(A/N) Alright, here's the stadium at long last! If anyone's curious, these chapters are actually out of order on my writing document lol. This is the second chapter on there, and the last to be posted. Oh well. Aftermath after this, I suspect it'll be more than one chapter haha. It'll probably end after that simply because there aren't really any arcs after it. Tsunade's already here, so we can't go fetch her or anything, and that's the only post Chuunin Exams and pre shippuden arc I know. Other than Sasuke leaving. Which also wouldn't be happening here.

Shino counted who left, calculated what was best for this, and decided to stay with the stadium to defend the civilians.

The Uzushio shinobi had already mostly sealed off the sleeping civilians in protective seal barriers. Which meant the shinobi were free to fight without worrying about civilian casualties.

Shino was somewhat enjoying being able to go a little nuts with jutsu and seals, although he knew no one picked up on it.

The Kiri shinobi mostly avoided Konoha shinobi for some reason, mostly targeting Uzushio chuunin and genin, who were defended by each other and the jounin.

Kamisori jumped into Shino's line of sight, then back out to defend his back. Shino provided the same courtesy, smacking the shinobi chasing Kamisori across the face and applying a inverse barrier seal. Basically, anything the shinobi did was reflected back in their face. Very helpful for incapacitating enemies.

Plus slapping them across the face was rather cathartic.

"Nice!" Kamisori encouraged, before presumably starting to use their trumpet to weave genjutsu.

All was mostly peaceful for a bit, or as peaceful as one can get while in a battle while Kamisori's genjutsu made people drop like flies. As they were all A, male, and B, clutching at a particular bit of anatomy, Shino could guess what the genjutsu did.

Said peace stopped when Kamisori gave a very offended shriek.

Shino turned around to find their trumpet on the floor in two pieces, and Kamisori himself holding up a Suna nin by her neck.

"I…" Kamisori threatened calmly. "Am going to hang your entrails on a kraken and let the sea monsters eat your toes."

The Suna nin went white before Kamisori calmly snapped her neck.

"A surprisingly quick end for her," Shino noted, turning to slap another nin upside the head. He could apply the seal some other ways, but nothing was quite so satisfying as slapping someone upside the head and then having them try and hit back only to hit themselves.

"Eh, I have more people I can threaten," Kamisori said, grinning and running after another nin. "Who wants to be hung by their toes from the mast while I let the sharks nip at your fingers!"

Well, it seemed Kamisori wouldn't be running out of…creative threats anytime soon. He should be fine then.

Sakura saw something to punch then started punching. She'd been itching for a fight the entire time and now she could! Tamako was down and it was time to avenge her! Even if Kamisori was shouting interesting threats that Sakura did not need to see carried out, it was still totally time.

Kiba was nearby too, and he fell into their usual pattern with Sakura, tearing through what enemies they could get their hands on.

Sakura definitely noticed they were only getting the low class enemies, watched the jounin cherrypicking which enemies they went after, and realized the adults were leaving some enemies for the genin. It was neat to see the jounin in action, and see how precise they could be.

Sakura resolved to practice harder and make their sensei teach them better. She wanted to be like that, she wanted to jump into a mixed crowd, identify who was the biggest threat, kill them, then be able to move on.

"I wanna be like that," Kiba breathed in the lull. Sakura looked where he was looking and found his mother and sister tearing through enemies.

"I wanna be precise like those jounin!" Sakura said, pointing to the red headed jounin she'd been watching. "It's super awesome!"

"Precise and brutal are both good aspects of a shinobi," Kakashi said, appearing between them locked in combat with another nin. "Duck!"

Sakura dropped to the ground immediately, dodging a kunai to the head. On the other side of Kakashi, Kiba did the same.

"Be careful," Kakashi advised, the dead body of the nin falling at his feet.

"We will be!" Sakura promised quickly, grabbing Kiba and running off to where an Uzushio genin was getting a bit overwhelmed.

"Hello!" Sakura chirped as she jumped on one of the attackers(mist) and snapped their neck on the way down. "You weren't at the chuunin exams?"

"I just became a genin," she admitted quietly, quivering slightly. "I'm not very good at it yet."

"We'll help you!" Kiba shouted, jumping on another one and pinning them down. Sakura impaled a kunai in their neck to help Kiba out.

"Yeah we'll protect you!" Sakura agreed cheerfully. "What can you do now?"

She whimpered quietly and pointed to a smashed bit of metal. "They smashed my instrument, I haven't learned anything outside of it yet."

"Well nows a good at timr as any to learn!" Sakura chirped. She looked around and found another group of distracted shinobi. "Watch me and then copy," she instructed quietly, crouching down and getting ready to pounce.

She jumped and landed on one's back, soon followed by the baby genin then Kiba on her other side.

"See? Easy!" Sakura said cheerfully, snapping the shinobi under her's neck.

"O-oh! Yeah!" The little genin said, snapping hers.

"Lift up then twist," Sakura instructed. "It'll snap easier."

"Oh okay!"

"Whats your name kid?" Kiba asked, and Sakura realized she probably should've asked that earlier.

"Oh! It's Kiki. Thank you for helping me!"

"Don't say it like we're gonna leave!" Sakura huffed. "We ain't goin anywhere! Come on lets find some more shinobi!"

(A/N) I'm officially attached to Kiki she is adorable. Okay do you want the Aftermath as one stupid long chapter, or as multiple somewhat long chapters. Alternatively, would you rather I only check in with a couple characters and just mention the others. Doing either wouldn't bother me. (Side note, the other jounin sensei were also in the stadium.