The next three days passed quickly, for many things were happening.
Naruko and Gaara had gone to the proctor of the exam, and had told her that they had come in contact with Orochimaru, and that Gaara had killed him. After having Inoichi looking in their minds about it, it showed they were telling the truth. The proctor had gone and collected the body of Orochimaru and set it on fire, just to make sure he would never be revived.
Anko had then gone and searched through the people taking the test to see if anyone stuck out as being a possible spy. She had found 3 spies who were pretending to be Leaf ninja. She had killed them as soon as they had entered the tower, and dragged them into the common room for everyone to see.
Team 13, who had arrived at the same time as that team, had protested that one of them, the one with gray hair and glasses, apparently named Kabuto, was good, and that he'd helped them.
Anko had just shrugged and said, "Well, I know he was a spy, and it's too late to save him now, he's dead. Deal with it."
They had also been informed that a new Hokage had been chosen, and that the next day there would be a festival to celebrate, and the new Hokage would be crowned there.
After Team 13, the last to arrive, got there, everyone was called to the main room. It was a training room, that had balconies on either side of the rectangular room. In the back of the room, against a wall was the statute of a pair of hands creating a hand sign.
They were put into single file lines with their teams, and each line went next to each other in order of the village: Sand, Sound, Leaf.
"Now," Anko started, "well maggots, you have all passed the second exam, so now, I turn you over to your new proctor."
A man walked up, he looked like any other Jounin, except he had a senbon sticking out of his mouth, almost like a toothpick.
"Hey kids, well, I'm your proctor for the third exam, Genma Shiraui. Now, since there are a lot of you, we will be having a preliminary round right now, so there won't be too many matches in the final exam." Genma said.
"What!? That's not fair! Some of us are in a worse condition while some of us are fine! How is that fair?" Sakura asked, her having a lot of wear and tear on her, while people like the Sand Siblings had been relaxing for four days and had completely healed.
"Tough. If you run across a ninja in the real world after a battle, do they wait while you take a rest to feel better?" Genma asked.
"Well, no-" Sakura started saying.
"Then why should I? You are all having your matches right now. The matches will be chosen randomly through a system, and will appear on that screen." He said, pointing to a screen that had been revealed. "When your name appears, come to your fight. You will fight until either I call off the match, one person is not able to continue, or one of you dies. There are 21 of you, so one of you will get a free pass to the next round. You may forfeit if you get a match you don't want to fight in, you will then be forfeiting from the whole competition and will not continue. Before we get started, does anyone want to forfeit?"
No one raised their hand.
"That's what I thought. Now, let's see the first pairing." Genma said, turning around the the board as names flashed by.
Sasuke Uchiha
vs.
Naruto Uchiha
"U-Uchiha?" Ino questioned.
"Yep! Found out my tou-chan was an Uchiha a week or two ago. Cool huh?" Naruto said, smirking.
"Alright, all of you except the Uchihas, get up into the stands." Genma said.
Sand and Sound were told to go on one side, while the Leaf ninjas were told to go on the other side. When they got up into the stands, their senseis appeared, surprising them all. They looked down on the first two fighters, who were simply glaring at each other as the proctor waited.
"Why are they even having this match? Isn't it pretty much going to be Sasuke who wins? I mean, Sasuke was the rookie of the year and Naruto was the dead-last. Even though I'm friends with Naruto, does he even stand a chance?" Choji asked.
Kakashi laughed, surprising Gai who stood next to him with their teams. "Now now, don't underestimate Naruto so much. Since Naruko and Shion were already pretty well off on their own, I dedicated a lot of time to Naruto, and he was a very capable student. He's definitely a pupil I am proud to have taught, he was very eager to learn, just like his mother was when she was a child. I taught Naruto a lot, and he was also taken on as an apprentice to Lord Jiraiya. And I generally met with my team more than usual senseis do, after all, being the boyfriend of Naruko's sister figure, and Shion's aunt figure, and Naruto's other teacher being Naruko's father and Shion's Uncle, we saw each other more often than not. Do not underestimate the time, effort, blood, sweat and tears that boy put into his training."
"Ahhh Kakashi! It sounds like you had some very youthful students!" Gai said.
"Oh, sorry, did you say something?" Kakashi asked.
"Dang you Kakashi! Why do you have to be so cool!?" Gai yelled.
"The match between Sasuke and Naruto Uchiha, begins... now!" Genma yelled, jumping back.
"Hn. Doesn't matter if you've changed Dobe, I'm still gonna whip you." Sasuke said.
"Good luck with that." Naruto said as his eyes flashed Sharingan red. He didn't want to end it right away, so he didn't cast a genjutsu, but he wanted to make sure he noticed everything.
Naruto took out a kunai and rushed forward with a flash of speed. Sasuke grunted as he blocked Naruto with his kunai. Naruto swept his leg down in a kick, which Sasuke jumped over. Naruto jabbed at him with his kunai, and managed a shallow cut on Sasuke's shoulder.
Sasuke jumped back a few meters and held his hand to his shoulder. It wasn't too bad, nothing that would stop him from fighting. He took out couple of shuriken and threw them at Naruto. Naruto moved to block them, but Sasuke broke out into hand signs.
"Shadow Shuriken Jutsu!" He called out as the shuriken multiplied into dozens.
Naruto looked alarmed and the shuriken slammed into him. Sasuke felt triumphant until he saw Naruto disappear into a cloud of smoke.
A hand popped out of the ground and grabbed for his ankles, but Sasuke jumped and turned in the air and slashed the hand with his kunai. Good thing he had taken that test with Kakashi, or he would have been caught.
Naruto came out of the ground and looked at his hand that was bleeding profusely. His other hand glowed green and he started healing the wound on his other hand.
"Dobe, when did you learn medical jutsu?" Sasuke asked.
"You really think I could be on a team with two medic nins, and hang out at their house with the Tsunade of the Sannin and not be forced to learn the basics?" Naruto asked. He had been pretty horrible at it at first, but had gotten decent with practice and he was silently thanking his teammates for forcing him to learn it, or else this injury would have been a problem.
Naruto stopped healing himself, knowing that it was fine now, and took out two smoke bombs which he threw on the ground. He created clones, and all of them could see through the smoke thanks to their Sharingan, but Sasuke couldn't.
They started throwing punches and kicks at Sasuke. Sasuke was able to dispel his clones after only a few hits, and had engaged in combat with him. The smoke dissipated and they were fighting a taijutsu battle. Sasuke flipped Naruto and pushed him back into the wall.
Naruto hit the wall with an 'oomph' and fell onto the ground. He groaned as he felt a rather sizable bump on his head. He jumped up onto the highest fingers on the statue and thought about the situation. Dammit! He couldn't summon a toad in here and he was told not to use Chidori or Rasengan, so he didn't know what to do, those were the ones he spent that past few months on! He hadn't had the time to learn anything else, other than team exercises and the medical jutsu, as well as water and tree walking.
"Naruto." He heard Kakashi call out. He looked up and met his sensei's lazy gaze. "Go ahead and use it, just cut the power in half, okay?"
Naruto grew a smile on his face and laughed. "You got it Kakashi-sensei!" He put on arm down and and braced it with his other arm while squatting.
Gai gasped. "Kakashi, you didn't." He said.
"I did Gai, he's the only one who I could have taught it to, and I don't want my jutsu to die with me. Plus, I would rather he have it in case he got into trouble. We worked on his speed to make him fast enough, and with is insane stamina, it doesn't pose a threat to him, who knows how many he could manage before passing out. More than me I'm sure." Kakashi said.
"What is it you are talking about Gai-sensei?" Lee asked, turning to the pair, who everybody on the balcony had their eyes on other than Naruko and Shion, since they knew already.
"Kakashi's own technique, one he made up when me and him were at the young age of 14. It's one damaging jutsu, and it usual poses a threat for the user due to the level of chakra it needs. But Kakashi is right in one way, that Naruto doesn't need to worry about chakra usage at all." Gai said.
"What is the jutsu?" Sakura asked worriedly, after all, Kakashi was strong, she knew that first hand, and if he had come up with this jutsu...
"The jutsu... just go ahead and see for yourselves." Kakashi said, pointing towards Naruto.
Naruto now stood at his full height, his Sharingan blazing as he looked at Sasuke. His arm braced the other, which in the palm of the hand, had a roaring sound and a frenzy of what looked like lightning shooting out.
"Chidori: One Thousand Birds!" He called out.
Naruto ran down the statue with his arms out, the Chidori carving through the statue with ease. He transferred to the ground in a split second, and ran towards Sasuke, who for once, had a frightened look on his face as Naruto came speeding towards him.
One second, he had been on the statue.
Another Second Later, he was on the ground running to Sasuke.
The next, there was a hole through Sasuke's shoulder as Naruto stabbed through it with his Chidori. Naruto had a serious look on his face as his hand came out the other side of Sasuke's shoulder, the blood flying onto his face and clothes. Sasuke's blood curdling scream filled the air as he was stabbed through the shoulder.
Nearly 10 seconds went by with dead silence. Then Naruto moved, the same serious look on his face, and pulled his hand back out through Sasuke's body, his entire arm coated in Sasuke's blood.
Sasuke fell to the ground on his knees and then fell onto his front, clutching his shoulder as Naruto stood next to him, his feet next to Sasuke's face. The serious look stayed on Naruto's face as Genma called out his victory and medics rushed forward to help Sasuke.
"Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.
"Yes?" Kakashi said, as he was happy for his student getting through.
"Can I go wash my arm?" Naruto asked.
"Go ahead." He answered.
Naruto walked out and towards the bathroom.
"Kakashi-sensei! Why did you let him do that! I thought you said half the power!" Sakura yelled.
"I know what I told him to do Sakura, and I knew what the outcome would be." He said, and then he turned towards her. "And that was half the power, Naruto did exactly as I told him."
"That was half of the power?" Kiba asked in amazement.
"Yes, and that isn't even his most powerful jutsu. Should he have wanted to, Naruto could have easily killed Sasuke." Kakashi said.
"Kakashi, what move did you teach him that was more powerful than the Chidori?" Gai asked.
"Oh, it wasn't me. I did mention his other teacher was Jiraiya, didn't I?" Kakashi said.
"What other move does he know that's more powerful than that?" Ino asked almost fearfully.
"My Tou-chan's own original jutsu." Naruko spoke out for the first time. "The Rasengan" She said as she created an orb of blue chakra in her hand. "This is the jutsu that's more powerful. You'll noticed that both the Chidori and Rasengan are purely chakra attacks. This is the reason they are so hard to preform, you must be able to push the chakra out of your system and maintain it in your hand. Of course, not everyone can do these attacks. People need the proper speed, chakra control, and chakra levels to learn the Rasengan. And people need the proper speed, chakra control, chakra levels, as well as the Sharingan to learn Chidori."
"She's right." Naruto said, walking up to his team. "They're both very hard to learn, though I have to say, while the preparation for Chidori was harder, learning the Rasengan itself is nearly impossible."
"Ne, are you two going to get down here, or what?" Genma called out.
All of the Leaf ninja looked at the board and were shocked by what they saw.
Sakura Haruno
vs.
Ino Yamanaka