Shikamaru gave an obvious groan, but before he could get down, Kira had stopped him and discreetly handed him some earplugs while saying "Good luck Shikamaru. Guys dangerous no matter what he looks like."

Shikamaru yawned as he said "Yeah, I know. Which me luck, or not. I don't care. I just want to get this over with."

Shikamaru jumped down while he put the earplugs into his ears. Dosu obviously didn't notice it as he didn't say anything and the two stayed where they were. Shikamaru kept his hands in his pockets as he waited until the proctor told them that her could go. In an instant Shikamaru had ducked at the last second as the Oto-Nin tried to punch him in the face. When Dosu found out that he didn't have blood coming from his ears, he didn't know why, but he was sure as hell going to beat this guy into the ground.

What he didn't realize, however, was the fact that Shikamaru had planned ahead enough already so that when the Oto-Nin punched at him, he bent backwards and kicked the mummy in the chin knocking him back. Another few seconds later and the Oto-Nin was trying to hit Shikamaru with his sound waves, but instead Shikamaru kept dodging. With another kick, Shikamaru had done what he wanted to as he used his kagemane, to hold him still. After that Shikamaru just had the guy slam his own head into the wall behind him, effectively knocking the mummy out. The whole fight lasted at most a minute, and even then, no one really got to see Shikamaru do anything, except some kicks and his Kagemane jutsu.

Next on the list was a battle between Kabuto, and Tenten. Instead of actually fighting, however, Kabuto said something about how he was in bad shape as it was, and if he was going against a weapons user, one hit would be all it would take. needless to say, the bun wearing girl was unhappy that she didn't fight to get her spot in the finals. The next fight however would be interesting no matter which way you looked at it.

Karin Uzumaki VS Rock Lee.

"YOSH! IT IS MY TURN TO SHOW MY FLAMES OF YOUTH!" Lee yelled as he jumped down.

Karin, being less enthusiastic about the fight, just jumped down without a word. When she finally got ready, karin dropped into a stance that Kira had hoped to only see with one person. Karin's arms were in front of her with one being a bit farther back then the other, but she had three fingers out in a way that was almost like a prowling tiger. She was using the Taijutsu style Kira's mother used.

"Hey brows. I suggest you take your weights off. Your a Taijutsu user, and you won't be able to win unless you take those weights off." Kira stated while she relaxed into her stance.

"But that is for only when I must protect precious people!" Lee stated in a wide eyed look.

"Then ask your sensei. I won't go all out against you unless you do the same." Karin stated before she put her hands down, waiting for him.

Lee looked towards his teacher and when Gai gave a nod towards Lee, the boy saluted back. Next Lee removed his leg warmers, to show that he had weights on them. Everyone expected the weights to not weigh that much, but what they expected was destroyed when the weights hit the ground. The second they hit the ground, they created a huge dust cloud, and a small crater. Karin nodded before she said "Jūryoku Fūin Reberu Jū: Kai!"

When she said that a light went off around Karin, but Kira was on the edge of the railing when she said what level of weights she was on "What the hell? She's on twice the level we are!"

Shiro had wide eyes as well as he said "S-she was o-on l-level ten?"

Mina, who was standing behind the two Uzumaki, along with every other jōnin that could hear, wondered what they meant, so she asked "What's so big about what you said?"

Kira gripped the railing a bit more as she said "That is five hundred pounds on every inch of her body. Me and Shiro are only at level five with that seal. Meaning, unless your student has a lot of speed Gai, he will be left in the dust."

The second the match started, both of them disappeared, only for Lee to be sent backwards slightly. He recovered just as fast however, as he started to use every ounce of speed he could muster as he blocked and sent as many hits as he could towards Karin. Punch for punch, kick for kick, they went into a stalemate, with neither of them being able to overpower the other, but that was mainly for two reasons. In essence Lee was still faster and stronger, but karin was able to match the attacks due to the fact that she had great analytic abilities. On Lee's part it was due to the fact that due to her abilities to see his attacks he could do nothing but send out the attacks as fast as he could.

Eventually the two jumped back with both of them panting slightly from the exertion. With a frown firmly planted on Karin's face she charged forward once again at the same time that Lee did, but what neither of them noticed was the fact that they had activated the first gate without realizing it. The jōnin noticed however, and everyone, even Gai, was surprised by the fact that they had both opened a gate. Kira wasn't, however, as she recognized what Karin was doing. She was copying her opponent and doing whatever he was doing so that she would not have to show any of her real abilities. She was able to copy things on the fly, but after that it was pretty much gone once she stopped looking.

Sending kicks straight at each other's heads, they both dodged the same way like a mirror image, and the both sent punches like a mirror image. At this point, even Gai noticed as he said "How is it possible... She's copying lee move for move!"

Kira gave a small sigh before she said "This is something that only she has ever been able to do. She is copying him so that her skill set is not shown in this fight. She's giving it her all, yes, but she is not using any ninjutsu that she knows. It's like how the Sharingan works, except instead of memorizing the moves while they see them, she just lets her body move in a copying like way as it does exactly what her opponent does. She won't remember how to do it afterwards, but this is how she fights when it comes to not wanting to reveal anything."

Everyone just stayed silent in impressment. The only one who didn't like it, was Sasuke, as there was a Non-Uchiha, who could copy things. It didn't matter if she didn't have the Sharingan, and it didn't matter if she didn't memorize the moves. It was the fact that she was doing something that only an Uchiha should be able to do, and it pissed him off.

The two on the battlefield however, did something that made Kakashi's eyes widen. Lee had forced open the second and third gates causing his skin to turn red. In comparison Karin did the same thing her red hair flying upwards as her skin turned red as well. The two had opened up four of the eight gates before they charged at each other again right as Kakashi yelled "You taught him how to open the gates?! I've lost respect for you Gai."

Gai Just frowned as he explained why he did so for Lee. In the process he frowned at Karin and said "I didn't plan for something like this though... If this fight continues... The whole building could collapse. I'm just glad that he can only open five at most."

Everyone watched with wide eyes as the two disappeared and there was a ton of the thudding from air pressure as the two attacked each other over and over. Eventually one good attack sent both of them flying into the ground creating a crater. When neither of them got out of the crater's Kira, and Shiro jumped off towards Karin's crater as Gai went towards Lee's. Inside of the cater was karin, but she was completely knocked out. It seemed that the two wouldn't be able to fight in the next round.

"Both combatants are unable to continue. It's a tie, and neither will go into the next round." The proctor stated while coughing periodically.

The next match wasn't even worth mentioning as Gaara pretty much crushed the guy that thought he would be able to crush Gaara with his rubber like body. The next fight, however was a bit better, but not by much.

Shiro Uzumaki VS Kin Tsuchi.

Shiro jumped down fairly quickly, and when Kin came down, she smirked in arrogance. The match was short and sweet, but it did show that Shiro was fast as he disappeared when kin tried to use senbon with bells attacked to him. Instead of just Using a genjutsu, she should have tried to attack him as well, but even then it wouldn't of helped, as Shiro dodged all of the Senbon, before he sent a chop to the back of her neck. Shiro looked up at Kira, as Karin was taken away for medical help seeing as she had never opened the gates before, and shrugged.

Again though, the next watch was practically worthless as it was Neji VS some Yoroi guy, who just tried to suck the chakra out of Neji. In response he got 32 tenketsu shut off. The matches were honestly pitiful as there was no real challenge, especially when Kira went up against Zaku, who was even more arrogant then the other two Oto-Nin. She simply kept jumping around until he ran out of chakra from his arm pipes, and when he tried to use them again his arm blew up from the pressure. Guess it didn't help that one of his arms was broken. Though next match was honestly going to be interesting.

Naruto Uzumaki Vs. Choji Akamichi

Naruto started screaming about how he was going to win this, while Choji was ready to rumble as well since his sensei told him that if he won they would go out for all you can eat BBQ. Needless to say that Naruto was going to have his work cut out for him with a hungry Akamichi in front of him. The advantage Naruto had, however, was the fact that he was completely unpredictable, to the point he created a few basic seals that would be used for things like pranks. You add that into a battlefield environment, and you have no clue as to what's going to happen. That was the most dangerous thing about Naruto. You don't know what he has up his sleeve, or what he's going to do next.

The match started off with Choji using a Bubun Baika no jutsu, to turn his body into a Nikudan Sensha before he rolled straight at Naruto, who dodged the attack, while also placing a tag on the giant ball. It wasn't know what the tag was, but the only ones who noticed were the two Uzumaki still in the room, and the jōnin, but they didn't know what the tag was. After dodging, however, Naruto had to dodge again as Choji charged at him after turning around. It became obvious that Naruto was getting annoyed by the constant dodging so he made a hand sign that activated the seal that he had put onto Choji, and the next thing anyone knew, his speed dropped significantly to the point that he was making a slow crawl. He eventually stopped and Naruto made his move as he punched the Akamichi where he thought the boys stomach was. Sure enough it was dead on as the Jutsu stopped working and Choji started coughing.

Naruto continued by trying to punch Choji, but Choji managrd to get away long enough that he could get the tag, that ended up on his chest, off and decided to attack with his fist instead of his body. Naruto, managed to get out of the way as well, but Choji swung his arm to the side at this point, sending Naruto flying into the wall, only for him to disappear in cloud of smoke confusing everyone, even the jōnin. Choji started to looking around as well, but he could find anyone. After Choji looked for what seemed like minutes, Naruto literally popped up out of no where and kicked Choji in the back of the head into some rubble that had been around. The hit, while it didn't knock Choji out, it did send him backwards towards some more rubble, only for some pieces to turn into more Naruto's and to hit him, not letting him hit the ground. The two clones that popped up and Naruto continued to hit Choji, until he finally hit the ground, battered bruised and knocked out.

Everyone was honestly impressed with what Naruto managed to do, but both Shiro and Kira just smiled. Mina gave a small smile as she said "He's grown well hasn't he."

Kira gave a nod before she frowned at the next match up.

Hinata Uzumaki VS Kiba Inuzuka.

Kiba let out a loud howl as he jumped down, but Hinata didn't as she just walked down looking slightly nervous. Kiba gave a grin at Hinata as he said "Come on Hinata, lighten up! I don't think I'll win, but I'm still gonna try you know!"

Hinata gave a nod as she activated her Byakugan and got into her Uzuken stance, making Neji watch closer as he had never seen the stance before. The stance was similar to the Jūken stance, except her hands didn't have the fingers together like a normal Jūken stance. The fingers were spread and they were bent forwards slightly as to let air pass through the, better since she used wind element manipulation slightly with her stance. Kiba groaned when he saw the stance as well, but he did get ready right away by feeding Akamaru his solider pill causing his fur to turn red. They then had Akamaru turn into his man-beast clone from the get go.

The match started next as the two Kiba's charged at Hinata, only for her to twist in a flowing motion to the right while also bending backwards to dodge another attack. She then twisted to the left and bent down once again dodging more attacks almost like she was dancing. The more Hinata dodged the larger Kira's smile grew and the more the surprise of the jōnin came. Mina was the first to ask as she asked "What is this? It's more like she's dancing then in an actual fight."

"This is the fighting style that Hinata was creating while she was still in the Hyuga compound. It looks like she finished it." Kira stated with a smile.

Neji narrowed his eyes at that "She invented this style?"

Kira nodded as she said "Yep. Before you ask as well, it is impossible for another Hyuga to learn this. She has an affinity for the wind element, which Is a huge contrast to the normal earth for a Hyuga. She is dancing in a sense as she is moving like the wind to dodge the erratic attacks of Kiba. This style is more for dodging, but what you aren't noticing is that she has deactivated at least 4 tenketsu."

Neji's eyes narrowed once again, before he looked towards Kiba, who was slowing down while Hinata was still dodging the attacks. He activated his Byakugan and his eyes widened at the fact that Kiba had multiple tenketsu shut down just like she said. Turning back to Kira he asked "How...?"

"Because I've been on the receiving end of that style, and even then it was incomplete. The most dangerous thing about this style though? One wrong move and instead of shutting off a tenketsu she releases one of the eight gates." Kira stated causing all the jōnin in hearing range to look at her in shock.

Gai, who was the most surprised, asked "She can force open someone else's gates?!"

Kira nodded "Yep. While I was helping her practice, she ended up accidentally opening 3 of mine with one touch."

Gai gave a grim nod "If you open a gate out of order it forces the last gates to open in the process. That is deadly if she hits the gate of death, it would be a double edged sword."

This time Kira raised an eyebrow as she asked "What do you mean?"

Gai looked back down to the fight as he said "The gate of death, which is the last of the gates, gives you power beyond imagine, but in the process you die."

Kira's eyes widened before she looked back towards the fight. After watching Kiba and Akamaru slow down some more, she asked "Could you teach her where the gates are so that she knows we're not to aim?"

Gai gave a nod as he said "I would not want her to accidentally cause the deaths of many because of a hit in the wrong area."

Kira was thankful for Gai's willingness to help make sure she didn't cause deaths, but she caught Neji's look. He looked at Hinata with an almost jealous look. Turning back to the fight, she understood why, as Hinata was standing across from a panting Kiba, who had a limp arm, and leg, while Akamaru was whining and he could stand up. Hinata, in contrast, was standing. With her hands in front of her in the normal Uzuken stance and she didn't even have a scratch on her while she stayed still. After a few seconds of silence, Kiba fell backwards still panting, but he could obviously not move. After Hayate called the match, she walked over to both of them and deactivated his tenketsu with a smile.

"Looks like I lost huh?" Kiba asked once he was able to sit up "You were awesome Hinata."

Hinata blushed and nervously said "W-well... You can thank Kira for that. She pushed me in the right direction."

Kiba gave a lopsided grin as he said "Either way, you did awesome! I couldn't land a hit on you."

Hinata blushed a bit more, but when Hinata heard Naruto complimenting her when they got up there, she practically fainted. The only thing stopping her from fainting was Kira helping her with her confidence.

That was the end of the worthwhile matchs as well considering the next matches involved Ino VS Sasuke, and Sakura VS Shino. Needless to say, Ino lost fairly quickly due to her fangirl tendencies, while Sakura lost more due to the fact that bugs swarmed her and she fainted.

"That concludes the preliminary round, but due to an odd number of contestants, we will randomly choose one of the previous fighters to compete." Hayate stated as he turned to the screen.

Everyone who had won their matches watched in silence as the board flipped through the names at random until the name finally stopped. The name on the board caused some to frown while the others smiled. On the board was Karin Uzumaki, and that meant that she was going to go against however it was that was left.

"Now... I would like all of you to draw a card so that we can determine who fights who. We have 12 contestants so there will be six rounds." Hayate stated before he had everyone draw a card, and since Sasuke was missing due to leaving after his match, Kakashi drew for him, just as Mina drew for Karin.

Once everyone drew the matches were determined.

Match 1: Gaara VS Sasuke Uchiha

Match 2: Naruto Uzumaki VS Neji Hyuga

Match 3: Shino Aburame VS Shiro Uzumaki

Match 4: Temari VS Shikamru Nara

Match 5: Kira Uzumaki VS Tenten

Match 6: Karin Uzumaki VS Hinata Uzumaki.

Once the matches were determined the Hokage stood up and said "Now, the third part of the exams will take place in one month. The reason for this is so you can plan for your enemies at you have seen fight today. Some of you know more then others, so this is also so you can get stronger in the next month. Everyone expects great things from all of you, so do your best, and we expect to see you in one month. Good luck to all of you."

With those words, the one month of training for everyone had begun.

You guys like? I hope so!

Anyway, I'm sorry that it took me now to update, but I've had to worry puppies (ugh). To anyone who knows that feeling, let me tell you, I am to things right now. Tired, and angry.

gettting back on track with the story though, the poll for Shiba's pairing is close to finishing. The currents is

Zabuza: 6

kakashi: 4

single: 2

Ibiki: 1

Huh, I'm surprised about the last one, but anyway, the poll will end once the chūnin exams end, so make sure you vote while you can!