Rock Lee! Might Guy!

## Omoi VS Feng ##

Feng quickly formed several hand seals.

"Water Whip!" she shouted. Using the water already present in the arena, Feng swiftly formed four water whips that seized Omoi's limbs and pinned him in place.

Feng approached Omoi from behind and placed a kunai against his neck. "Surrender," she said. Omoi tried to struggle free, but the water whips were as steady as bedrock and did not budge at all.

"I surrender," Omoi said.

"Feng wins," Hayate announced.

"Yugito Nii and Shino Aburame," Hayate called out loudly.

"Good luck, Shino," Naruto said, and Hinata nodded as well.

"Thanks, but I probably can't win," Shino said seriously as he walked toward the arena.

## Shino Aburame VS Yugito Nii ##

The instant Yugito Nii landed, she rapidly closed the distance between herself and Shino. She leaped into the air and launched a diving kick. Shino reacted quickly, crossing his arms in an X to block her strike.

Shino quickly grabbed her foot, spun, and hurled her toward the wall. Yugito Nii twisted in midair and landed steadily on the wall with feline grace.

"Looks like Shino's taijutsu has improved quite a bit," Kakashi said in surprise.

Yugito Nii sprang off the wall and landed on all fours, crouching like a cat ready to pounce on its prey. Shino watched her warily and began releasing his insects. Seeing swarms of insects rushing toward her, Yugito Nii shouted:

"Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!" Countless fireballs exploded amid the insects, swallowing them in flames.

Yugito Nii grinned, but her smile quickly vanished when she realized the insects were still advancing as though unaffected.

"How did you do that?" Yugito Nii asked.

"I coated them in Water Release chakra to protect them," Shino calmly explained.

"Looks like I'll have to turn up the heat," Yugito Nii said with a curl of her lips.

"Come on, Two-Tails," Yugito Nii said to her partner.

"Got it, little cat," Two-Tails replied.

"Fire Release: Blue Giant Flame Ball!" Yugito Nii shouted, unleashing a massive blue fireball at Shino. The fireball instantly burned the insects to ash and continued flying toward him.

"Earth Style: Earth-Style Wall!" Shino said as a small earthen wall rose before him to protect him. The fireball slammed into the wall and began pressing against it relentlessly. Against a fireball empowered by a tailed beast, the earthen wall could not hold out at all, cracking before finally collapsing.

Seeing the earthen wall begin to crack, Shino immediately leaped away. Yugito Nii had anticipated this, so she was already there waiting to greet him with a punch. Yugito Nii threw her fist, but what she hit was a clone made of insects.

An insect clone? As she thought this, the clone she had struck began surrounding her. Yugito Nii channeled Two-Tails' chakra, and the insects, struck by the tailed beast's toxic chakra, fell to the ground dead one after another.

"I surrender. She destroyed one of my insect hives, and I'm almost out of chakra," Shino said, panting heavily.

"Yugito Nii wins," Hayate announced.

"Shino, you did great already," Kurenai Yuhi said. He nodded.

"Yeah, it's hard to win against an opponent like her," Naruto said.

"What's so special about her?" Sasuke asked, sounding almost demanding.

"All we can say is that she's the Two-Tails' jinchuriki," Naruto replied with a smile. Just as Sasuke was about to lunge at him, Kakashi pressed a hand to his shoulder.

"Nara Shikamaru and Kiba Inuzuka," Hayate called out.

"It's that lazy bum. I've got this in the bag," Kiba said excitedly, scooping up Akamaru and rushing toward the arena.

## Nara Shikamaru VS Kiba Inuzuka ##

Kiba immediately used "Ninja Art: Four-Limbs Technique."

He bent down onto all fours. His nails grew longer, his fangs sharpened, and his eyes became feral as his pupils stretched vertically.

Kiba charged forward at astonishing speed, while Shikamaru lazily dodged every one of his attacks as usual. This continued for several minutes until Kiba grew tired and jumped back to put some distance between them.

"Fight back, lazy bum!" Kiba shouted angrily. Not landing a single hit on Shikamaru made him furious.

"What a drag," Shikamaru said with a sigh. He pulled a smoke bomb from his pocket and threw it where Kiba stood, instantly covering the entire arena in thick smoke.

Within the smoke, Kiba quickly turned around, trying to figure out what Shikamaru was up to. He looked left and right, up and down. Kiba was beginning to get impatient, and just as he prepared to jump away, he discovered that he could not move.

"What did you do?" Kiba asked, struggling to move. He could vaguely see that Akamaru was frozen in place just like him.

"Shadow Imitation Technique, successful," Shikamaru said.

"I surrender," Kiba said angrily, deeply dissatisfied with the outcome.

"Nara Shikamaru wins," Hayate announced.

"I never thought that lazy bum could come up with a move like that," Sakura said in a slightly mocking tone.

Asuma smiled.

"I gave him an IQ test, and he scored 220. That kid is exceptionally gifted. His poor grades at the Academy were only because he found it too boring," he said with a laugh, leaving everyone around him stunned.

"Only a little higher than yours," Hinata said to Naruto beside her.

Asuma heard her. "What do you mean, 'only a little higher than his'?" Asuma asked.

"Naruto took the same IQ test as everyone else at the Academy, but he scored less than 50, which indicated severe cognitive impairment. But when we tested him privately, he scored 210," Hinata explained, and everyone nearby stared in shock.

"How could that be? How does this dropout have such a high IQ?" Asuma asked.

"But it's not just me. My princess also scored 210," Naruto said, kissing Hinata.

"I wonder what else you've been hiding," Asuma said. Naruto merely shrugged.

"Next up, Naruto and Rock Lee," Hayate called out again.

"I accept. Let us show the power of youth together!" Rock Lee replied loudly, making the people nearby frown.

"With such a youthful opponent, you should make him your rival!" Might Guy shouted.

"Yes, Might Guy-sensei!" Rock Lee replied.

"Rock Lee!"

"Might Guy-sensei!"

"Rock Lee!"

"Might Guy-sensei!"