AN: I am really on a roll right now. This is the second chapter in like two hours. And it's all for you the readers!! Thanks for reading and enjoy!
Chapter 11It was the day when the semifinals and the finals of the chunin exams were set to take place. The crowds were once again flooding the stands. Naruto and everyone were in their special balcony with the sand siblings waiting for the matches to start.
Naruto really didn't want to fight Hinata. He cared about her a lot and didn't want to hurt her. Anyone who looked at Naruto could see the conflict in his eyes. Hinata noticed it more then anyone probably.
"Naruto?"
"Ya Hinata?"
"Naruto, I can see the conflict in your eyes. What ever you do, I want you to give me the best fight of you life and don't hold back. I will consider it a great insult if you go easy on me. I didn't train most of my life to have my opponent take it easy on me. Do you promise you will give me your best fight today Naruto?"
Everyone was listening intently to their conversation. They were curious to know where Hinata had gotten so determined. They had all noticed how much more confident Hinata was, but that had never heard her so determined. It was very shocking. Nakoto was just grinning at the scene.
"Hinata, I wouldn't have it any other way. You want my best and that is exactly what I'll give you. Believe it!"
Hinata smiled and went back to watching the spectators in the stands. Finally Tsunade came out onto her balcony and a hush came over the crowd.
"Welcome everyone to the semifinals and the finals of the chunin examinations. Today promises to be full of exciting matches so lets get down to it shall we? First up we have Naruto vs. Hinata. You may begin when ready!"
The crowd erupted with cheers as Naruto and Hinata made their way towards the center of the arena.
"Good luck, Hinata" Naruto said with a small bow.
Bowing back Hinata said, "You too."
Hinata got into her gentle fist technique stance and Naruto summoned up 4 clones. Naruto and the clones charged at Hinata. Hinata Managed to shoot her chakra into the clones to destroy them and even got a hit on the real Naruto.
"Wow Hinata. You really have gotten a lot better. That chakra shot really hurt. I guess I'll have to step it up some more."
Naruto summoned a huge number of clones.
"Let's see if you can beat all of these."
Hinata closed her eyes and held her right hand in front of her with two fingers pointed up. Naruto had seen this stance. He knew he had. He just couldn't remember from where. The clones ran at Hinata. The crowd thought she was done for.
Suddenly Hinata opened her eyes.
"Guardian of Eight Divination: Sixty-four strikes." Hinata's hands where moving extremely fast, cutting down the clones with her chakra. A few seconds later all the clones were gone, but so was the real Naruto. Where was he? Hinata was starting to get very tired. Hinata didn't know it but she had hit him hard during her last attack, but he had managed to get away.
While Hinata was trying to find Naruto, she forgot to check under her. By the time Hinata noticed that Naruto was right under her, it was too late.
Naruto popped out of the ground and using the same technique he used to get Neji, he knocked Hinata out by punching her under the chin. Hinata just didn't have enough energy after her last attack to get up again. The match was over, but it wasn't a complete loss on Hinata's part. Sakura had to do some intense work on a huge wound on his abdomen. Everyone was very impressed at Hinata's new strength. Even her family had to acknowledge how she had improved, which was a big step for the stuck up Hyuga clan.
Hoko and Nakoto had already made their way to the center of the arena.
The proctor walked up to the two girls to make sure they were ready. Just before he was about to turn to get out of the way he looked at Nakoto.
"I don't envy you. You have to fight both of your teammates. It must be hard. Good luck…to the both of you."
"It isn't like we aren't used to it. I'm always loosing to Nakoto, but I get stronger after each fight we have."
The proctor was a little shocked to hear that Hoko was completely fine with always loosing to Nakoto. The girls on that team seemed to have more wisdom then most Jonin. He was really impressed by these kids.
Hoko pulled up another stone dome like the one she used when fighting Sasuke. This was the strongest defense Hoko had and unfortunately for Hoko, Nakoto could crack it like a peanut.
Nakoto just smiled and created 2 clones. She held out her hand and let chakra out of her hand. The 2 clones began spinning it until it formed a fast spinning disk of chakra. The clones disappeared and left Nakoto holding the deadly cutting chakra disk. Not a word was spoken in the audience. They were too shocked at the power. Naruto was looking at Nakoto unsure what to think.
"That's just like my rasengan." Naruto thought.
Nakoto threw the disk like a Frisbee and it sliced right through the dome and badly cut Hoko's side. She lost her concentration and the entire dome collapsed. Nakoto ran over to her friend.
"Hoko, do you want to keep going?"
All Hoko could manage was a small shake of the head meaning no.
"MEDIC! She needs a medic now!" Nakoto turned to look back at Hoko and shocked everyone when she smiled and chuckled a little. "Just like last month. Right Hoko?"
Hoko actually managed to laugh a little. The funny thing was that this kind of thing always happened. Nakoto usually hurt herself the most when she wouldn't sleep or eat for days while trying to master a new technique. One time Nakoto almost died of starvation cause she was too stubborn and the others couldn't find her cause she had run off to train on her own for a bit. The mission when Hinata, Kiba and Shino had been called to help with was actually to help find Nakoto after she had been gone for 3 weeks.
Tsunade stood up again on the balcony after she had personally treated Hoko.
"Well, I said that these matches would be exciting and I can see now that I was right. Now on to the finals if our contestants think they are up to it. Naruto, Nakoto? Can you continue today or would you like to wait till tomorrow?"
"I can handle fighting today. Believe it!"
"I'll finish this today, definitely!"
"Well that settles it. Now onto the finals of the chunin exams with Naruto vs. Nakoto."
The crowd cheered louder then ever. The excitement was out of the arena.
Naruto and Nakoto met in the middle of the arena and as soon as the proctor said go shadow clones and shadow water clones filled the arena, all of them hold kunai. Instead of clash of the titans it was clash of the clones and I think the clones were more destructive. The clones were picking each other off one by one. Soon it was back to the originals who ran at each other. Nakoto was using her fluid taijutsu and Naruto was using his regular hand-to-hand fighting style. They seemed to be equal. After about 5 minuets the two separated to try and catch their breath.
"I guess I'll have to step it up a notch. Water extraction jutsu! Water flowed out of the earth. They started fighting again but Nakoto was using her chakra to control the water so that not only where Nakoto's hands and feet trying to hit Naruto, Nakoto was also using the water to cut him. They had been fighting at such a fast pace it was hard to see their movements and because of the fast pace they were getting tired. Nakoto didn't have the strength to continue using the water and it was pointless if Naruto was going to do what she thought he was going to do. Nakoto knew she would need all of her strength to counter the rasengan if Naruto used it. Nakoto had no clue how right her assumptions were.
Suddenly Naruto summoned one clone and began to form his rasengan.
"So, that's how you want to play. Well, fine. Lets see how you like my foushkuga."
Two clones appeared next to Nakoto and began forming to disk. When both Naruto and Nakoto were done Naruto charged at Nakoto. Instead of throwing the disk like a Frisbee, Nakoto ran at Naruto with the flat side facing Naruto the foushkuga and rasengan met and exploded hurting the two ninjas badly and throwing them into the opposite wall. They both struggled to get up. They could barely stand. They both pulled out a kunai and started to stumble their way towards each other. They met in the middle of the arena and held the kunai as if to bring it down on the other, which they did, but they both used their other hand to bock the oncoming attack. They were pushing down on the other will all their remaining strength. They were both exhausted and fell to their knees, their attack getting weaker and weaker. Finally both collapsed. It was a tie.
"Well ladies and gentlemen. It seems we have a tie. Although they can't hear us let's give a big round of applause for our winners. I would also like to announce that all of the teams that made it out of the forest with both scrolls are awarded with the rank of chunin. Never before have we had this many pass in one year. Congratulations to all of you!"
For a moment there was no sound and then the cheers became so loud, Gaara was sure they could be heard at home.
Naruto and Nakoto were brought to the hospital and slept with big smiles on their faces. Little did they know that their first mission as chunin would change their lives.
AN: Well that is the end of the exams. Next everyone is send away on a mission. I'll try and do it really soon!