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Chapter 9: Move Your Body, People!

     On the frostbiting days of mid-winter, the fitness classes were moved into the gym. Normally, winter doesn’t get as cold as to heavy snows but it changes everything the school follows.

“A badminton tournament? You can’t be serious…” Kiba reacted with a flat face.

“Shut it, slacker,” Yutada, the P.E teacher, said,” Recreational sports like these exist including archery, beach ball games (Volleyball style), and blah, blah, blah so on…”

“Nobody plays that ancient game of archery anymore,” Shikamaru complained,” It’s just standing in one place and shooting arrows for the coordinated-chall—!”

Twang! Shooooo…! Twik-twik!

     Shikamaru was lying on the ground with his clothes pinned and ruined by the edges of the arrows. He could only lay there helpless and speechless as Yutada approached the slacker strategist with an aura of doom. “I’m so sorry Shikamaru, but that doesn’t mean just anybody can play now can they?” Yutada looked down on Shikamaru with mad-scientist eyes. “If you can’t kill two birds with one stone, shoot a fire arrow at them instead. Two in a line on the arrow for pure accuracy or one caught and other burning to its death slowly; that’s my way of thinking to get the job done.

“Yutada-sensei sure is s-scary when she can’t tolerate those who won’t follow directions,” Sakura said with a shaken voice. …Especially with the ability to fire 8 arrows in a row at a time, and then with the arrows turning to Shikamaru like rain… Yutada-chan is unbelievable…

     The match-ups were already written down by random with some novices to pro-skilled players. Naruto/Sasuke, Shikamaru/Temari, Rock Lee/Neji, Gaara/Shino, and Kiba/Yutada matches were all supposed to be the so-called highlight matches. Hinata was up against Sakura while Ino was against Tenten in the badminton match-ups. Things turned out from boring to interesting to messed-up matches as players played to get the grand prize, the promotion to the next level without taking any kind of tests. “This is the most ridiculous kind of prize ever…” Yutada thought as she played Kiba. “You can’t promote any student to a chuunin or a jonin without knowing if they’re at that level.” Yutada had no problem playing against Kiba with a couple of curves and dives made.

“Dammit, bitch! Stop scoring so much!” Kiba pushed himself off the ground after making a fall.

“Shut it, ass! That’s what all the boys and girls said when I played against them in singles and doubles,” Yutada said with a strict face. “Man, I don’t know what their problem is when I played against them in school. I was too good for the girls and teacher allowed me to play on the boys’ side. But I started ‘stealing’ wins from them and they all said the same thing you just said during tournaments. It’s not my fault I’m better than you… so let’s finish this game so I can move on to the next round.”

“You die!” Kiba let out a roar.

“Let’s see you try!” Yutada let out her battle cry.

“Uragh!”

“Haa-yargh!!”

“There’s no way you can return this!”

“You’re such a loser…” Snap!

“Game… I win,” Yutada stood as Kiba laid on his back sweating profusely.

“Geez, I hate you…” Kiba wheezed the words out of breath.

“That’s what someone said to me when I ended his doubles team’s winning streak and kicked him out of the tournament,” Yutada smiled.

     Naruto and Sasuke went at each other with many splits and slides to get the birdie flying to the very lines of the boundaries. Naruto kept saying, “Believe it!” with Sasuke following up with “You’re still a loser…” as the game came down with a very tight tie. Naruto made a powerful smash from the Nine-Tailed Fox’s strength as Sasuke returned the counter with his sharingan. “Aargh!” was the final sound that came out as the tiebreaker ended with Sasuke still in an offensive stance and Naruto lying on his stomach. Naruto lost with his eyes in shock when the birdie lay barely outside the court. The birdie grazed across Naruto’s racquet when Naruto realized that it would make Sasuke’s return out. The blonde ninja got up and walked up to Sasuke to shake hands for a good game.

“Good game,” Sasuke smiled slyly.

“Hrm…” Naruto shook Sasuke’s hand. “Yeah, it was a really great game…” Naruto squeezed his grip tighter on Sasuke’s right hand and nearly crushed it. Cr-crack!

“Ow! What the hell—get back here Naruto, I’ll kill you!”

     Ino defeated Tenten in 10 minutes and walked over to where Shikamaru’s court was. There was a huge crowd with a lot of chatter from the match between Shikamaru and Yutada. Ino ran over sensing something bad happened to Shikamaru if there was ever a crowd. Shikamaru was walking with shaking legs towards Ino with his head down.

“Shikamaru, how did it go? Did you win?” Ino was wondering, even though it did not look like it.

“Ino… How did you do? Did you win?” Shikamaru changed the subject for a second.

“Yep! I won easy in 10 minutes!” Ino stood in triumph with a peace sign and a big smile. Conscience Ino: You did not! You used the possession jutsu to control Tenten to miss your shots every time! The rules clearly state that no one can use any kind of jutsu to win their way! Ino: Like I care, I just want to be promoted so I can be closer to my Sasuke and out of Sakura’s league! “So Shikamaru, did you win?”

“No… I lost to Yutada-sensei. Watch out, she may look sweet, nice, and cool for a person and teacher... but when she plays badminton she’s a monster,” Shikamaru held his head as if he just escaped from the wrath of a bear.

“I… see…” Ino turned to where Yutada’s standing on her side of the court.

“Ah-ha-ha-ha-hah! Hah-ha-ha-haah! That was so fun! I’ll get better by practicing and eventually no one can beat me! Ahahahahhahaaa! The sweet taste of victory when crushing the opponent with all the effort you can muster! Crush your opponent with no time to breath or move! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-hah!” Yutada laughed with her back turned and in a triumph posture.

“Dang… Yutada-sensei is so scary when she holds her racquet and plays,” Naruto was shocked in horror.

“Good luck Neji, playing against that monster of a sensei in the quarter finals,” Tenten patted Neji’s back.

“Uh, yeah… sure, whatever you say Tenten… I’ll do my best to beat her…” Neji watched in horror as Yutada laughed like a crazy witch. There’s no way I can stand up to Yutada-sensei! She’s a monster! A total purebred badminton monster! I’m the rookie genius of Konoha but that’s a different story…!

“Um… Yutada-sensei…” Hinata shuddered as she approached her.

“Yeah, what is it Hinata?” Yutada smiled sweetly after laughing like a crazed, homicidal killer killing for pleasure and fun.

“Eep! U-uh… can you do something about Gaara a-and S-Shino?” Hinata was taken aback of Yutada’s sudden personality change. “T-they’re playing like they’re going to k-kill each other…”

“What?!” Yutada was shocked to hear this. Well I know Gaara had some issues from his hometown and Shino isn’t the readable type but… what can go so wrong?

     Gaara and Shino were done with the match 15 minutes ago with Shino winning the game. But Gaara didn’t take it well and lost it. When Yutada got there, Gaara was flooding the court with sand and trying to bury Shino in his sand coffin. Shino, on the other hand, swarmed over the sand with his chakra-sucking bugs and sending mosquitoes at Gaara’s face. Feeling a bit dirty, Shino threw the two racquets he and Gaara used for distraction.

“N-no way!” Yutada stood there shocked when she watched the fight. This is supposed to be a fun and an enjoyable sport, not a killing spree! “That’s it, break it up!”

“Die! You dead will prove that I exist!” Gaara went on again about his belief of living.

“What a crazy—!” Shino struggled to get out of his grasp. Strong gusts of wind tunneled into the gym to compress the sand back to Gaara. Fire shot like lightning from sand altered in a jutsu modification from Yutada’s finger snaps. “Both of you guys go up to the dean, now! No excuses and both of you get detention and clean up the entire school!”

“But sensei—!” Shino tried to protest.

“Didn’t you hear me? No protesting, or else I’ll make you guys clean every single toilet in this school for attempt of assault and murder. Or would you, Shino, like your bugs to suck out the toilet water to scrub out the ‘stuff’ in the toilet main pump?”

“Sigh, yes sensei…” Shino walked out of the gym defeated.

“Sensei, isn’t that a bit much?” Kiba walked up to Yutada.

“The two tried to kill each other and Shino used bugs with the potential to kill. No question about it… and a reminder that students shouldn’t argue with teachers without thinking through; the students are going to lose anyway without gaining favor.”

     The quarter-finals ended quickly into the semi-finals with Hinata disqualified. Why? Because Hinata got her hand bitten badly by a wandering dog of the Inuzuka clan at the quad. Kiba apologized with deep regret when he saw Hinata’s bloody hand at the infirmary. The semi-finals consisted of Sasuke up against Neji and Yutada against Ino for the two spots into the finals. Tension builds in the air as Sasuke and Neji glares at each other with the ambition to get promoted. The gain out of the entire badminton tournament was the promotion to the next level. In this case, it would be promotion to chuunin for most of them. Neji starts off the game with an underhand serve powered by the Heavenly Spin. The birdie soared high in an arc and made a sharp turn towards the court at Sasuke. In his position, Sasuke can’t react quickly enough to get some room for a swing. With his ambition to rise up in his ranks and kill his brother, Sasuke activates his sharingan then disappears for a moment and reappears in his offensive stance. He makes a slice deep into Neji’s side and the match begins…

     Ino and Yutada were playing at the same time Sasuke and Neji did but progressed faster in time. Yutada was ahead with 5-3 games with Ino but Yutada doesn’t lose her games easily to anyone before. Shunk!

‘Crap! What’s wrong with me? I was doing fine before but it feels like as if my body’s faltering,’ Yutada thought. Whap! ‘From now and then when I swing or do a smash, my arms would freeze for a few seconds. But during those times, Ino looks like she didn’t get enough sleep.’

Snap! ‘Giggle… Perfect, she doesn’t even realize what’s happening to her,’ Ino giggled to herself,’ Sorry Yutada-sensei… But I’m taking that promotion from your hands. And I’ll do that with my mind transfer jutsu to stop her body from returning my shots.’ “…There’s the perfect opening!” Ino shouted as she sent the birdie to the top, far left corner. Ker-Smash!

“Sorry Ino, not this time!” Yutada swings to make a slice return.

‘Now is the chance to stop her arm!’ Ino smirked. ‘Mind transfer jutsu! I am so great to do this jutsu by just imagining the hand signs in my head. Thank you so much Yutada-sensei…’

‘Back off Ino!’ Yutada gave a death glare at Ino. Swap!

“poop!” Ino cursed as she missed the birdie. “But how that’s possible? She should’ve froze when I took over her mind!”

“Sorry Ino, my mother taught me the mind block jutsu a long time ago. She seemed like she had an issue with the Yamanaka clan for reading her mind when it was test day. So she taught me the jutsu to prevent anyone from reading my mind or taking over it.”

“But what’s with the death glare for?! I’m not an enemy!” Ino said.

“Heh-heh…Ah-hah-hah-ha! You are so naïve Ino… Sure I’m nice and sweet but when it comes down to competition, my pupils of my eyes would resemble that of the Inuzukas when I get serious,” Yutada had an evil grin. “So, let’s end this shall we?” Yutada gave off a sweet, innocent smile.

The finals came down to Yutada and…