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"Shinobi….Peace…Villages…Kage….All of it, is a lie. The thought that we can live, in peace and Love, that is a lie, Konohagakure, a peaceful village, or at least it was…but that was 3 years ago, before the insurgency, before the death, the ruin, before….Dasuto-Yami"
Naruto Shippuden: Unexpected Hate
Chapter II
"Chunin Exams! Stage I – Jounin Exam, The Battle Begins!"
The sun shines bright over Konoha, birds chirp and children laugh. "Hello citizens of Konoha, and welcome to the first day of the legendary Chunin Exams. This year is sure to be exciting, stages One, Two, and Three, will be in the old Chunin Arena. If you think that was exciting, just wait, the Jounin Exams come tomorrow, so get ready" said a Konoha announcer on the latest stadium television. People filed into the stadium, Anbu filled each section of the old stadium, several Anbu watching the Kage tower. "Gaara, Kurotsuchi, Darui, Chojuro" greeted Naruto. "Hokage Sama" greeted Darui. "Naruto" said Gaara. "Sixteen this year, heh, that's less than my year" chuckled Naruto. "One Hundred and fifty three during our year" smiled Gaara sitting down in the Kazekage seat. All the rest of the Kage sat down and placed their hats on the table in front of them, looking over papers with each contestants names on them. Each shinobi participant stood in clusters, talking amongst themselves as people filed in and sat down. Naruto stood up and walked to the edge of the Kage tower overlooking the battlefield. "Shinobi!" yelled Naruto getting everyone's attention. "Welcome to the Chunin exams, this year's exams will be all battle, currently there are sixteen shinobi, which makes for eleven groups of three. For round one, half of you will battle until only four remain, in round two, the other eight remaining shinobi will battle until only four remain, the last round will be a battle between the eight remaining shinobi, the four to win will be granted the title of Chunin. Let me be clear about the rules, NO killing, once your opponents have been defeated you will continue to the next fight until four remain. The four shinobi who will fight in round two, you will have a very different battle, now if you understand the rules you will be separated into your groups." Explained Naruto pointing to the massive screen shuffling names. "Round one: Uzumaki Tsuna, Uchiha Hinuke, Yamanaka Inojin, Metal Lee, Uchiha Sarada, Shinki, Yodo and Araya" said Naruto. "All the other shinobi, scatter" said Naruto and the other eight left the battlefield in a hurry. "Get ready. Three. Two. One. Fight!" said Naruto swinging his arm downward to initiate the fighting.
Sarada grabbed two shuriken and threw them at each other making one bend towards Lee, Hinuke activated her byakugan widening her palm and sending an air blast to Tsuna who was met by a wall of iron sand from Shinki. Tsuna smirked and turned punching the iron wall causing all the sand to disperse. "Woah" said Sakura in disbelief. "Sakura, she has your strength, how?" asked Ino. "I don't know, I didn't teach her" replied Sakura. Araya drew his sword and met Inojin in the center of the battlefield. Shinki sent two lunges of iron sand at Tsuna from either side trapping her in between them. Naruto stood up and walked to the edge of the tower looking at Tsuna. The two pillars of iron sand came together with Tsuna in between forcing onto Naruto a concerned look. Shinki smirked and removed the sand but to his surprise Tsuna was gone. "You must not know, I am the daughter of the fastest ninja alive" said Tsuna from behind Shinki. Shinki's eye grew wide and Tsuna punched him sending him across the arena and into the wall, breaking the ground beneath him. Hinuke and Sarada stood back to back as Yodo and Araya cornered them. "Sarada" said Hinuke and Sarada smiled and nodded. Sarada activated her sharingan and quickly got down on one knee. Hinuke jumped backwards onto Sarada's back and Sarada lunged upward sending Hinuke into the air as Yodo and Araya charged at her. Sarada charged at Araya looking up at Hinuke waiting for a signal to attack. Hinuke came down quickly landing right in front of Yodo hitting her in the chest with an open palm. "Gah! My…chakra…" panted Yodo before passing out. Sarada went to attack Araya when suddenly he swung his sword cutting Sarada's arm, he then swung again cutting her side, then her check and her other arm. "Sarada!" yelled Hinuke charging at Araya. Inojin got down on one knee and made a circle with her hand and suddenly fell to the ground while Metal Lee stopped moving. "I concede" said Metal Lee putting his hands up. Lee finally regained control and Inojin sat up smiling. "Enough!" said Naruto loudly. "Yamanaka Inojin, Uchiha Hinuke, Araya and Uzumaki Tsuna, you all have passed exam one of the Chunin exams…Metal Lee, Uchiha Sarada, Yodo and Shinki, you all have failed round one, please go to the rest rooms, clean up and rest, your next exams are in three days, next are the Jounin exams, they will take place in the ceremonial stadium…thank you for coming, stage one ends now" announced Naruto walking back to the table. "That ended quickly, are you sure you're ready to move everyone to the Jounin exams?" asked Gaara in surprise. "I know, but that just mean the next round will be longer, and the round after that even more so, besides…I'm curious to see how the boys are going to do" said Naruto looking down. "I heard a rumour that you're doing the Jounin exams differently this year" said Darui. "I heard that too, I heard that you cut it down to only one round, an all-out brawl between teams…" said Chojuro. "…and the last standing team is granted the title of Jounin, right?" finished Kurotsuchi. Naruto nodded to all of them and grabbed his hat. "A bit ambitious wouldn't you say, Hokage?" said Darui. "No, usually the Jounin exams are several rounds and only produced one new Jounin every so often, this will produce two Jounin in one round every two months, more efficient" explained Naruto beginning to leave the room. "Besides, I have a feeling…we may need more Jounin…" finished Naruto as he left the room. "The Hokage is acting weird lately" said Darui. "Naruto…" said Gaara under his breath.
Naruto sat down in the newly built Kage watchtower for the Jounin stadium, closing his eyes pondering. Naruto opened his eyes and took off his hat, setting it down on the table he notice a small paper card fall from it. He picked up the paper card to reveal a picture of Minato and Kushina. "Dad….Mom" whispered Naruto closing his eyes again. "Please, let me do this right…let nothing happen to my village…and if something does, please, please let me catch it before the damage is irreversible" thought Naruto opening his eyes once more as the wind shifted his hair and cloak. Finally the moment came, trumpets sounded, people talked and filled the stadium and it was the time for the legendary Jounin exams. Kiba sat with Sakura overlooking the stadium looking for his kids. "I'm telling you his acting weird" said Kiba looking around. "It's probably nothing" said Sakura. "Sakura I mean it…he is acting very different, odd…he is avoiding me, not to mention he was different in the Kage tower…I didn't see him smile once" explained Kiba turning to Sakura. "Maybe it's his senses, you know sometimes Kurama and the Sage Mode fuck up his sense" said Sakura looking back at the stadium warmly. A foot tapped next to Naruto slowly landing. "I'm going to watch from here" said Sasuke as his cloak slowly rested. Naruto nodded without looking at Sasuke and continued to watch the fresh new Jounin file in. Naruto walked over to the edge of the Kage watchtower, and quietly cleared his throat. Everyone slowly became quiet and paid attention to Naruto as he looked over the stadium. "This year's Jounin exams will be different. This year the Chunin will fight in pairs of two until one group remains. If your teammate goes down, you can continue until you are out, if you make it, both you and your teammate will make Jounin. The Chunin rule of no killing applies just the same here, now for the most important instruction. If you look around you there are rails that spiral in all directions around the stadium, the point of this is for you to utilize them, they have a trick to making them work, and I will not tell you what it is. The rails go under, above and around the stadium, if you fall off the edge of the stadium you have a chance to get back in, but if you pass the white flag you are disqualified" explained Naruto. "Last but not least….Begin!" shouted Naruto.
Kibuto and Sakashi did backflips in unison to escape the cluster of Chunin beginning to fight. Two cloud shinobi ran at Kibuto and Sakashi with kunai in hand but then stopped abruptly. Weaving a few hand signs one cloud shinobi shot a fireball at the Uzumaki brothers and the other cloud Nin shot a wind style jutsu at the fireball expanding it. "Sakashi!" said Kibuto and Sakashi nodded. Sakashi weaved a few hand signs and shot a small water beam at the tornado of fire creating a small hole. Kibuto ran ahead of Sakashi towards the tornado while Sakashi slid one leg back getting into a more intense stance. Sakashi held his right hand out creating a rasengan and Kibuto jumped over the tornado falling towards the two cloud Nin. "Heh, nothing in hand, what a foolish Nin" smirked one of the cloud Nin looking up at Kibuto as he fell. Sakashi ran forward but then abruptly stopped throwing the rasengan through the hole he made with the water. Kibuto activated his rasengan while the cloud Nin became distracted by Sakashi's rasengan. Kibuto landed on one cloud Nin with his rasengan smirking at the other cloud Nin who now was looking at Kibuto in surprise. Kibuto flicked his hands towards Sakashi's rasengan attaching chakra strings to it and guiding it towards the last cloud Nin. The cloud Nin fell to the ground after being hit by the rasengan and the fire tornado dispersed. Kibuto looked back at Sakashi and smiled as Sakashi caught up with him. Sakashi was about to high five Kibuto when suddenly a man in a black robe with tattered cloth wrapped around his eyes landed in between them. Naruto stood up and ran towards the edge of the Kage Tower with a worried look on his face, as the other Kage all stood as well. The man in black had long spikey black hair (like Madara's) and no apparent weapons on him. He quickly spun and kicked Sakashi across the stadium and into the wall making it crack. Naruto lunged off of the Kage tower towards Kibuto but the man already punched Kibuto into the stadium. Sasuke appeared behind the man in black and swung his sword but the man knelt down dodging it. Without moving an inch Sasuke and Naruto were blown back by an unknown force. "Sakashi! Kibuto!" yelled Kiba running towards the stadium. "Kiba no!" yelled Sakura grabbing ahold of him. "Who are you?!" asked Sasuke raising his sword again. The man didn't answer, instead he was suddenly behind Sasuke kicking him forward. Naruto threw three rasenshuriken at the man but for some reason they passed right through him and hit the stadium. "Gaara!" yelled Naruto and Gaara used his sand to protect the people in the stadium seats. Sasuke appeared next to Naruto, holding his sword and throwing his coat to the ground, Naruto took off his robe and prepared for battle. Sasuke and Naruto ran at the man and the man ran at them with intense speeds, meeting in the middle.