Konoha: Otsutsuki from the Earth

After the first game, Qi Fei carried the unconscious Naruto to the players' lounge.

"Naruto, are you okay?" Shikamaru asked worriedly after seeing the unconscious Naruto.

"It's okay, he just passed out due to excessive physical exertion. According to his constitution, he will wake up later." Qi Fei gently asked Naruto to lean against the nearby unoccupied wall.

Shino on the side was also silently staring at Qi Fei through his sunglasses. Cold itself was a powerful force against insects, and his parasitic insects would probably be helpless when encountering Qi Fei's frost.

Farther away, Gaara and his team were watching Qi Fei vigilantly. They all felt that Qi Fei would be the biggest variable in this plan.

After hearing that Naruto was fine, Shikamaru stopped talking. To be honest, he didn't know what to say. The power shown by Qi Fei was too terrifying. He was thinking about whether to just give up later, in case he won.

It would be humiliating to be frozen into a popsicle when you meet him.

Also having the same idea as Shikamaru were the spectators and jounin watching the battle. The average jounin, especially those who had experienced the Nine-Tails Rebellion, all knew that Naruto used the power of the nine-tails at the end of the first game.

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They were all surprised that Naruto could use that power rationally. But they were even more amazed that even after using that power, Naruto still couldn't defeat Qi Fei.

After Qi Fei left the field, the ice that had frozen everything began to melt and sublimate rapidly. After the ice on the field had almost dissolved, Genma came on the stage again and prepared to announce the start of the second game.

However, Uchiha Sasuke, the contestant in the second game, has not yet appeared.

It wasn't until the audience began to complain that the Third Hokage was about to disqualify Uchiha Sasuke from participating in the competition, the Fourth Hokage spoke up to plead for Sasuke.

The reason is that the duel between the two geniuses, Sasuke and Gaara, has attracted the attention of countless people, including daimyo politicians, so it would be too boring to cancel it directly.

Therefore, the Third Hokage finally decided to postpone the match between Sasuke and Gaara and proceed to the next match in advance.

However, when it was Kankuro's turn to play, Kankuro simply abstained in order to preserve and hide his strength. This made Shino, who was already preparing to play, a little annoyed, and he felt that he had been underestimated.

The audience who finally waited until the game started was completely blown away. In theory, they spent money to watch seven games, but in the blink of an eye, they lost two games, and they suddenly lost blood.

Seeing the audience's dissatisfaction, Temari also felt that this was not going to work, so she waved her fan and used Wind Release to ride on the fan to fly to the field, waiting for her opponent with great interest.

"Oh~" Shikamaru had already seen Temari's strength in the qualifying matches. Thinking back to that terrifying storm attack, he really didn't want to go on the field and get beaten.

But thinking about how he had been lying down all this time, as well as the training over the past month, and Teacher Asma's expectations, he felt that he couldn't just give up.

Seeing that the audience started to complain again, Shikamaru finally reluctantly came on the stage and stood opposite Temari.

"Then, the third round, Temari vs. Shikamaru, begins!"

Hearing Genma's announcement, Temari waved her fan, wary of Shikamaru's movements. Shikamaru instantly formed a seal: "Shadow Imitation Technique!"

The shadow at his feet suddenly turned into a tentacle and quickly stretched out towards Temari's feet.

In his mind, the shadow imitation technique with a limited length relies on surprise, and Temari is good at long-range attacks. If the distance is increased, not only will the shadow imitation technique be restricted, but it will also be unilaterally bombarded by Temari.

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Therefore, it is a good strategy to attack by surprise while the two are not far away.

"Shadow?!" Temari, who had been alert all the time, instantly noticed that something was wrong with the shadow at Shikamaru's feet. Although she didn't know what effect this shadow had, it was definitely right to avoid it.

Swish, swish, swish - Temari retreated in panic under the constant tracking of the shadow imitation technique.

"So fast!" The two people exclaimed inwardly.

Although he had expected it, Shikamaru was still amazed at how vigilant the opponent was and how he could dodge so quickly at such a close distance.

Temari didn't expect this shadow to be so flexible, biting her so hard that she couldn't take the time to give Shikamaru a fan. She speculated that if Shikamaru's body was attacked, the attack would be ineffective.

Whoa! Suddenly, the shadow that was approaching Temari suddenly stopped, and then quickly retracted to Shikamaru's feet.

"I see, this ninjutsu has a distance limit." Seeing this, Temari picked up her fan and drew a line on the ground, then suddenly fanned out a storm towards Shikamaru: "Wind Release: Kamaitachi!"

"Not good!" Seeing this, Shikamaru immediately retreated to a tree trunk not far behind him to avoid the attack of the storm.

Boom! A fierce storm filled the entire arena. The walls that were originally fragile due to the previous battle collapsed and shattered.

After the storm, Shikamaru, who was safe and sound, looked at the sun with a leisurely expression and began to calculate the area of ​​the shadow on the wall.

"Do you think it will be okay if you hide?" Temari picked up the fan again and kept waving it towards Shikamaru, releasing storm attacks.

"Almost." After dodging a gust of wind, Shikamaru picked up the kunai and threw it towards Temari.

"Don't you know that long-range weapons are ineffective against me?" Temari slapped her backhand, blowing the kunai away.

Swish, swish—just when Temari waved her fan with her backhand, Shikamaru's shadow stretched out again.

"We have opened such a long distance, your shadow...isn't right?!"

Seeing the shadow reaching out quickly, Temari had a bad feeling and subconsciously retreated, only to see the shadow pass through the line she drew unobstructed and continue to reach towards her.

"What's going on... By the way, the wall!" Temari quickly thought of Shikamaru's intention of hiding in the backlit corner, "Can it actually integrate the length of the shadow extension technique in other places?"

Being closely followed by a shadow again, Temari could only keep retreating to avoid it. In her mind, all she had to do was confirm the length of the shadow this time.

Whoa! The extension of the shadow stopped again and slowly shrank back.

"That's it."

Knowing the length of the shadow, she also discovered Shikamaru's position along the shadow. Temari was going to use a clone technique to pretend to have hit Shikamaru, and directly inflict heavy damage on his body.

"Next... hmm?!"

Just as she was about to implement her plan, Temari found that her body couldn't move, as if she had lost control.

"Hehe! It worked." Shikamaru smiled and let go of the seal's hands, and slowly walked out of the shadows.

"Is this the effect of the technique? But what's going on..." Temari was a little confused. She obviously escaped Shikamaru's shadow, and the length of the shadow couldn't reach her.

Because of the effect of the shadow imitation technique, Temari and Shikamaru walked in sync. The distance between the two continued to shrink.

"Are you confused? Look around you." Shikamaru turned his head.

Temari also turned her head, and then she saw a spider web-like shadow behind her: "This is..."

"The wall you just blew down. The shadows of the wall and the rubble can provide quite a bit of length."

"Damn it!" She didn't expect that she would be tricked by such a small character, and Temari was a little unwilling.

Shikamaru raised his hand, looked at Temari who looked sad, angry and unwilling, and announced: "I lose...I give up."

"……well?!"

"What?!"

The audience, which was attentive at first, did not react for a moment, and then they began to exclaim in excitement.

"Although you can use the shadows in other places to extend the length, it consumes too much chakra and you may not be able to hold on for ten seconds. No matter what strategy you use, there is not enough time, so I give up."

"Really?" Seeing this, Genma could only announce: "The third match, the winner is Temari."

However, although Shikamaru lost, all the spectators and jounin present felt that Shikamaru was honored even though he lost. Judging from his performance, he was more qualified as a chuunin than Qi Fei. Qi Fei was crushed by pure strength.

In contrast, Shikamaru lacks the display of strategy.

【Let him pretend again.】

Watching Shikamaru's performance in the players' lounge, Qi Fei couldn't help but sigh that smart people are popular everywhere. Even without the holes dug by Naruto, he could control his opponents according to local conditions.

With the end of the third game, the moment to test the audience came again. Sasuke still let everyone go.

Finally, at Kazekage's request, he waited for ten minutes before Sasuke arrived belatedly.

Sasuke and Kakashi appeared on the field back to back, following a whirlwind, in an extremely fashionable way. At this time, Sasuke also changed his look: his original blue top was replaced by black, and his hair was grown longer.

Seeing Sasuke's appearance, Qi Fei turned around and came to Naruto, who was still sleeping, patted his cheek and said: "Wake up, your Sasuke is here. If you don't wake up, you will miss it."

"Sasuke...Sasuke!" Naruto, who was originally dazed, suddenly opened his eyes.

"It's Sasuke's turn to compete." Qi Fei said.

"Ah! Uh... Sasuke is here?" Looking at the unfamiliar surroundings and Qi Fei as his opponent, Naruto's mind went through countless circles and finally stopped at the keyword.

Thinking of this, Naruto ran towards the fence, saw Sasuke on the field at a glance, and shouted: "Sasuke! I thought you were afraid of the competition and didn't dare to come over."

"Did you win the first game?" Sasuke asked looking at the excited Naruto.

"..." As if cold water had been poured on him, Naruto's expression visibly dropped.

"Really, sure enough." Sasuke had expected this. Apart from Gaara, the one Sasuke was most afraid of was Qi Fei. With that kind of unreasonable ability and strength, it was not particularly surprising that Naruto would lose.

"Even so, Sasuke, I want to have a showdown with you!" After meeting Sasuke after a long absence, Naruto responded to the challenge Sasuke had made to him before the preliminaries. He had been holding back this sentence for a long time.

"Ah." Sasuke also accepted Naruto's challenge.

Seeing Sasuke appear on the stage, Gaara also walked to the arena, and the two of them stood face to face.

"Then, the fourth round, Sasuke and Gaara, begins!"

"Mom, I won't let the previous humiliation happen again!" Gaara, who was almost going crazy, saw his prey finally appeared. He released an overwhelming amount of sand directly from the gourd and rushed toward Sasuke.

"Oops, Gaara's condition is very wrong." Seeing Gaara's ferocious appearance, Kankuro and Temari became worried. Frostbite and the humiliation of defeat made Gaara become violent, and Sasuke appeared as an outlet.

It made Gaara completely lose his mind.

Bang bang bang! Countless sand-condensed cannonballs were shot towards Sasuke's position. Sasuke nimbly dodged and, in the eyes of everyone's disbelief, used the same physical skills and speed as Xiao Li, and unexpectedly hit him from behind.

Gaara punched him.

This punch directly cracked the sand armor on Gaara's face.

"One after another!" Seeing that the sand armor that he was originally proud of was hammered to pieces again, Gaara stopped trying and directly formed seals with his hands, controlling all the sand to condense around it, slowly forming a circle.

Ball, "Desert Wave!"

At the same time, Gaara also successfully used the "Eye of Sand", condensing an eyeball above the ball to observe the field.

Seeing Gaara put himself into the "tortoise shell", Sasuke rushed forward and tried to test the strength of the turtle shell with his fists. However, after getting closer, Sasuke was almost pierced by the spikes extending from the maracas, and the hammer

The fist on the maracas also bled.

"So hard." Sasuke jumped away immediately upon seeing this. After testing a few waves and finding that the sand ball was indestructible, Sasuke jumped directly to the wall of the arena, began to form seals and condensed the Thunder Release Chakra on his hand, "Chidori

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Sizzling - as if there were thousands of birds chirping, Sasuke condensed the beating lightning in his hands. At the same time, with the increase of thunder chakra, he instantly sprinted all the way from the high wall to Gaara's sand ball.

, dodged all the spikes that hindered him, and stabbed the Chidori directly into the sand ball.

"Stabbed." Feeling the touch on his hand, Sasuke was sure that he had successfully stabbed Gaara who was hiding in the sand ball.

"Blood! My blood!" After Gaara realized that he was injured again, he instantly transformed into a half-tailed beast and directly grabbed Sasuke's outstretched arm.

"Ah——" Feeling the severe pain in his hand, Sasuke hurriedly used Chidori again and forcibly pulled out his arm. He also dragged out a weird arm.

Covering his arm, Sasuke watched the weird arm slowly retract into the maracas, wondering what had just happened.

Well, the maracas dispersed, Gaara covered his bleeding shoulder and stared at Sasuke with bloodshot eyes.

Buzz~ The spectators who were originally watching the game suddenly found feathers falling continuously in front of their eyes. They became drowsy and their vision gradually darkened.

Boom! The viewing platform where the Hokage and the Kazekage were sitting suddenly exploded. The huge explosion and movement attracted the attention of everyone who was still awake.

"Gaara!" Temari and Kankuro came to the arena to check Gaara's status.

"Go away, I'm going to kill him!" Gaara pushed Kankuro away and said unconsciously.

"There's no point in competing with him. Don't forget our mission." Kankuro and Temari advised.

"What are you still doing here? The plan has already started." Maki also came to Gaara at this time and saw that Gaara was in a bad state and asked.

"The previous frostbite plus the current injury, coupled with the consumption of too much chakra, Gaara can't use that right away."

Ma Ji, who quickly understood the situation, directly ordered the three of them: "You go first, and after Gaara recovers, use that immediately!"

"Walk!"

Following Maki's order, Temari and the three of them immediately climbed over the wall and left the field. Sasuke on the side saw this and immediately chased after him. Maki wanted to stop but was held back by the referee Genma.

"Kakashi-sensei! Sakura!" Seeing the chaos in the entire arena, Naruto rushed directly from the player lounge to the audience, with Qi Fei following behind him.

【Finally things started to happen.】

Kicking the Otogakure ninja who tried to sneak attack him into pieces of ice, Qi Fei looked at the chaotic audience and thought.