Chapter 102: Chapter no.101
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"The second match of the second round, Portgas D. Naruto vs. Inuzuka Hana, may now begin!" Genma yelled before jumping out of the way.
As soon as he heard that, Natsu jumped back and drew the chokuto from his back. He didn't really want to use his usual Katon jutsu againt her, they were far too deadly. But he had learn much over the last month that he would be able to use here.
Across from him Hana drew four kunai with exploding tags attached and threw them in her teammate's direction. Naruto saw what she was doing and he wouldn't have any of it. She wanted to use the smoke cause from the explosion as a cover to move around freely.
Naruto rose his sword and charged it with blue colored flames. He swung down and in the blink of an eye, all of the kunai had been bisected, exploding tag and all. With no seal to cause the explosion , the kunai turned into nothing more than duds.
Hana silently cursed to her self before throwing a smoke bomb on the ground, causing the entire area around her to be filled with a purple smoke. This was her backup plan, to have to resort to it at the very start of the match didn't spell good news to her.
Naruto looked on at the large cloud of smoke, wondering what she could possible be planning. When the smoke cleared, Hana was nowhere in sight. Naruto quickly activated his Kenbunshoku Haki and smiled to himself.
'I see...you have a Doton affinity Hana. You saw what I did to the last Doton used I fought so what will you do differently?'
Quite aways underneath the arena floor, Hana had dug several different tunnels that spanned the length of the entire battlefield. It had taken a bit of time, bed all of her preparations were complete.
Hana made a hand seal and produced six Doton Kage Bunshins (Earth Release Shadow Clones) which gave her a nod and proceeded to run into different directions in the different tunnels. The best part about these clones were that they weren't as chakra taxing as the standard Kage Bunshins (Shadow Clones) and since it's made out of mud, they can continue to reform itself back into its original shape. It can also be used as a powerful restraint once it's reverted back into mud.
Most members of the Inuzuka clan had Doton affinities, so they had plenty of jutsu for her to learn in the clan library. Though rarely any of them use it. They prefer to perform the usual clan techniques alongside of their ninken because of their usual reckless and brash nature. Hana couldn't help but think that her clan was full of idiots sometimes. They had a library full of offensive and supplementary jutsu that nearly all Inuzuka could learn, yet they chose not to.
Naruto patiently waited for Hana to make her move, unlike what he did with Nawaki. He quickly moved to the right as a Tsūga (Passing Fang) erupted from right underneath him. Then he jumped backwards to avoid the same thing from happening again.
Soon he was avoiding attacks all over the battlefield as drill-like attacks would erupt from the ground and then return back underneath it from a tunnel that another one produced. He had to admit, Hana was quite clever and this little maneuver would no doubt get her promoted to chunin.
These fights didn't really matter after all. What the judges were looking for was if you had the strength of a chunin, if you could come up with a strategy on the spot, if you had the thinking capacity of a chunin, and if you knew your limits. The tournament was just for show and to show the rest of the nations how strong your genin were.
Naruto slashed the drill that came up right next to him across the chest, but as soon as he did, it turned to mud and tried to restrain his movement. He wouldn't let any of that happen. He covered his sword and his body in an aura of blue fire and flared it outwards, destroying what was left of the Doton Kage Bunshin (Earth Release Shadow Clone).
'So all of these are Doton Kage Bunshin huh? I thought it was odd that there were so many of them when Hana didn't have her ninken and there was no way that she would be able to produce this many normal Kage Bunshin if she weren't a jinchuriki...I know just how to stop her in her tracks.'
Naruto dodged one more of her clone's Tsūga (Passing Fang) before he spun his sword around in his hand and stabbed it into the ground. He began channeling his blue flames into the sword and ground until large bursts of them erupted from all the tunnels that Hana had created. All of the extra clones had been crushed by the impact of the fire, but the real Hana flew out of one of the tunnels like it was a geyser and she had been riding the flames.
The blue flames that he had been using were similar to Marco's. These flames weren't meant to incinerate their target, no, they weren't even hot. They were meant for impact strength and destruction. They were also meant for regeneration if used on yourself. It was because of this that they were perfect for using against his teammate.
He looked over to where Hana had landed, she had seen better days. She was probably still injured from he earlier match and may even be running low on chakra. This match had been going on for almost thirty minutes and she had been constantly making new clones and using the Tsūga (Passing Fang) herself.
Though he hadn't been disappointed with the fight thus far. She had made him work, harder than he had in most of him matches since he became a genin in fact. With Nawaki, Naruto didn't really need to use all those powerful techniques to beat him, but he wanted to put the brat in his place. Oh yes, Hana had given him quite a good fight, and it wasn't over just yet.
Hana got up wearily, she wasn't done yet. She was low on chakra and her body was aching all over, but she still had some fight left in her. She wouldn't be able to last much longer.
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