" Will all the other contestants please clear the arena and go into the waiting room." said Genma, the judge. He then looked at Neji and Naruto and said, " first fight, Hyuuga Neji Vs Uzumaki Naruto, begin!" Neji then began his verbal assault.
" You can't beat me, a dead last is still a dead last. No matter what weapons you have, it is your fate to lose." Naruto didn't do anything except say, " I don't believe in fate."
That just got Neji angry and he charged at Naruto, his byakugan active. Out of nowhere, ten clones come towards Neji but he disperses them eaily. Neji is just five feet away from Naruto two more clones come out of the ground and threw shuriken at Neji. He blocked all of them to see that there were smoke bombs attached to them. He quickly shouted " Kaiten!" and a dome of chakra came and pushed out all of the smoke. Neji then frowned, he had only one, trump card left. He quickly ran towards Naruto and desrtoyed the other clones and yelled,
" Your in the Range of my Hakke! Divination Field, Sixty Four Strikes!" he then started to hit Naruto every where, blocking all of his tenketsu. Neji called out as he hit " Two strikes! Four strikes! Eight Strikes! Sixtenn Strikes! Thirty-two Strikes! sixty-four strikes!" he then hit Naruto for the final time andsent him to the wall. Neji smirked. " Call the match, he won't be able to get up."
" And who says that, you bastard?" he heard a voice come to him. He turned around and saw Naruto there, standing up, with his gauntlet raised. " I'm not going to lose to some bastard that has girls hair-length hair and believes this much on fate." Neji quickly grew angry at this and yelled.
" What do you know about me? You don't have any idea of what I have been through!" he then took off his forhead protector to reveal a green mark on his forehead.
" This is my fate, to serve the main house, or die by this seal. You don't have any idea of what it means to have a burden that you cannot lift!" Naruto quickly grew angry at Neji's constant saying he dosen't know. He looked to all of the other contestants and to the audience. He looked back Neji and he said loudly so that every one could here.
" You are not the only one here that has a burden Neji! I know what it means to be cursed. There is also one more being that is here that knows as well. He and I are bound as the same because what people have done to us. I am cursed, hated, and somtimes feard by the villagers in this village, Gaara is hated anf dear in his. We both are the same in many ways, are curses are the same. Neji, every one has a burden, but I won't allow it to lead me." he then charged at Neji with incredible speed and hit him in the stomach with his left arm.
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In the crowds, all the audience were quiet, stunned at what the boy said, some of the villagers because he had known what was in them, others for what he said, Gaara's curse was the same as his own.
The Hokage and Kazekage were stunned as well, the Sandaime looked to the Kazekage and asked him, " Kazekage-dono, did you know that Gaara was a vessel?" The Kazekage looked to him and smiled.
" Ofcourse I knew, Hokage-dono. I was the one that sealed it in him." The Hokage was shocked but continued to watch the match.
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Gaara was shocked, so was Kankuro and Temari. ' Thats how he knew about Shukaku,' Gaara thought, ' he's just like me.'
Temari was thinking ' he shares the same fate as Gaara, I wonder how he stayed sane.'
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Neji was having a hard time to fight, he ad to dogde the gauntlet. He was ondering why he could move this fast without his tenketsu, he quickly looked at them and was shocked to find, none of them were closed. He was then hit in the back of the head and was knocked out by Naruto's closed gauntlet. Genma quickly went over to the boys and said, Winner, Uzumaki Naruto" he then swaid to Naruto in a wisper, " good job kid." Naruto nodded and went back to the waiting room, unaware of all the stares he got. When he got to the waiting room, he saw Gaara was looking at him. Garra quickly went to him and said, " Uzumaki Naruto, I wish to know, what is your curse that is the same as mine?" Naruto looked at him and said, " my curse is that I was treated like a shit, I had no friends until I was a Genin. But what I mean is that I have something sealed in me aswell."
Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro looked at him in shock. Gaara quickly asked, " what do you have sealed inside you?" Naruto smirked, " Don't worry, Shukaku shouldn't bother you if you sleep, your demon is my demons subbordinate." Gaara's eyes widened. Kankuro then walked to the edge of the waiting room when he heard his name called. "I give up!" He said. He then went back to talking to Naruto and Teamri said " I give up!" she said, making Shikamaru the winner.
Genma just shrugged and said, " next match! Sabaku no Gaara and Uchiha Sasuke!" Gaara quickly teleported in his sand and appeared next to Genma. They were now waiting for Sasuke. Genma then grew tired of waiting and said " if Uchiha Sasuke does not show up in five minutes, he will be disqualified.
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' Sasuke-kun, where are you?' Sakura thought, she was very suprised in Naruto's fight. Even more suprised when he won. Now she was waiting for her other team mate.
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' How did he beat Neji?' Tenten thought, Gai and Lee were right next to her and both were crying, saying Naruto had surpassed Lee in the Flames of Youth.
' Naruto is strong, and he is kinda cute when you look at him,' she started to blush. Lee noticeed this and asked, " Tenten, why are you blushing?" Tenten was shocked when she heard she was blushing and tought ' why am I blushing, thinking about Naruto?'
she just shrugged when she remembered what her mother said, '" You might not know who you will like, don't just gop for one boy when you find out that he dosen't like you, you will be broken hearted.'"
' Am, am I getting feelings for Naruto?' she thought. She blushed again and thought, ' I think I am.' and with that, she continued to wait for the next battle, Sasuke had only two minutes left until he would lose this match.
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