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Chapter Ten
The crowd roared after Tsunade's announcement. Down in the arena, Hinata and the others were checking out their competition.
"Man, sure is a lot of Kiri ninjas here," Kiba commented.
"This is my chance to make a name for myself," Hinata thought as she fiddled with the scrolls containing her swords. As she was doing so, she had a strange sensation that someone was glaring holes into her head. She turned to see a dark-skinned girl glaring at her. She had stunning amber colored eyes with matching earrings. She had long red wavy hair that fell past her shoulders. Hinata raised an eyebrow at the girl before turning away. The proctor for the exams, Genma, handed everyone a slip.
"Focus your chakra into the paper. depending on your chakra element nature, the paper will reveal your number," Genma explained. Hinata did so and the paper crinkled at thre top left and right corners while the bottom left and right corners turned black, indicative of her lightning and fire nature. In the middle was the number twenty.
"Hinata-chan, what number do you have?" TenTen asked.
"I have twenty, what about you?" Hinata asked.
"I have twenty-four," she replied.
"I got ten," Kiba said. Before they could discuss it further, Tsunade said
"Alright, everyone listen up." The entire stadium fell silent as the chunins gave Tsunade their undivided attention. She then proceeded to explain the set up of the exams, which was like a battle royale. Matches 1-20 would be held today, matches 21-44 tomorrow and the semi-finals and finals the week from today. Tsunade then gave Genma the signal to begin. He sent everyone but one and two to the waiting area. One was a kunoichi from Sunagakure. She had black hair and blue eyes. Number two was a kunoichi as well, but from Iwagakure. She had short black hair similar to Shizune's with matching black eyes. In the Kage stand, Ohnoki and Gaara both smirked at each other as Ohnoki said
"May the best kunoichi win."
"Is that Kurotsuchi you brought?" Tsunade inquired and Ohnoki nodded. They heard Genma yell out "Hajime!"
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The two girls stared at each other as both waited for the other to make a move. After a few minutes when it was clear that Kurotsuchi wasn't making the first move, the kunoichi from Suna went ahead. She reached into her pouch and grabbed several shurikens, putting Kurotsuchi on edge. After a few seconds, the girl suddenly threw the shuriken.
"Shit," Kurotsuchi thought as she pulled out a kunai and quickly deflected the shuriken only to see that the girl was no where in sight.
"What the?" Kurotsuchi thought as she looked around. Her instincts screamed danger and she put her arms up in an X in time to block a roundhouse kick from the Suna kunoichi. They then fell into a taijutsu battle. Unfortunately for the Iwa kunoichi, taijutsu was not her strongest suit. Although she managed to block majority of the blows, Kurotsuchi was hit a few times. Back in the Kage stand, Ohnoki frowned a little as he watched Kurotsuchi struggle.
"Taijutsu was never really her thing," he thought.
"Kazekage-sama, that kunoichi of yours is good," Mei said, slightly impressed.
"Yes, Machi is extremely skilled in taijutsu and her speed is the best among her age group," Gaara said while a small smirk appeared on his face as he looked at Ohnoki. Ohnoki grunted and turned his attention back to the battle. Kurotsuchi managed to avoid one of Machi's kicks and decided to turn the battle into a ninjutsu battle. Machi must have been thinking the same because she made three hand seals and stooped on the fouth which was the ram before yelling out "Wind style:Powerful Wind Wave Jutsu!" Machi blew out a swtrong blade of wind towards Kurotsuchi. Kurotsuchi made a few hand seals before calling out "Earth style: Earth dome Jutsu!" A dome made of the earth erupted and surrounded Kurotsuchi, effectively blocking Machi's jutsu. She then made another set of hand seals before disappearing into the earth and reappearing outside the dome, surprising Machi.
"How did you do that?" she asked. Kurotsuchi smirked a little and said
"Well wouldn't you like to know?" Machi glared at her and yelled
"Oh yeah? Well take this!" She made three hand seals and yelled
"Wind style: Flower Sacttering Dance Jutsu!" A cyclone made of flower petals appeared and Machi directed it towards Kurotsuchi. The Iwa kunoichi did her best to avoid it, but the cyclone was still after her. Finally, she made several hand seals before spitting out a dragon head made of mud at the cyclone, destroying it. Both girls dropped to their knees as they panted hard. Machi made a single hand sign and in a cloud of smoke, another Machi appeared.
"What the hell is she planning?" Kurotsuchi wondered. In the Kage stand, a full blown smirk appeared on Gaara's face as he said
"Prepare to lose Tsuchikage-sama. Machi is well known in Suna for her collaboration jutsu*." But to his dismay, Ohnoki smirked back and said
"Don't count out my girl just yet. Kurotsuchi's got a trick up her sleeve." Back in the arena, the Orignal Machi made the tiger sign before blowing out fire from her mouth towards Kurotsuchi. Unknown to Machi, the Iwa kunoichi made an earth dome and then slid underground and reappeared outside the dome as the Machi clone adding wind to the fire to what they thought was a roasting Kurotsuchi.
"What a magnificent collaboration jutsu," Tsunade praised, impressed.
"It was impressive indeed," A said. Once the fore cleared, Machi wa shocked to see an earth dome in Kurotsuchi's place. She then looked around to see Kurotsuchi in the air. Kurotsuchi made the rabbit, ox, dog, and snake seals. Ohnoki smirked when he saw what was coming next.
"Lava style: Quicklime Jutsu*," Kurotsuchi thought as she blew out a thick and sticky substance from her mouth and it began to surround Machi. Tsunade, Gaara, A, and Mei especially were shocked.
"She has the kekkai genkai for lava style?" Mei asked with a flabbergasted look on her face.
"Yes though in her case it's quicklime instead of acyual lava like yours," Ohnoki said. Machi started panicking as the quicklime negan to encrouch on her. Kurotsuchi then made another set of hand seals before spewing out water in the shape of a trumpet.
"Why did she use a water jutsu?" Shizune asked.
"The water helps the quicklime's pressure and increases its reach even further," Ohnoki explained. Machi found herself trapped in the mixture of quicklime and water, unable to move.
"Machi is unable to continue, the winner is Kurotsuchi," Genma announced. Kurotsuchi smirked at Machi before walking away. The crowd began to cheer in favor of Kurotsuchi. The Konoha group was shocked to sat the least.
"Wow, she's good," TenTen commented.
"Yes! The powerful flames of youth are exploding from her!"Lee yelled before TenTen bashed him on the head.
"Shut the hell up Lee!" she screeched, making everyone around sweat drop.
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The next several matches were a mixture of exciting and boring. Some ended quickly like Kiba's own where the girl was going against from Kirigakure promptly withdrew after seeing how big Akamaru was. Others were kind of drawn out. Up in the stands, Shikamaru was almost asleep on his feet.
"What the hell? When is Hinata-chan coming up?" Ino asked impatiently.
"Who knows? I hope it's soon, "Choji said and Shikamaru nodded his head in agreement. After several more matches, Hinata was finally up.
"Go get'em Hina-bear," TenTen said.
"Yeah, go out there and kick ass!" Naruto yelled. Shino nodded his head and Sai simply smiled.
"Thanks you guys," she said before jumping over the rail and landing in front of Genma.
"Show off," he said while smirking. Hinata saw her opponent approach. He was from Kirigakure. He had long dark blue hair that was in a ponytail with matching blue eyes. He wore a sleeveless black tank top that showed off his impressive biceps with jonin-style pants and black sandals. All in all, he was very handsome. "Hello there Ms. Hyuga. My name is Ryu Hozuki ," he said in a smooth voice as he grabbed Hinata's hand and kissed it, making her blush. In the stands, Shikamaru was pissed off.
"You bastard!" he yelled and was about to jump into the stadium but Choji held back.
"Shikamaru calm down. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it," Choji said although he was very unsure of this. Shikamru grunted but sat back down while grumbling over his breath.
"Ehm, thank you...I think," Hinata said uncertainly. Genma rolled his eyes before saying "Hajime!"
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