The Chunin Exam Stage 3: The Preliminaries (continued)

The friendship match plays its endgame. Ino, scorned one time too many, cuts her own ponytail and hurls it — vanity sacrificed as a trap, the scattered hair a net of chakra-bearing strands that locks Sakura in place for the Mind Transfer Jutsu. Inside Sakura's body, Ino raises the hand to forfeit — and meets Inner Sakura, the id with its own chakra, which expels her like a bad spirit. The double knockout that ends it leaves both unconscious and neither advanced: a draw written like an apology.