Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon?
Deciding that he was ready enough Naruto headed through the door Shukaku mentioned so that he could see the beginning of the tournament
The coliseum was to the brim, Naruto wasn't sure how many people was there that day. It kinda made him start to feel the nerves he had avoided them until now but now that he was seeing this entire coliseum filled with people he knew that if he failed he would fail in front of a lot of people
After a few minutes he saw in an elevated area Shukaku appear moving in front of a microphone so that he could begin the tournament
"Thank you all for attending my tournament this year" said Shukaku the crowd cheered when they heard him speaking he moved his hand to signal them to quiet down so that he could continue "Before anything I would like to welcome a friend of mine that has come all the way from Konoha to watch the tournament, everyone please welcome my fellow bijuu Gyuki"
Gyuki that was sitting in a chair besides the one where Shukaku would sit stood up and waved his hand at everyone while the crowd cheered before he sat down once again
Once the crowd calmed down once again Shukaku continued
"Now let's move to what we are all here for, the tournament" said Shukaku as the crowd cheered once again
"This tournament is held every year by my familia, the reason being a simple one" said Shukaku "So that we get to see the main reason adventurers exist. And that is to fight! Adventurers fight everyday in the different dungeons across the world, they test themselves against monster everyday and in the process they grow stronger so that they can fight stronger monsters!"
"But today they might face their hardest challenge yet, for those in the exhibition match against monster they will fight monsters they have never seen before, as this monsters are hand captured by my familia and then trained to grow stronger. On the other hand for those in the tournament proper they will face their fellow adventurers in a fight, an adventurer is pretty different from a monster you may predict a monster's normal movements and patterns but an adventurer has more tricks up his sleeve" continued Shukaku
"The fights we will see today are something that is not easily reproduced" continued Shukaku "they probably are the pinnacle of what some of this adventurers have faced until now and when they complete this challenge they will be stronger than before"
"There will be winners and there will be loser, but only one will stand at the end and that will be the strongest adventurer of them all!" shouted Shukaku "Now without further ado lets us begin the Suna tournament!"
The crowd was wild after the Shukaku's speech
Right then a young boy probably not older than Naruto that had been in the arena for a little while holding a microphone spoke up, taking over for Shukaku
"Hello everyone and I would like to also welcome you to the Sunagakure tournament!" said the boy "My name is Amagi and I'll be your announcer for the rest of the tournament"
"Now for the first event we have a special match between members of the Shukaku familia" said Amagi once the crowd calmed a little "Entering the right side is one of the strongest members of the Shukaku familia, the famous sand controlling adventurer Gaara"
A man perhaps not older than Naruto entered the arena holding a big gourd in his back; he had red hair and was wearing a long sleeve crimson coat over full length black trousers
"And on the left the man that showed him how to survived in the dungeon, the person that taught him everything he knew when he started as an adventurer, Baki" said Amagi
As an older man with his head covered in a turban-like head garb with a sheet hanging by the left side that only showed the right side of his face where he had two red markings
The crowd grew even wilder than before when the two contestants entered the arena, they were screaming Gaara's name a lot, he appeared to be a famous adventurer even though Naruto had never heard of him
"Wow I didn't expect to see Gaara in the special match" said Kiba. Only then did Naruto noticed that Kiba had sat beside him and that Sasuke was beside Kiba
"Is he that famous?" asked Naruto not having heard anything about Gaara in his life
Kiba looked at him with a face that just screamed 'are you kidding!?'
"Have you seriously not heard about the adventurer of sand Gaara!?" asked Kiba
"Nope never heard of him" said Naruto
"He's a pretty strong adventurer from the amount of alias he has I assume he's only level 5" said Kiba "but he has an ability that no one has seen in a long time, he can control sand to do his bidding, it'll protect him making a perfect defense or he can sent it towards his opponent to crush them, impale them or even just grab them and throw them away. He can win a fight without needing to move at all"
"He sounds pretty strong" said Naruto hearing Kiba
"Yeah he is, I expected him competing in the tournament but it seems that he won't" said Kiba
"Why do you think that?" asked Naruto "He could still compete the battles are later"
"Didn't you heard me before they are having preliminaries right now" said Sasuke hearing their conversation "by being here he already forfeited his if he is in the tournament that is"
"I see so only persons that won't compete in the tournament can participate in the special match" said Naruto understanding
"Correct. The preliminaries are pretty fast each fight ends in ten minutes max because of a timer even if he was the last one of his group he wouldn't make it in time probably" said Sasuke "So they only allow persons that won't be competing to participate in the special match"
"Yeah it has been like that every year I have seen, the ones in the special match do not compete in the tournament" said Kiba "I didn't know why but what Sasuke says seems pretty plausible"
Back on the arena Amagi continued explaining the special match's rules
"Even though this is a show match, we still need rules to keep it fair. This rules are the same for the fights we'll have later in the tournament so you should pay attention" said Amagi as he started explaining "The match will last 30 minutes or until one of you is knocked unconscious or forfeits the match. Killing is forbidden and if it comes to that you will be disqualified for killing your opponent"
"But since we don't want someone accidentally killing someone we have several persons on standby ready to intervene in case it looks like you are going to kill your opponent" Said Amagi "Not that we have to worry too much during the show match"
"Now without further ado let's get this match started" said Amagi making the crowd go wild once again, Amagi moved away from the fighters on top of a platform that seem to have been lowered into the arena with some cables and raised his hand before asking "Are you two ready?"
"I won't go easy on you Gaara" said Baki getting into his combat stance "I'm ready"
"Whatever let's start already" said Gaara lowering his hand to his sides
"In that case, begin!" said Amagi, all the time the platform he was on had started raising until it stop in front of a small elevated area where he could watch the fight from there he got off the platform and the platform kept raising until it disappeared somewhere on top of the stands
On the arena the fight between Baki and Gaara had already started with Baki jumping forward drawing a sword in his hand slamming it down towards Gaara. The sand on the ground immediately moved upwards catching the sword and forcing Baki to drop it as it was being absorbed into the sand
"You already knew that wouldn't work" said Gaara "Why did you do it?"
"For the show, this is a show match after all" said Baki as he jumped backwards making distance so that the sand wouldn't catch him as well, no one heard their small conversation in the middle of the screams from the crowd that had occurred when the sand came to live
"There you have it flocks the famous sand manipulation from Gaara stopping Baki's overhead strike in an instance!" said Amagi as he continued commentating the fight
Gaara raised one of his hands forward and the sand that had been protecting him shot forward trying to hit Baki but Baki managed to dodge and weave out of the way of the sand while at the same time moving closer
"It's a barrage of attacks from Gaara it doesn't look good for Baki who is now just moving across the arena while evading the sand" said Amagi
"You're still going easy on me Gaara you need to go with everything you got if you want to defeat me" said Baki
"You said it earlier this is a show match. I don't feel like making too much effort just to entertain a crowd" said Gaara
"In that case I'll make you take more seriously" said Baki raising his hand and putting his fingers together as if he was holding something "Wind blade!" said Baki doing a throwing motion towards Gaara
No one saw anything leave Baki's hand but they saw Gaara immediately react to the attack by putting a wall of sand in front of him soon after the wall was hit with something as a deep cut like mark appeared on the sand before it reformed into a solid wall
"That was Baki's skill the wind blade!" said Amagi immediately recognizing the attack "a almost invisible blade made of wind, if Gaara hadn't block that now he would be in the ground"
Baki didn't let Gaara recover from the attack as he quickly made several wind blades throwing them in quick succession making Gaara have to reinforce his defense with several walls as they couldn't reform fast enough to stop the barrage of wind blades
"It's now Baki who had Gaara in the ropes. Gaara has no choice but to go in the defensive against the barrage of blades" said Amagi
"Do we end this now Gaara?" asked Baki "I have enough energy to continue this for the remainder of the match"
"So you are going serious on this fight" said Gaara concentrating on keeping the walls up "But it's over"
"What?" asked Baki confused. Just then the walls felt down to reveal Gaara was no longer behind them "How did you?"
Before Baki could get answer sand pour down from above him trapping him inside it like if he was inside a coffin. It was then that he noticed sand flying above him and on top of the sand was Gaara
"What is this!? Gaara is flying above his opponent, his riding his sand as if it was a solid cloud!" said Amagi surprised by Gaara's skill "Is this the power of the sand manipulator Gaara!"
"When did you learn to do that?" asked Baki having never seen Gaara fly on sand before
"Right when I leveled up, we haven't gone to the dungeon together since then" answered Gaara "But that doesn't matter, you know what you have to say"
"I do. I Give up" said Baki "I forfeit. Gaara's the winner"
Just then the crowd exploded into cheers and screams after seeing such a great fight
"Ladies and Gentleman, we have a winner" said Amagi "Gaara!"
Gaara released Baki from the sand coffin and then descended to the ground and proceeded to exit the arena
"Wait we wanted to talk to the winner before continuing with the tournament" said Amagi seeing Gaara leave but that didn't stop Gaara from leaving "Well it looks like we won't get an interview from the winner"
"But with the show match finished we will go to a short break of five minutes as we prepare to start the next section of the tournament. The exhibition match against monsters" said Amagi
Right as soon as Amagi finished talking the door to the area where Naruto was opened an a girl with blonde hair tied into four ponytails entered holding a clipboard
"Kiba Inuzuka?" asked the girl as if looking for him
"That's me" said Kiba standing up
"Follow me" said the girl going back through the door Kiba looked lost but followed her anyways
"Who was her?" asked Naruto
"Probably the person that's going to take us to the waiting room for our turn" said Sasuke "So that means Kiba's going to be the first one in the exhibition match"
"Oh yeah Shukaku mentioned something like that" said Naruto remembering "I wonder what rank of monster Kiba's going to pick"
"Who knows what that dog brain is going to choose" said Sasuke "He'll probably pick a S rank and he won't be able to handle it"
Shukaku´s booth
"So what did you thought of that match Gyuki?" asked Shukaku to his fellow bijuu
"It was a great match. After all your familia is focused on dungeon exploration, they need to be strong to go deeper into the dungeon" said Gyuki
"Most adventurers just focus on fighting monsters and exploring their closest dungeon. Maybe they train as blacksmiths to create and sell weapons and armors" said Shukaku "But they don't train to face another adventurer because they think this will never happen"
"As they level up they learn that fights against other adventurers are more common than they expected and lose in a fight against another adventurer" continued Shukaku
"Is that why you created the tournament?" asked Gyuki "So that they had a reason to practice?"
"That's one of the reasons yes" said Shukaku "The other was so that I was able to see adventurers in their natural habitat, in the middle of a fight. An Adventurer shows his true self while fighting"
"I see. I suppose is probably better than going into the dungeon and possibly get kill" said Gyuki
"By the way, what brings you here this year?" asked Shukaku "You never come to see the tournament. The only one I know comes every year is Matatabi but she usually doesn't come to see the tournament she comes to sell her merchandise"
"I came to see someone, he's participating in the exhibition match" said Gyuki
"Who?" asked Shukaku curious in who had made Gyuki come all the way from Konoha to see the tournament
"You'll find out immediately once he's introduced" said Gyuki with a small laugh "He will probably be the surprise of the day or the worse contestant you've ever have competing"
"I'm intrigued now" said Shukaku
"Let's just hope he isn't just a waste of time" said Gyuki
"We'll see" said Shukaku as the break to prepare the exhibition match ended and Amagi spoke again
"Thank you for your patience everyone, now we can begin with the exhibition match" said Amagi "And accompanying me as a guest commentator for the exhibition match will be our show match competitor Baki"
"Hello" said Baki that was standing besides Amagi with his own microphone
"We'll be starting a totally different kind of combat than what we saw in the show match" said Amagi "Could tell us what's important to keep an eye on during a fight against monsters Baki-san"
"For starters a battle against monsters is totally different than a fight against another adventurer" said Baki "monster generally don't have skills or magic, there's an exception with some floor boss monsters but that doesn't matter here"
"A monster also tends to have a pattern of sorts, not that they always follow said pattern, but more often than not they will so you can anticipate certain attacks and use them in your favor" continued explaining Baki "But for this fights what we have to keep an eye on is the speed in which the contestants can defeat their selected monster since that will grant them more points"
"We should also keep an eye on the monster's rank right?" asked Amagi
"Of course, for this competition we have divided the monsters into ranks from D rank all the way to S rank, higher rank monsters are stronger than lower rank obviously so choosing a low rank we'll allow you to end fast but that will also cost you some points. At the beginning of the match we'll tell you which rank is the monster the contestant is facing" explained Baki to the crowd
"Also it should be noted that the monsters here are stronger than if they were to find them in the dungeon" said Baki "one of the reason for this is that weapons that monsters carry in the dungeon disappear after they are taken out of the dungeon or a few minutes after the monster that was wielding it dies so we gave them real weapons made by blacksmiths from Suna"
"Well I think that's enough information for now. We should get moving and start the combats" said Amagi "For the first contestant of the exhibition match we have Kiba Inuzuka member of the Enma familia from Konoha"
"He'll be fighting a B rank monster" said Baki as Kiba entered the Arena from the right waving his arms to the crowd
"Really a B rank!?" said Sasuke a little surprised "I really expected him to go all out just to win the dumb bet. But he seem to be smart enough to know that he can't defeat something that strong"
To the left of the arena a gate that had been lowered during the break was being raised to let the monster enter, it was a giant human like creature with only one eye he was carrying a huge mace with metal spikes
"A Cyclops" said Baki seeing the monster "What a wonderful way to start the exhibition match"
"Why is that Baki-san?" asked Amagi
"You see Cyclopes are hard to read some of their movements seem random so fighting one is really hard and that mace he's carrying is really dangerous" explained Baki "But a Cyclops also has one serious weakness, let's see if our competitor can find out what that weakness is"
In the arena Kiba was a little surprised with the monster he had to face, he had never seen a Cyclops before, he wasn't even sure if there were Cyclopes in the Konoha dungeon. But he had to defeat this one; it couldn't be that different from an Orc or a troll just slightly bigger
The Cyclops looked around and his eye ended on Kiba as he charged forward with the mace raised above his head bringing it down where Kiba was standing
Kiba moved to the side evading the mace that was coming directly to kill him then he moved closer to the Cyclops with his claws ready quickly slashing it in the foot
"Our contestant shows his werewolf abilities quickly evading the attack from the Cyclops and taking the offensive" said Amagi "But it doesn't look like his doing any damage to the Cyclops"
"Cyclops have a rough skin the claws of a werewolf lower than level 6 or high level 5 are not good enough to pierce through it" said Baki "But there's still that weakness we spoke about a little while ago, I wonder if he can find it"
"Damn I can't pierce his skin" said Kiba looking at the Cyclops skin "Let's try this then"
Kiba ran far away from the Cyclops until he hit the wall of the arena and then he started running towards the Cyclops starting to spin "Tsuga!" screamed Kiba
Then a spinning Kiba impacted right in the chest of the Cyclops making him scream in pain. The Cyclops brought his left hand to his chest trying to crush Kiba but he stopped his attack falling down back to the ground
The Cyclops then looked around trying to find Kiba which wasn't that hard since he was once again trying to make some room then he brought his mace down trying to hit him once again. The mace finished hitting the ground right where Kiba had been a second ago
"Ok then let's try something else" said Kiba moving towards the Cyclops again "Tsuga!"
This time Kiba aimed Higher, the Cyclops was still picking his mace up and was impacted directly in the face by Kiba's Tsuga
"He found it" said Baki "The Cyclops weakness his eye"
Kiba kept spinning until he went directly through the Cyclops head which exploded afterwards just leaving a crystal behind
As the Cyclops exploded the crowd went wild cheering for Kiba's victory
"And our first contestant defeats the Cyclops in a great time" said Amagi
"This will make it hard for the other contestants who now have to do it better than our first contestant" said Baki
Kiba had been guided outside of the arena and back to the waiting area where all the contestants were
"And now we'll move to our second contestant" said Amagi as he started introducing the second competitor
"So what do you think about that!" asked Kiba when he returned to his sit besides Sasuke and Naruto "You won't be able to do it better than that"
"That was just luck, you were lost and didn't know what to do" said Naruto "You just attacked a place at random"
"That was a little surprising, I though you would pick something of higher rank and lose but you made a smart decision" said Sasuke
"I'm not that dumb!" said Kiba angrily "I knew I couldn't defeat a S rank so I aimed for something you guys couldn't defeat a B rank"
"I'll defeat a B rank and I'll do it faster than you" said Naruto
"Are you sure Rookie" said Kiba in a mocking tone "You almost died to an Orc the other day"
"I was caught by surprise, this time I'll be fighting with all my strength" said Naruto
Before Kiba could say anything else the girl that took Kiba to the waiting room before returned again
"Sasuke Uchiha, your next" said the girl
"Good luck Sasuke, you'll need it if you want to defeat my time" said Kiba
"Ump beating your time will be child's play" said Sasuke standing up and following the girl back inside
"Anyway what was that thing you did, the spinning around thing?" asked Naruto once Sasuke was gone
"You like that?" asked Kiba "That is a special skill I got from training, it's called Tsuga but I have some ideas to make it better"
"Make that better!?" asked Naruto "It was awesome as it was"
"But you saw it I barely hurt that Cyclops, I need to make it better I won't always have the time to aim it properly" said Kiba "Specially if the monsters just get stronger deeper in the dungeon"
Before any of them talked again the crowd went wild once again as the person that had been fighting just finished defeating the monster he was facing and Amagi started announcing the next participant
"And now we'll move to the next participant" said Amagi "Sasuke Uchiha from the Yatagarasu familia in Konoha"
"And he'll be facing" said Baki reading the note he had been handed about Sasuke's decision "An A Rank!?"
"Our first A rank of the day Ladies and Gentleman, let see if our contestant can defeat this strong monster" said Amagi
Decided to end it there, tell me what you thought