Team Bloody Mist: Claw, Shadow Claw, Guerrilla, Hitoshi (Sensei)

"Arisu will be fine," Mamoru said walking back into the meeting room from the medical facility. "All she needs is a little rest."

"Oh! My honey bunny will be all right!" Ko said running toward the medical facility.

"Oh no you don't!" Kyo said grabbing Ko's ear and keeping him from moving, "She needs rest! Not your loud mouth!"

"My baby!" Ko cried.

"Hey look, its the bumbling idiots from the Leaf Village."

The group turned around to see the Mist Village ninja with the claws from the ferry. "Hey! What do you mean by that!" Ko said infuriated.

"No wonder you lost to Guerrilla," the claw ninja laughed.

"You wana go!" Ko said only being held back my Mamoru and Kou.

"Heh, if we're going to fight we need it to be official," the claw ninja said turning away, "I don't want to be convicted for murder."

"Why you!" Ko yelled trying to escape and attack the claw ninja.

"Next fight: Mamoru verse Claw," the proctor said.

"Well what do you know..." Claw turned around, "Would any of you happen to be Mamoru?"

Mamoru stepped forward, "I am."

"Good," Claw hissed turning around and walking to the prep room, "I just love the smell of Leaf Village blood. Hahaha."

After Mamoru prepared, he faced his opponent on the island. "I would like to make a request," Mamoru said.

"What?" the proctor complained.

"I don't want to fight as Leaf verses Mist," Mamoru said taking off his headband, "But instead as equal shinobi."

"Heh, sure," Claw said taking off his crooked headband. Claw looked up and saw Mamoru's forehead open up to reveal an eye. "What the fuck?" he asked surprised.

"Gross," the proctor agreed, "But whatever. Fight."

"Doesn't matter if you have a freaky eye or not!" Claw said lunging at Mamoru, "I'll still kill you!" Mamoru dodged Claw's claw and grabbed it. Then a chakra arm came out of Mamoru's elbow and punched Claw in the face. Claw staggered and wiped his face with is forearm. "So you can manipulate your chakra to become limbs huh?" Mamoru just stood with a stoic face and a ready pose. "Hmf, I know how to beat you." Claw lunged forward again and tried to scratch Mamoru but he dodged. Claw then tried to lunge the other claw but a chakra hand came out of Mamoru's side and caught it. Claw then kicked but two chakra hands came out of Mamoru's breast and caught it. Claw withdrew and gained his stance again. "You won't be able to block my attacks forever. I know using your chakra like that will drain it until you're a heap on the ground!" Claw lunged forward again but disappeared right before he reached Mamoru. Mamoru looked puzzled but ducked right before his head would have been cut clear off by Claw's behind attack. Mamoru caught Claw in mid air with arms that came out of his shoulders. Mamoru then head butted Claw in the chest. Claw fell to the ground and got up but had not much time to recover because Mamoru started to assault Claw. Mamoru assaulted Claw with chakra limbs coming from every part of his body but Claw somehow managed to dodge most of the attacks.

Mamoru's attacks stopped, however, when Claw finally landed a hit on him. Right across the chest. Claw jumped back. "Ha!" Claw laughed but still breathing heavily, "My claws are laced with poison. I only needed one scratch on you and you would be infected. First you are going to go blind and then your body will become numb and paralyzed. Then I will win!"

Mamoru looked down at the scratch and then looked up at Claw. Mamoru's face was not one of fear, but instead one with determination. He sprinted toward Claw and kicked him with a chakra leg. Claw bounced on the water and Mamoru quickly caught up with Claw, punching him in the stomach into a wall. He then grabbed Claw's throat with a chakra arm so that he would be just out of Claw's reach. "Why the fuck aren't you affected by my poison?" Claw coughed. Mamoru brought back his fist and punched Claw, but then Claw turned into water.

Claw, still beaten up, rose out of the water behind Mamoru holding up two viles. "I can't believe you're making me use these Leaf fuck," Claw said pouring the liquid into the water. The water almost instantly turned a bright purple. "The poison I poured into the water is instant death. If you get it inside of your body at all your blood vessels will pop and so eventually your heart." Claw threw the empty viles at Mamoru and disappeared. Mamoru blocked the viles but Claw appeared above Mamoru and kicked Mamoru's head underwater and then held it there. Bubbles started to come up from the water but then they stopped. Claw let go of Mamoru's limp body and started to walk away.

Then Mamoru's body quickly got up. "What! Impossible!" Claw yelled as Mamoru ran toward him. Claw started to make hand signs. "Water Style: Water Wall Jutsu!" A huge fountain of water shot up from under Mamoru's feet throwing him upward, but Mamoru was able to escape it in the air. "Water Style: Shark Bomb Jutsu!" A light purple water shark burst out of the water. Mamoru blocked the shark with his arms but the shark exploded causing Mamoru to lose his balance in the air. Claw then lunged Mamoru before he hit the water and pieced his claw right through Mamoru's heart.

"You may be immune to my poison," Claw said, "But you're still human. No one can survive a stab through the heart." Mamoru's body then started to steam and melted into pure chakra.

"Yes, a human can't survive a stab through the heart," Mamoru said. Surprised, Claw looked around the arena and saw Mamoru sitting on the water in a corner of the arena meditating, his third eye now closing. "Too bad you weren't fighting a human, but only a clone."

"What! How!" Claw questioned.

"In the very beginning of the fight. You looked into my third eye and a placed a Genjutsu on you. You would only see the clone instead of me. While you fought my clone, I was building up chakra so then I could be at full strength when I really fought you." Claw tried to do a hand sign but Mamoru disappeared and reappeared over Claw's head. Mamoru drop kicked Claw and then, using a chakra hand, pulled Claw out of the water and held him up. "Give up?"

After a few seconds of thinking, Claw finally tapped out. Medics ran for the two. Claw got up and asked, "Did you really mean that equal shinobi shit?"

Mamoru looked back at Claw and said, "No, it was all so I could trap you in the Genjutsu. But, I did mean it when I said I didn't want to fight for the Leaf." Mamoru got right next to Claw's ear, "I don't want to fight for something I will destroy one day." Mamoru walked back into the prep room, not needing any medical attention.