It has been four days since Chrono has contacted Hinata and her team and his nerves started to take it's toll as he paced around the apartment. Jaffar, Haku, and Zabuza lounged around as Chrono paced the complex.
"What do you think could happen to them?" Chrono muttered as he continued pacing the area.
"It's the chunnin exam. Anything could happen." Zabuza muttered gruffly.
"They can adapt quickly." Jaffar muttered as he got up.
"I guess. But they are still rookies at least." Chrono muttered as he stopped pacing.
"Well, if anything else, they have each other to support themselves." haku pointed out.
"I guess you got a point there." Chrono muttered when the door opened.
Everyone turnned to see Emerald, Ninom and Sarutobi enter the room.
"Sarutobi-san." Haku muttered as she and Zabuza stood up.
"Well, all the examinee made it to the preliminary third round. So I'm here to bring you to the fighting ground." Sarutobi muttered.
"Yeah. Look Chrono. Tenten's father finished the bow. Now I can use it to stop matches if I wanted." Emerald said excitedly as she showed Chrono the bone wing.
"I know. All we are doing it just to judge them. We'll stop them if anyone is in danger." Chrono replied.
"Chrono, I got your staff here." Nino stated as she handed the dragon boy the healing staff.
"Now, is everyone ready?" Sarutobi asked.
Everyone nodded.
"Then I'll take you to the outside of the battle arena." Sarutobi muttered as he ran through some handseals.
One loud poof later, Team Elibe along with Haku, Zabuza, and Sarutobi appeared infront of the battle arena. Sarutobi entered the building followed by Haku and Zabuza. Emerald looked over to Chrono as he looked at Nino.
"Nino. Do me a favor and place a shroud over me until I say to dispel it." Chrono muttered.
"Why?" Nino asked.
"I don't want anyone to know what I can do before I show them." Chrono replied.
"That's silly Chrono." Emerald said as Nino placed the shroud on him.
"Just enter normally and take up post at a corner of the arena." Chrono said as he heard a few bits and pieces of Sarutobi's speech.
From inside the arena, Sarutobi finished up his speech.
"I realize that there are plenty splendid genins here. So, to ensure that no unfavorable judging occurs, I asked a group of mercenaries to judge this portion of the chunin exam. May you enter now?" Sarutobi said as the door opened.
All heads turnned to the door as Naruto and Kyushina in her fox form tried to get a look at the people.
"Who's entering?" Naruto asked as he stood on his tippy toes.
'It's that dragon's group.' Kyushina mentally said.
Three lines over, Hinata just saw Emerald, Jaffar, Nino, Haku, and Zabuza. A small smile form.
"Everyone. I would like to welcome our examinners." Sarutobi said as he looked around for Chrono.
"Hokage-san. Chrono will be here soon." Haku said as they went to a side of the arena.
Sarutobi nodded as he smiled. A gust of wind closed the door behind them as Chrono's voice rang out from under Nino's illusion.
"Man once had wisdom. Unlimited knowledge of what is right and wrong. Pieces of the greater good that flowwed from the knowledge." Chrono muttered as his image momentarily solidified and disappeared beside Temari.
"Eventually, Man grew their own ideas of the greater good. Difference of ideas sparked the world's first fight. From then, conflict followed." Chrono's form appeared and disappeared from infront of a Sound Ninja girl.
"Man soon learned that in order to protect their ideals, they need to protect themselves. From that desires gave birth the first warriors. The warriors of the Shadows. Now, we come here to see while person can become a leader to his squad." Chrono replied as his form completly materalied infront of the statue and the genins.
All the genins, saved for the rookie nine stared at Chrono's wing.
"I will be that judge. I am Chrono. If you overstep your bounds, I will put you down." Chrono replied as a ninja stepped out and handed everyone a number.
Haku took over as she stepped up.
"The numbers you where handed will determind who you fight. Look at the Screen to see you you are to fight." Haku said as all eyes shifted to the screen.
Soon enough, numbers ran rapidly across the screen until 2 numbers stopped.
"Uchiha Sasuke and Yori Akado, please enter the arena." Haku stated as the ninjas walked to the arena.
Chrono shut his eyes for a bit as he stilled his mind. Reopening his eyes, a blue shine came from it as his sky eyes activated.
"Let the match begin." Chrono muttered as the two fighters rushed at each other.
Fourty minutes has passed as Chrono smiled. During that time, two matches has passed as he reflected on one of the match.
'I never thought that Sasuke would use his eyes to copy speed. That gave him the initial advantage to beat Yori.' Chrono thought as the screen showed up two new names.
Everyone looked as they saw the two numbers and the personwho held the number.
"Rock Lee and Sabaku no Gaara. Enter the field." Chrono muttered.
"Yosh! Now is the time to show my training of youth!" Lee exclaimed as he jummped to the ground below.
Gaara's only response was a sudden poof to the arena through his sand.
"Are the two fighters ready?" Chrono asked.
Both Lee and Gaara nodded as Chrono looked to his group, who nodded also.
"Match 3 of the preliminaries. Rock Lee against Gaara. Begin!" Chrono declared.
Right off the bat, Lee rushed in to deliver a powerful punch to Gaara. The sand surrounding Gaara rose automatically and took the blow for Gaara. Unfazed by his attack being blocked, Lee continued the assult by throwing in some head level kicks and sweeps. All attempts where blocked by Gaara as he commanded the sand to swat at Lee. Lee's response was to flip backward while pulling out a kunai and slicing the sand as he went. Eventually, Gaara's sand assult stopped as Lee landed to regain his breath.
Over on the ledge overlooking Gaara, Temeri smirked.
"He won't make it long and Gaara's not going all out." She muttered.
"It won't be long now." Kankuro muttered as he watched Lee pull out some wieghts from his leg warmer and tossed them at Gaara.
The sand blocked the wieghts barely as Lee rushed in as a blur, punching through Gaara's sand and scoring successful hits. From the sky eyes, Chrono saw each hit landing squarely on Gaara as Lee suddenly lifted Gaara into the air through a well placed kick. Lee suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Gaara. His arm bandages surrounded Gaara as Lee uttered his attack.
"Omote Renge!"
The pair spun to the earth until Lee sprung away from Gaara at the last second, sending Gaara into a painful slam into the ground. Panting, Lee saw Gaara on the ground and smiled. That smile faded away along with the color and solidity of Gaara as Lee realised it was a sand clone that took the hit. Gaara poofed behind Lee as the sand started lashing at Lee at an increasing pace.
Over on the sidelines of the arena, Chrono mentally consulted his group about the performance.
"How long do you think Lee will last?" Nino asked through the glowing stone.
"Honestly, if Lee doesn't do something fast, very soon." Chrono replied.
"But didn't you teach Lee some magic?" Emerald asked.
"That was just one night's lesson. Granted, he made a huge leap for one night. But the burst of magic he did is far from battle useage." Chrono replied.
"At best, a genius can hope to learn magic within three years of exposure to the material." Jaffar stated as he watched the fight.
"That's true for a human. It even holds true to dragons. A dragon breath is like magic, so we have a better understanding of how magic works. But to bend it to our will requires knowledge that we are not born with." Chrono muttered.
The group watched the battle even more until Jaffar saw a slight flash of black. Haku and Zabuza even saw the flash of black as they looked over to Chrono, who suddenly looked disturbed.
"Black flash. You don't think Lee managed to progress his magic far enough to use Elder (A.N: Shaman) magic?" Jaffar muttered into his stone.
"That's impossible. Unless Lee's one night of magic lesson triggered some of the innate abilities in magic to thrive, it would be impossible." Chrono muttered.
"He's making his move." Emerald said as everyone watched on Lee's blurred movements.
Slamming Gaara around like a pinball, Lee unleashed a torrent of high speed punches as more black streaks of energy flew out of Lee's body. Lee finished his onslaught be appearing infront of Gaara and grabbed him before spiraling to the ground evnveloped in black energy.
"Youzai (flux) Ura Renge!" Lee yelled as the black energy rushed into Gaara and exploded.
Lee jumpped away from Gaara just as the sand boy slammed into the dirt.
"Did that do it?" Lee muttered.
Back on the sidelines, Chrono was beside himself.
"That's impossible." Chrono restated through the mental link.
"He just proved you wrong." Nino replied with a slight smile.
A sudden crunch and a loud scream was heard as everyone looked to see Lee's left arm and leg. The sand started to crawl up Lee's body when two things happened. The sand around Lee's body exploded as Gai stood infront of Lee while a tornado quickly formed around Gaara, riping apart any lingering sand that was on it's path to Lee. Gaara turned to see chrono's hand out as his aura glowwed.
"That will be enough, Sabaku no Gaara. It's your victory." Chrono stated as medics came into examine Lee's injuries.
"I....won't lose." Lee's voice strained out.
Everyone turnned to see Lee on his feet and barely moving. Chrono walked up to Lee along with Nino and examined him.
"He's out. How is he still moving?" Nino asked.
"The desire to win is fueling him now." Chrono replied as the medics looked at Lee for a few seconds before declaring their findings to Gai and Chrono.
"He is too far injured to be on active duty. The bones in his arm and leg is shattered beyond repair." the medic muttered.
Gai started to weep for his student when Chrono pulled out his staff along with Nino.
"I will reject that notion of beyond repair. Nino, get to the other side of Lee." Chrono muttered as he Laid Lee on the ground.
Nino got into position as Chrono pulled out his staff. This got everyone in the area intrigued.
"Ready?" Chrono asked.
"Yeah. On your count." Nino said.
"Ok. In three, two, one. Chant." Chrono muttered.
The pair started to chant words in their native language of Elibe and the dragon language. Everyone gasped except for Gaara and a certain Sannin in disquise as the energy flowwed into Lee. On the ledge, Tenten looked over to a white eyed boy.
"Neji, what are they doing?" Tenten asked.
"I don't know. But it's futle to try. But I'm curious on what they are doing. Byakugan!" Neji proclaimed as his visioned zoomed in on Chrono and his chakra.
"I can see his chakra going into the staff. But for some reason, I can't see what's coming out of the staff." Neji muttered.
Over with the sound ninja, Orochumaru smiled cycincialy.
"That boy has something even Sasuke don't have. I will see what he is capable of soon enough." The Snake Sannin muttered as he walked off the arena balconey and out of the arena.
Back on the ground, Chrono smiled as each bone and muscle was restored to it's former glory.
"Nino, go on secondary recovery. Heal anything I missed." Chrono stated as Nino channeled her energy to repair the small pockets of spinal damage to Lee.
Eventually, through the pair's efforts, Lee was back in tip top shape with no injuries. The medics placed Lee on a stretcher as they walked off. Chrono followed the stretcher as he muttered to Emerald, "Keep the fights going."
Emerald nodded as Chrono followed Lee to his medical room. It was not long after the medics placed Lee on the bed and left when he woke up.
"That's quite an attack that you used. Never thought you use shaman magic in a physical attack." Chrono muttered.
"Chrono-san. Shaman magic?" Lee asked confused as he sat up.
"Yup. That black aura in your fighting aura is Shaman magic or Black magic." Chrono stated.
"what does it mean?" Lee asked.
"It means you have innate abilities to use Black magic. Don't tell this to anyone. There is enough troubles from everyone watching me and Nino heal you. I don't want sparks to fly until I can defend against them." Chrono muttered.
Lee nodded as he started to think. Chrono smiled as he flapped his one wing.
"That also means you will go even deeper into magic then you know. I expect you at training ground seven tomorrow. Ok?" Chrono asked as he started to leave.
"Hai! Chrono-sensei!" Lee exclaimed.
"One more thing. If this works, magic will become your ninjustu." Chrono said as he left the room.
On the way back, Chrono smiled as he gave team Elibe information. It was then that he bumped into a pale white faced man.
"Excuse me." Chrono muttered as he stepped around the man.
The man placed a hand on Chrono with a vice like grip.
"Can I help you?" Chrono asked as he looked at the man.
"You can help me now!" the man stated as he looked right into Chrono's eyes.
Visions of his death froze Chrono on the spot as the dragon boy struggled to shake off the effects.
"Who are you?" Chrono demanded looking at the white faced man.
"The soon to be new host of your body."