As the names slowly came down to a crawl, the Genin were anxious to see the next fighters to enter the ring, and some were even looking forward to their matches. Lee for example was staring at the board with a determined look, hoping his turn would be chosen. Finally, the names stopped and it drew a few snickers from the remaining Genin who knew how one of the chosen ones behaved.
"Troublesome!", was all Shikamaru said as he stared up at the board with his usual laid back look.
Shikamaru Nara VS. Kidomaru
The sound ninja walked down the steps with a smug grin on his face. "This is going to be an easy game to beat.", Kidomaru chuckled as he walked into the ring. "I mean, just look at my opponent! He looks like he couldn't lift a finger against a bugn let alone me!", he said confidently as Shikamaru sighed from his place on the balcony.
"Looks like it's my turn, huh? What a drag!", the lazy Genin said as he walked to the ring.
As soon as both fighters were in the ring, the examiner nodded and yelled the start of the match yet again as both Genin just stared at each other. "Hey don't you want to just give this match over to me. I can tell you're not very enthusiastic about fighting me.", Kidomaru said as he crossed his arms. Shikamaru sighed ."You have no idea how true that is. Personally, I find this whole thing to be troublesome. The truth is, I don't even care if i become a Chunnin or not.", Shikamaru admitted with a grin.
"But you know, it would be even more troublesome to have done all this work and not see if I did make the cut, so I guess I'm in.", he said before pulling some shuriken from his pocket and held them in his hand. "Hehe whatever, I'll beat you just the same. But first, I need some more arm room.", Kidomaru said, getting Shikamarus attention.
It seemed as if the side of his shirts were being pushed against as something forced its way from out of the clothing, making all in the room stare in shock. The sound ninja had not two, not four, but six arms as he stretched them. "Ahhh, yeah! It was hard keeping them still so no one would notice them. But it feels great to stretch them like this now.", Kidomaru said as he grinned.
"He... he's got six arms... six!", Ino said looking a bit green in the face as Naruto stared in shock. 'I wonder if that's some kind of jutsu?', Naruto thought as he tried to imagine the benefitts of having six arms on himself. More ways to fight, he could eat three bowls of ramen at a time and he could fondle all his girlfriends at once. But then again, it apparently wasn't that attractive to Ino to have that many limbs. 'On second thought, I'm good as I am.', Naruto nodded to himself.
"Well now, that's interesting.", Shikamaru said as he saw the sound shinobi before him smirk back. "Like 'em? These are natural, no jutsu needed.", Kidomaru bragged before his grin widened. "And if you think that's all, you're deadwrong.", Kidomaru said before he put a hand to his mouth and spat out a big glob of something that made Shikamaru frown. "This will be your end, leaf ninja!", Kidomaru said before tossing it towards Shikamaru as the gunk took a shape like a net.
Seeing what was going on, Shikamaru quickly dodged it, though he dropped his throwing stars to the floor as they embedded themselves standing up. As the net just barely missed the heels of the lazy Genin, he turned to face his opponent again. "Well, that's gross.", Shikamaru stated before he pulled out more shuriken and tossed them at his opponent.
A few missed Kidomaru, as if they were thrown haphazardly towards him. But those few that would have hit him were soon caught in the next batch of the sticky sustance that came from his mouth. "It's no use, this is my special webbing. You can't touch it without getting stuck and anything you trow at me will be stopped cold.", Kidomaru said with a grin as if victory was already his.
"What a drag!", Shikamaru muttered in annoyance as he kept dodging and throwing his weapons all over the field. "What is he doing?! Is he even trying to win?", Ino yelled as they watched the fight. "That guys like a spider. He keeps spinning the web tighter and tighter around Shikamaru 'till there wont be anywhere left to him to go.", Shino observed as he watched the progression of the battle.
"Well Kakashi, looks like this is one student who wont be making the cut.", Asuma said. Everyone turned around, surprised to see that the Jounin who had carried Sasuke out just a few minutes ago was standing behind them again. The Genin marvelled at his speed as the one-eyed Jounin simply shrugged. "Don't be so sure of that, Asuma. Shikamaru has this one is the bag.". That statement caught the attention of everyone, before they turned to see the last minutes of the fight as Shikamaru seemed to be about to lose.
"Told you I would win this game!", Kidomaru said with a sneer as he looked at the lazy leaf ninja before him. "You didn't stand a chance against me at all.", he added as Shikamaru made a hand sign, an emotionless expression on his face.
"The hell is this? Hey, it's too late for you to be using a jutsu to beat me now, because in another second I'm going to...". Any words Kidomaru was going to say died in his throat as he froze stiff, unable to move. "Wha... what the hell... is happening?", Kidomaru grunted as he tried to raise his arms, but none of them were responding to him at all.
"Finally, shadow possession successful.", Shikamaru grinned as he stood up and Kidomaru mimicked his movements to the letter. "And since you're curious: Here, take a look around!", Shikamaru said as he turned his head to the left and right and Kidomaru's eyes widened. All of the weapons he had thrown about the ring were connected by a shadow and it lead from his opponents all the way around the ring to him.
From above, the rest of the Genin stared in shock and surprise. "Look at that! It looks like a giant spider web over another!", Naruto said in wonder as Ino cheered her friend on as loud as she could. "See, I told you. Even while he was fighting, he was planning out his next moves. Shikamaru is a brilliant strategist, a natural born genius. It's only too bad he's so lazy about it though.", Kakashi said as Shikamaru reached to his shoulder.
Pulling out a hidden kunai, Shikamaru smiled and turned to the proctor. "Hey, it's my intention to throw this at him. It would put an end to the match, right?", Shikamaru asked, getting a nod from the examiner. "Right. The winner by technical defeat is Shikamaru Nara.", he announced as all the leaf ninja cheered for their comrades success.
Releasing the shadow possesion, Kidomaru growled at the loss as Shikamaru informed him "I had about a dozen moves planned out before I beat you. Good thing I didn't have to use them, too much work.". Kidomaru spat out, angered over his sudden defeat. "So troublesome...", Shikamaru muttered as he walked up to his team. And after a very ticked Kidomaru returned to the verbal lashing of his redhead teammate for being "SO FUCKING USELESS!", the proctor had to stall the rest of the matches for a bit as the ring was cleaned up.
Finally, about ten minutes later, the board began to spin again, the next match just seconds away.
