Chapter 68: Izayoi's Opponent
The four matches ended in nearly a flash.
The preliminaries reached the fifth round within ten minutes.
This round of matches finally lasted long, so long that many couldn't help but yawn.
Because the matchup list for this round was actually. Ino Yamanaka VS Sakura Haruno.
Just like Naruto Uzumaki learned Wind Style: Great Breakthrough, Sakura Haruno also had gotten much better compared to the original, but that was it.
She had learned a genjutsu from Kakashi Hatake, the D-rank jutsu Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique, which could make the enemy see the scenery that would inflict the most fear in their hearts.
In the survival training, Sakura Haruno was swiftly defeated by this genjutsu of Kakashi Hatake.
If her opponent had been Minako, perhaps Sakura Haruno would have won.
Her opponent just so happened to be Ino Yamanaka, an expert of Yin Release secret techniques.
The Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique was dispelled with ease by Ino Yamanaka.
Similarly, although Ino Yamanaka was a secret technique clan heir and had already mastered the Yamanaka clan's Mind Body Switch Technique.
However, the Yamanaka clan's role was support, and the Mind Body Switch Technique lacked any attacking power.
Although she succeeded in tricking Sakura Haruno and used the Mind Body Switch Technique to take over Sakura Haruno's body, she was expelled by Sakura Haruno's inner second personality.
A genjutsu was broken, and a family secret technique was broken.
These former best friends were born-to-be enemies, and they could only use the basics acquired at the ninja academy to decide the win.
Three Body Techniques, shuriken tossing, kunai close-range combat, taijutsu fight. both girls had excellent basics, absolute top pupils.
But in the eyes of the Jonin, it was like children playing ninja games, very boring.
Even Izayoi and the others believed that these two were too weak.
Only Minako sympathized with them, knowing that these top students were the same as her.
In the end, just like in the original work, the two girls collapsed on the ground exhausted, both failing to enter the main matches.
When they woke up, the battle had already entered the ninth round.
The sixth match was Tenten VS Temari.
This was one-sided battle. Tenten, whose elements were deflected by Temari, did not have any defense at all against her opponent's Wind Style.
The seventh battle was Shikamaru Nara VS Genichi Sawano.
The latter was a teammate of Kiba Inuzuka. Like Sakura Haruno, he came from a ninja family, his father being an ordinary Chunin with a last name.
Genichi Sawano's strength was also reasonable, learning a C-rank Water Style: Wild Water Wave.
Although this was a basic Water Style ninjutsu, its usage was varied and extensive. If the user had plenty of chakra, its effect was not less than a B-rank Water Style: Water Formation Wall.
Unfortunately, his combat experience was too little, and his intelligence was far less compared to that of Shikamaru Nara.
The moment he used Water Style, releasing a stream of water that made Shikamaru Nara disappear from his line of sight, the result was already settled.
Shikamaru Nara first took out a kunai and placed it in his mouth, then used the Shadow Imitation Technique to immobilize Genichi Sawano, took the kunai out of his mouth, and Genichi Sawano - took the initiative to surrender.
Exactly when Genichi Sawano lost, the eighth fight was Minako VS Neji Hyuga.
Considering the fact that his opponent was one of the current members of the elite clan of Konoha and the top student of last year, Minako did not even bother going through the formalities and just surrendered by raising her hand.
The ninth fight was. Naruto Uzumaki VS Kiba Inuzuka!
"Great, it's that idiot Kiba, I'm definitely going to win!"
When he heard his opponent's name, Naruto Uzumaki immediately put his foot on the railing and shouted with excitement.
Kiba Inuzuka, whose face was also alight with happiness, immediately shouted with black lines on his forehead, "Idiot Naruto, that's what I should be saying!"
Walking into the hall, Kiba Inuzuka looked at Naruto Uzumaki with a complacent expression and said, "Dead last, if you praise me now, I'll let you lose with some pride. Or you can just give up!"
To Kiba Inuzuka, Naruto Uzumaki was the same as a few months ago.
Facing him and Akamaru's double attack, he was definitely going to lose.
But Naruto Uzumaki also showed a smug smile and said, "Watch me beat you in one shot!"
"Hahaha. beat me in one shot? Dead last, are you still dreaming?!" Kiba Inuzuka couldn't help but laugh out loud, then said to Akamaru, "Akamaru, let's teach this dead last a lesson."
"Woof!" Akamaru responded with a bark.
"Ninth round, start!"
As Hayate Gekko's voice fell, Naruto Uzumaki rapidly formed the Rat hand seal and exclaimed, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Several days had passed, and Naruto Uzumaki, who had been hit by the Five Elements Seal, didn't have such violent chakra as before.
Although he still couldn't instantly summon hundreds of shadow clones, summoning double-digit shadow clones was still effortless for him.
Bang bang bang.
Loud noises were heard, and puffs of white smoke appeared out of thin air.
When the smoke dissipated, more than twenty Naruto Uzumakis had surrounded Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru.
"Is this... Shadow Clone Jutsu? How can there be so many?! " Kiba Inuzuka's eyes went wide with astonishment.
The audience in the second-floor stands, the Genin, and even the Jonin were equally astonished.
Especially the well-informed Jonin, who immediately realized that this was no normal Shadow Clone Jutsu, but the forbidden Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!
"Wind Style."
Before Kiba Inuzuka could return to his senses from his shock, Naruto Uzumaki and his shadow clones had already formed hand seals.
Sensing his hand seals, the Jonin's faces altered a bit more, already picturing the upcoming scene.
Before Kiba Inuzuka had a chance to react, Naruto Uzumaki and his shadow clones already shouted out the name of the technique: "Great Breakthrough!"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
The winds howled, and the materialized wind flows, as if they were visible but intangible giant hands, grabbed the bodies of Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru and flung them into the air.
Next, hand after hand appeared out of thin air, throwing the beast and the man around in mid-air, as if they had entered a tornado.
Even the Jonin and examinees at the second-floor stands were affected. The latter tightly grasped the railings or clutched at the banisters, their eyes completely unable to open, while some of the former raised their hands to shield their eyes.
As the Jonin leader of Team 6, who was acting as a supervisor, saw Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru rotating rapidly in the air, ready to slam into the wall with great force, he immediately flashed forward and caught them, ending the match.
"Ninth round, Naruto Uzumaki wins."
Hayate Gekko, whose feet were firmly planted on the ground and who also had his hands raised to shield his eyes, immediately announced the result.
"Hahaha... Idiot Kiba, have you seen how powerful I am!" Naruto Uzumaki put his hands on his hips and proudly laughed.
Succeeding in defeating his childhood bully with one blow, Naruto Uzumaki's mood was quite cheerful.
His pride inflating again, he couldn't help but imagine the scene of punching Sixteen Night, kicking Sasuke Uchiha, and the bushy eyebrows kneeling down to admit defeat.
His face, raised in laughter, gradually became obscene, and even saliva drooled from the corners of his mouth.
It was not until Hayate Gekko reminded him that he came back to normal and continued to the second-floor stands with a swaggering gait.
Names flickered on the screen again.
When the image paused, some people straightened up.
On the screen, it was clear—Sixteen Night VS Rock Lee.
(End of this chapter)