Ch. 46
3.pov
The first name caught her attention. She knew that name it was very important but she couldn't recognize him in the crowed. Shisui had short, unkempt, dark-coloured hair, black eyes and a relatively broad nose and well-defined eyelashesIt. Uchiha Shisui and his opponent was the guy from team 7. Mito was relieved that it wasn't Obito. While she did not know how strong Shisui was she thought he strongest opponent to the rest of her team's. The fight did not last long. Shisui was too fast and too strong for this guy. He knocked him in less than minute. So Mito did not have time to see how strong he actually was. But she geused he was at least around Obito level.
And obito was ranked at least in her opinion 8 out eleven. Ebisu was still the weakest then it was Rin and then Kurenai. Well it now seemed like she will have to look forward to finals. Mito smiled at the direction of Shisui who for moment was stunned. He thought she saw right through him, she seemed at first surprised to see his name and now she seems satisfied with him. He also followed the gazes from Kakashi and Genma who kept watching Mito and him. He was so confused. When Anko surprised him by saying :" You can move out, so we can continue." apparently he wasn't supposed to stare back for so long.
The next match was Ebisu against Rin. And both of them before their fight started bowed before Mito showing respect. Shisui looked confused did that person deserve such respect she was only genin. Soon the fight started. Both Rin and Ebisu stood there waiting for other to make first move. Mito was impressed for how long Ebisu waited, he still moved first. They started taijutsu battle in which surprising for most genin Rin had advantage. Her kicks were more precise, her moves were faster than his. But he did have strength over her, but unfortunately he couldn't land a critical hit. Rin fineshed it by unexpectedly using slight genjutsu. She knocked him out in 5 minutes of time. She again bowed to Mito who smiled back. Even if Shisui didn't know how strong Ebisu was he knew that Rin was fangril of Kakashi, but both of these guys showed that they were strong than his teammates. He also wondered if Mito and team 7 had special relationship.
The next fight was between Kurenai and some other girl. Kurenai also showed her respect to Mito. The fight ended quickly, the opponent of Kurenai did not know how to break a simple genjutsu. She did put a good fight before faling into it. But Mito could see that Kurenai wasn't fighting full force, she planned every attack so she knew when exactly to put genjutsu in use. Mito smiled back.
The next match was between Guy and girl from Shisui team. Mito deducted by hearing the boys chears. While Guy showed respect to Mito. The rest of genin were already weirded by this kind behavior. Well at least it seemed that way. Guy said that he is sorry but he can't go easy on her even if she is girl. Shisui knew that these two were mismatch. The girl from his team was medic and she could fight only from distance and he know that Guy was close range combat type just by looking at his body type. However he did not expect to see him move so fast only few could follow his movements. His teammate wasn't one of them she jumped to get as much distance as possible. She couldn't last long because Guy would always shorten the distance and she was heading towards a corner. This fight seemed boring for everyone else but it seemed Mito was watching with so much interest. Girl was by the knocked with first hit. She did managed to run for whole 2 minutes.
Next fight was Hayate and some Hyuga boy. Mito wondered if this was going to be a problem for Hayate. He bowed she smiled. And again Shisui could feel tension raise just slightly it seemed to be coming firm his left and only team seated there was team Choza. And it came from Genma, he could also see that Kakashi had similar expression on his face. He wondered if they were jealous. The fight was interesting because Hayate and Hyuga boy both fought in close range, however Hayate had his sword and he wasn't in range of any attacks of Hyuga. Hyuga could see better where Hayate tried to attack him. They were fighting for over 10 minutes only hits were done by Hayate but they were only scratches. Hyuga was slowly getting weaker and weaker his blood lost was minimal but him using byakugan for whole fight was exhausting. It costed him so much chakra. So he couldn't keep with Hayate anymore and was knocked by quick kick in stomach. The match was over and Hayate bowed so deaply that Mito had smiled so brightly the whole room looked like it was greated by first sun's rayes .
The next match was between some kid from Nara clan and Obito. Mito could hear Shisui cheer for Obito. But she wondered if he could win this. He was obviously stronger but Nara obliviously had some kind of plan unlike Obito who loved to fight with instincts. Obito bow wasn't as deep like the participants that came before him, he still got small smile from her. Shisui wonder if they weren't at good relationships. The whole obliviously knew Mito so it couldn't be that Obito didn't know her. And it seemed that Mito was most concerned about this fight. Shisui also wondered if Obito could win. The fight started very boringly both Obito and Nara kid were trying to hit each other with kunai. They seemed to stayed at same distance it seemed that Obito was careful about the range of Nara clan jutsu. He avoided getting near at all cost. He tried with one of his improved kunai bombs to distract Nara. But Nara saw it coming and dodged just in time, however he wasn't as fast as Obito was and didn't see Obito expecting to jump in this direction and he was meet with one of Obito fists before he could do anything. Obito continued hitting him until he collapse. It was most match with most broken bones. Obito broke Nara's nose. Obito bowed again and rushed to take his seat quickly he was too happy that he didn't notice a smile on Kakashi face. Kakashi felt proud now rest of team 7 was most likely to get promoted.
Mito was satisfied with how things went for now. Out 6 finalist she had 5, and she got to see one young genius. It seemed like it everything was going to be fine today.
Next match was Tokaru against what seemed a 13 year old Yamanaka. She seemed like feirce fighter, Mito also wondered if she was somehow realeted to Ino, like aunt or something, because she seemed to look a lot like her. Tokaru almost fell down the stairs while he was walking down to stage. He was so nervous that he almost bowed to the ground. Mito gesture to calm himself by breathing. It seemed like it worked.