Saxyguy – Sorry for the long wait for this update, but my dad banned from the home network so I can't access my stories from home. If it upsets you blame my coauthor Leo for finding all those viruses.

Leo – It's not my fault! Beats Saxyguy with a panda bear

Saxyguy – See this proves what I keep telling you!

Leo – What's that?

Saxyguy – That you're sexless.

Leo - Beats Saxyguy again.

Raid and Jade walk through and watch Leo beat Saxyguy for a moment

Twins – The authors want you to know that they don't own Naruto and that they don't profit in any way from this story.

Chapter 9

The waiting room was quiet as Jade and Gaara returned. Kankuro was playing with a small puppet, Temari was creating small tornado's to dust the room, Sakura was sobbing at the fact that Sasuke was ignoring her, Naruto and Sasuke were engaged in conversation about what movie they were going to see, and Raid was still reading his book. After a few minutes, teams 9 and 10 were led in. silence reigned for a few minutes.

"Oh Kami… I figured it out…" Raid whispered, causing Sasuke and Naruto to look over.

"We'll talk about it later. Just write it down so you don't forget." Sasuke said as he handed Raid a pencil and small notebook.

Raid scribbled furiously for several minutes before he closed the notebook and handed it back to Sasuke. He then pulled out an orange covered Manga and began to read. Naruto looked over his shoulder and blushed a deep scarlet at what he was reading.

Sasuke glanced over at Naruto's shift and his eyes grew wide.

"Great Kami! I've been looking for that series for months!" Do you have the first book on you?"

Raid reached into one of his pockets and pulled out another manga and handed it to Sasuke without even looking up. Sasuke stared reverently as he slowly opened the glowing pages and began to read.

Six hours later

Shortly after the last team checked in, Anko entered the room and told them to follow her. She led them to a large indoor stadium and told them to wait with their teams. As son as Anko left, a sickly looking man appeared before them.

"Okay cough anyone who wants to quit raise their hand. You're cough fighting as individuals now, so cough you can quit without harming your team."

Immediately, a silver haired man with glasses raised his hand.

"Okay cough you may leave. Anyone else?" No one raised their hands.

"These fights are cough determined randomly. hack cough so you may end up fighting cough from your own village or even your own cough team. Fights continue until coughone gives up, or there is a clear winner cough; either by knockout or death. cough If I determine a winner before that cough then the fight is over. Matches coughwill be announced via that board." The man said, pointing to the board. "Any questions?"

There were none.

"Then let us begin."

Sasuke vs. Yori

"Match One: Uchiha Sasuke versus Yori. Hajime!"

'No need to show off all of my tricks yet.' Sasuke thought as he pulled out a kunai.

"To bad you had to face me in the first match." Yori spoke as he pulled out three shuriken and threw them at Sasuke. "Prepare to lose!"

Sasuke easily deflected the shuriken as he pulled out another kunai.

Yori flashed through some hand seals, causing his hand to glow a sickly green and he charged.

Sasuke threw both kunai at Yori which he easily avoided, and pulled out a third kunai. He fiddled with it for a second before throwing it. The kunai hit the ground at Yori's feet and, before he could contemplate Sasuke's bad aim, it exploded, sending Yori skidding across the room.

"I don't know what that jutsu does but if I keep you away from me then it's useless!" Sasuke shouted as he did some hand seals. "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!" Twelve small fireballs shot out of Sasuke's mouth, homing in on Yori's prone form.

Yori, seeing that he couldn't dodge, curled up, trying to cover his vitals before the fireballs hit. When the dust settled, Yori was clearly unconscious.

"Shousha: Uchiha Sasuke!"

Match Two: Raid vs. Kin

Raid leapt down into the arena and stood in front of the proctor with his arms crossed waiting for his opponent. He didn't have to wait long.

The female Oto nin leapt into the stadium and stood across from him, taking the measure of her opponent.

Raid took a moment to study his opponent. She had long black hair, held back by her hitai-ate. She was wearing a basic ninja vest that left her arms bare, and a pair of camouflage pants with a matching scarf. She had no visible weapons aside from the standard shuriken and kunai pouches.

"Match two: Miyuki Raid versus Tsuchi Kin. Hajime!"

Kin jumped back and threw two objects at Raid.

Raid reached up and snatched both objects out of the air.

"Senbon. These are practically useless unless you're ridiculously accurate, which you aren't. And what's with the bells? You gonna try to confuse me by throwing some with bells and some without? That'll never work." Raid said as he used one of the senbon as a toothpick.

Kin growled in frustration before throwing a kunai at Raid.

Without even looking up, Raid spat the senbon out, causing both weapons to deflect harmlessly.

"Weapons won't work on me. However, to make this interesting, I'll tell you my weakness on one condition."

"And what's that?"

"You make a bet with me. If you win, I owe you one favor that can be used for anything at any time, if I win; you stay in Konoha and work for me, kinda like a bodyguard."

Kin glanced up at Orochimaru and raised and eyebrow, silently asking for permission, which he granted with a small nod.

"Fine. I'll take your bet."

"Good." Raid said as he exploded into a cloud of smoke.

Kin stiffened as a smoke bomb went off at her feet and a pair of arms draped over her neck.

"My weakness is genjutsu. I never did have any talent for it." Raid whispered in her ear. "Now will you surrender?" Raid asked as he placed a kunai against Kin's neck.

"That was cheep."

"But effective. Now, do you surrender, or do you need a nap?"

"I forfeit." Kin said loud enough for the proctor to hear.

"Shousha: Miyuki Raid."

"Now you get to come with me." Raid said as he wrapped his arms around Kin's waist and jumped back up onto the balcony with his team.

"Who's this?" Naruto asked as the match between Ino and Sakura started.

"Kin-chan is my new subordinate."

'Kin-chan? We barely know each other!' Kin thought.

"Aniki, were you betting with people's lives again?"

'Maybe…"

'That slut! How dare she touch my Raid-kun!'

'How many times do I have to remind you? He is not 'your' Raid-kun, nor does he even know you exist.'

'And whose fault is that?'

'Hey! I told you I would talk to him after the exam!'

After finishing with Lyn, Naruto tuned back into the conversation, only to realize an important fact.

"Hey Raid-kun! When did you learn Kage Bushin no Jutsu? I though you couldn't do nin- or genjutsu."

"I learned Kage Bushin because you use it so much and I worked hard to learn it. And I never said I couldn't do Ninjutsu, I said I don't use it often. When I do use it I'm actually quite good."

By this time, the match between Sakura and Ino ended in a draw via double knock out.

"Well anyway, what do you plan to do with Kin-chan?" Jade asked.

"Shouldn't you be more concerned with the exam?"

"I don't care about your excuses, just answer my question Aniki!"

"I'd start caring. You fight next." Raid said, pointing to the board.

Jade versus Kiba

Both Jade and Kiba took their places in front of the exam proctor.

"Match four: Miyuki Jade versus Inuzuka Kiba. Hajime!"

"How about I end this quick dog-breath?" Jade asked as she toyed with a piece of string.

"I'd like to see you try."

Jade whipped out a scroll and snapped it open. She palmed the seal on the scroll and came away with a weapon pouch.

"More weaponry won't help!"

Jade opened the pouch and withdrew several kunai trailing wire.

Curious as to what her plan was, Kiba froze.

Jade began to bounce around the arena while throwing kunai everywhere, crisscrossing the wires like a spider web. Slapping her hands together in the sign of the rat and shouted "Kai!" causing explosive tags to unfurl on all of the wires every couple of inches. Then she leaped atop one of the wires and used it to jump to the ceiling and stick using chakra. She looked down at Kiba.

"Those wires are ninja steel, so you can't burn them with Katon jutsu or cut them with shuriken or kunai, and Raiton would fry you alive. Tsuuga Gatsuuga and Garooga are useless because of the explosive tags, which are all real." Jade demonstrated by detonating one. "It would take you several seconds to disarm each one and from this vantage point, I can easily hit you with ranged attacks no matter where you are. You should give up."

"You're right, but you forgot one thing."

"What?""I can use Tsuuga to burrow underground!" Kiba shouted as he began to spin into a gray tornado of doom, and burrowed into the floor.

There was a muffled explosion and Kiba was hurled out of the tunnel he had dug.

Jade dropped from the ceiling, righted herself and landed on one of the wires.

"H-how did you do that?" Kiba asked as smoke rose from his singed clothing.

"I used a special type of sealing on my sandals. Every time I hopped, it activated, phasing an explosive tag six feet into the floor and arming it."

"Shousha: Miyuki Jade."

Jade leaped back onto the balcony as the board announced the next match.

The fifth match set Tenten against Temari. Although she gave a valiant effort, Tenten lost the match when Temari trapped her in a whirlwind. After releasing Tenten's unconscious form, Temari struck out her fan to catch the falling girl.

Suddenly Raid leapt to his feet and shouted, "Lee-kun! No! You can't interfere!"

But it was too late. Just before Tenten would have landed on Temari's fan, Lee appeared on top of it and caught her.

Lee glared down at Temari. "That is no was to treat a defeated opponent. Especially one who fought with honor."

"Beat it punk!" Temari shouted as she jerked her fan out form under Lee.

Lee landed next to Temari and bounced back. He resettled Tenten in his arms before he jumped back up with his team.

Match 6 Naruto versus Chouji

Chouji jumped down in front of the proctor and crossed his arms, waiting for his opponent.

Suddenly, a scuffle broke out where team 7 was standing. Everyone watched as the fight ended with Raid and Sasuke throwing a long haired Naruto into the arena.

"Very funny guys." Naruto shouted as she stood and dusted herself off.

Chouji's POV

'Something's off and it's not just the hair… WAIT! Why is his voice higher? And why does his hips and chest look…' And then it hit him.

Normal POV

"Buddha's Doughnuts!" Chouji exclaimed drawing very humorous what the fuck looks from everyone. ((A/N Saxyguy: And congratulations to Mountainwind for coming up with one of the funniest random exclamations ever! And it fits Chouji so well.))

"Owwww…" Naruto moaned as she rubbed her ear.

"You're a girl?!" Chouji shouted, pointing at Naruto. The strange looks were now all directed at Naruto.

"Yeah, so? There was an accident in the forest."

"Is it permanent?"

"I have no clue. Look, are we gonna fight of is everyone gonna stand around and gawp all day?"

"Oh! Sorry. Match 6: Uzumaki Naruto versus Akimichi Chouji. Hajime!"

Naruto dashed forward, trying to close the distance to Chouji before he started his technique.

"Baika no Jutsu!"

'Crap.' Naruto watched as Chouji's body ballooned out, becoming roughly spherical.

"Nikudan Sensha!" Chouji called out as he pulled his limbs and head into the main mass of his body.

'Double crap.' Naruto thought as Chouji began to roll forward at great speed.

'Might I suggest moving kit?'

Naruto leaped to the side as Chouji barreled through. Chouji turned around and came back at Naruto, prompting her to jump straight and over Chouji's rolling form.

'I can't dodge forever. Any bright ideas Lyn?'

'Hundreds. Most of which require tails, unlimited chakra, or a 30 story demonic body; all of which you lack.'

'Any bright ideas I can use'

'Forfeit?'

'If you ever suggest that again, I will NEVER tell Raid about you and I will keep you locked up in my body for the rest of my natural life.'

'You're almost as evil as I am.' Lyn said in awe.

'Wait! If I use your chakra for a Kage Bushin would you be able to transfer over to it for a little while?' Naruto asked clinging to a wall as Chouji smashed around the arena.

'For a short time, yes.'

'Long enough to help me win?'

'If we're quick.'

Naruto began to channel Lyn's chakra and formed a familiar cross shaped seal. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!"

A cloud of smoke appeared next to Naruto as Chouji slammed into the wall below her, knocking her loose. A young woman appearing to be 18 or so, with flaming red hair and wearing a dark blue battle kimono, dropped out of the cloud of smoke. She landed on top of Chouji and bounced away to the center of the arena. It was then that everyone noticed the fox ears poking out of her hair and the nine tails swaying behind her lazily. Naruto appeared next to her as Chouji reversed out of the newest crater in the arena and headed straight for Naruto. The woman lashed out with her tails ((A/N Saxyguy: yes they stretch.)) and knocked Chouji into the air, where Naruto threw a kunai at him. When the kunai hit, it exploded, knocking Chouji out of his jutsu and sending him crashing to the floor.

"Shousha: Uzumaki Naruto." The proctor announced as the mysterious woman disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto rejoined her team on the balcony as Kankuro squared off with another black garbed nin.

"What was that move?" Raid asked.

"It was a modified Kage Bushin. And while we're on the topic, how much do you all know about the Kyuubi no Kitsune?"

"It attacked Konoha fifteen years ago and Yondaime-sama sacrificed himself to kill it right?" Sakura responded.

"That's only half true. Yondaime-sama couldn't kill the Kyuubi, no mortal can. So he was left with only one option; to seal it. Now he couldn't use just anything to seal the beast because it would just break out; so he sealed it in a young boy. That boy was me."

"So that bushin earlier was really Kyuubi?" Raid asked.

"Correct Raid-kun. Speaking of which, she wants to talk to you."

'Finally!'

"Wait! Why does it want to…?" Raid was cut off as Naruto created another kage bushin for Lyn. As the smoke cleared, Raid felt something smash into his chest, hurling him to the ground. When to smoke fully dissipated, everyone was amazed to see Raid pinned to the floor with the Kyuubi seated on his chest.

"It is good to finally get to talk to you Raid-kun. My name is Lyn."

"Well Lyn-san it's nice to meet you too, but did you really have to tackle me to the ground?"

"Yup." Lyn replied causing Raid to sweat drop.

"You think she's bad now? I had to put up with her remarks ever since the fight at the hospital." Naruto commented. "And she never gave me a break, constantly bugging me to talk to you for her…"

One of Lyn's tails shot out and wrapped around Naruto's head covering her mouth. "You don't want to finish that remark." Lyn said menacingly before she disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

'Just remember, you're in there and I'm out here.'

'And I can give you the worst set of stomach cramps you've ever heard of.'

'…'

By this time Kankuro had won his match and returned to the stands.

The next match was Shino versus Zaku, and it ended when Shino plugged the holes in Zaku's hands causing him to blow his arms off.

The match after that was Neji versus Hinata. The fight was spectacular and Hinata almost won, but Neji's genius overcame Hinata's wish to prove herself in the end.

The second to last fight was Shikamaru versus Dosu. Once Shikamaru figured out Dosu's attack, it was a quick fight, ending with Shikamaru the victor.

Match 11: Gaara versus Lee

Gaara appeared in a cloud of swirling sands while Lee leapt down to stand in front of the proctor.

"Final match: Sabaku no Gaara versus Rock Lee. Hajime!"

Lee's POV

'Wow he's scary looking. What's with his eyes anyway? They're so bloodshot they look solid red…'

Gaara's POV

'I shouldn't have smoked so much. I'm still high… good thing the sands are mostly automated…'

Normal POV

Everyone watched tensely as Gaara and Lee stared each other down, Lee in his Goken stance, Gaara simply with his arms crossed. Lee suddenly shot forward and leaped into the air. As he came down at Gaara, Lee shouted out his signature move. "Konoha Senpuu!"

Gaara didn't even flinch as Lee lashed out with his foot. At the last second, sand exploded out or Gaara's gourd to block the blow. As the fight continued, it became more and more obvious that Lee's current Taijutsu just wasn't going to cut it.

With a mental 'flick' Gaara sent some of his sand after Lee, forcing him to jump back onto the statue adorning one wall. Gai then shouted something about taking them off, causing everyone in the arena, including Gaara to recoil in horror, until they realized Lee was simply removing his weights. After removing the weights, Lee stood and dropped them, creating twin craters on either side of him. He then vanished. No cloud of smoke or after images, just vanished.

Gaara felt the sand react and spun around just in time to see Lee's fist stop so close to his face that Lee snapped out a finger and flicked Gaara on the nose.

Then he vanished again. Lee reappeared a few paces in front of Gaara with a smile on his face.

The balcony

Kakashi's eye grew wider and he turned to Gai.

"Please tell me you didn't teach him… it."

"I had to. It's part of his nindo."

Kakashi sighed as he uncovered his Sharingan, shocking Sasuke.

'The Sharingan? Is he Uchiha? And why only one eye?' Sasuke wondered as he activated his Sharingan as well.

"What's wrong with Lee-san Kakashi-sensei?"

'Nothing's really wrong he's just about to get a lot faster."

The Arena

"First gate: Kaimon. Kai!" Lee charged Gaara and began circling him at high speed. Dashing in at Gaara, Lee got under his guard and landed a kick on his chin, sending Gaara upward. Appearing behind Gaara, Lee wrapped him up in medical tape. "Here it is! Omote Renge!" Lee shouted as he slammed Gaara into the ground.

Lee jumped back away from the newest crater in the now nearly destroyed room and slumped to the ground in pain.

To everyone's amazement, "Gaara" collapsed in on himself, revealing an empty shell of sand. The sand behind Lee rose up and Gaara stepped forth.

"Dude man! That was dangerous!" Gaara exclaimed, laying a hand on Lee's shoulder and looking at the crater Lee had made.

Lee spun around in time to see the sand at Gaara's feet explode outward, hurling him away from Gaara.

"This match is over." The proctor announced.

"Not yet proctor. I wanna play some more." Gaara whined, reminding everyone of a certain Uzumaki.

'I agree with my youthful opponent. This match is far from over." Lee said as he stood.

Gaara lashed out with his sand, which Lee easily avoided.

"I will prove that hard work can over come genius!" Lee shouted as he released the second and third gates. 'Gai-sensei… please watch now, as a follow my nindo!'

"Here we go!" Lee shouted as he launched Gaara into the air once more. The next several seconds were a blur of activity as Lee smashed Gaara back and forth across the room. With one final downward thrust, Lee wrapped the bandages around Gaara once more and pulled him back to meet his fist again. As the punch connected Lee shouted the name of his technique. "Ura Renge!" and sent Gaara hurtling back toward the floor.

Both Gaara and lee hit the floor hard, leaving almost identical craters. Lee stood shakily before collapsing to his knees in pain.

Before the dust around Gaara had settled, sand slithered out and wrapped around Lee, leaving only his head exposed. Gaara, minus his gourd, stepped out of the billowing dust.

"Proctor, I only have to say two words and this boy dies. This match is over."

"Shousha: Sabaku no Gaara."

With that Gaara set Lee gently on the ground. As he turned around, Jade leapt into the arena and stood toe to toe with him. The two stared at each other for a while before the most shocking thing ever happened. Gaara began to cower.

Jade leaned over Gaara. "What did I tell you about threatening people?"

"It had something to do with tacos right?" Gaara asked, his blitzed mind providing the completely wrong answer.

Everyone's eyes grew to the size of plates as Jade drew her fist back.

Temari's POV

'What is she thinking?! Gaara-nii-samais going to kill her!'

Normal POV

Jade's fist shot out, not even slowing down as it reached to point where Gaara's sand should have stopped it, and connected solidly with the top of Gaara's head, sending him crashing to his knees.

"Wrong! I told you threatening people was bad!"

"Itai! Jade-chan that hurt!" Gaara complained, rubbing his head.

"I'll hit you again if you don't listen this time Tanuki-kun."

"If I could get everyone who will proceed to the main matches to join me on the arena floor here I'll explain how the third test will work." The proctor yelled. He was immediately joined by Raid, Shikamaru, Shino, Neji, Naruto, Kankuro, Temari, and Sasuke. After a short explanation, the proctor held up a box, instructing them all to draw a number. "Okay the matches are as follows: Raid versus Sasuke, Jade versus Kankuro, Gaara versus Shino, Naruto versus Neji, and Temari versus Shikamaru. See you all in a month."

As the Chuunin hopefuls began to disperse, Kakashi hailed the participating members of team 7 with a simple "Yo!"

"Hai, Kakashi-sensei."Naruto responded.

"First thing, Hokage-sama wants to see Naru-chan and Jade-chan about your training, secondly…" Kakashi began as he pulled out 4 slips of paper. "…I want you to channel chakra into these slips of paper." He finished as he handed everyone a slip.

They all took the paper and concentrated for a second.

Sasuke's slip burst into flames, Raid's slip crumpled into a tiny ball, and Naruto's split in half. Everyone turned to Jade to find her staring at the sapling in front of her in amazement.

"Kakashi-sensei, what does that mean?"

"Well slap me thrice and hand me to me mamma… Jade-chan, you have the Mokudon affinity; Sasuke-kun has Katon, Raid-kun has Raiton, and Naru-chan has futon. I will train Sasuke-kun and Raid-kun for the month, Naru-chan, you and Jade-chan should go see what Hokage-sama wants."

"Hai, Kakashi-sensei." The four genin responded before Jade and Naruto left for the Hokage's office.

Hokage's office 20 minutes later

"You wished to speak with us Hokage-sama?" Jade asked as they entered the room.

"Hai. Jade-chan, you have shown great affinity for sealing and Naru-chan as proven herself capable of learning all but the most difficult jutsus in next to no time. I want you both to train with one of my former students Jiraiya-kun of the Sannin."

"Where should we find him Hokage-sama?" Naruto asked.

"As much as it pains me to say this, check the outside of the local bathhouses. He's probably peeking."

Both Jade and Naruto made faces of disgust before Jade thought of something.

"Hokage-sama, is there anyone who can teach me Mokudon jutsus?"

"Sadly, all I have is one scroll. Jiraiya-kun should be able to help you learn from them." The Hokage said as he handed Jade a scroll.

Saxyguy – And… CUT! That's a wrap folks!

Leo – Took you long enough! You've been sitting on that chapter for weeks now!

Saxyguy – Gomen! Please don't hurt me Leo-chan!

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