Naruto: Winds and Changes

Yugito burst into action, traveling faster than even Naruto had during his battle as she launched herself at Shikamaru. Having not seen any of her abilities however, the Nara genius had already started back pedaling, changing directions at random as he began hand sealing.

"Kage Mane No Jutsu!" Shikamaru shouted as his shadow extended along the ground. Having seen what his shadow could do before, Yugito began dodging the attack, using her incredible agility to keep out of its way. Shikamaru grit his teeth as he saw Yugito still moving towards him, dodging all of his attacks like they were nothing.

Suddenly Yugito was behind him, striking Shikamaru in the back with a claw swipe. Only for Shikamaru to turn into a log.

Kawarimi! Yugito jumped back and to the left as a shadow came from the tree line. As she dodged the shadow Yugito tracked where it came from before she threw several shuriken and began making hand seals.

"Raiton: Kaminari Shuriken (Lightning Release: Lightning Shuriken)!" lightning burst from the shuriken as they went into the trees reducing several branches to cinders, and forcing Shikamaru to jump out.

Yugito ran at him, dodging the shuriken that came her way, however she caught the last one by sticking her finger in the small center and then sent it back nearly three times as fast. Shikamaru tried to dodge but was cut in the arm. He winced and was about to make more hand seals when Yugito appeared in front of him, using a leg sweep to knock him off his feet.

As soon as he hit the ground Yugito placed a kunai against his neck.

"Yield," She commanded.

Shikamaru muttered a quick troublesome, "I yield."

"Shousa! Nii Yugito!" Genma shouted.

Yugito smiled as Shikamaru got back up and muttered another troublesome before walking off. Yugito used a Rai Shunshin (Lightning Shunshin) to get back to the fighter's booth.

The moment she did Naruto grabbed her, picking her up by the waist and twirling her around, getting an 'eep!' from the blond kunoichi. He grinned as he set her back down, causing her to growl as a small blush formed on her cheeks, the reaction being from both her making such a mouse like sound and from the feeling of being in Naruto's arms in such an unexpected manner.

However Naruto noticed none of this as he grinned at her, "Nice job. I mean, I doubt it was much of a fight for you, but good job anyways."

Yugito tried to glare at the blond, unfortunately his smile was infectious and she ended up grinning too, "Thanks."

The battle had been easy, she wasn't a Jonin-level kunoichi for nothing, but it was still nice to hear praise.

"For the start of the second stage, will Uzumaki Naruto and Rock Lee come down!"

"Yosh! It looks like this is our battle Naruto-kun!" Lee shouted as he pumped his fist into the air and jumped down to the arena floor.

Naruto chuckled at his enthusiasm before looking at Yugito with a grin. Deciding to get back at the blond kunoichi for what she had done earlier he spread out his arms and gestured for her, "How about a hug for good luck?"

Yugito smirked, "Nice try, but I'm not that naive. I do remember the stories you told me about all the pranks you committed after all."

"What?" Naruto pouted, "You don't think I would actually try to get you back for squeezing my ass in public do you."

Yugito smirked, "Yes."

Deciding it might be appropriate, or at the very least nice to get even with the blond Kumo kunoichi for all of the teasing she had done, Naruto took a page from Anko's book and snapped his fingers as he gazed at Yugito's derrière, "Damn! And it's such a fine looking ass too," Yugito blushed as Naruto jumped down to the arena floor.

Lee grinned as his rival made his way towards him, "I have been looking forward to this battle with you Naruto-kun! Today we shall truly test our flames of youth!"

While a lot of the spectators sweatdropped, Naruto just chuckled, "I have to be honest, this was one of the battles I was looking forward to the most."

"YOSH! I am pleased to hear that! I will strive to make this battle my most youthful yet!" Lee pumped his fist into the air. "And if I cannot do that then I will-"

"Let's just get the match started," Naruto interrupted as he got into his taijutsu stance and a more serious expression crossed his face. Lee was a tough opponent, tougher than Neji in his opinion, if Lee ever took off his weights during their spars, Naruto was sure that Neji would lose before he even knew what hit him.

"What do you think Izumo?" Kotetsu asked, "You think that Lee kid has a chance?"

Izumo frowned in thought, "You know, I don't know. With what Uzumaki has been showing us, I'd normally say not a chance in hell, but he's the dead last of his class like Naruto, and he was trained by Gai so…"

"I guess we'll just have to watch," Kotetsu turned his eyes back to the match.

Genma looked between the two opponents as he raised his hand, "Hajime!"

Lee shot off like a rocket, blasting towards Naruto and attempting to hit him with a right hook. However Naruto had been fighting Lee for a while now, and recently had been fighting Jiraiya. That combined with his recent demonic changes made it seem like Lee was moving much more slowly. As soon as Lee's fist shot out, Naruto was in motion, swatting the fist away and knocking Lee off balance as he leaned in and sent his own fist into Lee's ribs.

"OOF!" Lee stumbled back, holding onto his ribs, which felt like they had been compressed by the blow. "That was an excellent shot Naruto-kun, you have gotten much faster I see."

"That's right," Naruto said in a more serious voice. "Which means you can't afford to hold back on me Lee, release your weights."

Lee looked at Naruto in surprise before turning his eyes towards his sensei. However all he got for that was a punch to the face.

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