Teams 7, 8 and 10 walked into the tower. All in their regular clothes. Except Naruto. Naruto Was wearing a pair of boxers with bones on them and that appeared to be the extent of his teams generosity.
"You guys suck. Your ok I guess Kiba. At least you lent me something." "Keep them."

They layed two scrolls out and -poof- out came Inochi who looked at Naruto's undressed state and growled "Explain." Naruto gulped. "Er ... Gaint snake made me use my Kekki Genki?" "I will verify that later. Only one team can pass per two scrolls. What team?" Naruto was still nervous in front of Inochi so it was a welcome relief when Shino and Shikamaru both held up a pair of scrolls, when Sasuke answered, with Team Seven's scrolls in hand. "We all do."

After a day of rest in which no one would let Naruto get a change of clothes, the prelims began.

The Third looked around before speaking up. "This next part is a one on one matches. Who ever wins gets a spot in the finals being held a month from now. To be fair every one of your names has been put into this box. When called, come to the floor or you forfeit your place. I have asked our resident Taijutsu expert to referee this stage. Gai?" "YOSH, GOOD MORNING MY YOUTHFULL GUESTS. IT IS I, THE GREEN BEAST OF KONOHA, CAN WE GET..." Gai pulled out two papers. "GARRA VS AKATSUCHI!"

Garra sand teleported down while Akatsuchi just rolled over the edge and barely touched down on the arena floor. Garra looked bored. Akatsuchi ran up and threw punch after punch, hitting nothing but sand. Jumping away he made several hand signs before a golem of rocks appeared. The golem floated to Garra and just like its creator hit nothing but sand. This time when it tried to put space between them sand shot out and whirled around the golem creating more and more sand. Akatsuchi looked disheartened and raised his hand. "I forfit. Garra seems to be my wost possible match up."
"WINNER GARRA!"

Garra looked over at Akatsuchi and scoffed. "Worthless." and with that, he walked back to the stands.

"NEXT WE HAVE TEMARI VS SUZUMEBACHI!"

Suzumebachi looked over at Temari before grinning. "A wind user huh? Thats no challenge My grand father was the First Tsukage. We know how to fight your type." With that she was off. Before Temari realised what happened her opponent was in her face throwing sloppy punches. Nothing hit her but she felt that some thing was off. Temari whipped her fan out and started lashing out at Suzumebachi, making her opponant jump to the other side. "If you quit in the next thirty seconds, I'll let you live little girl." That pissed off temari more than any other comment. She charged in a blind rage before falling to the ground in pain. "What?" "My bees are laced with a poison not found in Wind country, say it or die." "I give." Suzumebachi tossed a small vial to Temari, who downed the antidote.

"WINNER SUZUMEBACHI!"

"KONKURO VS KIBA"

"Yeah lets show this guy who we are Akamaru!" "Arf."

Konkuro dropped his wierd, harry bag like thing on the ground as he walked on to the arena floor. "I don't feel like wasting more effort on you than I need."
"Don't look down on us, Gastuga!" Just as soon as Kiba neared his opponant, his torso opened up and closed behind him, trapping him. When Konkuro didn't hear any noise he was about to open up his pupet trap when he heard and felt it. -Grr- Psssss- Konkuro lept up from the bindings and started kicking the poor little puppy over and over and over, relentlessly. Not realising he let go of his chakra strings Kiba's unconscious body hit the ground when crow opened up. "KONKURO IS THE WINNER!" Konkuro was not listening instead he was busy still kicking the small defenseless puppy. -boom-crash- "SORRY MY FELLOW AUDIANCE BUT IT WAS MOST UNYOUTHFUL TO KICK A PUPPY. KONKURO STILL ADVANCES AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT!"

"NEXT UP SASUKE VS INO!"

"I'll let you give up if you want Ino, we both know you can't beat me." Sasuke smirked.
Ino looked up at Naruto watching, her resolve hardened. "Maybe I can't beat you but I can try. Who knows maybe if I win, Naruto-Kun will take me out on a date?" Sasuke looked confused, still unsure how Naruto could shift the loyalties of one of his biggest fan girls. Sasuke smirked if he could figure it out he might be able to not look over his shoulder every time he went out.

Sasuke flashed through hand seals before. "Katon: Great fireball no jutsu." Ino jumped back and ran through her own "Mind Body Switch no jutsu!" Ino slumped down while Sasuke jumped out-of-the-way just in time. Seconds later, one of the Chunnin in the back yelled out "I Sasuke, quit and let Ino win." She than realized he was in front of her a few feet. "Damn, missed." Sasuke walked over to Ino's body and snapped her dominant arm. "When she gets back to her body she will be unable to continue." Gai looked disappointed in Sasuke but still called it with his arm up. "SASUKE!"

"COME DOWN SAKURA VS HINATA!"

Hinata glared at Sakura. "First Ino, now you? I'm not letting either of you whores get him. He will be mine." Sakura looked at Hinata like she was stupid. "Wha? You can have him I want my Sasuke-Kun." "LIES!" The others jumped they couldn't hear what was said before that. Hinata jumped at Sakura with fire in her eyes. "Two palms, four palms, eight palms, sixteen palms, thirty-two palms. Eight Trigrams Sixty-four Palms!" Gai caught the last strike just before it hit. "MEDIC! WINNER HINATA!"

"CHOJI VS HAKU" "It looks like you know the blond over there?" Choji nodded. "Oh you know Naruto? He's cool did you know he once beat this Zabuza guy in one hit. The guy was kind of a bitch. Hey is that sword a repli... oh crap. I quit don't let him kill me!" Haku was pissed. "BY FORFIT HAKU WINS."

"SHIKAMARU VS CHOJURO"

Shikamaru looked at the sword. Yup, that was one of them. If he remembered this one could change shape. Looking from the sword to the face of the swordsman showed anxiety. "Good you're a close range fighter. As long as you need to get close I've already won." Chojuro started to sweat as Shikamaru was casually strolling over to him. He jumped back, but the leaf nin just kept walking. Finally getting an idea he swung his sword and made it longer so it almost hit him. "Too easy, even with this I'll win in one shot." Shikamaru made to run at Chojuro. In response Chojuro lengthened his blade yet again. "Perfect. Kagemane success, I win." Shikamaru declared as he made Chojuro throw down the sword and draw a kunai. With the difference in size between the standard Kiri and Konoha kunai being about four inches, the kunai tip near Shikamarus neck put the other one pressing into Chojuros neck dripping blood down. "Two choices, I win because you forfeit or I get a death win." Chojuro paled but before he could do anything "WINNER SHIKAMARU BY SUBMISION!"

"SHINO VS KARUI"

Karui stared at Shino. When Shino got to the floor he dropped his pace and circled Karui several times. "I win. You are surrounded by my kaiki." "Not if I kill you before they get me." With that she rushed at Shino and won the match. For him. "Got you." The shino she just charged at split and revealed itself to be a bug clone. "I told you I win." Shino said as he came from the shadows and fixed his glasses.

"WINNER, SHINO!"

"SUIGETSU VS OMOI"

Suigetsu and Omoi both slowly walked down, one sure of their impending win, the other while thinking way over the top about what might happen in the fight and what repressions were sure to fall due to them. Both boys looked at each other sizing the other up. "FIGHT!"

Both boys jumped back to get room and took out their swords. "Are you not good enough for one of the great swords or do you just not find me worthy of using it on me?" Inquired Omoi.

"Both!" and with that Suigetsu rushed at Omoi swinging his blade. Unlike the previous fights not lasting long this one seemed more or less on equal grounds. Strikes clashed together continuously with Suigetsu, getting some close calls on Omoi. Omoi was panting as-well as bleeding from several places. He was lucky he knew that, and by the look on his opponents face, he could tell he noticed as-well. So far he had just ducked or barely parried a few attack that if he was only a little slower would have killed him. Kenjutsu was not going in his favor, and he realized this. Omoi kept jumping away as he put his sword back as he made hand seals. B had shown him a jutsu on the way here he knew the theory but had no time to practice it yet, but you know what they say about desprit times. Calling out his jutsu, he threw his hands out and took aim. Omoi was shocked, it actually worked but he was shocked. No really, he shocked himself, electricity was pulsating all around him and he took almost twice as long to move because of it but the Kiri-nin was out it almost looked like he was melted to the ground but on second thought it was more of a puddle. Almost like water, weird.

"WINNER OMOI!"

Omoi took several minutes to get back up the stairs because of the electricity still coursing though him. It took so long that Suigetsu was already back up and had stormed up to the viewing area before he got there. Omoi was under no delusions if his last attack would have missed or even worse if the boy stopped playing around and used one of the legendary swords instead of the one he used or hell if he had not had that little bit of luck to mostly dodge some of those swipes and slashes he could have died and even if he didn't he still would have lost.

"DUE TO THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS THE NEXT TWO NAMES WILL BE THE FINAL MACH OF THE PRELIMS AND THE LAST NAME GETS A PASS INTO THE FINALS! WILL NARUTO AND SAMUI COME TO THE FLOOR? KUROTSUCHI GETS THE PASS!"

Naruto just strutted down the stairs as if he knew he would win, well to be fair if any Gennin could up and beat him in this exam he thought I might as well stop trying. Pft like that could happen. Samui watched her opponent strut down the stairs and into his spot while she walked down the other set of stairs. The two just looked at each other before Naruto knelt down on one knee and bowed his head so he could no longer see his opponent. "I humbly accept your forfeit Samui."

Samui saw red first he bows to her as if accepting his fate than tells her that she can forfeit. She was personally trained by B-sama, Jinchurriki of the second strongest beast and brother to the Rikage, fastest man alive. "Just who the fuck do you think you are to talk down to me?" She ran as fast as she could at him only to hit nothing. She looked around and saw Naruto leaning against the wall on the opposite side from her, she once again rushed him only to hit nothing and have to look for him again. The fight continued to go on like this for several minutes. On the roof sticking to it using chakra while doing crunches, talking to the ref about god knows what, laying on the floor looking bored with a book out, and one time he was behind her back mimicking her. Samui was not impressed. Than it hit her he was truly playing with her. She was running herself ragged, she guessed she had maybe a quarter of her chakra left just from running. She didn't relise she was using her chakra to speed up constantly but she was, and now that she knew it she took a second to compose herself.

Samui took out her tanto and held it in her prefered stance before calmly walking to where Naruto was and swung it was blocked so she tried again blocked, again it was blocked, than again. She didn't see how he kept blocking her but he did, stopping to get her breath again she looked at how he kept blocking her. It was his finger, but how? She put that to the side for now as she thought about any way she could win. So far that Konoha-nin had used speed so fast it was almost like looking at a Jonnin, then he blocks her tanto with his finger. He was playing with her and she knew there was no way she could beat him. It was time to forfeit.

"I Samui of Kumo ..." Unfortunately she was interrupted by that little bastard. "Yellow with gray lightning bolts!" "Huh?" Samui asked dumbfounded. "Your panties. They are yellow with gray lightning bolts." Naruto said with confidence. "How would you know that?" Samui panicked now knowing what he was talking about. "Here I'm not some type of sick perv that collects other peoples underwear." Naruto tossed a pair of panties to her as she caught them she checked, Yes her pants were still on and her belt was tied the way she had just this morning but under her pants was nothing. "What? How?" How long has he had them and how did he get them with out her knowing and without taking her other clothes off? "I'LL fUCKING KILL YOU!" And the chase was on again just like that. After an hour and a half of running since the panty revile Samui literally collapsed in pure exhaustion. Naruto smiled. He had won his match having only used that one perverted E rank jutsu Ero-Sannin taught him, blocking a sword a few times and making his opponent literately run herself ragged. He smiled at himself remembering that just because you're a bad-ass ninja doesn't mean you can't still prank others.

"AFTER THE LONGEST MATCH OF THIS OR ANY OTHER PRELIM IN KNOWN HISTORY NARUTO HAS WON THE MATCH!"

Oh yeah, upgrade time. With what he got before hand and now that the prlims were practically over it was time to increase his stats and he knew just what he wanted to use them on. He opened up the tab and was beholden with

STATS
free - 6

bijuu control 2/9

nin 0/25

gen 0/25

tai 0/25

fuin 1/6

med 0/6

req. tsunade arc

sensor 0/6

enlightenment 1/1

earth element 1/6

earth 2 req. wind 6

fire element 1/6

fire 2 req. wind 6

lightning element 1/6

lightning 2 req. wind 6

water element 1/6

water 2 req. wind 5

wind element 1/6

yin/yang element 0/6

req. earth,fire,lightning,water and wind level 5

barrier 0/6

req. fuin 5, sensing 1 and yin/yang 1

chakra absorb 0/6

req. invasion

chakra transplant 0/6

req. chakra absorb 3, med 3

kin 5/6

req. yin/yang 4

Naruto put four more on his sealing and decided to put two on his wind, knowing that would give him an edge later on and with the finals coming up, well he wanted to show just what he could do.

"THAT CONCLUDES THE PRELIMS, HOKAGE-SAMA ANYTHING TO ADD?"

"Yes, I think I will Gai-san. To the victors of your matches, you all did well and I am proud to see what you can do in one month time. My team is doing a lottery to see who will be fighting who in the stands, this gives you time to strategize on the best way to fight your foes showing one of the qualities most villages look for in leaders while also giving chances to show your true worth to your respective leaders. From seeing just the kind of skills needed in leaders, some of the losers of the matches, I believe that most of you deserve a second chance, but only one chance. I will be writing a personal invitation to your leaders, if you show the qualities your Kage looks for and at least two other Kages agree with it you might just get your promotion. But just to make my self clear, this will only be a trial, If all five Kages seem to like it, we may keep it going, or we might not. Take this chance for what it is at this time. A once in a lifetime opportunity to get a second chance." The third took a few seconds break before a Chunnin brought him a piece of paper.

"The finals will be Naruto vs Kurotsuchi, Haku vs Sasuke, Hinata vs Konkuro, Shikamaru vs omoi, and Garra gets a winner from the previous matches." Sarutobi looked at Naruto, as if telling him to stay a moment as he called out to the rest of the crowd "See you all in one month, Dismissed."

When the rest of the others in the room left Naruto walked up to the Third. "So an exhibition match huh?" "I thought it would be a good way to bring the Gokage together for your plan. You do have a plan don't you?" Naruto grinned. "Maybe."

STATS

free - 0

bijuu control 2/9

nin 0/25

gen 0/25

tai 0/25

fuin 5/6

med 0/6

req. tsunade arc

sensor 0/6

enlightenment 1/1

earth element 1/6

earth 2 req. wind 6

fire element 1/6

fire 2 req. wind 6

lightning element 1/6

lightning 2 req. wind 6

water element 1/6

water 2 req. wind 5

wind element 3/6

yin/yang element 0/6

req. earth,fire,lightning,water and wind level 5

barrier 0/6

req. fuin 5, sensing 1 and yin/yang 1

chakra absorb 0/6

req. invasion

chakra transplant 0/6

req. chakra absorb 3, med 3

kin 5/6

req. yin/yang 4