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"READY? HAJIME!"

Shikamaru wasted no time in using his Shadow Binding Technique causing Team 7 to abandon their offense stances and retreat, jumping backward but their eyes still on Shikamaru. When, they finally got out of his range, Naruto tried to think of a way of how they could attack without getting caught in the Nara's signature jutsu.

But then something caught his eye, Ino's smirking face.

Not a good sign…

Naruto watched warily as Chouji gave Ino a lift and she jumped high into the air and forward with her arms flying out.

Sasuke frowned at this, what is she trying to pull?

There is no way she could make it as far as they were from them.

It was only then that Sakura got what Ino was getting at when she saw Shikamaru's shadow grow.

"GUYS! DOUBLE BACK!"

Reacting quickly, Team 7 doubled back once more, creating even more distance but out of Shikamaru's range.

Naruto deadpanned, Shikamaru was trying pull out the tricks he used in his Chunnin Finals!

He had to be alert...

Sasuke groaned, "Okay, this was tougher than I thought."

"Oh now you think so?" hissed Sakura.

"Ladies...now is not the time to argue..." Naruto says, not in the mood to deal with his female teammates bickering.

The girls became sheepish and softly apologized.

"Nevermind, Sakura you said you could do the Earth Wall Jutsu right?" Naruto asked, turning to her with a serious expression on his face.

"Well yeah but..."

"Do it and Sasuke get ready, I have an idea."

Chouji frowned as Sakura moved in front of Naruto where Naruto then gave her shoulders a squeeze.

"You can do it, I believe in you."

Sakura with a determined expression, gathered up her chakra and began forming the handsigns, "EARTH STYLE: EARTH MUD WALL JUTSU!""

The pinkette opened her mouth wide and spurt out mud; much to the amazement of Team 10 who watched as the mud began to form and create a huge wall in front of them.

Shikamaru deadpanned, what are they up to?

On the other side of the wall, Naruto grinned and gave Sakura's shoulders another squeeze, "Good job!"

Sakura smiled while Sasuke rolled her eyes, "What do you want me to do?"

"Destroy the wall with the biggest fire jutsu you have" answered Naruto, smirking knowing that Sasuke would love to.

Sakura however, was against it.

"WHAT? BUT I JUST MADE IT!"

Sasuke smirked, "You heard him, I'm destroying it now step back."

Sakura scowled and moved to the side, dragging Naruto along with her.

Sasuke ignored the angry green-eyed kunoichi and took a deep breath before forming the handsigns for the jutsu at a rapid pace, "FLAME RELEASE: GREAT FIREBALL TECHNIQUE!"

Naruto and Sakura watched as Sasuke expelled a a massive orb of roaring flames towards the Mud Wall smashing through the wall causing a humungous explosion, smoke and chunks of the wall heading towards Team 10.

"GO!"

Making use of their distraction, Team 7 went at full force; Sakura towards Ino, Sasuke towards Shikamaru & Naruto towards Chouji.

Sakura and Ino

The kunais of the two girls met with gritted teeth in tow. They pulled back and Sakura started her offense, slashing at Ino, desperately trying to get a hit in but much to her surprise Ino was evading her attacks faster than she remembered.

Damn

Sasuke and Shikamaru

Sasuke threw kunais at Shikamaru making the Nara to stop short and duck. He turned back to see the kunais had hit the huge oak tree behind him but when he turned back to face Sasuke, he saw that she was smirking causing him to frown.

What?

Sasuke pointed downwards causing Shikamaru to look down and see a kunai with an explosive tag just hit the ground.

Shikamaru cussed and high-tailed it out of there just in time to avoid a close-impact with the explosion that erupted behind him.

Damn that Uchiha!

Naruto and Chouji

Chouji was rolling toward Naruto in his Multi-Size technique causing Naruto to smirk and run toward him faster. Chouji, unaware that Naruto was running towards him and not away continued rolling at his fast pace much to Naruto's pleasure who jumped high and on TOP of Chouji, using his feet to keep up with Chouji.

TIME FOR SOME FUN!

Sakura and Ino

Sakura fell hard on the ground as Ino punched her hard in the nose.

Fuck, it feels broken

Sakura then felt killer intent coming her way and moved to the side just in time to avoid some shuriken from Ino.

Shit

Sakura quickly got up to a standing position and pulled out another kunai but before she could attack she and Ino heard something that caused them both to turn.

"NARUTO!"

Sasuke and Shikamaru

"NARUTO GET OFF OF CHOUJI!"

Sasuke was shocked, he never knew Shikamaru could get annoyed.

"MAKE ME SHIKA!"

Shikamaru grunted and reached for his kunai pouch but before he could pull any out, his instincts told him to jump back and when he did, he saw kunais land where he last stood.

Man, that was close.

Shikamaru looked up to face Naruto again but alas, met Naruto's foot in a hard dropkick to the face. Shikamaru fell to the ground with a thud, knocking him out effectively.

Ino's eyes widened and was about to run to her teammate but Sakura pulled her back and punched the blonde hard right in the kisser, knocking her out also.

Chouji meanwhile had stopped rolling when Naruto finally left him but was now very dizzy and was going about in circles. He stopped short when he saw Sasuke looking at him smirking.

Before Chouji could react, Sasuke put a finger to the big boned boy's head and flicked him off causing Chouji to give in and fall to the ground due to his exhaustion.

Sasuke turned to the Hokage, "We won now right?"

Tsunade sweatdropped but called it out, "WINNER BY KNOCKOUT! TEAM 7!"

Sakura smirked, Naruto grinned and Sakura jumped up and down in glee before clutching her nose in pain.

Ow…

"Sakura, are you alright?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, nothing some chakra can't fixed."

Sakura cupped her nose with her hands and closed her eyes. Naruto watched as Sakura's hands glowed green as she healed her nose, when she was done, she put her hands down and smiled.

"Looks like it wasn't broken after all, if not that healing would have hurt."

Naruto chuckled, "I'm just glad you're okay Sakura."

Sakura blushed while Sasuke, watching from afar, seethed.

Bitch

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