Hello everyone!! If you reviewed last chapter, thanks! If you didn't, please review! I need some reviews if you want me to update. Anyway, since I'm bored out of my mind and have nothing to do, I'm writing another chapter! Isn't that great?

I"m sorry about not updating in a while, but I have been really busy with school and the holidays that are here. I've just been really busy lately. So, please forgive me!! I'll try to keep updating whenever I can, but it might not be as frequent. I have two other fanfics our if any of you would like to read them...

Oh yeah! This is almost donw. I decided to stop after the fight with Gaara and Naruto... I think. Well, here you go! Enjoy chapter 12!

Disclaimer-I will never own Inuyasha and/or Naruto. They belong to their respected owners who I do not know at this time...

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Chapter 12-Chunin Exams Final Pt. 2

Once that was announced, the whole entire audience, except Itachi, Inuyasha, Kagome, Sesshomaru, Naruto, and Sasuke, started talking. Many wondered why Inuyasha had forfeited the match. Some was wondering why they didn't fight. And a few were wondering why Naruto wasn't saying anything since he was excited about his match earlier.

However, when Inuyasha and Naruto entered the waiting area, the other genin who did not hear why earlier started sending questions after questions to the blonde since Inuyasha was already with his teammates.

"Why didn't you fight him? He would have given you a fight that could make you use your full capacity," said Shikamaru once Naruto made his way towards his fellow leaf-nin.

The sand-nin didn't pay any attention to what was going on since the next match was supposed to begin soon. They waited until they got the signal from the other invading ninjas before they were able to join the attack.

As Naruto was answering Shikamaru and the other questions, the next match was about to begin. However, the match had gotten prolonged due to other circumstances.

Down in the arena, the proctor was discussing something with the hokage. They decided to continue on to the next match, which were Shikamaru and Temari.

"The next match is Shikamaru Nara of Leaf vs. Temari of the Desert," said the proctor.

Even though there were many questions about the match that was skipped, Shikamaru and Temari walked down and headed towards the middle of the arena.

"Are you going to fight or surrender to me like what just happened?" asked Temari after the proctor said that the battle may begin. "Well?"

"What a drag. This is all too troublesome," mumbled Shikamaru. He looked towards the sky and said, "Well, might as well get this over with already. I guess I'll get Naruto back later for pushing me off the balcony…" (A/N: I know I didn't put that a few minutes ago, but I just checked the manga and saw that! I'm sorry about that!)

While thinking about ways to get back at Naruto, he though, 'Sigh…everyone wants to see that Gaara's match…they're probably infuriated that this pathetic match is next…'

Up at the balcony, Naruto leaned down and yelled out to Shikamaru, "Good luck!!"

After a while, Temari got tired of waiting for the young Nara to attack. Instead of waiting any longer, she ran at him with her giant fan posed to attack him and screamed, "If you won't come, then I will!"

When Shikamaru saw the blond wind-user coming at him with fast speed, he quickly grabbed a kunai and said, "Many, that girl is already revved up, and the match just started!"

With that said, Shikamaru stuck the kunai in the wall above him and jumped up, causing Temari to miss her target. Since she missed, she caused a large gust of smoke and dust to erupt form the ground. It blinded everyone from seeing what had happened to the young Nara heir.

When the dust cleared, everyone could clearly see that Temari missed and was shocked when she looked up. She saw Shikamaru balancing on the one kunai in the wall.

When the last of the dust cleared, the Nara said to the bewildered blonde, "You know, I don't really want to fight or if I become a chunin, but I'm seriously not going to lost this match to you or any other girl."

Once Temari heard that, she went into launching her attacks. She opened her fan completely and sent a huge gust of wind towards where the Nara was standing… err… balancing.

The result of the blast was larger than the first attack made by the sand-nin. When the gust was gone, all everyone saw was an empty place where Shikamaru once was.

By now everyone who didn't know Shikamaru was wondering if he was killed in the blast or merely ran away before the attack could even hit him.

Up at the waiting area for the other genin, Itachi and his squad were talking about what was gong to happen soon.

"Alright. I have no doubt in my mind that the next match will have to be that sand-nin who didn't do his match yet," started Itachi with his head on top of Kagome's and his arms wrapped around her as well. They made sure that the other two sand-nins weren't listening to them as they talked about the war that they happened to be involved in.

"There's no way that they would start the plan until the sand-nin, Gaara, has his match," whispered a very quiet and content Kagome as she leaned backwards more into Itachi. "They might start once Gaara is in the middle of his match for all we know."

"That may be true, but I highly doubt they would wait until the match ended. Since his match is the last one, the two countries, Wind and Sound, would need to act quickly," said Sesshomaru once he though of ways that they would attack the village they were in.

Since they probably won't attack until later, what will he do until then?" asked an equally quiet Inuyasha to his fellow teammates. "I really don't want to wait that long until the plan to attack… unless we really want to…"

Under that last part of his statement, everyone understood that he didn't want to wait longer than necessary. He wanted to get this war over with a return home where he could continue playing pranks with Shippo and on the hated villagers.

Kagome and Itachi sighed together when they understood the deeper meaning of what he said. Over next to Inuyasha, his half-brother snorted when he, too, understood the different meaning.

Sesshomaru turned towards Inuyasha and said, "You wouldn't be able to wait that long if they decided to attack after his match. You, half-breed, would love to just be able to jump down the field right now and fight for nothing."

Inuyasha turned to his brother and scowled at him, even though he was absolutely right. He made an undignified sound and turned on his heel and away from the others.

Kagome and Itachi just chuckled at the two-inu brothers. They could get along whenever they wanted to, even if they were about to go to play different roles in a war that was about to take place.

With the other genin they were continuing on placing bets about the match down below. Many wanted Shikamaru to win since they placed many bets on him. Some placed bets on the sand-nin would win since they knew how lazy the Nara was at the Academy.

"Hey, Sasuke-teme, who do you think is going to win? Shikamaru or that Temari girl?" asked Naruto.

He tried talking to his other fellow Konoha genin, Shino, but he didn't say anything to the little blonde boy. He saw Kagome, Sesshomaru, Inuyasha, and Itachi talked quietly and decided to leave them alone in case they were discussing something important.

Sasuke looked around the area and saw his brother and team talking quietly. He didn't know what about but decided to just leave them alone. Sasuke wanted to stay on his brother's good side instead of the bad. The youngest Uchiha heard the hyperactive blonde kitsune but ignored him.

After a few more minutes of Naruto's annoying voice asking the Uchiha who he though would win, the young Uchiha answered, "Dobe, I have no idea who would win."

"Teme! I just want to know who you think would wind. I don't think anyone here would be able to tell who would win; it could be a draw at the end," countered the blonde kitsune.

"That's true, dobe, but how would I know who would win between these two? Nara was always lazy in the academy, and that sand-nin could easily use that against Nara," said Sasuke. He though about something before adding, "I guess Nara could win if he used that head of his."

Naruto head this and agreed. Shikamaru could easily overpower anyone he wanted… that is if he wanted too. The young blonde saw Inuyasha leave the talk with his teammates and walked over to them. Instead of talking with the other three, he turned to watch the match with Kagome and Itachi.

Down at the arena, everyone was wondering where the Nara heir disappeared. Temari was looking around the area and saw him under a shelter of trees across the field.

The young wind-user was cautious while running over to him in case he used his shadow to control her. She made it a few feet away from Shikamaru. She already judged how far he could cast his shadow out from earlier observations.

"I would give up now if I were you. You can't reach me from where you are now," said Temari. 'I don't know what he's waiting for. I know he can't reach me now.'

However, Shikamaru ignored her and looked towards the sky above him. He couldn't see the sun in front of him, so that meant that it was behind him and the wall… that added more shadows inside the arena for him to manipulate. There was a problem though: Shikamaru was running out of chakra since he tried to capture her earlier with his shadows.

Shikamaru turned to the opponent that was in front of him and sighed. He really didn't want to fight her. He might as well as go on ahead and give up the rest of the match.

He sighed again and closed his eyes. He put his fingers together and delved into his mind to formulate a plan of attack. He had many things to consider since he was low on chakra and was also tired as ever.

After having to wait a while, Temari charged at Shikamaru once she saw his close his eyes. She though he was sleeping and leaving his guard down. That is, until he opened his eyes and sent a shadow jutsu towards Temari.

Earlier before, Shikamaru sensed the san-nin of his opponent charge at him ready to attack. He was ready with his plan already formulated inside his head. Once Temari was in range, he sent the shadow jutsu at her and caught her.

"Apparently, you really want to end this match quickly," said Shikamaru quietly as he stood up and began to walk towards her.

Since Temari was caught in his jutsu, she began walking towards him with her weapon on her back and useless. She couldn't break free of the shadow at all.

They continued to walk towards each other until they were a few inches apart. Shikamaru raised his left hand, which caused Temari to raise hers as well.

The proctor for this match pooped out of nowhere and stared opening at the sight before him. He was waiting until one of the two shinobi in front of him to surrender.

"Proctor, I give up," sounded Shikamaru. "This is starting to become a drag. Go ahead and name her the victor of this match."

Shikamaru released Temari from his shadow and started towards the waiting area once more. He didn't get far until he heard Temari ask,

"Why did you surrender? You could have easily made me surrender instead. Why?"

"For starters, I was already used up on chakra. I could only do that attack," answered Shikamaru without turning around. "Besides, like I said, this was starting to become too troublesome. Just take the win and leave."

The proctor made Temari the winner since Shikamaru gave up and waited a while to announce the next match.

Temari and Shikamaru made their way back to the place where the other genin were being kept until the exam was over. Once they arrived, Naruto tackled Shikamaru.

"Why in the world would you give up that quickly?" asked Naruto. "You could have beaten her instead!"

Shikamaru shoved the blonde off of him before answering, "I was tired. Plus, I was out of chakra sending all those shadow jutsus at her since she kept dodging."

"Whatever. You could have still used taijutsu instead!"

"No I couldn't have! She had that fan of hers," countered Shikamaru.

Instead of continuing to listen to the argument, everyone else turned around and listened to the proctor announce the next match.

"The next match is Kankuro from Sand vs. Shino of Leaf," announced the proctor from the arena down below. "Will these two please come down for your match?"

Before anyone could say anything, Kankuro called out, "I give up. I'm not going down there."

Again, this caused uproar since there weren't any matches once again. None of the Konoha ninja and civilians completely understood why this was happening. They all figured that the puppet master would love to fight the young bug-nin.

"Alright then. Due to Kankuro of Sand surrendering, the winner of this match goes to Shino of Leaf," announced the proctor loud enough for all the hear.

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-Ichigo Mirai