A familiar cry suddenly reached Gaara's ears at this moment, but Temari, who was resting in the lounge because she won the last game, noticed something unusual. Under the dissatisfied eyes of Yamanaka Ino and Uzumaki Naruto, she spoke out a reminder
Touching Gaara, causing the other person to look upward involuntarily.
The scorching sun at noon hung high in the middle of the blue sky, emitting scorching heat and dazzling light. Gaara couldn't help but raise his left hand to cover his sight, but despite the stinging pain in his eyes, he still vaguely saw a black shadow who didn't know when he wasn't looking.
, has jumped into the air.
The black shadow could only be seen as a vague outline under the backlight, but Gaara could also infer from this that it was Shikamaru.
Gaara endured the dazzling sunlight, waved his right hand, and a stream of yellow sand rushed towards Shikamaru who was in mid-air. Unfortunately, due to the backlight, his vision was blurred, and he could only barely see the outline of Shikamaru. The yellow sand surged into the air.
When he reached Shikamaru, who was in mid-air, Shikamaru twisted his body and easily dodged Gaara's attack. At the same time, he slapped his backhand, and instead used the yellow sand to borrow strength and fall downwards at a faster speed.
go.
At the same time, the two shadow clones of Shikamaru that rushed towards Gaara had to temporarily avoid the edge because of the waves of sand hitting Gaara. They jumped to both sides of Gaara, one to the left and the other to the right. Then one of the shadow clones suddenly shook.
With his hand, Gaara threw the "Kage Show" stuck in his lower waist, and distracted some of his energy to pay attention to the movements of the two shadow clones. Gaara's heart skipped a beat when he saw this. He was still a little confused about the reason why Hyuga Neji failed in the preliminary examination.
I didn't know it was Shikamaru's "Shadow Mimicry Shuriken" ability, but I already suspected the role of "Kage Show" in it. When I saw the opponent throwing "Kage Show", I couldn't help but tilt my head to concentrate part of my attention.
While Gaara was alert to the movements of the two Shikamaru shadow clones, he also did not stop guarding against Shikamaru above him. Because there was sunlight when he looked upward, he could not see and capture Shikamaru's figure clearly, so he controlled the sand to float above his head.
The sky is arched half a meter above the head like a protective umbrella.
However, what made Gaara both confused and relieved was that the target of the "Shadow Show" thrown by the shadow clone did not seem to be him. After a cold light flashed through the air in front of him, it had already flown straight past and landed.
When he arrived in front of another shadow clone, he was grabbed into his hand.
The two shadow clones of Shikamaru seemed to just perform a good tacit understanding in front of Gaara. After receiving the thrown "kage show", they moved left and right from both sides of Gaara towards his back.
Including Gaara, the audience was a little confused after seeing the actions of Shikamaru's shadow clone. Only those in the stands who watched the match between Gaara and Shikamaru with their Byakugan
Hinata Neji, because of the insight of his Byakugan, made some discoveries. He seemed to have thought of something. The corners of his mouth twitched, and a smile appeared on his handsome face.
"Boom!"
Like the sound of a powerful bow string, a crisp sound with lingering sound suddenly came from the field.
"It turns out to be a wire!"
In the private room of the venue, the leader of the Konoha ANBU team, who had been standing silently behind Hideo Mita and Hiroyuki Ito, and had not made a sound since the two entered the room, suddenly said something to the two of them.
The weighty old man was scratching his head.
"Crack!"
Mita Hideo, who was confused, put away the folding fan in his hand, but did not ask any questions. Instead, he focused on the competition in the venue, his eyes still lingering on Shikamaru's figure.
Gaara in the venue had already sensed that something was wrong, but unfortunately it was too late. The two shadow clones of Shikamaru who circled back behind him suddenly stopped and stood up, one holding the "Kage Show" and the other holding the "Kage Show".
Kunai, swing hard to the left and right sides.
And following the movements of the two people, after a slight trembling sound, Gaara suddenly felt that his chest was suffocating, and a strong force came, accompanied by several pieces of broken sand armor, his whole body was like an arrow from Li Xuan, from
Fly quickly backwards on the spot.
"What's going on!?" Gaara was extremely shocked, and there was nothing in front of him. He had no idea how Shikamaru launched the previous attack, until a faint light reflected from the sunlight into his eyes.
Only then did he exclaim: "Steel wire!?"
Observing carefully, Gaara finally discovered that the ends of the ninja tools held in the hands of Shikamaru's two shadow clones were tied with steel wires and connected to each other.
Shikamaru had no intention of a protracted battle from the beginning, nor would he slowly lay out the foreshadowing like he did with Hyuga Neji in the preliminaries.
Fierce and fast multiple attacks, and placing traps in them, without giving Gaara time to think and react. This was Shikamaru's preferred plan.
Smoke bombs, shurikens, shadow clones, a series of rapid attacks are just to attract Gaara's attention. The real killer is the two shadow clones who use the steel wire stretched in front of Gaara to suddenly tighten.
With the power, Gaara is projected out like a cannonball.
The sand around him didn't have time to react. Gaara himself had already flown out of their protection at a very fast speed. Only then did he realize that Shikamaru's landing point in mid-air was not at all where he was before.
, but where we are at this time.
Gaara glanced into the air out of the corner of his eye and noticed that Shikamaru, who was falling quickly from mid-air to the ground, seemed to have a little light blue light flashing in his hand, rolling up air currents. It was like a dream, and it was extremely beautiful, but he was not in the slightest mood to appreciate it.
This fleeting, gorgeous scene.
The murderous intention contained in it may only be felt by Gaara who is in it!
"Rasengan!"
From the moment Gaara was thrown away by Shikamaru's shadow clone with a wire bullet, to Gaara finally seeing clearly Shikamaru's foreshadowing, everything just happened in an instant. Gaara was still forced to fly backwards under the force of inertia.
, accompanied by a slightly childish voice, a black shadow with a little bit of blue light, like a swooping falcon, crashed onto him from mid-air with the sound of biting wind.
"It's over." At the same time, in the stands, Sarutobi Asuma had lit a cigarette and said calmly to Yuhi Kurenai: "I said, no genin can be Shikamaru's opponent!"
Boom!
Like a meteor hitting the ground, or like a cannonball exploding, as if to add persuasiveness to Sarutobi Asuma's words, a strong wave of air emitted from the direction where Shikamaru hit Gaara, rolling up a large amount of mud, rocks and dust.
The roaring explosion also proved the power of Shikamaru's thunderous strike from mid-air.
Coupled with the power of falling from mid-air, the power of the Rasengan was completely imprinted on Gaara's body without any reservation. Even though Gaara's body was covered with a layer of sand armor, he was defeated at the moment of contact.