Yeyu listened as the others chatted about unrelated things. Feeling a little exasperated, he said, "You should be paying attention to Neji and Sasuke's fight right now, not Wood Release."
Sasuke and Neji, who should have been the center of attention, had been completely forgotten by the others.
Even Sakura said, "With so many people here, especially the Third Hokage and you, there's no way anything can really happen to Sasuke or Neji."
Yeyu looked at Sakura, feeling a little exasperated. "Have you forgotten how worried you were just a moment ago?"
Sakura blushed. "I didn't think of that just now."
The Third Hokage chuckled. "Don't tease Sakura. She was just worried about Sasuke."
But there wasn't much to see in the fight between Sasuke and Neji.
They both knew that their strength was about the same.
Earlier, Sasuke had gained the upper hand over Neji with an illusion cast through his Mangekyō Sharingan. Now that Neji had broken the illusion, it came down to a comparison of their raw strength.
Neither could outmatch the other in that regard.
Sure enough, as they continued trading ninjutsu blows, they fought for over an hour.
Most of the Training Ground, which stretched dozens of kilometers in every direction, was destroyed.
The ground was riddled with countless craters dozens of meters wide, some even a hundred meters across.
The trees across the forest had been wiped out.
Many had been burned to ash, while others had been smashed into splinters.
The once-dense forest had been reduced to a wasteland.
If Kakashi and the Third Hokage hadn't used Water Release to put out the fires, the entire forest in the Training Ground would have burned down.
Neji's attacks all involved fire, and Sasuke was skilled in Fire Release. Even his Lightning Release attacks had