Kitsune and Neko

Chapter- 8

The updated scoreboard:

Sand Genin vs. Mist Genin (Mist genin won)

Shino vs. Tenten (Shino won)

Choji vs. Hinata (Hinata won)

Sai vs. Ino

"INO YAMANAKA AND SAI ENTER THE STADIUM!"

The two entered the stadium, Ino had the same poker face on while Sai fake smiled, which angered Ino.

"You should just quit if you can't win a battle." Sai said with his fake smile.

"And you should not underestimate your opponent." Ino shot back.

The two engaged in a tai-jutsu fight, Sai's tanto against Ino's kunai. Sai had the upper hand due to the length, but Ino soon used that to his disadvantage. She remembered the technique that Neko had used against Kitsune in their yesterday's battle and decided to use it. She gave him an opening, slid her blade under his and parried with force knocking the blade out of his hand.

"Neko, she used your technique." Naruto whispered to Sasuke.

"Hn. She is pretty skilled." Sasuke whispered back. "Unlike the others she paid attention while we were sparring to learn a few tricks."

Sai immediately jumped back, removing his super beast scroll drawing lions to attack her. Eleven lions attacked her. Ino slammed her hands on the ground, "Earth Style: Flying Stones!" She shouted, sending a multitude of rocks, similar to Neko's 'Fire Release: Great Flame Flower!' into the air. The rocks came crashing down on Sai's drawings, instantly turning them to ink. Sai did a series of summersaults to avoid getting hit by the flying rocks, landing on his feet far from Ino. His vision was blocked due to the dust in the air caused by Ino's jutsu. He tried to find Ino but couldn't see anything. He suddenly felt two hands grab his legs and pull him into the ground. Ino pulled him into the ground, restricting his movements, and put a kunai to his neck. "Earth Style: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique." She said while emerging from the earth. She knocked him out using the butt of her kunai.

"WINNER: INO YAMANAKA!"

"Her use of the earth style is very good, if she keeps on improving, she might even grow up to be a better Earth style user than me." Mei admitted.

"She is quite observant too, some of her moves were the same moves used by Kitsune and Neko during their fight yesterday." The Kusakaze pointed out.

"Neko's technique is very hard to copy, also he did it while he was defending my attacks, so even seeing the technique was really hard, and she replicated it, she should definitely be promoted to Chunin." Kitsune said proudly.

"She is also a quick thinker; she made the whole plan and executed it perfectly." Gaara replied.

"I am thinking of giving her Katsuyu's summoning contact after the Chunin exams." Tsunade admitted. She was proud of her student. Her student may not be the best in medical-Ninjutsu but she was certainly her strongest student when it came to Ninjutsu and taijutsu.

SEMI FINALS

Shino vs. Mist genin (Mist genin won)

Hinata vs. Ino

"HINATA HYUGA AND INO YAMANAKA ENTER THE STADIUM!"

The two entered the stadium and smiled at each other.

"Hinata, best of luck!" Ino said with a smile, after all she was one of close her friends.

"You too, Ino. May the best Kunoichi win?" Hinata replied.

"Yeah, no hard feelings, okay?"

"No hard feelings. Byakugan!" Hinata said while getting into the gentle fist stance. She activated her Byakugan, her eyes widened and all the veins around her eyes became visible.