The Lost Shinobi

Preliminary Rounds Part 2

"Scar Kaminari vs Rijii Fūūta!"

Scar, after being so interested in the fight between Gaara and Lee, was now carrying the same expression I'd met him with. He walked towards the arena, completely calm and reserved.

It turned out that Rijii was a girl, she looked about two years older than him. She was probably sixteen. She was from the Sand, and had a large scroll on her back. Scar was still unamused. She had gloves that reached up to her elbow. Fishnet shorts and undershirt. Also her black hair was tied in ponytails.

So he was fighting her. I looked at her with the look of disgust. That girl. He one who called me the Tomato as soon as she met me. I was hoping that Scar would pummel her.

"Ready...Begin!" The proctor whisper shouted. For his age, Scar was really quick. My eyes could catch up with him, but even that took effort. He seemed to be trying to fight slowly so that he could at least have fun punching her.

He had barely punched when the scroll that was behind Rijii's back, was directly put in front of her, revealing a puppet. Oh, so she was a Puppeteer. Scar looked to see his opponent. I didn't see any other expression on his face.

Rijii's puppet looked closely human. Even it's eyes. Creepy. "Is that all you've got little boy?" Rijii's voice taunted. Scar just looked at her. "I personally thought you'd be a little interesting, but a little boring," she continued.

Then she looked at me, "What I really want is to fight little Tomato over there." Tomato? "She looks like she can put up a bit of a fight." This was starting to get personal. I nearly jumped over from the top to the arena if it wasn't for Naruto and Sakura holding me back.

"Aw, she's getting riper, that's adorable," Rijii was starting to tease. For nearly the first time, Scar's expression changed. It went from a blank one to an annoyed one. I somehow recognized it.

It looked like a blur but I made out some sort of shape. It looked different, like a jutsu. Scar had moved quickly and attacked from behind. The strangely human puppet defended his attack.

I looked to see Rijii's fingers slightly move. The puppet grabbed Scar's arm, lifted him over his shoulder and threw him. 'It even fights like a person.' 'Not now.' I looked at her stance. She was completely calm, and the only thing moving was her fingers and hands. Scar got back in his feet and it seemed to be that his eyes changed, and he punched a hole through the puppet.

I looked at Rijii's face of confusion as Scar aimed a punch at her. Immediate K.O. "The winner of this match is Scar Kaminari." I was surprisingly calm the rest of the fight, until he punched her. I let out a slight cry of joy when her head hit the ground.

I saw Scar slightly smile, either that or I was delusional. He went back to his spot on top of the arena, right next to me. "How did you beat her that quick?" I asked him, a smile plastered on my face. "She talked way too much," was his reply.

He looked so much more dangerous up close. But he still looked like he was tightly shut. "You know, you're a good fighter. I hope I get to fight you in the Finals," I was just looking at him seriously, but my voice was sounding childish.

He looked over to me, his face was far more serious, "Why do you want to fight me?" I looked at his eyes, far more serious than his expression. I gave him the most serious face I could pull. "Because, I want to see how strong you truly are," I replied, casually.

He looked over to the arena, in which it was Choji vs the Sound Guy Dosu.

'Boring!'

'Shut up.'

'Come on, that fatty's gonna get crushed.'

'He's a strong ninja.'

'Fatty? Yeah right! Even you could beat him, and you're pretty weak.'

'No, I'm not!'

'You needed my power to beat a guy from your village, you're pretty weak.'

'He had me pinned down, he wasn't from my village, and I didn't ask for your help!'

I gripped the handrail. I saw Scar turn to face me. I thought he looked concerned, but then he turned back to the fight.

'Right, you're from Konoha, and stay away from that kid, he seems like bad news.'

'Who? Scar?'

'No duh!'

'What's so bad about him, except the fact that he has a demon like me?'

'How did you know that?'

'You were arguing with him and I was listening the whole time. So, who's Kerma?'

'Kerma, is...a demon like me. Except he's man-made.'

'A man-made demon? How is that possible?'

'A human uses its chakra to create a demon, usually sacrificing itself, that's how Kerma the annoying fake was made.'

'Two questions. One: Scar's not dead so how does he have the demon? And Two: How do you know Kerma?'

'Well, we're pretty much almost the same, I guess we sort of act like siblings who don't get along. We sort of have a similar personality except I'm not that violent, well, almost not always. Also, they must've used his own chakra to summon him aka create him.'

'That's really weird.'

'You asked.'

"Are you okay or something, you look like you were trying to concentrate on something." I heard Sakura's voice beside me. I turned to her and smiled, "No, I'm fine, Sakura." She sort of smiled and returned her eyes to the match.

I heard Yūrei snort, 'Good job, now people think you're weird talking to yourself.' 'Oh shut up,' I spoke back. I turned my attention back to the fight, which had already ended. I looked to see Choji squashed.

'Told you so.'

I blocked her out. I didn't know how, but I was able to. I looked slightly over my shoulder and saw Scar's head quickly turn towards the ended fight. Really weird.

"Now that we're done, we have the finalists."

"Naruto Uzumaki vs Neji Hyuuga."

"Akiko Akuma vs Scar Kaminari."

"Sasuke Uchiha vs Gaara of the Sand."

"Shino Aburame vs Kankurō of the Sand."

"Shikamaru Nara vs Dosu Kinuta."

"You have one month to train for the finals, we wish you luck."

We walked out of the arena, and I saw Naruto shaking. He was fighting Neji. I slung my arm around his neck and smiled at him. He looked at me, and smiled. "I know you can beat that know-it-all, dattebayo," I replied. And we walked off.