Disclaimor: Don't own Naruto.

A/N: Finally got this chapter up. It took me a while because I wanted to make this fight scene as great as possible. I hope i succeeded in the fact...I guess i'll hear how it turned out in the reviews.

Questions: 1) Yami seemed week...
Yami was fighting a taijutsu expert, without using his cursed seal or his summoning techniques. He was able to over power Handou using his psychic power...but then Handou opened his celestial gates. Hence Yami was out matched.

Question: 2) Tsunade? I had a few ideas about what to do with her, but didn't know how to do it. So until I think up something, on how to put her in, she'll be on standby; Naruto's other friends will also remain on standby (minus: Sasuke, Jiraiya, Neji, Naruto, and though i didn't mentioned her Tenten (I'm a Neji/Tenten fan)).

Question: 3) I think i confused someone. Waizu Jin (Tsukikage) is NOT a descendant of Jiraiya and Tsunade (though i'm a pretty big fan of that pairing as well). Jiraiya fell for some twenty year woman...who shall be refered to as "Nameless Twenty Year Old Woman" Until i stop being to lazy to think of a name. Megumi (Yami's Academy Sensei) is THE descendant of Jiraiya and "Nameless Twenty Year Old Woman". Besides...i'm pretty sure that woman lose the ability to have children around the age of 50...so by the time Naruto is 12...i beleive that Tsunade was already 50...making her too old to bear children.

Question: 4) Orochimaru's feelings towards Tsukigakure. Though it is another village formed from someone from Konahagakure...it should be pretty obvious that his feelings aren't good. Especially for those of you that remembers the Marguilas incident. Any other questions after that...well you'll just have to wait.

Question: 5) Naruto's friends sticking up for him. Yes...Naruto's friends would stick up for him...problem...like i said before...there are only about 20 of them...so...you take twenty people who stick up for somone that the rest of the village thinks is a demon...and you got 20 people who get ignored. Those people's children Hypothetically, Sakura has a daughter...she speaks great about Naruto..saying he was a great person (Yadi Yadi Yada). The people around Sakura's daughter (the rest of the village) tell her that Naruto was a demon. Sakura's daughter has no idea what to beleive. Then...she has a daughter of her own...she doens't give her the same talk that Sakura gave her...so Sakura's Granddaughter...listens to the rest of the village...and in HER eyes...Naruto's a demon...and the whole think where between the Hyuuga and the Hizuuga would NOT help either.

Lets see...I've gotten a few reviews concerning. Some said that they don't usually read future fics (when Naruto or his friends aren't important characters anymore) or OC fics...But they did say they really liked this fic...

Just wanted to say that i am REALLY happy that you guys made that comment. Really appreciate it.

Chapter 18: The Finals! Legacy of the Hikari!

---Waiting Room 19---

Team 7 was once again lounging around, in the same waiting room they were in earlier. Their match ended a little after 1:00 pm. The teams were to be given half an hour break to recuperate, before the finals started. It was currently 3:00 pm, and they were still waiting for their match to start.

Yami and Ookami were both lounging around on a couch, and Inochi was sitting in a chair. Earlier a medic nin had come in to heal there wounds, and given them each a soldier pill to restore there chakra.

After the trio had won their match, they returned to the room silently, awaiting their next opponents. They were all nervous about who they would have to fight next.

Ookami sighed, "Not sure what we're all nervous about…can't do much about it…we'll just have to kick their asses this time around!"

Inochi nodded, "The only options are to fight, or to quit." He paused to look at his teammates. When they heard the word quit, they both looked at him with a raised eyebrow and a smirk. This caused Inochi to smirk as well.

Yami clenched his fist. "Last time they caught us while we were weak. This time will be different."

The other two nodded just as an ANBU opened the door. "You boys are up." The three boys got up from there positions and walked towards the door. "Hey…you guys are the final match of the chunin exams…Good luck to all of you."

With that the three boys turned to leave…they went out the door.

---Arena---

The six nin stood in front of each other, the moon nin on one side and the sound nin on the other.

The sound team had the same equipment, they used during the chunin exam, on. The proctor jumped into the middle of the arena; it was the same jounin that proctored the semifinals, earlier that day.

"ALL RIGHT EVERYONE!", he yelled so everyone could hear. "THIS WILL BE THE LAST ROUND OF THE FINALS! WE HAVE FROM THE MOON TEAM: OOKAMI HANONE, INOCHI HIZUUGA, AND YAMI HIKARI!"

---Up in the Kage Stands---

Orochimaru banged his hand against the railing, scaring the hell out of the two sound ninja who were with him. 'HIKARI! I ordered that fool Maruilas to eliminate the last of the clan over twelve years ago!' Orochimaru leaned back in his chair. 'So…one of these bastards have one of MY cursed seals…Well that can be taken care of very…easily…' Orochimaru preformed a few one-handed seals. 'Farewell!'

---Arena---

Yami's eyebrow lifted. He raised his hand to his neck and started scratching the area where his cursed seal was. Unbeknownst to him, the Kanji of Light started glowing a very faint white, so faint that no one else saw it either.

"AND FROM THE SOUND TEAM: KIYO OLTUS, HINOKI KANKEL, LAMIA YAKUSUGI!" Like he had done with the Moon team, the proctor pointed to each contestant when he called out there names. Hinoki was the redheaded girl, Kiyo was the white-haired boy, and Lamia was the black-haired boy. Yami was still scratching his neck.

---Up in the Kage Stands---

Orochimaru's eyes went wide, and then he sneered in anger. 'He should be sprawling about in pain.' He assumed the one that was scratching his neck was the one with the cursed seal. He stopped holding the seal and rested his chin in his hands, elbows resting on the railing. 'It matters not…the boy will die…Lamia has promised me that himself…and if Lamia can't fulfill his promise…then it will all depend on the Mizukage…'

---Arena---

The proctor turned towards the group. "Do you all remember the rules?"

They all nodded.

"Good!"

"Ready!"

"1…"

"2…"

"3!"

---Up in the Kage Stands---

"I can't believe he's made it this far…", said one of the ANBU who was standing next to the Tsukikage.

Waizu suddenly got a slightly irritated expression. "I had absolute faith in him…though he could've been better prepared…"

The other three ANBU away from the two, sensing a touchy subject. "How could you expect me to have anything to do with him…how could SHE expect me…"

Waizu calmed down. "Perhaps because she knew that you loved her…perhaps because of your good heart…"

The ANBU looked at him; though he was wearing a mask,the others could tell he was glaring at the old man with hatred. He was about to start yelling, but remembering where he was he opted not to. "I am sick of everyone using that LAME ass excuse, I hate it when people try to use my heart against me…" He was beginning to shake with rage. "And Kairi had NO excuse to leave me with Y-…him. If she did it because I was in love with her…then she was only taking advantage of me!"

Waizu looked at the man in front of him with sad eyes. "Taking advantage of you? Does that sound like something Kairi would ever do?" He waited for his answer…but merely saw him turn his face away. "I don't pretend to know why Kairi did what she did…to be perfectly honest…I doubt she knew what she was doing, judging by her final decision…but you know everything she did, she thought out carefully…"

The ANBU said nothing.

"Kazu…watch you godson's battle…watch your love's legacy."

'Kazu', turned to look at the scene before him.

---Arena---

The proctor jumped out of the arena. The six genin picked an opponent. They decided to once again take on the same opponents they fought in the Island of Doom.

Ookami vs Kiyo, Inochi vs Hinoki, and Yami vs Lamia.

---Ookami vs Kiyo---

The white-haired genin was smirking at the silver-haired one. Ookami didn't let it show…but he was seething.

Kiyo quickly started pulling out the same senbon, with bells attached, off his belt. He once again started throwing them around, smirk still on his face.

This time though, Ookami was ready. Who unsheathed his Hakumei Shikon. Ookami started doing some one-handed seals before muttering, "Futon: Fuzei Fukyuu no jutsu (Air Release: Air Diffusion technique)." He then started spinning his black sword into the air. 'Gotta concentrate a lot of my chakra into the my sword.' The wind started blowing in all directions. As the senbon were coming down to land, the force of the winds blew them away.

Kiyo growled when he saw this. Ookami smirked when he saw Kiyo's face.

Ookami quickly sheathed his sword, to avoid it draining anymore chakra, and quickly pulled out his wakizashis. Kiyo got into a fighters stance. They both launched themselves at each other.

---Inochi vs Hinoki---

Both genin stared each other down. She smirked at him. Inochi kept a straight face, 'Smile all you want…you never even seen me fight my hardest yet…'

Hinoki pulled out her flute.

Inochi pulled out his Senbon needles, then with a few hand seals. "Raiton: Raikou Shurikan no jutsu (Lightning Release: Lightning Shurikan technquie)!". With that he started threw a senbon at the girl, the senbon was crackling with blue electricity. Hinoki quickly did a backflip.

Inochi continued to throw Senbon needles at the girl; Hinoki continued to acrobatically dodge each senbon. Along the way Inochi kept moving forward, as Hinoki kept moving backwards. This continued on for a while. Finally Hinoki landed on the edge of one of the small lakes. Inochi had only one senbon left in his hand; he had just exhausted one of his senbon pouches on this little dance, he still had a few others. He threw the last senbon at the girl, expecting her to jump into the water. What he didn't expect was for her to quickly grab her dagger, in the hand that wasn't holding her flute, and quickly hit the senbon away; ignoring the slight shock that she received from the projectile.

She quickly sheathed her dagger. She pulled out her flute and started playing an eerie tune.

Even without his Byakkugan, Inochi could see the girl's chakra going towards to lake. Mateki: Dashihoudai (Demon Flute: Free Flow of Water).Water started shooting out of the lake in large bursts. Inochi dodge the first one and ducked under the second. He sidestepped the third. He almost avoided the next one, but he was hit in the leg. The pressure of the water knocked him off his feet. He looked up to see another jet of water coming straight towards him.

---Yami vs Lamia---

The two ninjas stared each other down.

Lamia had his sword strapped to his back. What surprised Yami was that Lami got into a taijutsu stance. He didn't grab his sword. Yami decided to follow suit, and get in his basic taijutsu stance. They stared at each other for a long time. Finally Yami launched himself at Lamia.

He threw a punch, which Lamia easily blocked. Lamia threw a roundhouse kick at Yami, the psychic blocked the blow as well. They follow this pattern for quite some time; one would attack and the other would guard, then the one who guarded would attack and the other would be forced to block.

Finally Yami had enough of using regular taijutsu; his eyes flared silver, he launched another punch, this time it was far to fast for Lamia to react and Lamia was slugged right in the face. Yami then preformed a spinning kick, also enhancing his speed with his psychic power. The attack threw Lamia back.

The sound nin was about to fall on his back; but quickly put his arms under him and pushed off the ground with his arms, performing a back flip and landed on his feet.

Yami was about to continue his attack but was halted when the sound nin pulled out his sword. Lamia grabbed the sword and put its point towards the ground, the edge of the blade facing Yami. Lamia smirked, put his hand, the one not holding the hilt of the blade, and yelled, "KAI!" Yami's eyes widened as the sword began to change before his eyes.

'A genjutsu to hide his swords true form? But why?'

The sword changed. The edge was double bladed. Where the blade was before, was a thin indent running all the way along the edge of the blade, like some sort of valley between the swords true edges. In this 'valley' were a few holes inches apart. Lamia picked up the blade and turned it, so that one of the sides was facing the psychic. The side of the blade possessed several small slits near the blunt end of the sword. The slits were perpendicular towards the blades blunt side, and parallel to all the others. Each couldn't have been move than and one inch in length and a millimeter in width. Lamia smirked, "THIS", indicating to the transformed sword, "is the pinnacle of Oto technology…"

He grabbed with both hands and held it above his head. "Tell me how you like it. "Oto Bakuhatsu (Sound Explosion)!" He swung the blade down, swiftly, as he uttered the phrase. Yami felt something happen when the sword touched the ground.

Yami quickly made to dodge but unfortunately was to late.

---Ookami vs Kyo---

Ookami was throwing a flurry of attacks at Kyo.

BOOM!

Ookami heard an explosion occur and quickly adverted his gaze to look at what happened. He was shocked to see Yami get thrown into the air, bleeding.

Kiyo smirked as his fist connected with Ookami's jaw. The sound nin then threw another punch at the swordsman, catching him in the gut. Ookami dropped his swords, clutching his chest. Kiyo's smirk widened as he throws another punch at the downed swordsman. His hand connects, but Ookami doesn't move a muscle. Kiyo's eyes widen as he sees Ookami turn into a large rock. The large rock cracked under the impact, but not without hurting Kiyo's hand.

Kiyo growled in pain, his eyes widened larger when he feels to sharp objects cut through the back of his shoulders, bloody blades going through the shoulders. The sound nin howled in pain. Kiyo quickly howled in pain. Ookami pulled both wakizashis out of the white-haired genin, then quickly twisted one of the bloody blades and slammed the blunt end into Kiyo's head.

He turned his head to his downed companion and ran to him.

A few second later Kiyo open his eyes…with a shaky arm, he moved his hand over to one of the pouches on the back of his belt. He pulled out a pill.

---Inochi vs Hinoki---

Inochi was grabbed, at his head, by a watery arm; he was lifted several feet off of the ground. He knew that he would drown if he didn't get out soon. His arms were still free so he quickly opened another of his Senbon pouches and grabbed a few. He started hurling senbon after senbon at the girl.

Hinoki didn't even bat an eye. Arms started coming out of the water and blocking the senbon needles.

Inochi couldn't understand how WATER had stopped the projectiles, instead of the senbon needles merely going through the water, but didn't have time to dwell on the fact. He was still in mid-peril. He heard an explosion behind him but couldn't even turn his head. Hinoki just kept playing the same eerie tune.

'Darn it…Looks like it's time to bring out my trump card.'

Inochi quickly opened another pouch of senbon needles and took a few out. These were different though. They had some sort of paper wrapped around them. He hurled them at the girl. Once again the water came out and tried to stop these senbon needles. Inochi smirked.

BOOM!

The senbon exploded a few feet in front of the girl, launching her backwards and stopping her flute playing. Inochi fell to the ground and started coughing and gasping for air.

Hinoki jumped out of the water. Her scantily outfit and wine-red hair soaked. She was fuming at this point. She quickly put her flute to her lips once again, and started playing, closing her eyes in the process..

Inochi instantly recognized this tune. "Mateki: Bakuretsu Supirittsu".

Her chakra flared up and started to gather in four locations around her. It changed red and formed four red wisp-like creatures. The moment she opened her eyes the orbs flew at Inochi.

'This move…I can't let them touch me!', he thought

Inochi ran forward, knowing that touching one of the orbs would result in an explosion strong enough to kill him. Inochi was able to side step the first orb, the one that appeared in front, flew passed him and exploded on the ground. The ones that appeared at her sides were coming at him at the same time. He quickly managed to jump over them both; afterwards they followed the first's example, flying behind him and blowing up. This time though, thanks to BOTH explosions, he was knocked off his feet the moment he landed. He looked up to see the last spirit coming at him. He grabbed on of his 'special' senbon and quickly hurled it at the orb that was only a few feet from him.

BOOM!

Hinoki stopped playing her flute. She smirked as she moved some of her wet hair out of her face. 'He's gone.' Dust and debris covered the area where Inochi last was. She was about to turn to check on her comrades when she heard someone yell.

"CHAKRA ENJINTOU!"

The yell startled the girl, but not as much as the body that flew out of the dust, with a glowing arm. She quickly regained her train of thought and pulled out her dagger. She rushed after the moon-nin.

When the both reach range they both slashed each other. Neither moved.

---Yami vs Lamia---

Yami was sprawled on the ground do the Lamia's Oto Bakuhatsu. He was bleeding from the ears. When he tried to open his eyes he discovered that his vision was blurry. He tried to get up, but had a hard time keeping his balance.

Lamia grinned at the boy. "I remember from the first part of the exam that you were a big fan of Zankuha…so I knew you'd like that attack. It's unblockable…and almost unavoidable. And I'm sure you've noticed its…side effects."

He finally sneered. "It's time to die." He raised his sword up once more to perform Oto Bakuhatsu. He swung the sword down. But the blade was halted, when two, crossed, blades came in its path. Ookami appeared in front of Lamia, preventing him from attack with his sword's special attack. Ookami pushed up, sending Lamia sprawling backwards.

Ookami launched himself at Lamia. Lamia regained his balance and was able to block Ookami's assault. Ookami muttered, "Kenjutsu: Hebi Soshaku (Sword Technique: Snake Bite)." Ookami quickly went back and pulled both his wakizashi's back as well. He quickly went to stab with both blades. Lamia quickly put the side of the blade in front of him to block the attack. The two wakizahi's connected with the giant cleaver. The attack, though it was block, sent Lamia backwards.

Meanwhile Yami was still trying to get back up. His eyes were able to focus again and he was able to regain his balance. When he stood he saw Ookami and Lamia fighting it out with Kenjutsu. His eyes widened when he saw something coming at Ookami.

Kiyo, Yami noticed had blood around the shoulder parts of his shirt, was running towards his teammate. Yami, still a tad woozy launched himself towards the fight.

Kiyo was only about a yard away from Ookami, when he was intercepted by Yami. Yami started launching a series of hard punches at Kiyo. Kiyo, after getting hit a few times, started blocking Yami's attack. Yami jumped backwards, his eyes started glowing silver.

Yami launched himself at Kiyo and attacked with a flurry of punch. "KURO"

Yami quickly preformed a backflip, kicking Kiyo in the chin at the same time "RANPU"

When Yami landed, he crouched on the ground. Kiyo was still off his balance from the last attack. Yami jumped at the sound-nin, he grabbed Kiyo's face with his gloved hand, and slammed his head down. "RENDAN (DARK LIGHT COMBO)"

Kiyo wouldn't be getting back up, at this point Yami wasn't sure if he would even live. He stopped for a second to regain his balance, eyes returned blue.

"OTO BAKUHATSU!"

Yami's eyes snapped wide and he turned around. He heard a familiar explosion and winced as he saw Ookami get thrown back, dropping his wakizashi's in the process.

Ookami landed with a thud on the ground. His ears were starting to bleed, just like Yami's were. He attempted to get back up, but he had a hard time.

Lamia looked at the swordsman with hatred in his eyes. He pointed to point of the sword towards Ookami.

Yami's eyes widened again. Lamia was between both Moon-nins. Yami quickly snapped open his eyes, they flared silver. He grabbed both Fuuma shurikan, and snapped them open. He threw them both at Lamia. Lamia turned towards Yami, brining his sword with them. He apparently had heard the Fuuma flying. He brought his sword over his head; Yami knowing what he was doing quickly started performing the necessary hand seals.

"OTO BAKUHATSU!"

The sound wave went and easily stopped the Fuuma shurikan, but when it reached Yami, the psychic had transformed into a rock.

Lamia didn't care though. He once again turned and pointed his sword at Ookami.

Yami cursed for not trying to switch with something closer to Ookami. Lamia was still between the two.

He started running at the swordsman in a roar, "AAHHHH!"

Yami quickly followed.

He reached for his shurikan pouch and his eyes widened in shock. He couldn't find it. His eyes widened… 'Must've somehow lost it during the first Oto Bakuhatsu.'

Lamia was still running towards the swordsman.

Yami clenched his eyes shut. 'No…I can't get there…in time…Ookami…' Tears started sprouting from his eyes.

They both were still running, Lamia trying to run the swordsman through, and Yami hoping to save him from the same fate.

"NO!", screamed the psychic, though he didn't intend to. He opened his eyes, tears still streaming. 'THIS…WON'T…END LIKE THIS! I WON'T LET OOKAMI DIE!"

He felt a familiar, yet different sensation appear in his right hand. He closed his fist and extended two fingers. "STOP RIGHT THEIR YOU BASTARD!" He whipped his right hand to his right and then towards his left. As this happened a golden robe-like chakra extended from Yami's fingers. It grasped onto Lamia's leg, effectively knocking him down. Yami's eyes widened.

However, just as quickly as it came, it disappeared. Yami's eyes widened again.

Lamia got up, pulling his sword with him. He snarled at the Hikari. He, was panting and bleeding.

Lamia raised his sword up, to perform his sword's attack.

"OTO BAKU-" Lamia's eyes widened. He looked down to see several senbon needles stuck to his chest, legs, and even felt some on his arms.

Yami's eyes were wide to. He turned to see a panting Inochi, his clothes were stained with blood and he had multiple scratches around him, as well as a long slash on his chest.

He turned once again towards Ookami who had finally risen. Picking up his swords at the same time.

Yami looked around…all the sound nin were grounded.

The proctor jumped in… "THE WINNERS ARE THE MOON TEAM!" The trio heard cheers erupt from the stands.

---Up in the Kage stands---

Orochimaru was silently fuming. He sensed someone appear behind him. "So Marguilas…what did he say?"

Marguilas looked down for a moment, "He declined…"

Orochimaru's face remained neutral. "Well…nothing can be done about that…" He gestured downwards. "Care to explain why 'THAT' boy is alive? I thought you told me you finished the clan off."

Marguilas looked down.

"You have been a loyal subject for me far to long Marguilas. You should know that I DON'T except failure. FIX IT…"

Marguilas just nodded. "The legacy of the Hikari will die."

A/N: Been having problems with uploading Documents (from WORD). Ended up downloading a Document from Notepad, and copy and pasting my document after that. I know one other authur was having the same problem. Not sure if anyone else is... Anyway...i hope you enjoyed the update.

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