A Gentle Roar

A Gentle Roar is the twenty-third Chapter of Season One, as well as of the series as a whole.

Plot
Hinata Hyuga activates her Byakugan, allowing her to see the Chakra Points across Matt's Chakra Network. With this, she attacks him with Gentle Fist Art: Protective Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms to deal devastating damage to Matt's Chakra System. Matt is unable to bring forth his Chakra to fight back, and Hinata again urges him to surrender. Matt once again refuses, and instead of potentially killing him, Hinata forfeits the match. Matt is declared the winner of the fight, and after medical treatment, he returns to the stands to observe the coming matches. In the third battle, Shikamaru Nara is paired against his teammate Ino Yamanaka. Stunned, they enter the arena and embrace each other, assuring one another that regardless of the fight they are still a team. The battle begins, and Shikamaru's and Ino's knowledge of each other's battle tactics lead to a stalemate. However, eventually, Shikamaru manages to ensnare Ino with his Shadow Possession Jutsu.