Things would have went very well if the pink haired individual wasn't a substitute, much less a shadow clone. And the turnout would have been better if Takamitsu had activated his kusakegro before getting hit. And, if he'd have went for an attack with his dragon saber drawn, at least he could block the incoming kunai. But, that's all in part of the game of unrehearsed risky maneuvers. Most of the time, they don't connect. But this was the exception. In fact Takamitsu had received an upper body full of perforations of the resulted attack.

The wounds on his shoulder were no laughing matter, but he wouldn't bleed out if he could keep the stuck ones in. He faked falling unconscious so he wouldn't be considered a threat to whomever remained. Unfortunately, the pain came in a few seconds later, and Takamitsu couldn't move his arms. He could only yell in pain from the resulted attack.

"You fucking idiot, you were supposed to jump where she dodged, not jump on her!" Tenten screamed internally.

"Oh shit, you looked like you were trying to save Sakura there!" Naruto appeared shortly afterwards, assessing what happened on the attack.

"Yeah, I… Underestimated the jump… heh-heh." Takamitsu lied. "Woah shit, how bad is it?"

"I'd say you look like the upper half of a balding porcupine."

"What I'm not a christmas tree from the spandex?"

"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled from across the field.

"Dynamic en-" but before Lee could complete his sentence, he had already dropkicked Naruto in the head. The hit was hard enough, Naruto rag-dolled about ten feet before slamming into a tree.

"Jesus Lee, you didn't have to kill the dude-AGH!" Takamisu was interrupted by Tenten pulling out one of the soon to be many kunai from his shoulders.

"I am afraid I did not kick him hard enough for that. It seems that he still breathes." Lee replied, winding back one of his loose bandages on his right arm.

"Can you move your left arm?" Tenten asked.

"Why yes Tenten everything is nominal-" Lee-

"Not you green barret, Mr. Swiss here." Ten-

"Agh shit, it moves, but hurts like hell." Tak-

"Good, then I hopefully have a guide of the muscle patterns to go on… Shit, I don't have enough chakra to-" Ten-

"Prepare for your fate challenger, as we will be the ones who-" Lee seemed to have lost every sense of the english language, after observing the strawberry blonde woman who approached them.

"I… Think I can help a bit out with that-" Sakura held a hand forward and begun to emit a green aura toward Takamitsu.

"But wait a second, you just saw your friend get clobbered by-" Ten-

"It's fine, Naruto always gets into these kinds of things. He'll bounce back in no time." Sakura shrugged.

"Ow! Sweet baby Lucifer Jesus!" Takamitsu gritted his teeth to muffle his sharp feeling of pain over his worse wounds.

"Sounds like next time you should learn to dodge huh?" Tenten joked.

"That's as much as I can do here. I need to save some in case we get ambushed again." Sak-

"Again? Is that why one guy was screaming?" Tak-

"It's a… Long story…"

"Well, we don't want to keep you. I appreciate this Sakura." Takamitsu smiled and immediately winced when he tried raising his hand.

"Oh, well, don't let it go to waste haha…" Sakura joked as team Guy were to lower the pace among getting closer to the tower.

Later, deeper into the forest.

"I saw that look." Takamitsu faced Lee. Lee was genuinely confused. "You never stood more still in your entire life than when you saw that blonde woman today."

"That may be true, but I would be willing to sacrifice my li-" Lee-

"Hold up Lee, you've seen her for maybe ten minutes… Don't you think it's a little soon to be making a judgement call?" Tak-

"Instead of talking about relationship problems, can we focus on the task now that we're basically down a fighter?" Ten-

"Well, I'm not disabled Tenten, I can still run like a decoy and dodge attacks." Tak-

"Well it's a good thing you dodged that one." Ten-

"I didn't know she was a shadow clone! How could a genin learn such an advanced jutsu as-" Tak-

"Same as Mr. glass cannon Chakra blade, homing missile lightning bolt, and time stop contemplator. There's no such thing as an even playing field Takamitsu." Ten-

"Yeah but-" Tak-

"I don't want to hear it!" Ten-

"But obviously there's-"Tak-

"You want me to punch you in the shoulder!?" Tenten gritted her teeth but held back from swinging.