Sorry it's taking me so long to update but I had computer problems

Disclaimer I do not own Naruto never have and never will (unless someone's feeling generous). It has been pointed out to me that I have used multiple names for naruto's sister so I decided to put he name here it is Ayame namikaze so disregard every other name I used. I chose Ayame because I like the way it sounds and its been stuck in my head ever since I watched an episode of inuyasha that had the wolf demon Ayame. (This is important since im a huge inuyasha fan and thts where I got the name Ayame from originally) I later found out it's the name of he ramen stand owner's daughter

Prelude to invasion

It was the day of the finals and Naruto was still asleep. Kushina decided Naruto needed a special wake up call so she said, "Ayame, go wake up your brother or he is going to miss his match." Ayame grinned evilly she ran into Naruto's room and jumped on his bed saying, "Naruto get up or you'll miss your match and be a Gennin forever!"

At this Naruto sat up immediately, throwing Ayame off the bed. He then rushed and got dressed in his orange jumpsuit. Only then did he notice Ayame who he looked at quizzically asking, "Why are you on the floor of my room Ayame?"

Ayame glared at Naruto and said, "Mom told me to wake you up so you don't miss your match in the Chunnin finals today, but when you woke up you tossed me off the bed." Naruto simply grinned sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head and apologizing.

When the two got to the kitchen an energy bar was tossed at Naruto while a plate of food was put out for Ayame. Naruto then asked, "Why do I only get an energy bar but she gets a full breakfast?"

Kushina smiled and replied, "You are about to have a tough match so you can't eat a full breakfast or you'd just vomit it all out on the arena floor and no one wants to see that." After Ayame had eaten and Naruto made sure he had everything he needed for the Chunnin finals they left the Namikaze estate and headed for the arena where the finals would be held. Once there, Kushina and Ayame went to go sit with Minato in the Kage's box and Naruto made his way to where all the other finalists were.

Just a little while later he and Neji were called to the arena floor to start their match. The two stood there waiting for the jounin to declare the start of the match. But first they had to listen to Minato's opening speech. Then the fight started, Naruto jumped back out of range for Neji's gentle fist attacks. He then ran through a quick series of hand signs as he took a deep and said, "Fūton: Renkūdan" launching three spiraling bullets of wind at Neji.

Neji didn't make any move to dodge the bullets instead he just put his arms out as he quickly spun in a circle creating a large sphere of chakra saying, "Hakkeshō Kaiten" (Eight Trigrams Palms Heavenly Spin). This caused the wind bullets to explode harmlessly against the charkra sphere. Naruto did his best not to show how much this surprised him.

Neji then said, "You should give up now, you have no way to win this match. You are destined to lose." He then quickly lunged at Naruto in an attempt to draw Naruto into a taijutsu match. Naruto did his best to dodge Neji since he was well aware of what would happen if Neji landed a hit after having watched Neji beat Hinata. Still he wasn't able to dodge completely and ended up with a few of the tanketsu (chakra points) on his left arm being closed.

Naruto then made five quick hand signs and said, "Fūton: Daitoppa" which released a great blast of wind, blowing Neji back. Naruto then considered using his naginata, but realized that against Neji it'd due more harm than good since it meant he'd have to get up close for it to be truly effective, and that would put him in range of Neji's gentle fist techniques. So instead he made a single hand sign and said, "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!", making five Shadow-Clones who proceeded to jump into the air and try to land a punch or kick on Neji only to be repelled by his rotation.

Neji then dropped into a stance Naruto wasn't familiar with and hit each clone multiple times in different places, which caused them to be easily dispersed. Then in a mocking and derisive tone said, "Now do you see that nothing you do can beat me? For I am a genius and I am fated to win, while you simply got here because you father taught you some high rank jutsu." This made Naruto very upset since he had worked hard to learn his techniques and had not gotten to finals because of who his dad is.

Naruto decided Neji needed a lesson in humility and he was going to teach it to him the hard and painful way. So he ran through he signs for Fūton: Daitoppa and launched it at the ground in front of Neji creating a large dust cloud. He then made four shadow clones, which surrounded Neji in the smoke but stayed out of range of his rotation technique. Naruto then bit his thumb and ran through a flurry of hand signs and slammed his palm on the ground and said, "Kuchiyose no jutsu" which caused a medium sized toad to appear. The toad was the same color as gamakichi but slightly taller than Naruto and had armored wrist guards on.

The toad lunged at Neji as the dust cleared keeping him from attacking or focusing on the clones enough to notice they had each surrounded his legs in chakra chains two for each leg. The chains were still loose so Neji could dodge the toad's attacks. Meanwhile the real Naruto was concentrating on the spiraling sphere in the palm of his right hand. Once it was completely finished he jumped up in the air using the sun behind him so Neji couldn't clearly see him coming.

Neji tried to spin for rotation only to find himself unable to move with four clones having wrapped chakra chains around his legs. The toad dispersed itself right as Neji focused on his feat and managed to spin throwing the four clones away and creating the chakra sphere of his rotation right before Naruto would have hit him. As the Rasengan and rotation clashed Neji had a shocked expression on his face as Naruto's rasengan plowed through his rotation instead of being thrown back. Right before it hit him Neji heard Naruto shout in a triumphant voice, "Rasengan!"

As Neji hit the ground slowly fading out of consciousness he heard Naruto say, "Fate isn't predetermined; it's something you make for yourself, as for my jutsu, you're right I did get then from my parents but I perfected them through training and hard work that's how come I made it to the finals and beat you. Not because it was fate or because my dad is the Hokage, but because I worked hard and didn't rely on talent alone." Naruto then left he arena after being declared the winner.

Up in the kage's box Minato was smiling proudly at Naruto beating Neji. He then said, "Would the contestants for the second match please enter the arena." Then an ANBU came and whispered something to him. He then said, "Since the contestant Uchiha Saskue isn't here yet, he and Shikamaru Nara will switch places."

In the contestants box shikamaru was muttering, "Troublesome".

Naruto walked into the box right as shikamaru was leaving for the arena to face Garra. When he passed Shikamaru he said with a very serious expression, "Be careful, there's something wrong with that Gaara. No normal Gennin has that much killing intent, and if he gets a hold of you than forfeit, because dying would be way more troublesome than forfeiting."

Shikamaru nodded his head than continued on to the arena floor. Once there the proctor announced the start of the match and shikamaru jumped back and made a single hand sign saying, "kagemene no jutsu" with that shikamaru's shadow stretched out to grab garra's. Shikamaru smirked a bit at how easy it was to capture Garra. Until shikamaru had to drop the jutsu in order to avoid the sand coming at him.

Realizing that his kagemene no jutsu was useless against Garra since he could control his sand without moving. Shikamaru threw a light bomb at Garra and hid behind a tree crouching with his fingertips held together, hands hanging down between his knees with his eyes closed in concentration. He then raised his hands and came out form behind the tree and said, "I surrender nothing I do will hurt him so I surrender."

The proctor then said, "The winner is Sabaku no Garra".

Up in the kage's box the Kazekage turned to face the Sandime Hiruzen Sarutobi and asked, "What did you think of the match sarutobi-dono?"

The third thought about it for a minute then said, "He made a wise decision. Had he continued the fight the chances of him dying or getting hurt would have been too great, part of being a shinobi is knowing when to retreat and when to stay and fight, this was definitely a time to retreat." The Kazekage nodded his head in understanding then turned his attention to the next match Kankuro vs. Shino. In the end after a long match, Shino won by using his bugs to beat Kankuro's puppet.

The next match was Sakura vs. Temari. As Sakura began to leave for the arena Naruto stopped her and said, "Good luck Sakura-chan I know you will do great."

Sakura blushed a little at his confidence in her and said, "Thanks Naruto I'll give it my best shot after all I cant have you upstaging me." They both laughed at that knowing she was simply joking. Sakura then went down to the arena for her match.

When the match started Sakura threw a couple of kunai and shuriken at temari who blocked them all with her fan. Temari countered with a blast of wind at Sakura knocking her back and slightly cutting her as the blast had blades of wind inside it. Sakura charged at Temari trying to separate her from her fan. Unfortunately Temari was better at taijutsu then Sakura and knocked her back again. As she was sent backwards she threw two kunai at temari. Temari went to knock then away only for one to explode in a flash of light blinding her; she unfolded the fan fully and put in front of her as a shield. Sakura hurriedly made a series of hand signs and said, "Dokugiri!" spewing a poison mist out of her mouth.

Temari quickly used her fan to blow the mist away before it could have any affect on her. Sakura then ran forward and knocked the fan out of Temari's hands. They then engaged in taijutsu where temari knocked Sakura unconscious and winning the match.

Right when the match ended Saskue and Kakashi appeared in a storm of leaves in the center of the arena. Just when Kakashi started to say something about being late Minato interrupted him saying, "Save it Kakashi, it's not like you being late is anything new and now it seems your student is following your example. The next match will be Saskue vs. Garra."

so tell me what you think good or bad. I'll try to have the next chapter out soon but sadly i have papers due and exams coming up so it may be a little while.