Exam arena

Sasuke walked in with his neutral, well by the way pratically always neutral, looking face. He walked near Naruto and the others but continued a little to look at the match alone.
- "Pff, that's all they got? What a waste of time..." he said talking to nobody looking at Shino and Neji fighting each other.

Staying unnoticeable in the shadows, Itachi observed both the students and the fight occuring. The fights seemed to be evenly matched, but Itachi has never seen "Tayuya" in battle before, as he usually steered clear from others.
'It will be interesting, I suppose,' he mused disinterestedly to himself, eyes following the insects on the battlefield as they flew from Aburame to the Hyuuga.
He was reluctant to, but if he could not use simple ninjutsu or taijutsu to beat Tayuya, he would eventually have to use his Sharingan. His eyes slid towards his otouto at that moment, wondering how much stronger Sasuke had become.





*otouto = younger brother

Sakura was so focused on the battle, when Naruto yelled nearby, she got more than just surprised. Whn she got back to here sences [or close enough] she would yell at Naruto, her glare would get freaky "NARUTO! WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA!? YELLING RIGHT NEXT TO ME, TRYING TO MAKE ME FALL OR SOMETHING----oh hi Sasuke!" Well obviously she changed attitude all of a sudden when Sasuke came by "my lucky day, Ino is not around to cause me trouble" she thinks, totally forgeting about the match and her next battle.

Sasuke was still looking at the fight anyway, he sighed, it was long and boring. The Neji was strong but Shino too smart, so every moves were annulst. He suddently heard a feminine voice and turned back as he saw Sakura right there looking at him almost falling into dream's country of love. He rolled his eyes.
- "What? Oh, dear... Hello, if it makes you happy..." He simply said in a tone lacking of emotions, he was looking and talking completely neutral like always. Nothing had importance to him, well nothing had enough, so that he could show his emotions. He prefered to hide them then show them, ... When he has some.
- 'That girl is still looking at me like a puppy filled of hope for a bone, I bet that if Ino comes she will look at me the same way. What a thing, darn these girls...'

Itachi smirked at Sasuke's situation. 'How amusing,' he thought to himself, almost laughing. It really was funny to see girls attach themselves to his brother, especially when he showed no interest in them.
His attention was drawn towards Uzumaki Naruto after that; unlike a few years before, Naruto seemed to have integrated himself into the students, and did not seem to be such an outcast anymore. 'Good for him.'

Sasuke saw Ino coming to him and Sakura, he didn't want this to happen.
- 'Oh such a great thing... Now Ino the bulldog is coming to fight against Sakura the psychotic persian cat, What would I do to be alone.' He thought and looked at Ino, he did a little smile but didn't smile that much at all.
- "Oh... Hi." he said still looking at the fight.

Itachi could barely hold in his snickering, but managed to compose himself before any sound was emitted. Maybe he would be 'nice' and help his little brother out. More likely than not, however, this might be seen as scaring him, not being nice... Oh well.

Smirking, Itachi did a quick teleportation jutsu and appeared in the empty spot behind his brother. "Little brother..."

Neji closed his eyes when he heard him hitting the wall, he would smirk again alittle. He opened his orbs quickly, ranning again right toward Aburame, his eyes widen when a bad feeling were around him. Suddendly stop his move, he glanced around quickly.
"Wheres that noise come from?!...be quick..."
He was more surprised than scared when some bugs was climbing on his legs, keeping him down. He tried to ran again but couldn't. Neji was frowning while cutting some with his kunai.
-Damn those things!
He yelled, din't care about others opinions.
"laught if you want! I just want to remove those fools from me you got that!"
He yelled again by anger and almost cut himself while jumping away from the insects. He shake his legs alittle when he get back to the ground. Hyuga would glared, now he was really pissed off from that guy, Shino Aburame.
-You! I'll make you pay for what you tried to do!
Neji ran again, rasing his arms infront of him again. He would yelled again, not for the same thing though. He was now all focus at Shino's chest.
"don't miss that one now!"
-eight trigrams two palms!
It was so quick that even the crowd needed to pay really attention to saw this. His boths hands were moving quickly, two time, four time, eight times...if Shino doesn't make a move, Neji will end his attack at sixty-four palms. If he could get away, who knows what will happen again now...

Sakura would blink, Ino is here, right in time to break her fun into pieces. "Ino...what took you so long, busytrying to make yourself less ugly" she say arogantly. Look at her go, it is hard to believe now that she used to look up at Ino when they were at the academy. She would glare at Ino, thunder could strike from her eyes toward Ino if it was possible.
"Sasuke is not yours Ino!" By the way, now she really completly lost focus on the fight, even with Neji's yelling.

Kiba is confused. Hinata was was hugging his arm tight for a moment, then before he knows it, she's gone talking to Naruto. "Hina---aww here she goes again. he say, now being sure that Hinata even forgot everyone else's existence. Just to verify, he waves his hands infront of Hinata's eyes, just to find out if she'll notice it.

He looks back at the fight, really, someone here has to watch it. "Shino is having an hard time, Neji is as ruthless as ever man!" he'd think. Akamaru is slightly growling, first at the fight, but then he stops and turn to Sasuke's side and barks. Akamaru smelled a presence from behind Sasuke, Itachi. Kiba doesn't notice though, he's focused on the fight.

Sasuke stared at his old brother, he wouldn't think Itachi may be there, He standed up and walked few steps back.
- "What are you doing here, anyway? You didn't cause enough pain last time you came in... Get out of my way, unimportant thing." he said roughly and walked away to the panel near the fence where there was no seat and where people could watch the match without seating, standing on the front he tried to focus on the fight but a feeling of pain and rage was filling his heart and he wouldn't want to start a fight agaisnt his brother, but... It was causing so much irritating feelings inside.
- 'Why are you here... Why are you still causing me so much pain inside, please go. I can't continue like this, everytime I see you or remember something about us I always feel angry like something was eating my rage and pain inside of my heart... Go... Away...' He though.

Tilting his head slightly to the side as if confused or thinking, Itachi almost smiled at his brother's maturity. 'By now, if this had been some time ago, Sasuke would have surely tried to attack me. He has grown.'
He could sense his brother trying to suppress the killing intent, and was proud of him. Itachi followed his brother to the seat-less panel, standing next to him.
"You have grown, little brother, to the benefit of the prestige of the Uchiha name."

Sasuke glared at Itachi.
- "Do you even think I need you to know that? Everything I would do would be better than what you did or will do. Could you?!" He stopped talking and took a deep breath then sighed. "Could you just leave me alone for a moment..." He asked neutrally still glaring to him. He needed time to accept the fact that Itachi could have 'changed' as he seemed to have.

Shino is suprosed by Neji's attack, he was going to punch him he all the time stop at Shino's face. In his head, this time was long like hours. Neji and Shino imobilized. Flashing the suprised face of Ino, Choji, Tayuya, Temari and Hanabi. Shino looks down at Neji's arm on his chest.
*I...am...in...trouble...* he'd say.
He feel is chest hurt when the time get back normaly. The only thing Shino have understand is "64 plams!". He felt on the ground. He don't move anymore.

Sasuke looked at Choji.
- "..." He turned back putting his back on the edge not caring about the others and kept silent. He half-smiled and looked back at Choji.
- "Go on, I'll see later if I come..." He looked back at Neji and Shino and saw that Shino was laid on the floor.
- 'Is he okay? ...' He though.

Neji's eyes were close after he did his attack, he wait a few seconds before he look down at his opponent that was laying on the floor. He would smirk alittle.
"Heh, no one can resist to this...I knew it.."
He look away from Shino, waiting for him to get up if he would. Neji realised that Aburame's body were wounded by his skills. The byakugan was gone now that the fighting was at the end.
Neji glanced quickly at everyone around the field, his gaze stop at Hinata for a few second, he would glare at her and gazed away. He murmured, was talking to Shino though.
-Did you really think you could win?...your skills were good though, but not enough against me...
His smirk was again on his face, he rise his head up, waiting for the result, even if he knew what is was.
"Who will be my next opponent now...anyways I'll give the best I could!"
He glared again quickly at Hinata. He yelled.
-Show me that you deserve to be in this family! Don't disapointed me...you got that?

Choji looks back and begin to shakes.
-"W-w-what? It's my turn?" His legs begin to shakes and he starts to panic.
-"I am not gonna do it... I'll give up..." he said poking his fingers together.
He then looks at the panel:

Shino VS Neji
Sakura VS Hinata
Choji VS Kiba
Temari VS Anko
Gaara VS Hanabi
Naruto VS Tenten
Tayuya VS Itachi
Sasuke VS Ino

-"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!! RIGHTTTTTTTTTTTT!" He'd scream with fire eyes.
-"SAFE!!!!!!" He'd said, holding a dramatic pose.

Kiba is surprised, he is still looking at Shino's immobile body " Aww man Shino!" he'd yell. Surely he espected Neji to be a tough opponent, but he remains surprised by the turnings of the battle. "Neji is ruthless, we all know what he is ready to do in order to defeat his opponent" he thinks. He turns to Hinata, who's hiding from Neji's sight "You're next Hinata, are you feeling ok? " he'd say. Akamaru stops barking and looks at Kiba.

"and then it will be my turn..." Kiba thinks. He then turns to Choji who's doing his dramatic pose. "Guess Hinata is not the only one who's nervous *sweatdrop*" he'd think then sighs.