"Boruto, jump!" Hearing Sarada's shout clearly, Boruto did just that and made a few clones to jump back down. Laiz dodged the following kunais flawlessly after which, one of Boruto's clone ran to him with a punch. Which he prevented by thrusting his longer ranged stick towards the clone's head. As one of the clone's weaknesses, it puffed out of existence and created an unusual amount of white smoke.

Laiz smiled, he slapped his hands on the ground, performing a basic mud wall jutsu. This gave rise to an elevated wall of rock just in front of him. Laiz's guess was correct, Boruto had indeed intended to surprise him using the smoke as cover.

"Wha?!"

Of course, the only one Boruto managed to surprise was himself as he hit his head in a thump, before exploding to a cloud of smoke once more. This time it was less exaggerated, he probably didn't expect that one.

Laiz let out a light chuckle as the scene replayed in slow motion inside his mind, that brief look of shock was priceless. If only he had a camera...

"Fire style: Fireball jutsu" Sarada muttered quietly as her hand formed the required hand signs for the following Jutsu.

Laiz knew now was not the time to lament on random things as Sarada greeted him with a ball of flame generated from her mouth.

Laiz looked at the ball of flame in suspicion

'Although it's dangerous, it's really slow..'

Laiz revealed a knowing smile and gave a side glance above him.

'That's how it is' Not a second after this thought, two Boruto's quickly descended from the sky towards Laiz, probably aiming to pin him down. Laiz shot towards Boruto in response, not giving him the chance to even engage him where the fireball were to hit.

'Boruto's style depends heavily on surprises, that's why i'm probably the best opponent to counter him' What Laiz said couldn't be more closer to the truth. Elemental senses, predictions and his computer-like brain were the main factors to why a surprise would barely faze him. That and his usual calmness gave birth to a frightening battle prowess that could handle various situations in an efficient manner. Laiz smiled in anticipation, how were they gonna take this stick away?

Laiz took down both Boruto's with a fluid swing using his stick, who turned out to be both clones, before landing back towards the ground. Before He could have the time to rest, Boruto and Sarada closed in on him once again.

Boruto reached him first, releasing a barrage of kicks and punches. Laiz dodged them all, of course. With a firm form, Boruto released a final strong yet fast punch heading to Laiz face, again Laiz dodged that too. What came next was an unexpected switch to Sarada. This time, Laiz had to mix in a few parries with his dodging as his body didn't have the proper burst of speed required for Sarada's fast and elegant style without a constant output of chakra.

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Laiz noticed that Sarada had her sharingan activated. She was probably trying to get herself familiarized with Laiz's movements.

And Laiz felt that his guess was right. As each second passed by, Laiz had to put more thought to his dodging as Sarada's attacks started to become much sharper. She caught Laiz with a final surprise, jumping away just as Laiz misread her movement and throwing three shurikens.

Although two of them were blocked, Boruto closed in. Laiz estimated both the shuriken and Boruto to arrive at the same. He could have just retreated back, but Boruto's timing was perfectly executed as Laiz was already in the process of blocking the last shuriken. Having no choice, Laiz rotated his body to block the shuriken and gave enough speed to spin back towards Boruto with a slash of his stick.

The sound of wood freshly colliding with flesh reverbed on the air. An area of Boruto's skin became red in pain. Yet, Boruto couldn't help but smirk mischievously as his hand only responded by tightening his grip around the the stick.

"Sarada!" Boruto shouted in trust that she knew what she had to do

"I got it!" And right he was, Sarada released a similar smirk and threw a fast kunai towards Laiz.

"..." Despite the closing kunai, Laiz kept his calm. He knew that the kunai would reach him if he didn't flee, but he can't afford lose that easily. So, he channeled his chakra to his wind affinity and created a circular wall to where the kunai would hit, all in the same time as the kunai was 3 meters away from piercing his skin.

Boruto and Sarada's eyes widened with shock. Not only was Laiz keeping up with them without much effort, during the whole battle, Laiz rarely performed any hand signs for his jutsu. Although they knew there were some that didn't require this, few of them were as efficient or powerful as the ones Laiz had showcased.

Laiz smiled in approval, before punching Boruto away from his stick.

...

Laiz stood with not a single sign of fatigue as two genins laid on the ground, heaving their chest in greed for air. Mitsuki had walked from the sidelines and helped the two with a cup of water. Sarada and Boruto didn't even question where Mitsuki had gotten the cup from and dived for the drink desperately.

"The stick is still in my hand" Laiz stated after waiting for the two to absolutely devour the drink.

Despite her body's protest, Sarada stood up shakily and took in a deep breath.

"I'll just ask for the team change myself!" She shouted and prepared to leave.

Laiz smiled and asked one simple question,

"Why?"

Sarada turned back with a frown, annoyed at having to explain herself again

"I told you in class, it's balance!"

Laiz's smile widened to the point where Sarada felt the inch to punch it off his face.

'Actually, a kick might be more suitable' Sarada thought, annoyed at Laiz possibly not taking her seriously.

"Really? I think you and Boruto did well" Laiz said as if he were talking to a child. No doubt that he had already read her mind.

Although annoyed at Laiz's tone, Sarada looked back to the fight and was surprised to find that what Laiz had said was the truth. She ignored Laiz's exaggerated illustrations of the fight and her team's amazed 'Ohhs!' to analyze. And indeed, no matter which perspective she looked at it, their combination was fine, from the way they switched, communicated and made use of each other's ability. It was all above the standard anyone would expect from a first day of a Genin's team.

"But how..?" Sarada muttered quietly.

After finishing his demonstrations with an awesome flip, Laiz walked over to Sarada with a presence opposite of just a second ago.

"It doesn't matter if you're complete opposites, it's only when a team can't synchronize their differences will it fall due to imbalance. Besides.."

Laiz looked at the Boruto and Sarada despite his blindfold and smiled playfully

"I think you two get along just fine. Only in a different way"

Boruto spit his cup of water in shock

"Like a lover's quarrel" Mitsuki agreed with Laiz with a small smile of his own.

"Yup!" Laiz gave Mitsuki a thumbs up with a corresponding smile.

Sarada spit her non-existent cup of water and chased the two angrily.