Chapter 7: Chunin Exams Finals

It was currently the night time in Konoha and everyone was asleep, well everyone except for a Suna Jonin who was the sensei of Gaara's team, Baki was his name if Naruto's clone remembered correctly, and Kabuto who were talking to each other completely unaware that Naruto's clone was following Kabuto. The clone listened both of them very intently, but suddenly he sensed another presence just a few meters to his right, he turned his attention toward the source and saw that Hayate hiding behind a wall eavesdropping on the conversation of the pair.

"Soon Konoha will burn and your village will once again get missions from the Wind Daimyo," Kabuto said to his companion while adjusting his glasses.

"Yes on the day of the finals of Chunin Exams Konoha shall fall once the invasion start," Baki said.

"Yes with the alliance between Orochimaru-sama and the Kazekage, Konoha will be nothing but history," Kabuto agreed, then his attention turned toward the place where Hayate was hiding, "It seem we have a rat lurking around the corner," the silver haired traitor added.

"You should go, I will handle that little rat," Baki said as took out a kunai while Kabuto nodded and left. Naruto's clone seeing that Hayate has been discovered quickly went to the panicking Hayate and grabbed his shoulder before they both disappeared in a flash of yellow just in time to avoid Baki from discovering them, the Suna Jonin tried to sense anyone one more time before he shrugged thinking that it might have been some kind animal that both him and Kabuto sensed and left the area as well.

With Clone

Both Naruto's clone and appeared on the Hokage mountain, Hayate was still shocked about everything that just transpired so he couldn't speak at thye moment, "Hayate you should go home, I will report to the Hokage in the morning about what just happened," the clone said to which Hayate nodded dumbly as regained his composure.

"Thank you far saving my life back there Naruto, who knows what would have happened if you hadn't arrived and saved me," Hayate said and left to go home.

The clone dispelled itself and Naruto, who was talking with his fiancé about his fight with the snake sannin, got all of the memories of last five days including what just transpired, causing him to gasp in shock at what he had just learned, when Kurenai heard the gasp she looked at Naruto worriedly, "Kure-chan tomorrow morning we have to go to the Hokage office, the clone that I sent after Kabuto just learned something important," the blonde informed her.

"What is it that your clone found Naru-kun?" Kurenai asked.

"It found that Kabuto is the right hand man of Orochimaru and that Suna and Orochimaru are palnning an invasion on the final day of the Chunin Exams," causing her to gasp in shock as well, "Let's get some rest and then in the morning I am going to inform the Hokage about it." to which she nodded and both of them went to the bed.

Next Morning

Naruto and Kurenai got up early in the morning to get some training done before they had to leave to the Hokage Tower to inform the Hokage what Naruto had found out. After everything was done Naruto and Kurenai left the compound to the Hokage Tower. When they were on their way to the tower Naruto sensed Gaara and his siblings' chakra nearby the tower, he made his way to the tower at the fast pace with Kurenai so that they could meet the sand siblings, "Hey Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, how are you guys and what are you guys doing here?!" Naruto asked when he reached them.

"We are doing fine, and we were just looking for you but since we didn't know where you live we decided to ask someone," Gaara said.

"Why were you looking for me?"

"We have something important to tell you about but we cannot talk here in public and it would be best if your Hokage is there as well," Gaara replied.

Naruto instantly knew what the three siblings were wanted to talk to him about, "Well we were going to the Hokage Tower anyway you guys can come with us." Naruto said pointing toward Kurenai and himself, Gaara nodded and they made their way to the Hokage Tower together.

"Hey Naruto who is she?" Kankuro asked.

"Her name is Kurenai Yuhi, my fiance," Naruto said.

"Hi" Kurenai greeted.

"Wait wait wait, you mean Konaha's Genjutsu Mistress, an S rank Kunoichi is your finace!" Temari said in shock.

"Yes," was the only thing Naruto said as they arrived outside the Hokage's office, Naruto knocked on the door and waited for few moments.

"Come in" a voice called from inside the room.

Naruto opened the door and all of them walked inside, "Hey Jiji," Naruto cheerfully greeted the Hokage who smiled seeing his surrogate grandson while the three Suna ninja were shocked seeing how Naruto greeted the Hokage of the village and Kurenai giggled seeing their reaction to Naruto's greeting to the Hokage.

"Hello Naruto-kun, its good to see you," the old man said, "So what can I do for you?" Hiruzen asked while eyeing the sand siblings.

Naruito's face suddenly changed from cheerful to serious, "Jiji I want you to tell your ANBU to leave the room since it is for your ears only, for now," Naruto said, the Hokage signaled his ANBU to leave the room, as soon as the ANBU left Naruto quickly went through some hand seals and slammed his hands on the floor, the room glowed for a bit before it died down indicating that Naruto has placed the Privacy Seals in the room.

"Why don't you tell what you wanted to talk to me about!" Naruto said to the sand siblings to which Gaara nodded.

"Hokage-sama, on the day of the finals of the Chunin Exams, Suna and Oto plans to invade Konoha with the help of Orochimaru," Gaara said shocking the Hokage but both Kurenai and Naruto remained impassive indicating to the Hokage that they both knew about it already.

Hiruzen's facial expression turned grim as he sighed and took a drag of his pipe, "I see, can you tell us about the plan?" the old Hokage asked.

"Yes, they were going to use my transformation as the signal to start the invasion," Gaara said.

"Thank you Gaara but can I ask you why are you betraying your village by giving me this information?"

"It is simple Naruto is my friend and I have learned from him that one should never betray there friends and besides he has helped me more than anyone in my village ever helped me," Gaara replied.

Naruto, Kurenai, Hiruzen and his siblings smiled at that, but Naruto's expression again trurned serious, "That is not all jiji, as I told you before the prelimeries, I had a clone on Kabuto's trail and it found out some disturbing news," he said to the Hokage.

"What is it that your clone found?" the old Hokage asked in equally serious tone.

"It found out that Kabuto is acting as Orochimaru's spy in our village and is in fact Orochimaru's right hand man," Naruto said shocking everyone present in the room, "Not only that but during the second exam, Kabuto met Orochimaru where the snake told him that he had killed the Kazekage," this shocked everyone even more, "I'm sorry for giving you this news," he said to the sand siblings.

"Its alright Naruto, its hard to get upset over the death of someone who never acted as a father to any of us," Gaara said and both of his siblings nodded at that.

"Orochimaru has planned on impersonating as the Kazekage and kill you during the finals by using the Edo-Tensei to resurrect the First and Second Hokage and he has already collected their soul's." Naruto said with disgust.

"WHAT!" the Hokage yelled in rage, "That snake, to think he would defile the graves of the dead just to satisfy his urge to kill me," he added while releasing a tremendous amount of killing intent causing the sand siblings to gulp in fright while both Naruto and Kurenai were perfectly unaffected by the amount of KI released by the old man, seeing the reaction of the sand siblings the Hokage took a deep breath, calming himself, "Thank you bringing this news to me Naruto-kun, I will take care of everything from here."

"No jiji, I want you to send someone to find the body of the Kazekage so that we can get Suna to work with us in the invasion," Naruto suggested.

"Hmm, yes I will do that, I will send Jiraiya to find the body and also investigate the situation further while I want you to investigate more about the invasion on your own," He ordered Naruto, Naruto nodded and left the old man with Kurenai and the sand siblings.

Three Days Before The Finals

Since Naruto informed the Hokage about the invasion, he had thrown himself into training even more than before and Kurenai joined him in training as well while the Hokage ordered every Chunin and Jonin to train more seriously.

Jiraiya recovered the body of the Kazekage from the middle of nowhere in the desert near Suna border, so that's why the Hokage called a meeting with Jonin, Naruto, the last two loyal Sannin, sand siblings and their sensei in his office.

"I have called you all to relay a very important information to you," Hiruzen started as he looked at the Suna Jonin causing him to gulp after all it was not everyday when the God of Shinobi look at you so fiercly, "At the end of the second part of the Chunin, Naruto-kun informed me about an invasion that is planned by my wayward student and Suna," shocking the Leaf Ninja while the Suna Jonin paled, "which was confirmed by Gaara and his siblings. He also discovered that Orochimaru killed the Kazekage, so I asked Jiraiya to find his corpse which he found," he handed out a scroll to the Sand ninja, "Now I want Naruto-kun to elaborate everything that he had found out," their attention turned from the Hokage to the blonde jinchūriki.

Naruto nodded, "Before the start of the Chunin exams, Jiji gave me an S-rank mission and that was to fix Gaara's seal, which I must say was terrible," he said with disgust, "It had no blocking seal, no purifying seal, it was simply a more advanced version of a storage seal and due to the seal not only Gaara was affected but it also affected Shukaku, the One Tail Tunaki because of which both Gaara and Shukaku were acting unstable," he took a deep breath to calm himself, "Anyways, the mission was also to find out why did Suna send an unstable jinchūriki to these exams," shocking the sand siblings since they didn't knew about this, "During the first part of the exam, Kabuto approached us and gave information about me and Lee that was not available for a genin to access, he was also releasing huge amount of dark emotions and had elite Jonin level chakra which should be impossible for someone who had failed the Chunin exams six times,"

"So when we were in the Forest of Death, I sent a Shadow Clone to spy on him and since I have perfect chakra control, me and my clones can easily supress our chakra, I ordered the clone to spy on him until the end of the second exam or it was forced to dispell. My clone found Kabuto talking to Orochimaru in the Forest of Death, it heard them talking and it found that Orochimaru had killed the Kazekage and was going to impersonate him during the finals and once the invasion starts, kill Jiji by using Edo-Tensei to resurrect the First and Second Hokage, he is already in the possesion of their soul," everyone had look of rage on their faces when they heard that Orochimaru had defilled the graves of their previous Hokage, "My clone followed Kabuto even after the second task, after the second phase it found Kabuto talking to Baki about the invasion, but now that you know that your Kazekage is dead and that snake is going to betray Suna, I want you guys to help and after that we will set up a new treaty," he said to Baki.

"Alright I will inform all of our ninja to aid Konoha and inform them about Kazekage's death," Baki said.

"Also even if we didn't knew about the invasion, do you really think that you guys would have won when we have more S-rank ninja in our village then you would ever meet, I mean think about it with Jiji, Ero-sennin, Baa-chan, Kakashi nii-san, Kure-chan, Guy-sensei as S-rank ninja, Zabuza, Asuma oji-san and many others as A-rank ninja and me as a wild-card who can go toe to toe with the Sannin and come out victorious, we can wipe out almost an entire village with little problem," Naruto said causing Baki to pale even more than before while the adults were impressed by Naruto's intidimation tactic and it seemed to be really working.

"No we didn't thought about that but I can where you are going with this," Baki said.

"Obviously," Naruto muttered, "anyway it would have followed Kabuto but Hayate was also listening to the conversation and was discovered so it had to save him," Naruto said while Hayate rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "After that my clone dispelled and I informed Jiji about everything, then I created one more clone and put a seal on him so that it doesn't run out chakra and put him on the task of spying again, it found Kabuto and listened on the plan, apparantely Oto have about a thousand ninja just on the outskirts of Konoha that will invade us from the front gate of Konoha and they have also placed summoning seals on three different locations near the surrounding walls of Konoha which will be used to summon snakes, while some of their ninja will be inside of our village and all of them are tasked to kill both Konoha and Suna ninja," he informed causing everyone to pale at the thought of a thousand ninja, "But," he added, "I want you leave the summons and the thousand ninja to me while all of you take care of those that will be inside the village," he said with complete confidence of his face.

"What!" Shikaku said, "How are going to defeat a thousand ninja and summons all by yourself amd come out alive from this?" he asked summarising everyone else's thought.

"For summons I will summon Toads from Mt. Myoboku," he said as took out a three pronged kunai and started spining it from the handle while all of the ninja present in the room, except for Hiruzen, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Kurenai, Hayate, Anko, Kakashi, Guy, gasped, "As for the ninja, its seems that the time has come for the Flash to get reacquainted with the world," he added and for a moment all of the older ninja saw an image of the Fourth Hokage behind him.

"And Baki," he said gaining the attention of the Suna Jonin, who gulped the moment his eyes landed on the blonde since Naruto was looking at him with icy cold blue eyes, "Think about betraying us and I will deal with every Suna ninja personally," he threatened and released an enormous amount of chakra that caused everyone except Kakashi, Kurenai, Guy, Tsunade, Jiraiya and Hiruzen, to fall on their knees due to the sheer pressure his chakra created, as cracks appeared all around the office from the sheer force of the chakra.

Every single ninja was shocked when they felt such tramendous amount of chakra that Naruto was releasing, 'So much chakra, not only that but the potency and the strength of his chakra is simply amazing, I had heard that he has more chakra than the Hokage himself but this is rediculous and judging by how effortlessely he did it shows that it is not even the full might of his chakra,' Shukaku thought as Naruto reigned in his chakra once again leaving everyone shaken, even the Hokage, the last two loyal Sannin, Kakashi, Guy and Kurenai felt the pressure on them as sweat formed on their forehead, they knew that his chakra was powerful and potent but this was simply amazing, 'I'm glad that this troublesome blonde is on our side,' Shukaku thought, 'Now we have to deal with the invasion.' he sighed, 'What a drag!'

"Hokage-sama may I ask why didn't you arrested Kabuto and formed a task force to attack Orochimaru when you knew where he was?" Choza asked as he got his bearings back from the shock of feeling the sheer amount and potency of Naruto's chakra.

"That is because if we do something like that then Ororchimaru will flee from the village and will attack the village some other time and it is a good opportunity to end the snake once and for all," Hiruzen said before he turned his attention to Naruto, "Naruto-kun did you finished the seal that you were making to counter Edo-Tensei?"

"Yes I have finished it," Naruto said as he gave some seals to the Hokage. After everything was said and done and they had planned a counterattack for the invasion the Hokage dismissed everyone, only Tsunade and Jiraiya remained with him.

"Do really think Naruto is ready sensei!" Tsunade asked.

"Yes he is ready and I personally think that he will be perfect for the job," the old man said. They talked some more and after that they left as well for the preprations for the upcoming invasion.

Chunin Exams Finals

Konohagakure also known as the hidden village among the leaves was a shinobi village among many others spread through the elemental nations. Normally one wouldn't find enemy shinobi walking around the village without a care in the world but today was a very special day. Today was the chunnin exam's finals.

Today the competitors from various countries would face against each other in mortal combat to prove their worth and try to gain a promotion to chunnin.

The sun was slowly rising on the horizon and a warmth breeze was felt flowing through the village. It was still early but the village was already booming with movement, stores were already open and many were seen walking through the streets.

After all the chunnin exams were a very important event anywhere. The early stages weren't anything special but the finals is another matter completely different. During the finals many nobles and the Daimyo himself would watch the games. They served as an alternative to war and to prove the worth of the shinobi belonging to certain villages. What no one expected, at least from the civilian side, was that war was much closer than they thought.

Kurenai woke up fast as sun rays fell on her face, she opened her eyes and looked at Naruto who was still sleeping, he had an arm wrapped around her waist, his hair falling on his face and his lips slightly parted. Kurenai shook her head and slightly shook Naruto, "Wake up Naru-kun, today is finally the day," she whispered to him.

"Five more minutes Kure-chan," Naruto groaned.

"I know you want to sleep more Naru-kun but today is the final day of the Chunin Exams and there is also an invasion planned," Kurenai replied.

"Fine," Naruto groaned and opened his eyes, "Morning Kure-chan," he said as he kissed her which she happily returned.

Kurenai pulled away from the kiss and smiled at him that was only reserved for him, "Morning Naru-kun," she said, after spending some more time on the bed they both stood up, then went to the separate bathrooms and took a quick bath and dressed in their regular clothing.

When Naruto came down he saw that Kurenai was already making breakfast for them, after they had breakfast, they both stored their weapons for the invasion that was going to take place after the finals today and went to the stadium.

Konoha Stadium

They arrived at the Konoha stadium and quickly made their way to their designated area. The stadium was packed full. Among all of the audience there were daimyos, important business men and shinobi from other villages who just came to watch, after all the chunnin exams is where the best gennins are.

The kage box was located above the audience and they had a particular vantage point to watch the matches. They were the judges and so they needed to evaluate properly the contestants.

There were two kages currently sitting in the kage box. The hokage was the first and had two body guards.One was the self proclaimed super pervert, Naruto's Godfather/sensei, Jiraiya the legendary Toad Sage and the other was the legendary sucker, Naruto's Godmother Tsunade, the slug queen of the Sannin, both of them were hiding using a strong genjutsu that was placed on them by Tsunade.

"Greetings Kazekage-dono. I'm glad you made it, I hope you aren't tired," the old Hokage greeted, he already knew that it was his wayward student, Orochimaru but kept up the act.

"Not at all Hokage-dono. It was good they were in the leaf this year. You aren't the young man you once were for long travels," the Kazekage said, Hiruzen narrowed his eyes at the jab on his age but ignored it since he knew that he was going to take great pleasure in kicking Orochimar's ass all over the place. "Seems that the last Uchiha is missing," the snake sannin said.

"I heard he was training with his sensei Hatake Kakashi so maybe he picked up his bad habit," the Third Hokage said chuckling and Orochimaru actually snorted and did not do his creepy laugh surprising the Hokage and the last two loyal Sannin since as long as they had known him, Orochimaru never chuckled or snorted, no he only ever did his creepy laugh. "Well I am glad that you could come Kazekage-dono," the Hokage said to keep up the appreaces.

"Well all three of my children are competing so it would be a shame not to come and watch them compete," the Kazekage replied.

"Yes, all three of them were rather impressive in the preliminary rounds," Hiruzen said.

"As to be expected from my children, but I must confess that the main reason that I came here was to watch the fight between my son and the last Uchiha," the Kazekage said.

"Yes that will be a great match but both of the first competitors are nothing to scoff at as well, and you must know that both of them are the rookie of year of their respective year and one of them is the son of my late successor," Hiruzen said.

"Yes Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, I have heard about him, he is strong but I have heard more about the last loyal Uchiha of the leaf so I am more interested in seeing his match," the Kazekage said.

'You think that I will fall for your games Orochimaru, you are way too obssessed with the Uchiha but I must admit Naruto-kun was right when he said you are a pedophile,' the old Hokage thought chuckling inwardly, 'I will play with your games for now but today will be last day you will breath because today I am going to fix my past mistakes,' he finished his thoughts as he looked at the competitors and smiled when Naruto looked at him gave him a small smile. The Hokage got up and went to the edge of the balcony.

He used a Voice Amplification Jutsu, "Welcome ladies and gentleman to this year's Chunnin exams finals. This year we have many talented genins from Konoha, and Suna. Unfortunately one of our contestant's has had to pull out so there will be a change to the fourth match, it will now be Temari Subaku of Suna against Shikamaru Nara of Konoha. Now without further delays let's begin the matches," the Hokage concluded and the crowd cheered.

In The Stands

"They can't start the matches without Sasuke-kun," Sakura yelled.

"Chill out Sakura. He still has time before his match begins," Kiba replied while covering his ears with his hands and his small companion was whimpering from the pink haired bitch's screeching and she glared at him.

Hearing Kiba's reply all of the Jonin near them chuckled, it was their plan to get Sasuke arrive late so that he could be disqualified to mess the snake's plan for the invasion but they refrained telling it to the screeching banshee since they liked hearing and their ears were still ringing from her previous screech.

"Quiet down, it's about to begin," Ino said and they looked at the arena and noticed Hayate was about to speak.

In The Arena

"As Hokage-sama said, welcome to the chunin exam finals. My name is Hayate Gecko, the proctor. My word is law, and when I call a match you are to stop fighting immediately. The Chunin exam finals will be held in the same format as the preliminaries, with one on one matches. The winner of each match will progress to the next round while the looser will be eliminated. However even if you are eliminated in the first round, you still have a chance at promotion. But the more matches you fight in the more chances you will have to show off your abilities," Hayate informed the group of genin and the crowd that were intently listening.

"Sounds simple enough, let's just get this show on the road already," Naruto said loudly.

"Right you are. The first fight will be between Neji Hyuuga of Konoha and Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze of Kono. All other contestant's please make your way to the waiting area until your turn," Hayate said and all of the other contestants left the arena leaving both Naruto and Neji to face each other.

"Ready Neji!" Naruto asked his opponent.

"Yes I am Naruto-san and this time I will win, it won't end like our last match," Neji said as the veins around his eyes bulged out indicating that he has activated his Byakugan.

Haayte seeing that both of were ready signalled the start of the match, "Begin"

As soon as the match started both Naruto and Neji rsuhed at each other and engaged in a fierce Taijutsu match but every Jonin could easily see that Naruto was easily dodging all of the stricks and occasionally landed one of his own on his opponent. Neji quickly created some distance between then and threw some shurikens at his opponent.

Naruto easily dodged all of the shurikens, "Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu" he thought as he molded chakra in his body and launched a huge fireball at his opponent.

Neji seeing the fireball coming at him cursed and used his own jutsu to protect himself, "Eight Trigrams: Rotation" he yelled as he started rotating himself soon enough he was covered by a chakra dome, protecting him from the fireball, when he used the jutsu, it shocked all of the adults except for his sensei, uncle and his cousins. When he stopped spinning, he noticed Naruto was not in front of him, with his Byakugan he saw that Naruto was just above him with a swirling white chakra orb in his hand, he cursed since there was not enough time to use Rotation again and he was not fast enough to dodge the attack.

"Rasengan" Naruto slammed the white chakra orb into Neji's back but held back enough so that he don't kill his opponent just enough power to incapacit for some time. "Sorry Neji that I have end our fight so quickly but there are some important matters for which I am needed and I can't exhaust myself before it," Naruto said to Neji who nodded before he lost consciousness, then he looked at Hayate, "Proctor call the match," he said as he started walking toward the waiting area.

"Winner Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze of Konoha," Hayate declared and crowd cheered loudly seeing the son of their previous Hokage win his match.

Kage Box

"That was a rather short match," the Kazekage commented.

"Yes it was," the Hokage said.

"And that last attack, if I am not mistaken then it was his father's jutsu wasn't it, the Rasengan!" the Kazekage asked the Hokage who nodded, "And that was the smart thing he did there by ending the match quickly, conserving his energy and chakra for the rest of the exam and didn't even give much about his abilities to his competition." Hiruzen nothing since he knew why did Naruto finished the match so quickly, it was because of the invasion.

In The Arena

When the crowd calmed down, Hayate cleared his throat to agin everyone's attention on himself, when everyone focused on him, he spoke, "Will Sasuke Uchiha of Konoha and Gaara Subaku of Suna come down to the arena for their match!"

Gaara quickly appeared in the arena by using Sand Shunshin, while everyone waited for Sasuke to appear but no one came. Hayate looked at the Hokage who nodded, "Due to not coming on time, Sasuke Uchiha is disqualified from the exams," Hayate said much to the crowd's disappointment.

In The Stands

"WHAT!" Sakura screeched, "THEY CAN'T DO THAT TO SASUKE-KUN, HE IS THE LAST UCHIHA," she screeched again causing everyone to wince the loud noise.

"Yes they can and they will to anyone, a ninja who is not on time is not a very good one, and before you say that it makes Kakashi a bad ninja it do not because he arrives on time for any mission that is given to him by the Hokage himself and also have the power while Sasuke is nothing but a genin, an impressive genin but compared to the likes of Gaara, Neji, Lee and especially Naruto he is nothing but a weakling who thinks that sun shines out of his ass," Asuma said harshly causing Sakura to glare at him.

"HOW DARE YOU CALL MY SASUKE-KUN WEAK, HE IS THE STRONGEST EVER ESPECIALLY MORE STRONGER THAN THAT BAKA NARUTO," she screeched but quickly starting whimpering and cowering away when she felt Killing Intent released upon her by Kurenai.

"Now listen here, you pathetic excuse of Kunoichi, first stop screeching otherwise I will put in a Genjutsu so strong that you will never be able speak again and as for that Uchiha, he is weak and if you think he is stronger than Naru-kun, then tell me if he can beat Kakashi in a spar," Kurenai growled, to which Sakura shook her head, too afraid to do anything else, "Well Naru-kun can beat him and still have strength for more," she said shocking all of the genin and everyone else who heard and didn't knew about that, "Its girls like who brings bad image on us Kunoichi's who work hard to gain strength."

"Hey if Naruto can defeat Kakashi-sensei, then what is he doing as a genin and in these exams!" Kiba asked.

"He is a genin and competing in the exams because he wanted to make some friends his age," Asuma replied before he put a cigarette in his mouth.

Kage Box

"Hokage-dono please tell the proctor to move the match between my son and the Uchiha to the last instead of disqualifying him," the Kazekage said.

"No there will be no favoritism in the exams, if he can't show up on time for something as simple as the Chunin exams especially since his career may depend on it, then how can we expect to show up on time on a mission, it is not only disgraceful for the shinobi, it will also make the clients to stop working with him," Hiruzen with finality in his tone.

The Kazekage said nothing but inwardly he seethed, the old man just made huge dent in his planes, 'Damn the old man, he just had to do that, he just had to grow a spine right now,' Orochimaru thought to himself before he forcefully calmed himself, 'Well no matter I will kill the old man today and burn Konoha to its ashes.'

In The Arena

After the crowd calmed down and Gaara was beck in the waiting room, Hayate again gained the attention of everyone in the crowd, "Will Kankuro Subaku of Suna and Shino Aburame of Konoha come down to the arena!" Hayate said.

Both Shino and Kankuro quickly arrived in the arena and the match between them began, it was an interesting fight, Kankuro kept his distance away from Shino to prevent himself from getting attacked by the bugs while Shino kept attacking him with the bugs and it wasn't long before Shino's bugs got a hold of his opponent and started draining his chakra which caused Kankuro to forfiet the match and Shino was declared winner.

"Will Shikamaru Nara of Konoha and Temari Subaku of Suna come down to the arena," Hayate said.

In The Stands

"Oh this is going to be an interesting match," Asuma said.

"What do you mean by that Asuma-sensei, in the academy he barely passed and that Temari girl is strong!" Kiba asked.

Asuma chuckled at that, "He barely passed in the academy because according to him it was too troublesome to write, so he only did enough to pass. The only person who can defeat him in a straight match of shogi are Naruto and Shikaku," Asuma said shocking all of the genin, "His IQ is over two hundred and the only person whose IQ is more than Shikamaru's is Naruto."

In The Arena

The match between Shikamaru and Temari was a tactical skirmish, Temari attacked him with her fan causing him run around the arena until he hid behind the tree, he then extended his shadow in a very thin line all around the arena and captured her but just as proctor was about to declare him the winner, the lazy genius gave up stating that he was out of chakra, causing everyone to sweatdrop at his laziness.

"Will Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze of Konoha and Gaara Subaku of Suna come down to the arena!" Hayate said. Next moment both Naruto and Gaara came down to the arena and got ready but before the proctor could start the match, in a swirl of leaves both Kakashi and Sasuke arrived.

"Sorry we are late, we had to get away from Sasuke's fangirls," Kakashi said unconvincingly, "Is Sasuke late for his match!" he asked although he already knew the answer but he had to keep up the act.

"As a matter of fact yes and because of that he is disqualified from the rest of the exams," Hayate said.

"WHAT!" Sasuke shouted, "I demand you allow me to participate again, I am the last Uchiha an elite," Sasuke said arrogantly.

"Shut up and go to the stands, you are disqualified and that's final. Now leave I have match to start," Hayate said.

Sasuke immediately turned to see Naruto and Gaara standing with bored look on their faces, "Dobe, I demand you forfeit now so that I can have my match back," he said to Naruto in response Naruto backhanded him, using super strength, into the wall causing him to fall unconscious, Kakashi sighed seeing the attitude of his student and took him to the stands.

Hayate turned his attention back to Naruto and Gaara, "Begin," he signalled the start of the match.

Both Naruto and Gaara stood there looking intently at each other, no one made a move it wasn't until Gaara started, "Sand Shuriken", Gaara hurled sand at Naruto with amazing speed but Naruto easily dodged the attack and hurled some shuriken at Gaara as he coated them with wind chakra, Gaara used sand to block the shurikens but was shocked when they still penetrated the sand but they were stopped by the next wave of sand. Gaara looked at the position where Naruto previously was but found no one there, suddenly he doubled over as a leg embeded itself in his stomach and saw Naruto grinning at him, but to Naruto's shock the Gaara that he just kicked turned into sand, indicating that it was a Sand Clone.

Naruto jumped away from the clone as a spear made of sand came at his previous position. Naruto turned to the source and saw Gaara in opposite of him. Naruto went through two hand seals, "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu", a dragon made of water formed from the air, shocking the adults that he could pull water from air and needed only two hand seals for a Water Dragon Jutsu. The dragon launched itself at Gaara who who slammed his hands on the earth, "Sand Wall" a huge wall of sand came in front of Gaara taking the full brunt of the water dragon, protecting Gaara from the attack. While this was going crowd was cheering louder and louder seeing a match so good.

Kage Box

Orochimaru was shocked seeing Gaara smiling indicating that he was enjoying the match, he signalled one of guard to come to him, "Tell Kabuto to start the invasion when this match is over," he ordered.

In The Arena

"Sand Dragon", Gaara said as he launched a dragon made of sand at Naruto, 'According to Shukaku, Gaara's sand is vunerable to lightning chakra, let's test it out,' Naruto thought he went through two hand seals, "Lightning Style: Lightning Dragon Jutsu, Naruto spat out a huge dragon made of lightning at Gaara's Sand Dragon, when both dragons collided they cancelled each other.

"Why don't we end this Gaara?!" Naruto said.

"If you think that you are going to win this match so easily then you are wrong Sand Shield", Gaara said and the red haired jinchūriki became surrounded in a large orb of highly condensed sand. Then a large eye made of sand floated into the air behind the orb of sand shocking everyone.

Naruto tried to go near the sand orb but quickly had to dodge large spikes that extended out from the sphere and shot towards Naruto, 'It will be troublesome to get near him, I have to attack the orb from distance, Naruto thought as he made a Shadow Clone. The original molded fire chakra inside his body while the clone molded wind chakra.

"Fire style: Grand Fireball Jutsu", the original launched a huge fireball at the sand sphere.

"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough", the clone launched a gust of wind from its mouth that combined with the fireball and changed it into a firestorm. When the fire came in contact with the sand sphere an explosion occcured, when the explosion died down around the sand sphere, everyone saw that the sand converted into glass due to the heat of the jutsu, Naruto then ran at the sphere with blinding speed as a big orb of swirling chakra appeared in his hand.

"Giant Rasengan", he cried out and slammed the giant orb of chakra into the glass sphere shattering it completely showing Gaara on his knees breathing heavily, "Give up Gaara," Naruto said.

Gaara nodded at that as took several deep breaths, "Proctor I give up," the red haired jinchūriki said.

"Winner Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze of Konoha," Hayate declared.

Everyone was silent seeing the performance of the two jinchūriki, while all of the adult ninja, except for those who already knew, were shocked to see Naruto use four of the five chakra natures and that some of the jutsu were used without making any hand seals indicating that he has the high affinity for all of them. Suddenly everyone started cheering for the two of them for giving such an astounding performance.

Just as Naruto and Gaara were about to made their way toward the waiting area, every civilian and almost all of the genin started falling asleep, Naruto and all of Jonin quickly dispelled the Genjutsu and saw that Suna and Konoha ninja were fighting Oto ninja while in the Kage Box an explosion occured before on a nearby roof a purple Barrier appeared. The invasion has begun.