Kira glared up at the massive creature.

'Feh. That sort of technique must be a massive drain on his Chakra...I'll just fight conservatively for now...'

He took several steps backward, waiting for the beast's assault.

Shadow, in his bestial form, stared down at Kira and howled ferociously.

'Foolish mist-nin. You must learn to use chakra and physical attacks together as one!'

Shadow lunged forward, spraying water into the air. Kira jumped to the right of the charging beast, launching himself across the arena to the wall opposite him.

'Good thing this fog is still around...might have some trouble running away if he could actively track my position...but I still need to draw this out some more...make him waste more of his Chakra...'

"Surrender!" Shadow howled as he turned to his opponent. Kira glared at the monstrosity again.

'Me surrender to you? Ha! It's a thousandyears to early for that!'

He stepped backwards, forming hand seals.

'Your size in that state is a great weakness...'

He stamped his foot on the surface of the water, timing it with the formation of the last hand seal.

'Suiton- Sensatsu Suishou no Jutsu!'

Water lifted up from the surface, forming hundreds of tiny needles, which quickly froze over into spikes of ice. Kira made a squeezing motion with his hand, and every needle launched itself at the massive creature simultaneously.

Shadow howled, causing the needles to shatter. 'Fool!' Shadow stepped forward onto Kira's leg, crushing it. Kira merely laughed.

'It doesn't matter! My ice doesn't just freeze the body; I can also use it to halt the movement of Chakra!'

As if on cue, ice sprouted up around Shadow's left foreleg, freezing all the way up to the shoulder.

'Also,' Kira grunted as ice covered his right shin. 'I can use it as a brace for broken limbs. Since I control it, it doesn't interfere with my Chakra.'

He smirked.

'Despite all your boasts, I know that form must take a lot of Chakra to maintain. And all those shadow clones, this mist and that lightning technique must have taken up quite a bit as well. You can't defeat me. I still have a trump card while it seems you have no tricks left up your sleeve.'

'No more tricks, eh?' The wolf howled a sonic wave, shattering the ice around his leg. He raised a hideous paw and slashed at Kira's chest with its sharp claws. Kira's body suddenly disappeared in a splash of water, revealing it to be a water clone. The real Kiraappeared above the beast, and landed on its head, whilst performing a series of hand seals.

'Suiton-Makyou Kyuu!'

He slammed his palms down it the wolf's head. From his hands, ice formed, quickly covering the creature's entire body. Kira flipped off of the creature, landing on the surface of the water.

Shadow stood still as the ice began to melt from a blazing heat radiating from his body.

'Kira...surrender or you will die, or someone close to you!'

'Don't confuse me with some newborn in its crib, Shadow. I'm not intimidated by such idle threats. Someone close to me? Hah! I'd love to see who you would choose for that unhappy burden...'

Kira grinned.

'But since you have so brazenly challenged me, I can't let you lose in a boring way. You'll shatter when you discover the distance between your strength and mine...'

'Yes, quite a big difference.' Shadow charged forward, lowering the mist and using the water from it to turn the entire arena floor into and electric minefield.

'Behold the Rai Rue Sabantora!' Shadow made a sand dome over the water, the sand turned solid as Shadow changed back to his normal form.

'Don't think for a moment that you have the upper hand here...' Kira muttered as he rotated himself to stand upside down on the sand dome. 'All you've done is reduce the amount of places that you can hide...'

He did a series of hand seals, then made a horizontal sweeping motion with both hands.

'Suiton- Art of the Crystalline pillars!'

Spikes of ice began to shoot out of the water and through the roof of the sand dome in a concentric circle surrounding Shadow. The spikes suddenly began jutting out of the water in Shadow's direction at a tremendous pace.

Shadow is hit by the ice but used the art of substitution and placed Kira there instead.

'I warned you, didn't I?' Shadow said as spikes of sand slammed down on Kira as well.

Kira protected himself from the worst of the damage by forming a sphere of ice around himself as quickly as he could.

'Guh...'

One of the ice spikes had stabbed him in the gut. He removed it, and used more ice to seal the wound. He looked over at Shadow. His vision began to blur as he reached a hand towards Shadow.

'There he is...I've got to kill him before I black out...'

He made a gripping motion with his hand, and a spherical prison of ice surrounded Shadow. With the last of his strength, he closed his hand into a fist.

'Makyou Kyuu!'

The ice crushed in on itself, but only a little bit, not enough to seriously harm Shadow.

'Damn...that isn't enough to kill him...'

He suddenly had a coughing fit, and blood splashed from his mouth onto the inside of the sphere.

'I can't do anything else...except get through this sand dome...'

At that, Kira formed a ball ice in his palm and pushed it through the roof of the dome. Kira blacked out as pushed his hand through after it.

Shadow broke the ice around him with several well-placed punches. He dropped the dome and the sand collapsed on and around them. He drew a kunai from his pouch and ran over to Kira, stabbing him in the leg as he collapsed.

'Damn it… I thought I had enough chakra…' he though as his vision blurred and then blacked-out.

Raidou looked from one to the other.

'Due to wounds and loss of chakra, both combatants are unable to fight! Neither will progress to the next round,' he declared. The medical team ran to the two unconscious boys and lifted them onto stretchers.

'We will now take a half-hour recess so that the examiners may discuss the rearrangements of fights following this battle.' announced Raidou.