I thought I'd start off this chapter by saying thank you for your continued reading, and the reviews. I hope everyone enjoys reading this story as much as I like writing it. Now, without further ado, the final chapter of Tenzen in the academy. Time to play some tag.

Chapter 16

Tenzen found himself about a mile outside of Konoha with two bandanas on his waist. Now he was waiting patiently for his next target to make their move. This target was non other than Shiro his faithful, yet traitorous, companion.

See Tenzen had the leg up Shiro because he knew all of his weaknesses, including, his insatiable apatite for Dango. The little pup couldn't get enough of the chocolate covered wafer, and Tenzen set up the perfect trap. He set up the bait in clearing, but instead of using the usual trip line traps, he set several far off so he wouldn't see them and held the trigger firmly in his hand. Another thing Tenzen did was make sure he was far off from the trap as well so the thieving mutt wouldn't smell him. Sitting his quaint little hiding spot, he looked back on all the events leading to his revenge-seeking plan.

Flashback

Asuma had just shown up with several orange bandanas in hand. He wore a cheeky grin and he stood triumphantly (like he was holding all the cards).

"So here are the rules." Asuma started his grin slipping and disappearing. "Everyone will get one bandana, and then you will strap the bandana to your hip. The point of the game is to steal the other persons bandana. Simple right?"

Everyone nodded their heads in understanding. Then Asuma handed a bandana to everyone and showed how to place it on your hip so that no one could cheat and tuck it in too far.

"Alright now that everyone has a bandana and they are properly placed lets get this started." Asuma said clapping his hands together. "Also, no jutsus only taijutsu and any traps you have in your possession. Once you enter the forest there is no leaving until you have lost your bandana.

Everyone nodded once more showing their compliance. Tenzen was pretty surprised at how much thought Asuma put into this game.

"But wait, who is going to make sure no one leaves?" Rin asked with a confused look on her face.

"That would be our job." A familiar blonde haired shinobi said walking along side a red head.

"Oh good Minato-sama, Kushina-chan you're here did you grab it?" Asuma asked turning to greet the yellow flash and the Hot Habanero. Just before Minato could answer Tenzen cut in.

"Minato-sensei, Kushina-neechan what are you doing here!?" Tenzen bellowed.

"Well after you ran off from Ichiraku's we ran into Asuma and he asked if we would be refs of sort." Kushina said with a smile creasing her face.

"And Hokage-sama wanted us to be here to make sure nothing got out of hand or destroyed." Minato added.

"Wait Jiji knows about this?" Tenzen asked towards Asuma.

"Of course, He's the one who thought of the game in the first place. Asuma said bluntly. "So, Minato-sama did you bring it?"

"Sure thing just step into the forest and Kushina and I will get started." Minato said holding up the large scroll in his hand.

Following his orders all the kids walked to the edge of the forest and turned to watch what Minato was doing with the large scroll. He unrolled the scroll and placed it on the ground. He went through several hand signs and slammed his hands down unto the scroll. Instantly three lights shot from the scroll and traced along the ground, one was heading to the right of Minato, another to the left, and the last wen straight ahead. They created a large circle around the forest and glowed brightly on the ground until Minato twisted his hand, almost like unlocking something. Then the light went up and up until they al eventually met at the top. It glowed a bright yellow and made entirely out of chakra. Then Minato stood up and addressed the group of kids.

"Okay I put enough chakra into it to last two hours. The dropping of the barrier will signal the end of the game." Minato said looking a little light headed from the loss of chakra. "Now on my signal you may begin. I suggest you all spread out."

All the kids quickly glanced around at their competitors before heading off in all different directions. Tenzen and Asuma stayed behind still staring at each other. Tenzen gave him a big grin before he turned around and jumped into the nearest tree. Asuma then looked over to Minato and gave him a slight nod in gratitude, then sped off.

Tenzen was jumping through the trees as fast as he could. His goal was to take out as many as he could right at the beginning so they weren't expecting him so soon. Feeling around with nature chakra he could pin point Shiro, Kakashi, Obito, Asuma, and Anko. All of which have the highest concentration of chakra from their extensive training. He would leave all them be for now and focus on the two that he felt straight ahead. Judging from how close their chakra was he could guess they were working together, otherwise they would have spread out more like Minato-sensei had suggested. He could see the opening of a clearing and shot through the tree line and entered the grassy field.

He landed in a crouching position with one hand on the ground for extra support. He looked up to see the Nara and Akamichi from his class. He could help but think how typical it was for these two to work together. Tenzen knew about Ino-Shika-Cho because they had graduated and grew up with Minato-sensei. It was only logical for them to work together feeding off each other's strengths and compensating for the others weaknesses. He stared into the two boys eye for a second until something bright shot up into the sky and exploded, and Tenzen could only guess that meant to begin.

Thinking quickly he channeled chakra into his feet and sped forward towards the two opponents. The two prepared themselves as well. The Nara dropped down on one knee and moved quickly through several hand signs, and the Akamichi got low with his arms at shoulder length and his knees bent. Quickly thinking about what he knew about the two clans he could only come to one conclusion. The Akamichi was going to distract while the Nara went for the bandana. It was a simple tactic, but effective nonetheless. Tenzen knew the key to winning this fight was to go straight for the Nara and deal with the Akamichi afterwards. He knew the Nara weren't known for their prowess in Taijutsu so taking out the weakest link was the plan.

Tenzen continued to fly forward towards his targets. The Akamichi was like stone not moving an inch. No doubt he was hoping Tenzen would come in close so the Nara would have a better chance at stealing the bandana quickly. Right before reaching the Akamichi, Tenzen jumped forward onto his hands and did a front hand spring over the large opponent, kicking off his back at the completion of the front rotation. He headed straight for the Nara flowing more chakra into his feet he went full speed, which to anybody but a trained shinobi would be impossible to follow. He spun into the air and attempted to kick the smaller of the two in the jaw. But, Tenzen may have underestimated the skills of his two opponents. For the Nara nimbly dodged the high kick by duking, and before Tenzen had time to react the Akamichi gave him a stiff punch to the side of the face making Tenzen real back for a second. This fight was going to be a little bit harder than Tenzen thought. But, a smile crossed his face at the promise of a good fight.

Pumping chakra into his feet Tenzen prepared for another go at what he know called 'The Dynamic Duo' (cleaver right). He pulled out a kunai with a yellow colored tag on the end and another with a red tag. He threw the yellow tag to the right of the two and moved to the left at full speed. The Dynamic Duo reacted accordingly to the tag being thrown and got the hell away from it. They jumped back several feet to avoid a blast Tenzen then threw the red tagged kunai in between the duo and the yellow tag, it rightfully exploded just as it was supposed to. The duo was confused on the blast radius because it got nowhere near them. He then pulled out two more yellow tags and another red. He threw the red tag behind the two retreating competitors, which caused them to jump back towards the yellow tag. Tenzen then threw the other yellow tag where he had thrown the red tag and then stopped to look at his foes. He stabbed the last yellow tag kunai into the ground and flowed chakra into it. In a flash lightning came from all three tags and struck the Dynamic Duo. They shook for several seconds before the lightning stopped and they fell to the ground. The both moaned slightly, the amount of electricity the experienced was no more than you would get from a socket. But, the longevity would cause enough for them to be numb for several minutes.

Not giving them any time to recover Tenzen rushed forward to acquire their bandanas. He grabbed the bandana off of the Nara and turned to acquire the other from the Akamichi. But, when he looked down he noticed that the bandana was already gone. Suddenly he felt a familiar chakra just a few feet away from him. He had to duck to evade the white blur that was going directly for his head. When he looked up he saw his faithful, and traitorous, companion Shiro with an orange bandana sticking out of his teeth. He wore a foxy win because of his small victory, and before Tenzen could react and attempt to get his prize back the fox ran off.

Cursing himself for his stupidity Tenzen started to divise a plan to get back at the sneaky pup. At that point he didn't care if he won the game he just swore to get his revenge on that bastard fox.

End Flashback

So here Tenzen was, sitting high up in a tree waiting for his chance of revenge. There was no way that little shit was going to get away with a dirty trick like that.

His plan was full proof. The pokey would lure Shiro in, and with a flick of Tenzen's wrist a the seals he had laid down would activate causing the ground around the pokey to turn to mud, trapping Shiro. Tenzen was almost certain that the fox would escape from the mud. So, he laid a second trap the would be activated by cutting a wire just 2 meters away, between Tenzen and the first trap. This trap was a standard kunai trap, but the kunai had special tags that Minato-sensei created that created a barrier by connecting the chakra together and raising it. For this to be done Tenzen would have to be there to put in the chakra on the last kunai that he held in his hand. This plan required Tenzen's timing to be perfect, so he would be perfect. He was suddenly drawn out of his thoughts by the chakra he was looking for.

Tenzen could sense Shiro's chakra nearing the place where he left the bait, he clutched the wire he was holding to ready the trap. Shiro was in range for the mud trap so Tenzen tugged the string and took off to be sure the other one would work. He jumped from tree to tree until he saw the second wire and threw a shuriken which cut it setting off the next trap. He could here the kunai shooting out from where he had hid them. He could already see the opening in the trees.

Jumping into the clearing he saw that everything was working perfectly. Shiro had made it out of the mud already and was heading straight for the barrier trap. Tenzen quickly flowed chakra into the tag he had and threw it to the barrier trap. It landed perfectly finishing the circle. Tenzen stopped running and flashed through the hand signs Minato-sensei had shown him the finished on the ram sign.

"SEAL!" he yelled just as Shiro made it to the middle of the circle. The seals glowed lightly then sprang to life and trapped Shiro inside. Tenzen moved quickly to the barrier and prepared for the next part of the plan. Shiro looked up at his summoner with hateful.

"What do you mean I cheated? Asuma said we could use any trap we had." Tenzen said with a smirk on his face. "Now hold still."

Tenzen then brought his hands up in the ram sign. He needed to release so he could get the bandanas, but he had to make sure the mutt didn't get away. So, he took a few steps back and got in a low position, like he was getting ready for a race.

"Release." He said quietly then dashed forward at full speed and grabbed the two bandanas before the fox knew what he was up to. Shiro looked as his partner with distaste. "That was for stealing the bandana earlier."

Shiro gave a low growl and then huffed and looked away. Then the fox stood up and walked off towards the end of the big barrier.

Now Tenzen need to find out who to go for next. He had four bandanas which was quite impressive. But, he had wasted most of his time setting up the trap for Shiro. He now only had about thirty minutes until the barrier fell and the game was over.

Closing his eyes, Tenzen searched for the nearest chakra signature and headed for it. He recognized this as Rin, and there was another one very close to her he could tell was Obito. He knew Obito was a cluts and could be outsmarted with a simple trap. But Rin could be somewhat troublesome. She was smart, but physically she was nothing special. He still needed to be on his toes for some trick by the girl. Quickly moving through the trees he soon came unto quite the strange sight. Obito was strung up by several wires and he looked quite irritated.

"What happened to you?" Tenzen asked half laughing at his friends predicament. Obito looked up sharply with a worried look on her face.

"Run! She's still here somewhere!" Obito exclaimed, his eyes getting rather large. Then Tenzen heard some rustling in the bushes just to his right.

"Yeah I know." Tenzen said flatly. Then Rin came flying out of the bushes ready to kick Tenzen straight in the head. But, unfortunately for Rin, Tenzen was ready. He blocked the kick with his forearm then proceeded to lean back until his other arm was on the ground then brought his legs to his chest and kick Rin straight in the chest. She went slamming into a nearby tree with a thud. Obito looked on awestruck.

"Hey you shouldn't hit girls that hard!" Obito shouted grinding his teeth.

"Rin would have no problem hitting me that hard so why should I?" Tenzen asked giving a huff. "Besides, she's the one that got you stuck in that web. You should be happy."

Obito didn't respond he was content on growling lowly. Tenzen figured this was because of Obito's obvious crush on Rin, but he wasn't about to call his friend out on it. He simply walked over to Rin and took the two bandanas she had around her waist. He then looked into her eyes.

"You okay?" He asked sincerely, wondering if maybe he did hit her a little hard.

"Y-y-yeah I'm fine." Rin said hesitantly. "Didn't even hurt."

"Good, now go get him out of that thing I have a game to win." Tenzen said right before he took off for his next target.

Rin sat there for a second, her cheeks slightly red from how close Tenzen got to her. Obito noticed and turned his head away with a huff. He wasn't going to let the fox boy beat him to Rin's heart.

Tenzen was moving as fast as he could towards his next goal. There were only three more people besides himself. He could tell two of them were Kakashi and Asuma, but the third he didn't recognize. It seemed that the mystery person was closest one, and at a loss of time Tenzen headed for his location.

Tenzen jumped into the clearing were he could sense the mystery characters chakra. He was surprised to find out that his chakra was as large if not larger than his own. He saw the figure at the opposite side of the clearing appearing ready to leave, but turned around at Tenzen's sudden appearance.

The boy turned around to face Tenzen and then the high chakra levels made sense. He had long brown hair that reached the middle of his back. He had on a black shirt with loose fitting sleeves. On the back of his shirt of the Yin-Yang symbol, and if that didn't give away who he was, his striking white eyes sure did. He looked deep into Tenzen's eyes and walked forward until he was about five feet away.

"I am Hyuga Hizashi. I challenge you." The white-eyed boy said right before he fired up his Byakugan and got in the gentle fist stance.

Tenzen had no experience with Hyuga's and had no idea what the gentle fist was like. Sure, him and Minato-sensei had discussed it but he had never seen it in action. He would be lying if he said wasn't worried. This wouldn't be too much of a problem except he couldn't use jutsu's and he wasn't sure he could keep up in Taijutsu.

"Okay…" Tenzen said apprehensively, lowering into is usual Taijutsu start position.

Without warning, Hizashi came at the boy full speed. Tenzen could see the chakra shooting out of his finger ips. If he learned anything from Minato-sensei about the Hyuga taijutsu, it was to dodge, dodge, dodge.

The first strike came straight at Tenzen's chest. With blocking out of the question, he nimble sidestepped the strike. The second strike came for his right shoulder, which he had left wide open. Not being able dodge the attack, Tenzen opted to knock it away, trying to avoid the fingertips that were seething with chakra. With the back of his hand meeting with Hizashi's fore arm, Tenzen moved in for his first hit. But, didn't anticipate the Hyuga following his attack and taking a step forward anticipating this course of action. This left Tenzen wide open from behind, and Hizashi planned to end the fight right there. However. Tenzen docked underneath the attack, and performed a leg sweep. Then, when his opponent jumed over his leg to avoid being tripped and losing, Tenzen came up strong with his fist to hit the white-eyed boy in the chin. But, Hizashi was far ahead of Tenzen at this point and brought his palm forward to block the attack, and grabed Tenzen's hand. Using Tenzen's arm, and the downward momentum, Hizashi came down hard gabbing his fingertips into his right shoulder. Reacting to the pain, Tenzen pulled his arm away and jumped back to a safe distance. Yellow eyes met white, Tenzen could tell this kid wasn't one to play around, luckily neither was Tenzen.

"It is pointless to continue, with your arm now disabled you can not hope to keep up." Hizashi said dryly.

"This isn't over yet." Tenzen said in a low growl.

"I'm afraid it is. I must admit you are much better then others in our class. However, you still are not good enough to face me." Hizashi stated his face unchanging.

"I will…" Tenzen began, but was cut of with a burning sensation in his arm. He clutched his arm and looked at it to see what was causing this pain. What did Hizashi do to him? The pain grew worse, Tenzen arm soon feeling as though it was melting off. He winced and ground his teeth in pain. Was this what the gentle fist did? The pain soon became too much for Tenzen to handled and he screamed out in pain. Hizashi stood there unmoved, not sure what was happening to his opponent.

"What the hell did you do to me?!" Tenzen screamed still clutching his arm. Hizashi look on with question eyes. For all he knew it could have been a trick. Tenzen once again screamed out in pain

Jumping through the trees, Asuma stopped upon hearing a loud scream. He listened intently to hear where it was coming from and to see if he could tell who it was. He heard the scream again and turned in it's direction.

"Tenzen…" he trailed off before he took off in the direction of the scream. Many scenarios played through Asuma's head. He knew that Tenzen was wanted by many different villages because of being the last of his clan. He could only hope he was okay, and if he wasn't he prayed he could help.

Standing by the barrier with several kids sitting on the other side, Minato froze suddenly hearing a scream from within his barrier. He listened intently to be sure his ears weren't tricking him. Hearing it again he looked to Kushin who nodded her head in agreement. Moving quickly, Minato slammed his hands into the barriers scroll and the dome quickly came down. He then looked to the other kids that were waiting for the game to be over.

"All of you go home now." Minato stated sternly, sending shivers down the kids spine.

"What was that scream Minato-san?" Rin asked concerned.

"It sounded like girly." Anko said with genuine worry apparent on her face.

"Don't worry about it right now head home all of you." Kushina said as Minato took off ignoring all of the questions. Kushina was quick to follow.

Back at the clearing, Tenzen was still on the ground clutching his arm in pain. Hizashi was almost paralyzed in confusion and fear. The gentle fist never caused this to someone. It wasn't even a vital location only the chakra point between colar bone and the humerus. He thought maybe the boy was actually hurt and thought he should help. Then, he saw Asuma coming out of the trees. He Hokage's son went directly to Tenzen and grabbed him by shoulder. He then looked up to the Hyuga with hatful eyes.

"What did you do!?" Asuma exclaimed standing up and walking towards Hizashi ready to punch him in the face. Hiazashi stood firm not intimidated by the young Sarutobi.

"I didn't do anything he. He is weak and loss the match." Hizashi said cold and firm. Asuma took a few more steps forward and grabbed the Hyuga by the collar.

"What did you say?" Asuma growled staring menacingly into the expressionless white eyes. Hizashi didn't even flinch. He just looked over Asuma's shoulder at a sudden noise.

"That's enough Asuma." A stern male voice said from behind the enraged boy. Asuma loosed his grip and turned around to face the voice.

Minato and Kushina were both hovering over Tenzen, examining the boy Kushina's hands were glowing green and she was making a 'shh' sound to calm the boy. Tenzen's screams were now a low groan. Kushina soothed the boy by petting his head and running her fingers through his hair. Tenzen's groans got quieter and quieter until his eyes were shut and he was breathing easy, asleep.

Tenzen awoke to the sound of the microwave dinging. The smell of ramen filled the room and people were moving around him. He had been asleep for several hours and it was now very dark out. He could hear the idle chatter of those around him.

He opened his eyes slowly and could feel the cold cloth on his fore head. He attempted to move his arm but felt a sharp pain shoot from his shoulder, down to his fingers. He winced in pain and grabbed his shoulder quickly. He noticed that his shoulder was wrapped tightly in bandages and he felt the low hum of chakra in the wrapping. He guessed that Kushina-neechan must have put a healing seal on it. He sat up slowly still holding his shoulder so to not have it move and cause more pain. He looked around were he was sitting and discovered he was in Minato's apartment.

Another waft of ramen passed his nose and caused his stomach to rumble in hunger. He was about to stand up and head to the kitchen were everyone was but was cut off with people entering his room.

"Tenzen!" a young female voice exclaimed. Tenzen looked to see the source of the voice and found it to be Rin carrying a cup of instant ramen. She rushed over carefully, making sure to not spill any hot broth. Walking in behind her was Anko who was eating a stick of dango slowly looking on with relieved eyes.

"Glad you finally decided to wake up girly." She purple haired girl said before taking another bite of her favorite treat.

"How long was I out?" Tenzen asked as Rin handed him the cup of ramen she was carrying with his left hand making sure not to move the right. He took it without question, hungry as he was.

"Three hours." Rin said taking a seat in the chair across from the couch, which Tenzen occupied. He blew lightly on the instant ramen took a little sip of the broth, sighing in pleasure.

He heard more movement towards the kitchen and looked to see who it was. Asuma popped his head out of the kitchen then moved back.

"Minato-san, Kushina-chan, he's awake." Asuma said back in the kitchen.

Soon he came back out with Minato and Kushina in toe. Minato looked at Tenzen with a smile on his face leaning against the wall near the kitchen entrance. While Kushina came pushing past Anko and Asuma to hop on couch and smother Tenzen.

"I'm so glad you're okay." The red habanero said squeezing Tenzen into her chest. She then pushed back and slugged the boy over the head with enough force to get message through but not hard enough to actually hurt him. He did spill his ramen everywhere. "Don't do the ever again!"

"Kushina-neeeeechan." Tenzen said rubbing the back of is head. Everyone laughed at the Uzumaki's bi-polar like personality, and Minato moved to the kitchen for a towel to clean up the mess.

"How are you feeling?" Asuma asked moving to sit in the other chair next to Rin. Tenzen finished up rubbing the back of his head then turned to his friend.

"Okay, I can't move my arm without pain." Tenzen said motioning to his right arm.

"Well that's to be expected." Minato said walking back into the room with a towel in hand. Everyone looked to Minato while he went to the couch to clean Kushina's mess.

"What happened?" Tenzen asked still fuzzy on what caused so much pain. Minato finished mopping up before looking at his student with soft eyes.

"You remember when we talked about the Hyuga's gentle fist right?" Minato asked. Tenzen responded with a sharp nod. "Well, because of the chakra being cut off from your arm nature chakra built up without your kekkei genkai interfering. This caused extreme muscle deterioration and also burned away at your bones. That's were all the pain came from."

"Will I recover?" Tenzen asked looking worriedly to his sensei.

"Yes…" Kushina started. "But it will take some time. Fortunately, with your kekkei genkai you should be better in about two weeks."

"How is that fortunate? I can't move my arm for two weeks." Tenzen said sharply and spiteful. "That bastard."

"Tenzen, he didn't know this would happen. Most just have a loss of mobility when hit by the gentle fist. He couldn't have known this would happen." Minato said in his loving brother tone.

"Lets just be happy he didn't hit you anywhere vital." Kushina said putting an arm around Tenzen in comfort. "If he hit your central chakra point, or anywhere around your heart, it would have killed you."

The whole room froze by the word 'killed'. No one thought that if Hizashi could have killed him. Though the Hyuga boy did not mean to harm Tenzen the way he did. But, his uncaring tone and stone old conviction made them hate him.

"We didn't anticipate this could happen. You have to be carful when dealing with those who use jutsu's to change your chakra network, especially the Hyuga's." Minato said putting a hand on the boys good shoulder and looking him in the eye.

"Okay." Tenzen said nodding his head. Then Minato brought him in and hugged him lightly. He was incredibly worried for the boy he had come to see as his own brother. Then the two pulled away and Minato stood up, walked towards the kitchen. "I'll go make you another cup of ramen."

Tenzen then looked down to his hands and then up to everyone in the room. He clutched his hands into fist and looked on with conviction.

"This won't stop me. I'll still become the Hokage and change the world." Tenzen stated. In the kitchen Minato was opening a cup of ramen and smiling at his students enthusiasm. He knew one day Tenzen would change the world.

End Chapter 16

Well there you go. Tenzen was dealt his first defeat at the hands of Hyuga Hizashi. Next chapter Tenzen will graduate and finally become a shinobi. I know it may have felt rushed through, but I'm just ready for Tenzen to be a genin and go on awesome adventures. Check in frequently for a new update and let me know what you think in a review.

Side note: If anyone is a good drawer and would like to draw me a picture of what you think Tenzen looks like that would be awesome. I am quite talentless myself so I would appreciate the help. Thanks.