NNB chapter 9. Yo it's CoS with chapter nine. The reviews I've been getting have helped. I will try to lengthen the chapters and slow the story speed a little more. here it is. I don't own Naruto.
"Ready begin!" Genma said jumping back. Neji rushed Naruto intending to end the fight quickly. Naruto on the other hand was going to enjoy kicking the shit out of Neji a second time. Neji lashed out with his strikes aiming for all the major chakra points in Naruto's arms. Naruto coated his hands in chakra and slapped the attempted strikes to his chakra points. Neji and Naruto continued this fast paced fight until Naruto got in Neji's guard and hit him square in the stomach. Neji staggered backward and heaved trying to get his breath back. Naruto stood there bored waiting for Neji. After Neji got himself together he got into his Juuken stance and said, "You are in my field of divination, Eight trigrams sixty-four palms!" The ground lit up in ruins and a yin-yang sign and Neji charged ready to beat Naruto into the ground. Naruto saw this coming and molded his chakra for the Hirashin. Neji struck out yelling, "Two palms, four palms, eight palms, sixteen palms, thirty-two palms, sixty-four palms!" Naruto had placed Hirashin marks on both of Neji's hands and as he attacked, Naruto warped to the outside of his hands disrupting Neji's flow and rhythm. After the attack Neji was panting, tired from the chakra that he wasted on his failed attack. Naruto hopped back and waited. Just as Neji was about to rush Naruto, chakra chains appeared around Neji and pulled him the ground.
Naruto started clapping and walked up to two feet away. "You are very skilled Neji you really are, but you lack a better purpose for fighting. You fight to spite the main branch of the Hyuuga, and knowing the sixty-four palms and the Kaiten would be a big blow to their pride, but what would your father think hmm. He would think that you are shirking your duties in protecting Hinata-chan that's what." Naruto said glaring at the Hyuuga boy.
"You know nothing of my father he was betrayed by the head of the clan because of his status!" Neji yelled hate searing in his eyes.
"Oh you mean how when Hinata was three and she was kidnapped, Hizashi was chosen to be killed to appease Kumo because Haishi killed the assailant and Kumo demanded for his blood? Yes I know of that incident and that the elders used the caged-bird seal to force him to go through with it. Well guess what, he didn't do it because of the seal and he didn't do it because it was his job. He did it to protect his older brother and his little girls and he hoped that one day you would protect them in his stead, because that is not what clan members do no that is what family does." Naruto said with a confident smile aimed toward the tearing Neji. Naruto then flashed a very mischievous smile and coated his hands in chakra. He wrote out a large seal made of chakra in the air then shrunk it down. He then placed it on Neji's caged-bird seal (his head band and bandanna fell off during the fighting). Naruto put his right index finger on the double seal and held the ram sign with his left. Naruto channeled chakra into the seal that he made and un-wove the caged-bird seal from Neji. Naruto pulled his finger a way bringing both seals with it and let the chakra fade away.
Neji was amazed that this boy-no this young man could get rid of the cursed seal for him. Neji vowed to himself to protect the main branch especially lady Hinata and lady Hanabi. "Thank you Naruto, I will be eternally grateful to you and vow to uphold my fathers mission. You are the better ninja and the better man, so I surrender." Neji said passing out from chakra exhaustion.
Medics came and took Neji and Naruto went to the contestants booth with clapping and congratulations all around.
Genma walked out to the center of the ring and announced the next fight. "Will Hinata Hyuuga and Fu please come down." Genma said as the two girls jumped down to the arena. Genma raised his hand and said, "Ready, begin!"
The two stood there eyeing each other until Fu jumped in the air and launched kunai with scale powder bombs attached to them at Hinata. The bombs exploded in a screen of the glittery yellow scales. Hinata activated her Byakugan to see through the powder. Fu had thought it through though and charged her chakra in the powder. Hinata was blinded by the chakra in the powder. She closed her eyes and looked through her eyelids which dulled the effect of the powder. Hinata saw Fu who was starting to race around the powder throwing exploding tags into the haze. Hinata made a shadow clone and replaced with a kunai that she throws out of the smoke screen hiding from Fu and not being seen except by jonin.
Fu threw exploding tags into the smoke screen she made to blind Hinata and watched as her opponent get consumed on a huge explosion. Once the smoke cleared Fu couldn't see he opponent at all and wondered why she was gone. Just as Fu was about to tell the proctor Hinata appeared lashing out at Fu. Hinata struck at Fu's chakra points and after she finished she sent Fu back with a vicious yet graceful round house to Fu's head.
Every one who knew Hinata gasped at such a aggressive assault and nearly broke their necks when Naruto said, "That's my Hinata-chan!". Naruto looked to see just about every one who knew Hinata staring at him with their jaws firmly embedded into the ground. Naruto had his trade mark foxy grin and that pretty much said everything.
Fu was pissed, she was pissed that she was tricked and she was pissed because that apparently not so shy and timid girl just kicked her in the head. Fu was ready to win now and wouldn't be surprised by anything else now. She charged her wind chakra into her hands and yelled, "Ninja art: Fan slash!". Two white and yellow blades of wind were sent screaming at Hinata. Hinata though knew that wind's weakness is fire and she was going to enjoy showing her opponent and her father that she was not weak any more. Hinata made a shadow clone again surprising everyone and started her Fire style: Rasengan. After it stabilized she sped off towards the wind slashes that had combined into and 'X' shape. Hinata thrust her attack foreword and met the wind attack head on. Fu was smirking thinking Hinata was just going to get the recoil from the explosion, but when she saw her attack get sucked into that swirling ball of chakra with some sort of fiery construct-wait fiery, that jutsu is made of fire chakra which get stronger with wind chakra, crap she was to tired to move. Hinata kept running her newly empowered Rasengan being trailed by a tornado made of fire, but what she saw in her opponent's eyes was defeat and she knew she won. Hinata stopped and held her jutsu out away from herself. After a few seconds she let it fade.
The two girls stood there until Hinata said, "Do you give up?". Fu looked shocked that her opponent was acting out of mercy and just nodded falling from chakra exhaustion. Medics came and picked Fu up and took her away, but before she was gone she said, "Lets have a rematch some time." Hinata nodded happy to find that she could connect with someone so quick, maybe Naruto had rubbed off on her a little. Hinata got a huge hug from Naruto and many congratulations even from her father and sister.
Genma stepped out again and announced the next fight. "Will Shino Abarame and Kankuro of the sand come down." Just as Shino was going to go down Kankuro gave up. "Ok then will Shikamaru Nara and Temari of the sand come down." Temari glided down on her fan and Shikamaru was pushed off the railing by Naruto who knew the Nara would have given up too. "Ready, begin!"
Temari had to jump back as Shikamaru extended his shadow towards her. After the shadow hit it's limit Temari did her line in the sand that she did before. Temari began to send wind blasts at the lazy Nara who valiantly hid behind a large tree to think of a plan.
'Ok I can't get her with my shadow from the front and she won't let me go anywhere. So maybe getting her to come to me will work...' Shikamaru finalized his plan and set it in motion.
Shikamaru sent three kunai into the air with parachutes tied to the back of them, and walked out in front of the tree he was hiding behind. Temari saw his and said with a smirk, "You going to surrender or do I have to tear this arena apart." Shikamaru completely broke his usual attack pattern and rushed the blond. Everyone else wondered why Shikamaru was breaking his pattern, only jonin could see the brilliance in his plan though. The sudden threat of her opponent came to Temari's senses and she started to send blasts of air out at the Nara. Shikamaru was bobbing and weaving through the air attacks and saw that his plan was coming together as the shadows of the parachutes dotted the ground. Shikamaru extended his shadow as he passed the first dot and directed it to one farther away from Temari and then to one behind her. Temari was getting frustrated that she couldn't hit the Nara and knew that it might get to a taijutsu fight, not to say she wasn't any good at taijutsu, but her specialty was long range ninjutsu. Shikamaru extended his shadow from behind Temari and stopped her in her tracks. Temari was going to let out a huge air blast when she froze. She looked down and saw her shadow was going the wrong way and deduced that she was caught in the Nara's jutsu. Shikamaru reached behind his back and pulled out a kunai, but he held it o it's blade, but Temari was forced to mimic him and had the blade pointed at her throat.
"Surrender or you will get hurt." Shikamaru said slowly making Temari's kunai inch toward her throat.
"All right I give." Temari said huffing at her defeat.
After they went back up Genma came out and announced the next fight. "Will Utakata and Karui come down."The two jumped down from the contestants booth and faced each other. "Ready, begin!"
Utakata started out with his usual, "Ninja art: Exploding bubbles!" The immediate area around him was covered in bubbles.
'Crap if the name means anything then those bubbles could be a problem. I'll just have to get to him before he can react.' Karui thought as she drew her katana. "Kumo style: Cloud cutter!" Karui said weaving around the bubbles while lightning was trailing her sword. Utakata met her charge with his bubbles, but she was too fast.
"Fine if you can get through my trap I'll just push you back in!" Utakata said making hand signs. "Water style: Water whip!" Utakata made a whip of water and lashed it at the Kumo nin. Karui was side swiped into a large patch of the exploding bubbles and was knocked un conscious.
"The winner by K.O. is Utakata." Genma said as medics got Karui and Utakata went back to the contestants booth. "Will Samui and Krillen (Roushi's student) come down." The two came down and Genma said, "Ready, begin!"
Krillen charged at Samui who was playing it cool. He had gathered the rocks on the ground with his chakra and said, "Earth style: Stone shards!" A mass of sharp chakra enhanced stones shot at Samui.
"Lightning style: Plasma wall." Samui said erecting a wall of lightning in front of her to incinerate the stones. "Ninja art: Ion lance." The wall of lightning narrowed and shot at the surprised Iwa genin. The shock of the lightning knocked him out.
"Winner Samui by K.O." Genma said as the Iwa genin was taken to the medics and Samui went to the stands. "Will Chewbaka (Han's student) and Yugito Nii come down." The two jumped to the floor. "Ready, begin."
Chewbaka pulled out a bow gun and said, "Earth style: Yeti fangs!" He shot out large stone claws at Yugito who was waiting for it with a smirk.
"Fire style: Mouse hairball!" The flaming blue mouse incinerated the claws and split into many more smaller faster fire balls, which hit and burned the Iwa genin. He was still standing though so Yugito said, "Ninja art: Cat scratch jutsu!" Yugito's nails grew about five inches and she disappeared from sight. She reappeared low in front of Chewbaka and did a slicing upper scratch to his already burned chest. This knocked the genin out.
"Winner Yugito Nii by K.O." Genma said as medics got the boy and Yugito went to the stands. "Will Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara of the dessert come down." The two jumped down and Genma said, "Ready, begin!"
Gaara struck first lashing his sand out at Sasuke. Sasuke was too fast and dodged with relative ease. He then back flipped out of range of the tendrils and jumped into the air. "Fire style: Fire ball jutsu!" Sasuke exhaled a large fire ball at the Suna genin and it was blocked by the sand. Sasuke scoffed and decided to make the match short. He ran at the wall doing hand signs. He leapt up the wall and turned sucking in air, "Fire style: Dragon flame jutsu!" A monstrous jet of fire shot at the Sand genin. Gaara released his copper and mixed it with his sand creating a copper/sand dome around himself with his third sand eye floating above it. Sasuke smirked and did another set of hand signs. "Ninja art: Shock impact jutsu!" Sasuke was then charged with electricity shown by the streaks randomly going across his body. He didn't stop there, he started hand signs that most jonin knew well. "Chidori!" The chirping sound filled the stadium and was enhanced by the lightning already flowing around the Last Uchiha. Sasuke ran back to the ground dredging a long rip in the wall. When he hit the ground a sonic boom was herd as he rocketed toward the copper/sand dome made by Gaara. Gaara saw this with his sand eye and sent a tendril of the mix at the Uchiha. Sasuke had activated his Sharingan on the way down the wall and side stepped the obstacle. He jabbed his Chidori hand into the dome and into Gaara's self mix armor. A huge light flashed and Gaara was seen panting on one knee similar to Sasuke who was on his knees too.
Genma checked the two and confirmed they were booth out of chakra. "Due to the extreme amount of chakra lost this match ends in a tie." The crowd cheered at the show and Sasuke and Garra nodded to each other in a sign of respect.
Yo. Sorry for the cliff hanger, but I need to save some for next chapter. No more set dates I will get a chapter out when I have time. Hope to see you for chapter 10.