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Competition.
"I beat you in the Reaction Speed tests."
"My hair got in my eyes, I beat you on the treadmill."
"I slept on my legs all last night, my legs were tired."
Rin and Kawai watched with dull eyes as both Naruto and Mio go at it as they stretched their bodies out. The entire day, after they got the same score for the first of the tests, they had been competing on all of the other tests. As it took, they were both even in the scores. Naruto's reaction speed was the better of the two, while Mio took it when they tested their speeds on the treadmills.
'I beat both of you on the treadmill...' Rin wanted to say that out loud, but she didn't want to try and involve herself in their competition. She had already lost to Naruto in a real battle, though she would make sure not to lose to him again, and to be honest she was a little weirded out by Mio's open lesbianism. "To think all this test is, is carrying your partner up to the top of these stairs... doesn't seem much like a test." Rin pointed out as everyone was being put into pairs for the test.
This seemed more like a work out than the earlier tests, then again, they were being timed for when they got to the top of the stairs.
"Rokudou Rin will be carrying Yoshida Atsuko up the stairs."
"Well, that is me, see you guys later." Rin stated as she went off to go find her partner. "I'll be getting the fastest time today." Rin changed her mind, if she was going to be the best, she better start competing with the best she could challenge. "Good luck Kawai!" Rin called out to the one left in their small group of elites.
"Hoshino Saki will be carrying Kawai Hanabi."
"... I don't really need luck though. Anyway, sorry Mi-chan, but I'm rooting for Na-chan to win this one." Kawai stated as she looked around for her partner. She winked at Naruto, and Mio simply gave an amused laugh at the favoritism by the boy crazy girl. "Of course, I'm going to be taking the number one spot in the end!" Kawai called out as she left them behind.
When she left, Naruto and Mio stopped smiling.
They glanced at each other.
"They're pairing the people who are suspected to become Elites together for this test. That means you and I might be paired." Naruto pointed out with a grimace. They couldn't really compete if they were on the same team after all. It would only further extend their draw in their matches. Now that they were competing over the tests, they wanted to remain friends, but they didn't want to be on the same team.
Mio nodded in agreement, that was the bad outcome.
"While normally, I wouldn't mind being paired with you, you're the only guy here I actually take seriously." Mio couldn't say that with Rin or Kawai around. She didn't want to hurt their feelings. She could already see how strong the two of them were just by looking at them, and she had seen Naruto's performance on TV. She wasn't saying the other two wouldn't be legitamite challenges of course, but Naruto's physical abilities were the ones that were the best for her to make a competition with.
Not to mention his natural talent for the land was something that the other two didn't have, and if she heard right, he defeated Rin already on a new Land design from one of the Keijo Engineer students.
Naruto shook his head.
"I'm taking everyone here seriously, I just know you're better than everyone here. If I'm going to challenge somebody, I want to challenge the best of the best." Naruto held a different ideal for their budding friendly competition. He had already beaten Rin, and while she had given him an ass kicking in the process, he wanted to aim even higher, for somebody even better than him.
At the moment, the only person at the tests that he could see as being better than him was Mio, were there a lot of people who could beat him? Yeah, he was sure several girls here could beat him, but he was also sure he could beat them.
It was different with Mio, the fact that he didn't know if he could beat her made making her his rival even better than anybody else.
"Uzumaki Naruto will be carrying-"
'Not female me, not female me.'
'Not me, not me.'
"-Fujisaki Kotone."
"Yeah!" Naruto and Mio cheered together as they high fived, extremely glad that they were not partnered together for this. "I'm kicking your ass during this test, so you better not lose to anyone else but me." Naruto told Mio as he pointed a finger at her. He wanted to be the only one to beat her during this test, otherwise it wouldn't really be that worth it. He wanted to be able to properly judge the state of her abilities, so he wanted to see just how close they would finish to each other.
...
"Just go find your partner, I think she is that girl sitting down with the headphones on." Mio slapped his back with a light smile.
Their competition was back on!
Naruto looked at the very pretty girl that Mio pointed out, who was in a daze as she looked at the clouds. She was ignoring the world around her. One glance was all it took to see how well built her body was for Keijo, and Naruto recognized her name, well her family name. As a Keijo fan, he knew of this girl's pro sister, and the fact that her mother was a famous prize queen. Her body was trained for the sport, she wasn't built like an Outfighter, so she was either a Counter or an Infighter.
"Hey, I'm Naruto, nice to meet you." Naruto greeted the girl as he raised an hand up, deciding to try and start things off nice.
...
"Yes."
"... You didn't hear a word I just said." Naruto tapped her on the shoulder, and she looked towards him and blinked. She blinked a few more times, before she took her headphones off, and turned off whatever she was listening to. "Yo." Naruto tried again, but with less effort.
'He's handsome... I wonder if he has a bromance?' Kotone thought as she looked at Naruto and registered everything about him. She loved his blond hair already, since all of her favorite gay couples in her stories had a boy with blond hair, and a boy with black hair. She even more so loved it when the blond boys were wild and extremely outgoing. "Hello... are we partnered?" Kotone asked as she stood up and dusted herself off.
...
He was taller than her by a lot was something she noticed. She was sure that she had seen him somewhere before. He had an American look to him that she couldn't help but see.
"Uzumaki Naruto, the world's most awesome-"
"Ah, you're the male Keijo player. So which of us is carrying who?" Kotone stopped him from continuing the speech he no doubt had planned.
He slumped forward with a heavy, disappointed, sigh.
One time, one time he would love to get his speech finished. Either way, he turned around and offered his back to her. His unspoken message getting to her quickly. She understood that he was willing to get this over with, what she wanted. She just wanted all of these dumb tests to be over as quickly as possible so that she could get back to what she wanted to do.
"So what are you listening to?" Naruto asked her as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
He was kind of curious about her interests.
"... Nothing."
"Ah, BL it is then." Naruto had heard that kind of denial come from somebody before. It was very embarassing for a lot of girls to admit to their sexual fetishes, and considering that the only stuff that were really had audio forms to them were yaoi and yuri stories. They were mostly made into audio form so that fans could enjoy them under the guise of listening to music, there were hetero stories as well, but they weren't really embarassing to admit to.
Anyone could enjoy a good story about a guy and girl without feeling embarassed, since that was a normal thing.
"Wha-wha-wha... I'm not interested in anything like BL!" Kotone's stutter made her statement hard to believe.
Naruto didn't judge other's preferences, even if he didn't share those preferences himself.
"Oh, the test is starting." Naruto heard the whistle, so he grabbed Kotone's thighs and started to haul ass towards the stairs. He saw Mio running as well with a smaller girl on her back. Naruto heard Kotone give a short shout of shock when he jumped up the first few steps. He ran as fast as he could up the steps, and considering just how many of them there were, that wasn't a good idea on his part.
He refused to allow Mio to have this, and he gave a smirk when he overtook her, his size and strength making it easier for him to carry somebody up stairs quickly.
Mio smirked back and kept up a moderate pace. She would just wait for Naruto to tire himself out by using up all of his stamina.
-Minutes Later-
"Wow, first one done with a time of 2 minutes and 11 seconds."
"Aaaaaaah." Naruto collapsed to his knees with Kotone still on his back. She landed on her feet as she watched him in a sweat. When she was off of him, he fell over onto his side. She had to admit to being surprised, for the entire time he had managed to run at max speed. Even when he started to sweat, or when he seemed to have trouble breathing, he just kept going on and on.
So she actually leaned down and pat his back.
"Are you okay?"
"I've had the biggest cramp in my leg for half of that... I'm feeling better now." Naruto wiped the sweat from his forehead, and stretched his cramped leg. "It helps me that you were so light." Naruto admitted that her being light helped him get up the stairs so quickly. He stood back up, his stamina having seemed to have been restored by his short rest.
"2 minutes and 49 seconds."
"Aaaaaaaaah!" Mio collapsed to her knees right behind Naruto, and feel down on her side when her partner got off of her.
"Hah, I win." Naruto told her.
"I've a bitch of a cramp in my leg for half of that." Mio complained as she rubbed her leg. She gave another shout of pain when she rubbed her leg, before she looked towards Naruto. "There is still the final test tomorrow, don't go getting cocky." Mio told Naruto, and he crossed his arms.
'Their bodies are surprisingly synced up.' The teacher thought after recording their times.
The two of them, overall, were primed to be the top of the elite ten with their scores. As it were, they both had the stats of powerful infighters. There were people faster than them, but those people were outfighters, but their stats overall would make them amongst the best of their class if allowed to grow properly. Then again, a Keijo match was decided by more than simple stats, any real player could tell you that.
These two had something special about them.
Tomorrow's final test would be fun to watch for sure.
Chapter End!
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