Chapter 10

In the real world Naruto, Sakura, Ino, Kakashi and the Hokage are siting/standing in Tenzas room within the center tower. Tenzas eyes begin to open but shut again from the sun light. "Uuuhhh, Someone turn the sun off. Its too damn bright." Everyone in the room snap to attention at the sound of Tenzas voice. Ino, being the first one to snap out of it, launches herself at Tenza and wraps her arms around him, as best as she can with him laying down. The Hokages and Kakashi smile at the young couple, that is until Tenza begins to turn blue from Inos hug. Tenza then pats her on the back, "Ino...need...air!" At the sound of his voice Ino jumps back with a small blush as Tenza gulps down air.

The Hokage steps forward chuckling at the two. "Its good to see you awake Tenza. How are you feeling?"

Tenza opens one eye and look at the Hokage, "I feel like I just got stepped on by Kyuubi and then chewed on. As every one laughs at his choice of words, a certain fox in Narutos mind is grumbling about "insensitive little bastards" making Naruto laugh harder. "But other than that, fine."

Once everyone quiets down, the Hokage gains a serious look. "Its good that your feeling better Tenza, but I would like to know, what happened in the forest of death."

Tenzas face also gets serious. "Well, after my team and I acquired are second scroll, we were heading for the tower when I sensed and disgusting power that I would never forget." Tenzas chakra begins to spike as he continues with his report. "When Orochimaru appeared and started blabbering on about how he wanted me and Naruto as his new bodies and then mentioning his massacre of my clan, my rage began to escalate. When I saw him knock out Sakura and then stab Naruto, I lost it and blacked out. When I finally regained consciousness I was in my mindscape. Once Kubomi came forward..."

The Hokage stops him, "Wait, Kubomi. Who would that be?"

"Oh, he's my inner hollow, well technically he's Hisan's inner hollow, but when Hisan transferred his chakra and Kekkei Genkai, Kubomi was transferred into me as well. But back to what I was saying, when I regained consciousness I asked Kubomi what had happened. He told me that I had accidently unleashed Hollow sage mode. And before my team or Ino ask, sage mode is the most powerful technique a person can get from their summons, and no, I don't have one, yet. Now, the sage mode I unleashed, is incomplete. Normally, the beginning stage of sage mode is when I use my mask, but when the maks moves beyond the face, with out blessings of the boss summon and training, you lose complete control. After that, I woke up."

The Hokage has a thoughtful look on his face before looking back at Tenza. "thank you for the information Tenza. I'm going to want any more information from you on this and the summoning contract you mentioned after the 2nd stage is over. For now, why don't you rest while we get out of you hair."

As the Hokage and others get up and head for the door, Tenza smiles at the aged hokage and his friends, "Thank you Lord Hokages. Rest sounds good, but Ino, can you stay?" Ino smiles, nods, and turns around hand heads back to his bed as the door closes.

She sits down next to him and smiles, "So what did you want Tenza?"

Tenza smiles up at her and puts his hand on hers, "i wanted to say thank you for getting me to come back to my senses before I did something I would have regreted."

She genitally grabs his hand and rubs it with her thumb. "i just didn't want to see you in pain. When I saw your eyes, I could see the rage and pain. And besides, I didn't want to lose you." They smile at each other as Ino leans down and they kiss. After a few moments Ino pulls back a few inches and smiles at Tenza as he smiles back and falls asleep. She curls up next to him and also falls asleep.

(Four Days Later)

It was the final day of the 2nd stage of the Chunin Exams and all of the passing teams were lined up in the towers arena in front of a statue of hands in the Ram sign. From right to left was Team 7 with all their members fully healed and rested. Next was Team 10 with Ino in the front smiling about passing the 2nd stage and being able to stay with Tenza while he rested, Shikimaru who looked like he was about to fall asleep and Choji who kept looking at Ino. After them was Team 8 with Shino as stoic as ever, Kiba who was glancing at Naruto with anger since Hinata wouldn't look at any one but him, and of course Hinata herself, who was glancing at Sakura, trying to find away to get her out of the picture and steal Naruto for herself (note the insane gleam in her eyes). And the last team form the Leaf was Team 8, also known as Team Gai. Neji was in the front, pompous and stuck up as always, Lee yelling something about youth, and Tenten who was polishing one of her kunai.

After the leaf teams was the sand siblings with Temari at the front looking board, Kankuro looking smug, and of course Gaara looking board and ready to kill someone. Next to them was the sound team all three of which looked even smugger then Kankuro. And last in line was a Rock Team who had looks on their faces like they were gods gift to mankind, though all three kept throughing hateful glares at at the all the leaf teams. After a few minutes, the Hokage and Anko finally came out.

Anko comes forward and smirks at the genin, "Congratulations to you all. You have passed the 2nd stage of the Chunin Exams. I will now pass you over to the Hokage." She turns to the elder Hokage, "Their all yours Lord Hokage."

The Hokage smiles at Anko, "Thank you Anko." He then turns back to the genin. "Now, congratulations to you all. Now on to the real reason we hold the Chunin Exams."

"What do you mean the real reason for the exams!" Shikimaru shouts out.

"The real reason we hold the Chunin Exams is to simulate war between allied nations and to show off each villages power to potential clients and lords. We also hold these exams to keep real wars from breaking out and some entertainment."

"You mean all of this is just to show off and risk are lives for a bunch of old farts entertainment. THATS BULL..." Kiba yells out angrily until Kurenai smacks him upside the back of the head.

"Thats enough Kiba. You will show your Hokage respect."

The Hoklage quietly chuckles before continuing, "Now as I was saying, Since so many of you passed the 2nd exam we have too..."

"Excuse me Lord Hokage, but since I, Hayate Gekko, am the referee I should be the one to explain." A sickly looking jounin dressed in the normal jounin attire using his headband as a bandanna appeared by the Hokage, who just nodded. "Now as the Hokage said, the chunin exams are to show off for potential clients and lords, and because we have to many genin that passed, we will be having a preliminary." He then turns around as a large monitor appeared on the back wall. "Now when you name is called please stay down in the arena the rest of you head up to the observing platforms. Now lets who is fighting first." Every one then looks up at the screen as the names are shuffled through. After a few moments, the names stop. "Will Dosekiryu of the Hidden Rock and Choji Akimichi of the Hidden Leaf stay down here for your match."

The other nineteen examinees head up to the observation decks as Dosekiryu and Choji stay on the ground floor and face each other. Hayate walks up to the two fighters and eyes both of them.
"Ok you two, the rules are simple, to win the match, you to kill or knock you opponent out, or come to a point where I am forced to step in. Should that happen and I tell you to stop, you will obey my orders or you will be disqualified, are we clear?" Dosekiryu and Choji just nod. "Good, other that that, anything goes. Now, first match of the preliminaries... begin!" Hayate Jumps back as do the two fighters separate to opposite sides of he room.

Dosekiryu smirks as he pulls out a kunai in a reverse grip, "You should just give up now leaf trash, there no way you you can defeat my earth jutsu." Choji just pulls out a bag of chips and begins eating. The Rock ninja becomes irritated at being ignored and throws his kunai through the bag of chips. "Don't you dare ignore me leaf scum," he takes out another kunai and charges Choji with intent to kill. Choji takes out a kunai of his own and blocks the strike but gets kicked in stomach before jumping back. Choji throws his kunai and flies through hand signs, "Partial Exansion Jutsu" and throws his fist toward Dosekiryu. Dosekiryu doesnt think anything about it until he see's the fist quadruple in size and smash into his chest. As he flies back and hits the wall, everyone can hear a few bones snap.

Dosekiryu gingerly gets up with the help of the wall, and looks over at Choji, "Ha, not bad for scum like you, but, if you want to start using jutsu so early, lets see if you can handle this." He runs through several hand signs before landing on the boar signand stomping his foot and yelling "Earth Style: World Shaking Jutsu." As soon as he finished speaking, the entire arena began to shake, getting worse as time went on. With in seconds, every one in the balconies were having to hold on to the railing just to stay up. Unfortunately for Choji, he didn't have any thing to hold on to and kept falling down every time he tried too get up.

Dosekiryu flashed through another handful of hand signs and slammed his hands on the shaking ground yelling "Earth Style: Earth Fissure." Within seconds a fissure in the ground opened up and shot toward Choji. By the time Choji saw the fissure, it was to late and fell down into it. Before Choji fell to far in, Dosekiryu forced the fissure to tighten around Choji. Dosekiryu stood up and walked over to choji as he struggled. Dosekiryu took out a kunai and held it against Choji's neck. Hayate held up his hand to stop the match.

"The winner is Dosekiryu of the Hidden Rock." Dosekiryu stood up and loosened the fissures hold on Choji before walking back up to his team while Choji pulled him self out and did the same. Hayate then whispered into a hidden mike and the monitor starts running through more names. When the monitor stopped, the names Temari and Tenten were showing. "Will Temari of the Hidden Sand and Tenten of the Hidden Leaf, please come down." The kunoichi made their ways down the stairs and to the center of the arena. "Ok laidies, same rules apply as the last match. Are you ready?" Both kunoichi nod their heads. "Good, now, the 2nd match of the preliminaries...begin."

Hayate then jumps back as both kunoichi pull out their choice weapons. Temari pulls out a large battle fan and opens it up so a purple moon shows while Tenten pulls out two sealing scrolls out of her hip pouches and jumps into the air. At her peak, she unrolls them and starts unsealing weapon after weapon from them and throwing the at Temari. Just as the weapons come within five feet of her, Temari swings her fan while focusing chakra through it, blowing all the weapons away with a guest of wind. Temari looks at Tenten as she lands and smirks, "Is that all you have little girl?"

Tenten grows angry at the sand kunoichi and swings her hands up while yelling back, "Not even close." All the weapons around them start rising in the air with the help of chakra strings connected to Tenten's fingers and when Tenten swings her arms in Temari's direction, all the weapons then fly at the sand kunoichi.

Temari smirks again and raises her fan, "I think its time to end this. Wind Style: Cutting Whirlwind Jutsu." She then swings her fan and sends a blast of wind and chakra laced wind blades at Tenten and her weapons. All the weapons are blown away again and Tenten is hit full force with the jutsu. As the wind around her raises her up in the air, the wind blades start shallowly slicing into her. As the wind dies down, Tenten falls like a rag-doll right on to her own weapons. Fortunately for her, none hit anything vital.

Hayate appears next to Tenten and checks her over. He then stands up and swings his hand in Temari's direction, "The winner is Temari of the Hidden Sand." He then whispers into his mike again for the medics to come and get Tenten and for the monitor to start going through names again. The names stop on Ino and Sakura. The two friends look at each other and head down for to the arena as Tenten is taken away y the medics. Hayate steps in between the two kunoichi, "The next match is Ino Yamanaka vs. Sakura Haruno. Ready, begin." He jumped back as the two charged forward, Ino with her dual blades at the ready and Sakura charging chakra into her glove changing them into Stained Wing. Ino collides her blades with the pronged blades of of Sakura's left Stained Wing and stops in her tracks, much to her surprise.

Sakura just smirked and pushed her back. "Did you really expect me to be that weak Ino and only have speed and my gauntlets?"

Ino just blushed and looked sheepish. "Honestly? Yes. I only saw you training in speed and your gauntlets."

Sakura chuckles, "Just because that's the only thing you saw me train in, doesn't mean I didn't train in anything else. All three of us trained in something secret. As you can see, I trained my strength, both natural and chakra enhanced. But don't worry, no one is going to see my chakra enhanced strength till the finals." Sakura then smirks before putting more force into her punch which pushes Ino back and slightly throws her off balance. Sakura takes advantage and strikes out with her her right fist, "Blazing Jab,"but Ino jumps back, missing Stained Wings blades but not the blast of fire that was shot out. Ino crosses her arms and channels chakra into her swords too lessen the damage. Once the fire dies down, every one see's burns on Ino's legs and torso.

Ino shakily stands up but her legs wobble underneath her. She smirks at Sakura, "That was pretty good, I wasn't expecting the fire ball. But I'm not through yet," She spins her swords so the blunt side of the blade faces out. She then focuses chakra to her feet and dissaperes in a flash step and Sakura looks like she is hit one time in all eight vital areas. "Eight Point Knockout" she then reappears behind Sakura. They both stand their for a moment before Sakura drops to one knee, spitting out blood.

Up in the stands Kiba yells out, "What the hell was that!" Most of the Genin just nod their heads. Tenza turns toward Kiba and the other Genin and explains.

"The Eight Point Knockout" is a non-lethal Technique in the sword style, Dual Sword Swift Style, That I taught to Ino. Just like its lethal counterpart, it utilizes the speed of Flash Step to attack all eight vital areas in the body. But unlike its counterpart, it uses the blunt sides of the swords to only disable. The down side to most of the swift sword style techniques, is that they will only be successful if..."

Asuma eyes widen before completing Tenza's sentence "...Your faster then your opponent."

Tenza chuckles, "Yes, that's the downside. Now normally that wouldn't be a problem since the Flash Step technique is only surpassed my the Fourth Hokages Flying Thunder God Technique and my own Sonido, but when used against some one who knows flash step as well and is the fastest known user of it, like Sakura, the swift sword style is basically useless since they can see the attack coming."

Shikimaru looks down at the fight as Sakura spits out blood and the Hayate begins to walk over to stop the match, before looking back at Tenza. "Then why did Sakura get hit by the full Technique?" All the Genin look at Tenza for an answer.

Tenza smiles, "Thats easy to answer Shikimaru." Tenza looks at Shikimaru and the other Genin with a grin. "She let Ino hit her so Ino would e open to an attack." All the Genin look down at the arena just as Sakura grins. They all here Ino whisper "Damn" before she also spits out blood and falls onto her back, out cold, with a hole urned in her shirt and a large bruise on her skin. Every one looks back at Sakura and see that one of her Stained Wings had reverted back to its glove form.

Hayate checks on Ino before calling for the medics. He then looks up at the rest of the Genin. "The winner is Sakura by Knock out!" The medics take both Ino and Sakura away from the arena as the board starts going through names again. The board stops on Shigen and Gaara. "Will Shigen of the Hidden Rock and Garra of the Hidden Sand please come down." Both combatants walk down and stand on either side of Hayate. "Are you both ready," they both nod," Then begin!"

Hayate jumps back as the sand in Garras gourd starts pouring out. The rock ninja had a cocky smirk as he looks at Gaaras sand. "Ooooo, whats the big bad sand man gonna do to me, put me to sleep? Aahahahahahahaha!"

As Shigen laughs, Gaara just smirks murderously efore the sand rushes out and covers Shigen from head to toe, "Sand Coffin" Gaara intones. He then raises on hand into the air and the coffin of sad raises up. Gaara then squeezes his hand shut, "SAND BURIEL!" Every one hears a quick scream of anguish from the sand before its implodes and a little bit of blood drips down on to the flood. The sand then goes back into Gaaras gourd as Hayate declares him the winner, albeit quietly.

After Gaara heads back up to the observation deck and the medics take the Rock genin's body away, Hayate has the board go again. After a few moments it lads on Rock Lee and Kankuro. Once the two fighters are in the arena, Hayate begins the match and jumps away. "YOSH! LET OUR BATTLE BE A BRIANT EXAMPLE OF OUR FLAMES OF YOUTH!" Lee yells out while doing a nice guy pose. Every one in the room, sans Guy, sweat drop at Lees's...youthful...energy.

Kankuro raises an eyebrow, "Yea, sure. Whatever freak." He pulls the bandaged bundle off from his back and pulls the bandages off, reveling his battle puppet, Karasu. H connects his chakra strings and brings Karasu to life. "Lets just get this fight on with, shall we?" Kankuro sends Karasu towards lee, just before Lee disappears.

Lee reappears with his foot in Kankuros face yelling "Leaf Whirlwind" and sends Kankuro into the wall. As he hits the stone, a cloud of dust is thrown up and Karasu drops where it stands. After the dust dissipates, every one see's Kankuro hanging in the wall, unconscious. Hayate checks Kankuro's conditions and declares Lee the winner while the medics take Kankuro away.

Once Knkuro was taken away, the board sorted through names once more, landing on Shikimaru Nara and Kin Tsuchi. The two of them made it down to the arena and stood on opposite sides of Hayate. "You both ready?" Shikimaru and Kin both nod. "Very well. Shikimaru Nara vs. Kin Tsuchi, begin!"

All three jump back, Hayate landing on the Ram sign statue, and the two genin landing by their respective walls. Kin pulls out and hand full of senbon and raises her hand to throw them, but before she can move another inch, she freezes. She along with every one else look down and see's a very small shadow tendril connecting her to Shikimaru who was in the same pose as her. She looks back up in confusion and anger. "How the hell did you already capture me that fast?"

Shikimaru chuckles, "Thats easy. Before the fight even began I had activated my Shadow Possession Jutsu. Usually I hate this kinda thing. I prefer watching the clouds or sleeping. So I want to get this done as quickly possible." He moves his fist so its a few inches below his neck, with Kin followinghis every movement so her senbon just barely touch her neck. "Give up, or your neck is going to have something in common with Swiss cheese."

She glares at Shikimaru before sighing, "Fine, Proctor I forfeit.

Hayate nods his head. "Very well. The winner is Shikimaru Nara." Shkimaru then releases his jutsu . The two genin walk to their respective teams. Ino looks at Shikimaru with a questioning look pn her face. He looks back and mouths "later" to her. She nods and they look back to the arena. The board sorts through the remaining names, landding on Naruto Uzumaki and Kiba Inuzuka. Naruto just smirks and jumps over the rail into the arena.

"YAHOO! Look at that Akamaru, we got the wannabe dead last. Lets go Akamaru!" As he gets ready to jump over the rail, Akamaru whines and crouches down in fear. Kiba looks back at his partner, "What do you mean your scared Akamaru? Hes the dead last! We can beat him easily!"

Down in the arena Naruto chuckles. "You should listen to your partner Kiba. I'm not the same Naruto you and the rest of are class pushed around and bullied. Now get down her dog breath.!" Naruto sneers at the end.

Kiba scowels at Naruto. "Fine! I don't need Akamaru to kick your ass, dead last." Kiba jumps down to the arena, already looking animalistic. His hair was somewhat longer and shaggier. His finger nails were longer and sharper, looking like an animals claws. The pupil of his eyes stretched out into slits. He leans downand crouches on all fours while Hayate starts the match. Kiba jumps in to the air and starts spinning like a drill "Tunneling Fang" and shoots toward Naruto.

As Kiba speeds toward him, Naruto smirks, "To easy." Naruto flash steps to the side just before kiba hits him and re appears on the side of the arena going through hands seals, landing on the tiger seal, "Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" and shoots a giant fire ball at Kiba forcing him out of his tunneling fang.

"What the hell! How the hell did you know that kind of jutsu dead last!" Kiba yells out.

Naruto just smirks "Theres more then reason my nick name is "Hells Fox" Kiba. Im a master of fire style jutsu and wind jutsu. Let me show you!" Naruto creates a clone and they both speed through hand seals. The real naruto stops on tiger seal while clone naruto stops on the dragon seal, "Fire Style/Wind Style: Pheonix Flower Jutsu/ Divine Wind Jutsu!" The Clone slams his hands on the ground as four tornadoes appear around Kiba and the real Naruto shoots a small fire ball in to each of the tornadoes. Kibas clothes start burning as second degree burns appear on kibas arms and back.

Kiba lets out a howl of pain as the burns begin to blister. Naruto and his clone release there jutsu and the fire tornadoes disappear. Kiba drops to his knees in pain. Every one in the room gasps as they see Kiba with barely anything of his pants left and angry red and blistered burns over most of his body. Surprisingly most of his hair survived. Naruto just smirks at Kiba before walking toward him.

Do you see now Kiba. Do you see the true difference between us? Between the me you used to know and now? I out class you in every way Kiba. You used to be my friend until you became an asshole. I hope you learn something from this match." Naruto looks over at Hayate. "Call the match he wont be able to move on his own for a while." Hayate calls the match as medics put Kiba on a stretcher and take him to the infirmary. Naruto walks back up to his team mates and leans on the wall. Tenza and Sakura give him congratulatory smiles and Kakashi gives him an eye smile.

Hayate activates the screen. It stops on Neji and Shino's names. Shino looks at Neji with a calculating gaze before raising his hand, "Proctor, I would like to forfeit the match. Why? Because from sparing my teammate, I know my kikaichu are not fit for fighting Hyuugas. Not yet at least."

Hayate nods his head and declares Neji the winner by forfeit. The screen starts going though names again and stops on Hinata and Funka, the last Stone ninja.. They head down to the to the arena and get into there taijutsu stances. Hayate looks at them and then brings his hand down, "Begin!"

Hinata explodes from her position and starts jabbing Funka with two fingers at a time at high speed, almost to fast for some to see. After 30 seconds of this Hinata jumps back with a satisfied but deranged smile on her face, as funks falls to the ground and vomit tons of blood before collapsing in to it. Hayate checks for a pulse, and finds none. "Winner by death, Hinata Hyuuga." Hinata walka up the stairs back to her team while giving Sakura a glare. All the leaf ninja giver her a worried look before looking back to the board. The board stops on three names. Hayate sees the names and speaks up, "The last match will be a One on One on One battle the fighters will be Dosu of the Sound vs. Zaku of the Sound vs. Tenza of the Leaf." Tenza's friends look worriedly at Tenza as he lowers his hair so that it will hide his eyes, but they can still see the bloodthirsty evil smile on his face.

Tenza disappears and reappears in a burst of static in the arena as Dosu and Zaku walk in to the arena. They see Tenzas bloodthirsty smile and gulp. Hayate steps up, "Are you three ready," they all nod, " then let the last match of the prelims begin..."