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The next day at the same time, Ally met Sasuke at the training grounds. She smiled happily as he showed up. "I thought you'd never come!" she said, then quickly added, "Not that you're late! You're right on time! I was just early. Gomen!" Sasuke rolled his eyes at her.
"Whatever…" he muttered, and Ally smiled.
"Let's practice now, ne?" she said with grin. Sasuke just nodded. Just as they were about to practice shuriken throwing, Shikamaru came up to the twosome.
"Sorry to interrupt your lovey-dovey moment…" he started, receiving a blush from Ally and a glare from Sasuke. "…But, Tsunade asked me to get you. She says she's announcing a sports event for the rookie nine, Gai-sensei's group, the sand group, and you; Ally. So, get over there, quick."
Ally shrugged and whispered to herself, "I wonder what's up?"
Once Ally and Sasuke arrived in Tsunade's office, Tsunade said, "Now, since everyone is here, we can begin. I have decided to hold a sports event kind of like the chuunin exams. You will all be in teams and therefore separated from your teams, but in new teams. You will then choose from a series of tasks from a list and you will then complete them with your team. There will be twenty challenges to choose from and you will pick seven out of the twenty. You will have to complete them within two days, one night. But, here is the catch… The teams are going to be separated by gender. Boys versus girls."
The last thing Tsunade said perked up a couple of people, including Ally and Naruto.
"Yeah, boys will dominate!" he said cheerfully, and pumped his fist in the air.
"Boys? Yeah right! The guys will lose and the girls will win by a longshot!" Ally replied with confidence.
Sasuke smirked and said, "In your dreams…"
"You say something, baka?" Ally then said in contrast.
"Baka?" Sasuke said back.
"You heard me, baka! Baka Baka Baka Baka!"
"You're the baka, baka!"
Tsunade then said, to interrupt the fighting, "It will start now, Go!" she handed Ally and Sasuke a load of papers and each genin and one chuunin left the room, girls going left and guys going right.
Once each group was outside, Ally and Sasuke gave out the papers. At the same time on different parts of Konoha, they said, "What should we pick?" The paper read silly things, and simple things, too. Like, buy ten different types of food. And another was to steal Icha Icha Paradise from Kakashi-sensei. Sakura gasped when she read that, and everyone understood but Ally. Finally, everyone had chosen which task to do. Then, everyone set off into a different direction. No one took the job to steal Kakashi's book.
After a couple hours, it was dark outside. So, everyone met at the park. "So…" Ally said, "Do you guys want to stay at my house tonight?" The girls nodded and smiled, the guys looked at each other and shrugged. Ally giggled. "Awesome! But, maybe we should do some training or something first. It's not very late." She said.
"Ooohhh! I know! Let's have two on two matches, tournament style! We keep fighting until there are only two left, then the two left have a battle to see who is the strongest! Yosh!" Lee cried out with a fist in the air. Everyone sweat-dropped anime style at Lee's enthusiasm, then shrugged.
So, the pairings were made. They were as following:
Naruto versus Shikamaru
Sakura versus Ally
Sasuke versus TenTen
Ino versus Kiba and Akamaru
Chouji versus Lee
Shino versus Temari
Neji versus Gaara
And
Kankuro versus Hinata
The fights then went on quickly
with a few comments before each fight. Naruto grinned like mad,
Sakura glared at Ally, Sasuke claimed he wouldn't go easy on
TenTen, Akamaru barked, Lee raised a fist and shouted something
about youthfulness, Temari brought out her fan, Neji activated
Byakuugan, and Kankuro brought out his puppet. Then, one-by-one,
each fight took place and then ended. The victors were Naruto, Ally,
Sasuke, Kiba, Lee, Temari, Gaara, and Hinata. Kankuro and Shikamaru
decided they'd rather not participate in the middle of their
battle and forfeited, and Ino decided to stop because she only
fought to beat Shikamaru.
Then, after that round ended.
The pairings were:
Ally versus Naruto
Sasuke versus Lee
Kiba versus Hinata
Temari versus Gaara
In the middle of the battle, Naruto heard Ayame from Ichiraku yelling about free ramen to all of the customers in the next hour. He then ran off to the ramen stand without saying a word. Kiba, all of the sudden in the middle of the battle, said he didn't want to fight anymore with a blush on his face; although it wasn't very noticeable. Ally then teased him about liking Hinata. After that, Gaara was pulled away for a meeting by a jounin. He probably killed someone… again. Lee had chased after Gai-sensei who had come up for training. Sasuke, Ally, Hinata, and Temari won the battles.
The next pairings for the
semi-finals were:
Ally versus Hinata
Sasuke versus Temari
Ally got ready to fight Hinata, and won the battle easily. Ally ran up to Hinata and extended a hand to her. Ally smiled at Hinata and Hinata smiled softly back and grabbed Ally's hand, pulling herself up.
"Nice fight!" Ally commented to Hinata.
"A-Arigato…" Hinata replied.
Sasuke and Temari's fight took a little more time than Ally and Hinata's, though. It was very close at the end, but Sasuke won just barely. Temari hit her fan against the tree in frustration and Sasuke smirked at his victory. Then, the finals were going to begin!
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