"It's you. I know you, the one who likes to use ninja tools."
Temari revealed a confident smile. In her opinion, she was the type that naturally countered Tenten.
This battle would only be a repeat of the fight between her stupid little brother and Naruto. Wind Release users feared this type of throwing-weapon specialist the least.
"It's you."
Tenten walked up, carrying a large scroll on her back. That huge scroll looked not one bit smaller than Temari's fan.
Originally, it would only be several years later, as Tenten's strength improved, that she would come to use this large scroll.
But now, with Tenten's progress in time-space ninjutsu, although she hadn't yet learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, she had made rapid strides in the time-space sealing technique she was already good at. She could now easily seal away a massive amount of ninja tools.
Even Ryun hadn't expected this. It could only be said that Tenten had put in her own effort and progress in strengthening her strength, which was worthy of praise.
"I understand you're very angry because your little brother lost, but unfortunately, I'm not going to lose to you."
"I've discussed it with my friends; we agreed to meet in the finals. So, just let me win, please?"
For that last "please," Tenten used a playful tone. Originally, this scene was quite cute, but Temari, who had anger in her heart, saw it as mockery.
"It seems you're already prepared to be blown away."
"If you think you can blow me away, go ahead and try."
Temari snorted coldly, opened her fan, and directly launched Wind Release: Kamaitachi. As the giant fan fluttered, a gale arose within the originally not-so-large venue, and countless invisible vacuum blades mixed within surged toward Tenten's direction.
These wind blades were invisible and intangible, sharing the subtle magic of the previous Sound Release ninjutsu.
Moreover, because the Wind Release sucked away the air, nearly creating a vacuum state, this caused a considerable portion of ninjutsu and the vast majority of thrown weapons to be ineffective under this Wind Release.
If Tenten still wanted to fight by throwing ninja tools at this time, then only failure awaited her.
However, what no one expected was that Tenten calmly took out a small scroll and unsealed it. Then, with a loud bang, a steel shield, two meters wide and three meters high, stood perfectly upright in front of Tenten. Tenten hid behind the shield, poking her head out to look at Temari, a triumphant smile hanging on her lips.
Tenten originally had the title of "Moving Warehouse," used to describe her proficiency in time-space sealing techniques.
Now, Tenten had carried this further, sealing up everything she could think of, what she saw at home, and even some discarded experimental ninja tools, packing them all away.
For her, after sealing, they didn't take up space anyway. No matter how big the ninja tool, it was just a line of sealing formula on the scroll, so naturally, she could take as much as she wanted.
This large shield in front of her had come in handy, hadn't it?
Temari stared dumbfounded at the shield in front of Tenten, which weighed at least several tons. Her fan was already outrageous enough, but how could there be someone even more outrageous than her?
Refusing to give up, Temari launched Wind Release: Great Sickle Kamaitachi again. This time, the power of the vacuum blades was even greater, and they even cut through the surface of the steel shield. But unfortunately, this shield was a full thirty to forty centimeters thick.
Never mind Temari; even if Danzo had come, he would have needed to go all out with Wind Release to cut through such a large shield.
"Bastard!"
Temari barely restrained her intention to summon her summoning beast, Kamatari, and have it assist in attacking from behind the shield. That was also a backup plan she had prepared for the later Konoha Crush operation.
She could only point at Tenten behind the shield and shout, "Aren't you a throwing-type ninja? Don't you feel ashamed doing this?"
Tenten climbed onto the top of the shield in one move, sat down, and stuck out her tongue, saying, "This is war, you know, war. In war, where's the dignity of a throwing ninja?"
"Besides, who says the shield I'm sitting on isn't a thrown ninja tool?"
"It's just that I can't throw it yet."
"Shameless!"
Temari swung her fan at Tenten again.
Her Wind Release, amplified by the special ninja tool, could be said to have tremendous power, far exceeding her current strength level. But because the fan was heavy, Temari's swinging motion was relatively slow.
Originally, she could use the fan's huge attack range to compensate for this defect. But now, whenever Tenten saw her swing her hand, she would just duck behind the shield, handling it with ease.
"Hey, referee, can't you just declare her the loser like this?"
Frustrated, Temari's temper flared, and she looked at Gekkō Hayate.
Gekkō Hayate rolled his eyes and said, "If anyone were to be penalized, it would be you. How much chakra do you have left? Your opponent hasn't really moved much yet."
"But—"
Temari wanted to say something more, but a kunai came flying toward her face.
Temari quickly blocked with her fan. It turned out Tenten was standing on top of the shield.
This time, her hands were full of ninja tools.
"My turn now. Are you ready?"
Hidden Weapon Barrage!
Explosive Tag Kunai!
Tool Manipulation: Hidden Weapon Strike!
Tool Manipulation: Giant Iron Ball!
Tool Manipulation: Giant Iron Block!
Tool Manipulation: Exploding Jade!
Tool Manipulation: Binding Meteor!
Tenten threw seven small scrolls at once. After she finished throwing them, the venue was already covered with a mess of ninja tools, a full hundred or more. Tenten and Temari didn't even have anywhere left to set foot.
Everyone stared dumbfounded at this scene. Even Orochimaru, who had come and gone, was shocked as he looked at Tenten, seemingly regarding her as a potential financial backer because of her extravagance.
Sarutobi Hiruzen hesitated, then looked at Anko.
Anko nodded with a dark expression and waved her hand, signaling the ninjas in charge of maintaining the exam venue's order to prepare. Soon, they would have to go clean up the场地.
At this moment, sweat beaded on Tenten's forehead, but her condition was still pretty good.
After acquiring the True Spirit Seal, her chakra volume and physical stamina had both made considerable progress. She still had the strength left to operate the large scroll on her back. In contrast, Temari, who had released powerful Wind Release at the beginning and then had to use Wind Release to counter Tenten's scroll ninjutsu, was already starting to get exhausted and out of breath.
Kankuro, watching from the audience, kept signaling her with his eyes, hinting that she could end it there. Surrendering wasn't disgraceful, especially since they hadn't come to Konoha for victory anyway.
But now, Temari couldn't afford to lose face, especially when she saw Tenten making eyes at Ryun. The anger in her heart grew even stronger.
Among the three siblings, they had to win at least once, right?
Especially since these female ninjas were all so close to that guy Ryun, and Ryun had beaten her little brother up before. She had to avenge her little brother.
She had no reason to fight Ryun, but fighting Ryun's girlfriend should be okay, right?
So, Temari gritted her teeth and poured all her remaining chakra into the fan, then executed a technique she herself couldn't quite master.
Wind Release: Tornado Hurricane!
A massive tornado began to form with the fan's motion, sweeping up some of the smaller ninja tools and then flinging them out again.
Clang, clang, thud, thud. The venue's walls and ceiling started getting hit by the flying ninja tools. Even a kunai flew towards where Sarutobi Hiruzen was sitting.
Guy immediately reached out and grabbed the kunai. Anko, beside him, wanted to open her mouth to stop the exam, but Sarutobi Hiruzen stopped her.
Seeing this, the group of jōnin quickly began to look after the genin still waiting off-stage, preventing them from getting killed by the random ninja tools before they even got to compete. Temari barely managed to control the tornado, pressing it towards Tenten's direction.
This tornado could bypass obstacles and could even directly swallow the iron shield. This time, Tenten would have no way to escape, right?
But Tenten decisively abandoned the large shield, leaped high, and then, with a flip, landed upside down on the ceiling, thus dodging Temari's attack.
But then, Tenten's expression darkened.
Because several ninja tools had stuck into the area near Ryun. Yūhi Kurenai had carried Ryun to the other side, letting him avoid the recent attack.
They, of course, knew this kind of attack couldn't hurt Ryun, but since Ryun was unwilling to act, they naturally had to do it for him.
And Temari had actually let Tenten's ninja tools nearly hurt Ryun. How could Tenten tolerate that?
Watching Temari control the tornado pressing towards her, Tenten reached for the large scroll on her back.
"Tenten, don't cause any more trouble for the Hokage."
At that moment, Ryun spoke.
He was very familiar with Tenten's talent. Several small scrolls contained a hundred or more ninja tools. And now, Tenten standing on the ceiling had a large scroll on her back.
She didn't even need to throw it. She only needed to unseal this large scroll and let the contents fall freely, and countless ninja tools would automatically gain attacking power.
So, how many ninja tools were in that large scroll?
Ryun estimated at least five hundred, at a minimum.
If Tenten really did strike like that, not to mention whether it would shock everyone present, at the very least, to clean up the afterward, the match would have to be suspended for a good while.
Tenten also realized this at that moment. Looking at Sarutobi Hiruzen, who appeared to have a headache, she smiled shyly.
She would just use this last kunai to decide the winner, then.
Tenten took out a specially made kunai, exactly the shape of the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God kunai.
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