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"So, you guys made it past the preliminaries, eh?"
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all nodded as their sensei, Kakashi, questioned them. It was the day after the preliminaries were finished, and they had gone looking for Kakashi to seek training for the real tournament. They had met in the Survival Exercise grounds, where they had become Genin.
"Yeah!" Naruto replied immediately. "I'm fighting some girl named Temari. If I beat her I jump straight to the semi finals!"
"Don't be so glad about that Naruto," Kakashi replied. "Just like Tsunade said, enemies have more time to study you since you won't be fighting."
"Yeah, whatever, I'll just beat them up!" Naruto replied with a broad grin on his face.
"Kakashi-sensei, what do we do in the down time before the tournament?" Sakura questioned.
"Train, basically. I'm sure you guys want that one million ryo," Kakashi stated.
"With that much money, I can buy my own ramen for over 3 years!" Naruto said in excitement, thrusting himself into the air.
"You're going to use one million ryo on ramen?" Sakura said with a 'That's-stupid' face.
"Kakashi-sensei..." Sasuke suddenly said aloud, which surprised all three of them, seeing as how he had been so quiet.
"Yes, Sasuke?" Kakashi said, wondering what in the world the quiet Uchiha would want.
"Well, we got in trouble the last time we had a fight unsupervised...so, can you supervise a fight between me and Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto's head perked up. Sasuke asking to fight him? This was odd. Usually he was the one to ask for the fight, even though he had to admit he didn't usually ask, he just jumped into it.
"Are you sure you want to fight me?" Naruto said with a cocky grin on his face. "I would of—"
"Stop right there," Sasuke suddenly said, interrupting. "This match is too see who would've really won, since Tsunade won't be able to stop us."
Naruto looked at Sasuke and his smirk, and then had a small burst of anger. "Well, no duh I'm gonna say yes to that challenge!"
Kakashi had spawned a hidden smile behind his mask. "Well, this'll be fun...where do you guys feel like fighting?"
Before Sasuke could recommend anything, there was a large grumbling noise. Everyone looked over to Naruto, who was looking down at his stomach. He put his head up and shifted sights from all three of them. "What? I haven't had anything to eat since that ramen before the preliminaries yesterday...oh, my stomach..."
"Let him eat. Then we'll hold the battle in front Ichiraku Ramen," Sasuke suggested.
Sakura stepped in front of Naruto and came face to face with Sasuke and Kakashi. "You can't literally do that! You might end up killing someone, or maybe even breaking the restaurant!"
"Feh!" Naruto said, jumping in front of Sakura. "If that does happen, I can buy them a fancier restaurant when I win all that ryo!"
Kakashi sighed and shook his head. "Let's just get over there and get Naruto some food. Then you can have your fight."
Naruto jumped up into the air in excitement as they walked over to the restaurant.
"Finish up, Naruto," Sasuke said with a sigh. "Or else I'll call off the—"
"Fight?" Naruto said, turning his head to Sasuke and slurping up the last bit. He jumped up and threw the ryo to the owner. Sasuke stood to the left of the restaurant and Naruto to the right. Sakura and Kakashi were sitting on the stools of the restaurant. Kakashi yawned and looked at a clock. "Go."
"KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" Naruto said instantly. In a flash 15 clones appeared around himself and Sasuke. They all dashed toward him, and Sasuke simply sighed. "I'm getting sick of hearing those words, Naruto..." Sasuke activated his Sharingan and quickly jumped into the air, forming seals very quickly, so quick that Naruto couldn't efficiently realize them. All the Narutos stood below Sasuke, ready for any evasive maneuver.
"SHISHI RENDAN!"
All off the Narutos were instantly confused. Suddenly, the real Naruto received a kick to the chin. He was shot upward; Sasuke following him. Sasuke fixed his body under Naruto's and threw a kick to left. Naruto realized that the seals were to confuse him. He also saw that the Sasuke in the air disappear; it was clone! This wouldn't stop him though. Naruto smirked and quickly grabbed the leg. Naruto then threw Sasuke to the ground. Sasuke collided with the clones and made them all disappear. Naruto landed and made one clone. Sasuke got up and saw a ball of spinning chakra forming in Naruto's hand. Naruto smirked as the clone continued to form it.
"I'm not letting that happen!"
Sasuke dashed for the clone that was on Naruto's left side and punched it in the face, making it disappear. Sasuke expected the Rasengan forming to shatter and disappear. But it didn't. Naruto quickly thrusted his hand into Sasuke's stomach, which sent him flying backward at least 30 feet, crashing into a wooden fence.
"That's enough," Kakashi said, appearing in front of Naruto. Sasuke got on his knees and coughed up a little blood, then got up to his feet.
"I don't get it...that Rasengan should've shattered without the help of the clone..." Sasuke said slowly.
"Hah!" Naruto said with a big grin yet again. "I knew you wouldn't let me do that attack, so I made the clone stay a little bit longer, to make it seem like the sphere was still being built, even though it had long been ready! So, knowing that you would come up to its face and make it vanish, I used that opportunity to hit you! Pretty smart, right?"
Kakashi looked in Naruto's eyes and sighed. "Well, not entirely..."
Naruto's grin went to a frown. "What do you mean by that! I totally fooled him!"
Kakashi threw another sigh, which became a common thing when standing anywhere near Naruto. "Any high level ninja would use the Kawirimi no Jutsu as an emergency jutsu. After that, they could easily appear behind you and strike, making you simply waste chakra."
"Yeah, but Sasuke didn't see it coming!" Naruto said, gaining the grin.
"That's the weird thing..." Kakashi thought to himself. "He had his Sharingan activated, so he should've seen that coming."
Kakashi looked over Sasuke, who was still panting heavily. A Rasengan did hurt; especially in the stomach.
"Sasuke," Kakashi called.
Sasuke looked up and walked over to him.
"All of you go home and get some rest," Kakashi said. All of them began to walk away, but Kakashi quickly said, "Wait, Sasuke, before you go, I need to tell you something."
Sasuke walked back and crossed his arms, raising an eyebrow.
"Why didn't you see that com—"
"I deactivated my Sharingan when I hit the clone, since I thought I was in for a surefire win. Shouldn't have let my guard down." Sasuke interrupted, knowing what his sensei was gonna ask him.
"Well, just know this; If Naruto was smart enough to do this, just think how it would be with Neji or Shikamaru," Kakashi replied.
Sasuke nodded and walked off, still holding a hand in his stomach. Kakashi thought about the Extreme Shinobi Challenge; if a street fight was this intense, than the real tournament would be insane.
Okay guys, I just wanna clear up some things:
1. Okay, so Tsunade is the Hokage, so you may be thinking: "What's Sasuke doing in Konoha?"
Sasuke officially leaves after the Tea Country Race Arc, which is a filler arc from the anime. I'm doing some stuff from the anime and some stuff from the manga, but I'm using the timeline from the anime. Tsunade is the Hokage before the Tea Country Race Arc, and Sasuke is still in Konoha before the Tea Country Race Arc, so it fits. :D
2. About the thing in the last chapter when everyone gasped about Gaara; they gasped because he didn't kill every body. Remember, this is after the Naruto vs. Gaara fight in the Invasion of Konoha arc, so Gaara isn't really all that insane and he doesn't want to kill people like mad anymore. Also, this is when he's wearing those cool clothes.
3. I have made a tournament chart to better understand. Every time someone wins a fight, I'll update it. This should also help you understand the Temari or Naruto jumping to the Semi finals thing, since there are Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals. Here's the link (hopefully it works, and if it does, let it load; it's pretty big): http/img123.imageshack.us/img123/6370/extremeshinobichallengetournamentcharthg9.jpg
4. Also, sorry for the somewhat short chapter. When I wrote this, I felt a bit sleepy, explaining the shortness and the lack of action (even though it's not really lacking action, since Kakashi meant to stop the fight. Think about it, wouldn't it be kind of hard to continue the fight after getting hit with a powerful ball of rotating chakra in the gut?). I'm gonna try my best to make chapters long and action filled from now on (unless it's an information chapter, like chapter 4). Okay, sorry for taking so long on "clearing up some things."