Hey guys, sorry about not giving you new chapters and stuff. School just started last month, and I've gotten hit with school work, class work, home work, and even project work. Here's a nice chapter for you (I know, it's a little short, but I meant for this fight to be short. Don't worry, the Neji-Rock Lee fight next chapter will be reallllllly long) with Sasuke against Tenten. Chapter 8 will be up late tomorrow, like around 8 or 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time in the USA. So yeah.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything even related to it. My life story.

"SASUKE! SAKURA! KAKASHI-SENSEI! HURRY UP! WE'LL MISS THE OPENING OF THE TOURNAMENT!"

"...You don't even know where the stadium is..."

A boy in an orange jumpsuit, our beloved Naruto, glared toward his long time rival, Uchiha Sasuke. It was the day of the Extreme Shinobi Challenge, a tournament that Tsunade, the fifth Hokage, had created to have some fun and see who the strongest Genin in the world really was. It was held in Konohagakure. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and their Jonin sensei Kakashi were walking down a forest trail leading to the stadium. The Genin had no idea where the tournament was to be held, but Kakashi did. It was meant to be kept a secret until the day of the tournament.

"Kakashi, where's the stage anyway...?" The pink haired kunoichi questioned.

"Just a few more minutes of walking...don't worry," Kakashi said with a small smile.

20 MINUTES LATER

"Are we almost there, sensei?" Naruto asked with a big smile on his face.

"A little bit more."

45 MINUTES AFTER THAT...

"Are we there yet...?" Sasuke questioned lowly.

"Yup," replied Kakashi.

"REALLY!" Naruto exclaimed with a big jump into the air.

"Nope," replied Kakashi once more, not even lifting his eye from his Icha Icha Paradise book.

Naruto and Sasuke sighed and put their heads down as they kept walking, while Sakura just threw a small laugh.

90 MINUTES AFTER THAT...

"Here we are!" Kakashi said aloud.

"Don't even joke around, sensei...' Naruto said in a low voice, annoyed by the previous jokes Kakashi had pulled on him. All of a sudden Naruto felt Kakashi's hand on the back of his head. Kakashi thrusted Naruto's head upwards, along with Sasuke's. They were at the end of the forest path, and in front of them stood a wasteland as far as the eye – hell, even the Byakugan – could see. There were a few trees here and there and a couple of pillars of earth that stood about 20 feet tall scattered around the area. Then Naruto spotted a large set of seats much like the Chunin Exam stadium, but these seats sat on 20 foot tall man-made walls of Earth. About one thousand people could fit into all the seats and in the center of those seats was a large chair with the symbol of fire on it. Naruto then finally noticed that Tsunade was actually sitting there, and then by squinting he saw that the seats weren't empty. All of them were filled with other ninjas the came to watch the battles, feudal lords and rich people that came to make bets, and all the Chunin and Anbu members watching the fights.

"Anbu...they probably still don't trust the sound village one hundred percent just yet..." Naruto thought to himself quietly.

"Let's go!" Sakura said aloud, pulling Naruto out from space. They all nodded and walked toward the field. Many people in the seats saw them enter and sighed.

"Kakashi and his habit of being late attached itself to his Genin soldiers..."

"He needs to come earlier..."

Now Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were standing below the man-made walls of earth that the audience sat upon. At the bottom of the walls the other contestants were waiting. Naruto saw everyone there, and some of them even waved back. Shikamaru, Ino, Hinata, Neji, Rock Lee, Tenten, Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, Kiba, and Shino. They were all there waiting for them. Asuma, Kurenai, and Gai also stood there. The Jonin sensei, Baki, of the Sunagakure team of Genin was sitting in the seats above, not to be bothered with communication. Now that everyone was here, Tsunade slowly stood up. As everyone saw her stand, they quickly shut their mouths, knowing the important part was about to come.

"Everyone, I would like to thank you come for coming to the Extreme Shinobi Challenge!" Tsunade exclaimed at the top of her lungs. She took a small pause and resumed. "Today we will have the beginning of the tournaments. I will not say any more than this for today. What I will say is what most of you know, but the grand prize winner of this challenge will receive one million ryo, directly from me." Tsunade lifted her hand and out came Mitarashi Anko carrying a glass suitcase. The ryo insane was viewable, and most people gasped. Naruto jumped up and screamed, "THAT'S MY MONEY RIGHT THERE!" Shikamaru sighed and punched him in the side of the face. Hinata lowered her head at the fact that he had to receive the hit.

"Back to the point..." Tsunade resumed. "The first match is about to begin. Sasuke and Tenten, please move to the center where Genma is standing. Sasuke looked over to Tenten and Tenten looked back to him. They both knew they were formidable opponents for each other. They slowly walked to the center where Genma was standing. Genma had been the one to watch over the fights in the finals of the Chunin Exam before the attack on Konohagakure took place. Sasuke and Tenten looked over to Genma while the crowd silenced.

Genma nodded his head which nibbling on his toothpick. "Right...the rules...look down at your feet right now."

Sasuke and Tenten looked down between them. There was a small white target on the floor.

"This will be the center of the battle field. If you go farther than 10 kilometers in any direction from this target, you will be disqualified. I will be watching over the fight. If I decide to stop the fight, you will stop the fight. If I say you're disqualified, I will tell you why and you will leave with no arguments at all. You will lose if you give up, die, or if I say so myself. Are we clear on that?"

Sasuke and Tenten nodded slowly, and then focused on each other, backing away slowly.

"Fight 1, Uchiha Sasuke versus Tenten," Genma said. "You can begin."

Tenten backed away a couple of feet. Gai smiled at this, knowing this was her fighting distance that allowed her to fight and defend at the same time. The Uchiha stood still with his eyes closed while Tenten thought of what to do. Sasuke slowly pulled his hand up above him with the seal of the tiger. Tenten quickly jumped back as Sasuke released the technique. "KATON: HOUSENKA NO JUTSU!" 10 fireballs quickly leaped out of Sasuke's mouth and all headed toward Tenten. Tenten ran in circles around Sasuke easily dodging the fireballs, and she quickly slid to a stop and pulled out a single scroll. Sasuke stood still and observed what was happening.

"This...I saw this during the Chunin Exam preliminaries..." Sasuke closed his eyes as Tenten got the attack ready, and when he re-opened them he had his Sharingan eyes activated. Tenten threw the scroll up into the air in a single helix formation and jumped up through the spiral formation the scroll was making spinning around. Placing her palms on the insides symbols of the scrolls, she summoned a variety of weapons and threw them toward Sasuke. As the weapons came hurdling toward Sasuke, in swift movements he grabbed them all and threw them back toward Tenten and her scrolls. Tenten had her eyes closed while summoning the weapons, and upon contact with the first kunai to stab her in the shoulder, the scroll fell down and Tenten collapsed onto the ground with a hard thud. She slowly stood up and carefully removed the impaled kunai all over her body, which was mostly her legs and arms, nothing in the torso. Sasuke stood still and waited for her to get up.

"You can't just use such a stupid technique and expect for it work on me," Sasuke said lowly. He turned around and saw the shuriken and kunai that had missed him sitting on the ground. Tenten smiled and slowly raised her hands up into the air, and then the shuriken and the kunai lifted into the air. Before Sasuke could even question anything, Tenten yanked her hands backward, sending the weapons attached to the strings that were attached to her toward Sasuke. In a split second all the weapons were back in front of her lap, and Sasuke suddenly had cuts all over his body. Blood slowly dropped to the floor and Tenten stood up and wiped off blood from her face. Now she was hearing an odd noise...it sounded like birds...over a thousand of them. Sasuke turned around and had his hand was curled into a fist that was covered with lightning chakra. There was a flash of white and then only a shadow dashing toward another could be seen. After everything vanished, the final image came up. Sasuke stood breathing heavily in the center of the area with his arm outstretched and his hand still in a fist. In the middle of his hand an impaled kunai was visible. Tenten had gotten sent flying backward into a small rock wall formation about 1 kilometer off to the west. Genma slowly stepped forward and coughed a bit. "Right then...Uchiha Sasuke advances to the quarter finals."

Sasuke lowered his arm and then collapsed onto the ground. He had seemed alright, even though a kunai was stuck in his fist. Just when Sakura was going to go congratulate him, he suddenly collapsed on the floor. Sakura and Ino ran out from the cave to him, but Kakashi and Asuma stopped them.

"What...what happened to Sasuke!" Sakura asked aloud.

"Tenten had launched a kunai into his fist before the punch hit her..." Kakashi slowly stated. "Since Sasuke's hand was completely engulfed lightning chakra, the kunai became engulfed in lightning chakra. Since the kunai impaled him, the lightning chakra that was on his fist transferred to the kunai. Then the kunai transferred the lightning chakra from itself to Sasuke's inner chakra circulatory systems. That basically sent lightning chakra throughout his whole body, attacking everything inside of it, even the organs, because remember, your inner organs are tied together through the inner chakra circulatory system. Chidori does have enough lightning chakra to kill you if every bit of the lightning chakra went inside of you, but luckily only a little bit of it went to the kunai. He's gonna be in the hospital for a couple of days."

Sakura and Ino slowly looked over to Sasuke as the medical ninja picked him up and left with him. Then more medic-nin went over to Tenten and took her to the hospital.

"Gai-sensei...will Tenten be alright?" Lee questioned.

"Yeah, she'll be alright," Gai stated. "What she did was just an attempt to knock Sasuke unconscious, which she did do. The problem was that Sasuke's Chidori usually knocks a person out if they get hit hard enough, and Tenten really got hit hard." Gai looked over to Kakashi. "You're lucky you taught him that technique, Kakashi. Tenten would've won easily if it wasn't for that Chidori."

Kakashi looked up from his Icha Icha Paradise Book. "Did you say something, Gai?"

Gai turned around and held his fist in the air. "You've out done yourself with your coolness once again, Kakashi! Just you wait!"

After everyone hushed, Tsunade stood up again. "The first fight is over. Let the second begin. Hyuga Neji and Rock Lee, move to the center of the field."

They both walked over to the center, eyes derived from each other. Genma sighed and stated, "Do I need to re-explain the rules?"

Both Neji and Lee shook their heads.

"Good. You can start now."

A colossal fight was about to take place. A natural born genius up against a genius of hard work!