Regarding the Reviews
Benkei Atsumori-Yeah I try not to overpower characters too much and have their abilities fit into the Naruto-universe. Oh and sorry about the somewhat long wait, I'll put the reasons at the end.
Kingkakashi-As Aranthera said Kushina is becoming too much of a secondary character that isn't being seen enough and plus I believe that she also learned the jutsu because in the manga it is said that she fights with almost all the same techniques as Naruto. Also I do not hate Sasuke, I'm merely…disappointed in his actions.
--Preliminaries--
Neji and Hinata jumped down to the stage and they didn't say a word. Neji gave a small bow, which Hinata returned. Neji thought, 'Hinata-sama is one of the nicer head-branch members, but I must go all out against her. At least I know that she will not activate the seal to gain the upper hand.'
The thoughts going through Hinata's head were, 'Neji-kun is more skilled in using the Byakugan than me and I haven't finished my variation of it. Maybe I can try doing something else.' They got into their fighting positions and Hayate said, "Hajime."
Hinata immediately did hand seal with her Byakugan active and said, "Suiton: Mizu Bakuha no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Blaster Jutsu)" Several shots of water literally came from thin air and all went flying towards Neji, whom dodged it easily.
She activated the jutsu twice more before Neji said, "Hinata-sama, if you're going to be a ninja then you learn when your actions are not working and find a new strategy. If you did this in a real ninja fight your teammates would most likely find you dead."
Hinata just said, "N-Neji-kun a ni-ninja's greatest weapon is de-deceit." He was confused until he saw hand seals that weren't used for her last jutsu. She finished and said, "Suiton: Suiryū Suijou Misairu no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Aquatic Missile Jutsu)."
Right next to Neji was a fairly big puddle from the constant water attacks. It turned into a small dragon missile and crashed into him leaving a wave of water covering the area. After she saw it hit Hinata got on her knees and started to pant. She was shocked when a shadow came over her and it was a wet Neji.
He said, "You're right, it is a shame you couldn't hide your plan that well." She weakly asked, "H-how?" "It was not that hard, when I saw that the water you shot only landed in one spot I figured that you were getting ready for a big attack. When it came at me I disrupted the chakra manipulating it causing it to become a lot less violent," Neji replied.
Hayate called, "Hyuuga Neji is the winner." He held his hand out to Hinata, whom gracefully took it. After they were back up in the catwalks the names were shuffled and it said…
Tsurugi Misumi vs. Shino Aburame
Misumi jumped down while Shino slowly walked down the stairs. Misumi was getting impatient and said, "Stop prolonging your defeat and get down here rookie." After he said that Shino disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared right in front of his opponent.
Misumi said, "About fricking time." Hayate said, "Hajime." At that moment Misumi coiled around Shino and said, "If you don't surrender I'll break your neck, killing you." Shino said, "No." Misumi followed through with his threat, but Shino turned into a swarm of bugs that started to drain his chakra to dangerous levels.
After about two minutes the bugs returned to Shino when he came out of the spot he was hiding in. By that time Misumi was barely conscious and he thought, 'He must've switched himself with his bugs when he disappeared.' Hayate called, "Winner, Aburame (cough) Shino."
Shino walked up while Misumi was carried away and looked up to see…
Sabaku no Temari vs. Nara Shikamaru
Temari jumped down in a gust of wind and landed gracefully. Shikamaru was asleep, but Choji woke him up and pointed at the screen. Shikamaru sighed and said, "Troublesome, but it was bound to happen eventually. Why'd it have to be a girl though? I can't hit a girl, no matter how troublesome they might be. Hinata-chan…you are the only girl who isn't troublesome."
With that he walked down the stairs and his teammates thought, 'How'd he manage to use troublesome three times in like twenty seconds?' He got right in front of his opponent when she opened her fan revealing one moon.
"This is the first moon when all three are revealed, you lose," said his confidant foe. Shikamaru yawned and said, "Whatever, I can't believe I had to get up to fight a girl." "You think girls are weak and helpless?" Temari snapped at him.
Shikamaru stretched his arms out before lazily saying, "No." Hayate was annoyed and said, "If you guys are done idly chatting can we get this match started." Shikamaru shrugged his shoulders and Hayate said, "Hajime."
Temari thought since she was so close already that she'd knock him around a bit. She swung her fan around trying to hit his head. Shikamaru dodged by leaning out of the way with little movement at all.
When her hand went right passed his head he grabbed it and gently pushed her back. His chain followed her and grabbed her fan. Temari smirked and pulled on the chain causing Shikamaru to come rushing towards her.
The lazy boy went over her head and landed close to her in a squatting position with hands in the rat seal. He said, "Kagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Imitation Jutsu)." The shadow that was inches away from the Suna-nin connected with her shadow.
The two ninjas stood still for what seemed to be, in Temari's point of view, thirty minutes, but was mere seconds. No matter how much she tried to struggle free she couldn't move. "HURRY UP AND DO WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO!" Temari screamed.
Shikamaru pulled out a kunai that was curved at two points, making it bend, and stabbed it into Temari's shadow and released the technique. He jumped away and threw his chain at her fan with enough force to knock it out of her hand.
The immobilization effect from the kunai on her didn't last long and she quickly grabbed her fan. Shikamaru sighed and said, "Guess I didn't put enough chakra into that kunai, so troublesome. Oh well trial and error is the way people figure these things out."
Temari skipped the second moon and opened the fan all the way to the third and cried, "Daikamaitachi no Jutsu (Great Cutting Whirlwind Jutsu)." Shikamaru was blown into a wall, but not before grabbing her leg with his chain, causing him to be able to see her panties.
Shikamaru got a nosebleed and he said, "Striped." Temari got furious and said, "DAIKAMAITACHI NO JUTSU (Great Cutting Whirlwind Jutsu)!" A huge gust of wind was shot at the lazy boy with blood on his nose and he mumbled, "Troublesome woman. Katon: Goukakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu)."
A burst of fire stopped the gust of wind and gave Shikamaru a cover of flames to get ready. As soon as the flames cleared a chain moving at incredibly quick speeds bounded Temari and Shikamaru quickly ran over to the fan mistress and held a kunai to her neck. "(Cough) Winner Nara Shikamaru."
They both went back up, with Temari really mad and Hayate said, "Okay time for the final match if you would please look up at the screen to see who is left and get this fight started."
Uzumaki Naruto vs. Sabaku no Kankuro
Naruto screamed, "IT'S ABOUT FRICKING TIME! I'VE WANTED TO BE THE FIRST TO FIGHT, BUT NOO I'M THE LAST!" Kankuro looked at the masked boy and thought, 'This is going to be easy.'
Naruto was down in an instant and Kankuro made his way down quickly as well. "(Cough) Hajime," Hayate cried.
Kankuro pulled out his puppet and sent it flying at Naruto, who jumped over it. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (You should know this)." Ten Narutos appeared and were ready for battle.
Karasu was sent to destroy all of the clones, but in the process of doing so lost two of its arms. The real Naruto went towards Kankuro, but was stopped when the puppet came back and tackled him.
Naruto was able to walk on the wall when he got to it and used it to push off towards Kankuro. The puppet master tried to use Karasu, but when Naruto was tackled by him he pined him to the ground with many kunai. He also made sure that he hit the important joints so it couldn't maneuver anyway out of the trap.
There was one good punch to Kankuro's face and he was pushed back a little. Naruto got behind him as quickly as he naturally could and pinned him down with a kunai to the neck. Kankuro thought, 'How could this brat beat me?' as Hayate called, "Winner (cough) Uzumaki (cough) Naruto."
Minato then explained the third exam and told everybody that won to grab a number. After everyone had a number the Hokage said, "Okay match one will be Uzumaki Naruto vs. Uchiha Sasuke. Match two is Hyuuga Neji vs. Sabaku no Gaara. Match three is Koubaouken Takehiko vs. Fujiatsusa Chinatsuhime. Match four is Akimichi Choji vs. Nara Shikamaru. Finally, match five is Nyaki Nekoyohi vs. Aburame Shino."
Shikamaru and Choji both had sad looks covering their face, they were supposed to fight each other. Takehiko was mad, why did he always have to fight his female teammates. Nekoyoshi and Shino seemed to be evaluating each other. Neji looked somewhat…nervous, while Gaara was indifferent. Sasuke was looking at Naruto while Chinatsuhime was fawning over him. Naruto was just thinking of ways to train.
Author's note
A little short, I know, but I had a little case of writer's block. That isn't why this took longer then usual though. I had this chapter almost done awhile ago and I just needed to do a couple more scenes before it was finished, but then the entire story got deleted. I was able to recover all of the chapters that I had posted online, but I was forced to rewrite this one, which took some time.
Anyways I hope you like the battle setups. I thought that it would be interesting for Choji and Shikamaru to fight each other, it won't ruin their friendship though.
Voting time
1. What kind of weapon should I give Naruto? Before you answer I want to say one thing, NO SWORDS. They have been done to death and I would prefer to give Naruto a more underused type. I would prefer if it was an asian weapon.