Naruto is Kishimoto's artwork

"The next match is Uchiha Sasuke versus Sabaku Gaara." the proctor calls out.

Raven did not know what to expect, but felt dark emotions coming from the redheaded boy.

'That child is dangerous...' Raven thought, her eyes focused on the redhead as he lugged the sand gourd about with him. Violet eyes followed his movements to the center of the battlefield, waiting on Sasuke to start the match.

The match seemed to first be rather slow, Sasuke present and trying to find weak points in Gaara's armor (figuratively, and literally), because he is made out of sand himself. But, after some false hits that did not get anything, turned to the secret ability that was being trained up for the month.

The battle went from slow, and cursory in the approaches, to swift and blinding in the attacks, not a single move seen as each seemed to move faster than light, leaving a simple blurr of the previous location, like teleporting from one spot to another.

Raven knew Kakashi trained up Sasuke's speed, just by watching the fight with Lee versus Gaara together and knowing that the opponent had a near impenetrable shield around them a majority of the time. Cyborg still clung to the railing as a type of life line when watching the fight go on, and how he remembered Gaara mutilate the previous opponent in the preliminaries.

Cyborg spoke sparingly of his time with Robin and Beastboy in a all boys tournament, and how the one running it was using it for ulterior motives, but Raven remembered it vaguely as being pulled into an all girl tournament. She and Starfire remembered it less so, but could only imagine that cyborg had it backed up in a computerised memory where its saved alot better than human or demon memory.

Watching the fight, with slightly baited breathe for how Sasuke Uchiha is handling the situation, versus the creature Gaara that seemed darker than the usual in human beings.

It was fast and slow, but it became almost like watching a bomb get ready to blow at a distance when the opponent became a dome of sand, leaving Uchiha-san outside to figure out how to deal with this new turn of events. Each move he seemed to make to any side of the dome, it had spikes peaking out in defense against the attack, wherever he went or even if he went from above instead of the sides.

Sasuke did not seem interested in the odd game of hiding that was made, so he went to his next jutsu, another skill taught by Kakashi to improve his chances against an armir that wont give under normal means, the chidori.

The mere sound of birds chirping, even with a lack of birds in the area was a slight give away, but also with how bright and intense the chidori was in color. Sasuke ran forward at the sandy dome that acted hard as any stone, but fairly meldable as it defends the opponent within the structure.

Thud!!..., the sound seemed to echo and suction around Sasuke's arm preventing him from easily maneuvering it out, and himself away from the dome that was gradually producing spikes all-about in quick alerted defense.

Sasuke tugged at his arm, jerking away from the sandy dome and jumping away from it, as a strange arm seemed to jet out of the hole made out and try to grab for the opponent, just missing them. The strange appendage slithered hither and fro along the ground, almost like a tongue tasting for its prey, but it does not seem to have taste buds either.

Sasuke seemed to watch carefully, a bit unnerved by what seemed within the dome. Raven did not enjoy the piercing shriek that came from the dome, but felt that it was too eerily quiet after the sound came. It seemed everyone was waiting with baited breathe for who would win, for what would happen next.

Things slowly seemed to change, when the wind wielder, Temari Sabaku and Kankuro Sabaku, went for their brother who seemed to be okay aside from the wound in his shoulder and a few physical cracks in his armor.

Raven slowly stood and approached Cyborg, her friend and saw how the three foreign shinobi fled away, but then things grew more intense with both foreign and not fighting in the arena and not, making the whole area dangerous.

Looking about, the many citizens of the leaf seem knocked unconscious and even actual shinobi, but then there are a few who are able to stay awake even with a jutsu of that skill.

"Cy, we got to get to the bottom of this." Raven decided, for Cyborg to comment, "It feels like you are getting Robin's sense of justice, now." But, he was smirking, Raven just heaves a sigh over the comment.

"Lets help our young friend, Rae." Cyborg smiled, giving a slight wink as a hint they unintentionally adopted the blondie boy when they arrived mamy years ago to Konoha. Raven created a portal and left into it, heading for where Naruto went.

Cyborg started scanning the situation for living, or enemies and helping the allies who were awake to take the sleeping citizens away from danger.

Starfire was still up in the hokage box, as a visiting leader, she could need help or take some situations out of hand. Like, when she jumps into a situation and not knowing it is dangerous, when with Zabuza Momochi, but it ended on a brief safe note for the team, having resolved the conflict while there.

One of the few signs of Starfire activity, is her bright bolt of green energy glowing or disapearing as it goes away with an attack, then reappearing as if preparing for another attack at someone, whoever they were, the enemy moved fast against both starfire and the Third Hokage.

The activity growing in violence and sharp items being thrown, or jutsus being initiated out and about the arena, and field.

(I want to do something... should any of the titans stay, or go home? What ya'll think?)