A/N: Now I have some good news, good news, and some bad news. I have to travel to 55 different cities in 20 different states in the next 75 days for work. That is good news because I am about to have a lot of down time coming up over the next 2.5 months which I can use to write stories for you guys. The bad news is that this chapter was written on my home desktop, i gave my girlfriend my laptop when she got deployed in December, it was filled with movies and stuff. She isn't touching US soil until July, so I aint getting that back. I need a fairly decent mobile laptop, so if you guys have any suggestions please lmk, I usually just use my macbook, but I'm not spending more than 600 dollars a new laptop for a couple of month. Now, on to the story:
Sasuke was by all metrics, an overly impressive Genin. He wielded speed, strength, flexibility, and a mind second to none in his Genin class. So, when Sasuke launched himself at another Genin that wasn't named Neji or Rock Lee, the result was expected that he would catch said person off ground. That would normally be the result, Sasuke was the best in his class, but Naruto wasn't from Sasuke's class, hell he was from the class that graduated the year Sasuke started.
So, Sasuke with his Sharingan activated and blazing, saw everything in slow motion. Naruto's arm lashed out and grasped his extended fist at the wrist. Sasuke's charging body froze in the middle of air as his entire body was being lifted by Naruto and his hold on Sasuke's wrist. Sasuke saw that there was very little surplus chakra flowing through Naruto's arm that was holding him up. This showed Sasuke that this wasn't some chakra enhanced strength like Sakura used to supplement her strength, this was natural Naruto strength.
With a jerk of his arm, Naruto sent the raven haired Uchiha flipping backwards, and Sasuke landed on his feet onto to meet a fist to his face. Sasuke felt his cave in and suddenly he was skidding backwards, and luckily there was a tree behind him to stop his backwards slide. Sasuke glared at the blond haired boy who clearly had no issue with what he was doing.
'Stop thinking like an Uchiha and start thinking like a shinobi' hissed the same voice from before in Sasuke's ear. Sasuke nodded and jumped to his feet and flashed through handsigns and started to feel the air in his lungs turn into deadly flames.
That feeling ended when a fist buried itself into the stomach of the Uchiha Genin. Naruto's green eyes meeting the red eyes of Sasuke. Sasuke collapsed against the tree behind him before he disappeared in a blurry explosion of smoke.
Naruto felt the wind along his back change and leaned forward to allow Sasuke and his kunai slash miss behind him. Sasuke's eyes were spinning, and although he didn't know it, his right Sharingan changed from a single tomoe to a dual tomoe like his left eye. What Sasuke did notice was that Naruto was suddenly a lot slower.
Naruto was just as surprised as Sasuke was when instead of his hammer like blow hitting Sasuke in the face again, Sasuke managed to twist and avoid it.
'Don't let the blond take you out of your rhythm, press him' whispered the voice, causing Sasuke to visually nod to the voice in his head. Sasuke used the spin to get around Naruto and was prepared to stab his kunai into the back of the blond haired Genin when a grip much tighter than Naruto's appeared on his hand and he looked up to see the steel grey eye of Kakashi staring at him with anger greater than Sasuke thought possible.
"Enough. If you want to put that much energy into fighting, you can spar with me at full strength after we finish our missions today" said Kakashi, his tone showing that any hint of not immediately agreeing would result in the breaking off of his foot in Sasuke's ass.
Turning to Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi both watched as the green in his eyes melted away, leaving a pair of cold blue eyes staring back at them.
"Naruto, you on the other hand will be hanging back after our missions are done no matter of how you feel." Stated Kakashi leaving no room for an argument.
Both Genin boys nodded, understanding that Kakashi was being serious. Kakashi released Sasuke and stepped back, taking a single glance to see that Sakura was spooked by the ease in which Sasuke attacked Naruto and how easily Naruto gave in and attacked Sasuke back.
"Now, I do believe that we have actual training that requires our attention let's go" said Kakashi as he turned and started making his way toward his own self given mission, getting these brats to get along, knowing that his students wouldn't be dumb enough to anger him again so quickly.
In the Land of Earth
"Bartender, I will take another one" called out a beautiful blonde woman, her hair pulled back into twin pig tails. Her green jacket left untied, showing her plain grey shirt underneath and a sizable amount of cleverage.
"My lady, I do not think is the best place to be at the moment, we really should keep moving" warned a less curvy black haired woman who wore a blue robe that was tied firmly closed. In her arms was a small pink pig that was wearing pearls.
"Shizune, you need to loosen up a little, we don't have anywhere to be any time soon." Replied the blonde as the bartender came over and placed another bottle of Sake in front of the blonde.
"What is the rush, Shizune?" said a voice, one that both ladies knew. They turned to see a tall man with white hair, his eye's oddly serious nor were they wondering over their bodies.
"What do you Jiraiya?" asked the Blonde woman, her face twisted into one of annoyance.
"Well Tsunade, I was told by sensei to find you and have you take a look at something for us." Replied Jiraiya
Tsunade groaned and said, "I am not returning to the village to take a look at anything, so you can fuck off"
"That is no necessary princess, I have brought the report to you as well as a sample for Shizune or yourself to test to verify the report." Said the pervert as he pulled twin scrolls out of a pocket and handed one to Tsunade and one to Shizune.
"You have the report and Shizune has the blood to verify the test" continued the hermit as he sat down and ordered himself something to drink.
Realizing that her former teammate wasn't going anywhere without her taking a look at whatever report he had just given her, she unsealed it and opened the folder. She looked at the name and groaned, before taking a look at what was highlighted before her eyes widen and she looked at Shizune.
"Shizune, I need you to take a sample of blood from me right now and compare it to the sample that the pervert just gave you" commanded the blonde Sannin.
Shizune gulped but quickly unsealed and then used a syringe to take a sample of Tsunade's blood before going to the bathroom.
She returned a couple of minutes later and said, "Lady Tsunade, they're a close match. If I didn't know any better, I would say that they're half siblings or were an interclan pair of cousins. But that would be impossible, as you are the last of your clan."
Tsunade handed over the file in her hands and said, "Apparently not"
Shizune took it and started to read through it, and the blonde turned back to her ex-teammate.
"So, why did you bring this to my attention?"" she asked him
"Because I see no reason not to let one of the loneliest people in the world know that they have a family member out there." Replied the white haired sage before he slammed back a saucer of Sake and smiled.
Tsunade groaned and slammed her head onto the table and said, "The god damn exams, when are they?"
"45 days"
"Shizune let's go, we have to prepare to make a journey in 45 days"
"Umm, where are we going Lady Tsunade?"
"AAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH, we are going back to Konoha"
43 Days Later:
"Welcome to the Third Round of the Chunnin Exams" said an Exam Protector, a man with pale skin who wore the standard Konoha Jonin uniform "Unfortunately, it seems that too many teams passed this time around. So, there will be preliminary round before the last stage of the chunnin exams"
*Unfortunately due to the writing staff's laziness, only main characters will get fight*
Sasuke vs That One Guy who could drain chakra
Sasuke wasn't ready to fight, he was tried, he was hungry, he had next to no chakra left. Oh and some snake guy had put this curse mark thing on him and any hint of Chakra made it pulse and eat at his already empty reserves even faster than it already was. But he couldn't afford to quit now, how else would he get strong enough to defeat HIM.
"If I see even the slightest spreading of that hickey, I'm going to stop the fight" whispered Kakashi before he disappeared.
Sasuke tried to process what he was just told, so he missed the beginning of the match starting. It was only due to his instincts that he avoided the blitz from his opponent. Ducking under a glowing hand, Sasuke was quick to jump back and hissed as the mark on his neck throbbed at the mere presence of chakra being near it. Pain raced up and down the Uchiha's back as he struggled to keep the mark suppressed.
His struggle was his opponent's gain as he attacked again, this time his chakra covered hand clipping Sasuke on the shoulder, causing the Uchiha to let out a massive scream of pain, his body spasming is it felt the curse mark flare up again.
Sasuke felt a burning sensation coming up from his stomach and did what any true shinobi would do in the middle of a fight, turned and faced his opponent. Pure liquid nastiness erupted from Sasuke's mouth and hit the older Konoha teenager that he was fighting directly in the face. Sasuke took a deep breath and rushed forward. A hard jab to the throat and kick to the back placed the older Shinobi in his position of defeat.
Placing a Kunai at the base of the older Konoha Shinobi's neck, Sasuke was declared the winner before he was whisked away Kakashi.
Shino vs Zaku:
Shino was every bit as cold as his personality said he was. He was in control the entire time. Zaku had managed to come to this round with a messed up arm. Something Shino had zero issue taking advantage of. Shino attacked with Taijutsu over and over again. Partly so that his opponent wouldn't be able to use that wind-sound jutsu that Shino had been warned about. The other reason so that he could place his bugs on the sound ninja. As his partners drained his enemy of chakra, Shino pushed his opponent into a corner, so Zaku tried to push back. The result was death as Shino had his partners march their way into the brain of Zaku and poison him. Shino Wins Fatality.
Kankuro's opponent quit so Kankuro wins, but not really
Sakura vs Ino
Sakura didn't say anything, she didn't need to. Kakashi and Naruto both gave her a nod that she returned and she jumped down to the ground. Ino frowned and took the stairs.
"That wasn't very ladylike Sakura" taunted the blonde useless girl
Sakura again said nothing, she didn't need to, she was above this. She was above Ino in general to be honest. The match begun and neither girl made a move, but finally after a moment, Ino rushed forward. The blonde haired girl was determined to end this as fast as possible, but she was sadly mistaken in her hopes.
Ino launched a normal punch at her pink haired counterpart, a punch stronger than any that she had ever thrown in all of her time in the academy. A punch that Sakura caught easily and used to pull Ino closer before smashing her knee into the very tender ribs of the blonde girl.
Ino felt the wind be knocked out of her before she was slugged in the face, the force sending her backwards. Ino felt her fly progressed stopped, unfortunately it was by Sakura using her as a ball as she punted the blonde girl away. Ino used this kick to roll back onto her feet and realized that despite the massive blows that she had taken, her body didn't have the damage that she should have.
Kai
Ino released herself from the Genjutsu, only to actually take a punch to the face.
"Tsk, to think that you didn't realize that you were in a Genjutsu from the beginning, have you improved at all in the last 6 months?" asked Sakura as she tightened her gloves, flicking the blood from Ino's nose off of them.
"Please, you are exactly the same as I am. Isn't that right? I mean three Genin made their way to the Land of Wave and only two of them came back alive? Did you even do anything there besides getting your teammate killed?" spat Ino
Sakura growled before she exploded into sakura petals and Ino braced herself for a physical assault. It never came, there was no Genjutsu blows, no rocking punches or monstrous kicks. No, in a blur that only the best Genin in the room were able to see, Sakura buried a kunai up to the hilt into the stomach of Ino.
Ino coughed up blood and fell onto her back, Sakura turned to the protocter and said "I would call the match before she bleeds out and causes someone to have to clean up her useless body and blood."
Sakura wins brutally
Temari vs Kin (The girl Shikamaru fought in canon)
Have you ever seen a tiny dog try to fight a giant dog, it is just outmatched in every way. Well, it was even worse in the Temari vs Generic Sound Canon fodder that was Kin. So Kin tried to use Genjutsu like Sakura, but Temari was bathed in stupid and immediately realized it and unleashed a burst of chakra. The blonde shinobi followed that up by blasting the sound girl with wave after wave of wind blasts.
At one point, Naruto started keeping out count of how many times Kin was blasted into the air and almost hit the ground only for Temari to blast her back into the air. The combo got all the way up to 27 before the ref decided enough was enough, he had already lost his bet of 20 and wanted to save some face. So he called the match.
Tenten vs Shikamaru
Shikamaru didn't want to fight this girl who was clearly more athletic, stronger, faster, with a year more of experience. She was probably going to push the petal to the metal, but his teammate had already been embarrassed, and Asuma basically demanded that he go out there and do his best.
So from the moment that he touched down on the ground, Shikamaru was thinking, his mind rushing ahead of Tenten's movements. The Nara Genin started dodging from the moment that the match began, as Tenten started the barriage.
Eventually, she summoned these twin scrolls and unleashed even more weapons to throw at Shikamaru who realized that she had wires tied to them, he was about to do what almost every Nara was trained to do since birth. Turn his opponent's biggest strength into their biggest weakness or into their very defeat.
As Tenten rose into the air to reload and relaunch her weapons, she suddenly found that she was frozen, Shikamaru's shadow was connected to hers.
The pineapple haired Nara smirked and the match was over.
The Reason that you even started reading this story, Naruto.
Naruto looked up at the board and saw his name as well as this Kiba person's name. Naruto jumped down and saw the Genin from the clan of dog users standing on the ground, clearly excited by his chances against our blond hero.
"Look, we got ourselves a no name here, don't we boy" Kiba chimed to his canine partner.
The match started and Naruto crossed his arms in front of his chest, unconcerned with what the dog like ninja before him had planned. Kiba snarled and rushed forward with impressive Genin speed. Naruto twisted his body and avoided the first slash, the second slash was dodged by leaning backwards. Naruto jumped upwards and over the spinning swiping kick that Kiba tried to hit him with. Naruto sidestepped the white dog that had tried to launch itself at him from behind.
"Grr, is this all that you can do? Avoid my attacks like a coward." Growled Kiba
"I see no need to allow a wild beast who lacks the self control to realize that he is outmatched, to touch me" replied Naruto in a cold tone that were reflected in his cold blue eyes.
"Akamaru, let's end this" yelled Kiba as he flipped his shinobi dog, a food pill that supercharged the dog's chakra system making the dog, all the more powerful.
Kiba followed suit and downed several of the pills himself. The dog jumped on top of his owners back and in a burst of smoke, there was a clone of Kiba on top of Kiba. Did this bring any kind of concern to Naruto? The short answer is no, and the long answer was absolutely not.
Both Kibas raced to the blond Genin, punches were thrown and punches were caught. At the last second, Naruto lashed out and grabbed both of the fists from both Kibas.
Pushing upwards, Naruto pushed both of them off balance and landed a kick into the chest of the real Kiba. The clone Kiba slashed at Naruto, who ducked under the attack before sliding to avoid Kiba's kick. Jumping into the air and twisting into a tornado, Kiba managed to clip Naruto on his right side.
Naruto skid to a stop, his black and orange jacket torn where Kiba had managed to graze him. "These clothes are too expensive to keep replacing" groaned Naruto as he removed his jacket and pulled his shirt off as well.
Nobody was surprised to see the 13 year old Genin was in pretty good shape, lean and firm. What did surprise them was the litter of scars and burns that covered his torso. The Jonin were more surprised than anyone, they knew what he held and what it did for his healing factor. To be scarred like this, he would need to have been hurt over and over, burned over and over to the point that they stuck, on a body that was always healing.
Naruto's chakra flared and suddenly Kakashi lifted his handband to reveal his Sharingan. Kurenai looked at him and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Making sure that I remember this forever" said Kakashi
"You know, I wanted to take this easy, but you've forced my hand" said Naruto as he disappeared in a yellow blur before Kiba was suddenly unconscious and the clone Kiba poofed back into his dog form.
Winner, Naruto Uzumaki
Neji vs Hinata
Neji and Hinata made have used a technique called the Gentle Fist, but Neji showed that it was deadly when he tore Hinata apart with his attacks, leaving her on the floor, barely alive.
Gaara vs Dosu
Dosu tried to use his sound attacks, Gaara tried to use his sand attacks. The sound attacks failed to do anything to Gaara. Gaara's sand attacks crushed Dosu into a red puddle.
Rock Lee vs Choji
Choji learned that turning into a ball was a serious mistake against a man who was clearly faster and stronger. Rock Lee kicked Choji around for a bit before the match was called.
The Next round of the Chunnin Exams were selected
1. Naruto vs Rock Lee
2. Gaara vs Neji
3. Temari vs Shino
4. Sasuke vs Kankuro
5. Shikamaru vs Sakura with the winner of this match skipping straight to round 3, the semi finals,
A/N: This chapter is made with a suggest from a reviewer of my Stuck on Red story, he told me that the Chunnin Exams would be more enjoyable to read this way. I honestly don't know, if you don't like it, I can always rewrite it in a more detailed way. Also, I plan on covering the flash backs for the 43 days over the next 3 chapters.
So, what did you think? Sakura is more serious, Tenten was saved from Temari, Rock Lee played pin ball and Naruto hasn't revealed anything over there some speed and some strength. Also I tried to create some more entertaining match ups for the finals stage of the chunnin exam, also there is a surprise coming soon.
There is already a set pairing for this story, so don't bother demanding which girl you want to end up with Naruto. I am however open for a pairing with Sasuke, so feel free to shoot your shot for whatever girl you want to end up with Sasuke.
The Chunnin exams will start around chapter 10, I need to build up to that. But don't worry, there will be some team vs team interactions for the Konoha 12.
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