Tayuyas anger explodes!

Naruto, though exhausted by the hard battle, was still smiling triumphantly as he returned to his friends. His friends, while believing in him, were genuinely surprised that he had defeated the older and stronger Hyuuga like that.

Hinata especially seemed happy at his return and produced a small can with a herbal cream she had made herself that would help his wounds. Of course, Naruto did not reject her kind offer to let her put it on him. Naturally, Tenten wanted to have part in that too, so Naruto was made to shed his jacket and had the two girls put on the cream on his wounds and other spots that were not visibly bruised as well from both sides. While doing so, Naruto drew some envious stares of Kiba, but that didn't bother him in the slightest. Hinata seemed especially happy. "Thank you, Naruto-kun.", she mouthed to him as she put on the medicine on a spot on his cheek.

Naruto enjoyed the ointment that Hinata and Tenten put on his bruises. While it surely was the Kyuubi healing his wounds faster than normally, he appreciated the gesture. It was one of the most loving gestures he had ever received. "You're welcome, Hinata-chan.", he returned with a big smile before everyones attention was demanded by a loud voice from down below in the arena.

"You've seen what I can do, blondie! Do you still want to fight me?", Tayuya taunted Temari who stood across her in the arena.

Temari simply looked at Tayuya and drew her fan from her sash. "Yes. I will win. For the sake of my brother, I will not hold back on you!", she responded calmly and opened her fan, revealing the three stars on it. Temari had always appeared confident when facing Tayuya before and this third time was no difference.

Maybe it was because she was genuinely concerned for her brother that gave her this resolve to be serious in her battles. Thinking back, she had pretty much toyed with Tenten, but in her battle with Sakura, Temari had acted differently, more determined.

Naturally, Tayuya was once more pissed off that her threats did not work on Temari whatsoever. "Tsk, whatever! Don't say I didn't warn you!", she growled and responded by pulling out her flute.

Looking between them, the proctor coughed once before being certain that both were ready. "Second match of the second round: Otagakure-nin Tayuya versus Sunagakure-nin Subaku no Temari! Begin!", Hayate yelled to let the two girls go at it.

Tayuya put her flute to her lips and began playing the very same, grating tune that had left Ino writhing on the floor in plain. She obviously intended to make Temari pay dearly for her cocky attitude.

But she hadn't even played for five seconds when a strong gust of wind attacked her, pushing her whole body back a few feet. That stopped her sound and as she opened her eyes, Temari stood there, her fan in hand and a grim smile on her face. "Your sound can't reach me as long as I control the wind.", she simply stated.

Of course, Tayuya would not admit that. So once more, she brought her flute up and began playing another, even eviller tune, only to be once more stopped by a strong wind produced by Temari. Frustrated, Tayuya was about to play yet another melody that would cause a lot of shinobi trouble, but this time, Temari did not even let her put the instrument to her lips as she summoned a particularly strong gust that knocked Temari off of her feet.

"Give it up. You have no chance against me!", Temari declared confidently As Tayuya scrambled to her feet.

Her confidence was it that made Tayuya grit her teeth in anger. The guts on this one made her angry, but what made her even angrier was that she was able to back it up well enough. "You BITCH! I'll kill you!", she screamed with fury that was unlike anything that she had exhibited before. And it had a strange effect, too.

A breeze swept through the arena and suddenly something that seemed like glowing lines began to crawl all over Tayuyas skin. "W-What's with her chakra all of a sudden? It feels... wrong and evil!", Hinata gasped, visibly trembling as she was the first among the Gennin to notice that something bad was happening.

Naruto too could sense that there was something off about this, and he recalled the oppressing feeling of this chakra. This thick, **** evil that it exuded. "It's just like that one time in the Forest of ****!", Naruto gasped, remembering that creepy ninja from Kusagakure that had attacked him and his team and Haku and Sasuke at once. The evil presence from that time was similar, if not the same!

Tayuyas body was covered in a black arcing, lightning-like pattern. Those who had witnessed it, namely Shikamaru and Kiba, felt reminded of what Sasuke looked like when they came to fetch him in the Forest of ****. "That looks... just like what was going on with Sasuke when we found him near your team, Naruto.", Shikamaru noted out loud.

Naruto looked at his friend with intrigue. "Yeah? Hmm, I can't remember that, I was **** at the time.", he said. But he looked on as the girls chakra changed dramatically. It became much more sinister and a swirl of deep purple chakra surrounded her.

Kiba nodded in return- "Sasuke had seemed like a wholly different person then. He was stronger, more aggressive too... even Akamaru here had been afraid of him.", he chimed in and patted his best buddy on the small head as Akamaru sat where he usually sat, in the jacket of his master.

But Tayuyas transformation did not stop there. "Scared shitless yet, huh? And I'm not even halfway done!", she grinned as various changes occured at once. Her skin darkened, from a normal pinkish hue to a dark brown. Her eyes turned black with yellow, slitted pupils. Her red hair also grew longer and seemed to grow slightly brighter in color, so much so that it was nearly the same color as Sakuras. But the most monstrous change was that her hat was ripped to shreds. At first, everyone wondered why, but then the audience realized with a collective gasp that Tayuya had just grown five large horns on her head.

"Wait... that did not happen to Sasuke...", Kiba said breathlessly as the puppy seemed to try and hide in his jacket.

Naruto was also alarmed. He was not really that sensitive towards chakra, but like even the normal, non-ninja spectators felt that something was awfully wrong here. "Kurenai-sensei, what is...?", Naruto began to ask and turned around only to see that his sensei was not where she was just a second ago. "Huh?", he wondered out loud and turned back to see Kurenai down in the arena.

"What the fuck! Let me go, I'm gonna shred that slut!", Tayuya yelled angrily as she was held back by both Asuma and Gai, who, despite being strong ninja, were visibly struggling to keep Tayuya under control. But fortunately, Kurenai was with them too.

"That's about enough!", she said sternly and placed her index and middle finger on the raging Tayuyas forehead. A moment later, Tayuyas eyes went wide and then rolled back into her head as she slumped in Asumas and Gais grasp, having been knocked out by a powerful genjutsu, courtesy of Yuuhi Kurenai.

Just a moment later, ANBU arrived at the scene and took the limp body of Tayuya with them and disappeared just as quickly. "Winner of this match is Subaku no Temari!"

Naturally, the audience was rather confused and disturbed about this battle. But none was so angered about this outcome as the Kazekage. He turned towards his colleague with a glare in his eyes. "What is the meaning of this, Hokage? The battle was not over yet!", the Kazekage demanded an explanation.

The Hokage nodded his head slowly as he rubbed his bearded chin a bit. "That may be, but we've had our eyes on those newcomers from Otogakure ever since this exam started. This was another of those incidents that made us suspicious to them. My ninja acted on my order to keep close tabs on them. Now we really need to question her about those unnatural abilities...", he explained.

The Kazekage fell silent. "But, shouldn't you be happy that your daughter reached the next round?", the Hokage asked his fellow Kage. After all, who knew how the battle would have progressed with Tayuya out of control like that?

It seemed that the Kazekage was **** to answer regarding his children. "Temari... is not the one I place my hopes on. Gaara, if properly controlled, is a much more useful weapon.", he said in a cold tone.

Acknowledging their differing standpoints, the Hokage nodded. "I see we have different mindsets, Kazekage. I think Temari would make a fine Leaf ninja. She cares for her family, doesn't she? She must be a good daughter.", he observed with a gentle smile. True, if one was so determined not out of a personal drive to win but for someone they cared about, they exhibited the will of fire, a mindset that he could observe joyfully in the youngest generation of the Leaf shinobi.

But the Kazekage did not share this sentiment. "Being a good daughter and being a good ninja are two different things, Hokage.", he responded gruffly.

"I suppose so.", the Hokage said with a sigh. True, power was also essential to a ninja, but in his opinion, power was wasted on those people who did not use it for the right reasons.

"That was... really odd.", Tenten stated as the dust from the last match began to settle down and Temari returned to the side of her brother.

Finally creeping out of his hiding place, Akamaru let out a weak bark. "Yeah... that chick was scary.", Kiba agreed. The Gennin were all stunned as to what happened, but when they questioned the Jounin, they refused to tell them much. "We're just taking precautions.", was all that Kurenai said and Naruto thought that it had something to do with the whole Otogakure-story that was going on lately.

"I think that Temari was even scarier... she reminds me way too much of my mom.", Shikamaru added with much emotion in his voice. His friends sweatdropped... it was always weird what Shikamaru found to be scary in women...

Back on the balcony where the Hokage and the Kazekage had an excellent view over the arena, the two had a small talk over what would come next. "The next battle will be especially interesting. My son Gaara against the famous last survivor of the Uchiha clan, isn't it?", the Kazekage inquired as the Hokage nodded affirmatively.

"It is. I am looking forward to it too. I wish to see how much Sasuke has grown already.", he responded. Playing him in the care of Hatake Kakashi had been the only sensible way for him to offer Sasuke proper training.

But he was still nowhere to be found, whereas Gaara was already waiting for his opponent in the middle of the arena. "Where is he then, Hokage? His time is running out...", the Kazekage pointed out.

"I have faith in Kakashi to make sure his student arrives in time...", the Hokage said. Fortunately, the latest battle had sparked a lot of discussion amongst the nobles watching, so they wouldn't grow impatient soon.