AN: Due to popular demand, Tournament of Fire is back. Here is the re-edited version of the first chapter.

NaruXHina and other variety pairings. I changed some the character's personalities to my liking :p.

Naruto's generation are about 16. (may change in the future

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Me no own Naruto.

Chp 1 – First Meeting

THE ARENA

The Crowd roared as the first team entered the arena. The final round of the Tournament of Fire was about to begin. The last five days of the Tournament had left the crowd hanging on the edge of their seats. But today's fight was rumored to be even more spectacular than the last ones. Konoha's legendary five against Tsunade's five flowers of death. They had watched the legendary five take down team after team and when the crowd saw that the rumors about the five flowers of death being all women were true, they thought the victory was all but assured for the legendary five. Still, the name "flowers of death" left a certain doubt hanging in the back of their minds. As Tsunade's kunoichi finished lining themselves up, the arena grew quiet as the crowd waited for the match to begin.

Kiba let out a whistle. "They really are girls…pretty ones too." eyeing one of them with long black hair flowing down her back.

"Careful Kiba." warned Shikamaru. "I don't think the name 'flowers of death' is just a decoration." Eyeing a kunoichi with a large fan on her back, Shikamaru simply sighed. "This is such a pain."

Neji shifted nervously in place. "How do I fight a bunch of girls without looking like a jerk and not let everyone else down…?" Neji noticed one of the kunoichi staring at him. When his eyes met hers, she simply smiled and waved. The attention proved to be too much for him and he quickly averted his gaze. The whole time Choji said nothing and continued munching his BBQ chips, stopping only momentarily to open another bag. Sai as usual was paying them no attention, busily painting on a scroll.

Temari was laughing hysterically. "Those boys are the legendary five? More like the loser five. I can't wait to crush them."

"Only as long as I get one. " said Sakura, cracking her knuckles.

"Is that all you care about these days?' Ino sneered. "Ever since Tsunade-sama taught you how to use that incredible strength of hers, all you care about these days is smashing things."

"I do not!" Sakura defended herself.

Hinata watched as the girls argued with each other. Placing a hand on her hip, she sighed. She really didn't want to be here but nooo, once Tsunade-sama heard that her lifelong rival, Jiraiya would be entering his legendary five in the Tournament of Fire in the capital, she just had to enroll her own notorious five ninja in the tournament as well.

Kiba licked his lips as she watched Hinata's posture. "I like em sassy." He whispered. Shikamaru hearing this asked "What?"

"Hinata" Sakura whispered. "One of them is giving you a dirty look." Hinata looked up to where Sakura was pointing. "Ew." She said looking straight at Kiba.

Kiba saw Hinata staring at him. He smiled confidently. "Oh yeah. She wants me. I can feel it." Shikamaru however did believe that this was the case.

Sakura sighed. "Not a single good looking guy out there. This sucks."

"I don't know, Sakura." TenTen disagreed. "That one with the long hair is pretty cute."

Hinata stared at TenTen. "I think his name's Neji. I think I remember seeing him a couple of times at the family gatherings. I could probably introduce you."

TenTen squealed with delight, jumping for joy. "Really Hinata? Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!"

"I don't know TenTen. They all look like dorks to me. Especially that one with the ponytail and has a bored look on his face. Guys like him just piss me off."

"I like that one, the one that's painting."

The girls turned around immediately staring at Ino.

"What? I think being artistic is sexy!"

Sai who had been reading their lips this whole time quickly painted something on a piece of paper, folded it into a plane, infused it with some chakra and flew it over to Ino. Ino caught the plane as it glided towards her. Opening it, she let out a romantic sigh. "Aw!"

"What?" "What is it" The girls around her asked.

"Look!" She said showing them a childish drawing of Sai and Ino holding hands. "Isn't it sweet?" She giggled.

The girls stood there dumbfounded. "I will never understand her taste in men." Sakura whispered to Hinata who in turn gave her own giggle.

Ino blew a kiss which prompted Temari to interrupt their little love fest. "Alright Ino, save it for after the match. We have a job to do."

The referee appeared in the center of the stage grabbing everyone's attention. He asked "Are both teams assembled and ready?" looking both teams. Everyone was itching for the match to start. Kiba thought to himself "I know! I'll make myself look so cool out there, that girl will fall head over heels for me." He chuckled thinking himself a genius for contemplating such an elaborate plan.

"Are you ready?" the referee asked both teams. "Hai!"

"Begin!" he yelled jumping back. At that point all hell broke loose. A wind from the east blew in and carried Choji's chips from his hands. "Ah! My chips!" he cried. At the same time, Kiba took off running leaving Akamaru in a state of confusion wondering where his master had gone.

"Kiba! Wait." Shikamaru cried. "Choji! It's just a bag a chips for kami's sake." But in his sorrow, Choji did not hear him, crying for his lost bag of chips. "Tch! Neji! Go back up Kiba!" Neji took off after Kiba. Shikamaru turned to Sai. "Sai! Get off your ass and start fighting!" Sai looked at Shikamaru and sighed, putting away his scroll. Grabbing a different one , he suddenly shuddered and stood up dropping his new scroll to the ground. "Sai?" Shikamaru asked in concern.

Kiba had crossed half of the arena by the time he had noticed Akamaru was not by his side. "Akamaru?" he called turning side to side. Hinata appeared beside and he thought "Nice timing. Chance!" Forgetting all about the tournament, he proceeded to introduce himself. "Hi. My name's – ." He got no further as Hinata wasted no time in letting him tell her his name. She slammed her palm into his stomach, knocking the air out of him and sent him into the air. She immediately followed and shouted "Twin Lion Fists!" slamming him into the ground. Kiba managed to say "Ki…ba…" before passing out.

"Kiba!" yelled Neji. "Now, now. Now's not the time to be looking away." said a voice. Neji looked up to see the kunoichi from before holding a giant ninja scroll. "That doesn't look good." TenTen opened the scroll and proceeded to throw a flurry of weapons at him. "DEFINITELY NOT GOOD!" he reassured himself. "Rotation!" he yelled spinning in a circle.

"Sai! Control yourself!" shouted Shikamaru. "This isn't good." Looking around he saw one of the kunoichi on the ground, as if she was unconscious. "What happened there?" He quickly put one and one together. "Don't tell me- "

"Sickling Winds!" Temari yelled. "Aw shit!" Shikamaru cursed as he was lifted up into the air and tossed against the arena wall.

Sai turned around. "Jeez Temari! You also hit me as well!" Ino shouted in Sai's voice. "That's it I'm out of here before I run into any more trouble. Release!" Sai looked around confused. "What's going on?" He asked himself. He approximately 5 seconds to process everything going around him before he saw a shadow loom over him. He turned around and a saw a pink haired kunoichi aiming her fist straight at his face. Sai simply smiled and said "Oh my."

Meanwhile, TenTen was still throwing weapons at Neji who in turn was still spinning. "Geez! How many weapons does this chick have?" He thought to himself. He suddenly felt sick in his stomach. "Ulp. I think I'm going to hurl." He moaned. Neji saw TenTen drop her scroll and reach for the one behind her back. "It's either now or never!" Neji stopped his rotation and leaped away just as fourteen kunai hit the ground where he was just standing. A little more than 10 meters away, Neji landed exhausted. But he was given no rest as he saw a shadow loom over him and once again leaped away. Sakura landed smashing the ground. "Tch!" she growled. Neji lept away and simply stared at both Sakura and TenTen who were both approaching him with smiles on their faces. "These chicks are crazy!" He thought frantically. "It's over." a voice said in a soft tone. "Shit." Neji said turning around at the voice. "8 trigrams, 64 palms."

Choji lay on the ground crying for his chips. He looked up and saw a single chip lying on the ground. "Ah…" he whispered hopeful. He started crawling towards the chip crying tears of joy when suddenly a foot stomped the chip out of existence. "Ah…" he moaned. He looked up and saw Temari smirking at him. He crawled away from her. "Shikamaru help!" he cried. Temari walked towards him laughing. Choji continued crawling away from her when he bumped into something. Turning around, he saw Hinata, Sakura, TenTen and Ino staring at him with malicious smiles on their face. "Aaaahhhhhh!" he screamed as the girls lay waste to him. Akamaru barked at the girls and when they turned around, he saw their devilish smiles and waved a small white flag.

The crowd stared in awe. The match had lasted at the most 5 minutes and Konaha's Legendary five had been beaten like they were nothing, not to mention by a bunch of girls.

Temari could tell that the crowd was surprised to see a bunch of girls beat the boys. "Sexist bastards."

Jiraiya sighed "Did they really have to embarrass themselves like that?" He looked across the arena and Tsunade smirking at him. He sighed again and summoned a frog. "Here." He said tossing a bag of ryos to the frog. "Take it to Tsunade." The frog laughed. "Lose another bet again Jiraiya?" "Oh shut it and get going." The frog disappeared into a poof of smoke. Jiraiya watched as the frog appeared beside Tsunade and she grabbed the money. She flashed a quick smile, got up from her seat and left.

In the kunoichi locker room

"Haha! Did you see the look on that guys face when he turned around and saw all of us?" laughed Sakura. "Hilarious!" They all laughed with her.

"Well Sakura. Who knew that you were such a Sadist?" Ino commented.

"Who's a Sadist?" Tsunade chimed in.

"Oh, Tsunade-sama. We were just talking about how Sakura takes pleasure in causing pain to men." laughed Ino.

"I do not! If anyone does it's Hinata!"

"What?" Hinata asked shocked.

"Don't pretend you don't know what we're talking about…" poking Hinata in the side. "We all know that one guy…what was his name, Kiba? We all know that he was trying to introduce himself and you just lay waste to him."

"Oh? Did our little Hinata fall in love on the battlefield?"

"No way, but TenTen and Ino did." Hinata said trying to get away from being the center of attention.

"Yeah? Temari? Sakura? You see any cute guys?"

"Not a chance." Temari said instantly. "They were all dorks especially the guy with the pony tail. You guys see how I made him fly into the wall? She started laughing hysterically.

Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "Who knew that Temari was that kind of girl?"

Hinata spotted her chance to get a little bit of revenge. "Well, we really didn't get a chance to look at them. I mean Sakura was so busy using them as punching bags, we couldn't even tell who was who once she was done with them."

Sakura gave Hinata a little growl. Tsunade was quiet as she thought about the current situation. "…I guess that only leaves these two. Sigh. After all that trouble that I went through." "Alright everyone" she said clapping her hands. "We're heading back so hurry it up!"

"What?" cried Ino. "I didn't even get to talk Sai yet!"

"Don't worry Ino. I'm sure you'll get your chance."

Outside the Arena

Jiraiya sighed still disappointed at his team's performance. He watched as Tsunade led her kunoichi away from the arena. He caught her attention and flashed a quick peace sign to him. To any other person, they would have thought nothing of it but Jiraiya knew better. "Hmm…two eh? Really, her kunoichi are so troublesome." He sighed for a moment. "Looks like I'll have to send those two." He got up and started walking. "Kitsune. Hebi.".

Two ninja appeared behind him. Both wore ANBU masks and had the standard ANBU equipment. The only real difference between the two was that one had short yellow hair with spikes while the other had slightly longer black hair. "Hai Jiraiya-Sama."

He turned to both of them and handed them small letter. "I need you to deliver this to Tsunade." Both looked at each other then back at Jiraiya. "Can't you just send a frog?" He shook his head. "Nope this is important. I can't just send a familiar." "Understood. Jiraiya-sama." They left as quickly as they had come.

On the path to Tsunade's Villa

Tsunade stretched her arms anxious to get home. "We're going to drink until we can't think straight!"

"Ugh…" they all groaned. They had all gone drinking with Tsunade before and none of them wanted to experience that again.

Hinata sensed that they were being followed. "Byakugan!" Hinata's vision extended and she saw two ANBU ninjas following them. She smiled. "Sneaky…but not sneaky enough." She turned around. "Tsunade-sama." She whispered. Tsunade nodded. "Go ahead. Take Sakura." Hinata nodded. "Understood. Sakura-chan." They both took off in an instant. The girls were surprised to see them leave. "Tsunade-sama, is something wrong? Why did Hinata and Sakura leave?" Tsunade turned around to face them. 'Alright! We're going to take a short break and drink!" "Ugh!"

Both the ANBU watched the group break out the drinks and start partying. "Well that's careless of them. Should we interrupt them?" Kitsune chuckled.

"Who's going to interrupt whom?" said a voice behind them. Both ANBU jumped away from Hinata as Sakura missed them both and smashed the branch they were just sitting on. "Dam it! That's the second time today."

The two ANBU were in the open now and the girls could see why both Hinata and Sakura had left earlier. Hebi stood up "We're just here to deliver a message." Tsunade looked away from her glass, already signs that she was drunk were showing. "That's nice." she said. "But you might want to pay more attention to yourself." Hebi turned around just to see Sakura come flying at him and smash him into the ground. Kitsune had his hands full ducking and weaving around Hinata. For a full 5 minutes, the girls watched and laughing at the two as it looked like the two were dancing. Hinata on the other hand did not think that this was funny at all.

"Why can't I hit him?" she thought just barely missing him again. "Stop moving!" she screamed at him, her frustration already at its limit. This got the girls to burst into laughter. Never had they seen Hinata so flustered before.

"C'mon Hinata!" yelled Sakura. "I'm already done with mine. Hurry up!" She sat atop of Hebi as if he were some kind of trophy.

Kitsune smiled beneath his mask. "If you want to ask me out all you have to do is just ask, you don't have to go through all this trouble, Hinata-chan." he said stressing out the "chan" part. That blew a gasket. Not only were her teammates laughing at her, but this blond haired monkey was mocking her as well. At this moment, Kitsune saw his chance and swung a kick at her head but managed to only kicked only air. Hinata appeared under Kitsune. 'This is over!" she yelled. "8 trigrams, 64 palms."

1!

2!

4!

8!

16!

32!

64!

Kitsune collapsed and the girls whistled but Hinata wasn't done yet. She would make him pay for mocking her. She jumped on top of him and pinned him to the ground. "Twin Lion Fists!" she yelled slamming her fists into Kitsune.

"Ouch!" the girls cried. "Should we stop her? I think she's going overboard." TenTen asked in concern. "Be my guess." Temari said. "But there is no way I am getting in the way of the girl's revenge." Tsunade merely hiccupped from her sake.

Hinata was panting as she sat on top of Kitsune. "That'll teach you...". He simply smiled before turning into smoke leaving Hinata dumbfounded. The girls gasped. "Shadow Clone? But how? When?"

"Kyaa!" The girls turned around at Sakura's scream. She was sitting on top of a bunch of snakes that were slowly beginning to wrap themselves around her legs and body. "Somebody help! I hate snakes! Kyaa!"

*Clap* *Clap* *Clap*. They all looked up at the sound of clapping. Sitting in one of the trees was the Blond and Black haired ANBU. "Alright Hebi, you had your fun." He chuckled and released the jutsu. Sakura was still screaming as the snakes disappeared and she fell hitting her butt on the ground. "Ow!"

"Like we said, ladies. All we're here to do is deliver a message." Kitsune said throwing the piece of paper at Tsunade. Hinata snatched the message as it flew towards Tsunade, glaring at Kitsune. "Feisty." He thought.

"Here Tsunade-sama." handing the message over. Tsunade took the message and opened it. Will these two do? It read. Tsunade looked at Sakura who was yelling at the black haired ANBU telling him to get down and fight for real. She turned her gaze to Hinata who was still glaring at the yellow haired ANBU as if she wanted to kill him. She smiled and wrote down a quick message. "Here. Take it and return it to Jiraiya." She said holding it up. Both ANBU appeared behind her shocking the girls. "We'll be taking our leave now, Tsunade-sama." They walked past the girls eager to get a reaction from the two they had just fought. They smiled as they saw both Hinata and Sakura coming towards them.

"Sakura! Hinata!" yelled Tsunade startling the two. Both Hebi and Kitsune chuckled. As Hebi walked by Sakura, he reached out to her with a snake around his arm. She squealed and jump back a few steps. As Kitsune walked by Hinata, he stared into her face and saw that she was brimming with anger. He smiled. "Bye Bye, I'll see you later my dancing hime." This pushed her over the edge. Temari, TenTen and Ino had to hold her down as the two ANBU left.

Hyuga House in Kunoichi Village

"I'm back." Hinata moaned as she entered the house.

Hanabi looked into the hallway. "Welcome back sis. How was the trip?"

"Horrible." Hinata replied as she walked into the living room and buried her face into a pillow. Hanabi looked confused. "I'm home, Hanabi!" cried a voice at the sound the door opening and closing.

"Hey Mom. Hinata just got back!"

"Oh? How was the trip, Hinata?"

"Horrible." Hinata replied not even lifting her face from the pillow. Their mother looked concerned. "Where did you girls go this time?"

"The fire capital."

"No way? Really? What for?" Hanabi squealed desperate for answers.

"The tournament of Fire." sighed Hinata.

Their mother gasped which caused both Hinata and Hanabi to look at her. "What's wrong mom?" they asked. "Oh nothing." She said innocently. Turning her back to them she hid a smile recalling a time when she, herself went to an event called the tournament of fire and met a certain young man named Hyuga Hiashi. "Is it already that time?" she thought as she turned around and looked at Hinata. She looked over her daughter and realized that Hinata wasn't her baby girl anymore, but rather a beautiful young woman ready to blossom. "I guess it is."

"So Hinata… Did you meet anyone interesting?" Hinata still had her face buried in the pillow."No…not really." she replied.

"Oh…" her mother replied disappointed. At that point a voice came from the window that was open. "Not even a certain yellow haired ninja?" Hinata instantly got up knowing the voice. "TenTen!"

This grabbed her mother's attention. "Yellow Haired Ninja? Who is he?"

"He's no one!" Hinata cried.

TenTen grinned. "Oh he's just someone we met on our way back from the tournament. He was running a message for Jiraiya-sama to Tsunade-sama before Hinata attacked him."

"You attacked him?" Hinata's mother cried in horror.

"Yep." TenTen said before Hinata could answer. "But Hinata couldn't lay a finger on him. And when she did, turned out to be a shadow clone!"

"TenTen!" Hinata cried, throwing her pillow at her. "What do you want?"

TenTen giggled as she dodged the pillow. "Tsunade wants to talk to all of us. Hurry up."

Hinata sighed as she got up. "Alright. I'll see you later mom. Don't wait for me at dinner. I'll probably be late. That means you're doing dishes Hanabi!"

'What!" her sister cried. Hinata laughed as she ran out the door.

Hinata's mother watched her daughter run out the door and disappear. "Yellow haired ninja…" she thought curiously.

Konoha

"Achoo!" Kitsune sneezed. Hebi turned around startled. "Cold?"

"Nope." He replied wiping his nose. "Someone's probably talking about me."

"Ah." Hebi said. "Think it was your 'dancing hime'?"Kitusune smiled and chuckled. "I hope so."

FIN CHP.1 –

Me: Alright everyone. That's the end of Chp 1. Hope you enjoyed -.

Naruto: "Wait wait wait! Where am I in this story? and why does it look like that Kitsune guy and Hinata are going to get together? I thought I was going to get together with Hinata!

Sasuke: I would like to know as well. –pulls out sword-

Me: well…uh…haha – runs away –

Naruto disappears and reappears.

Me: what…the…

Sasuke: Hold him Naruto.

Me: wait…there's a good explanation for this! Well…uh…you guys appear in the next chapter…haha…

Both: We better or… else!

Me: -nods head-

To be continued…