Own no intellectual properties. I have had some characters designed for a pro wrestling story for a while now and just wanted to find an outlet on here to put them. After a friend referred me to "Wanna Be the World's Strongest." I felt this was a good storyline and good characters to work with. This story is going to be focusing on plot, characters, drama and action.
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Sakura and Takeo were in the middle of the ring at Berserk as Takeo was showing her a fundamental technique for an escape.
" With this they can go for a suplex or a standard take down." Takeo said behind Sakura with his wrsts interlocked around her waist.
Both worked to conceal their blushing after the first week of training together since physical contact was quintessential for wrestling practice.
" What you want to do is grab their wrists…." Takeo said to which Sakura complied. " Then you want to push your back against me and thrust your hips out forward as much as you can. You wanna get my lock as far away from me as possible."
Sakura thrusted her hips forward pressing her back against Takeo.
" Make sure to keep your center low." Takeo advised. " Before you break he lock make sure you know where to pivot out. Since you feel my head on your left side, break it and pivot to the right side. Always got opposite of where you feel their head."
" Got it." Sakura said.
" Ok now make sure exhale a short breath for a quick break. Don't give them time to react."
" Ok."
" Alright, go for it!" Takeo said advancing his hold.
Sakura made a short exhale and managed to break his hold, she then pivoted to the opposite side and wrapped her arms around his torso.
" Awesome, let's do it again."
Within a minute of repeating the technique Sakura realized that it was very hard physically to repeat constantly. After 10 minutes, Sakura was feeling drained.
" Wanna take 5?" Takeo asked.
Sakura was about to say yes until she remembered what Misaki told her
" You need more physical training!"
" No!" Sakura said. " Let's keep going !"
" Ok." Takeo said smiling. " You really ARE something aren't you?" He thought.
After a while of performing the same technique Sakura was beginning fall to her knees before breaking the hold.
" Ok, NOW we're gonna take a break." Takeo said.
Sakura panted heavily as she looked up at Takeo who offered her his hand to get up.
As the training continued, Sakura was doing push ups alongside Takeo. Her arms quivered as these push ups were different than what she was used to. As opposed to the standard straight up and straight down, they were now half way up then holding for 5 second then pushing all the way up, as well as halfway down then holding for 5 seconds then going all the way down. This level of push ups began feeling like torture to Sakura. She was on the verge of dropping until she saw Takeo was doing them with ease.
" This kind of training. This is why he's so strong." Sakura thought back to all the matches she had witnessed Takeo fight and how he fought hard and overcame the odds. " I want that kind of strength! I'll keep pushing until I can walk beside you!"
In a distance, Misaki and Kanae were watching as the 2 young wrestlers continued pushing themselves.
" Glad Takeo took Sakura up on her offer." Kanae said.
" With the Sonata training methods it will definitely elevate Sakura physically."
" So with Takeo….how long have you known? About his father that is?"
Misaki sighed. She knew this was coming " A few years now. Seiichi and the coach at Arete, they go way back from their wrestling days. They both met Takeo when he was just a little squirt. I wouldn't say they were close or anything, but they knew Kenji only professionally."
" And Seiichi told you? "
" I wanted to tell you Kanae, I really did. But Seiichi swore me to secrecy."
" You think I would have published it if I knew?" Kanae said.
" Kanae, I…."
" It's ok, I probably would have." Kanae said.
" …"
" The truth is up until a few weeks ago, only a small handful of people knew who "Wild Child" actually was. His coach wanted to protect his identity."
" Because of his father's legacy?" Kanae said.
Misaki nodded. "He wanted to make sure he got through the wrestling world by his own merit, without the weight of his fathers legacy weighing down on him."
" Must've been hard growing up in his shadow." Kanae nodded.
" I don't think that was the problem." Misaki said prompting a curious look from Kanae. " Seiichi said that Takeo and his father had a falling out a long time ago, although he didn't give me the specifics, but I concluded Takeo has resentment toward his father. That's why he wrestled this whole time without using his techniques . Of course that's all speculation."
" I see."
" Personally I'm surprised you haven't hounded him for an interview." Misaki said.
" No way, I know better than to do that at Berserk. Although this would make an awesome story. " Wrestling royalty trains with Pop Idol turned wrestler." You couldn't write a better story than that for Hollywood."
Later….
" Great work today." Takeo smiled.
" Arigato, no wonder you're so strong with training like this."
" What can I say? I've been doing it as long as I can remember. Oh also, you should take a bath tonight."
" Oh ok, like a really hot one?" Sakura asked.
" Ummmmm…."
Later…..
Sakura stared down at her bathtub observing the ice she just dumped in. It was filled halfway. She then drew cold water to fill in the tub. Hesitation was evident in her eyes.
As the water filled, Sakura thought back on today and even though at the time it felt torturous, she had a surreal feeling, as though this would make her stronger. She also couldn't help but blush at getting to make physical contact with Takeo. She blushed more when she thought about being in his lock earlier, she felt eerily safe with his arms wrapped around her.
Sakura suddenly shook off those thoughts. " Get it together!" She thought.
Feeling overly flustered thinking about Takeo, Sakura then looked down at the ice again. Without a second thought she immersed herself in the ice water. " Ghh! Oh my God!" she said reacting to the cold. As freezing as it was, it was supposed to help her muscles from feeling too sore from the intense training today.
At Takeo's apartment….
Takeo was stretching out as he prepared for bed. Much like Sakura, he was also finding his time training with her to be very enjoyable. He then looked down at a magazine he bought on the way home. He reached down and picked it up reading the heading. " Wild Child, Son of Legend?" With his picture on it.
" Hey, I'm on the cover at least…." Takeo thought. " Kind of hoping I could have held out maybe another year, but I guess they were bound to find out sooner or later."
He then focused on the title " Son of Legend." After taking a moment to resonate on the title he slapped the magazine down on his night stand and turned his light off.
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More to come…..