Chapter Three – Third Exam
It seems like a few of you prefer the original so I'm thinking about just uploading the original chapters each week. I don't know what happened to my beta; who did the first chapter, but I'm going to upload the original since I've gotten reviews stated they like the original more. So if you just prefer me to upload the original please tell me in a review of PM me.
Also if you read the original version you know that I skipped the forest of death parts and went straight to the preliminaries.
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Today was the day that they were having their third exams, it finally arrived and everyone couldn't be more excited. Some were nervous but that's only to be expected.
Everyone was lined up according to their teams, only two teams who came from different villages; one from the Sound village while the other is from the Sand village. All of their eyes were focused on the woman who was currently speaking to them, "I congratulate you on getting this far in the exam" Anko tells everyone in the room. "Twenty-one students out of seventy-eight who passed the second exam" She smirked widely, "I was only expecting ten".
"Alright listens up you maggots Lord Hokage is going to explain the rules" Anko looks at the Hokage motioning him to speak, "Lord Hokage"
The older male cleared his throat before speaking, his dark eyes looking at everyone in the room, "The Chunnin exam is completed with participation from allies' nations to maintain good relations with those allied nations and to heighten the level of the ninja. This exam is the epitome of a war between the allied nations. In history, these allied nations were neighboring countries that have fought each over and over. To avoid wasting military power, those countries decided to choose a place to fight"
"The exam does choose who is of Chuunin level, but it is also a place where ninjas fight and carry their country's dignity. In the Third Exam, feudal lords and famous people from various countries who may be potential clients are invited as guests to watch the battles. If there's a significant difference in power, the strong country will be flooded with jobs. A country seen as weak, their jobs will decrease. The countries are also able to show how their village has grown and possess excellent military power to the adjacent countries so they can put foreign pressure on them"
"Why do they fight by risking their live?" Kiba asked curiously.
"A country's power is the village's power. A village power is the ninja's power is only born in life or death battling. This exam is a place to show off the ninja power of one's country. Because they fight with their life, the exam's has meaning. That is the reason their predecessors have fought and dreamed of being in the Chunnin Exam. The custom of saving one's life and fighting to maintain balance" They all look at him in shock.
"That is the good relation in the saving one's life and fighting to maintain your dream and village's dignity" He elucidated. The genin's continued to listen as the Hokage explains the true purpose of the Chuunin exams.
"Now for the rules," He stated, suddenly as he says this a judge appears in front of everyone, shocking most of the pre-teens in the room.
"If you don't mind Lord Hokage I would like to explain the rules of the third exams" He exclaimed, looking over at the male waiting for him to give him permission. Once he did the male coughed lightly, turning his body to face the younger ninja he began talking.
The judge steps forward and looks at the examinees. "I'm Gekkou Hayate the judge of this exam…before-before we go any further there are too many examinees left and we must hold a preliminary. A one and one match to see advances to the Third exam" During most of his speech he was coughing a lot which caused many people to look at him in concern.
"A preliminaries?" Hinata whispers to herself.
"Are there are any volunteers to quit?" He asked. Hinata looks at Sasuke and notices that he was clutching his shoulder in pain where the seal is. "S-Sasuke-kun…I-I think that you should withdraw…you l-look like your in a l-lot of pain" Sasuke ignores her as he continues holding shoulder, he wasn't going to back down now after all that he has been through.
The Hokage and Anko also notice Sasuke's pain, "I think that we should take him out of the exam and isolate him with ANBU escorts" Anko whispered lowly while glaring over at the younger Uchiha.
"Sasuke is stubborn and won't quit easily" Kakashi explained while looking at Sasuke and then Anko. Meanwhile, Hinata continues trying to convince Sasuke to withdraw while Sakura watching in curiosity at Hinata talking with Sasuke.
"S-Sasuke-kun if you keep this up you'll be-"
"Shut-up, I don't need you to worry about me, just worry about your own self" He hissed as he glanced at her from the corner of his eye. Naruto turned around and looking at both Sasuke and Hinata.
Hinata attempts to put her hand up, but Sasuke slaps it back down causing Naruto, Sakura, Neji and Kiba to look at them. "Why do you care so much? It's none of your business. I'm an avenger. This isn't an exam to me and I don't care about becoming a Chunnin, I just want to know if I'm strong, so I must fight the strong ones, and those ones are all in here" He states.
Naruto could feel his blood boil watching how hostile Sasuke was being with Hinata, their teammate. He didn't like how he Sasuke treated her badly, during the forest of death he assumed that they had grown closer as a team but apparently Sasuke was still only thinking of himself.
"What's your problem Sasuke? Can't you see that she's clearly worried about you? Why can't you just acting so cool all of the time?" He hissed darkly.
Sasuke turned towards him and smirks. "You're one of the strong ones that I want to fight" After he said this, silence ensued as Naruto stared at Sasuke in pure shock, he had no idea that Sasuke views him as a strong one, nor did he think he would want to fight him.
"He will continue in the prelims" Anko looks at the Hokage, clearly not expecting to hear that kind of answer "If the seal opens then we'll stop him" He stated.
"There will be ten matched of one on one. There are no rules. You are to fight until the other person dies, is knocked out, or admits defeat. If they don't wish to die, they should give up. However if I sense that the match is over, I will declare the winner it so to prevent any unnecessary death. The winners will advance to the Third exam" Gekkou explained.
"Now let's begin with the first match" Everyone looks up at the screen to see who is going up first.
Akadou Yoroi vs. Uchiha Sasuke
Sasuke smirks as he looks at his name. Hinata looks at Sasuke and begins to worry for him. She didn't thinking that he should be fighting in the condition that he is in but Naruto places his hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure he's going to be okay Hinata" He assured her. Hinata nodded as she blushed at the fact that Naruto's hand was on her shoulders. He grins at her as the two walk up to the stand like everyone else.
Kakashi walks up towards Sasuke. "Don't use your Sharingan. If the seal on your neck becomes uncontrollable, it may kill you and I'll stop the match it that happens" He stated but of course the Uchiha paid him no attention.
The match starts and both begin hand and hand combat. Sasuke capture Yoroi in a lock, but Yoroi uses his ability to drain Sasuke's strength. Yoroi then attacks, absorbing Sasuke's chakra. When Sasuke cringes in pain, Sakura clasps her hands together, her green eyes reflected the worry she was feeling for the Uchiha.
"I never seen Sasuke-kun like this before I wonder what's wrong with him" She thought to herself.
Orochimaru looks on approving. "If Yoroi can drain Sasuke's current chakra, it will leave him no choice but to rely on the curse's powers" He smirks.
"I won't give up" Sasuke thought as he finds enough strength to kick Yoroi away. Yoroi then rushes forward with an attack. Sasuke wearily dodges each move, knowing that Yoroi wants close combat.
"COME ON SASUKE YOU CAN DO IT" Naruto yells from the side.
"YEAH SASUKE-KUN KICK HIS BUTT" Sakura yells. This gives Sasuke enough time to develop a plan. As Yoroi rushes once more, Sasuke dodges, disappears and reappears below. He delivers a powerful upwards kick reminiscent of a Lee performed on him during their match. As Yoroi continues to ascend upwards, Sasuke then appears behind him and prepares a Shadow dance.
Unfortunately, Sasuke's seal reacts to his pulsating energy and spreads itself to cover Sasuke's face and neck. He then flashes back to how Hinata was so worried about him and he starts to feels bad for making her worry.
"I'll fight it" Sasuke thinks to himself as the seal retreats. After performing several punch/kick combos, Sasuke come down hard with his Lion Combo kick ending. Both bodies fall to the ground and land motionless. Sasuke then uses the last of his energy to pull himself up to his knees and emerge the winner.
Kakashi and Gai are impressed that Sasuke could have learned Lee's move just by using the Sharingan. Anko is particularly amazed that Sasuke was able to control the curse's power after it had appeared. Meanwhile, Orochimaru watches extremely pleased, from the sideline.
Once the fight was finished Kakashi demanded that he take Sasuke to seal off the cursed seal on his neck, but Sasuke had other ideas. "No, I don't want to go, I'm fine"
Kakashi frowns at him disobeying him. "Sasuke you lucky this time that you were able to control the seal but next time you might not be as lucky, its best if I seal it"
Sasuke stands up as walks passed his sensei. "I said I'm fine, I don't need your help" He stated as he walks up to where Naruto and Hinata were. Kakashi sighs in frustration but he also walks back up to the stands.
As Sasuke was walking towards his team he was stopped by Sakura. He gives her an annoyed look hoping this look would scare her off so she wouldn't bother him, but that didn't work. "S-Sasuke-kun are you okay, I mean you look like your in pain" She said in concern.
"I'm fine" He grunted as he started walking passed her.
"Sasuke-kun, you were really good out there" She yelled out to his walking form while blushing.
Kiba rolled his eyes as he looked at Sakura. "I don't know what she sees in a guy like that, at less Hinata doesn't like him" He looks over at Hinata and blushes deeply.
Sasuke finally makes his way towards Naruto and Hinata. "You were great out there Sasuke" Naruto grinned. Sasuke smirked and then he looked at Hinata when he heard her say something.
"You were really good Sasuke-kun" She stated. Sasuke said nothing as he looked away from his teammates. He wasn't going to lie to himself but his neck was killing him. He held it as he hissed in pain causing Naruto to look at him.
"Hey Sasuke are you okay?" He asked. Sasuke looked up at him and frowned. "Of course I'm okay idiot, why wouldn't I be" He smirked causing Naruto to grimace.
"Damn idiot, always acting so cool" Naruto frowned.
Kakashi appears behind his students. "Look, it seems like you're up next Naruto" Naruto looks up at the screen and sees his name.
Inuzuka Kiba vs. Uzumaki Naruto
Naruto grins while Sasuke and Hinata smile at they're teammate. "You better win baka" Sasuke tells Naruto as he smirks. Naruto smirks back at the Uchiha and just as he was about to jump down onto the floor Hinata starts to tell him something.
"D-Do y-your best N-Naruto-kun" She blushes. Naruto looks at her in shock at first then he smiles.
"Hai" He said as he jumped down to meet his opponent.
Kiba looks at Naruto and smirks. "Well this is going to be easy" Naruto looks at Kiba and frowns.
"What's that suppose to mean" He growls.
"It means exactly what I said…you're going to lose anyhow so it doesn't matter' Naruto frowns.
"You baka I'm gonna kick you ass…dog breath" Naruto snarled.
"KIBA DON"T LET HIM TALK TO YOU LIKE THAT, SHOW HIM WHOSE BOSS" Sakura cheered her teammate on. Kiba looked up at Sakura and gave her an annoyed look at her looked back at Naruto and smirked at how hurt he looked.
"So that baka likes Sakura, hrm…well let's see how he feels when I kick his ass in front of her" Kiba then looks over at Hinata and smiles at her. "Besides I don't want to look bad in front of Hinata" He looks back at Naruto and frowns.
Kiba puts Akamaru down on the ground. "Akamaru will be fighting too" Kiba standing as he patted Akamaru on the head. Naruto looked at Akamaru in shock.
"WHAT? A DOG CAN'T FIGHT IN THIS BATTLE IT'S NOT FAIR IS IT?" Naruto yelled loudly while pointed at the dog in anger at the judge.
"It is acceptable, it is like his tool and can be used in battles" The judge explained.
Naruto pouted, clearly still not pleased by this, "Fine then whatever"
Kiba looked at Akamaru. "Akamaru you stay here, I can handle him myself"
Kiba attacks with Gijyuu Ninpou Shikyaku no Jutsu Beast Mimicry ninja technique and rushes Naruto on all four. The technique gives him super speed and with a swipe from his claw attacks, he knocks Naruto back. Hinata watches as Naruto body hit the floor.
"Naruto-kun…"
Sasuke is also very shock that Kiba was that strong as he looked at him. "I had no idea that Kiba was so powerful" He thought to himself. When Naruto gets up from Kiba's attack, Hinata then starts to think back to Naruto's stamina when he fought the rain Nins.
"Don't underestimate me, come at with me with everything you got, including that dog of yours" He smirked. Kiba frowned while Akamaru barked. Kiba throws a smoke bomb and Akamaru attacks. Naruto uses the opportunity to pull a transformation technique and when the smoke clears, a motionless Naruto is lying next to a happy Akamaru.
"ALL RIGHT GOOD JOB AKAMARU" Kiba yells. Sakura smirks as she looks at her teammate.
Hinata looks apprehensive as she looks at Naruto on the ground, while Sasuke smirks while Kakashi just watches the fight.
"Good job Akamaru, come here boy" Kiba says as he bends down smiling at his dog. As Akamaru was running towards Kiba he attacks him. Everyone looks in shock as they see Kiba's dog attack him.
"W-What are you doing Akamaru?" He asked.
"Heh heh" Kiba looks at his dog in shock. "What the hell?" Kiba as he watched as Akamaru transforms into Naruto. "Fooled you didn't I?" Naruto snickered as he let go of Kiba's arm.
"You smell worst than the dog" He laughed out loudly, greatly embarrassing Kiba as he frowned. Hinata smiled as she watched Naruto transform again and captures the dog.
Kiba frowns as he looked at Akamaru and then Naruto. He then sighs as he closes his eyes. "If I were you I'd put Akamaru down" Kiba builds up his chakra and gives Akamaru a food pill and then he pops one into his mouth. Naruto looks at notices that the dog was turning red.
"What the- Hey is this in the rule book?"
"Food pills, they are also acceptable" Naruto whines as he looks at Akamaru.
Akamaru kick Naruto back and jumps on Kiba's head. "What's with his fur, its red" Sasuke asked as he looked at Akamaru.
"It's a food pill; it is a stimulus and tranquilizer in one. It's high in protein and doubles Kiba's chakra allowing him to fight like a beast" Sakura tells Sasuke as she stands next to watching her teammate. Sasuke looks down at Kiba as did Hinata.
"I knew Kiba-kun was strong but not that strong, I hope Naruto-kun will be okay" She tears her gaze from Kiba to Naruto.
Kiba does Beast Mimicry Ninja Technique as Akamaru becomes a half human. Then Jyuujin Bunshin! Half Beast Clone so that Akamaru and Kiba look identical. Each Kiba clone then attacks Naruto repeatedly. And finally he does Gatsuuga - Double Fang Destroyer knocking Naruto down with double spinning torpedo attacks.
Naruto isn't ready to give up yet as he slowly stands to his feet. "N-Naruto-kun I know that you can do it" Hinata silently cheers on Naruto.
"KIBA YOU CAN DO IT I KNOW YOU CAN" Sakura yells. Sasuke looks at Sakura and frowns. "Why are you even over here? Go back over there with your team" He frowned. Sakura looked disappointed by his words and just as she was about to leave Hinata decided to speak up.
"What's wrong w-with Sakura-chan being over here? She's n-not bothering us" She stated but looked away when she noticed that Sasuke was now glaring at her. Sakura looks at Hinata and smiles when she noticed that Sasuke now seemed like he didn't care that she was over there.
"Thank goodness Hinata said something…for a minute there I was beginning to think that Hinata liked my Sasuke-kun" She blushed as she looked at the Uchiha who still had that same annoyed look on his face.
Kakashi looked at Sasuke and has notice that Sasuke becomes soft when it involves Hinata. He snickered causing Sasuke, Sakura and Hinata to look back at him.
"What's with you?" Sasuke glared.
"It's nothing, Sasuke, just thinking" He stated as he smiled. Sasuke grunted as he looked back down at the fight. "He's so weird at times" He frowned.
Naruto pulls himself up from Kiba's last attack to face Kiba's taunts. "And you want to become the Hokage? Well I've got news for you I'm GONNA BECOME HOKAGE" Kiba laughs.
Naruto stands up and smirks at Kiba. "You Hokage, I'm the top dog around here and I'm going to become the future Hokage" He smirked causing Kiba to frown.
Kiba attacks again, and Naruto crouches in the smoke as Kiba and Akamaru take turns attacking. Naruto wonders how he is can get of this one. He then replicates and when the smoke clears there are three Kiba's. Naruto hopes this will fool Kiba, who won't know who the true Akamaru is. Kiba, with his keen sense of smell, doesn't fall for the trick and punches the clone. Naruto then manages to trick him into punching the other clone. When Kiba turns his back, Naruto transform back into himself and kicks Kiba. Kiba looks over to see an Akamaru lying motionless.
Kiba then pulls out a hand full of shuriken's to continue the battle. Naruto laughs as he starts to taunt Kiba with his new move.
"I'm going to use my new super killer move and I'm going to end up the winner of this fight" He smirked.
"Feh, whatever" Kiba grunted. He then attacks Naruto with Beast mimicry before he can get his move off. When the smoke clears Naruto is down. After a number of brutal attacks, Naruto is getting up slower and slower.
"I need to find his weak spot" Naruto thought to himself as he looked at Kiba. Kiba attacks Naruto from behind and unintentionally farts in his face.
Everyone looked disgusted by what just happened while Hinata blushed of embarrassment while Sasuke frowned.
Kiba holds his nose and he closed his right eye. Naruto grinned. That turns the tide in Naruto's favor, as Kiba's smell has been magnified several thousands times. He then uses shadow technique to attack Kiba with a coordinated attack. Then, not to be out done by Sasuke, a number of Naruto clones kick Kiba up into the air, while a clone from above performs an ax kick followed by several other kicks in the Lion combo style.
"It seems he got that move from watching Sasuke" Kakashi thought as he looks at Naruto. Sasuke watches in amazement as he watched his move being done by Naruto. Hinata blushes. "T-That w-was amazing" She whispered by it didn't pass by Sasuke's ears as he looked at Hinata but said nothing.
Kiba is knocked out cold and the winner is declared.
"Uzumaki Naruto is the winner" He stated. Naruto grins as he walks back up to his team. As he was walking towards his team Hinata watches him as he get closer and closer.
"What should I do? What should I do?" Naruto walks passed her and stood next to Sasuke.
"Did you see that Sasuke? Huh did you" He grinned. Sasuke frowned as he looked at Naruto.
"You did a good job Naruto" Kakashi praised his student. Naruto grinned.
"A-Ano N-Naruto-kun" Naruto turned his attention to Hinata as he stopped grinning.
"What is it Hinata?" He asked.
"Ano…" She walked towards Naruto as hands him some healing ointment.
"Huh? What's this?" He asked as he looked at it in her hand.
"I-Its h-healing ointment, i-it's f-for you" She blushed. Kakashi raised an eyebrow.
"I think I get it now" He thought as he looked at the flushed Hyuuga girl.
"Take it Naruto" He told him. Naruto looked at his sensei and looked back at Hinata.
"Thanks Hinata, you're a good person" He took the healing ointment and grinned at her. She looks at him and blushes. Sasuke looks at the two and frowns but he doesn't say anything.
Hinata looks down to see Kiba pulling pulled away on a stretcher. "Um, I-I'll be right back" He stated as she left to Kiba's side. Sakura and Naruto seemed confused to why she was so worried about Kiba.
"So those rumors about Hinata and Kiba from back at the academy must be true" Sakura stated as she watched Hinata make her way down to Kiba.
"No. those two are just really close friends" Sasuke stated causing Naruto and Sakura to look back at him.
"He's right, the two of them are always training together, I'm sure Hinata is just worried about him that's all" Kakashi explained.
Hinata finally made her way towards Kiba; he looked surprised to see her coming towards him. "H-Here t-this is for y-you Kiba-kun" She said as she handed him the ointment. Kiba looked at her and blushed.
"Hinata you worry so much about others you rarely think about yourself" He smiled. Hinata blushed. "Thank you…you're a really good person" Kiba stated as he grinned at her. She smiled as she watched them take Kiba away.
Just as she was about to walk back up the stairs the screen started showing the names. Her eyes widened when she noticed that she was next. Her team looked at the screen and back at Hinata who was still standing below them.
Sakura smirked. "I hate to have to fight Hinata but this is my chance to prove myself in front of Sasuke" She smiled as she walked down to meet up with Hinata who was already down there.
Neji frowned as he looked at Hinata. "I wanted to be the one that fights her…but there is always next time" He continued to frown.
"Aw man Hinata is up against Sakura-chan…I know Hinata is my teammate but I really want Sakura-chan to win" Naruto thought as he looked at Sakura.
Sasuke looks at Hinata with a determined expression as did Kakashi.
Gaara looks down at Hinata from the stands. "I hope she lives up to the Hyuuga's name…I want to see how strong you really are…Hinata" Gaara looks at Hinata as he frowns.
Sakura looks at Hinata and smirks. "I'll tell you this right now Hinata; I'm not going to go easy on you" Sakura smirks. Hinata looks at Sakura and nods her head.