The Conclusive Manœuvre
Minato expected to knock the boy off his feet again or at least disorient him, he wasn’t prepared for his arm to be grabbed in a steely grip by two small hands. He was less prepared when he felt himself being lifted and flipped backwards towards the ground. Shirubā had adjusted to the strength behind Minato’s blows, and while it was harder to get a beat on his speed, he’d caught a blur of yellow in his peripheral and tensed the muscles of his neck to keep his head from getting wiped by the punch. As quickly as he could he grabbed Namikaze-san’s arm, using his chakra to help him lift the other boy over his head and throw him to the ground.
The rest of the class watched Minato-san’s feet leave the ground and his back hurtling to it. Minato managed to get his legs underneath him to stop his downwards momentum, once his feet hit the ground he kicked his leg out behind him. Shirubā was ill placed to stop the kick so he let his grip on Minato-san’s arm go, jumping up he lands crouching on the blonde boys leg. He lands his first successful hit when he gets a straight kick to the back of his head.
Minato’s vision blurred as his skull exploded in pain, he stumbled forward, launching a line of seven shuriken behind himself as he tried to regain focus. He vaguely heard the clanging of metal as his eyes came back into focus, followed by the whiz of something being thrown. He gathered as much chakra as he could, weaving the Tiger→Boar→Ox→Dog→Snake signs just as the kunai would have hit he performs his Body Replacement Jutsu, a log taking his place. He took the opening created by the smoke and confusion of his substitution and used a Body Flicker, appearing again behind Shirubā-san with a kunai at his neck.
“Match!” Kagami-sensei’s voice rang clear as the match came to a close. Shirubā sighed but accepted the loss, he had exhausted a fair amount of the chakra he could call on and doubted he’d be able to do much more to the older student. Minato lowered his knife, he wasn’t convinced the maneuver had been enough to finish the fight but he would accept the victory. “Make the friendship sign and exit the ring.” Kagami was impressed by both his students, he had activated one of his sharingan during the last exchange and though he didn’t look it, the younger student was running out of chakra but he would be rewarded for his performance against one of his best pupils. Shirubā turned around and put his hand forward met by Minato’s. The two nod to each other, and turn to leave the ring, Minato standing with the rest of the class, Shirubā slightly off to the side drawing chakra back into himself. The rest of the class look at him sidelong, they had misjudged yet another new student. The Red Hot Habanero and now The Outsider Silver.