Naruto's eyes widened. Standing in front of him were Temari, Gaara and Kankuro. "Your slipping, Naruto." Gaara said in a playful tone. Naruto took a deep breath and broke the chains by expelling chakra around them. Getting up and spitting the gag out he looked confused "Why are you here, Gaara?" "Clueless as always, arn't you? I'm here to participate in the tournament in Root." Gaara said. "You know, the one that starts in five minutes?" Naruto's eyes widened as he ran towards Root.

Naruto entered the stadium cursing. He was just late two minutes and they wouldn't let him enter the competition! "Ladies and gentlemen thank you for coming. Out of everybody that has signed up, the hokage has requested me to pick two contestants to fight. The other two spots will be filled up by the hokage and the kazekage. Those contestants are Sagara Sanosuke and Hatake Kakashi." Genma said. Naruto's eyes widened. 'Sagara Sanosuke? But he doesn't have any jutsu's to fall back on!' "First fight will be Gaara vs Kakashi." Genma continued as both stepped into the ring. The ring was an exact duplicate of the one for the tournament during the chuunin exam, giving Gaara the advantage. "Begin." Genma said as he ran out of the ring.

Gaara instantly sent a tidal wave of sand after Kakashi, who jumped over it as he charged a Chidori. Uncovering his Charingan eye he charged at Gaara. "Attack from the front? How foolish." Gaara sent as sand shot up from the ground and surrounded Kakashi. It took Gaara a second to find out that he had caught a log. A small laugh erupted from behind Gaara merely seconds before a palm thrusted through his shoulder. Gaara melted into a puddle of sand and shot back up on the other side of the arena. 'That was a bushin?' Kakashi thought. Sand shot up from all the sides of the arena and charged at Kakashi. Thinking of his possibilities, Kakashi ran through some handseals. "Sand dragon jutsu!" Kakashi exclaimed as a dragon of sand shot up and stopped all the sand. Gaara went through the same handseals and a new dragon shot up, twice in size of Kakashi's. The giant dragon cut through his smaller brother with ease. Kakashi looked over to Gaara "If I could just get into taijutsu range..." He mumbled as he once again went through his list of jutsu's. He suddenly got an idea as he took a kunai and rushed at Gaara. The dragon raced after Kakashi, having trouble to keep up. Gaara looked at Kakashi confused. Merely seconds before the dragon hit Gaara and Kakashi reached Gaara, he jumped up, sending the dragon into a crash with his master. Luckily for Gaara, the dragon was dispelled seconds before it impaled him. A kunai was hanging against Gaara's throat when the smoke cleared. "It's over." Kakashi said calmly. Gaara just grinned as he turned into sand and rooted Kakashi to the spot. "Winner : Gaara of the sand."

Sanosuke was stunned. He was supposed to fight that!? Naruto stood down next to Sano "Let me give you some hints..." Naruto said, looking around to see if they were alone.

"Next match, Tsunade vs Sagara Sanosuke." Genma said from his hiding place. Tsunade jumped from her seat and walked into the arena while Sano had his doubts before going into the arena. "Are you sure you wanna fight me, boy?" Tsunade said in a mocking tone. "Are you sure you don't need a pacemaker, old hag?" Sano said as he shot her a venomous look. Tsunade charged at Sano, barely leaving him time to block the blow with his arms. Tsunade wasn't leaving it with that though, throwing another punch under his guard. The punch his Sano square in the face, sending him flying across the arena. During his flight, Sano ran through some handseals before saying "Kaze no Yaiba." A whirlwind surrounded Tsunade, closing in on her and cutting everything in it's path. Tsunade jumped over the whirlwind, trying to recover from her confusion. She was facing a man that had never been learned in chakra, yet just used a technique that could kill jounins. "Tajuu kage bushin." A calm voice echo'd through the air. Tsunade saw Sano jump up after her, followed by hundreds of clones. One of the clones kicked her in the stomach, breaking her guard. "Nisen Rendan." the clones said together, hitting Tsunade for at least two thousand times, the final blow sending her into a crash with the ground. Tsunade crawled out of the small crater she had left, still coughing up some blood. Tsunade quickly healed her lungs and charged after Sano as he landed back on the ground. Kicking him in the gut, she sent him reeling into one of the arena walls.

The crowd was completely silent, the fight they witnessed was breath taking. Somebody who they had never seen yet was fighting the hokage, and actually doing some damage on her! Sano stood up, blood trickling from his arm, but other then that he was unhurt. "Are you going to keep holding back, or are you going to fight me seriously?" Sano mumbled. 'What is he blabbing about? I used all my strength in that last kick.' she muttered under her breath. "I heard about you from Naruto." Tsunade sent Naruto her 'I am going to kill you in your sleep' look "Either he overestimated you, or your holding back." Sano said as he charged forward. Tsunade clutched her fist and sent her fist forward, hoping to catch him of guard. In response, Sano sent his fist into collision with Tsunade's. Bones could be heard snapping acros the stadium, followed by painful cries. Sano jumped back with a broken left hand, and Tsunade with a broken right hand. Their arms fell next to their bodies. "Do you two need medical nins to take care of those injuries?" Genma asked. Sano shook his head. "Doton! Yomi Numa!" Sano yelled not even leaving Tsunade the time to answer. A vast swamp appeared under Tsunade, slowly dragging her under. "The swamp will be up to your head in two minutes, you have until then to come out or forfeit." Sano said as he took a look at his arm.

Eyes in the crowd widened. He had Tsunade stuck, and their was no way in the nearest future for her to get out. This fight was as good as over, whoever this fighter was, everybody in the crowd started to get more and more respect for him.

time : 17 seconds.

Tsunade cursed like she wanted the entire world to know. She still couldn't grasp how that guy was able to learn both Doton AND Fuuton jutsu's, and without even going to the academy. 'That guy is either a genius, or he's not telling the truth...' She thought as she tried to preform a kuchiyose. All it did was hurt her hand more. She continued her cursing as she tried some other ideas.

time : 32 seconds.

Not a sound was made in the stadium, just the bubbling from the swamp as Tsunade sunk deeper. Sano was busy spalking his hand with some twigs, when Tsunade called him over. They spoke for a while until Sano went back to leaning against a tree with a smirk on his face.

time : 57 seconds.

By now, people were screaming for Tsunade to give up or for Sano to let her go. Genma was sitting next to the swamp, trying to convince Tsunade to give up.

time : 1 minute 36 seconds.

Tsunade opened her mouth to speak : "You can drop the act now, the real Sagara Sanosuke doesn't know any jutsu's." Tsunade said calmly. Sano started laughing as the swamp spit Tsunade out "I think i'll pass, people would hate me if they knew who I was." "That's not true, we would see you as the great warrior you are no matter who you are!" Some of the responses sounded. Sano sighed "If you insist." he said calmly as a cloud of smoke surrounded him, making everyone unable to see him.

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Cliffhangers for everyone! Alright, so maybe I didn't make it a really long fight, but at least you saw some jutsu's, even though they were used by an imposter. Buuuuut if you think about it you might find out who it is :p