Chapter 28: #28 The tournament continues
Oku and Neji walked into the arena and stood facing each other.
Hayate: Are you both ready?
Oku: Let's go.
Neji: Let's do it quickly.
Hayate: This starts the fight.
Battle!
Oku: So you're the genius of the Hyuga clan?
I have already heard about you, unfortunately you will lose today, because I am not fighting for myself, but to impress my beloved Suki Senju.
I prepared myself for this for months and learned many techniques to help me impress Suki.
I know I'm not the strongest shinobi, but today I will overcome my limitations.
Neji: Stop talking and fight.
Suki: That was so sweet of Oku.
Sato: Take him down Neji, no one who doesn't defeat me, is worthy of my sister!
Suki: But Onii Chan, then I'll never get a boyfriend.
Sato: Is that a problem?
Suki: Yes, that's a big problem Sato nii san, now I'm angry with you.
Sato: No, I didn't mean it like that, don't be mad at me.
Suki: Then you have to accept my choice of friends.
Sato: But my sweet little sister, that will never happen, Neji finish him off!!!
Neji ran towards Oku at full speed.
Oku placed a paper bomb on the ground and tried to increase the distance between himself and Neji.
He also threw 3 kunai with paper bombs in Neji's direction.
Neji saw the paper bombs and used his rotation to deflect them.
They exploded and Neji then ran out of a cloud of smoke further towards Oku.
Oku saw that the bombs had no effect and activated the bomb that he had been placed.
But Neji simply walked past it and was now within Oku's reach.
Neji used his Gentle Fist and hit Oku with full strength, but Oku only left a cloud of smoke.
Neji: A clone. Byakugan.
Neji spotted Oku behind one of the trees and ran towards him.
Oku came out of hiding and shot a "Water Ball Jutsu" at Neji.
Neji blocked this again with his rotation and fed on Oku again.
It didn't take long and Neji was back within Oku's reach.
Oku tried to stand up to Neji's attacks, but had no chance.
Oku left another cloud of smoke.
Neji: Another shadow clone?
The next moment the earth beneath Neji shook and Oku shot out a chakra scalpel that hit Neji in the left arm.
Neji jumped back from his position.
Neji: I didn't expect that.
Oku: You see, I've got something up my sleeve too.
Neji could no longer move his left arm, but continued to engage in hand-to-hand combat with Oku.
Oku had trouble fighting off Neji any further and had little chakra left.
And after a short time, Neji gained the upper hand and hit Oku on several tenketsu points.
Oku tried to heal the points, but he no longer had enough chakra to do so and so he knew he had lost this fight.
Nevertheless, he continued to fight.
Neji: Give up, you can't win.
Oku: I know, but I'll try.
Neji: You fought well, but now I'll end it.
Neji ran towards Oku and destroyed the last remaining of his Tenketsu points and Oku fainted.
Hayate: Winner Neji Hyuga.
Suki: Onii Chan, you know what you have to do.
Sato: Do I really have to?
Suki looked at me angrily.
Sato: Well, you won.
I then took Oku out of the arena and healed him.
Suki: How long does it take Oku to wake up?
Sato: I would say about 5-10 minutes, his body has very little chakra and needs to regenerate some.
Suki: Okay, I'll wait until he wakes up.
Sato: Do whatever you want.
Tsunade: This is the first time I've seen Sato being jealous.
Sato: What should I be jealous of, I have my beautiful wife who loves me more than anything.
Hanabi: That was sweet of you Sato.
Hanabi kissed me and I passed a "Mmht" to my aunt.
Sato: Naruto you have to get down, don't screw it up.
Naruto: Sato do I look like I'm messing this up?
Shino: Let's go down and we'll see.
Naruto: Wish me luck.
Hinata: Naruto, give it your all.
At that moment, Kakashi and Sasuke finally entered the stadium.
Sakura: There you are finally, I was afraid you wouldn't come in time.
Kakashi: Of course I knew we would arrive on time, who will be Sasuke's opponent?
Sakura: He has to fight this Gaara.
Sasuke: I'll kill him.
Sato: Sasuke, it will be difficult for you, you should focus on your speed.
Sasuke: Don't tell me what to do!
Sakura when do I have to fight?
Sakura: Shino and Naruto are currently fighting.
And then Shikamaru against Lee.
Sasuke: So 2 more fights until my fight.
Kakashi: We could have trained longer.
Asuma: Kakashi, don't push your luck.
Kakashi: How did the previous battles end?
Kurenai: Sato, Hinata and Neji won against Kankuro, Temari and Oku, who is still lying back there in little Suki's arms.
Kakashi: Fine, then I'm back in the loop.
Now Naruto and Shino had finally arrived at the bottom of the arena and were facing each other.
Hayate: Are you both ready?
Naruto: Sure.
Shino: Yo.
Hayate: Fight.
Naruto and Shino stood apart from each other and Naruto slapped his brass knuckles together once, turning their color green.
Shino sent his swarm of insects straight at Naruto.
They surrounded Naruto and began sucking his chakra.
Naruto kept his cool and hit the ground below him once with his brass knuckles.
This blow created a hurricane around Naruto that shredded all the insects.
Naruto: Ha, you didn't expect that, Shino.
I can't fully control Sato's weapon yet, but they're great for repelling your insects.
Shino: I was expecting a lot, so you better be careful.
As soon as Shino finished his sentence, Naruto was attacked by even more insects from Shino.
Naruto didn't hesitat either and ran towards Shino and slapped his brass knuckles together again.
This time they turned blue and when Naruto was about 5m in front of Shino.
Naruto hit in the air with one of the rings, a wave of air pressure that froze the ground now stormed towards Shino and every one of his insects that was in the way of the wave froze into ice.
Shino formed a protective wall of insects in front of him that stopped the air wave, but he lost 50% of his insects in the process.
Naruto jumped over the frozen insects, hitting his brass knuckles together again and they turned yellow.
He punched them in the air again towards Shino.
This time there were cloud currents that created lightning discharges that were directly flying at Shino.
Shino was able to avoid the cloud current, but the lightning caught him off guard.
Shino now had little choice and surrounded himself with all of his remaining insects, because he was a little paralyzed from the lightning and could no longer feel his legs.
Naruto slapped the brass knuckles together again and they turned red.
Naruto punched in the Air and an extremely hot air stream flew at Shino and his remaining insects.
His insects burned in the extreme heat and Shino almost went crazy with the heat.
Shino was sweating all over his body.
He had only barely survived the last attack, but all of his insects died.
Naruto stood in front of the mountain of dead insects and saw that Shino could still fight.
So he hit the brass knuckles together twice and they turned purple.
Shino: I give up!
Naruto: What, but I was just about to show the brass knuckles final attack?
Hayate: The winner of the fourth round is Naruto Uzumaki.
The audience started screaming, but instead of applauding for Naruto, they booed him.
"Go away fox demon"!
"Nobody likes you"!
"Demon"!
Naruto looked disturbed.
Hinata: That was great Naruto, I love you!
Sato: Exactly, you showed everyone what you're capable of!
Yamato: You did well Naruto!
Suki: This dumbases from Konoha!
These suckers don't know anything about you, Naruto!
Naruto started smiling again and came upstairs with Shino.
Shino: Sorry Sensei Kurenai, I was out of insects.
Kurenai: I saw that you were sweating Shino, don't worry about it.
You'll definitely get it in the next exam.
Shino: Thank you Sensei.
Oku slowly woke up and saw that he was lying with his head on Suki's legs and blushed.
Suki: Oh, my knight has finally woken up.
Oku: Your kni...kni...knight?
Suki: Yes and I think he deserves a reward for fighting so bravely for me.
Suki gave him a kiss on the forehead and he passed out again.
Tsunade: I think he's in shock, better you don't do something like that, the next time he wakes up.
Suki: OK.
Sato: Grrrrr.
Hanabi: Finally stop Sato.
Sato: I didn't do anything.
I just had an insect or something in my throat.
Naruto: I think I swallowed one in the fight too.
Lee and Shikamaru went downstairs.
Shikamaru: Why do I have to compete against Lee, it's going to be so stressful.
Lee: I'm looking forward to the fight too.
Lee looked at Shikamaru and gave him a thumbs up.
Shikamaru: What did I do to deserve this?
Hayate: Are you ready?
Shikamaru: Damn never, but what can i do?
Lee: Ready to go.
Hayate: Then fight!
Lee jumped back and Shikamaru stopped.
Shikamaru: Do you really want to fight, can't we just pretend and then go home?
Lee: No, I still want to compete against Neji and the others.
Shikamaru: Too bad.
Shikamaru then used his "Shadow Possession Jutsu" and his shadow moved towards Lee.
Lee kept avoiding the shadow and getting closer and closer to Shikamaru.
Shikamaru then threw a kunai at Lee and Lee dodged it, but Shikamaru used his jutsu to bind Lee's shadow with the help of the shadow of the kunai.
Shikamaru: I got you.
Lee: Why can't I move anymore?
Shikamaru: The kunai was just a distraction for my jutsu.
Lee: What?
And how can I free myself now?
Shikamaru: You're asking your opponent that?
Lee: Come on, give me a tip.
Shikamaru now let Lee imitat his movements and went towards Lee with a kunai in his hand.
Lee: Come on, there has to be a way to get out of the jutsu.
Guy: Lee, just give it your all!
Lee heard his sensei and activated his 4 inner gates.
Shikamaru now had problems keeping Lee in his jutsu.
Lee broke free and quickly ran towards Shikamaru.
Shikamaru saw this and fast shouted : "I give up."
Lee stopped and deactivated his inner gates.
Lee: Yay, Sensei, I won and at first I thought I would lose.
I only made it through because of you Sensei Guy.
Lee gave him a thumbs up and Guy returned the thumbs up.
Shikamaru: (That was a close call.
He almost broke me.)
Hayate: The winner is Rock Lee.
They both came upstairs and Shikamaru went to sleep.
Asuma: You did well Shikamaru.
Ino: But he gave up?
Asuma: He couldn't do anything else.
Ino: Really, but it looked different to me.
Asuma: The technique Lee used increased his strength immensely, if Shikamaru had continued fighting, Shikamaru would have been seriously injured, so his best decision was to just give up.
Sato: Congratulations Lee.
Lee: Thanks Sato.
Naruto: Shikamaru's jutsu would be completely dangerous for me.
Sato: It's dangerous for anyone Naruto.
Sasuke: And now it's finally my turn.
Kakashi: Give him everything I taught you.
Sakura: I will keep my fingers crossed for you Sasuke kun.
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