So, we finally find out who Naruto's parents really are. Personally, it was way past do along with other things. Like the Fourth's name. Also, I get the feeling that there will soon be another funeral in the Leaf village.

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For a moment, the crowd held its breath. For most of them, they had taken the day off just to see the last of the Uchiha clan fight. But he still hadn't shown up. So the people did the only thing that they could do in a situation like this, get very angry and shout.

"What's going on here?"

"Start the match already!"

"We want the Uchiha!"

This came from about half of the crowd. The other half was smirking since they bet on Gaara to win. The difference in their experience was clear to them due to Gaara's record. Some of them believed that the Uchiha had come to his senses and ran away. This did bother them at all seeing that a forfeit was still a win for them.

"You have no choice," said the Tsuchikage up in the Kages box. "You must disqualify the Uchiha. All of the other genins have fought their matches and he still hasn't shown himself. Just declare Gaara the winner and move on."

"We could just wait another ten minutes," said the Kazekage. "After all, we have waited this long. What's another ten minutes?"

"You sure seem eager to see this fight," said a suspicious Hokage. After all, the last time they had watched a chunin exam together, he demanded that one of the genins be executed for not getting to the arena floor fast enough. "May I ask why?"

"Certainly," said the Kazekage. "Gaara is the strongest genin in my village. In fact, I would go as far as to say that he is the strongest we have ever produced. I want to prove that by having him fight and beat your Sasuke Uchiha. Besides, I'm not the only one here who feels this way. Many people, both of high and low class, have come to see this as well. Imagine their disappointment if you didn't do everything in your power to give them the fight they want." The Hokage closed his eyes and then beckoned to his guard and whispered in his ear. The guard nodded and then vanished in a puff of smoke and reappeared next to Genma.

"Ladies and gentlemen," announced Genma after he was told the Hokage's orders. "Sasuke Uchiha has been given an additional ten minutes. If he is not here by then, he will be disqualified." A murmur went through the crowd when they heard this. The genins who were participating were pissed. After all, if they had shown up late, they wouldn't have even gotten one extension let alone two. "Please us this time to visit the restrooms or buy some snacks." With that, Genma pulled out a pocket watch and began to stare at it.

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"I could use some more snacks," said Choji. As he got up and left, a young man walked over to where Ino, Sakura, and Yuu were sitting.

"Excuse me," he said politely. "Can I please get your phone number?"

"I don't know…" began Ino, but the boy cut her off.

"Actually I meant your pink haired friend."

"Sorry but I like…" began Sakura, but the boy shook his head and she stopped. He was looking at Yuu in his cheerleader outfit with a blush. (Please remember that Yuu is kind of a pink haired Haku in a way. People assume that he is a she.)

"Me?" asked Yuu as he pointed to himself. "I really shouldn't but ok." He then pulled out a piece of paper and a pen out of nowhere and wrote down his phone number and gave it to the boy. Said boy thanked Yuu again and left with an even bigger blush on his face than ever before. That's when Yuu noticed Ino and Sakura again. Ino looked like she had turned to stone and Sakura looked like she was going to kill everyone. "What?"

"Would you act normal?!" screamed Sakura. "What kind of man are you?"

"Let me guess, you want me to start going after girls."

"Yes, exactly."

"Alright," said Yuu with a grin. "How about I take you out tomorrow." Sakura gave him a confused look and Yuu decided to explain why he had asked her out. "Your aggressive, loud, and are flat chested. You're almost a boy so…" Before the gender confused boy could finish, Sakura slammed her fist into his face.

A few minutes later, Choji came back with his snacks and some friends.

"Hello Sakura," said Lee loudly as he got into his good guy pose. "Gai-sensei finally got me out of jail. How dare those unyouthful people think that I would harm my squirrel friend!" That was when they noticed the squirrel on Lee's shoulder. It was dressed in the evil green spandex with a hole for its tail and bowl cut. (Trust me; you will sleep better if you don't know how he did that.)

"Yes!" shouted Gai. "My adorable student would never do anything that unyouthful!" Cue the hugging and the evil genjutsu from hell.

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"Squeak!"

Yes, it was too late for the poor creature as its tiny brain had already been warped. Everyone who saw the genjutsu (and the hugging) began to cringe in fear. Hell, even the Kazekage, who had the misfortune for looking in that area at that moment, began to eye twitch. Once that horrid image ended, Lee turned back to Sakura.

"How did Neji's fight go?" he asked.

"Naruto won," she replied. She then proceeded in telling him the details of the fight. Of course, she added in that Sasuke would have done it better and that Sasuke would beat Naruto no problem. When she was done, Lee was starry eyed.

"Yosh! I cannot wait to have a match with him. I will defeat him to prove my love for you Sakura. Until then Neji will have to wait. Love is much more important." Gai just nodded in agreement.

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Down in the medical room, Neji began to cry tears of joy for reasons he couldn't explain.

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With the Wave group, Tsunami turned to Zabuza.

"Zabuza, could you please get be a snack?" she asked. Zabuza grinned behind his bandages.

"Sure thing," he said. "What do you want?"

"For some strange reason I feel like corn of the cob with caramel poured on top of it," she replied. Everyone who had heard this stared at her as if she was crazy. She had never asked for anything like that before except one time before.

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Time passed by and there was still no Sasuke. The crowd was now getting impatient. In less than one minute, Gaara would be declared the winner by default. Genma watched the watch in his hand as the seconds passed by. Sasuke had only twenty seconds left. Then he had ten. Soon, it was down to five seconds.

Suddenly, there was a powerful gust of wind and in a swirl of leaves stood Sasuke and Kakashi. Kakashi, of course, was wearing his standard jonin attire. Sasuke was wearing some odd black one piece suit with the Uchiha fan on his back. Also, one of Sasuke's arms was bandaged.

"You're late!" shouted everyone in the audience as well as the three Kage's.

"Sorry, but we got lost on the road of life," replied Kakashi with an eye smile.

"LAIR!" screamed everyone.

"You know," said Genma to Kakashi, "the first round is almost over."

"So is Sasuke still in?" asked the one eyed jonin. He knew that if he was the reason that Sasuke lost in the first round, he'd be a dead man walking. The shinobi community would target him and the emo boys' fangirls would…he really didn't know what they would do but he knew they would do something.

"His match was moved and then he was given a ten minute extension," replied Genma. "If he had shown up two seconds later he would have lost." Genma then looked up at the contestant's box. "Looks like you're fighting him after all."

Gaara simply nodded and then disappeared in a whirlwind of sand and then reappeared in front of Sasuke. His eyes are like mine. He lives for himself and to gain power. I will kill him and feed his blood to mother. Yes, she will love that and call me a good boy. Sasuke Uchiha, you will help me prove my existence.

"Alright," said Genma as Kakashi left. "The rules are the same as the prelims. There are none. You lose by giving up, being unable to continue, or by dying. If I think that one of you is unable to continue I will stop the match and declare the winner. If you continue to fight after I have called the match you will both be disqualified and proper action will be taken to ensure that you never do it again. The winner of this fight will have his match next against Naruto Uzumaki. Begin!"

Sasuke got into a fighting stance that resembled Lee's and activated his Sharingan as Gaara's sand began to pour out of gourd. For a moment the sand began to circle around Gaara until he clenched his head in pain and his sand fell to the ground.

"Yes mother," said Gaara, confusing Sasuke. "I'll kill this eye sore for you. Please be patient mother. You know I'm a good boy and won't disappoint you." The sand then began to move again as Gaara regained his control and created a sand clone of himself. Sasuke rushed over to it and delivered a spinning roundhouse kick into its chest. However, the clone wasn't destroyed and seemed to hold Sasuke's foot in place. Sasuke then tried punching it in its face only to have the same results. "You're mine," said Gaara.

However, Sasuke vanished from sight. Then, Gaara's Sand Shield activated behind him. Then it happened at his left and then another second later to his right. Sasuke was using incredible speed to try and get past that sand with each strike getting closer and closer to that goal.

"That looks like my fighting style," cried Lee in shock.

"It is," said Kakashi as he walked towards them. "During your fight with him when you first met and when you fought the Rock-nin Michi, Sasuke had his Sharingan activated. From those two instances, he was able to copy your fighting style. During this past month, one of the things we worked on was increasing his speed and strength."

Gai turned and looked angrily at Sasuke as he landed the first blow to Gaara. Lee trained for years to learn this style and this kid just steals it. Stealing from ones comrade is one of the most unyouthful things in the world! Then he saw Sasuke panting and smirked. But it looks like a copy is just a copy. He may have been able to steal Lee's style, but he can't steal Lee's strength and endurance. That came with the training. Perhaps I should begin to teach Lee how to fight against the Sharingan.

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Up in the stands, Yuu was jumping up and down in the stands while waving a large picture of Sasuke.

"Go, Sasuke, go!" he cheered. The he flipped picture around to reveal a picture of Gaara. "Go, Gaara, go!"

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Back on the field, Gaara enclosed himself in a dome of sand. Sasuke raced towards it and launched a punch. However, sand spikes shot out of the dome and scratched Sasuke's arm and his fist connected doing nothing to the dome but injuring himself. A moment later a large claw shot out of the sand and tried to attack Sasuke who was able to jump back in time to avoid it.

Damn that was hard, he thought. Looks like that's his best defense. This is the best opportunity to try out my newest jutsu. With that, Sasuke turned and race to one of the wall and, when he reached it, continued to race upwards. When he got halfway up he stopped and began to gather his chakra and make the hand signs. Soon it seemed that there was lightning in his palm and the sound of birds could be heard.

"You taught him that jutsu," asked an angry Gai as he glared at Kakashi. "I have lost all respect for you."

"Think what you want," replied Kakashi as if this were nothing important. "Sasuke is the only other person in the village who can use this jutsu safely and he needed it."

"Gai-sensei, what is that jutsu," asked Lee.

"That is the jutsu that made Kakashi famous," answered Gai as Sasuke began to charge. "It is the only original jutsu that Kakashi has that he didn't steal from someone else. It is said that he was able to cut a bolt of lightning with this jutsu. It gets its name from the sound that it makes. It is called Chidori." As Gai said the name of the jutsu, Sasuke struck the sand dome.

Slowly, the sand began to fall to the ground and the stadium became very quite. The Sand-nins held their breath. This was the first time anyone had ever pierced through Gaara's defense. When they saw Gaara, they saw another first. Gaara, for the first time in his life, was bleeding. It wasn't deep for the sand dome had protected him from the full force of the attack.

Gaara's eyes were wide open as he stumbled back a bit. Never before had he felt this sensation. It was difficult to describe. So, this is pain. He then fell to his knees and began to clutch his head as he felt his 'mother's' presence begin to take over.

Then, a jutsu was cast by neither the Uchiha or by Gaara. White feathers began to fall from the sky and slowly people began to fall asleep. This was then followed by an explosion in the Kage's box. The three Sand-nins knew that it was time and headed to the field. Soon Baki and Genma were staring at each other while Temari and Kankuro were checking on Gaara.

"This looks bad," said Temari. "He's hurt and low on chakra."

"That fool," said Baki while keeping his eyes on Genma. "He tried to release it before the plan could start. You two take Gaara and get him to safety and try to speed up his recovery. He's our village's secret weapon and we need him for this invasion." Temari and Kankuro nodded and picked up Gaara and quickly left the arena. Sasuke tried to follow but Baki got in his way. However, Baki jumped away to avoid being hit by a kunai.

"Follow them and finish your match," said Genma. Sasuke nodded and began his pursuit.

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Meanwhile, Michi and Rin were the only two awake in the contestant's box. Rin was by Naruto's side trying to wake him up by shaking him violently.

"Wake up Naruto," said yelled. "This is no time to be taking a nap." She then turned and spoke to Michi. "Could you please do the same to Shikamaru?"

"Why not just dispel the genjutsu?," she asked.

"Because he's faking it," replied Rin. "Now Kai!" With that, Naruto woke up as well as Banshee and noticed that the laziest genin was getting shaken to death by Michi.

"Alright I'm up you troublesome girl," said Shikamaru. This led him to a very painful introduction to her fist.

"Good you're all awake," said Anko as she appeared on the scene and began to give them the shortened version of what was happening. "The village is being invaded. Right now Sasuke is chasing after the Sand-nin. I want Naruto, Rin, and Shikamaru to go and bring back Sasuke." The three nodded and left and Anko went to help get the civilians to the safety points. This left Michi alone.

"Oh, like hell I'm sitting this one out," she said to no one. "Yuu! Get that dress wearing butt of yours over here. It's tanuki hunting session!"

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Elsewhere, in a lab in Sea country, a scientist was hold two beakers.

"Let's see," he said aloud. "Should I fuse her with bunny DNA or cat DNA." He then turned to the girl in the tank once again and began to use his imagination. First he pictured her with white bunny ears, a cotton tail, and maybe some whiskers. However, the ears didn't match her long black hair. Then he imagined her with cat ears and a tail. "That might be the best."

Well, that's all for now.

Here are the votes.

Wind: 38

Chick Magnet: 37

Scar: 36

Lost: 12

Thawing: 15

Leafs Bloody Fox: 16

Carol: 4

Suna: 13

Infinite: 18

In the next chapter I will only be hosting the top three so the others still have a chance. Also, I'll be adding one that several please PMed me about. Please vote only once. Here is some more info on them.

A Naruto Christmas Carol: Sasuke is in line to be the next Hokage. Naruto is still a genin and is at the wrath of Sasuke for killing his brother. One night, Sasuke is visited by the ghost of Orochimaru who tells him to change his ways or else.

Rin will be playing the part of the Christmas Past. Haku will be the present. Do I have to tell you who is the future? Also, Naruto and Hinata will be married and we'll be seeing their kids.

Thawing the Frozen Heart: We all know what Orochimaru did to Yamamoto. What if he tried to create other bloodline limits like the Hyoton? Naruto and female Haku but as brother and sister.

No idea on pairing. Just be prepared for every guy to be hitting on Haku with Naruto trying to protect his long lost sister.

The Leafs Bloody Fox: Zabuza joined up with the Leaf village shortly after his rebellion failed. With him, he brought his two students. How will things be different with Haku and Isaribi in the Leaf village?

Very similar to the original.

The Lost Children: Zanku, Tayuya's little brother who left Rice Country when Orochimaru was taking it over. Mai, an Uchiha who was kicked out of the clan because she had water chakra nature. Naruto, the person who the Fourth used to kill the Kyuubi. Three souls that will be brought together in the Leaf Village.

Very similar to Tails of the Fox Sage.

Naruto the Chick Magnet: In the end, the Kyuubi got what she wanted. An Uzumaki all to herself. Now, his bloodline is awakening and she will have some competition. Set before the Wave Arc.

Crazy Kyuubi as a teen and, well, just plain crazyness.

Infinite: Arashi found a way to truly kill the Kyuubi, removing his chakra and placing it into the body of a boy. Now, the boy meets up with Jiraiya and is taught the Rasengan at an early age. But, the boy thinks he can make some changes to it. Naruto, the master of the Rasengan.

No pairings decided yet.

The Wind Lord: Naruto stumbled onto a scroll containing some C-rank wind jutsus. Intrigued begins to ask for more information on wind. The answers he receives will change him for life. Naruto based on Jin (Yu Yu).

Hinata will be kicked out of the Hyuga clan, slight addition with a Bleach character, and so much more.

The Scar that Cries: A hundred years ago, the Kyuubi was sealed into a pendant. Whoever wears it will be flooded with it chakra until the beast takes over. After the attack on the Leaf, the Hokage found a baby boy with the power to surpass it. The villages, however, free that the boy will use the power to destroy them. So, the boy is sent away only to return with a cross shaped scar on his check. Naruto modeled after Kenshin.

Hinata will be the head of the Hyuga's because her father died of a heart attack (he had one?).

What Suna Lost: With the peace treaty between the villages, Suna gave up the nephew of their Third. Years later, the boy's bloodline was awakened.

Yes, the boy is Naruto.

The Demon is…a Space Pirate: I'm sick of Kyuubi always being sealed in Naruto. What if Ryoko had attacked the village in Ryo-Ohki and was sealed inside Naruto? Naruto/Harem