Chapter 57 - Chuunin Exams Second Phase [4] (1/2)
Time passed as more and more teams entered the Tower, the fastest being the Sand Trio, that came after just an hour passed, the rest took a long time and quickly, the time limit came.
'Finally, I was dying form boredness...' The Teams that first arrived thought in sync.
Suddenly, a voice reverberated through the entire floor they were ''Everyone, gather in the Main Field, more instructions will be given there.''
Nodding, they all went to the Main Field, a place that was surrounded by a small floor, probably a place where they could spectate, some of them guessed it would be something related to battle or maybe nothing would happen.
In front of them stood a few Jounins and Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage. One of the Jounins said ''Hokage-sama, if possible, let me... cough... explain.''
'Is he okay?' Sakura thought strangely as the Jounin received permission, then, he said while coughing at some parts ''Hello, everyone. Originally, we... cough... wouldn't do this, however, there are still 25 left, this is too much, cough, as such, we will do an extra phase, the Preliminary Phase, there will have one battle to halve the numbers.''
Without waiting, he continued ''If any of you... cough... feel like giving up, this is the time, the Second Phase was... cough... exhausting so you'll be allowed to give up, I'm Hayate Gekko, your proctor for this phase.''
''We won't be allowed to rest?'' A member from Hensuke's team as they passed the second round, said with some doubt, Hayate nodded ''You won't.''
A few moments of silence passed before someone raised his hands, it was Kabuto, that said before slowly walking away ''I don't think I'll be able to participate anymore, I'm giving up.''
With Kabuto giving up, the original number of 25 Genins went to 24 Genins, meaning the third and last Phase will have 12 members.
''Since no one is giving up too, we will start the first round without delay, everyone, go upstairs to observe it and only come down if your name is called.'' Hayate Gekko said as all of them went upstairs, observing the field from above.
''Uchiha Hensuke versus Shino Aburame!'' Hayate said as the duo went down, Naruto didn't really pay attention to this battle but felt slightly amazed by both Shino and Hensuke strength, in the end, the Uchiha won after activating the Sharingan and easily dodging all of the insects sent towards him, Shino fell after being put in a Genjutsu.
Hensuke was announced as the winner and sent a glare towards both Sasuke and Naruto ''It seems Shisui-san cousins are doing well too, Sasuke.'' the blonde teenager commented, Hensuke speed was high just like Shisui, apparently, the latter taught his way of using the Body Flicker Technique to Hensuke 'I wonder if Kinsuke-san improved over these 6 months? It has been some time since we ''practiced' Naruto thought as somewhere, a certain Uchiha suddenly shuddered.
Hayate wasn't one to drag things so he drew the next opponents ''Naruto Uzumaki versus Tenten!'' as he said that, the brown-haired girl sighed and without even going down the stage, she said ''I give up, I'm not his opponent.''