Then Sugira will let Yoroi get in sword range. He's mostly aiming for slashes that'll disable his legs right now, which admittedly requires a good bit of maneuvering to do properly.

Yoroi, meanwhile is attempting to avoid the sword but hit Sugira. He doesn't discriminate which part of Sugira, any will do.

Suggests that technique is probably something indiscriminate - 

If he's fast and patient he might be able to grab one of Sugira's arms, though with how fast Sugira is that's going to be hard to do uninjured.

Yoroi is willing to take a cut or two to get there.

It feels like the life is draining out of Sugira, and his muscles go weak. Yoroi seems reinvigorated.

The thing is probably stealing his chakra, which could be a problem with the curse seal flaring when he runs low...

Eh, there's medics right there and Yoroi's an adult, so.

Sugira flips a knife into his other hand and stabs at Yoroi's stomach.

Yoroi removes his hand to swat the knife away. He's much faster now. The draining stops, and he immediately moves to get back in contact.

Sugira gets enough space to slash with his sword.

This is ridiculous; if he can't inconvenience Yoroi here he's going to have to start spamming True Strike. Or even use more obvious spells.

With the chakra he drained, Yoroi switches to using some more impressive ninjutsu, mostly water type. He spits a hail of bullets at Sugira.

Argh.

Sugira dodges, mutters something, and throws a terrifyingly accurate kunai at Yoroi's stomach. Divination: the best.

He's going to have to re-close or escalate to terrifyingly accurate lightning rays soon, though.

Yoroi doesn't quite shrug off the kunai, but he keeps fighting.

He'll try the same - True Strike, then attack - with his sword, darting in and out. 

That hurts him more. The boost seems to be wearing off as he tries to close again.

Sugira won't let him. He's going to need to recast Expeditious Retreat soon, but in the meantime he can keep running away until Yoroi slows down, then get behind him, use True Strike, and slash for his hamstrings.

Down he goes. The proctor calls the match in Sugira's favor.

That was a pain in the ass.

He cleans his sword and heads back up to the spectator stands.

The next match is the third member of the Hidden Sand team, Temari, and Chouji. Temari uses her fan to empower her jutsu and is able to keep Chouji at range well enough to render his Multi-Size Technique ineffective. After that is Tenten and a Rain shinobi. Tenten uses sealing scrolls to hold a truly impressive number of weapons, and essentially drowns her opponent in them.

After everything's been picked back up, it's Chihiro's turn.

She walks down to the floor.

A grass kunoichi is her opponent. She's frowning, and eyeing Chihiro's sword.

Chihiro's face is blank. She pulls her sword out and spins it once in her hands.

The girl drops a few tightly woven balls of grass, that grow into animals and clones, and start darting or flying around Chihiro.

Multiple attackers is what her blade is best suited to. She swings it in controlled arcs, carving out a space around her.

A bit over half of them explode when she does so, often enough to knock her sword around, sending shrapnel flying.

Over-reliance on a tool is a tempting trap, but one she's been trained out of. She stays light enough on her feet to roll with the unexpected momentum and recovers easily. Are there any differences between the explosive ones and the decoys visible?

Not very, not to a non-sensor; both even have the same subtle markings inscribed along the inside. If Chihiro had one in her hands she might be able to spot the fakes, but.

The constructs are getting a bit faster, too, not staying still to be analyzed, and are trying to swarm her.

Then it's time to take the offensive. She charges up a wind-powered slash and throws the blade forward to clear a path up to her opponent, following in its wake. A simple maneuver, but one she executes with speed. That will have to make up for her broken ribs making acrobatics more challenging.