A Sacrifice for Another

Chapter 18

Rin smiled up at her team. She jumped up there and Neji and Christina congratulated her as well, just not as loudly as their fellow teammates.

"Well, the only one left on our team is Christina." Rin said.

"I'm sure she'll win, just like the rest of us!" Obito said. "We'll be considered the greatest team in the whole tournament once Christina gets through too! After all, it's not so common that everyone on the same team gets through!"

Minato smiled down at his team. There was no doubt in his mind that Christina would get through. He was so proud of his team, they had managed to get so far. Even though three of them hadn't really had his teachings being the reason that they were so great, they still had learned things under him. And Obito, Rin, and Kakashi were all of his work, and look how great they turned out to be! He was starting to wonder if the kids on his team would be this generation's Sannin. He was smiling fondly at them when he zoned back in and heard them starting to say good luck.

Minato's eyes shifted up to the scoreboard and he smiled.

Christina Maini

vs.

Asuma Sarutobi

This kid was tough. After all, he was trained by the third himself, the boys own father. But Christina would beat him, no doubt about it. Just like the other two time travelers beat their opponents. They had years worth of experience, they had been in a war. They were ANBU and A Sannin/Hokage to be.

It would be nearly impossible for any one of them to have failed this test. If they had, well, that would have shown what the standards in the future were for such high ranking people.

Christina jumped down into the arena, as did Asuma, who, since he was too young to smoke, only had a lollipop in his mouth.

"This match will now... Begin!" the proctor yelled, jumping back.

Asuma took out some kunai and threw them at Christina. She quickly deflected them with some senbon that had seemed to appear in her hand.

"Wait, your hand didn't go to your pouch, where did you get those from?" Asuma asked.

Christina lifted up the sleeves of her jacket. She had on two dispensers that had rows of senbon in them. There were 4 entries/exits on the dispensers.

"These are senbon dispensers. Like them? I forged them myself. When I put my arms at a certain degree, the senbon will shoot out. I then catch them by squeezing my fingers together and flip them so they are in the natural position. It only takes me a few seconds to be holding a ready senbon, making my reactions a lot quicker." Christina said.

"You aren't the only one with a weapon that isn't so commonly used." Asuma said, reaching back into his pouch and pulling out some trench knives.

"Trench knives huh? A pretty good weapon, I'll admit. They can be used very well, especially if paired with wind nature chakra." Christina said.

"Let's do this." Asuma said. They rushed towards each other and got into a fight of weapons. Asuma and Christina used their weapons in a very similar way, ending that part of their battle in a stalemate.

Christina threw some senbon at Asuma. He deflected them, but realized that those were a decoy. She rushed behind him at her high speed and threw some senbon at him. 5 of them landed in his back.

Asuma started going through hand signs. "Wind Style: Divine Wind!" He yelled. A wall of wind pushed off from him and pushed Christina towards the wall.

He ran towards the wall along with his jutsu, ending up in front of her a few seconds after she hit the wall.

"Looks like I win." he said, holding his trench knives towards her throat.