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Hope you'll enjoy this chapter ^^leave a comment! A bit longer chapter this time ^^ I suck at writing fighting scenes _
LittlemissTrafalgar: I hope I won't dissapoint you with this chapter xD
As she walked towards Hibachi she looked down at the piece of paper the proctor gave her before the matches started. Deciding to forfeit the match she smiled lightly at the paper and pushed it down in her back pocket, coming to a halt before Hibachi. Rising her hand above her head in a fist, her fingers slowly untangled themselves from the fist.
"You're going to surrender? Fine by me, I wouldn't like to beat up an injured girl." Hibachi exclaimed looking at Nana.
As soon as his words came out Nana's eyes grew cold, her mind went in to haywire mode. Thoughts came rushing in to her head as she started sketching out the strategies of beating a long ranger and a good taijutsu user. Her eyes locked at the two kunai that remained leached in to the wall from Shikamaru's fight with Temari. Hibachi is smart, but the big head of his will always get the better of him.
Hibachi saw her eyes changing from a warm gentle state to a cold stare piercing right through him. Unwillingly Hibachi stepped back with his arms swinging around in an unruly matter.
"I didn't mean it like that Nana-chan" He tried to explain to her. "I didn't mean it like it sounded, I swear…C'mon Nana…"
Unbeknownst to him Nana wasn't paying attention as she kept on thinking about the pros and cons of the fight. Her leg was already healed enough to run around, but direct blows to the broken ankle would cause more pain and in the end prolong her injury. In her mind the cons were outnumbering the pros. Shrugging to herself she reached in to her back pocket retrieving the piece of paper. Stepping forward she handed the signed paper to the proctor bowing lightly to him. He looked back at her unsure.
"Are you sure?" He asked her one last time just to receive a nod and a big grin from her.
"Nana! Don't do this. You are still recovering." Hibachi tried to repair his mistake.
"Nah, if you think you can beat me…wake up." Nana told him as she stretched her injured leg massaging her ankle a bit and tightening the bandages around it.
"Oh I can beat you for sure, your teleportation technique won't work on my water style. Plus I've been training with Isoda sensei while you were in the hospital." He bit back at her.
The proctor broke of their glaring contest after a minute as he addressed them.
"The 4th match starts. Now!" The proctor exclaimed as he jumped back away from them.
"I'll go easy on you." Hibachi exclaimed grinning at her.
"Don't bother." Nana told him as she reached in to her back pocket quickly feeling if she got the right kunai. Feeling a small string she pulled out the kunai's throwing the first one at Hibachi's feet making him dodge, as she lodged the other four kunai's one on each side of the arena.
"If you think I'm stupid enough to go anywhere near your kunai's you're mistaken" Hibachi tells her with a smirk plastered on his face.
Without replying to him Nana charged straight at him swinging her uninjured leg in a roundhouse kick at his head, which he blocked with his arms crossed in front of his face.
"Not going to work" He said with a small grunt as he pushed her away and started forming hand seals. "Water release: Water Bullet Technique!"
Before he could hit Nana with the technique she jumped to the side dodging the full on blast he sent her way. Hibachi started forming seals again, now longer than before. Using this time Nana pushed herself towards him in full sprint imitating an attack to the face, as Hibachi went to block it she twisted her body, pushing herself with her arms from the ground around him successfully kicking him sideways pushing him a few feet away from her.
"Hmph… lucky strike Nanami" He told her as he dusted himself off.
Looking up around himself he couldn't see Nana anywhere in the arena.
"Ah c'mon Nana! Let's not play hide and seek." He shouted as he kept on circling around watching himself for her surprise attack.
In the bushes however Nana didn't just sit around, despite the warnings of the medical staff she used a bit of ninjutsu making her body, well more like chakra paths burn as the chakra pushed itself out of her body to perform the technique. The technique didn't need a lot of chakra to perform but her skin started to itch already. She used 2 standard clones of herself, true the technique was a dead giveaway since the clones didn't cause any sound and didn't have any shadows, but they were good to distract an enemy, and this is exactly what she needs at the moment. Distracting Hibachi is too easy, since he is a punch first, ask questions later type.
Using her clones she pushed both of them in different directions as she went on stabbing kunai's at their designated spot at the wall. She could hear Hibachi attacking her clones from the middle of the arena using long ranged attacks. Smirking to herself she made her way to the last designated spot, but before she could reach it she heard a loud puff as Hibachi successfully landed his technique on her clone. To his surprise the only thing left from Nana was a small speck of smoke as the clone disintegrated. Having enough of her hide and seek games he rushed in to the bushes with full speed and before Nana could hide from him he reached her successfully landing a punch to her abdominal area.
All kinds of curse words played themselves in Nanas head as she kept on dodging Hibachi's attacks. She kept on dodging Hibachi till they came again to the centre of the arena that is where she started trading punches with him despite the fact her skin burned and her ankle started to sting her again. Wanting to prove her point she kept on going as she positioned Hibachi to the wall she needed to throw the Kunai to. Swinging her injured leg sideways hoping it would work the second time around. To her annoyance Hibachi blocked her attack again with his arms, making her injured leg come in a full blow contact with them. She threw the last kunai she needed as she let out a loud painful scream as she felt her ankle twist itself too far.
"Ha you missed!" Hibachi smiled as he saw the kunai lodge in to the wall behind him. He knew the kunai was too far away for Nana to successfully use her teleportation jutsu so he dismissed it.
Looking up at Hibachi, Nana grinned as she saw him storm at her. Not sure of what she was laughing about he stopped his attack and jumped backwards.
'I think I can manage two more jutsus' Nana thought to herself as she threw a marked kunai at Hibachis head.
He dodged it before it could scrape his cheek, in his concentration of dodging the kunai he didn't see the markings at the right time. Before he could react Nana pulled herself to the kunai grabbing it mid-air as she twisted around using the momentum to her advantage she kicked Hibachi across his back and threw the kunai as above his head at where he stumbled on his feet. He saw her vanish from the spot she was as he started to franticly look around himself. Grabbing the kunai she threw above his head she threw it full force down toward the first kunai she used at the start of the match. As the kunai rushed full force down the momentum caused the other kunai to lodge itself deep in to the ground, causing a chain reaction with the other kunai's that were attached with the same thin wire. As the kunai's were pulled from the wall it caused the wire to tighten itself, successfully trapping Hibachi in the canter of the arena. As the wire wrapped itself around Hibachi he fell to the ground face first and before he could break free, Nana jumped on top of him with another kunai pointing at his neck.
"I win." She stated as she pressed the point of the kunai in to his neck, making him gulp.
"G-good job." He told her with an irritated smile plastered on his face.
"Winner: Uzumaki Nanami!" The proctor exclaimed with one of his arms raised.
"Alright! Way to go Nana!" She heard Naruto shout from the balcony where other exam participants waited for their matches.
In between her match Sasuke arrived so the crowd started demanding the next match. She saw Hibachi climb the wall up to the balcony.
'Show off' She thought to herself as she too made her way back u to the balcony.
As she walked down the long corridor she saw two shady looking grass ninjas sneaking before her. Despite her aching leg and burning sensation throughout her whole body she followed them not making a sound. She saw them turn in to another corridor. Watching them she saw both of them stopping and leaning with their backs on to the wall. Waiting where she was she heard footsteps coming her way, looking up she saw the red haired sand shinobi coming down from the other side. His face looked calm, yet she could feel his bloodlust radiating from him. Taking a step back just to be safe she hid herself in the shadows.
Gaara stopped in his tracks in front of the two grass ninjas looking up to them.
"Low level tournaments like this Chuunin exam… are good for betting. Quite a few feudal lords come here just for that reason." The first one explained. 'So they are above chuunin class ninjas?'
"So… can you lose in this match?" The other one finished.
"Hey now, at least say something."
"Are you too scared to say something?"
She was still watching the scene unfold, looking at the grass ninjas closely. They were sent to threaten him, to make him loose the match, and if he didn't they would probably hurt him so he couldn't compete. Knowing Gaara was strong she wasn't concerned about his wellbeing, what she was concerned about was for useless fighting to break out. She saw one of the grass ninja pull out a kunai and before she even thought her actions through, her body reacted on its own accord.
She pulled out her kunai and successfully knocked the other guys kunai out of his hand. Gaara didn't even turn around to look who it was, to be fair he probably already knew she was standing there. She saw his sand bursting out of the gourd he had strapped on his back.
The lights broke on the ceiling along the whole corridor as the sand went for the two grass ninjas. Gaara successfully captured the first grass ninja using his sand to finish him off. Looking over Gaaras shoulder she could see the other ninja running away, scoffing to herself.
"You know you shouldn't threaten somebody and then run away." Nana yelled behind the grass ninja, to be fair they deserved it.
She didn't like useless fighting, but those ninjas were worse than scum in her eyes, threatening a genin… Her eyes grew cold again as she used the kunai again lodging it in to the grass ninja's leg successfully making him fall in pain. The send wrapped itself around the fallen ninja, pulling him back towards Gaara.
"Help!" He screamed stretching his hands out trying to pull himself out of the sand, but to no avail.
"Stop! Stop!" He pleaded as the sand wrapped around him tightened its hold. Before he could say something else the sand contracted and squeezed the man beneath it, his last screams echoing throughout the corridor.
Sure Nana felt bad for the two man dying, but to be fair it was them or Gaara. And as selfish as it seemed she wanted to see the redhead fight Sasuke, since she missed his first fight against Lee-kun.
Lost in her thoughts she was pulled back to reality when she felt the sand wrapping itself around her legs. Looking up at Gaara he was closer than before, their noses were almost touching. His face was calm again, his eyes cold, concealing all emotions, unable for Nana to read him, or to predict his actions.
"What are YOU doing here?" He asked her his eyes became sharper as he questioned her actions.
"Well funny thing is I just had a match you know…" She started to explain, grinning at him.
"What is wrong with you?! Why aren't you scared?" He practically screamed at her face.
Nana winced just a little when his arm shot past her head, leaving a small dent where his palm connected with the wall. He held his arm there not moving it. Nana's eyes travelled up his tense arm, back to his face. Her face started to heat up as he came even closer.
"I'm seriously going to kill you." He told her.
"Well, you can do that after you buy me the dango you owe me…" She started just to be cut off by his sudden yelp as both of his hands clutched his head again.
"Are you alright? ...Gaara?" She asked as she touched his shoulder gently.
"Just stay away from me." He told her as he turned around leaving her standing there with sand retracting to his gourd.
She watched him as he walked away.
"Hey Gaara!" She shouted behind him, but he didn't stop. "Good luck!" She added.
At that she saw him stop for just a second, before he continued his way down the stairs to the arena, again holding his head in pain.
As he disappeared from her view her brother and Shikamaru came running towards her.
"Are you crazy!? He could have killed you!" Naruto shouted at her, while looking her over for any mayor injuries.
"He didn't do anything to you, did he?" He questioned her as he grabbed her head looking at every corner for any damage.
"I'll be fine. I'm tired from the match." She told him as she pushed his hands away from her face.
As they came up to the balcony she saw Hibachi standing there with Isoda sensei. As soon as Isoda saw her he gestured her to join them.
"Nana. Nice thinking out there. How are you feeling? We should go to the hospital, they told you not to use any ninjutsu." Isoda said between a few yawns.
"I'm fine. Let me watch this match and then we can go to the hospital. My chakra is burning up again." She told him.
"Let's go now, your health is more important than watching a match." Isoda exclaimed as he left her no room to argue back.
Letting out a small sigh she let her sensei take her to the hospital.
On the way there her chakra started to burn a lot more than it ever did before, not knowing how to cope with the pain, her body shut down before they reached the hospital.