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. What do belong to me are the characters at the tournament and some of the attacks and Justus in the story.

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)

Thanks for all the reviews, it makes me really happy to see people enjoy this fanfiction.

Well, here is the next chapter. Enjoy.

Chapter 6: Who's Next!

Previously on Change of Heart:

Naruto and Sakura trained for two weeks to prepare for the tournament. The tournament was being held in one of the biggest and popular city in all the country of the waves. They made it there with no trouble and saw the competition in the locker rooms. The tournament started with loud cheers as the first match was under way. It was the Robots for hire of the future vs. Naruto and Sakura of the Hidden Leaf village. The robots prove to be worthy adversary, Naruto and Sakura were having trouble just getting close to them because of their teleportation. So finally Naruto had a plan and would only work if he work together with Sakura as a team. Let the match continue.

It was their last hope, if Naruto's plan doesn't work, they might not even have enough strength to continue.

"Do you think Naruto can find a way out of this? I mean it would be pretty embarrassing to lose their first battle and the first match of the tournament." said Kakashi with a worried look.

"Yea, I know Naruto and one thing is he never give up, just watch you'll see." said Iruka smiling.

Sasuke was a little worried since they haven't even hit their opponents once yet.

'Man, Naruto better have a plan and I just hope its not one of those plan that can backfire.'

"WOW, WHAT A START FOR THE TOURNAMENT. THIS MATCH IS UNPREDICTABLE, WE DON'T KNOW WHO CAN WIN."

"Ok, you ready Sakura?" said Naruto as he gets into his offensive position with kunai at hand.

"I been ready for two weeks now." said Sakura was a grin as she also gets in her offensive position.

"Alright, GO!" said Naruto as he started running as fast as he could to one side and Sakura head for the other side.

Naruto knew if he and Sakura started running on different side one robot would follow each of them. The robots would try to teleport in front of them and then attack, and that's when the plan comes in.

As soon as Naruto reach the edge of the ring, he was already halfway through a jutsu.

"ART OF THE DOPPELGANGER."

The whole ring was surrounded with Naruto, as the two robots noticed that, Sakura toke that time to also change herself into Naruto.

"Now, can you find my partner, and me, you metal heads?" said all of them at the same time with a grin in their face.

Naruto was actually hoping that they would find the real him or Sakura for that was also part of the plan.

The robots were in the center of all the Narutos.

Their eyes started glowing red and green as they started searching for the real Naruto and Sakura using their super vision.

Then after about 5 seconds of calculation they found out where both Naruto and Sakura were.

They both ran with superb speed where their calculations told them the enemy would be, instead of going after Sakura, they both went after Naruto thinking he was the worst threat so they should deal with him first then go after the weak one, and that is where they made a big mistake.

As they reached Naruto, they lift up their arms and a circle opened in the middle of their palms.

"Our calculations prove that this battle is over. Prepare to lose." said the robots in a eerie voice.

"I thought you guys couldn't talk? You sound like there's a cat stuck in your throat, and your wrong for there is one thing you did not know." said Naruto with a smile.

"My doppelgangers are real just like me."

Then just like that all the Narutos jumped in the air and threw about three dozen kunais and shurikens each, put together with the speed of them all, it got to the robots before they could teleport away.

They hit the robots everywhere and this time it had an effect since it actually punctured the skin, which by doing that the shurikens were able to also cut some of the wires inside the robots.

There was loud and complaining yells from the side where the scientists and inventors sat. They were all standing up and booing for they knew that a robot's second main disadvantage was their wiring, with water being the first.

"Wha... What... did... Yo... You... do?" said the robots with difficulty as they start to having trouble to teleport away or even move their arms.

Then just like that the doppelganger disappeared and there was two Narutos left. So Sakura changed back and started running toward them then she jumped in the air and with one huge kick to the metal chest of a robot which was done the same way by Naruto with the second one. They sended them flying across the field only to be stop by a wall then they slid down into the grass.

"THE FIRST MATCH IS OVER. WHAT AN INTERESTING BATTLE. THE WINNER IS TEAM NARUTO AND SAKURA OF THE HIDDEN LEAF VILLAGE."

There was cheers and applause ringing from all over the stadium especially from the leaf village side. Hinata almost cried for how happy she was. Sasuke just smiled. Iruka was yelling and applauding since he proved Kakashi wrong.

"Man, I didn't know we had that many fans." said Naruto as he and Sakura leaves the ring.

"Trust me we don't, it's only because of the tournament." said Sakura as they both reach their sitting area for the competitors.

So just like that the tournament went on and on. Naruto and Sakura fought against fighters, archers which were pretty easy to beat, other ninjas trained from ninja schools. They were tired as hell. Their training came in handy at many times.

The Hokage was pretty impress and so was everyone else. Naruto and Sakura showed that the leaf village trained them well. Sasuke was both mad and happy for he couldn't believe that Naruto surpassed him and he thought that Naruto matured a lot and they can win the tournament after all.

Sakura couldn't believe how strong Naruto was and how great they worked as a team. She was starting to feel different about him like she actually loves him? She actually didn't mind it at all it's as if she didn't love Sasuke no more.

It was the fifth day into the tournament and they heard that their next match would be against a samurai team, and they weren't sure which. If they win this match it would lead them to the semi finals. They were excited that they got this far and couldn't wait to get it all over with.

"So, who's next?" said Naruto.

"What?" said Sakura.

"Who's our next victim?" said Naruto smiling.

"Man, are you deaf or something? You heard that we were going to fight against a samurai team." yelled Sakura as she almost fell out of her seat.

"Sorry." said Naruto in a low voice.

Sakura sighed and stood up.

"We got 2 more hours before our next match, I'm going to go take a shower. So don't go wandering off." said Sakura as she headed for the locker rooms.

"Ok." replied Naruto.

Sakura decided to go to the gym and do some laps before taking a shower. It toke her 1 hour before she headed for the girls locker room since she did some target practice after the laps.

The whole girl locker room was empty since there was only about four teams of girls in this whole competition and they lost already so there shouldn't be anyone in there anyway.

She took of her clothes and went into a shower. She turned on the hot water, which felt great after that entire workout.

It toke Sakura about 25 minutes to take the shower since she didn't want to come out since the water felt so good. She got a towel and wrapped herself with it and went to the bench where she left her clothes. After drying herself she dropped the towel and started to put on her clothes.

Right after she had on her bra and panties and was about to put on her short, she heard a loud noise behind her. As fast as she could she took out a Kunai out of her pouch and turned around ready to attack only to see nobody there.

Sakura decided to go in closer, as stealthy as the that she is ninja she started walking really slow with the Kunai at hand. As she got closer she saw Naruto on the ground.

/Naruto's view point./

Naruto decided not to go anywhere so he just sat there and watch the match that was going on. It was that fighter which entered himself alone. And Naruto couldn't believe that the guy was actually beating both of his opponents who were the best swordsmens in the land of the Waves. He won in just five minutes and he was not even hit once.

'He could have won in about a minute but it seems like he wanted to play around with them a little. The match was easy for him to win. Speaking of match where the heck is Sakura? She left about one hour and twenty minutes ago. Let me go check to see if she's okay.'

Naruto headed for the locker rooms, at the cheers for the fighter ringing in his ear. When he reached the girls locker room he decided to keep quiet for if something was going on.

As Naruto stood against a locker he turned his head just a little to see what if anything was wrong and that's when he saw Sakura drop her towel but he was looking at her back and he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

The girl of his dreams was naked in front of him and he was speechless, the way she moves as she gets her clothes. The way she puts on her bra, the way she puts on her panties caressing her legs and thigh on the way up.

Then just like that Naruto felt his legs gave way and everything turned black before he even hit the ground.

/Back to Sakura./

Sakura drop her kunai and hurried toward Naruto, she hurried and checked for a pulse to see if he was ok, and he was. So she decided she would do CPR.

'I can't believe I'm about to do this to Naruto. If it was before I would wish it was Sasuke but it seem like I don't mind at all, but I'm actually caring for Naruto more than ever before, maybe more than Sasuke?'

Sakura started pumping Naruto's chest and then moved in for the mouth to mouth. She kept going at it for about 2 minutes, which seemed like 2 hours when Naruto finally woke up.

"What happened? Are you okay?" said Sakura all at once and too fast for Naruto to understand but he got the meaning anyway.

"I'm okay. I guess all the stress I've been having reacted again like during that training battle with you." said Naruto with difficulty as he still felt pretty weak.

"What were you doing in here anyway?" said Sakura.

"I noticed you were gone for a while so I decided to go check if you were in the locker room." said Naruto.

"And you were checking me out, weren't you? You pervert!" yelled Sakura.

"Sorry, it was an accident, well come on let's go, the match is about to start." said Naruto trying to change the subject.

"Oh no, you don't. You will be going to that small hospital in the stadium, and I will go ask if the tournament can be rescheduled for this afternoon." said Sakura as she gets up and put on the rest of her clothes.

Naruto was once again looking at Sakura, he couldn't believe the nice body she has.

'...her boobs were right on my face when I woke up.'

"Oh, I'm okay, no need for that." lied Naruto as he tries to get up.

"I know your not okay Naruto, but I know you and nothing can talk you out of it so lets go." said Sakura.

When she didn't get an answer she turned around to see what is wrong only to see Naruto on the floor again, this time out cold.

/Stadium Hospital./

Naruto woke up with his head ringing. With a little difficulty he opened his eyes and noticed a nurse that was closing the blinds, it look dark outside.

"What time is it?" said Naruto low enough to be a whisper.

"Oh, your up. Its 7:35 pm." answered the nurse as she walk to Naruto and started checking his heart rate.

"Oh, no. My match was three hours ago." said Naruto as he tries to get up.

"Oh, don't worry. The match was postponed for tomorrow. So you should get some rest." said the nurse as she check Naruto's pulse.

"A lot of people been in here checking on you, you must have a lot of friends. I had to tell them to leave since you need peace and quiet to get some rest, but there was this pink haired girl that stayed in here since she brought you in." said the nurse as she saw a huge smile appeared in Naruto's face.

"Where is she?" said Naruto as he look around.

"She left about five minutes ago, I think she's in the waiting area if you want to go see her, but you need to come back after that to get some rest." said the nurse with a grin since she knew he would want to go see her.

"Thanks." said Naruto with a smile.

He got up and went through the door leaving the nurse in his room fixing the bed. Naruto saw Sakura holding something from far away, but when he got close he noticed that she was hugging a guy with black hair, Sasuke.

Naruto started walking faster until he noticed Sasuke move in and kiss Sakura, but instead of pushing him away, Sakura actually deepened the kiss.

That's when Iruka came out of the bathroom.

"Hey, Naruto, you up. How are you?" yelled Iruka from across the room.

When Sakura heard the name, she finally got out of the kiss and turned to see Naruto standing there in his hospital gown looking at her with horror struck eyes.

"Fine, just fine." said Naruto in a high voice as he head back to his room.

"Wait, Naruto. It's not what you think." yelled Sakura as she started running after Naruto but when she got to his room it was empty and his clothes and stuff were gone.

"I'm sorry." whispered Sakura.

/Sasuke's view point./

Sasuke was looking for Sakura and Naruto when someone told him that their match was postponed till tomorrow because the one with the yellow hair is ill or something.

So he went to the stadium hospital and ask for Naruto Uzumaki's room. Just when he was about to go inside he saw Sakura coming out of the room.

"Hey Sakura. How's Naruto?" said Sasuke.

"Oh, hey, Sasuke. He's fine." said Sakura as she reached him.

"Don't go in yet he's getting some rest." said Sakura as she went and sat down in the waiting area.

"Are you okay?" said Sasuke as he sits next to her and puts an arm around her.

"Oh, Sasuke. Naruto could have died if it wasn't for me, we would have lost the tournament." cried Sakura as she give him a hug.

Then just like that, not knowing what came over him, Sasuke lifts Sakura's head and kisses her and was surprised to see her deepen the kiss.

'I shouldn't have done that; I am using her emotions. I know in a right time she would have not kiss me like she just did, cause now I know that she cares more for Naruto then me. What I just did was wrong; I must pull away.'

Right when Sasuke was about to do that, Iruka came and yelled to Naruto from across the room, which only startled Sakura so she pulled away first.

As Sakura started running after Naruto, Sasuke knew that from then on Naruto would hate him for life, and he actually cared about it.

/Back to Naruto/

Naruto left the hospital with an anger that could almost change him from a funny and caring guy to the worst punk ninja ever. He couldn't believe what he just saw, he can't believe that what Sasuke just did, and even more he couldn't believe that Sakura actually deepened the kiss.

Naruto went straight to his room, toke his clothes and jump out the window and was gone like the wind. He found a corner and changed into his clothes, then started walking around still thinking about what just happened.

He didn't even know where he was, it was a big city and even though it was late at night there was still a lot of people walking around. Most of them were talking about the tournament.

"Man, did you see that yellow haired kid from the leaf village, I think his name was Naru something, anyway, he pretty strong and his partner is hot and strong."

Naruto passed them sitting down in front of a café, that's when one of them noticed him, and ask if he could give them an autograph for their little sister.

All the people from the leaf village stayed in the city in hotels or inns until the tournament was over, because of that Naruto keep running into people from his village. They all kept telling him that he better get some rest and if they lose tomorrow they would kill him, then they would hit him on the back and said 'just joking, but seriously you better win.' but I don't think Naruto even heard a word they said.

Naruto met most of the Genin ninjas at a ramen bar with Kakashi and Iruka. Hinata saw him coming, she ran to him and gave him a hug, which was a little unusual for Naruto, cause it seems that everyone wants to hug him lately.

"I'm so glad your ok, come join us for some ramen." Said Hinata without waiting for an answer as she drag him toward the shop.

"Hey, Naruto. How are you, man?" said Lee with a mouthful of noodles.

"I'm fine." Said Naruto in a harsh toned voice.

"I'll buy you some ramen, then I want to head to your hotel room and get some rest." said Kakashi as all the other were congratulating Naruto for doing a good job so far.

Just when Naruto got his ramen and was about to eat some, he heard Hinata call for Sakura to join them. Naruto turned to see Sakura coming with Iruka, with red eyes as if she just cried to him about everything.

When she reached him, she kept her head down since she knew she couldn't look at Naruto in the face.

"Naruto, we need to talk." Said Sakura in a low voice.

"We have nothing to talk about." Said Naruto as he gets up to leave.

"Naruto, where are your manners, she said she needs to talk to you." Yelled Iruka.

Everyone was looking at them now, Lee look like he was going to punch Naruto or something.

"Talk about what? That she kissed a guy that I don't like right in front of me, or the fact that she deepened the kiss." Yelled Naruto as he jumps in the air and was gone faster than the wind using his ninja skills.

Everyone was now looking horror struck at Sakura, Hinata felt like she could just punch Sakura.

"How could you? Do you know how much Naruto loves you? I tried many times to show him that I have a crush on him but he always seemed interested in you more. Then you do something like this to him." yelled Hinata as she too was gone the same leaving tears in the air as a trace.

Sakura couldn't believe what just happened, how everything went wrong, and now she didn't even know if Naruto would even show up for the match tomorrow.

She couldn't hold it all in, she just drop to her knees and started crying like a baby.

"It's okay, just let it all out." Said Iruka as he holds her.

"Lets go to your room, so you can get some rest." Said Iruka then using one hand, the other one holding Sakura, he did a hand gesture and teleported them to Sakura's room.

Naruto went to a different hotel and stayed there since his room was right next to Sakura's in the other hotel. By morning he was feeling a little bit better so he decided to do some exercises then go down for some breakfast.

Sakura spend the whole night crying, when she finally got some sleep it was about two in the morning. She woke up feeling a little better, seemed like the crying helped, but she was still feeling bad about yesterday.

Sakura got ready, toke a shower and fixed her hair and headed for the match. When she got there, the stadium was already filled with people ready for an exciting match since they know Naruto and Sakura been giving them good fights every match, but they had no idea what happened last night.

As Sakura looked around she couldn't see Naruto anywhere she was starting to worry that he might not turn up at all, and she knew that she couldn't win without him. From far Sakura could notice that Hinata poster changed and now said 'GO, NARUTO. KICK SOME SAMURAI BUTT' with no mention of Sakura at all.

"GOOD MORNING EVERYONE, THIS IS KUWABA YOU HOST. TELLING YOU ALL TO GET READY FOR A GOOD FIGHT AND REMEMBER TO CHEER FOR YOUR TEAM."

The stadium was filled with loud cheers from all over, and somehow it seemed like there was more people.

"TODAY'S MATCH WAS POSTPONED FROM YESTERDAY BECAUSE OF AN EMERGENCY, BUT EVERYTHING IS OKAY NOW. THE MATCH IS NARUTO AND SAKURA FROM THE HIDDEN LEAF VILLAGE VS. THE TWIN BLADE BROTHERS, THE SAMURAI GURUS."

The stadium was once again filled with loud cheers from both the leaf village side and from the city, who were cheering the twin samurais.

It was time for them to head to the ring but Sakura still haven't seen Naruto yet. Then just like she saw him coming from the locker rooms looking a little mad but not as much as yesterday.

"I didn't think you were coming." Said Sakura as Naruto caught up with her.

"I wasn't, but I came for my village not you." Said Naruto calmly.

'Man, this isn't the Naruto I know, I can't believe in just one night I change a whole person personality.'

The twin blade brothers look pretty strong and they were pretty tall too. They wore black long pants with a black gyui over it with their sword around their waists.

"Get one thing straight." Said Naruto without even looking at Sakura as he gets into his offensive position with kunai at hand.

"I am not going to work together with you. You do what you want and I do what I think is right to stop them. Just stay out of my way. Got it?" said Naruto in a high and harsh voice.

"YOU MAY BEGIN, NOW."

Naruto was gone as soon as he heard the word 'now', only to be seen in the air about to attack.

End of chapter 6.

Well, this was the sixth chapter, hope you enjoyed it. A gyui is this sort of dress that Samurai's wear; they look like the one Rurouni Kenshin wears, at least that how I think you spell it.
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Next Chapter: The Semi Finals.