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"Last time, on Total Ninja Island, with our teams made and rivalries forming, the Titanic Toads and Howling Hawks took to the skies for their first challenge, cliff fall ninja battles. While the Toads took an early lead, it was Hinata who completed a comeback for the Hawks, and sent the Toads to the first elimination of the season. There it was Kiba, who not only lost his match, but also bad-mouthed his female teammates who was first to get the boot."
"What challenge will come next, can the Toads stage a comeback next challenge, who will be the next one to put their foot in their mouth? Find out now, on TOTAL. NINJA. ISLAND."
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"I swear to the sage I am going to gouge that man's eyes out." Tenten griped as once again, Kakashi woke everyone up with his airhorn.
"Or just eye, who knows whats behind that dumb headband he's got." Kurotsuchi agreed, sliding out of bed smoother than her companion. "Where's Haku? I thought they were in here last night?"
"What the Hell!"
Kankuro's voice echoed through the boy's side of the Hawks cabin, and when she stuck her head out the door, Tenten saw a peacefully smiling Haku, already fully clothed, exit the boy's side.
"Had a good night's sleep Haku?" Tenten asked her teammate.
"Of course, the boys were lovely company for the night, although I do believe they were surprised to see me there this morning." Haku said and Tenten rolled her eyes.
"Gather round everyone, it's challenge time!" Kakashi said merrily from between the cabins, watching as the ninja teens filed out of the cabins, dressed and ready, but most still rubbing their eyes and waking up.
"Any particular reason you're making us wake up two hours earlier than normal?" Ino grouched, yawning loudly, the sun only just coming up over the horizon line as Kakashi smiled cheerily under his mask.
"Of course, a good ninja is ready at any time, including at dawn." Kakashi explained, getting soft groans from several campers, including a still mostly asleep Shikamaru. "And continuing this train of thought, it's race time. Everyone run up to the top of the cliff from the last challenge and run back down. First team back gets an advantage. Go."
It took several seconds for everyone to process what Kakashi was saying, but once it set in, all the ninja teens, including the slower ones from the race around the island like Shikamaru, Choji, and Kankuro, all took off towards the cliff. Just like before, Naruto and Sasuke were neck and neck at the head of the pack.
"Ah…the sweet sound of innocent ninjas failing to look underneath the underneath." Kakashi mused once they were all out of earshot, making his way to Gai's mess hall for the next portion of the challenge.
"I'm beating you this time, teme, no more ties!" Naruto barked at Sasuke as the two sprinted up the sloping cliff, neck and neck the whole way.
"Hn…dobe." Sasuke shot back in a low growl, pushing his legs to move faster to match Naruto's pace.
"I will catch up to you both!" Lee yelled from behind them, Neji keeping pace with him, scowl etched on his features.
"You are only destined to fail and fall short, you cannot even defeat me." Neji sniped at Lee, getting the loud ninja's attention.
"Yosh! I will defeat you as well Neji, hard work conquers all!"
"Fate determines the winner, not work, and you are fated to fail." Neji and Lee's argument continued even as Sasuke and Naruto reached the top of the cliff ahead of them, pivot stopped, and blitzed back down.
At the back of the pack, a panting Choji and jogging Shikamaru were bringing up the rear, hands firmly planted in his pockets as he kept pace with his friend.
"I know you can be faster than this Shika, you don't have to stick with me and risk your team getting upset with you." Choji huffed out, arms pumping as he ran.
"But I don't have to. I don't need to beat all of them, just put on a little extra speed near the end….troublesome challenge." Shikamaru sighed and Choji shook his head and kept going. That was just how Shikamaru was, as lazy as possible. Choji couldn't even take offense, his bulk meant he lost races unless someone let him win, so he'd take the company while he could get it.
"Pick it up fatty, we aren't losing because of you!" Karui yelled at Choji as she ran past them from the opposite direction, on her way back down from the top.
"I'M NOT FAT I'M PUDGY!" Choji yelled as he shot off as if fired from a gun, knocking people out of the way as he ran, Omoi and Shino both getting slammed into trees as Choji stormed past them.
"Troublesome…" Shikamaru sighed and continued at his set pace, passing an unconscious Shino and staggering Omoi as he followed in his friend's wake.
The run didn't take much longer, and Omoi managed to stay ahead of Shino despite a probable concussion.
"And time, the Toads take part one of today's challenge!" Kakashi said as Omoi collapsed on the mess hall porch, Shino only a minute behind him, nursing his head as he ran.
"What took you so damn long, creeper!" Karui yelled at the hooded ninja, who turned his sunglasses-covered eyes to the red head, irritation clear on what little was revealed of his face.
"A certain someone set our teammate on a rampage that resulted in my getting run over, do you have any idea who that might have been?" Shino shot back, his voice dripping with barely concealed anger.
"Feh…not my fault you can't take a hit." Karui grunted back at him.
"It appears that creepy blames you, tomato." Sai chimed in from his seat on the steps, getting two annoyed looks at him.
"Shut up, pasty!" Karui yelled at him, shoving him off the steps roughly, eye twitching violently as she shook a fist at the pale boy.
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"I've gotten a lot of shit for my hair in the past." Karui growled to the camera, still fuming, "I'm not about to take any shit from a pasty basement dwelling freak ninja about it!"
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"At least Sai didn't call Karin the forbidden word." Naruto sighed, rubbing a hand on the back of his head. "Her and my mom both tend to break bones when that word comes out."
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"Settle down, settle down." Kakashi motioned placatingly, "For your advantage, the Toads get to select one Hawk to sit out the rest of the day's challenge."
"Sasuke." It was Shikamaru who answered before any other Toad did, getting looks from the rest of his team.
"Alright then, Sasuke, you're done for the day." Kakashi dismissed him, and Sasuke grunted in displeasure, glaring at the rest of his team.
"You better not lose this just because I'm not competing." Sasuke threatened, eyeing his team.
"Quit griping pretty boy, we got this." Tenten brushed off Sasuke's concerns, ignoring the glares she got from Sakura, Ino, and Karin for talking back to their crush.
"Time for part two of the challenge." Kakashi refocused everyone and pushed open the doors to the mess hall, revealing two long tables packed with food, bowls of ramen, whole turkey, piles of sandwiches, everything they could imagine.
"Part two of today's challenge is to eat your way through the feast. The first team done gets the next advantage for the final portion of the challenge." Kakashi said cheerily, and Choji was already drooling at the sight of the feast.
"What a drag…" Shikamaru stared down the feast with a critical eye.
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Kurotsuchi smirked at the camera, arms crossed.
"And for once, the big guy gets to pull his own weight."
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"Ugh!" Ino was basically pulling out her own hair, "This would have been fine, except they have Choji! I've seen him get thrown out of buffets for clearing out 'all you can eat' sections! His family literally specializes in eating challenges!"
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"Yosh, I will do my best to eat heartily!" Lee fist pumped, eyes blazing with determination. "But I will miss the high protein meals we have been getting, I could feel them furthering my training as I ate!"
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"Yeah…I gotta keep Lee AWAY from Gai…Don't want the kid picking up on too many of his bad habits…" Kakashi drawled, not even looking into the camera, orange book propped up on one knee.
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"So much food….." Choji had stars in his eyes while the rest of the teens stared down the packed tables. "BRING IT ON!"
"And, eat." Kakashi signaled and both teams, sans Sasuke, blitzed the food. And Naruto went straight for the ramen.
"Come to me my beautiful ramen, blessed by the ramen gods!" Naruto cheered as the five large bowls on the Toad's table vanished in seconds. The whole team was left blinking at their captain.
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"Naruto's one big weakness…..ramen." Karin sighed and rubbed her temples with her fingers. "I like ramen too and all, everyone in our family does…but Naruto takes it WAY too far…"
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Shikamaru picked at his food, eyeing everyone else gorging themselves as fast as possible, hungry after the long sprint right before.
"Pick it up Shika, we gotta eat quickly if we wanna get ahead of Choji." Ino elbowed her friend.
"She has a point, lazy bones, you already didn't put in a good showing last challenge, so start carrying your own damn weight." Temari elbowed him from the other side, a large bowl of rice in her hand that she was working through as quickly as she could.
"Troublesome blondes…" Shikamaru muttered, taking the two elbows to his ribs as he continued to pick away at his food.
"You should eat more too, Gaara, you'll probably need the energy for the next challenge." Temari told her younger brother sitting across from her, who had taken a single bite before putting down his bowl and watching everyone.
Shikamaru eyes the usually silent redhead, noticing Sakura on the other team had also stopped eating, letting Choji devour her helping of the food.
"Ino, can you taste anything off in the food?" Shikamaru asked his friend, setting down his bowl as he watched most of the ninja eating in a slowing frenzy, nearing the end of the feast in front of them.
"It's a little off, but that's probably just chef Gai not having much experience cooking food that isn't his protein gruel." Ino said, pausing mid bite to process what she had just said.
"You don't think…" Ino trailed off and set aside her own portion, watching the two teams finish off all the food, Choji and Lee both eating big for their respective teams.
"We'll just have to wait and see." Shikamaru replied, Temari and Gaara watching both their comments carefully.
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"Coming in with siblings gives me an advantage, I know that, everyone knows that." Temari said into the confessional camera, "But it's not as big an advantage as the buddy buddy trio has. Kankuro and I can hardly stand each other most of the time, and it was only recently that Gaara was…. Stable enough to be in public we'll say. So if I have to target someone next on our team, either Ino or the sloth are next. Not like they're helping the team much anyway."
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"Poison. Mild enough that it's barely noticeable, and I'm pretty sure it's only a sleeping drug, but whatever Kakashi has planned, he's not getting one over on me!" Sakura bragged into the camera, clutching one fist in victory. "Cha! Take that Ino-pig and red-headed glasses bitch. Now Sasuke will notice me for sure!"
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"Done!" Choji slammed down the last empty plate for the Hawks, getting a cheer from his team while at the Toads table, Shikamaru, Gaara, and Ino all still had plenty of food in front of them, even if Naruto and Lee had been trying to make their way through multiple people worth of food.
"Congrats Hawks, like the Toads, your reward is making someone from the Toads sit out for the final leg of the challenge with Sasuke."
"Naruto!" Karui yelled, pointing at the blonde with triumph in her eyes and a smirk on her face.
"Alright then, Naruto and Sasuke, you both get to sit out of our elimination challenge, the Awakeathon!"
"Awakeathon?" Fu asked, tilting her head in confusion.
"Yup, everyone participating will follow me over to the campfire, and the last ninja awake wins it for their team. A good ninja can hold their own on a long stakeout after all. I did say today was about endurance didn't I?" Kakashi eye smiled at everyone and Sakura pumped a fist in victory.
"That's why all the food was laced with sleeping drugs, I knew you had to be up to something!" Sakura cheered. "Can't get one over on a medic nin!"
"That's why you three weren't eating?" Temari rounded on Ino, Shikamaru, and Gaara, eyeing them carefully.
"You know my opinion on tampered food, Temari." Gaara said blandly to his sister.
"Shika noticed and got me to stop, but I'll probably still be feeling it in a bit, I went through two plates before I stopped." Ino admitted, and everyone's eyes trailed over to the heavy eaters, Naruto, Lee, and Choji. All three were already napping in their seats, heads down on the tables and snoring away blissfully.
"And that's Choji and Lee eliminated! Too bad you took Naruto out of the game Karui, otherwise you'd be at a big advantage, now follow me kiddies, we have some long boring hours ahead!" Kakashi said cheerily, leading the teen ninja out the door, some already looking like they were feeling the drugs.
"Good job tomato." Sai patted Karui on the shoulder, a creepy smile plastered on his face. "You provided less help than the howler monkey fan girl."
"What did you call me!" Sakura rounded on Sai, who smiled at the yelling pinkette.
"I was commenting on your use being greater than tomato, surprising given that you seem to be generally useless."
Both Karui and Sakura had had enough at this point, and both swung their fists into Sai's face as hard as they could, downing the pale ninja and leaving him in a heap on the ground, out cold.
"And Sai is eliminated next, you're on a roll there Karui." Kakashi commented as Gai slung the unconscious ninja over his shoulder with Lee, Choji, and Naruto. Sasuke followed behind him silently as they traveled back to the cabins.
"Ok, even with creep-o gone, we can still win this." Karui protested, getting careful looks from her team. "I'll do it myself if I have to." Even as she said this though, Karui was forced to hold back a yawn.
"Yeah, good luck with that." Kankuro said blandly, glancing over at his brother before turning to Kakashi.
"Hey bossman, can I just drop out now?"
Kakashi blinked in surprise, "Sure, but can I ask why, your team probably wants an explanation as well."
"Gaara is an insomniac, he sleeps once a month. And he only ate a single bite of the food, we aren't winning this one. Unless one of you thinks you can stay up for the next few weeks?" Kankuro challenged his team.
"Well shit." Tenten summarized the situation, looking over her team. "I don't know about you all, but that sounds like a good reason to call it quits to me."
"Ah ah ah." Kakashi interjected, "In light of the challenge potentially becoming a boring forfeit, there can be no dropping out unless you fall asleep."
"Damn…well it was worth a shot." Kankuro groaned and plopped down on one of the logs at the campfire ring.
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"Ok…so I may be in trouble." Karui rubbed the back of her head with a look of worry on her face. "I know I'm not the best at controlling my impulses, and that's already shot us in the foot for this one, if we lose, I might be on the block. So all I gotta do is either win it for us against the sleepless freak, or hang in there long enough for them to keep me around as a strong player."
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"I'm actually kinda glad Lee and Naruto are out cold already." Temari said blandly. "Both crazies would try to stay up with Gaara as long as they could, and Kakashi is probably going to throw the next challenge at us soon after this one, making us work tired. So with both of them resting now, and Gaara having this one in the bag, the next two eliminations should both be Hawks."
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**6 hours into the Awakeathon**
"It took way longer than I thought, but we have our first sleeper!" Kakashi announced cheerily, pointing at the napping Shikamaru.
"You didn't even eat much food, Shika, what the hell!" Ino yelled at her friend, smacking him awake.
"Well Gaara should have it for us, no need to stress over it in that case…troublesome blonde." Shikamaru sat up and left the campfire to head back to the cabin, presumably to fall back asleep in peace.
"Laziest person I have ever seen." Temari commented to Ino, watching as Chojuro and Kankuro both were fighting against nodding off.
"He's lazier than a sloth, but he's also the smartest human being I've ever met." Ino replied, rolling her shoulders and stretching her arms to keep the blood flowing, "When Kakashi throws a strategy challenge at us he'll show his worth."
"If you say so." Temari agreed as they sat back and watched as Chojuro and Kankuro finally passed out and Kakashi announced them as eliminated.
Ino watched carefully as different groups formed as the ninja teens quietly converse to stay awake. Fu was talking at a silent Gaara, Kurotsuchi was listening in while Karui and Tenten chatted, Haku was politely listening to Hinata stutter her way through a conversation, Sakura and Karin were glaring at one another, Samui and Omoi were leaning against one another back to back, Samui cutting the chronic worrier off whenever he got going, and Neji and Shino sitting silently on opposite sides of the group.
**12 hours into the Awakeathon**
"So who do you think is going down next?" Tenten asked Karui, casting a tired eye over the assembled groups, all still chatting amongst themselves.
"My money's on my teammates, both of them don't have the most stamina in the world." Karui lazily pointed to Samui and Omoi, who were still back to back, the shifting of their seating keeping them both awake.
"I was going to say Hinata, she doesn't seem like one to have the guts to stick it out." Kurotsuchi chimed in, casting one of her tired eyes at the stuttering girl, still in a conversation with Haku, who was letting the nervous girl do most of the talking.
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"So we're gonna lose this one." Kurotsuchi admitted, "Everyone's already been yawning except Gaara, that guy's barely even flinched and he dodged the sleep meds. Which means I need to figure out who's going home from our team, and as rash as she's been, I think it's worth keeping Karui around. Now I just have to get the rest of the team onboard…and let her know exactly who's helping her stay in the game."
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"Annoying as she is, without Sasuke to distract her, Ino isn't terrible company." Temari admitted, yawning as she spoke. "Girl might not be that tough, but she can work the social side of ninja work. Even more reason to keep an eye on her, and get rid of her when I can."
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"I know this might be a little weird, and maybe the lack of sleep or drugs are starting to get to me…but Gaara makes for surprisingly good company." Fu admitted, a small smile on her face. "And if he's as good as Kankuro says, he'll have the challenge in the bag for us, which means I can put my faith in him!"
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"Next one out is Fu!" Kakashi said cheerily as the mint haired ninja had cuddled into Gaara's side and passed out several minutes earlier.
"Huh, didn't see that one coming." Tenten admitted as she looked at the scene, across the campfire Temari was just as shocked.
"He's not violently removing her from his person…huh." The blonde mused as she watched her brother sit motionlessly, his eyes only occasionally trailing down to look at the sleeping girl attached to him.
"That's gonna be the most dysfunctional pairing I've seen in a long time." Ino agreed, cocking an eyebrow at her teammates.
"Well, she has the right idea, might as well rest up and let Gaara take care of things, wonder who the Hawks are gonna send home." Temari said, laying on her back and putting her hands behind her head, looking up at the stars and quickly falling asleep.
"Temari out, Hinata out!" Kakashi announced, the nervous girl falling asleep mid sentence, Haku catching her and laying her down gently before heading over to the large grouping of their teammates.
"I presume we are all feeling the inevitable loss coming." Haku asked casually, and Kurotsuchi nodded at them, eyeing the two silent male teammates that had refused conversation attempts thus far.
"Yeah, which means we gotta plan on who to kick, and I'm thinking one of the weirdos." Kurotsuchi agreed, jerking her thumbs at Shino and Neji.
"I see." Haku replied calmly, not letting any emotion onto their face.
"I think we should hold onto both of them for at least a little bit longer." Tenten argued, "Strange as Shino might be, and as much of an ass as Neji can be, they both can compete. Holding onto them and trimming the fat might be a better idea." Tenten pointed to Hinata and Sakura both, the pinkette still in a staring contest with the faltering Karin, who was clearly being affected by the drugs in all their systems.
"Makes sense." Haku acknowledged before turning to Karui.
"I know I'm on the block for today, but all I'll say is that Sai is both weaker and more annoying than me."
"He is a little strange." Haku consented, but still didn't let any emotion slide onto their features, "We'll have to see how this plays out however, Gaara might falter for all we know."
**24 hours into Awakeathon**
"Wow, a full day and we still have this many little ninja still standing, impressive." Kakashi commented, looking over the assembled ninja. Samu and Omoi had both collapsed around 18 hours, and Karin, Tenten, and Ino had passed out around 22, leaving Gaara the only Toad left standing, not that he even looked the least bit sleepy. Even Sakura was beginning to look out of it.
"How has Shino been standing this whole time? That's gotta be draining him." Sakura commented, approaching her standing and usually creepy hooded teammate.
"Anyone home in there." Sakura shook Shino lightly, and a soft snore came out of the standing boy.
"Wow, he fell asleep standing up and used his sunglasses to let us think he was awake. Clever, but he's out now." Kakashi said cheerily, giving Shino a hard shove onto the ground, where he continued snoring away.
"Whoops…" Sakura said, looking sheepishly at her remaining teammates.
"And the howler monkey proves herself worse than useless. Congratulations." A freshly awoken Sai approached the group, commenting to the remaining competitors with an obviously fake smile on his face.
"Any other wiseass remarks you got buddy, because my patience really isn't feeling up to hearing them." Sakura ground out to Sai, glaring at him harshly.
"Only that your crush on Sasuke is completely ridiculous. He is obviously either gay, or dickless. Either way, he wants nothing to do with you and any of the others. Or you are all ugly."
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!" Sakura hauled off again and put Sai in the dirt for the second time that challenge, steam rising from her fist and a vein on her forehead throbbing viciously.
"I've had it with this challenge, I'm going to bed." Sakura muttered and laid down in the dirt and was out in minutes.
"I think we have our target, I'll make sure the rest of the team is on board before I pass out, so you're safe for now." Kurotsuchi elbowed Karui playfully, hiding a smirk from the tired redhead.
"That's a weight off my back, but I'm still gonna try and win this for us." Karui answered, determination in her sleepy eyes.
"If you say so, as long as you think you'll recover for the next challenge." Kurotsuchi responded before heading over to Neji and Haku, who had migrated over to the fate obsessed boy several hours ago.
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"I don't doubt Karui will try and tough it out, and that it'll bite her in the ass next challenge. I keep her alive after that presumably poor showing and I'll have her in my corner for the rest of the game." Kurotsuchi said with a yawn. "Well, time to rest up myself. Kankuro was dead serious when he said Gaara was going to take this one, the guy has just been sitting there alternating between stargazing and bird counting."
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"I tried to warn them." Kankuro shrugged.
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**48 hours into the Awakeathon**
"And then there were two!" Kakashi said cheerily, a fresh cup of coffee in his hands as he looked at the final two competitors. Haku and Kurotsuchi had both ended around the thirty hour mark, and while he had tried to hold on, Neji had face planted at 40, the sleeping drugs in his system finally sending him to sleep.
"I'm honestly surprised you've held on this long Karui, with how much you ate I thought for sure you'd be out like a light." Kakashi commented.
"It's called guts, so bring it on." Karui rumbled back, sagging in her seat, exhaustion painted all over her features.
"Even though Gaara hasn't even yawned once this whole time?" Kakashi taunted and Karui growled in response.
"Even if I go down to raccoon eyes, I still gotta prove to my team I can clutch it out for them." Karui responded, sending a challenging look to her fresh team, deep bags hanging from her eyes.
"Even if you go down now you're safe, there's bigger issues on the team than you." Sasuke said blandly, shooting a look at Sakura, who failed to notice with how she was staring at the black haired boy.
"Oh, that's good." Karui said, and with that she face planted, snoring loudly as she finally let herself fall asleep, leaving Gaara as the last man standing.
"And the winner is Gaara and the Toads!" Kakashi announced, "Hawks, you've got until tonight to wake Karui up and vote someone off, until then!" Kakashi waved to them cheerily and pulled his orange book out of one of the pockets on his vest, getting absorbed in the book in seconds as he wandered off.
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"Welcome to the campfire Hawks!" Kakashi greeted the team, watching them with his exposed eye, plate full of marshmallows ready at his side.
"I have eleven fluffy bits of safety here and twelve little ninjas in front of me." Kakashi taunted and began tossing marshmallows at the assembled Hawks.
"Sasuke, Neji, Kurotsuchi, Tenten, Haku, Choji, Shino, Kankuro, Hinata." The first nine marshmallows went flying to their respective ninjas, who all caught them, Choji catching his directly with his mouth as he chewed happily. The remaining three of Sakura, Karui, and Sai all briefly glanced at one another.
"Karui, you early called Naruto out for your advantage and are part of the reason you guys lost the first part, is that enough for your team to send you home? And Sakura, you figured out that the food was poisoned, but didn't share the information with your team, not to mention you blew your own teammate's trick."
Shifting his focus, Kakashi now looked directly at Sai, "All that, and both of you are safe for now. Sai, you're gone."
"Goodbye team, I have had a pleasant time making friends." Sai waved cheerily, not getting the slightest bit mad at his elimination before he walked to the Dock of Shame and stepped onto the boat Gai was driving.
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"Goodbye weirdo, cha, that's what you get for saying things like that about Sasuke." Sakura said with a victorious fist pump.
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"As smart as it would have been to cut a weaker member, Sai was still annoying. For everyone. So we boot him now and can trim off pinkie and stutters later. Nothing personal against them, but we gotta have a strong team to compete with the likes of Gaara, Naruto, and Lee. Those three are monsters." Tenten said matter-of-factly, twirling a kunai in one hand.
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"Another challenge, another elimination, even if it wasn't nearly as exciting as I thought it would be…stupid insomniac…" Kakashi complained.
"Either way, Sai took the boot for pissing off too many of his teammates, but Karui and Sakura both look like they're still on thin ice. Will they mess up again and get voted, will Karui's insistence to stay up as long as she could hurt the team in the next challenge, will the Toads continue winning now that they have a victory in the books, find out next time on Total. Ninja. Island!"
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It's Friday, and I'm updating, it's like magic! Season is slowly starting up, and so far its really only Kurotsuchi making moves, but the field will open up a bit once the number gets trimmed down and I don't have to constantly check to make sure I'm not forgetting anyone…cough cough Chojuro cough cough…
Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the story, its meant to be a bit of fun and not super serious, so yeah.
Happy Reading -Centurion Africanus