Chapter 2
The five minutes Hiro's Sensei had given his team to rest was nearing its end and he was kind of scared to have to be going up against Neru after that display. It also did not help that he had always had a crush on her sense they had been placed on a squad together and he first saw her magnificent skill. He looked over at his squad mate Sano who lay sprawled out on a patch of grass and who looked pissed that he got bested by Neru he always had a disliking for her and her eyes.
Hiro knew that Sano was fast, was always the fastest at the academy and he was bested by Neru so what hope did that leave for him?
Sensei Shirro stood up of the ground and said
"okay times up guys" then he slapped Hiro on the back and added "good luck" with a wide sly smile. Neru finished drinking some water she had then straitened up her tunic and walked to the center of the training ground. Hiro just gulped, turned to look back at Sano hoping to get some kinda of encouraging look but Sano had barely managed to sit up and had a blank expression. With that on his mind he walked slowly out to the center of the training ground a few paces from Neru. She had one hand propped on her sword hilt and she was showing a wide smile. He was not sure if she was smiling at him or at the possible easy victory she would have over him. He closed his eyes for a split second, inhaled then exhaled.
As soon as his eyes opened he saw her smile fade into an expression of confidence and her blade pulled skillfully quick out of its sheath. She lunged for his head and Hiro managed to duck and sweep his leg for a trip attempt. She cartwheeled over his leg and started down with a powerful vertical swing. Hiro tucked in his leg and rolled forward feeling the air being cut from his squad mates blade. He turned and jumped back to his feet only to see his comrades blade thrusting toward his head again. He dodged to the left and dashed inward, which was daring for him. He twisted his body elbowing Neru across the nose, and grabbing for her arm in one motion. He grasped powerfully and twisted his hips flipping her through the air and slamming her across the ground. He never like using weapons and was now attempting to even that disadvantage. She bounced lightly off the ground her grip on her Ninja-toe loosening. Hiro quickly kicked the sword to the side.
They both were still in the center of the field, both Sano and Shirro were standing on the edge of there toes watching the fight; Hiro could feel there gaze. Neru was bleeding from the nose and pissed. Hiro knew he needed to end this quickly now, so he went for a quick knockout punch downward for her head. It did not work. She tuck herself inward then rolled her legs up across her chest and unloaded like a spring both her feet coming up to contact Hiro's face. She was dead on and sent him flying through the air. He fell on his back a few yards from the center of the field and tumbled on his back and was barely able to stand. His face hurt like hell. His vision was a little blurry and he could barely make out Neru making hand signs from across the field. Before Hiro could act quick enough to stop her she was drawing in a breath and blowing out a giant ball of flame. Hiro back flipped twice then got blown off balance by the concussion of air as the fire blasted forward. It had missed him by a centimeters.
Hiro took a second to breath in and ran his hand through his sweat soaked black hair. His vision was back now and it showed Neru dashing in towards him, he only barely noticed her eyes filled crimson.
He quickly grabbed for a few Shuriken at his belt but there was nothing there. His tool belt had gotten blasted off him from the fire ball. So he reached down into his own body and mind pulled up chakra in a perfect combination with his remaining stamina. He managed to create two shadow clones before the gap between him and her was to dangerous. Instantly both clones flanked in on Neru. One came in punching high and the other came in kicking low. She blocked the punch and spun the clones arm around wrenching it backwards. Then she lifted her leg dodging the sweep kick and retaliated by stomping hard on the shin of the clone. But what she did not expect was for Hiro to charge in himself and missile drop kick her, both is feet flying in for her chest. She barely was able to toss the captured clone in front of herself.
Both shadow clones vanished in a poof of smoke and Hiro rolled back on his feet. Crossing his hands to form the correct hand symbol this time mustering up the chakra for three shadow clones. Normally this would have been a great time to mix in some normal clones to conserve energy but with her eyes she would instantly see right through them. She came in like a fire storm fighting off the three clones but she was in a direct path to something that Hiro needed, his tool belt. He decided on a daring feint. He charged right into the fray and did an over the top high jump kick and like anyone would have expected she ducked flawlessly. He landed on his feet and slide for the tool belt. He pulled out a hand full of Shuriken, a smoke bomb, and a few E-tags. He rapped two tags to respective Shuriken then tossed the smoke bomb into the middle of the fight with now two shadow clones. Quickly the smoke spread around the entire battle. Next he canceled his shadow clone to confuse her even more, then tossed the two Shuriken wrapped in E-tags on either side of the smoke cloud to keep her where here Sharingan was useless. They exploded perfectly in sync and he took one last Shuriken and imbued chakra into it and tossed it straight toward the smoke cloud. Right before it reached the smoke cloud he did the hand symbol for shadow cloning and the Shuriken multiplied into about twenty different copies. He had a smile wide on his face, he was not completely sure it would work. Immediately there was a scream from the center of the smoke cloud and after a second the entire team was heading toward the smoke cloud that was now fading away and sure enough Neru was sitting down a Shuriken sticking out of her shoulder blade.
Hiro even though he had just bested the Uchiha was the first one to bend down and pull out the weapon. She screeched in pain but only for a second. Her eyes were normal again and shinned a deep blue in the high sun. She had a look on her face of not only defeat but of possible humiliation. A moment later a tear started to form at the corner of her eye and she quickly got up and collected herself and stomped away saying
"I am fine". The way she spoke with such a shrill tone embedded into Hiro and he hated hearing her sound that way and never wanted to hear her like that again. Hiro quickly glanced up at his Sensei who was looking away at his injured student but noticed Hiro staring at him and turned his attention else where.
"You did good Hiro" Sensei Shirro said with a I knew you could do it kind of tone.
Soon after that Shirro patched up Neru's wound and they all packed up and headed out toward Sensei Shirro's favorite restaurant, Uahara Ramen and he paid for the team as a you all did well today kind of gesture. They all eat well and went home.
