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Author's notes
Ok very first fanfic I've written in a long time, and NO I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.
AU
it's the same konoha village but a bit more military based, so you
move up in ranks with tests scores e.t.c.
Most
of the characters are around 18years of age at the start it's
Naruto X Sakura but it'll move around a bit, but might eventually
come around to this pairing.
Sorry
if my grammars crap didn't use beta readers and what not, but I
just had this idea in my head one day and wrote it on a whim, I'm
hoping to continue this fanfic, if my determination is strong as
lee's or Naruto's it should but if not, not sure
Well
enough talking from me, hope you guys like it, let me know what you
think either you like it or you don't I don't mind.
There
are some cliché scenes but I'm sure that was to be expected
right?
Once
again thanks guys.
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On a bright sunny day a pink haired girl was standing in front of a notice board looking intensely at it outside the prestigious Konoha Ninja University.
Konoha University, is where the 3 legendary sannins graduated from, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru. It was founded by the first hokage and all Hokage's after that have attended this university as well.
Her names Haruno Sakura, 18years of age, seeing if she had made the list of 1st year entrees into the university.
I wonder if I made it, I studied so hard for it, Unlike Naruto I don't have the stamina or endurance to be able to make it in here with Taijustu and Ninjutsu skills so I had to go through it with my intellectual ability...hopefully I got to be in the field of medicine.
She looked down on her folder, Sakura Haruno - Number 10018,
Hope
my numbers up there...
She scrolled through the list of candidates who passed through in the intelligence test.
10012 - Konoha Politics
10015 - Konoha Treasurer
10016 - War Strategist
10017 - Combat Medic
Wow Combat medic, you need level score of 95+ I wonder who got that...
10018
- Medic
A huge smile came across Sakura face.
Inner
Sakura: YES! I got in! Take that Ino - pig!
While her inner
self was cheering on, she didn't realize that her body on the outside
was also moving to what her inner self was doing, so she did a fist
pump into the air, but in the process she accidentally hit the person
in front of her.
" I'm so sorry are you alright?"
The person turns around, he was about a head taller then her, long black bangs, pale skin and his ebony eyes were staring intently at her.
"He's really cute" Sakura thought
" Yeah I'm all right, though you should watch what you're doing next time" He exclaims.
"I'm sorry; I just got excited I got into the field of medics at this university "Sakura apologized again.
"Really? You did well then to get into the field of medics, that's an 85+ entree level field, congratulations"
" Thank you...Which field did you get into?"
" I got into Combat Medics "
" Combat medics! Wow, congratulations that's great "
"Thanks, by the way my names Uchiha Sauske and you are?"
" I'm Haruno Sakura, nice to meet you"
"Nice to meet you Sakura, looks like we'll be having a few classes together since we're both in the field of medics"
"Definitely, though then you have to have extra classes for field combat don't you?"
"Yeah, some extra hours on different days, I'll have to have sparring with the guys over in the field combat...That reminds me, what are you doing after this? I've entered in the Konoha University Field Combat tournament; you should come and watch"
"Really? That's where you're allowed to use ninjutsu, taijustsu and genjutsu and fight your opponent until they give up, or you beat them unconscious isn't it?
" You seem to know a bit about it don't you?"
" Yeah, well my boyfriends been raving on about it these last 2months saying his going to win it"
At the work boyfriend Sasuke got a dejected look onto his face for a split second it was so quick Sakura completely missed it. Then he thought well looks like I'll just have to beat him up in the tournament... "He'll have to beat me first though, and also the current defending champion."
Sakura just smirked at that and said.
"I know...I know...Well you better hurry if your entering, I'm only a spectator so I've got plenty of time, but if your entering you've only got an hour to get there"
" Your right, I better get going, it was nice to meet you Sakura, don't forget to cheer for me when I fight the defending champion"
" Nice to meet you too Sasuke, and I might cheer for you when you fight Naruto "
Sasuke had a puzzled expression on his face but before he could question her she had already started walking away.
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"SHE'S LATE!" exclaimed a spiky haired blonde in what seemed to look like a waiting room.
"You're
been too loud...tsk...too troublesome"
exclaimed a person
with a ponytail sitting on a bench next to a locker.
"But Shikamaru! She said she'd come straight after she found out if she got in or not"
said the blonde while pacing around the room.
"Maybe she didn't get in?" inquired Shikamaru.
"No way! She's way too smart not to get in, How come you can go check the notice board and get back here before she did, and you haven't still told me if you got in or not!"
" If I told you will you stop talking?"
" Are you trying to say I talk too much!...but ok I'll be quiet"
" To put it simply yes you do talk too much...and yes I got in, field of War Strategist"
"No way! That's a 90+ field, how did a lazy bum like you manage to get into that!"
" I don't know...too troublesome to explain, I just did ok?"
" Are you two
arguing again?"
Came a voice from behind them, they both
turned around to see a pretty blonde girl standing by the
doorway.
"Ino chan!" Yelled the blonde, who ran over and gave her a big hug and spun her around a few times.
"Alright, alright put me down Naruto! People might mistake me for your girlfriend!"
The girl that had just walked in was Yamanaka Ino, Naruto's distant cousin, but not by blood, though sometimes they get mistaken for it, they both have blonde hair and blue eyes and have a similar personality.
"As if Ino chan, they wouldn't mistaken you for my girlfriend " said Naruto
" How would you be able to tell if I wasn't your girlfriend" asked Ino
" Because his my boyfriend Ino - pig! "Came another voice before Naruto could answer.
"Sakura chan!" yelled Naruto as he let go of Ino and ran over to Sakura, gave her a hug and a kiss.
A twinge of jealousy flashed across Ino's face but only Shikamaru caught it.
"How
come you're so late?" asked Naruto.
"Sorry Naruto, I
just met someone who was going to be studying in the same field as me
so I was talking to him for a little bit." explained
Sakura.
"That's great, does that mean you got in!"
" Sure does, Field of Medics! I got into what I wanted to
get into so I'm happy"
" I'm sure you are, and you deserve it Sakura chan you put so much effort into this, I don't think anyone else deserves it more then you."
"That's sweet Naruto, thankyou, but I wouldn't have been able to do it without your support. "
True to her words Naruto had been there for her doing anything he can to help her, skipping training to stay up late with her helping her study and encouraging her along the way.
"But my question is Naruto what are you going to do with yourself? Are you going to see if you can get into Konoha University or going on your scholarship training with the legendary Sannin Jiraiya?"
Naruto had been offered a training scholarship with the legenday Sannin Jiraiya because of his excellent sense in taijutsu, ninjustsu and his incredible amount of stamina at his disposal.
" I'm not sure, it's a 3year training course outside Konoha, I'm not sure if I'm ready to leave Konoha yet, besides I'd miss you too much Sakura chan"
Sakura blushed at his words but scolded him " This if your future your talking about Naruto! Training with Jiraiya might be a once in a lifetime opportunity you shouldn't pass it off just because of me! At least think about it...ok?"
"Ok I'll sleep on it, but either way both roads will lead me closer to becoming Hokage,
but for now I need to get ready for my matches, so could you give me some time to myself?"
"Ok well it's
troublesome but we'll be cheering for ya" Said Shikamaru as he
slowly exited the room.
"Yeha Naruto Good luck! Kick some
ass!" Said Ino while wrapping her arms around his neck and
giving him a kiss on the cheek.
After Ino left the room Sakura says " Naruto...I know she's your cousin and all...but I don't like her being all affectionate with you"
"What do you mean
Sakura chan? She's always been like that"
"But Naruto!
We're not 13 year olds
anymore!"
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----- Flashback 5 years ago-----
A little girl with pink hair covering her face was sitting on the end of a bench crying her eyes out.
A blonde haired girl slowly approached her asking "Why are you crying? "
The pink haired girl replied " I get picked on because I'm weaker then everyone else...and because of my forehead"
"Don't you have any friends to help you?"
" No one wants to be my friend because they think they'll get picked on too."
"I'll be your friend, I've just moved to the village and I haven't got any friends yet either, and I've got a cousin he can be your friend too "
"Really?"
"Yes, come on lets go find him, and my names Yamanaka Ino"
"Haruno Sakura!"
So the 2girls walked around looking for Ino's cousin when a group of 5kids their age approached them, Sakura instantly hid behind Ino.
"Hey Wide Forehead girl who's
your friend?"
"She has a friend?"
"No way!"
"She's got to be
another freak"
and the group started laughing while Sakura
was silently weeping behind Ino.
"Hey! What did she do to you guys! Picking on a girl didn't your parents teach you better? Leave her alone or else!" Ino yelled,
"So her freak
friend can talk?"
"But or else what?"
"My
brothers been teaching us taijutsu i think we've just found out first
test dummy"
"Hey Ino chan
thanks for sticking up for me but get out of here while you can, they
never hurt me they just call me names..." whispered Sakura
"No
I just made my first friend in this village and I'm not going to
abandon her!"
The group started
circling the 2girls and were closing in then suddenly one of them
fell to the floor with a scream
"Gyaahh..." he was
writhing in pain on the ground holding his head.
"what the…" asked another one then he too was on the ground in pain.
The
other 3 panicked and looked around to see a spiky blonde haired kid
sitting up in the tree wearing black long pants a white tank
top.
"OI! What do you think your doing picking on my
cousin!"
Yelled Naruto as he jumped down from the tree and
kicking another 2kids to the ground.
The last kid standing was the one who claimed his brother was teaching him taijutsu, he got into a sloppy defensive stance, but Naruto just zipped behind him and knocked him out in one hit.
"Wow his really really cool" thought Sakura
"You alright Ino-chan?" asked Naruto, Ino ran up to him and gave him a hug " Yeha thanks Naruto for saving us"
"….Us?" asked a confused Naruto
"Yeha me and my new friend Haruno Sakura" Sakura had been hiding behind Ino so Naruto didn't even see her.
He looks at her and
sees a pretty girl looking shyly at the ground she notices Naruto's
looking at her and she supports a blush on her cheeks.
"You're really pretty!" exclaimed Naruto, which causes Sakura to blush even more "My name is Uzumaki Naruto nice to meet you!"
Sakura slowly
looks him in the eye "Nice to meet you too Naruto-san, my names
Haruno Sakura"
"Naruto- san? You don't have to call him that Sakura, He might be strong but his only our age so need to be polite" Ino explained
"Yeha Sakura chan you can just call me Naruto!" Naruto said with a smile on his face
…"Sakura Chan, I like him calling me that…" Thought Sakura
"Okay, Naruto can we be friends please?" Sakura asked
"Of course we can" Naruto said with a foxy grin
"There he is Dad!" Naruto, Sakura and Ino turned around to see one of the boys Naruto had beaten up had gone to get his dad.
"What do you
think you little brat! Throwing rocks at my child and hurting his
friends didn't your parents teach you any better?" yelled the
man.
"Firstly it was your 'little brat' that was picking on my cousin and her friend, and I don't have any parents so no, I don't think they could teach me any better" said Naruto.
"Why you!" the man said flustered " My son would never do that! and if you don't have any parents to teach you manners looks like I'll have to do it myself" and the man back handed Naruto and Naruto hit the ground.
"…..Kyaaa! "screamed both Ino and Sakura.
The man approached
Naruto but before he got to strike him again, Naruto had spun around
on the ground and kicked the man's legs from under him causing him
to fall hard on the ground.
"Well as I always said, the bigger they are, the harder they fall" said Naruto with a smirk and continued on saying " Hey hey hey, I'm used to handling people like you, who blame everyone but their own kids, your worse then trash!" yelled Naruto and as he ran towards the man a voice stopped him.
"Stop! That's quite enough from both of
you"
everyone turned to look at the voice
"Hokage –
sama" whispered Sakura.
"That's the Hokage sama?" asked Ino
Sakura nodded only with a nod.
The 3rd Hokage, known as Hokage for short, is the ruler of Konoha village; he is also the protector, father and everybody's friend. He is well respected and very well liked by the whole village.
"Hey old man! Who are you and why are you stopping me? They started it!" yelled Naruto
'My young friend, just because they started it how far are you willing to go? What will you achieve if you stoop to their level and do exactly the same thing as they do"
"I don't care how far I go! I just want to protect my family and friends!" stated Naruto
This statement caused a flicker of interest to appear across the Hokage's face.
The man Naruto had tripped slowly started getting up " …. Hokage sama thank god you're here, this little brat was about to beat me up for no reason" stated the man.
"You be quiet! I saw everything that happened here, and you are at more fault then everyone else since you should have known better, especially listening to your son who was blatantly lying and then hitting a 13year old boy I expected more of the people of this village!"
The man shrunk back to the ground speechless.
"Now if I am correct you are Uzumaki Naruto? Currently being taken care of by the Yamanaka family, who have just moved here"
Naruto looked puzzled "How'd you know that old man?"
"Naurto! Have more
respect his the Hokage-sama!" shouted Ino
"Hokage? What's a
Hokage?" asked Naruto
"He is a very well respected shinobi all over the village Naruto, he practically runs the village!" explained Ino.
With the word
respected Naruto's interest perked up, "Well when I grow up I'm
going to become a Hokage too!" Naruto shouted
" Ha! A brat
like you will never become Hokage" the man shouted somehow managing
to get his wits back, but that all disappeared with another comment
from the Hokage.
"Didn't I tell
you to keep your mouth shut!" said the Hokage sternly.
"Now Naruto to become a Hokage you must overcome many hardships, go to school study, graduate, then go to University and continue your study to become even more powerful in many aspects, intelligence, taijustu, ninjutsu and genjutsu are just a few of the apects are you willing to do that, and if so, what are your reasons?"
"Reasons? That's easy; I never want anyone to be treated differently for something they can not control, I want to be able to protect my precious people, starting with Ino-chan and Sakura-chan!" exclaimed Naruto, causing the two girls to blush.
"They are good reason's Naruto-kun, Though now you do know you will have to receive a punishment for beating up those boys?" inquired the Hokage
But Naruto looked back with determination in his eyes
and yelled " I don't care! I'd do it again even if I receive
punishment for it, because no one especially my precious friends
deserve to be treated like that!"
This statement moved the
people there in different ways
The hokage had a
genuine smile on his face thinking " If more people were like you
Naruto-kun this could be a better village, I think you would make a
good Hokage if you manage to get there "
"Well Naruto-kun keep that determination strong. And don't forget those words, they are very good words to live by, and about the punishment, since you weren't the cause of the problem, as long as you promise me to live by those words I will over look at what has happened today"
"Of course old man! I will live by my words and keep my promises!" shouted Naruto.
The man stood up and slowly started walking away with his child in tow, but before he anywhere the Hokage yelled " Just where do you think your going! For your punishment you two and the other 4boys will be doing 100hours of community service! You will receive a official letter about it tomorrow!"
The man just managed to stutter a "… y y yes Hokage – sama " and ran off.
"Okay Naruto, you go home now, and take care of yourself…..and your precious people"
"Hey old man do you have any precious people!" asked Naruto
"Of course I do, there's my grandson
Inari….."
Naruto listened on intently
"And offcourse….the
whole of Konoha"
This moved Naruto greatly, and the significance
of the Hokage's words made Naruto understand on how big of a man
the Hokage really was, and he swore that day he would become Hokage
and be a great man like him.
As the Hokage
disappeared out of their site Naruto looked back at Ino and Sakura
with the brightest smile on his face
"So, you guys ready to go?"
Ino ran up to Naruto
wrapping her arms around his neck and giving him a kiss on the
cheek
"You were so great Naruto! And even the Hokage-sama said
you might make a good Hokage!"
Naruto blushed at the contact
but kept his smile and walked over to Sakura who was looking at the
ground
"Sorry Naruto, because of me you had to go through all
that" Sakura apologised
but Naruto just smiled and gave her a
kiss on her forehead.
"Its okay Sakura – chan, as I said your
one of my precious people, so ready to go home?"
That day
Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino developed two new feeling, Love for
the boy Naruto, and Jealousy at each other for their closeness to
Naruto.
-----End Flashback
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That day Haruno Sakura 13years of age fell for Uzumaki Naruto, ever since that day Naruto's straight forward personality and his will to never give up, gave Sakura the courage and determination to become the girl she is today, she truly admired Naruto.
And their friendship turned into a relationship a couple of years ago, but since they'd been friends for so long not much has changed between them.
"Relax Sakura chan the only one I like is you, Ino chan is only my cousin remember?"
"I know I know, but
sometimes I think she might like you more then just cousins"
"Do
I hint a bit of jealousy Sakura chan?" asked Naruto in a teasing
manner.
"And if I am?"
questioned Sakura
" There's no need to be, the only one I love
is you Sakura chan" stated Naruto
An awkward silence filled
the room, they had been going out but as much as Sakura loved Naruto
she has never said it and this was the first time Naruto had said it
as well…She panicked and was about to leave the room but Naruto
grabbed her by the waist from behind and whispered into her ear
"Just try it on for size…."
Sakura contemplated for a bit
but then she replied with
"I love you too…"
and gave
Naruto a kiss and left the room.
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Out in the Stadium
Announcer "Greeting Ladies and gentleman! Welcome to the 4th Konoha Tournament. For those who don't know the rules this tournament it is a one on one fighting match between the contestants, who ever wins will move on and the loser will be knocked out. And as you all know the winner will be granted a scholarship at our prestigious Konoha University!"
A
cheer from the crowd erupts, As Shikamaru Ino and Sakura are walking
down the isle looking for seats
"Hey there's 3 seats over
there! " Ino said as she hurried over to secure the seats.
"
Good thing we managed to get seats, this stadium is packed "
stated Sakura
" Troublesome...but it is the biggest
tournament held once a year and anyone can compete, though you have
to be of age to be able to get the scholarship, even though Naruto
won last year he wasn't old enough to enter the university."
Shikamaru explained
Over in the waiting room Naruto was checking all the other contestants out.
" hmm 8 contestants as usual, There's Rock Lee, 3rd place from last year, he'll be tough looks like his been training even more, though he does have his disadvantage of not being able to use ninjustu...
Announcer
" ...and as you all know the winner will be granted a
scholarship at our prestigious Konoha University!"
"
If I can win it again, I'll be able to get paid to learn at the
same University as Sakura Chan...I've got to win this." Thought
Naruto.
Scanning
the room once more he doesn't see anyone too interesting until he
came across a guy with long black bangs looking at him intently,
Naruto stares back thinking What's his problem?
He shrugs
it off and keeps scanning the room until his eyes fell on a giant
gourd resting against the wall, and next to the gourd was a red head
leaning against the wall with his head down and arms crossed but you
could see the word "love" tattooed on the left side of his
forehead.
"Gaara!"
Everyone else turned to look at
Naruto who had shouted and was starting to make his way across the
room.
"Hey Gaara! Long time no see hows things? What ya been
up to?"
Gaara slowly looks at him
"...Training, this
time I will not lose to you Uzumaki Naruto"
" Heh, well you better have trained hard because I've been training too so I can kick your ass again!"
Now by then everyone in the room had their attention focused on the two, and Sasuke was very interested in the conversation.
So that's Uzumaki Naruto, defending champion, and the other one must be Sabaku no Gaara, Runners up from last year, they had a match that went over 2hours, what freakish stamina they both have. I wonder who in here is Sakura's boyfriend but...
While the others in the room were thinking along the lines of if Naruto had a death wish, Gaara has known to be aggressive and very violent.
But Gaara just smirked and said, "I expected nothing less from you, I look forward to fighting you again."
Naruto then gave him a cheeky smile and then patted him on the back
"Me too Gaara," and walked away.
No one else knows but Naruto and Gaara have always been good friend, or rivals as to say, they both had bad childhoods the only way they could survive was to be strong, so they trained together day and night until they could look after themselves.
Announcer "Will all the contestants please make your way over to the arena please"
One by one they started filing out of the room and into the arena.
As the 8 contestants looked out into the crowd they were amazed at the number of people there, there must have been at least 50,000 people in the stadium.
Naruto and Sasuke were both scanning for Sakura, while the others were mesmerized by the size of the crowd.
Announcer " Alright contestants will you please pick out a number from the box, which will determine who you will be fighting in the first round, except for Uzumaki Naruto and Sabuku no Gaara. Since you guys were 1st and 2nd place last year, you are seeded 1 and 2, therefore you will be on opposite sides of the table, so Naruto will be Number 1, and Gaara will be number 8.
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A/N can't be bothered naming everyone and such only need to know Sasuke and RockLee
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Sasuke pulled out a number 5, and Lee pulled out number 7.
As the
other contestants were leaving the arena Sakura was talking to Ino,
"You know how I was late today? I met number 5, Uchiha Sasuke
outside Konoha Uni, His going to be studying the same thing as me at
Uni" she explained
" Uchiha Sasuke? He doesn't seem like
the type to be fighting in a tournament like this, his a bit
scrawny"Compared to my Naruto anyway Thought Ino.
"You
think so? I thought he was cute, though he is very thin "
"Oh
well don't think he could beat Naruto anyway"
"Yeha
that's for sure no one can beat Naruto"
"...Maybe, not
sure about Gaara though, you do remember their match last year
right?" asked Shikamaru.
They thought back to the grueling bloody 2hour match, where Naruto had just one but they both had been hospitalized for a week.
"You
never left his side that week did you Sakura " teased Ino
"
No...Well you were there most of the time too though" stated
Sakura
" Yeha well he is my cousin, speaking of never leaving
his side, how far have you and Naruto gotten anyway?" You two
are going to the Konoha Graduation dance after this right?"
"Of
course we are, and for as how far we've gotten, well...that's none
of your business Ino - pig!"
"Hey no need to get aggressive! I was just curious"
"Well they do say curiosity killed the cat... or in your case pig Ino, and why are you so curious? Jealous?"
"Of you with my own cousin? I don't think so Wide - Forehead girl, that would be called incest"
I don't know Ino, it wouldn't be incest because your not related by blood..."Anyway I think the matches are about to begin everyone except Naruto and his opponent has cleared the arena"
The
first 3 fights were very quick
Naruto had rendered his opponent
unconcious in 1 hit, same as number 4 had beaten number 3,
Sasuke
battled his opponent finishing him off with shi shi rendan.
Announcer "Now ladies and gentleman the 4th fight for today Rock Lee VS Sabuku no Gaara! "
Lee somersaulted onto the stage where as Gaara teleported himself into the middle of the arena with his sand.
His gotten better control of his sand, his much quicker using it the last time i fought him, i don't think Lee would have a chance, thought Naruto.
Announcer "Ok you know the rules, no killing, but besides that anything goes, now fight!"
Lee took up a defensive position while Gaara stood there with his arms folded looking relaxed.
So confident as always Gaara, but my spirits burning passion of youth shall beat you this time! As Lee finished thinking he dashed forward straight at his opponent. Gaara's eyes widened in surprise by his speed, his wall of sand had come up in front to block off the threat, but Lee had dashed around to the side and managed to punch Gaara across the arena.
"Last time it was me, who could not manage to get around your wall of sand, but this time, it will be your sand which will not be able to get around fast enough to stop me!"
With that he dashed around again and started throwing punches and kicks so fast only Naruto was the one who could make anything out, everyone else only saw Gaara being pushed around the arena and blurs going around him.
Wow, his so fast can Naruto keep up with that, thought Sakura.
Then a sudden explosion shook Sakura out of her thoughts, Lee had managed to punch Gaara into the wall.
The crowd was silent waiting for the dust to settle, while Lee was standing in the middle of the Arena panting and trying to regain his breath.
When the smoke settled there lay Gaara with his eyes closed and cracks all over his skin,
So he was using the Suna no yoroi thought Naruto,
Gaara slowly pushed himself out of the hole in the wall, craned his neck a bit as if trying to work out a kink in his neck, and slowly walked towards the middle of the arena.
The crowd watched on as Gaara stood in his original position, with his arms crossed once again staring blankly at Lee with no proof of even taking the beating he just received.
Looks like he didn't get hurt physically, his defense has gone up as well, Though due to his suna no yoroi, looks like his Chakra levels had been going down since the start, at most I think his only got 2/3 left. Shikamaru analyzed.
Lee
was surprised, and then pissed, how could he stand there and act like
nothing had happened!
He charged forward once again, and the sand
had come forward to make a wall once again, but this time lee had
dashed behind Gaara aiming for the back of the head.
The punch had connected and Lee was going to continue his assault but found that he couldn't move his arm. Before the punch had connected Gaara had intercepted the punch with his own hand and had a hold of Lee's fist.
Lee and even Naruto was surprised this time. Last
time we fought him, he only relied on his sand and ninjutsu, when did
he learn taijutsu?
This time while Lee was taken by surprise
Gaara had manage to connect his fist with Lee's face, and gave the
same beating he just had received.
So he has learned Taijutsu,
and his quick as lee as well, which was expected to be though I
guess, he just never thought taijutsu would be handy until my fight
with him. Naruto thought.
This
time it was Lee pushing him self out of the wall, but unlike Gaara he
doesn't have an ultimate defense, he was bloody and bruised.
"
How did you manage to become so fast only in a years time? I've
trained my whole life and finally attained the speed which I am at
now, How can you be so fast!"
Lee questioned
"...I
have always been this fast, walking around all the time with my
gourd, plus the suna no yoroi was the perfect way to get
stamina and speed up, I have just never used the speed I attained
with it until now" Gaara explained.
He was always this fast? plus with all the weight from the suna no yoroi his stamina would be a lot higher then mine, If I'm going to win this I need to finish him quick before my stamina runs out.
Initial Gate open! Followed by 2nd gate!
Gaara and the crowd silently watched on as Lee stood there with a look of concentration on his face, though only a few people had noticed Lee's Chakra was rapidly rising.
What is he doing, where is all this Chakra coming from? Thought Gaara
Ok minor wounds have healed now...3rd, 4th and 5th gates all OPEN!
Lee suddenly opened his eyes and an explosion erupted from his body, his body taking on an odd color and his body was releasing Chakra constantly.
Trust a taijutsu master to be able to open his gates thought Shikamaru
Then without warning Lee darted all over the stadium, this time too fast for anyone to see and was circling Gaara.
Gaara
still with a blank look on his face "...Come at me..."
Lee
suddenly appeared under Gaara giving him a kick into the air "Renge!"
Lee followed him into the air, and smacked Gaara around like a pinball at high speeds, you could hear Lee's muscles stretching and tearing from the pressure they were being put under, and then he kicked Gaara higher into the air, and then he was floating under him and managed to wrap his bandages around him and was speeding at high velocity towards the arena while spinning like a drill.
"Omote Renge!" Yelled Lee and as they were speeding towards the ground with more velocity.
Lee
tried to undo the bandages as they were about to collide with the
ground, but when he looked down at them he could see that the sand
had got a grip of them and he couldn't get them undone.
He
looked back up only to see Gaara with a smirk on his face, and with
the force of the sand they were being shifted so Lee would hit the
ground first at this rate.
Lee desperately tried to get his bandages undone, but to no prevail it was too late, they had hit the ground with all the force and Lee had being used as a cushion.
The crowd gulped and watched on, they could only see blurs and Gaara being hit around in the air then it was all a blur after Lee wrapped his bandages around him. Most thought Gaara had died, except Naruto who just smirked you were always quite the evil one weren't you Gaara.
When the smoke cleared they could see Gaara standing in his original position without out a scratch with his arms crossed looking bored, while Lee lied in a heap of rubble next to him unconscious.
Announcer
" Winner is Sabaku no Gaara!"
The crowd at first was
silent until it slinked it on what had happened and they started
applauding the battle.
Gaara teleported back next to Naruto who was watching from the waiting room, while Lee was taken away on a stretcher.
"Easy battle for you wasn't it Gaara? Though you got away without being hurt you've used about 2/3rd's of your chakra to protect yourself from the barrage of attacks I'm guessing" said Naruto.
"About 3/5th" Gaara answered.
"Doesn't mean I'll be going easy on you but in the finals Gaara so you better get as much rest as you can."
"I've said it once before Uzumaki, I didn't expect less, your next match is about to begin, I will see you in the finals"
Sasuke was fuming silently in the waiting room "Who do they think they are! They've completely ignored me Uchiha Sasuke I'm going to go settle this."
" Hey Uzumaki!" Sasuke yelled.
Naruto
slowly turns around and faces Sasuke thinking Him again? what does
he want " And who might you be?"
To tell the truth
Naruto had only been interested in Gaara and Lee so had paid no
attention to anyone else, since they didn't seem to have a high
Chakra capacity level.
"My names Uchiha Sasuke if you think you'll be fighting Sabaku no Gaara in the finals, your wrong opponent will be me!"
Naruto thought for a moment "Uchiha...Uchiha as in the brother as Uchiha Itachi?"
Sasuke's
eyes flashed with anger
" How do you know my brother!"
The last anyone had seen Uchiha Itachi he had started a rebellion against Konoha and going off with some type of organization.
"Relax Sasuke, I don't care what he got up to, I only know of whom he is because he won the very first tournament held here remember?"
Uchia Itachi at the age of 12 had won the very first tournament Konoha had and because of his superb skills got early entry into the university. But of course he knew that, he had entered the tournament for the very same reason, to prove that he can achieve what his brother received.
"And if you think you can beat Gaara, well then good luck, because you'll need it"
And Naruto saying that waved the Uchiha a farewell over his head and walked into the arena.
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Announcer
"And Uzumaki Naruto has beaten his opponent with one hit again
securing him a spot in the finals, is there anybody who can stop
him?"
Gaara and Sasuke both smirked "I'll be the one who stops him"
Announcer "Could Uchiha Sasuke and Sabaku no Gaara make you way to the arena please"
As soon as the announcer finished his sentence Sasuke and Gaara both teleported into the arena, Gaara by sand and Sasuke in a swirl of leaves.
"His so cool" thought Sakura
"pfft show offs" were Ino's thoughts
"Gaara's only got about 30 of his charka left while Sasuke used purely taijustu in his match before, this should be an interesting match, we'll see how good you've really gotten Gaara" thought Naruto.
Announcer "Match Begin!"
Sakura started with throwing a few kunais towards Gaara, but they were intercepted by the wall of sand, which turned into a suna bunshin and threw the Kunais back at Sasuke, when sasuke rolled out of the way and looked back up to where Gaara was he wasn't there, he looked to his left only to receive a fist to the face.
"So his incorporated Taijutsu into his old way of fighting, very effective, while he had an absolute defense before, people who were quick enough could break through, now it's a high speed absolute defense, but his rushing the match, seems like his really running out of charka and doesn't want to prolong the match" thought Naruto.
When sasuke got up Gaara was nowhere to be seen again but he heard rumbling noise from his left and could see a wave of sound coming at him, he jumped backwards to get away from it, only to receive a kick in the back which made him crash straight into the wave of sand which engulfed him.
The
crowd was silent, and Gaara was panting slightly, when the sand
settled to the ground the only thing lying in the sand was a
log
"Kawarimi no jutsu, very good for someone who got
surprise attacked" Thought Shikamaru
"Damn that was almost all my charka in that wave, thought I'd caught him off guard" Thought Gaara.
There was no sight of Sasuke until Gaara heard a chirping noise from behind him, he turned around to see Sasuke charging towards him with his right hand engulfed in bright blue charka.
"CHIDORI!"
yelled Sasuke as he thrusted his hand towards Gaara
"No time
to dodge or wear the armour of sand" thought Gaara "I'm going
to use all my charka but I have to dodge this"
Gaara sucked back on air and yelled " Fuuton Renkudan!" and a high compact velocity air cannon ball charged with charka dissipated the chidori and made Sasuke fly back into the wall of the arena.
The
wall shook from the force and the crowd was watching intently,
Gaara
stood there panting exhausted from charka depletion, "Damn was
planning to save that against Naruto, now I don't think I could
even beat this guy if he managed to get up." Thought Gaara.
Out of the rubble Sasuke slowly emerged with scratches and bruises forming but he seemed to be able to continue.
"damn that hurt how much chakra does he have, he must of used a lot against Lee and he still has enough to fight even…no even stronger then me, what kind of training did he have?" thought sasuke
A
whistling noise broke Sasuke out of his thoughts; Gaara had used the
Suna Shigure and was shooting sand pellets at him.
Though not with
enough speed or chakra to do much damage.
Sasuke was confused but darted around Gaara and came from behind, the wall of sand rose, but he feinted left and went right and was about to give Gaara a roundhouse kick when Gaara dissapered from his line of vision.
"What the…."thought Sasuke
But Gaara had exhausted all his chakra and had fallen due to charka depletion.
Announcer "And the winner is Uchia Sasuke by default, Sabuku no Gaara is no longer able to continue due to chakra depletion."
The
crowd cheered on
"wow that Sasuke-kun must be strong to be
able to beat Sabaku no Gaara quicker then Naruto" thought Sakura,
Now even though Sakura liked Naruto, her body seemed to be lusting after Sasuke which clouded her judgment, She'd totally forgotten that when Naruto and Gaara fought they were both at full Chakra when this time Gaara had only 1/3 left.
"Go Sasuke – kuun!" cheered Sakura
Sasuke heard a familiar voice amongst the crowd and looked over to a pink haired girl smiling and waving at him and giving him a thumbs u, he smiled back and gave her a wave and walked off.
"Sasuke KUN? Since when does she call anyone with KUN behind their name? She doesn't even call Naruto with a Kun" Ino thought annoyed.
Shikamaru was thinking along the same lines, but he thought females were annoying and couldn't be bothered looking further into it so he looked up at the clouds, only to find the ceiling of the arena…."Damn" he thought " Naruto your next opponent has taken a beating, and wasn't that strong in the first place you better beat him quick so I can go look at the clouds" thought shikamaru.
"Now there will be a 1hour interval to let our fighters rest before the final match so please sit tight and we'll begin the finals shortly" explained the Announcer
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Well
there's that for now, I'm definitely going to continue this fic
for the time being got plenty of ideas floating around
Still need to write the Konoha graduation dance, and Naruto's either training scholarship with Jiraiya or through the university.
If you don't like my ideas I'm sorry but I like this fic and im sticking with it, if you read it, it's your sin not mine.
And
can anyone guess what movie the line
"I love you"
" just
try it on for size"
" I love you too"
comes from?
if
not don't worry but if you can, cool I like that movie ay.
Anyhow thanks again for reading and next chapter might be out before the end of the week.