All right people, this is going to be the next installation: chapter 10
Oh and one thing, I put a lot of time into this fight considering it will involve the smartest ninja, combined with probably the most overkill one, so lets see how this turns out.
And now the long awaited Shikamaru vs Tenten!
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Shikamaru and Tenten both made their ways down to the field. Not much could be said about the two combatants – one was fun loving and extreme, the other, the exact opposite.
"Battle Shikamaru Nara versus Tenten. Begin!"
Shikamaru was perfectly content with sitting there and doing nothing, however, Tenten jumped into action immediately. She threw 3 kunai with 100% accuracy, but Shikamaru actually caught the kunai right out of the air.
"That's nice aim, I'll give you that." Shikamaru commented, "I've seen you train sometimes, so let me tell you: Perfect aim won't help you on a moving, living target that can think for itself."
Naruto looked on with interest. "He caught those kunai without even blinking…damnit, I want that!" He cursed, "how did he do it?"
"Well Naruto", Kakashi started, "He did it the same way I deflected your shuriken with my foot during the bell test: from the non-lethal side. I'm surprised that he has the focus and hand-eye coordination to pull that off at his age though."
"Well, Shikamaru has an IQ of over 200 points, so it isn't too surprising." Asuma commented.
"Over 200!" Sasuke yelped. Asuma only nodded, but it was Naruto who decided to pay close attention to Shikamaru's fight – if Naruto could predict Shikamaru's moves, or think of a way that they could be conteracted, would he be considered more intelligent?
Back at the battle, Tenten only smirked. "You're sadly mistaken if you think that's all I've got."
"I never said that, I just said aim won't help you, not on me anyway."
"Not on you huh? And I supposed that's supposed to mean your special or something?"
Shikamaru smirked. "I'm not special, which is why its even more embarrassing of you to lose to me, which by the way, I can guarantee will happen."
"Grrr" Was all she remarked. She flexed her arms and legs, throwing kunai in every direction that had thick ninja wire attached to them, creating a spider's web of wire.
"Ninja Art! Caged Encampment!" She yelled, jumping between ninja wire, bouncing off and landing on top of it, throwing kunai as she jumped and sling shot her way around the room.
'Interesting' Shikamaru thought.
"You're going to have to do better then that." He exclaimed, as he brought his own kunai to cut the ropes as he dodged, but to no avail – the wire was too thick and strong.
'Thick wire huh? I wonder…' He pondered to himself.
"I've got you!" Tenten yelled as she was suddenly behind Shikamaru, bringing up her kunai to strike. Unfortunately for her, Shikamaru's nerves were up, however surprised he was, and grabbed her wrist behind him, and using her arm and weight for support, flipped backwards and above Tenten, so that he was behind her.
The quick move Shikamaru pulled off caught Tenten off guard, and he used the moment to back away – Shikamaru was bewildered.
'How did she get behind me like that? Did she catch me off guard?' All the while, Shikamaru, was watching Tenten attentively, until once again, he felt something behind him.
"Again!" Tenten called. Shikamaru gasped and looked behind, seeing Tenten, and observing that indeed Tenten was no longer in front of him. With some quick maneuvering, Shikamaru slid backwards away from the deadly weapons master. However, Shikamaru forgot the area was filled to the brim with ninja wire, and his motion away from the kunoichi was halted.
"I have you now!" She yelled and threw 3 shuriken, which Shikamaru was forced to block with his arms.
'Got him!' She celebrated mentally. 'I don't think he's noticed that I've been using clones to confuse him. I just make clones as I slingshot my way around the room, engaging his attention by throwing weapons to divert his attention. Anytime he looks away due to the weapons, I switch places with a clone, and since he's so intent on staring me down to try and come up with a counter attack, he doesn't look around because of it, I just swoop in behind him!'
Neji up in the stalls smirked, Tenten was executing her plan perfectly. He'd heard from Guy that there were worthwhile rookies to worry about, even if they were newly graduates. Among them were Sasuke, Naruto, Shikamaru, Shino, and Hinata. Initially, he'd never allow himself to believe Hinata to be any sort of threat, but after seeing her display against Kiba, and after Naruto's speech about destiny, he had to admit otherwise.
He'd thought the same of Naruto, as Naruto was dead last in the academy, but obviously Naruto had his own arsenal. Sasuke was number 1 rookie of his year, so he could only expect some skill. Shino and Shikamaru he heard little about, only that Shikamaru had an IQ of over 200, which Guy, who was told by Asuma, told his team to keep them on alert.
The fact that Tenten had one of the ninja that he was told to look out for on the ropes had him smirking with pride, even if he didn't really know why.
Shikamaru however was frustrated, he tried to come up with a plan earlier but Tenten's swift actions weren't letting up. He knew she had to be doing something during the period of time that he dodges her projectiles, but now I was time to counter.
"Shadow possession jutsu!" He yelled, as his shadow beneath him stretched ahead of him, running for Tenten, who although she didn't know what the jutsu's effect was, knew that she should stay away from it. She back flipped and cart wheeled herself away, noticing the narrowing of the shadow as it extended further and further, until it could no longer move. She smirked, finding the weakness.
"Looks like there really is a limit to all jutsu huh?" She remarked smartly.
"Your right, but have you really found out everything that goes with the shadow possession?"
"Well looks like it – your shadow extends to do whatever it does once it touches me, and it can only extend a certain distance."
Shikamaru chuckled. "Yeah, BUT are you certain it needs to be MY shadow?" On cue, his extended shadow morphed and extended into different directions, attaching themselves to the shadows of the suspended wires, reconnecting with the 'main' shadow and back again to advance towards the weapons mistress.
"Urg." Tenten could only curse as she found herself on the move again, when she thought.
'Shadows! Of course…' She jumped on top of her wire and stayed elevated above the ground.
"What now smart guy? Your shadows are only casted on the ground, as long as I stay on my wire, I'm safe." Tenten remarked.
Shikamaru didn't say anything. Instead, he kneeled on one leg, and brought his hands together, inverted underneath him to make a 'ball' shape, and closed his eyes in concentration.
Naruto raised his brow in 'James Bond-esque' fashion. "What's with the weird hand sign? Another jutsu?" He questioned, trying to decipher Shikamaru's tactic. Asuma chuckled.
"Trust me, that's no hand sign, but that doesn't mean that when one see's that sign, they shouldn't tremble in fear…heh." He claimed, laughing because he recounted a moment he had with Shikamaru.
Flashback
"So…" Asuma mumbled, as he and Shikamaru played Shogi. He saw his opportunity. His rook and knights had the king surrounded. The only way Shikamaru could protect himself would be to sacrifice his rook, and the only long moving pieces he had left were a bishop and a knight. It would be much easier to win with the rook out of the way.
"So what?" Shikamaru continued.
"What will you do now?" He questioned with a smirk. He'd never been able to beat Shikamaru at Shogi, with bothered him since he should have had the superior tactical mind of the two. Now however, it seemed he had Shikamaru on the ropes.
Shikamaru looked on with interest. "Well I do have to say, your 'silver stairs' tactic is a new one, and I'm surprised you were able to use it on me. You've gotten better at this."
Asuma didn't say anything. All he thought of was 'come ooooon. Tell me that you're at a loss!'
Shikamaru closed his eyes, taking in the picture of the battle field in his mind, and balled his fingertips to each other, creating a ball under him. Asuma raised his brow in interest, and this went on for a few seconds, when Shikamaru smirked, his eyes closed still. With his eyes closed, he reached for his bishop, and took Asuma's rook that was threatening his own rook, and the only unprotected angle in which Asuma believed only the rook could protect.
"Gha…" Asuma shivered silently, cursing his luck.
End Flashback
Shikamaru's eyes snapped opened. He was no fool – he had been paying very close attention to the surrounding area. In fact, he release his chakra in a dome like manner, so any clone Tenten would make would be sensed because they would interfere with his constant chakra release. Yes, this burned his chakra more then he would like, but he needed to carry his plan out without any holes in his strategy. Shikamaru observed the wires, seeing that indeed, they were in the right spot, in the right way. Tenten was standing attentively, but on the ready.
"Shadow possession jutsu!" Shikamaru called, but this time, instead of reaching forward and using the shadows of the wires, the shadows raced to the side, up the wall, and onto the wire.
Shikamaru had eyed the wire carefully. Tenten's accuracy was 100%, and threw her weapons farther and faster than most people he had seen. Part of her technique was that she spun the said weapon to increase the velocity, power, and to repel any wind resistance to meet its target. If Tenten used that technique, then the wire must have been violently twisted along the length. Shikamaru had Tenten's actions to thank for knowing this…
Shikamaru slid backwards away from the deadly weapons master. However, Shikamaru forgot the area was filled to the brim with ninja wire, and his motion away from the kunoichi was halted.
Shikamaru had recounted that moment when he had closed his eyes to think, and he remembered that when he had looked back to look at the wire when it halted him, he remembered seeing the wire's spiral and twisted pattern. The memory of the twisted wire was not even a memory that he consciously recorded, but when he used that handsign, it was like he could see from every angle.
The relevance of the wire being twisted was that it curved in on itself – it was twisted so much that it in fact, would cast shadows on itself.
Tenten raised her brow in interest, but remained calm. 'Those shadows have a limit; he can't reach me like this…'
However, using the shadows of the twisted wire, he was able to use those shadows to increase the length of his shadow possession, and before Tenten knew it, they were upon her. She had no choice but to jump away from the shadows coming upon her.
Shikamaru smirked at his victory. There was no place she could hide now. Be it the floor, or atop the wire, she could not be safe from the shadow jutsu, and reluctantly, she retracted the wire, knowing it was hindering her now. Unfortunately, this meant that she would have to use her secret weapon – his reflexes were too great for simple tricks.
"Well, I gotta say I didn't expect things to turn out like this. I wanted to save this for the finals, but I see I have no choice but to use it!" With that claim, Tenten took out two scrolls, seemed to judge some distance, back flipped, never taking her eyes of Shikamaru, and jumped high, unrolling the scrolls as her distance climbed.
"Rising Twin Dragons!"
The scrolls at both her sides had many symbols on them. When she touched the symbols, a weapon would 'pop' into existence, and she would throw it. She did this at lightning speed.
Shikamaru had an idea in his mind. It would be win or lose by guarantee, all on the efficiency of his next move.
Naruto in the stalls smirked. "I know what he's…going to do." He crossed his bare arms triumphantly.
Hinata looked at him curiously, even if she had already been looking at him previously. heH He was just so HOT!
"What is he planning Naruto-kun?"
Naruto resisted the urge to chuckle. "I can tell you it's dangerous, but maybe you can just watch…"
"That's gonna be hard to do…" Hinata murmured to herself, biting her lip at the view of Naruto. Luckily he hadn't heard her, but suddenly Hinata slapped herself mentally. She had been ignoring her strange thoughts, but now confronted it.
'What's wrong with me? Why am I thinking like this so much…it's so unlike me.'
She thought again of Naruto, and how much he changed, could it be so surprising that she was changing too? Then again, Naruto didn't change in terms of how he thought of girls…did he? Her swirling thoughts frustrated her bowls.
"I'm afraid I can't, I suddenly need to go to the bathroom…" She said with a blush of embarrassment.
Naruto simply smiled. "That's fine Hinata. Go ahead, hehe." He replied. Hinata turned on the ball of her foot and began trotting. Naruto turned back to the match.
Meanwhile back at the battlefield, Shikamaru watched as the weapons raced onward toward him.
'Just a few more seconds…'
'One…' The weapons cruised closer. 'Two'…Kunai, shurikens, chains. 'three…' Blades, butterfly knives, sharp staffs. 'Now!'
"Shadow Possession Jutsu!" His shadow rushed, connecting with the shadow of the oncoming weaponry so that it could continue its pursuit. Shikamaru knew that the weapons would not stop their movement until Tenten was actually hit with the jutsu. If he couldn't get her before the weapons hit him, he would lose for sure. If he hit her before that though…
Tenten saw the jutsu racing, and panicked. She threw weapons faster in a frenzy. "Come on come on come on!" She yelled, then she realaxed. She was suspended in the air! There's no way a shadow can cast itself onto her in the air, shadows need solid matter to project themselves.
Surely enough however, Shikamaru's shadow raced up her twin scrolls, much to her dismay. "You have GOT to be kidding!" She cursed, and tried to summon a sharp weapon in which to cut the scroll short and cut off the shadow in the process. Which was exactly what Shikamaru wanted.
As Tenten places her hand on the scroll to summon a sharp weapon, Shikamaru's shadow touched her hand when it made contact.
"Success!" Shikamaru yelled triumphantly.
Shikamaru looked at the weaponry mere inches from him and sighed with relief once they all fell to the ground with a plop and 'pop'. However, it wasn't over, Tenten was now falling, immobilized, to the ground in a standing position, which looked pretty awkward. Shikamaru quickly lay on his stomach, flat on the floor, and Tenten followed suit, falling towards the floor, she could only brace herself for impact.
"Release." Shikamaru called, moments before she hit the ground, as to not feel the same thing Tenten would feel.
"Ah!" She yelled moments before she hit the floor, flat, from several meters up, knocking her unconscious.
Hayate inspected the unconscious figure, and nodded again.
"And out with a bang, the winner is Shikamaru Nara!"
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Hinata raced towards the bathroom stalls, after carefully reading the bathroom female and male signs, (because after all, she still didn't want to walk into the wrong room) she walked into the women's bathrooms, inwardly cheering that no one was there – she never liked doing her business in front or around others.
She sat down on the toilet and did her business, still not believing herself for the…perverse thoughts that she was thinking so naturally as if she had done it her whole life. She shook her head in frustration, reaching for the toilet paper. She reached down and clean herself, when a new feeling swept through her when she touched herself down there.
"Ooh!" She gasped in surprise and unfamiliar feeling. And then a thought crossed her mind…
Hinata started to feel a pang in her stomach as his hand descended lower. She couldn't explain it. Like hot water rushing down her back and turning cold as it reached her knees making her shiver with a pleasure she'd never felt. Naruto started rubbing the wound harder to get into the tight crevices of the ripped up skin. And soon it felt like a knot was being tied in her stomach. It filled her with a feeling so extremely foreign she started to become nervous and she stopped Naruto.
Yes…she felt it then too, she realized, and soon she started thinking of Naruto, and rubbed her womanhood again slowly, earning herself a 'hnnnnnnnnnn…' sound unlike anything she ever heard herself make before.
In her mind, she could see a shirtless Naruto walk up to her…
"Hey Hinata…" Naruto called huskily. Hinata only bit her lip more as she stared down his nakedness. Not quite however, he was still wearing his pants. Naruto seemed to read her mind, and he tugged at the belt around his waist teasingly. "You wanna seee?"
Hinata could feel herself rub herself harder at that line, at that anticipation.
Hinata nodded solemnly and nervously, and rubbed her somehow naked arm in an attempt to warm herself from the cold, teasing feeling she felt. Naruto smirked and she realized she was naked. He answered her desire by saying, "Well well, I guess I outta return the favour…Hinata-Chan…"
With every word Naruto uttered, Hinata's teeth gripped harder on her mouth, and when he said her name like that, her grip on her own lip relaxed suddenly and she moaned. She couldn't fathom the movement of her desperate fingers, only the tease her Naruto-kun was doing for her.
Hinata watched as Naruto's fingers skillfully hooked behind the thin metal bar that stuck through the belt holes, and unbuckled it. Suddenly without warning, Naruto gripped the opposite ends of the belt, and arched it around her naked waste, pulling her closer roughly, their bodies slapping together. She could feel his bulge against her womanhood, and she couldn't take how unfair it was that he was clothed. She grabbed the hems of his loose pants, and in one fell swoop, pulled down his pants and boxers, revealing him. It immediately pounced upwards, meeting her arousal with more force then she was ready for.
Hinata immediately moaned, and without warning even to herself, inserted one finger inside roughly.
"AHH!" She shouted loudly, losing herself in the pleasure she was feeling, and rested her back on the bathroom stall's wall, still sitting on the toilet seat. Naruto, in her fantasy, had inserted himself roughly, with a smile on his face, and her back slammed against the wall as she bucked her hips into her fingers violently.
"Hah…uum…hoooohhh…Na-"
"Yessssssssss?" Naruto slurred, and licked her neck provocatively.
Hinata couldn't answer, no words would form, even though Naruto seemed to keep his cool, and he was in complete control, and such concentration during a time that she was in disarray only impressed and turned her on more. The memories of Naruto's bare chest, and that sexy smirk of his, vaguely replayed over in her mind as she rubbed and pleasured herself faster and harder, adding more fingers and moaning louder.
"ANSWER ME!" He demanded, and groped her ass hard that if it were real, was sure that it would hurt, but his actions were far from abusive.
Hinata was profusely sweating now, and she could embaressingly feel her sweat drip down to her breasts from her profuse moments, it suspended itself on her now pert and hardened nipple. She could feel herself drooling too. She felt that the hanging bead of sweat from her nipple added a strange sensation, and instinctly, she brought her free hand up to twirl and tease herself with her petit fingers. Her head was hanging loosely to the side and resting on her shoulder.
"Na...oooohh..I'm…feeling s-s-soooo…" She couldn't finish, as her orgasm spurt all over her hand and even squirting onto the walls of the stalls. She couldn't support herself, and her hand didn't stop its motions, that she fell to the side slowly, riding out the rest of her orgasm.
"Ooooh….Kami…." She whispered sensually, breathing heavily. When her senses finally returned, she blushed massively at her situation. She was now lying on her stomach, naked, with her legs bent, with her lower limbs above the toilet, holding her butt in the air vulnerably. She was covered in sweat and fluids, and so were the walls of the room. If Naruto were standing behind her when she were in the position…
Hinata shook her head in an attempt to rid herself of such thoughts. Even now, she couldn't understand the urges that she was feeling, and they were new to her. Still, one question made its way into her mind and mouth.
"What…the heck… was that?"
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Naruto sneezed at the stands, and rubbed his itchy nose with the side of his index finger.
Shikamaru walked up the stairs with little interest, and rubbing his shoulders. Ino bombarded him with congratulatory phrases like 'DAMN! I didn't know you were that good!' and whatnot, but Shikamaru paid little mind. Naruto smirked, he was able to predict Shikamaru's move in the end, and he somehow took pride in seeming, at least to himself, like a tactical genius, even if he didn't show it.
Hayate raised his hand to gather the attention. "Tenten is in suitable health and has only suffered a minor concussion. Which on a personal note, is still saying a lot considering hat her opponent had not actually hit her himself."
Everyone raised their eyebrows but soon realized this was the case, Shikamaru did knock her out, but indirectly. He had never actually attacked Tenten on his own. Shikamaru shrugged.
"Hey, it's my nindo that I would never hurt any woman, even the enemy. Anyone who would hurt a woman without good cause is despicable."
Many of the watchers looked on with admiration at such a noble nindo, they were impressed.
"But enough talk," Hayate continued, "the next combatants will appear on screen now."
Sasuke Uchiha versus Kin Tsuchi
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Bam! And there ya have it, chapter 10, well like i said, when all the fights are over im going to re release them all in one chapter but still, next installment.
Honestly, I lost track of my time. I hadn't realized it had been like a few months, which I felt awful about, so I uploaded as quick as I could, hope you don't mind too terribly. I'm going to try and get the fights all the way because – and ooh spoilers – the period of time between the prelims and the finals is where a ton of shit goes down, hilariously.
I hope you enjoyed the battle as well, I put a lot of thought into it like I said and I'm satisfied with the results.
SPEAKING of satisfied…uh…never mind
Next time Is Sasuke versus Kin Tsuchi, what will happen now? What will Hinata do now? What of Sasuke's curse seal? And even naruto's tampered seal?
Find out next time!