Temari stepped onto the battlefield as the last competitor in the Chuunin exams. The last ninja left was somebody from the Hidden Rock Village and both of her brothers had won their fights. She thought of Shikamaru and how much he would mock her if she was the only one to lose, the thought made her clutch her hand into a fist tightly and ready for the fight. She had her fan ready beside her and she could hear the spectators eyeing it off and talking amongst each other and how such an item could be used within combat. Then she saw her opponent step onto the battlefield, he seemed to have his own device for this fight and she couldn't work out what it was. It seemed he had no right arm; it was replaced with quite a large contraption that was very intimidating. It was a long tube, obviously fires out some kind of projectile from the bottom and there was a section joined onto the funnel as if it was a lower part of a human jaw. The jaw section even had teeth along the rims but from what Temari could tell, this thing wasn't alive and was probably like this for appearance more than anything else. When the referee began the fight, neither fighter moved from their spot but readied the weapons they bought with them.
The opponent was the first to make a move; he stuck his weaponised arm into the ground and kept it in there. Temari wasn't going to give him a chance to set up for any attacks and swiped her fan from a distance away to get things started. She had made her wind thin and sharp hoping to get some external damage done, but the ninja was able to hide behind his contraption and because it was embedded into the ground, he could stand the force of the wind. They were both long distance fighters but Temari used his positioning to get in close.
It seemed though that the Rock ninja was onto her plan and lifted his weapon out of the ground and aimed it at Temari. She stopped and retreated and had to avoid the hardened ball of mud and dirt that was fired at her at a dangerous speed. Luckily it missed, but it hit the barrier behind her, crumbling most of it to the ground and sending the spectators to the floor despite being seated. If this hit her with the sheer force she would surely be taken out in one go and needed to avoid it at all costs. She had been able to easily avoid it but it had given her enemy an opening to fire at her again because she was vulnerable when she was in the air. It came straight for her and her only hope was to blow it away with the force from her fan. She swiped her fan with all her might and was worried when the mud ball was still coming at her. Although she did get hit with it and little damage being done, the resistance from her wind had slowed it down considerably and taken the force out of the attack. The mud ball however had splattered everywhere and some it getting in her eyes, which she quickly rubbed off. The first bout had ended and they both stood off against each other. The Rock ninja was first to break the silence, "I thought that might have been for wind techniques, but it will not be enough for my earth bullets." Temari kept her cool, she wasn't going to lose to this amateur and she had been in way worse situations than this already, even as a genin.
She once more used her fan to make a cutting whirlwind making it as thin and sharp as possible. The ninja shot a wall of mud a short distance in front of himself which acted as a wall against her attack and absorbed the damage from her technique. Even though it was only there a few seconds before Temari's technique completely shattered it, it was enough for the ninja to escape unscathed. The ninja once again stuck his weapon into the ground and Temari could only prepare herself to dodge the attack.
As she stood there she thought she felt something underneath her feet but couldn't be sure. When there was another rumble she helped what she suspected couldn't be true. The ground beneath her feet began to rumble and she only just made it out of the way in time before the earth underneath her feet exploded as if she had stepped on a landmine. While she had jumped out of the way, the ninja fired yet another bullet of mud at her but could only get a smaller but quicker projectile rather than his larger more cumbersome one. It had paid off and Temari went down as it hit her. While she was on the ground, she knew she needed to work this guy out and she also needed a short rest. The ninja was refilling his weapon up again and wasn't going to give her too much time so she needed to think quickly. He was obviously bad at taijutsu and possibly ninjutsu as every technique he did revolved around using his weapon. She suddenly got an idea to get this fight back to her advanrage and began slowing the enemy down with another cutting whirlwind from her fan but with a bit more blunt power force rather than a sharper attack. Then she used her summoning which was able to get in at a good angle and far to quick for the ninja to be ready for. He had no other option but to draw himself away from his weapon to reveal he had no arm at all. Temari wasn't stopping here and got in at an angle that he could have only stopped if he had both of his arms and a good kick to his mid section halted him up enough to blow him away with her extreme cutting wind technique which granted her victory in the fight.
All the fighters departed back home from the Rain Village. The ninjas from Konoha all went together as did the siblings from the Hidden Sand Village. They were all very happy they were successful in being able to achieve the status of Chuunin, especially after last time where they were much less experienced. However they all knew the road didn't stop here and many would strive to become Jounins. This wasn't a priority for all of them though, what was on every one of their minds was the thought of Uchiha Sasuke getting powerful under Orochimaru and Uzumaki Naruto training with Jiraiya. Every one of them wanted to show how powerful they could get and how they were not going to stand aside and let Naruto take all the glory when he returned home. They were the ninjas from the great shinobi nations and at this tournament, they had proven why.