Here's the final part of Shikamaru and Kiba's fight, Hope you enjoy.

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Chapter 9: Animal abuse.

Shikamaru's head feels heavy. A small cut has opened over his left eye. He is disappointed in himself, he had thought he had this whole fight mapped out in his head, but here he was on the canvas with no one to blame but himself. The ref is counting and Shikamaru knows he is running out of time, he digs deep to find the strength necessary to pull himself back up, he makes it right before the count is over with the help of the ropes to pull himself up. He quickly assumes the fighting position, the ref checks his gloves. Over the refs shoulders Shikamaru can see Kiba bouncing, ready to finish the fight. The ref signals for them to box and Kiba rushes in to finish it, Shikamaru can hear the three claps signaling there is only ten seconds left in the round. He finds comfort in the noise, if he can hold out for ten more seconds he can rest up. Kiba throws a barrage of punches. Shikamaru keeps his guard tight, it feels like an eternity, but finally the bell rings and both men return to their corner.

The moment it is put in front of him, Shikamaru sinks to seat in the stool. His father takes out his mouth guard and pours water over his head. Shikaku yells trying to get as many words as he can of advice to Shikamaru in the time they have. Shikamaru's ears are still ringing from Kiba's punches, making it impossible to clearly make out what his father was saying.

His eyes drifted off and scanned over the crowd, his eyes fell upon Chouji who stared with great focus while his mouth moved furiously to chew the chips he was tossing in to his mouth, Ino sat next to him her eyes not even on the ring, but on her phone as her fingers danced across the keyboard. His eyes made their way to Temari, she was looking at him and in comparison to the other two next to her, she looked the most concerned.

The way she looked at him infuriated Shikamaru, he refused to be looked down upon by her. He needed to win this fight, he had to. To get that look off of her face and so that she would know he was a force to be reckoned with, and that he would be the man to defeat the monster she had taken on as a lover.

He closed his eyes and thought of a way to win furiously, his hands forming the same sign they always did when he needed to think clearly. The final pieces of his plan fall in to place as the bell rings; he pops in his mouth piece and stands.

Off to the side of the ring in the seats, Chouji stops his furious chewing and returns to his normal calm state. He had been worried his friend would actually lose in the last round, but after seeing him assume his thinking position while in his corner he knew the fight would be over soon.

"Shouldn't they stop the fight?" Temari asks the large man. Chouji is surprised by the genuine concern in her voice; he had wondered why she was so worried having known there was such a deep animosity between the blonde and his friend. "Pay attention Temari, Shikamaru is about to win." Temari turned to him in shock "What do you mean? He got destroyed last round, Kiba is on another level than him." Chouji chuckled at her statement. "Just watch, alright?" Temari began to speak, but Ino spoke without breaking eye contact with her phone, before she could get a word out. "Don't even worry about it, Shikamaru always wins." Temari looks back to the ring in doubt, but a small part of her hopes that the two of them are right.

Back in the ring Shikamaru puts his plan in to action. He continues the same way he had started out the first round, attempting to keep Kiba at bay with jabs while stepping back away from his powerful advances. He can hear his father yell from his corner, this is the exact opposite of what Shikaku wants to see. His father assumes that a repeat of the last round is on the way. Shikamaru takes this as a good sign, if his father sees this as a repeat of the last round, and then Kiba also sees this as a repeat of the last round, which he will need for this to work.

Just as he had calculated, Shikamaru arrived in the same corner as last time. Kiba repeats the intro to his signature punch. Soon Shikamaru's guard is being rocked again by the "Fang over Fang" he can hear the crowd yelling in a frenzy just like before, He can hear his father screaming at him to get out of the corner, Kiba leans low. Shikamaru allows him to get the same amount of hits on his sides as the last time before dropping his hands to protect his body, when he does Kiba rises and swings for the head. Shikamaru takes each hit; they rock his head side to side. He waits for it and then takes a heavy right hand. He lets his head snap all the way to the left, and as he does he spits out his mouth guard. He allows his legs to wobble, and slowly he goes down. The crowd cheers, the ref gets ready to call a second knockout, Shikamaru keeps his eyes up, and then he sees it, Kiba's arms have stop swinging. Shikamaru's moment has come.

He flexes his legs and regains strength in them, His body already low. He steps forward with his left foot, pivots twice with his right, and the first part of his plan has succeeded. Kiba turns around just in time to have a left jab and right straight push him backwards.

For the first time in his boxing career Kiba is trapped in the corner. He is unsure of what just happened and how he got here, but hit feels like he is looking in a mirror. Shikamaru steps in, locks his stance in tight, and then the second part of his plan begins.

The crowd that was silence by his amazing recovery is now cheering loudly as they see what is going on. Shikamaru is rocking Kiba's head side to side with alternating left and right hooks. They are finally getting to see the "Fang over Fang" they have been waiting for, but it is not Kiba throwing it.

Kiba's head smacks from side to side, his hands have fallen limply to his side. Shikamaru continues to pound away, Kiba loses feelings in his legs. Shikamaru pulls a left hook as far back as he can. He throws it with all his strength; it lands hard on Kiba's chin with an audible smack. The crowd goes silent at the sight of the brutal punch. Kiba's mouth guard goes flying, and by the time it has hit the ground, Kiba has also fallen.

The ref begins the count, but after seeing the blank stare in Kiba's eyes from where he laid, he waves his hands signaling an end to the fight.

Back in the seats Temari stares dumbfounded. "How the hell did he do that!?" she asks Chouji. "That right there is what makes Shikamaru a great fighter; He always finds a way to win. Ask him yourself if you want to know so badly." Temari was amazed; she had to know how he did it.

"Your winner, by way of knockout, Shikamaru Nara!" The crowd yells in appreciation, Shikamaru can't help but smile as his glove is raised. He turns to Kiba who had just made it to his feet. Shikamaru approached the injured man and they hugged as a show of good sportsmanship, but before they broke the embrace Kiba whispered the same thing he had told Shikamaru that day in the basement after he had watched Shikamaru beat the hanging man.

"Wow… That was something special."