Meeting with old friend

Ralph kept his arm wraped tightly around Haru leg and was doing his best to keep it away from his body. He managed to prevent body scissors and even preventing Haru from kicking him again by constantly tuging his leg away from him. However, being busy with keeping legs away, Ralph gave opening to Haru to continue attacking his head.

It seemed that Haru didn't plan to release him and Ralph was getting weaker and weaker with every second passed. He began squirming and jerking his body to the left, trying to role them around in order to reach edge of the ring for rope break.

It was down to crunch time as Haru squeezed the life out of Ralph second by second, weakening him by attrition rather than force. Keeping Ralph occupied with his legs helped to burn off his energy faster, while if he didn't block he was going to get extra pain.

Ralph seemed to sense that the end was near as he had a burst of resistance. He started rocking back and forth trying to reach the ropes, which was fine by Haru. Ralph rolled them over so that now Haru was on top, his full weight pressing down on Ralph and keeping him in place. He glanced up to see Ralph's arms outstretched for the ropes, no way was that going to happen! Haru growled and shook Ralph's head back and force fiercely in the sleeperhold.

"Don't forget you can just tap out Ralph, though I'd be more than happy to choke you out"

Ralph just shook his head, since he wasn't able to talk and answer Haru. He won't tap out to his rival, unless he'll be seconds away from passing out. It's a pride thing, beside if nothing else it's good way to build up the resistance for future matches, where outcome will be more important.

But Ralph was getting weaker, since Haru was keep adding more preasure on that sleeper hold. He did half of roll and now Haru was on top of him. Still being too far away from ropes, Ralph swinged the body again, hoping to reach the ropes this time.

Haru's efforts aren't for nothing, Ralph doesn't even risk answering him because he knows it would be another waste of breath. Haru's got em dead to rights pretty much, it's only a matter of timing and stubbornness. Ralph rocks side to side trying to get them to roll, and he gets another half roll, leaving Haru on his back.

With each tiny roll they get a little closer to the ropes, inching Ralph closer and closer to getting a rope break. Well Haru wasn't about to let Ralph go. With a loud grunt he sat up, bringing Ralph with him. He dug his free heel into the mat and pushed back, dragging them farther from the ropes instead.

Ralph extended his arm to reach for the rope, but he was still a little bit too far. In order to extend arm and reach for the rope, Ralph had to let go Haru leg. As soon as his leg was free, Haru used that to push them away once more. They were far away from ropes again and Ralph moved arm to wrap it around the Haru leg once more to prevent body scissors.

He tried to roll them again, but he was getting too weak for that. So Ralph released Haru leg soon after and began elbowing his body, hoping that it will be enough to get the freedom.

Haru was panting now, his face contorted into a mix of frustration and concentrated effort. Damn you Ralph! This guy just did not want to lose! At least Haru had chosen a smart pick for his rival, it wouldn't be any fun if he went down too easy. Ralph couldn't even roll them any more, so perhaps it was time to surprise him with a finisher?

Just then Ralph started to elbow Haru in the side, and that gave him an idea. After a particularly hard strike, Haru groaned and let his grip go slack for a moment, like he was really hurt by it. Ralph ought to drop his guard, and then a split-second later he clamped on even harder than before.

"Just kidding~!" Haru taunted, his biceps bulging as he really put everything he had into the choke. Forget switching to his finisher now that he had a weakened Ralph, Haru had held on so long that it was now a matter of personal pride that he ensured Ralph lost to the sleeperhold.

Ralph began elbowing his opponent and finally managed to land somewhat hard hit, which gave him glimpse of hope. Haru finaly weakened the hold, but Ralph was too weak to make anything out of it. He just gasped for air and start catching his breath. This however lasted only few seconds before Haru got him traped again.

Ralph began squirming and again and flailing with his limbs, but at this point he was way too weak to make anything out of this. He was slowly losing last bits of eneregy and he knew that he'll be defeated today. Knowing it's either tap out or pass out, Ralph moved his arm and began taping over Haru body.

Haru held on through Ralph's squirming and flailing, riding out the death throes of a doomed man so to speak. And sure enough, Haru just had to wait a little bit longer till he felt Ralph tap frantically. At this point Haru weighed his options. Now that he had won, he had officially settled their score and was now 2-1 in the lead. He was definitely going to gloat about it and rub that fact in. And on the other hand, Haru was very tempted to ignore Ralph and just put him out on purpose, as that would send an even bigger message.

Therefore, Haru decided to take the best of both options. He continued the chokehold despite Ralph's tap outs, pushing his rival closer and closer to unconsciousness. Haru waited until Ralph was jussssst about to pass out and then he released him, pushing Ralph off of him and to the side.

Haru quickly stood up and flexed his arms for the win, both as a normal match reflex and to show off for the people that had stopped to watch. He even goes so far as to kiss each bicep before checking on Ralph.

"Looks like the jackrabbit's speed wasn't enough this time, I'm up 2 to 1 now Ralph" he grinned, leaning down and offering him a hand to help him stand up.

After Ralph start taping nothing happened. Haru was keep holding him in sleeper hold and Ralph began taping out even faster. However, he couldn't tap faster for too long. Soon, he slow down and start slowly blacking out. He was about to pass out when Haru finally let him go. Ralph stumbled on all fours, looking down on the mat and start coughing, as well catching fresh air.

Still breathing heavily, Ralph accepted the hand and got back on his feet. "2-1 indeed." Ralph just noded and tried to be short so he can return to catching an air. He knew that this wasn't official match, but Haru beat him fair and square.

Well, training was over for today. With Haru's help, Ralph went toward locker room to take a shower before going home to take some rest in his bed.