The screen wirled a very short time only four matches remained and the excitement had nearly died out in the Chūnin hopefuls. It stopped on Naruto, much to his delight, and Kiba Inuzuka. "Watch and learn Mizu this is how an alpha handles things like this." Kiba said while headed to fight, he chose to ignore the very disgusted sounding 'what the fuck is wrong with you' from his teammate.
When both boys got to the arena they immediately got into an aggressive stance. Before the proctor started the match Akamaru, Kibas ninja hound, yipped. "Yeah I agree. He reeks of cat, it's disgusting!" Said kiba. The proctor coughed out, "Begin!" Then thenmatch started. "You're mad about something else Inuzuka, and I can tell. After all that time in the academy you'd think it was clear but you know what they say about old dogs and new tricks. Don't take it personally if I blow you away." Kiba growled at that.
Placing his dog down and vowing to handle it on his own. "I'll make this quick runt!" He focused his chakra and got on all fours. He rames naruto in the solar plexus and successfully put him on the floor. He luaghed, claiming that it must be such a shame for him as the hokages son to be so weak. He asked for the proctor to call the match but to Kibas surprise, Naruto was doing just fine. Kiba was visibly upset and Naruto decided to take advantage of that. He told the Inuzuka that he'd have better luck sending the dog to fight instead. Insulted and enraged, thats just what he did. When it didn't work out Kiba doubled down. This time he popped a pill an gave the same supplement to his dog. "A color changing dog how curious, I doubt you'll win with that though." Naruto said mockingly. Kiba threw some smoke bombs and sent a now transformed dog at him in some dual attak he called "fang over fang." The two were spinning around Naruto like twin drills and not landing a single hit. Although, Naruto was willing to admit they were pretty fast.
The smoke cleard and Akamaru sat next to his twin. Both got up and started circling eachother one jumped the other and in a poof Naruto was stumbling away, eventually falling on the floor. Kiba cheered on his ninja hound and called him back to him. "Yeah! You did great, look at him now. Hahahhaa!" Akamaru barked in response and ran to his partner. Said partner watched in glee, then confusion, and ultimately terror as the puppy morphed into black leopard with shiny platinum(almost white) rosettes. "What the hell?!" Kiba yelled jumping back from the big cats jaws. After landing safely behind the animal he looked back to see Akamaru in narutos place. 'Shit! Well if this is hiw he wants to play it fine! I'll get him back for you Akamaru!' Then the boy got on all fours, chakra surging like before and dashed at the panther. "Bring it on foreign freak!" Kiba yelled and thats when he was smacked down. The arcs of claws were sent again just to add salt to the literal wounds on his back. "That was uncalled for, don't make a habit of saying things like that. Okay?" Naruto was then declared the winner.
The next match would have been over faster but Neji Hyuga took it upon himself to give a speech to his opponent about their failures in life and grew frustrated as it all went ignored. "Look at you! Do you not feel shame? All the excuses and calling your self a ninja when you look like that." Neji spat. Choji, his opponent paused from eating his chips. "What do you mean by that?" Choji asked in an annoyed tone. Neji took a step forward, never dropping his stance, and said it. "Why don't you take a look in the mirror? If you can even see your full torso, you are shamefully overweight." Said Neji. Choji let out a battlecry, raging at the fitting yet hurtful adjectives. "Partial expansion justsu!" Choji's arm grew to humongous size and swung at the Hyuga boy. Neji smrikes and ran alongside the attack! Using the gentle fist he attacked all the way up to the body. Arm now back to it's original size and so many chakra points shut down Chojj was hardly able to fight back. Even blocking felt like taking a serious blow. Very soon Choji fell oit in the floor breathless and unmoving. Neji scowled at the quickness of the fight and walked off ince he was declared the winner.
Hmm so that leaves that sand shinobi, Kenshin, Rock Lee, and Shikamaru. Thought the Jōnin and Hokage. All looked towards the screen as it shuffled through the names for the final time. A now familiar chime sounded and those left to fight looked at the screen. Kenshin and Shikamaru were making there way, one quicker than the other. Kenshin was waiting patiently for Shikamaru. In his head he could hear the voice of Malphas and lllthey revised the plan together. "If you believe him capable of taking the pain I wouldn't mind stretching out a bit." Malpahs said between squawks. Somehow the oversized Ultramarine Lorikeet managed to be polite about the bloodlust it wished to satisfy. Kenshin could almost see all sixteen beady yellow tall eyes focused on Shikamaru from his spot on the steps. "Sorry but no this guy will just pull on your feathers and we cant have that. I doubt his jutsu is strong enough to make you do more than stagger but it's different for me you can help me this way though!" Kenshin thought.
When the match finally did start Kenshin took to to the sky, or well the ceiling. As he'd hoped his shadow was cast some where elese in the room and he was free to attack from above. It was after a few kunai he realized that Shikamaru knew where his shadow was and that the shadows from the weapons were only an aid to him. Apparently the shadow could stretch a limited distance and due to Kenshin shadow being in a certain part of tge room that was high up and since he hadn't done it Kenshin guessed that he couldn't just jump up and snag his shadow. "Or maybe he's just too lazy." Thought Kenshin. "If I want to avoid helping him I better use some futon jutsu. Yeah, an invisible force with no shadow to control!"
Shikamaru didn't take long to forfeit. Being cut up and kniwed wall to wall was painful enough, but not being able to do anything about it was worse. Kenshin didn't want to risk moving and compromisng his shadow so he would use Simoon to block tge weapons or send them back on the Nara boy. Annoyed but glad to be done he let Kenshin know that the fight definitely didn't go as planned. "You're not as flashy or cocky as you're clansmen that's for sure. It would've been easy just ride the shadow of some summon or destructive jutsu, and bind you before you coukd go at it with the seals." Shikamaru said. Kenshin tried not to take offense at that but think back on it and the fact he did still win he went to say, "I just had an idea and got lucky. The rest was just about wearing you down. In a way I guess you were different than I expected too." He said letting the turquoise wings cover his face to hide his meekness. Shikamaru sighed. "Modest too huh, if it wasn't for the hair I might've doubted you were an Uzumaki at all. I will tganj you for getting me out of this mess though. It was a real drag." Vanishing the wings from his back, Kenshin looked up and let out a chuckle. "Yeah I guess some of it was."
Then there was the final match. Rock Lee and Gaara fought hard. Gaara with his perfect defense at first didn't take note of Lee and his taijutsu. But once thw attacks got quicker, things had to change. At some point Rocklee asked his sensei for permission to take of his weights. Everyone was shocked as the weight was able to make craters in the ground on impact. He started using his '8 gates jutsu.' With them he gained an aura around him his strength and speed were also increased making the techniques far more dangerous. Gaara was starting to get overwhelmed and after a few blows used his own jutsu on Lee! The sands surrounded and collided with Rock lees form, cocooning him in the mini desert from Gaaras gourd. The small boy from suna made a fist and the sand crushed Lee in response. Loud, sickening, unnatural cracks could be heard before Lee started to scream. The proctor went to call the match and garra made the fist tighter. Everyone was in shock at this the biy was declared the winner but just couldn't stop. It was clear he was out for blood in that moment. When the red head did release hus victim the sight even had Akamaru sick and whimpering to Kiba. Gai rushed right along with the medics to see his student get medical attention. All the while Gaara hadn't moved from his spot. Instead hed started to smile.
"Ok the winners are to come down and recive ticket with a number. This will determine your match next month during the finals. For now prioritize training and strategizing a way to beat your opponents. Remember that you're representing villages and aim to get funds for it from those in the audience."
Breaking away from their teams the winners all went down. They stood in a line waiting to recive the tickets. The 12 of them : Naruto, Hinata, Gaara, Neji, Kenshin, Tamari, Kankuro, Aoi, Yakumo, Sakura, Sasuke, and Kyō all headed down in that order. And in that order, they received the tickets. 10,1,12,2,3,4,7,5,6,8,11 they all nodded and acknowledged who their pairs would be and went home. It was time to rest. That way the could hit the ground running next month.