"And the winner is...Hitomi!" he called to the crowd, whose responses varied. Several cheered, but others named Hitomi a cheater, lying about her rank. Hitomi, however, kept her head high. They could call her what they wanted, but she knew that it was merely out of the village's skepticism of her intentions.
A couple of ninjas pulled out a stretcher for Ino and brought her in the back to recupperate. She'd come to in a little while. However, the village was more concerned with the sudden appearance of two more ninja on the field. Their Hokage had begun yelling at Hitomi, and Akane had come in her defense.
"I'll not have you dealing out your village's revenge on innocent residents here!" screamed Tsunade,
flicking at Hitomi's forehead.
"What do you mean, dealing out my village's revenge!? I was merely doing what the competition entails--FIGHTING! Whoever arranged these fights should have known better than to place her against me if you were gonna get all pissy about me beating her!" replied Hitomi with a strong jab at the Hokage's chest, making her falter.
"If what you think our village wants is revenge, you're terribly mistaken, Tsunade! We came under peaceful terms and here you and your village are, making a great ordeal out of it!" interjected Akane.
The referree quickly ran into the three fighting women. "LADIES! We are in the middle of a competition!
If you would please finish this later, we only have a few more fights to go." Tsunade nodded, gave a sharp glance at the two, then retreated to her seat. "Now, then! Our next contestants will be.
Akane vs Naruto Uzumaki!"
Hitomi smiled and gave Akane a friendly punch in the shoulder. "Go get 'im," she said as she left the arena and the annoyingly loud blond kid came down.
Naruto walked up to Akane, looking her up and down with critical eyes. "You don't look so tough!" he exclaimed, finally. "I can beat you..." He walked back to his side of the arena and waited for the ref to begin the fight.
"3...2...1! FIGHT!"
There was a loud crash and a flash of light. The dust rose around the field as the crowd heard yells and undecipherable words. Within the minute, silence stretched across the arena. The crowd didn't know who to cheer for, or who had won. The dust covered the two combatants like a heavy quilt of snow.
Silently, Hitomi heard mixed wishes amongst the previous combatants. Hinata whispered into her cupped hands, quietly telling Naruto to be okay and win. However, she found Kiba rooting for Akane, mostly to "put that nuissance in his place." She got the idea he was still sore about a past encounter with the kid.
Dragonn: Yay! I updated again! Woohoo! Yes, it's really short. I'm sick today, and since I didn't go to school, I decided to try to add more to the story. It's not really that great, though. Just people getting mad at each other. haha...oh wellllll...