Naruto the Elemental Fox
Chapter 10
The Chunin Exams Part 2, the Prelims
Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke entered the tower, which had taken a while to find and getting attacked by other teams and giant animals, covered with cuts and scrapes. Naruto and Sasuke were the ones who were really exhausted; apparently the use of the curse seal and the Kyuubi's youkai had taken a larger toll on their bodies than expected. They then stared at the Heaven and Earth scrolls held in Naruto's hands. They looked at one another and nodded to each other. Naruto handed the heaven scroll to Sakura and very carefully they opened the scrolls and they saw bewildered them. There in the centre of the scroll was the kanji for "HUMAN".
"Human, Mankind, what's that supposed to mean?" Sakura asked. No one answered, but then the scrolls in their hands began to smoke from the kanjis. Sasuke eyes widened in surprise, "SAKURA, NARUTO DROP THE SCROLLS NOW!!" he yelled to them. Naruto and Sakura then threw the steaming scrolls away like as if it was about to explode, which it did. A large plume of smoke appeared when the scrolls hit the ground and the shadow of something could be seen inside it.
"Hey guys, long time no see" the figure said.
"Wait you're…" Sasuke began. The smoke cleared to reveal our very own scar nosed Chunin, Umino Iruka. Iruka looked at them with a smile, "You guys look like you've been through a lot" he said. Iruka then noticed something hit his chest and caused him to fall flat on his butt.
"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto yelled in happiness. Iruka looked at the whisker marked genin and then ruffled Naruto's hair.
"Good to see you too, Naruto" Iruka said with a smile.
"Iruka-sensei, what were you doing inside a summoning scroll?" Sakura asked. Iruka got Naruto off of him and then got up.
"Good question Sakura, I'm here to congratulate you on passing the second part of the Chunin exams and by my calculations you are 2 days early meaning you can rest for the next 2 days" Iruka said looking at a pocket watch he took out. Team 7 was silent, they passed they had just passed the second round of their very first Chunin exams. Then the silence was broken when Naruto started to jump up and down and whooping with joy, Sakura and Sasuke sat down, their legs too tired to support their weight.
"I see you haven't slown down a bit eh Naruto, I would treat you guys to Ichiraku, but…" Iruka inquired. Sasuke looked up, "Yeah, but that's life" he said with a shrug. Sakura then looked around the room and noticed a plaque on the wall.
"Iruka-sensei what's that plaque for, it looks like moth have been at it and why are their spaces in between some of the words?" Iruka looked at where Sakura was looking, "Oh right, I nearly forgot, that's the real reason I'm here" Iruka said. Naruto stopped jumping around and looked at his former sensei, "What do you mean, the real reason you're here?" Naruto asked. Iruka looked at the heaven and earth scrolls on the ground, "Well first let me tell you the true purpose of this exam, it was to test your skills in being able to survive and also your trust." Iruka said.
"Trust?" Sasuke said. Iruka nodded, "Well on some missions, you might be asked to deliver an important item that is not supposed to be opened until it is delivered to your client and also you must not cave in to pressure, remember chunin are the team commanders in almost every mission and trust and strength of will and body are important qualities in being one" Iruka said. The genin nodded before asking about the plaque again.
"Now you see, that plaque has a speech written by the hokage himself to guide all to-be Chunin, the blank spaces are filled in by either the words heaven or earth, such as in the 3rd line, that space is filled in by heaven meaning you need to raise your mind to greater heights, for example, if Naruto hopes to become hokage he must first get focus and become serious about his studies…" Iruka began. Sakura and Sasuke chuckled at this, but Naruto scowled.
'I am smart, I was hiding it during the academy' Naruto thought.
"And" Iruka continued gaining back the genin's attention, "If you require the attribute of Earth in which you need to gain the strength to fight off any opponent and survive any challenge like Sakura who as skinny as a twig needs to build some stamina and strength if she hopes to become chunin" Iruka said. Naruto and Sasuke chuckled at her, Sakura then blushed in embarrassment.
"And if you require both skills of heaven and earth then you can complete any mission without fail" Iruka finished.
"Hai, sensei" Naruto said. Iruka didn't answer which caused Naruto to get a bit uneasy.
"Listen guys, these exams are tough and grueling and some people have even died in them, I'm just worried about you Rookie 9, especially you Naruto, your fiery temper tends to interfere with your judgment" Iruka said in a sad tone. Naruto eyes flashed red for a second,
"Iruka-sensei, I am not a kid anymore, this hitai-ate you gave me is proof of my maturity, I'm a Konoha shinobi, understand?" Naruto said with a tone of confidence. Iruka looked shocked, he had never heard Naruto speak like this before, but then that shock turned to a smile.
'Kakashi, you really do know these kids more than I do now' he thought.
"I understand Naruto; now go to the rooms assigned to you while you wait for the next 2 days"
"Hai" they answered, but then Naruto stopped mid-step. "Iruka-sensei, I want Sasuke and me to go speak with Jiji." "Sure Naruto, this way"
Sasuke, Naruto and Iruka then left to go to the hokage while Sakura went to go to her room, but then she smelled something, and it smelled like… "FOOD!!" she yelled and raced off in the direction of the smell.
With the Hokage
Anko was on the chair in the hokage's office with her shoulder open to all those present, the curse seal mark given to her by her former mentor Orochimaru.
"Does the curse mark still hurt?" Sarutobi asked her. Anko adjusted the shoulder of her coat.
"Much less, arigato hokage-sama" Anko said. Sarutobi nodded, Kotetsu and Izumo, who were in the room looked at their leader.
"Hokage-sama, isn't Orochimaru one of the 3 sanin of Konoha that became a nuke-nin?" Kotetsu asked. Sarutobi looked at the chunin and nodded.
"I thought he went into hiding or maybe died, so why reappear now?" Izumo asked. The Sandaime took a puff of his pipe.
"Because, Izumo, Kotetsu, he is here for Uchiha Sasuke." He answered. The 2 chunin were shocked at what they just heard. They then decided not press on the matter any further and watched the screen where a camera showed the teams who made it to the tower.
Knock Knock
The Hokage looked at the door, "Enter", he said. The door opened and the people he least expected to come arrived through his door. Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke stepped through the door.
"Hey Jiji, what's up?" Naruto said with his signature foxy grin. The Hokage looked at the 2 boys before welcoming them.
"So what are you two doing here?" Sarutobi asked.
"Well Sasuke and I want you to look at our seals" Naruto said. "Naruto!" the Sandaime said in an angry tone. "He knows, Sakura too" Naruto said in a calm tone. Sarutobi then calmed down and then Naruto lifted his shirt up to show his stomach. He then channeled chakra and the Kyuubi's seal became visible, but over the Kyuubi's seal was the Gogyo Fuuin.
"Ah, I see the problem, apparently there's been an odd numbered seal placed over the original 8 trigrams seal, okay Naruto just sit still and I'll get rid of it" Sandaime said. He then flashed through handsigns and then his fingertip glowed with green fire.
"Gogyo Fuuin Kai/ Five Pronged Seal Release" he shouted. Naruto gasped as the wind got knocked out of him from the hokage's fingers being thrusted into his stomach. He fell to his hands and knees to catch his breath, but got up a few seconds later.
In Naruto's mindscape
The fiery vortex instantly vanished and Kyuubi began to hop around and howl with joy.
Outside mindscape
Hey kit, miss me, Kyuubi said with a grin. "Tou-san you're back, SUGOI!!" Naruto then told Kyuubi about what happened before the seal was removed. Sasuke then stepped forward and showed Sarutobi the curse mark.
"Oh Sasuke, I'm very sorry, but I don't know how to get rid of that seal, but I can make a seal to prevent its influence, but the seal's strength relies on your will power to remain intact" he said. "I don't care, I don't want to go with that pedophilic snake baka, do it" Sasuke said. Sarutobi nodded and then applied the seal.
"All done, you boys can go now" Sarutobi said with a grandfatherly smile.
"Arigato" they said and left the room with smiles on their faces.
Outside Hokage's office
"To the cafeteria?", Naruto said with his foxy grin. Sasuke chuckled, "To the cafeteria my brother, AWAY!!" Sasuke yelled and the two boys sped off to meet Sakura at the café.
At the Café
Sakura was sitting at a table with a plate piled high with food. There were burgers, fries, ice-cream, salads, toast, eggs, ramen, onigiri and many other delicacies. Naruto and Sasuke walked in and saw the leaning tower of Sakura. There mouths agape, they grabbed their plates, got their food, but not as much as Sakura, and sat with her.
"Sakura, I thought girls wanted to watch their figure not become sumo wrestlers" Naruto said. Sakura looked at them and giggled, "Of course I can't eat all this, I got this stuff for you guys, this is my food" she said moving aside the large tray of food and behind it was a salad, a couple onigiri and a bottle of water. The 2 boys sighed in relief before grabbing the leaning tower of food and scarfing it all down, taking sips of water in between and in a time of 10 minutes the mountain was reduced to a pile of breadcrumbs, dribbles of ice-cream and splatters of ramen soup mixed with rice grains.
"Ah that was good" Naruto said with a little anime smoke cloud puffing out of his mouth when he belched. Sasuke nodded patting his fat stomach and belched loudly. Sakura was staring wide-eyed, sure she finished, but she didn't expect the boys to finish in that amount of time.
"How did you guys do that?" Sakura asked. "It's a male thing Sakura, neh Naruto?" Sasuke said, Naruto nodded before getting up.
"I'm gonna go take a nap, later guys" Naruto said with a wave. "Bye Naruto" they both said as they watched their teammate's retreating back.
"So wanna go to the room, Sasuke?" Sakura said with a sly grin on her face. Sasuke's face brightened before grabbing Sakura's arm and racing off to her room with Sakura laughing loudly throughout the tower.
In Naruto's Mindscape
Naruto was sitting once again at the chess table playing with Kyuubi. Kyuubi sent his rook into the fight and took out Naruto's knight. Naruto grinned and then sent his queen, killing Kyuubi's last knight and putting the king in check. Kyuubi moved his king out of harms way and while doing so e aw an opportunity for checkmate, but hoped Naruto didn't notice it. Kyuubi's praying t Kami worked, for Naruto moved his pawn forward and Kyuubi sent in his rook and put Naruto in checkmate.(Kyuubi's in human form by the way)
I win kit, good game though, Kyuubi said with his vulpine grin. Naruto sighed and said "Tou-san I let you win, I noticed the opening and I felt sorry for you since I always one after our very 2nd game". Kyuubi scowled before turning his back on Naruto and pouted like a little child. Naruto laughed and then got p to stretch his aching muscles from sitting down for so long.
Ok kit, new technique time for during your fight, Kyuubi said. Naruto's eyes sparkled and then grabbed Kyuubi by his arm. "Arigatoarigatoarigato" he said with a smile. Kyuubi chuckled before prying his kit off his arm.
Ok kit, here take this piece of paper, Kyuubi said holding out a square piece of paper to Naruto. Naruto took the paper and looked at it quizzically.
"What is this Kyuubi tou-san?" he asked. Kyuubi looked at Naruto and went into lecture mode. Naruto looked at Kyuubi and paled, oh no not another boring lecture.
Kit are you familiar with the 5 jutsu elements of wind, water, fire, lightning and earth? Kyuubi asked Naruto. Naruto nodded, "But what does this have to do with the paper?" Naruto asked.
That paper is no ordinary paper, it is a special paper which shows your chakra nature, Kyuubi said. Naruto gasped, "What's chakra nature?" he asked. Chakra nature is the elemental affinity of your chakra for example, the Uchiha specialize in fire jutsus so therefore they have a fire chakra affinity so basically it is to show which field of jutsu you specialize in. Some people have 2 or 3 chakra affinities by jonin level, but I feel there's something special about yours Naruto, Kyuubi said. Naruto nodded at the explanation.
"So how do I work this?" he asked. Just pump chakra into the paper and depending on what happens to the paper will determine your chakra affinity. If the paper is cut you're wind, if the paper is burned, fire, if the paper crumples, lightning, paper becomes soaked, water, and if the paper turns to dust, earth, understood?, Kyuubi asked. Naruto nodded and then closed his eyes and focused his chakra into the piece of paper in his open palm. Then Kyuubi saw the most extraordinary thing happen. The paper was cut by a very powerful whirlwind into 4 pieces. One piece then burned, another crumpled, another became soaked and the last piece turned to dust. Kyuubi was wide-eyed, slack-jawed and speechless. Naruto opened his eyes and saw what happened to the paper and grinned.
"YATTA, I have all the elements of chakra" he yelled in a sing-song voice.
Such a thing has not happened since, well, me. I thought I was the only one with the ability to have all 5 chakras, but I guess my sealing in you has given you it, Kyuubi said. Naruto then stopped jumping and asked Kyuubi, "So which jutsu will I learn?" he asked.
Well I guess your abilities should have been noticeable since you were able to use those 5 elemental dragons from the scroll, Kyuubi said to himself and then bean muttering about other things. Naruto started to become very annoyed at this.
"HEY FURBALL!!" Naruto yelled. Kyuubi looked at Naruto with murder in his eyes, "Don't you ever call me furball again young man or else I won't teach you for a whole year. Kyuubi said in an angry tone. Naruto nodded as he tried not to pee his pants.
"So what will I be learning tou-san?" he asked again. Kyuubi thought for a few seconds before snapping his fingers with realization.
Ok kit your first of the many jutsus I will be teaching you is Raikurai no Jutsu/Thunderbolt Jutsu it sends a concentrated bolt of lightning chakra from your finger tips and badly damages the opponent. The more chakra you add, the stronger it is. Observe, he said. Kyuubi then performed some handsigns; he then positioned his hand as if he was pointing at the tree with his pointer and middle fingers, the buzzing of electricity coming from his fingers. Then sparks started coming off from it and then Kyuubi gave a yell and a powerful lightning blot blasted the tree to bits. Naruto covered his eyes before thinking, 'Sugoi/Amazing' and then with a smile began to try it himself. Kyuubi then stopped him.
"Tou-san, why did you stop me?" Naruto asked. Because kit you have to learn the necessary exercises to convert your ordinary chakra into the elemental chakra and master it. A light bulb, a leaf, a stick, and a small rock appeared in the bijuu's hand.
These objects are needed for mastering the conversion of chakra. If you can light this light bulb for more than 10 minutes then you have mastered lightning chakra, to master wind, cut the leaf in half, to master earth, change the rock to mud, light this stick ablaze for fire and for water, go to the pond and try and make a water pillar 12 ft. tall to master water. These were the exercises I was given by master for my elemental training. Kyuubi said and as he said this the 9000 year old demon looked as if he'd aged a few more thousand years. Naruto then wondered how he would do all this within 2 days, for he wanted to learn before the fighting part of the exams started. Then a lightbulb appeared above his head. Naruto growled and saw Kyuubi holding a lightbulb.
Not so funny when somebody does it you, isn't it? Kyuubi said with a grin. Naruto then made the cross shaped sign for his favourite jutsu.
"Tajuu Kagebunshin no Jutsu/ Mass shadow clone Jutsu" he yelled and then thousands of clones appeared.
"Ok guys I made 4900 of you, so including me there's 5000 me's here, s we'll be splitting into 5 groups, 1000 me's in each group. Naruto then pointed at the first thousand, "You guys practice fire," he pointed at a next group, "wind for you guys" he said. He pointed at two more groups for earth and water, "And the final group will be you 999 will be with me for lightning training, understood?" he asked his clones. A chorus of "Hai's" was heard and the designated tool for each training exercise appeared n the hands of each clone. Kyuubi watched from the shade of an oak tree in Naruto's made up meadow/forest landscape.
Remember kit; use your chakra only to do those exercises, the demon lord reminded his adopted son. The Narutos nodded and resumed their exercises. Kyuubi chuckled, oh the kit was going to be tired for a while, by a while I mean a looooooong time after he was done with this and learning the Rakurai no Jutsu. Kyuubi then yawned, before going into his fox form, going into regular size, which by the way was huge, and fell asleep to sounds of Narutos groaning in concentration as they tried the exercise.
1 day later
Naruto's Mindscape
"Hey tou-san, check this out" Naruto said waking up the large fox. Kyuubi blinked his eyes as they adjusted to the bright light of the sun made in Naruto's mind. The great Kyuubi yawned before looking down at his adopted son.
What kit?, the lord of foxes asked.
Naruto then made a cross-seal, "Kagebunshin no Jutsu" he said. 4 clones then poofed into existence, each one with the object used for each individual elemental exercise, the Naruto with the stick in his hand focused his chakra and then a blazing yellow and red flame turned it to ashes. Kyuubi nodded with a grin. The one with the rock did the same and the rock started to liquefy forming mud, one then ran all the way to the pond and put his palm on the water. The clone focused his chakra and then a pillar of water at least 15 ft. tall sprang up before falling back down. The clone with the leaf placed the leaf between his hands and then focused his chakra. It then removed its hand and there lay the leaf cut perfectly in half along the mid vein and then original Naruto made a lightbulb form in his hand. He then focused his chakra and then the lightbulb lit.
10 minutes later
Naruto then cut off his chakra and the lightbulb flickered off. Kyuubi looked astonished, he had taken at least a month to finish these exercises, even with bunshins, but Naruto managed to do it within a day.
Kit, I have never been more proud than I am now. Good job, now time for that Raikurai no Jutsu, he said. Naruto nodded and made some handsigns. Naruto then pointed out his pointer and middle fingers and placed his hand by his waist. He then began moving his hand in a circular motion, a humming sound was heard coming from it. Then when Naruto noticed sparks start to form on his fingertips he thrust his hand out and then a powerful lighting bolt shot from his hand and completely obliterated a tree turning it into splinters. Kyuubi clapped his paws and chuckled, jutsus he had learned that took at least weeks to learn, had been learned in a day by this boy.
Still prouder then ever my boy, now you have one more day before the chunin exams so get ready to learn a lot of jutsus and fall from chakra exhaustion.
Naruto nodded, "Hai Kyuubi sensei". Kyuubi chuckled, Now then, let's begin.
With Sakura and Sasuke
The 2 of them were lying down on Sakura's bed sleeping in each other's arms, well Sakura was and she was SNORING. Sasuke looked up at the ceiling with bags under his eyes. It was a wonder why Naruto, who was on the bed next to theirs, was still asleep.
'Dear kami I couldn't sleep at all because of her snoring, but at least I got a whole lot a making out done with Sakura-chan so it was totally worth it' the Uchiha survivor thought with a happy grin on his face. He then fell asleep, too tired to complain about Sakura's snoring, (A/N: You know how u have 1 of those moments where you're so tired that you could block out any sound once you fall asleep, yeah that's what Sasuke just had).
The Tower Café
Teams 8 and 10 had just reached the tower and were exhausted both mentally and physically from running from all those giant reptiles, mammals and insects. Kiba and Akamaru were rapidly making a huge piece of steak disintegrate into their mouths, Chouji was the same as Kiba except he was eating a mountain, no not even a mountain, a fuckin' Mount Everest sized plate of food and was slowly, but surely eating away at it with all the speed he had. Shikamaru went to his room to sleep, Ino and Hinata had forgotten all about their manners that were taught to them and were rapidly eating away at the food placed before them. Shino was the only one with some dignity left and was using his cutlery to eat at some pancakes.
After the meal, the 2 teams then left to their respective rooms to sleep and later discuss plans on how to fight their opponents.
Team 10's Room
After sleeping
"Alright guys were going to need to do some serious training if we want to become chunin" Ino said, being the self-proclaimed leader of the team. Chouji took out a bag a of chips, while Shikamaru yawned.
"Troublesome" he said. A vein appeared above Ino's eyebrows as her eye twitched in annoyance. "Come on guys, if we're gonna become chunin we need to get serious" she yelled. Shikamaru covered his ears, "Do you have to yell there are other people here too you know." Ino then calmed down, as Shikamaru spoke.
"Ok, Chouji, these fights are most likely going to be one-on-one, so you need to make a strategy for yourself, Ino you have to find a way to keep your enemies still if your going to use your Shintenshin no Jutsu/ Mind Transfer Jutsu of course if the opponent is a foreigner, you could have the element of surprise seeing as they might not know the move, but you have to take precautions, as for me, you know how I operate." He said. Ino and Chouji nodded, but then Chouji asked, "Hey how come we have to have strategies, but you don't?"
Shikamaru sighed, "For 2 reasons, 1, It's too troublesome and 2, I come with strategies once I have finished analyzing my opponents, I thought you knew that Chouji" he said. Chouji nodded before going back to his bed and began eating his chips while thinking about how to fight his opponents. Ino also went to bed, while thinking what Chouji was thinking and Shikamaru yawned, muttered "Troublesome Chunin Exams will finally finish tomorrow" and then fell asleep on the floor which actually turned to be pretty comfortable.
Team 8's Room
After their nap
"Ah, that was a pretty well deserved rest" Kiba said with a yawn. "Yup" Hinata and Shino said. A moment of silence then spread throughout the room. Hinata then spoke up.
"So, Kiba-kun, Shino-kun, what will we be doing about our fights during this last part of the exams?" Kiba and Shino looked at her with clueless looks, Hinata has learned to tell what Shino's expressions were after hanging around with him so much during their team training.
"Well I'm just gonna beat the shit out of who ever I'm facing, but I'm gonna forfeit immediately if we come up against your cousin, Neji…" Kiba said. Hinata got angry when she heard her baka cousin's name. "Or that Sand guy, he gives me the creeps, especially after what happened in the forest of Death" he added. Hinata's anger quickly dissipated when she heard about Gaara and Shino remained quiet as always as they remembered the incident, Akamaru whined in fear inside Kiba's jacket.
Flashback (I'm changing my flashback font from bold to underline okay)
Kiba, Hinata and Shino were jumping through the trees towards the tower, as they had just ambushed another team and got their Earth scroll. Kiba then stopped and sniffed the air, "Hey guys there's some people up ahead"
Hinata then flashed through handsigns, "Byakugan/ The All-Seeing Evil Eye" The veins around Hinata's eyes then became visible as her clan dojutsu was activated. Her vision then increased 100 fold as she looked a few kilometers ahead and the chakra signatures of the people Kiba smelt.
"Around 3 people, but one of them has a strange chakra" she said. "Let's go check it out" Shino suggested. The other 2 nodded and then quietly yet swiftly they jumped through the trees to the destination of the strange people.
After jumping for a few minutes they dropped to ground level and hid behind some ur bushes after sensing the chakra signatures of the strange 3 people. And as it turns out, those people were the Suna genin team. In front of the Suna team there stood a team of Ame genin.
"Surrender your scroll and we'll let you live" the one in the middle said. The Suna team remained silent, until Gaara spoke. "I am Subaku no Gaara and if you don't get out my way I'll kill YOU!!" he said in the tone of that of maniac. The Ame genin trembled before taking out their battle umbrellas.
"Eat this" they said. They threw their umbrellas into the air and then kept them up their and spun them with chakra.
"Ame Senbon no Jutsu/ Raining Senbon Jutsu" the Ame team said. Then the spinning umbrellas released a huge wave of senbon at Gaara. A thwacking sound was heard a sign that the senbon hit something.
"We got him" the one on the left said. "Yeah, he's probably dead" the one on the right said. The smoke cloud created from the impact of the senbon cleared and their stood Gaara in all his glory with a wall of sand which blocked the senbon.
"Raining Senbon eh, let's make rain blood instead" he said getting a wild look in his eyes. The sand from the wall and some more sand from Gaara' now open gourd flowed towards the Ame genin. The sand then enveloped the 3, Gaara smiled evilly and thrust his hand out.
"Subaku Kyu/ Sand Coffin" he said. Gaara then closed his outstretched hand as if he was squeezing something.
"Subaku Kosu/ Sand Burial" the sand then imploded and crushed the ninja inside so fast they didn't even have time to scream. A large fountain of blood then blew out of the sand and fell onto the ground in front of Gaara. Hinata and her teammates were shocked at this genin's show of power, skill and not even show a hint of remorse when killing those 3 genin. Kankuro then started shouting at Gaara as he picked up the scroll while Gaara and Temari just stood there. Kiba then hear something that sounded like, "I don't see you 2 as siblings, only as teammates, no more". The Gaara's team then jumped away leaving a sick looking Team 8 behind the bushes.
End Flashback
Team 8 then decided it was time for bed again as they needed a lot of rest for tomorrow.
With Team 7
In Naruto's Mindscape
Naruto was lying on the ground exhausted from his elemental jutsu training done with Kyuubi.
'Kuso, my chakra is completely gone and I'm dead tired, I learned at least 20 elemental jutsus since I have all the chakra natures, but I didn't know the training would be this tough.' The blonde jinchuriki thought. Naruto then got up and walked over to Kyuubi who was gazing into a pond,( this one was a regular one, not the pond that makes him see what Naruto sees), looking at the multicoloured koi fish swimming around like as if they were dancing.
"Oi/ Hey tou-san, I'm tired and the fights are tomorrow so can I sleep now?" he asked with a yawn. The fox lord nodded and then returned to watching the fish. Naruto grinned before closing his eyes and he left his mindscape to sleep in the land of dreams a.k.a reality.
Outside Naruto's Mindscape
Naruto woke with a start and saw a very kawaii/cute scene before him. Sasuke was lying on his back with his arm wrapped around Sakura's waist and Sakura resting her head on his chest. Naruto smiled and then shut his eyes and went back to sleep.
"Kobanwa/ Good night/evening, Sasuke nii, Sakura nee" he said.
The Day of the Chunin Exam Finals
The jonin instructors, Ibiki, Anko and the Hokage were standing in front of a large statue of a pair of hands in the ram sign in a large room before the various genin teams that survived the forest. The teams that survived were Gaara's team, the rookie 9 and the Oto team and Kabuto's Team.
'So the Rookie 9 made it, no wonder their jonin instructors allowed them to take this exam' the hokage thought.
'Uchiha Sasuke and you blonde- haired kid, you 2 will pay for breaking my arms' Zaku thought.
'So the Uchiha made' Neji thought with a smirk.
'Yosh Gai-sensei, I will make you proud!!" Lee mentally yelled.
'Naruto-kun's team made it, yay' Hinata thought.
'I'll beat that Sakura-teme for stealing Sasuke-kun from me' Ino thought.
"Welcome one and all to the annual chunin exams, now I will tell you that the reason we have this exam is to promote friendship between all our various villages, however I see these exams as a so called 'miniature war' between us" Sarutobi said.
"A miniature war?" Tenten said to herself with a confused look on her face.
"So let me reiterate before the third exam begins, you are taking no ordinary test! You are risking your very lives, hopes and dreams in order to do this exam" he said.
"Let's just hurry up and get to the fighting already" Gaara said with impatience.
"Oh we have an eager one here" Sarutobi said with a chuckle a poof of smoke then appeared in front of the Sandaime. A pale looking man with messy raven black hair, bags under his eyes and looked like he had a bad cold appeared before the crowd.
"Gomen for interrupting Hokage-sama, but please allow me, Gekko Hayate, proctor of the third exam to speak" Hayate said. "Very well, carry on" Sandaime said with a puff of his pipe.
"Ok, anyone who wants to leave now, do so immediately." he said. Kabuto then raised his hand. Naruto looked surprised.
"Kabuto, why?" Naruto said with a confused tone. "Gomen-nasai Naruto, but in the forest of death, I damaged my inner ear due to a scuffle with some more Oto nins, therefore in this state I won't be able to go into situations which require combat" Kabuto explained. Naruto sighed before going silent and stared at the floor.
"Sasuke maybe you should leave too, that mark could cause you a lot of trouble during the fights" Sakura whispered. Sasuke scratched the crook of his neck where the seal lay at bay by the protection seal.
"It's okay Sakura-chan, I can handle it, and Sandaime-sama put a protection seal to prevent it from taking over like last time." "But what if that seal fails Sasuke-kun, what will you do then?" Sakura said a bit louder. Sakura then began to raise her hand, but Sasuke stopped her.
"Sakura, urasai, this exam is more than just an opportunity to become chunin. It's a way to test my strength and fight the best of the best" Sasuke said as he remembered Gaara, Neji, Lee and the Oto Nins. Naruto, who had been listening to all of this, began to get very angry at Sasuke's avenger attitude.
"Sasuke, look Sakura's just worried about you. Don't be stupid if you know that the curse seal might affect you then give up and stop tying to be cool" Naruto whispered loudly.
Sasuke turned to Naruto with a smirk. "Naruto nii-san, you are the one I want to fight the most. Naruto became silent as he looked at Sasuke as if he'd just grown a second head. Then Naruto smiled, "Then don't lose because I want to fight you too" he replied. Kabuto had long left when Team 7's conversation ended.
"Ok since that's it, we shall now start the preliminaries since there are still too many examinees in this place, so in order to reduce it we will have the prelims" Hayate said. The sickly jonin turned to his fellow jonin, Anko and nodded. Anko then spoke into the headset she wore and then a whirring sound was heard as an electronic board appeared from a panel in the wall. The genin looked at the board.
"Ok you genin, this electronic board will show the names of the 2 competitors who will fight while everyone else will wait for their respective turns up on the balcony right there, and start the board" Hayate said. The board then started to flash through names at a high speed making the letters of the people's names look like blurs.
"Uchiha Sasuke and Akado Yoroi remain here while everyone else left to the balcony" Hayate ordered. The genin, except for Sasuke and Yoroi all left to the balcony. Kakashi then walked up to Sasuke when all the other jonin instructors were going to see their teams.
"Sasuke don't use the Sharingan, the curse will react every time you use it" Kakashi said. "But sensei, Sandaime-sama put up a protection seal that is strengthened by my will to not use the power of the curse" Sasuke said. Kakashi sighed, "Alright, but if the seal starts to activate the match will end and you will be disqualified, got it" Kakashi said in a serious tone. Sasuke nodded and then Kakashi shunshined to where Naruto and Sakura were.
"Ok you 2 ready?" Hayate asked. "Hai" they both said.
"Then Haijime/Begin", Hayate said as he leapt to the Hokage's side. Yoroi then took out a few shuriken and threw them at Sasuke. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and took out a kunai. He then slashed downwards sending the shuriken flying back at Yoroi. Yoroi then appeared behind Sasuke and was about to punch his head, but Sasuke ducked, dug his kunai into the ground and then tripped Yoroi and pinned him to the ground with his legs.
Yoroi then raised a glowing hand and grabbed Sasuke's leg. Sasuke then felt all his strength start to leave him.
"What the hell are you doing you teme?" Sasuke asked angrily. Yoroi then got out from Sasuke's grip and punched him in the face. Yoroi then grabbed Sasuke's head and then began to suck away his chakra.
"You're sucking away my chakra." Sasuke realized. "Hehe, yup and now you're gonna lose" Yoroi said. Meanwhile up on the balcony the Oto- team's sensei was watching the match intently, but what the people here didn't know is that this particular jonin was Orochimaru in disguise.
'Yes Yoroi suck out his strength so that he will have to rely on the power of my precious curse mark' Orochimaru thought licking his lips. Sasuke then all of a sudden felt new found strength and kicked away Yoroi. Sasuke panted as he tried to think up his next move.
"Bad time to daydream now, Uchiha" Yoroi said as he was about to grab Sasuke. Poof!! Yoroi was surprised, 'Kagebunshin' he thought. Yoroi was then kicked in the back by a foot courtesy of Sasuke.
"You see I had already switched my self with a kagebunshin and henged into a kunai and pulled this sneak attack on you, but I was surprised by your abilities Yoroi, now time for you to face my ultimate finishing move" Sasuke said, the 2 tomoe in each Sharingan eye spinning rapidly.
"Kagebunshin no Jutsu" he said. 5 Sasuke's appeared in a poof of smoke. Two of them ran up to Yoroi with amazing speed and double punched him the face. A third then shunshined underneath Yoroi and sent a strong uppercut to Yoroi's chin sending the older genin a good 5ft above ground. The fourth clone then appeared and did a backflip which ended doing a powerful kick to Yoroi's chin sending Yoroi even higher into the air. On the balcony Naruto smiled, "Okay Sasuke, finish this" he said. Sasuke looked at his brother and nodded shunshining in front of the floating Yoroi.
"Time to lose" he said. Sasuke then did a punch to Yoroi's face, then shunshined below the falling genin and kicked him back up, then shunshined far above the rising genin and did a front flip doing a powerful heel kick to his stomach. Yoroi gasped in pain, and then Sasuke appeared behind Yoroi and did a very unsuspecting thing. His fists and feet caught a fire, but he wasn't burning. The Uchiha just smiled before giving a battle cry as he spun to kick Yoroi in the head, but Yoroi managed to block it. Sasuke then used the force of his kick to twist his body and deliver a flaming kick to the boy's stomach. Sasuke then punched Yoroi with a flaming fist to the face and then as they were only 3 ft. above the ground Sasuke quickly spun his body and a very powerful, flaming kick to Yoroi's stomach and yelled the name of his Rendan/combo.
"Doki no Ryu Rendan/Dragon's Wrath Barrage" (If anyone has any better suggestions let me know and I might change it if it's cool).Sasuke yelled as he slammed his flaming heel into Yoroi's belly as they hit the ground and upon impact a pillar of flame rose from the spot where Sasuke and Yoroi were. The flames quickly died down and there stood Sasuke over a burned Yoroi and a piece of his shirt still burning. The medics came and took away Yoroi who was suffering from second degree burns all over his body and internal bleeding.
"Winner, Uchiha Sasuke" Hayate said. Naruto and Sakura were whooping with joy while the others were wondering how Sasuke was able to that thing with the fire. Sasuke then shoved his hands in his pockets and walked to his team with a smirk.
"What ever training Kakashi did with Sasuke it sure worked", Asuma said to Kurenai, whose teams just happened to next to each other. "Yeah, but what about Sakura and Naruto, I'm wondering about their growth now that I've seen this year's rookie of the year fight". Asuma nodded and lit a cigarette.
Flash-forward
Kankuro vs. Tsurugi Misumi- Winner Kankuro
Shino vs. Zaku- Winner Shino
Temari vs. Tenten- Winner Temari
End Flash- forward
The people then began to talk about the fights, Kankuro's was very sneaky making his you
puppet fight for him before ambushing his opponent, Shino showed surprising skill with his family's clan jutsus with the use of his Kikai bugs, Zaku might have won with that move he pulled with pretending for his arms to be broken, but got his arm blown off in the end. The board's flashing then ruined the people's trains of thought.
"Haruno Sakura vs. Yamanaka Ino" Hayate called. The two kunoichi were, all I could say is, shocked due to lack of a smarter sounding word. The girl' then walked down to the floor and faced each other.
"Sakura, you're gonna pay for taking Sasuke-kun from me" Ino said. Sakura grinned before removing her hitai-ate from its hair band style before tying around her forehead.
"Come on Ino tie it around your forehead, I'll wait remember, we made a pact that when we fight each other, we wear our hitai-ate like true shinobi" Sakura said. Ino nodded and removed her hitai-ate from her left thigh and tied it around her forehead.
Flashback
Sakura and Ino were standing in front of the Ninja Academy facing each other.
"Look Ino, I know we're friends, but since we both want Sasuke, we're rivals now and since we're both qualified shinobi now." She said. Ino was surprised, "You know I'm gonna get him right and besides why throw away a friendship for Sasuke-kun!" Ino shouted. Sakura sighed, "Don't worry we can reform it when one of us gets Sasuke, and also when we fight…" Sakura paused when Ino looked at her to continue her statement. "We fight with our hitai-ate's on our foreheads like true shinobi, swear that to me" she said. Ino nodded and shook Sakura's hand.
End Flashback
Ino and Sakura glared at each other before going in for the attack. Sakura and Ino both threw punches at each other and caught each others respective punches as if they were mimicking each other's movements, they then began doing similar punches and kicks which connected with each other. Sakura then jumped away and performed kagebunshin, but Ino just thought they were regular bunshins.
"This isn't the academy Sakura, you can't beat me with basic bunshin no jutsu!" she shouted. The 3 Sakura's then rushed Ino as Ino prepared to fight back.
"Well Ino it's a good thing this is not an academy level jutsu." She said as she focused chakra into her entire leg structure. Ino looked surprised, "W-What do you mean?"
"I mean this isn't bunshin no jutsu, this I learned from Uzumaki Naruto himself, Kagebunshin no Jutsu" she said. The Sakura's then disappeared and reappeared in front of Ino's shocked face before one kagebunshin tripped Ino and while Ino was falling the clone that tripped her kicked her back up into the waiting fist of another kagebunshin who punched Ino the face back towards the Sakura bunshin that kicked her. This was repeated constantly. The people in the stand were sweatdropping.
"Ino looks just like one of those blow-up weighted punching bag things, where when you hit it, it just comes back up" Shikamaru said with a grin, Chouji was eating his bag of chips and Asuma was smoking a cigarette trying not to chuckle at the sight before him. Team 7 and 8, minus Shino, were rolling on the floor laughing while Shino just raised his eyebrows in amusement. Temari was struggling not to laugh, Kankuro was laughing, while Baki (their jonin sensei) and Gaara showed Shino's expression.
Ino then managed to dodge the punching Sakura bunshin and grab its outstretched arm and bonking it on the head, dispelling it and then did a quick kick to the other bunshin also dispelling it. The original Sakura then appeared behind the beat up Ino and tapped her shoulder. Ino turned around to get a fist to her face sending her flying across the arena floor. Ino got up and wiped her mouth which had blood on it.
"It's not possible, you can't be stronger than me" Ino said. Sakura smiled, "Hey when you train with Naruto, you're bound to get stronger" she said. Ino was puzzled, "How Naruto's just a big baka, the class clown, a dobe how can you possibly learn to be stronger from…" but Ino didn't get to finish when a powerful uppercut hit her in the chin, followed by a series of rapid punches all over Ino's body and finishing with a swift kick sending Ino flying. Sakura walked towards the broken Ino with fire surround her and her eyes went blank, a sign that Inner Sakura was unleashed.
"Don't ever insult Naruto nii-san again, you hear me bitch" Sakura yelled grabbing Ino by the collar. Ino chuckled before forming the tori/bird handsign.
"Shintenshin no Jutsu/ Mind Transfer Jutsu" she said as her spirit left her body and entered Sakura's. The Konoha genin were surprised.
'Ino allowed herself to get beat and lead Sakura to the point where Sakura would grab Ino like that and then use her Shintenshin no Jutsu. Brilliant, very stupid to take on an angered Sakura, but still brilliant' Naruto thought after getting over the fact that Ino had just insulted him.
Ino's body then fell to the floor as Sakura lost her grip on it. Sakura's head was downcast, her bangs covering her eyes. "What's going on Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto and Sasuke asked with concern. Kakashi who was reading his little orange book, folded the corner of the page and shut it.
"Well Ino used her Shintenshin no Jutsu and since Ino hasn't immediately taken over means that Sakura is fighting for control, for the only way to avoid Ino's jutsu is to either dodge it and then use the opportunity that her spirit won't be back to her body for quite a while and make her surrender and/or pummel it to a pulp or you can fight with mental will power" Kakashi explained to his students. Naruto looked confused, "What's mental will power?" he asked. Kakashi spoke again, "Mental will power is the power to do things when it is controlled or taken over, for example, if Ino were to take over you, Naruto you would be able to thrust her out of your mind since you would most likely fight back, but in your case now, Kyuubi would just force her out himself, the former scenario would apply to any non-jinchuriki" Kakashi said.
Sakura's Mindscape
Ino and Sakura were fighting it out in her mind which looked like a forest of sakura trees in full bloom surrounding a clearing with a flowing river and a grass covered field.
"Ino get out of my mind" Sakura said. "Why would I do that, if I did that, the jutsu would end" Ino said as if it were very obvious.
"Fine then I'll just get back-up, Inner Sakura now!" she shouted. Ino was confused until a large shadow covered her. Ino looked up slowly and saw a black and white version of Sakura with the kanji for 'Inner Sakura' written on its forehead. Oh did I mention that this Sakura is like a gargantuan version of Sakura, my bad.
"Bye Ino" Sakura said as a portal appeared behind her. Inner Sakura then picked up Ino, and threw her at Sakura. A baseball bat then appeared in Sakura's hands. Sakura swung the bat and hit Ino in the face into the portal which leads to outside her mind.
"And she's outta there, Shannaro" Sakura shouted as baseball music started to play in her mind.
Outside Sakura's Mindscape
Ino's and Sakura's body's convulsed for a second and eyes of Ino and Sakura opened wide.
"Sakura what was that?" Ino asked, shocked at what just happened to her spirit.
"None of your business" Sakura said from behind her. Ino was about to turn when a kunai was placed in front of her throat. Ino sighed.
"I forfeit" Ino said in a sad voice.
Hayate, who had fallen asleep, but was awoken by Anko, got up and wiped the drool from his mouth.
"Huh, what, oh yeah, Winner Haruno Sakura" Hayate said. The arena was silent as Sakura walked back to Sasuke and Naruto. Lee was crying rivers that his 'lady love' had won her match and vowed he would win his. Lee then walked over to Naruto's team. Ino walked back up to the balcony where her teammates were.
"Hey Naruto-kun" Lee said. Naruto turned, "Oh hey bushy brows" Naruto said with a wave.
"So what do you think of the matches so far?' Lee asked. "They are awesome, except for the one between Tenten and Temari, it was kinda short" Naruto said. Lee nodded, "I'm gonna fight before you" he said.
Naruto not wanting to be a loser said, "Nu uh, I am just watch the screen" he said pointing at it which was flashing names quicker than the normal eye could see. The names stopped.
"Inuzuka Kiba and Uzumaki Naruto come on down" Hayate called. Kiba whooped with joy, while Akamaru barked with happiness.
"We got it made Akamaru, we're gonna win this for sure" Kiba aid to his pup as he jumped down to the floor. Naruto also jumped down and stood to face Kiba.
"One question, Hayate-san, are dogs allowed in battle?" Naruto asked. Hayate nodded, "Animals are used as weapons like kunai and shuriken, so yes it's valid". Naruto nodded and got into his kitsuneken fighting stance. Kurenai walked over to Kakashi.
"Hey Kakashi wanna make a bet?" she asked the silver haired jonin. Kakashi didn't stop reading, but nodded.
"Okay if Kiba wins, I get all of those disgusting porno books of your and I ca burn then all to charcoal" the ruby eyed jonin said. "Well if Naruto wins, I can keep my books and you have to have some 'fun time' with me" Kakashi said slyly. Kurenai thought it over, but I mean it's Naruto, Kiba should win easily.
"Alright" she said and the 2 jonin shook on it.
Back on the arena floor
"Alright you dobe, I'll make this easy for you and end it in one shot" Kiba said. Naruto didn't say anything, but remained in his fighting stance. Kiba growled before forming handsigns.
"Ninpou: Shikyaku no Jutsu/ Ninja art: All fours Jutsu" Kiba growled. Kiba then overflowed with chakra as he went onto all fours (hence the name) and his fangs seemed to grow sharper and his nails became claws. Kiba then rushed at Naruto faster than Naruto could react and slammed his elbow into Naruto's stomach sending Naruto into a wall and kicking up a dust cloud where Naruto was smashed into.
"It's over proctor" Kiba said with a grin. The people in the stands thought so too except for team 7.
"That's what they think" Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke said simultaneously. The dust cloud cleared showing Naruto with not a scratch on him. Kurenai was looking surprised, "What did that boy do, Kakashi?" she asked. "He simply coated his body with chakra before Kiba hit thus lessening the force of the blow to that as if being given a slap on the wrist" Kakashi said.
"Kiba don't ever underestimate me" Naruto shouted, his eyes flashing red for a split second. Kiba was surprised none the less.
"This boy is something else" Kurenai thought.
"Naruto you never cease to amaze me" Sarutobi said to himself.
"You're supposed to be knocked out now" Kiba said. "Well that's just the way the cookie crumbles, Kiba" Naruto replied with a shrug. Kiba became angry and then threw smoke bombs at Naruto. Naruto was encased in a cloud of purple smoke and was being pummeled by Kiba on the inside. If Naruto didn't have up his chakra coating, those blows might have hurt.
Naruto then made a kagebunshin to distract Kiba and escaped the cloud, but was bitten by Akamaru and sent back into the cloud.
"Naruto nii-san" Sasuke and Sakura said. Kurenai looked at the 2 of them oddly.
"Kakashi…?" Kurenai asked. "They have hung around each other so much they see each other as siblings, in fact if it weren't for the different blood types and outer characteristics, they could be" Kakashi explained.
"Sugoi" Kurenai whispered to herself.
The smoke cleared to reveal a knocked out Naruto on the ground and a happy, tail-wagging Akamaru.
"Yatta, way to go Akamaru we won" Kiba exclaimed. Akamaru then ran towards Kiba's outstretched arms and then… bit Kiba's hands. The audience gasped along with Kiba.
"A-A-Akamaru, why?" Kiba asked, confused at Akamaru's actions. Then Akamaru started to chuckle.
"Fooled you, baka" Akamaru said as he poofed into a grinning Naruto. Kiba then shook off Naruto who was busy spitting on the floor.
"You smell worse than the inu/dog" Naruto complained. Kiba was franticall y looking around for Akamaru.
"Where is Akamaru?" he growled. Naruto pointed behind Kiba and there was Naruto's kagebunshin holding a tired looking Akamaru.
"AKAMARU!" Kiba shouted concerned for his canine companion. "You'll pay, Naruto" Kiba growled angrily. Kiba then reached into his weapons pouch and pulled out some pills, he ate one and handed another to Akamaru who caught in his mouth and ate it.
"Soldier pills, you must be getting desperate, Kiba" Naruto said with a smirk. Kiba just growled as his chakra capacity grew larger and he became more beast like and Akamaru's fur turned red and let out, not a bark, but a bestial roar. The powerful pup then kicked Naruto's bunshin, dispelling it and then jumped onto Kiba's back (Kiba is on all fours still). Kiba then made a handsign.
"Ninpou: Jujin Bunshin / Ninja Art: Man-beast Clone" Kiba yelled, Akamaru then transformed into a copy of Kiba, so it looked like there were 2 Kiba's. The 2 Kiba's then charged and then jumped into the air and spun at high speeds making them look like twin grey drills.
"Gastsuga/Double Piercing Fang" Kiba yelled. Naruto then flashed through handsigns and slammed his palm on the ground.
"Doton: Doryuuheki/ Earth Style: Earth wall" Naruto shouted and then a large wall burst out of the floor and protected Naruto as the Kiba's smashed into the wall. When the wall broke the Kiba's looked and saw that Naruto wasn't there anymore. Naruto then shunshined behind Kiba and delivered a swift kick to his ass. Kiba yelped in pain, but then poofed to reveal it was Akamaru. Naruto then picked up the pup and threw him aside like a rag doll.
"How dare you do that to Akamaru, you'll pay" Kiba growled and rushed Naruto.
Kurenai was surprised by Naruto's moves, Naruto had barely done anything and yet Kiba was already almost worn out.
"Kakashi, what did you do to this boy?" she asked the silver haired jonin. "I trained him, that's all" Kakashi said.
Naruto then dodged Kiba's lunge and then jumped away and made a few handsigns.
"Kazebunshin no Jutsu/ Wind clone Jutsu" Naruto yelled. Then wind started to swirl around Naruto as the wind started to take form and created 5 Naruto kazebunshins. The Naruto's then rushed Kiba who was checking up on Akamaru. Kiba turned to be thrown away from his pup by one of Naruto's bunshin.
Kiba then got up off the floor, but was met by an uppercut to his chin and then followed by another bunshin shunshining in front of Kiba and since it was a kazebunshin, it's heel was surrounded by cutting edge winds which hit Kiba in the face. Kiba fell to the floor and was about to get up when four of the kazebunshins hit Kiba in the chin which were more powerful due to the winds swirling around their feet. Kiba was sent sky high.
"U-ZU-MAK-I" the clones shouted.
The original Naruto was then blown upwards when the last kazebunshin turned into a gust of wind to send Naruto skyward above Kiba. Naruto then did a front flip and equipped some wind chakra into his kick making in faster and stronger.
"NARUTO RENDAN" Naruto shouted as he brought his wind powered kick into Kiba's face which made spiral downwards headfirst in a wind vortex and smashed into the floor.
Hayate looked at what had just occurred, and he, like everyone else could only think one thing.
'Wow'
Naruto then landed firmly on his feet as he looked back up to his cheering teammates and sensei who were clapping for him. Gaara was licking his lips in anticipation when he got to fight this Uzumaki Naruto.
"Winner, Uzumaki Naruto" Hayate called. The medics then went to the damaged Akamaru who was unconscious and Kiba who was covered with cuts from the wind and was bleeding from his head, but his jacket lessened the force of the smashing into the floor.
Well done kit, good use of the kazebunshins and your wind chakra Kyuubi said. "Arigato, but I couldn't have done it without your training, neh tou-san" Naruto replied. Kyuubi nodded in Naruto's mind, yeah you're right, I deserve most of the credit and since you've made it to the finals, I'm gonna give you something special for the finals ok kit. Naruto laughed mentally, whooped mentally with joy at going to learn something new and then severed his connection with the fox for the time being.
Flashforward
Lee vs. Gaara- Lee had the shown the ability to move at extreme speeds, which Sasuke was able to copy the stances for the Omotoe Renge/ Primary Lotus kick up. Lee was appearing to win until Gaara revealed his Suna Yoroi/ Sand Armor. Lee then revealed his last resort move, opening 5 of the 8 celestial chakra gates and gave Gaara quite a pounding, but Gaara still emerged victorious by breaking Lee's right arm and leg. Lee had also taken some serious damage and was about to be killed by Gaara if Gai hadn't intervened.
Hinata vs. Neji- Neji tried to mess up Hinata's mind by belittling her first, but Hinata just stood strong and charged Neji with her Byakugan active. The Jyuken/Gentle Fist was later explained to Naruto about the tekentsu and other aspects of the Jyuken. Hinata though revealed she was wearing weights and managed to surprised Neji and knock him in the head by throwing them at her cousin. Although Neji was surprised, he was still older and stronger than Hinata and managed to overpower her, but Hinata wanted to look strong in front of Naruto-kun and was still beaten down by Neji. Neji then went in for a killing blow, but was stopped by Naruto and the other jonin. Neji was pronounced winner and was then threatened by Naruto that if they fought, he would beat him to a pulp, this he swore by Hinata's blood.
Shikamaru vs. Kin- Shikamaru used good use of the terrain and used his Kagemane no Jutsu/ Shadow Possession Jutsu to smash Kin's head into a wall.
Dosu vs. Chouji- Dosu tried to hit Chouji, but Chouji quickly used Baika no Jutsu/ Expansion Jutsu and then followed up with Nikudan Sensha/ Human Boulder. Dosu was about to use his sound waves to hit Chouji's diaphragm in order to stop him, but Chouji was spinning too fast and flattened Dosu, knocking him out.
End Flash-forward
The finalists all stood before the Hokage to receive information on the finals.
"I must say this has been one the most exciting chunin exams, yet so I congratulate you." The Sandaime began. "Now then for the finals, you will have a one month time off i n order to train yourself in preparation for the finals, now here I have in my hand a box each with 10 pieces of paper with number 1-9 written on them now each of you come and reach into the box and pick a number" Sarutobi said.
Naruto-1
Neji-2
Gaara-3
Sasuke-4
Kankuro-5
Shino-6
Temari-7
Chouji-8
Sakura-9
"Now then that means numbers 1 and 2 fight, followed by 3 and 4 and so on and as for number 9 you will fight the winner of 7 and 8 also the feudal lords from the various elemental countries are coming to see these exams s make sure to also put on a good show" Sandaime said. The competitors nodded and then left with their teams.
"So Naruto's entire team made it to the finals, I'm surprised they're the only full team that went since the time of the Yondaime" Sarutobi said to Anko. Anko nodded with a smirk, "I think with this team trained by Kakashi this will be a fun chunin exam for the feudal lords to see" Anko said and then the both of tem shunshined away.
A/N: Phew, Finally done that took a long while to type please continue reading and reviewing Naruto the Elemental Fox as come up with material for the next chapter, "Naruto the elemental Fox chapter 11: Make me your disciple: Fox meets Toad"