Synchro 3

Hey guys doing this one to give a view of where Synchro is going.

here we go

Naruto sighed as he laid his head on his arms, which were draped on the railing. The next fight was Neji vs Hinata. Naruto really hadn't paid attention to the girl but it she seemed pretty good. And if Sakura's memory was correct, the Hyuuga clan was one of the strongest clans in Konoha.

'How do you think this is going to play out' Naruto watched as the two white eyed gennins walked down to the center of the hall.

'Neji is probably going to win.' Sasuke said

'Really, why is that?' Sakura asked, interest piqued as Sasuke answered so suddenly.

'I saw him fight once at the academy, he destroyed the other gennin, and showed no mercy either' Sasuke replied.

Naruto bit his lip, he trusted Sasuke but he wouldn't count Hinata out just yet.

"Before we begin, Hinata-sama please Resign, you cannot win.," Neji's mouth twisted into an angry snarl, "Fate has already decreed I win this!"

Naruto rolled his eyes. 'who does this guy think he is, he's almost as grouchy as-.'

'Finish that thought and I'll burn all your clothes.' Sasuke thought angrily.

Naruto, amused at Sasuke's annoyance, continued. 'well, maybe your not that bad but you have to admit-'

'Not now you two, focus on the match.' Sakura groaned out. This was not the first time had argued with each other between their thoughts. Hell, they 'argued' more times than they bother counted. For Sakura, it really got annoying hearing heated, foreign thoughts in your head. Even though they could block the thoughts, they could still 'feel' the messages.

"N-no! I-I— " Hinata tried to speak out.

"Still stuttering," Neji scoffed. "you never change. You aren't fit to be a Shin obi, all you will do is get in the way! You probably didn't want to even enter the exam. You just blindly followed your teammates like a lost little girl!"

Naruto now stood up straight. 'That bastard.' Naruto fists gripped the railing and he shot daggers at Neji. Sakura felt disheartened at how shabbily Neji was treating Hinata, it was like he wanted to embarrass her in front of everyone. Even Sasuke was annoyed at the male Hyuuga's ranting.

"No!" Hinata interrupted. "I e-entered this exam…t-to change myself!"

Neji's eyes narrowed, "You really are a spoiled brat of the Main House, aren't you? Don't you understand? People cannot change! Fate decided everything"

Naruto loudly scoffed. This guy was a prick. 'Fate this, Fate that, what is he trying to do?' he angrily thought to his teammates

Sakura sighed, 'A lot of people just hide behind things when they have secrets.' and then thinking to herself, privately 'I used to be like her...'

Though the statement wasn't even meant to criticize the boys of her team, Sakura's words really hit them. Team 7 stayed quite for a while, each of them lost in their thoughts.

Neji then growled out. "You are nothing but a loser give up."

Naruto gripped the metal between his hands so tightly that the a groan, as the metal was dented, could be heard. 'Give up… This asshole needs to get his head straight, or knocked off' Naruto gritted his teeth, and his shoulders tensed. Sakura and Sasuke didn't even bother to calm him down as they were getting angry as well. Naruto yelled out. "Hinata Kick his ass!"

Kakashi raised an eyebrow. 'I thought he agreed to be silent?' but then Kakashi noted his tenseness and the 'atmosphere' between the team and shrugged. 'it's his personality I guess.' Kakashi gave Neji a quick look before turning back to his book. Though, why were the rest of his team getting angry... Sasuke should have been indifferent or annoyed in the least. Kakashi snagged one more look at this team. They all looked down right murderous.

Neji's hateful eyes flickered to Naruto. Naruto sent anger through his eyes, but Neji didn't even register it, or at least react to it.

Neji ignored the heated glare and focused on Hinata. Hinata tried to muster her courage and moved into a stance.

Neji did not miss how her hands shook slightly or how her legs were out of place. Smirking as he got into his stance, Neji activated his Byakugan.

Naruto gritted his teeth. Hinata didn't look ready. She looked afraid. But if she wanted to fight she couldn't be afraid.

'This won't end well…'

'No it won't' Sakura thought back.

'Then give her a push you idiot' Sasuke growled out, still staring at Neji.

"COME ON HINATA! KICK HIS ASS!" Naruto yelled out. Sakura and Sasuke winced at his volume but didn't say anything.

HInata took a deep breath and settled into her stance while activating her Byakugan. Naruto gave a small approving nod. Sasuke reached over and gave Naruto a hard slap on the back. Kakashi raised both his eye brows at that. Naruto whipped his head and glared at him. Sasuke just looked away, smirking and laughing to himself.

Kakashi stared at the bizarre scene in front of him. Usually, they would be arguing by now, hell, they should have been arguing way before now. Kakashi let the thoughts circle around his head like vultures. He tried to pass this scene off as 'bonding' achieved unity but this was too much of a change.

"Begin!" Hayate shouted

In an instant, the two hyugas crossed the distances in a speedy fashion and were exchanging blows rapidly. Sasuke had activated his Sharingan and was sending images to his teammates.

'Woah, so this is what you see when you use Sharingan.' Naruto thought. Naruto looked at all the chakra waves and the 'slow motion' action. 'Its weird.'

'Yea its pretty creepy' Sakura thought.

Naruto and Sasuke paused and gave Sakura a quick stare. Sakura realizing they were staring at her. 'what?'

Naruto looked back at the match, or back at Sasuke's images. 'So this is the Hyuuga's style, they are sending chakra to their hands, what for?'

'Palm strike techniques with sudden burst of energy. Probably for internal damage.' Sakura said. 'they are the only clan to do it cause they can see into the body system.'

Sakura had studied a lot during academy. It was not because she wanted to be 'book' smart, it was because she didn't have a lot of friends. Sure she had Ino, but sometimes Ino would be taken away to study her clan Jutsu. That left Sakura alone. And because her parents were librarians, she often hung out at the library, going through scrolls to pass the time.

Sasuke whistled (mentally) in appreciation, both at the 'deadliness' of the technique and how much Sakura knew about it.

Naruto, though, was uneasy. He watched as Cousins were at each others throats. Their movements were almost in synchronization, as if choreographed. Naruto didn't have family, but he knew that even family wasn't supposed to fight each other. As soon as Naruto thought that though, he felt a shiver come from Sasuke. Naruto ignored it though.

Several blows later, Neji ducked under Hinata's palm strike to the chest, stepping inside her guard and aiming his own attack at her heart. Hinata quickly dodged by spinning on her back heel. It seemed that she would fall but her flexibility allowed her to plant her other leg to stable her. Hinata fully pivoted and slammed a hard Palm strike to Neji's ribs.

Neji jumped backwards holding his side. He panted. Naruto smirked, that one had to had hurt. Sasuke though, was not that excited. While the strike did hit, Hinata didn't put enough chakra to do big damage.

Sakura on the other hand was mentally saving notes on their tactics. Hinata was mostly working on weaving her way through using her flexibility. That of course was her greatest asset, that was good and all but against an opponent like Neji, who could somewhat keep up with the weaving, it negated the advantage. Neji on the other hand was waiting for an opening, a precise opening.

Hinata moved to the side of his first glowing hand, but wasn't fast enough to dodge the follow up attack of Neji's left hand. Her shoulder burning in pain, Hinata stumbled backwards, clutching at where her cousin had made contact.

Neji charged in, not letting her rest. Hinata readied herself to counter. Suddenly, she felt a sudden twinge in her left shoulder that made her falter.

Naruto eyes widened. 'Shit, she won't be able to dodge that!' Naruto watched through Sasuke's enhanced eyes.

Hinata toughed it out and twisted her body, using her right hand to strike. Sadly… Neji had already anticipated that. Neji quickly used his left hand and pressed a certain part of Hinata's arm, and he used the other to strike Hinata's chest.

Naruto stood up and cried in indignation. Many of the Jounins tensed, realizing what Neji had just hit. Sasuke on the other hand was already reaching for a Kunai. Sakura stood up and stared at Hinata, too shock to move.

Hinata coughed out blood. All the nins leaned forward in preparation to stop this fight. It had gone too far, too far for nins of the same village. Kakashi was already moving to wards the steps to get the medics. Gai was leaning over the railing, ready to race down there and hold back Neji. Hayate already moved a couple steps forward to get to Neji as well.

Sakura gasped. "She still has him right." Though that was just a false hope. As soon as she said it, she knew she was wrong. Looking through Sasuke's eyes, she saw that there was no 'large' amount of chakra running through Hinata's hand.

Hinata pushed forward and tried to push chakra to her arm but nothing came out.

Hinata's eyes widened in realization., "It can't be"

Neji smirked. He slowly rolled back Hinata's sleeve. On her arms there were several, circular marks that now started to bleed red.

Sasuke's eyes widened as he saw that the chakra was forcefully being blocked in those places; 'If he can stop the chakra system than he's stopping the-'

Sakura immediately found the answer. The chakra system was like a life force system that kept your body running properly. If Neji was stopping Hinata's chakra system, he was effectively killing her.

Naruto gave a low growl. 'Guys...'

'Already on it' Sakura thought quickly.

Neji harshly palm strike Hinata sending her back. Hinata coughed up blood.

Neji just looked down at Hinata. "Hinata-sama this is the difference in talent that can never change, The difference form Elite to loser."

"This is the reality that cannot be changed" Neji continued.

Naruto eyes stared in surprise as he saw something surprising. Hinata slowly walked herself up. She was shaking and definitely in pain, but she still stood up.

"I will not give up" Hinata weakly said. "This is the way of my Nindo."

Neji snapped at this. He wanted her to give up, he wanted to her to acknowledge he would win. Why was she defying fate? Neji charged, fully intending to carry out Fate wishes.

That was until a kunai shot down in front of Neji. Neji stopped, jumping back slightly, and looked up, even though his Byakugan was on. Sakura was on the ceiling and had thrown the kunai down at Neji, fully intending to hit him if he had moved forward. Neji glared at her.

"Why are you interfering?"

Neji felt a wind behind him and used his byakugan to look, this time. He saw the blonde idiot trying to attack. Neji spun around, ready to palm strike the pink haired girl's teammate. But suddenly, he felt something grab his arm. Looking through his Byakugan, Neji felt his eyes widened in shock as he realized that the Kunai on the ground was actually Sasuke. With his Momentum off balance, Naruto punched Neji straight in the mouth. Neji shifted towards his own right side. Sasuke, following the momentum, slammed Neji down, flipping over the byakugan user to do so.

Not taking his eyes off of Neji, Sasuke, who had let go Neji, threw up his Kunai. Neji was now laying face down.

The Hyuuga, who was starting to recover, tried to get up but froze as he felt cold metal against his neck.

"Move, you asshole-" Sakura growled out. Sakura had put her knee on Neji's right shoulder and put Sasuke's kunai on Neji's throat.

"And we will-" Sasuke continued. Sasuke was on Neji's left, and used his right foot to step, very hard, on Neji's left shoulder.

"Kill you" Naruto finished. Naruto had walked around towards Neji's face and knelt down, glaring into Neji's eyes.

All the Nins in room were shocked at the coordination, at the ability, at the raw talent, these gennins had just used to disable the Hyuuga with little effort. Kakashi stared at his gennin in shock.

What was this? He had taught the coordination, yes. He had taught them taijutsu and weapon handling, yes. But had he taught the tactics to this degree... no. Sure he could probably chalk the surprising tactic as creativity, but he had seen no communication between his gennin. He had seen nothing at all, not even a simple hand sign. It was just one moment all tense and then they leap into action and just jumped into it.

Kakashi believed that his mini-kakashi was thinking pretty hard in his head. Now Kakashi wasn't crazy to believe that someone was actually living in his head, but he did want to say something other than his instincts were working. Many elite jounins developed a little voice in the back of their head, it was actually quite common. It was that little buggering voice that said something was trap, that something was fishy, that an evidence was a falsification. It was a voice that talked about what to do, how to react. Some people, or regular people, called it their intuition, their inner voice.

Jounins and Anbu developed it so much that it actually seemed to 'talk' to them.

Kakashi blinked and than mini-kakashi remembered his first fight with Zabuza. Kakashi shook his head and chuckled, of course. They had remembered their fight with Zabuza and just did it with Sakura. Sasuke had looked at Sakura and than transformed into a kunai. Naruto had just leap down there.

They just went with the flow... that had to be it, right?

Kakashi shook himself out of his thoughts and looked at the situation. Looks like he would have to diffuse it before it got out of hand. Kakashi sunshined down and placed his hand on Sakura's shoulder.

"Maa, Maa Sakura-chan no need to be so rough."

"Yes, thats true."

Kakashi blinked and looked around, his eyes narrowing. It seemed he wasn't the only one to come down. The rest of the Konoha jounins were down and surrounding the Konoha gennin. Medics were already on their way towards Hinata.

Sadly, Kakashi's gennin didn't move. Sasuke looked up towards Kakashi and then to the surrounding Jounins. "Sensei," Sasuke started. "Neji was trying to kill a fellow Konoha nin, wouldn't that mean punishment."

Kakashi sighed. "that would be true... but it's not my place to do it. It's up to the Hokage or Neji-kun's Jounin sensei."

Sasuke nodded and held his hand out towards Sakura. Sakura dug her knee into Neji's shoulder and stood up. She tossed the Kunai at Sasuke, who deftly caught it. Sakura and Sasuke backed off.

Naruto, who was still kneeling, sneered at Neji. "Pull this bullshit again, I will break you."

Neji stood up slowly, and snarled back, "You are weak, Fate has-"

Naruto was already standing, his fist cocked back, but he was stopped by Sasuke.

Neji blinked as he saw the reaction from Sasuke, it had been so sudden, it was almost like heh ad been expecting Naruto to do it.

Gai moved forward and placed his hand on Neji, gripping a bit tightly, which was basicaly telling Neji to shut up.

Kakshi raised eye brows at his students, on the other hand.

Sasuke stared at Naruto, and Naruto turned and looked at Sasuke, eye to eye. Naruto gritted his teeth and Kakshi almost moved forward to stop Naruto from exploding. But it seemed he didn't need to as Naruto lowered his arms and sighed and walked away from Neji.

Sasuke followed him with his eyes. Sasuke turned back to Neji, who was watching Naruto and Sasuke.

"Insult my teammate again, and I won't even break you, I'll just kill you." Sasuke stated quietly. Sasuke, not even waiting for a response walked after Naruto. Sakura sighed and shook her head, "oh the boys are at it again." she muttered.

Though she seemed not wanting anyone to hear it, Kakashi caught on. Just from this scene, mini-kakashi in his head was jumping for joy. His gennin had grown up. He didn't know how, but he would find out. But what mattered was that they were growing, they were becoming true shinobi.

The jounins cleared out, though Asuma, Gai and Kurenai were giving inquinitive glances at Kakashi and his gennin.

'Damn that asshole' Naruto growled in his head.

'You've said that for the 2000th time, get over it Naruto.' Sasuke sighed.

'What you wanted to deck him too.' Naruto said, his voice a bit lighter, remembering what Sasuke had said in his defense.

'and both of you are idiots, I thought we said not to attract attention to ourselves' Sakura sighed, tired at their bickering and the situation they were in.

'Not fair Sakura, you were the one to make the plan' Naruto whined.

'yea, Sakura if anyone should be to blame it should be you' Sasuke added in, teasing her.

'Oh don't you dare start.' Sakura growled out, showing a fist to both of their heads.

Sasuke and Naruto unconsciously winced and sent waves off agreement and apologies.

The next few matches were quite interesting. Shino handily defeated Zaku by distracting and overwhelming him. Kankuro simply out played Misumi in a very intersting fashion. Tenten was destroyed by Temari. Shikamaru used an interesting plan to Kin.

And then finally, Finally it was time. Naruto looked up at the board and smiled wide as he saw his name. Naruto vs Kiba.

Naruto jumped down, not even bothering to use the stairs. Kiba on the bounded the steps happily.

"heh, we go this easy Akamaru, we go the dead last." but even as Kiba said that, he had just seen Sakura defeat Ino easily. He had just seen Sasuke destroy Yoroi. They had both improved, had the dead last improved as well?

Naruto wasn't yelling, nor was he even smiling like an idiot. He held a small, soft smile and was glaring at Kiba. He looked dead serious. Kiba held his tongue and glared right back at Naruto. His nose was twitching, something was off.

Naruto was a prankster by trade, and Kiba knew he could plan up a trap. What was he thinking? Kiba clenched his fist, he was probably thinking up something good, he had to be ready.

Naruto on the other hand was actualy thinking about something else entirely.

'Anyone up for some Ramen after this?'

'For the last time, Naruto we are getting Ramen, yes. You've asked that HOW MANY TIMES NOW!' Sakura groaned.

'Whaaat, you'll guys forget all the time' Naruto whined. 'anyways, seperate the dog and the other dog right' Naruto asked.

'yea' Sasuke thought back. 'just though a couple kunai, make some kage bunhsin and just beat em up.'

'Really simple huh.'

'yea, cause you wouldn't understand anything else' Sakura shot back.

Naruto felt a huge wave of amusement that more felt like a huge rock falling on him. 'I hate you guys'

'no you don't' a Chorus responded back.

Naruto replied in a small though. 'no I don't'

Naruto sighed and listened as the proctor called Begin. Naruto immediately took shurikens and threw it in between Akamaru and Kiba.

Kiba jumped to the left and Akamaru moved towards the right. Naruto ran forward and made 4 kage bunshins. Three of the Kage bunshins leaped at Akamaru, hoping to restrain the dog.

Naruto jumped up, his fist raised, ready to deck the bigger 'dog'.

Kiba watched with shock as Naruto jumped in the air. Reacting, Kiba took out a kunai ready to defend. Sadly, that was what Naruto wanted, as the fourth kage bunshin, leaped and tackled Kiba. Kiba, off balance, let go of his kunai. Naruto swung with all his might and smashed Kiba in the jaw.

Sasuke grinned as he saw his plan worked.

Sakura smiled as well. "At least he can do that at least." Sakura said out loud.

"Yeah" Sasuke said back, chuckling a bit.

Kakashi looked apathetic, but inside Mini-kakashi was already breaking out the Sake.

As soon as Kiba was hit, the Kage bunshin, which was tackilng him, dispelled. Kiba slid back a bit and groaned. He than heard a yelp, a familiar yelp and jumped up, growling.

Kiba eyes narrowed as he saw Akamaru being held by Naruto's Kage bunshin, the other two had already dispelled.

"Let him go." Kiba growled out, reaching into his pouch for the soldier pill.

Naruto tilted his head, eye brows raised. "And you expect me to listen to you … why?"

Kiba smirked, "have it your way." Kiba thumbed the soldier pill at Akamaru, who opened its mouth, ready. The soldier pill never reached Akamaru. Naruto snatched the pill in mid air.

Kiba eyes widened. "What, How did you get to the pill, there's no way."

Naruto's raised an eye brow. "It's not that hard to react." 'thanks Sasuke' Naruto thought, Sasuke had used his Sharingan to slow down the Pill for him.

Naruto looked at the pill and dropped it to the floor, than stomped on it, grinding it to the ground.

Naruto turned back towards Kiba, who stepped back in fear.

"Well time to finish this." Naruto charged forward, grabbing a kunai.

Kiba charged forward as well, yelling as he did so.

Naruto ducked under Kiba's initial swipe and then turned on his foot. He swung with his right foot and hit Kiba directly in the neck. Kiba, who was running full force at the time, was hit hard. Flipping over on his back, Kiba grunted as he felt the wind knocked out of him and his vision blurring. Naruto spun the kunai around in his hand and stabbed downwards.

Kakashi eyes widened at the move but stopped himself as he tracked the trajectory. Even Hayate knew what Naruto was going to do.

Shink. Kiba eyes widened as he hard a stab. Looking up, Kiba gasped and crawled backwards. "YOU IDIOT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU COULD HAVE JUST DONE!"

Naruto chuckled at Kiba's yelling. "Made you a neutered dog?"

The gennins up in the stands laughed and even some jounins chuckled.

"Winner Naruto" Hayate called out. Naruto fist pumped the air and walked up the stairs to his team.

Naruto walked, light on his feet towards his teammates. "How did I do?" Naruto asked, grinning wide at his teammates.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "not bad for an idiot."

Naruto eye brow twitched. "oh shut up Sasuke." 'I kicked his ass and you know it'

Sasuke just smirked. "You got lucky Dobe." 'You only followed my plan'

Sakura sighed. "Come on you two, don't argue again." She said, weariness etched on her face, though she still held satisfaction that Naruto won the match. 'Anyways, I wonder what the third test will be?'

The next few matches ended quite quickly. Bushy brows took out the kid with the glasses and the sound guy took out Chouji.

Naruto sighed as he rested his head against the railing. Than the Proctor guy called out to all the winners to come down stairs.

Eleven young teens made their way to the ground level, lining up to face the statue and the older nins.

The Proctor once again spoke. "Congratulations to all of you who earned the right to compete in the Third test of the Chuunin exam, even if one of your number is missing. Hokage-sama, if you would …"

"Very well," agreed the old man and took a step forward as Hayate retired to the sides. "I'd like to explain the main test …"

At this Naruto immediately focused on the Old man's words.

"As I said earlier, the main matches will be seen by everyone. Each of you will fight to show the strength of your countries. Please do not hold back when your time comes." The Sandaime than scanned the gennin present before continuing.

"To give you time to prepare, the main event will take place in one month from now. This time will also be used for the Lords and Shinobi Leaders to be informed of the participants and arrange for the gathering. Take this time to familiarize yourselves with your opponents, work out a strategy, calculate your chances and review the fights you have seen today."

Shikamaru called out, his mind puzzled at the 'delay' of the test. "Why?"

The Hokage didn't miss a beat, "So far, the battles you've fought have been against unknown factors. This will not be the case next. Some of you have shown all your tricks – some competed against a stronger opponent and got injured. This month should be used by all of you to advance and improve yourselves though resting to regain your strength is not frowned upon. You will be expected to put out your full effort and fight at full efficiency."

the Hokage paused and then his face grew hard. "I give you a warning, any tampering with other nins will not only be frowned upon but will be reported and we will have you detained."

Naruto noticed that the bandaged wearing sound nin on his right stiffened.

"As much as I'd like to dismiss you now, there remains something that has to be done before that happens," the Hokage looked the group over once for suspense, anticipating an interruption. "Anko will come around with a box. This box will contain slips of paper … each of you will take one piece of paper."

"Only one," Anko declared as she held the box out to Dosu.

Eventually, the box made its way to Naruto, who gingerly reached in and pulled out a slip of paper with the number One on it.

"Would you all please read your number," the Hokage requested when Anko finished her round. Ibiki, the examiner from the first test, took out a pad and wrote down the numbers next to the names that had not been crossed out. All the numbers from one to eleven were read.

Naruto kept careful note of the numbers.

'Alright i'm one, Sakura's three.'

Than Naruto paused as he saw Neji call out his number. "2"

Naruto jolted as he felt excitement fill up his stomach. YES! He would get to smash this prick to the ground. Naruto jumped for joy in his head and then proceeded to open up his mind to tell Sasuke and sakura.

'Hey guys-' naruto paused as he realized Sasuke had gotten his number and was staring at it.

Anko looked at him impatiently. "Well, what is it."

Sasuke looked up and growled out, "4"

Naruto felt his stomach drop. Sasuke vs Sakura... what the hell. Naruto stared at the two, who refused to look at each other, refused to talk to one another both in thought and out loud. Kakashi eyes were wide and his fists clenched. A bit of team killing was on.

And there we go. Please Review!