Chapter 128: The Chunin Exams - 54

Chapter 128: The Chunin Exams - 54

"Huh, guess I'm up." Tenten grinned eagerly, punching a fist into her palm.

She had no idea.

That besides himself and Gaara, Temari was the worst possible match up for her here.

"Gonna wish me luck?" she asked him, grin widening.

"Good luck," he replied, giving her a half smile, "If you win, I'll give you a present."

"Is it a lap dance?" Tenten asked impishly, raising an eyebrow at him challengingly.

"If you want, but I don't quite have hips like yours." he involuntarily grinned.

"Well, I'll hold you to that then." she laughed, walking passed him on her way down to the arena below, but as she did, she whipped her hand out and smacked him on the ass.

He blinked owlishly.

"Tenten!?" both Lee and Gai goggled at her actions in shock.

Her grin turning massive, Tenten continued on her way down, even as killing intent spiked in the room to almost massive degrees.

Moments later, the bun haired girl was down in the arena, standing opposite of the blonde suna kunoichi.

Who had quite the venomous look in her usually lovely teal green eyes.

Her venomous gaze flickered up to meet his eyes for a moment, before looking back at Tenten, lips pulling back nearly into a snarl.

Tenten said utterly nothing at the gaze directed her way.

'What's up with her?' Daiki wondered, she was much more derisive and mocking originally, but now she was blatantly angry about something.

Was it because of him taking the piss out of her the other day, mocking not only her, but her brother, her father and even her homeland?

'Maybe I should have given Tenten some advice?' he mused as Hayate stepped up to begin the match.

It might not change the results, but if Tenten knew in advance she would be fighting a wind user and that long distance weapon techniques would be useless, her chance of winning by getting in close would be much better.

He knew personally after all, that Tenten was both faster and stronger than Temari physically and much more skilled in close combat.

If she got close before Temari brought out her fan and pressured her, she could possibly win.

'Oh well, too late now.' he mused as Hayate called for the beginning of the match.

And immediately grimaced as Tenten leaped back, gaining distance, her hands flashing into her equipment pouches and unleashing a bevy of shuriken in the blink of an eye.

From the fan, a compressed torrent of slicing winds were released, roaring through the air towards Tenten.

Just before they hit her though, the bun haired girl launched herself into the air, a pair of scrolls pulled from her equipment pouches. The wind tore through her previous position, leaving great gouges in the ground.

As soon as she unrolled them and channelled chakra through them, a pair of smoky dragons erupted from the scrolls and rushed down towards Temari.

Or so it seemed.

Rather, they slammed into the ground on each side of her and burst into a great cloud of smoke, obscuring both of the girls from view.

Though Daiki could see them both easily with his eyes.

Temari wasted no time in whipping her fan out, blowing the great cloud of smoke away.

But it was enough, Tenten was already in motion.

She spun like spinning top mid-air, rapidly rotating, and a moment later, a massive barrage of weapons launched down towards Temari. It was just like her previous attack.

Only, the scale was vastly different.

Where before it was multiple dozens, this time, it was multiple hundreds of different weapons that rained down like a metal shower of death towards the blonde.

For a split moment, Temari's eyes widened in panic, before she regained control and unwound her fan properly.

'It's over.' Daiki clicked his tongue.

"Wind Style: Raging Gale Wall!" Temari swung her fan, all three moons on it blazing proudly with chakra.

A massive churning gale erupted from the blondes fan, and despite the massive scale of amount of weapons aimed at her, they were blown away completely.

"I'm still not done yet!" Tenten roared as she fell towards the ground, she pulled her hands back and Daiki blinked as he saw chakra shining with his eyes.

Chakra strings, not ninja wire?

She whipped both hands out, all of the weapons lifting into the air and rushing towards Temari.

It wasn't some full on charge of weapons though, not something so straight forward.

They spread out, coming at the blonde from all directions, from three hundred and sixty degrees, aiming at every part of her body from her feet and ankles to her legs, stomach, chest, heart, neck and head.

...And the speed of the weapons shooting through the air was much greater than before.

'This is new.' Daiki blinked, surprised.

Everything had been going more or less the same as the other timeline, until now.