Chapter 49 - 46 (2/2)

When she noticed this, it was too late. All of the exploding tags planted by Tenten exploded everywhere.

”Good job, Tenten!” Rock Lee shouted from up the stage along with Gai.

The entire stage were covered by smoke before Temari waved her giant battle fan, dissipating the smoke created by those exploding tags.

It was good that she managed to kawarimi just in time.

”Tch, how did you survive that? No, it doesn't matter. I'll show you how a weapon master fights!” She said/

She then threw four shurikens towards Temari, only for her it to missed as Temari smirked.

”No way, Tenten missed!?” Rock Lee said in shock.

Gai then squinted his eyes and said, ”No, if you look a little closely, you would see that girl from Suna just dodged it, very easily if I say so myself.”

Temari decided to taunt her, ”Is that the best you got? You won't even be able to scratch me like that.”

”Don't you underestimate me!” Tenten then ran around Temari before jumping upwards. She took out another scroll and she spreads it out in the air before flipping through the air as the scroll was spinning around her.

Dozens upon dozens of various weapons were shot towards Temari as she spins in the air. Seeing this, Temari just opened her battle fan again before she deflected all of it easily.

Up on the stage, Hikaru only turned his back around and said, ”Tenten will lose. Obviously, Temari has the advantages. Tenten's rapid throwing of weapons will only lead to futility.”

”How can you say that? She's from Konoha, you know!” Rock Lee said, he was quite angry hearing someone say that about his friend.

”Well, if you say so. But it doesn't change a thing, she will still lose. If just throwing a bunch toys in mid-air can make you a shinobi, many would've succeeded a long time ago.” Hikaru said harshly.

”You take that back!” Rock Lee yelled at Hikaru in anger.

Hikaru narrowed his eyes, seeing him do that, Kakashi decided to intervene.

”Gai, can you do something about your student? I'll take care of mine.” Kakashi said to Gai with an eye smile.

”Of course, my eternal rival! Lee, calm down. I'm sure young Hikaru here didn't mean a word he said, ” Gai told him as he tried calming him down.

Hikaru snorted and just ignored them. He was still quite upset about losing all of his souls after he was killed by Manus. That was more than 5 Million, mind you. Anyone would be upset if they lose that kind of huge amount.

And, just as he said a few moments ago, Tenten lost terribly to Temari. Even as far as using the technique she called, ”Rising Dragons”. Which was just another name for throwing a bunch of weapons towards her opponent. It was ridiculous, really.

Seeing him this annoyed, his teammates worries about his opponent in the preliminaries. Imagine someone as strong as Hikaru your opponent.

After Temari was taken by the medical staff, Hayate announced Temari as the winner. Tenten's defeat was not as bad in the anime, Temari just made her faint after tiring her out. It may be because they're basically prisoners of Konoha that she went easy on Tenten.

Next, the board then flash two other names.

Uchiha Sasuke vs Yoroi Akado.

”Please come down the both of you.” Hayate said.

”Sasuke-kun, good luck.” Sakura told him.

Sasuke simply smiled and said, ”Thank you, I'll defeat him a hundred percent.” With that, he left Sakura with hearts all over her eyes.

On the other side of the stands was Orochimaru, who's disguised as the Jounin-sensei of Yoroi and two others. He's gritting his teeth in anger as he missed the chance to mark Sasuke with his cursed seal earlier in the forest of death. He simply couldn't find him!

'Tch, it doesn't matter. I heard Sasuke has some brother issues, maybe I will be able to take advantage of that. First, I need to mark him. That way it'll be easier to get him to my side.' Orochimaru thought deviously inside his head.

As he stared at Sasuke, he didn't realize that Hikaru was looking at him. It seems like he already got a gist of who he is.

Seeing that snake present, Hikaru close his eyes and waited for his turn.

In the fight, Sasuke had a rough start. It was because Yoroi was able to absorb his chakra just buy getting in contact with him, and that messed up his sharingan because his eyes needed chakra to be active. So he decided to turn it off and started to use long-range attacks, I.e Jutsus.

After a few hits of his katon jutsus, he finally knocked him out with a simple taijutsu.

”Winner, Uchiha Sasuke!” Hayate announced.

Sasuke went up the to his team but he was a little tired. That fight with Yoroi definitely did some numbers on him.

”Congratulations, Sasuke-kun! You won!” Sakura cheered for her beloved Sasuke.

”Yeah, thanks. I'll rest for now. Good luck with your fight, Sakura.” He said as he sat beside the wall to rest a little.

Next, it was Sakura's turn to fight, Her opponent was Ino.

They both went down and faced each other. Hayate announced the beginning of their fight and they got ready.

Their fight was quite pathetic, actually. A few slaps here and there before they knocked each other out with a punch in the head.