Preliminaries Part 2

Hayate: Next fight is Misumi Tsurugi vs Kankuro.

The two people went down one was Kankuro the puppeteer that Riku recognized and Misumi Tsurugi a person of the same team as Yoroi. Kankuro he knew how to deal with him but Misumi was a wild card. They both got down to the middle area for the fight. Hayate started the fight once they arrived. Kankuro took off his puppet from his back and that was it but Riku was suspicious as to why he only took it off not fully taking off the bandages because he saw his puppet before and he was not using it to the fullest right now.

Kankuro: Let's end this quickly.

Misumi: I will end this quickly.

He ran up to Kankuro and threw a punch which he blocked with one arm while still holding his puppet in the other hand. But soon the unexpected happened Misumi's arm started to coil around Kankuro's arm. This resulted in Kankuro being put into a hold with Misumi's arms and legs coiling around Kankuro's and one of Misumi's arms was around Kankuro's head.

Misumi: If you don't give up I will snap your neck to kill you.

Kankuro: You will be the one to die.

That was when Misumi cracked his neck and Kankuro died. Riku was thinking that seems to easy because even though Kankuro is very cocky he knows what he is doing normally and putting himself in that situation is not something that he thought that Kankuro would do. Something was up.

Rock Lee: He really snapped his neck.

A lot of people were scared even Hayate looked like he was unsure of what to do. But suddenly there was some cracking sound and somethings fell off of Kankuro confusing people. Kankuro suddenly turned around and looked at Misumi revealing that what people thought were Kankuro was a puppet. Kankuro soon revealed that he was the bandages came undo as he appeared out of them and used his chakra strings to control his puppet to squeeze Misumi. Misumi looked to be in incredible pain at this point.

Misumi: I give up. Ahhhh!

Kankuro: But imagine if you break all your bones you will be more flexible.

Hayate realized that this was it and that Kankuro was the victor of that fight. Riku was impressed Kankuro learned his lesson after being over confident against Riku and getting his strings cut to being smart to trick his opponent instead of brute force.

Hayate: The next fight is Sakura Haruno vs Ino Yamanaka.

Riku knew that this fight more than anything was a rivalry between them. Although Ino was from a very prominent shinobi clan they are more attuned to sensory and mind based abilities and they can be very dangerous but Ino seems that she has only practiced mind based abilities but she could work on other areas. While Sakura wasn't from a prominent shinobi family meaning she only has the most basic jutsu. This was a very even match.

Soon they started the match. The fight started with Sakura attacking Ino with two clones catching Ino off guard and Ino received a punch to the face. They soon charged at each other and punched each other at the same time then used their shuriken and threw them at the same time. Soon Ino cut her hair and threw it at Sakura spreading out over the field. Soon Ino was going to use the mind transfer jutsu so Sakura was going to dodge but she realized she was stuck and that Ino was tricking her as Ino used her hair to channel chakra through to immobilize Sakura and then use the mind transfer jutsu. Everyone thought that this was Sakura's loss as she wouldn't be able to break out of the Jutsu but they were dead wrong she broke out of the Jutsu after a brief moment and fought back as Ino went back to her body. Ino was surprised that she was taken out of her jutsu and they both charged each other as they had minimal chakra and knocked each other out. They decided to call the match a draw as they knocked each other out at the same time. This showed to never underestimate your opponent as they might surprise you.

Hayate: The next match will be Tenten vs Temari.

The match started and Tenten started by throwing shuriken at Temari only to be blocked. Tenten then brought out a scroll and unsealed the weapons while jumping in the air and threw them at Temari only to be blocked again. Temari had her fan slightly open now and there was only one circle showing causing Tenten to be surprised. She then took out two scrolls this time as the scrolls flew up into the air like two dragons circling around each other. Tenten then meet them at the top and started throwing them only for Temari to open her fan to the nest circle and stop all of them again with wind release. Tenten wasn't done yet she used wires that she connected to her weapons and started to attack again getting them off of the ground Temari then used the full open fan to block the attack again. Her fan swept in front of her and disappeared and she next appeared again in the air in front of Tenten once she landed she used another wind release move that blew Tenten into the air and as Tenten landed Temari placed her fan closed standing on the ground with her hand on it only for Tenten to land on it. This match was just fully a one sided fight in other words Temari was a complete counter to Tenten's every move. Riku was thinking Tenten could have won if she was more clever and sneaky but this showed him how important that Ryu sensei's words were about being unpredictable. Being unpredictable would help against a counter like this match was.

Hayate: Next fight Shikamaru Nara vs Kin Tsuchi

The two went up to the arena Kin was a kunoichi from the hidden sound from the same team as Zaku with long black hair and wore a lot of gray. Riku knew this was a fight he needed to pay full attention too because Shikamaru was the definition of not having the most powerful jutsu but being able to take out monstrously strong foes all through his innate wit like many of the Nara's have. The match started with Kin Tsuchi throwing needles with bells on them at Shikamaru causing him to dodge. This caused Shikamaru to think that the idea of her fighting was throwing needles with bells and needles without bells luling Shikamaru to be lax and not dodge the needles without bells as he was hit by needles. Then the bells started to make a sound and Shikamaru looked like he stopped moving. Riku realized that Shikamaru was under a Genjutsu from the bells being moved using wires that she had in her hand. Paralyzed he started to get hit by more and more needles. That was until Kin stopped moving confusing many people. A shadow started to grow more from the fire making everyone understand how Shikamaru paralyzed her under the genjutsu by connecting his shadow to her and using his shadow imitation jutsu. He then used a shuriken to throw at her and as she was under the shadow imitation jutsu she did the same. After that they both dodged backwards doing a bridge to dodge the shuriken but as Kin was closer to the wall on her side she hit her head on the wall knocking her out giving Shikamaru to get the victory. This gave Riku an idea of how to use the needles that he had as he said that he would carry on Haku's legacy.

Hayate: Next fight Kabuto Yakushi vs Riku Katto-Seirei.