Leaving the locker-room you find the arena has begun to fill up with girls all looking to be trained by the all-star Mrs. Touya. You’re caught by surprise as few catcalls and whistles rise up from a crowd of girls obviously energized by your emergence from the locker room. Turning red you quickly search for a place to hide, but instead find the trio of Kate, Rebecca and Claire and that was good enough. You cross half the gym and meet up with them having to walk awkwardly in the new outfit as you got used to it.
“Hey big boy” Claire in her hot pink and floral print garb from yesterday. You blush even harder now, feeling diminutive compared to your generously ample associates. “Don’t be coy; you have no reason to be ashamed in front of the future queen of Chubbeso's sumo wrestling team.” Claire had been thrilled ever since yesterday, not only would she be joining a sport she could really get behind, (figuring she was born for greatness as apparently in sumo the bigger the better and she was all about big) but, you’d also be with her and would apparently be bulking up as well. It was all too perfect!
“Humph!” Rebecca scoffed. “Isn’t that like the princess Kate? We haven’t even started yet and already she wants to be Queen of the team.” In truth Rebecca had wanted to be the queen-er- star-er-captain whatever the top sumo wrestler was called. Ever since she’d came to Chubbeso academy and had stopped playing softball she’d been dying for some sort of rough and tumble activity and apparently sumo wrestling would be it. Plus being the star of the team wouldn’t hurt her chances of trying to get some ‘attention’ from you. Her mawashi had been one of the school's mass produced uniforms and since it was not custom tailored to her size (as Claire's was) she found that it gave her just the slightest bit of a wedgie.
“Please! How many times have I told you about that name?” Claire bemoaned. “I’ll have you know that I’ve already been to quite a few of the school sumo tournaments already with mother, and it doesn’t look hard at all. In fact, mother said that I was born to lead and that I was practically raised to be a team leader.”
“Uh actually, the correct term for the head sumo wrestler is Yokozuna.” piped Kate as she adjusted her glasses. Kate had originally found the sport fascinating with its ancient traditions and customs, but she hadn’t really wanted to actually be a sumo wrestler. But the fact that she was among friends always made things easier and today was no different and so she ignored how the tight fitting green uniform was making her feel, chunkier, than usual.
Mrs. Touya had been doing rounds of all the participating students’ names and she finally makes her way to your group. Getting up you display your new garb for her feeling a bit ridiculous as you did so.
“Perfect! I’m sure you’ll be moving up to the others in no time…” she adds appreciatively before writing your friends names down on her notepad. There was something about her words that just didn’t sit right with you, and then they suddenly remind you that there was one more thing you were going to ask sensei Touya about. “So, uh, sensei… you were just kidding about the whole ‘I have to weigh 300lbs by the end of the month’ thing, right?”
She laughs warmly and squints her hazelnut brown eyes closed before quickly answering with a flat and hollow “No.” The grin that remained on her face was now eerily the opposite of her voice. You eyes bulge slightly as you finally grasp her answer.“CJ-kun,” she began now using the friendlier ‘-kun’ Japanese honorific than the honorable ‘-san’ to address you. “Truly you are still, as I said yesterday…to skinny. But I’ve seen you running from many girls and even carry a few or two as they tried to uh, hug you, and you possess great leg strength, perfect for any sumo wrestler. If were to put on a hundred pounds or so, and with my expert training you could be a champion. But! It’s not enough for me to think so; you have to believe in yourself too!”
You thought it over, you already weighed about 187lbs, well last time you checked, but to get to 300lbs…That would take..113lbs! 113lbs just seemed like such a large number to reach in a month…but maybe some of it would be muscle too not just fat…Yeah! Sumo wrestlers had to be strong right? You could imagine yourself strutting down the hallways; a walking mountain of muscle, able to hold back even the fleshiest of fans, it did seem quite appealing. You decide to take her words as a sign of motivating you. Rebecca and Kate and well Claire too, were already set on this and you couldn’t let them down either. You decide to give bulking up your best shot and hope Mrs. Touya wouldn’t be too angry if you didn’t reach that oh so high goal of 300lbs by the end of the month. But who knew? Maybe bulking up to sumo size would be…fun!
“Wonderful!” Sensei Touya said as she picked up her whistle and blew it loudly.“All right new recruits!” she began proving to posses powerfully large lungs along with everything else. She headed up the stairs and onto the arena’s center ring before continuing. “Our first match against another school is in one month. I want to see what everyone has got today, so let’s have a few matches to start! If you lose today don’t worry there will be plenty of practices later. I have a list with all participants’ names on it, so if your name is called please make you way to the center ring” she closed her eyes and dragged her pen across the notepad, stopping on one of the names.
“Claire Masters!” She announced and a roar of applause goes up as a crimson clad Claire hopped to the stage, blowing kisses towards the crowd, and doing a few short poses as she reached the center. She lifts one leg up and down in a powerful stomp sending shock waves and jiggles across her large doughy midsection. The crowd of girls grew silent at the realization that next name would actually have to sumo against the goliath of a girl.
Mrs. Toruya closed her eyes again and picked the next name, reading it aloud it was…