The audience was confused for a moment, but eventually someone started applauding and soon pulled the rest in to applaud as well, although Fuu was strange, she had still captured her opponent.
Fuu momentarily completely forgot about Nanami on the ground. He began flying around, waving to the fans and kicking up shimmering dust wherever he went, essentially putting on a show right in the arena and forgetting that Nanami was tied to the ground.
The audience loved it, cheering even more excitedly, which gave Fuu even more impetus, she completely forgot where she was.
While the crowd cheered excitedly, the ninjas were all confused. Was this still a fight? Shibuki just wanted to drag Fuu off the field and leave quickly, he swore he would never let her go out again!
Nanami's face was covered in confusion for a moment, but soon her brow furrowed completely, her teeth clenched. She just wanted to learn how to fly and punch Fuu. What could be more humiliating than that? She couldn't say.
Sighing, the cocoon around her was truly strong, yet she was tied up by Kabuto for a long time. At this moment, she knew exactly how to escape, her bound hand began to release chakra that grew sharper and sharper.
Nanami soon discovered that escaping wouldn't be so simple, Fuu's silk seemed to restrict chakra, even though Nanami's chakra blade had reached a good level of sharpness, at that moment, it seemed like she was trying to cut through tanned pigskin!
Clenching her teeth, she released more chakra, then freed her hand, which didn't stop and began to free the rest of her body.
As Fuu smiled happily, putting on a show, but soon she heard gasps from the audience. Confused, she turned her head to look behind, as part of the audience was pointing behind her. She was shocked when a fist appeared directly in her line of sight.
Nanami, her face filled with rage, used everything she had in that punch!
The fist struck Fuu in the face, throwing her forcefully down, she fell to the ground, releasing a cloud of dust.
She had learned a bit about increasing the power of her strikes by releasing chakra at the right moment from Karin, and although she was far from Tsunade and Sakura, it was still enough to give her punch more power.
Fuu screamed in pain, she got up from the ground, a red fist mark already in the center of her face. - Ouch! Ouch!
She grumbled for a moment before jumping up and pointing at Nanami, who had already fallen to the ground as well, and advancing towards her. -Hey! That was very rude!
Nanami ignored her, throwing two kunai at Fuu, who pursed her lips and calmly dodged. This time she didn't use silk, but advanced like Nanami. Before Nanami could react, a punch hit her directly in the face, sending her flying.
Fuu didn't chase her, but put her hand on her hips while shouting. - It hurts, doesn't it?! Hahahaha!
For a moment, even the audience didn't know what to say, it had reached the point where they were questioning whether they had come to the right place. Why did the Chunin Exams for ninjas seem different from what they expected?
//-//
In the highest booth in the arena, Jugo was sitting on a sofa with Mei leaning on one arm while Kin leaned on the other.
Guren was coordinating everything in the control room, speaking directly with Orochimaru.
Kin glared at Terumi Mei with irritation, but knowing that Jugo disliked this kind of argument, she could only ignore the woman and lean even more on Jugo.
Mei didn't care at all, instead she pressed Jugo's arm against her ample breasts while commenting, -The little girl has potential, but she's way behind Taki's girl.
Jugo simply nodded with a nasal sound, unconcerned by it, his mind was elsewhere, thinking about the cursed artifacts he had found in recent days.
Some were ancient weapons that had been christened by the battlefield and extreme negative emotions.
Others were artifacts tainted with residual powers of long-forgotten demons.
Even Hidan's scythe could be considered one, although Jugo had left it behind, it had ended up returning to a Jashinist, although that one was now dead and the weapon recovered.
There were also items directly connected to demons, such as this scythe from long ago, these were useless to Jugo, including the scythe.
The demons would realize if Jugo tried to change the source of the curses, thus altering the past, and that's what Jugo wants to avoid.
He could only go after those disconnected items.
He truly wanted to connect to other unexplored dimensions, sending items cursed by him to the past of those worlds didn't matter to Jugo, and except for an unfortunate event where his changes in other dimensions led someone to interact with the ninja world of the past, there wouldn't be much risk.
Unfortunately, he doesn't yet have a way to do that. He wondered if he could create an amulet for it, but he didn't even know where to begin. The only other dimension he currently has access to is Jashin's old dimension, now empty.
Unfortunately, it's also useless because Jashin's past is connected to the ninja world.
He could only sigh and continue searching for more targets with no external connections.
Thinking about this, his thoughts returned to Afro, whom Toji had encountered. Through the purple snake, he could perfectly see the man, Jugo's curiosity was no less than Toji's, after all, they were the same person, but Jugo would have acted differently.
He probably would have captured Afro and turned him into a werewolf to better understand his history, if he were a nice guy, he would have freed him from the curse and offered him a place to join Otogakure.
However, Toji didn't think the same way as Jugo, different sequences, different influences.
Although Jugo had absorbed most of the negativity from Toji's potions, the aftereffect also existed, without Jugo to act as an intermediary, Toji was slowly being influenced by the potions.
The effect was far from drinking the potion, which would cause an aggressive cognitive shift, it was more like a background voice offering more negative options at times of choice.
In any case, Jugo saw no reason to intervene, the effect wasn't strong, and Jugo only helped prevent Toji's personality from being significantly affected in the future, minor changes are still acceptable. He was already prepared to separate Toji's personality before they merged again.