Note: This fanfiction takes place when Team 7 (Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura) was still an official team, training, and going on missions. The Third is still the current Hokage.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, it belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, except for the characters in this tournament and their techniques.

Note: The names of the techniques in this fanfiction are taken from the official US manga version of Naruto (except for the ones I created). For example Naruto's "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu " will be "Art Of The Doppelganger" as named in the US manga. I know many Naruto fans are used to the Japanese names of the techniques, so I apologize for any inconvenience (yes, I know they sound kind of stupid).

Well, thanks for all reviews guys, That makes me so happy starts to cry As a thank you here is the next chapter. Enjoy.

Chapter 5: The Beginning

The news of Naruto and Sakura representing the leaf village got around very fast. By the end of the day the whole village knew about the tournament and who would be representing them.

It was saturday morning and Sasuke got up bright and early to have some training alone like any other saturday mornings.

When he was done he decided to have a walk around the village. As he walks through the village there was a lot of talking going around about a tournament so he decided to go get some ramen.

When he got there he found both Naruto and Sakura there waiting for something or someone. Are they waiting for me? Hope not.

"Hey, Sasuke. Over here." yelled Sakura as she waves her arm around for him to see her.

Sasuke didn't want to go but since he wanted some ramen and they might know about this talk about a tournament going on.

"Morning, Sasuke." said Sakura as she tries to get close to him.

"Hey." was all Sasuke said as he orders a cup of ramen without even looking at her.

"Hey Sasuke, have you heard about the tournament?" said Naruto with a big smile in his face.

"Naruto, there is no need to rub it in you know." yelled Sakura.

"Yea, what about it?" said Sasuke finally turning his attention to them.

"Me and Sakura are the chosen ones to represent the leaf village at the tournament." said Naruto now with a huge smile that could reach his ears.

"What?" said a surprise Sasuke.

"Out of all people in this whole village, they picked you. We can already tell the Hokage we lost the tournament right now." said Sasuke to Naruto with a small grin on his face.

"Ha Ha Ha, very funny, Not." yelled Naruto.

"Ok, well good luck to you both." said Sasuke as he starts to eat his ramen.

'I can't believe I just said that. Why him? Why couldn't it have been Lee or Neji or even me? Am I getting jealous of Naruto the stupid?'

"Okay, let go guys. Hey Sasuke. Bye Sasuke." said Kakashi as he leaves with Naruto and Sakura to start their training.

"Bye Sasuke." said Sakura quickly as she starts to run so she could catch up with Kakashi and Naruto.

Sasuke sighed then finished his ramen.

'This is bad. Naruto and Sakura never gets along with each other and if they don't start thinking about good teamwork, we're done for. I hope they do their best for the reputation of this whole village.'

/Two weeks later/

For two weeks Naruto and Sakura trained their best as a team. Kakashi made a doppelganger of himself for them to train with.

They would attack and Naruto and Sakura had to find a way to work together so they can win otherwise they won't stand a chance in the tournament.

Today was their last training and they already started getting the hang of it but sometimes they still argued over nothing.

'Oh, boy. We're going to lose this tournament if those two keep at it like that.'

"Ok, we're done for today but you guys still have to practice some more at home but not as much. Here are some important things you need to remember. There is only one week left before the tournament, you guys have all that time to have some rest and relaxation because the tournament won't be easy, so get ready for anything." said Kakashi calmly and slowly so they could get every detail.

"Now, I want you both to do your best and don't worry if we lose the tournament other than you two will be known as the ones who messed up this village reputation for generations and generations." said Kakashi seriously.

'That should give them some determination to stop the arguing and get along more.'

Naruto and Sakura suddenly felt like they didn't want to do this no more, being known for something bad in this village is worse than others.

"You're joking, right?" yelled Naruto.

When he looked at Kakashi he didn't even find a hint humor on his face. Actually he looked serious.

"I don't think he's joking, Naruto." said Sakura.

"Its not that big of a deal guys, the village drunk lost in a tournament and look how he turned out." said Kakashi.

"Oh great. That was a good help." yelled Naruto.

"You can't be serious?" yelled Sakura as she joins Naruto with the yelling.

"Don't worry guys. As long as you two work together and try your best there is nothing to worry about." said Kakashi with a small grin under his mask.

"Well, see you guys later, and remember to practice and get some rest, you'll need it." said Kakashi as he disappears with a cloud of smoke.

"Come on lets go Naruto, I want to get home so I can take a shower and change, my clothes is so dirty from this last session."

They walk together and for the first time they both realized that they weren't arguing, they were both thinking about what Kakashi said.

"Do you think that Master Kakashi was only trying to scare us into getting along more?" said Naruto as he starts to think more about that.

"Well, it worked because we weren't arguing like usual." said Sakura.

She turned her head a little and look at Naruto sideways but when she notice he was looking at her too, she turned her head and started walking faster.

'What was that about? She is so weird.'

"Hey, wait up."

Since Sakura was walking too fast she didn't even notice the tree's huge root that was in the way. She tripped over it and wasn't able to find her balance only to be caught by Naruto who came out of nowhere.

As he held her there Sakura felt a new feeling coming over her. Then just like that with no warning her lips were pressed against Naruto's.

Sakura's legs went numb, she couldn't believe that her first kiss was from Naruto but not Sasuke, who she was always after but... he never cared.

She wasn't the one to pull away but it was Naruto.

"I have always wanted to do that for a long time, Sakura." said Naruto as he pulls Sakura up.

Sakura didn't say anything as she could hardly stand on her legs.

Then all of a sudden Naruto looked terrified.

"Oh man, I am so sorry Sakura, I kissed you without your permission. That can be considered as rape. I could go to jail." said Naruto as he paced around saying all these things that might happen to him because of one uninvited kiss.

"It's okay, Naruto." said Sakura as she finally got control of herself.

"But you do that again I will kill you, got that?" yelled Sakura as she came to her senses.

"Come on, lets go already."

'I can't believe Naruto just kissed me and I wasn't mad at all, it was like I actually wanted to be kissed by him. What the heck is going on? I thought I had feelings for Sasuke. Am I getting over him?'

/Tournament Day/

Naruto spend one week doing nothing but practicing, relaxing, and thinking about Sakura all the time. He kept on replaying the scene when he kissed her in his head all the time, somehow he knew that something like this might never happen again.

Naruto and Sakura was woken up at 5 am with a pounding on their doors, as soon as they opened the door there was a gush of wind but there was nobody there so they both close the door but as they turn around, right behind them through the whole house were leaf ninjas on the couch, standing, and crouching all around the house.

"Good morning. It is time to go, you must go get ready for we shall leave in 45 minutes. You may start now. Go get ready and remember your weapons."

Both Naruto and Sakura had to hurry up and get ready, take a fast shower, put on their clothes which was a little hard for Sakura since her house was filled with ninjas even her room, she had to tell them to get out so she could put on her clothes as her whole face turned red.

They were on there way and soon as it was 6 am. Naruto and Sakura felt a little nervous and embarrassing to have all these people with them, just to go on a tournament.

"The whole village will be there, at least those who wants to go. Almost half the village left already. The tournament starts at 1:00 pm and it's being held at the one of the biggest and popular city in the Land of the Waves. And as you know it going to take a while before we get there so we had to leave early. You shall be told when we arrive."

And just like he was gone.

'It like we're famous and they are our bodyguards.' thought Naruto.

The land was beautiful there were trees everywhere it was like a jungle, when they finally reached the city, it was a very beautiful sight. The place was huge; it's about five times the size of leaf village. There were people everywhere talking and laughing.

We were heading to the center of the city, and it took a while for them to get there especially after a boy bumped into Naruto only to find out seconds later that his wallet was missing. He started running after the boy and when he finally caught him and toke his wallet back, the boy was crying, followed by Naruto getting punch in the face by the boy's big brother.

"Man, that guy was asking for it, he's lucky the ninjas stopped me." said Naruto with anger as he rubs his nose.

"Well, you should have just take back you wallet and let the boy go, but noooo, you had to grab him by the collar and ask him why he did that for, why do you think?" said Sakura as she started laughing.

"We're here."

It was a huge stadium with thousands of seat, which already had a lot of people. In the middle was a huge battlefield, which had a huge ring in the middle.

Naruto and Sakura head for the locker room. There were so many people there, ranging from fighters, samurais, ninjas, to swordsmen, archers, and on.

"Those robot fighters look pretty cool."

"Not after you've seen them fight."

There was a lot of talking going around, teammate talking to teammate since it was a team tournament.

"Did you hear? Those two over there are the famous twin blade brothers the Samurai Gurus."

"No way !"

"I just hope we don't go against them."

At another side was another conversation about someone else.

"Guess who else is here?"

"Who?"

"The Double Dragon Ninjas Gain."

"You're must be joking, man, why would they come to a tournament like this? They already have such a huge reputation."

"People say that they can't believe that they aren't actually from any hidden shinobi villages."

Naruto looked at Sakura, to find a worried look like his on her face.

'There are lots of strong people here, but I know if I work together with Sakura, we can do this.'

"You see that guy over there."

The guy wasn't talking to him but Naruto looked anyway.

By one of the lockers was a tall guy with bandages wrap around his hands. He had scars all over his body since he had no shirt on as the girls around kept looking at his muscles only to turn back and start giggling. He just stood there with his eyes closed, which seems like he was sleeping. He had yellow hair like Naruto's and seems to like the same color as Naruto since he had on orange pants similar to Naruto's.

"No one knows who he is but I heard he's a fighter, and he entered himself alone with no partner said he didn't need one, they told him that since this is a team tournament the other competitors will have an advantage on him, but he just said he didn't care so they entered him."

"Man, that is crazy. There are too many weird people here."

Naruto wasn't scared and neither was Sakura, they were ready, that's what they spent weeks training for.

A voice filled the whole room, it seems it was coming from the intercom at the end of the room.

"It is time to begin, you may all head to the battle field now."

As soon as they were out there was shouting and yelling everywhere, posters and signs were being held everywhere, it seemed that half of the right side was for the leaf village. It seemed like everyone was there.

Through all the people Naruto could see Hinata holding a sign that said "GOOD LUCK NARUTO" and in a smaller font it said "AND SAKURA". She was blushing as she held the sign.

'Huh, cool. I always thought there was something weird about that girl, she always act weird around me even though people tell me that she is pretty strong.'

Naruto could see Sasuke seating right next to Kakashi and Iruka who was also holding a sign that said "WIN NARUTO AND U GET RAMEN".

Sasuke wasn't even looking up as they came out, it was like he didn't even want to be there, but he was actually looking forward to the tournament.

Some way down you could see Lee with a sign similar to Hinata's but only it was the opposite. Higher up seemed to be a box reserved for the Hokage and you could also see all the ninjas around.

'Oh, geesh. It's not like the Hokage can't fight to protect himself or anything, I mean that why he is the Hokage because he's the best ninja in the whole village, and that's why I will prove myself today and I shall win against the Hokage when I finally challenge him.'

But there were also other signs all around from all these different people like one that said "GO NINJAS GAIN". There are so many people from everywhere supporting their team, there was hardly any seats left for people in the city.

It was an unbelievable sight, Naruto and Sakura has never seen anything like it. Then just like that the whole stadium was filled with a loud and booming voice.

"EVERY FIVE YEARS A TOURNAMENT IS HELD TO FIND THE BEST FOR HIRE IN THESE LANDS. I WELCOME YOU TO THE FIFTH OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT FOR HIRE."

The stadium was filled with shouts and applause.

"AND I AM YOUR HOST KUWABA."

"HERE ARE THE TOURNAMENT RULES. A TEAM OF TWO WILL BATTLE TILL THEY GET TO THE FINALS. YOU AUTOMATICALLY LOSE IF YOU FALL OUT OF THE RING BY YOUR OPPONENTS ATTACKS, NOT THE WHOLE TEAM BUT ONLY THE MEMBER THAT FALLS OUT. YOU SHALL BE DISQUALIFIED IF YOU KILL YOUR OPPONENTS OR IF YOU CHEAT.

"WELL, LET THE TOURNAMENT BEGIN."

"FIRST OFF IS NARUTO AND SAKURA OF THE LEAF VILLAGE,"

There were loud shouts and yelling coming from where the leaf village sat.

"VS. THE ROBOT FIGHTERS OF THE FUTURE."

There were some shouts coming from a small area, which seems to have scientists and inventors.

"Why do we have to go first?" said Naruto.

"Who knows, maybe because we are the youngest here and they want to get rid of the young first." said Sakura as they head for the ring.

The two robots were facing across from Naruto and Sakura. They had human bodies with two legs and arms and a head and all; they actually look pretty cool. They had a nice silver and grayish color and they would really look like humans if it wasn't for that color.

"BEGIN NOW"

Just like that they were gone only to reappear right behind them.

'Whoa, how did they do that? That was not speed, it seems they actually teleported.'

"Sakura watch out!" yelled Naruto.

Sakura who was already on the offensive threw a punch, which seems to only hit the air as robot One reappeard right behind her.

As soon as she could Sakura bent all the way as a kick pass over her head, she threw a whirlwind kick at the robot's leg since the other leg was still in the air, only to teleport as it was about to hit the ground.

As Naruto watch he forgot about robot Two, only to be reminded with a kick right on the back which send him flying across the ring almost falling out.

"Naruto, hold on." yelled Sakura as she run as fast as she could to give Naruto a hand which she never did, as right then both robots appeared right in front of her.

Sakura did a huge back flip as she threw at least a dozen kunais straight for the robots. It seemed it had no effect since it did nothing to stop them.

As Sakura landed back on her feet right behind her was Naruto on the ground.

"Naruto, come on, get up!"

Naruto got up like he wasn't even hurt one bit.

"You go ahead, Sakura, I got your back."

"Okay, here we go."

'Wait I thought I saw Naruto on the other side, how did he get over here.'

"Sakura, it's a trick!"

Sakura was looking at another Naruto right in front of her.

'Which one's the real Naruto? Wait, I got it!'

"Hey, Naruto what's your favorite food?"

"humm, Pizza?" said the Naruto behind her.

"Ramen of course." said the one across from her.

But before she could turn and attack she was hit straight in the gut with a punch by the other robot who again appeared out of nowhere.

"Sakura!" yelled Naruto as he started running.

He threw close to thirty shurikens faster than anyone could follow.

The robots teleported right before the shurikens reach them, only to reappear on the other side.

Naruto use that time to reach Sakura.

"You okay?"

"Yea, fine. I can't believe they can also use the ninja's transformation skill."

"Well, duh. How do you think they would do during an assassination, go right in there looking like a robot. Yea real stealthy."

Sakura laughed a little but it hurt to laugh because of the punch.

"How can you try to be funny at a time like this."

"So, what should we do? Our weapons has no effect on them since their made of metal and they just keep teleporting." Said Naruto as he look only to see the robots standing right across from them.

"I don't know." Said Sakura after thinking for a while.

"I have an idea but we will have to work together to make it happen, can you do that?" said Naruto as he hand her his hand.

"Yea, lets do this." Said Sakura as she takes his hand as he pulls her up.

End of chapter 5.

This was the fifth chapter. I made it a long chapter since I haven't given a long yet. Well, please REVIEW and tell me what you think. It would make me very happy.
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