Note: I don't own Naruto blah blah, also I chose the battles completely at random. Therefore, some of the fights were hard to create. But I made them anyways. Hahaha.
Chapter 1: The Tournament Begins
Shikamaru sighs as he stairs at the ceiling of the tournament arena, memories of the preliminaries of the Chunnin exams rushing back to him.
"Tell me again" he asks Ino and Chouji, "how you guys talked me into doing this tourney?"
"Easy!" Ino replies. "Its cause I asked you nicely" she smiles and Chouji remembers how she had "Asked nicely"
"Listen Shikamaru, if you're the only kid in the village NOT to join in the tourney, I'm going to rip out your eyes and eat them in front of Chouji!"
Chouji gulps as he remembers the horrible incident, and his hands instinctively move to a bag of chips in his pack. He opens the bag and starts gulping them down
"But the winner of this becomes a chunnin. I'm ALREADY a chunnin! Why the hell do I have to be here?"
Ino glares. "BECAUSE I ASKED YOU NICELY!"
Shikamaru sighs and looks back up at the ceiling. "Well, why are the sand shinobi here?"
"How the heck should I know." Ino replies as she looks over at Garra, Kankarou and Temari standing away from the rest of the crowd. "All I know is that I hope I don't go up against them…"
Shikamaru sighs again as he scratches his brow. "Well maybe I'll be lucky and go up against a weakling like Sakura." Silently under his breath he adds: "or you…"
All 14 of the genin (and Shikamaru) stand around waiting for something to happen in front of the screen where the names of people were displayed for the chunnin exams. Suddenly out of nowhere, Anko poofs into existence in front of them.
"Well maggots! Time for the tournament to begin! Now… the names will be mixed up and posted above your head on the screen. There will be one extra person, who will automatically go to the 2nd round. Now, SHOW THE NAMES!!!! Every eye in the room stares up at the screen awaiting the fighters for the first round to appear. Shikamaru sighs and Hinata gulps. Naruto, Lee, Kiba and Kankarou grin in anticipation. Suddenly the screen stops its randomization
Hyugga Neji
-vs-
Garra