"Hurry up Baka we are going to be late because of you!" Sakura yelled from behind the closed door. Naruto just groaned as he moved to get ready for the day. It had been a couple days since they arrived at the tower and team 7 has been resting ever since. Kakashi congratulated them when they got to their room and immediately took Sasuke to the medics to make sure he was ok. Sakura went with him while Naruto decided to explore. Today was the final day of the second exam and all the remaining teams were required to go down to the arena for more instructions.

"I'm coming Sakura, just give me a minute." Naruto growled from behind the door.

"You know I will chew her face off." Luna commented as she stretched.

"Not this time Luna. I don't need to give the council any more fire then they already have." Naruto sighed.

"You know, you could take that woman's offer and go live with your mother." Luna commented.

"Yeah but what about akatsuki? Your mother said that their goal was to capture all the bijuu. I have number nine and Konoha is the strongest village right now. If they want me then they will have to attack konoha and hopefully in doing so will kill each other. If not then hopefully Konoha wins." Naruto said as he moved towards the door.

"I'm just saying Naruto-kun, it is something to think about." Luna said as she jumped up onto his shoulder.

"Took you long enough baka. If we get kicked out of the exams because you were late then I am going to pummel you." Sakura growled as they walked down the hallway.

"Whatever, it's not like they would risk having the great Uchiha miss out on becoming a chuunin." Naruto grumbled as they entered the arena. As they entered Naruto took note how all the jounnin senseis were up on the balconies on the side while the Hokage and his two advisors were in a booth at the front of the room. He could see that along with team seven, the team from Suna, one team form Oto, team guy, Kabuto's team and team 8. 'Thought there would only be five teams, not six here. Guess there was an extra scroll or something.' Naruto thought as he scanned the room.

"Welcome everyone and congratulations on making it through the forest of death alive." Hiruzen started speaking. "Ordinarily we would start the final round of exams but as there are still too many contestants we must have preliminary matches." After he said that groans of protest erupted from the assembled gennin.

"Quiet Maggots!" Anko yelled and immediately they all stopped talking.

"Now than before we proceed is there any that would like to quit now?" Hiruzen asked.

Naruto looked around to see if anyone would quit. After a few seconds he noticed Kabuto and one of his teammates raise their hands. Suddenly Hiruzens voice rang out. "Step forward and say your names. Then you will be escorted out."

"Kabuto Yakushi."

"Misumi Tsurugi."

"Ok you may leave." Hiruzen stated as someone wrote down their names. "Now the proctor for the preliminary matches and the final round Hayate Gekko will now take over."

"Ok matches will be selected randomly form the board behind me. Everyone else must move up into the stands. A match is won when either I say so, you die or someone interferes. Killing is allowed. Now the first match will be Sakura of Konoha versus Tayuya of Oto." Hayate called out as everyone but the two combatants moved out of the arena.

"If everyone is ready, fight!" Hayate yelled.

Sakura charged towards Tayuya with her fist cocked but just as her fist was about to make contact Tayuya moved to the side and kneed her in the gut before twisting around and kicking Sakura in the back sending her face first into the ground.

"With taijustu that bad, I wonder how you even became a Gennin." Tayuya mocked.

"Don't underestimate me." Sakura grunted before getting in the academy taijustu stance.

"hmph, this shit is so easy it's pathetic." Tayuya smirked before she charged Sakura.

Everyone in the stands watching could clearly see that Sakura had little to no skill in taijustu and that the girl from Oto was just playing with her. Naruto smirked as another hit landed on Sakura and she was once again thrown on her ass.

"Got to give her credit, she isn't quitting." Luna mumbled from her spot on the floor.

"Hmph I guess but she should quit now, she is just embarrassing herself." Naruto smirked again as Tayuya kicked Sakura across the arena.

"True but then you wouldn't get to see the pretty redhead kick her ass." Luna smirked as Naruto started coughing.

"What do you mean by that?" Naruto sputtered.

"Well considering how you never pranked a redhead woman and you let that redhead woman get close to you pretty easily I figured you liked woman with red hair. Don't even try to deny it." Luna smirked at his defeated expression.

"Well this was fun Pinkie but I'm tired of your boring ass." Tayuya said before attacking with a series of punches and kicks and at the end Sakura fell to the floor unconscious.

"Winner by knockout, Tayuya form Oto." Hayate called.

After the arena was cleared the board spun and revealed that the next two combatants were Temari from Suna and Shino from Konoha.

"Ready to lose." Temari smirked when Shino entered the arena after she hopped down.

"I will not lose. You know why, I am stronger." Shino adjusted his glasses.

"Fight!"

Shino raised his arms and a swarm of insects appeared out of his sleeves. They went right after Temari who opened her fan and swung it causing a gale laced with chakra to cut down most of the swarm while Shina raised his hands covering his face. After the gale subsided he engaged her in taijustu before falling back. Temari readied her fan waiting for his next move.

"Proctor I forfeit. You know why, my swarm is practically gone and my taijustu isn't great." Shina forfeited.

"Winner by forfeit, Temari of Suna. Next match is Gaara from Suna versus Lee from Konoha."

Gaara used his sand shunshin to appear in the arena as Lee jumped down.

"Today my youthful opponent, you will lose." Lee said getting into his taijustu stance. Gaara just grunted as the stopper on his gourd fell to the floor.

"Fight!" (The entire fight is the same as Cannon and for the sake of my sanity and for getting this chapter out I will not be writing it in. Sorry if your mad just deal with it.)

"Gaara of Suna wins." Hayate said as Guy handed Lee to the medics.

"Most un-youthful." Guy uttered before returning to stand next to Tenten and Neji.

"Next fight is Dosu from Oto versus Kankuro from Suna."

And the rest of the fights will be next chapter. Sorry about the inconsistent updates. Scholl ended and work dumped a boatload of hours back on me. School is starting up soon and I will try and make a schedule for posting chapters regularly for all my stories. Also two more matches will be same as Cannon. Sorry if you hate that but I am not writing a match that is the same as the anime. Don't like it don't read. Also I have decided to go ahead with the invasion as that will help me establish certain things and get Naruto out without boring political bullshit. Also I have a few fun ideas I want to do over the month break that could be interesting once the invasion begins. Also yeah actually that's about it. So enjoy and let me know what you think.