Akatsuki Naruto

by B1ue Ange1s

What if Nagato and Konan had been saved by Jiraiya insted of the Gedo statue and what if they had tracked Obito after the Kyuubi attack. What if Naruto had been taken before the genin exams and trained personally by the Akatsuki. Romance comes later and no it won't be yaoi.

10. Those Advancing will be

Disclaimer I don't own Naruto

Chapter 9- Those Advancing Will Be…..

Ichigo vs. Kin

That was what the monitor said. A jonin comes up with a very bad cough, "Excuse me Hokage, but (cough) there has been two last minuet teams as of today. They only (cough) made it by the skin of their teeth and made it with an hour to recover." The old Hokage ponders this for a while before nodding to the jonin to let them in. And when the teams enters they quickly join the others. One team made their way over to the left side of the arena to join teams ten, seven, sound, and Gaara. And this team consisted with three members of Neji's class, but team Gai paid them no mind in fact they were surprised that they made it this far. The other team made their way to the right with their sensei and joined teams Gai, eight, Naruto, and the two remaining teammates of Kabuto. Team seven however recognized this team as well as Naruto and they knew this team well; this squad was made up of the three-rain genin that Naruto tutored from time to time. Acha immediately recognized Naruto and his eyes lit up like stars. His idol Pein-sama's student Naruto Uzumaki was right in front of him. "Ahh it's you, it's you, it's you! I can't believe we can get to see Naruto-senpai fight this is the best day of my life." Said the way too excited genin, who was then smacked up side the head by his teammate, "Calm down will you Acha the only difference here is that he doesn't have to fight all of us at the same time so shut up and stop attracting attention." Stated a very irritated Hirou, while Raiko can only smile at his team's antics.

Naruto only smiles and waves to them, he then turns his attention to the arena where Deidara and this Kin girl were about to fight, he had seen her in the sound squad and wasn't able to see that squad in the forest of death so he knew his sensei was walking into unknown territory, but quickly shook those thoughts. After all he was an S class missing nin for a reason. So he could only smile this was going to either be extremely short, or he would toy with her for a bit.

As the two fighters looked at each other they could see the level of confidence in the others eyes, and neither of them were willing to back down from this fight. The Hokage looks over to the proctor, "Hayate you may begin when ready." Then the man known as Hayate walks to the center of the arena, "Alright are you ready," he looks to Ichigo, "Ichigo," he nods. "Kin," she nods to, "You may begin." And with that both fighters grab kunai from their pouches and begin to through them as precise as possible only for it to hit the others kunai. After a few short barrages of more kunai Deidara grows an amused smirk on his face and reaches into his pouch for something, "Hey bitch now you see me," he then throws down three smoke bombs, "Now you don't." Kin looks around in the smoke for a second before checking around the area, but she doesn't find him. That is until she feels two feet planted firmly on her back. She doubles over rolling onto her feet with a look of anger in her eyes. Deidara only smirks, this only angers her more she then reaches into her pouch once again and this time pulls out senbon needles and looks towards her blonde opponent, "Lets wipe that smirk off your face shall we." "Yes lets, that is if you can hit me."

She then throws what looks like five senbon towards him, but something is off he hears a bell when he thinks there should be five. So a tending to his sense he dodges left, only to be hit by the other four senbon, so he quickly pulls them out in case of poison, 'Ah clever little she devil using the shadow senbon trick. To make me think that there is less than meets the eye. Oh but you'll have to better than that.' He then charges at her ready for a brawl, she throws four more, but he only hears two bells. But he listens to his senses and manages to dodge them all and deliver an uppercut right to her sternum, which is then followed by a leg sweep kick causing her to fall off balance, and finally while still in the crouched position he delivers a side kick to her chest knocking back a few feet before she lands on the ground with a thud. She gets up with a mixture of rage and readiness in her eyes, and he will admit if he was a genin she'd be intimidating, but he's not a genin so he again smiles at her. "Let's see you dodge this blondy," she then throws as to what he can count about ten or so senbon needles at him and around him, he dodges them all, but something is off about them he starts to hear a ringing noise in his ear and starts to see multiple Kin's all around the original. 'Huh so either I'm in a genjutsu, or she made about fifteen clones for no reason. I'd go with the first option after all I always was a sucker for genjutsu.' But he then realizes that he's in trouble the sound starts to get louder and louder around his ears and it's staring to drive him crazy so he tries to calm down and focus to break the illusion.

But just before he gets out completely Kin rushes sin and stabs him right dead center in the chest. He coughs up blood on to Kin's sleeves. She only smiles, "Huh I did wipe that smile off." But then she notices something the blood turned white and when she tried to pull her kunai out, but her hand became stuck in the white clay like substance, which turned out to be a clone of some kind. She then hears laughter and turns to the real Ichigo (Deidara I know I switch at random, but it might be from different perspectives as to who is viewing who) who still has that shit eating grin on his face. "What was that? Wiping the smile off my face. Well here it is now's your chance, but before you do that weight your options. One you can try to kill me with a senbon or kunai, but it you look inside the clone's mouth you can see the distinct shape and seal for an explosion. Or two you can give up." He then just stares at the woman who had a look of fear and shock. "Oh and in case it wasn't obvious I made the clone while in the smoke. So on to your decision." She didn't take long to make up her mind. She only hangs her head down and sighs at what looked like the only smart decision, "I forfeit." Hayate looks for a second, "Then the winner (cough) by forfeit is Ichigo."

Deidara walks up to the stand where he greeted by Naruto and Hidan. "Nice work out there I guess that means you're in the finals congrats." Said a disguised Hidan, "Thanks Toshiro I hope you guys make it to other wise it'd be pretty boring at the finals." As Deidara finished his smug comment he couldn't help, but feel looks of anger, self doubt, and he could also feel a look of sadness. He then looks down at Naruto who is glaring daggers at him, and motioning to the Hyuga girl Hinata that was not even ten feet from them. However Deidara turns this around with a smug comment towards Naruto, "What I didn't mean to offend your girlfriend Naruto. Why don't you go tell her I'm sorry maybe give her a kiss for me." And just like he planned Naruto's face went from angry to blushing a bright red with embarrassment. "Sh-Shut up Ichigo." He then walks over their sensei that was giggling at their antics. "Alright you three calm down and lets see who's up next." Konan told her young pupils. They then look up at the giant screen behind the statue; the screen flashes names until it lands on two.

Misumi vs. Neji

Both genin from their side of the stadium exit the through the walkway, one with solid black attire and clear glasses to complete the look. While Neji wore his standard training uniform. Both fighters were now staring each other down Neji's eyes were cold as ice and it was starting to affect Hinata, she knows all too well the coldness of those eyes, and the pain and merciless fighting that comes from them. While Misumi didn't exactly look like the kind of person you ask over to your home, Neji's glare stood above most.

Hayate walks over, "Neji ready?" He nods, and then he looks to the other side, "Misumi (cough) ready?" He also nods, "Begin," then both fighters rush into the middle to begin the match. Neji is the first to launch a quick series of strikes at his opponent who manages to dodge all but one which hits him in the ribs. He separates from the Hyuga long enough to see that he will have to plan this fight a little seeing as he uses chakra to dislocate his limbs then reconnect them later. So he comes in and throws down a smoke bomb like the last fight. However Neji is unaffected by this simply because of his Byakugan and with one quick look around he can see which way his enemy is coming from and prepares his attack, "He's within my range, Hakke Rokujuyon Sho," and before Misumi realizes what was going on he is caught in the attack.

"Two palms," he is then hit twice in the ribs, "Four palms," again he is hit but this time in the shoulders disabling them, "Eight palms," and now the Hyuga is picking ever increasing speed with his strikes as he hits him yet again, but in the legs. By this time he can't stand on his own he is only not on the ground because Neji's attacks keep him in the air, "Sixteen palms," hit after hit finds their mark inflicting internal damage on the opponent, "Thirty two palms," his speed then doubles taking the poor guy for a pain filled ride of all his chakra points being sealed. And then he finishes him off, "Sixty four palms," he then strikes Misumi has no chakra left in his body and is nothing mere, but a heap on the ground with nothing left in him.

Hayate comes forth and it's an easy call for him to make, "Winner by (cough) knockout is Neji." Neji returns to his side of the watching area while Misumi is carried off to the infirmary. And as Neji passes Hinata he couldn't help, but look at her in disgust and says coldly to his cousin, "If you actually trained as hard as you say you did then that wouldn't be as impressive now would it?" He ten turns to see the look of shattered confidence, which Neji has come to expect and in some forms enjoy from his shy little cousin. Mean while Naruto can only glare holes into Neji's head for insulting Hinata-chan, 'Asshole. He knows that Hinata is shy and nervous, he probably just crushed any and all confidence she had.' He then walks up to Hinata, "Hey Hinata-chan don't listen to him I know you could probably beat most of the people in here." he then turns her towards him, and wipes a tear from her cheek, and raises her head, "Hinata-chan listen to me you are one of the strongest people I know so cheer up. And besides you are also the cutest." He then kisses her on the cheek. And like he expected she turns bright red at his actions and almost faints. HE laughs a bit and they look for the next fight. And once again the board flashes names until…

Ino vs. Naturi

"Wait, who the hell is Naturi?" Asks Kiba, Lee looks over to him, "She is another genin from our class, and so she's a year above you guys." Satisfied with the answer he got Kiba looks back to the arena where Ino was walking down to meet this unknown opponent. As Ino walked down she did as Shikamaru always did she studied her for weakness or anything that could sell out a win in her book. And when she finally got to the ground she walks to the middle of the floor and stares her opponent in the eye. Hayate walks to the third set of fighters, "Ino ready?" she nods and tightens her fists, "Naturi ready?" and she slips into her fighting stance. "(Cough) Then begin." But both of them don't move a muscle, instead they just stand there in their stances waiting for something, and people could see that this was going to be a waiting game. But Naruto was not in a patient mood, "HEY! Is this a fight or starring competition?" And after he sits down everyone in the entire room can only stare or glare at the blonde, but Naturi happened to be one of the those who glared and that was all Ino needed.

She rushes in a delivers three good shots to her opponent to get her going and then brings out ninja wire. She then tries to circle around her and ensnare Naturi with the wire, but Naturi smiles at this, "Oh I don't think your little wire trick will be of any use against me, "Raiton Electric Transfer," and from her an electrical current passes through the wire shocking Ino to the bone. She tumbles over in pain and then begins to stand up to look her opponent in the eye, "You know this match isn't over yet." Naturi smiles at Ino's misplaced confidence, "Yes sadly it isn't I thought that a simple jutsu like that would have been more than enough to put you down." Ino then begins to charge at her with kunai in hand, but Naturi proves to be faster then she expects and manages to get behind the blonde, and grab her by the hair. "What are you going to do now little bug? Are you willing to surrender to save yourself?" Ino then takes the kunai in her hand and to everyone's surprise she slices off the long pony tail that Naturi had a hold of, and seeing the other girl in shock she quickly turns to sweep kick her legs from under her knocking her onto the ground. She then quickly gets up and drops Ino's lost hair onto the floor, but before she can move she feels a weird tingling sensation around her feet. And when she looks up she sees Ino with a smirk plastered on her face.

"What's the matter can't move? Allow me to explain you have been trapped ever since you grabbed my hair. All I had to do was pump chakra into it and boom you were trapped by my chakra hair trap technique, and now to finish you off Ninpo Shintenshin no jutsu. (Mind transfer jutsu) Ino then collapses onto the floor and just as Hayate is about to call the match Naturi speaks up, "That won't be necessary that part about my body collapsing is part of the jutsu. Now I Naturi surrender to the more powerful and more beautiful Ino." Hayate then understands that it was one of her clan's jutsu that affects the mind so he calls it like he sees it. "The winner by (cough) forfeit is (cough) Ino." Ino then returns to her own body and walks up to meet her team, "Good work Ino and congrats on making it to the finals." Asuma says to his little blonde student.

And on the other side of the room Deidara, and Naruto were getting weird looks from Hidan, "Toshiro what are you staring at?" Asks Naruto, his silver headed teammate smiles, "Oh just thinking about all the blonde in this room and when you think about it you three together could probably blind someone if you all stood next to each other." Deidara and Naruto imagine little versions of them and Ino in a field blinding people with their hair. But quickly dismissed that though seeing as it was Hidan who said something that stupid, "Toshiro shut the hell up." And then the names flash again until…

Shikamaru vs. Yoroi

"You got to fucking kidding me. (Sigh) Oh well let's get this troublesome thing over with." Says an annoyed and frustrated Shikamaru, "Oh lighten up Shikamaru you can beat this guy then when I win my match you me and Ino will be in the finals." Says Choji his best friend. The lazy Nara smiles at his friend, "Alright I'll try to make this quick." He then walks down to meet his opponent who like his teammate coved most of his face, and when he gets to the center of the ground floor Hayate walks up to yet again start the match. He looks left to Yoroi, "(Cough) Ready," he gets a nod. Then to his right to probably the laziest shinobi in the leaf, "Ready," "Meh Let's just start this troublesome fight." Hayate sweat drops at this, "Then begin."

Yoroi comes in racing towards Shikamaru with his hands ready for what appears to be a palm thrust, but when he swipes at Shikamaru and misses it becomes very apparent to everyone when he stumbles a bit. He is a chakra sponge absorbing other people's chakra in order to both weaken them and replenish his own pool. 'Ah this is bad I can't even let him get close to me or else I'm going to keep loosing chakra then I'm finished. I just need some distance to use my jutsus.' They then continue for about five minuets of Yoroi trying to land a blow on the lazy ninja, but only glances which don't take that much chakra out of the target. But then to everyone's surprise Shikamaru comes back to counter attack landing a punch onto Yoroi breaking his glasses, but he doesn't stop he keeps up the attack to do as much damage as possible and just when he is about to capitalize on the damage caused by the glass around his face Yoroi catches his fist. "What are you going to do now little worm? I've got and now say goodbye to all your chakra." Shikamaru only looks up and smirks, "Kageemane no jutsu (Shadow Possession jutsu) complete." He then lets go of Shikamaru's fist and starts to walk backwards only now seeing the shadow connecting the two on the ground. "Confused I'll explain when you caught my fist all I had to do was use the close quarters to establish connection. And that was I needed to win this match." Yoroi then starts to laugh, "What do you mean win the match all you can do now is make me move as you move." The other ninja smirks yet again, "Just shut up and watch." He then walks towards the wall, but Yoroi makes it there first. "Now we end this." And with that Shikamaru slams his head into nothing while Yoroi slams his into a wall knocking him out and gives himself a possible concussion. Hayate doesn't even need to look over to know whom the winner is just by the sound of Yoroi's head hitting the wall was enough, "Winner by (cough) knockout is Shikamaru (cough)." Shikamaru then joins his team and sensei up on his side of the room while Yoroi is taken away to the infirmary. Asuma look sat his student with pride, "Great work Shikamaru that was an interesting strategy." The younger ninja just nods to signal he accepted the compliment, and with that the names flash once again and land on….

Sasuke vs. Shino

And after they see their names called on to the screen the two silent fighters enter the ring. Sasuke with a smug look of confidence upon his lips and he looks over to Shino in complete denial that he could possibly loose to the stoic ninja. While Shino on the other just stood there with his same plain look. Hayate then walks in between the two genin and raises his hand, "Sasuke ready?" The avenger nods, "Shino ready?" The bug user nods like all the others, "Then. Begin!" And then to everyone's surprise Shino actually charges at the Uchiha, rather than going on the defensive. And Sasuke was actually shocked at this action, but quickly recovers in time to dodge Shino's incoming attacks. They then move around for some time countering each other in a battle of taijutsu, but Sasuke then kicks it up and begins an offensive. To push him back, and with his sharigan activated he easily moves past Shino's counter attacks and lands a few good blows onto his chest making him cough up a small amount of blood.

Shino is sent through the air and before any one can see he performs a small series of hand signs before extending his sleeve and out comes a swarm of bugs headed straight at the little avenger. But Sasuke is not panicked; in fact he still looks as arrogant as ever and then performs his clan's signature jutsu "Katon Fireball jutsu," and after shouting the attack out of his mouth erupts a huge ball of fire. It hits with the bugs incinerating them all in the process. Shino being a bug user is always angered by the death of his bugs in battle after all he talks and feeds them as pets. So naturally he burns with anger on the inside that he lost so many in a careless attack and begins to think of a way to better use all of bugs in this fight. But he doesn't get long because the Uchiha was on the attack coming straight at him with blinding speed, but the Aburame was already making insect clones to battle him in a three vs. one fight. However this did little to slow Sasuke down as he jump and then lands directly onto the first clones face scattering the bugs, he then throws two kunai directly into the second's chest, and once he was done with those two he moved onto the original, by grabbing hold of one of his kicks and flipping him over, and then proceeded to plant his left foot onto the center of his back.

But to the Uchiha's and most of the other people there he gets up and actually smiles, "You loose Sasuke." Sasuke laughs at what he sees as false confidence, "What are you talking about four eyes? How could I loose now?" But then Sasuke hears what sounds like a creeping noise along the floor behind him, and when he looks back to his horror it was all the insects that dispelled from the clones. "Now do you understand the situation you're in? If use your fireball jutsu against me my swarm will devour every single drop of chakra in your body, or if use it on my insects I will be sure to end this fight." Said the cool, calm, but deadly voice of Shino. But Sasuke has a trump card for this kind of threat, he then makes different hand sings and ends on the horse sign, "Huh try this on bug boy, "Katon Dragon Flame jutsu," and from Sasuke's body came a huge circle of fire that quickly spread to both Shino and the bugs behind him. He kills the bugs that were moving towards him and giving Shino second to third degree burns all over his body, seeing as how the shades wearing boy was fully prepared to either dodge left or right, or move in to finish the match. The medics rush in to sedate and neutralize Shino who was in an enormous amount of pain. With him sedated they carry him off to the infirmary. "The winner (cough) is Sasuke." Hayate says while looking onto the injured Aburame, while Kiba, Hinata, and Kurenai all glare at the boy before the older ninja goes down to check on her injured student, "You two stay here I'm going to check on Shino." They nod in understanding and then she vanishes. And they then continue to glare at the smug avenger, but they noticed they were no the only ones Naruto was as well. So his teammate Ichigo leans in to whisper advice, "Hey Naruto calm down. I can promise you this if he gets to fight any of us he's a dead man, understand that kind of treatment for one's comrade will not go unpunished." Naruto can only smile at his fake teammate's words, "Thanks Ichigo that means a lot to know you two are in the same boat as me." Then it was Hidan's turn to but in, "Hey let me say this that little shit better pray that it's not me that fights him, or I promise I'm literally going to break my foot off in his ass." The other two-sweat drop at their other teammate's words in fact they thought if anyone could do that it would be him. They face palm at the thought of a footless Hidan and a screaming Sasuke, but the organization would much more boring without him. But they then when they hear the sounds of the of the next contestants beginning called so they look up to the board.

Hirou vs. Sai

At this Hirou was almost bouncing with excitement knowing that now she gets her rematch with the pale boy she fought in the forest, and this time she will win for sure. So then both fighters walk to the floor ready to have their rematch. And Hayate could tell that these two have a past just looking at the purple-headed girl's glare at the pale looking boy. "I can (cough) see that you are both ready. (cough) Begin!" And that was all Hirou needed to go she quickly unsheathes her sword and begins to attack Sai with all the speed she could muster. They then begin to exchange blows him with his tanto and her with her ninjato furiously striking to either cut, cleave, or kill. Now Sai was starting to get a little worried about the out come of the fight, when they fought in the forest she was not this fast, was she holding back or is there something else that he can't see?

So he takes out his scroll and begins to unwrap, but is cut off by a kunai, "You think I'm going to let you summon your little pets to fight. I learned last time how you fight and I'm not going to loose to you a second time." Hirou says with absolute confidence, Sai only stares at her before smiles that wired fake smile, "I don't think I'm going to loose to an opponent I've already beaten. But you are more than welcome to try again. Even though it will have the same results." At this Hirou burns with anger, "Well then do you remember this! "Doton Dirt Spikes," and after shouting the name of her attack she slams her hand on the ground and a rumble heads straight towards the boy splitting the ground and when it gets close enough out of the ground erupts a large group of spikes, with the intention of impaling the boy. However Sai dodges the attack and draws on his scroll once again, but is again interrupted, "Oh no you don't lets see how you deal with more than one me! "Doton Earth Clone jutsu." And from her pervious attack the spikes come to life then copy her image perfectly and begin to surround the boy.

Deidara looks over to Naruto; "You taught her to use them in groups for clone combat didn't you Naruto?" The other blonde smiles, "She has a talent for clones, and besides earth clones are much easier then shadow clones. With her clones there is already material to make the clones while mine are created form nothing." Deidara then leans over to him to tease him. Even though he appears to be stupid he is anything but inn fact you could say that he was a young genius. "So you have been paying attention to Konan's lessons that's a shocker." The younger one grew a tick mark on his forehead after hearing that comment from his teammate, "Shut up."

Meanwhile back to the fight. Sai was now trying his best to dodge the swords strike from the twenty-one Hirous on the floor and to say he was having trouble was an understatement. He ducks under one and tries to strike, but has no time because there're two more strike coming from the sides so he retreats into the air. And when he lands on the other side he has an idea, 'This worked for one. Why can't it work for me,' he then reaches in and grabs two smoke bombs and throws them at his feet. Hirou and her clones charge at the smoke and are met with Sai alone in the mist. They again fight in a blur of blade vs. blade clashes, but then Hirou realizes something he is probably a clone and turns around just in time to block a tanto attack from the real Sai. But when she looks around she sees all her clones fighting Sai's ink clones. "So you used the smoke and my hesitation to draw your clones on that scroll well then lets get rid of everyone else shall we." She then forms two hand seals the boar and sheep sign, "Doton Scatter Shot jutsu." And before anyone knew what was going on her clones explode into sharp stone projectiles killing all of Sai's ink clones leaving only the originals. "An interesting jutsu, but not enough." Sai then forms his own seals and shouts a jutsu that surprises everyone including his teammates, "Suiton Ink Bullet Barrage." And from Sai's mouth shot out four pure black balls of ink that slammed into Hirou who was completely caught off guard by the offensive style jutsu. She tumbles over and tries to stand, but after making about twenty clones and then having them all explode it takes a lot out of her, and the fact she got hit with four direct hits wasn't helping either, she only looks up to see Sai standing over sheathing his tanto, "You fought much better the second time than the first. That's the first time I've ever had to use water style to win a match instead of my ink tools." He then looks over to Hayate who nods. "The winner by (cough) TKO is (cough cough) Sai." The pale boy then leans over offering a hand to the fallen rain kunoichi; she smiles then accepts the hand offered to her. She then leans in closer and tells the boy, "I could say the same thing to you." They then part ways and return to their side of the room to meet with their teams, and when Sai got to the top he could see that Sasuke had his sharigan-activated meaning he was watching the match and possibly copying jutsus for him to use in the finals. Hirou walks up to her team and is embraced by Raiko and Acha. "Don't worry Hirou you fought great down there he got lucky that's it." Said a comforting Acha while Raiko nods his head in agreement. She smiles and sheds a single tear for these two who have been her friends since they could remember, "Thanks guys I needed that." They then see Naruto walk up to the group with a smile on his face, "Hirou that was great. You fought with all you had and the rain is proud of you. Oh and by the way when we get back to the rain I think there is a scroll in the library I can give you for some better defensive earth style if that helps." She smiles at their tutor, "Thanks Naruto-kun." They then hear the board flash once again and this time it is…

Dosu vs. Issun

The sound ninja leaps down to the ground, while the leaf in also walks down both with a looks of confidence on their face. Hayate looks at the two of them, "Dosu (cough) ready?" The mummy like man nods, "Issun ready?" the other older looking teenager nods, "Then Begin!" And almost immediately Issun begins on hand signs before ending on the dog sign, "Doton Earth Gauntlets." He then smashes his hands into the ground and grabs hold of some ground. When he pulls his hands out of the ground they are covered in rocks that form protective fist around his arms he then charges at the mummy like man swinging violently. Meanwhile Naruto couldn't help, but think about the way Sakura used to fight when they were at the academy swinging without any purpose almost begging to be destroyed. And sure enough Dosu saw this to. He then dodges another wild swing and flips over the ninja before placing his right hand onto his opponent's back, "This fight is over, Kyomeisen (Resonating Echo Drill)" And his wild man of an enemy erupts into violent shakes and begins to vomit before passing out. Hayate looks to the leaf nin disappointment on his face, "The winner (cough) by knockout (cough) is Dosu." And everyone watched as the medics came out and carried the injured teen away, while Dosu met with his team. Everyone stood in silence either thinking about the unconscious nin's condition or stupidity. And they looked up to see the next two names.

Lee vs. Raiko

"Yosh the flames of youth will guild me to victory over my opponent!" Said an over zealous Lee. But his sensei was no better, "You said it Lee go out there and show the world what the power of youth can do!" The green jumpsuit wearing genin jumps to meet his opponent. Mean while Raiko calmly walks down the stairs to meet him. "(cough) Lee read?" Asks Hayate he gets a thumbs up, "Raiko ready?" The lightning wielder nods and slips into his stance, "Then (cough) begin!" And almost instantly Lee is gone and behind Raiko, who only manages to dodge a kick by the skin of his teeth. But he is soon on the run thanks to Lee's speed dodging as best he can and even then is taking some serious hits from the boy. So when he finally gets some distance he begins to make hand signs, "Raiton Searching Shock," and out of his mouth came a bolt of lightning that Sai and Sakura recognized as the attack that sought chakra, and then to everyone's surprise.

"Lee you have to watch out that jutsu is locked on to your chakra it won't stop until it hits you!" Sakura yelled down to the taijutsu specialist, Looks at her for a second and smiles before dodging the bolt and yelling, "Thank you Sakura-chan I wouldn't have thought that was possible thanks for the heads up!" He then zigzags across the arena to get to Raiko bringing the bolt with him and when he reaches him he blocks two attempts to hit him with a kick and kunai he then grabs his shoulders and sends him flying into the lightning bolt Raiko hits it and screams in pain, and then falls to the ground. HE lays there for a small amount of time and the medics were about to be called in when all of the sudden Lee is sent flying into the wall and is then followed by a kick to the gut making him spit up a good amount of blood when he sees that it was Raiko with a wicked smile. "Confused I'll explain my jacket has a seal on it that allows me use absorb lightning. Thus recharging both my chakra and enhancing my speed." Lee then takes off with Raiko right behind him they then clash in a fury of speed every strike is like an explosion in the air. But when they separate they can see that Raiko was pretty winded perhaps the fact that he has somewhat low chakra supplies has something to do with it.

What ever it was Lee capitalizes on this and begins to unwrap his bandages, "Raiko while you have given me a fantastic fight I must end this soon I hope you can forgive me." Raiko smiles at the polite gesture and returns the compliment, "And you have given me one of the most fun fights I've ever had in my life Lee, so let's end this." he then begins more hand signs ending on the hare sign, "Raiton Charging Thunder," he then begins to glow a light blue and Sakura looks worried for one of her new friends. While Lee seems to enjoy this kind of situation. "Let's go! First gate open!" He then gets a huge energy boost and he to begins to glow like Raiko. They then charge at each other with blinding speeds and when they collide Lee is behind Raiko with his bandages wrapped around him. "Forgive me." He then launches them into the air and starts to spin "Omote Renge! (Front Lotus)" And with a crash down to earth Raiko lays there in a small crater out cold and Lee panting next his opponent. Hayate walks to examine the boy to make sure he was alive then signals the medics to come in. When they carry Raiko away to be treated, "The (cough) winner by knockout (cough) is Lee." Lee then jumps for joy hearing he moves onto the finals, but he wasn't he only one Tenten was ecstatic for her friend, "Way to go Lee!" Lee was shocked to see that the shout of praise came from Sakura not Tenten or Gai, but Sakura the girl he had a huge crush on. To say he was happy was an understatement. After Lee made his way up to his waiting team where he was held in a bone-crushing hug from his sensei, he easily returned the same amount of force with his hug, which Sakura could only roll her eyes and giggle a bit at Lee's actions. Then the sounds of the next fighters began to sound to see who would be selected next for the chance to continue in the exams. Which ended on…

Choji vs. Hinata

To say that Hinata was nervous was an understatement she was terrified of hurting her friends. So to fight one in order to prove Neji wrong was nerve-racking to the blue-haired heiress. Naruto sees Hinata's condition and tries to calm her down, "Shh Hinata it's ok you can do this. You don't have to hurt him if you just need to give your all. And please try not to shake while you're down there you need to show that you are not willing to back down in a fight to prove your cousin wrong. Please Hinata for me." He then kisses her on the cheek to give her some confidence and an extremely bright blush, but that seemed to work for her. "Al-Alright N-N-Naruto-kun I'll do it for you."

She then makes her way down to the arena where she stares at Choji her slightly over-weight friend. "Hey Hinata whatever that guy said to you, it looks like it's working." She smiles knowing that Naruto was her source of strength in her life, "Thank you Choji I'm sorry, but I can't let Naruto-kun down." Choji then began to think about a few things ever since he had seen Naruto in the forest. Where had disappeared to? Who took him? And what has changed about the blonde? He almost didn't hear Hayate, "Choji! (cough) Are you ready?" "Uh yes sir." Hayate moves away from the fighters, "Then begin!" And to the shock of everyone, but Naruto and his team Hinata was the first one to charge she tries to land the first blow, but Choji was able to dodge most of her attacks, but she did land a good hit onto his right leg making him limp a bit. "Wow Hinata this was not how I expected you to fight. Well guess I'd better step it up." Nikudan Sensha (Human Bullet Tank) Choji then inflates to ridicules propositions and retracts his arms and legs and began to roll towards Hinata picking great speed as he went faster and faster at Hinata. She was barley able to get out of his way as he crashed into the wall putting a huge dent in the wall. She then begins to attack with her juken style attacks trying to hit his tenketsu points. But for some reason he seemed to relatively unfazed by her attacks. She then began to think 'It must be that jutsu somehow he put up a kind of barrier that stops my attacks form reaching his network I've got to think of a way to get past his jutsu, but how?' But she was unable to think as Choji came speeding towards her again, this time she sees something the places where his arms, legs, and head shrunk into those were his weak points however she couldn't get to them as he was moving too fast. She then recalled something her father and Neji had tried to teach her when she was younger.

Flashback

A eleven year old Hinata was in the dojo with her father Hiashi and Neji they were trying to practice a new technique that would serve as the called it the ultimate shield. "Now Hinata this is technique is a bit harder to learn then your usual juken. This is something that will save you countless time on the battle field, and you must be able to learn it quickly." Her stern looking father addressed her, "H-Hai O-O-Otosan." And from that day she has tried and tried to perfect the attack, but it would never work. It would be either too weak and the attack would slip right through, or too strong and Hinata herself would be hurt by her own attack. Often she was met with disappointed looks from her father had elders when she had failed and it tore her up inside to see those faces staring at her.

Flashback End

She then understood there was no way to win this match. In fact she was about to forfeit when she heard shouting from the sidelines, "Come on Hinata! I know you can do this, just believe in your self!" She then dodges another round of Choji's charge to look up to a smiling Naruto as he stared at her form his side watching with ever curious eyes as to what was going to happen next. It was then, then she knew she at least had to try for Naruto-kun for him. She then jumps directly in front of Choji and takes her stance. Neji looks at her and immediately recognizes the stance, "What a fool, thinking that she can use that jutsu." Tenten and Lee look over to him with curious looks and then back to Hinata. She stood tall and proud against Choji and she began to spring into action, "Hakkesho Kaiten (Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation)" She then starts to spin until she has formed what looks to be a perfect blue sphere. And when Choji slams into it he stops instantly in his tracks leaving an opening for Hinata. And she takes this opening and quickly knocks him out in one shot to the neck. He then deflates and his appendages pop back out. "The (cough) winner (cough) by knockout (cough) is Hinata." Hayate says walking in and signaling the medics.

Hinata couldn't believe she did it she had been able to do it she did the jutsu that all the elders and her cousin said she would never be able to do. And she then looks up for two people and finds Neji with a pleasant look of surprise on his face, and then she turns to face Naruto and he winks at her causing her to blush a dark red. She then makes her way up the stairs and is embraced first by Naruto in a hug to which she was barley able to keep conscious. But after that she was congratulated by her teammate Kiba, she was sure Shino and Kurenai would have said something, but they were both with the medics. She then looks over to Naruto and can't help but sign and whisper his name, "Naruto-kun." However this did not go unnoticed by Kiba who decided to tease the person he looked at like a sister, "So Hinata when are you and Naruto getting married?" That question floods her mind with all kinds of images of older looking versions of themselves saying their vows, walking off with her in his arms, the reception, their…..wedding night. And with those pleasant thoughts in her mind she slips into unconsciousness. Kiba begins to chuckle when all of the sudden it hits him like a ton of bricks. Naruto the boy he knew since he was six, the one Hinata has had a crush on for almost her entire life, and the boy who was taken from the leaf only six months ago when everyone else became genin had returned out of nowhere and had only shown himself to Hinata. Hell no one saw him except for that small run in they had in the forest of death, but other than that no one had a clue as to what the boy could do now. And that scarred the shit out of Kiba, after all he was the number one hyperactive student and his specialty was surprise.

Naruto was over talking to his team when they saw him hug the Hyuga they began to smirk at their friend's actions, "So Naruto why don't you tell us more about your girlfriend? You little dog you might actually walk out with a promotion and a girlfriend. That my friend takes talent." Said an oh so annoying at times Toshiro to which Ichigo joined in smiling at him. At this Naruto grew more and more red and that was when he had a brilliant idea. "You know what I think I'll ask her out after we leave here." And after hearing that both of them stopped smiling and stared at their little student, In unison, "Wow that actually took a turn for the better." Konan on the other hand could only smile for her little nephew having his first real girlfriend wonder how he'll handle it. But like all the times before the electronic board sounded again landing on…

Kujiku vs. Kiba

"Yes finally I'm up!" Said an over zealous Kiba who then leapt down to the ground landing and making small cracks in the floor. While his opponent looked like they were about to collapse, this girl Kujiku looked at him with a weird look in her eyes almost as if she didn't want to fight him. Kiba looked at her and then realized something she looked at him the same way Hinata looked at Naruto he then understood she didn't want to fight him, she would have no problem fighting anyone else just him. "Hey Kujiku let's have some fun with this fight. Ok?" The girl looked at him and he knew he was right she looked a little calmer when he said something to her, but Kiba could admit to at least thinking she looked pretty cute. She was a head shorter than him, and had long flowing brown hair that went down to the middle of her back and dark green eyes. She also had on a black ninja dress that went down to her knees. (Imagine Sakura's dress form part one, but black without the white circle on the back.) And standard leaf sandals to finish her look. And Kiba had to say she didn't have the bust size of Hinata, but they were still bigger than Sakura's or Ino's. There was an awkward silence between the two before Hayate interrupted, "Are you (cough) ready to (cough) fight?" Kiba nods his head confidently while Kujiku slightly nodded still saying that she was nervous. "Then begin! (cough)"

Kiba was the first to run into the fight startling her and almost as if totally on auto pilot she flew through hand signs, "Suiton Snapping Eel," and out of her mouth shot out five eels made of water all of them around the size of the person who summoned them. To say Kiba was shocked was saying it lightly, he almost ready to stop in his tracks, but fortunately for him he snapped out of it and dodged the water eels and came straight at her and he could see she was warming up to the idea of fighting him. So he decided to go all out on her while trying not to harm her too bad. So he pops in one of his soldier pills and throws one to Akamaru they then get into formation, and prepare their next attacks. Meanwhile Kujiku was going through a long series of seals with a new look in her eyes, one of absolutely no fear to hurt either him or anyone else in the room almost as if she was someone else. "Hey dog boy hit me with your best shot that is if you can bring yourself to hurt us, "Suiton Rampaging Moray." And from behind her a pipe broke under the floor and almost all the water in the building was beginning to surround her and form the shape of a moray eel. It was then that Kiba knew he wasn't fighting the same girl this was someone else. So he and Akamaru got to work with their attacks, "Let's go, Jujin Bunshin, (man beast clone)" and the dog then disappeared in a poof of smoke and another Kiba came out, "Now the big hitter, Gatsuga, (Fang over fang)" then the two forces raced to meet each other. However thanks to Kiba's momentum he was able to drill through the water eel and get within range of the girl. When he was close enough he broke off the attack and both Kibas pinned Kujiku to the ground kunai to her throat. Hayate sees that there was no way she was going to escape so he call the match, "The (cough cough) winner by (cough) TKO is Kiba." He then lets the young woman up and is shocked out of skin hen she leans n to him a steals a kiss from him. He is still in shock so she leans up to him and whispers in his ear, "Hey Kiba-kun me and Kujiku think you look absolutely adorable with those fangs on your face. Oh and my name is Sonohoka. Good luck in the exams." She then starts to walk away to see the other members of her team in the infirmary. While Kiba walked back to his side in a trance like state. He didn't even notice the next set of names of the board.

Tenten vs. Toshiro

"YES! Finally I'm up, it's time to show you two how it's done." He then jumped and flipped to the floor. Both his blonde teammates just sweat drop at his ridicules behavior. And then they looks across to Tenten she looked like she wouldn't be the easiest person to beat, but no one has been able to kill Hidan yet so as long as he didn't use his curse their cover was safe. Ten-ten looks across to her opponent and is mesmerized by the weapon on his back. The most brilliantly crafted scythe she had ever seen, three blades that looked to be made of the finest metal forged in only the hottest and most prestige furnaces, the long handle that looked to have silk wrapped around the handle to both give the wielder comfort and a confident grip, and the metal rope that was wrapped around his body it looked to be again the best that money could buy put together piece by piece making sure that the rope could block all kinds of weapons but still be nimble enough to wrap around the owners body.

She then looked to him, "Hey Toshiro how about a wager?" Hidan grew curious, "Go on." Tenten smiles seeing that he was interested, "The stakes are this. If I win I get that beautiful scythe on your back." He raise one eyebrow at this, "And if I win?" She then grows an even larger smile, "If you win I'll give the finest weapon I can." Her teammates and sensei looked at her like she was nuts she loved all her weapons too much to just give one away. Did she want the scythe that bad? And was she that confident that she would win? Hidan smirks, "Deal." Hayate had been standing there the entire time listening to the two young ninja talk to each other, but he snapped himself out of it and tried to start the match. "Toshiro?" A nod, "(cough) Tenten?" She smiles and nods, "Then begin!" and both her and Hidan quickly grab their weapons and charge at each other with a looks of burning passion in their eyes. Hidan's was the love for battle that he missed every second of the day, while Tenten's was for the prize at the end of the road. They clash Hidan with his reaper scythe and Tenten with her katana that she pulled out of her weapons scroll, however Tenten began to notice the viciousness in his strikes like a man who longed for nothing more than the kill. She then knew she was going to have a tuff time fighting a psychopath with a weapon like that. Meanwhile Hidan was having the time of his life, oh how he missed the days of war when death was the common force on earth, he didn't like some missions for the Akatsuki, but the leader knew of his love for combat so he gave him a lot of extermination missions. Where he would go in kill everyone and walk out after praying to Jashin. 'Oh my fucking god this shit is the best. Oh blood how a long to see it's thick life giving colors, and to feel the sticky substance on my skin. Lucky for you girly I can't kill you now or else our cover will be blown and we can't have that now can we.' Meanwhile Tenten was starting to think of different ways to beat this guy she needed that scythe, 'Let's see how he does at a distance.'

She then jump away and throws her sword which was effortlessly swatted away by the metal rope. And next she pulls out her storage scroll unwrapping it flinging dozens of kunai at the silver headed nin. To defend he puts slack on his rope extending his range and then makes a protective circle with the rope to stop the knives, when they harmlessly hit the rope he swing his blades at the young weapons mistress cutting her shoulder. 'Oh my god blood. Must taste, must curse, must kill. Fuck! It's harder than I thought it would be to keep my cool. I knew about no ceremonies, but this is fucking bullshit I can only fight like a regular person. Ah fuck this lets get it over with I'll probably kill the first person I see on the road to base after this.' He then whippets the scythe around his head and sends back at the young kunoichi who only is able to dodge. "Alright you asked for this buddy that scythe is mine!" She then pulls out two small scroll and places them on the ground. Up in the stands Lee and Neji look at each other then back to Tenten, "She is pulling that out pretty early isn't she?" Asks Neji who had only seen this technique once during team practice, "You know how she gets when she sees a weapon she wants she goes all out to get it." Said Lee a little shocked that Tenten would use this now instead of wearing him down. Tenten then smirks at the scythe wielder, "Try and block these." She then shoots up into the air with both scrolls spinning in s spiral, " Ninpo Soshoryu (Twin Rising Dragons)" Then out of the scrolls shoots what looks like hundreds of weapons all straight at Toshiro. "Holy shit," was all he said before trying his best to wrap himself in as much of the rope as possible blocking any lethal shots that would kill him, if he could die. But many had gotten through his defense and started to wobble seeing as he had been hit in the legs a few times. He goes down and hits the ground face first and Tenten turns around to her team to make them realize she had this in the bag, but stopped dead in her tracks when she heard a sick, demented, insane, and evil laugh she turns around to se Toshiro standing up with all her weapons sticking out of his skin. As he stood up she could see his blood shot eyes that screamed insanity he then charged continuing his laughter as it absolutely petrified her to the core. Up in the stands Naruto was panicked Hidan was about to blow their cover big time, hell they would have to pull something out of their ass to explain his behavior, "Deidara we have to stop him, he'll kill her if we don't." The other blonde nodded and they both leapt from the stands to stop Hidan. Naruto throwing his own scythe wrapping the rope through the blades of Hidan's. While Deidara grabs his ninja wire and begins to wrap it around his feet.

Tenten can only stare in horror as he charges at her, he then raises his blade to strike, "Say goodnight princess!" But the blade never comes as she looks up she sees another rope in between the top and middle blades, then the blade goes limp and she sees Toshiro being held down by both Naruto and Ichigo. "You ok Tenten?" Asks a concerned Naruto, "I-I'm fine," but for some reason she didn't even trust her own voice with Toshiro anywhere near her. And when Hayate came to call the match he could see that Toshiro's teammates had to hold him down or else the leaf would be out a kunoichi. "Sigh (cough) Tenten I hope you know that you lose. If it (cough) wasn't for those two (cough cough) you'd six feet under, and judging from the look in his eyes he thrives on death (cough) and violence you got lucky his teammates seem to care about your safety. (cough) but unfortunately that makes him the winner by almost killing you. (cough) the winner of this match is Toshiro." Tenten looked down defeated, she froze and it nearly killed her. She made her way out he door to go somewhere else. Mean while Deidara and Naruto had to literally smack some sense into Hidan, "Toshiro you went off the deep end again. Remember to keep your emotions in check ok?" Hidan then notices everyone staring at him and his group so he plays along, "Sorry guys did I hurt someone like last time?" They see that he gets it, "No you didn't now I'm taking you to the medics. Naruto you stay here you haven't fought yet. And I don't want to see you disqualified just because of this moron." Said Deidara pointing at Hidan, "Fuck you guys." Then the two older ninja in disguise walk to see the medics well in Hidan's case faking a limp. When he gets to the top Hinata who had a worried expression on her face as well as Lee and Neji who had that of anger greet him. "Naruto you better hope that Tenten is ok." Said Lee trying to be intimidating, "Lee if it wasn't for me Tenten would be in a lot worse shape then she is now." And this was something that both Lee and Neji knew was true she might even be dead if not for him. They then somber back to Gai who was staring at both Naruto and then to Kakashi, trying to see what happened six months ago.

Flashback

Gai and almost all the other jonin had been called to the Hokage's office for some kind of important meeting. He was enjoying his walk up the stairs when he sees his rival Kakashi standing at the door for some reason on time today. "Oh Kakashi my eternal rival how've you been? Shall we see who is going to take the lead after this meeting after all the score is at 65 to 65." But Kakashi was silent and this wasn't a good silence, it wasn't his hip and cool attitude he looked like a man that had lost the last piece of his existence and it was bothering Gai a lot. "Hey what's wrong? Did something happen? Is the village in danger?" Gai thought franticly to all the threats to his home but was interrupted by Kakashi, ""No Gai it's no the village in fact they people are happier than ever." This got Gai wondering what could make Kakashi like this? When they were approached by an ANBU, "Hokage-sama wishes for all jonin and ANBU to meet him on the roof." And vanished into thin air after telling them the news. The whole walk up there was quiet something that Gai didn't like he saw all the others there Anko, Ibiki, Asuma, Kurenai, Hayate, and also Hana and those were the ones he recognized right off the back. He then saw the clan heads of the Hyuga, Nara, Inuzka, Aburame, Akimichi, and Yamanaka were there as well so this had to be a huge event to get all these people out here. They then see the Hokage come onto the roof with a sad, stern, and yet somewhere in that pleased face. "Ninja of Konoh. I've got news as to the events that took place last night involving one Naruto Uzumaki." Everyone is still silent remembering finding an unconscious Iruka with the forbidden scroll in his lap with an almost dead Mizuki near by and some kind of note that the Hokage put into his pocket before anyone could see it. "It appears as if he is gone, the note we found at the scene as well as what Iruka describes before blacking out is two ninja some how were able to get into our village, take Naruto with them, get out, and also avoid our hunter nin completely. This is a problem for a few reasons. One they may have somehow known of Naruto's status as a jinchuuriki and he has been kidnapped. Two they were not only able to get in and out of the village with out raising the alarm, but also evaded capture from our most experienced hunters. And three they passed up the chance to steal the forbidden scroll which means they have no interest in what our village has to offer which can only be bad however we don't know of any plans against our village." After hearing what has happened Gai understood why Kakashi was in a depressed mood Naruto almost looked like his dead teacher the fourth, but with him gone that must have been the only thing left to keep him going. After another hour of talking to everyone the Hokage dismissed all ninja. "Asuma, Gai, Kakashi, Kurenai you four stay for a bit." The jonin in question did as they were told and walked up to the old leader. "I know you four are ready to take on your genin teams now, but with this in the mix something will be messed up in the works of teams. Asuma you are still able to have the new shika-ino-choj trio so you are set with that team. Gai your team is still in active duty, Kurenai and Kakashi this will be more affecting towards you two. I know Kakashi you want to drop out since Naruto is gone, but the council has said that you are the only one capable of training the Uchiha, so you are stuck with a team regardless. But Kurenai would be the one who loose a team member, but it's actually your call to give which ever one you see fit." The red-eyed jonin looked like she was seeing about who lives and who dies. She'd be terry apart a very well balanced tracker team she was about to say 'The council can go fuck themselves,' when they felt another presence and they looked to see Danzo approaching them. "Hokage-sama of I may I heard about the young jinchuuriki disappearing and while that is unfortunate I happen to have the solution for your two man squad problem. may I introduce Sai." After those words left his mouth a young pale boy who looked the same age as this batch of graduation genin steps up to greet them.

Hello everyone my name is Sai it's a pleasure to meet you." Danzo again started to speak for the boy's behalf, "I know the first thing Hatake is going to ask is will he be a burden, and I can personally tell you that this child will be nothing but obedient and discipline with you as a sensei." Kakashi looks over to the boy then Danzo then the Hokage who nods and sighs. "Then I guess I will meet you with the others tomorrow be prepared understood?" The pale boy looks Kakashi in the eyes, "Understood Kakashi sensei." He then knew that it was going to be a long career as a sensei with the three he's got to teach. But before Danzo leaves he hears his old teammate say under his breath as both a threat and a reminder, "His name was Naruto. Why couldn't people just see that?

Flashback End

He then looks back to the board after all there would only be two more matches so he was bound to go up next or why not save the main event for last. As it seemed fate said the later when the board read….

Sakura vs. Acha

Sakura made her way down to the ring her thoughts racing about the ninja in front of her from what she heard from Sasuke this guy had wind style and uses archery which made him a long range fighter so genjutsu was out of the question, she thought her best bet would be to use clones in order to get in close. Meanwhile on the other side Acha was slowly making his way down the stairs from what Raiko had told him he had a bone to pick with this girl.

Flashback

Raiko had used his electricity to burn through the ropes and was now cutting off the rest of his team. "Alright lets go after all Naruto-senpi awaits." He then tries to jump up on to his feet, but they hear a crunch and Acha falls over in pain clutching his leg. Hirou begin their medic and sensory ninja looks at it, "Acha your leg is pretty banged up I'll try to heal it as best as I can, but you'll have to go easy with the leg if you ever have to fight again." HE nods and she begins to work, by first popping something back into place and he howls in pain, but is then brought back by a cooling sensation. When he looks down Hirou is using a low level medical jutsu on his leg. After a while they are good to go and on their way to the tower they spot a dead team. They wait until Hirou says it's clear to walk out and to their surprise this team still has their scrolls. "Hey guys we hit eh jackpot they've got both heaven and earth in here." Says the loud mouthed Acha, "Acha be quiet we don't want other teams to hear us so be quiet and lets get to the tower because I don't want to find out what crushed these kids." Said a paranoid Raiko. They then make it to the tower after spending the last two nights trying to heal Acha's leg and avoid other teams.

Later in the exams Raiko leans over to the two of his teammates, "Hey guys before I forget why don't we tell each other about the person we fought in the forest. You know just in case we fight one of them again. I'll start by saying if you get the pink haired one you lucked out she has almost no skills as a kunoichi and will be a breeze. Oh and Acha just in case it's you that fights her she was bad mouthing about Naruto." This got Acha fired up more than anything he loved many things in the world and one of them was destroying people who disrespected Naruto.

Flashback End

Acha can only smile a little devil smile, "Perfect," he sees Hayate look to him he nods and the fight begins. Naruto is looking down on the student he tutored and he must say he was pretty proud of his work after all it looked like the kid was holding his own now. Acha and Sakura come flying at each other, which only ends bad for Sakura as she is kicked by Acha's good leg then picked up by her throat with his bow and thrown across the floor. "You know I normally don't try to end fights this quickly, but for insulting Pein-sama's student I'll take you down personally."

Up in the stands Kakashi looks over to see that Kurenai has returned, "Man they treat this Pein guy like he's some kind of god or something." They look to see that it was Gai who spoke, but Naruto answered them, "It's because he defeated Hanzo the salamander by himself in about two minuets flat." The three jonin look at the boy in disbelief that this Pein guy in two minuets beat the legendary Hanzo the one who first named the sannin! 'That's insane!' They scream in their heads, but are caught off guard by Naruto again, "Acha don't kill her that's bad for politics, if that's bad for politics then Pein gets mad, when he gets mad he takes it out on me in training, and if he takes it out on me I'm going to take it out on you got it?" He say all of that is a stern and commanding voice not the goofy voice they would have expected from him. Acha look up to see that it was Naruto that shouted at him, "Yes Naruto-senpai," he then charges again, but hears his leg pop so he stays back and starts to fire arrow after arrow at the girl. And she was doing a so-so amount of dodging making sure that none of the serious ones hit, but also unable to dodge all of them so she does take some damage making her wince in pain. "Alright I've had my fun see you around looser. Futon Tornado Tongue jutsu," it was then that Sasuke knew the match as over, in fact he knew Sakura had no chance against him after all she was useless. And Sakura was at the mercy of the wind and the wind was all out of mercy, as she was brutally thrown into the wall denting it and most likely giving her a concussion while also knocking her out. Hayate walks over and signals the medics for both of them. "Winner by (cough) knockout is (cough cough cough) Acha."

They then realize they don't need the board as there're only two people left so they call Zaku and Naruto down to the floor.

Both Ninjas make it to the floor and they can see that Zaku is almost terrified of Naruto for some reason. In his head, 'This is fucking bullshit I have to fight this guy. Back there in the waiting room it was almost like finding the devil himself, and I sure as hell don't want to fight that. But do I want to fail Dosu and Orochimaru-sama no I can't do that either. I guess I'm fighting god help me I'm fucked.' Zaku then takes a stance while Naruto stands there a hand on his scythe slowly slipping into a stance that Kakashi recognized it was similar to the kenjutsu stance that Zabuza used in the wave. Hayate then starts the last fight of the preliminaries, "Naruto ready? (cough)" The blonde smiles, "Zaku?" He to nods, "Then (cough) begin!" And right out he door Zaku goes for the kill, "Eat this freak! Zankuha (Slicing Sound Waves)" And from out of his hands shoots out compressed air that heads straight at the blonde rain nin who looks up and smirks before jumping completely over the attack and letting his scythe loose, "Not bad, but it's my turn Shinigami Offensive Style Soul Harvest." After saying that he loosens the rope and send the scythe soaring towards Zaku who is cut a little above the stomach. He then tries again with Zankuha, but Naruto only dodges by jumping back. Zaku tries to explore this opportunity to try and capitalize on his coward ness, but almost as if fate had to prove him wrong he heard the sound of hand signs. Naruto now leapt into close proximity to Zaku with the sheep seal. "Katon Fire Fist jutsu," he then wraps his right hand in bright orange flames and comes at Zaku. Zaku being Zaku he pumps more pressure into his arms and raises them to the blonde with the fire on his hand, "Rot in hell! Zankukyokuha (Super Sonic Slicing Wave)" And then a massive wave of sound and wind blast eh blonde away smashing into the wall out cold, but before Zaku could celebrate his triumph he hears a poof sound and the blonde is gone.

"Looking for me!" Zaku hear this in four different places, but before he can even think four Narutos slide under him kicking and launching him in the air, "U-ZU-MA-KI," he then sees anther above him in the middle of a front flip that quickly turns into a kick directly onto his head, "NARUTO RENDAN!" After the kick he is sent like a shooting star into the ground, but using his arms he saves himself with a well timed Zankuha that slows him down enough to where he won't hit the ground with half as much force. But he doesn't get relaxed after all the blonde disappeared again nowhere to be seen. He looks around to see if he will try that clone kicking thing again, but still doesn't see him that is until he sees the water moving to his left where he is shocked before being hit with, "Suiton Water Wall jutsu," and he is then washed away with the huge wall of water that Naruto summoned. When he gets up after being smashed on the ground from the water he find himself hearing the same noises he did a few moments ago, and just like before he felt four kicks to the body while hearing, "U-ZU-MA-KI," he waits for it unable to block, "NARUTO RENDAN!" And just like before he was about to use his arms to cushion the fall he sees another one being thrown at him, unable to do anything the clone is rocketed forward and close lines him while he is upside down in the throat slamming his head on the ground. He then saw the world fade, but not before hearing the last part of the blonde's attack, "BOSO! (rampage)"

Naruto then stands the victor over his sound foe, but to all the jonin Naruto just blew their minds he knew the shadow clone jutsu and made that many clones with out breaking a sweat hell he didn't even look winded after the fight. Finally Hayate snaps out of his stupor, "The winner by (cough cough cough cough) knockout is Naruto!" At this the Hokage gets up and starts to clap for the young boy, "Well done Naruto. To think that you were that dead last prankster only six months ago, and now you are a quiet the shinobi. Alright if we could have the sixteen remaining genin please step forward and grab a number out of this box." With that ANBU bring the other two sand sibling to join Gaara in selecting their number. Hayate then brings out a box with sixteen rubber balls in them, "You may now select your number for the finals." And so every single genin that was left went forward and grabbed a ball from the box.

Toshiro (Hidan) got number 1

Neji got number 2

Temari got number 3

Sai got number 4

Kiba got number 5

Ino got number 6

Lee got number 7

Dosu got number 8

Acha got number 9

Kankuro got number 10

Shikamaru got number 11

Ichigo (Deidara) got number 12

Sasuke got number 13

Naruto got number 14

Hinata got number 15

And finally Gaara got number 16

And so the matches have been decided I know it's been a while since a updated, but I've busy with moving and packing my room and work has been pretty busy so that took a huge chuck of my time.

Please review I enjoy reading them.

Next chapter will be a month of training and a first date.