Hichou and Senjou went to the fighting area and faced each other.
"This match will decide it all!" said Lee dramatically.
"Remember, Hichou, be consistent!" Neji called.
"You better beat that rodent, Senjou…" Sasuke said under his breath.
"GO!" Lee yelled.
Hichou applied his Byakugan and Senjou applied his Sharingan. Hichou was the first to move, and he closed in with his fingers out, ready to poke Senjou until he could use his chakra no more. Senjou was ready and made quick dodges so that he would not be disabled.
Finally, Senjou put a hand on Hichou's head and vaulted over him, landing behind him. Hichou spun around, and then the two of them only stood there for a moment.
Hichou knew that his advantage was in close combat and that Senjou was not going to allow his chakra pores to be clogged. So he charged at Senjou, bypassing the poking technique and going right to the Gentle Fist. Senjou didn't know exactly how to defend against it so he ended up taking a hit right in the shoulder.
As soon as he did, he jumped away from where Hichou was. Then Senjou erupted into the hand seals that obviously formed the fire moves that never work.
"Those NEVER work!" exclaimed Ino, slapping her forehead.
Senjou spat the fire at Hichou who easily dodged since the fire moves really never DO work.
But, in the process of dodging, Hichou jumped right into a line of shadow that Senjou had created in doing the Kagemane no Jutsu.
Senjou paused for a moment while Hichou was immobile and then created new hand seals for a NEW attack. "Shinranshin no Jutsu!" he yelled while the shadow was in the midst of retracting. Hichou saw it coming and managed to dodge just in time.
"I didn't know Senjou knew that move." Said Ino.
"I let him copy it from me." Sasuke Jr. said.
"I didn't know YOU knew it either." Ino said, turning to Sasuke Jr.
"I copied it from you." Sasuke Jr. replied.
"What does that jutsu do?" Lil Lee asked. "I've never heard of it before."
"An upgrade from the Shintenshin no Jutsu." Sasuke Jr. explained.
"Oh." Said Lil Lee. He wasn't about to admit that he didn't know what the Shintenshin no Jutsu did. That would just embarrass him since he was a chuunin and all. It's just…when one can't use ninjutsu or genjutsu, one doesn't learn a lot of ninjutsu or genjutsu.
"This battle is very interesting!" commented Sakura. "These two are both very good. I hate to see either of them lose."
"I'm kind of rooting for the little guy though." Hinata whispered to Sakura since they were standing next to each other.
Ino and Sasuke both turned their heads and stared at Hinata who immediately shied away while looking terrified. They hadn't heard exactly what she had said, but their ninja instincts told them that she had said wrong about their precious Senjou.
"Hichou, don't let that jutsu get you." Said Neji. "Once that happens, you will lose."
"Okay." Said Hichou, not taking his eyes off Senjou.
Senjou had used up a lot of chakra using the fire moves that never worked in two battles right in a row, not to mention the Kagemane no Jutsu twice and the water clone technique and he was putting everything into the last attack but that and failed…and now his shoulder really hurt where Hichou had hit it. He wished he hadn't used so much chakra in the battle against Shikataro. But he couldn't have a little annoying six-year-old beat him, especially when everyone was watching him.
He had to try again with the Shinranshin no Jutsu, but the only problem was that now Hichou was weary of it. He couldn't use up much more chakra or else he wouldn't have enough to use the Shinranshin again.
"Senjou, don't kill yourself over this match!" Kiba advised. He knew his students all right.
Hichou could tell that Senjou was a little weak and low on chakra at the moment so he knew that it was his chance to strike. He wasn't old enough to use his Byakugan to see Senjou's emotions and stuff, but it was pretty easy to see that Senjou was trying awfully hard.
So Hichou ran in, hopefully for the final strike. He extended his hand, but Senjou reached out and grabbed it, knocking him roughly to the ground.
While he was standing back up, Senjou quickly performed his hand seals again. "Shinranshin no Jutsu!" he yelled.
Hichou turned around but he was too close to Senjou to be able to react. The Jutsu worked and connected.
Neji looked slightly concerned, and took a step forward, but then took the step back again. After a few deep breaths, Senjou looked up. He appeared to be ready to beat the living daylights out of Hichou until he was nothing but a steaming heap on the ground but then close to all the parents ran in to stop him.
"All right, you've won." Said Neji, avoiding eye contact as Senjou released the jutsu and freed Hichou. "But only because of age."
"Admit it, Neji, my son is a genius." Said Sasuke.
"I wouldn't even try to deny it." said Neji.
Sasuke was expecting Neji to deny it so he was caught a bit off guard. "Oh." He said. "Well…uh… your son's pretty good too."
"What an exciting match!" said Lee. "But Senjou is the winner!!"
He wrote SENJOU in huge letters on his easel and circled and it and gave it little shines and decorated around it.
"So now let's move on to the second tournament!" he said after he finished his masterpiece. "It will be the four oldest kids and the two finalists from the younger kid's tournament!"
"I don't think Senjou's ready to compete." Said Ino as she babied her little baby and his poor shoulder. That's what hurt the most. But he was also depleted of a lot of his chakra. Keep in mind he's ONLY ten.
"I have to have a talk with Hichou." Said Neji.
"I'm sorry." Said Hichou, bowing his head in shame.
"We could have the competition tomorrow." Shikamaru suggested.
"AND it's dinner time!" Naruto said, looking at his watch.
"We can't miss dinner!" said Kiba.
"Should we go out to dinner or just stay home for dinner?" wondered Tenten.
"Well, considering Lil Gai is STILL unconscious and Senjou is practically incapacitated, let's just keep it at home for the day!" said Chouji warmly.
"OKAY!" everyone agreed.
"OR!" said Naruto, even after everyone had agreed. "We could leave the kids to eat at home and the twelve of us could run out to have dinner!"
"EVEN BETTER!!" all the parents agreed as they ran off faster than you could say…um…something really fast.
So everyone shrugged and went back into the house.