Chapter 11
Preliminaries
So I managed to get some free time on my hands (long weekend) and decided to type this chapter.
Beta'd by; mineng101
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
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Naruto resisted the urge to sigh, he could feel the glares his sisters and to a lesser extent, his teammates were sending him. After they had arrived at the tower the previous day, they came to a room where a riddle was written on the walls, Kiba had suggested that they open the scrolls after some arguments and a bit of shouting it had been decided that they go with what Kiba had said and open the scrolls. To their surprise and joy, Kurenai and Kakashi appeared the moment they opened the scrolls, the two jonin sensei then proceeded to explain to the meaning behind the riddle on the walls.
After getting their own rooms, Hikari and Hitomi had barged into Naruto's room demanding that he tell them about his new 'powers' or so to speak. Naruto told them the truth, he had absolutely no clue how he had gotten them or what they were, apparently that was not the answer the two were looking for thus the angry glares.
He looked back at his father, who was currently explaining to everyone about there being a preliminaries round due the fact that they were too many competitors who made it past the second phase of the exams. He wasn't really paying much attention to what his father was saying so he zoned out and instead started looking around at the teams that had passed.
The first teams he saw were teams 7 and team 10, followed by the team from Suna, then he saw the green spandex kid from team 9, he could see other teams from Konoha and Grass country but the team that caught his attention was the Kumo genin team which consisted of four members; a dark skinned boy with short white hair, a dark skinned girl with spiky red heir, a blond haired girl with a rather large bust and very curvy hips and finally Yugito, the girl that was making the warning bells in his head ring, from the information that Kabuto had given them alone she was strong, probably the strongest one in her team
His observations was cut off when he heard the proctor whose name was Hayate announce the first match.
"First round (cough) match will be between Kiba (cough) Inuzuka and Hitomi Namikaze (cough). Will everyone but (cough) the selected fighters please the arena" the sick looking jonin announced, he waited for a few minutes until everyone had cleared out, turning to the two fighters he raised his hand and brought it down shouting "Begin" as he did so and with that said he disappeared in a seal less leaf shunshin.
Kiba grinned confidently and put his dog on the ground "This is going to be so easy I won't even need Akamaru for this battle" he said arrogantly getting a scowl in return from Hitomi
"I'll make you eat those words dog breath!" She shouted in slight aggravation.
Seeing his taunt getting was getting to her, Kiba pressed on "Fighting a girl man this is embarrassing and a weak one too" with that said Kiba sealed his own fate
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"Troublesome" Shikamaru said silently, sending Kiba a concerned look, he knew exactly what was going to happen next
"Idiot" Both Naruto and Kakashi said silently
"KICK HIS ASS INTO NEXT WEEK HIKARI-CHAN!" Sakura shouted with righteous female fury burning in her eyes
"KICK HIS ASS!" Ino shouted she too having the same look that Sakura had
The rest of the females were all sending Kiba death glares that if he had once looked back at them, he would've cowered in fear and pissed his own pants
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'Too easy' Kiba thought looking at the fuming Hitomi, who looked like she was about to explode at any moment "And now to finish it off, FANG PASSING FANG!" he jumped high into the air and started rotating, becoming a black tornado.
"WIND STYLE: WIND DRAGON!" Hitomi suddenly shouted, a large light blue serpent-like dragon appeared in front of her facing Kiba head on, before the two attacks collided however, the dragon opened its mouth and shot a ball of compressed air that hit the spinning Kiba head on halting him in his tracks
"Wh-?" was all Kiba got to say before the wind dragon hit him with a force akin to that of a hundred chakra enhanced punches, the dragon dragged him across the ground creating a crater in doing so and finally stopped when it hit the walls of the arena, dispersing in a giant wind explosion.
When the wind cleared, a battered, torn, bleeding and unconscious Kiba could be seen, well his legs and hands could be seen, and the rest of his body was buried deep into the wall. A whimpering Akamaru rushed to his master/partner's side and started growling at Hitomi, standing in front of the whole where Kiba was buried into in a protective meaner.
After a few seconds of waiting and seeing that Kiba was not making attempts to move or was moving period, Hayate stepped into the arena
"Kiba is unable to battle, winner of the match Namikaze Hitomi!" he announced loudly, getting rather loud cheers from Ino, Sakura, Hikari and surprisingly (or not so surprising to those who knew her well) Kushina.
"That will teach you to call me weak" Hitomi said in satisfaction as she made her way towards the stands
The medics came with a stretcher and carefully removed Kiba from his position in the wall and took him away from the arena. The screen on the wall started going through random names before stopping in two names
Shikamaru vs Kin
Seeing his name on the screen, Shikamaru sighed wearily "Do I have to?" He asked, glancing hopefully at his sensei.
Before Asuma could answer him Ino suddenly appeared behind him and started pushing him towards the arena "Move it you lazy bum" Ino said as she roughly pushed him.
Shikamaru walked down the stairs and into the arena with a bored, sleepy expression on his face "Troublesome, my first fight and it's with a girl" he said lowly, unfortunately for him his opponent heard him.
Without warning Kin flung her arms forward sending near invisible needles at Shikamaru who narrowly dodged them.
"Ehm" Hayate suddenly announced, stopping the match from progressing any further.
"I haven't (cough) announced this match to begin yet" Hayate said with a slight twitching brow. The two fighters looked at him expectedly and with a small sigh and cough, Hayate raised his hand "Second match between Shikamaru and Kin (cough) begin!" after saying this he disappeared in a leaf shunshin.
Bringing his hands together, Shikamaru's shadow stretched attacking Kin who dodged it by jumping into the air, creating some distance between them
'What is that?' Kin thought jumping away as the shadow speedily approached her. She kept on dodging it until she reached the other side of the arena where she noticed that the shadow had stopped moving a few metres from her. 'So there is limit to how much it can stretch and this is it's limit, as long I can stay this distance away from him he will never be able to touch me' she thought analytically, smirking at the end and taking out more senbon from her pouch, though they were not the usual senbon, some of them had bells tied to them.
She threw the senbon at Shikamaru and when she saw that they were close enough, he finger flicked a bit and a ringing sound rang drawing Shikamaru's attention, he dodged the attack but was surprised when he felt multiple senbon hitting in his back, making him grunt in pain feeling the sharp needles stabbing him
'When did she?' he dodged more senbon and heard the same ringing sound this time from behind him, instinctively he dodged the attack by jumping to the side, only to get impelled by more senbon 'How is she doing this? Genjutsu?' his eyes narrowed when he saw a silver line like a spider web line when reflected in the sun, he followed the string and saw that it was attached to a small bell that was tied to a senbon 'Strings, so that's how she keeps in hitting me, she attacks with several normal senbon mixed with senbon that have bells attached to them, when she attacks she pulls the strings drawing my attention to them and I get hit by the other senbon probably hidden behind the first wave she sends'
He looked on the ground and could see the small, straight, shadow of the strings attached the bell which were also leading to his foe, smirking inwardly he brought his hands together "Shadow Imitation Jutsu"
Kin seeing Shikamaru attempt to do the same jutsu again smirked arrogantly "You leaf ninja don't know when to giv- W-What?" she said in surprise when she felt her body stiffen up and she couldn't move anymore
"Shadow Imitation success" Shikamaru muttered
"W-What did you do?" Kin asked stammering, a tinge of fear appearing in her eyes
Shikamaru sighed quietly as though finding the whole situation too boring for him "My Shadow Imitation Jutsu, it allows me to stretch my shadow and join it with anyone, once captured I can control the movements of the person (yawn) in short anything I do you do as long as our shadows are connected" to demonstrate this he raised his hands and brought it to his thigh with Kin involuntary doing the same.
To her shock and horror he brought his/her hand to her kunai hoister and took a kunai out from it and brought it to her neck, she looked fearfully at him and was about to call him bluff when she saw that he wasn't holding a kunai to his neck
"I changed the position of my kunai hoister from my right thigh to my left" he pushed his hands closer to his neck, making the kunai on her neck press harder and drawing a small amount of blood "Now are you going to give up or should I..."
Kin looked right into his eyes in hopes to find a bit of hesitation in them but all she could see was blank, she sighed angrily "Fine! Procter I give up" she announced in annoyance and anger
"Winner by forfeit Shikamaru" Hayate announced from across the arena.
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Kakashi looked at Shikamaru with a bit interest in his only visible eye "I didn't expect him to pull it off" he said praising the lazy Nara
Asuma took the cigarette from his and gave Kakashi a small smirk "You'll be surprised at how smart that boy is"
"Oh?" Kakashi said raising an eyebrow
"I've played shogi with him more than a dozen times' already and not once have I ever won" Asuma said with a small smile on his face, Kakashi's lone eye widened slightly at that information
"What does shogi have to do with how smart a person is?" Kurenai said cutting in on their conversation
Asuma chuckled lightly "Let me put it like this, I tricked him into taking an IQ exam but knowing him I think he already knew what it was, the results were astounding" he paused for a second taking a small whiff of his cigarette "he scored 270" he said looking at the expressions on Kakashi's and Kurenai's faces both of whom had their mouth open and eyes widened
"Considering whose his father is, I'm not all that surprised" Kushina said from behind them, making them all turn to look at her curiously. Before she could elaborate on her sentence the screen stopped on two random names
"This out to be...interesting" Kakashi said looking at the two names on the screen
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Sakura vs Omoi
Sakura stepped into the arena with a confident look on her face though inwardly it was a different matter all together. She looked at her opponent, he was a dark-skinned Kumo-nin with short, spiky, white hair and had black eyes, he was wearing a dark outfit consisting of an overlong shirt with a hood, with red bandage hand guard. He looked to be at least a year older than her and she could see the white hilt of a sword sticking behind his shoulder, something that made her gulp.
"(Cough) you may begin" the proctor's voice cut in on her thoughts signalling the start of the match
Sakura was the first to move, she quickly threw several Kunai at her opponent who easily dodged them by simply jumping aside. Throwing more kunai and seeing him dodge the attacks again, she rushed at him and as she run 5 other Sakura's appeared besides her and threw more kunai at her opponent to confuse him.
To her shock and slight frustration he easily identified the real kunai from the illusions and deflected them. Just when she was about to attack again with more Clones, Omoi disappeared in a burst of speed and appeared in front of her punching her in her stomach, hard. She hunched over coughing a large amount of saliva, not giving the poor girl a chance to recover, Omoi kicked her in her back pummelling her into the ground.
The moment she hit the ground Sakura's world blanked. Omoi looked at the unconscious girl in caution, surly a move like that couldn't have been enough to finish her off could it?
'She must be pretending to be unconscious to catch me off guard and win the match, then Bee-sensei and Reikage-sama will be disappointed in me for losing to a leaf kinoichi then I will be forced to run away in shame and will get caught by shinobi from a foreign country and will be forced to revile all of Kumo's-'
"(cough) seeing as Sakura is enable to continue the winner (cough) of the match by knockout(cough) Omoi"
The medics quickly rushed into the arena and took the unconscious girl out of the arena and into the medical bay. Omoi looked at the scene with a stupefied look on his face
'I won?'
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Kakashi shifted uncomfortably were he stood a bid of sweat roll down his face, he moved his small novel closer to his face trying to hid his face. The reason for this cowardly act from an accomplished A-ranked feared jonin you might ask?
Almost all of the leaf jonins gathered in the room were glaring at him, the most prominent and scary glares coming from his sensei, Kushina and Kurenai. He gulped lowly and gave them all a weak eye smile
"At least she tried?" he said weakly, rubbing the back of his head. Somehow the glares seamed to intensify
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Temari vs Tenten
The match was over quickly, Tenten, a weapon specialist, began the fight by throwing several weapon at her opponent who easily countered all of them by her wind release. Tenten had then used her ultimate attack the Twin Rising Dragons, but ultimately it had proved to be ineffective against Temari's fan. As Tenten ran out of weapons, she used strings to control the multiple weapons on the ground and flung them again at Temari in an attempt to surprise her, Temari however used her fan to blast Tenten, along wither weapons and she hit the floor.
Temari wanting to finish the match used her fan to trap Tenten and all her weapons in a cyclone and propelled her into the air, Tenten didn't last long under the on slot of attacks from the weapons and with one final scream she passed out. As she fell to the ground, Temari had Tenten land on her fan, causing more damage to the girl.
The match was declared as Temari the winner and in act that coursed many of the people to frown, she threw the unconscious Tenten off her fan in an attempt to have her land on the many weapons on the ground to injure or cripple her more. However Lee jumped in to save his teammate before she hit the ground, declaring Temari's actions to be 'unyouthful' when he saved Tenten.
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Karui vs Ino
Ino looked at her opponent and shivered, looking at the serious-looking red-haired Kumo kinoichi; she couldn't help but remember the match between Sakura and the other Kumo genin and how badly she had lost.
She was not stupid or naive enough to believe that she could've done better if was her that had fought in Sakura's place, in terms of strength she was not that far off stronger than Sakura, if Sakura had lost that badly then how badly would her own match be. But she didn't want to give up, not in front of everyone, especially not in front of her crush.
"Would (cough) Ino please make her way(cough) to the arena" the proctor said and everyone's eyes were on Ino, wondering why she was not moving
Ino felt a hand on her shoulders, she looked at the person to whom the hand belonged to and saw her sensei looking at her worriedly "You know Ino there is no shame in giving up in a fight you know you are not ready for" Asuma said reassuringly
Ino bit her lip, he was right she knew she wouldn't be able to win against the Kumo kinoichi 'Forgive me Naruto-kun' she looked at the boy in mind and saw him looking curiously at her.
"Procter I forfeit" she said finally, though her eyes were on Naruto and not on the proctor
"Very well then (cough) winner of the match by forfeit (cough) Karui"
Ino looked at everyone's face, well to be honest she paid more attention to Naruto, he looked at her with his head tilted to the side and gave her small nod. Her worries instantly vanished, he wasn't disappointed! which meant she still had a chance, now all she had to do was play her cards right and...
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Yugito vs Hinata
The two combatants made their way into the arena and stood across each other. Hayate announced the match to begin and disappeared i a leaf shunshin
No words were exchanged between the two fighters as they glared at each other, each waiting for the other to make the first move.
(cough)
"..."
After a few seconds of waiting Yugito was the first to attack.
"Fire style: Pulse Blast" She blow out several fire balls from her mouth the size of an average cat.
With her byakugan, Hinata could easily see the attack and predict where they would hit her more importantly she could see the condensed amount of chakra at the centre of the fire balls, she threw several kunai at the balls and to her surprise, they all exploded in gas that rapidly expanded in a loud bang.
'If I had dodged them, they would have exploded right in front of me!' she thought in slight alarm, she looked at Yugito who was already in the process of casting another jutsu
"Fire style: Incinerating Hail jutsu" her hands lit up with a light sheen of chakra, she then lift her hands upwards and created a salvo of small fireballs that hovered in the air for a few seconds and with loud "Ha!" she brought her hands to the ground and the fireballs started raining down on Hinata
Hinata did not move, she stood her ground with her body in the formal Hyuga stance "Eight Trigrams: Palms Revolving Heaven!" she began rotating rapidly, creating a blue dome of chakra that blew away all the balls of fire, when she stopped spinning there wasn't a single scorch mark on her body or any signs to show that she had been injured by the fire jutsu at all.
"I must admit your good, better than I had expected you to be" Yugito commented as she saw Hinata deflect all her attacks with whatever that dome of chakra was.
"Your good yourself" Hinata commented back, this time she was the one who initiated the attack, she ran at Yugito and engaged her in a taijutsu fight. As they fought Hinata tried by all means to hit her opponent but Yugito, who was noticeably faster than her, managed to evade all her attacks, not even a single hit managed to hit her.
"I know about that dangerous Hyuga taijutsu style The Gentile fist, it allows those from your clan to target the tenketsu and block the person's chakra pathways, rendering them immobile and unable to fight any longer...but that isn't of much help if you can't catch your opponent is it?" Yugito teased, as she easily avoided more attacks from Hinata
"Maybe...but there are many ways to catch an opponent off gourd" With that declaration, Hinata threw several smoke bombs that blanketed the whole area in thick, black, smoke
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"Awww now we can't see" Hitomi whined, when the arena was covered in smoke
"That was good move on Hinata's part" Naruto suddenly said, gaining a curious look from those around him. "Her opponent had the upper hand in the fight with her speed and long range jutsu, Hinata has covered the arena with smoke to blind sight her opponent" he elaborated further
"But won't she be having the same disadvantage as that other girl?" Hitomi asked. Naruto gave her an odd look and shook his head slightly in disbelieve
Naruto sighed "You went paying attention to Iruka-sensei's lessons were you?" Hitomi rubbed her head in embarrassment and shook her head
"Hinata's clan, the Hyuga clan, have a bloodline limit that gives them 360 degree field of vision and can see a far distance away, it can also see through solid objects" Well there were many other things that the byakugan could do but Naruto was not willing to disclose such information to all the foreign nin that were close nearby
"Wow" Hitomi said in awe. She looked at the smoke filled arena and could hear multiple clashes of metal and small explosions; she took a small breath and shouted "GO HINATA-CHAN, I KNOW YOU CAN WIN!"
"Shut up brat, some of us are trying to concentrate the match" a male voice shouted from across the stands, she looked at the person and saw that it was a boy wearing a full body suit with a red and yellow circle on the front. He was also wearing a black hood which covered his head completely and had a cat-like ears and his forehand protector was on his forehead, which had a Sand Village sign on it.
She glared at the boy "Fuck you make-up boy"
"Hitomi! Language"
"Sorry Kaa-chan, I mean Sensei, sorry sensei"
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Back in the arena, Hinata had been throwing kunai after Kunai at Yugito; some of those kunai had explosive tags attached to them. Her plan was rather simple really, seeing as she wasn't fast enough to hit her opponent in hand to hand combat, she had reasoned to throwing kunai in the smoke covered arena in hopes of catching her off gourd and move in to finish her off, not a sound plan but hey it was the best she could come up with at the moment.
She threw another kunai and watched it was it flew straight at her target and at the very last second, get deflected. She could see that the smoke was starting to clear the advantage she had wouldn't last any longer.
"Fire Style: Fire prison" Hinata looked around in confusion, not entirely sure what exactly the jutsu was supposed to do. She saw the ground around her open up in a circular meaner, her eyes widened when she saw fire rise up from the ground, imprisoning in her a prison made entirely from fire.
"Eight Trigrams: Palms Revolving Heaven" just like the first time she had used the jutsu it, a dome of chakra formed around the revolving girl. She continued on with her jutsu until she couldn't hold it any longer, when she stopped the prison of fire was still active.
The smoke cleared and everyone could see the captured Hinata (earning gasps of worry and surprise from her friends) and Yugito, who was standing a few metres from Hinata
"Procter end this match before I turn this girl into a pile of ashes" Yugito said seriously, the fire prison flared making Hinata whimper slightly at the intense heat.
"Winner of the (cough) match Yugito" he announced finally. The prison dropped, realising Hinata
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Naruto looked at Yugito with narrowed eyes" You noticed it too didn't you?" Shino said from beside him, Naruto gave him a small nod
"All the jutsu she used were at least B-ranked and she doesn't even look winded in the very least...and she was holding back during the fight, by how much I do not know"
"My hive is weary of her, they are telling me that her chakra feels tainted and are reluctant to go near her" he turned his head and looked directly at Naruto "they are telling me that her chakra feels similar to the red haired boy from Suna and can sense small traces of the same chakra coming from your sister...Hitomi" Naruto did not answer him, he fixed his gaze on Yugito, who looked directly at him with a predatory gaze
"Which one do you hold?" he mouthed out. Yugito looked taken back at those words and gave him a warning glare before vanishing in a smokeless, seal less, shunshin, reappearing beside her teammate a second later.
Kankuro vs Misumi Tsurugi
The fight began with Misumi quickly using his Soft Physique Modification to restrain Kankuro and threatened to snap his neck if he didn't give up, that was when Kankuro revealed that the 'Kankuro' Misumi was fighting, and restraining, was a puppet. The real Kankuro was disguised in the bandages, controlling the puppet with the Puppet Technique.
Kankuro then used his puppet, Karasu, to crash Misumi's bones, defeating him
Naruto vs Yoroi Akado
"Looks like it's finally my turn" Naruto said as he walked towards the stairs.
"Good luck Naruto-kun" Hitomi, Hikari, Ino, all said at once, giving him a warm friendly or in Ino's case, flirtatious, smile. Naruto gave them all a grateful nod and descended down the stairs
Arriving in the arena, Naruto faced his opponent with his sharingan already active.
"Begin" (cough) Hayate said and with that he disappeared from the arena, living the two fighters.
Naruto's Sharingan stared directly into the dark brown eyes of Yoroi, he gave Yoroi a small, unseen, smirk and ever so slowly his sharingan started to hypnotically spin
'Too easy'
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Without wasting any time, Naruto's hands blurred through hand seals
"Water style: Water Cannon jutsu" he spat out a powerful beam of boiling water at Yoroi. Yoroi easily avoided the water attack
"You're going to need to be quicker if you hope to ever hit me" Yoroi said. He ran at Naruto and punched him in the stomach, sending him flying and hitting the wall "Far quicker" Yoroi gave him a cocky smile as he stood in the centre of the arena, waiting for Naruto to stand up and attack him.
"For being the famed prodigy and son of the Hokage, you are rather disappointing" Yoroi said with his arms crossed.
Naruto slowly stood up from the small crater in the wall he was buried in, he looked at Yoroi with a glare "Shut up" he snarled, throwing a chakra enhanced kunai at Yoroi, to his shock, Yoroi easily avoided the attack and actually caught the kunai with his hand.
"No disappointing is not the word best suited to describe you...you are pathetic" Yoroi said, further enraging the young prodigy
"SHUT UP! Fire style: Dragon fire jutsu!" he breathed out a giant fire dragon, that roared angrily at Yoroi and in a second, covered the distance between it and Yoroi. Upon contact the attack exploded in a fire explosion that shook the entire arena.
Just when Naruto was about celebrate, he felt something or rather someone grab him, wrapping their hands and arms around his, rendering him immobile "W-What?" he asked in surprise, he heard a voice chuckle behind him, a voice belonging to Yoroi. "H-How" he started in disbelieve and horror
"Look at your attack" Yoroi instructed, Naruto looked at where his attack had hit Yoroi and saw a charred, burning log in his place "You let your emotions control you, giving me the advantage in the battle, your hopes of winning this fight were nonexistent from the start of this fight" Naruto tried freeing himself but the gip Yoroi had on him was too strong "Don't bother to resist, every second that passes I am draining your chakra dry"
Naruto's eyes widened and his struggles increased in a desperate attempt to free himself. After a few seconds Yoroi could feel that something was wrong, instead of the rush of new chakra he would feel every time he used his Chakra absorption technique, he couldn't feel any new chakra entering his system rather he could feel his own chakra being depleted!
Instantly he released Naruto and backed away from him and he fell to his knees, his body feeling too tired and heavy for him to stand upright anymore. Naruto looked at him with raised eyebrow "Finally noticed ha?" a predatory glint appeared in his eyes "But I'm afraid you caught on a little too late"
"H-How" Yoroi asked with wide eyes
"From the moment you looked into my eyes" Naruto responded as the tomoes in his eyes were slowly rotating
"Then this whole battle was..." Yoroi trailed off
"A Genjutsu" Naruto finished his sentence off.
Yoroi could do nothing as his vision started to go blurry 'Genjutsu, fucking genjutsu and I...I fell right into it' was his last thought before his vision went completely black and the ground embraced him.
The entire spectators watched in rapt attention, all with high hopes of watching the prodigy, Namikaze Naruto, in action. Imagine their surprise and disappointment when instead of fighting, Naruto and Yoroi just stared at each other unmoving for more than a 5 minutes. Just when Hayate was about to step in and a see what was wrong with the two fighters.
Yoroi's body lit up with blue, visible, chakra, the charka swirled around him until he couldn't take out anymore chakra and he dropped to the ground in chakra exhaustion
Hayate looked at the unconscious boy with a raised eyebrow "Uhem, since Yoroi is unable to (cough) continue, Winner of the match is(cough) Naruto"
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"What just happened?" Hikari asked in confusion, the same amount of confusion that was on all the Konoha genins's minds.
"Your brother"Kakashi began as he looked at the red haired boy, who was now making his way towards the stands "He used genjutsu to trick his opponent into exhausting all his chakra until he passed out from chakra exhaustion" he looked at Kurenai and saw the proud smile on her face, the same smile that was on Kushina and Minato's faces.
'To think he was able put his opponent for an enter match...just how strong are you Naruto?' Kakashi though with a slightly narrowed eyes
All the genin's eyes widened and their jaws dropped on the floor "Whoa" was the collective thought of the genins
Suddenly Hitomi and Hikari could feel the gap of strength between the two of them and their brother, widen even further, if he could win a fight against someone by just looking at them in their eyes, then how strong was he really if he truly went all out. Could they even hope to ever catch up to him? Wasn't he the youngest of the three of them and wasn't it the responsibility of the older siblings to be stronger than their younger sibling so that they could protect them?
"Wow Naruto-kun sure is strong" Ino voiced out, her crush on Naruto increasing to unbelievable proportions, she didn't notice this but a line of drool was coming out from her mouth, her eyes were sparkling with love-struck awe. When she saw Naruto appear from the stairs, she stared at his handsome face, his startling dark blue his, his perfect light tan skin, it was all too much for the poor girl and so she promptly passed out.
"What's wrong (munch) with Ino?" Choji asked between bites, when he saw Ino suddenly drop to the ground, Shikamaru looked down at his unconscious, love struck teammate and sighed in annoyance.
"Ask sensei, he'll explain it to you" He said lazily. He knew perfectly well what had made Ino pass out but explaining the whole thing to Choji would take some time and energy, perfectly good time and energy that could be used on other more productive and appealing things like...well doing nothing
SHINO VS ZAKU
"The match (cough) between Shino and Zaku (cough) shall now commence...Begin"
The match began with Zaku (Who was covered in bandages) declaring for Shino to quit the match, stating that he was no match for him. To Zaku's ire, Shino did not respond to his taunt or even show any outward sign that he was affected and this seemed to rile up Zaku.
Zaku attacked Shino head on, attacking him in a fiery of kick and pouches, all of which were effortlessly avoided by the ever stoic Shino. Getting more frustrated, Zaku decided to end the match by using his most powerful technique, the Ultimate Dissipating Airwaves. After the attack had hit Shino, Zaku had cheered on arrogantly declaring himself the winner as there was no way his opponent would have survived his attack.
Imagine his surprise and anger when a completely uninjured Shino suddenly materialised from a cloud of bugs a few feet away from him.
"How did you?" Zaku asked in shock
"A bug clone, I substituted with it the moment I sensed a large chakra build up coming from your arms" he adjusted his glasses "You should give up, Why? Because from the beginning of this match I have been sending my insects to you without your notice, with each second that passes they are slowly draining your chakra"
Zaku's eyes widened in horror when he saw a bug crawling on his hand, a second later his horrified looked turned into a cocky, arrogant smirk
"Don't you dare underestimate me, ULTIMATE DESSIPATING AIRWAVES!" He raised his hands and pushed so much chakra through them that it was actually visible around his arms. He stared in confusion when he saw that nothing was happening
"My insects are blocking the tubes that transmit your attacks...give up, this match is finished" Shino said in a flat tone, upon hearing this, Zaku's anger skyrocketed and ignoring Shino's warning, he pushed more and more chakra into his arms until...
BOOM!
Both his arms exploded in a gruesome explosion of blood, flesh and bones. The match was quickly ended in Shino's favour and the medics rushed into the arena and took the now unconscious Zaku away.
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Choji, who was in the process of eating his snacks froze, mouth wide open, at the gruesome site of Zaku's exploding hands and most unfortunate for him, a piece of flesh flew right into his open mouth causing him to involuntarily swallow. When he realised what he had done, or rather what he had swallowed, his face turned completely green and a second later his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he dropped to the ground, unconscious.
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CHOJI VS NEJI
The Konoha turned to look at where Choji was only to find him lying on the ground with his face green and some white foam coming out from his mouth. Asuma tried waking him up by shaking him but the fa-big boned boy did not stir, getting desperate, Asuma tried bribing him into waking up by offering him a free lunch at his favourite restaurant but still he did not wake up.
Eventually after a few minutes of fruitless attempts at trying to the boy up, the proctor (Hayate) was forced to call the match in Neji's favour.
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HIKARI VS SAMUI
Before the match could even begin, Samui raised her hands and when the proctor and everyone else was looking at her she spoke up
"Proctor I forfeit my match" she said flatly, earning many shocked looks from the other genins. Her teammates though did not show any outward sign of surprise; infect it looked more like they were expecting her to give up.
Hayate grumbled something under his breath and after coughing a bit he spoke "Winner of the match by forfeit Hikari"
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Hikari huffed and folded her hands in annoyance "I feel cheated" She said with a loud huff
Kushina looked at her daughter and gave her a small pat on the head "Look on the bright side, at least you didn't have to show any of your skills this will give you an advantage over your opponent in the finals" Kushina said encouragingly
"I guess so" Hikari said with a small sigh, she really wanted to fight and show off her own skills.
Rock Lee vs Gaara
(A/N; Don't get angry guys but the match is the same as canon so im not going to retype the whole thing again since I'm pretty sure you all know how the fight turned out...Gaara won)
Dosu, who was the only contestant left and had no opponent to fight was allowed to advance to the finals
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After the most epic and exciting match between Gaara and lee had ended, the proctor of the second phase of the exam (Anko) had stepped inside the arena with a bowl in her hands, and inside the bowl were papers with numbers on them. She then instructed the genins that had won their matches to each pick a paper from the bowl.
After each genin had chosen their paper and called out their number, which was written on the paper, they were told they meet in a month time where the finals would be held.
The matches would go as follows;
Match 1; Neji vs Hitomi
Match 2; Shikamaru vs Temari
Match 3; Omoi vs Hikari
Match 3; Naruto vs Yugito
Match 6; Shino vs Kankuro
Match 7; Gaara vs Dosu
Match 8; Karui vs winner of match 1
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Done! Please do forgive me if this chapter was not that good, I trouble completing it, but I promise the next chapter will be better.
I there is anything that you didn't understand or want clarity on then ask away.