Sorry for the slightly shorter chapter this time, haven't updated in a while and needed to at least get something out.

Pairing: Naruto x Mei

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"Water Release: Water Dragon Missile!" - Techniques.

"Naruto..." - Person Talking.

"Naruto..." - Person Thinking.

"Naruto..." - Demonic Voice/Bijuu/Boss Summon/God Talking.

"Naruto..." - Demonic Voice/Bijuu/Boss Summon/God Thinking.

CHAPTER 3 - Not a loser

Dodging several rage-fueled strikes by Neji, Naruto tried to send a roundhouse kick toward the chin of the Hyuuga, said white-eyed bastard leaned backwards to avoid the incoming foot and backflipped a couple of times to get some distance between them.

Taking several deep breaths, Neji calmed himself down. "You might have been able to fuel my anger for a little while, but I have no plans of walking back into that trap again, you are a failure, and as one, you will never be able to beat me, no matter how cheap the tricks you use are." Neji scoffed taking a gentle fist stance.

Releasing the transformation, Naruto snorted, "Still whining about all this destiny crap? Because I got news for you pal, it ain't real!" Naruto shouted across the stadium, and Neji gave a snort in return while narrowing his eyes dangerously.

"What would you know?! You are only the dead last loser of your academy class, you wouldn't know a damn thing about what it means to be destined to something. All there is, and ever will be in your life, is failures." Neji taunted the blonde boy, who surprisingly wasn't flying with rage at the white-eyed member of Gai's team.

"If I am only destined to fail as you say, then how come I succeeded at passing the graduation exam huh? How come I walked back alive from an A-Rank mission that should only have been a C-Rank? How come I passed the first test here at the chunin graduation exams, how come I passed the second one by beating Kiba, a clan heir?" Naruto snarled at him, and Neji spat on the ground.

"You won by farting!" He yelled at the blonde who chuckled with a cocky smirk.

"It's still a win asshole, where is your precious destiny now with all the failures you promised me, huh?!" Naruto spat back at him, and grabbed a kunai with an exploding tag attached to the handle and threw it at the Hyuuga genius.

"If you want one so bad, I'll gladly come to shove it down your throat!" Neji threw a shuriken to counter the projectile mid-air and watched as it exploded. The smoke cleared from the explosion, and Neji's eyes narrowed.

'Where did he go?' Neji activated his Byakugan and leapt sideways to dodge an incoming right hook, and smirked as he threw a palm thrust to the figure coming out of the smoke, and narrowed his eyes when it exploded into water.

"Water?" Neji questioned as he wiped the liquid off his face, raising a brow he turned around to where his eyes had tracked Naruto to be and stared at him as he crouched down into another fighting position as the blonde started laughing.

"What is it you find so damn funny?" Neji growled with gritted teeth, this punk had nothing to laugh about, he was a failure, a disgrace to his village, unworthy of the headband he was wearing! He was no one! Nothing but a failure!

"You know acting high and mighty as you talk about all this fate and destiny crap you are nothing more than a cry baby! But let me explain something really simple to you pal. Hinata whom you also declared a loser, could've warmly kicked your ass by activating your seal, she could've made you her bitch during the preliminary rounds. The only reason she didn't was that she's too kind-hearted, she would never stoop so low to ever hurt someone she considers family that way." Naruto spat on the ground as he freed the scroll from his back and threw it on the ground.

"You know nothing! You know nothing about how the seals of our clan work! You don't know what it does to you, having a seal such as this, how could you ever pretend to understand- Neji threw off his headband, and was interrupted.

"Oh yeah I know alright, I've lived the majority of my life being unaware of how the day would greet me because of a seal." Naruto narrowed his eyes, as he lifted up his shirt and channelled some chakra to allow the seal containing his beast to appear on his skin.

Letting go of his shirt, he rolled the scroll on the ground open with his foot. "I know what it's like to have a seal and be treated differently because of it alright, so don't come whining to me with that crap." The blonde finished, and he could almost see the steam coming of Neji as the rage within him was boiling.

"Unlike you, I don't bitch and whine and blame other people for how my life turned out! You're not a genius or a prodigy you're nothing but Fates little bitch who blames others when going gets rough!" Naruto shouted pissing Neji off even more.

"It changes nothing, I will prove it all. You are going to fail here, I will personally make sure of that." Neji said, his Byakugan blazing as he gave into sprinting across the arena, to get to his blonde opponent to teach him a lesson.

"I hear you Hyuuga's like close combat, so this is not your lucky day pal!" Naruto smirked, he stomped his foot onto the text written on the scroll laying rolled out on the ground in front of him, and pumped chakra into his foot.

The text glowed, and soon a huge waterfall exploded in a circle around Naruto and the scroll, surprising Neji greatly as he gave into a stop to watch the rapidly growing waterfall. 'What the flying fuck, is going on here?!" Neji's eyes widened as a drop of sweat trailed down his forehead before he ran back across the arena to get into some trees that were growing along the stadium wall.

The water flooded the stadium more and more, soon the trees were all under the water, and Neji had to apply chakra to his feet so he could seek distance from the expanding sea under him.

"What's up with the water?" Neji mumbled to himself, but then got a short flashback run across his eyes.

Neji activated his Byakugan and leapt sideways to dodge an incoming right hook, and smirked as he threw a palm thrust to the figure coming out of the smoke, and narrowed his eyes when it exploded into water.

"Water?" Neji questioned as he wiped the liquid off his face,

"That water clone from earlier… He must be preparing for water-based techniques…" Neji concluded while crossing his arms over his chest as he deactivated his Byakugan for a few seconds to save the chakra, as the increasing of water stopped. The scroll appeared to have been fully emptied by now, even with his genius mind, he hadn't seen this coming.

Leaping from the wall, to land on the water, Neji stared at the blonde on the other side of the arena, water or not, he was still going to win this fight.

Naruto across of him, suddenly smirked as he turned into water. 'Another clone?!' Neji gasped, quickly channelling chakra to his eyes as his bloodline turned on. And just in the second his vision changed, and he could see all around him, dozens, no hundred, no maybe even thousands of clones flew out of the sea under him like missiles!

"I am very surprised Hokage-sama. For him to change the whole environment to his advantage, along with the endless supply of clones is surprising and shocking coming from a genin. I can only imagine how powerful of a Konoha shinobi he will be when he grows up. But the Hyuuga I am not sure about. He is strong, yes, but he seems like he can not fully control and keep his emotions in line. Personally, it seems the young Uzumaki is more qualified for Chunin then the Hyuuga boy but we will just have to wait and see." The 'Kazekage' mumbled out quietly, making the elder Kage turn his gaze slightly sideways to the Kazekage.

"Indeed he will become a force to be reckoned with when he fully matures. He will have trouble along the way but I believe he can overcome anything the world throws at him because that is who Naruto-kun is. As for young Neji, I can agree he is strong for his age but needs to learn how to better control his emotions less his enemies exploit them in order to kill him. Now let us continue to watch this fight unfold, don't you agree, Kazekage-dono?" Hiruzen said before turning back to the fight along with the Kazekage.

'Where are all these clones coming from?!' Neji flew back and forth, delivering severe palm thrusts and kicks to the incoming clones' bodies, and watched as they splashed into water on impact with his attacks.

Backflipping to avoid a clone, Neji landed and not a second later he spun around while bringing up his leg as he brutally kicked the teeth in on a clone. 'There is too many of them!' Neji narrowed his eyes, in front of him and behind him, from both his sides, these annoying insects were flying toward him from everywhere

Releasing chakra from all his chakra points, Neji starts spinning at high speeds and soon a dome consisting of pure chakra was formed around him, repelling and destroying every clone coming in contact with it.

This was quite shocking to one Hiashi Hyuuga, this was supposed to be a supreme secret main house move, that no branch member should know.

Tenten was also shocked and furious, this loser had managed to put her Neji on the defensive with a mere clone jutsu?

Naruto who had been watching from the top of the stadium wall narrowed his eye slightly at the new move he hadn't seen this guy use before, "Man, that thing is almost as crazy as the freak Gaara's sand shield…" Naruto mumbled to himself as his clones finally stopped flying through the water surface.

Neji scanned the area with his Byakugan as he stopped spinning, apparently, the loser had finally run out of insects to send flying at him, and he turned around to stare up at the silhouette on top of the wall.

"Is that the best you can do?" Neji yelled from the water surface, making Naruto scoff down at him before released his chakra from his feet and let himself free fall to the water surface.

"In your dreams pal, I finally got what I was looking for." Naruto smirked at the supposed genius, who in turn narrowed his eyes and mumbled a quiet, 'What?' and Naruto snorted in response.

"You are supposed to be such a huge genius, I would have thought you had figured it out by now, but let this loser enlighten you jackass, do you really think I wouldn't know you had some kind of secret move up your sleeve, huh? Come on, as much as I hate to admit it, you aren't exactly known as a loser, so there was simply no way there wasn't something up your sleeve you didn't show in your fight with Hinata." Naruto explained, and Neji's eyes unnarrowed slightly as he chuckled softly, making the blonde opponent of his rise a brow in confusion.

"Well look at that, you aren't so dumb after all. So what exactly are you going to do with your newly acquired information?" Neji asked the last part with a raised brow, as he crossed his arms over his chest.

'Well, to release so much chakra it's pretty obvious he doesn't rely on his chakra points in his arms and hands or legs and feet alone, got to be released from the entire body, which means the dome forms when he spins around obviously…' The blonde Uzumaki concluded in his head, staying silent in front of the Hyuuga who smirked in amusement.

"That's what I thought, you got no way to counter it even when you know about it. Still trying to prove that you can defy destiny?" The Hyuuga shook his head disapprovingly.

'Damn, that dome repels everything coming in contact with it, so trying that clone thing again isn't going to cut it, I need something with more power! Wait… The dome rotates one direction, which means that should something hit it going to the left as he rotates to the right, it should slow down!' Naruto starts leaping backwards until he reaches the back of the stadium wall.

"No turning back now…" Naruto says as he takes a deep breath and creates ten water clones for protection, and his hands start to move. This move, it had taken the entire month for him to learn. And he wasn't sure he could perform it perfectly yet, but it was the only way he could think of to slow the damn dome down, without getting in close contact with a taijutsu user!

Clapping together his hands, Naruto held his breath and closed his eyes…

"Here it goes…"

Quiet footsteps approaching made the two Kage's turn their head, to be greeted with the sight of a woman wearing a long blue dress and a quite similar hat to theirs, "I apologize, I'm late Hokage-dono, Kazekage-dono, I was having a quite interesting conversation with the participants and their Jounin instructors downstairs." The woman apologized with a small smile on her face.

"It's quite alright, it pleases me you are kind enough to show some interest in our participants downstairs, Mizukage-dono." The elderly Hokage greeted with a smile, and the Kazekage merely grunted a, 'It's fine' in response, apparently not interested in the newly arrived Kage.

Mei took a seat, as her bodyguards took their respective places behind her chair. She looked down at the arena and noticed the position Naruto was in. 'He changed the terrain, put some distance in and made sure he had some cover, he couldn't be thinking about doing that new move, could he?'

Releasing the breath he was holding, Naruto's eyes shot open as half of his clones raced toward Neji on the offensive. 'Let's do it! Ox, Monkey, Rabbit, Rat, Boar, Bird, Ox, Horse, Bird, Rat, Tiger, Dog,' Neji noticed the hand seals, and raced forward to stop the blonde, but was engaged in combat by the clones.

Neji spun around and kicked to clones away, before smashing to other's heads together, 'Tiger, Snake, Ox, Ram, Snake, Boar, Ram, Rat, Dragon, Monkey, Bird, Tatsu, Bird, Ox, Horse, Ram, Tiger,' Naruto kept forming seals, and the last offensive clone was obliviated by a palm thrust to the chest.

The last five clones moved in to defend the original, they flew forward fists pulled back, but it didn't last long before they were massacred by the aggressive Hyuuga, who finally managed to reach halfway across the arena. 'Snake, Rat, Monkey, Rabbit, Boar, Tatsu, Ram, Rat, Ox, Monkey, Bird, Dragon, Rat, Boar, Bird!' Neji destroyed the last clone and noticed the sudden burst in chakra. It was too late.

Mei looked down at her student, with a small smirk forming on her lips, 'What do you know, he actually managed to remember all the hand seals this time, and execute them perfectly in the right order.' She giggled slightly, she couldn't count how many times he had messed this jutsu up in training due the being unable to remember the correct order to form the seals in.

Hiruzen gasped slightly, already halfway through he knew which jutsu the boy was preparing, of course, he had been confused about the sudden use of water jutsu by the blonde, but this really set him off. 'When and where did the blonde learn how to master water chakra like this so fast…' His eyes widened, other than he and Kakashi, there was only one other person with such skill in water chakra inside the village at this time.

His eyes narrowed, and he gazed sideways to lock his eyes on the newly arrived Mizukage. 'Does that even make sense? Why would she… Does she know he is the… There are too many unanswered questions… I need to have a word with her after the exams.' Hirzuen concluded with himself, before turning back to watch the fight. Unaware of Mei who had caught on to his staring.

'So he finally realizes it… Took him long enough.'

Finishing the last seal, Naruto shouted out, "Water Release: Water Dragon Jutsu!"

AND CUT! Sorry for the long wait, hadn't really had any inspiration to write this story in some time, finally got some again, so I might be able to start updating regularly again.

Question for this chapter: Since Naruto didn't train with Jiraiya, then what summoning contract do you think he should get later on? If he should have any that is? Looking forward to your suggestions.