Disclaimer: i should just... nah screw it, read the story
(Sasuke respects Narutos advice, after the wave arc, he figured that Naruto really did want was best for him)
(if something doesnt make sense, re read a couple of time, if you still dont understand, feel free to msg me or review)
"... AND WELCOME TO THE THIRD ROUND OF THE CHUNIN EXAMS!" exclaimed Anko with her usual crazy voice. All the while eyeing up Zabuza, who was doing the same to her.
"Thank you Anko, and I would also like to congratulate you all on surviving this far. But on to the third part of this exam, it will be one on one matchups from here on out, so if there's anyone unfit to fight, just raise your hand and we will mark you out. If you decide to call it quits you may stay to watch your team or you can leave to get medical attention. Now all that wish to be excluded from these proceedings, raise your hand" asked the aged Kage
2 hands went up from the Iwa team, one sporting large gash down his right arm that was wrapped in bandages, the other seemed to have a severe concussion.
"Mark them down, Gekko" asked the 3rd Hokage. The coughing swordsman did as told and marked down the people leaving.
"Ok, my name is Gekko Hayate and I'm (cough) going to be your sensei for this portion of the third exam. These are the (cough) preliminaries to see who will fight in the finals about a month from now. (cough) Two names will appear on the board behind me and those two will fight till one is dead, I declare a (cough) winner, you're knocked out or you forfeit."
Just then a fox masked ANBU shunshined next the the aged Kage and started to whisper in his ear, the old man went wide eyed, then called the Procter over, the 3 men talked for about 3 minutes. Then the ANBU disappeared and the Procter motion for Anko to start the screen.
"Would Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka please stay here, everyone else, if you would please, move up to the balconies with your teams and your senseis, we'll start the match." called out Hayate, surprisingly without coughing.
Everyone but the two girls moved to the balconies, much to everyone's shock, both Naruto and Sasuke shunshined to their spots.
Kakashi was next to Naruto in an instant. "What was that about? What was the need to use your 'status' as a cover?" asked Kakashi in a rather relaxed tone, he learned long ago to never underestimate him, and he usually had a good reason for doing anything.
"The swordsman from Kiri is high chunin, low jonin in level, I made sure I him and... Well you'll just have to see when it happens"
Back in the arena, both girls were staring at each other intently. Ino knew Sakura was much better than in the Academy, her whole team was way better than in the academy. Sakura knew to not take Ino lightly. The girl was excelled in Taijutsu and knew several jutsu that were not taught in the academy.
"Are both fighters ready?" asked Gekko, both Nodded, "Fight!"
Sakura took off, aiming a huge left hook at her opponent. Ino put an arm up to block and started a counter, but never got that far, the punch had been a fake, at the last moment she switched to a side kick, sending Ino flying from the huge kick Sakura had somehow generated.
"What the hell? You're not that strong!" declared Ino as she now charged Sakura. Sakura fell back and took up a guard, the Yamanaka went for a kick of her own, only for it to be caught in the palm of Sakura. Ino went wide eyes as Sakura threw a fully wound up punch into the Yamanakas face, once again sending her backwards.
"I am that strong, you don't just sit back and relax when the two strongest Genin in Konoha are on your team. I trained too, and now, you're going to see first hand just how much stronger I've gotten" declared Sakura as she started building up chakra in her legs and her right arm. Everyone who knew her was surprised, they could all feel the amount of chakra coming off the girl, which was Surprising, since she was just a genin. After a moment Ino got back up and took a defensive stance, she didn't know what was going on, but she would be ready for it. In a blur of speed Sakura disappeared, moving at high chunin speeds. "Uzumaki style! Speed rush!" cried out Sakura as her fist connected with Inos gut, sending the poor girl flying, she hit the wall, Hard, leaving large cracks. Ino fell to the ground with a thump, knocked out cold.
"Winner of this match, Sakura Haruno!" called out Gekko
"Why did she call it Uzumaki style? Is that your move Naruto?" asked Sasuke, not one bit surprised his teammate won, she trained just as hard as he did, it was expected she be strong.
"Kinda, it's pretty watered down, the real move is called the meteor punch and would have literally torn Ino into confetti, I taught her that as a gift for getting over her fangirlishness, the same way I gave you a copy of Shisui's body flicker scroll." commented Naruto as Sakura shakily made her way back up to her team, exhausted from her use of the jutsu, both Naruto and Sasuke as well as Zabuza and Kakashi gave nods of approval.
"Next match, would Shino Aburame and Choji Akimichi please come down to the arena!"
The fight was short, Choji went Human bullet tank, Shino covered him in chakra eating insects. In the end...
"Winner, Shino Aburame!"
"Would Shikamaru Nara and Rei Haria (mist kunoichi) please come down to the arena!"
Same as Canon, Shikamaru gets her in a shadow bind and slams her head into the wall
"Would Kiba Inuzuka and Naruto Uzumaki please Come down to the Arena"
"Alright! I get the Dobe! That's like a free pass to the next round!" called out Kiba. Somehow, he had not gotten the message on just how much of a B.A.M.F. The Uzumaki really was.
"Naruto" Sasuke said with a knowing look "Make them all think twice before messing with you"
Naruto got what the Uchiha was saying, all eyes were on him next match, everyone wanted a piece. Naruto Nodded to Sasuke, then a smirk came over his face.
"Get down here Dobe! I'm going to kick your ass!" called out the dog lover, though Akamaru seemed to shy away, being able to sense just how strong the blonde really was.
Naruto turned his back to the rail and leaned up against it. After a few moments, he teetered over the railing and fell head first. Everyone was shocked, though no one knew if he did it on purpose or accident. When his head was about 2 feet from the ground his arms shot out and caught him in his fall. He then used his mammoth strength to actually throw himself, from a hand stand position, the full 50 feet to land on his feet mere inches away from Kiba.
The message was clear, Don't fuck with me.
Zabuza, Asuma and Kakashi were all very proud of their student. Letting his actions Speak louder than words, he just punked the cockiest of the group. Gai was just happy at the youthfulness of his students move and planned to use it to challenge Kakashi to another contest.
"Are both fighters ready?" asked Gekko, both boys nodded, still mere inches from each other. "Fight!"
Naruto started off with a headbutt, breaking Kiba's nose and sending him flying from the power behind it. Most of the room was shocked at the raw power the blonde had.
Kiba slowly got back up, he was about to charge when Naruto held his hand up "Wait Kiba, I'm going to give you a free shot" stated Naruto as he took his combat vest and mesh tank top off, giving Kiba free shot at his body. Though this move didn't go unnoticed by the girls in the room, who were now all drooling at the sight of his chiseled frame and eight pack abs. "Any attack you want, I just request you keep Akamaru out of this"
"Haha deal! Akamaru, go sit on the sidelines, I'll finish of the Dobe!" laughed Kiba, still not getting that Naruto was way above his level. Akamaru seemed to understand this, but Kiba just ignored his puppy.
"Free shot, come take it" taunted Naruto by tapping his knuckles on his chest. All the women in the room (including Kurenai and Anko) started to drool even more,
Naruto just smirked "Too easy" he said loud enough for everyone to hear. Naruto wound back a punch. Kiba, not being able to stop in time, flew write into it. "Crack" was the sound everyone heard when Naruto's fist made contact with Kiba's head. Time stood still in the room, then in a split second, Kiba went flying back, hit the wall and went through it. Everyone were completely shocked, even Kakashi.
"Winner, Naruto Uzumaki!" stuttered out Gekko as a team of medics rushed to Kiba. About 2 minutes later, they came out of the hole in the wall, Kiba on a stretcher with a neck brace.
They rushed him out a the room and medical nin appeared next to Kurenai. "He has a partially fractured skull, two broken vertebrae, one in his neck and one in his back, and a few broken and fractured ribs. But he should be ok."
Kurenai was now glaring daggers at the blonde.
"Dobe! Put your shirt back on! These girls are going to die of dehydration at the rate their drooling!" called Sasuke as Naruto made his way up the stairs. Naruto just rubbed the back of his head and put his mesh shirt and vest back on. There was a collective "aww" of disappointment from the female population of the room. Well everyone except Kurenai, who was now standing next to Naruto.
"You could have killed him! What kind of person are you? You baited him into attacking and then when he's defenseless you do that?" yelled the red eyed jonin at the top of her lungs.
Naruto looked to Asuma, who just shrugged his shoulders. He then turned to Kurenai. "So? Are you really that mad at me?" he asked in a monotone voice.
"Yes! You could have killed one of my students!" yelled the genjutsu mistress
"Its part his fault and part your fault. I am not at fault, im a ninja, you're lucky I didn't kill him. Fuck off" stated Naruto as he turned back around to watch the next fight.
Kurenai was now furious, the blonde told her off and was going to ignore her? "Listen here you little shit!" she growled as she grabbed his shoulder and spun him around. She wasn't prepared for him to take charge. Naruto grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into the wall hard enough to a leave spiderweb of cracks. Everyone was surprised by this, but none could blame him.
Naruto pinned her to the wall by the throat and pulled out a kunai, slowly running the ring in the handle across her throat. "Now you're dead too, if this was a real life situation, both you and Kiba would be dead. If I wasn't from the same village as you and him, you'd both be dead. He rushed into a situation without thinking it through, he deserved what he got. You did the same, thinking just because you're older and a higher rank your untouchable. I did the same thing to you as I did to him, I baited you, something I was told to do back in the academy, and you fell for it. He doesn't deserve to be a chuunin, he doesn't have any patients and he's extremely cocky. You on the other hand, aren't fit to be a jonin, or chunin for that matter. You did the same thing your idiotic student did, you've even proved you're a shitless teacher, Shino won his match with skills he knew from the academy, Kiba has only gotten cockier and a little stronger, and the most talented ninja on your team still stutters and is unsure of herself, despite the fact that in reality, she's just as strong, if not stronger than her cousin."
Kurenai was at a loss for words, as was everyone else. And no matter how hard anyone could have tried, nothing the blonde did was wrong and everything he said was right. Though Hinata was stunned that her crush thought that she was the strongest on her team, even as strong as her cousin. That was a huge confidence boost.
Naruto dropped the now shaking Kurenai to the ground and turned back to watch the next fight
"Would Gaara of the desert and Rock Lee please come down to the arena!"
Naruto appeared next to Lee and whispered "Go all out, this guy is stronger than Sasuke, almost as strong as me" in lees ear. Then he disappeared and reappeared next to Gaara. He whispered in his ear "Lee is a pretty cool guy, and I bet he would be your friend too, I'm not saying don't win the match, but please don't kill him or cripple him" Gaara just smiled and nodded.
The match when much the same, it was somewhat even until lee opened the fifth gate of the 8 gates. Eventually, Gaara trapped both legs and an arm and got lee to surrender. Afterwords Gaara helped him up and they shook hands.
"Would Kankuro of the desert and Thai Tasucaa (mist nin) please come down to the arena."
It lasted 5 minutes, it ended when Kankuro got landed a poisoned senbon in the mist nins neck.
"Would Temari of the desert and TenTen please come down to the arena."
Same as Canon fight, except Temari catches her in her arms, not in her fan. She gets an appreciative smile from Naruto.
"Would Hinata Hyuga and Neji Hyuga please come down to the arena."
Before Hinata could move, she found an arm around her shoulders, she turned to see Naruto smiling at her, Kurenai flinched back from the blonde.
"Hinata, despite what you think, you are strong, just because people say you're not doesn't make it true. You have strength very few have. You've had a hard life, just like me and Gaara. People call you weak, say you're a failure, you lost your mom, and even you cousin thinks you're better off dead. And you took it all in stride and kept moving forward. Your strong Hinata, and trust me when I say, you can beat him. And even if you lose, you still show just how strong you are." said the blonde. During his little speech, Hinata went from the nervous little girl she always was to a proud confident young woman. She nodded and made her way down to the arena.
The match was incredible. It was a completely even fight for the first ten minutes. It was back and forth, every time Neji landed a hit, hinata would fight back and land one of her own. But Hinata didn't have the experience Neji did, and it showed at the end of the match, when Neji landed two quick hits on her chest, knocking her out.
"Would Sasuke Uchiha and Tonbi of the stone please come down to the arena"
"Finally, I was getting bored. Too bad it's you, I wanted to fight the swordsman" stated Sasuke in a monotone voice, succeeding in an attempt to piss him off, a tactic he picked up from both Naruto and Kakashi.
"How dare you! I'm the grandson of the Tsuchikage! I'll kill you where you stand!" yelled Tonbi, but now that he said it, Naruto could see the resemblance, both were short, had big noses and were quick to anger.
"Don't care, I'm a direct descendant of Madara Uchiha, you don't see me bragging about it."
"Are both fighters ready?" they both nodded "Fight!"
Tonbi took off at mid genin speeds, going after the Uchiha. Sasuke continuously dogged his attacks, letting him tire himself out.
"Sit still!" yelled the chibi version of the tsuchikage... Wait a minute... (If you get that joke I applaud you)
"Umm... No" stated Sasuke as he sidestepped a kick. Moving in for the kill, Sasuke spun around on his front heel and delivered a spinning backhand to the short ninjas face.
The spinning back fist connected, sending Tonbi flying with the Surprising amount of power sasuke seemed to have, but naruto knew better, sasuke was using chakra to enhance his power.
"Oww! The fucking hurt!" yelled Tonbi as he got back up, huge bruise already on his cheek.
"For being the grandson of the Onoki of both scales, you really are weak" taunted Sasuke.
"I'm going to kill you Uchiha!"
Tonbi rushed at what sasuke could only assume was his maximum speed, around high genin. Sasuke took a page out of Naruto's playbook and baited him in by showing weak spot in his guard. Tonbi saw it and went in for the kill. As he got about 5 feet away, Sasuke wound up a devastating uppercut. The punch connected, sending the Iwa genin rocketing into the air. In a split second, Sasuke was on him, finally using the body flicker technique that made his brothers friend famous. He jumped up and caught him with a wicked ax kick to his gut, sending the Iwa nin plummeting to the ground, where he created a crater.
"Winner, Sasuke Uchiha!"
Sasuke made his way back up to his team. Everyone gave a nod, except for Zabuza who gave him thumbs up for his brutal efficiency.
"Did the seal act up?" asked Naruto after he pulled him away from everyone else.
"Not at all" smiled sasuke, Naruto just nodded and they both looked towards the next match.
"Did you try to use it yet?" asked the blonde, Sasuke shook his head no.
"because of the uneven number of fighters, one fighter will have to go again. Would Taro Fujami and Naruto Uzumaki please come down to the arena!"
"Look out, he's has the Splashsword, in the hands of an expert it can destroy this whole tower in a single swing." stated Zabuza before Naruto could move. Said blonde turned to his teacher and nodded.
"So your teacher is that traitor, does that mean you're also a swordsman?" asked the mist nin, as he pulled the blade from his back.
Naruto just nodded and pulled out both of his swords. The sight of the nodachi and claymore made several people involuntarily tense, including his opponent.
"Those... Those are the swords of Kushina Uzumaki! How did you get those swords!" yelled Taro. His eyes wide and his legs trembling. Apparently Zabuza wasn't lying when he told naruto that his mother was infamous in Kiri.
"I got them through inheritance, Kushina is my mother, and trust me, I inherited my mother's skills as well." stated Naruto as he switched the nodachi in a reverse grip, holding it parallel to his forearm. The claymore was held in a standard one handed grip.
"Are both fighters ready?" both nodded, though Taro did so shakily, after all, it took an amazing amount of strength just to hold those giant blades like that. And Naruto seemed to have more than enough power to do just that. "Fight!"
"What do you say we make this interesting, if you win, you get both my swords and the scrolls for my mother's and my own styles" stated Naruto with swords still in a defensive position.
"Your serious?" naruto nodded "And if you win?" asked the mist nin.
"You give me your sword and deliver a message to the Mizukage for me" stated Naruto simply. Taro just grinned and nodded yes, gaining back some of his confidence. After all, those swords were said to be on par with the seven swords of Kiri. That, and he thought himself as the strongest of the 3 people training to be the new generation of swordsman.
Naruto stood unmoving as his opponent slowly and deliberately went threw hand signs, hand signs that Naruto knew well. "You're making a big mistake if you cast that mist. Zabuza is my sensei, I'm extremely efficient in the silent killing technique, you'd just be wasting chakra." stated Naruto with no expiration on his face
"Ha! No one is as good as me at the silent killing technique!" laughed the Mist swordsman as he finished the last seal. The arena filled with mist, making it impossible for anyone to see.
Naruto acted quickly, jumping silently and standing on the ceiling. He quickly activated his Doujutsu and felt his chakra calm down and lose its chakra signature.
-Flashback, day before preliminaries-
Naruto was sitting in his room while Sakura was of with Ino doing god knows what and Sasuke was in the Arena practicing new his body flicker technique. Right now, Naruto was sitting with his perverted Godfather, discussing the training Naruto was going to be doing.
"So your elemental affinities are Wind, which you've cut the waterfall, but not the floating exercise, Lightning, which you've gotten done the leaf exercise, Water, also the leaf exercise, and fire, which you've done nothing with?" asked Jiraiya as he was creating a training schedule.
"Yea, id like to get to the second stages of all the elements I have. I have a couple of ideas for jutsu, but I need better control." stated Naruto
"Ok, that covers your speed, strength, Taijutsu, and now your ninjutsu training. We need about two weeks for the special training... So we have about a week left open for what ever else you want to do." stated the sannin as he looked over the schedule.
"What? How do I have a week left? We only have a month from the prelims to the finals, how am I going to fit all this in and your special training?" asked a bewildered Naruto
"Were going to the Toad realm, time moves slower there then from the this realm, not by much, but a month here is about a month and a half there. The first 3 weeks will be to hit your physical limit in strength and speed, along with Taijutsu and Ninjutsu training. The fourth week will be used for what ever you want, then the special training at the end when you're ready for it." the Sannin said, before he realized something... "Why don't we use that time to work with your doujutsu and with Kyuubi?"
"Sure, because Dad had to alter the seal slightly to feed Kyuubi's chakra to him, I lost almost all control I had with the fuzz ball. I don't really know how to train with my doujutsu, I unlocked the 3rd stage in the fight with the snake pedo. I think it has something to do with chakra control because when I tried to test it out, I could actually feel my chakra calm down" Stated Naruto as he activated his doujutsu, and then activated its 3rd stage.
"I though you only unlocked it when fighting the snake? Why do you have the diamond in both eyes? Asked Jiraiya, he had learned all of what was known of the doujutsu over the last week from Kakashi, Sarutobi and of course Naruto.
"Don't know, I was wondering that myself, but the weird thing is, my chakra signature seems to either diminish or all together disappear when I activate it"
-Flashback end-
"Uzumaki Style: Elemental Wind Dragon!" was what everyone heard before a giant pure white dragon with glowing green eyes ripped through the thick mist, dispersing it. Everyone had to cover their eyes or face from the power of the winds.
"I thought this was a sword fight! No more ninjutsu!" yelled the scared Kiri ninja.
"Fine by me, Bringer of Darkness Technique!" yelled Naruto. The Kiri ninjas whole world lost all light and he felt like he was floating in an empty void.
"Tha-That's not possible!" yelled Kurenai, only sarutobi, Jiraiya and Kakashi knew what she was freaking out about.
"What's wrong?" asked Asuma, being the closest jonin to the Genjutsu mistress.
"T-That's the Nidaime's personal Genjutsu technique! I don't even have the amount of chakra control for that Technique, let alone the Kage level amount of chakra that technique needs just to activate" sputtered out Kurenai, steadily growing both more angry at the blonde, and more respectful.
"It's over" came the whispering voice of Naruto from all four sides of the Mist ninjas, all four clones held a blade to his throat and a blade to other vital points on his body. "Forfeit, or you die!"
"A true swordsman never forfeits, they fight to the death. You have won my blade, but I will not admit defeat!" stated the mist nin proudly. The real Naruto sighed, he rose his nodachi, and slammed the handle into the back of the mist nins head, knocking him out cold.
"Winner, Naruto Uzumaki"
Naruto grabbed the Splashsword and it's chest strap. Naruto then helped the mist nin over to his sensei and told him about the weapons shop in Konoha that would make a new sword and gave them a message for whoever the leader of the village is. The Kiri sensei thanked him and bought his student back to their hotel room.
"And with that, the preliminaries are over! Will all winning contestants come down to the arena to decide the matches for the next round!"
-End of chapter-
(Review, like i said before, if you find i did something wrong (which i most likley did) feel free)
(Paring poll is still up, will be announced after the finals of the chunin exams)
(Should Naruto have a genin team, or an apprentice?)