What happened next simultaneously had people laughing and teams RWBY and NNPR on the verge of a heart attack.
"You really shouldn't let your opponents get behind you."
The next thing Cardin knew, he had a mouth full of dirt.
Up in the stands three very confused members of team RWBY applauded while attempting to figure just how in the world Naruto not only got behind Cardin without anyone in the stands noticing, but how he had managed to trip the brunette from so far away as well.
Deciding that he best person to ask was Pyrrha, someone he was known to spar with often, Ruby spoke, "Hey Pyrrha! How did Naruto manage to do all of that without anyone noticing?"
Keeping her eyes glued to the match below, Pyrrha replied, "Naruto is fast, amazingly so. I don't know exactly how fast, but I've seen him just disappear. As for tripping Cardin, look closely."
Deciding to listen, Yang, Ruby, and Weiss peered closely at Naruto and Cardin. As Naruto casually dodged yet another swing from Cardin, the light reflected off of something, causing them to scratch their heads.
Before they could ask what it was, Blake spoke aloud, "Ninja wire. So thin it's almost impossible to see, but strong enough to cut through skin."
Pyrrha nodded, "Correct. He usually keeps a spool of it in the pouch on his hip."
The three members of RWBY turned to their raven haired teammate quizzically, "How did you know that Blake?"
Just as focused on the match as team NNPR, the teen Faunus answered without looking at her teammates, "Because that's where I got the idea for my ribbons."
Seeing Naruto dodge out of the way of yet another of Cardin's swings only for her to pull on the thin wires causing the mace wielder to trip and fall again, team RWBY could see how Blake got the idea for her ribbons.
However there was a difference in the style in which Blake and Naruto used their chosen materials. Blake used them in tandem with her main weapon, making it all that much more deadly. Naruto was using it as his only weapon, showing just how good he was at using them and how much more skilled he was than Cardin in general.
To the spectators this meant that Naruto must have trained extensively in the use of ninja wire.
Of course that was from the truth. Naruto had just always liked using the stuff to help him in his pranks. He was also far and away from being a master at using the ninja tool. The only master he had encountered had been a rogue nin by the name of Akasuna no Sasori (Sasori of the Red Sands). Said rogue was a deadly threat not only because of his talent with ninja wire and its chakra equivalent, Chakra Strings, but because of how he used them to control hundreds of deadly human puppets, commanding them with the slightest twitches of his fingers.
That and Cardin was just wildly swinging about in hopes of hitting him. Honestly how poorly had the rest of this guy's team done for him to be named captain? At first Naruto thought it was simply because he had been trained as a Shinobi, but that went out the window quickly. Pyrrha, Ruby, Ren, and even Nora put up far more of a fight than this guy did so it wasn't that there was that huge of a gap between shinobi and Huntsmen.
Tripping Cardin again by pulling on the ninja wire wrapped around his ankles, Naruto sighed before using a small burst of Fuuton (Wind Release) Chakra to cut the thin wires, freeing Cardin from their coils.
Naruto had thought there would be more fun in messing with Cardin, but now it was just getting boring. If he was free to use his Jutsu then he would have been free to really pull off some funny and humiliating pranks, but with Ozpin and half the school watching so closely, that wouldn't be the smartest of ideas.
Shrugging the blond Jinchuuriki decided to humiliate Cardin some other time where he would really be able to put his prankster skills to work.
As Cardin blindly rushed him, yet again, Naruto decided that he had wasted enough time and energy. Right as Cardin was inches from him, Naruto moved to the side, his arm held straight out. Before Cardin realized what happened, he was gasping for air while hung over his opponent's outstretched arm.
Moving his arm out from under Cardin, who now looked like an upside down U, Naruto slammed his elbow into brunette's spine with devastating force. Many had no doubt that had the Aura barriers not been up, Cardin would have possibly been paralyzed with as powerful as Naruto had hit him.
Even still the Aura shields could only do so much and the leader of CRDL would no doubt have a nasty bruise on his back by the end of the day.
"You know for a guy that talked so much trash about me, I'd thought you'd put up a better fight. Guess I was wrong," Naruto shrugged.
As he taunted his downed opponent, Naruto now understood why some of his opponents liked to do it so much. It really was pretty fun to mess with your opponents. Then again they ended up getting their asses handed to them, because they had underestimated him. If anything he had been overestimating Cardin though.
As said teen rose to his feet, an angry snarl on his face, Naruto had to give it to the guy, he could take a hit. The clothesline alone would have put a lesser opponent down for a few minutes. Cardin had tanked not only that but the elbow drop as well and was still getting up.
Still not having learned his lesson, Cardin bum rushed Naruto one last time. Naruto raised an eyebrow before shrugging. Prepared to end the fight with one last decisive blow, the blond teen decided at the last minute to go out with a bang.
"Uh oh," Pyrrha said as she saw the look now on Naruto's face.
Weiss, along with the others, was curious to know why Pyrhha suddenly seemed so worried, "What? Blondie's got this one in the bag, so why 'Uh oh'?"
"Because whenever Naruto has that look on his face, it means someone is about to be embarrassed. I just feel bad for Cardin."
Near leaping from her seat, Yang cheered loudly, "I don't! Cough him up like a hairball Foxy!"
Those near the exuberant blonde of team RWBY put palm to face at the less than funny attempt at humor.
As Cardin swung and missed, again, Naruto disappeared from sight.
"Like I said, don't let your opponents get behind you. Konohagakure Hiden Taijutsu Ogi: Sennin Goroshi!"
No sound was made. In fact it seemed as if the entirety of Beacon had gone eerily still. Even the wildlife had stopped moving, as if knowing that some great disturbance in nature had occurred.
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