One Sided.

Hearing another crash behind me, I turned my head to see Sakura who had once again brutalized Naruto. I would have done something to stop her… but honestly why bother. If he couldn't even do that much for himself he deserved it… though in reality it just wasn't interesting enough for me to bother doing it.

Through his interaction with Hinata, I judged Naruto to be thick enough to handle any punch Sakura would throw him in the foreseeable future.

"Okay break it up." – I said as I slowly made my way towards them.

"It's about time we started, I have a busy day tomorrow so we should hurry and get this over with. You two get into position, and if you can scratch me… I'll make Naruto a chunin."

"Huh?" - Naruto looked questioningly at me while tilting his head.

"What? Did u think going away for 2 years makes you a chunin? Guess again."

"Wait, so everyone else…" – Naruto spoke as he pointed to them.

"Has already been promoted to chunin long ago. Neji, Hinata, and Shikamaru made Jonin this year." – I continued while smiling at Naruto's gaping expression.

"And me?" – He asked wryly.

"Oldest genin of the old Rookie 9, myself not included for obvious reasons."

As Naruto's head dropped it immediately rose back up after a moment.

"LET'S DO IT!!!" – He screamed, clearly fired up for the upcoming fight, a new motive in his sight.

"You got spirit, can you back it up though? Do you want me to hold back so you can show off?" – I asked kindly.

"We don't need that, right Sakura?" -Naruto exclaimed as he looked behind him.

"Let's start." – Sakura said as she nodded to Naruto and looked straight at me eagerly, tightening her gloves as I did the same with mine.

"Don't regret it… though Tsunade can put you back together as long as I don't separate anything too important." – I mentioned in a low tone that Naruto caught.

"Wait… really?!" – Naruto recoiled a little.

Without wasting time, Sakura was the first to jump in as she headed head-on towards me.

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(3rd Person POV)

Closing in on Kei, Sakura jumped, pulled her arm back, and punched at Kei as he leaned to the right evading her.

Sakura smirked as she punched at the ground, dust and boulder-sized chunks of earth went flying in all directions.

As Naruto looked at the destruction he was almost hit by one almost twice his size as he dodged slightly only to be taken aback by what he saw.

On the side of the incoming boulder, Kei was standing upright in combat stance as he gave a punch as he passed by to the unprepared Naruto, who couldn't raise his arms in time and took a punch to the face, throwing him a few meters behind to the ground as blood came out from his mouth.

'The boulder would have been better. I'm already seeing double.' – Naruto thought as he felt his jaw luckily still in place.

Seeing Kei coming on him from above, Naruto quickly rolled on the side as he quickly got up and gathered himself.

Taking a stance he got ready and… run towards the cloud of dust behind him.

"It's not that easy." – Kei said behind him as he followed for a few meters and then stopped abruptly.

Bringing his arms forwards using the momentum when he stopped, Kei infused chakra and he clapped… hard.

A shockwave cleared the dust as a couple of dozen of Naruto's appeared together with Sakura in their midst.

"Overwhelming numbers may have worked so far… but they are just as unskilled as you are. 1, 100, 1'000 or 10'000, they are literally all the same."

Saying that Kei widened his stance as all the clones rushed him.

Kei's Sharingan rotated and wondered all over the clones, acting just like a camera shutter to capture each movement.

Different from the Byakugan, Kei's Sharingan field of view was normal, the rest would be compensated by rotating and anticipating the movement of the clones.

"Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation."

It was a one-sided massacre as Kei used a combination of Gentle Fist, Strong Fist, pure speed, strength as well as countless Taijutsu styles to rip and tear through each and every clone without so much as a scratch.

"That's crazy!" – Naruto exclaimed as he looked at Kei using what he remembered to be Neji's technique.

"Giving up?" – Kei asked as he simply smiled.

"Not just yet, dispelling the clones merely gave me back the chakra. Get ready for round 2." – Naruto said as even more clones appeared in the field, jumping at Kei once again as he simply smiled.

"Do you think only you can use shadow clones?" – He said as he raised 2 fingers.

*BOOM*

As the clones and Kei disappeared, Naruto and Sakura were pushed back slightly from the force of the explosion.

"Where is the real one?" – Sakura asked as she looked around.

"Behind Naruto." – She heard a voice behind her as she immediately tried to give him a left elbow to the face.

Kei's clone grabbed the elbow mid-swing with his right arm, keeping her with her back against him as he gave her a left hook on the kidney.

"GAH!!!" - Sakura let a pained grunt as she pulled a kunai with her right hand.

'Is she going to cut her arm off this time?' – Kei thought to himself slightly amused.

Sakura went for Kei's leg as he let go of her left hand, blocking the right arm mid-swing with his right hand and bringing his left down on her right shoulder, dislocating it.

"UHG!!!" – Sakura grunted once again as she pulled back, using her functional hand to start and treat herself as she felt a piece of cold steel on her neck.

Meanwhile, Naruto had reacted a little faster creating some distance between him and Kei as he and 4 clones headed straight for Kei from all directions, even from above.

"Not bad… but you should try fighting someone who doesn't only use brute strength. You might learn something." – Kei said lightly as Naruto's Rasengan passed through Kei as his illusion dispersed into thin air, leaving 5 Rasengan to meet in the middle.

*BOOM* - another explosion occurred as Naruto was thrown back with force.