"Go Katara! Knock him dead!" Troah yelled. "Troah!" Soma snapped. "Sorry…" Troah said, "uh… beat him!" 'Fools,' Katara thought, "thanks guys," she sighed with a lazy wave. "What was with all that, 'it's my destiny,' crap?" Soma asked, imitating Neji's voice. "I dunno," Troah said, "he's just weird I guess." "Yeah…" Soma agreed, as the examiner said to begin.

"Byakugan!" Neji yelled. Katara watched Neji closely, trying to figure out how he fights, using her shadow self to do so. The shadow came out of Neji, like it did Troah in the preliminaries. Neji dodged the shadow attack and glared at Katara. "I know how you fight, I saw you at the preliminaries," he said. Katara narrowed her eyes.

"Why do you act like such a tough guy?" Katara asked. "You're a loser," Neji scoffed. Katara raised an eyebrow at him, "who goes around talking about his 'destiny,' and what not… and I'm the loser? Ha," she said. Neji narrowed his eyes and attacked Katara with his 64 strikes. "Be careful Katara," Troah warned.

Katara began to do hand signals as Neji attacked her. Trying to think of something to hit him with. With each strike Katara felt weaker, pain seeped through her body as she tried to focus. 'One hit that's all I need to get this jerk off of me,' she thought. She heard Neji, saying to himself, "32." 64 was next, she had to do something before the last strike. She tried to punch him, but missed. "64," Neji said, hitting her hard.

Katara doubled over, still standing. She looked limp, as if she were… a dead person trying to stand. "KATARA!" Soma screamed. All of a sudden there was a flash of light, followed by two more. Angel wings had sprouted from Katara's back and created a defensive shell around her, protecting her. She felt her strength returning. "That's pretty," Soma gasped.

'Wow, she just keeps coming up with surprises… I wonder what else she can do?' Troah asked himself. He whistled in amazement, "you think you know a person," he said. Katara's eyes were glowing a brighter green behind the wall of feathers. "It seems I have underestimated her," Neji said.

"You still positive you're going to win this match?" Katara asked, "failures can be failures but they can come out of that as well." "Yeah right…" Neji growled. Katara lunged at him, but Neji blocked her attack with his Kaiten. Katara waited for him to stop spinning before going for another attack, this time from behind.

Neji saw it through his Byakugan and blocked it. Katara smirked, "you know you're not a loser but why do you put people down mentally, and why are you so keen on fate? We can't escape fate huh? You will not win this match." (Neji's big speech.. I don't know it 'cause I haven't seen the episode yet…)

Katara jumped back and did some hand signals, a bright light flashed. Neji tried to shield his eyes, but the flash blinded him anyway.

Katara smiled, seizing the opportunity. Using her ability, her clone made of shadow held Neji's shadow back, enabling him to fight back. "This fight is over," she told him, punching him hard in the stomach, then kicking him to the ground. She backed up a bit afterwards, Neji stood up, no longer blinded by the flash.

"This match is mine," Katara said, "but…" "But?" Neji asked, his eyes narrowed. "But, since you're so hooked on winning cause it's your 'destiny'… I give up," Katara said, looking at the examiner. The examiner stared at her as if she was crazy. "I forfeit the match," Katara said loudly and a little annoyed.

"What?" Troah muttered. "Did I hear her correctly?" Sakura asked. "Give up?" Ino asked. "Okay… I know he's cute… but give up? ARE YOU HIGH!" Soma exclaimed. Soma pushed Troah so hard that he almost fell of his chair. "HEY!" Troah exclaimed, "what was that for?" "I'm mad… and you're right there!" Soma snapped, she leaned back against the chair, crossing her arms and pouting. "Did you really have to push me?" Troah asked. "I just felt like it," Soma pouted.

Katara smiled, and walked out casually, as people stared at her, half expecting her to just turn around and continue the fight. Neji blinked twice, then yelled, "WHAT THE HELL!" Katara stopped and turned to him, "isn't this what you wanted?" she asked. Neji narrowed his eyes at her. Katara turned away again, walking out of the stadium.

Soma ran to meet her, "I'm really mad at you right now," she told her. "Really? I couldn't tell," Katara joked. "Very funny… anyways… you should watch the matches," Soma said. "I don't want to," Katara replied. "Oh c'mon… it's no fun with just Troah and the hurricane twins," Soma whined, "please!" "I don't…." "Pretty please!" Soma begged. Katara sighed, "fine…"