Wind and Weapons

Lee hung his head as he cried. It was so close but so far away at the same time! What had gotten the strange leaf Genin to be this way? He saw the board listing the names of the next contestants of course.

More specifically, it was his teammate Tentens name and that of Subaku Temari, Both girls meanwhile looked at each other with smirks of victory in their eyes already. Tenten smirked as she walked down to meet her opponent, only to see her taking much more time as she walked, swinging her hips as she made her way to the ring. It wasn't the fact of how she was walking that was getting on her nerves, but who she was directing it to, Naruto, her boyfriend. This Suna shinobi was flirting with her boyfriend!

"Don't think I don't see what you're doing!", Tenten glared as she caught Temari's attention, "That's MY boyfriend you're messing with!". Temari replied in a smirk. "Oh really? Well, maybe Naruto-KUN wants something a little more exotic than you. After all, when will he get the chance to have another girl like me?", Temari teased, making Tenten fume. "He doesn't need YOU!", Tenten growled angrily.

"Ah man, this is so troublesome. They have not even started the match yet and they're fighting already.", Shikamaru groaned boredly as Kiba snickered at his teammate. "This is gonna be a kunoichi cat fight!", Kiba grinned as he waited for the show to start.

"Well, that's not up to you, is it? Once I beat you, I'm going to make sure Naruto-kun shows me around the village on our date.", Temari said, only adding fuel to the fire of Tentens anger. "What!? You're not going on a date with him!", Tenten screeched as the examiner coughed to get heir attention. "If you don't mind... can we get the match started?", he asked, wondering silently to himself why all the kunoichi in the world were so crazy.

"You bet you can! I want to kick this slut all the way back to Suna!", Tenten said as she pulled out a freshly sharpened kunai from her pack and Temari opened her fan. "Alright, the fourth match will now commence.", the proctor said as he made sure to step back slightly further then normal for this match and yelled "Begin!".

Tenten was the first to attack as she tossed the kunai right towards her opponent. "I'll show you for messing with my Naruto-kun, you wide hipped hussy!", Tenten yelled as Temari either blocked with her fan or dodged the weapons she sent at her. "At least I have hips to attract him with! Your only feature are those hand grips you call a hair style!", Temari replied as she sent attacks from her fan at the leaf girl before her.

Almost everyone was either watching the match with great interest, especially Kiba, but others found the whole girl on girl fight slowly degrading into a cat fight over the blond haired shinobi not feet away from them. "I feel like a cheap prize in some contest show.", Naruto muttered. Sure, his girls had little arguments about who got him when and who didn't, and even some ridiculous things like what he should eat, but it was never like this.

"I'm going to make you eat those words, you Sand Slut!", Tenten yelled with fury that none of her attacks were being effective and her precious weapons were scattered on the floor. "Take this!", Tenten said as she pulled two scrolls out from her pockets and lept into the air as she opened them. She must've used a summoning on them, as the scrolls released more weapons then Naruto could count. And they all fell towards Temari on a collision course meant to win the match.

Temari however looked bored as she swung her fully opened fan once again and knocked all the weapons away like they were flies.

"This is getting boring!", Temari said as she grinned, "I'm going to make my move now, so watch closely, no-hip wonder!", Temari yelled as she swung her fan, making a large gust of wind that caught Tenten mid air and pushed her higher.

"How did she do that?", Naruto asked. Just in that moment, Temaris brother, Kankuro, had lazily walked over to Narutos platform (while the fight was still raging on, mind you) and overheard his question. "My sister's a wind mistress. She can make the wind do what she wants when she uses that fan of hers, though she usually doesn't go this far out in a match.", Kankuro said in wonder. Surely his sister was just messsing with the leaf genin before her. Then again, she had been acting weird all night. He had been up most of the night, working on his puppet and away from their room for threat if Temari heard him working, she'd stuff him inside the wooden weapon.

But then when he got back, Temari was all red faced and acting unusually nervous. He just couldn't wrap his mind around the cause of it all. Naruto watched in a bit of worry as Tenten was tossed around on the winds Temari made before. Suddenly, Temari stopped and let the girl fall to the floor face up.

As their teammate hit the floor, Lee yelled how unyouthful such an attack was, not even exchanging one hit. Neji however just shook his head a bit and stayed quiet.

As the examiner walked up and saw Tenten was breathing fine and would be okay after a few hours, but her fight was over. "Due to her inability to continue the match, this round goes to Temari of Sunagakure.", he announced, making some of the Konoha ninja frown. It was the first real loss for their side in the prelims so far, not counting Nejis round against Hinata just before.

As Tenten opened her eyes, she saw Temari standing over her before gloating over the defeated girl. "I went easy on you. I don't think Naruto-kun would like me breaking your back with my fan.", Temari informed her before walking off with a shake to her hips again. Tenten groaned as she was put on a stretcher to be taken to the medical ward, but again, Naruto was at her side in a moments notice. "Hey, Tenten-chan, you ok?", Naruto asked concernedly.

"A little sore, but I'll be ok.", Tenten sighed as she closed her eyes. "But I lost the match. Guess I was still too weak.", Tenten muttered before Naruto grinned. "Are you kidding, Tenten-chan? You were amazing! I wish I could do half the things you did with those weapons!", Naruto cheered, making Tenten smile softly. "Thanks, Naruto-kun.", Tenten whispered as she was taken out of the room.

Naruto sighed, glad his girlfrind was going to be alright. He didnt know how he would have reacted if Tenten got hurt as bad as Hinata was at this point, but he also knew he could see them after the prelims were over.

So he hurried back up to Ino and Kurenai. On his way up, he caught a strange look Temari was giving him, just before the names began to spin yet again for the fifth match up to be determined.