Naruto would have whistled in appreciation but a strange feeling that he shouldn't whistle just then flowed through him, undoubtedly preventing some manner of pain and suffering from righteous feminine wrath.
"Does Kiba even have a chance?" asked Sakura.
"I doubt it," Naruto answered, his eyes trained on the fight about to begin. "Kiba is faster than her but she's far more skilled, more agile, and has a lot more stamina than he does."
Sakura nodded, focusing her attention on the fight about to transpire.
Kiba stood across from Tenten waiting for the jounin to start the fight, a confident smirk on his face and a certain feral swagger to his movement.
Tenten stared at Kiba, studying him, calculating eyes seemed to see through him.
"Hajime," said Hayate softly, his voice straining to be heard by the room.
Kiba immediately sprang forward toward Tenten, a punch swinging wildly toward her head.
Tenten ducked just enough before shooting forward under the fist and past Kiba's body, her knee coming up late and ramming it into his chest.
Kiba let out an audible 'woof' of sound as the air quickly vacated his lungs. Even as much pain as he was in, he managed to dive away from her and the rain of quick flying kunai and shuriken aimed right for him.
Naruto would admit to some surprise, seeing Akamaru had managed to stay mounted on his master's head the entire time. He was however, less impressed by Kiba's opening move, it was brash and poorly thought out if it was thought of at all.
Akamaru growled and yipped while Kiba quickly regained his breath.
Tenten was apparently feeling generous. "Done underestimating me?"
"Heh, I guess so," answered Kiba, taking Akamaru off of his head and setting him on the ground.
Naruto barely caught it but Kiba slipped something into Akamaru's mouth, it was followed by a low crunching sound. Whatever he'd just eaten had caused Akamaru's fur suddenly turned bright red, almost orange.
Kiba then formed several quick hand seals then said aloud, "Shikyaku no Jutsu."
Naruto was perplexed by what Kiba had done, as chakra was suddenly visibly coming off his body in low wafts like flames. He found himself really wishing he could [Observe} the technique to find out what it is, he didn't expect it to actually work.
[Shikyaku no Jutsu (Active) Lv 74 Exp: 13.43% CP: 10 per 5 seconds]
This technique grants animal-like accelerated fighting instincts and reflexes to the user. By enveloping their entire body in chakra and moving on all fours, they can obtain high speed movement and reflexes like that of a wild animal.
Passively increases DEX 19%
Passively increases SPD 19%
Additional 100% to SPD when Active.
Additional 100% to DEX when Active.
"That shit is stupid overpowered," groused Naruto.
"What? What's it do?" asked Sakura, not looking away from the fight.
"Doubles his speed and dexterity," he answered.
"What?" Sakura nearly shrieked. "That's ridiculous."
"Yeah, but he can't keep it up for very long, maybe three minutes."
"How would you know that?" asked Sasuke, his Sharingan active and staring closely at Kiba.
"Just a guess," Naruto answered lamely. He really didn't have a better explanation than that.
"Hn," grunted Sasuke, not believing him but not caring much either way, he would see for himself soon enough.
"Akamaru, now," shouted Kiba, his technique taking for effect. "Jujin Bunshin no Jutsu," Kiba and Akamaru howled together, causing the small pup to transform a moment later in a replica of Kiba.
"Ho, you might be a challenge after all," Tenten said, with a small grin. She then unsealed a quarterstaff twirling it around a few times, showing off for the judges. "Shall we begin?"
Kiba grinned from his crouched position, in a blur both he and Akamaru blurred in opposite directions. They moved fast, suddenly attacking Tenten from both sides at once.
Tenten ducked the high attack and batted the low attack away with her staff, earning a pained yelp from the one hit by her staff. She wasn't prepared for the sweeping claws the high Kiba raked down at her scoring a strike on her forearm, leaving a quartet of bloody lines a few inches long.
Kiba smirked at the hit only to see a flash of light as the staff struck the side of his head rather unforgivingly less than a second later. The boy rolled several times across the tiled floor, feeling dazed and confused. The girl struck true.
Akamaru though attacked with more ferocity and speed, keeping Tenten on her heals, moving back quickly away from the angry hound.
Tenten finally put some distance between them, choosing to put her staff away as fighting in close was not favorable to her. Instead, she began to rapidly throw kunai after kunai at the clone forcing his retreat. She'd even nicked Akamaru a few times.
Kiba groaned as he stood up again, he had to shake his head a few times, that hit was brutal. He looked to see Akamaru in retreat from the weapon mistress's assault. His hand reached inside his pouch for a moment before pulling out two black orbs. "Akamaru, get ready boy!"
There was a yip from the clone as it continued his retreat.
Kiba threw to two orbs, one toward Tenten and the other toward the space between Akamaru and Tenten.
Naruto watched the spectacle with rapt attention. Kiba may not have been stronger than Tenten but his strategy was leaps and bound better. Tenten was amazing with her weapons but they were all but useless against Kiba and Akamaru's speed and ferocity. And now, her vision was completely obscured by the oversized smoke bombs Kiba threw. It only got worse when Akamaru and Kiba both turned into flying tornados of destruction.
When the smoke finally cleared Tenten was down on one knee, gasping for breath and looking cut up from the drilling technique Kiba used on her. Naruto frowned when he saw her HP was flashing red. He really didn't expect Kiba to get even close to defeating her.
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