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Today was finally the day, the day of the Chunin exam tournament. Naruto was already up and about early that morning. He wanted to be prepared as much as possible for the day. He already had his Kage Bunshin scouting around the village.
Naruto was currently packing the rest of his things. Naruto had packed most of his weapons, and a few certain scrolls that he thought he may need later. He had to be ready; he wanted his plan to work perfectly. Naruto didn't want anything to go wrong today.
"You need to calm down Kit. It will be fine." Kurama advised.
"I know. I can't help it though. Last time I didn't even know about the attack at all, and not only did Hokage-Jii die, but so did other shinobi." Naruto replied.
"Yes, but this time you do know about it, and you're doing something about it." Kurama answered. "You also have your friend's, you're not in this alone."
Naruto nodded, as he realized that Kurama was right.
"Well the exam is going to start soon, and I still need to talk to Hokage-Jii about today." Naruto mumbled to himself as he left and locked up his apartment.
In all parts of Konoha there were people talking about the chunin exam finals. Many of those people were heading towards the stadium. The chunnin exams were one of the busiest times in Konoha.
Every member of the Konoha 12 was already waiting in the stadium, well all but Naruto. Ino, Kiba, Tenten, Choji, Hinata, and Lee were all sitting together at the back of the stadium. The six of them needed to be ready to move as soon as the invasion started.
"I just realized something." Ino suddenly said in a serious tone.
"What did you realize?" Tenten replied, as the rest of the group turned towards Ino.
"Naruto was the one that kind of brought us all together. I just don't understand why though. Like what changed? Why did Naruto want all of us to train together? None of us really talked that much in the academy. And sometimes…I get this feeling like," Ino paused for a second. "It's like Naruto knows what's going to happen next." Ino answered.
"I know what you mean. Though Naruto isn't the only one, all of team 7 acts that way." Choji replied. "Well it's really not only team 7. Shikamaru, Shino, and Neji have been acting almost the same as them too."
"It's kind of like they know some hidden secret we don't know." Hinata spoke up.
"Right!" Tenten agreed as he nodded her head in agreement. "Maybe we should look into this? We are a team of sorts aren't we? We can't keep stuff hidden between us; it can cause conflict within the team." Tenten added.
"How about we get this whole mess done with first. We don't really have the time to look into much right now. From what Naruto was saying, this invasion thing that is happening is going to be big. I don't want to fall behind in strength from the rest of our classmates." Kiba said.
"Yosh! We will defeat our enemy's on this day! If I don't do this, I will do 400 laps around Konoha and run up and down the Hokage Monument 200 times!" Lee shouted.
"What are you guys talking about?" Kakashi's voice interrupted their conversation.
All six of them jumped a little in their chairs, and turned in their seats to find their sensei's standing behind them. The six of them hadn't sense the four Jounin at all.
"Oh we were just talking about how strong we all have become." Tenten said quickly.
"We also don't want to fall behind the others." Hinata added.
"I see." Kurenai replied skeptically.
The four sensei's had gotten together as much as they could during the month to talk about their students, and their current plan was waiting until after the chunin exams. They had a hunch that the third was in on it, because the four of them had been doing a lot during the month.
Down in the arena of the stadium Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, Neji, and Shino all stood near each other. Gaara and Temari stood farther away from them, so that they wouldn't bring any suspicion of them working together.
"So how have you guys been doing since you got back? We really haven't had much time to talk about that kind of stuff." Sakura asked.
"It's troublesome, but I am actually glad we got to come back. We have a chance to save what we had lost." Shikamaru answered as he glanced around the stadium.
"Indeed, and really we have Naruto to thank for that." Shino replied.
"We have a lot of things we could thank Naruto for." Neji added, as he remembered his fight with Naruto from their timeline.
Shikamaru, Sakura, Shino and Sasuke were not thinking of the things Naruto had done.
"He impacts many people doesn't he." Shino stated a minute later.
"The Dobe sure does" Sasuke mumbled. "What should we do about the others? They are getting pretty curious about what's been going on. We do know a lot for genin." Sasuke added, breaking everyone from their thoughts.
"Ino and Choji have been giving me looks for quite a while, they know something is going on. But they haven't asked me about it yet. Even though I know they want to." Shikamaru agreed. It wasn't hard for Shikamaru to figure out that Sasuke wanted to change the subject.
"Yes, Kiba and Hinata have both brought it up a few times. They mostly ask about Naruto, but sometimes they ask about different things." Shino added.
"Maybe we should consider telling them." Sakura suggested. "After all we are a team, and it might help us in the long run if they knew."
"I don't know Sakura; I don't think they are ready for all of that information. It doesn't help that Kakashi and the others are getting really antsy. We need to do something about that." Sasuke answered.
"The hokage can only do so much to stop them. We really don't need that many people knowing our situation." Shikamaru commented.
"We should probably talk with Naruto about this after the invasion." Neji replied.
"Good idea, though I don't think that Baka needs to think about more things to worry about. Anyway where the heck is he anyway?" Sakura asked, as she looked around the arena. "The exams are about to start."
"He will be here soon. He wouldn't miss something so important." Neji replied.
Just as Neji said this, Naruto appeared in a swirl of leaves in the middle of the arena.
"I am not late am I?" Naruto asked as he looked around the arena and checking everyone for any injuries.
"No, it doesn't start for another five minutes." Sasuke informed him.
Naruto grinned at them. He was finally ready to get this started.
"Awesome, I can't wait!" Naruto shouted. Sure there may have been an invasion in the end of the chunin exams the first time, but the fights were definitely memorable.
The Third Hokage sat next to the Kazekage up at the top of the stadium in the Hokage box. They were both currently discussing the participants for the exam.
"So Hokage-dono, I heard there are many Konoha Genin this year and I have heard they are quite the strong bunch." The Kazekage commented as he looked down at the participants in the stadium. His eyes quickly finding Sasuke and Naruto in particular.
"Yes there are." The third agreed. This year's generation will definitely surpass the previous ones. I haven't seen anything like it in a while. I have high hopes for them." Sarutobi replied.
"I see. So may I ask who you believe will win this year?"
"Of course, though I can't really tell you who. It's a tough call, the six genin from Konoha are quite surprising."
"Oh, I heard there is high hopes for Sasuke Uchiha to win, and only recently heard from a few people that Naruto Uzumaki was in the also in the running." The Kazekage explained.
"Yes, the two of them are two of our strongest genin." Sarutobi replied.
"I don't mean to interrupt our conversation, but it is time for the matches to start." The third interrupted. Hiruzen also didn't want to leak too much information to Orochimaru.
"Go ahead Hokage-dono." The Kazekage replied.
Sarutobi stood up from his chair and he quickly used a jutsu that would project his voice to everyone in the stadium.
"Welcome to the third part of the chunin exams, these young genin have made it this far and will now be participating in a fighting tournament. I hope all of you enjoy watching them test their skills against each other. With that, Genma would you please begin the tournament." Hiruzen explained to the audience.
(Down on the arena floor)
A brown-haired man with a bandanna on his head, and a senbon in his mouth appeared in front of the eight genin. Naruto and the other Konoha genin recognized the man from their first life.
Though this was also part of their plan, they couldn't let the enemy know that Hayate was still alive.
"Alright the rules are the same as the preliminary rounds. Though the matches will now be different, for Dosu was found dead a couple of weeks ago.
The first match will be Naruto Uzumaki vs. Neji Hyuga. Second match will be Sakura Haruno vs. Temari Sabaku. For the third match it will then be Shikamaru Nara vs. Shino Aburame.
Then the final match of the first round will be Sasuke Uchiha vs. Gaara Sabaku. Does everyone understand this?" Genma asked after explaining the change.
There were multiple nods in understanding, before Genma moved on.
"Ok, the genin not participating in the first match all need to go up those stairs to the participant's balcony." Genma said as he pointed to a flight of stairs to his right.
Everyone but Naruto and Neji headed towards the stairs so that the first match could begin.
Naruto and Neji faced each other in fighting stances waiting for Genma to start the match. Indicating that they were ready.
"Begin" Genma told them before jumping away from the two. Naruto gave Neji a look that Neji was quite familiar with. 'Let's give them a show.'
Neji rushed towards Naruto. Neji knew from personal experience how strong Naruto actually was, and if he wanted to 'win' he would have to hurry this up.
As soon as Neji made it close enough he attacked. Naruto countered easily, blocking the strikes Neji was throwing at him. This lasted for over five minutes, both of them striking and blocking each other's attacks.
Neji knew Naruto could probably do this for hours, he was freaking stamina maniac. So the Hyuga jumped away and rushed through hand signs after throwing multiple Kunai towards Naruto so that Neji could have a few extra seconds of time.
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough" Neji shouted, a strong burst of wind soared towards Naruto. Naruto had just finished deflected the kunai before the wind jutsu hit him and sent the blond into the wall behind him.
Naruto quickly got out of the human shape hole and rushed through his own hand signs.
"Kage Bunshin" twenty figures of Naruto's appeared around the arena. Ten of them headed straight towards Neji hoping for a distraction. As soon as they got close enough Neji used Kaiten to deflect the clones.
Though as soon as he stopped spinning, he was sent flying into the ground by another clone. Neji got up quickly, knowing Naruto would be attacking again. And he was right, Naruto and his remaining clones were flying through hand signs.
"This isn't going to be very good." Neji thought.
"Water style: Water shockwave/ Wind style: Wind Gale." Naruto's voice was heard from all around him. Wind and water were shot right at him before he could do anything about them, and Neji was sent into the ground once more.
Neji was shaking as he stood back up. Naruto definitely knew how to make a show. "Naruto always seems to get a step ahead of the rest of us, just as we get caught up." Neji thought.
"That definitely hurt." Neji mumbled as he tried to catch his breath. Naruto was definitely a lot stronger then he was the first time around.
It was probably time to just forfeit. If they kept going Neji knew he might be able to help with the invasion, if all his strength went to fighting Naruto. That's how he missed so much the first time.
"I give." Neji said turning to Genma.
"Um…alright." Genma answered. "Winner Naruto Uzumaki."
The crowed was silent for a couple minutes, before the audience began to cheer loudly. Neji might have given up the match, but their fight was entertaining.
"Hmm….Naruto-san is very interesting." The Kazekage mumbled. "That brat has a high possibility of getting in my way. I will have to do something about him."
"Yes, Naruto-kun is quite special." Hiruzen replied. The third really didn't like relying on Naruto so much. It was hard to believe that the twelve-year-old he saw actually had a mind that had seen a lot in his time.
"Wow, I didn't know Naruto was that strong." Tenten commented. "That means he has totally been holding back on us."
"I know how you feel Tenten, though maybe he does for good reason. It is Naruto we are talking about. The dude spars with every single one of us." Kiba replied. Akumaru barked in agreement with Kiba's words.
"It's alright Tenten, Naruto is the one that leads our group, so he knows what we are good at, and what were bad at." Choji explained.
"It was Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto that brought all of us together, and since then it seems like we get together almost all of the time." Ino added.
"I kind of like it, and I have a feeling we have grown a lot stronger than we would have if we didn't get together." Hinata explained.
"I would have to agree with you" Lee replied.
(Back down in the arena)
Sakura and Temari stood across from each other in the arena of the stadium. Both ready to start their match.
"Begin" Genma announced before jumping away from them.
"Let's see what you got." Temari said before taking her fan off of her back, and swinging it at Sakura. Sharp wind slices shot out towards Sakura at fast speeds.
The Pink haired Kunoichi hurried through hand signs. Sakura knew she needed to slow down the wind jutsu, so she could get out of the way in time.
"Earth Style: Stone Spikes." Stone spikes flew up from the ground a few feet away from in front of Sakura. Slowing the wind jutsu down enough for Sakura to roll out of the way.
Sakura quickly made her way closer towards Temari. Sakura knew she had to get the fan away from the blond Sand-nin.
Temari flicked her wrist once more sending sharp winds towards Sakura. Sakura used the Stone Spike jutsu once more and did the same as before.
Sakura was getting closer, but this time she was sent flying backward into the ground by the Winds made from Temari's giant fan. Temari had switched her battle plan and was now swinging her fan over and over.
Sakura quickly got back up, showing no sign of pain. Even though she was covered in small cuts everywhere on her body.
Sakura decided, this was the closet she was going to get to Temari, if she didn't do something fast.
Sakura raced towards the Blonde Sand-nin, before flipping in the air to dodge a burst of wind and using the heel of her sandal to smash the ground around her and Temari.
The ground shook a little before pieces of Earth shattered into pieces and making Temari shift off-balance. This gave Sakura a chance to move closer and attack her while the blond was off-balance.
Sakura and Temari completely ignored the small gasps from quite a few audience members. They really only heard of Tsunade of the Sannin, that had strength like that.
Sakura drew back her fist once she got close enough and swung at Temari. The blonde Kunoichi got her balance in just enough time to use her fan to block the Pink-haired girl, but the force of Sakura's punch still sent Temari flying backwards and into the wall of the stadium.
Sakura quickly followed after the girl, hoping to get another punch or kick in, but Temari was quick to get back up and swing her fan at Sakura once more.
The Wind attack hit Sakura dead on and sent her flying into the ground. Temari didn't stop though, she quickly sent another wave of winds at the Kunoichi. Sakura didn't have time to dodge and was hit again and more small cuts began to appear.
Sakura huffed as she tried to shakily stand back up. This match was going to have to stop.
"I give." Sakura said a few seconds later.
Genma appeared between them, and gave Temari the win. The audience suddenly burst into applause.
"That girl was quite surprising. She kind of reminds me of Tsuande of the Sannin." The Kazekage muttered out. "Damn, what is with all of these genin?"
"Yes, I believe Sakura dreams to be a medical ninja just like her." The third replied.
"I see." The Kazekage replied calmly.
(Down in the stadium)
Shikamaru lazily stood across from Shino waiting for Genma to start the match.
"This is so troublesome, I wanted to forfeit. Blonds are so troublesome." Shikamaru muttered as Genma started the match and jumped away from the two of them.
"Let's start, because we don't really have the chat." Shino replied.
Shikamaru nodded in understanding, and easily caught the doubled meaning in Shino's words.
A second later, bugs began to swarm the area.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru mumbled before running through hand signs. "This is probably going to be the best way to deal with Shino's bugs. Though Shino isn't going to like it much."
"Fire style: fireball jutsu" Shikamaru calls out, as a large fireball shoots out and torches out the bugs coming at him. Shino quickly rushed through his own hand signs.
"Earth style: Terra Shield" A tall wall of earth shot up in front of Shino. The fire hit dead center of the earth wall. Luckily the wall was strong enough to stop the fire jutsu from hitting him. Shino sent only a few bugs from his coat. He would have to distract Shikamaru enough, so that he wouldn't notice them.
Shino noticed a second later a shadow moving towards him, the Aburame quickly dashed a way and flashed through hand signs and called out "Earth Style: Stone Spikes" as soon as he saw that Shikamaru was a lot closer than before.
Stone like pillars shot out of the ground, Shikamaru wasn't lucky enough to get out-of-the-way fast enough, for he was hit in the side by one of them.
The two of them shared a glance, meaning it was time for them to finish up their match. The two of them needed to be able to fight during the Invasion. They need to save as much chakra as they could.
Shikamaru noted that his chakra was slowly dropping, and instantly knew Shino had bugs on him. "Oh I see how this is going. Guess I will just have to do what the others have been doing. Troublesome, I was about to finish up my own plan. Shino beat me too it"
"I give. I don't have enough chakra to continue fighting." Shikamaru mumbled lazily as he lifted up his arm slightly in surrender.
"Winner Shino Aburame," Genma announced. The Jounin had to jump over a few piles of earth to get closer.
"We will also take a ten minute break, to fix up the arena really quickly." Genma added as he looked at all the damage around the arena. There was up turned Earth everywhere. The walls would be fine from all of the body sized wholes for now.
Shikamaru and Shino both headed back to the participant box.
The stadium was filled with noise a minute later. Everyone was discussing the fights, and many of them were not too happy with all of the forfeits.
"What is with all of these forfeits? So far no one has went all out and fought until they dropped." Kotetsu muttered in his seat next to Izumo.
"How should I know? When we saw the Konoha genin fight Kakashi, Asuma, Gai and Kurenai they were pretty impressive. I was expecting a lot more from them then this. Hopefully the Uchiha's fight with that Sand-nin will be good." Izumo replied.
"That's true, I guess we will have to wait and see." Kotetsu replied.
"This is so weird; most clan heirs never use jutsu outside of their clans. Even though we have fought them before, and we have seen them fight. I can't get over this. Why do we get the genin that decide they should change-up the way Konoha works? It makes everything thing confusing." Asuma mumbled out.
"Maybe it's a good thing. They would be a lot stronger if they switched everything around. Other villagers do know a lot about the clans from Konoha. If they changed it up, they would have an advantage on the battle field." Kakashi replied as he watched a few Jounin fix the arena floor with a few earth jutsu's.
"I guess that makes sense. Though that means we need to start stepping up as well." Asuma replied. "We can't have genin already surpassing us, as a group they could be unbeatable one day."
"We should probably be proud that our genin are so strong. Maybe we are just looking into things too much." Kurenai commented. Instead of encouraging their genin, they have been questioning them. Kurenai was beginning to doubt their actions towards their genin.
"I agree! Our genin are top notch. They probably just train to become stronger, just like the rest of us." Gai shouted.
"Yeah maybe…." Kakashi replied.
(Participant Box)
Naruto knew it was almost time for the invasion to start. It also didn't help that he hadn't gotten any confirmation from his clones. He needed to get to the Hokage as soon as the invasion started. The others knew what they had to do. Gaara not transforming was definitely going to be good for their side of things.
"Be ready to start anytime now." Naruto said to everyone.
"We will be fine, everything will work out." Sakura told the blond. Sakura knew someone had to say something. Naruto was beginning to worry a little too much, and it wasn't like him.
"Yeah Dobe, were all a lot stronger than before." Sasuke added on. The others from the future easily caught the double meaning in his words.
"I know. I am confident in everyone's abilities. This plan was made to protect the leaf the best we can." Naruto replied with clear confidents in his voice. They were ready for this, and Orochimaru was going to be in for quite a shock.
If Genma hadn't been told earlier about the invasion, he definitely would have been disappointed at the Konoha genin this year. He knew they could do a lot more than this. He was currently even subbing in for Hayate. The swordsman was currently in the hospital after being attacked. Hayate was luckily saved and healing rather well.
The arena was fixed up a little better now, well at least a lot flatter. Genma was getting a little tired of all the earth elemental users. Through for genin, it was quite impressive that they already knew how to use elemental type jutsu.
Genma sighed; it was finally time to start the last match of the first round.
"Would Gaara Sabaku and Sasuke Uchiha please make their way down to the arena. The last match of the first round will now begin." Genma shouted out so that everyone could hear him.
A quite loud applause and cheering started as soon as Sasuke's name was mentioned. There were many people waiting for this fight to start.
The two genin headed down the stairs towards the arena and walked over to where Genma was standing. The two of them then put space between themselves so they could start the match.
"Begin" Genma said before jumping away from the two.
Sasuke launched towards Gaara, only to be blocked by Sand as he continued to attack. Since their match wasn't even going to last that long, it was probably best to save up his strength.
Gaara was only throwing Sasuke back with sand after sand, and Sasuke was only attacking with taijutsu. This had been going on for at least five minutes now.
"Alright, I guess I am going to have to use a jutsu to get this thing going." Sasuke mumbled before he raced through hand signs.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Ball" A ball of lightning gathered into Sasuke's hands as was launched towards Gaara.
The red-haired Jinchuuriki quickly made a ball of Sand around him, to shield himself against the ball of lightning.
Upon impact the ball exploded into the shield, and causing the sand to begin to crumbled to the ground.
A second later, feathers began to fall around the stadium.
"What is going on? The attack isn't supposed to happen yet." Sasuke thought as he stopped the genjutsu from making him fall asleep.
Around the stadium many shinobi were doing the same, and members of the Konoha 12 and the remaining two sand siblings appeared around the arena.
"Why is it starting so soon?" Tenten asked.
"I don't know, but we should continue the plan." Neji replied.
"Right, let's do this!" Sakura added.
"All of you know what to do!" Naruto shouted to all of them. Every member of the group nodded before all of them disappeared from the arena floor.
I hope you guys liked this chapter, and I hope the fight scenes were are ok.
Thanks for reading! :)