Shadow stared at his opponent.
'Give up.'
His hands danced in a flurry of seals. A thick mist covered the arena and twenty shadow duplications of himself appeared around him. Shadow sent his dopple gangers to attack Kira while a ball of electricity formed on his palm.
'You want to die? Then fight back.'
'Mist and some inferior version of Copy-ninja Kakashi's raikiri? Are you insane? You can't judge my reactions at all, and you don't have the Sharingan to protect yourself!' taunted Kira.
The shadow clones drew near, and Kira lept into the air, quickly forming hand seals.
'Suiton- Bakusui Shouha!'
A torrent of water poured out of his mouth, wiping out the doppelgangers and filling the arena with water a foot deep. Kira landed on the surface and stared through the mist at the sound of the spark thunder.
'I wonder...'
Shadow was standing on the water, uneffected by Kira's attack. He smirked and slammed his hand into the water sending electric currents through it. 'You fool, you fell into my trap. The Raikiri Shouha! Kira...surrender. I don't wish to kill a childhood friend but if I must, I will.' Shadow walked towards Kira on a sand mound he created under his feet.
Ralfe and Kyo watched from the balcony.
'I was lucky to be able to go first. I'll have the most time to recover before my next fight. Plus I can study these guys' strategies and techniques. Hopefully they'll wear each other's chakra down enough for me to be in with a chance of beating them.' Ralfe thought.
'Hey, isn't that the guy Genma said had a bloodline limit?' said Kyo, referring to Kira.
'Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I hope we get to see it.'
'So I'll be fighting against the Mist's prodigal genin or a homocidal maniac. Thats just great,' he thought.
Kira leapt away from Shadow's attack and onto the arena wall, securing himself to it with Chakra.
'There we go...his hand's in the water, time to pull him under!'
He did a series of hand seals.
'Suiton- Goshoukuzame!'
Tendrils of water snaked up Shadow's arm, dragging him under the surface.
"Don't think that's the end of it..." Kira muttered.
'Suiton- Suikodan no Jutsu!'
A hole in the water suddenly appeared, showing a circle where Shadow was held by the tendrils of water. Large masses of water shot out from the surrounding wall at Shadow, spinning toward him like a drill rotating at incredible speed.
Kyo and Ralfe's eyes widened. Even Genma was suprised a genin could perform such a jutsu, though no sign of it showed on his calm face.
'What is that!' exclaimed Kyo.
'We're supposed to be the best genin in Konoha, but they're in a completely different league!' replied Ralfe.
'I haven't seen such a battle since Gaara and Uchiha,' thought Genma.
Raidou, who had retreated to the safety of the stands when Kira had flooded the arena floor, spoke to the Hokage.
'I don't think the stadium will stay safe for spectators if this fight goes on. Perhaps we should evacuate.'
'Not yet. Besides, I want to see how this turns out,' she replied.
'How can I even hope to beat either of those two!' thought Ralfe to himself in desperation.
Shadow made hand seals forming a deeper mist and used his Sand tomb technique, sand creeping up the arena wall to encase Kira.
'He's trying to make me drop the technique! I'm not going to lighten up that easily...'
He heard the sand swirling towards him from behind. He closed his eyes and formed series of hand seals, and then made a sweeping motion with his hand. Ice shot out of the surface of the water, forming a protective wall between him and the sand attacking him.
'The heavy mist should be able to keep that a secret...wouldn't want to give away my Bloodline limit before it's necessary, eh?'
Kira glanced down, peering through the fog at the vortex of water surrounding Shadow. The walls of water were becoming unstable.
'I can't manage more than two of these Jutsu at a given time...I'll have to end this quickly...'
He walked down the side of the wall and pressed the tips of his fingers down on the surface of the water, simultaneously dispelling the water tendrils and rotating deluge Jutsu, releasing Shadow. Kira made hand seals, then pressed the tips of his fingers under the surface again.
'Suiton-Art of Five Feeding Sharks!'
The water surrounding Kira's fingertips suddenly began frothing, and steam rose from the five points. The boiling water shot out from his fingertips in five separate lines, all spiraling down towards Shadow.
Shadow smirked and jumped up using the art of substitution. 'Fool.' Shadow dived down at Kira, sand flying up from the ground holding Kira still. Shadow stabbed through one of Kira's hands.
Ice spiked out of the water into the sand, freeing Kira's legs. It also sprouted from the wound in Kira's hand, spreading all the way up Shadow's arm, which froze it into one jointless limb. Ice covered the fingers on Kira's right hand, forming five spikes of frozen water. Kira stabbed that hand at Shadow's stomach.
Shadow threw his ice covered hand into Kira's.
'You alyways trust your eyes, fool,' Shadow said, his ice covered arm hanging at his side. With his remaining hand he performed a complex set of seals in rapid succession.
The water circled up and formed into a dragon, and more columns raised up, and from them more dragons appeared.
'Let me show you the true power of a ninja who has been trained in both the Sand and the Mist!' Shadow screamed, his body twisting and dissolving into a horrible creature. A gigantic wolf was in Shadow's previous spot, staring down at Kira.
Sitting next to Tsunade in the stands, Gaara smirked.
'Here is the true power of the Sand…'