A/N: So, I said I would be switching up the order cuz I was bored but I can't find a list I made and I don't remember the order so, I'm not mixing up the order cuz I'm bored. All I can remember is that the last 2 matches were Lee vs Gaara and Choji vs Dosu so yeah... Eh, it's a fanfic, nothing's gonna be completely canon anyway.

Last time:

Hanara turned around and walked back up the stairs, hoping that her teammates would give her the silence she desperately needed.

Now:

Once everyone had gone back to the viewing area and Hinata had been taken away by the medics, Hayate gave Anko the signal to start the name scrambler thing. The entire time, her teammates had been unusually silent. Choji wasn't even munching on his chips! But Hanara's mind was in a frenzy, worrying about her elder sister and silently yelling curses to her cousin.

Beep!

The machine had decided on the next two competitors: Kankuro of the Sand vs Misumi Tsurugi

But Hanara didn't notice, her mind was occupied.

Misumi had snaked around Kankuro and was about to choke him, using tactics very similar to a certain Sanin.

But Hanara didn't notice, her mind was occupied.

'Kankuro' was apparently his puppet. The real one controlled the puppet and was making it squeeze Misumi hard enough to crush his bones.

But Hanara didn't notice, her mind was occupied.

So, when the proctor called the match in Kankuro's favour and then called out the next two opponents, Hanara didn't notice her name was one of them.

"Hana! Hana! HANARA!" Ino yelled in her ear, shaking her back and forth, "It's your match, you idiot!"

"Huh?" was her very eloquent response.

"You've been out of it for the entire match! I know you're worried about Hinata but you can't let that affect you! You're up against Tenten and if she's anything like Lee and Neji, you've got to give it your very best!" Ino exclaimed, "Now get down there and win!"

"I'm up against who?"

"Tenten. Now go!"

"Hanara Hyuga, are you going to participate?" the proctor asked.

"Oh! Yes sir! Coming!" Hanara called as she jumped over the bar and down into the makeshift stadium, mentally pushing any thoughts about Hinata and Neji into a box to deal with later.

"2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate?" Guy and Lee cheered, "GO TENTEN!"

"Tenten, Hanara, BEGIN!" the proctor announced before jumping back and coughing.

Immediately Tenten jumped back and put some distance between her and Hanara, no doubt wary of her Gentle Fist.

"Go Tenten! We're behind you for all of this!" Lee cheered.

'... she didn't even do anything!' Hanara thought confused, forcing her outward expression into a bored one so that Tenten wouldn't be able to read her easily.

Both girls stared at each other for a moment, as if daring their opponent to attack.

After a moment, Tenten spoke, "I know you're Neji's sister but I won't hold back!" she declared, jumping into the air and throwing four shuriken at Hanara.

Hanara smirked, using her Gentle Fist training to let out a bit of Wind Natured chakra from all her chakra points to force the shuriken away from her. Her hand lay on the fan in the weapon pouch on her right thigh, ready to pull it out in a moment's notice. 'Let the games- sorry, my preliminary round -begin!' Hanara thought, quoting her absolute favourite book from her old life, 'Hm... I hope that they have something similar here... I'll check after this is over...'

"I missed?" Tenten exclaimed as she landed, "That's impossible!"

"She- she missed!" Hanara heard Guy say incredulously.

"Anyone can miss," Kakashi responded, confused.

"Yes, but Tenten has practiced on her aim so much that she now has a 100% guarantee of hitting her mark." Guy informed him, "The only way she could have missed is if Hanara interfered."

"This will be interesting," Neji muttered.

"That's our Hanara!" Ino cheered.

"Hanara's going to win for sure," Shikamaru told Naruto.

"You don't know that! What if Tenten does something?" he protested.

"You'll see."

Tenten jumped into the air again and repeated her actions, using eight shuriken this time.

Hanara released some Wind-Natured chakra from her chakra points, forcing the shuriken to miss, still looking bored.

"That takes a lot of control," Hanara heard Temari say to Kankuro, "Even I need to move my fan a bit to force something to miss, especially if it's moving with force."

After a few more times of doing this and still getting the same results, Tenten tried to do something different.

"I wanted to save this until later but I suppose I'll have to do this now," Tenten sighed.

Hanara smirked, "Finally getting serious, now are we? Good. I think I'll need this now."

Hanara pulled out the fan she was holding from her weapons pouch, opened it with a flick of her wrist, and poured some chakra into it, stopping when it was a bit shorter than herself and balanced it against her. Tenten ran in a circle around Hanara, leaped into the air, opened a scroll, turned upside down, and started spinning in a circle with the scroll twirling around her like a ribbon.

"Take this!" she exclaimed.

There was a puff of smoke revealing that she had summoned something. Hanara activated her Byakugan and saw a bunch of weapons heading her way. Internally, she groaned. 'I wish that I was used to the amount of control Rotation takes. Instead, I'll have to reveal my, arguably, most powerful jutsu and set up everyone's expectations if this goes on. Let's hope it doesn't get to that point...'

Hanara picked up her fan using both hands, opened it all the way, and swung it, creating a huge blast of wind, knocking all the weapons to the ground.

"Forfeit," she told Tenten as she landed on her feet, "Long-range attacks won't work on me and taijutsu is useless, as you know. I don't want to harm you any more than I already have. Unless you have some ninjutsu under your belt, forfeiting is your most logical option."

"No! I'm not done yet!" Tenten yelled, putting her hand in her back pocket and taking out two scrolls.

"Then I shall go all out," Hanara responded, internally sighing once more.

"She's already using that?" Lee exclaimed, confused.

'Based on that, it's something big,' Hanara thought, pulling out her other fan, making it as big as her first and swinging it underneath her so that she could sit on it, preparing herself if she needed to take to the air. Tenten was making hand signs all the while.

"Rising Twin Dragons!" Tenten announced, creating a huge puff of smoke along with a blast of wind.

Hanara used the fan she was riding to escape the blast of wind she was caught in and quickly swung her other fan.

"WIND SCYTHE JUTSU!" Hanara yelled, forcing the horde of weapons to miss and instead land on the ground.

"I'm not done yet!" Tenten exclaimed, landing, flipping in the air again, and turning upside down, using ninja wire to manipulate the weapons on the ground.

"Wind Style: Wind Scythe Jutsu!" Hanara said, swinging the fan in her hand, this time blasting both Tenten and her weapons onto the ground.

Hanara shrunk the fan that was in her hand and put it back into the weapons pouch on her right thigh. She used the fan she was riding on to bring her in front of Tenten, who was struggling to get up.

"Forfeit," she said calmly.

"No! I'll handle whatever you throw at me!" Tenten responded stubbornly.

Hanara sighed and performed a Tiger hand sign, preparing to use a watered-down version of her usually high powered Air Bullets.

"Wind Style: Air Bullet" she muttered, spitting out an Air Bullet that had just enough pressure to force her to collide with the wall behind her and knock her out.

"Tenten!" Lee yelled.

"I warned her," Hanara sighed.

"As her opponent is no longer able to continue, the winner is Hanara Hyuga," the proctor declared.

Hanara jumped off of her fan and walked up to Tenten as the medics were checking her over.

"There's no need for that," she drawled, " Tenten's only knocked out. She should come to in about 10 minutes. I made sure I didn't overdo it."

The medics ignored her. A few minutes later they said the same thing.

"I'll take her up there," she responded.

Hanara picked up Tenten bridal style and carefully dropped her on her fan. While Hanara took the stairs to get back to her team, she controlled the fan and made it fly directly to Guy-sensei instead of beside her. When she passed Team Guy, she took the fan that was now floating with nothing on it and emptied the chakra in it so that she could put it in her other weapons pouch.

"She did well," Hanara smiled to Guy and Lee, completely ignoring Neji's existence, "If she had been up against anyone but me and that Sand kunoichi, she would have won. It's quite sad that luck wasn't on her side today. She would have made a good Chunin."

"She will just have to try again!" Lee said cheerfully as Hanara walked towards her team, "Tenten will train even harder to counter Wind!"

"Good job, Hanara!" Choji said, "Chip?"

"Yeah, thanks," Hanara munched on her BBQ flavoured chip.

"Hinata will be fine," Choji assured her, "If there's anything we found out from that match, it's that she's a fighter."

"Thank you Choji," Hanara smiled a sad smile as she hugged him, "I appreciate it."

"Troublesome," Shikamaru sighed.

Hanara released Choji and laughed, "What is it, Shikamaru?"

"Since you did so well, I have even higher expectations from Ino that I'll have to beat," Shikamaru groaned, "This is such a drag."

"Right! Next up is Uzumaki Naruto vs Inuzuka Kiba!" the proctor announced.

'Whoever decided to put those to loudmouths together was an idiot,' Hanara thought.