Unmasked, Team 7

Preliminaries

Finally the five days were up. It was so boring, just sitting around doing nothing normally, I would've trained with Sakura or Sasuke but because there is ninja everywhere training would give away our skill level and there's is no surprise in that. "Nii-chan, listen" whispered Sakura and I looked up to the Hokage 

"Due to seven teams passing -which was more than half of what we expected- we will hold preliminaries to get rid of some teams" he stated.

 Shikamaru complained "What a drag... How troublesome" 

"If anyone wishes to quit, now would be a good time to do it..." No one put their hands up (A/N Orochimaru didn't get to fight Sasuke so ordered him to continue) 

"Right then... On to the rules..." the Hokage trailed off as a sickly looking Ninja said 

"Allow me, Lord Hokage as the third Proctor" the Hokage nodded and the ninja jumped stepped down in front of us "I am Hayate Gekkō, your third proctor. The rules are you are allowed to use any ninja weapon, and can kill your opponent, however if I see a battle that will clearly result in death I can interrupt. If anyone tries to stop the match to save someone that person who they are protecting will be disqualified. Understood?" I and everybody else nodded and started to take their position up on the railings "The first match will be Sasuke Uchiha vs Yoroi Akadō, can these people step down please" 

I and Sakura looked at Sasuke and gave him a thumbs up and a grin reassuring him, "Good luck" we said together "Not like you'd need it" we spoke simultaneously with a smirk. Sasuke smiled at us and headed down to the centre of the Stadium, hands in his pockets.

I looked at the man -he had his face covered and shades over his eyes. He didn't look very strong but he did look like he has a lot of experience 'too much for a genin' i mused. "How do you think brother will do?" asked Sakura 

"He'll be fine, the man he is facing looks like he has a lot of experience for a genin." i voiced my thoughts and suspicion 

"How do you know that" asked Shikamaru, masking his surprise quite well in a lazy drawl. 

"He holds himself too well, when you get experience you tend to stay aware all the time and hold yourself upwards in a confident manner. A lot like kakashi-sensei, but he tries to hide it with his laziness" I explained to the Nara, earning a surprised look from him. I looked towards Sasuke and watched the stadium as the fight was about to unfold.

~~~~~~~SASUKE'S POV~~~~~~~~~~

I looked at my opponent intensely, I'm not about to underestimate him. "Are you ready?" questioned the Procter and I and Yoroi nodded together. "START!" he exclaimed, Yoroi ran towards me with speed, I was surprised to say the least-that wasn't genin speed- and so I dodged slightly late. 

As yoroi touched me, I felt my chakra drain. I jumped back keeping my distance, fighting taijutsu with this guy isn't an option and I don't want to use my sharingan because I wanna show everyone I'm a Hitsugaya, not only an Uchiha. 

"Kai" I said, releasing the genjutsu on my moon birthmark that was on my wrist. However to the others nothing happened.

I heard from Kiba "What did he do?" 

"Don't worry your little head about it, Dogboy" said Naruto, making me smile. 

"Don't lose concentration!" exclaimed Yoroi, choosing to ignore what I released, he threw a punch at me, infused with Chakra. Using my speed, I dodged ' i can't release my gravity seals because only Nii-chan can do that, so the weights will have to do' I planned quickly, however he didn't leave me a chance to do that as he constantly threw punches at me. "Why isn't he using his Sharingan?" mused Kaka-nii in the background.