I'm Stuck In Naruto!

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Kakashi climbed the stairs and stood besides us, his eyes trained onto Sasuke down below. I have to lose my feelings for him somehow, I understand that he won't like it, but for my plan to work I have to let him go.

"Alright... Please begin!" Hayate said as he leapt away.

Yoroi formed a handsign and glared at Sasuke, "Shall I start?"

"Go for it."

Yoroi's hand lit with a blue glow as he pulled out shuriken with his left. Swiftly, he threw them towards Sasuke who drew out a kunai and spun in a circle, deflecting the weapons thrown at him. The shuriken flew back to Yoroi, spinning faster than when they were first sent. Yoroi ducked and leapt forwards, attempting to land a punch on Sasuke. Sasuke's eyes spun into their signature Sharingan and leapt back, avoiding Yoroi.

Sasuke leapt back and sweapt or his foot, knocking Yoroi of balance and wrapped his body around his right arm, snapping it. Yoroi turned his hand around and grabbed Sasuke's shirt, pulling it towatds him as his hand glowed. Sasuke noticed something was wrong and tried back away, but ended up getting punched in the face. He flew back, flipped on to his feet and stared at Yoroi's hand. He whipped saliva from his mouth and glared at the glowing hand.

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled as Yoroi ran to Sasuke, his arm stretched out.

Sasuke ducked at Yoroi's stretched out arm and brought up a foot and slammed it in to his opponents stomach, sending him back into the wall.

"Come Sasuke! You can beat this bastard!" Naruto yelled, his hands during white as he gripped the banister, Lee doing the same besides him.

Sasuke became distracted for a second as he stated at the knucklehead. People sucked in breath as Yoroi sprinted towards Sasuke, his left arm gripping his right as chakra spread throughout it, "You couldn't have picked a worse time to let your mind wander!!"

As Yoroi neared, Sasuke spun around and kicked out his leg, his foot connecting with his opponents chin, sending him up. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" A large fireball erupted from Sasuke's mouth and shot towards Yoroi. The focus was switched to Yoroi as he twisted his way from the fireball. Suddenly, Sasuke appeared above Yoroi and slammed his foot into his stomach, hard. Yoroi was sent harshly into the ground, creating a small crater and knocking Yoroi out.

Hayate leapt over and checked Yoroi out before standing up and pointing towards the Uchiha who was looking over to us, smirking. Hayate's voice carried around the arena as Naruto cheered, "Sasuke Uchiha is the champion of the first battle... and advances past the preliminaries to the next level!"

Sasuke slid his hands into his pockets and made his way up the stairs, sliding down the wall and say next to me, a smirk on his face. I shook my head sligtly and rubbed my chin, "Not bad, but I could do better." He growled slightly and stared at the stretcher in which held Yoroi, his unconscious body swaying with every movement.

The board rumbled and revealed two names, 'Abumi Zaku vs Shino Aburame'

The two came down the stairs and stared at each other, Abumi glared while Shino stood indifferent to the situation. Huh? How does Abumi have a broken arm, he never fought with Sasuke?

"Uhhh... All right, everyone. It's time for the second match of the prelims to begin!" He paused and glanced at both contestants, "Okay... You may begin." He leapt back.

Shino continued to share indifferently as he spoke, "If you go through with this, you'll get hurt so badly you'll never be the same. Walk away... while you can."

Abumi's left hand shook a little as he looked down at it, "Hah. Looks like this arm still has some life left in it. And I'm betting I can take you with one hand tied... so to speak." With that, Abumi leapt up, swinging his left arm at Shino.

Abumi growled as Shino simply held up an arm, blocking his attack, "It'll take more than one arm to beat me!"

"Just shut up!! See how you like... this!!" Smoke rose from his non broken hand, "Zankuha! The blast that sliced the air!!" Shino leapt back, landing on his feet and groaned, his back hunched. He looked up and all you could see was a line of black things crawling up his face and out of his skin from a cut formed from Abumi's attack. I grinned as bugs crawled towards Abumi from behind him. A shiver seemed to go down Abumi's spine and he turned around, his statute rigid as he saw the bugs scurrying to him.

Shino held up a finger, a big delicately resting upon it, "Do you like my little friends? They're called Kikaichu Parasitic Destruction Beetles. They attack in swarms and devour the chakra of their prey. There's no way you'll survive an onslaught of this magnitude... So... if you value your life..." He placed down the battle and let it join it's buddies, "...you'd better surrender. It's your only way out. Use your left-hand strike on me again and they'll instantly be all over your unprotected back. Use your left-hand strike against the Kikaichu swarm and your front will be open for my attack. You're finished either way. Unless, of course, you had the foresigjt to prepare a backup plan."

Abumi seemed to explode as he glared at Shino, "I won't... I won't be disgraced any further! Who do you think you're talking to?!! Heh... you wanna see a backup plan?! How about this?!" He removed his right arm from his sling and pointed both hands at the beetles and Shino, "Take this!!"

The was a moment of silence as Abumi's arms exploded and split into two pieces. From the hands on the floor, tiny beetles creeped out from the holes in the palms. Shino disappeared and reappeared right behind Abumi, his mouth right besides his ear, "Just now, while I distracted you with all that helpful advice, my little friends were making their quiet way to key points upon your body, creeping down the tunnels you blast your gale winds through. And that, my friend, is a true backup plan."

"Y-You...!"

Shino disappeared again and reappeared before Abumi, his hand shooting up and punching his opponent right in the jaw. Abami flew back and landed roughly on the floor, his arms spread out.

Hayate leapt over and knelt besides Shall and checked him over before standing up, "He's finished."

I glanced over to Neji as he used his Byakugan to look at Shino's chakra channels, "Whoa... I thought he'd used a summoning spell to marshal the bugs, but his whole body's infested with them!"

"W-What?!" Lee exclaimed in shock.

Gai looked down, his eyes trained on Shino, "There's a legend in Konoha of a clan of Beetle-Masters..."

Neji nodded his head slightly, "Yes... now that you mention it I've heard the birthright of anyone born into the  clan is that from the moment they enter the world, their bodies are given over to the crawling vermin to use as nests. The Beetle-Masters enter into a contract with the bugs wherein the swarms will answer to the master's call, fighting his battles and bending to his will and the beetles are compensated by the abundance of the master's chakra, which they consume for food."

"And you're telling me that Shino..." Lee said as he gazed down at said boy, "...is a member of this clan?!"

"The winner is Shino Aburame!!" Hayate calls out.

Shino slid his hands into his pockets and climbed up the stairs to his team where they congratulated him.