Azure was on her feet pacing up and down in her favourite leotard and holding her lucky ribbon. She had just come back to the changing room after performing in the Gymnastics Competition between the Allied Shinobi Forces. She was against Temari who represented Sunagakure, Kurotsuchi from Iwagakure, Kirigakure’s Ayami and Karui of Kumogakure. All of them were fierce competitors, and her nervousness worsened. Representing Konohagakure was a dream come true, but for some reason, today her nerves were on fire.

‘All of them were so good,’ she thought, ’I hope I've done it well.’

Temari, as she had visited Konoha on many occasions, knew Azure as a cheery and happy-go-lucky person. She had never seen Azure so nervous. Before she had a chance to speak, Sakura came wearing her doctor's badge to see Azure. “You were amazing Zurie!” Sakura exclaimed and hugged Azure with all her might. "You moved so effortlessly with such beauty, elegance and style. I almost cried tears of joy. You should’ve seen Naruto’s face he was like -‘whoa I never knew Azure could be that awesome’ and….” Sakura trailed on while Azure paid little attention to what she was saying. “….You guys were awesome too,” she added addressing to the other competitors. At that moment there was an announcement, “We will be announcing the winners. All competitors, please come to the main stage.” Azure stiffened hearing this. Sakura put an arm around her to calm her down.

“You did your best Azure. I know you will win” Sakura calmed her down. With a side hug, Sakura pushed Azure to go with the other competitors.

Shizune was the commentator and she was looked so happy Azure though her happiness was infecting the crowd cause the crowd was livelier th*ual.

“I have the results in hand right now and it is time to announce our winners. 3rd place goes to....Ayami from Kirigakure!” There was a huge applause and Ayami happily stepped forward to receive her medal.

At this time Azure's mind ran wild. ‘What if I don't win?’ she thought. ‘All that hard work would all go to waste. Tsunade-sama even personally trained me and made sure I had a very healthy diet….which also meant no chocolates. All that crazy exercises Tsunade-sama made me do. How could I face her? What would I say to my friends? No no no I must stay positive for the sake of my friends and my village’ By now the 2nd place had been announced and Temari stepped forward to receive her medal.

Now Azure was sweating buckets. Kurotsuchi sneered at her. “Looks like it's my win blue girl. Better luck next time,” she smirked.

‘Oh god! This is one time I wanted to do something badly in my life…Please just let me get this and show Kurotsuchi who’s the boss. If I don’t win Midnight may never speak to me again, Scarlet will tease me until my last breath, Breeze will torture me with her mean remarks and Crimson will be the only sweetheart who will try to cheer me up but it will get annoying as hell…’

"And the winner of this competition is….”

‘Please be me, Please be me, Please!!!!!!! ’

“.......Azure Fang from Konohagakure."

By then the crowd had drowned her announcement with a lot of cheers and hoots and Shizune jumped from her seat doing a fist pump in the air. Mabui put a hand on Shizune's shoulder to refrain her from doing any more damage and she sat down with a sheepish look on her face. Tsunade and Sakura hugged each other with tears in their eyes and that’s when Azure noticed all her friends who had come to support her. All of them beamed at her with happiness and cheered for her. They all screamed Azure’s name on top of their lungs.

Azure had burst into tears of joy and she went and hugged everyone who was within her reach (Kurotsuchi failed to respond because she was too shocked to move) and ran to get her medal. She stood on top of the winner's podium after shaking hands with the other two winners and showed off her medal with a big smile on her face.

When she caught up with her friends all of them gave her chocolates (she was denied those during her training). Sai drew a beautiful picture of Azure holding her medal with a bright smile on her face. Ino gave her a beautiful bouquet and Naruto offered to treat her to Ramen because that was the only thing he could afford at the moment. Scarlet was about to give her a hug but was pushed away by Breeze, who squeezed the lights out of Azure. Crimson lifted her and carried her on his shoulders. Even Midnight smiled at the scene and politely congratulated her.

This one of the best days Azure had ever had.