Note: I don't own Naruto.

Note: To clear up some confusion, Koichi and Akane are OC'S. Jirobo is not. Tsunade is Sarutobi's friend and kind of protégé. Shino became the chunnin and Shikamaru did not. Oh, but Sakura's still a bitch. Oh and in case you haven't noticed, Naruto and Neji did not become friends after the first exam.

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" Well how lucky am I to get to face Neji Hyuuga?" Kenjin said.

As smirk grew on Neji's face. " If you're anywhere near as weak as your teammates, this fight will be over in a flash." Neji said.

" I'm nothing like Satskue and Toru, I will be the one to return to my village as a chunnin." Kenjin responded.

Neji got into his fighting stance.

" I will show you first-hand, the true power of the Hyuuga clan." Neji said.

" Bring it on, Hyuuga." Kenjin said.

Kenjin got into a crouching stance and produced 6 clones of himself.

" Shadow clones…." Naruto thought

" Shadow clones? That's it?" Neji said mockingly.

As two clones attacked Neji, he leaned in to strike their chakra pools. As Neji looked up the two clones he struck were smiling. Neji couldn't figure out why. The two clones then began to glow white and exploded. Neji was thrown back. Both of his arms were singed. Forcing the bandage wrap on his arm to come off.

" As I'm sure you've noticed by now, these aren't what you call shadow clones. They are actually what we call in our village "fire clones". These clones are capable of every attack and jutsu I am. What sets them apart from a regular clone is……well, you've just seen." Kenjin said.

Neji jumped to his feet. As he did 3 more clones jumped towards him. Neji jumped back and pulled out 3 kunai. As the clones advanced, Neji launched a kunai at each one. As each kunai hit it's target, the clones detonated.

" Neji is usually prone to close combat. But he's going to have to rely on long range attacks to beat this guy." Sakura thought.

" Clever idea. It's easy to see why you're the prodigy of the legendary Hyuuga clan." Kenjin said.

" Thanks for the compliment….short stuff." Neji said with a sly grin.

Kenjin became infuriated.

" That's it! You just bought your self this!" Kenjin said.

Neji saw just behind him 7 Fire Clones jumping down behind him.

" 8 Trigram Heavenly Spin!" Neji shouted.

Neji then deflected all the clones away, forcing them to detonate. Kenjin stood dumbfounded. Neji noticed his opponent was distracted. Neji ran in for the attack. Striking him with multiple palm strikes.

" Neji is much faster than he was before." Hinata said.

Landing the last blow to his chakra pool, Neji defeated Kenjin.

" You were wrong, you are just like your teammates, weak." Neji said.

" The winner is Neji" The Proctor said.

" Well, it looks like Neji's gonna be joining us." Naruto said to Hinata.

The medic nins came to gather Kenjin, as one came to inspect Neji's arms, Neji ripped his arm away.

" Leave me alone my arms are fine." Neji said.

Neji jumped back up to the balcony. He walked past Hinata and Naruto. As he passed them Neji turned and eyed Naruto.

" Hoping I was gonna lose were you?" Neji said.

' No, I pretty much knew you were going to win." Naruto responded.

" So now you know I'll be in the finals along with you, I am very pleased because I want…." Neji started but was cut off.

" blah,blah,blah. Neji, I got half a mind to bitch-slap you right here in front of everyone right now. So just walk away." Naruto said.

Neji suddenly got up in Naruto's face. Naruto tightened his fist.

" Neji!" Gai said grabbing his shoulder and pulling him away.

" You wanna get disqualified right after you won your match?"

Hinata was relieved that the confrontation didn't escalate any further as she was also holding back Naruto by his shoulder.

" Sorry…I shoulda' handled that better." Naruto said to Hinata.

Fact was Naruto was still angry about how the Hyuuga clan just discarded Hinata like she meant nothing.

" Man, always the hot-head huh?" Kiba said to Naruto.

"Now for the next match." The Proctor said.

The names sped through the board.

Inuzuka Kiba

Vs.

Gaara

" Oh God! Are you kidding me?" Kiba shouted.

" Nobody ever got stronger by fighting weak opponents Kiba." Naruto said.

" Oh well, I got some new moves you guys haven't even seen, I just hope I won't get freakin' killed." Kiba said. Jumping down to the floor with Akamaru landing behind him.

Gaara suddenly appeared on the floor.

Kiba looked straight at him.

" Even if you do win Gaara, I'm gonna make you work for it." Kiba said.

Gaara smiled bringing a hand sign to his face.

"Begin." The Proctor said.

Akamaru jumped on Kiba's back.

" Man beast combonation!" Kiba shouted.

Akamaru then transformed into a double of Kiba. Using the four-legged technique they both rushed Gaara. Gaara's sand shield however, was to powerful to penetrate as the two attempted to slash at him.A large tidal wave of sand then slammed against Kiba forcing him back. Akamaru came by his side. They again charged Gaara.

" Fang over Fang technique!" They said in unison.

Gaara's sand shield could not help him this time, as their slashes were too strong and were getting closer to Gaara.

"Wow, Kiba's doing better than I bet even he expected. Look at him go." Naruto said.

" He's really giving Gaara a fight." Hinata said smiling.

The sand gathered around Gaara and formed on his body. But this was not the typical "Sand Armor technique.". This became clear to Kiba and Akamaru as more and more sand was gathering around Gaara. This seemed to be a far more advanced version of the jutsu. Gaara had literllay formed a suit of bulky sand armor to his body. It almost resembled knight's armor. Kiba and Akamaru attempted the "Fang over Fang technique." again. This had no effect as their claws could not seem to penetrate the armor. Kiba and Akamaru gained some distance.

"" Done?" Gaara asked. " Now it's my turn."

Gaara formed sand shuriken from his armor and launched it against the two. Kiba and Akamaru ran to dodge them, which they did successfully.

" Akamaru! This isn't working! We have to do Man-Beast Fusion!" Kiba yelled.

Naruto looked to Kurenai. "Man-Beast Fusion?" Naruto asked.

" Just watch, it's a new technique." Kurenai said.

Back on the platform...

Akamaru reverted back to his dog form then started running towards Kiba. Kiba unzipped his jacket and tore open his shirt exposing his torso. Akamaru ran towrds Kiba and jumped into his body, it seemed that Akamaru was actually digging inside Kiba, yet there was no blood. This did it's part in freaking everybody out. Even Gaara stood a little shocked at what he was seeing. As Akamaru finished climbing in, Kiba's torso seemed to return to normal.

" Whoa! What're they doing?" Naruto asked.

Kiba got into a crouching position. Everyone watched to see what was happening, then they heard a deep growl starting to come from Kiba. White fur had begun to grow from Kiba's skin. This was followed by an expansion of size as Kiba grew twice as large, causing his clothing to rip in some parts. This was concluded bu Kiba's eyes turning yellow and forming a black nose like a K-9's.

" What is this?" Neji said watching Kiba with his Byakugan.

Kiba then got onto all fours and growled at Gaara.

" Man-Beast Fusion Technique!" Kiba said in a deep growling voice.

Kiba then ran twicw as fast as before and slashed away at Gaara's armor, causing it to burst into the air.

" no...no way, he's actually penetrating Gaara's armor, that's incredible." Temari said.

Regardless of Kiba's new powerful attacks. The sand retunred to the armor to reinforce it. But Gaara had to act fast or Kiba's strikes will sooner or later kill him. Kiba had already managed to get a few slashes off Gaara. Gaara jumped back and reinforced his armor. As Kiba was coming in for another strike he felt something grab his leg. As Kiba looked down he saw a floor of sand beneath him.

" Nice job idiot, you fell right into his trap!" Kiba thought.

The sand then wrapped around Kiba completely enveloping him. Gaara was shown holding his hands up.

" Sand Coffin!" Gaara said.

Hinata gasped. " Is he going to...?" Hinata thought as she remembered what Gaara did to that ninja in the forest last exam

Kiba was shown in Gaara's attack trying to free himself, but even with his new strength, to no avail.

" Proctor..." Gaara started. " As you can see, My opponent is immobilized.I am clearly the winner."

Everybody in the stadium was in awe, they were sure Gaara was going to follow up with the " Sand-Burial technique."

The Proctor agreed.

"The winner of this match is Gaara."

Gaara released the attack. Kiba and Akamaru seperated again. Kiba was pissed that he lost. But as he got back up to the balcony, he was greeted with nothing but compliments.

" Man Kiba, that technique was totally wicked!" Naruto said.

" You did fantastic." Hinata said softly.

Kiba rubbed the back of his head.

" Good work Kiba, I hope battling Gaara has helped you with your technique."

" Thanks sensei." Kiba said.

" You know no matter how many compliments you get..." Neji said to Kiba off to the side."...It doesen't change the fact that you lost."

Kiba grunted at Neji and turned his attention back to his team.

" This means it's up to you two to win the tournament for our team." Kiba said.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head smiling while Hinata rubbed her arm and blushed. The few remaining fights were between the Rain, Grass and Mist nins.(As I've said before, their names are not important cuz I HATE TOO MANY OC'S!). The final matches finished. At the end of the preliminaries, the following genin remained.

From the Sound village

Jirobo

Akane Taga

Koichi Higashi

From the Sand village

Gaara

From the Grass village

Kouji Fukumori

Yasuo Ikura

From the Rain village

Natsumi Sakuma

Kazue Ebara

From the village of the Hidden Mist

Ichiro Nagai

Nomura Wakamoto

From the Hidden Leaf village

Neji Hyuuga

Sakura Haruno

Hinata

Naruto Uzumaki

All the winners of the preliminaries were lined up facing the Hokage. Sarutobi explained the rules of the finals to the genin.

" Now there will be a tournament one month from now, within that month you are all free to train or prepare in any way you can for the tournament you can spend it to further hone your skills or search for information on the other competitors. Now normally at this point we give out numbers to determine who will fight in the first round." A small smirk came onto Sarutobi's face. " However, a problem that most genin make is that they spend their month learning everything they can only about their first opponent. So this year we are going to go with something interesting, instead of assigning numbers, we are going to stay with the Electronic Board process, so it would be in your best interest to find out what you can about all the competitors." Sarutobi said.

" So since it's a tournament, there will be only one who can become a chunin?" Jirobo said.

" Not at all, the reason for this tournament is to observe your individual skill. Such skills will be judged and your qualifications for chunin will go from there. It is possible in fact that all of you will become chunin, conversely it is possible that none of you will." Sarutobi explained.

The genin all understood the rules of the contest.

"One more thing." Sarutobi said strictly. " Until the tournament none of you are to try to harm eachother,any disregard for this rule will result in you immediate disqualification from the tournament."

The genin undrstood the consequences.

" That will be all, good luck to all of you.Dismissed" Sarutobi said.

The genin began to disperse. Sarutobi came over to Hinata who greeted him with a kind smile.

" How is your arm my dear?" Sarutobi asked.

" Oh, it's fine now, the medic nins are incredible." Hinata said.

" Hey Oldman!" Naruto said running to Sarutobi.

" Did'ja see us out there? We cleaned house!" Naruto said.

" Naruto..." Sarutobi started." Still as spastic as always."

Naruto grumbled.

" Well, I must be on my way, good luck to you both." Sarutobi said.

" Thankyou." They said in unison.

Naruto and Hinata walked out the doors where alot of the genin gathered. Kiba walked up to them.

" Man, I'm jealous. You guys get to go to the finals." Kiba said.

" Kiba." said Gaara from behind him.

Kiba turned to face Gaara.They stared for a second. Then Gaara bowed.

" Good match." He said.

Kiba retruned the bow. " Yea, good match."

Ino came over to the group.

" Pardon my boys but let me steal Hinata from you for while." Ino said.

" That's cool, I'll get with you later Hinata." Naruto said.

Hinata blushed. " I'll see you all later."

Hinata and Ino started to walk away.

" I can't believe you and Sakura are in the finals." Ino said.

" I just...got lucky." Hinata said.

" Luck nothing , you took it to that Fire nin. You earned your win. " Ino said.

" So you won did you?" said an older woman's voice.

Hinata and Ino looked up to see a woman wearing a lovely silk kimono, she had her brown hair put up in a bun. Her most distinct feature were her lavender eyes which clearly showed she was a Hyuuga. Ino was puzzled not knowing who she was. Ino turned to see Hinata looking timidly at the ground almost ashamed with her finger to her lips.

" w...what are y..you doing here Hyuuga-san?" Hinata asked timidly.

" Hanabi and I have come to escort Neji home to begin training immediately with Hiashi." The woman said.

Ino was shocked to see that whatever confidence Hinata had a moment ago seemingly vanished.

" So you won your match, is that a fact?" The woman asked.

"h...hai" Hinata said timidly.(Not a good sign, Hinata was beginning to stutter again.)

" Well, I didn't think it was possible but it would seem you actually came across a ninja more pathetic than you." She said.

Ino was completely shocked, who the hell did this woman think she was?

" Hey!" Ino said coming to Hinata's defense.

Suddenly a hand appeared on Hinata's shoulder. It was her sensei, Kurenai.

" Hyuuga-san, how lovely to see you, is there something I can help you with?" Kurenai said with a certain smugness.

" Oh nothing Kurenai, I was just congratulating your student on her quite literally unbelievable victory. But I am actually here to escort Neji and...oh here he comes right now."

Neji is shown walking with Hanabi close by his side. The woman walked away from the three towards him.

"Come Neji." She asked.

Neji nodded as all three walked back to the Hyuuga manner. Hanabi looked over at her sister and rolled her eyes.

Ino couldn't believe the nerve of that woman.

" Who does that woman think she is?" Ino said.

" She's...Lord Hiashi's wife." Hinata said.

Ino looked to her even more amazed by this news.

Ino saw Hinata continue to look at the ground

"Hinata...was that your mother?" Ino thought.

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Next Time

Naruto: Alright! One month. Time for training.

Jiraiya: Jiraiya is here!

Naruto: Ero- sennin! Hey, train me!

Jiraiya: (Grumbles)

Naruto: Next Time! Chunin Tournament closes in!

There you all Freakin' Happy!? I made the chap longer!

More to come...I can transform reviews into Chakra!

P.S. I think I went a little overboard with the bitch slap line.