Akuma stared at her partner.

He stared at her.

'You didn't quit." She stated simply.

"I wouldn't let my team quit just because of something that happened 7 years ago."

"What do you fight with?"

"Fans."

"You're a guy."

The Suna ninja scrunched his nose at that. Akuma couldn't help but smile. Fan wielding was seen as a woman's art, while men preferred to use puppets.

"So what's your name?"

"Koge. And you're Akuma right, the glass user?"

Akuma nodded. The two of them froze as the proctor called them into the arena. Koge and Akuma looked at each other lazily. Akuma had to give a slight sigh; at least he didn't seem to hate her; that had to be a small plus to all this mess.

In the ring the other pair was already waiting for them, a pairing of Iwa and Konoha, not a very reasonable one since there was still friction between the two since the war. The Konoha had a lot of swords, marking him as a weapon master, while the Iwa was more mysterious.

Suddenly a whistle blew out of no where. The fight had been started.

The Konoha drew a sword for each hand, and the Iwa took a fighting stance. His feet dug into the ground around an inch deep. Koge held moved his body into the customary two hand fan user stance, though Akuma could still not see any fans on him.

After taking a quick guess at who she would have to focus on, plus the flash of movement on her right, told her that starting off with the charging sword wielder would be a good idea. His stance was good, and each sword was placed just so to protect his face and body perfectly.

She smirked.

But not his legs.

Quickly calling up swirling forms of glass to rotate around her, each looking like it would be more at home in a lava lamp than a battle field, Akuma shot three at his torso and He parried three with a quick cross down. But he hadn't noticed the other three glowing red missiles that had been sent at his legs.

SHIICK

CRACK

His right leg splintered in three places, and spurted blood like a fountain. The blood covered glass shuriken flew back to swirl around their master.

The ninja stood for a moment, before his right leg shattered below the knee and from his left fell a water fall of red blood, showing it had been cut through. He fell over, and was knocked out from the intense pain.

Both Koge and Iwa had frozen for a second to stare, though the stand still didn't last long. The Iwa quickly created three mud clones, sending two after Akuma, and one and himself after Koge. The Suna ninja spread his fingers wide, and Akuma smirked at the fabric she saw draped in the space.

With a few strokes of his hands the mud clone had been cut into multiple sections, and fell to the ground in a dirty mess. Then Koge surprisingly kicked out, hitting the unsuspecting Iwa in the jaw, before sweeping up with one of his hands, cutting deep gashes into the Iwa's chest.

As the two continued to fight out, one bleed profusely, Akuma focused on the mud clones. Deciding to follow her Suna partner's example and cut them up into little pieces with her glass. She was a little depressed when the Iwa fell to the ground, his whole front red covered, since she hadn't moved at all the whole battle.

Koge turned to her and smiled as the medics rushed into the field.

"You fight well for a shrimp."

"Don't get cocky, I still don't like you."

All around every one was shocked, except Aiso and Taki, who knew how Akuma fought, and how she didn't care about killing. When the two climbed out of the bloodied Area, Akuma was attacked by Taki, while Aiso moved down to the pit himself.

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"Of every one I could have been paired with, I'm paired with a fire user!" Aiso cried into his hands. The Konoha ninja that was paired with Aiso just stared at him like he was crazy, as did the two cloud ninja.

Aiso just sighed as the whistle blew. Before the ninja even could move, Aiso froze the ground. The ice reached up their legs to their knees, and their hands too so they couldn't perform jutsu, they were utterly stuck. Casting a side ways glance to his partner, said Konoha ninja let out a fire ball jutsu, which burnt the cloud ninja and ended the fight.

Taki didn't glomp him, saying it was stupid since the fight was so short, and he didn't even move. But wasn't that what Akuma had done.

After a many more battle the passing teams so far were"

Koge and Akuma

Aiso and Konoha

Cloud and Iwa

Konoha and Konoha

Iwa and Iwa

And now Taki was up.