A/N: AsukaEnergetic1: Even starting off bad, AsuLili are just genuine made to be all blushing and teasing each other.
HarukoTan: haha, yeah, I do make fast updates. Sometime's I drag readers from how fast I am. I can't help it, I just can't stop writing AsuLili.
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4) Get your head in the game!
Asuka was washing the dishes of their breakfast as Lili sat at the mini bar area.
"My maids wash the dishes faster than you, Asuka"
Lili was talking while checking her nails, her hands stretch away from her.
"Yeah, that's just a proof that I'm not your maid"
Lili's eyes went to Asuka, she pouted her lips looking at the ebony. "Why am I even waiting for you?" the blonde asked sarcastically.
"Because we're going to the dojo together after this." Asuka has finished washing the dishes; her hand was now wiping them with cloth before placing them back to the cabinet.
"I don't want to go back there, that place reeks with bad hygiene"
The blonde had her disgusted look in the face again; Asuka was able to see her body shiver for a second.
"Well we can't train anywhere else, that's free. If you go to another cleaner dojo, if ever there is one in Osaka, you're going to have to pay, and I will not pay if I can get something for free."
Lili shaked her head. "You're such a thrifty person Asuka, and why are we going to train there? Aren't we going to Tokyo?"
"We won't be leaving until the next day; we'll have two weeks of training there and two days of tournament. They'll immediately test us as a team before we are able to officially join so I'm not risking my chances because of your silly complains"
Asuka was walking out to the door now; Lili got down from the high chair of the bar and went after the ebony.
"Two weeks and two days alone with you? How will I survive?" Lili asked in a doomed voice, her palms were on her cheeks.
The ebony she was talking to was unlocking the pad lock of her bike on the rack at their front yard. "That same question has been haunting me since yesterday" Asuka took the metal and pad lock of the bike. She realized that she had no pocket in her clothes.
"Could you put this in your pocket?" Asuka asked Lili, lifting the metal and pad lock to the blonde's face.
"No, I don't want to" Lili said trying to push Asuka's hand away. The ebony wasn't in the act to give in.
Asuka slid her hand on Lili's front pocket and held the blonde's hand together. "Just for today" She said to Lili, "or I'm not gonna let you ride with me"
Lili had a sour expression but she didn't fight with Asuka anymore. She just walked behind the Japanese until they got out of the gate and locked it. Asuka mounted her bike first and waited for Lili to sit behind her.
Looking out straight up the hill, Asuka felt Lili's hand encircle to her waist. It was obvious that the blonde wasn't used to riding these things, she was scared and even when she didn't say or show it to Asuka, the ebony could feel it in the tightness of her hold. Unless, Lili was afraid she would not cling to Asuka that much.
"Yosh!" Asuka shouted before starting to pedal. A couple of height along the long hill, Lili began to talk. It was ultimately showing that she was afraid and was trying to get her attention somewhere else.
"What prize do you even get to win in the tournament? Is it so good that you'd even put up with me?" The blonde's voice and body was shaking and Asuka could feel it in her embrace.
Laughing a bit to herself, Asuka decided to give Lili the distraction she needed. "The prize is having a new branch of our dojo in Tokyo"
"That's it?"
"Rich imbecile" Asuka said in low tone that made Lili ask what she said. "Nothing, but you know what, Tokyo is the center of japan if we get to have a dojo there, we'll earn more money than ever." Asuka was surprised that she was beginning to have a hard time in crossing the hill up, they were slowing down and Lili was getting tighter behind her.
The blonde still continued to talk amidst her growing fear. "So you want to get rich too?"
Asuka was pedaling harder now and faster, her teeth were grinding. "Even rich people wants to get richer!" the bike was able to move in faster pace again, and both girls sigh in relieved.
"It's funny that I'm just supposed to be your sadistic rival, how did I ended up helping you to usher from poor life" Lili's hold on Asuka has loosened after the bike went stable again.
"I think it's you're karma" Asuka said, smirking back at Lili.
The blonde got pissed at Asuka and rapidly tightened her hug again. Asuka's feet stopped pedaling from the shock of the embrace.
Their bike rolled so fast down the hill. Lili shouted to the end of her lungs and shaked Asuka in front of her. "We're falling! We're falling! Do something!"
Asuka half stood up from the bike and pedaled even harder and faster than she ever thought she could, sweat begun to drop from her face as her teeth pushed one another.
"Ugh! You sure are sadistic to me!"
Lili who was holding tighter than ever to Asuka was annoyed at the girl half standing, Asuka's butt pushing towards her. "Could you just sit back?" Lili tried to argue, scared to move away from Asuka because she might fall.
Asuka doesn't answer her and continues to control the pedaling. She shouted loud and continuos as she was finally able to roll the bike up again. By the middle of the hill, Lili had pushed her down to sit. Asuka continued pedaling from there as Lili embraced her hard again.
Upon reaching the bicycle parking at the dojo, Lili unmounted first. Asuka panted heavily at the bike and fells off to the floor as her feet have numbed from the force they exerted.
Lili caught the bike before it totally falls on Asuka and watched the girl, trying hard to stand up with her exhausted feet. The blonde left Asuka and decided to park the bike herself.
After putting up the lock she went back to Asuka and held the girl in her forearm. They went inside the dojo together with everyone looking at how Asuka was walking like a limp. "Never to talk me while in the bicycle, ever again" the ebony told Lili as the blonde helped her sit down at a wooden bench near Mr. Kazama's office.
"I surely won't, you almost killed us!" Lili's hands gripped on her collar.
Asuka had a real mad look on her face. "You're telling me it's my fault?"
"You were the one pedaling" Lili moved her head closer to Asuka. The two of them looked at each other, their faces so close, and their eyes all sharp.
"I will make you pay, Rochefort" Asuka hissed, standing up and pulling Lili in the neckline of her dress. The blonde kept asking where Asuka was bringing her and before she knows it, the ebony had locked them both inside the bathroom near Mr. Kazama's office.
"No!" The blonde's loud screaming echoed the whole dojo, making every one inside look at the corner where the office was.
Minutes later, Asuka and Lili were now at an enclosed area by the end of the dojo, just in front of the locker area. They were standing on blue gymnastic mats and had a rope trap them in four poles.
Asuka laughed evilly, holding a paper fan in her hand and slapping it at the palm of her other hand. She looked at what she had done to Lili.
The blonde was standing in front of her, folding up the obvious too big kimono for her.
"I told you this is not my size" Lili complained to Asuka as she pulled the very excessive cloths of the whole white kimono.
The large size kimono was so loose in Lili arms and feet while the obi or the belt in her waist was tied so tight. "I look like a star" Lili stretched her hands up diagonally and stride her feet, actually copying a star.
Asuka laughed while biting her lip, she was able to create the image that Lili wanted her to see. "It fits you" she complimented jokingly before stopping to laugh. "Now, let's get started" Asuka slipped the paper fan at her jogging pants behind.
"The first thing you need to know about any martial arts and not just the Kazama style is that in every fight you enter, you need to do the bow" Asuka demonstrated it by bowing slowly, her arms on the front and hands on top of her legs. She raises her body up again and faced Lili. "The lower and longer you bow the higher respect you have for the person. Now you try it."
Lili wasn't moving. "Why aren't you bowing?" Asuka asked.
"I don't have respect for you." Lili said a matter of factly.
Asuka took the paper fan from her back and slapped it on Lili's head. The blonde kept saying "Aw" but suddenly stopped covering herself. "Hey, that doesn't actually hurt" she said in realization.
Asuka stopped slapping the fan at Lili, and threw it to the floor. "Next thing is the execution of attacks!" Asuka pointed her index finger and thumb at Lili.
The ebony steeped away from the girl and clenched her hands into fists. "Just do what I do" Asuka did slow hand punches and exhaled "Hah! Hah!"
Lili who was at least doing the punching wasn't saying anything.
"You need to shout the martial arts yell Lili"
Lili stopped her punching and faced Asuka. "I always found it irritating how you Martials yell Ha! And Kiai! in every move you make. It's disturbing."
"It's part of the practice; it helps the chi in your body to accelerate. You never do that, that's why you always lose to me."
"Ah, well I never. I'll show you Asuka Kazama" Lili puffed air at Asuka before she moved back to her punching position.
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" Lili punched faster and faster. The people in the dojo started looking at Asuka and Lili.
It was horrible, the way how Lili screams "Ha!" was too high pitched and very wrong. The fact that she even did it fast created the sound of a very crude laughing that had gained uncomfort for the others in the dojo.
Asuka shivered herself, being the closest to Lili and ultimately stopped the blonde from going on. "On second thought, it does sound better when you don't do the yell"
"What? But I can already feel the energy building inside of me as I yell faster and louder!" Lili had big wide eyes of happiness, but that's not gonna persuade Asuka.
"For the sake of all Lili, don't"
Lili got upset about being band from shouting the martial arts yell and didn't want to listen to anything Asuka said anymore. The ebony had no other choice but to have a break and let the princess's head cool down.
They sat at the mat, sitting far away from each other and facing backwards. Asuka was fanning herself and slowly stretched her legs to a more comfortable position. She blew some air out in her mouth and suddenly stood up.
She lifted the rope barricading her from the outside and bent her body down to cross under it. Lili turned her body and looked mad at Asuka.
"Where are you going? Don't you dare leave me alone"
Asuka was able to cross and got outside of the ring prison she was in with Lili. "I'm just going to get some bottled water; do you want me to bring one for you?"
"Hmph, I'm fine" Lili answered crossing her arms and turning her back on Asuka.
"Whatever" Asuka left the blonde.
Lili had her feet pressed to her chest and hugged them with her hands, she licked her lips repeatedly. "Maybe I should've made her bring me one." Lili said to herself, noticing it too late that she was thirsty herself.
"This is crazy, I can just leave her if I want to, it's not like she can stop me if I just disappear in the night."
"You should learn to keep your plans to yourself." Asuka had come back with a big bottle of water in her hands; she jumped up the rope now and gulps the water while going close to Lili.
"Look, as much as I don't want you to be my partner, you can't leave me now since the tournament is on the next day and I don't know if I can find any capable partner anymore."
Lili who still sat with her feet on her chest looked up at Asuka.
"You find me as a capable partner?"
Asuka frowned a little. "Yes, I do." The ebony knew that one way to get brats out of their tantrum was to tell them what they want to hear.
Lili couldn't hide an escape smile in her lips but was able to quickly take it back. "Ok then I won't leave you anymore. But you have to agree with things that I want."
Asuka rolled her eyes, evaluating things in her mind. For all she knows, the blonde might take advantage of her rights too much. "As long as the things you want doesn't go overboard."
"It won't since I know you won't give it to me if it is. I'll just request for three things."
Asuka nodded in agreement. "Alright, good, so what are the three?"
Lili broke away from her sitting position and stood up in front of Asuka.
"First, I want to have rice breakfast, so that I won't take yours anymore."
"Ah huh" Asuka merely said.
"Second, I want to sleep on the bed."
Asuka raised her eyebrow for a second. "So you're telling me to sleep on the futon?"
"No, we can sleep together in the bed. We did it last night"
"Are you sure you're fine with sleeping with me?"
"Of course….well as long as it's only sleep in the bed with you" Lili placed her one hand above the palm of her other. "And not sleep with you." She then pointed the ends of her fingers on Asuka.
The ebony had a shocked look on her face. "I wasn't talking about that." Asuka was shaking her head; she couldn't believe how far the blonde's imagination has gone.
Lili looked nervous now and nodded heavily. "Yeah right" She was rubbing her hands together. "Oh, and my third request, yeah, my third request" She was repeating words now and was beginning to blush.
She opened her arms and stretched her oversize kimono. "Please let me change this"
Asuka looked at Lili for a while. "I just want to try something first."
The ebony left Lili again but run back within seconds with a red electrical tape in her hands. She asked Lili to open her arms and feet. Asuka used the tape to flat and tie the loose parts of the kimono in Lili's body.
"There, let's see" Asuka said as she walked further from Lili and made a frame in her hands to look at the blonde better.
Lili had a disbelieving annoyed expression. "Don't try to flatter yourself Asuka, I look like a voodoo strap doll"
The red electric tapes in the end of her arms and feet and even in the neck cause the oversize fabrics in the middle to pop up. The tapes looked like the ropes tied to these same parts in strap dolls to keep them in shape.
Asuka throwed the electric tape she was holding, maybe even hitting someone since somebody shouted after. "Alright, just use your dress already. We don't have a kimono for your size"
Lili clapped her hands and ran out of the ring, some of the guys she passed by was trying hard not to laugh at what her kimono looked like now.
Asuka watched from her position how the blonde walked like a penguin in the tape tightened sleeves of her kimono.
"Well, you're dead now Asuka, you just spoiled her more." The ebony stated to herself, knowing that things will get worse after giving Lili what she wants.
After almost an hour, Asuka was still waiting for Lili to come back.
"Don't tell me she left?" Asuka suddenly asked in horror. She jumped out of the ropes and ran to the office bathroom. She opened the door and saw no one there.
"Where did she go? I just gave her what she wants and she just leaves like that?" Asuka went out to the dojo again and looked around for Lili. She went inside the locker area and even in the showers. Lili wasn't anywhere inside the dojo.
Asuka came back to their closed area and saw Lili coming inside the dojo in her dress now. The ebony didn't waste a second and went to her.
"Where did you go?" Asuka asked the blonde in a hostile voice.
"Well, I just couldn't change clothes in the bathrooms here so I went to Dad and asked him the keys to the house."
"Asked dad?"
"Your dad, Mr. Kazama." Lili pointed at the dojo office.
"Don't call my dad, dad."
"Well, he let me call him dad." Lili walked by Asuka and went to the office. "I'll be back in our area; I'll just return the keys to DAD"
Asuka walked to their area and looked at Lili. "You better hurry up now!"
"I will!" Lili shouted, waving her hand in the air.
"On second thought, I'll just come with you to be sure." Asuka was now walking beside Lili. The blonde bent her head down and looked at Asuka who had a serious face.
Lili chuckled, as she swings the key chain in her finger. "What are you laughing at?" Asuka asked her.
"Asuka Kazama is scared that I'll leave her, it's just so sweet."
With a blink of an eye, Asuka stepped on Lili's instep, so hard that the blonde yelped in pain. The key's chain slid off her finger, making Asuka catch it in the air.
Lili bent her body to hold the feet she was stepped on.
"On third thought, I'll give this to dad. Go back to our area."
Lili watched Asuka walk in her mad way; she rubbed her feet under her boot and tried to calm the pain.
"Why did I even say that?" Lili contemplated to herself. She tried to stand up and walk back to their area.
By the time that Asuka arrived there, Lili's feet didn't hurt anymore.
"So, can we really start now? It's almost five" Asuka didn't mind asking Lili's foot condition since she can see the blonde standing perfectly fine.
"Could we start with something that doesn't involve kicking or using the feet?"
Asuka went behind Lili and placed her hands on Lili's shoulder, but it was only to guide the blonde's hand from the back. Slowly, she slided her hands down to the girl's biceps and moved one arm up while the other bent backward like launching a punch.
"In Kazama style, there are many techniques that doesn't involve the feet." Asuka moved Lili's hand into a different position. She made both Lili's hand raised in front her face.
"Close your right into a fist and leave the left open." Asuka instructed Lili, putting her mouth close to the blonde's ear. Asuka was irritated at this set up as normal as it seemed to the others. She was standing in tip toe just to reach Lili's ear since the blonde was taller than her.
Lili had a weird feeling every time, Asuka would try to reach her ear to tell her what to do, but thankfully, her focus still seemed perfect.
She clenched her right hand into a fist like Asuka said and momentarily, her hand was raised upwards by Asuka.
"That's how I do my uppercuts Can your feet move now?"
"It can move Asuka, it just stings a bit." Lili answered looking from the back of her shoulder.
Asuka stopped guiding her from the back now and went in front of Lili.
"I'll teach you some combo's now. We'll finish this by seven then we'll go home and then continue tomorrow."
"Yohoo" Lili muttered.
Asuka taught her combo's one by one to Lili, demonstrating them every time before she lets the blonde do it herself.
She showed Lili her low kick move, the one she uses when she kicks someone just above their instep. Lili was fairly able to do this but lacked in the force that was needed, but that can be perfected in time.
She then showed Lili her double punch, first punch lands on the enemies face, the second punch will land at either the abdomen or chest. Again, Lili was fairly able to this but lacked the force that was needed, but that can be perfected in time.
Another trial, Asuka made Lili punch and swing a kick after.
Another one, Asuka showed Lili how to pressure punch someone at the middle of the torso.
Getting close to losing patience, Asuka showed Lili the cartwheel tricks that the blonde was good at to start with but not just in the Kazama way.
Losing patience, Lili is able to execute the moves that Asuka has taught her so far but she forgets which combo's come together or either makes a nonexistent one.
No more patience, just hope. Asuka let the blonde do what she can handle.
Not even hope is present anymore. Asuka is worried just how much can be perfected in time.
When seven o'clock came, Asuka didn't expect herself to be the more relieved out of her and Lili. She watched as Lili was still doing some of the moves, clearly wrong from what Asuka taught her.
The ebony scratched the back of her head and called out to Lili. "Let's go home now"
Outside at the bicycle parking, Asuka discovered that her pad lock wasn't lock at all, the metal was just simply loop from the rack to the bike. She looked at Lili who didn't seem to understand why Asuka was mad.
"It didn't get stolen, so what's the problem?" Lili reasoned with the ebony who shaked her head and sighed disappointingly.
"Just get in" Asuka told Lili, ready to pedal down the hill.
The blonde looked at how Asuka was trying her best not to burst. Lili put herself on Asuka's shoes and seemed to realize that the bike must mean a lot to the ebony. Knowing how it feels like if you lose something important, Lili gained some guilt for what she did and maybe a lot more things she does to Asuka.
She hopped on Asuka's back and embraced the ebony in her waist. This time though, Lili pressed her face near Asuka's shoulder and whispered something to her.
"Ok, Kazama, you win. I'm sorry, I won't do it again." The blonde didn't get a reply from Asuka until the bike begun to move. It was only before Asuka turned the bike to the house that she said something to Lili.
"So, what do you want for breakfast?"
Lili smiled behind Asuka's back and tightened her embrace. "I'll tell you when we get down. I remember you telling me not to talk when we're in the bike."
Asuka eyes widened. "So you do know how to listen to what people tell you."
"Shut up."