Ladies and gentle men we have finally reached the preliminary round in the chunking exams so the next several chapters will have one to three of the matches

Chapter 28

Team seven slowly down a hallway each one wondering what they where in for next the hallway finally let out into a small room. On the wall that they where facing when they walked into the room a sign with the symbols for heaven and earth. "I guess this is the place where we should open up the scrolls" sakura suggested while looking to her teammates both nodded agreeing naruto pulled out both scrolls he tossed one to sasuke the two unrolled the scrolls the team only had a few second to look at them seeing several different symbols before both scrolls began to smoke

"Drop them" naruto yelled sasuke and sakura quickly through away the scrolls (coincidentally they fell on top of each other) the two looked at him questionably "there part of a summoning scroll" again they looked at him questionably. "I've seen those symbols before on a summoning scroll my dad has" the room quickly filled with smoke the three got in to defensive stance as a shadow appeared in the smoke

"you guys can relax I'm not going to hurt you" a very familiar voice came from the smoke all of team seven relaxed at hearing the voice "you guys really made me proud" iruka spoke his figure came into view

"Hey iruka sensei" naruto yelled walking over to his old teacher "what are doing here?" he asked sounding slightly confused

"I'm here to congratulate you on passing the second part of the chunin exams and to show you to the next part of the exams will be held, but since you three made it here with plenty of time to spare I'll show you to the resting quarters where the other are resting right now." the older chunin smiled looking at his former students "I never would have believed they could have made it this far so soon after graduating from the academy."

"Umm…iruka sensei I was wondering what would have happened if we opened the scrolls while we where still in the forest" sakura asked sounding both nervous and curious as she looked at the older man

"Well that's easy. If any team where to open up there scroll while still inside the forest their greeter was instructed to knock them out and take them back into the village and keep them there until the exams are over" iruka bent over to pick up the unrolled scrolls "speaking of these scrolls there is one other thing I am required to…" he didn't finish as naruto decided to interrupt him with a loud, long and tired sigh

"Look iruka sensei no offence, but can we please just skip to the part where you show us where we can rest up" naruto spoke his voice sounding as if he was about to keel over. For the first time ever sasuke, sakura and iruka saw naruto completely exhausted everyone at one point had seen him tired, but none of the three had ever seen him like this naruto looked like he was about to drop over dead as if something had sucked the very life from him

"if I never hadn't seen it with my own eye's I never would have believed it, no matter what kind of hard training I've seen him go through or high ranked missions he been through he's always found some reserve of energy to keep him going" iruka looked from naruto to his two teammates neither of them looked as bad as naruto. Sakura looked tired, and sasuke looked like he saw his fair share of fights in the forest, but naruto something just didn't seem right about him while a sigh iruka motioned for them to fallow him "well companies I'll take you to the resting area and tell you what needs to heard on the way" he looked to the three "does that sound good to you naruto" naruto nodded looking down "alright then fallow me" naruto walked right behind iruka slowly as if forcing himself to walk both sasuke and sakura couldn't help but wonder what was wrong with him "do either of you three know why we picked heaven and earth as markings for the scrolls you had to gain in the forest" he spoke leading them down a hallway after a minute of no reply he continued "heaven stands for the mind and earth stands for the body. A chunin must have the strength of both if he or she is to properly perform their duties as a chunin" he looked to the three "a chunin that is only that of their physical strength will fall quickly to someone who uses the true potential of their mind that being said the same could also be said of someone who solely relies on the power of their mind would be easily be beaten to a bloody pulp by someone with more of physical abilities" after taking one or two turns they could see two large doors at the end of the hallway "the first two parts of the exam where designed to test these abilities separate" iruka spoke stopping just outside of the doorway he turned to them "the written exam was created to text your heaven or rather your mind. Not as to see if you could answer the questions, but to see if you could understand the texts true meaning to obtaining information without being noticed" as he spoke he noticed naruto was now leaning up against the wall as well he just noticed that sakura was helping sasuke walk "just wait a few more minutes them you can rest" "the second text in the forest of death was to test you physical strength. This test is incredible simple to test you physical strength we locked you into the most dangerous place in the village for five days and pitted you against others like yourselves fighting for the chance to raise their rank." iruka closed his eye's and sighed "the third and final part of the exam will test your skills in using both heaven and earth at one time" iruka opened up one of the doors "my task is over I've told you all I needed and I wish you all the best of luck" the three moved towards the door "no matter what happens from here you've all made me proud to have once been your sensei" the three genin smiled at him as they crossed the thresh hold of the room "you have exactly seven hours to rest up I'm not sure if it's going to be enough, so use it wisely" iruka closed the door as the three completely entered the room "and to think those are the same three brats that I taught all those years ago" he smiled as he headed for the way out

Inside the resting room

Much to everyone's surprise the resting room was far bigger than the doors would have led you to believe all around the room where couches, cushioned chairs, even one or two hammocks. Even more surprising was the small kitchen like section of the room (stove, refrigerator, sink with running water, etc.) the room was no where near to being full after a minute of looking and counting

"including our team there are six teams are in here and most of them where apart of the leaf and I know I can bet anyone of them, but those guys" sasuke though as his shifted his look from the right side of the room (where most of the leaf where at) to the left "one team of sand nin and those sound basterds" he didn't notice that sakura had already moved them to an open couch

"Get some rest sasuke I'll watch over you" she spoke softly to him as they sat down he nodded resting his head on her shoulder he just about got to sleep when

"don't you mean we'll watch over him" ino's voice chimed in as she sat down next to sasuke grabbing a hold of his free arm and once again the two started bickering about who would be with sasuke the rest of team 10 watch as there blond member went into fan girl mode shikamaru mumbled something about how troublesome women are while choji just look saddened at the sight of ino clinging to sasuke

Once inside the resting room naruto found himself heading for a couch had his white hair brother was already sleeping on with Sarah resting comfortable on top of him, but he before he reached that couch he spotted team eight sitting together hinata still sleeping in kiba's arms seeing hinata sleeping in kiba's arms started a fire of anger in him without thinking naruto walked right over to kiba he picked hinata up out of his arms not giving the dog nin time to argue with him as he quickly walked over to the couch drago was sleeping on nearly falling a few times "naruto what the hell is wrong with you" kiba yelled after the shock of hinata being pulled from his grasp had faded he got no reply as naruto sat down resting his head on the back of the couch as he put hinata in his lap. Hinata subconsciously moved so that she was snuggled up against naruto resting her head on his chest "that's it masked boy I'm done playing game with you" kiba was about to move after naruto, but shinos hand on his shoulder stopped him

"that's enough kiba it's time you faced the truth you never stood a chance" shino spoke a somewhat darker voice than he usually would "I like you have grown fawned of hinata, but in a different way she is like a younger sister to me and seeing her happy is something a value deeply" shino's glasses fell slightly, so that kiba could look into his eye's "I will warn you once and only once if you try and shatter this happiness hinata and naruto share I will do nothing" he removed his hand from kiba's shoulder only to receive a shocked look from kiba

"I think those bugs of yours eat part of your brain." the dog boy chuckled "you'll do nothing what kind of threat is that" kiba chuckled thinking his friend was only making a joke (yes I know shino never jokes but there's a first for everything) kiba's mood changed from joking to serious "I think of you as a close friend shino, but don't think that will keep me from pummeling you into the dust if you try and attack me" kiba glared daggers at his bug friend only to find a smirk on his face under his jacket

"you didn't let me finish" shino's voice was cold "I will do nothing to aid you when you incur naruto's wrath or don't you remember what happened in the academy when someone else would flirt with hinata" kiba's eye's widened at the memories of naruto chasing around and attacking the other guys in class that dared to flit with hinata kiba included

"Yea that was then, I'm a lot stronger now and that little runt doesn't scar me I'm not about to lose to that loud mouth blond" kiba boasted looking over to the now passed out naruto hinata peacefully sleeping on him shino sighed seeing this was going no where

"Kiba please listen hinata has always cared for naruto and naruto has was cared for. Hinata came to terms with her feelings long ago, but only now has he come to terms with his feelings for her." shino turned his back to kiba intending on finding a place to rest "I promise you this kiba if you intend on trying to wedge yourself between those two you will live to regret it or you might not" and with that shino took a seat kiba once more looked to the couch with naruto and hinata

"ok shino I'll leave it up to fate I if I lose to naruto in the next part of the exams I'll give up on hinata if not then all keep trying until hinata is all mine" kiba took a seat next to shino closing his eye's. Over on the far end of the leaf side of the room ken sat with a sleeping haku next to him resting her head on his shoulder. Ken just couldn't fall asleep his mind was on how that snake could cut off their connections to their sealed beasts and more importantly what was wrong with his brothers he's never seen them like this before, but something zilla said about the differences in his and his brothers seals came to mind

"That's it. It's because their seals are different then mine what ever is that's blocking the beast chakra is effecting them far more than me" he looked over to his sleeping brothers studying them. Their breathing was shallow, their skin was pale (well paler than usual for drago) the two looked like death warmed over "what ever that guy did to us that has to be it that also explains why I'm not having the same reaction as them. The seal allowed far more beast chakra to flow inside their bodies it's been like this from birth giving them their more animalistic abilities, their faster rate of healing (faster than kens that is) , and now with the beast chakra cut off their bodies own chakra and rate of healing can't keep up with what the body is used." his eye's never left his sleeping brothers "until we can see mom, dad or grandpa all I can do is hope that this little rest is enough to get them through the next phase of the exams" ken closed his eye's trying to get some rest he knew he'll need if for what's coming next.

The towers jonin entrance 12 hours later

Several jonin and chunin stood several staring at the door others staring at a clock "we're already two hours behind schedule we can't waist any more time waiting for her return" a dark haired chunin spoke with three scars across his face

"No you know the rules all proctors form the first and second parts of the exams must be present for the preliminaries" azuma's voice called out entering the room "we'll give anko another hour. Then we'll send out a search party" the main door opened up just as he finished speaking and slowly anko walked inside. "it's about dam time…" azuma stopped mid sentence once he got a good look at anko she looked like she had just been ambushed several sections of her clothing where ripped the parts of her skin that wasn't covered by cloths where in small cuts and burses she looked completely drained her eye's red and puffy as if she had spend a long time crying "what the hell happened to you" he asked her as she slowly walked further inside

"I ran into some trouble." the tone in her voice told everyone not to ask about it "lets get a move I the reason where getting a late start, so I lead the kids into the next room and explain the next part of the exam" she more or less ordered as she walked towards the hallway where the genin where resting leaving azuma and the others speechless no one had ever seen anko in that kind of condition azuma shook it off quickly enough

"Alright you heard her make sure the room is ready for them!" he yelled snapping everyone back to reality

Back in the resting room just before anko entered the tower

Ino was the first to awake at first she didn't open up her eye's she was far too comfortable leaning up against who she thought was sasuke. She leaned into the warmth that was coming from his body in response his arms wrapped tighter around her waist ino's eye's slowly opened up she saw sakura while sasuke's head resting in her lap as the two sat on a couch across the room from her it took a minute for her mind to register what she was seeing and then it hit her "if sasuke and sakura are over there then who's holding me?" ino quickly twisted her head around to find herself in the arms of her cubby teammate immediately she blushed still feeling his strong arms around her, but quickly shook it off while jumping out of his arms this woke choji up "just what the hell do you think your doing choji you perv grabbing me in my sleep and pulling me away from my sasuke why did I have to wake up in your arms and not my sasukes" ino yelled her face still had some red on it. Her yelling woke most everyone in the room (minus naruto and drago).much to hinata's delight she had awoken to find herself sleeping in naruto's arms she had been mentally preparing herself to wake up in naruto's arms since the last time she fainted she promised herself today was the day she would open up naruto's eyes and make him see her feelings for him unknown to hinata naruto was already aware and come to terms with his own feelings for her. Sarah and haku both awoke hearing ino screaming at choji they looked to each other and as if I knew what the other one was thinking they nodded to each other

"She's such a drama queen she should just give up on the act." Sarah though in her head while looking at haku as she nodded while thinking "yea it's so obvious she wants the big guy"

"ino I didn't…" choji spoke softly putting his hands in front of him in defense, but it didn't work ino just glared at him with as much hatred as she could muster, but looking at him again cause her face to heat up again. All poor choji could do is look down at his feet he just couldn't look ino in the eye he knew she hated him right now and it killed him "ino I'm sorry" choji spoke his voice soft

"You should be the one time I finally get to be with my sasuke you have to go and ruin it" ino yelled trying to keep her tone angry. her yelling only cause the large boy to hang his head to hid the look of hurt on his face "I'm not going to forgive you for this you useless fat-ass" ino yelled pounding the knife deeper into choji's heart. Even if you could see his face just by looking at choji you could tell he was on the verge of tears never before had he been so hurt in his life

"that's enough ino" shikamaru joined in pulling ino over to the couch with sasuke(who is still asleep) and sakura "you should learn to think before you speak" he spoke in a hushed voice this didn't help clam ino down "you know that choji's sensitive about his weight you calling that doesn't help" ino was about to yell but shika continued "you are the only one that could get away with making fun of him for his weight do you know why?" she didn't care and he could tell by the look on her face "it's because he care a lot about you, if anyone else would have called him fat he would have pounded them into the ground and all would be forgiven, but with you it's different. Because of how much he cares about you, you opinion and what you think of him really matters to him" ino's face still didn't change "you still don't get it to you?" still nothing "you just crush his spirit, you just stabbed him in the heart, and for what reason because you woke up in the arms of someone that actually gives a dam about you instead of with the pretty boy jerk you and pinky here have been fighting over for years no offence" shika added looking at sasuke who only shrugged is attention quickly returned to ino her expression had changed from angry for guilty with a hint of sadness "I hope I don't need to tell you how much of an idiot you've been for doing this especially since it wasn't choji who moved you over into his lap" his word cut through her she looked at him with shock, but looking at him she noticed he was looking at sakura "you should have said something sooner before she completely lost it with choji" shikamaru spoke in angry and annoyed tone this caused sakura to look down in shame

"I'm sorry just woke up when ino started screaming I didn't think she would act this way" she turned to ino "I'm sorry ino sasuke could get much rest sleeping up right like that, so I moved you I figure I'd kill two birds with one stone. Sasuke would get some sleep and I would give you the extra push you needed" she spoke the last part softly enough so only ino and shika could hear. Ino again blushed while sakura looked choji with a frown "I'm sorry choji I didn't think it would turn out this why I was only trying to help you" he didn't respond to her. Choji got up from the couch and walked off to the bathroom ino could speak she just stood back watching him leave she hung her head in shame

"I'm such an idiot can't believe I did that to poor choji. How could have been so stupid I had the perfect chance and I blew it just because I was nervous" she looked to the bathroom door her heart sank "I'm going to fix this I swear I'm going to make things right between me and choji""I…" ino started, but shikamaru cut in

"don't ino" he sat back down "what happens next is between you and choji is up to you fix, but I suggest you make your move soon before his heart turns completely to stone on you" he looked away from her finally noticing the other teams that had entered the room "it's seems we've more got more competition" the others looked to find team Gai sitting on the far end of the room the girl on the team was checking and sharpening her weapons the mini gai of the team was helping her while the hyuga of the team just sat there glaring is eye's moving from naruto, drago and hinata. A hidden sound team two of there members where sound asleep one had green hair and three swords on his waste while the other had a straw had on his head, the third member of the team and orange hair girl was busy making marks all over some parchment paper it look as if she was making some sort of map. On the far corner of the room two teams sat in the corner with their backs turn from the other teams all six where dressed in a black cloak their heads and face's covered up white a mask on there foreheads for the hidden grass. Sarah, haku and hinata moved to ino

"you understand what needs to be done right" haku asked ino nodded "then the question is what and how you plan on doing it" ino staid quiet for sometime her mind deep in thought, but soon enough she nodded and smiled

"Yea, after today choji's gona have to pry me off with a crowbar" ino spoke low enough for only the girls to hear. The four smiled to each other. That's when ino spotted naruto, and drago still sound asleep and unguarded a bit of a smirk came to her face

"good, after today shikamaru, kiba and shino are the only single men left in our class right hinata" she smiled at the blushing hyuga then looked to Sarah "it seems the three of us will be sister-in-laws soon enough" the three smiled to each other unseen by the three ino walked over to sakura

"come on this is our chance while those three are busy" ino pointed to the two sleeping hatake boys sakura smiled and nodded understanding what she meant sasuke also understood what was going through the minds of the two girls he sat up watching the two move quickly and quietly to naruto and drago

"this is not going to end well" ken spoke walking over to haku who turned when she heard his voice before she could ask what he meant she saw what ino and sakura where up to. The blond and the pink nin had just reached the sleeping boys faces when the doors burst open

"ALRIGHT MAGGOTS EVERYONE UP YOU'VE RESTED ENOUGH" anko yelled entering the room waking everyone who wasn't already awakened from ino's yelling. Ino and sakura jumped away just as the two boys woke up

"Awwww come on mom just five more minutes" naruto wined groggily as he stood up anko walked over to him and drago

"ken get your ass over here" she yelled in a stern voice ken quickly did as she commanded moving so he was standing next to his blond brother anko's three sons stood before her she looked each one over as if where deciding which one to punish first "no naruto you can't have five more minutes, but you can have this" she did what no one had expected with out warning anko grabbed hold of the three pulling them into a hug. After a minute of shock they hugged her back "I'm proud of you little brats you made it this far and your still in one piece, a little worse for the ware" she said noticed that they didn't look to well "but still I'm very proud of all of you" she looked them over again before letting go and turning around to hide the tears that threatened to leak from her eye's "I can't believe I let that snake put those thoughts into my head for even a second he had me, so fooled, so weak that I didn't even fight him when he…" she shook her head "no just don't think about it just think about the one's that do love you focus on them. O kakahsi what are you going to do when I tell you" she turned back to her boys who where standing next each other still, but where joined by hinata, haku and Sarah "they can never know what happened" anko shook those thoughts out of her mind her eye's fell on sarah "well if I counted right there's 31 genin in this room meaning one of you is an extra and I'm guessing it's you since all other sound nin are with their teammates" anko walked over to her "so the questions are who are you, how did you get in the tower without the rest of your team and what should I do with you?" anko asked looking down at her

"well to answer your questions in order Sarah Kedoin, I came in here with my boyfriend he keep me safe when my teammates died." she lied at about that part she didn't know if she could trust anko with the truth yet "I think you should let me stay and watch the next part of the exam, so I can cheer on my boyfriend" she suggested/ told anko with no fear. Anko just looked at her not even blinking then chuckled as she knelt down so that she was eye level with sarah

"I'm sorry for the lose of your team." anko looked the girl over "I see no harm in letting you stay, but I am curious" anko leaned in closer "which one of these boys belongs to you?" she asked with a smirk without looking sarah grabbed hold of drago's hand and pulled him to her side, "Really you have the gull to claim one of my sons as your own!" drago could look his mother in the eye's as is face light up luckily for him his mask covered it.

"Yea I do. What of it?" Sarah said pulling drago closer so that she was in his arms the hole time she didn't take her eye's off of anko this only made anko smirk and once again shocked her son by grabbing sarah and pulled her into a hug

"well come to the family I see you've already met your sisters" anko looked to hinata, naruto and ken, haku they stood there holding naruto holding hinata's hand, ken did the same with haku "so all three of my boys are taken then" anko's gaze fell on her blond son naruto and hinata looked away both blushing like mad "good I'll be wanting some grandchildren here real soon" hearing this all six of them turned bright red making anko laugh her ass off "alright I think I've wasted enough time" she turned and walked into the middle of the room "alright all you chunin wannabe's fallow me" anko yelled walking to the opposite side of the room all teams got up to fallow her the sand nin bringing up the end

"it's about dam time" the one with the purple makeup on his face spoke sounding board he turned to the shorter red head on his right "now the fun starts right garra" he asked in somewhat of a timid voice garra didn't respond he just watch the others "ok nice talking with you bro" he mumbled is attention turned to his blond sister on his right "well you've had plenty of time to size up the completion what do you think easy pickings" he asked with a smirk she just looked at him while rolling her eye's

"it doesn't matter in the long run" she spoke in kind of a dark voice "maybe if I'm lucky pineapple head will survive he does have a nice ass on him" she spoke while watching shikamaru walk in front of her, both her brothers looked at her with a discussed look on their face's "what? Like you guys haven't been checking out the completion." she said with a smirk. Anko walked to a wall and pushed on it a secret passage way opened up anko walked inside choji came walking out of the bathroom he made sure to be at the very back of the group trying to avoid his own team everyone fallowed without a word well almost everyone

"WOW A SECRET DOOR" luffy yelled watching everyone enter "I wonder where it goes" zoro just shook his head fallowing the others inside

"Come on luffy" nami spoke watching the straw hat teen watch the others enter the hallway "luffy move it" she screamed this seemed to snap him out of his stupor

"I'm coming nami into the mystery tunnel we go." he yelled fallowing the others. After several minutes of walking the tunnel let out into an enormous room with a set of stairs on either side leading to up to a balcony looking over the room at the far end of the room there sat a giant statue of two hands in a ninja hand sign on the opposite side of the room a even larger flat screen TV. Standing by the statue eleven jonin stood along with the hokage

"welcome" jiraiya spoke in a loud tone of voice as the group came closer "now before we begin I'll would like to explain this is not the third exam" he held up his hand stopping anyone from yelling questions "normally the third exam is a tournament between the remaining genin, but this year amazingly there is far more of you than expected, so we have to think out your number a little then one mouth from now the third exam will begin" he looked to the group waiting for any question "this part of the exams is not designed for teams, but is designed to test your individual abilities against different enemies." the old perv spoke in a wise tone "these are no holds bar fights anything goes they only end if you surrender, if one of the proctors calls the match or if regrettably you die. If any of you would like to back out now would be the time to do so" he looked over the group "none of you will be looked down upon you have made it this far that in itself is an achievement" one of the grass (male) nin stepped forward "the exit is right over there a chunin on the outside will escort you to your hotel room where you can wait for the rest of you team" after the grass nin left nami stepped up

"I don't want to fight, but I still want to cheer on luffy and zoro" jiraiya nodded understanding

"I don't see way why not as long as anko doesn't mind keeping an eye on you" he looked to anko who smiled and nodded

"I don't mind at all come with me" she motioned for nami to fallow "you to sarah" both sarah and nami fallowed her up the stairs.

"Alright now here's how we're going to do this" a sickly looking leaf nin said "the computer will randomly pair two names the other persons name is you opponent" he stopped speaking to cover his mouth while having a coughing fit. The flat screen had come alive "your names will appear on the screen along with another persons name that person will be your opponent once everyone has been pair with their opponent we will begin the preliminary matches" the entire group looked to the flat screen

Round 1: Sasuke Uchiha vs. Veloci Nezumi

Round 2: Rock Lee vs. Garra of the desert

Round 3: Sakura Haruno vs. Ino Yamanaka

Round 4: Shino Aburame vs. Zaku

Round 5: Temari vs. Ten-ten

Round 6: Hinata Hyuga vs. Neji Hyuga

Round 7: Naruto Hatake vs. Kiba Inuzuka

Round 8: Roronoa Zoro vs. Sakari Ape

Round 9: Monkey D Luffy vs. Taka Ookami

Round 10: Drago Hatake vs. Rex Sasori

Round 11: Ken Hatake vs. Kumo Suzumebachi

Round 12: Shikamaru Nara vs. Kin

Round 13: Choji Akimichi vs. Dosu

All watch as the names slowly faded away leaving everyone a chance to look over their soon to be opponents the only one that truly seemed afraid was hinata as she looked to the other hyuga in the room naruto quickly noticed this "you ok hinata" he asked with concern obviously present in his voice she turned to him and smiled

"I'm fine naruto, but what about you" her own voice as she saw just how tired and weak the blond looked

"I'm just a little tired you know me I probably over did it" he joked as best he could even after all that time of resting naruto's body still hadn't recovered not in the slightest naruto looked to drago to see if he had recovered any of his own strength as if reading his brothers mind drago walked over to naruto

"I know how you feel what ever that snake did we have to reverse it" drago sighed his eye's feeling heavy "soon I don't know about you, but I feel dead on my feet" he smiled slightly as he looked up to anko and sarah "on the bright side mom didn't chew her out like I was expecting she would" he looked to his blond brother "and on another good note you just might make it through the preliminaries" naruto gave him the why would you say that look "because you don't have to fight me fox boy" he jokingly punched naruto in the arm while chucking before naruto could repay his brother

"everyone who is not participating in the first match please join your jonin sensei on the balcony above" the sickly jonin ordered doing what they where told all genin joined there jonin sensei's already waiting for them on the balcony leaving sakura, sasuke and one of the cloaked grass nin

"good luck sasuke I know you can beat him, but don't push yourself" sakura looked down thinking back on what happened in the forest "please don't push yourself so far that you have to use that…" she didn't know what to call it

"please I wouldn't break a sweat fighting this loser" sasuke smirked "beside there's someone here I really want to fight" he looked up to where naruto was standing "if I lost to this loser I wouldn't get to prove to that blond loud mouth who the better fighter is" sasuke pointed at the balcony "now get going I have a loser to crush" sakura smiled turning to leave, but before she left she quickly turned around and kissed sasuke on the check leaving the young uchiha both surprised and embarrassed before he could respond to her action sakura ran up the steps joining the rest of genin after a minute a big grin came on his face

"Let the first of the preliminary matches begin." jiraiya spoke his voice sounded some what excited "Now Sasuke uchiha are your ready?" jiraiya asked sasuke nodded "Veloci Nezumi are you ready?" veloci nodded "begin"

Well that it for this chapter I hope you guys enjoyed it