"Go easy on you? Where's the fun in that!" Takeshi teased, beaming as he rubbed his hands together in excitement, "We've gotta show all of these people how real fighters do things, you know?" Feeling the annoyed stare of Ricken on his back he turned to face the other boy with a smirk, folding his arms and cocking his eyebrow. "Unless one of you two are going to beat us, huh? I'd pay to see that happen, even though it won't." "You don't know how badly I'd like to drive that smug face of yours into the dirt," Ricken growled before letting out a sigh, "But this isn't about just winning, its a show for the people to enjoy. We'll do our best to win but we're not treating it like a real battle, if we lose then we lose. If I do get to level your sorry hide in the process though then I'm fine with that." If Takeshi and Ricken wanted to go at each other before a match even began then fine, Sasha wasn't going to waste her time keeping two children apart. Rolling her eyes as the two resumed bickering between themselves the announcer gracefully drowned them out with the announcement of the next match, one which none of them would participate in. Two rebels whose names she couldn't remember were going to be taking part in this one and it should be a decent match, their uniforms suggested they were both of decent rank. The crowd around them had seemingly already forgotten about Shu's match and his triumph over Thal as the announcer worked them up into another frenzy over the impending brawl. Seeing the match of little importance Sasha instead chose to talk to Shu and bring up something that was eating at her. "How are you feeling? You doing okay? Not scared or stressed are you?" Aito had warned against fighting so early and Sasha understood Shu's hesitation plenty well but at the same time facing your fears could be therapeutic. Whether they continued in the tournament with Shu all depended on how he himself felt going into things. "You did a really good job in your match, I don't think anyone expected you to win so easily," Sasha added with a smile, folding her arms as she turned towards the stage to watch the match, "Did you notice how quiet things went? I think everyone was shocked you made it look so easy, Thal is a pretty big name around this city. So you winning like that probably got a lot of people's attention, other contestants too. I hope you're ready because we're going to only get tougher opponents as this goes on," she said before winking at Shu, "But I imagine you'll do just fine." ----- "We are on Uuonoe though! See? Right outside is the city..." Oh wait a minute, outside the window was a large open lawn with scarcely any other buildings nearby. They were on Lioma still weren't they? Realizing her folly with a sheepish smile Yumi let out a laugh and shrugged, laying her head down on her arm as she rested on the edge of Viral's bed. "You're crazy if you think that. You beat the crap out of the Elites, and you're stronger than anyone else I know. You'd win if you competed, that's a fact!" It would be fun to watch too and even better if Viral got to smack Takeshi's fresh mouth once or twice. The only down side to that though was he would probably end up fighting Shu as well and she didn't want that in the least. "Hey... You'd kick Takeshi's butt if you fought him right? I'd like to see that, he deserves a good butt kicking," Yumi continued, inching closer to Viral's bedside as she slid her chair forward. "I totally think you'd win! Then you could rub it in his face instead! And then Vegeta wouldn't have any reason to be such a big baby about everything." Thank goodness Vegeta or Aito weren't here right now or they'd be having a heart attack over how hurt Viral was. Though he'd long since become stable and should be recovering in no time thanks to his special healing powers. Yumi wouldn't mind those the way her arm and head were aching, though the medications she'd been put on certainly helped. There was a minor side effect to them however... "Maybe we can be in the one on Earth sometime. I think that'd be fun, don't you?" Yumi posed as she grabbed Viral's paw, "Plus we could win that money and we could go on a trip somewhere, or we could... Oh..." Viral's paw was awfully soft in her hands, or perhaps she was just imagining things. Either way she lifted his paw higher and appeared to examine it studiously for a moment, turning it before smiling and ultimately pressing it to her cheek which she nuzzled against the limb. "That's soft... I like it," she giggled, falling forward onto Viral's bed and inadvertently onto his arm, "Oops... I fell down Viral..."