Chapter 26: The Rest of The Preliminary Rounds
"Now we will start the second match" Hayate said looking at the screen.
Aburame Shino
Vs.
Kawasaki Kyoto
"ALRIGHT!" Kyoto yelled excitedly.
Kawasaki Kyoto a Genin from the hidden leaf, he graduated 2 years ago along with his teammates, he has spiky brown hair with caramel highlights, and violet eyes.
Shino remain silent.
"Now we will begin the second match..." Hayate said.
"Will Shino be alright?" Hinata ask worried.
"He's strong, he's one guy even I don't want to fight" Kiba said.
"Please begin" Hayate said jumping away.
Kyoto run towards Shino with a silver blade dagger...
Sasuke's eyes slowly open, only to close it again because of the sunlight "argh... What happen?" He thought, he open his eyes again and slowly sat up, pain shot through his body making him wince, he look around the room trying to determine where he is.
"I'm in the hospital?..." He thought confuse then it suddenly hit him.
"CHIDORI!."
"SAIZEKYŪ!."
Sakura hit Sasuke's chest, Sasuke hit Sakura's stomach, the two of them was sent flying back into the wall, smoke was in the way of their bodies so no one could see what happened.
"Sakura!" Sasuke thought worriedly, he immediately threw the covers off of him and jump off the bed, he ignore the pain that shot through his body as he run out of the room locating Sakura's chakra signature.
He stopped in front of a door and open it without a second thought.
"Sakura..." Sasuke mutter guilty when he saw his girlfriend laying on the hospital bed.
He walk closer to her bed and caress her cheek like she was the most important person in his life which she probably is.
Sakura stir before her eyes slowly open and the first thing she saw is Sasuke's deep onyx eyes filled with love, guilt, and relief.
"Sasuke-kun... Where are we?" Sakura thought trying to sit up but wince when she felt like her stomach is being blended.
Sakura's hand glows green as she start to heal the hole in her stomach and all her other wounds until they were all gone not even a trace of scar was visible and her stomach was good as new.
"Come here" Sakura said motioning Sasuke to come closer to her.
"Are you sure you should be doing this?... Aren't you out of chakra?" Sasuke ask walking closer to her until he was beside her.
"I still have enough chakra to heal myself, you, and Naruto... Don't worry I know my own limit" Sakura said reassuringly, she place her glowing hand on his chest and started closing the hole and healing his wounds.
"There all done and I still have enough chakra to heal Naruto once he finish his battle" Sakura said removing the covers off her, putting her feet on the ground and stood up.
"Wow..." Sakura said once she was on her feet feeling suddenly dizzy.
"Told you so" Sasuke said making sure she won't fall.
Sakura glare at him before sticking her tongue out, Sasuke smirk before taking her tongue on his mouth and sucking on it, Sakura gasp/moan before snaking her arms around his neck and pulling him closer to her.
"And the winner of the second match is Aburame Shino" Hayate said looking at kyoto's fallen form.
"Oh my Kami I can't believe Kyoto lost" Sachiko Zafrina said shock.
Sachiko Zafrina a Genin from the hidden leaf, she graduated 2 years ago along with her teammates, she has a long waist-length blonde hair with creme highlights, and deep sea blue eyes.
"I know right" Akita Katashi said agreeing with his teammate.
Akita Katashi a Genin from the hidden leaf, he graduated 2 years ago along with his teammates, he has untamed short silver hair with black streaks, and honey colored eyes.
"Phew... That was nerve racking" Kurenai said sighing in relief.
"Oh Shino congratulations" Hinata said smiling at Shino.
"Oi great job" Kiba said grinning at him.
"Hai... Yeah I'm counting on you guys too" Shino said in a monotone.
"He comes back acting like the team leader" Kiba thought glaring at Shino.
Sasuke and Sakura pulled away from each, both trying to catch their breaths.
"We should probably go back to the exam... Or else we won't hear the end of it from Naruto" Sakura said knowing that if Sasuke and her didn't watch Naruto's battle, his going to complain for weeks.
"Hai..." Sasuke said lacing his fingers with hers before disappearing in blue flames.
"Umm I think we should go to the next match..." Hayate said getting everyone's attention.
Kankurō
Vs.
Tsurugi Misumi
"Sakura-chan, Sasuke-teme" Naruto said once he saw his teammates appear beside him.
"What did we miss?" Sasuke ask looking at Naruto.
"Shino fought Kawasaki Kyoto... And now it's kankurō's match against the same guy he fought at the first Chūnin exam" Naruto said whispering the last part so no one would hear him.
"Matte... Aren't you two suppose to be in the hospital?" Kakashi ask sternly.
"We're fine kaka-sensei don't worry" Sakura said reassuring him.
"Hai... Anyways who won?" Sasuke ask looking at kakashi then at Naruto.
"Well you two tied... You guys were this close on being disqualified... But hokage-ojiisan asked every Genin if they would allow the two of you to pass and we all said yes... So you guys are entering the final test" Naruto said cheekily.
"Matte, so we both passed?" Sakura said smiling.
"Hai" Naruto said nodding his head.
Sasuke sigh in relief before watching the fight his arm around Sakura's shoulder.
"GO KANKURŌ!" Naruto yelled on top of his lungs even though he already knows kankurō is going to win.
"Hn" kankurō said smirking.
(Well the same fight happen nothing changed so I'm not going to write the whole match)
"The battle can't be continued... The winner is kankurō" Hayate announce "now for the 4th match."
Yamanaka Ino
Vs.
Akadō Yoroi
"Good luck Ino" Shikamaru said lazily.
"Yeah what he said" Chōji said eating more chips.
"Show em' what you got" Asuma said encouragely.
"Hai" Ino said determine to win "I'll show Sakura that she isn't the only one who bloomed."
"You may begin" Hayate said before coughing.
"Are you ready?" Yoroi ask doing a hand seal.
"Hai" Ino said gulping.
Yoroi's right hand was filled with chakra, using his left hand he took out three shuriken from his shuriken holster and threw it at Ino.
Ino's eyes widen before throwing her own shuriken to deflect his, Yoroi run towards her with full speed.
"You're finish" Yoroi said placing his glowing hand on ino's head sucking all her chakra.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Ino yelled feeling her body slipping away as Yoroi suck all her chakra.
Shikamaru, Chōji, Asuma was starting to worry.
After a few seconds Ino fell unconscious and Yoroi stopped sucking her chakra.
"Ino is unable to battle... The winner is Akadō Yoroi" Hayate said making sure Ino was still alive.
Asuma jump off the rail, landing beside his fallen student before picking her up and jumping back on the upper level, he place her down leaning on the wall.
"Let me check her" Sakura said removing Sasuke's arm on her shoulder to check her former best friend's status.
"You're a medic?" Asuma ask raising an eye brow.
"Hai..." Sakura said placing her palm on ino's chest "she didn't brake anything... Her pulse is normal... But she has only 3% of her chakra.. She needs rest after the preliminary round take her to the hot spring that would refresh her chakra faster."
"Arigatō Sakura" Asuma said grateful.
"No prob" Sakura said half smiling, half smirking before walking back to Sasuke's side, Sasuke gave her a half smile before hugging her from behind and burying his head on the crook of her neck.
"Alright now for the next round" Hayate said looking at the screen.
Temari
Vs.
Ten-ten
"Finally" Temari thought jumping off the rail and landing on the ground.
Ten-ten smirk before jumping off the rail.
"The fifth match... Temari vs. Ten-ten... " Hayate said.
"Now the second member of the sand sibling... This could be interesting" Neji thought crossing his arms on his chest.
"GOOD LUCK TEN-TEN!" Lee cheered.
"Begin" Hayate said.
Ino slowly open her eyes.
"You're finally awake" Shikamaru said relieve.
"What happened?..." Ino ask confuse.
"Well..." Chōji started "Yoroi I think was his name... He absorb all of your chakra... And then you fell unconscious... Sakura said you just need to go to the hot spring so you can refresh your chakra faster."
"Sakura?..." Ino ask looking at Sakura's back well more like Sasuke's back since Sasuke was still hugging Sakura.
"Hai... She knows medical ninjutsu" Shikamaru said shrugging.
"The fifth match... Winner is Temari" Hayate said.
"Temari Don't..." Sakura said before Temari could throw Ten-ten.
Temari look at her before sighing and placing Ten-ten on the ground.
"Happy?" Temari ask her voice heavy with sarcasm but not really mad at Sakura.
"Hai" Sakura said brightly.
Temari shook her head smirking before jumping back on the upper level, landing beside Gaara.
"Come on, come on, Come on, come on, com-itai" Naruto said rubbing the lump on his head.
"Shut up" Sakura said glaring at him.
Sasuke smirk at his girlfriend amuse.
Sachiko Zafrina
Vs.
Nara Shikamaru
"Me eh?..." Shikamaru said boredly.
"Oh good" Zafrina said happily.
"GO SHIKAMARU!" Ino cheered loudly.
"Ino sure is cheerful" Chōji thought.
"Man this sucks... Plus it's tough fighting a girl... How troublesome" Shikamaru thought lazily.
"I'm gonna end this quick" Zafrina thought smirking.
"Begin!" Hayate said.
"Kagemane no Jutsu" Shikamaru said his shadow extending towards Zafrina.
"Shit!" Zafrina said before she could even move, Shikamaru's shadow came in contact with hers.
"Kagemane no Jutsu complete" Shikamaru said smirking lazily.
Shikamaru slowly pulled out a shuriken, Zafrina copying his movements.
"BAKA! Both of us will do the same movements, if you throw that shuriken you'll get hurt too" Zafrina said her eyes widen.
"I know that..." Shikamaru said ready to throw the shuriken at her with Zafrina copying him.
"We'll keep throwing shurikens to see how long we can last" Shikamaru said throwing the shuriken.
"DON'T!" Zafrina said throwing her shuriken.
Before the shuriken can hit Shikamaru, he bend his body backwards, Zafrina did the same only to hit her head on the wall behind her that she fails to notice.
"Hehehe one down..." Shikamaru said jumping on his feet "If you're a shinobi... Then fight with knowledge of your surroundings... Even if we move the same... The distance of the wall behind us is different."
"Winner Nara Shikamaru" Hayate announce.
"WAY TO GO SHIKAMARU" Ino yelled punching her fist in the air.
"YOU RULE" Chōji yelled happily.
Team 7 look at each other.
"He just did the same thing he did on the first Chūnin exam" Sakura said blinking a couple of times.
"Hai..." Sasuke and Naruto said nodding.
Akita Katashi
Vs.
Uzumaki Naruto
"Finally... Eh who the hell is he?" Naruto ask scratching his head while looking at his teammates.
"Heck if we know" Sasuke said shrugging before kissing Sakura's head and laying his chin on her shoulder.
"The seventh match... Akita Katashi and Uzumaki Naruto... You may begin now" Hayate said.
Naruto did some hand seals "it's time for me to use my super awesome Jutsu that would blow your mind away."
"Super awesome Jutsu... He's an idiot" Sasuke said knowing what his idiot of a best friend was talking about.
"Seriously..." Sakura said realizing what he meant.
"Bring it on" Akita said smugly.
"Hāremu no Jutsu" Naruto yelled just in time for Sakura to cover her boyfriends eyes.
A large puff of smoke appear and when it clears, a dozen of beautiful, naked woman, with mists of smoke that cover their privates appear, giving Akita a seductive look.
All the males (except for Gaara and Neji although their eyes were wide and Sasuke since Sakura was covering his eyes and the Jutsu doesn't affect him only Sakura can do that) was having a nosebleed especially kakashi and the hokage, Hinata fainted, while the rest of the girls were gaping at the scene in front of them
The clones started rubbing and hugging Akita, making his nose bleed harder before he fainted with a really goofy smile on his face.
"Naruto get rid of those clones already" Sasuke yelled his eyes still being cover by Sakura.
The clones pouted before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"Umm.. The... A winner of the seventh match is Uzumaki Naruto" Hayate said wiping his nose with a tissue.
"Well that was a boring way to win" Sasuke said giving Naruto a bored look.
"Hey it's not my fault I didn't get a tough opponent" Naruto said crossing his arms while sulking before realizing something "matte! After my match it was hinata vs. Neji... Please tell me tha-."
"Too late" Sakura breathed out looking at the screen.
Hyūga Hinata
Vs.
Hyūga Neji
"Damn" Kiba mutter worriedly.
"Hinata..." Kurenai thought.
"What an interesting match-up..." The hokage thought.
"I never thought I'd be facing you Hinata-sama" Neji said in a monotone.
"Neji-niisan..." Hinata said softly.
"Sakura-chan can you please please heal Hinata-chan once the fight is over" Naruto said knowing that if he ask Hinata to forfeit, she would feel like he was thinking she was weak.
"Of course I will" Sakura said smiling sadly at him.
Naruto close his eyes sighing before opening his eyes again "YOU CAN DO IT HINATA-CHAN, JUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF DATTEBAYO!."
Hinata's eyes widen "Naruto-kun..."
"What an annoying idiot... You're just as weak as your female teammate... She was just lucky when she tied with the Uchiha" Neji said scoffing.
"That's it Hyūga you're fucking dead" Sasuke said suddenly holding Neji by the collar, his Mangekyō Sharingan spinning, he accidentally activated it because of his anger.
"Tsu-" before he could even finish saying tsukuyomi Sakura cut him off.
"SASUKE-KUN DON'T!" She yelled panicking.
Sasuke took a deep breath before deactivating his Mangekyō and shoving Neji hard across the arena, he close his eyes and sigh when he felt a familiar hand on his shoulder.
"Come on..." Sakura said softly before they both disappear in a black cherry blossom petals.
"Umm... I'm not going to say I'm sorry for what the teme did... Neji your lucky Sakura-chan stopped him if she didn't you would have be dead by now... If Sasuke didn't kill you I would have... No one and I mean no one can mock, look down, or underestimate our team" Naruto said glaring at Neji, his eyes flashing the nine-tails before it quickly disappear.
"Cough... Umm lets begin the eighth match... You may now begin" Hayate said hoping it would break the tension.
(I'm going to skip everything, I'll just give you guys the short version, Naruto cheered for Hinata but like the first Chūnin exam she still lost, at the same time Sasuke and Sakura came back, Sakura healed Hinata, Gaara fought lee the same battle happened but before Gaara could crush lee's leg Sakura yelled at him to stop which he did, so lee is still fine, the last battle is Kiba vs. Chōji, Kiba won he used Gatsūga to counter Chōji's Nikudan Sensha... Sakura knows that when Sasuke's angry accidentally or not he activate his Mangekyō, so before Sasuke grabbed Neji by the collar, she placed a genjutsu at everyone except for kakashi and Naruto, making the rest think that he activated the Sharingan and not the Mangekyō Sharingan)
All the winners of the prelims exam was standing in front of the hokage, starting from right to left, Aburame Shino, Hyūga Neji, Nara Shikamaru, Gaara, Kankurõ, Temari, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Inuzuka Kiba.
"To all of you who won the rights to compete in the third round test in the Chūnin exam... Congratulation to you all" Hayate said.
"There's 7 from the leaf, and 3 from sand" the hokage thought.
"Well then hokage-sama if you would please..." Hayate said.
"Well now I'd like to start explaining the main test..." The hokage said.
"Finally..." Kiba thought excited.
"As I told you before in the main event, your matches will be seen by everybody... Each of you will fight to represent the strengths of your countries... I'd like you to showoff all your powers with no reserves" the hokage explain.
"We're not going to do it here, right now?" Kiba ask confuse.
"This break, you can say will be for preparations" the hokage said.
"What do you mean?" Neji ask raising an eye brow.
"In other words... In addition to informing all the various Daimyō and Kage, this is the time needed to arrange for the gathering of the even... And this is also the preparation time for you examiner students" the hokage started to explain and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, etc, etc and all the boring details.
"... And that's the way it is... Well I'd like to dismiss you now but... There's something that has to be done for the finals before I can do that" the hokage said smirking.
"What the hell is it?" Naruto demanded "I've got to train now."
"Well now don't get too excited... There are pieces of paper inside of the box that Anko's holding, so each of you take one piece" the hokage said.
"I'll come around so wait your turn" Anko said holding a box.
"All right you all took a piece, now then I'd like you to tell us the number on that paper in order, starting from the left" Ibiki said holding a clip board.
"7" Kiba said.
"1" Sakura said.
"9" Sasuke said.
"8" Naruto said.
"3" Temari said.
"5" kankurō said.
"10" Gaara said.
"4" Shikamaru said.
"2" Neji said.
"6" Shino said
"Alright now I will.. Reveal to you the final tournament" the hokage said grinning.
"Huh!" Kiba said his eyes widen.
"That what we drew numbers for?" Shikamaru said shock.
"Now Ibiki show them the match arrangements" the hokage said.
"Hai" Ibiki said showing them the clipboard.
First round
1 Haruno Sakura
Vs.
2 Hyūga Neji
Second round
3 Temari
Vs.
4 Nara Shikamaru
Third round
5 kankurō
Vs.
6 Aburame Shino
Fourth round
7 Inuzuka Kiba
Vs.
8 Uzumaki Naruto
Fifth round
9 Uchiha Sasuke
Vs.
10 Gaara
"Oh it's on" Sakura thought smirking.
"Nani? The finals are just a regular tournament?" Temari thought.
"How troublesome" Shikamaru thought lazily.
"Phew Thank Kami I'm not on the same block as Gaara" kankurō thought relieve.
"Uchiha Sasuke..." Gaara thought.
"Perfect..." Neji thought smirking.
"Seriously" Naruto thought mentally groaning.
"I can't wait to defeat Naruto..." Kiba thought grinning.
"Hn" Sasuke thought.
"Well then, you're free to start strategizing or resting as you like... With this I'll dismiss you all" the hokage said.
Phew I'm glad it's over...
Kagemane no Jutsu - Shadow Imitation Technique
Hāremu no Jutsu - Harem Technique
Gatsūga - Fang Passing Fang
Nikudan Sensha - Human Bullet Tank
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