Preliminaries

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Gaara, Kankuro, Ryoko, Sasuke, Naruto and Temari all stood together on the balcony waiting for the first pair to be called out. The letters on the screen whirred and landed on:

Kankuro no Sabaku vs Tenten no Konoha

"Awe man.. I don't want to fight a girl..." Kankuro grumbled.

"Hey, Kankuro-nii, you need to be careful, she's a weapon's specialist."

"Yeah, Karasu and I can take her." He purred.

"What ever Kitty." she teased. Kankuro huffed and jumped down to the floor, all showy like. Ryoko rolled her eyes at him, as did Tenten.

"Alright, begin." Hyate coughed.

"Alright lets get this over with." Kankuro sighed and grabbed the wrapping on his back and unwound it. Tenten threw a scroll that released a ton of kunai and shurikun, the sharp objects hit the body in front of Kankuro with a dull thud. A very creepy contraction stood in front of Kankuro. It was odd, a four armed humanoid with three eyes and jagged teeth. Ryoko assumed this as Karasu. Kankuro chuckled,

"Now little weapons mistress, you cant win." Kankuro controlled Karasu with one hand, and held a kunai in the other. The three humanoids fought, Kankuro only moving to deflect a weapon that got passed Karasu. The deadly dance of weapons went on for minutes before Karasu expelled a venom slick needle that stuck into Tenten's arm, and knocked her out.

"Winner by KO, Kankuro no Sabaku."

Kankuro walked up and high fived Naruto. Then the next pairing came up:

Naruto Uzimaki vs Choji Akimichi

"Yosh! Ill win! Believe it!" Naruto cried.

"Of course you will, Kitu-kun. Your on MY team." Ryoko purred. Naruto grinned and flipped over the railing like Kankuro had. The mach ended up being Choji running away from a mini whirlwind that Naruto created with a wind justu.

Gaara no Sabaku vs Rock Lee

Gaara scowled he didn't want to hurt the green clad boy, but he could tell the kid wouldn't give up.

"Yosh! Gai sensei!"

"Lee!"

Gai sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"LEE!"

"GAI -SENSEIIII!"

"Eesh. They are scary." Temari whispered. Gaara cringed. He might just fling the kid against the wall until he passed out. And that's what Gaara did...

SLAM!

"Yosh! I will not quit!"

"Jesus just pass out already!" Gaara growled. SLAM!

"I will not fail! The flames of youth burn STRONG!" SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

Gaara had Lee by the ankle with a bunch of sand and was smacking him against the wall.

"Give up already!" SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

-10min later-

"Winner by stubborn KO, Gaara no Sabaku." Hyate coughed.

"Oh.. kami." Gaara huffed when he got to the balcony, "That kid is suborn."

Ino Yamanaka fought one of the rain gennin and won, and Shakamaru the same. A grass and a rain fought, and double KO, leaving two grass, one fought by Temari- also beat, and the other lost to Sasuke, and one Rain gennin won by default. That left Ryoko and Neji.

'Will the last two gennin come to the floor to fight." Hyate called. Ryoko and Neji faced each other. Ryoko was silent, calculating, Neji the same. Both inwardly crowed at finally facing off with the opposite. When Hyate called the mach he mved out of the way. Neji suddenly realized he had an issue. While he would be able to see through any of Ryoko's genjustu, she was a long distance fighter, and he was a close had combatant. As he was contemplating this he barley noticed the senbon that went through his calf muscle, so sharp he barley felt it.

"Hey, little Birdie... cant find your way out of your cage to find me?" Ryoko cooed to Neji. Said boy snarled and went to run at her, but his left leg collapsed under him.

"What?" he looked at his leg to see where her senbon had entered it. The skin around the miniscule hole was blackened.

"You can try and continue fighting Neji. The poison is slow acting and you'll have to baby your leg." she smirked the slow acting muscle eating venom would;d be helpful here slowing Neji down enough that she wouldn't be too badly hurt. Neji snarled and surged upward immediately slamming his palm into her stomach when she wasn't expecting it. She gasped and coughed up a fair amount of blood. Since her belly was exposed, the dark purple bruising as immediately visible.

"Bastard that hurt."She gasped and kicked him in the side of the head. He took it hard to the ear, the blow had exploded his eardrum, and blood poured out of his ear. He cursed and went into the eight trigrams sixty four palms, and rushed her, closing her teketsu. She hissed in pain as she began coughing up blood again, but grinned,

"Check mate, Hyuga." he frowned, and realized there was a pressure in his neck, and realized as he was attacking her, she had found a way to put a senbon into his pressure point.

"Ah sh..." he passed out before he could complete his curse.

"Winner, Ryoko Mitsuri." Hyate called. Gaara rushed down and caught her just as she fell over. She grinned,
"I think I need to see a doctor."