TenTen versus Guru

I stood and watched as the proud ninja girl stepped into the valley's cool grass. I silently cheered for her. Then, Guru came and seemed to disrupt my lovely picture I was just enjoying. Ugh! I hope this guys loses. I noticed the contrast between the two characters. TenTen's back was straight and her clothes were of bright colors, causing her to resemble a flower. Guru, however, was so pale and dark agaisnt the wave of grass. He was like oil, thick and disgusting, especially the smirk on his face. Shigame-sensei held her hand up in the air to signal silence. "2nd Match: TenTen versus Guru, BEGIN!"

With that, TenTen immeadiately leapt into the air and began to attack Guru with a bombardement of shurikens, who dodged them with ease. When TenTen paused for a moment, Guru dashed toward her with a sword, which was hidden beneath his jacket. TenTen just barely reacted in time to move back a hair's breadth from the sharp edge of the blade. Then, she quickly whipped out a scroll and opened it. Out came a long pole, with which she held in her hands professionally. She twirled it across her fingers with fluid movements. Then she held it firmly in her hand, ready for anything. Guru laughed at her expression. "Hahahahaha! You think that puny thing will stop my blade! Well, lets see how long you'll last."

He ran towards the young ninja girl slashing fiercely with his sword. TenTen blocked all of his attacks with her wooden pole. How's that possible? As I looked closer, I saw a seal on the pole. "Ah! I get it now," I expressed my thoughts aloud. "I wonder what kind of seal that is." The battle dragged on. TenTen didn't give Guru any openings and neither did he. There seemed to be no turning point, and I think Guru realized this, too, because he released a poisonous gas from within his jacket. TenTen gasped, just before covering her mouth. She leapt out of the cloud of toxins, just as Guru was there, waiting for her. She tried to turn around in mid leap, but Guru had already hit her in the shoulder with a kunai. She screamed from the pain, and landed on the ground, which only dirtied her wound. She quickly got up and coughed.

Oh no! She must have inhaled some of the gas!

Guru chuckled and ran toward her, mouth open. Her eyes widened in fear. She quickly put her pole in the way, and Guru's face smacked right into it. It was kind of funny looking, actually. I couldn't help, but giggle at him. TenTen then took this oppurtunity to smack Guru, again, with her pole and she shoved it into his side. The greasy man coughed as the full force hit him. He was in trouble. TenTen had regained her calm. He growled as he took out his sword to block her next attack. But this time, TenTen seemed to be more ferocious in her attacks. She gave harder blows, and even tripped him with her feet, a couple of times.

She must be getting desperate, I thought. She wants to end this now, but, although I hate to say this, Guru is smarter than he looks. He'll surely use this to his advantage.

Sure enough, he suddenly disappeared from the middle of a deadlock with TenTen. She searched, but to no avail, as he appeared behind her, forming hand seals. Just as TenTen realized, he said, "Ninpou, Endless Pit!" There was an earthquake as the ground began to give way underneath TenTen. A vortex, it seemed, appeared in the ground, and it sucked everything into it. TenTen was being pulled in it, just before she shoved her stick into the ground and held onto it tightly. I even felt the pull of the vortex as I grabbed onto one of the makeshift chairs in the stadium. Gaara had latched himself onto the ground with his sand. I looked over at my teammates with worry. Luckily, Hinako had covered their legs with ice, as they were stuck to the floor. Unfortunatly, some people on the first row, were sucked into the vortex.

As its suction intensely grew, TenTen was soon lifted off the ground and the only thing holding her in place was her desperately tight grip on her pole. Even I, who was in the last of the rows, could feel the force as my grip on the chair began to slacken. My hands were slipping as my legs were lifted into the air. My heart began to beat so fast that I could feel the throb in my ears.

No! I won't be able to hold on much longer. My fingers are slipping! I'm gonna get sucked in.

And with my last heart beat, my fingers slipped off the edge of the chair as I flew backward inot the vortex. In that moment of time, my heart didn't beat for a second. I knew I was going to die. But, luckily, I was wrong. I stopped as my neck whiplashed and my breath was knocked out of me. Around my waist was an arm of sand. I looked up at my savior with teary eyes.

Gaara. I hate to say this, but I owe you one.

I heard a familiar scream and turned my head around. TenTen, being so close to the vortex, could hold on no longer. She had let go and was flying into the growing hole in the ground, but there was no one to save her. As she was sucked into the ground, it closed and the suction, also stopped. Guru fell to the ground in exhaustion. As gravity pulled me back to the ground, the sand released me, but I wasn't paying attention to that. TenTen had been sucked into who knows where.

"TENTEN!" Gai-sensei ran down towards the field where the was an unnatural dip from where the vortex had been. The rest of Gai-sensei's team followed, as well as my teammates and I. Shigame-sensei was standing out in the middle of the field with an uncertain look on her face. I ran up to Guru and kicked him. "WHERE THE HELL IS SHE, YOU BASTARD!" Mr. Kyo pulled me back.

Although he was bent over, Guru still laughed. "Who knows? She could be anywhere in the unvierse, right now. Probably not even this dimension." The was a heavy silence as the shock weighed on everyone. Mr. Kyo slackened his grip on me, but I made no move. TenTen was gone? And there was probably no way of getting her back. Gai-sensei fell to his knees and cried. Lee was beside him. This was the worst defeat anyone had ever received so far, in the Chuunin Exam. Shigame-sensei stood back and without much energy in her voice said, "Winner: Guru."

There was no cheer, this time, from the crowd. TenTen wasn't the only one who had been sucked into the vortex Guru had created. Many of the audience was gone too, and it felt strangely empty now, as the crowd was thinned out.

...to be continued.