Oh, man. Sorry for taking so long to update. The thing wouldn't let me upload the chapter. I hope you guys aren't getting too impatient. But, without anymore delays here is the next chapter.


Chapter 7

"Hope you go easy on me," Nina smiled sweetly, her tail swing about.

"I'll try my best to," Lee said, smiling back.

"Begin," Shikamaru commanded.

Nina charged at Lee and engaged him in hand-to-hand combat. Lee fended her off easily. She decided backed off.

"Meanie," she pouted, "you're not letting me get a hit."

"Am I supposed to let yo-" Nina caught Lee off guard and punched him in the stomach.

Lee collapsed, clutching his stomach. Nina smiled.

"Yeah, I got you," Nina shouted, prancing around like a little child.

"That was a good one," Lee said, trying to smile.Lee, who was always a good sport, got to his feet and smiled. "That was good," he said, "you got me. I won't fall for that again." He brushed himself off. "Now let's be serious, shall we."

Lee vanished and reappeared behind Nina, kicking her side. Nina was knocked back but was immediately got back on her feet, but not before Lee was behind her again. He kicked her in the back, sending her across the entire stadium. Nina crashed into the wall, leaving a large hole there. When the dust cleared, Nina was standing there, dusty but looking like she didn't feel a thing. Lee tried to attack again, but this time it was Nina who was fending off the attacks. Her speed seemed to be equal to Lee's.

"What happened to the pouting girl that was here in the beginning?" asked Lee, striking you blow after another.

"She's still here, but you need to stop distracting yourself!" Nina said, landing a solid punch on Lee's face. Lee was thrown back as well as caught by surprise.

Lee got up again, "You're right, seeing how I don't think I can beat you like this," he said, bending down and undoing the weights he had on his legs and threw them on the ground. "Now that's much better."

Lee vanished faster than Nina could blink. The next moment, she realized that she was being kicked around. The barrage of kicks came from all sides, preventing an escape. One final kick sent Nina skidding across the floor.

"Rawr," Nina screeched like a cat as she was knocked across the floor. She staggered to get to her feet. "That is it." She shouted.

She took out several three edged shurikens that had an oddly blue tint to them.

"Nina, you're not going to use those are you," shouted Saji, from directly across the stadium from her. The others looked around at him in confusion.

Nina started to gather large amounts of chakra and let it flow into the shurikens that she was holding. As the chakra was absorbed into the shurikens, sparks started to come out of them.

Raiki shuriken!!! (Lightning shuriken!!!)

It was like seeing the Chidori coming out of tiny shurikens. Lee looked astonished at what was happening. Nina threw the shurikens in her hands at Lee, who dodged them. The shurikens headed for Saji in the others.

"Jump!" Julia shouted.

"Why, it's not like the shurikens will hit us," said Kankuro.

"Just move it!" shouted Saji.

They all moved from that side of the balcony. As the shurikens made contact with the wall, it was apparent to why they needed to move. When the shurikens hit the wall, electrical shocks were sent though the wall. The shocks were so strong, it caused a small explosion and the wall that was hit started to disintegrate into ashes. Lee's eyes widened at the site. Nina threw one charged shuriken after another, forcing Lee to run around like a fool in order to not get hit. Eventually Lee slipped up and ran into one of the explosions, which threw him into the other explosions. By the time Nina stopped throwing her shurikens and the smoke cleared, Lee was lying there in a smoking heap.

Nina was hopping up and down. "I won. I won. I won," she said over and over again.

Saji went down and caught Nina by the back of her shirt. He picked her up to his eye level. "Why did you do that?" he asked.

"He hurt me," said Nina, pouting again. "He can really kick hard."

"That's besides the point, Nina," Saji said, "if you do that again when it's unneeded, I'm taking those away, understood?" Saji was talking to Nina as if she was a six year old girl, but she listened all the same.

She nodded sadly, and Saji smiled and placed her back on the floor, where she happily hopped onto his back, purring. Saji sighed and carried her back up the balcony.

Shikamaru declared Nina as the winner and Lee was carried out with a crying Gai right behind him. Next up was Sakura and Shino. Shino stepped into the center, hands in his pockets, and Sakura walked up too. As soon as Shikamaru started the match, bugs started to crawl out on Shino's arms and neck.

"Have I ever told you I'm not too great with bugs that can kill you?" asked Sakura nervously.

"I'm flattered," said Shino, sarcastically. He sent his bugs after Sakura.

With chakra applied to her feet, Sakura dodged them at high speeds and was able to get in front of Shino. He was surprised to see Sakura right in front of him and Sakura punched him in the face. She sent him flying with her superhuman strength.

"Impressive," said Shino, getting up, "I won't expect the fifth's pupil to be anything less. But, you're finished."

Sakura gasped as she felt hundreds of bugs crawling up her legs and arms. Just as she was about to be engulfed in bugs, Sakura disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"What?! It was a clone?" Shino said, looking at the mass of bugs were he had saw Sakura standing.

"Yes it was," came a voice from behind him. "And now you're finished."

Sakura punched Shino in the arm, breaking the bone, and causing him to crash into the wall. Shino slumped on the floor, the millions of bugs crawling back into his body, with blood trickling down from where he had hit his head on the wall. It was amazing to see that Shino had lost, but lose he did.

Hinata looked worried. "I hope he's ok," she said, softly.

"Don't worry," said Garra calmly, putting a hand on Hinata's shoulder, "He'll be fine."


Sorry if you find Sakura's fight along with the others' a lot shorter than Nina's, I kinda wanted you guys to see her personality a bit so, I dragged in out. And any GarraXHinata haters out there need not to worry, this is probably going to be the only hint of that.