Chapter 5
(Flashback)
Sakura vs. Rika
Sakura thought it would be an easy match, Rika knew she was going to be annoyed at the end of this.
Everyone left the stage, besides those called out and said, "Are you ready?"
Sakura replied yes, while Rika just nodded, not even getting into a stance for Pinky, which irritated her to no end.
"Fight~!"
(Present)
Sakura tried to taunt her but Rika just stared her down which unnerved her after seeing her taunts wouldn't work she tried to punch her with her fist that always made Naruto wallow in pain. Rika did nothing but allowed her to come close to before catching her fist, which shocked Sakura still and Rika tossed her away from her.
Back in the stands, Naruto felt like this was going on forever and he was seconds away from maiming Sakura for his own enjoyment. Several others were really anxious to see the battle end as she was an embarrassment to female ninja everywhere.
Anko was being restrained from throwing a kunai at the pathetic girl below.
"Oh for the love of fuck, Rika! Everyone knows the outcome of this match, already! Finish her off!" Naruto snapped, making Kakashi look at him in shock.
'Isn't Sakura his crush?' Kakashi, Kurenai, and many others, though.
"Fine, fine you bastard. I want a reward later, though."
"If you make it bloody then I will!"
Rika shrugged and Sakura gasped.
Several people of the Rookie 9 stared at Naruto like he's grown a second head.
"What? Don't tell you all weren't thinking the same thing," Naruto said
Sakura's face turned red from anger and was about to shout, but avoided the kunai that was tossed lazily in her direction. Rika decided she wasted enough time and went to beat the shit out of her.
She punched Sakura's face throwing her back a few feet on her butt and she followed her punch with stomping her foot into her stomach, causing her to cough up blood. Rika then took the time of beating Sakura black and blue, her screams and pleas of mercy doing nothing to deter Rika from her objective of getting a reward.
Naruto smirked as he watched the pink bitch get destroyed. Hinata hid her mouth behind her hand, but she was laughing her ass off inside, Shikamaru was hiding his glee under his bored facade. He was a bit on the dark side since he connected more to the shadows and then most of his clan. Ino's jaw dropped as she was shocked at the brutality being dished out on her ex-best friend. Sasuke only quirked an eyebrow at his teammate's pain and squeals for help, but did nothing but watch.
The civilians were horrified, the ninja and especially the female ninja nodded appreciatively. The Hokage was sad but the Kazekage was smirking behind his mask.
After five more minutes of Sakura's screaming, Rika punched her lights out, knocking her unconscious.
"Winner Rika Red."
The reactions were mixed, to say the least. The ninjas mostly cheered, others were shocked at the brutality, others were disgusted by a small margin, the rest didn't give a shit and others were in-between. The medics took Sakura to the hospital for the severe ass whooping she got as Rika walked back upstairs.
Gaara loved the smell of blood, even though it was weak blood, that his mother wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, but it was still blood, which made him give a tiny bit of respect for the girl, maybe she could give her blood to his mother. He would have to wait and see...and he didn't like waiting.
Kakashi was shocked at the damaged done by his student, he glanced towards Naruto and was shocked to see him happily conversing with Rika, the one who literally destroyed his crush.
He would have words with him later on about respecting your teammates...pot called the kettle black.
Sasuke vs Lee
"Can Rock Lee and Sasuke Uchiha come down to the arena?" The exam protector said
The power genin walked down to the arena, Naruto raised an eyebrow at Rock Lee's choice of dress. It was a leotard, a full body leotard with orange legwarmers, however, he could see how he walked, he was wearing weights, but how much was the real question.
"Both contestants ready?"
"Hn." Sasuke crossed his arms
"Yosh!" Lee saluted
"Fight~!"
Sasuke got into his Uchiha stance and his eyes flashed red, Rock Lee got into his own stance and prepared himself to be attacked.
Sasuke started off, with flipping through familiar hand signs and made his massive fireball. All that was left was black, scorched ground, with Rock Lee nowhere to be found, but before Sasuke could smirk, he was kicked with full force into a wall, forcing him inside it. As Lee got into a fighting position waiting for the Uchiha to get back up.
Said brooding boy snarled as he pulled himself out of the wall and went about attacking the green suited boy, but to no avail.
Sasuke may be trained by Kakashi with many ninjutsu under his belt copied, not mastered, it did not matter against Lee's speed taught by the hard work of Guy.
The battle was interesting, to say the least, with everyone watching with bated breath. Sasuke was getting tired, all the attacks Lee forced on him were making him irritable and frustrated, he suddenly felt a dark, slimy feeling crawl from his neck, spread across his face.
He clutched his shoulder with a yell, which made Lee stop to look at his opponent in shock.
Half of Sasuke's face was covered in dark markings as foul chakra emitted from him in pulses in time with his heartbeat.
'You want power don't you boy?'
Sasuke felt a smirk split his face and he raced towards Lee with a surprising speed, managing to graze his stomach but he avoided most of the damage.
Naruto crossed his arms as he watched the scene below. Kyuubi loved the scent and feel of tainted chakra and it showed in Naruto and a large smirk on Gaara's face showed the same.
Thank Kami for baggy ninja clothes, right?
Lee did not let the unyouthful Sasuke get to him, he would win, he may be a dead last but he would prove that a genius of hard work could defeat a prodigy.
Sasuke became more spontaneous with his fire jutsus, but Lee's speed made it very difficult, even with his sharingan and it made him growl. The battle was long but worth watching, Sasuke tried to replicate Lee's signature move he saw at the academy but failed, tearing several muscles in the process.
Lee looked at Sasuke with a blank look that mirrored Guy's and it made Tenten look between the two with worry and made Neji quirk an eyebrow, but he could understand the blank looks they gave. They were both very upset with the move the Uchiha pulled off.
Lee tensed his muscles, he didn't want to see his opponent standing upright anymore. He took off and went about kicking the shit out of Sasuke, punches and kicks rained down on the emo boy and Lee finished up his attack with a single kick that slammed half his body into the hard ground. He didn't get back up.
"Winner Rock Lee!"
Lee nodded and went back up to his team, Ino, and many civilian fan girls could not believe their prince didn't make it. Ino couldn't say anything because of the look Asuma was giving her as if he knew what she was thinking and told her to keep it to herself.
Shikamaru hid his smirk with a yawn and Choji was neutral, he was peaceful, but thought that Sasuke did deserve that.
Many other reactions were the same. Anko was laughing her ass off in her assigned booth, watching Kakashi and the medics pulled the Uchiha out of the ground. to kiss his bruised ego. Sarutobi shook his head at the scene while Orochimaru sighed at how pathetic his soon to be body is right now.
At least he gets his ass, he knows he would follow him now. His pride was too damaged by getting his ass kicked by the dead last.
'And I can enter his dreams and twisted him to my own image.' The 'Kazekage' thought to himself with a leer as he thought back to the forest of death.
Gaara only shook his head slightly but nodded at Uzumaki with a mad grin which Naruto returned. A promise of a match in future was made and it caused both the blood to boil underneath their skin.
Naruto vs Kiba
"Can Naruto Uzumaki and Kiba Inuzuka come down to the arena?"
"Alright, Akamaru we got the dobe! This will be easy!" Kiba yelled, jumping down to the arena.
"Whatever you say, dog breath," Naruto said, waving to Rika and Hinata
Naruto jumped down and landed feet first unharmed. The two boys stood across from each other.
"Both contestants ready?"
Naruto nodded
Kiba barked out that he was ready along with Akamaru
"Fight~!"
Kiba was going to taunt him but Naruto bitch slapped him away, throwing him back a few feet and Akamaru stood in front of him in a protective manner but Naruto emitted killing intent which froze the dog.
Kiba slowly got up but felt the killing intent Naruto emitted and it made him shudder in his jacket. He could swear he saw a smirking fox grinning maliciously at him, which really made him want to piss his pants.
He shook himself out of it and tossed a soldier pill to his companion who ate it and turned a dark red and soon there was another Kiba and they worked to take Naruto down with their fang over fang technique.
Naruto avoided the attack as it struck the dirt, kicking up dust, covering the area. Kiba snapped out of his technique and was about to launch another one, but a sharp crack sounded through the air stopping him in tracks.
The dust cleared, showing Naruto gripping a limp Kiba, but a plume of smoke appeared and showed a limp Akamaru, his neck twisted in an unnatural angle, drops of blood collecting into a puddle on the floor, as Kiba turned a pasty white.
"A-a-AAAHHHH!" He screamed, the limp, unmoving form of his companion in Naruto's hand.
He felt his heart snap in his chest and a cold hole formed in his chest and then all Kiba saw was red.
"You bastard...YOU BASTARD!" He snarled, his eyes wide and filled with rage
Naruto did nothing but a smile tossing Akamaru's dead corpse away from him as Kiba charged at him.
The battle was quick and brutal, Kiba and Naruto attacked each other with brutal efficiency, claws, fists, and kicks were thrown, some connected others missed and Naruto nailed Kiba with a brutal fist to the top of the head, smashing his face into the hard ground.
Naruto had claw marks and several bruises, that were already healing. Kiba was covered in bruises, he could already see some bones were broken and muscles were torn.
He had to give dog boy credit, he put a good fight, the miserable look on his face was heavenly, after all.
'I guess he deserves a bit of hope after all.'
"Winner Naruto Uzumaki."
Naruto nodded but snapped his fingers. A clone of him was carrying a dog that was unconscious, the dead dog on the side was a clone.
The clone carried the dog so he laid next to his master, he hated Kiba but didn't hate Akamaru who he liked much more.
Naruto walked off, pulling a cigarette from his pocket, put it in his mouth, lit it and walked upstairs, leaning against the wall.
Everyone stared at him, some in awe, others in slight respect at using a dirty trick, others in disgust and many between. Sarutobi made a note to talk to him and Orochimaru thought about having Naruto on his side, sad that he couldn't have him as a body.
Naruto resisted the urge to sneeze and felt a shudder run down his back but didn't know who was thinking about him.
Neji vs Hinata
"Can Neji Hyuuga and Hinata Hyuuga come down to the arena?"
Neji looked at Hinata with a sneer and made his way down, while Hinata kept her head down, not looking at her teacher who had a worried look on her face, but Hinata brushed past her, not looking at her.
Hinata made her way down and faced her cousin who was glaring at her.
"Both contestants ready?"
Neither Hyuuga said anything.
The protractor could only sigh, "Fight~!"
However before Neji could open his mouth, more likely to spit a taunt to derail Hinata, she rushed forward with a palm strike, making him move back to avoid it.
'This is not Hinata...She is supposed to be trembling, the weak girl he taunted for so long, where is she?!' He inwardly snarled, as he parried her attacks.
The battle was entirely of parrying attacking chakra strikes and continuous moving.
Kurenai was shocked at her student, Neji was strong in his own right along with his hatred of Hinata made him an enemy and Hinata should be struggling.
'What happened to her?'
Naruto quirked an eyebrow and slightly smiled. Hinata was far from weak, along with her own mask, the amount of hatred she hid behind those eyes of hers were extremely welcoming.
Everyone was watching with interest as two cousins battled it out, Hiashi did not show his surprise and Hanabi let a bit of her shock show, this was not the sister she fought against and won.
Neji was getting irritated and poured more chakra into his palm strikes trying to hit her, but Hinata kept avoiding, tapping his palms and his wrists in slight movements, her chakra went unnoticed in his irritability and soon Neji was able to land a hit on Hinata's stomach, pushing her away from him.
She was still on her feet but knew she was going to have a bruise to last awhile from his palm strike.
He was about to attack again, but as he tried to channel chakra into his hands, they failed, causing him to gasp in shock. Hinata took to getting into a stance and said, "You are in range, Neji."
Before unleashing her own attack, Protective Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, creating an ultimate defense and offense.
Hiashi didn't bother to hide his surprise then when he saw this.
'She made her own attack and defense? Maybe she is not so useless after all.'
Neji hit the ground with a thud, with shock plain across his face as he looked up at Hinata.
There was no sense of victory on her face, it was plain like it was an everyday occurrence and she just didn't care.
"Protractor, please call the match." She said, not taking her eyes off of Neji's prone form.
"Winner Hinata Hyuuga."
She quickly turned around and went up the stairs, not looking once at her cousin, she knew she would have a conversation with her 'father' but she didn't care right know. All the training she hid from her teacher and family was paying off and she would keep working at it.
Naruto caught her eye and he winked in her direction, causing her to smile back, the scene was over before anyone could notice.
Kurenai ran over to her and went into mother hen mode, checking her over, while Hinata didn't change her facial expression or answer any of her questions.
Shino vs Kankuro
"Can Shino Aburame and Kankuro of the Desert come down to the arena?"
The pair went down to the arena, Kankuro unleashing the package on his back and Shino arming himself with his bugs crawling down the sleeves of his jacket.
"Both contestants ready?"
A silent nod from both.
"Fight~!"
Both opponents were long range opponents and people wondered how this battle was going to go. However the battle ended was a surprise, both opponents knocked each other out.
Shino got poisoned with a non-lethal gas from a puppet that was broken from the inside and Kankuro was knocked out because of the drain of chakra from Shino's insects.
The pair was brought to the medical wing as the protractor announced there was no winner as both opponents are unconscious.
Tenten vs Temari
"Can Tenten and Temari of the Desert come down to the arena?"
[You all know what happens in the anime/manga]
Tenten gets her ass kicked by Temari, covered in bruises, weapons littering the battleground. Tenten's back was on Temari's battle fan and by the crack that resounded through the air, there had to be some broken bones.
"Winner, Temari of the Desert."
The medics came to get Tenten and take her to the hospital and Temari caught Shikamaru's dark eyes and smirked in his direction.
Shika only quirked an eyebrow at the blonde Suna-nin as she made her way to her brothers and sensei.
Gaara vs Rika's Teammate #1
"Can Gaara of the Desert and Ace Valant come down to the arena?"
Gaara flashed down with his sand and Ace walked down to the arena.
"Both contestants ready?"
A nod and nervous yes was his reply.
"Fight~!"
The battle was over before it even begun.
Gaara uncorked his sand and let it rush towards his opponent, wrap around him before he even had the chance to run or set up any sort of defense.
His screams were muffled by the course sand as he raised a hand towards his trapped prey, made a fist and said, "Sand Coffin."
Crushing the poor bastard in a shower of blood, that seeped through the sand, the slightly bigger frown Gaara sported showed that neither he or his mother was pleased with the blood offered.
"Winner, Gaara of the Desert."
Some civilian watchers lost their meals at the brutal crushing of the genin, the Hokage closed his eyes quietly for a moment for the soul that passed to the next adventure.
Gaara went back to his teammates/siblings, nodding at the large hidden grin Naruto flashed him at the bloody scene.
Shikamaru vs Ino
"Can Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yakama come down to the arena?"
The two teammates went down to arena Shikamaru didn't say anything and Ino cracked her knuckles ready to fight.
"Both contestants ready?"
"Yes."
"Troublesome."
"Fight~!"
Ino went to rush at her teammate to beat him, like she usually did, but was held still frozen still, but the look in eye changed to from shocked to frustrated understanding as she tried her best to move, but she could not move under her own power.
Shikamaru made her back up near a wall and then leaned back hard and fast, making her bash her head against the wall behind her knocking her unconscious and then fell to the floor in a heap.
"Winner, Shikamaru Nara."
He nodded, heaved Ino's prone form on his back and went back upstairs to place her against the wall.
Shikamaru could only pray that Ino stayed unconscious for the rest of this exam, he did not want to listen to her rants.
Choji vs Rika's Teammate #2
"Can Choji Akimichi and Kristopher Blue come down to the arena?"
The two called genin went down to the arena and faced each other.
"Both contestants ready?"
"Yes."
"Hmph."
"Fight~!"
Choji got into a defense position as Kristopher went to attack the husky genin and as unleashed a kick, it shocked Choji, surprising him as he jumped back, creating distance between the two of them.
Kristopher had the ability to steal chakra and shock his opponent and used the element of surprise on his opponent and went with brutal attacks, draining Choji of chakra, bringing him to his knees as he felt darkness close around him.
Kristopher took to insulting Choji as he felt his body shut down, but then said the word that Choji should not be called. Fat.
All the black surrounding Choji turned to red and anger seeped through his veins as he was able to stand up again, even with a deplete of chakra and rushed at a speed unknown to the crowd and was able to slam a hard right fist into Kristopher's face, smashing his face into the ground with hard cracks.
Choji then fell into blissful unconsciousness with a smile. Kristopher groaned, barely able to keep himself from falling unconscious, the force of the hit, nearly knocked him out, but he survived it.
"Winner, Kristopher Blue."
Shikamaru made a mental note to beat the shit of the cocky genin.
"Can the winners of all their matches come down?"
Naruto Uzumaki
Hinata Hyuuga
Rika Red
Kristopher Blue
Shikamaru Nara
Gaara of the Desert
Temari of the Desert
Rock Lee
These were the winners of the past matches.
"Your opponents for the next month will be..."
Shikamaru Nara vs. Kristopher Blue
Temari of the Desert vs. Naruto Uzumaki
Hinata Hyuuga vs Rika Red
Gaara of the Desert vs Rock Lee
"Spend the next month preparing for your matches, as everyone looked at their opponents."
"All of you are dismissed." Gecko Hayate said
Ending it! The battles are different for the simple reason only because I felt like it. Also, I felt that when Sasuke copied Rock Lee's move was really cheap and I thought even Lee had some pride and took to kicking Sasuke's ass. The next chapter will be about the break, training, Naruto's supposed change with both Kakashi, Hiruzen and Sakura. Also, Rika's reward as well. Anyways, Laters to you all and I hope you like this chapter.
~Kourtney Uzu Yato