Ryuko stood in front of Sasuke, taking the hit he was about to receive for him.
"What happened to the Sasuke that was easily able to catch a punch from this guy?" she asked.
"Trust me, he's different." Sasuke answered.
"Different, he may be, but I'm still gonna kick his ass!" Ryuko stated.
"Are you sure you can handle him? Last time I checked, he was the one kicking your ass." Sasuke asked.
"Shut up, and get out of here!"
"I'm not making any kind of remark, I'm being serious! You were only gone an hour, what makes you think you're any stronger than you were?"
"Just trust me... Now, leave." Ryuko commanded.
Sasuke left the battle grounds with haste. He was a too arrogant at the time to admit it, but he was badly injured.
"I wonder if Ryuko can actually handle herself against him."
As he fled, Sasuke caught sight of Satsuki. She was staring at him, as if observing him.
"Dammit, I forgot about everyone else!" Sasuke cursed, realizing his fight had been on display to the entire school. "Oh well, at least I have nothing to hide anymore..." Despite that bit of optimism, Sasuke kept thinking of ways he could have avoided this. Goodbye, normal life.
"...You're still here? You're really serious about fighting me?" Takaharu asked.
"Hell, yeah I'm serious! You've embarrassed me in front of the whole school, but that's not why I came back!" Ryuko yelled, "We never got to finish our fight."
Suddenly, the both of them were in a boxing ring surrounded by the entire student body. The students cheered for Takaharu.
"I feel like I had an important part here... But that may just be me!" Mako exclaimed cheerfully. "Go, Ryuko!"
"A boxing match, huh? I don't recall recruiting you as a club member, but as you wish!"
*Round 1*
"I'm gonna haze you like a newbie!" Takaharu yelled as he threw a barrage of left jabs. "How do you like this? The ring is overflowing with my flood of left jabs!"
Ryuko stood in place, motionless. As if she wasn't receiving damage at all.
Takaharu leaped towards Ryuko, narrating himself as he does so. "And... he... moves into a right straight, but it's really a corkscrew! Ten! Ken! Fun! Sai!"
His gloved began to spin as if it were a drill, and Takaharu aimed for Ryuko's stomach.
The glove seemed to have cut through her. Or... her cloak, rather.
The cloak was ripped to shreds. Ryuko was revealed wearing a very revealing, black and red armor. It covered her neck, down to upper-side of her breast. From the under-side down to her skirt, her waist was exposed.
"W-What sort of clothes are those?!" Takaharu stared.
"Stop gawking!" Ryuko yelled
"You're trying to distract me with it's sexiness!"
"I'm not wearing this because I want to!"
"How dare you! You mocking boxing! No, all sports!"
"I am not!" Ryuko argued.
"All right, then. In that case, I'll take the liberty of undressing, too." Takaharu tease, slowly. pulling his shorts down.
"Hey! Now you're the one who's mocking it!"
"That's weird... I could have sworn there was a chain here..." Takaharu wondered. He had forgotten that he had already unleashed his Athleticism-augmenting gloves.
"Oh yeah... That 'Sasuke' kid. He gave me a hard time at first, but-" Takaharu realized what this meant.
"When you arrive.. d-did you just take one of my attacks full force?" Takaharu asked. Fear was evident in his voice.
"Yeah, and?" Ryuko asked.
"*gulp*"
Sasuke was safely outside of the school's gates. He hasn't fully recover from his fight, yet, and is breathing hard. He stuck close to the wall, not able to fully leave the school. His anger burned inside of him.
Sasuke fell to his knees.
"Damn... When did I become so weak...? I'm letting someone else save me, instead of finishing this myself..."
Sasuke's neck felt as if it were on fire. Or much worse.
*ROUND 2*
"Even so, I won't let you get the best of me!" Takaharu roared. "I'm gonna rip what little fabric you have to shreds and send you flying!"
Takaharu formed another corkscrew, which did absolutely nothing. Although, his gloves did break.
"What?! My glove!" Takaharu questioned.
"You're glove isn't the only thing that turns into steel! So does my outfit!" Ryuko explained.
"Impossible! Impossible! Impossible!" Takaharu screamed, flailing his arms at Ryuko. To no effect.
"I'm not feeling your punches at all." Ryuko said, raising her voice to get over Takaharu's shouts. "So now it's my turn, right?!"
She dodged Takaharu's sea of attacks and use the hilt of her scissor blade to attack. "Left jab!"
"Right hook!"
She placed the blade under his legs, in the middle.
"And then an uppercut!" Ryuko, with speed, raised the scissor, launching Takaharu into the air before she sending him into a crater in the ring.
"And then a right straight to finish you off!" She yelled before charging at him with the blade. When the blade and Takaharu made contact, his clothes were ripped off and he was sent flying into the air.
"Fiber Lost!" Senketsu exclaimed.
The elite four, Ira Gamagori, Uzu Sanageyama, Nonnon Jakuzure, and Houka Inumuta, were surprised and shocked.
"Impossible!" Uzu shouted.
"A Goku Uniform..." Ira started.
"...was defeated?" Nonnon ended.
"So that's the power of the Scissor Blade, eh?" Houka examined.
A stray Fiber worked it's way into Ryuko's armor, and Satsuki realized that there was more to it than that.
Takaharu flipped like a coin through the air. Ryuko readied her scissor blade.
"And now to finish you off!" She roared, swinging the scissor. Takaharu shot through the air, headed towards Satsuki. Her subordinates wouldn't allow that, and shielded her with their bodies. Although some of Takaharu's blood reached Satsuki's face.
Uzu couldn't believe it. "How dare you!" He shouted, charging into the ring.
"That's enough!" Satsuki said, stopping Uzu.
"You there. Where did you get you hands on that outfit?" Satsuki asked Ryuko, who stood motionlessly.
Finally, Ryuko kicked up a conveniently placed microphone that was right next to her foot. She held it up to her mouth, and spoke low.
"This is a keepsake from my father."
"What?"
"And this Scissor Blade was left behind by the person who killed him." Ryuko stated, raising her voice a bit.
"Now you're going to tell me who this Scissor Blade belongs to... Satsuki Kiryuin!"
"...You said your name is Ryuko Matoi? You're Isshin Matoi's daughter?" Satsuki asked.
"You know who my father is?!"
Ryuko fell to a knee.
"You're bleeding too much, Ryuko." Senketsu said.
"I thought you wanted blood." Ryuko said.
"At this rate of blood loss, you will lose consciousness in five minutes."
"Don't sound so calm about it!"
Ryuko stood up and pointed her blade at Satsuki. "We'll have a leisurely chat another day, Satsuki Kiryuin!"
With that note, she ran for the school gates.
Sasuke stood up, his fist bloodied from beating them against the ground. He realized that now wasn't the time to be beating himself up. It was time to end this.
"All right!" Sasuke shouted, running back in through the gates.
On his way in, he passed Ryuko, who despite the missing cloak, didn't have a sign of injury from the battle.
"There's no way..." Sasuke said. Also, he has to ask her what's with the get-up.
When Sasuke arrived on school grounds, the first thing he saw was an arena. It was broken down, and shown that a battle had taken place there.
He enter the boxing ring. There was a crater in the middle of the floor, and cracks as a result of that crater.
"She couldn't have..."
"Sasuke, you missed the big fight between Ryuko and the Boxing Club president!" Mako shouted, running up to Sasuke.
"And... Who won?" Sasuke asked.
"Well, Ryuko did."
Sasuke's sharingan activated as a reflex.
