Warning OOCness and crack and stuff aka don't expect greatness or something good being written if you made it this far, also still don't own anything.

So yeah writers block is a bitch and laziness(kinda I didn't know what I wanted to write) that's all I got to say.

If anyone guess what Yūgao was doing you get a imaginary cookie or something I guess.

"Does the mark still hurt Anko?"

"Much less Lord Hokage," Anko replied looking up at Minato and Jiraiya.

"Should we end the exams Minato?" Jiraiya asked looking at his student who was weighing ever possible decisions that could be made.

"What do you think he wants Anko?"

"He wants one of the bloodlines. Maybe Sasuke or your daughter but he was targeting Kakashi's team for certain," Anko replied not knowing what her sensei would gain from betraying the leaf village.

"Jiraiya what do you think?"

"We'll play into his hand no matter what choice we make. I say we bid our time till the finals when the Kazekage is also here then we confront him," Jiraiya said offering his opinion.

"So what do we do Lord Hokage?" Anko asked uncertain on how to proceed now.

"Lord Hokage all remaining teams have made it into the tower. We are ready to proceed to the next round due to there 24 genin," A chūnin said from one of the monitors.

"We'll go with Jiraiya's plan for now and proceed like normal," Minato said staring into a monitor of a orange hair boy with one arm and with guilt in his eyes.

"Congratulation to all of you on passing the second exam," Minato said to the genin that made it. Ignoring his daughters waving and looking at Ichigo for a brief second who looked worse for ware. Standing next to him were the clan heads of the Uchiha and Hyuuga. In front of them stood Jōnin of the teams that made it this far.

"Now lord Hokage himself will explain the third exam," Anko said into her headset. "Listen up and take every word he says to heart. They're all yours, my Lord."

"I will not sugar top what I'm about to say to you all. After everything you've been to you earned the truth about this exam," Minato said eyeing the genin. "Some of you are wondering why we have this exam of multiply nations. It's a war between all of us."

"What do you mean?" Tenten asked confused by what the Hokage was saying.

"This is to test the strength of each nation's youth. To see who will get the missions between are villages and the resources without the loss of an uncountable number of lives." Minato his eyes hard.

"That's the stupidest thing I ever heard," Naruko yelled." I thought the point was to select chūnin!"

"Make no mistake when all of this is over some of you will have ascend to the level of chūnin." Minato said back to his daughter who made this even harder for him. "This serves as a testing ground for us villages."

"And when that village has strong shinobi and the village coffers overflow with the fruits of commissions this shows its neighbors beware for we possess prowess and riches and the influence of political power" Minato said getting to the end of his speech. "And the greatest strength of these villages only emerges in the midst of battle"

As he finished his speech a female appeared in front of him in an anbu like outfit without out the mask.

"Forgive my interruption Lord Hokage, but if you don't mind handing the rest of the proceeding over to me, Yūgao Uzuki, proctor of the third exam." Yūgao said kneeling in front of Minato.

"Go ahead Yūgao there all yours," Minato told her with a smile happy that he didn't have to give the speech anymore.

"Good to meet you, everyone I'm Yūgao." She said before turning her head to face them, her eyes lingering on Ichigo before moving on. "Before we start the exam, I need to ask you all to something for me."

'Why is everyone looking at me?' Ichigo wondered since he never meet this person before.

"You see there are some preliminaries to the exam proper and whether you proceed to the main exam in contingent on how well you manage those? Yūgao said.

"Preliminaries?" Ichigo voiced out curious about it.

"Preliminaries?" Shikamaru yelled out not happy about this at all. "Like what?

"I won't say that the first two exams weren't demanding enough but the truth is that we have too many applicants for the third exam," Yūgao said her eyes focused on Ichigo. "Under the traditional rules of the exam we have a preliminary test to reduce the number of applicants who'll proceed to the final exam."

'So this is only another test for us,' Ichigo thought. 'Great.'

"So now that you know all of that does anyone not feel up to the challenge physically or mentally can walk away right now just take one step forward," Yūgao said reaching to side to mess with her pouch. "Because the preliminaries start right now."

Ichigo looked around seeing if anyone would drop out assuming there would be none. To his surprise it was Kabuto that dropped out.

"Well I'm outta here," Kabuto said waving.

"What?!"" Naruko yelled surprised. "Kabuto?"

"Kabuto Yakushi of Konoha? You can go." Yūgao said marking his name off a list and going back to looking at Ichigo's missing arm. "In case I forgot to mention it from here on in you fight as individuals not as members of teams. So you can make the decision that's right for you without worrying about anyone else."

"Kabuto what's up with you quitting?" Naruko questioned wanting to know why their friend was quitting when he made it this far.

"Sorry Naruko but those guys we fought wore me out." Kabuto replied before turning to look at Ichigo. "You should quit to Ichigo with an injury like that."

"No thanks I'll stay." Ichigo replied a little annoyed that Kabuto brought up his injury in front of so many people and making him a target of an easy win if they got paired against him.

"Okay. You guys can take it from here I hope," Kabuto said to his teammates before leaving. "You can show all of that brute strength you got."

"Don't push it brat," Yoroi said with venom in his voice.

"I got it loud and clear coach," Kabuto replied waving to Naruko and the rest of team 7.

'So another one down that leaves us with 23 genin.' Ichigo thought to himself. 'That means one of us is going to have to fight twice if someone else doesn't leave.'

"Is anyone else going to bail?" Yūgao said. "This is your last chance."

"Ichigo you should bail. With that injure I don't think you'll be able to make it," Sasuke told him his voice filled with concern for his teammate. "We won't think anything else of you if you do."

Naruko just watched not voicing her opinion at all indifferent to it.

"No."

"Ichigo please. Naruko talk some sense into him," Sasuke said not wanting to see his teammate get injured anymore or possibly killed.

"If he wants to fight let him fight," Naruko said not interested at all. "If he gets himself killed then it's his fault not ours."

"Fine I give up," Sasuke said frustrated by both of them.

"We should pull him out of the exam," Anko whispered to Minato. "Look at him."

"Do you really think that he'll go quietly?" Kakashi asked knowing that he wouldn't. "Ichigo wants to stay and fight I say let him stay and fight. We can jump in if it gets to dangerous for him."

"Nonsense I'll stop it by force if I have to," Anko replied.

"Anko we agreed on a plan, We'll let him fight and if it gets to dangerous we'll step in," Minato replied his voice hard as steel crushing any objections.

"Yes, sir."

"Well then now we shall begin the preliminaries. It will consist of individual combat matches as though this were part of a tournament," Yūgao said. "As there are a total of 23 combatants remaining we will hold a total of 11 rounds with one of you fighting twice. The victors of those bouts will advance to the third exam."

The genin shoffeled at that realizing that one of them would have to fight in two matches.

"We will step in sometimes from stopping a total bloodbath from happening and this is no holds barred combat. So fight till your opponent is dead, unconscious or admits defeat," Yūgao continued messing with something in her pouch again. "From here on out your fate is held on this electronic scoreboard. Not to hurry you all to the slaughter but let's begin."

After she finished her speech everyone turned to face the screen waiting to see who would fight to move on.

Li'l Toshi vs Gaara of the Sand

With that being announced everyone was joyful that they didn't need to fight the crazy chick from the sand village. Though they did feel bad for the genin that was called Li'l Toshi.

"Now then will the individuals whose names are listed on the board come forward now. Everyone else may go to the stand on the upper gallery now," Yūgao said to the genin in front of her.

"Hey Kakashi-nii!" Naruko yelled now that they were free to talk to each other and their senseis.

"Hey Naruko, Sasuke, Ichigo. How was the second part?" Kakashi asked already knowing what happened to a certain extent.

"A giant snake attacked us and ate me," Naruko replied tell him about how she blew up the snake by making a bunch of shadow clones inside of it.

"That sounds interesting," Kakashi said to her smiling through his eye before he got to his next question. "Now mind telling me what happen to you Ichigo?"

"Lost it in a fight," Ichigo replied to busy focing on the genin called Li'l Toshi.

'No that's not possible that guy I beat up is a genin in this world?' Ichigo thought bewildered by the turn of events and quickly looking at the rest of the genin to see if anyone else from his world was here. 'And there's Li'l Yama. Small world we live in.'

"Yeah with that snake guy," Naruko added on leaning against the railing looking down at the red head.

"What did he look like?"

"Pale, long hair, snake like eyes he was weird looking like that," Sasuke said from Ichigo's left looking down at his remaining arm.

"Thanks."

"No problem, why did you want to know anyway Kakashi-sensei?" Sasuke questioned looking up at him.

"Just wondering that's all."

"Shhh, the fight's about to start." Naruko said to both of them eager to watch the fight.

"All right please begin," Yūgao said stepping out of the way.

"Yo dog you about to get beat the number one fighter of the three dog gang, so be prepared for the ass kicking of the century," Li'l Tosh said adjusting his hat. "After I beat that ass you want to go out?"

Gaara just stared at him wondering what monstority gave birth to him before she replied.

"No."

"Yo dog that's cold," Li'l Toshi said as he was running towards her to getting his secret attack ready. "I would have gone easy on you if you said yes dog."

"Is this really happening?" Sasuke questioned embarrassed by Li'l Toshi's antics against the sand ninja.

"Yes it is," Ichigo replied not looking down anymore so he wouldn't be embarrassed also.

Gaara just stood there waiting for him to get close enough for him to fall into her trap.

"Yo take this. Li'l Toshi ultimate punch," Li'l Toshi yelled aiming his punch at her head and closing his eyes. Feeling that he hit something solid he yelled out in happiness. "Yeah no one can beat my ultimate punch dog no one."

"Really?"

"Yo you supposed to be dead dog. This is cheating ref," Li'l Toshi said seeing his arm stuck in a wall of sand and not letting it go.

Yūgao stared at him wondering how stupid he was for this to work or how he made it this far.

"No hard feelings dog?" Li'l Toshi asked seeing that the sand engulfed his legs and the rest of his arm. "Come one no hard feeling about any of it. I'll treat you to some place nice."

"Sorry your inadequate for my taste," Gaara said seeing her sand engulf the rest his body and getting ready for her attack.

"Yo that's messed up."

"Sand Coffin"

Sighing Yūgao called the match not minding one bit she didn't step in even though Lord Hokage would have a talk about this later likely.

"Winner Gaara of the Sand and she advances past the preliminaries to the next level."

"I can't say he didn't deserve that," Naruko said to herself.

"I can't disagree with you," Sasuke said looking away from the mess that was left of the genin.

Kakashi and Ichigo stared at both of them wondering how cold hearted when they just watched a genin die.

"Come on be me," Lee said with enthusiasm. Wanting to show off his skills to his sensei and peers.

"Well then right. Let's get the next match going." Yūgao said out aloud.

Hansei vs Zaku Abumi

"Who's that loser?" Zaku said before heading down.

"You're a dead man talking," Hansei said as calm as the ocean. "Give up now or die."

"Everyone it's time for the second match of the prelims to begin."

"It's the sound ninja going up against each other," Sasuke said not getting a good feeling of the one called Hansei dressed all in white even his face was covered by a blank white mask.

"I don't know but the white one gives me the creeps," Naruko replied not liking what she was sensing from him at all it was unlike anything she felt before.

"Okay you may begin."

"You're going to die if you don't forfeit before your attack," Hansei said watching him through his mask. "Walk away while you still can."

"Guess I'll end this in one attack then," Zaku said already finishing his hand signs and aiming his hands at his opponent. "Ultimate Zankuuha!"

No One was prepared for the soundwaves to create so much pressure were holding onto the rail for support. Looking down all they saw was smoke from where he aimed his attack.

"That was easy. Hey ref end the match he's as good as dead," Zaku said laughing to himself.

"Really? I thought I told you to forfeit at the start," Hansei whispered in Zaku's ear.

Hearing that Zaku tried turning around but only his neck would move. He looked down to see what was preventing him from turning it was a clawed hand that was covered in blood with an object in its palm.

"I told you," Hansei said pulling the clawed hand out of his opponent's chest dropping his heart. "That you would die if you didn't forfeit."

"Winner Hansei. You may advance past the preliminaries to the next level." Yūgao said disturbed by how brutal some of the genin were this year.

'That was our hand he used.'

Ichigo didn't reply to the voice. He was forced in on the one called Hansei wondering how he did that. Thinking it was just a jutsu but from the feeling he got from it that proved to him it wasn't any jutsu it was his own hand.

'Should we kill him to claim what was ours?'

Seeing his student frozen by the brutality of the genin Kakashi tried lightening the mood.

"At least you won't have to go up against him," Kakashi said jokingly trying to distract Ichigo from what just happened.

"Yeah," Ichigo replied not paying attention.

"We're moving on to the next match."

Ichigo Kurosaki vs Li'l Yama

To be continued...