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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Year 2 Of Relationship
Makoto sat across from the board of directors in utter disgust. " She's 19."
Several members of the board sat across from her.
" She's getting close enough to 20. Plus it's getting hard enough sharing her with pro wrestling. We've already had to do a few shows without her. I think it's time we went in another direction."
" You don't decide who stays in Sweet Diva, I do!" Makoto said.
" True, but we can choose to drop Sweet Diva from our label."
" Try it, you think you can replace them so easily?"
" Yes, as a matter of fact we do. Sweet Diva is a great group, but there are dozens of new groups chomping at the bit for exposure. Do you really want to risk the futures of the remainder of the group?"
Makoto sat there aggravated.
"You know better than most Makoto how fickle the idol business is. 19 is a decent note to go out on. Many idols don't even make it that long."
Later….
Sakura sat on a couch in her apartment as Takeo put his arm around her.
" I'm so sorry hon."
" It's ok…" Sakura said as she took a deep sigh.
Takeo noticed that Sakura seemed somewhat indifferent to the news.
" Hey, you don't need them. You'll start your own music career."
Sakura stretched out. There seemed to be a part of her that was relaxed.
" We'll see…."
" Yeah, I'll be your back up dancer." Takeo said as he got up and began dancing in front of her.
Sakura couldn't help but laugh. " Oh God. Please, anything but that."
" You know….you don't seem all that broken up about it." Takeo said.
Sakura looked down at the floor. " I didn't go into this blindly….I knew Sweet Diva wasn't going to last forever, at least not for me. I knew Idols have a short shelf life."
" I get it, but that group's nothing without you."
" I know Elena's going to do a great job."
" Does she know yet?"
" Hai, she's just as upset as you are about it. But…."
" But what?"
" Of course I'm going to miss Sweet Diva but…at least I'll be able to focus more on wrestling now."
" Yea…you with full focus on one thing. You were already being impressive with handling both of them."
Sakura smiled and leaned against Takeo. " and don't think I don't know who that's because of…"
" What? No I…"
" You've been there for me through out the whole time. You stuck by my side and helped me. I've always felt bad that most of the time we're together you're helping me train or helping me do something for Sweet Diva…" Sakura brushed her hand through Takeo's hair. " I want to spend more time with you…without having to do something."
Takeo smiled. " Deal….so you're sure it's a pass on being your back up dancer?"
"Hard pass…" Sakura said as they both laughed.
Months later….
" What are you talking about?" Takeo said.
" I want to talk about the other night." Sakura said.
" What happened the other night?"
Sakura looked up at Takeo. " Hon… I know you're having nightmares."
Takeo froze in place. " What are you talking about?" Takeo said, his demeanor becoming defensive.
" The other night, I mean…" Sakura treaded very carefully.
" Yea so I woke up and wanted to train, that doesn't mean I had a nightmare." Takeo said trying to dismiss the conversation. " Come on, let's go get something to eat."
" You said…." Sakura began which caused Takeo to stop. Normally, Sakura would have dismissed this just as easily as Takeo had. However, this instance had happened on more than one occasion. It was today Sakura wanted to address it. " You said…Dad…I can't breathe. You said it in your sleep."
Takeo stood still. " I didn't say that…"
" Takeo I was right beside you…" Sakura said.
" Look, I didn't say that. Ok? I don't know what you heard me say, but it wasn't that. I'd remember." Takeo said.
" I don't want you to feel you have to hide things from me." Sakura said.
Takeo took a breath and smiled, trying to give off the impression that there's nothing bothering him. " Hey, I'm not hiding anything…..ok? Now can we please go eat something, I'm really hungry."
" You don't have to avoid…"
" Look…" Takeo immediately cut off. "Nothing's wrong with me! Can you just drop it!"
" I'm only trying to help." Sakura said.
" Stop trying to fix something you know nothing about!"
" Well talk to me about it so I do know!" Sakura argued back.
" Forget it!" Takeo stormed out the door.
" Fine!" Sakura yelled.
Later that night…
" Can I come by?" a message from Takeo read on Sakura's phone.
Sakura looked at her phone. " Of course." She texted back.
Later Takeo was sitting on Sakura's couch next to her. He stared straight ahead as he rung his hands gently, a gesture not unnoticed by Sakura.
" It's not that I don't trust you or anything…..You're one of the few people I trust the most…..It's just...it's hard to talk about."
Sakura placed her hand on Takeo's. " I know you have a past. I shouldn't have pushed you like I did….. I want you to be able to talk to me about it one day….but only when you're ready." With that Sakura comfortingly wrapped her arms around Takeo, to which he responded by wrapping his hand around her arm and leaning into her.
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More to come…..