakura reaches out toward a suit -- not objectionable in the slightest, no string segments, no side ties -- when her mother tut-tuts loudly.
"Huh?" Sakura says, her hand freezing in mid-reach. She looks to her mother, who folds her arms and frowns.
"Sakura, that suit will never fit you. Did you even count how many candy beans you ate while we were walking here?" Mrs. Kasugano gently reaches out and takes her daughter's gloved hand, moving it from a suit whose hanger is tagged 'M' -- to one marked 'L.'
NOW
Sakura suddenly hulks the fuck out. "NNNGGAAAHAHHHHHH SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU'OU K--"
And then Kyko strikes her right in the thigh, so acutely that she feels it even through the layers of padding. "OH MY GOD MY LEG!" she squeaks, and the limb suddenly becomes momentarily useless, causing Sakura to flop back over and squirm around on the ground like she was having a seizure. "AAAAAOOOW WHAT DID YOU DOOO"
There's a brief moment somewhere in the midst of Kyoko's assault she worries that she's about to eat Sakura's freakish might. With black eyes wide the woman feels like she's moving in slow motion as she attempts to strike her in one prone nerve. Fortunately, her digits are faster; struck, the girl crumples to the ground in a shrieking mess.
Oops.
"You'll be /fine,/" the nurse assures. "It's only temporary pain, you know!"
Feeling just a little bad about the poor mess that fat-suit clad Sakura is in, Kyoko withholds her attack; instead, she stands by, furrowing her brows a bit before she gestures. "Come on, get back up silly!" she chides. "What will all your peers think of you just lying there like that?" Surely Sakura's fragile teenage psyche is strong enough not to let peer judgment affect her that badly!
COMBATSYS: Kyoko takes no action.
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Sakura 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Kyoko
Sakura's cunning plan then makes itself evident -- her wriggling is so hammy that if she weren't in a silly suit, a school nurse would have had no problem diagnosing it. Moaning like a banshee over Kyoko's words, Sakura then pauses. Sweaty and disheveled, her hair going in all directions, she glances up. "They'll think... man, those nurses at Justice sure are suckers!"
The trap is sprung: Sakura lashes out with one leg, seeking Kyoko's finely-hosed ankle in an attempt to bring the irritable drunk to the ground as well. "Have a nice trip, Kyoko!" Sakura jeers.
"SEE YOU NEXT /FALL/!"
COMBATSYS: Kyoko fails to counter Light Kick from Sakura with Katayoku no Kamae.
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Sakura 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Kyoko
"Suckers??"
That's just RUDE, Sakura!
Looking mildly offended by this accusation of sorts, Kyoko is startled when Sakura suddenly springs up off the ground and attempts to snag her in the leg. Despite the nurse's attempt to dip down and intercept with her hand and turn the assault around ON HER, she's too slow. As result, Kyoko is sent off-kilter and stumbles back before hitting the ground with a thud.
"That was just corny!" grouses the woman as she stands up off the ground, giving her formerly-pristine coat a dusting over. "Is that the best you've got, Kasugano?!"
As Kyoko takes her tumble, Sakura manages to struggle free of part of the mascot suit. The upper body segment is shed, leaving her wearing ridiculous green mascot legs -- and underneath, a white t-shirt, armpits stained with sweat. On this shirt, there is a picture of a happy whale splashing, and 'SOUTHTOWN WHALEWATCHERS -- MAKE A SPLASH!' written in some embarassingly retro font face. Underneath her big funky mascot mittens, she was wearing her official, licensed Ryu street-fightin' fingerless gloves.
And now, looking possibly even more embarassing than she did before, Sakura raises her fists, and smirks confidently. "Not even!" she spits, and then holds up a single finger. No, not that one. "Just a sec."
Sakura leans down, now that she's able to do so, and reaches for her sneakers -- or, rather, the inflated basketball logos on the tongues, which she then proceeds to squeeze, getting her shoes good and /pumped/. "Okay -- now I'm ready!"
Sakura then leaps at Kyoko, like a young, female, Japanese, bizarrely dressed, sweaty Michael Jordon, seeking to plant both feet on Kyoko's chest and then kick off nimbly. "SAILOR -- SHOOT!"
COMBATSYS: Sakura successfully hits Kyoko with Sailor Shoot.
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Sakura 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Kyoko
Dusting off the face of her red sweater, the nurse just watches with a slight frown as Sakura has since shed her cocoon of embarrassment and blossomed into a sweaty young schoolgirl in normal clothes. A few male students appreciate this--likely, a few teachers as well. Kyoko, however, just frowns.
"Well this is just becoming absurd!" the nurse complains as Sakura bends over to pump up her sweet shoes. Tilting her head just a bit, Kyoko adjusts her glasses slightly before she furrows her brows. Is she jumping at her??
Attempting to weave aside, Kyoko is quick to find that Sakura is even quicker. Struck in the chest, she delivers a loud HRRK sound before she falls onto her back, breathing a ragged breath. Damn that kid and her Reebok pump shoes. And damn you Kyoko for getting too cocky!
Hopping onto her feet, the nurse doesn't even give a sassy retort; instead she makes a mad dash for Sakura and attempts to snag her by the waist? Why? So she can wiggle around behind the girl and then totally deliver a--
COMBATSYS: Kyoko successfully hits Sakura with German Suplex.
- Power hit! -
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Sakura 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\1 Kyoko
Sakura is a little dizzy after all that jumping. Really, wearing that suit all day was just a bad idea, and she has to stop and clutch her head while Kyoko is on the ground. "Oooohhhhdontbesickdontbesickdontbesick," she chides herself, trying to keep it together enough to keep it together. Of course, she lifts her head back up just in time for the world's most evil nurse to grab her by the waist and flip her backward so viciously that the noise of Sakura's head hitting the ground momentarily silences the crowd completely.
There's that pregnant pause of 'oh, crap, did we just see what we thought we saw,' like after a particularly nasty NFL tackle, when the tackle-ee just lays there on the ground like a dead fish.
Sakura is way tougher than an NFL player, though, and after a moment, she twitches and stirs, forcing herself back up to her feet. "Oohgh," she moans, looking over at Kyoko and seeing double. "Only got... one chance..." she groans, possibly not realizing she's speaking aloud, possibly just melodramatic.
"Gotta make it count--!"
Sakura rushes forward, faster than anyone who may have just had their vertebrae compacted really has any right to move. One fist soars upward as she goes, seeking Kyoko's chin, aiming to not only strike her, but to strike her so hard that blue chi erupts like magic fireworks and the both of them are launched into the air. And then, a spin -- and then another strike -- and then, another spin, and then, another strike.
"MIDARE -- ZAAAKUUURRRAAAAAAA--!"
COMBATSYS: Sakura successfully hits Kyoko with Midare Zakura.
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Sakura 0/-------/------=|=======\====---\1 Kyoko
Maybe she overdid it again..?
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnah, the nurse decides, especially when Sakura begins to peel herself off the ground. Offering a small (possibly relieved!) smile, the nurse's black eyes just hood slightly behind her glasses. "That's the spirit!" she chimes. "Show me the best you've got!"
Sadly, Kyoko totoally underestimates just how much her best is. Though she tries to put up a suitable defense to Sakura's ROID RAGE offensive, the woman is completely overwhelmed. Struck hard and battered not only by RAW POWER but chi as well, she's sent flying and beaten about like clothes in a washing machine until the girl relents. Then?
She falls like a sack of potatoes.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," is the low groan of Kyoko Minazuki as she peels her battered body off the ground. "That hurt…you're like some beast." Rolling to the side, the Justice High nurse forces her body back onto its feet. "But I am not down yet!"
And, to prove this, she darts after Sakura, intent on delivering a driving punch into the girl's stomach, FALCOOON PUNCH style.
COMBATSYS: Sakura dodges Kyoko's Strong Punch.
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Sakura 0/-------/------=|=======\===----\1 Kyoko
"HAH!" Sakura cries as she lands from her withering onslaught of spinning uppercuts, but it's really rather unclear whether this is her whooping in triumph or letting out a stressed exhalation of effort. In any case, she doesn't seem to be as horribly dizzy as before, which is strange, because she was just spinning around like a cretin.
Kyoko comes in low with her punch, but Sakura uses some deft footwork -- bless those Reeboks -- to spin out of the way. "Nice try!" she says, voice as smug (and annoyingly so) as any teenager given half a chance.
As she moves, though, she tries to seize Kyoko from behind -- tan arms shooting out to try and wrap around Kyoko's neck and introduce her throat to one of Sakura's well-defined, man-like biceps. "Now try this on!" she chirps, trying to, well, choke the shit out of Kyoko. Real... real sporting.
COMBATSYS: Kyoko interrupts Sakura Strangle from Sakura with Tengoku e no Kaiden.
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Sakura 0/-------/-======|=======\====---\1 Kyoko
Aw man, she missed, thinks the nurse as Sakura dodges in her PUMPED UP and possibly hand-me-down Reebok shoes. Frowning visibly, the woman digs her heels into the Astroturf, attempting to stop herself from carrying further than she need be. After all, the girl is likely on the offensive.
And wouldn't you know it, SHE IS!
When she comes running, she grabs Kyoko by the throat, strangling the elder woman, whose response is simply 'ARGLEBARLG' or some variation thereof. But halfway through the woman somehow manages to wrangle the man-girl OFF of her throat and gives her a shove. Seconds after distancing herself the nurse LEAPS into the girl, delivering four rising aerial turn kicks before she simply heeldrops poor Sakura, attempting to spike her nubile (but manly) form into the ground below.
"Oh god I can barely breathe," she manages after the fact, gasping and wheezing for a solid breath.
Sakura is knocked up into the air like a leaf swept along a fickle breeze. She's knocked up, and up, and up -- and then Kyoko's rather sharp heel connects with her rather unprotected face, driving her into the ground like one of those steel-tipped lawn darts that used to kill Texan kids back in the 70s.
Sakura twitches on the ground, spasming like a giant tool. "I think you kicked me in the brain," she whines, trying to get up and then just slipping on her own feet and tumbling back over.
As she falls, though, Sakura thrusts her arms out, lashing out with a feeble little fireball that, like the previous one, seems barely a shade of what she could accomplish if she were really paying attention. It lopes toward Kyoko as Sakura's head hits the ground, eyes replaced by 'NO SALE' signs.
COMBATSYS: Sakura can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Kyoko dodges Sakura's Small Hadouken.
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Kyoko 0/-------/----===|
For a moment, Kyoko half-wonders if she turned Sakura into a potato with her counterattack, what with the spasms and twitching. When she actually talks and displays coherent thought--however weird it may seem--the Justice High nurse breathes a sigh of relief. It wasn't so bad!
But then she trips and falls back onto her ass- -but not before lobbing a tiny fireball at the woman. Blinking with surprise, the woman sidesteps, the coattail of her lab coat catching the brunt of the hazy blue sphere cutting through, leaving the tip a smoking mess.
"I won?" wonders the nurse, looking around as the crowds cheer. "Oh hey, I won! I won!" Throwing her arms into the air, the woman hops once or twice before she finds the nearest SNF official and begins demanding she be paid not in money, but booze. Kyoko has a lot of catching up to do, after all.
Naturally, though, she will accompany on-hand medical staff to tend to poor, unconscious Sakura Kasugano, to make sure she hasn't really rendered the schoolgirl retarded.
COMBATSYS: Kyoko has ended the fight here.
Log created on 19:05:17 11/29/2009 by Kyoko, and last modified on 12:09:03 12/03/2009.