The Ghost Within

On the outskirts of the village in the outer west wall stood four figures observance.

"So the one Orochimaru-dono has chosen to use as his new vessel is a leaf huh?" said one man in boredom. He has dark bronze skin and six arms that were folded.

"Yeah I hear hes the last of the great Uchia clan" Said another with short silver hair convering one eye and a secondary head resting

"That clans a second rate" said a large man.

He was then punched in the gut by a firey red headed girl " THEN WE WOULDN'T BE HERE DUMBASS!"

…..

It was the day of the second konoha chunin exam finals and every shinobi came to participate in the grand tourney. But this one was different; the hokage had ordained that in a sign of goodwill shinobi who werent from konoha could still participate. But they had to be in a team of konoha shinobi.

Anko was watching from the stands along with Kakashi and Guy. Not wanting to take the chance of a second sneak attack, Tsunade secretely told them to monitor all suspicious looking ninja.

"Ha ha! What mighty springs of youth will embark on this great tourney" Guy said as he impusively started doing push ups, earning a sigh from Kakashi.

"Just remember to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity" the masked jounin reminded. The tourney had commenced and the participants entered and they were as followed.

For Konoha it was Neji, Shino, Naruto, , Sasuke, Sakura, and Rock Lee

Then after them there then entered all others that had made it to the finals; which was an total number of five participants.

The first was Ila from the rock village; he was said to be a master of earth jutsus. He was tall and muscular with a large iron hammer strapped to his back. He was bald and wore iron armor all over his body.

Second was Quan from the mist village who was an expert in swordmanship and water jutsus. He wore a blue zip up jacket and black pants. His hair was short and brown.

Third was Atana from the cloud village who was known as "Heavens Vengeance" in her home village. She wore a short skirted kunochi ninja outfit that was black and had a icy blue waist sash. Her hair was dark violet which covered one eye

The fourth participant didn't come out at first. First came a large blanket of mist that seemed to shroud the whole stadium.

"Aww dammit not another sneak attack!" Kakashi said as he assumed his guard. Anbu troops soon appeared on the arena sectors ready to stop the assumed threat. But then someone walked out into the field.

Out walked in a figure clad in mystery; He wore a black hooded jacket with cloth covering lower half of face, and pants. On the center of the jacket was a red trigram star that seemed to glow in the suns light. They couldn't see much under his hood.

"Who are you?" asked the ref as he looked over a sheet of paper.

" Yuurei-(ghost)" he replied with a voice void of emotion. He walked over and joined the rest of the participants who looked him over with unease. Ila placed a hand on the handle of his hammer but Quan stopped him before he could do something foolish. Atana stared at him with more curiosity than intimidation.

"I wish to defeat him…" Atana said in a low voice.

(Author note: okay what im doing is that im skipping all useless dialouge and getting straight to the fights in the exam, side comments from other characters as the fight goes on will be included to provide excitement now with all dues !ENJOY! ^^)

*Neji vs Ila*

"Your going to lose this battle im afraid to inform you" Neji said to his large opponent as he took his gentle fist stance.

As Ila removed his hammer from his hold, he sneered at the Hyugas bold claim. "We will see leaf shinobi, we shall see."

!FIGHT!

Neji wasted no time and came in with a quick four palm strike aiming to shut off Ilas chakara channels. But Ila did a quick down swing with his hammer and created large fissures to throm Neji off balance. Taking full advantage of his position he did a shoulder tackle that knocked the Hyuga breathless and sent him flying back against a tree.

"Amazing that guy manages to land the first hit against Neji" Kiba howled.

Neji came back with perfectly executed side-step six palm strike to Ilas ribs, and then did a three hundred sixty degree spin to do and eight palm strike to his back.

"D-Damn it!" he cursed as he staggerd forward.

"I have disrupted your middle region chakara points. With them in a frenzy I would recommend you not try any jutsu".

"GRRR DAMMIT DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ROCK VILLAGE NINJA!" he roared in angry determination "Doton; Stone century no jutsu!".

Large golems of rock sprouted from the ground. Each one had a shield and halberd in hand. "Now with my iron will and earthly leagion I shall…"

"Its over" Neji said with his signature smirk.

"W-what..?"

"Don't you see it" he took his stance "Your right in the center of my eight-trigram, and now my victory is assured."

"S-SHIT!"

"Eight trigram two palms" he his his legs to make his collapse on his knees "Four palms" his chest "Six palms" his arms " eight, twelve, twenty four, thirty five,fifty."

"W-wait" Ila choked.

"Srry no time". Neji performed a final rapid palm strike "Eight trigram sixty four palms"

The crows erupted into cheers as Neji watched his opponeny topple over in unconsciousness. Ila was immediately taken off the field by medical shinobi and was removed from the grounds. Thus the first round of the finals was concluded.

…..

"Hes gotten stronger." Sasuke thought to himself as Naruto was cheering like an idiot next to him. He noticed the Hyugas speed and strike power had increased since the loss to Naruto and now he was determined to never lose to that dobe again.

The opponent sasuke was wary of was Rock Lee the taijustu prodigy. Though his sharingan somewhat matured to enable him to mimic some of the youthful fighters moves, he was far from mastery.