Swift Blade

Hearing this, Naruto Uzumaki, who had been cheering Sakura on, immediately grew indignant and shouted, "What are you in such a hurry for? Didn't you see that Sakura still had something to say?"

Kakashi, standing nearby, frowned slightly. "Naruto, quiet down!"

He was really too noisy.

"Oh—"

Hearing his instructor speak, Naruto could only shut his mouth.

Kakashi then turned to the pink-haired girl and said, "Sakura, don't keep your opponent waiting too long!"

"Yes, Teacher Kakashi!"

Sakura nodded solemnly, then mustered her courage and slowly walked toward the center of the arena.

"Sakura, do your best! Don't lose to that guy!" Ino continued cheering loudly for her good friend.

Beside her, another companion with pineapple-shaped hair couldn't help shaking his head and sighed, "Women. What a drag."

"Shikamaru, who do you think will win, Sakura or that Mist ninja?" another chubby boy asked as he stuffed several potato chips into his mouth.

That was Choji Akimichi, a teammate who was also in the same squad as Ino and Shikamaru.

"Sakura's probably going to stop here," Shikamaru sighed.

"Why?" Ino hurriedly turned around and asked.

Shikamaru Nara was the brains of their team, as well as one of the village's few highly intelligent ninja.

If he said something like that, he certainly wasn't speaking without reason.

Shikamaru gave the brown-red-haired girl in the arena a meaningful glance, then said, "See the two strange blades in her hands?"

"I see them. Aren't they just two odd knives with little branches on them?" Ino said nonchalantly.

Shikamaru shook his head, his expression solemn. "Those aren't merely ordinary strange blades. They're one of the Seven Legendary Ninja Swords of the Mist—'Lightning Blade: Fang'!"

"It's said that each of the Seven Legendary Ninja Swords of the Mist possesses an extremely special ability, greatly increasing