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Chapter 10: The Chunin Finals

Today was the day of the chunin finals. These matches would determine if the genin present are able to move on to become chunin. The stadium was packed and everyone was placing their bets on who would win. Each family or friends came to cheer the competitors on. Every competitor was there... besides Naruto and Sasuke.

"They should have been here by now." Sakura stated to her friends Ino. They both were thinking about the two of them had not made it there yet. While they were discussing this, a man walked into the center of the arena.

"Okay everyone. We are about to begin the finals for the chunin exam. The old proctor isn't here so I am filling in for him. My name is Genma." The new proctor said. "Can we have the first match come down, Tayuya V.S. Naruto."

The other competitors left the arena while Tayuya stayed. One minute went by, just as the proctor was going to call the match, an orange toad came and stood opposite of where Tayuya was. He then opened his mouth and Naruto came out of it and fell onto the ground.

"Hey! I thought you said that would be a good introduction!" Naruto yelled at the toad.

The toad shrugged then said, "I thought it was pretty good." The toad then poofed away leaving Naruto alone with the whole crowd staring at him. Some of the ninjas were thinking to themselves of how he had the toad contract but mainly everyone was staring at him for his new outfit he sported. He had a blue shirt with orange markings on the wrist areas and he had a black vest over it with orange lining around it and some orange stripes on one side. His hands now had fingerless gloves which were black with some orange stripes. His pants were black, one side had an orange kanji for 'Fox' while the other side had wrapping. They only reached down to his knees and after that was some wrapping before his sandals. What got everyone's attention was the giant sword holster on his back. It was mainly black with orange stripes on it and the handle was now red. Naruto started scratching the back of his head nervously when Genma came to the rescue and said, "The first match of the chunin finals, begin!"

With that, Genma leapt back to let the two begin fighting. Tayuya just stayed there standing while Naruto held out a hand. "Let's have a good fight, okay?"

Tayuya just stayed there staring at Naruto with her mask over her face. She didn't say anything as she pulled out the flute that was used to take down Sakura. She was about to put it up to her mouth when Naruto rushed her and began a tajutsu battle with her. With genjutsu being her specialty, she had to keep dodging the strikes that were being thrown at her.

Tayuya was then able to escape the taijutsu fight and ran up the side of the arena and began playing her flute. Before Naruto had the chance, he was caught in a genjutsu which had him tied up and he was sent through extreme pain. However, this only lasted a moment when Kyubbi broke it for him and he was brought back into reality.

Tayuya's mask showed a scowl as she began to play another tune but Naruto was quicker this time. He had pulled out his sword and began swinging it at her but she was an expert dodger. The two went at this up and down the wall until Naruto was able to kick Tayuya off the wall to the ground.

Naruto then ran back down the wall and waited for his opponent to see if she would get back up. Naruto was surprised when she was able to get back up pretty easily from a kick of that magnitude.

"You're a good opponent. However, I would like to see you without your mask on. Plus, I haven't heard you speak yet, what's up with that?" Naruto asked suspiciously as he got his sword into another ready stance.

Tayuya just stared at Naruto while she held her flute to her lips and began playing another melody. Naruto began running towards her when there was a white smoke cloud that covered the field. When the smoke dispersed, there stood 3 giant humanoid looking creatures, each with bandages over their eyes. One had a club, one was completely bandaged, and the other had huge arms. Tayuya continued playing her melody and her doki charged Naruto.

"Hey Kyubbi! Could you break this genjutsu?" Naruto asked as he dodged the first two strikes.

'Kit, this isn't genjutsu. She seems to be controlling them with her flute. If you get to her then you can take them out.' Kyubbi responded.

With a nod of confirmation, Naruto leapt into action and began fighting back the doki. However, the turned out to be too much for Naruto to fight on and he was hit back into a tree. Naruto then groggily got up and pulled out a seal with the kanji 'Lake' and put chakra into it. Water bursted out till it covered the majority of the arena field.

"Hidden Mist Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as a mist started covering the area. It started off light but then became heavier and heavier until it was hard to see. Naruto was easily able to locate Tayuya due to her still playing her flute. However, her doki had taken a defensive formation around her and were prepared for anything.

"Water Clone Jutsu." Naruto whispered as water clones appeared from the water and headed towards Tayuya. He was going to use this as a distraction while he would think of a plan.

As soon as the last clone was killed by Tayuya's doki, Naruto had thought of a plan. He made more clones and ordered them to charge towards Tayuya's location. He then pulled out a seal from his pocket and got ready to initiate his plan.

At this time, Tayuya was fighting off the clones with her doki. The last clone then charged her and she had to kick it to make it burst into water. However, this was all the real Naruto needed as he used the "Earth Mole Jutsu" and was under Tayuya's position. He then grabbed onto her leg activating the seal he had on his hand.

The seal was a paralysis seal that would paralyze the enemy for about 1 minute. Naruto leapt out of the ground and right in front of the frozen Tayuya. Her doki had disappeared the minute she stopped playing her melody and now it was just her and Naruto.

Naruto then ripped of the mask she had on her face. He stared at Tayuya before uttering the word "beautiful". However, Tayuya didn't take to kindly to the compliment.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME YOU SHITHEAD?!" She yelled at him making him fall back.

"Eh, why did you scream? Anyway, give up or I'll trap you in a water bubble and blah blah blah." Naruto said as placed his hand in front of himself and suddenly Tayuya was trapped in a water bubble up to her neck.

Doing the smart thing, Tayuya said, "I give up you stupid piece of shit," not wanting to drown that day.

"Winner of the first match, Naruto!" Genma announced as the cleanup crew came out from the back and the medic staff.

"So good match?" Naruto asked Tayuya as he released her from the water bubble.

"Shut up shithead." Tayuya replied as she began walking the opposite direction to her teammates and brushing off the medic's insistence on being taken to the medic wing.

'Interesting one, eh kit?'

'Yeah, anyway I believe Neji and that Gaara guy are next.'

Kage Box

"You have a very gifted ninja there." The Kazekage said to the Hokage sitting beside him. 'Yes, to beat Tayuya even without her curse mark is a huge feat. If it wasn't for the Kyubbi, I might have taken his body before Sasuke's.'

"Thank you Kazekage, I hope the next match is just as exciting." Replied the Hokage as he continued to look on at the battlefield.

"Yes, my son is up next so he better not disappoint me." Orochimaru said trying to play off the Kazekage as best as he could.

In the Stands

"So, how do you think your son will do, Hizashi?" Hiashi asked his twin brother.

"You and I have trained him well and he is a prodigy. I believe he will do fine." Replied the younger twin. (A/N: This is why Neji isn't all fate and everything. I didn't really want to write that plus I like Neji and want him to keep his father.)

'Do well Neji-nisaan.' Hinata thought to herself as she looked at the arena her cousin was in.

Back in the Arena

"Okay, the second match is Neji V.S. Gaara. Begin!" Genma said as he leapt back from the two fighters.

Neji instantly charged the sand wielder and began by throwing strikes at him. Which would have been effective, if not for the sand that would spring up before the palm hit. Neji leapt back to avoid the sand that then rushed towards him and jumped onto a tree in the arena.

"It looks like I will have to find a weakness. Byagukan!" Neji said as he activated his family's doujutsu. He then scanned the sand for any signs of weakness before coming up with a plan to stop it. He charged towards Gaara and waited for the sand to come up and stop his first attack.

As soon as the sand came up, Neji hit it with a chakra laced palm. Just as he thought it would, it fell to the ground ineffective. Until, Gaara's other sand went and swallowed the chakra dead sand back up and fed it more chakra.

'This will be harder then thought.' Neji thought to himself as he went into a stance to fight his opponent.

Gaara then unleashed a torrent of sand to go for Neji which he was easily able to dodge. Neji then leapt back and charged Gaara and unleashed a few chakra laced strikes into the sand and one of his fists effectively hitting Gaara.

"Did you really think that pathetic attack would take me out?" Gaara asked mockingly as he started to gather up the sand that had fallen on the ground.

"No. But I expect this one to." Neji said as he rushed Gaara and started throwing palms at the sand and disabling it piece by piece.

"You're in the range of my divination. Eight Trigrams 64 Palms!" Neji shouted as he got into his clan's stance and started throwing fists.

"Two Palms!"

"Four Palms!"

"Eight Palms!"

"Sixteen Palms!"

"Thirty Two Palms!"

"Sixty Four Palms!" Neji shouted as he hit Gaara with every single palm effectively putting him down.

However, right before the palms hit, Gaara replaced himself with a sand clone of his and as soon as Neji's back was to him he sent another torrent of sand into Neji's back. The impact was met with the sound of a sickening crack as Neji was blown back into the arena wall where he was knocked unconscious.

Gaara, however, wasn't finished with the match and sent a shot of sand to end his opponent but before it could hit it was met with a green blur and Neji was out of the arena. Rock Lee stood there staring Gaara down and the proctor decided to end the match then. Lee then took Neji to the infirmary while Gaara looked with angry eyes upon everyone as he left the arena. Many of the people were just staring wide eyed at what Gaara was about to do and some seemed frightened by him.

However, Gaara left the arena without any more trouble and it was time to start the next match.

"May I have the opponents of the third match, Shino and Shikamaru, come to the arena." Genma announced as the cleaning crew finished the cleanup of the arena and people were situated again.

Shino and Shikamaru came down to the arena (besides Shikamaru who needed more "motivation") and looked at each other. Shikamaru stared at Shino with a rather bored expression while Shino's stare looked like he was analyzing his opponent for any weaknesses.

Naruto stared at the match with a bored expression as well. He already had an idea of who would win between the two ninjas. As predicted, Shino sent a swarm of bugs off from the beginning to try and drain Shikamaru's chakra. Shikamaru was able to dodge for awhile while coming up with a plan. As soon as it appeared that Shino was winning, he was caught in a shadow created by his bugs. Think their host was in danger, the bugs returned to Shino's body and Shikamaru pulled out a kunai and asked for Shino to give up. Being a good sport, Shino gave up and the two shook hands at the end. (A/N: I'm wanting to get to the rest of the fighting heh.)

After the cleanup crew was done, it was time for the next round. "Can I have Temari and Sasuke come to the arena?" The proctor asked. The two shinobi made their way down to the arena and got prepared to face each other.

As soon as the match started, Sasuke sent three low-level fireballs in Temari's direction. Temari was able to use her wind to dissipate the fire and started sending more wind based jutsus toward Sasuke who was able to avoid with no trouble.

'So her main attack and defense is with that fan? I'll have to find a way past that.' Sasuke thought to himself as he continued to dodge wind blast after wind blast. Sasuke then had an idea on how to get past the fan and he started to initiate his plan.

"Is that all you got?" Temari mockingly asked as she began to get cocky thinking she had the advantage.

Sasuke then charged her which was unexpected to Temari. She sent a few wind blast which he was easily able to maneuver around but then he moved quickly to the left side of her and threw a punch which she was able to dodge but she did not see the kick that would hit her into the side of the arena wall.

Temari got up wearily and glared at Sasuke. She opened her fan all the way and sent huge vacuum blasts towards Sasuke which he was blown back in turn from the sheer force. However, the Sasuke that she thought she had blow back poofed away.

The real Sasuke had henged into a rock nearby her and jumped from it and punched Temari in the face making her fall back and into the wall behind her. This time however, Temari was knocked out.

"Winner of the fourth match, Sasuke!" Genma announced as the cleaning crew came out to clean up Temari's wind attacks. The medic team also came out and picked Temari and carried her away.

Kage Box

"You have quite an impressive shinobi there, Hokage." Orochimaru in disguise said to his old sensei. "He is very talented at being a shinobi."

"Thank you, he's had a rough life but he has moved through it all." The Third Hokage replied as he watched the cleaning crew.

'Soon, very soon it will happen...'

In the Stadium

The four competitors were allowed a thirty minute intermission before the next matches. The matches would be one on one and the winners of these matches would advance on to the finals of the tournament. The three shinobi from the Leaf were making idle chit chat while Gaara just waited for his match.

Gaara then walked up to the trio and said, "After Naruto, I'm killing you Sasuke Uchiha. Mother wants your blood to satisfy her."

"Heh. You have to get past me first!" Naruto said prepared for his match.

"That's enough you guys." Genma said as he entered the ring again. "The next match is about to start, may Gaara and Naruto stay in the arena?"

Naruto and Gaara stared at each other. Naruto had to prove himself to his village that he was worthy and he also had to defend his life from Gaara's wrath. Just as the match was about to begin, feathers began raining down from the sky. Many of the crowd people began falling asleep while others undid the genjutsu that was on them. People came from the crowd and fighting erupted all around the arena. The jounin of Konoha were battling for the citizens safety as shinobi from sand and sound villages stormed the arena.

"Your battle is with me Uzumaki!" Gaara screamed manically as he charged Naruto who dodged the first sand waves and proceeded to jump around the arena.

'What do I do with this Kyubbi?' Naruto said as he continued to dodge the sand waves.

'Well this is sand, how about some water to make it slower?'

Naruto mentally nodded and began to pull out a seal but it was smacked out of his hand by a wave of sand. He had to leap back to avoid getting crushed by the sand waves that kept descending upon him. However, he was able to think of an idea before he was crushed.

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled to his friend who had just dispatched a sound ninja. "I need you to grab me that seal over there!"

Sasuke nodded and rushed toward it and picked it up. He was able to throw it to Naruto who put chakra into it and a giant torrent of water rushed forward towards Gaara flooding the arena. Many of the ninja from other villages were swept away but the fighting continued nonetheless.

"Did we get him?" Sasuke asked. His question was answered as Gaara rose from the water with his sand wet and stared at the two manically.

"Mother wants your blood!" He screamed in a demonic voice which scared many of the sand shinobi in the arena, causing them to flee. Gaara's body then started to morph as sand surrounded him and encased his arm and part of his face in sand. After he was done, he charged Sasuke and Naruto and sent many sand shurikens towards them which were dodged with barely any time to.

"Well, let's go!" Naruto shouted as he charged Gaara.

Top of Building

"So Sarutobi-sensei, my revenge will come at last. This pathetic village will fall to its knees and I will be victorious." Orochimaru mockingly said.

"I wouldn't bet on it Orochimaru. Your arrogance always did cloud your thoughts. The village will be triumphant and we will push back your forces." Hiruzen replied as he got into a battle stance.

"Summoning: King Monkey Enma!" Hiruzen Sarutobi yelled as he slammed his palm on the ground and the monkey king stood there.

"What am I doing here? Is that the boy that I told you to kill all those years ago?" The monkey king asked his summoner as he got into a battle stance.

"It is indeed and I intend to correct my mistake. Please transform for me!"

Just then, Enma jumped up and turned into a bo staff which Hiruzen caught and got into a battle stance.

"Kukuku, is that all you have? I doubt it will be enough to stop my next move." Orochimaru said as he weaved hand signs.

However, Hiruzen wouldn't let him get away that easily and threw a shuriken at him which he multiplied using the shadow clone jutsu. He was too late as three coffins rose up in front of Orochimaru...

Back in the Arena

In the arena, Sasuke and Naruto were still battling Gaara. The battle seemed to shift more towards Sasuke and Naruto's favor as they begin to push him back. However a huge explosion came from atop the Kage Box which was where the Hokage was fighting.

"Jiji! Sasuke I have to deactivate that shield around their fight so others can help him. I need you to deal with this." Naruto pleaded with Sasuke.

"We are barely taking him together. I can't take him by myself." Sasuke said as he dodged more sand.

"I'll be able to help with that." Said a voice as a green blur came into view and kicked Gaara away. "Naruto you go help the Hokage Sasuke and I can deal with this guy." Rock Lee said.

"Thanks Bushy Brows. I'll send a clone to tell Kakashi to help you as soon as he eliminates the other enemies. Good luck and take this!" Naruto said as he threw a seal at Sasuke and went towards the top of the building avoiding fights. He hated leaving people to fight his fights but he had to help get past the barrier.

"So Lee, you think we can do this?" Sasuke said as he looked at the seal Naruto gave him. It had the kanji for "Five Waterways" on it. Sasuke already knew what it was for but he wouldn't use it till absolutely necessary.

"I believe we can do this with teamwork and the power of youth!" Lee yelled as he got into a fighting stance to fight the approaching Gaara. The two Leaf shinobi charged the sand one and started throwing punches at him. Instead of his sand coming up to protect him, more just started covering his body which was protecting him and wasn't passable.

"We have to find a way past this defense if we hope to defeat him." Lee said as he easily dodged another sand fist which instead destroyed another tree in Gaara's path.

"I might have a jutsu that can get past it. But I will need a few minutes to charge it." Sasuke replied as he started performing hand signs.

On the Rooftops

Naruto had just arrived to the scene of a large purple barrier up and ANBU agents standing there.

'I'll have to find a way inside the barrier. I either have to get past one of the people holding the barrier or through the barrier itself. Since it is probably harder to get to the people, I should try and hold it for as long as I possibly can.' Naruto thought as he analyzed the situation. He couldn't see any of the fighting on the inside of the barrier because there was what appeared to be a forest of trees that were huge.

'Let's try this.' Naruto thought to himself as he placed a seal on the barrier carefully and pushed chakra into it. However, it just threw him back and burned his hands.

'Shit what did I do wrong?' Naruto thought to himself.

'The barrier is strong kit. You probably need at least two different chakra sources going into the seal to get past it. Most likely this will only hold for about 5 seconds to get through so you better pick who goes with wisely.' Kyubbi told him from his mind. Kyubbi's chakra then started wrapping around Naruto's hands and healing them.

"Where will I find another person?" Naruto thought out loud as he looked towards the ANBU. He doubted any of them knew how seals worked as well as he did and he would need another seal user to make sure he did it right.

Right as he was thinking this, a giant toad carrying an old man came towards the building. The old man jumped off and the toad desummoned.

"Naruto! What are you doing here?" Jiraiya demanded as he looked at the situation.

"I'm trying to break through the barrier to get to jiji. I need another person's chakra as well though." Naruto told him as he pulled out another seal.

"What's that?" Jiraiya asked curiously at the seal Naruto pulled out.

"It is a seal that should deactivate any barrier. I copied one from a book I have. We need to get in there and help him pervy sage!" Naruto yelled at his master as he was just wasting time.

'Just like his dad.' Jiraiya thought. "Okay, we will probably only have a few seconds to get in the barrier so let's get the ANBU over here to come in with us."

After the ANBU were briefed on the situation, the 5 of them (3 ANBU) were ready to start the plan. Jiraiya and Naruto put the seal on the barrier and put their chakra into it. The barrier shifted a bit just to allow enough room for the five to enter before it closed behind them.

Inside the barrier, it was like a forest. Everywhere there were these huge trees way bigger then normal trees. It looked like they had been grown really fast and by an expert. The five of them started to run towards the five chakra signatures in the middle of the barrier.

Once they got there, there were five people standing there facing off against each other. The first two were The Third Hokage and Orochimaru. The next three wore different style clothing. The first two wore old battle armor one was red and the other was blue. The one with red had long black hair and a Leaf protector on and the blue one had white hair with red lines on his face and a Leaf protector as well. Their eyes were darkish and had white pupils. Each wore similar battle armor that had to be dated back at least 100 years.

The last one had, what appeared to be, a large overcoat with red flames on it. The hair on the man's head was sun kiss yellow like Naruto's and he appeared to be holding a tri pronged kunai in his hand. What struck Naruto the most was that the man had the kanji "Fourth Hokage" on his overcoat.

"Jiraiya!" Orochimaru hissed out.

"Jiraiya, why is Naruto here? He shouldn't be here it is too dangerous!" Hiruzen Sarutobi said as he held his monkey staff in his hand waiting to continue the fight.

Finally, after the name 'Naruto' was said, the last guy on the right turned his way to the new five fighters. He had the same eyes as the other two and a Leaf forehead protector on his head as well. He had on what appeared to be standard jounin attire such as the vest and the blue pants. The man then finally spoke...

"Naruto? Naruto, my son?"


A/N: The midway mark! Hope I left a pretty good cliffhanger going. If you guys want the story updated before the 4 weeks, just review or favorite and all that. If there is enough support, I will post it earlier (probably still 2 weeks would be earliest). Thank you for reading and your guy's continual support! Hope you enjoy!