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I just wanted to say that I'd appreciate if you started to give me some advice about my writing, I feel that I can improve a lot, but I need certain guidance. ^^' You can also give your opinion about the story and tell me if you don't like something in specific, it doesn't mean that I'll change it, but I can maybe take on count if I feel that I should correct it.
Anyway, I hope you like the chapter, and remember:
I DO NOT OWN DBZ NOR NARUTO.
As the teams gathered in the battling room, a sick looking ninja entered the place.
"Hey. I'm Hayate Gekko and I'll be in charge of the last part of the exams." The ninja explained.
As he was about to say something else, another ninja went to tell him something in the ear. Hayate nodded after the other guy finished what he was saying.
"As you are so many participants left, more than we expected and more than it should've been," Hayate explained, sneezing before continuing. "We'll do some preliminary matches so that the number of participants left decreases."
The majority of the participants were not surprised or anything as they already knew that they would have to fight sooner or later. On the other hand, there were others who were really excited about fighting, like Naruto, Lee and Gohan.
"We'll choose two names randomly and those chosen ones will have to fight, easy right?" Hayate explained.
One of the screens started to act like a roulette. The first ones to fight would be Gohan and Kabuto.
"Son Gohan and Kabuto Yakushi, you stay here, the rest of you go up there." Hayate said, pointing up to the spectator zone.
The rooms was clearly made for fighting, maybe that was why it had an spectator zone. The battling part had some stairs next to the entrance of the room, these stairs went up to the spectator zone.
As all of the participants went there, Gohan, Kabuto and Hayate, who would act as a referee, stayed down. Hayate told them to get ready, making Gohan get in his fighting position. Kabuto simply stayed still.
"Start!" Hayate said.
As Gohan heard Hayate's words he noticed Kabuto running at him, to which he responded doing the same. As he aimed to hit his stomach, he sensed Kabuto behind him, turning to block the attack, but Kabuto appeared behind him, again. As Kabuto tried to kick Gohan, the hybrid saiyan used his amazing speed to avoid the attack, taking some distance from Kabuto.
Kabuto was simply amazed by Gohan's speed. Suddenly, Gohan saw Kabuto's hand go up, taking him by surprise.
"I surrender." Kabuto simply said.
"Umm, sure?" Hayate said, confused about Kabuto's decision. "Then Gohan's the winner by forfeit."
"Why?" Gohan asked.
"You are too strong and fast, I cannot defeat you." Kabuto explained, leaving the room after saying goodbye to Gohan and waving at Naruto.
Back in the spectator zone, Naruto wondered why Kabuto has forfeited, was Gohan really that strong? Could anyone participating in the exams really be able to defeat Gohan?
As he was lost in his thoughts, Kakashi appeared behind them, taking the whole team 7 by surprise.
"Oh, I guess I'm late." He said scratching the back of his head.
"You always are." Naruto added, not being surprised at the fact that Kakashi was late, again.
As the names of the next contenders showed up in the screen, Kakashi turned to Sasuke.
"We have to go, you can't participate having that mark." Kakashi told him, he had a serious tone, which wasn't normal in him. "You can get out of control and kill someone, it's too dangerous."
"Sasuke and Yoroi, you're the next contenders." Hayate said.
"Good luck." Gohan said as he passed by, also waving at Naruto.
Sasuke simply ignored Gohan and headed to the arena, making Kakashi grab him by his arm.
"Just let me do this, I'll show you what I'm capable about." Sasuke said.
Kakashi simply nodded before letting Sasuke's arm go.
"I'm not sure if I should let you, but know that I'll intervene if you go out of control." Kakashi said.
Sasuke nodded as he heard Kakashi's warning, heading for the stairs and going down to the arena.
"Get ready." Hayate said.
Sasuke got in his fighting position, with a Kunai in each hand, as Yoroi, too, got in his respective fighting position.
"Fight!" Hayate said.
As Sasuke heard Hayate, he went after Yoroi at full speed, he wanted to end this fight. As he was about to hit Yoroi, Sasuke activated his sharingan, to make sure he hit Yoroi. Although he expected it, Yoroi avoided the attack, but something catched him by surprise, Yoroi tried to grab him from behind, but he noticed thanks to his Sharingan. Sasuke jumped away from him and throwed his Kunai at Yoroi, who avoided them. Sasuke ran at him, Yoroi tried to hit him as he was clase to him, but Sasuke avoided every attack thanks to his sharingan, just before he could try to grab him, Sasuke kicked one of his leg to take him out of balance, then grabbed him by one of his arms and threw him up. Sasuke then jumped at him and used his two knuckles to throw him back at the floor by hitting him in his head.
Sasuke had won, and Yoroi lied unconscious in the floor.
"Sasuke is the winner of the second match." Hayate announced.
Some ninjas appeared to take Yoroi to the nursery. Sasuke beckoned at Kakashi for them to go.
Naruto was confused as he didn't know why Kakashi went with Sasuke, would they do something about that mysterious mark?
As the previous contenders went out of the room, the screen showed what the next match would be: Shino vs. Zaku.
"Shino Aburame and Zaku Abumi are the next contenders." Hayate announced as Shino and Zaku went down for their fight.
Kakashi has taken Sasuke to a dark room were other ninja were, apparently, ready to seal that weird mark in his neck. There was a weird circle of symbols in the room, the other ninjas were seated through the side of the circle.
Kakashi told Sasuke to get in the center of the circle as he got next to one of the other ninjas, starting to seal the mark.
After the sealing ritual ended, the other ninjas left the room and Kakashi started to get up to take Sasuke, who was unconscious, to the nursery. Kakashi suddenly felt a presence behind him, rapidly turning at his back. He saw Orochimaru, smiling sinisterly at him.
"Sasuke is mine." Orochimaru said, keeping his smile.
"No, he isn't." Kakashi replied firmly, getting in his fighting position.
"You know you can't defeat me." Orochimaru said, laughing softly afterwards.
"I don't care." Kakashi replied, keeping his steady tone.
"There's no need to fight." Orochimaru said, starting to leave the room. "But you know that he'll eventually join me."
Orochimaru laughed creepily before leaving Kakashi alone with Sasuke.
After taking Sasuke to the nursery, Kakashi went back to watch the rest of the matches.
"What did I miss?" Kakashi asked to Naruto.
"Nothing really, Shino just won against this Zaku guy." Naruto replied.
"Umm, I see." Kakashi said, before lying against the wall as he'd been doing before.
The screen showed the name of the next two contenders. Hayate raised his voice to announce them.
"Misumi Tsurugi and Kankuro from Sunagakure, please come to the arena to have your match." Hayate said, he appeared to be a little bored.
"This'll be easy." Kankuro said when he saw who Misumi was.
Just as the match started, Kankuro went to attack Misumi directly, although all his attack got avoided. After avoiding his attacks, Misumi trapped Kankuro with his Soft Physique Modification to trap Kankuro and tried to break his bones. Kankuro laughed when he noticed what Misumi was trying.
"I'm using a puppet!" Kankuro said.
Then, as Misumi was distracted, he got Misumi off him. Then started to hit him in the ground until he fell unconscious.
"Well that was fast." Hayate said. "Kankuro is the winner of the fourth match!"
Kankuro simply went back to the spectator zone, as Misumi was taken to the nursery.
Most of the participants were amazed at how easily Kankuro had defeated the guy, although he didn't seem so strong anyway.
"The next match will be Ino Yamanaka against Sakura Haruno." Hayate announced as the names showed up in the screen.
"Now this'll be boring." Shikamaru said, being hit by Ino afterwards.
"I don't think it'll be that boring." Gohan said. "It'll be fast after all, Ino's gotten stronger."
Ino left before blushing in front of Gohan because of his compliment. She'd formed a great rivalry with Sakura, she had to win this battle, although she actually felt confident of herself, she knew that if Sakura hadn't gotten that much stronger, she was going to lose.
As Ino and Sakura had gotten in front of each other, Hayate ordered them to start fighting. Ino started the fight by throwing kunais at Sakura, who avoided them all. Sakura then tried the same, but Ino deflected them with other Kunai. Sakura then tried to hit her in the stomach and kick her anywhere, but Ino avoided all of her attacks.
"Why did you cut your hair?" Ino asked. "You know that Sasuke likes girls with long hair."
"I had to, I was forced to do it during a battle." Sakura explained. "I also don't want to be a weak girl forever."
"Yeah? And what will cutting your hair do?" Ino asked.
"This." Sakura said before attacking Ino non-stop, until she finally hit Ino.
Ino, just as her teammates, was surprised at the fact that Sakura had been able to hit her. Ino felt the need to start attacking Sakura, and so they began attacking and blocking constantly. It seemed as if they were equal in every aspect.
"Wow, you've gotten stronger." Ino said, she was starting to get a bit tired.
"Yeah…" Sakura replied, she was already exhausted. "You have improved more than I have…"
"Gohan helped me." Ino explained. "I guess it was a bit unfair."
"Nah, I just didn't care as much as you." Sakura admitted.
Sakura tried to attack Ino after she had gotten distracted, but she blocked her attacks without much effort. Then, Ino used her Mind Body Switch Technique to control her body. Sakura couldn't do anything as she was exhausted, so she could just try and put up with everything she did.
She was greatly surprised when Ino used his technique to make Sakura surrender.
"I surrender." Sakura said, although it was really Ino.
"Umm, that's weird, but ok." Hayate said, sneezing afterwards. "Ino is the winner of this match."
Team 10 cheered, as every member who had fought already had won their match. Meanwhile, Naruto told Sakura that she did a good effort, making her proud, Kakashi congratulated her, too.
"Next match is Tenten, from Konoha, against Temari, from Sunagakure." Hayate announced, as their names appeared in the screen.
Rock Lee wished Tenten luck, as Neji simply kept silence. On the other hand, Kankuro and Gaara didn't say anything to Temari.
As they got one in front of the other, Hayate told them to get ready. And so, the match began.
Tenten's first move was to summon a lot of weapons from her scroll, throwing them towards Temari aterwards. But Temari simply took her fan and deflected all of the weapons easily. Then, Temari used one of them to distract Tenten and she hit her in the head, leaving her unconscious.
Rock Lee was astonished, how could someone defeat Tenten so easily?
And on the other hand, Neji was a bit surprised, were they so weak?
"That was… fast." Hayate said, surprised. "Anyway, Temari wins."
Tenten was taken to the nursery, while Temari went back to the place where her team was.
"Well done." Her sensei said.
"Thanks." Temari said.
"Next match is Shikamaru Nara against Kin Tsuchi." Hayate announced.
"How troublesome." Shikamaru said. "I guess I'll have to end this fast."
"Let's go, Shikamaru!" Chouji said.
"Good luck!" Gohan said.
"Don't surrender, Shikamaru." Ino said.
"Yeah yeah, whatever." Shikamaru replied.
As Shikamaru arrived to the arena, Hayate asked them to get ready. Then, the battle started.
Shikamaru quickly used his shadow imitation technique, taking control of Kim's body. Then, he used his technique to make her hit herself, constantly. Then, Shikamaru stopped using the technique and kicked her in the guts, throwing her back.
"Shikamaru is the winner!" Hayate said. "Good strategy, kid."
"Thanks, I guess, but it wasn't that good." Shikamaru said, cringing a bit at Hayate's reaction.
Then he went back at the spectator zone as Kin was taken to the nursery.
"Anyway, the next match is Kiba Inuzuka against Naruto." Hayate announced.
"WOOHOO!" Naruto yelled. "It's my time to shine!"
Sakura laughed softly at Naruto's reaction.
"Good luck, Naruto!." Kakashi said.
On the other hand, team 8 was really supportive at Kiba, they were sure that he'd beat Naruto, everyone except for Hinata, who secretly wanted Naruto to win.
As Naruto arrived to the arena, Kiba waved at him.
"Long time no see, Naruto." Kiba said
"Yeah, we haven't talked in a while, eh?" Naruto replied, scratching the back of his head. "I've been busy with training."
"Don't worry. I've been busy with training too." Kiba said, getting in his fighting position.
As Naruto did the same, Hayate announced the start of the match. Kiba continuously threw kunai and shurikens at Naruto, but he either avoided them or blocked them by creating a shadow clone. Then, Naruto threw some kunai for creating a distraction and then created some clones to attack Kiba, who could hardly destroy the clones and block Naruto's attack.
"You've gotten really strong!" Kiba admitted.
Naruto continued attacking, but Kiba finally used his Four Legs Technique. Naruto just started to create more clones, trying to stop all of Kiba's attacks, but he couldn't stand that much chakra consumption.
Naruto opted for creating a lot of clones and attacking Kiba all at once. This made Kiba get more and more tired, so he changed strategies. He transformed Akamaru into an exact clone of himself and started using his Fang Passing Fang, leaving Naruto in great trouble. He didn't know how to stop it, he just kept creating clones but he was just wasting chakra. Suddenly, Kiba used a smoke bomb and kept attacking Naruto with the Fang Passing Fang. Finally, Naruto got hit by Kiba, getting thrown out of the smoke and falling down to the smoke. Then, Naruto got hit again by the second Kiba. It appeared as if Naruto had lost, but as Akamaru detransformed he threw a smoke bomb. Using the smoke to knock Akamaru out and transform into it. Then, he got out of the smoke as Akamaru and used Kiba's distraction to attack him. He transformed back into himself and then created 2 clones to attack Kiba quickly, finally making a tired Kiba fall to the floor. As Kiba couldn't get up, Hayate announced that Naruto had won.
All of Naruto's friends cheered, he could hear Sakura's cheers, which made him happy. Hinata was both happy and surprised at how Naruto defeated Kiba.
"It was pretty even, but I guess Naruto deserved to win in the end." Kurenai said.
Naruto helped Kiba get up and took him to where his team was, and told him to rest.
"That was amazing, Naruto!" Sakura said. "You did great!"
"Thanks, Sakura." Naruto said, scratching the back of his head while he smiled.
"I didn't know you had gotten that strong." Kakashi pointed out.
"Yeah, Gohan helped me a lot." Naruto explained.
"Gohan… I see…" Kakashi said. "Anyway, good job."
Hayate announced that the next duel was between Hinata and Neji. Everyone in the room got surprised at how hard this would be to Hinata. Neji was one of the strongest Genin in Konoha and she was Hinata's cousin.
As Hinata went down to the arena she felt extremely nervous and scared, how could she win against Neji?
"Don't worry, Hinata!" Naruto said to her from the spectator zone. "I know you can do it!"
Naruto's words inspired her to try her best. She would defeat Neji, for Naruto!
"Byakugan!" Both Neji And Hinata said, activating their Kekkei Genkai.
"I will attack at my 100%! I won't lose never again!" Neji said, remembering his fight against Gohan.
Neji quickly attacked as the audience got surprised at Neji's phrase. Would he really be so harsh to his cousin?
As Hinata tried to defend herself, Neji quickly attacked her arms, leaving her defenceless. Then, he attacked Hinata's chest, almost stopping her heart.
As Gohan felt this, he immediately intervened using his speed, blocking his hit by grabbing his hand and throwing him away.
"We're you trying to kill her?!" Gohan asked furiously. "Are you crazy?"
"I was just trying to win, it's not as if I was going to do anything." Neji explained. "Anyway, I guess I won so that's all I cared about."
"Be more careful, she could've died." Gohan said, taking Hinata to the nursery.
Hayate announced the winner of the match as Neji went back with his teammates.
"I think you were too harsh with her, Neji." Tenten said. "Is it true that you tried to kill her?"
"No, it's not, I just hit her chest too hard." Neji explained. "I expected her to be stronger."
Naruto was worried about her friend, he knew she'd be safe with Gohan, but she was in a really serious condition.
"Next match will be Rock Lee against Gaara of the desert, from Sunagakure." Hayate announced.
"Alright, finally my turn." Rock Lee cheered.
"Good luck, Lee." Guy said. "Remember to trust in the power of youth."
"Yes, sir." Lee said, proudly.
As Gaara and Lee met, Hayate told them to get ready. Lee thought that he didn't seem so strong after all, but maybe he was more than he appeared.
As Hayate announced the beginning of the match, Lee started attacking Gaara frenetically, quickly noticing Gaara's use of sand for his defence. He tried to make his way through the layers of sand, but they were to thick.
"You won't be able to do anything, I'll defeat you." Gaara said, without any expression.
Lee replied to this by taking his weights off, instantly feeling lighter. At the eyes of Gaara, Lee was way faster and harder to block. This made Gaara desperate and furious. How could someone be this fast?
As Gaara raised a sand wall, Lee destroyed it quickly. Until finally Lee was close to Gaara and had just one sand walk left. Lee jumped and aimed to kick it and successfully went through it, kicking Gaara directly in the face. As Lee cheered for his achievement, Gaara got furious and started attacking with everything he had. Lee got caught by surprised and therefore got hit several times by Gaara's sand attacks, as he tried to block them he got more and more tired.
Eventually, Lee decided to use the inner gates and looked at his sensei for his approval. Guy nodded and so Lee opened five inner gates, knowing that he would need to end this quickly as he'd get Really injured if he kept it for a long time.
Lee quickly tried the same as before, but Gaara's walls were thicker and therefore harder to break. But Lee could still break through them. Lee eventually got to kick Gaara once more, but thanks to his exhaustion, Lee's attacks got weaker and weaker.
As Lee noticed this, he opted for jumping up and hitting Gaara from above him. But as Lee was about to go down to make his kick, Gaara used his sand to grab him and throw him to the ground. Finally defeating Lee.
Lee's friends were disappointed as they thought he could win. Meanwhile, Gaara's teammates were shocked at the fact that Lee could hit Gaara several times, and directly in the face. He wasn't invincible, after all.
"And the winner is Gaara, from Sunagakure!" Hayate announced.
After some minutes, Hayate finally appeared to be about to announce the final match.
"And finally, the last match will be between Chouji Akimichi and Dosu Kinuta." Hayate announced. "This will finally end." He thought.
Team 10 gave Chouji some advice and then wished him good luck. He was sure that he'd win, but he still appreciated some advice from his teammates.
As Chouji met Dosu, he felt a bit intimidated. But he still was confident in himself.
As Hayate announced the beginning of the battle, Chouji waited for his enemy to attack first, but as he did the same he decided to attack first. Chouji quickly used the Human Bullet Tank to attack him from above, taking Dosu by surprise, avoiding it at the last moment. Chouji continued to attack and eventually got to hit Dosu, smashing him to the ground. Although, Dosu used his sound technique using the water of Chouji's body to transmit the sound, Chouji simply bounced and smashed him against the floor, again, and finally leaving him unconscious.
"The winner is Chouji Akimichi!" Hayate announced, before going to talk with the other ninjas who were there.
As Chouji came close to his team, he got received with compliments and everything. They were all happy, they had all classified for the last part of the exams, after all.
With Dosu, his team had been eliminated. Orochimaru was dissapointed, but what could he expect from those three. He didn't care that much, in the end.
"Ahem." Hayate has some troubles talking thanks to his sickness. "The last part will be performed in one month." He announced. "We thought you may need some time to train and rest." He explained.
Everyone felt relieved, they were all tired and wanted to rest a bit.
"You can go to your houses now, have a nice day." Hayate said, before finally leaving.
After the preliminaries, team 10 had gone to a restaurant to eat something. They had been talking about their fights and Asuna hadn't stopped talking about how proud of his team he was. After eating, Gohan proposed continuing their training throughout this month, obviously after they all rested for a couple of days, he wanted to rest a bit, too. Team 10 accepted and were determined to become Chuunin.
On the other hand, Team 7 had gone to Sasuke's room as he had already woken up. Kakashi offered Sasuke to train with him, he'd teach him his Chidori. Sasuke accepted, but Naruto wanted to train with Kakashi too, to which Kakashi answered that he needed to train the basics a bit more. In the end, Naruto would train with Ebisu. And Sakura would simply rest for this month, although she planned training a bit.
Naruto was training with Ebisu when he saw a weird old man who was laughing at him for not being able to walk in water.
"That's a very basic technique, kid."the old man said.
Naruto started to yell at the old man as he ignored him. Ebisu tried to gain Naruto's attention, but he was ignored, too. As Naruto kept yelling at him, the old man finally turned to him and asked him what he wanted.
"Can you walk in water, old man?" Naruto asked.
"Of course I can, you stupid kid." The old man replied, showing Naruto that he could do it.
"Then train me." Naruto said.
"You're too weak." The old man replied.
"I'm not!" He said. "I'm probably stronger than you, old man!"
"Ha! You're not even close to my 1%, kid!" The old man said.
"Then train me!" Naruto said.
"No!" The old man repeated. "Well, maybe if you do me a favor I can accept to train you."
Naruto noticed his perverted smile, but still accepted to do the favor. The old man asked for certain book, and Naruto had gone to the library. In the end, he had to steal it as the book wasn't able for kids his age. As the old man saw the book, he got surprised, but he had to maintain his promise.
"Then I'l train you, kid." The old man said.
"Yeah, dattebayo!" Naruto cheered.
"Anyway, what's your name?" The old man asked.
"I'm Naruto." Naruto replied. "What's yours?"
"Naruto, eh? Nice name, I like it." Jiraiya said. "I'm Jiraiya, it's nice to meet you. Now let's go, I have… some things to do hehe."
I hope you enjoyed the super large chapter of today, I guess I got inspired today? Idk. But anyway.
Thanks for reading and have a nice one, see you next chapter!