Author's starting notes: this is to those who forgot, Kin was sent to the Sarutobi Clans compound, for her own safety and is not competing further into the exams, so incase you have forgotten the first 2 exams are teamwork orientated tests, meaning if they show up with 1 or 2 surviving members then they fail and are disqualified. Also I have decided to change the number of passed teams to 17 teams of 3 genin.
Chapter 4-Fight to pass, enter the prelims
While the seventeen teams of genin were now standing inline with their Sensei at the head of the line, the Sandaime Hokage addressed the assembly with his old but commanding voice, "Congratulations to all of you for passing this exam and a proving you have what it takes to protect and retrieve information that could be of a sensitive nature," which gained the enthralled that was now appearing on the faces of each and every genin, which had 2 separate effects: the first being from the smarter members of the assembled and the otherside of the fence had shown a credit of confusion as they had not known where this was going and Hiruzen seeing the different faces then explained, "Sometimes out in the field you will be given a mission and that mission can always have a mean of which would require a protection detail for not only your client, but the information they hold," to the now understanding public.
3 hours later and the Sandaime now had to explain to the genin, that due to their numbers and the apparent skill known by them to get this far, they would have to hold Preliminary matches to thin down the amount of matches in which the visiting lords and ladies will be watching in a months time, which would mean that if they had to sit and watch too many matches then they will become bored, which is something that they the genin wouldn't want. After explaining that the guests will not want to watch allot of matches and risk a stamina freak fighting forever, the Sandaime then hand the reigns over to the Proctor for the third exam: Hayate Gekko.
After Gekko had taken the stage, the genin were treated to an introduction of how the fights will be judged and what would determine the rules, regulations and what would happen if no one abided them, as he then signals for a screen to lower and said, "This screen will be what determines who will fight, when you are chosen you will come down for the observation area and wait, before I say you can fight, now with that said, lets look at whom will be the first matchups," as he then directs his attention towards the now flashing screen, which and a while began to slow and reveal the first fighter as: Uchiha Sasuke, which made those in the crowd narrow in suspicion thinking, 'W.T.F, are they saying that the Last Uchiha is not worthy of a true Shinobi match,' but that had mostly stopped when the screen stopped flashing to reveal his opponent: Uzumaki-Ōtsutsuki Naruto, making those whom had known of the true origin of chakra think, 'Ōtsutsuki, How?" which was only thought by one and it was the Shukaku.
Not understanding the significant of the extra clan name, Sakura went up to Naruto and said plainly, "You better lose, Baka," before she and the rest of the genin headed for the balcony. While back down stairs, Sasuke (who was the same as Sakura) said to Naruto, "Prepare to lose Dobe," and this just made Naruto think, 'It's seems like Indra's legacy has gone further down hill than I thought possibly,' which the thought was re-enforced when they were to take their ready and while Naruto took his stance, Sasuke on the other had not.
Insulted, Naruto then thought, 'If he is not going to take me seriously then I make him do so,' and then went into a more straight forward attacking stance, which was from Asura's personalized fighting style. After taking the stance, Shukaku seeing this went nuts within the head of his host: Sabaku no Gaara and began whispering, "Asura," over and over, which made Gaara, hold his head in pain and panic. Back in the arena, Naruto and Sasuke were now given the go ahead to start, which is where Naruto charged at Sasuke using speeds in which would have made Gai look like a snail in comparison and once Naruto was in striking distance, he lashed out in a rising axe kick, that then turning into summersault kick, that both had undercutted Sasuke in the chin and then Naruto landed on the ground, back in his starting stance, while bouncing lightly on the balls of his feet.
As fight started, the Sensei was standing on the side wondering, 'Where did Naruto get this good? And who had taught him this?' in thought and a bit of anger. While on the Hokage was in the Hokage portion of the Sandaime was looking in pride as he watched his surrogate Grandson fight and thought, 'Naruto-kun, you will now go far as Shinobi and I don't care what those buggers on the council say,' as he then watches Naruto jump into the air. At the time Naruto jumped into the air, an incredibly small fireball sailed under his body and lightly impacted the wall that was behind them.
Landing after his dodge, Naruto then crossed his arms and block a kick to the chest by Sasuke, before Naruto then performed a roundhouse sweep kick, which was then followed up by a palm strike to the abdomen and the force of the blow, had blasted Sasuke across the dojo and not letting Sasuke recover, Naruto then flooded his hand with chakra and then threw his hand forward, making a chain of chakra fly towards the emo avenger and after wrapping Sir duckbutt, Naruto pulled the chain with a command of, "Get over here!" in a demonic ridden voice, which sent the last Uchiha back into the fight, which now began with a massive fist to the guts and then it was turned into an uppercut, before the tightness of the chain caused Sasuke to drop to the floor and made him enter blissfulness of blackness.
After rendering the Uchiha unconscious, Naruto was then crowned the winner and was dismissed the join the others, where he then waited for the next match and that allowed Sasuke to be taken to the infirmary. While back with Naruto as his girls had let go of their masks to give him a 'you did it,' kiss and then snuggled up to them, as they then wait for the next match and hoped that none of them was next.