Chapter 8: Battle of Rivals

<1 week before graduation exam>

The childrens of fifth year class A were assembled in the ground for their last taijutsu battle before the graduation exam. All of them were excited and were chatting with each other. Just then iruka sensei flickered toward them which made them quiet. He gently smiled and said "Today is your last Taijutsu battle before exam so make good use of it"

He continued "So quickly form into two a semi circle, boy on my right and girls on left. Only the 2 person whose names are called come to the center of circle"

"First battle Naruto and Sasuke"

Both of you, starting when both are you ready. So are you both ready?

"Yes" ×2 both replied at the same time

Naruto and Sasuke stared at each other looking for possible weak points of each other, soon they made hand seal for confrontation and started the battle.

Naruto rushed at sasuke and did a series of punch and swing his fist toward his face, sasuke on the other hand deflected the heavy combination of punches with the palm of his hand and bend down to a sitting posture and dodged the swing of naruto fist. Then Sasuke performed a low sweep to trip Naruto, to which jumped up to dodge. Taking the opportunity Sasuke punch Naruto in the when Naruto was still in the air.

Naruto stumbled backwards as he received a punch on stomach when he was in mid air. Then Sasuke smirking said" Is this all you got Naruto" to make Naruto angry by making Naruto think that Naruto's attack did nothing to Sasuke but in reality Sasuke's hands were hurting like it was on fire, sasuke trying his best to make Naruto loose composure, so that naruto will make mistakes when fighting him.

The battle started with Naruto rushing to Sasuke and perform a series of powerful punch against Sasuke. To which Sasuke blocked with his bare hand. The sounds produced from the were so loud that it felt like drumming. Soon, Sasuke sent Naruto stumbling backwards with a punch and asked if it was the best he could do with a smirk.

Just as Sasuke said it there was a large cheer from the crowd of girls. To them those word which Sasuke said were like that of a prince charming stating his authority, on the hand the boys were boiling over with anger and jealousy.

Battle continues...

Both the boy got to their battle stance again, Sasuke activated his 2 tomoe sharingan while naruto used his chakra claws and enquired a chakra claws in all linbs, Now Naruto rushed to Sasuke much faster compared to first time because of chakra claws. Both of them exchange a series of attacks, Sasuke soon got the advantage due his sharingan and defended Naruto.

Iruka sensei declared Sasuke as the winner, which made Naruto frustrated. On the other hand Viruto was happy with Naruto performance as Naruto was able to match Sasuke in Taijutsu compared to in anime Naruto was totally defeated by sasuke one-sided.