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I also want to clear some things.

Naruto's gravity seals are powerful. So Naruto will be faster but only as much as Sasuke during the finals that is like Lee after he takes his weights off.

How more can someone adapt to weights in a month only.

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Chapter 2: Clash of the demons.

Naruto walked out from the stadium and went to the contestants booth.

While he was making his way towards Shikamaru, he heard a monstrous chuckle.

Gaara was chuckling madly. "KUKUKU, Uzumaki Naruto, mother will definitely have your blood."

Naruto was slightly unnerved with Gaara's behavior but chose to dismiss it and stood beside Shikamaru.

"Naruto, you have changed so much and become so much powerful that I am thinking of backing out from this troublesome tournament. Man, can't even imagine what it feels like to wake so much early for troublesome training sessions." Shikamaru said while yawning.

Before Naruto could say anything, Temari jumped into the conversation.

"You bloody slacker, don't try to pull out, I need to show my skills to get promoted. So don't even think of it" She said all this while looking at Naruto who was sweating bullets thinking she was talking to him.

"Don't worry Temari-chan I won't pull back." Naruto said

Shikamaru sweat dropped. "Naruto, she is talking to me. Man what a drag."

Temari blushed when she heard Naruto call her 'chan' but quickly suppressed it and turned to Shikamaru.

"You better not pull back pineapple head."

She turned and walked away while taking some quick glances at Naruto.

Shikamaru merely muttered troublesome under his breath and yawned.

Naruto turned his head and saw Sakura sitting between the crowd staring at him with guilt. But he chose to ignore her and concentrated on the announcement being made by Genma.

"Ladies and Gentlemen if Uchiha Sasuke doesn't appear in next 40 seconds then he will be disqualified from the exams."

Naruto thought 'Man I thought being an Uchiha would give him priviledge to be late but looks like jiji is tightening the ropes around the council. Hehe'

(40 seconds later)

"Uchiha Sasuke has been disqualified" Genma shouted which was met with many boos from the crowd.

(Kage booth)

Orochimaru, disguised as the Kazekage had tried to ensure that he would be able to watch his potential vessel in action but the brat was disqualified. He tried convincing the hokage but the old coot didn't listen to his pleas.

Might give this a try. He thought "Hokage -dono looks like the crowd isn't that much happy about your decision for disqualifying Sasuke. I propose that you let him fight the winner of this tournament."

Sarutobi thought for a while and said "Very well Kazekage-dono. This is a good proposal"

He called the ninja nearby him and told him to deliver this new message to Genma.

Meanwhile, Orochimaru was grinning from inside 'KUKUKU, I can now see the Uchiha in action as well as get rid of the Kyuubi brat by tiring him so that he doesn't interfere in the invasion. Two birds with one stone, Kukuku'

He signaled Kabuto disguised as an ANBU black op to shift the time of the beginning of invasion.

(Stadium)

Genma received the message of hokage through the ninja and smirked "Ladies and Gentlemen. Uchiha Sasuke will be allowed to fight the winner of this tournament in an exhibition match. He will not be promoted though."

The crowd cheered.

"Since Uchiha Sasuke is disqualified therefore Sabaku no Gaara advances to the next round."

(Contestant booth)

Gaara looked ready to kill the proctor for not letting him kill the last Uchiha but smirked inwardly while staring at Naruto. 'Uzumaki Naruto, mother will have your blood'

He grinned like a mad man due to which everyone took a step back from him.

(Stadium)

"Will Aburame Shino and Sabaku no Kankuro step into the clearing please."

"Proctor, I forfeit." Kankuro suddenly called out.

Shino didn't like this one bit but didn't show any emotion.

"Okay, then will Nara Shikamaru and Sabakku no Temari step into the ring."

"Man what a drag" Said Shikamaru while walking down."

"Contestants ready, Hajime" Genma shouted.

(2 hrs later)

"Procter I forefeet" Shikamaru said.

'My chakra reserves are almost empty so it won't do me any good to face Shino who hasn't even fought yet."

"Winner, Sabaku no Temari"

The crowd as well as Temari was dumbstruck.

All of them had thought that Shikamaru was going to win but..

Ino yelled "Shikamaru, you lazy bum, you don't to fight more that's why you are giving up."

"Troublesome blonde" Shikamaru muttered while going upstairs.

Temari followed suit. Not able to celebrate her ridiculous win.

"Now, there will be a thirty minutes break and then the second round will start. Ladies and Gentlemen enjoy yourselves."

All the people stood up to eat food and buy some so that they could eat while watching the matches.

Sakura stood up and went straight towards the contestants booth to get forgiveness from Naruto.

(Contestants booth)

"Naruto"

Naruto turned around to face Sakura.

Instantly his eyes turned cold.

"What do you want Sakura?"

"Naruto I just wanted to say sorry for what I did back then in the hospital."

"What's the reason of asking forgiveness now when I have severed all the connections from my team. From now on we are only team mates. We are friends professionally."

"Please Naruto forgive me. I couldn't muster the courage to admit that you were stronger than me so I lied to Kakashi-sensei"

"It doesn't matter even if you had told the truth then also the teme would have trained the other teme. And don't think I forgive you because friends don't back stab like you. I always am, was and will be the second choice for all of you so just shut up and go. I don't want to talk to you."

Sakura had tears in her eyes. She turned away and started to walk while trying to think of some way to make Naruto forgive her but she couldn't find any method. So she just walked away.

Ino had heard the conversation between Naruto and Sakura and thought that it would be better for everyone to let this matter be solved team 7 and walked away.

(30 minutes later)

"Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. We are going to start the next round of this Chunin exams tournament. First Match: Uzumaki Naruto vs Sabaku no Gaara. Will the two contestants get down so that we can start the match"

Naruto used the stairs to come down while Gaara used the sand shushin to get down.

"Okay, Uzumaki Naruto vs Sabaku no Gaara match start.

As the match started Gaara's sand shot towards Naruto who didn't waste any time in dodging the sand tendrils which were moving at alarming speeds.

Naruto released his gravity seals and tried to land punches on Gaara but his sand always blocked his path.

'What the fuck, I trained in taijutsu only to get past through Gaara's defense. After releasing the gravity seals my speed becomes almost like Lee without his weights but."

"Uzumaki, do you think you were the only one training for the finals. After I was hurt for the first time by Rock Lee I decided to improve the speed of my sand while making it double as strong as it was before. There is no chance that you can win. Mother will have you blood!" Gaara yelled.

Suddenly a large volume of sand came towards Naruto and after wrapping him, started to toss him here and there.

"Oh shit if this keeps on happening I am sure that I will lose consciousness after a few more hits."

Naruto quickly thought of a plan and after a great deal of struggle he got his hands together in a cross shape and yelled

"Kage bushin no jutsu"

Twenty Narutos appeared and ran towards Gaara and engaged him in taijutsu.

Gaara decipated two of them but he couldn't concentrate on all of them so he had to call his back to protect him and finish of the clones.

Naruto took a breath of relief and stood up. His body was battered and bruised after all the punishment that Gaara had given him.

'I need to slow down his sand if I want to stand a chance against him.'

"IDEA" Naruto yelled.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu" Naruto yelled.

A huge battle toad appeared beneath Naruto.

"Hey, Gamashima. Can I have a suiton jutsu of your caliber over the boy standing there."

"Sure thing gaki."

"SUITON: Teppodemma"

Intead of the normal sized water balls, 6 huge balls comparing to a one story story house each came out of the toad's mouth and flew towards Gaara who had all his sand forming a sphere around him acting as a shield.

When the balls collided the stadium shook violently.

The jutsu died and what everyone saw was beyond shoking.

Gaara's sand wasn't even slightly penetrated only a few wet spots on the sphere.

"Uzumaki looks like your plan failed" Gaara said from inside the sphere.

"No. My plan was only to have your sand wet as the weakness of sand is water and the wet spots have become weak. Now here I come."

Naruto started to expel chakra into his opened palm which formed a condensed shell of chakra inside of which more chakra was being added.

Naruto started running towards Gaara.

Gaara's eyes widened when he heard Naruto's explaination about his plan and thought that it would be better to be inside the sphere as he had no time to release the sphere and get ready for Naruto's next move. So he waited.

"RAAAASENGAN" Naruto yelled while his jutsu collided with the sand penetrating towards Gaara.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGRHHHHHHHHH"

Chapter End

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