Konoha, Death Forest Tower.
Battle Hall.
"Good luck!"
The names appeared on the screen, Mei and Ryota both giving him a dab as Isagi nodded with a relaxed face, jumping down.
"Show me what you got." Muttered Ryota, looking at Isagi calmly walking up to Hayate who stood in the middle.
On the other hand, Temari gave a light exhale, stepping towards the battle spot with her giant fan resting casually on her shoulders. Both contestants stopped a few meters away from each other.
"So, you're my opponent…" Temari spoke first, her sharp teal eyes scanning him up and down before a faint smirk formed on her lips. "Konoha sure has quite a few handsome guys huh."
Isagi at her words brought a wide smile on his attractive face, with amusement and confidence in his eyes speaking in a casual tone. "Maybe but surely, it'll be rude to admit one's attractiveness before the Sand princess."
Temari blinked at his words, her smirk fading. "Princess?"
Isagi quiet and just gazing straight into her teal eyes that gradually showed an understanding and solemn look.
"Princess?" Naruto and most of the genin present were clueless to what Isagi truly meant, only Sarutobi himself and other higher ups of the village were aware of the sensitive identity of the Sand trio.
Only the higher-ups of the village knew that Gaara, Kankuro and Temari were children of the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.
After a while Temari spoke with a hint of surprise and amusement in her tone. "You sure seem to know a lot for a nobody."
Isagi heard her and smiled even more brightly, sensing that Temari wanted to take control over the conversation and by calling him a nobody she wanted to rile him up.
"Tch." Clicked Temari her tongue in annoyance seeing him not reacting, feeling like she had hit a soft pillow.
Cough! Cough!
Hayate coughed twice, signaling for them to get ready.
"Begin."
"I hope you are able to maintain that smile by the time this fight ends." Said Temari and leaped back to create distance and swung out the fan behind her in one motion.
Wind Style! Great Scythe Blast!
BOOM!!!
The fan was unfolded to its maximum capacity by Temari showing three purple circles, swinging it towards Isagi and with a boom numerous sharp blades of wind roared out of the fan.
WHIZZZ!!!
DAMN!!!
Everyone in the hall felt strong gusts of wind from the battle spot, their hair flying and due to some rubble flying, they covered their faces with their elbows.
But Isagi, who seemed to have taken the main burst of the attack, was completely fine, having somehow appeared next to Temari on her right.
"Temari watch out!!"
Temari, due to the wind, had her eyes almost closed so she didn't notice firsthand when Isagi appeared next to her, the urgent panicked voice of Kankuro making her aware of the situation.
With shocked eyes Temari turned towards her right and spotted Isagi with hands in his pockets, looking at her with the same revolting smile.
Thud!!
Temari hurriedly leaped back and created distance from Isagi, who didn't follow her and just gazed at her quietly from afar.
Isagi hadn't become careless or arrogant suddenly because of a surge in strength, it was just that he was aware of his opponent's strength being way below his, so he could take his time here.
If it was someone else, he would never waste time and would not even look for a fair fight if it meant he could win, just like he had done with Lee.
"Has the intelligence ability of Konoha shinobi dropped to this extent, would someone tell me why this kid with such ability is completely fameless?" The Konoha jonin stood together with Sarutobi and watched, Asuma taking a puff of the cigarette asking in an emotional tone.
"I doubt that I'm faster than him." Kurenai joined in the conversation with shocking facts too, most jonin present including Sarutobi though not finding her words surprising at all.
Unlike genin and chunin in the hall who were clueless, most of them had noticed that when Temari had just swung her fan, Isagi at that moment disappeared from his spot and the next instance appeared to the right of Temari.
This was done purely relying on body flicker technique and few jonin in the hall possessed speed comparable to what Isagi had shown.
Sarutobi didn't point out anything and with a lot of thoughts in his eyes quietly gazed at Isagi down below, continuing to watch him.
"Interesting~" Among the jonin there was a pale-faced jonin with the Sound Village headband, he gazing at Isagi clearly showing a vast amount of interest.
The jonin were this shocked so the genin's reaction could hardly be imagined, Sakura and Ino shocked beyond speaking, Neji quiet but in his pale eyes lingering on Isagi no longer contempt but a huge desire to fight, to prove.
"Did he also hold back in our earlier fight?" Lee also noticed that Isagi was much quicker than his fight with him, earlier having thought that only he was unable to utilize his full strength but that seemed not the case.
"Gaara!! Calm down!!" The one riled up the most in the hall was none other than Gaara, his eyes with bloodlust in them fixed on Isagi and sand grains swirling around him, Baki the Sand leading jonin barely able to keep him under control as knowing it was not the time yet for Gaara to go on a rampage.