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Chapter 06:

The Fourth Challenge:

Perfect Balance

The two teams gathered ready to go for next challenge figuring out that Guy started these challenges at the same time every time. After last time Kiba had it down; he wouldn't repeat that mistake. "Alright now this is what I'm talking about. My contestants are eager and ready to go. For the next challenge," Guy led them through the forest. They were amazed that Yamato could rebuild what they ruined in less than a day. They stopped at a huge field with bamboo sticks sticking out of the ground. "All of you will be balancing on these the team that stays on the longest wins. All your times will be added and team with longer time wins. The last remaining person gets to choose an item from home. The team that loses will be sending someone home." Guy pulled out his timer giving everyone a chance to get ready. Naruto nodded more than ready for this training this was just like his Sage training. Ino began stretching and making sure Lee was at his best for he was her team's best bet at winning. "The time starts now." He started the timer once everyone was standing on the poles.

The moment Kankuro got on; he knew this was going to be hard for him. This was more of a taijutsu thing which was something he wasn't good at. He hoped Ino wouldn't blame him if he failed. Tayuya was struggling with the same dilemma so was Shino. An hour passed Kankuro started wobbling trying to regain composure and nearly fell till Sakura came in for the save. Temari began wobbling have trouble with the balance. Ino saved her nearly making herself fall in the process. This was harder than she thought. Shino began to fall but Sasuke kept him balanced with ease. Another hour passed the results were the same until Kankuro stumbled and fell off getting two hours and fifteen minutes. Ino rolled her eyes upset at him for falling off Sakura tried to help but it was too late still the fact remained Ino had numbers. Kiba's team did not.

Before the next hour, Temari lost balance and fell. Temari's time was two hours and forty five minutes. During the next hour, Shino fell getting three hours and five minutes. Ino smirked glad to know so far she still had the lead. Tayuya fell five minutes after Shino which Ino forgave since she was in the lead. About three minutes later Shikamaru fell giving Kiba the lead. He now had an eight minute lead on Ino. The fact remained he had less numbers so someone had to make up for it. His winning streak continued when Sai fell at the four hour mark. The good news was he was winning bad news he only had three people left Naruto, Sasuke, and Himself. Ino still had four people were standing strong until Sakura's legs started getting tired but she powered through it. Being the determined kunoichi Ino knows and loves. Two hours went by, Sakura's strength faltered and she fell. This gave Team Ino the lead. After another three hours Lee crashed to the ground unable to balance any longer. He beat up himself up for not staying in the game longer but immediately began cheering for his allies that outlasted him. He was amazed they were able to outlast him. Ino's determination when it came to beating Kiba was limitless too bad her leg strength had a limit. She could feel her body getting heavier feeling like a massive weight. Ino bit her lip trying her best to ignore the pain. She felt herself slipping and knew she had no choice but to use her trump card. Ino let out a sigh and began to loosen her bra if this didn't stop Team Kiba dead in their tracks nothing will. No man on earth could resist her beauty.

"Oh no," She faked her bra falling off revealing her nice breasts to the men. "I seemed to have lost my bra." She perked her nice breasts placing her hands behind her head letting them get a good look at her magnificent breasts. Kiba's mouth dropped nearly wanting to fuck her right there. This thought lead to his demise causing him to lose track of what he was doing. Kiba plummeted to the ground landing face first as he leaned forward to touch her breasts. Ino smirked feeling proud to have defeated the Inuzuka only to notice payback was on its way. Akamaru humping the pole she stood causing her to fall off giving her only two minute lead on Kiba. "Akamaru," She glared at him. Akamaru grabbed her bra and fled. "Hey get back here." She chased him.

"Serves you right," Kiba yelled rubbing his bleeding nose and covering his massive boner that was trying burst from his boxers. His heat continued to tamper with his hormones as Ino's breasts were painted in his mind. He tried to erase the images trying not to let his heat control him knowing any actions made towards the Yamanaka would harm Yumi. He curled a ball trying not to masturbate to what he saw. There was only one way to do that, he needed her to put those weapons of mass destruction away. "Akamaru," His companion returned and Kiba grabbed her bra from his mouth and tossed it to Ino who knew the mutt would return to his master eventually. "Put those away nobody wants to see those." He said acting as if they had no effect on him though they did.

"Oh really so I guess you fell on purpose then huh?" She teased putting on her bra. "Get over yourself Kiba I can clearly see that you miss this." She posed for him but he ignored her. "Whatever," She turned her back to him. "Hey," She peaked on the remaining contestants. "Why the hell is Naruto still up there?" Her voice was filled with frustration. She was positive her breasts were enough to send Naruto into a wild frenzy yet he was as calm as ever. She could understand Sasuke not falling for it but Naruto was known for his perverted nature. She was totally offended by his actions.

Kiba smirked realizing why she had no effect on him despite him being in heat. It was because Naruto's eyes were closed. He was treating this challenge like Sage training. "Sorry Ino but I guess Neji isn't the only one immune to your charms." She sat crossed legged upset at Naruto for seeing through her tactics. She'd pummel him later for it that was a fact.

It was now between Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata. Ino still had the lead but Kiba had numbers if Naruto and Sasuke both outlasted Hinata. He'd have the win he crossed his fingers hoping they come through for the team. Sasuke's body began to get heavy trying his best to outlast Hinata. He couldn't understand why she was so good at this. He wouldn't mind losing to Naruto seeing as they are on the same team it didn't matter but to lose to a Hyuga of all things. It was an insult to his clan. He smirked remembering he had Genjutsu. He went to use it on Hinata but it caused him to lose balance and fall. While falling he trapped Akamaru in a genjutsu. All the sudden Akamaru viewed the pole Hinata stood on as the hottest female dog known to man and he did what he did best when was in heat. He began pushing himself against the pole making the bamboo shake. Ino noticed the foul play and went to interfere but Akamaru overpowered adamant about fucking that pole. Eventually Hinata fell off hitting her butt and nearly landing on Akamaru. Sasuke freed Akamaru from the jutsu feeling proud of what he did; Kiba caught wind of it and punched Sasuke for what he did to Akamaru bruising the Uchiha's arm. Akamaru licked Hinata's face and ran off to deal with his heat. So many trees to rape so little time poor dog needed a mate.

The only person who remained was Naruto who didn't seemed the slightest bit bothered by the challenge. He was the clear winner of the challenge he just needed to last long enough to give Kiba's team the lead. He was already at ten hours only needed two more to give him the win. Ino crossed her fingers practically begging him to fall but the stubborn Uzumaki was going strong. Sasuke watched Naruto finally grasping how strong Naruto became trying to keep up with him. It really put things in perspective. "Okay Naruto, you can stop." Guy ordered only to hear snoring. "Naruto," He checked on him impressed the boy could fall asleep in that position. He shook him waking the sleeping ninja. "The challenge is over, you win."

"Really," Naruto rubbed his eyes. "No offense Guy but this challenge was kind of boring." He yawned. "Man, I was having a nice dream too." Naruto jumped down landing beside Kiba. Guy added the times together to get the end total Team Ino had a total of thirty three hours and fifty five minutes. Team Kiba had twenty three hours and forty one minutes. He added in Naruto's time which was a long twelve hours which gave the team a total of thirty five hours and forty one minutes.

"It looks like Team Kiba wins this challenge," Guy announced. "That meansv Team Ino will be sending another member of their team home." Ino rolled her eyes upset that she had to say goodbye to her lead. They were once again tied on manpower.

"Way to go Naruto," Kiba cheered; the guys gathered around Naruto commending him for being team savior. Without him, the team would have lost. Ino left with her team while Hinata stayed behind. She quickly went over to Sasuke and smiled.

"What do you want?" He asked.

"I wanted to thank you," She replied. "You see I actually could have stayed on longer but not as long as Naruto Kun. He still would have won but you saved me trouble of prolonging things. I was actually contemplating falling off on propose but then," Hinata paused; Kiba and Naruto joined the discussion overhearing.

"Ino would have found out," Kiba finished. "We can't allow that because then she'd get rid of you for sure."

"I guess we owe you one Sasuke," Naruto smiled. "I knew you were a team player." He placed his arm on Sasuke's shoulder. Sasuke bit his lip upset that his sabotage on Hinata backfired. Instead of making a big deal about it he just took Naruto's arm off him and walked away.

"I'd better go," Hinata ran off to rejoin her team before Ino searched for her. Naruto watched as she fled worried.

"Kiba, I think we messed up,"

"What do you mean?"

"Earlier, Hinata aided us and Ino saw it. She lost that round and Tenten was voted off what if Hinata's next?" He asked. "I don't want to be the reason she loses."

"Don't worry about Hinata," Kiba assured. "If I know Ino; she's not voting Hinata off just yet not while she's still a valuable asset. I have pretty good idea who's next to go and believe me it's not her." He smirked knowing his ex all too well. Kiba and his remaining teammates returned to their house while Naruto spoke to Guy about what he wanted for his prize. He knew what he was planning could potentially ruin the whole reason Tsunade allowed the event which was to stop Kiba and Ino from fighting with each other.

When Naruto spoke to Guy about his idea; Guy thought about the real reason Tsunade was so adamant about solving Kiba and Ino's quarrel with one another. The Great Ninja War was only a couple months away. Tsunade wanted Kiba and Ino get along before they ended up on the battlefield together she felt it would ruin their effectiveness in battle. Naruto had no clue about the war and they had to keep it that way. "Well Guy what do you think?" Naruto asked. "I know it's not what you had in mind when you said item from home but still it sort of counts right?" He asked excitedly. "Come on it's a fair deal."

"I'll have to discuss that with Lady Tsunade, Gaara, and Kakashi they are judges. I'm just the host so I'll get back to you. However this is a huge request Naruto and even if the answer is no. I'm afraid you still lose your item from home. Are you okay with that?"

"I'm okay the only thing I really need is ramen anyway." He replied.

"Alright, we need to decide on who we're sending home today." Sakura suggested not really sure who to send. Kankuro did the worst but they all knew that would happen. Besides there was no way Temari would agree to vote her brother off. "Well Ino, what do you think?" Sakura asked not really wanting to answer until someone else did.

"I'm going to say based off this challenge alone," She paused; Temari rolled her eyes knowing her answer. "Kankuro,"

"Hey," Kankuro yelled getting defensive. "I did my absolute best do you have any idea how hard it was for me. A non taijutsu user to balance on a bamboo stick for as long as I did," He argued. "My legs were killing me."

"I agree Kankuro did his best," Temari added taking her brother's side. "That was a long time for him and I know I've seen him do worse. Besides I didn't do that great either but I still did my best. I know you aren't sending me home because without me you are screwed." Ino nodded taking in her words. Temari was the reason they have been able to keep up with Kiba so far and why they got their first win. Hinata and Temari were the strongest players in her team so far she needed both of them. "Honestly if I had to pick, I'd say you should leave Ino. What you did back there to Kiba was uncalled for. I thought you scolded Naruto for pulling such tricks."

"Excuse me," Ino hissed. "I think I did way better than you did. So what if I had to show my breasts it's a competition. We aren't here to play nice and I refuse to let Kiba beat me. So I did what I had to."

"What about Tayuya?" Sakura replied trying to simmer down the heat. "I mean can we at least agree on her."

"I for one; do not agree with Sakura's decision." Tayuya raised her hand. "I think that her decision is based solely on the fact that I was once a bad chick. Therefore it should be discarded for the simple fact. I have genjutsu and no one body else here has it and if you ditch me Kiba will have a genjutsu to his advantage. I have yet to see an advantage for having puppets." She pointed out. "If Sakon were here then we'd have a reason." Kankuro laughed finding her joke funny though it was a jab at him. It was funny so he forgave her.

"Yeah, we do need Genjutsu." Sakura admitted. "Sasuke will murder us otherwise plus she does have Doki. That's three extra helpers for our team. Sorry Kankuro."

"What about Sakura?" Kankuro offered trying to get her back for changing her mind. However, this made the situation a lot worse Ino shot him an evil glare. She wasn't ready for her sex buddy to go home just yet and no one was to even suggest her especially him. He was Sai's sex buddy. That is part of the reason she wanted him gone. "What's the matter Ino, you want to share something with the rest of us?" He smirked knowing she was keeping her and Sakura's game a secret.

"Well Lee, Hinata," Ino looked at them shifting the pressure to them. "What do you think? We got one vote for me and three votes for Kankuro." She smirked knowing even if the y both chose her it was a tie so she was clear for now. However she intended to eliminate anyone who dared to pick her.

"Um," Hinata looked at her choices. She was too sweet at heart to pick anyone but always made her choices based on the challenge or if it was for the best. She sort of wanted to pick Ino who was the only threat to her at the moment. She was just happy nobody chose her out of the bunch.

"I choose Kankuro," Lee replied. "Sakura is a marvelous ninja." He added explaining why he chose the puppet user. He hated it when anyone belittled Sakura. Sure she was with Sasuke but he'd still protect her.

"I guess it's settled." Ino let out a sigh of relief.

"I guess it is," Kankuro rose to his feet. "Sakura," He looked at the pink haired woman knowing recommending her was foul play. Especially after all she did to save him from Sasori's poison. She didn't deserve that and he started to feel like an ass for saying it, "Before you get upset at me. I didn't mean to, I just wanted to," He looked at Ino hoping she'd get the picture. "I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it," Sakura forced a smile ignoring what he did. "It's a competition first and foremost. We all knew it was going to get harder and it was inevitable that we were going to end up making tough decisions like deciding who to send home. Besides I can't get mad at you when I just voted for Tayuya when she didn't even deserve it. I made my vote based off the fact she is an outcast and that was wrong."

"Damn right, it was." Tayuya scolded her.

"Alright, it looks like the decision has been made." Kankuro acknowledged accepting their choice. Now he just had to break it to Sai his love puppet who would be upset by the outcome. Kankuro used his chakra threads to lack onto a tree and swing into Sai cracked window. He landed on his feet staring a pale figure wearing only his pants revealing his defined torso.

"I was starting to think you wouldn't show," Sai's eyes glanced over at Kankuro. "Don't worry I had sent a letter to Ino. I asked her kindly to keep you around. Though I'm little worried she hasn't replied back yet." Kankuro knew exactly why Ino hasn't replied and wished Sai's letter would have been more convincing so Ino wouldn't send him packing. "Anyway, you have nothing to worry about. I would say me allowing her to run off with Sakura and disappear before we finish entitles me to a few favors." He grabbed Kankuro's hands placing them on his skin. "Let's forget about the competition for now and play around for bit."

"Here I thought you were the puppet," Kankuro joked.

"I am a puppet," He corrected. "You see I'm only acting on your desires." Sai motioned towards the bulge nearly erupting from the puppet masters pants. Kankuro wanted to fuck him so bad so when he went home. He could at least go out with a bang.

"What a tremendous puppet you are," Kankuro removed his clothing wasting no time. He stood completely exposed to his toy. His seven inch hard cock was revealed to Sai. Kankuro latched chakra strings to Sai's neck and pulled him into his shaft. He controlled Sai's head making work up and down his shaft. The ninja's lips were touching the sensitive skin of his dick sending waves of pleasure down his spine. "Now lick it," He ordered as Sai did just that enveloping the tip of his cock with the texture of his tongue. He made Sai move down and lick his balls getting his entire appendage lathered up when he fucked the daylights out of him. Sai pulled his pants revealing a full hard on being aroused by Kankuro's forceful actions. He began jerking himself off as he pleasured Kankuro who brought his mouth back to his erect cock. Kankuro added more puppet strings to Sai's neck making the ninja suck his entire cock down to his shaved pubic hair. "Much better," Kankuro recognized that Sai was having trouble dealing with that much normally sucking down four inches never the entire seven. He was still new at the guy on guy experience only having sex with Kankuro a total of four times. Kankuro was an amateur at this as well and was usually kinder to his puppet but he wanted let out all of his frustration. He watched as Sai struggled to suck it down every time he tried to pull back into the comfortable four inches. Kankuro pulled him back in refusing to let go leaving his puppet no choice but to get used to it; it was that or choke on it. Luckily Sai was able to learn how to deal with it.

"It's time to start the show." Kankuro freed Sai from the strings and he immediately pulled away tasting a bit of pre cum from the satisfied customer. He swallowed Kankuro's cum enjoying the taste and began to catch his breath while he was doing this. Kankuro kissed Sai pushing him against the wall making his bare ass face him. He attached the chakra strings around Sai's neck as he forced three of the seven inches into Sai's entrance. Sai bit his lip to ignore the immense pain as Kankuro pulled himself out and added another two inches into his entrance. He did this again putting the full seven inches inside Sai choking him with chakra threads as he fucked him. Sai closed his eyes loving it as the puppet master went to work on him going enveloping his entire cock all the way down to pubic hair into Sai's nice soft ass that fit his dick like a glove. To show gratitude for his nice ass Kankuro began stroking Sai's cock matching his rhythm. It didn't take long for Sai to stain the wall with his seed which had also stained his lower stomach creating quite the mess. Easily the best orgasm Sai ever received. "Fuck," Kankuro cried out as he painted Sai's insides with his juices.

The chakra threads disappeared seeing as Kankuro could no longer maintain them. Sai immediately began catching his breath nearly being choked to death by Kankuro more than once. Kankuro warned him he liked it rough, he just didn't think it was this rough. "Show's over." He went to leave once again making Sai feel like a tool. It wasn't long ago; Sai had told him that he was in love with him. Kankuro simply replied that he was merely using him to get off and that was the only reason he agreed to be Sai's playmate. He was never the one for love hated to be tied down by anything for that would make him the puppet.

Lately, Sai had been a puppet on all counts. He was being used by Ino to get back at Kiba and was now being used by him. Sai was merely a guy trying to find someone to settle down with yet he was being dragged around on a leash. It occurred to Kankuro that he was starting to care about his puppet. This left only two options either he had to end it here and erase his claim on the puppet giving it solely to Ino or he could engrave his name on it so no one could claim him as theirs. He thought about this only for a minute until he realized he had already made his choice. The moment Ino owning Sai crossed his mind he was enraged feeling as if she was stealing from him. He already made his claim and it would be too hard to take it back. These feelings had no return policy; he was stuck with them. "Sai," He paused; Sai looked up at him shocked that he used his name. "I think I might make you my permeate puppet." Kankuro smiled knowing he couldn't say what he wanted to say but knew Sai would catch on. "Try not to let that pig touch you. I hate when my puppet's get dirty they are a real pain to clean off." He disappeared leaving Sai with a smile on his face.

When Kankuro returned, Team Ino made their vote and he was sent home. Though he was upset by being kicked off he was content because he now had someone he cared about. The best part was he didn't feel as if he was being tied down it felt as if he was simply claiming something that had always belonged to him