= As Time Passed in The Leaf =
Disclaimer: Naruto is not owned by me. This story is purely fictional Anime fanatics/other aspiring author like me create to fill our (and other anime fanatics) desire. Other unknown characters were just invented by me.
Author's Note: This is my first fanfiction. Please read and review my fiction. If you'd like you can be harsh with the review, I think I can live with it. Please Read and Review. Thank you everybody!
Notes: (1) "talking" -means the character is speaking. (2) 'thinking' - means the character is thinking. (3) "talking" or 'thinking' - means important conversation/thoughts. (4) (words/phrase) - authors thoughts, notes or ideas.
Pairing: I still don't know but there is definitely gonna be one. You can tell me who you want to be paired up. Just keep away with the yaoi for now. My little bro's gonna read this fic. after i finished this.
CHAPTER 2
PART I: CHUUNIN EXAM
The atmosphere in the Hidden Wood Village had drastically change after the preliminary Chuunin exam. The festive atmosphere is now gone and the place that was once full of life and different kinds of stalls have all been cleared out. Only the banners, banderitas, and lights remained as a sign of the preliminary exam that had just ended yesterday. In the Hidden Wood, Chuunin exams are celebrated as festival and something to be watched. However every after the preliminaries the place is kept isolated for the sake of the examinees. They especially know how important is this time for all examinees, they need all the help they can get and continuing with their daily lives away from noises coming from the festive atmosphere is a big help.
Among the more than 200 genins who took the exam thirty of them still made it to the finals (this included all the genins from Konoha exempted and not). It was a rather large number unlike before. Because of this the set up for the final match was change from a one on one match into a one on two match (meaning three genins fight to accelerate to the next level). The winners will then proceed to a one on one match until a winner is decided.
The selection of rivals were done through drawing lots like before and the following match up was made:
Match 1: Sakura vs. Genin from the wood vs. Ten-ten
Match 2: Genin from the Air vs. Tsukiko vs. Naruto
Match 3: Hinata vs. two Genins from wood
Match 4: Gaara vs. Sasuke vs. Genin from the wave
Match 5: Neji vs. Lee vs. Kankuruo
Match 6: Falls vs. Falls vs. Air
Match 7: Ino vs. Temari vs. Shino
Match 8: Water vs. Chouji vs. grass
Match 9: Kiba vs. Genin from the grass vs. Genin from the Air
Match 10: Genin from Grass vs. Air vs. wave
In the Stadium before the Match started the Leader of the Wood (sorry I don't know how to address him as kage, any idea how?) said his speech and introduced the different Kage's who came to watch the match. They were the leaders of the grass, sand, wind, air and Tsunade of the leaf. Afterwards the host of the match talked about the rules.
"Now we will begin the final Match for the chuunin selection exam. The rules will be the same as before, the match ends when two of the shinobis' are defeated, died or forfeited the match. However, I have the right to end the match and announce the winner when I see fit." Then took a deep breath and saying in a loud voice "For the First match, Sakura v.s. Ten-ten v.s. Asato. The match begins now!"
"Go Sakura! You can beat them for sure!" Naruto shouted.
"I will win all my matches for sure. I'll definitely want to have a match with you Naruto" Sakura said to him while smiling. Naruto smiled back.
"Sure, I'll give you the match you want if time comes."
(Sorry I already said that I won't focus on fight without Naruto in it, please forgive me)
The first match ended with Sakura as the winner, after all, she promised she'll fight them and she doesn't want to break it. Now she was a step closer to fight either Naruto or Sasuke. She defeated them both using the technique taught to her by her father, the invisible barrier technique, tree binding technique, kuchiose no jutsu and the grass shield Technique those were just some of it anyway. Even the audience were awestricken by the techniques the genins had just used, shinobis like them should not be able to use such techniques since it was a jounin level technique.
"So good, Sakura had greatly improved! What else does she have under her sleeves?" Naruto said as he smiled seeing a very interesting new rival. "Alright! I'll surely win my match!"
As Sakura walked towards the exit, Naruto saw her wobble as she fell on the ground. He's been observing her match and he knows that Sakura used up all her chakra and stamina for the fight. 'No wonder she can't even walk' he thought.
Medics immediately came to her aid and took her to the clinic located in the stadium.
"Hey, I'll just visit her for a while" Naruto told his companions. Then left in a puff to the room where Sakura was situated, Ino had already left ahead of him but she just ran. Sasuke wasn't surprised a bit that he knows how to teleport. As he popped into the room, he saw Sakura resting in the bed.
"That was a good fight Sakura! But don't overwork yourself next time ok?" He said smiling. He then took out a potion in one of his pockets and gave it to Sakura, "Drink this, this will get back about 90% of your stamina and chakra. It won't be fair if we fought under your current condition right?"
"Thanks Naruto" Sakura said as she drank the potion "Isn't your match next now?"
"Great, I forgot! I'll go ahead now!" Naruto grinned.
"I'll be watching your match. Thanks again."
"Yeah!" Before he left, he waited for a little while longer for Ino to arrive. He doesn't want to leave Sakura alone. As Ino opened the door he immediately left in a puff of smoke.
"Hey, isn't that Naruto who left just now?" Ino said.
"Hai, Even I was surprised that he could use that jutsu." Sakura answered. After a while she could feel her body regenerate and all her wounds started to heal. 'I wonder what kind of potion he gave me?'
That potion was just an ordinary water with chakra extracted in it. He learned it when he traveled with Ero-sennin in the country of grass. A medic specialist shinobi taight him how to extract his own chakra and combine it with water as reserve for emergency situation. He doesn't really need it since he has the Kyuubi within him, he has so much extra chakra to need one of those. So instead, he tried extracting the Kyuubi's chakra in it to help others regenerate faster.
"How could you heal so fast?" Ino asked.
"Naruto gave me some potion. Hey Ino, let's go back. Naruto's match is starting" She answered.
IN THE STADIUM, the host was introducing the next match. "For the second Match! Aiko v.s. Tsukiko v.s. Uzumaki Naruto!" as he said Naruto's name, Naruto got there in a puff of smoke.
Before the match begun Naruto first looked up to the place where tha Kage's sat. When he saw Tsunade, he waved a hand at her and shouted. "Oi! Hokage-Baa-san! Treat me with Ramen if I win this match alright!?" He was grinning like a fox and all that the hokage could do was shook his head in disbelief. 'He haven't changed at all!' After her thoughts she stood up, placing her right foot on the railing and shouted "Yeah sure! I'll treat you if you win. I'll even give you a one year supply of instant ramen! " Everybody was awestricken at the Hokage's behavior and even the genins from the Leaf couldn't believe that Naruto was close to the Hokage.
"Alright!" Naruto shouted.
"The match begins!" The Host shouted interupting the conversation of the two.
Naruto then observed the two in silence trying to see who will initiate the attack. He have observed Tsukiko and Aiko these past few weeks. Tsukiko is the brother of Hayate, the host in the preliminary match that was held in konoha six months ago. Tsukiko still doesn't know who killed his brother. All he knew was that the culprit was from another village. Since then, he vowed to avenge for his brother. In order to do that, he needed to become an Anbu fast. This chuunin exam was a starting point for him. He was given his brother's sword when he died and he had another one made that was very similar to it. He always carry it arround to remind him of his reason or wanting to become an anbu.
'My brother! I won't be defeated here! I promise I will avenge you!' and with that thought, he initiated the fight by throwing shurikens to both of his opponents. Naruto and Aiko easily deflected the attack. Then Naruto immediately performed the Kagebunshin no Jutsu and created five replicas of himself. Half of them went to Aiko and the other half fought Tsukiko. Tsukiko wasn't surprised, he knew of this boy's jutsu, he has observed him fight during the chuunin exam in Konoha. He then drew out his sword and slashed the three Naruto. Two of them, was gone with a puff while the real Naruto flew to the ground with his shoulders bleeding.
'Naruto-kun!...' hinata shouted in her head. She was so worried seeing the blood oozing out of his shoulder. Sakura just stayed quiet, she knows Naruto's strength very well for her to be bothered by such a cut.
'Great, I wasn't careful enough' he thought. Before he could stand up, Aiko from the air used this chance to defeat Naruto. She threw smoke bombs all around them to blind her opponents.
"Alright, the real fight starts now" Naruto said within the smoke.
Aiko planned to finish Naruto first since he seemed to b the weaker one. She's never seen him practice after the preliminary matches. Except for some taijutsu and Chakra control. She did not even saw him do a genjutsu or ninjutsu. There was nothing unusual with his chakra. What she didn't know was that Naruto have sensed both Tsukiko and her. That was why he did not practice much of his techniques. That is not until they were gone.
Then clashes could be heard inside the smoke she was now aiming for Naruto "Arrow Whirlwind Technique!"
The smoke receded forming into hundreds of swirling arrows targeting Naruto. Naruto's eyes were wide open, he couldn't dodge the attack and got hit when it suddenly disappeared with a poof! All of the audience were surprised when suddenly there they saw Naruto in the air, falling like an eagle towards its prey. His right hands were in front of him tageting Aiko on the neck. Aiko had no time to dodge the attack and he was hit at the back of his nape making her fall unconscious to the ground.
"That's one enemy..." but before he could finish his sentence he saw Tsukiko in the air holding his swords in both hands and circling in the air "Double Dance of the Crescent Moon!"
"Naruto, Look out!" Sakura shouted. The other genins were too drawn to what will happen next. Sasuke have been observing the fight with his Mangenkyo Sharingan. While Hinata was having a hard time breathing seeing her crush in the verge of death like everybody else. Then Naruto suddenly did the unthinkable.
"Nine-Tails shield Technique!" He shouted as red chakra was emitted in his body in an instant covering him in a bowl-like shape. Tsukiko's swords hit the shield with immense power creating an impact with the also very powerful shield emitting blinding lights and red chakra due to the contact of both.However, due to the impact Tsukiko was thrown to a tree with both his swords falling far away from him. He was almost unconscious but he forced his body to still stand up. He doesn't want to give up and did not mind the pain.
"Moon's Illusion!" followed by a number of seals. But before he could finish the seal, Naruto came running towards him, with the violet chakra molded in both his hands and speed. Making him ten times faster than his ordinary speed. "Oh no you won't! I'll make you sleep before you do!" Then held Tsukiko in one hand and punched him with the other. Blood went oozing from his nose before he fell unconcious.
"The winner of the second match! Uzumaki Naruto!" The host announced. People were so silent then one by one clapped their hands while cheering for him.
'How could Jiraiya-sama let him use that? It's affecting his health greatly and it hasn't even been 5 minutes since he used it' he wondered as he saw Naruto's uneven breathing. Even Sasuke noticed its weakness immediately.'Fool, creating a technique that could kill you...'
'Hmmn, that stupid Jiraiya teaching Naruto that move. Or did he?' Tsunade thought not knowing that even Jiraiya was surprised himself while he was watching Naruto's fight. He did noth remember teaching him any techniques like that nor did his friends told him anything about it.
Naruto had been secretly training how to create that special chakra and knew of its implications. That was why he did not even told it to Ero-sennin. He was a worrywart sometimes and he doesn't like it.
The third match was between Hinata versus two genins from the wood. Hinata was preparing to walk towards the stadium when she saw Naruto running up the stairs, with the fox like grin in his face. He was not looking to where he was going...
"Anou... Naruto..." Hinata started to talk, she wanted to congratulate him but before she could say another word. Naruto came stumbling towards her.
"O ooo oops! Oh no!" then he fell directly in front of her in a very uncompromising position. His lips pressed on Hinata's lips. Both of them suddenly became red with their eyes wide. They were still in that position and all of their friends' eyes were wide opened and their jaws dropped especially Neji, Sakura, Ino and Hinata's teammates. Naruto instantly stood up apologizing, he was still as red as a tomato. He as never kissed any girl for that matter and he doesn't know how to react.
Hinata on the other hand suddenly ran of towards the stadium. She was so shy to face him or to even just talk. She was holding her chest as if it was about to burst open.
'Naruto-kun...' Well we can call it a luck charm for Hinata because of what just happened she was so inspired during her match that she won against the two male genins from the wood. It was also no wonder since she has already learned the ultimate Gentle Fist Style: 64 hands of Hakke passed on to their clan. She remembered promising to herself that she will be different by the time Naruto returns to Konoha.
During her fight Naruto observed her keenly unlike before. Maybe it was because of the very big change he's seen in her or because of the kiss... 'She has definitely changed'.
Post Script: Sorry I couldn't make it long enough, i'll just update the part B earlier, maybe this wednesday.
Acknowledgement: People, thank you again for the wonderful reviews. Especially to Tomokig for pointing out my flaws. I tried making up for it. I just don't know if i did it right this time. To Gopu, thanks again for reading 2 chapters of my story. To everybody, I could not name here.... THANK YOU PEOPLE VERY VERY MUCH for supporting me.
Pre-plot for Chapter 2 part II: I'm gonna give some foolish explanation on how Sasuke got his Mangenkyo Sharingan then finish the first round of the match. Boy, I did not know that including the chuunin exam in my fiction would end up covering many chapters. My fault.
