Unlike the fight between Hinata and Neji, Temari at least had the decency to point out that the match up was so overwhelmingly in her favor that she couldn’t even comment on Tenten’s strength. The fight between Kiba(the dude) and Naruto was irritating to watch as I could tell that something seemed to be wrong with Naruto’s chakra and it wasn’t the fox this time. Still Naruto won in the end with creative use of his shadow clones to barrage Kiba continuously after launching him into the air.-
The fight between Sakura and Ino was disappointing the watch as both sides were weak and foolish. The fight eventually ended up in a slugfest double knockout which was pathetic considering the match up. Ino was practically handed a victory on the palm of her hand since Sakura was helpless against the mind possession jutsu belonging to Ino’s clan and yet the girl not only failed to use it but ended up getting into a taijutsu battle which was her biggest weakness. As for Sakura she was average at best, a real cannon fodder type shinobi. She had no strong jutsu, no great taijutsu and no kekkai genkai to rely on.-
Hell her entire style of fighting was so unoriginal that I could have read the whole thing out of a damn textbook. Look I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with following a textbook style for your career as a shinobi. There are plenty of examples where that worked out fine and dandy but in not a single instance was such a person able to become more than just another face. They earned no nicknames and rarely had bounties in the bingo book(bounty book). They were just another faceless nobody shinobi.-
She clearly didn’t want that, you could see it in her desperation to win here. It was easy to see that the events in the forest of death were a wake up call for her. Unfortunately a weeks time was not enough to change anything so she was still weak but at least she acknowledged it this time. There were two fights however that interested me greatly. The first was Rock Lee VS Gaara that was fascinating to watch. See Gaara had the ability to create and control sand with his chakra which was actually while he had a giant gourd on his back all the time, it had his sand in it.-
Rock Lee on the other hand was pure raw physical power with his taijutsu which exposed a rather small but important flaw in Gaara’s ability, his timing. Thanks to his highly trained body Lee was REALLY fast for a shinobi. Thanks to this everyone watching the fight learned that Gaara had a small window of time between when he perceived an attack and the sand moving to block it. Lee moved just fast enough that he could hit Gaara before the red haired boy could react. That was until Gaara grew frustrated and countered with an omnidirectional attack that dropped Lee’s speed back to levels he could handle.-
Lee finally got the go ahead at that time by Guy to take off his weights that Temari put her foot in her mouth by saying there was no way some “measly” weights being removed could close the distance between Gaara and Lee.
“Two thousand pounds on each leg and he was giving Gaara trouble before, what about now?” I asked with a chuckle as the weights hit the ground shaking the building.
“Really Guy? Leg weights?” Kakashi asked in exasperation.
“Lee needs them if he wants to keep up with the rest of his his peers.” I said and Guy gave me thumbs up.
“Kenzo gets it. Lee’s a Taijutsu specialist and I believe one day he’ll surpass even me with his youth!” guy said brightly.
“How did you know how much his weights were though?” Naruto asked curiously.
“I know because I’m the one who treats him for the stress they put on his body nearly each day. Weights seem like an easy way to grow your body stronger but as I keep telling him putting them on your legs alone causes problems. The human body is built in such a way that all our weight is more or less spread out evenly and thus compensated for by the entire body with the legs of course getting the most stress put on them due to them holding up a majority of that weight. Add more weight to the legs and you get unbalanced since only your legs get strengthened.” I explained calmly.
“That doesn’t sound so bad?” Naruto said confused.
I sighed and looked at Kurenai “Would you do me a favor and put him in a genjutsu where his legs move faster than normal by a lot but the rest of him stays the same?” I asked and she looked to Kakashi for approval and the silver haired man nodded.
The woman did as I asked and altered Narutos perception which left him confused. “I still don’t see what the issue is?” he complained and I groaned.
“Actually try moving before you jump to conclusion will you?” I asked exasperated.
What followed was Naruto falling on his ass immediately with wide eyes. “How the hell are you supposed to be able to move like that!?” he exclaimed in shock.
I casually broke the genjutsu on my friend before explaining “You aren’t, it’s an unnatural state and comes with severe consequences as you’ve just experienced. If you pay attention to Lee you’ll notice that he’s stretching’s out and moving his legs not because he’s warming up but rather trying to adapt to the difference the removal of the weight caused. He’ll surprise you once he’s done.” I said and Guy smiled brightly and gave me yet another thumbs up.
“As expected of lady Tsunade’s student! You’ve got the gist of it in a single glance!” he said in praise.
I glared at the man though “Don’t think you’re off the hook either mister, I’ve treated you just as much and you abuse your body WAY worse than Lee. Honestly you two are such a headache to have as patients as you rarely actually take my advice.” I said irritated.
“And waste our youth? Never!” the man said with a laugh.
“If you’re so eager to stress your body why not go a few rounds with me in the ring once this qualifier tournament is over? I promise I’ll hold back a little.” I said with a smile that didn’t reach my eyes.
Guy visibly paled at the thought and for good reason too as when I sparred with him last time he needed to use the fifth gate just to stop me from using his body as a basketball. I may have been just a little peeved at him and Lee for going behind my back after I treated their bodies for overwork to train. He lived though so it all worked out in the end.