Martial Arts Mix!

Chapter Eighteen

After an hours long battle, Kodachi Kuno finally ran out of ways to cheat or hold off her foe. With a powerful windmill kick, Sumika sent Kodachi crashing to the ground. All around them, the watching students cheered.

"Oof!" Kodachi grunted, laying stunned there on the ground.

Unrelenting, Sumika leaped on her, pinning Kodachi to the ground. She straddled the slightly taller woman's waist, then started down at her intently, her karate uniform torn, revealing powerful muscles and one breast.

Kodachi realized she was breathing hard, her breasts risking and falling. She was surprised to realize she wasn't exhausted, just... aroused.

With a sudden move, Sumika tore open Kodachi's gymnastics uniform, revealing her full, round breasts. "Now, you will surrender to me!" Sumika declared intensely.

"Oh, Sumika!" Kodachi gasped breathlessly.

"... Kodachi!" Sumika growled sexily.

"SUMIKA!"

BRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGG!

The alarm jerked Kodachi from her sleep, and she jerked as her eyes widened.

"What was THAT?" Kodachi yelped. The faintly disturbing dream lingered as she got dressed, ate breakfast and got ready for school.

Yes, she was attracted to Sumika... she would willingly concede that point. And YES, she admired Sumika as a martial artist too. While she wasn't at Ranma's level, she fought with a surprising power and grace.

'But SUBMITTING to her?!'

While Kodachi had not had much sexual experience (Well, none at all really) she was quite certain she was a top. Damn it.

'That dream kind of hot, though...' Kodachi spaced out for a moment.

Realizing where her thoughts had gone Kodachi shook her head, "Argh!"

"Miss Kuno, are you all right?" one servant asked, having watched her mutter to herself and fret for nearly an hour. And mumble various things like 'I'm not LIKE that' and 'Oooh, but Sumika is HAWT' and so on. It was quite entertaining.

"I'm FINE," Kodachi lied.

Her servant looked dubious, but accepted that. "I have packed boxed lunches for you and Mr Kuno," she said briskly, "also don't forget you need to meet with Miss Sumika and her second to determine the details of your duel."

"Thank you for the reminder," Kodachi said as she took her lunch.

Kodachi had thought she said "you need to meek with Miss Sumika" for a moment, which had stirred something within her. Her subconscious was clearly having a field day with all this.

"Have a nice day!" the woman waved as Kodachi left.

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Of course Nabiki heard about Kodachi challenging Sumika. "We're going to have to handle this carefully," she noted to her minions as they met during lunch break.

Chiaki noted, "We'll do the usual betting?"

"Don't open the betting pool at all until Kodachi and Sumika finish setting the terms of the duel," Nabiki quickly cautioned.

"People are already asking," Akari offered.

"We can't set odds until we know for sure if Kodachi is actually fighting. She might weasel out since it's not her preferred fighting mode," Nabiki pointed out. "And of course I expect her to cheat." she added dryly.

Both Akari and Chiaki nodded at that. "Do we know what odds to offer?" Chiaki asked.

"We'll offer slightly better returns on Kodachi, as I expect her to lose," Nabiki admitted, "but the difference will be relatively small."

"We'd make more on longer odds," Chiaki offered tentatively.

"Agreed," Nabiki nodded willingly then added, "but we've not seen Sumika seriously fight a martial artist on this level, yet. It's entirely possible Kodachi might surprise us... then we'd be out all that money."

"Oh. Sorry, ma'am," Chiaki apologized.

"It's fine," Nabiki waved it off.

"We've gotten requests for more candid photos of Akane," Akari noted, adding with some amusement, "from the boys who were previously challenging her."

"Sure," Nabiki nodded, "get the photography club involved." She paused, "Just warn them not to do any changing room shots."

"Are you worried about your sister?" Chiaki asked, mildly surprised.

"No," Nabiki answered her mildly, "I'm concerned Akane would beat them to death if she caught them."

"Eep. Right," Chiaki agreed.

"All right, anything else we need to go over?" Nabiki asked. "I need to call Tomoe-sama about the duel."

"I think that about covers it...," Akari mused.

"There's been less formal challenges to Ranma for us to offer odds on. Should we try to set up something?" Akari asked.

"Oh hell no," Nabiki sighed and headed off. Once she was away from the others, she flipped open her phone. "May as well do it now," she dialed, then when it picked up she said, "Miss Tomoe? I have a update on Sumika..."

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Earlier that day...

To be completely honest, Ranma was enjoying this whole situation. I mean, YES he still had Mousse and Ryouga regularly jumping him, but otherwise most of the crazies were now focused on Sumika. It was refreshing, really.

"Stop looking so smug, Ranma-honey," Ukyo noted, amused, the two of them having met up on the way to school.

"I'm not smug!" Ranma quickly protested. He paused a moment then admitted, "Okay, maybe a little smug."

"Just remember, whenever you get too cocky the universe sends you a new fiance or rival," Ukyo added wisely.

"Ugh. Point," Ranma conceded. "Or an old one comes back."

Both paused, nearly expecting someone to lead out of the bushes yelling, "I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE, RANMA SAOTOME!"

They hurried on, hoping to avoid that. "I need to meet Sumika this afternoon," Ranma added, "we're setting up the terms of her duel with Kodachi."

"Has Nabiki started a betting pool on the fight yet?" Ukyo asked him curiously. She added, "I want to put ten on Kodachi."

"Kodachi?" Ranma looked offended.

"Hey, she's quite good," Ukyo pointed out. "Besides, I only sparred with Sumika once. No way to know how she'll do."

"Well, that is true," Ranma admitted. "Plus we know Kodachi is sure to try to cheat in some way," he added.

Curiously Ukyo asked, "If everyone knows she'll cheat, why do they fight her?"

"Dunno. Some special gymnastics thing?" Ranma shrugged helplessly. "I mean, you'd think the regional head would kick her out..."

"Says the 'Anything Goes' martial artist," Ukyo teased.

"Okay, point...," Ranma conceded. The two reached the school, and headed in together...

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"So... I was thinking: does Kasumi ever get a night off?" Sumika asked Akane tentatively. They were meeting up at lunch, as Sumika had asked her earlier.

"Not really," Akane admitted, "why?"

Sumika blushed faintly. "I was thinking of taking her out for dinner," she admitted.

"She'd love that," Akane said enthusiastically.

Sumika picked at her food, "But what will the rest of you do?"

"We'll be fine! Ranma and I could cook something," Akane said.

Simika gave her a look, having seen Akane's attempts at cooking.

"We'll get takeout," Akane reassured her.

"Ok, then I just have to ask her," Sumika murmured.

Akane was amused at how bold Sumika could be in combat, but also be so shy in personal things. It was cute, really. Speaking of combat, Akane confirmed, "Are you meeting up with Kodachi after school?"

"We're supposed to be setting up the terms of the duel," Sumika sighed. Exasperated she added, "WHY does she want to fight me anyway?!"

"Well, there ARE some interesting rumours about her and the other gymnasts in her club," Akane teased.

"That's a scary thought," Sumika made a face.

To be continued...

Notes: I'm never quite sure how evil to write Nabiki. She's pretty damn ruthless in both the anime and manga, but writing her that way would also make her very unlikable.