Naruto barely had time to think before the screen started beeping again.
Everyone held their breath—some afraid of drawing a monster, others thirsty for battle.
Beep! The list froze.
Uzumaki Naruto vs. Akadō Yoroi.
Naruto blinked. "Huh. What a coincidence."
He looked sideways at Yoroi. Yoroi glared right back.
Whispers erupted.
"Isn't Naruto the guy who yelled at us just now?"
"Yeah, that blond brat."
"Let's see how cocky he is now."
"Hmph, hope he gets smashed."
Most genin didn't really know Naruto well, but they'd just been scolded by him, so irritation lingered.
It was like the whole class complaining about homework and the class monitor suddenly lecturing them for the teacher—maybe he wasn't wrong, but it was still annoying.
Kankurō wore a smug grin, eager to watch Naruto fall flat.
But the strong ones—Neji, Lee, Hiruzen—watched with bright anticipation.
"Looks like you made a lot of enemies," Sasuke chuckled. "Can you handle it?"
Naruto didn't answer. Internally he was thinking: This guy was canonically meant for you.
In the original, Yoroi's chakra-absorption ability had nearly pushed Sasuke into a corner, until Sasuke forced down the curse mark and used copied taijutsu to create Lion's Barrage.
Now Naruto had the same problem.
He couldn't afford physical contact. If Yoroi absorbed his chakra, Naruto risked a public Nine-Tails flare-up.
Worse, he couldn't use Rasengan in front of everyone either—no clean way to explain where he learned it.
So: no Nine-Tails, no Rasengan.
Beat Yoroi cleanly with standard methods, and do it beautifully enough to impress Hiruzen.
Not easy.
"Heh heh, perfect." Yoroi strode toward Hayate and shot Naruto a provocative look.
Naruto followed, already running through strategies.
Hayate stood between them, confirming one last time. "First match: Uzumaki Naruto versus Akadō Yoroi. Any objections?"
"No."
"No."
"Then all non-participants to the sides."
The arena cleared with excited chatter. People on the stands tossed Naruto mocking smiles.
Kakashi appeared beside Naruto, voice low. "Naruto. Don't use the Nine-Tails' power."
Naruto raised a brow. So Kakashi knows about the elders' meeting too.
"Don't worry, boss."
"Beating him doesn't need the Nine-Tails."
Kakashi nodded quietly and went upstairs with Sasuke.
From the viewing box, Orochimaru watched with a crooked grin.
"Heehee… Naruto-kun, I'm looking forward to you."
Hayate's eyes sharpened.
Naruto's mind, after days of intense combat, had already shaped several viable plans.
He stared steadily at Yoroi.
"Then… first match, begin!"
"Come!" Yoroi formed the Tiger seal, flung it open, blue chakra gathering on his hands as he charged.
Testing. Setup. Kill. Naruto's thoughts snapped into place.
He whipped out three purple smoke bombs and slammed them down.
Boom!
Yoroi halted instantly. Visibility vanished. Expecting Naruto to rush him under cover, Yoroi backed up fast to create distance.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three enormous Windmill Shuriken screamed out of the smoke—one high, two low, sealing his escape routes.
Yoroi's eyelid twitched. He dropped his chakra and sprang forward on all fours like a loping hound, slipping through the narrow gap.
He nearly cleared—
Poof!
The shuriken transformed into three Narutos.
Each pulled a kunai and stabbed for Yoroi's heart, neck, and crotch, a three-pronged pincer.
Yoroi reacted with veteran calm.
He kicked one clone apart, grabbed the second, smashed it with a headbutt, then re-coated his hand in blue chakra and clamped the third by the throat.
Thud!
Clone and Yoroi crashed down. Yoroi's grip tightened.
The clone felt his strength draining.
"Not bad," Yoroi said coldly. "But your clone's chakra is mine."
He absorbed it, then crushed the clone to dust.
The smoke thinned. Five Narutos stepped out.
The center one spoke evenly, "Solid fundamentals. And your ability is chakra absorption, right?"
"Hmph."
Yoroi narrowed his eyes. He didn't believe the middle Naruto was the real one.
He hurled shuriken. The Narutos split apart. The center Naruto flicked the weapons away with a kunai.
Then—
A Naruto on the far left felt cold air behind him and spun—
Too late.
Yoroi's hand snapped onto his neck.
But the Naruto just curved his lips in mockery. "Nice Body Flicker. And that 'the more you absorb the stronger you get' brute force."
"If that's all you've got—cough cough—"
Poof.
Another clone vanished.
"Not him," Yoroi snarled, eyes swinging to the other four charging from different angles.
"I'll wipe you all out next!"
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