It
was Tenten's turn to fight and the rainy weather would inhibit her
ability to fight from a distance. She hoped it wouldn't work too
much against her favour. Her opponent stepped onto the field; it was
another girl fighter from the Hidden Mist Village. Tenten was
prepared for some kind of water attacks, but couldn't have been
ready for the troublesome techniques she faced.
The referee began
the match and Tenten threw some kunai as a distraction to get in from
behind. The ninja didn't try and move or block the oncoming weapons
but lifted her hands and the kunai were sent flying back at Tenten
who had to get out of the way. This shock and distraction allowed her
opponent to do what she had planned and come in close and find an
opening to get a good shot on Tenten. The mist ninja wasn't going
to let up and Tenten immediately retreated for her own sake. Her gut
hurt and she could already feel her eye turning black under the punch
from the opponent. What had knocked her weapons back like that?
Whatever it was, the mist ninja seemed ready for the ongoing fight.
Tenten needed to find out what it was before she could find a way
around it. Tenten threw some more kunai at her opponent who lifted
her hands again having the same affect on the weapons thrown at her.
What the mist ninja wasn't ready for was the shuriken in its blind
spot. She was only just able to move her hands in front of her again
to knock the shuriken back in Tenten's direction. Tenten was
banking on her knocking it back and made an exploding tag go off on
the shuriken thrown. Although it had been deflected it was still
close enough to do damage to the mist ninja. Tenten charged in
through the smoke finding her opponent in mid air and with a perfect
opening to finish the match.
As Tenten swung her kick and the
mist ninja unable to stop it, Tenten was quite happy to end it now.
But her kick didn't connect, it was accurate to line up and set,
but it didn't hit. Not only didn't her kick find the mark but her
leg was shot back in the opposite direction sending her flipping down
to land on the ground. It was some kind of force field, was it
similar to Neji's technique? Tenten slowly picked herself up off
the ground and saw her opponent was still recovering from the
explosion blast. "I have been looking forward to fighting a Leaf
ninja, I have heard so much about you and to see all of you win your
matches is incredible. But I am afraid I can't see you beating me."
She wasn't trying to intimidate Tenten and even seemed embarrassed
by saying it; she truly was excited to meet a Konoha ninja. Tenten
thought she would answer, "Why won't I beat you?"
"Because
you don't have a variety of ninjutsu moves, so you do a marvelous
amount of weapon and taijutsu attacks. Your weapons are weak against
my techniques, possibly like if you were fighting a wind type."
Tenten was shocked by this and looked to the stands where she
couldn't see Temari but knew she was there watching her. Neji's
eyes would have been so useful to see her techniques,
but she couldn't dwell on that now.
She threw a smoke pellet
onto the floor and covered herself; she got into a position behind
the ninja and waited for an opening. Once she found it, she attacked
with some more kunai she kept with her. Again, they were knocked away
but not back at Tenten. Tenten stopped to catch her breath but gave
an opening to the mist ninja who executed some hand seals, "Reflect
Technique". The kunai that was in all different directions bounced
off an invisible object and sprung towards Tenten from all different
directions and hit her perfectly. If it wasn't a clone she had
switched with she would have been done for on the spot.
She was
using techniques to reflect her attacks which were why it was sending
them straight back with the same amount of force. This was indeed
troublesome for Tenten's weapon attacks but there was a way around
it. It also explains her lost chance at finishing the match before;
she must have made the shield to surround her for a short amount of
time for Tenten to miss a shot of ending the match. "It seems like
you have figured out my style of fighting, but simple reflections are
not all I can do." The enemy ninja charged in at Tenten for close
quarter combat and cornered her so she couldn't retreat. Tenten
wasn't overly bad at hand to hand combat and she believed she could
hold on until she could find a way to make distance. However she
wasn't expecting her opponent to have some tricky techniques. The
opponent swung a right hand punch which Tenten easily moved her arm
to block but was smacked from the other side of her face knowing her
off her feet and having to scramble to make sure her opponent didn't
finish her off. The next attack was the same, Tenten easily being
able to block it but hit from the other side and doing a fair amount
of damage. What was going on? She stared at her opponent who charged
again and swung another punch, Tenten backed away this time before
coming back in for an opening. The ninja had left a large opening on
her right side which allowed Tenten to target a left goof kick to her
ribs. Her opponent saw the kick coming and moved her opposite arm up,
still leaving the opening but stopping her kick completely. Tenten
smiled, "I found out your little technique trick. You use a
genjutsu combined with your reflection techniques to make a mirror
image of every movement you make." The ninja smiled, "I wouldn't
expect anything less from a Konoha ninja, but I should finish this
before I run out of chakra." Tenten was a little worried but she
did have an idea.
She retreated to a safe distance and took out
some scrolls in her belt; she was doing her rising twin dragons
technique to finish this match now. As she summoned her technique,
the dragons rose up and around Tenten and granting her hundreds of
weapons to be sent flying down towards her opponent with deadly speed
and accuracy. As she expected, the ninja began to reflect all of
them, until Tenten was out of weapons. "Your weapons are useless
Leaf ninja." The weapons were scattered everywhere on the field, in
all directions around the Mist ninja.
"It isn't finished
yet." She moved her fingers with the strings attached to them all
to hurtle back to her from behind, causing her to turn around and
have to focus all her energy in reflecting the weapons from behind
her. This opportunity and opening allowed Tenten's exploding mine
to get in from the Mist ninja's front and create its maximum
potential with a close range explosion. The mist ninja was sent
flying backwards and into the ground to leave Tenten standing as the
winner of the match.
Before they took the mist ninja off the
field, she spoke to Tenten, "You made me focus on my back while you
attacked from the front. As expected of a Konoha ninja, an honour to
fight." Tenten smiled and got some medical cream she kept in her
belt and gave it to the ninja and walked off from the battlefield a
winner.
