The tournament was set
1. Naruto vs. Kurotsuchi
2. Sakura vs. Shikamaru
3. Chojuro vs. Zaku
4. Kimimaro vs. Kiba
5. Temari vs. Karui
6. Sasuke vs. Gaara
7. Neji vs. Lee
"The first match will soon begin everyone else besides Naruto and Kurotsuchi please head up the stairs" Genma said
Naruto and Kurotsuchi stayed down while the other 12 went towards the waiting area
Genma was proctoring this part of the exam
"Genma where's Hayate?" Naruto asked the proctor
"He's on a mission so I was voted to take over" Genma answered the genin
"Alright that's fine I thought something bad happened" Naruto responded focusing back on his opponent
Kurotsuchi was glaring hard at Naruto which didn't bother Naruto as he was doing his last second check
"Alright the winner will be decided by me or if someone wants to forfeit!" Genma said loud enough for the audience to hear
Many people were watching the fight it became highly publicized with many people from other villages buying seats that would have otherwise gone otherwise to leaf residents such as the academy students
It had been awhile since the chunin exams were in konoha but it was an unofficial tradition to have academy students watch the fight if the exams had fighting but those had to be given away to please the other villages
So kids like Ama, Konohamaru, and Moegi and adults like Iruka can't see the fights
"Begin!" Said Genma as he leapt back to give the genin some room
Kurotsuchi was older than Naruto so she definitely had more battle experience despite being a genin and she was shocked to say the least by Naruto's actions
Naruto took out two kunai and twirled them around his fingers "I only have two kunai with my flying thunder god seal on them as making these are a lot harder than it seems" he said as he put one away
"Fool why are you telling me now I now know to look out for two kunai" Kurotsuchi said
"Because I only need two to beat you" Naruto said cockily only pissing her off
Kurotsuchi launched a lava ball at Naruto but he threw his kunai towards her as she expelled the lava so as soon as the kunai got close to her he teleported to it
Kurotsuchi was surprised as this was the first time she has experienced this technique but she was able react by levitating high in the air
Naruto took his airborne kunai and threw it towards Kurotsuchi in the air, she saw this and flew away from the kunai which made Naruto grab the kunai again and throw it towards her
This time Kurotsuchi knew this would happen and prepares a water style jutsu but as she was going through the hand signs she saw a kunai go higher in the air and saw Naruto now at that kunai with him charging a rasengan
She saw this and fired the water trumpet at him in the air, Naruto starts descending with his rasengan in hand outstretched toward the water
As the jutsu were about to clash Naruto teleported again but to the original kunai that was flying towards her
And with no time to react the rasengan connected launching her into the stadium wall
Finalist spectator area
"So this is Naruto using his father's jutsu in combat" Sasuke commented
"Man I wish I knew that jutsu it would make me unbeatable" Kiba said
"No it wouldn't" shikamaru said as Sasuke Sakura and Kiba looked towards him for an explanation
"What do you mean that jutsu made the fourth hokage famous alone not even mentioning the rasengan" Sakura said
"We all been teleported by Naruto with that jutsu and it takes some getting used to" Shikamaru "It still takes me a good amount of time to get used to my surroundings"
"Yeah last time I thought I was crazy" Sakura said
"But Naruto's using it repeatedly" Kiba says out loud
"Which is why it's amazing he can use it" Shikamaru says
"Yeah...When using it Naruto is basically putting his body on autopilot" Sasuke says shocking Sakura and Kiba
"What?! That's crazy" Sakura says
"Not only that but he's also thinking on the fly, that move he just used wasn't a strategy he had beforehand but was reacting and planning on be spot" Shikamaru says "His brain is probably working at least twice as hard than fighting without it"
"With Kurotsuchi unconscious the win goes to Naruto!" Genma said "As Naruto goes up can Sakura and Shikamaru come down to start the next match"
Naruto walked up the stairs as some medical ninja took care of Kurotsuchi
As Naruto was walking up Sakura and Shikamaru were walking down
"Good luck you two!" Naruto said putting his hands up for high fives
"Thanks!" Shikamaru said as he high fived his teammate
"Thanks Naruto" Sakura said as she also high fived Naruto "Good job on your match too!"
"Will the next match start!" Genma said starting the next match
Sakura immediately blitzed Shikamaru making the shadow ninja engage in taijutsu, Shikamaru would usually have no problem with engaging someone in taijutsu as long as it wasn't someone extremely skilled in like Neji, Lee, Sasuke or Naruto but there was something different about Sakura's taijutsu
Sakura threw a strong right hook but Shikamaru saw this and leapt back a good amount of distance, as Sakura's momentum kept her going downwards her fist connected with the ground creating a small crater where her fist hit
"I know Naruto said you use chakra to make your punches and kicks stronger but this is ridiculous" Shikamaru said afraid of the prospect of getting hit by a blow that strong
"If you think this is crazy you should see Lady Tsunade" Sakura said
"Yeah no thanks" Shikamaru as he got into his jutsu pose "Shadow possesion jutsu!"
A shadow extended from Shikamaru's shadow and traveled towards Sakura, Sakura immediately started retreating so she wouldn't be possessed by the shadow, she ran, jumped, flipped, hid basically everything she could without confronting Shikamaru directly
Sakura then started throwing kunai towards Shikamaru, Shikamaru saw this and dodged them releasing his jutsu
"So he can't move when he uses the jutsu, good to know that theory was right now time to go back on the offensive" Sakura said to herself
Sakura started running towards while throwing kunai at Shikamaru, Shikamaru saw this and started to dodge, it wasn't long until Sakura was dangerously close
"Cha!" Sakura threw her punch which Shikamaru blocked but the force still knocked him into the wall
Genma came over to get a closer look, he saw the result and smirked
"What the! I can't move!" Sakura said as she struggled to move
"You weren't paying enough attention" Shikamaru said as he dusted some of the dirt off him
"What do you mean?" Sakura said
"When you were running and throwing kunai, I was doing the signs for my jutsu discreetly, so when you came in with that punch I finished the last sign as I blocked your punch, which easily connected my shadow with yours
"So you took the hit so I can get close enough" Sakura said
"Yeah and now, Shadow strangle jutsu!" Shikamaru said as he did his next jutsu which formed a hand from the shadow and slithered its way up to Sakura's neck "I would usually forfeit but frankly you didn't make me use enough chakra to make me think I had no chance against Naruto next round albeit I probably won't win, I'm lazy not a coward! Besides Ino will kick my ass for losing to you"
"I-I forfeit!" Sakura said as the hand was on her neck and she was struggling to talk
"Alright with Sakura's forfeit the winner is Shikamaru!" Genma announced
"Let's go boys!" A voice heard from the audience which was easily identified by the genin as Ino Yamanaka cheering on her teammates
"With the no-show of Zaku, Chojuro automatically wins his match and will proceed onto the next round" Genma said after receiving word that Zaku never arrived "Now will Kimimaro and Kiba come down to start the fourth match"
Kimimaro and Kiba with Akamaru came down
Spectator area
"Good job you two you both did good" Naruto said to Shikamaru and Sakura
"I can't believe I lost to this lazy bum" Sakura said upset about her loss
"That was rather confident saying you think you had a chance against Naruto" Neji said
"It was just me lying, I had to make Genma convinced that I had the confidence in myself" Shikamaru "Chunin is more than just power, you have to be able to lead, so if that means I have to lie to get the most out of the situation then I'll do it"
"Makes sense, whenever we become chunin, we will be leading our squads of genin and/or chunin so being able to lead is probably what there also evaluating from the past parts as well" Sasuke said
By this time Kiba was losing to Kimimaro, Kiba's taijutsu was good but Kimimaro was on another level the way he was dodging Kiba seemed even faster than Lee, the tag team of Kiba and Akamaru helped but still was ineffective, leaving Kiba to use his trump card
"Inuzuka Style: Man-Beast transformation: Two headed wolf!" Kiba exclaimed as he and Akamaru transformed into a big two headed dog
"So it seems he didn't complete the jutsu" Naruto commented
"What jutsu are you talking about?" Sakura asked
"He wanted to learn the shadow clone jutsu so he can improve on his two headed wolf" Naruto said "But his chakra levels were too low to attempt so he spent the month trying to increase them, but it seems like he didn't have enough time"
Kiba was thrashing Kimimaro around as even he couldn't keep dodging the combination of size and speed that Kiba was showing, unfortunately Kiba's transformation undid itself as Kiba ran out of chakra
Kimimaro did a bone blade and held it to Kiba's neck signalling the end of the match with Kimimaro winning
The next match was similar
Temari's long range Wind style was a better match up against Karui's short ranged Lightning Style
Karui got a good slice in but the match ended much like it did with Tenten with Temari winning
Next was Sasuke and Gaara
"Will Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara of the Sand come down" Genma said as the crowd cheered for mostly Sasuke making his debut
Sasuke and Gaara quietly made their way down to the center of the stadium
They were both calm to the audience but to the three down there and those close to them knew there was a tension in the air
"Begin!"
Sasuke jumped back and threw a couple shuriken but Gaara used his sand to make a sand clone which threw sand shuriken to block, Sasuke moved in close to attack but was blocked by the sand clone and as the clone was going to attack Sasuke dodged and blitzed Gaara with his speed and landed a kick
"Fast just like the other one" Gaara said referring to Lee
"I saw you fight Lee and you had a lot of trouble with his speed" Sasuke said "So I copied it"
"What?!" Lee said in the spectator area
"What do you mean he copied his speed?" Sakura asked no one in particular
"The sharingan" Neji said
"What about it?" Kiba asked
"The sharingan allows a user to perceive movement faster than a regular eye, it also allows them to memorize anything taijutsu genjutsu or ninjutsu as long as they have the capabilities to do it" Naruto said shocking those who wasn't aware
"Doesn't sound fair doesn't it" Chojuro said approaching the group
"It doesn't but it's a reason why it's known as one of the three great dojutsu alongside the byakugan" Neji said
"So Sasuke copied Lee's speed?" Sakura asked
"Yeah... well more like the movement of it" Naruto answered
"Explain" Lee said
"Well Sasuke probably just memorized Lee's movements and is just replicating them it's the small things, like Lee's footwork or the way he swings his arms or the way he balances himself at that speed are probably how he's moving like that" Naruto said "So with the month he was probably conditioning himself"
"There is a problem though" Lee said
Sasuke was starting to pant as he's not fully conditioned for this level of speed, he managed to hit Gaara's sand armor many times but nothing serious has affected Gaara
"Sasuke is getting tired faster than he should be" Shikamaru said "He might have the speed not the same stamina Lee took years to gain, its like having the same max speed but Sasuke only at half fuel"
"Hm… no wonder my village went for the byakugan and not the sharingan in the past" Chojuro said as Neji gave him a glare "as useful as that ability is it requires a lot of training whereas is effective at any point, makes you wonder which is actually better"
Neji calmed down after not sensing any disrespect or hatred coming from Chojuro "You do need to train the byakugan to increase its range of sight but yes it is a more complete eye" Neji said
Sasuke then jumped up the wall and started going through hand signs, then lightning started to engulf his hand making a chirping noise
"What's that? And why does it sound like birds" Sakura asked
"Chidori or in other words 1000 birds" Naruto said knowing the jutsu is Kakashi's
"What is it?" a new voice came and joined them probably curious about the power of the jutsu as well
"Oh hey its Kimimaro, you know Temari you can join us too!" Naruto said inviting the last genin finalist over as Kurotsuchi is in the medical bay
"No thanks" Temari said
"Oh well, Chidori is a lightning style assassination jutsu made by Kakashi" Naruto explained for the group "It's made for piercing through almost anything but it has a drawback besides that loud noise"
"What is it?" Shikamaru said
"It accelerates their speed causing them to have tunnel vision" Naruto said as his hand started to engulf in lightning "It's extremely powerful it's like lightning running through your body"
Naruto was struggling to control it so he powered it down "But the sharingan enhanced visual perception allows it be used so the user can move more freely"
"How do you know it?" Kiba asked
"Kakashi tried teaching it to me when I was younger after I finished learning my father's flying thunder god because it gives me better reflexes, but I'm not that good at lightning style so it was really difficult so when I did learn it my reflexes didn't solve the tunnel vision problem" Naruto said as Sasuke charged towards Gaara with Chidori in hand
As Sasuke grew closer Gaara tried attacking only for Sasuke to avoid the attacks, forcing Gaara to create a sand sphere to shield himself and as Sasuke was going to attack Gaara made spikes of the sand but Sasuke saw this and moved his body so he wouldn't be struck and pierced the sand striking Gaara
"BLOOD!" Gaara screamed
Next thing everyone knew feathers were falling across the stadium, many of the shinobi knew it was genjutsu and dispelled it
Then in the kage area the Kazekage removed his cloaked and grabbed the third Hokage and revealed himself to be Orochimaru
He took Hiruzen to the top of the building and had his sound ninja erect a barrier
The other Kage saw this and leaped in to assist their fellow Kage just in time but their bodyguards weren't able to make it into the barrier
"Well sensei I told you I would attack the leaf village one day didn't I!" Orochimaru said to his old sensei "I guess you can call it an invasion"
This took way to long too write for such a trash chapter :P
I'm also stopping naming the chapters after songs from the Naruto series soundtracks