108. Tenten vs Temari

The 1st round to the preliminary rounds of the Chunin Exam have finished and the result has been announced publicly so people can anticipate for the final round that will be held in public.

It's surprisingly similar to the story, except for Tenten and Hinata who pass to the final. Originally, they didn't pass to the final in the story and get eliminated in the preliminary, but now they pass the preliminary round.

They actually fought the same opponents as in the story. Tenten fought Temari and Hinata fought Neji. But the results are different with them winning their matches after fighting hard.

Against Temari, Tenten had the same problem as in the original story. She couldn't get close enough to Temari who kept pushing her and her attacks back with the strong wind jutsu.

But Tenten already learned how to face an opponent she couldn't approach from Zoro. In one of their training, Zoro kept pushing Tenten back before she could even reach him.

Of course, Zoro used sword energy to push her back, not big wind jutsu like Temari but it was quite similar. Zoro didn't just do that in Tenten's training, but also everyone else.

He also used some different types of problematic opponents they might face in real battles like sneaky opponents, speed-type opponents, strength type, durable type, and some other common types of fighters.

Thanks to that training, Tenten knew how to fight someone like Temari. Her strategy didn't work against Zoro because of the big gaps in their power and experience, but it worked against Temari who has much less power and experience than Zoro.

In that fight, Tenten had a hard time in the beginning because she couldn't get closer to Temari. She tried a few things to get closer and also tried to throw many heavy weapons at Temari, but everything was pushed back by Temari's wind jutsu.

Temari was confident she would win and even called the fight boring before intending to end it. But Tenten has found out how to break through Temari's defense and attack after all the trials she did.

Tenten threw a lot of smoke bombs, creating a very big and thick smoke screen. Then she came out of the smoke screen with 6 clones. All 7 Tentens then took out a pair of scrolls each to throw out numerous weapons out of them.

Temari just scoffed at her before swiping her big fan, creating a strong wind that hit the clones and flying weapons, destroying them. To her and everyone's surprise, all 7 Tentens and weapons were fake, they were all clones.

Then suddenly, 10 wooden spears dropped from the ceiling very quickly. Unfortunately for Tenten, Temari got warned by Kankuro. It was the problem with this round because their teammates could watch and probably assisted them from the side.

Thanks to Kankuro's warning, Temari could swipe her fan to create a strong wind that repelled the spears. The Konoha ninjas glared at Kankuro for the blatant cheating, but there was no rule that forbade it, so he wasn't punished and even smirked at them.

That smirk disappeared soon though because everyone suddenly saw Tenten was already behind Temari. She crouched on the floor like a sneaky little thief as she grabbed Temari's fan. But they found her out before she could even steal it, so she just smiled sillily.

"Hehe, hello." Tenten scratched her head when Temari looked at her.

The furious Temari swung her fan and Tenten jumped away to dodge.

"You damn sneaky bitch! Trying to take away my fan? In your dream!"

"W-well, taking away your opponent's weapon is a good strategy in a battle, right? Too bad that it doesn't work, sigh."

"Hmph! You overestimate yourself."

"Maybe. But you know, maybe you also shouldn't look down on me. Ah, but you certainly need to look down at your fan, I mean literally looking down."

"Huh? What are you-?"

Temari couldn't finish her words because her fan suddenly exploded. Tenten has planted some paper bombs on the fam when she touched it and she activated them just now.

Amazingly, the fan didn't break because it was not just a normal paper fan. But Temari's body wasn't as durable as the fan. She was blasted away and the fan was released from her hands.

Amazingly again, Temari wasn't hurt severely because she managed to let go of her fan and jumped away at the moment of the explosion. She still got hurt, but not so severely like if she really got hit directly by the explosion.

However, Tenten has anticipated this even though the chance for Temari to be fine after that attack was slim. Zoro had told her that she shouldn't think everything is over before it's really over and she should always think that her opponents will survive her attacks.

She thought like that and anticipated that Temari would be fine. So when she saw Temari was still quite fine, she wasn't surprised and even made her next move quickly. She threw a long chain at Temari and caught her midair to bring her down.

Then Tenten jumped on top of Temari who was tied up with a chain. She held a kunai in her right hand while her left hand pushed Temari's head down. Then with a cold and murderous gaze, Tenten swung her kunai down at Temari's face.

Her cold and murderous gaze already terrified Temari, so she was stunned. Then when the kunai was swung down at her, she immediately thought that she would be killed.

But then, a hand grabbed Tenten's wrist, stopping her from stabbing Temari's face. A sand shield also appears in front of Temari's face, blocking the sharp kunai.

Lee was the one who grabbed Tenten's wrist and obviously the sand is Gaara. Everyone was in disbelief by what had just happened because they felt that Tenten was really about to kill Temari and she would have killed Temari if her kunai was real.

Actually, the kunai she used was fake. It was a fake kunai made out of foam that Tenten made to play with Hiyori. That's why when the kunai hit Gaara's sand shield, it bent and deformed without damaging the sand shield at all.

"I-I thought she would kill her for real." Kiba has cold sweat even though he wasn't the target.

"If that kunai was real, then that would happen. Who would have thought that she would use the toy kunai she used to play with Hiyori like this." Shino also seems nervous.

"But that bloodlust, that was real. Even I still can feel it. Just how did she learn that? It's as if she is an experienced assassin with a lot of kills." Shikamaru joins in the talk.

The match has been concluded with Tenten as the winner. Her previous cold and murderous gaze filled with bloodlust has gone. She has turned into her cheerful self as if nothing happened while Temari still felt terrified.

"That bloodlust, it wasn't a real one gained from the experience of killing. But only those with experience like us could tell. Look at how the genins are terrified by it. Just what did you teach her, Guy?" Asuma frowns while looking at Guy.

"..... I never taught her that." Even Guy didn't know anything about this.

"Huh? Then are you telling me she learned it by herself?" Asuma didn't believe Guy because it's not something that can be learned alone without vast experience.

Guy didn't know how to answer that, but Kurenai knew. "Most likely, that guy was the one who taught it to her. No, I'm sure he did."

"Ah! Right, Tenten has been training with him for 2 weeks. If it's him, then it's possible." Guy seemed to forget that he hadn't trained Tenten for the last 2 weeks.

"Him?" Asuma didn't know who they meant.

"The one we never want to meet every time he comes here. That crazy swordsman."

Asuma immediately knew who Kurenai meant and his face turned pale immediately.

"Guy, you must be crazy for letting him teach your student even if it's just for a while."

"B-but Kurenai also asked him to teach her team." Guy didn't want to be blamed alone.

"WHAT?!" Asuma is very surprised because his lover never said anything about it to him.

Meanwhile, Kakashi who listened from the side kept looking at Tenten with a very curious gaze. He was very curious how Zoro managed to teach an innocent girl like Tenten something so vicious.

"Should I ask for his help too?" Kakashi thought that maybe Zoro could help him discipline his problematic students. But he dismissed the idea because then Minato and Fugaku would kill him for throwing their sons onto the crazy lion's mouth.

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