Naruto stood in the crowd of chuunin candidates, of the original seventy-eight to make it to the second test, their were eighteen left. Team eight and Team ten had apparently made it too the tower safely, though they were a little more scuffed up then they were. Team Nine, or Team Gai, had made it through as well. Then even though he would never have bet on it, the sound team that they had beaten into the ground had made it through as well. The sand genin making it was not a surprise, but the fact that none of them so much as had a scratch, and their clothes were still pristine, was very intimidating. The Hokage stepped up, but he looked very distracted, not bothered, just distracted. "We have too many Candidates, I'm afraid there will be a series of preliminary matches to decide who is worthy of showing their strength an right to the chuunin title. Carry on." And with that he exited, short sweet and too the point, just as Naruto liked it.
A very sick looking man jumped into the arena. "Anyone not up for it, back out now... Alright, times up. One on One randomly chosen fights, victor moves on to the third test, loser goes home. Victory means knock out, death, surrender of your opponent, or I call it. Once I call it, its over. Cross this line, and I have the authority to end you. Everyone who's name is not called, get the hell off my floor." Naruto blinked, and started walking for the stairs, the others following him. "Uchiha Sasuke, Kin Tsuchi, your up first." Naruto leaned against the railing, and prepared for a good match, or maybe a short one. Sasuke stood across from Kin, Glaring at her.
"Hajime." Sasuke stared her in the eyes, activated his sharingan, and made a few handsigns. The last hand sign finished and Sasuke drew a kunai. He stumbled over to Kin, gripping his shoulder, gritting his teeth. A few seconds later, His kunai against her throat. "Victory to Uchiha Sasuke. Release the genjutsu." Did so, and let out a sigh of relief as Kakashi landed next to him, and they both disappeared in a shushin. At least he was getting medical care. "Aburame Shino, Abumi Zaku, get down here" He didn't have to wait long, both were on the floor pretty quickly. "Hajime
"Who's this loser?" Naruto could already tell this was going to end badly.
"If you fight here, you will be finished. Forfeit." Zaku started laughing. Then he charged forward. Shino blocked him, only to get a wall of air blasted straight into his face. Shino rolled sideways and regained his feet. "Interesting." Shino pointed behind him. "These are called kukuchi. They attack their pray in numbers and eat chakra... Mostly. If this many attack you, as I said before, you will be finished. I do not know what your reserves are like, but I guarantee that this number can eat what is left, depending on how much that is, you might still be able a ninja at the end of the day. If it's not enough, You'll be lucky to be able to move unassisted. If you don't want that, then give up. That's your best option. If you use that technique on me again, then the bugs will instantly attack you from behind, if you use it on the bugs, then I will have the opportunity to attack. Anyway you look at it, you can't pass here."
Zaku hesitated, but then started yelling. "OH YEA? WELL FUCK YOU!" One arm pointed towards the bugs and one pointed to Shino. "YOU THOUGHT I COULDN'T TARGET YOU BOTH! I HAVE TWO GOD DAMN ARMS! EAT THIS!" His arms exploded. It took Shino half a second to finish off the forcibly retired genin.
"Victory to Aburame Shino. Kankuro, Nara Shikamaru your up."
Shikamaru walked very slowly towards the arena, as did Kankuro, they both arrived in the arena, facing against each other. "Hajime" Shikamaru groaned but continued to watch the sand genin. Slowly he raised his hand.
"SHIKAMARU! IF YOU GIVE UP I'M TELLING YOUR MOTHER!" Shikamaru flinched, his hand slowly lowered. Shikamaru continued to wait, for God knew what.
"Fine, I hate to be the one who starts things, but if you don't I WILL!" The sand genin dropped his bundle and ran forward. Shikamaru yawned and formed a handsign. His shadow raced forward, only to bypass the puppet.
"HOW COULD YOU MISS YOU IDIOT!" Ino had some lungs on her. Shikamaru acted like he didn't notice, and his shadow connected with the bundle the sand genin had dropped. The Sand genin immediately stopped moving.
"I have approximately ten minutes to figure out how to move your puppet, and force you to kill yourself with it. I'd advise you to surrender, because I'm not going to give you another chance. You have ten seconds to decide before I take away your full motor control." Five seconds later, the bundle made a very broken sounding voice.
"PRocTor, I ForFEIT" Shikamaru released his shadow and walked back upstairs. The sand genin very fearfully went back to is team, where he stood very quietly, fear showing even on his face.
"Victory to Nara Shikamaru. Haruno Sakura, Yamanaka Ino, hurry up, we ain't got all day." Ino And Sakura jumped into the arena, And instantly the temperature in the room raised twenty degrees. The heat coming off of the two was visable. They two needed no words to announce their attentions. Both wiped off their headbands from their respective locations, before attaching them to their heads. "This one might actually be interesting. Hajime."
Sakura quickly called up two bushins and charged forward with more speed than Ino had apparently figured she had. One quick punch left the girl flying through the air. Ino hit the ground, rolling to her feet. She turned to face Sakura, witty banter already coming off her lips. "Lucky sho..It" Sakura connected a even heavier blow to Ino's face. Ino once agin rolling to her feet, this time she ducked immediately and swept her leg out. Sakura tripped over her, Ino pushed upward and slammed the already falling Sakura face first into the ground. "Want to play that way? Fine, we'll play that way." Ino kicked Sakura in the side, sending her rolling across the ground. She walked forward and tried it a second time. Sakura rolled just in time to miss the kick, and spun, kicking Ino's legs out from underneath her.
Sakura stood as Ino clutched her head. "We're Ninja, and stop thinking of this as a game, or a contest. IT'S NOT!" Ino rolled over and got to her hands and knees, only for Sakura to deliver a kick to her rib cage. "This is the Chuunin exam, people fight and they die, all for the right to earn a title that makes you go out and do it all over again on a daily basis. If you arn't going to be serious, you will die!" Sakura drew a kunai, and went to put it to Ino's neck. Ino let the blade rest there, looking Sakura in the eyes.
"What gives you the right to tell me that, you a civilian child, I'VE KNOWN THIS SINCE I WAS THREE!" Ino hands formed one of the signature jutsu of her family, Sakura missed it having focused on Ino's face and words. Seconds past, and Sakura dropped her Kunai. She rose her hand into the air, only to bring it back down on Ino's head, knocking her out.
"I've become a much stronger person then you realize Ino." Sakura walked away, not even waiting for the call that came shortly after.
"Temari vs Tenten, I trust you know what to do? Well then Hajime." Tenten jumped back, as Temari flourished her fan. Naruto looked away to see how Sakura was doing. He checked her for injuries that hadn't been apparent before. A rush of air followed by a concussive blast and just like that it was over. Tenten was lucky the timer went off before they got closer to her, or they'd be cleaning her off the floor. "Really? Alright then... Uzumaki Naruto vs Rock Lee." Naruto jumped into the arena, only to find Lee was already down there.
"Let us have a glorious match Naruto-San, please show me your strength."
"Hajime." Bunnies, fuzzy white rabbits, that rabbit I saw in wave... WHY ISN'T IT WORKING! Lee disappeared and reappeared in front of Naruto. OH SHIT!
A/N Ok Maybe I am very very mean. Oh well...
I know I said I'd be doing all the matches, but there are to many things that I wanted to do for the next four fights, Naruto vs Lee, Neji vs Hinata, Chouji vs Dosu, Garaa vs Kiba, it would be criminal to not devote my full attention to them... And my hands hurt lol.
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