"Wind versus weapons. This isn't looking very good," I muttered as the two females stood across from each other.

"Haha! What are you talking about?! Tenten's youth-"

I looked over my shoulder at Gai-sensei with a glare. "Stop messing around, and let me finish."

The man held his hands up in self-defense. "Sorry, continue on."

I looked back down at the two and leaned my upper body against the railing. "Taking into consideration her country and the weather patterns there, Temari is probably a genius at using wind jutsus. Combine that with her large fan, and it spells trouble. Now, Tenten-san may be a weapon's expert, but if the wind is strong enough to blow her weapons even a centimeter off their original track, they'll be otherwise ineffective. Even if they have strings attached to them, being blown off their course will still make them useless against the metal that makes up the two ends of the fan. That fan is the perfect offensive and defense weapon against someone like Tenten-san."

"So you're saying Tenten will lose?" Lee-senpai asked worriedly.

"I'm just throwing out statistics," I said before putting my hand on his shoulder. "Nevertheless... Tenten! Let your springtime of youth explode forth!"

"Yes! Show everyone all of your hard work!" Lee-senpai agreed.

"The 5th match. Temari vs. Tenten, come forward," Hayate-san instructed even though the two were already standing there.

"Now... The second member of the Suna team. This could be interesting," Neji said as he looked down with crossed arms.

With two fists high in the air, Lee-senpai cheered, "Good luck, Tenten!"

"Kick some ass!" I yelled, my own fists in the air.

Temari's team didn't give any verbal support of any kind. They were assholes.

"Begin!" Hayate-san announced.

Temari gave a smirk, causing Tenten-san to retreat with caution.

"Tenteeen! Youth power!" Lee-senpai continued.

"Cheer harder!" Gai-sensei instructed.

"Whoooo!" I cheered as I tried shoving my fists even higher.

"Those three are noisy," Uzumaki-kun complained as he glared at us while covering his ears.

"What's wrong? Please begin," Hayate-san requested since the two girls hadn't started battling physically.

Mentally, they were checking each other out, determining the other's will and such through a battle of eyes. Or they were just checking each other out in general. Who knows?

Temari finally gave a small laugh. "You want to observe what I do? This is just a warning, but if I start attacking, you're going to be finished in a second." She took a step forwards, causing the brunette to take a step back. "You're not skilled enough to see how I'll attack. Stop trying to look good." She pointed her right thumb at her chest. "I don't mind, come on."

"Cocky cunt," I muttered before looking down at Tenten-san. "Give that Suna bitch everything!"

"You seem confident," Tenten-san noted before smirking. "Then, I'll go without hesitation!" She jumped high into the air and threw four shuriken at Temari to test the other girl's reflexes.

Temari smirked before the shuriken landed just to her right, giving the appearance that Tenten-san had bad aim and missed.

"I missed? That can't be!" Tenten-san exclaimed in surprise as she landed.

"What's wrong? Was that attack just to test me?" The dirty-blonde called out, her hands still on her hips. "Or did you shrink up with fear and can no longer aim?"

"Don't let her get into your head!" I yelled at the brunette.

"Ren is right, Tenten!" Gai-sensei yelled down immediately afterwards.

"I thought I would have more fun, but it seems that I can't expect much from you," the Suna bitch taunted.

Tenten-san grit her teeth in reply.

"That can't be! Tenten's attack missed?" Lee-senpai asked as he looked down at the four shuriken.

"That's impossible," Gai-sensei said, earning Lee-senpai's attention. "Tenten is able to hit a mark a hundred times in a hundred tries."

"There's no way she can miss," Neji agreed.

"Yes. She didn't miss. She was forced to miss," Gai-sensei said with a furrowed brow.

"So then, Temari used a wind jutsu, right?" I deduced, earning a small nod.

"It's very probable, yes," Gai-sensei answered.

"What?" Lee-senpai gasped.

"She has a friendly attitude, just like usual," Kankuro commented.

"This is pointless," Gaara said.

"How unsightly," Shikamaru-san stated.

"Huh?" Uzumaki-kun asked as he turned his head to look at the Nara in confusion.

"Suna wins again," Shikamaru-san explained.

"We don't know that yet," the blonde objected.

The brunette stood up and faced the blue-eyed individual. "I know."

"Why? How do you know?" Uzumaki-kun pressed.

"Because he can use his fucking brain," I whispered to the idiot, earning an offended look.

"Explain it to me so that I'll understand!" Uzumaki-kun demanded while pointing at his face.

"Idiot. I'm not going to do such a troublesome thing," Shikamaru-san replied before looking at me. "Ren, you do it."

"No way. I'm busy cheering," I objected before yelling, "Give that bitch hell!"

"If Shikamaru says so, then that's what will happen," Choji-san said as he looked down at the arena.

"I don't understand these guys," Uzumaki-kun said, him being the gigantic fucking moron that he was.

Tenten-san looked at the arena floor carefully, clearly measuring the distance before coming up with a plan.

Temari smirked as she reached back for her fan. She was clearly very intelligent herself when it came to battle.

The brunette quickly began to run towards Temari's right, and made a circle around her while pulling out a scroll. "How about this?!" She jumped high into the air and opened her scroll up. She quickly began to spin it around her at a high speed, causing Tenten-san to become invisible behind the yellow scroll. The brown-eyed girl then began to summon her weapons and threw them at Temari.

The blue-eyed female gave a quick swing of her fan, causing the weapons to miss their target. She then set her fan down next to her, revealing the single purple dot on it.

Tenten-san landed and looked at her opponent in shock. "What? My weapons... Is there a trick to that fan?"

Temari gave a small laugh. "This is the first star."

"Bitch, that's a fucking circle!" I yelled at the Suna girl who was clearly unable to tell her shapes apart.

"There are two more," she continued on, ignoring me. "When you see three stars, you're going to lose."

"Still a fucking circle, dumbass!" I sassed.

"Tenten! Don't let the enemy make you go at her pace!" Lee-senpai yelled down.

"Yeah!" I agreed.

"Stay calm! Stay! Calm!" Lee-senpai continued.

Tenten-san took in a deep breath as she calmed herself down. She then reached back and pulled out two scrolls. She held them out towards Temari.

Lee-senpai gave a gasp.

"She's going to use it already?" Gai-sensei questioned.

"Do you see any other reasonable choice?" I asked the man with a blank expression.

"What's she planning to do with those two scrolls?" Uzumaki-kun asked.

"She's about to blow your fucking mind," I said as I tapped his head repeatedly.

Tenten-san put both of her scrolls down and had them stand up on their own.

Temari gave a laugh. "No matter what you try, it's useless."

The brown-eyed girl made multiple handsigns at a rapid pace before crossing her arms over her chest. "Sōshōryū!" As her fingers extended out, a large puff of smoke filled the arena.

Two white dragons came from the smoke and rapidly spun around each other before disappearing, showing the two scrolls unravelled.

Tenten-san jumped up quickly between the two scrolls, her height quite impressive. She summoned weapon after weapon and threw them all with striking accuracy at her opponent.

"Even if you increase the numbers, it's the same," Temari commented as she threw her fan up lazily. She caught it with one hand and began to spin around. "Second star!"

"It's a circle!" I yelled judgmentally.

All of Tenten-san's weapons we're deflected and landed on the ground, none of them leaving a mark on the Suna moron. The two scrolls also landed just before the brunette did.

"I'm not done!" Tenten-san announced before jumping high into the air. She quickly swung her arms around, making the metal strings that attached her fingers to the various weapons start to move. The girl lifted her weapons into the air before simultaneously throwing them all at Temari.

The dirty-blonde easily deflected the attacks with another wave of wind before showing off the three purple circles on her fan. "Three stars," she said with a smirk.

Tenten-san quickly stood up.

Temari knelt down and and closed her fan, distracting Tenten-san so she could build up her chakra for her next move.

The brunette was obviously surprised and looked around at ground-level for her opponent.

"Here!" The blue-eyed girl yelled as she flew on her fan down to her opponent. She had that cocky smirk on her face as she landed and grabbed her fan with both hands. "Ninpō: Kamaitachi!" She waved her fan twice, causing a whirlwind that lifted Tenten-san off of the ground and into the air.

That wind began to make various cuts on the brunette's flesh, making it obvious to all what kind of attack it was.

"That wind has chakra embedded in it," Neji stated.

"Well thank you for telling us, Obvious-taichō," I mocked with a roll of my eyes. "Can you tell us something we don't know?"

"Eh?" Lee-senpai asked, making me facepalm.

"Tenten fought well, but she can't escape that tornado," Neji explained.

Tenten-san was soon released from the tornado and fell back towards the ground. She landed on Temari's closed fan and hit her spine on the metal, causing her to release a cough of blood. Her body laid limp, folding itself in half from how she landed.

"How cruel..." Uzumaki-kun said.

"Tenten..." Lee-senpai muttered as he gripped the railing with both hands.

"I hate being right about things like this," I grumbled as I laid my body on the railing once more.

"How boring..." Temari said as he looked at the brunette with great disinterest.

"Wha... What's up with her?" Uzumaki-kun asked as he looked down at Temari.

"That's how she was raised. Suna and Konoha have very different rules," I explained softly, my eyes narrowed at the scene below.

"Pfft. Like we could lose here," Kankuro said, his amusement clear on his face.

"The 5th match winner is Temari!" Hayate-san announced, causing the Suna girl to smirk.

I watched Lee-senpai quickly jump down, but decided not to tag along.

Temari threw Tenten-san off of her fan, sending the poor unconscious girl hurling towards all of her weapons on the ground.

Lee-senpai caught Tenten-san before she could hit the ground and skidded back a bit from the impact.

"Nice catch," Temari said mockingly.

The Konoha male set his teammate down before yelling angrily, "What are you doing?! Is that how you treat someone who gave her all in battle?!"

With a hand on her hip, Temari said, "Shut up. Take that loser, and get out of here."

Lee-senpai visible twitched at that.

"Stop, Lee!" Neji yelled as his teammate before to attack.

I quickly jumped down and caught Lee-senpai's leg before it could come in contact with Temari's fan. "She's not worth getting into trouble."

The girl decided to not drop it like she should have. She instead looked at the green-clad shinobi and said with a large smirk, "You're also as pathetic as you appear to be."

"What did you say?" Lee-senpai's asked angrily as he pulled his leg free from my grasp.

"Lee, stop!" Gai-sensei yelled as he jumped down from the second floor.

"Damn," Temari cursed softly, her fun being ruined.

"Gai-sensei..." Lee-senpai called out as he stood up properly.

I gently patted his back, hoping to calm him down a bit more. I then glared over my shoulder at the Suna bitch.

"Temari, get up here! You've been declared the winner. Stop wasting time with that pathetic guardian guy," Gaara called out as he looked down at his teammate with crossed arms.

"What?" My senpai snapped as he glared up at the ginger.

The two had a mini-glare off as Gai-sensei took my place as comforter of Lee-senpai.

"That's enough, Lee..." The jônin called out.

The boy didn't reply as his clench fists shook with hidden wrath.

"...Heh..." Gai-sensei stepped forwards and put his hand on Lee-senpai's shoulder. "Suna Team... There's something I'd like to warn you about, if you don't mind..."

The two on the balcony looked down with slight alarm.

"This kid is strong... You better prepare yourself," Gai-sensei advised as I waved my middle fingers around in the background at the Suna dickheads.

Gaara's eyes suddenly widened as bloodlust became evident. He was ready to kill Lee-senpai at that moment.

I narrowed my eyes in alarm as I got ready to jump into a future fight.

"Picking a fight with the Suna guys... I wouldn't want any part of them," Kiba said to his teammate.

"They are all incredible," Hinata-san agreed.

"Don't lose to those guys!" Sakura yelled out.

"Sakura-chan..." Uzumaki-kun muttered in surprise before immediately starting to fret. "Sakura-chan, are you alright?"

"You should be worried about yourself," Sakura sassed teasingly with her hands on her waist. "If you lose here, you're not a man. How will you be able to face Sasuke-kun?"

"Y-yeah!" Uzumaki-kun agreed.

Sakura gave a small smile. "Also... Thanks for earlier. If it wasn't for you screaming like an idiot... I... would have lost to Ino."

"Yeah, you're right," the blonde said tactlessly.

Sakura looked away with a large scowl.

I gave a small sigh before jumping up to the second floor, Lee-senpai following close behind. I glanced briefly over my shoulder as Gai-sensei spoke softly with one of the medical nins that showed up.

"Alright! Hurry! My turn, my turn!" Uzumaki-kun cheered anxiously as he stared at the green screen.

"Next is...! I feel it's me!" Lee-senpai predicted as he landed on the second floor.

"I wouldn't place your bets," I suggested with a blank face before looking over at Shikamaru-san. "Don't flunk out, smartass."

The Nara gave an annoyed expression as his name appeared on the board. "Me, eh?"

"He can control shadows. Watch out for his shadow," Dosu advised to Kin, who was already walking down towards the first floor.

"Pft... I won't fall for such a stupid jutsu," Kin said confidently.

And how much are you willing to bet and lose? I thought as I gave a large grin. "Heh... Shikamaru-san is going to win."

"Mmm..." Uzumaki-kun said with a furrowed brow, making me look over at him in confusion. "How come you know the outcome to the things? Can you see the future or something?"

"Puh-lease," I sassed with a roll of my eyes, "If I could see the future, do you honestly think I wouldn't be the world's best travelling gambler? Bitch, I'd be a fucking trillionaire by this point, meaning my ass would be on a throne or something, not here picking fights and waving my special weapons around."

"Special weapons?" He repeated questioningly.

I slowly held up my fists before raising my middle fingers. "Behold, the most sacred of all my weapons - the legendary-" I cut myself off with a shriek as Sakura reached around and slammed my hands into the railings, causing my fingers to bend in certain directions that they shouldn't have. "Why?! What have my middle fingers ever done to you?! They do not deserve such cruel treatment!"

"Stop flipping people off! It's rude and crude!" Sakura scolded as she smacked the back of my head.

I gave a small huff as I crossed my arms. "Some people deserve it."

"You've been doing that nonstop for the past few days, you know?" She growled at me.

"I have not! I only did it to those Suna dickheads, the snake, and... uh..." I narrowed my eyes as I tried to remember who else I've flipped off.

"You flipped off Orochimaru?" My twin hissed in my ear, earning a small shrug.

"Nearly broke his arm, too, and also took out a kidney," I said nonchalantly, making her jaw drop.

"W-wait. I know about the stab you gave him, but when did you nearly break his arm?" The pinkenette questioned.

"When I had you two leave and let me take him on my own," I lied upon receiving a glare from Kakashi-sensei. "He's a resilient fucker. I can give him that much."

The girl frowned before looking down to the arena. She had nothing more to say on the matter, making me scratch my cheek nervously before I, too, looked down at the arena.

Shikamaru-san and Kin stood across from each other, Shikamaru-san in a lazy position and Kin in a more sassy and confident one.

"Man... This sucks... Plus, it's tough fighting a girl," Shikamaru-san complained.

"Then I'll end it quickly," Kin replied.

"Don't lose, Shikamaru!" Ino-chan cheered, her fist high in the air.

"Begin!" Hayate-san directed as he moved back.

Shikamaru-san immediately began to use his clan's special jutsu and sent it directly towards her.

"A one-trick pony... That jutsu..." Kin dodged to the side while throwing two senbon. "As long as I watch your shadow, I have nothing to fear!"

As the bells on the senbon chimed, Shikamaru-san quickly ducked down. The two needles flew over his head and implanted themselves into the wall, their bells still ringing.

I stared down at the bells with suspicion. "Sound genjutsu? Is that actually a thing?"

"What are you talking about?" Sakura questioned.

I bit my lower lip as I watched Shikamaru-san smirk at his opponent. "Nothing..."

"That's an old trick. Next you'll throw one senbon with a bell and one without one, right? And when I react to the sound and dodge only the first one and don't notice the second one, stab, right?" Shikamaru-san concluded confidently.

That was a run-on sentence, I internally criticized.

"You sure like to talk!" Kin yelled before pulling out two more senbon, those ones both lacking bells. She then pulled her right hand back, and the bells by the wall began to ring. The black-haired girl had string attached to the two bells that were also tied to her hand, allowing her to ring those bells as she desired.

Shikamaru-san looked back in surprise before his eyes widened even more. As his head turned back towards Kin, two senbon made a direct hit on his body.

"Shikamaru!" Ino-chan yelled.

"A direct hit," Uzumaki-kun noted.

"No, take a closer look," Sakura demanded.

"I dodged a critical hit," Shikamaru-san said to himself as he pulled out the two senbon. He then glared at the girl and said, "Now it's my turn."

"I won't let you," Kin replied before jingling her bells once again.

Shikamaru-san suddenly began to shake a bit as if his equilibrium had been thrown off. "Wh-what's going on?" He fell down to his knees before looking at his opponent for answers.

The girl gave a chuckle as her right hand was placed on her hip. "Those who listen to the sound of bells become like that. This vibration from the sound of this special bell works directly in the eardrum up to the brain. Then, it will show you an illusion."

The bells rung once more, causing Shikamaru-san to hold his hands over his ears.

"That's useless. You can't shut out my bell's sound with that," Kin told him.

Shikamaru-san dropped his hands down from his ears and muttered, "Damn it. Which one's the real one?"

"You can't move at all, huh?" Kin asked with a large smirk. "You don't even know where to stretch your only hope, your shadow." She held up three senbon, each held between one of her four fingers. "Now, I'll tenderize you slowly."

"Damn it, she's underestimating me," Shikamaru-san mumbled, making me smirk.

Kin threw her senbon, all of them hitting the Nara. "Now, I'll throw five. Next, seven. I'll continue until you look like a hedgehog."

"You deceitful witch. You said you would end the match quickly!" Shikamaru-san yelled, obviously complaining about how lazy he is and how he didn't want to have to sit through the whole thing.

"I see. You're in so much pain that you want to be relieved of it quickly," Kin concluded, making me facepalm. "Then, I'll finish you off with this." She held up three senbon with narrowed eyes and said, "It's the end."

Shikamaru-san grit his teeth before his shadow finally made it to his opponent.

Kin's hand started to drop down against her will, and she yelled out, "What?! M-my body...!"

Shikamaru-san stood up and said, "Heh... My kageshibari no jutsu finally worked."

"What are you talking about? I don't see your shadow anywhere!" Kin exclaimed, causing me to chuckle.

"You haven't noticed yet?" The Nara questioned.

The girl jolted as she realized what happened. "...No way...!"

"Exactly, idiot!" Shikamaru-san yelled as my smirk widened.

"A string at that height... doesn't make a shadow," Shikamaru-san and I said at the same time.

The genius's shadow began to widened itself out and make its presence more obvious.

"I can lengthen, shrink, freely control my own shadow. Though there is a limit." He forced the girl to drop her strings before pointing at her, causing her to point at him. "Yep! I made my shadow really skinny to make it look like it will made my the string, and then attached it to you."

The girl released a noise of discomfort as she was forced to move her body around against her will.

The two of them reached down into their holsters and pulled out a shuriken. They then moved their arms as though they were getting ready to throw them.

"Are you stupid? Both of us will do the same movements. If you attack, you'll get hurt too..." Kin said, her panic clear in her tone.

"I know that," Shikamaru-san replied casually.

Her eyes widened slightly in fear. "You aren't...!"

"We'll keep throwing shurikens to see how long we can last!" The Nara yelled as he threw his shuriken.

"Fool! Don't!" The otonin exclaimed as she too threw her shuriken. She was ready to piss herself as the shuriken came closer and closer to her face.

That's when Shikamaru-san quickly bent backwards to avoid a shuriken to the face.

His opponent did the same, and just before her head could slam into the wall, Shikamaru-san's shadow detached from hers.

The boy laughed as his shadow returned to him. "One down..."

Kin collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

The laid-back shinobi quick flipped over and landed on his feet before standing up once more. "If you're a shinobi... Then you fight with knowledge of your surroundings. Even if we moved the same... The distance to the wall behind us was different." He rubbed the back of his neck and explained, "I used the shuriken so you wouldn't notice how close you were to the wall."

"Winner, Nara Shikamaru!" Hayate-san announced.

"Yes! Shikamaru!" Ino-chan cheered.

"You rule!" Choji-san added in.

"Nicely done!" I yelled down at the boy with a grin.

"That was so basic... But he was kind of cool... Damn," Uzumaki-kun muttered as he looked away with a small pout.

I chuckled as I patted his shoulder. "Relax. I'm sure you'll do something interesting during your match, too."

"Hey, hey! When's my match going to come up?!" The boy yelled eagerly at me.

I motioned to the board.

"Now, the next match..." Hayate-san trailed off as two names appeared on the board.

Uzumaki Naruto

VS

Inuzuka Kiba

"Yes! It's here, it's here! Finally! It's about time!" Uzumaki-kun cheered excitedly.

Kiba released a triumphant and happy laugh. "Lucky! We can definitely beat him, Akamaru!"

The dog barked in agreement.

Lee-senpai, meanwhile, turned around as tears came to his eyes. "If I'm not picked next, Sakura-san will call me Thick-Brows... If I'm not called next..."

Kakashi-sensei looked over at the green-clad boy with a reminiscing look in his eyes. He clearly heard something similar in his past.

I gently patted my senpai's shoulder. "It's okay. After what happened in the forest, Sakura won't give your eyebrows any more grief."

He looked over at me with big tears in his eyes. "A... Are you sure?"

"She respects you now, as well as your strength," I told him.

Lee-senpai's eyes filled up with hope before he gave a nod. He straightened himself out before turning back towards the arena to cheer on Uzumaki-kun. "Thank you for those words, Ren-kun!"

"Any time, Lee-senpai," I replied with a smile before looking back down at the arena.

Kakashi-sensei then decided it was time to be an asshole back after all the sass and harassment I put him through. He leaned down and then whispered into my ear, "I bet it's hard, having someone crush on your sister, only for you to be crushing on them."

"I'm sick of your shit!" I screeched as I turned around and began to claw at his face. "You're totally fucked up in the brain! You completely miss social clues because your face is always in that damn porn book!"

"Whoa! Whoa! Calm down down down, Ren!" Sakura yelled as she pulled me away from the man who was obviously smirking behind his mask. She then glanced at Kakashi-sensei and asked, "What did you just say to him?"

He replied with a chuckle his mirth clear in his tone.

My eyes glinted as I saw he was distracted. I quickly swung my right foot up without mercy and hit him where no man should ever hit another. I watched his immediately fall to his knees and grinned sadistically. "Go on, sensei. Tell everyone what you said. I dare you."

"Ren!" Sakura yelled before suplexing me into the railing.

I flopped to the ground, and the world spun around me. "Heh heh... That one will leave a bruise."

"You're my least favorite student," Kakashi-sensei told me as he tried, and failed, at keeping the pain out of his voice.

"You're my least favorite sensei," I replied.

"...Really?" He questioned.

"No. That award goes to that fuckface Mizuki. Not only did he end up being a traitor, but he gave me my only failing grade in the academy. Dickhead couldn't take a joke, and in the end, he paid for it severely." I gave a dark chuckle as my eyes narrowed slightly.

"Do I even want to know?" The silver-haired jônin questioned.

I stared at the ceiling for a few moments before my face scrunched up. "Probably not... It's a bit- ah- disturbing."

"I want to know," the man immediately said.

Sakura gave a worried look. "You really don't. Whatever Ren did, not only got him moved out of Mizuki-sensei's class, but it also made the sensei try to get a restraining order from him."

Kakashi-sensei stared at me with an expression that I had come to recognized by that point in time.

"Yeah, yeah. I get it. I'm a delinquent. Why couldn't I get a more normal student? Why have you also been keeping more secrets? Blah blah blah," I said as I waved him off before standing up. "What you don't know about me won't kill you, so don't worry about it."

"...I still want to know about that and the takoyaki incident," the man admitted as he shakily returned to his feet.

I quickly snapped around and help my finger up to his face. "We don't talk about takoyaki incident or the consequences of it." I then turned back around and looked down at Uzumaki-kun. "Also, I'm not spilling the Mizuki story until I'm sure I won't need to do the same to you."

Kakashi-sensei remained silent for a moment before suddenly lifting up his arm. He stared down at his exposed skin that had goosebumps all over for a moment before Gai-sensei elbowed him gently.

"Yes, we all got chills. No, you really don't want to know if he tells you that you don't want to know," the black-haired sensei whispered - and by whispered, I mean he spoke loud enough for the entire arena to hear - to his eternal rival.

I ignored his words and how everyone looked at me, waiting for me to make a remark. I was too engrossed with watching Uzumaki-kun's odd expression as he stared at Akamaru. ...I'm placing my bets on the team idiot for this one. Let's see how the little squirt grew since he's been on the team...