Unexpected
Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were just about to leave the training room. "Hey, you with the attitude hold on."
The team turned around to see Lee standing at the top of the steps. "Huh?"
Sakura appeared freaked out.
"What do you want?" Sasuke questioned.
"I want to fight you right here and right now," Lee answered.
"You want to fight me here and now, huh?"
"Yes." Lee leaped down to the floor with one hand on the ground. He stood up after a moment, pointing to himself. "My name is Rock Lee." He then pointed at Sasuke. "You said it was common curtsy for someone to give their own name first, right? Sasuke Uchiha."
"So you know me."
Rock Lee took up a fighting stance with his eyes focused on is opponent. "I challenge you. Everyone is always talking about the Uchiha clan and how great they are. I want to see if it is true. I figured you would be a good test for me. And also…"
Lee turned his attention over to Sakura. He blushed. "Oh, Sakura I love you."
Sakura freaked out at the confession, shaking her head. "Those eyebrows can't be real. NO!" Sakura wrapped her arms around herself, shivering. "Your hairstyle is horrible too and those eyebrows are so brushy. You're such a weirdo."
"You are an angel sent from heaven." Lee winked a heart at her sending it in her direction.
Sakura's eyes went white as she avoided the heart that smashed up against a pillar.
"That was a good mood, but let us see you dodge this." Lee sent several hearts in the girl's direction that she dodged to the point of hitting her head on the floor.
Sakura picked herself back up, catching her breath. She raised her fist up at Lee. "Hey, keep your creepy little valentine's to yourself. I was dodging for my life there."
Lee lowered his shoulders sadden. "You do not have to be so negative, Sakura."
Naruto watched the scene clearly annoyed. Sure she may not have like the guy, but she didn't have to be so dramatic about the whole thing. What did she think Sasuke was going to swoop her into his arms or something?
"You've heard of the Uchiha clan yet your challenging me?" Sasuke questioned. "You must be even more psycho than you look." Sasuke had become cold. "You want to learn more about my clan then I'll teach you, the hard way."
Lee smirked. He brought up one of his arms in front of him. "Bring it on."
"Hold it." Naruto took a step forward. "I'll take him on."
"Huh?" Sakura shouted.
"Go for it."
"Naruto," Sakura said.
"I'll handle it."
"No thank you, the only one I want to face right now is Uchiha," Lee replied.
"Then let's see you get pass me first." Naruto charged forward.
"Very well."
Naruto crossed his fingers. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" I'll test to see what he can do first.
The clone slid down on his side, sticking out his feet to attack Lee from below. Lee swung his own foot to make the clone spin on his back toward the wall.
The real Naruto leaped above Lee to deck him in the face. Lee used his abnormal speed to turn around and round house kick Naruto in the face. "There, that should do it."
Naruto puffed into the smoke. A broken board scattered out of the smoke and rained onto the ground. Lee's eyes opened wide. "What?!"
Both Sasuke and Sakura looked in shock as well.
Lee finished spinning around, landing on the floor. The brushy brow shinobi looked left and right to see where Naruto had gone when suddenly a pair of arms grabbed him from underneath his armpits, bringing him against the front of the person behind him.
Lee looked back to see Naruto while his clone had stopped spinning around, standing on one knee with his hands on the ground. "So you specialize in taijutsu. Well, if you can't move your body, you can't fight."
"I did not expect you to be this good," Lee confessed. "However…" Lee broke out of Naruto's grip and swooped the boy's feet from under him.
Naruto quickly recovered himself, flipping backward on one hand. He landed on his feet, creating space between him and Lee. He's strong and fast. He's defiantly focuses most of his talents on taijutsu so he probably isn't that good at genjutsu or ninjutsu.
Naruto focused on Lee as Lee stared intensely at him. So what should I do? I can't possibly keep up with his speed, but maybe there's another way.
The blonde hair rookie crossed his fingers. "Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu." A ring of clones puffed around Lee, having him surrounded on each side.
Lee looked around to count the number of his opponent. "Very impressive, and here I thought only Jonin were at the level of using Shadow Clones. You are truly an impressive opponent after all. I shall defeat you and then defeat Sasuke as well."
Sasuke took a step forward. "Don't get cocky!"
Sasuke didn't know anything, it was time Naruto showed what he could really do. The group of clones leaped into the air to all attack Lee at once. Lee leaped forward to strike down the Naruto that was right in front of him.
The Naruto he was about to strike was pulled out of his reach by the clone on his right, making Lee miss. Lee turned around to look up. The clone that he intended to attack was swung down from above. The clone propelled his leg down on Lee.
Lee blocked the kick with his own leg.
The young taijutsu master landed out of the circle on all fours, sliding back. He managed to slow himself down to a stop. He rose his head to see that the clones that original charged at him weren't finished yet.
The Naruto that grabbed the other clone's arm, forming a hand sign. "Transformation Jutsu!" The Naruto clone transformed into a demon wind shuriken. The clone he previously grabbed took a hold of the weapon and threw it at Lee.
Lee sprung to the side to avoid the spinning star.
The demon wind shuriken transformed back into a clone who flipped through the air. He landed on the wall. He formed the ram hand sign, sending charka to his feet.
The clone slammed his hand on the wall and launched himself off, flying forward. The clone let out a battle cry that got Lee's attention. The clone was within striking range of Lee in a matter of seconds.
Lee stood on one hand, swinging his foot to take out the clone. The clone turned into a puff of smoke.
"You were paying attention to the wrong Naruto." The real Naruto swooped Lee's hand from under him. Lee spun through the air.
The remaining Naruto clones all charged forward. Each of them punched and kicked Lee backward, forcing him to stumble back on the ground. Naruto knew he couldn't let up or Lee would use his superior speed to take down him in his clones.
Since this wasn't a real match Naruto restricted himself from actually using any weapons as they were both going to compete in the Chunin exams. One of Naruto's clones decked Lee right across the face that made him spin.
Lee stumbled back, breathing heavily. He looked up to see the group of clones charging for him. He readied himself, taking up a fighting pose and unleashed his true power. As soon as the first punch came at him he sidestepped it.
He moved faster than any of the Narutos' could see, striking one down after the other, reducing them to smoke that further covered up his moves.
"He's only using Taijutsu and he's beating all of Naruto's clones," Sakura said.
"Yeah, but since when was that knucklehead so good with using his clones?" Sasuke questioned.
Sakura leaned forward. "Yeah, you're right. Naruto seems stronger than before. What happened to him?" She held her fists up to her chest.
Naruto took a step back, crossing his fingers. He bared his teeth. "I don't have a choice. I'll just have to use that. Shadow Clone Jut—"
Before Naruto could finish, Lee appeared underneath him, kicking him up from his chin. Naruto's hand sign broke as he let out a grunt. He flew into the air.
Sasuke and Sakura watched in dismay. Sasuke had activated his sharingan to better understand what was happening.
Lee appeared behind Naruto in the air. Naruto looked back at his fellow leaf shinobi. "This is, the Dancing Leaf Shadow, isn't it?"
"Good eye," Lee said. "I wasn't planning on using this today; however you have proven to be stronger than I first thought. You're finished."
The wrap around Lee's arms unraveled. Naruto bit down on his teeth, knowing he had no way to avoid it.
Lee was just about to wrap Naruto up when a pinwheel stabbed the wrap into the wall beside them. "What?!" All four genin were shocked by the sudden interruption. "It can't be," Lee continued. The boy flipped to the ground while Naruto was still flying through the air.
"Damn it." Naruto tucked his body in and flipped safely to the ground on his knee. He pressed his fist against the ground.
A large red turtle then appeared across from the four shinobi. Lee began to apologize to the turtle as the turtle lectured him on using a forbidden technique.
Naruto glared at the other shinboi. "I'll have to get more serious if I want to survive these exams. Jiraya sensei wasn't lying when he said there are skill shinobi here." Naruto stood up and walked over to his team. "Sorry, about that." He felt ashamed for not keeping his guard up better against his opponent.
Sasuke folded his arms and shut his eyes. "Don't worry about it. You did alright since it was you. I however would have actually crushed him."
Sakura looked over at Sasuke, clapping her hands together. "Of course you would have, Sasuke. If Naruto didn't go and but in."
Naruto glared at both his teammates. Could they have bigger egos for Sasuke. They were so annoying all the time with Lee's speed any of them would have been put at a disadvantage. Naruto shifted his eyes in Lee's and the turtle's direction when a man puffed out of smoke on top of the turtle that looked like an older version of Lee.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all looked dismayed at the sight. It only became worse when the man acted like a fool along with his student, talking about doing extreme punishments until Sakura reminded them that the Chunin exams were about to start.
The man known as Guy sensei tossed a kunai at the pinwheel that held Lee's bandages to knock it free. "Why don't you escort these fine shinobi to the classroom."
Lee nodded before his sensei and the turtle disappeared.
Things were just starting to become interesting at this year's chunin exams.
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