(Timeskip 2 months)

"Welcome to the final test of these jonin exams. You will be randomly called as your names appear on the screen. This arena is s special arena with variable conditions from the 5 elements acting as traps randomly through out the fight. Any questions? All of your respective Kages are present along with the damiyos, so remember to be put in your best performances." Said Darui as he pointed up to two boxes. One had all the kages while the damiyos sat in the other one. Naruto spotted both tsunade and shiro and gave a respectful nod in their direction an action that was imitated by the other hopefuls as well.

"What did you mean when you6 said elemental traps?" Asked naruto.

"Exactly what it sounds around random times in your matches an elemental attack will be unleashed upon you by the seals in the arena. The element will also be randomly decided by the screen with your matches. Any questions?" Asked Darui.

When no one spoke Darui spoke up and said "Alright then we will begin the first set of matches. Look at the screen." As he finished the screen glowed and the names "Namikaze Naruto vs Eizen Sarutobi" along with the kanji for wind appeared on the screen.

"Oh what do you know." Naruto said with a massive grin.

"Awesome." Eizen said as both of them jumped into the arena and began cracking their necks and fingers getting ready for the match.

Looking at Eizen naruto said "How much power are we going to display?"

"Anything barring sage mode goes." Eizen replied. Darui then signalled the match to begin and quickly jumped out of the way he could tell that both the young men in front of him were S ranks and had no interest in getting caught in their battles cross fire. Immediately the emotion melted of the faces of both ninjas and they stared at eachother with battle hardened expressions.

After a few moments if stillness both of them disappeared in bursts of speeds and met in the centre of the arena as they engaged in a high tier taijutsu match. Naruto was focusing on high speed quick punches while dodging Eizen power ful hits. Both of them had the arsenal to change when they needed but didn't it was the beginning after all.

Eizen then managed to get a strong punch in that naruto blocked as he crossed his arms over his chest. Both of them then separated and created a little distance between themselves. All the other hopefuls baring Neji, Samui, Kurotsuchi and Chojiro looked on surprised.

"I see you haven't been slacking eh Eizen. Your punches are stronger than before." Naruto commented as he moved his hands to rid them of the slight numbness he was feeling.

"The same can Be said about you. Your speed despite your seals has increased many fold. So how are we going to continue.?" Eizen asked back.

"Lets get rid of our restrictions. It's all out from here onwards Ninjutsu, bojutsu, kenjutsu, bloodlines everything is out in the open." Naruto said as clapped his hands together and removed all of his restriction seals. Eizen in response nodded and started removing all his chakra weight bracelets before throwing them over to Neji who deftly caught them.

Naruto then opened his eyes as his sharingan flared to life as several chains escaped his back. He then unsheathed his sword and looked over to Eizen who had his Bo staff out and was in position. However before they could attack eachother several wind blades were fired from the walls prompting both the youmg nins to cut down the wind.

"So thats how it works huh. I am pretty sure that the traps will only get more and more intense as the match progress. Kura tou san try noting a pattern." Naruto said as he focused over to eizen. Kurama grunted in response and started sensing over in the surroundings.

Naruto then created several kage bunshin before all of them simultaneously disappeared using the transparency jutsu. Eizen raised his eye brow at the manuevor but didnt comment on it. He however did start paying more attention to the surroundings. A hidden Naruto was a very dangerous thing.

Without a word to each other both of them charged. Soon however the kages could tell that naruto was the one having the upper hand in this exchange. Naruto with his sharingan and chakra chains was able to send in extra attacks all the while predicting eizens moves.

Eizen was holding up well but he knew that if the current round continued any longer he would lose. He then jumped back and created a little distance before he went through one handed signs and shouted "Fire style fire dragon jutsu." as he finished a colossal fire dragon escaped his mouth and flew towards naruto.

Naruto in response held up his hand and shouted "Space time absorption fuin." As soon he finished the fire dragon was absorbed into the seal on his hand. However he didnt have time to take a break as Eizen swung down his staff at him.

Suddenly Eizen was forced to dodge a lightening ball that was fired from the side. "Shit I almost forgot about his invisible clones." He thought as he created a little distance between them.

"Kit its coming now." Kurama told him as naruto nodded before jumping up. As soon as the air blast was released Naruto released the fire dragon and created a collaboration as he fired it at Eizen who channelled chakra into his staff and cut the dragon in half. However before he could react he found cold steal on his back and saw two of narutos clones holding kunais on his neck.

He sighed knowing he was defeated. He then raised his hand in surrender and sealed his bostaff. Naruto smiled at his best friend and rival and offered him a hand, which eizen took whole heartedly. "I knew I shouldnt have held back." Eizen said as he was pulled back.

"Don't Look at me I told you to go for it." Naruto replied as the duo walked back to the contestant room.

(Kage box)

"That was a very good fight." Ay commented.

"I agree both of them did show a splendid amount of skill and planning." Mei said.

"Both of them have shown enough to be promoted. Though I am a little miffed that konoha has yet another yellow flash and a shinobi no kami in the making." Onoki said drawing a small glare from tsunade who didnt say anything.

"Both of them have my vote for the promotion." Gaara said getting nods from the others around him.

(Back to the field)

"Naruto namikaze qualifies to the next round. We now begin our second round. Please look over to the screen." Darui said.

As he finished the names Samui Yotsuki and Kiba Inuzaka shown along with the kanji of earth on the screen. Naruto looked at Kiba and said "Good luck out there dog breath you'll need it."

Kiba grumbled but didnt say anything he knew exactly how strong Samui was. After all she had matched naruto with his sage mode at one time. And he was sure that she had grown stronger since then.

Naruto then turned to Samui and blew a kiss towards her making her blush slightly. She to followed after Kiba into the arena. Seeing both the contestants on the field Darui signalled for the match to begin before jumping away.

kiba immediately turned akamaru into his clone and then threw him 4 kunai. He then went into his 4 legged jutsu and held a kunai in each leg. Both the kibas then launched themselves at samui and started attacking in much more dangerous and erratic manner than the usual inuzaka style.

Naruto had to say he was impressed some one without the sharingan would be really hard pressed to fight some one with kibas style. However he had faith in both his girlfriend and classmate that they would put on a good show.

Samui remained blank as she dodged kibas attacks before she pulled out her sword and began slashing as fought back against kibas charge. Naruto whistled he hadnt seen samui fight since he came to kumo since all they had done was mushy stuff and training alone to prepare of the exams. He knew that she had improved but seeing her move was as if she had picked up pattern and could predict kibas movements.

Heck her mere movement had the sharpness that resembled a shiny katana cutting through the air. She wasnt making any extra moves keep it to bare simple as she kept up with kibas pace without any chakra. This fact made Naruto smile, he knew that if he and samui fought again it would account for yet another interesting battle.

Kiba jumped back as he growled a bit. However before he could continue his assault a large wall came in between them signalling the activation of the arena trap. Kiba held back and slowed down in wait as he decided to survey how his opponent would react. He then quickly had akamaru use a head hunter jutsu to get underneath the ground in wait of a trap.

Samui on the other hand already was aware that kiba couldnt beat her in a head on fight and would try to trap her in a way. She smirked a bit to herself and decided to give kiba what he wanted a chance to trap her.

She then charged at the wall and cut a hole through it as she dashed towards Kiba at high speeds while throwing a kunai in to a near by wall surprising everyone except the kages, who had already guessed the logic behind samuis thinking.

Just as she neared kiba, naruto activated his sharingan and watched the battle in a slow pace. Time seemed to slow as akamaru burst from the ground behind samui. After that both kiba and akamaru swung their kunais at samui who smirked slightly before she replaced herself with the kunai threw earlier.

Samui then went through one handed handseals before she coolly said "Raiton Kangekiha." A very large wave of lightening left her hands before it engulfed both akamaru and Kiba. Both of whom roared in pain before which they felling down and started twitching. Darui announced Samui as the winner as the medics came in and carried kiba away.

Samui then coolly walked back to the contestant room.

( Kages box)

"I must say your daughter has improved leaps and bounds since the chunin exams Raikage dono." Gaara said

"Naturally. She is a kunoichi who takes her training very seriously. I daresay that she is among the favorites to win this tournament." Ay said with a smirk.

"Kuro chan will be the winner today." Onoki said with a confident smirk.

"I wouldnt count out chojiro just yet. He is a member of the 7 swordsmen of the mist and was personally trained by me." Mei interjected.

"While Id love to continue this dick measuring contest we do need to decide on the promotions from the second fight." Tsunade cut in calmly.

"Fine then. If Id say the samui girl deserves her promotion, she easily saw through the inuzakas trap and set a trap with in his trap. Not to mention she had the skill to back it up." Onoki said getting nods of agreement from around the room.

"The inuzaka brat however I dont think he is ready. He may have shown the right amount of skill and a little planning but he didnot display a fall back plan." Ay added once again elicting nods from around the room.

(Back to the arena)

"Next match Neji Hyuga from konoha vs Ken from kumo." darui announced as an cocky kumo nin jumped over and smirked at Neji who stoically walked towards the arena.

Naruto almost chuckled at the way neji was walking. Neji wasnt weak and even eizen was wary of him which spoke volumes of his skills. Not to mention that neji had become one of tsunades apprentices and had been taught many things by the slug sanin. The fact had surprised naruto for a while but it soon died down since he knew that nejis talent mustve forced him to look for additional skills.

Darui then announced the start of match. As soon as he jumped Neji disappeared in speeds that matched narutos and reappeared in front of ken. He then reared back his fist and launched a punch at ken. However he stopped his punch just a inch from kens face. As he did a strong gust from the mere force of his punch sent kens protector flying. Kens face had turned to a ghastly white as he shakily turned around and paled even further. On the wall was an imprint of nejis hand that had been caused by the mere force of his blow. Ken knew that if he continued he'd be in a world of pain.

He then quickly raised his hand and said "Proctor I quit How do you expect me to fight something like that?"

Darui nodded with a sigh and said "Winner Neji hyuga." Neji gave him an arrogant smirk before walking back to the contestant room.

(Inside the room)

"Ara neji kun what were you trying to do?" Asked naruto in a teasing tone and a sly smirk.

"I dont know what you mean naruto kun?" Neji replied in a similar tone.

"You know I want to fight you after the incident you pulled just now." Naruto said as he looked over to the field.

Neji snorted before saying "Why do you think I did that? It was a message to you to get your ass ready." Getting a grin from naruto in response.

(Kage box)

"Well that was disappointing. How did that boy even get passed the two tests?" Asked Tsunade.

Ay didnt say anything and grumbled about nosy council members. The kages decided to hold on to Nejis promotion until future rrounds as his match could hardly be described as a fight.

(Back to the arena.)

The screen then flashed the names of Omoi and chojiro with a kanji of water written on it. Both the swordsmen nodded to themselves. The element in question could be manipulated to favor both of them. Both of them silently made their way into the arena as the contemplated battle plans in their brains.

Darui looked at both of the competitors before asking them if they were ready. Upon seeing their nods he jumped away before signalling the match. Both omoi and chojiro rushed towards each other beginning a sword fight. Omoi using the kumo twin blade style while chojiro was using the hiramakei.

Naruto whistled at chojiros movements. Despite him carrying a very large blade he was easily able to move at similar speeds to omoi. While omoi was not as good as samui his pace and skills were frightening to say the least.

The kenjutsu clash remained for a few minutes with chojiro gaining the upper hand with every passing moment. What was surprising to say was that chojiro hardly looked as if he was trying. Omoi on the other hand was struggling to keep up now.

(Contestant stand)

"*Whistle* I didnt think there was a kenjutsu practioner our age who was good as me." Naruto said with a whistle.

"You really should keep your mouth shut namikaze. Just wait I will kick your sorry ass." Karui said with a growl.

"Hmm I am sorry to say karui but my fine ass is already taken." Naruto replied with a charming smile as wrapped one of his hands around samui. Both girls blushed one at his words and the other at his hug.

Karui then growled at him in annoyance while he merely whistled innocently.

(Back to the arena.)

It was at this moment that the seals on the arena activated themselves once again before firing several fast streams of water towards the two competitors. Omoi took the advantage of this and broke the kenjutsu battle and was about to use a lightening jutsu. However before he could cast it chojiros sword extended and flew towards him at astonishing speeds.

Omoi cursed before hehe dodged the incoming blade with a shuushin and landed on the water floor. However this turned out to be a mistake as chojiro quickly weaved through handseals and said "Water style water prison jutsu."

And such before chojiro could react he was trapped in a circular water prison. Sighing internally he nodded towards darui signalling that he had lost and conceded the match.

Darui accepted the call and announced chojiro as the winner. Chojiro nodded before walking back to the contestants.

(Kage box)

"That was very impressive from your ninja mizukage dono. His control over his skill definitely warrants his promotion." Gaara said elicting nods of agreement from the other kage.

Mei however had a very pleased gleam in her eyes.

(Back to arena)

The screen once again flashed revealing the names of Karui and matsuri. The kanji revealed was once again wind. Naruto being the genius had already worked out who the winner would be. The whole match had points to matsuris victory. She was a kages apprentice, had a wind affinity which was superior to karuis lightening. Not to mention she would also be able to use the traps to her advantage when they arrived into the mix.

In short karui was in for a disappointing loss. Down in the arena darui after the contestants gave their consent to start the match, jumped away. The match began when matsuri opened up her assault with a wide range of wind jutsu. She did show her mastery with the fact that karui was soon overwhelmed and had lost the match when a great breakthrough sent her into the wall.

The impact was enough to sent her into the folds of a blissful unconciousness. Darui then jumped down and began checking on karui. After confirming her unconcious state he called in the medics to lead her away to the medic tent. He then announced matsuri to be the winner which made the bubbly suna nin skip back into the contestants ward with a whistle.

(Kage box)

"You have taught your apprentice well kazekage dono. Karui was one of my better chunins." Ay grunted.

"Indeed it is. I had only hoped her attitude would've changed just a bit." Gaara stoically said.

"Now now some cheeriness is needed in a dark world like ours." Tsunade said getting an enthusiastic agreement from mei while the 3 male kages just grunted in response.

(Back in the arena.)

Since the last two Iwa nin were the final two competitors for the last 2 spots both automatically qualified for the semi finals. Darui then stepped up and said "From now we shall follow the traditional tournament style. The names shall be shuffled to find your matches for the quarter finals after which they go on. And after each round the number of elements in a single match will increase. Come back tomorrow for your matches to begin. Thank you." Darui said before waving the young nins of.

Everyone shuffled out of the arena keen to get in some rest before the tournament tomorrow. Naruto simply grabbed samui by the waist and disappeared in a flash leaving his friends to shake their heads at the antics.

BANG THATS IT FOR THE CHAP HOPE YOU LIKED IT.