Naruto gets to his feet with Hinata's help, and wobbles his way over to the sidelines.

"I'm glad that's my last fight before we train—I don't know how well I'd manage another one in this state!"

Hinata is having an interesting time. Naruto-sama is in this state because of her strikes, but she gets to be so close to him while she helps him.

Blushy times for sure.

Wow, Hinata's shaking a tiny bit! She must have really worn herself out during their match.

She hopes Naruto-sama doesn't notice how much she's fidgeting from being this close to him. That would be so embarrassing.

Wow, this is… sort of really adorable actually.

Unfortunately, she should probably break it up before Hinata gives herself heat stroke from all that blushing.

She hops over to her friends, offering them a hand. "How're you feeling, Hinata-chan? Do you need a rest before our match?"

"Ah... I think I'm okay? I j-just need a hand helping Naruto-sama get settled in to spectate."

She shifts a bit to let Sakura help carry Naruto.

{Yep, Hinata's crush on Blondie is really cute, as is Blondie's obliviousness. Wonder how long before Blondie figures it out.}

She laughs internally.

{Probably a little while yet, at least.}

They get their friend settled beside the field to watch their match, and Sakura returns to it—training kunai in hand—and gestures for Hinata to follow.

"After seeing you take Naruto out like that, I can't wait to see what I can do against you," Sakura says, grinning.

Hinata nods hesitantly, and heads out to take a ready stance across from Sakura. "Likewise, though I am a b-bit nervous."

Really? She'd think she'd need to be the one being worried about Hinata.

…This girl is really low on self-esteem, isn't she?

—Actually, she should say some of that. "Really? I thought I'd be the one worrying about handling you!"

Hinata's expression turns hesitant and confused. "I am n-n-not as skilled as I sh-should be."

Her family tells her so all the time. She's very sure of that.

Nonetheless, she gets into a ready guard position.

Ok, that absolutely deserves to be talked about, but it can happen after this match.

Sakura falls into position, and gives Naruto the signal to count them off.

Yeah, he kinda wants to hug Hinata about that, but they are not at that point in their friendship, and also he's scared a Hyuuga would burst out of the trees and murder him.

Naruto will dutifully count them off, and signal the start of their match.

Sakura immediately begins circling around Hinata, infusing a burst of chakra into her muscles to nigh-instantly accelerate from her standing position.

She palms two practice kunai, but doesn't throw any yet.

Hinata focuses intently, shifting just enough to keep her guard ready as Sakura circles, and waits for a tell-tale twitch of Sakura's muscles.

Sakura throws both kunai—one directly at Hinata, and the other to her left.

As soon as the kunai leave her hand, she pours chakra into her muscles again, accelerating in the opposite direction from her circling, and surging toward Hinata's right side in an attempt to pen her in.

Hinata darts right as she sees the twitches of the throws, easily dodging the kunai, and reaching out for Jyuuken strikes to Sakura's leg.

Sakura grins as she falls into one of the maneuvers she practiced in class today, batting Hinata's hand away with one hand and grabbing her wrist with her other—

—then remembers that she should not follow through into breaking her arm, and instead throws her to the ground, pressing her hand against her friend's elbow to prevent her from moving up without hurting herself.

Hinata lets out a small "ah!" before relaxing against the ground. She hasn't learned any of the techniques for getting out of this yet.

"I y-yield, Haruno-chan."

Hell yeah! She knew they could do it!

She mentally pumps her fists in excitement.