"Look...I'm tired...can't I PLEASE just go home now?"

"Fine. Go home...be a quitter..."

"I just wrestled against 14 other men!"

"And you lost..."

"I wrestled against 14 men!"

"Yeah...and someone won it!"

Yoshi stood there, silently in the ring, eyes closed, with his head facing the floor. Looking back up, Yoshi spits and brings up his clenched fists, up to his face, and looking towards his 'manager', Eric Lockheart, he shouts.

"Come on then! Bring it on! You want me to get better? I'll take you on, and prove to you that I can handle the NLR...prove to you that I'm ready enough to be a big star!"

Eric Lockheart does not reply, but looks at Yoshi, frowning. Eric shakes his head and climbs out of the ring, and motions for a person, wearing blue shorts to enter the ring. The man obliges and Yoshi looks at the man.

"What the fuck? Don't you want to fight me? I'll have you! I will!"

Yoshi runs towards the direction that Eric Lockheart is, but the man punches Yoshi in the face. Yoshi staggers backwards slightly, holding his jaw from where the man punched him.

"What the hell? Who do you think you are? I'll have you, too!"

Yoshi runs towards the man, jumps, and brings him down with a stiff clothesline to the throat. The man goes down on the floor, and Yoshi falls to his knees, from where he landed wrong.

"Yoshi, you are too rash. You need to slow yourself, you need to calm down. You do have the right stuff to become a great superstar, you could be as good as The Grudge-"

"Who got his ass kicked by Leandro"

"Fine. You could be as good as Leandro...hell, you could be even better than him!"

Silence surrounds the area, with the muffled sounds of children playing on the other side of the room the only thing that can be heard. All of a sudden, Yoshi lifts up his foot and brings it down with a thud. He grits his teeth, and nods his head towards Lockheart.

"Fine...if I manage to win my next match...then yes...you can stay as my manager. But if I lose...then it's the end of you. I came to America to win matches, not to win some and lose some. That's not my motto, nor should it be for a manager, especially one who's been in the sport for a long time...and is a good wrestler. I wanted you to teach me, and then I had to lose in the PPV. It was mostly Woodgates fault, yeah yeah, I know. But still, it was a lot of my fault. I couldn't rely on him. I'm not that dumb. He's not as talented as I am, that's obvious. But then why did I leave him on his own? If I could have got Exodus out quicker, instead of spending that time exchanging fists with him. I could have ran over and saved Woodgate, then we would have had a better chance of winning and I wouldn't have such a shitty record."

Yoshi briefly pauses and droops his head, before stiffly bringing it back up and looking towards Eric Lockheart.

"You know how to make me a star? You do it, but if you fail...you'll be a failure as a manager, and you'll be gone."

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