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Authors note: I hope you guys like the new chapter. Oh yea son't forget to check out my new story Futsu Nushi God of fire and lightning. That story will be updated by tomorow or tuesday. i should have a new chapter for this story by friday or saturday, alright see you guys later

[ 2 days later

Kiba and saskue awoke a day before. Saskue apologized for his actions. He said that he couldn't remember anything that happened though. Sakura and ino both believed him but naruto wasn't shore if he was telling the truth or not but accepted his apology anyway. Ino gave team seven the heaven scroll they got from the rain nins because they already had a heaven scroll.

A little bit later team seven left but not before ino and sakura gave each other hugs. Right after though they got into a fight over who saskue liked more. When kiba and naruto were finally able to pull them off each other, team seven left for the tower.

Team 10 had the earth scroll that they needed but the had to wait an extra day before leaving. Shino was still unconscious and naruto wounds were still really bad. ( Naruto heals fast but getting stabbed three times through the stomach takes more then a couple hours to heal.

Shino woke up exactly two days after taking a punch from the mummy sound nin. Naruto was healthy enough to move but still had to be careful not to reopen his wounds. So as soon as they packed up camp they also left for the tower.

[ Hour later.

Our hero's finally managed to arrive at the tower. The three leaf nins pushed open the doors and waited to find out what was going to happen next. They waited around for about 20 minutes inside until they came to the conclusion they had to open the scrolls.

When team 10 unwrapped the scroll, none other then Iruka popped out. " Man you guys just made it by the skin on your teeth. You still made it though so I'm happy to say you all pass."

All three of them fell over in relief. Ino was probably the happiest. " Thank god it's over. Now I can finally take a bath."

Naruto pinched his nose. " Yea thank god because you sure as hell need one."

Shino shook his head. " Naruto I'll put flowers on your grave."

Naruto looked at his sunglasses wearing friend. " What are you talking about shin….." Ino punched him in the stomach with all of her strength.

Ino just glared at the hunched over naruto. " You baka you should learn how to speak to a beautiful lady such as my self." Ino waited for naruto to react but he never did. He stayed hunched over. Ino walked over and placed her hand on his back. " Naruto are you alright." He wasn't alright though. The blond haired genin coughed up blood and fell over. Ino screamed " Naruto"

Shino and iruka sprinted over right away. Shino looked at his friend and got scared " Shit ino you forgot about his wounds."

Iruka was even more worried then shino or ino. He stared at the blond haired ninja that he thought of as a son before asking " Naruto heals faster then anyone I have ever known. For him to be this hurt something really bad must of happened. What happened."

Shino took of his sunglasses and stated " He fought a man by the name of orochiramaru. This guy was clearly no gennin but naruto fought him anyway to protect us."

Iruka fell over from hearing that name. " alright shino I need you to tell me the whole story."

[ 20 minutes later.

Iruka couldn't believe it that the snake sannin has returned. What was even more unbelievable to him was that naruto fought him and survived. Iruka was about to say something else but was cut short when naruto started to slowly get up.

Ino yelled at her idiot teammate. " What are you doing naruto. You should be resting."

Naruto just stood up and smiled. " Don't worry about me I made it look worst then it really is."

Ino slightly blushed. Damn it I cant yell at him when he smiles at me like that.

No one else notice ino blush except shino. He couldn't help but smile. Iruka then spoke up. " Well I'm glad to see that your alright naruto. Im sorry but I have to go and report something. You guys should go to the arena now. They'll tell you about the third exam there." He took a second and then looked at Naruto. " Good luck and don't do anything stupid."

Naruto just gave him the good guy pose. " Don't worry I'll make you proud of me."

Iruka turned around and whispers to himself " I already am Naruto". Then he poof ed away and team 10 made there way to the arena

[ At the arena

When team 10 found the arena the found out that 6 other teams had passed the second exams with them. The 6 teams consisted of team 7, Asuma's team, Gai's team, the sound team, Kabuto's team, and the powerful sand team.

They all stood around quietly until the hokage finally addressed them. " congratulations on passing the second exam. This year seems to have so many promising shinobi's. It seems to me that their to many that passed this year. Were going to have a preliminary exam to lessen the numbers."

Temari screamed " What the hell do we have to do to pass this preliminary exam."

The old hokage just light up his pipe. " I'm glad you asked. I'll explain…" The hokage was cut short when a familiar Shinobi jumped in front of him.

It happened to be Team 10's Gekkou Hayate. ' Im sorry for interrupting you but maybe I should explain."

The hokage just continued to smoke his pipe " Of course Hayate."

The Sickly jounin then started to explain " My name is Hayate and I will be the proctor for this exam. The preliminary rounds will be hold as a tournament. You will face another ninja in a match and whoever wins will pass and who ever loses will fail. The rules for the match are simple. You can lose three ways. You give up, Knocked unconscious, or killed. However if I feel that the match is over before one of those things happen I will stop the match and announce a winner."

Naruto shouted " Yo Hayate-sensei when do I get to kick some ass."

Shino just shook his head. He's really hurt but he doesn't care. All he cares about is proving himself.

Hayate smiled at his student " You'll find out soon enough naruto. Now everyone look up at the board. It will announce who you will be fighting when the time comes. Now for the first match."

Before the board could pick the names kabuto put his hand up and said " I'm sorry but I'm out of chakra and can't compete in a match so I'm going to have to give up."

Everyone was surprised but hayate spoke up " Alright you may leave." Kabuto walked away. Hayate the looked up at the board. " Hmm so the first match seems to be Uchiha Saskue and Akado Yoroi. Cant the two combatants report to the arena and can the other ninjas move up to the second floor to watch."

Everyone did as hayate told them to. Soon enough both Sasuke and Yoroi were standing infron of each other. Hayate signaled for the match to begin. Sasuke charged at yoroi and tried to punch him put the Yoroi dodge and grabbed the emo kings face. He then yelled " Chakra Kyuuin Jutsu (Chakra Absorption Technique)." He then started to laugh " Ha ha soon enough I will have drained all your chakra and you'll be a dead little nin."

All of a sudden sasuke grabbed his hand and broke his wrist. The sharigan user then punched the leaf nin in that face sending him back into the wall, before the yoroi could get up sasuke launched another attack "Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Great Fireball Technique)" a fireball then engulfed yoroi. When the flame died down all you could see was a burnt and unconscious ninja. Sasuke just smirked " to easy for an Uchiha" Every in the room except for the girls thought the same thing What a cocky bastard.

Hayate raised his right hand " Uchiha saskuke is the winner"

The medics carried yoroi out on a stretcher while saskue gloated. The girls would have gone over to congratulate him but before they could his sensei Hatake Kakashi took him away. No one had time to think about where sasuke was going because hayate announced the second match. " The second match will be between Aburame shino and Zaku Abumi."

Naruto patted his teammate on the back " Good luck."

Shino really didn't need it since zaku had both his arms broken by saskue. Shino finished it right away with a Retsudo Tenshou (Revolving Split Earth Palm). He could have killed him but made sure the jutsu just left him unconscious."

Naruto couldn't believe it " Holy shit Shino kicked his as in seconds. If I blinked I would of missed the whole fight."

Dosu screamed at his unconscious teammate " You stupid idiot how could you get beaten that easily."

Hayate called the match " winner Aburame Shino." Great job shino your becoming stronger and stronger everyday.

Rock lee walked over to talk to naruto. " Wow your teamate sure is strong"

Naruto turned his head to look at the gai look a like. " He sure is. I wouldn't want anyone else watching my back."

Lee smiled " I see. Naruto I wanted to ask you since you've also trained with gai-sensei. Do you think a ninja can become strong with hard work alone."

Naruto smiled at lee " Yes I do because I would be one sucky ass ninja if a relied just on natural talent. If you ask me I would always want someone who works hard then a genius anytime."

Rock lee gave naruto a huge smile." Thank you Naruto. You truly are youthful."

Naruto replied " Thanks I guess."

TenTen saw her teammate talking to our blond haired hero and decide to join the conversation. She walked over and waved to both of them " Hay what's up guys."

Naruto answered " Nothing much just waiting for the next match how bout you "

TenTen smiled " Pretty much the same. So how you like the forest of death."

Naruto replied " well beside the huge ass bugs and ninjas trying to kill me I thought It was pretty cozy. Maybe ill take a vacation there sometime."

TenTen Just laughed " Ha Naruto your to much"

Ino herd tenten laughing and looked over at her. When she realized that ten ten was with naruto her stomach started to turn. What the hell is she doing talking to naruto. Wait what am I talking about what do I care if she talks to naruto.

Naruto and tenten kept talking and joking around until tenten accidentally tripped and fell into naruto. Naruto caught her. When she looked up they both looked at each other and blushed.

Naruto asked while still blushing " are you okay."

Tenten quickly let go of naruto and continued to blush " Yea I'll be fine"

Ino saw the whole thing and became angry as hell. She didn't even think she just wound up punching a hole in the wall.

Shino saw what was happening and chuckled. I guess ino's finally realizing she has feelings for our blond idiot.

Ino turned around and glared at shino " What the hell are you looking at."

Shino started to sweat " Um nothing. Nothing at all." The bug user stared to slowly inch away from the angry blond reminder to myself never mess with an angry ino. Defiantly bad for my health.

Naruto and tenten heard a loud noise and turned around to see ino punching a hole through a wall and scaring the shit out of ino. Tenten asked naruto " What's wrong with her."

Naruto answered " Don't worry she's always like that."

Ino was still fuming. Who does that girl think she is. Touching naruto like that. Ahh I'm going to give her a piece of my mind. Before she could do that hayate spoke " Alright the third match will be ino vs. sakura" ( Im skipping this pretty much the same thing happens as in the manga. They wind up knocking each other out.)

Naruto had an unconscious Ino in his lap. Ino wound up waking up to naruto's face. " Hey naruto how'd I do."

Naruto smile " you did amazing. You and sakura wound up knocking each other out."

Ino gingerly sat up. " I see so sakura has been getting stronger and stronger and I have stayed the same."

Naruto shouted. " Your wrong. It's tru sakura has grown stronger but so have you. Your no longer a sasuke obsessed fan girl. You are one of the strongest kunochi the leaf has to offer and you never forget that."

Ino shocked naruto by hugging him " Thank you naruto you really are a great friend." I think I'm starting to have feelings for this idiot.

Naruto couldn't help but blush. He returned the hug " You don't have to thank me I was just telling the truth."

It was ino's turn to blush. The intamint moment was broken up by hayate. " The forth match will be Tenten vs. Gaara.

Naruto and ino broke there hug and turned there attention to the match below. Naruto cheered for tenten " Good luck and be careful."

Tenten looked up at naruto an smiled. Let's just say this pissed ino off a little bit. Ino soon forgot her anger because the match began. Tenten pulled out a punch of shuriken and threw it at gaara. Gaara didn't even move. A thing of sand protected him.

Naruto looked at the sand nin with interest. I knew it this guy is strong. He's strong but I can feel that he's unstable too.

Tenten smirked " Well if that didn't work why don't we try this. Soushouryuu (Twin Rising Dragons)." Tenten used a summoning technique to take advantage of her deadly accurate ability to throw edged weapons. To begin, she removed her two scrolls and set them on the ground, after forming the necessary hand seals, the two scroll rise into the air and begin to swirl around a middle vortex. Tenten then used this space to launch herself into the air between the spinning scrolls. From these scrolls she summoned her weapons which she used to throw at her opponent.

However none or her weapons made contact with gaara. His sand protected him from all of it. As tenten was coming down Gaara shouted. " Nothing can penetrate my Suna no Tate (Shield of Sand). You cant hurt me but I can hurt you. Suna Shuriken (Sand Shuriken)." The sand nin threw harden balls of sand at teten. They hit her right in the stomach and sent her flying into the wall. She was hit so hard she lost consiouness. Gaara didn't care " I'm not done with you yet. Shukaku no Hoko (Halberd of Shukaku)." He formed a halberd made of sand. He made the sand so hard that it was unbreakable. " Time to die leaf nin."

Hayate tried to stop him " Winner gaara. you've already won so stop." But the sick jounin was to late the crazy sand nin already threw the weapon of sand.

Naruto screamed " NO TenTen." he quickly took off his chakra weight and jumped down to the arena. He managed to jump in front of the halberd before it hit TenTen."

Everyone in the room screamed, well except for the sound and sand teams. Pretty much everyone screamed " Naruto"

Right before the halberd hit Naruto he screamed " I'll protect her no matter what you bastard. I'm not moving an inch from this spot. Heavenly Body Hyouton ( Ice)." The halberd hit naruto right after.

Ino couldn't bear to look. She fell to her knees and started to weep. Shino however never looked away. He called to ino " Ino don't cry. Naruto's fine.' She couldn't believe it but when she looked down at the arena she saw naruto.

Naruto's body was completely covered in black ice. The ice protected him and shino from gaara'a attack. No one could believe it. The whole room just looked at naruto in awe except fo gaara. " You got lucky today uzumaki but I will kill you and that girl eventually."

Naruto just stared at the sand nin with anger " Gaara even if I die I won't let you touch her no matter what." With that said naruto's body of ice started to crack and naruto fell over in pain. Damn it he's a monster but I wont lose. Our hero slowly got up and walked over to tenten. He picked her up and gave her to the medics. Rock lee and gai soon jumped down and stood next to naruto. Naruto looked at them both and tear fully hugged them both. " I'm sorry guys but I promise that I'll stop him from hurting her ever again. I'll die before I let him touch her again."

Gai and lee both embraced the young gennin. " we know you will naruto."

Ino and shino then jumped down next to naruto. Naruto let go of gai and lee and walked over to his teammates. But before he made all the way over he fell down in pain. Gai ran over to his youthful student. He checked on naruto and saw his wounds from orochiramaru. " Naruto what the hell are you thinking. You shouldn't be able to move with wounds like that."

Hayate walked over to his student " Holy shit naruto. You need to quite this chunnin exam."

Naruto slowly got up and looked at all of them " Im not quitting shit. Im sorry hayate but I rather die then quit now."

Ino ran up and grabbed naruto in a hug. " Naruto you'll die if you continue."

Naruto whispered in ino's ear " I know but if I quit now gaara might attack tenten again. If I do quit he'll try and hurt you to get to me. I would never forgive myself if you got hurt." He then broke away from ino's hug and walked over to hayate " Please hayate I must continue."

Gai looked over to hayate and nodded. Hayate talked with worry in his voice. " Alright naruto but please be careful. Now go rest up until your match"

Shino looked up at the Board and spoke up " Shit hayate I don't think he'll have time to rest up"

The board said Uzumaki Naruto vs. Inuzuka Kiba. When naruto saw the board he admietly looked at Kiba and unsheathed his black and red swords " Alright Kiba lets get wild"