First off, I'd like to thank everyone for their reviews and ask for more to come; it's really great when I notice I get one. And, now a few things:

Yes, I DID make everyone older in the story by two-three years, 13 and 14 year olds are a BIT too young to be fighting to the death. I made them 15-16 so as not to make them too old.

And yes I did go a bit fast, I apologize. I never was big on those multi-chapter training arcs, plus I wanted to add Naruto a bit of mystery to him.

I have decided on Naruto's pairing it'll be Naruto/Tenten/Hinata/Hanabi/?

The Last one is for you all to decide in a vote. These are the girls that can be voted on for the pairing:

-Temari

-Ino

-Tayuya

-Koyuki

-(Fem)Gaara

--If there is another girl you might like to see or another girl added to the harem, I will consider it if you ask for them. However...There will be NO yaoi or Sakura. I'm personally not a fan of either and you will see some bashing of team seven, to prove the no Sakura thing.--

DISCLAIMER: I dont own anything! Naruto, MTG, nothing! got it!?

Chapter II: Prelims part I

Naruto smiled as he watched Hinata fight two of his Omega Myr down in a small arena in the tower. He sat upon the top of an odd statue of arms making a ram sign and silently chuckled to himself. 'I can't believe thats the same girl that I met four days ago...'

Flashback...

It was the end of the first day and Naruto was resting against a side rail of a balcony looking down at the forest of death when he heard a noise. Narrowing his eyes he took out a kunai and looked around for the source of the noise. Naruto walked down the hall, toward the noise and found the cause. Over by the steps there was a girl about his age with short dark hair in a beige coat crying. Putting the kunai back he made himself known.

"Er, you ok there?" The girl turned toward him and glomped his legs, crying her heart out. The girl looked up at him, tears running down her face from her pale eyes "I-i d-dont want to die! H-he destroyed them! T-there w-w-was bl-blood everywhere! I-i don't want t-to die!" Naruto looked down at the girl, unsure of what to do. "er, it'll be fine, you'll be fine. Why dont you calm down and tell me whats wrong?"

The girl, still crying nodded and started blubbering out her story, about her harsh father and her teammates; from her childhood to when she had seen gaara kill the rain nin. By the time the girl, Hinata, finished her story she had stopped crying but had a small blush on her cheeks. "I-i'm s-sorry about a-all o-of this. I-i didn't m-mean t-"

Naruto silenced her by putting a finger on her lips. "Its fine Hinata, really...Now you dont think your going to make it out of here alive, and after hearing about Gaara I might be a bit scared too. So...i'm not doing anything for the next few days... how about I help you train up for the next part? You give me your best and try not to stutter, and I will help prepare you. Eh? What do you say?"

Flashback ends...

Naruto shook his head, thinking about their odd meeting. 'I really hate girls crying, and i'm too much of a sap to say no if they ask for something...' Looking down at the girl he jumped down to the ground and whistled signaling the machines and Hinata to stop. "All right then, Hinata take a rest this is the fifth day, theres only a few hours left before we are called down. O.M. Units, good work, now get back home." The two machines nodded their metal heads and walked off, literally dissapearing from sight.

Hinata smiled at Naruto, knocking some dust off herself. "Th-th.... thank you Naruto..F-for everything." Naruto smiled back and scratched the back of his head "Its nothing..just kick some ass ok?" Hinata nods and runs off toward her team room. "That was a very nice thing there Naruto, were those things what you have been working on all this time?"

Naruto turned to see the Hokage standing in the Hokage's box in the stands-balcony thing. A little annoyed he was spied upon without noticing Naruto responded "Well, they were just the beginning. Rather weak ones built to take a few hits. I should rest up aswell, I will see you in a few hours Old Man." The Hokage watched as the boy walk out of the arena room before taking out his pipe and lighting it. "I wonder my boy...you sure are full of surprises...Minato would be proud I think."

A few hours later all of the remaining teams stood in the tower's arena along with the Hokage, a few leaf jounin and all the jounin sensei. After a speech about why the chunin exams were created by the Hokage, a sickly jounin stepped forward.

"Now then. I am your examiner Hayate and to put it bluntly we have too many people still. So we are going to put you all through a preliminary round. Two names will be randomly chosen and will have a one on one deathmatch, the winner moves on. You lose if you are knocked unconscious, forfeit, die, or I judge you unable to continue ok? Now that i've explained the rules would anyone like to give up right now?"

Two hands raised up, both leaf nin. A pale boy with short dark hair and another with white hair and glasses. The pale boy gave an odd smile to his teammates and spoke before walking away "I'm too tired since we just got here to do my best and i'm low on chakra. Have fun Dickless, Hag." The other, white haired boy explained that he was more of a medic and was tired as well before leaving.

The sickly man coughed as he looked for any others and after muttered something to another random leaf jounin who nodded and shunshined away. Soon after a large dark screen on the wall flicked to life and two constestants names popped up.

Sakura Haruno VS Shikamaru Nara

As the others but the contestants and Hayate went over to the stands Shikamaru shook his head. "A girl? How troublesome..." Hayate coughed a few more times before raising his hand. "And...Begin!"

Sakura got into a fighting stance and took out a kunai, smirking. "You know lazy ass, i'm going to beat you so bad. Then Sasuke will notice me! So you better not forfeit got it!?"

Shikamaru got into a fighting stance aswell and sighed. "I knew this was going to be troublesome."

Sakura threw her kunai and as Shikamaru dodged it Sakura ran in to punch him, quickly blocking Shika pushed her back and grabbed two handfulls of kunai and shuriken. Making a frown Shikamaru muttered to himself loudly enough for Sakura to hear.

"Damn I wish I could have restocked before the fighting, this is all I have..." As Shikamaru threw one hand and then quickly throwing the other, Sakura smirked and dodged as best she could. Getting hit with a kunai in her leg she cried out but took it out and ran at Shikamaru, swining the kunai wildly.

"Lucky shot! Bit it looks like you ran out of weapons! Too bad, now stand still!" Shikamaru barely dodged the swings, jumping back toward the wall with each attemped strike. Soon Shikamaru had his back to the wall and Sakura stopped attacking, instead choosing to smirk at him with the kunai in hand.

"Heh, looks like its the end Shikamaru. So weak, your nothing compared to Sasuke."

Shikamaru crouched down against the wall, hiding his hands in his lap. Sakura's smirk grew and she shook her head in fake pity. "Shikamaru, Shikamaru. Are you..Crying? How sad, looks like I should put you out of your misery."

Sakura went to move forward but realized she couldn't and her eyes widening, smirk gone. Shikamaru stood back up one of his hands in a fist like he was holding something and made a small laugh. "Kagemane no jutsu, success. Now then...Forfeit or I slit your throat." Sakura stood there in shock (Not that she could move but...) before sputtering out a "how?" Shikamaru sighed and moved the fist near his neck, making Sakura raise her kunai up against her throat.

"First I made you think I ran out of weapons, pretending to mutter to myself. Then I delayed my dodges and put myself against the wall, making you overconfident. In your gloating and trying to impress Sasuke you forgot my clan techniques. Now then, forfeit or I'll slit your throat you troublesome woman!" Sakura spoke shakily. "I-i forfeit..." Hayate nodded. "Winner Shikamaru Nara." Shikamaru released the shadow and walked away toward his team, Sakura sniffling as she walked bake to team seven. The names on the screen rapidly went through the contestants before another two appeared.

Sasuke Uchiha VS Akado Yoroi

--Skipping this part, sorry folks but its the same as canon. I just couldn't think of a new fight that sasuke could actually win with the fresh curse seal. If I remember correctly he could barely do jutsu and was in constant pain... anyway this should be the only one that is canon and sorry for the interuption..---

Hayate coughed, shaking his head as he watched Kakashi take Sasuke away and the computer screen chose the next fight.

Shino Aburame VS Inuzuka Kiba

To be continued.... muhahaha!

--Thats it folks, chapter two. I realize it's a bit short but to compromise chapter three is going to cover the rest of the chunnin exams making it extra long.

--I'll be putting chapter three up on monday or tuesday.

--Also in a day or so don't be surprised if you see a chapter of another story coming out from me, I need to get some stuff down on paper so the plot bunnies will leave me alone to continue this.

--Almost forgot... In a day or two I will also be putting up links for images of myr and any other constructs that I can't describe well on my profile.