Matsuoka Sachi smirked to herself seeing that mouthy Leaf runt weeping over her sister's 'broken' body, she couldn't wait to see the runt eat it too in the ring and even hoped that she would be chosen by Kami-sama to be the one to do it. Besides her she heard her teammates shifting and her sensei give a snort.
"Ueno Rui of Leaf vs Matsuoka Sachi of Cloud. Will the contestants please take their places." The weird coughing guy said, and honestly Leaf was pretty pathetic in her eyes at this point. All of the Kunoichi thus far were weaklings and not worth her time, she honestly expected better from the home village of the legendary Tsunade.
"Ah, Sachi-chi has this in the bag~! Go show that runt how it's done~!" Koichi, her teammate said, always willing to believe that the sun rose and set because of Sachi. The Cloud kunoichi flicked her silvery locks and gave him a wink with her green eyes, "You bet, Koichi-kun~!" She said sweetly before jumping down into the ring meeting the unimpressed gaze of her opponent.
'Tch, and here she's acting like she wasn't just weeping a few seconds ago.' Sachi thought getting her tanto and hidden senbon launching mechanism in place. This would be an easy win for her, a few seconds into this fight she have her opponent flat on her ass.
Ueno Rui tightened her gloves flexing her hands slightly making the leather creak slightly, and settled down into her combat stance. Sachi took in the runt, sneering. The girl looked to be about 12 at most, with dark brown locks matching that of her sister's, it was put up into a side ponytail on her left side and had a pretty little yellow ribbon tied in a bow on it. 'I can't wait to take that damn ribbon off her dumb head.' the cloud nin thought. Where her sister had dressed in pink and navy the runt seemed to dress in only earthy colors; Greens, browns, and yellow.
Sachi sneered again as she readied herself into position, hand hovering over the tanto strapped to the small of her back. The proctor raised his hand and then swiftly brought it down with a shout of "Hajime!" and then leapt back out of the way.
Sachi began by reaching for her tanto but in all actuality snatching two smoke bombs, releasing them to blind her opponent and then unloading her senbon into the smoke. She heard some grunts of pain and surprise. She smirked to herself, 'Now to finish this!' she thought to herself before weaving a subtle genjutsu around the arena.
She smirked confidently fully expecting her opponent to be paralyzed from a combo of her genjutsu and surprise senbon once the smoke cleared. After that she'd simply walk over to the runt and rip that ribbon from her hair, maybe she'd even slice off that ridiculous ponytail while she was at it.
"Oh no, Rui-chan!" Naruto yelled from the overlook when he lost sight of Rui and heard her grunts of pain. He heard Kakashi give a low chuckle though, "I'll have to train you better if you think something like that will take down little Rui-chan."
"What do you mean? She should be in pretty bad shape right?!" Kiba said, with Kurenai nodding grimly behind him. "Kiba's right, I sensed that Kumo-nin casting some sort of genjutsu just now." she added turning her red-ringed eyes at the Copy-nin.
"Ah, I doubt it will stick." was all Kakashi replied as the smoke cleared revealing a swaying Rui.
"Ha! So you're still fighting it!" Sachi said taking out a kunai and spinning it on the end of her finger as she stalked over to the Leaf-genin. She saw the girl struggling to fight the combination of her genjutsu and poison she had coated her senbon with, gritting her teeth trying to fight off the effects. "I wonder how long you'll last, runt!" she said and began laughing cruelly.
"Longer than you." Sachi heard from behind her and spun around only to be punch in the face hard enough to send her reeling back a few feet.
"What?!" The Cloud-nin said in shock. Seeing her opponent cock her head at her as if Sachi was the stupid one.
"I said longer than you, Bitch. I'm going to be beating you today, gomen." Rui said seriously looking for a brief moment truly sincere in her apology, before her expression turned into one of pure sadistic joy, KI flaring around her like a cloak of miasma. "But see the thing is, I'm not really all that sorry, ya know~?" She said her entire countenance changing from slightly cold, blank and 'dignified' little girl to sadistic demon from the countryside in a second.
"B-but m-my sen-b-bon!"
"Ah, those, ya see, it was super easy tricking you into thinking that you hit me. Bushin are handy that way, aren't they? All I had to do was jump to the side and make up some noises, and then, bam, wait for the smoke to clear! What kind of idjit thinks that a sister of an upcoming weapons mistress wouldn't dodge immediately after she saw the smoke bombs?" the runt began to laugh heartily. Sachi was finally beginning to shake off of the shock and the KI flooded at her.
"And my genjutsu?! I know it was flawless!" 'As it always is!' she finished mentally and readying for whatever the brat would be bringing out next.
Rui stopped her laughter abruptly and shot the Cloud-nin a sly grin, "About that, genjutsus never seem to take effect on me! So, ya see, you failed twice~! And now it's my turn!" She said before taking out a kunai and advancing towards the Cloud nin who could only dodge back.
'She's like a completely different person! And being immune to genjutsu?! BULLSHIT! I'LL SHOW YOU!' the Cloud kunoichi thought to herself whilst still dodging the Leaf-Runt's wild kunai slashing. She weaved her hands quickly casting the strongest genjutsu in her arsenal, a genjutsu that also used very low and basic Lightning element as a follow up to it.
Rui paused and Sachi took this as her chance to try and lunge at the brat only to have her face pounded in by the Leaf-brat's fist and going straight down to the floor before scrambling to get up. Rui tossed her opponent a slightly confused expression, "That smarted! Bit like a static shock?" she said then 'hm'd' to herself.
'Shit, shit, SHIT!' What the hell's with this brat?!' Sachi thought to herself in a panic and attempted to sneak away to a better position while her opponent seemed to be thinking on her last technique. Unfortunately for the Kumo-nin, Rui wasn't as nearly distracted by her thoughts as she appeared, which was proven when she nailed Sachi in one of her hands and one of her legs with a kunai in each causing her to collapse and scream in pain.
"And just where did ya think you were goin'~? I wasn't done yet, Sachi-chi~" Rui said mockingly and blasting her opponent with KI. Sachi scrambled to rip the kunai out of her hand giving another scream of pain before turning her attention to her leg. 'What kind of demon is this?!' She thought cradling her hand and watching her opponent warily whilst trying not to soil herself from the KI that was washing over her. 'Th-There's no way a genin should have this powerful of a KI!'
"SACHI!" The Cloud-nin's blond teammate cried out in concern before scowling at the Leaf-runt. 'What's going on down there?! Why isn't she moving?!' he thought. Upon hearing her teammates cry Sachi snapped herself out of it and yanked the kunai sticking in her leg out wincing, and dropping it to the arena floor.
"Oh? Are ya sure that was such a great idea, Bitch-nin? You're bleeding out pretty badly right now~!" The green clad kunoichi said in false concern, her hazel colored eyes wide with a hint of 'innocence', fooling nobody watching the match.
The Cloud-nin bit her lip and reached for her tanto with her right, and luckily, uninjured hand, bringing it in front of her. "All I need is to take you down before I lose too much blood! And with this, I will certainly be able to!" she said before dashing straight at her opponent.
Rui studied her opponent's trajectory, at how Sachi in her state and possible lack of experience in fighting smaller enemies, over extended, opening up her guard for Rui to duck under the blade and take two quick but strong jabs at the Cloud nin's torso.
"SACHIKO!" Koichi cried out watching as his teammate gagged from the hits and fell down, hunched over, tanto clattering to the ground. He watched as the Leaf runt stared down at his teammate and tilted her head again, her expression evening back into her earlier mask.
"Winner; Ueno Rui of Leaf!" The proctor declared before coughing again slightly. Meanwhile the winning genin made her way back to her previous spectating spot ignoring the shocked looks she got from some of the other Leaf genin. She knelt down besides her still unconscious big sister and grabbed one of her hands gently.
"See? I took her down a peg for you, Nee-chan!" She said cheerfully and Tenten began to stir.
"Whoa! Rui-chan is strong!" Naruto suddenly said, for once not yelling and shocking many out of their staring at the Ueno siblings.
"See, I told you something like that wouldn't bother little Rui-chan! She's been trained by Kagami Hisato after all~! Not to mention she's apprenticed to Koto!" Kakashi said cheerfully and ignored as Kurenai asked Asuma who they were exactly.
"Kagami Hisato is a special jounin who earned his rank due to creating his own fighting style, and Koto is Kurata Koto, one of our Intelligence experts. I knew Koto has taken on an apprentice but I had no idea that Kagami would ever teach anyone anything, especially his own style, he's a bit too solitary for that." Asuma answered the Genjutsu Mistress, taking out another cigarette and lighting it completely ignoring the glare he got from said Mistress as well. Shikamaru grumbled something like 'Troublesome' now seeing and understanding just what Ueno Rui was and who her 'Master' was. Koto had occasionally come over to the Nara Compound to bring info and the like for his father. From what he remembered the man was nosey and loud and well...Troublesome. Especially with his photos of his wife and now his baby they had had a few months ago.
"Next up," The proctor announced as the sign flipped through the names again, "Uzumaki Naruto of Leaf vs Inuzuka Kiba of Leaf."
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Ah, I'm so sorry about the lack of updates! I've had a rough time trying to write the fighting scenes and the dialogue! ;w;!
Also a lot has been going on IRL and I've been drawing a lot more recently! One day I would like to draw out a couple of parts of this story in panel form as, like, a bonus, but I feel like that day might still me a bit far off from today~! I think next chapter I will gloss over the fight with Naruto and Kiba [Not that there is much of a fight lol] and then focus on the Hinata vs Neji and then Lee vs Gaara fights. Rui's going to probably cry knowing what's going to happen and also knowing that she can't do anything to stop it, so some angst I guess next coming chapter or so? I think I'm up to writing more since I have more of her post timeskip moves figured out so I want to get up to that point sooner!
See y'all later and leave some commentary behind if ya want!