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inanna's ring!sasuke wakes up in narutoverse
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Lee is a hurricane.

(His body is tearing itself apart. But for now he moves with her, speeds up past what even most jounin could process let alone see.)

(He is a hurricane, and walls are nothing.)

(He is, possibly, blinded by his own speed.)

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When he does punch through the wall at the center, he is rewarded with- not Elieyha. She's not that foolish. It is instead a tomb of sand that reaches out with welcoming arms from all sides to embrace him.

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He's not able to avoid that, not entirely.

He's able to fight free, some -

But not enough.

His momentum is lost.

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Then so is he.

-Or he would be, if not for the arrival of Gai blasting apart the sand tomb, almost before the proctor calls the match. Elieyha almost seems like she would keep fighting regardless, but she glances up at the Kages, bares her teeth briefly, then returns to the box.

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Naruto is kind of amazed and then alarmed and a bit shaken by the fight -

(Holy shit maybe he needs to get Sasuke to surrender, though Sasuke's probably thinking that, some measly lightning technique's not gonna be enough, but Sasuke is way, way, way more cautious than literally any other shinobi Naruto's ever known...)

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Sugira... Thinks he could maybe kill her. He's not sure he can do a non-lethal take-down safely, and he's - super not willing to kill even a second murderous child.

Probably he'll show off the chidori, and if a non-center-line blow doesn't suffice to get her unconscious, he'll immediately surrender.

Still, for now -

His fight with Chihiro.

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Yes. If Chihiro is shaken by the last match, she doesn't show it.

The arena is covered in a layer of sand, making footing more treacherous, and the trees are completely gone.

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He can adjust.

He can also keep her at enough of a distance, and move quickly enough, to make cornering him with her sword sufficiently a pain in the ass they can justify her surrendering. (Though 'not wanting to face Elieyha' is probably enough of a justification there.)

He mostly shows off his own speed and maneuverability, and his ability to spam unerringly accurate long-ranged attacks.

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She has a few long-range techniques, but they're not as good as his, and there's not much point in drawing this out for long.

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He congratulates her on the match when they're done, takes his brief breather to refresh a few spells -

And then it's time for the Elieyha fight.

Sugira wastes no time whatsoever backing the fuck up, off the sand and up the wall.

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That's a good thing, because she immediately attacks out of the sand at his feet, making a small annoyed sound when she misses.

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He activates his sharingan, to make sure her chakra's where it looks like her body is, as he casts Illusion of Calm and then immediately moves to the edge of the illusion's range-of-effect.

Invisibility, to reduce the chance she'll stop him, and to make tracking him a pain in the ass when she inevitably breaks his illusion before he can finish his preparations.

Expeditious Retreat, to double his speed - he can't be as fast as Lee but every bit counts.

True Strike, so that this will hit where he wants.

And then as quickly as he can, before the divination's six seconds runs out, the hand-signs for the chidori -

And he jumps into the air, rocketing towards her from above, so he's not passing over the sand and revealing where he is.

(This is probably extremely dumb. He should just surrender. But he promised Naruto they'd advance together - )

(He's still invisible, and the screaming of his technique is loud enough she'll hopefully have trouble locating him quickly by that alone - )

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She hasn't moved. His strike hits a barrier, thick, dense. But this is chidori, and it cuts through-

He hits flesh, can feel the hot blood and muscle-

There's an animal look in her eyes.

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He aims for her shoulder and not her head because fuck murder.

His illusion breaks when he connects, the focus it takes to control his attack breaking the relatively weak spell.

And then the hairs on the back of his neck rise fast enough that he reflexively teleports twice - both times to the very, very edge of his fifteen foot range. Fuck secrecy -

He pauses for a quick breath, not having prepared for the disorientation of the teleport beforehand, dizzy from the sudden drop in his chakra and from the kind of horrifying feeling of slicing through someone's body -

If she doesn't immediately collapse - and he's already opening his mouth and gathering his breath to shout - he's fucking surrendering. He's demonstrated he could have killed her, so fuck anyone who thinks this wasn't enough -

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She's still standing, opposite arm holding her wounded shoulder, rapidly becoming entirely buried in sand.


From above, a soft rain of feathers begins to fall.

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- Something weird's going on.

"What's happening?" he asks the proctor, gesturing at the feathers and activating his sharingan.

(Where's his team...)

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The proctor seems to be falling asleep. As does most everyone else.

The feathers are a genjutsu, reveals his sharingan.

The shinobi from Suna don't seem to be affected, and are pulling out weapons.

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- The fuck humans. The fuck, Suna in particular.

If the proctor actually succumbs he'll break the illusion with a tap and a quick burst of chakra, and then he's jumping for the wall of the spectator box - he needs to secure his team and then... Either find someone who knows what's going on or start assigning themselves to tasks -

Probably waking up allies and defending civilians.

This is going to suck.

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The Konoha jounin and some of the chunin distributed throughout the stands wake themselves up and start fighting the Suna shinobi.

There's some kind of commotion in the Kage box.

There's a terribly ominous sensation emanating from Elieyha's pile of sand at the center of the arena.

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Right he's getting his team. 

He spots Naruto first, slumped over - thank fuck he's just unconscious - Sugira wakes him up, then looks around for Chihiro.

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Also unconscious.

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He wakes her, and any other Konoha genin in reach.

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That's Shikamaru, Shino, Tenten, and Neji. Lee needed medical attention.

Kankurou and Temari have already left.

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"We need to find someone coordinating a response to this - and failing that start waking our allies."

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"That genjutsu removal thing? Any reason not to make as many clones as I can and wake everyone? Also am I the only one concerned about whatever Elieyha is up to - "

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