Ino's Pov
We enter the arena where the semi finals were to be held and wait for an instructor to appear we wait for an hour and sure enough an instructor appears
"OK listen up since there is so many of you left there will be a semi final held here you will be matched up against a random opponent and will do battle anything goes the only rule is to win is this clear" everyone nods and the matches begin
"First up shikamaru vs. kin" two people come down one I recognized as kin the other I had only seen in class but he mostly slept in class and some how managed to get this far kin looks up at me and sakura and waves we smile and wave back the match then begins but ends quickly due to the shikamaru boys shadow position jutsu shikamaru smiles and walks away victorious kin slowly picks herself up off the ground and walks over to her team they then begin to scold her
"Useless girl how could you lose" one of them says
"You call yourself a ninja" another says
"You're pathetic" a third one says he then goes to slap her just as his hand come down it is stopped by sasuke who punches the sound ninja's
"How dare you she is your teammate even if she failed you should still congratulate her for trying" he backs off of them and goes over to kin
"You know you don't have to take this right there is always room for one more here in the leaf" kin gasp at his suggestion and nods she then goes over to the proctor and asks him a question the proctor nods and gets everyone's attention
"Everyone I have an announcement not only is kin out of the chunin exams but she is now no longer and enemy ninja she is now a ninja of the leaf" kin smiles and grabs a kunai and slashes through her old headband and replaces it with a leaf headband she then walks over to us and hugs sasuke
"Thank you" he hugs her back and nods the semi finals then continue
"Next up Temari vs. Tenten" the match begins and ends quickly with temari as the victor and tenten as the loser
"Next up gaara vs. lee" the match took some time and surprised us all when lee revealed to everyone that he could use his chakura in a way no one had ever seen but gaara won by a landslide the next match was
"Next match Sasuke vs. Kabuto" the match ended just as it started as kabuto surrendered
"Next match neji vs hinata" the match was horrifying to watch but it as over quickly with neji a the victor leaving a bruised and battered hinata neji then walks over to hinata
"Now you die" he goes in for the kill when he is stopped by naruto who catches is blow and glares at him
"Release me fool" naruto releases him and hits him hard sending him back into a wall and walks away
"Why you little" neji then charges at hinata again naruto just disappears and reappears and puts him in a choke hold
"You go for the girl again and I will kill you" he releases neji again and walks over to hinata and picks her up and walks over to me and sakura we begin to heal her until the medics arrive and take her away naruto then looks over at neji and glares at him
"If we face off against each other in the finals I will take pleasure killing you boy" naruto just smiles
"I would like to see you try" naruto continues smiling while neji glares at him
"Next match Ino vs. Sakura" I look over at sakura and we both nod we both enter the ring and the match starts
"Hey sakura don't hold back ok" she nods and smiles
"Same to you ino" I nod and smile we then charge each other I go for a leg sweep but she jumps it and tries to hit me I roll out of the way and grab her hand and fling her to the other end of the room she slams into the wall but recovers and steps forward and cracks her neck and knuckles
"OK lets see how you deal with this" she does some hand signs
"Water style water bomb barrage" she shoots water at me I dodge them and throw a kunai at her and so my own hand signs
"Kunai rain" the one kunai becomes many she begins to dodge them but get hit by one in the arm she quickly pulls it out and heals herself
"Well that hurt my turn" she does some hand signs and suddenly she is covered In wired markings
"I'm going to end this now ok" she then disappears and reappears behind me but she was facing the wall I suddenly fall to my knees in pain and sakura falls to her knees in exhaustion
"There that should do it" she tries to get up but can't I then begin to heal myself but much to my surprise there was little I could do for there was a lot of damage
"What was that" sakura smiles
"Well I take all my chakra and some reserves I had hidden and release them in one attack I thought I could handle the after math but I guess not" she then falls down on her belly as do I neither of us being able to get up
"Tie neither will advance" we nod and sasuke and naruto appear and pick us up and carry us over to the stands naruto then begins to heal us with the ninetails chakra the next match was between the zaku boy and a boy named shino it ended quickly with shino as the victor there were several more matches until there were only two people who hadn't battled yet
"Last match Kiba Vs. Naruto" naruto smiles and walks down and meets his opponent he suddenly sniffs the air as does his opponent
"You smell like dogs" naruto smiles
"You smell like foxes" the opponent smiles
"I can tell you are very strong" the boy nods
"As are you" naruto smiles
"So how about this no avoiding the opponents attack blow for blow ok" the boy smiles and nods
"Oh naruto no ninetails stuff ok" naruto nods and smiles
"You first kiba" the boy nods and does some hand signs
"Fang over fang" naruto stands still and takes the hit it sends him back a little naruto cringes and clutches his gut but recovers after a moment
"My turn" naruto does his own hand signs
"Fox flame barrage" kiba takes the blows and recovers just as fast as naruto the match went on for hours people were amazed at this and started placing bets soon they were both battered and beaten both bleeding
"Ok kiba time to finish this one last attack" kiba nods and charges up an attack as does naruto
"Now" they charge each other
"Fang over fang" kiba hits naruto
"Firs storm" naruto hit kiba they both end up opposite of each other kiba suddenly falls
"victor naruto" everyone cheers naruto heals himself and goes over to kiba and heals him
"Just like old times huh naruto" naruto smiles and nods
"Yep just like old times" they hug and walk off together over to me
"Ino I want you to meet kiba my an old friend and sparring partner" I smile
"Hi" kiba smiles
"So naruto finally found a mate huh" we both blush at this
"Yeah but I don't call her my mate she's my girlfriend" kiba nods and walks away
"Well that was embarrassing" I nod and the instructor gets everyone's attention
"Ok everyone here are the final match up's" everyone looks at the proctor
Shikamaru vs temari
Shino vs kankuro
Naruto vs neji
Sasuke vs gaara
"Those are the final match ups you all have three days to prepare" we all nod and head out
We all fought well some better than others but soon everyone's skills would be put to the test soon all hell would break loose