Chapter 27 - 27 Chunin exam 4

Forest of death tower....

After the end of the second round many genins eliminated from the chunin exam. The teams who passed are team 7 ,team 8 ,team 10 , team guy, sand siblings, and kabuto's team. Out of 26 team only 6 team passed the exam. Sakura informed kakashi about the curse mark of sasuke .

But sasuke didn't want to be unconscious for few days so he insisted that after the preliminary he will seal the curse mark . Kakashi wanted to seal the curse mark but he didn't want to keep sasuke away from chunin exams, so he agreed with sasuke for the timing .

Today all the participants are gathered in the main hall of tower. Hokage has come to congratulate them for coming so far in the exam.

" You have done a great job this far. In ancient times war was the only way to show the military strength but now in peace times we show our strength through the chunin exams. Chunin exams is a time where younger generation shows the power of their ninja village in competition and attract more missions for their village ," hiruzen explained about the chunin exams to the competitors.

" Excuse me hokage sama, can I explain the rest ," Hayate gekko said to third hokage . In response Hokage nodded to him.

" As you know we didn't expect this many participants so we have a preliminary before the *cough* finals which is going to start in few minutes . As we cannot waste the time of respected guests during finals . So *cough* we will show them the best among you. I am the proctor of third round hayate gekko. If someone wants to leave because of some reason he can quit now, " hayate said to them. He explained the rules to participants. Kabuto raised his hand.

" I want to quit , my body is not in a condition where it can cope up with the battle right now ," Kabuto said to the hayate.

" O. k then you can leave. An anbu *cough* will show you the way out of the forest ," Hayate said to him . He was surprised that he quit after coming here. Nobody quits without a solid reason.

There was a gaint screen from which the two person will be selected randomly as opponents. The first name was sasuke vs yoroi. Yoroi is the teammate of kabuto . Sasuke was excited to test an older genin.

" Good luck sasuke, " kakashi wished him luck for his match.

" You can do it sasuke kun, " sakura encouraged sasuke like always . Naruto remained silent . Sasuke went downside in the arena. Sasuke and yoroi looked at each other.

" Begin " Hayate signaled a start of the battle.

Sasuke went on an ȧssault mode from the beginning. Yoroi waited for him to come closer as an experienced shinobi. He avoided the punches and kicks of sasuke. when sasuke came very close to hit him. He didn't avoid the attack but he grabbed sasuke head.

As soon as he grabbed the head of sasuke . Sasuke started feeling as if his chakra is leaving him.

" ahhhhhhhhh, whatttts happeninggg to meeee ," sasuke questioned unintentionally to him. He was in deep pain.

" Its my specialty , I can absorb chakra by touching anyone and recover my chakra ," yoroi said to sasuke with a smirk . He is told by kabuto not to go easy on sasuke and push him to extreme limit.

Sasuke was feeling helpless and then somehow he maintained his distance between them in a desperate effort. Then he started to throw shirukens to distract him. When yoroi was distracted enough he used one of lee's move on him.

He came before him and bent his body and hit him with his leg upper cut on his chin. Yoroi body flashed in the air. Sasuke came below him in the air. His curse mark got activated but he controlled it.

" lions barrage, " sasuke said and delivered a kick upside down from his angle and yoroi fall to the ground . He became unconscious. Hayate checked him if he is really unconscious.

" Winner : sasuke uchiha, " Hayate said after confirming it.

After sasuke matched finished . Kakashi didn't want to take another chance and he took him to seal his curse mark for the preventive measure.

In screen another name popped up by the time sasuke match finished. Its shikamaru vs kin from sound village . Shikamaru looked at his opponent and his mood changed.

" Why I have to face a girl it's troublesome, " shikamaru said to asuma. But after looking at Ino's angry face he went to arena.

Kin thought it was an easy victory but shikamaru trapped her in her own game. Kin used sound genjutsu from bells but shikamaru trapped her in a shadow possession jutsu and made her unconscious and won the ticket for final.

After that Ino battled with sakura . They started with battling with kunai and shuriken . Later sakura used clone jutsu to confuse ino which she survived. Ino then used mind transfer jutsu which was countered by sakura's inner personality. Atlast both knocked out each other with a quick punch .

Kankuro replaced himself with his puppet before the match with masumi one of kabuto's teammate. Masumi used chakra to soften his bones and hold down kankuro puppet . Kabkuro later revealed himself and captured masumi inside the puppet and won the match.

Shino won his match against zaku by blocking his sound pipes and eating his chakra with the help of his insects and won the match.

Chouji lost his match against dosu from sound village who used his sound pressure to block off chouji attacks and redirected it to walls.

Tenten lost to temari who blocked all her attack and attacked her with wind jutsu from her fan.

Naruto jumped from balcony to arena and waiting for kiba in arena.

" Sorry kiba but its my day , you can try another time, " naruto said to kiba with a smile.

" I am not afraid of you naruto , lets see who is the alpha in the rookies ," Kiba calmed himself for the battle . Even kurenai is worried about kiba. She heard from kakashi how ruthless naruto can become during battle .Hinata doesn't know whom to cheer.

" Ohh akamaru will battle with you I guess. Then lets make it 2 vs 2 , Summoning jutsu " Naruto said it and tried to summon his eevee 'max' . But from it comes out an umbreon . All those who are watching are surprised together with naruto.

' I never thought that max will evolve so soon,' naruto thought after looking at max.

"What kind of animal is that , I thought you will bring your eevee for the match ," kiba asked naruto. Naruto smiled at him and pets the max on his head.

" His name is max , he is an eevee but recently grown into umbreon. Even I am amazed , " naruto said to kiba. Max is looking at naruto .

"Begin " Hayate said to naruto and kiba. kiba didn't wasted anytime and gave a red pill to akamaru. Akamaru become red.

" Lets go akamaru, Beast human mimicry, Fang over fang, " Kiba wasted no time in thinking and direct went for an attack. Akamaru transformed into kiba and they went together to attack them.

Max didn't liked it that some comes charging towards him and naruto with an intention of attack . It dashed forward in a very quick speed and interrupted them from charging. Kiba couldn't believe what he just saw his fang over fang with akamaru stopped by naruto's pet alone.

Max growled loudly towards kiba and akamaru . Growl not only affected them but the audience too.

" Why I am feeling fear towards eevee while standing in audience , " Asuma asked kakashi . In response kakashi just sighed like he felt the same thing.

" What kind of summoning is that , I never seen something like that ," Orochimaru in disguise asked baki . He is a curious guy.

" I heard about it in my last visit here couples of 6 months back , but never seen it. But it looks quite different from what it was described. Maybe it looks different when it is small ," Baki heard about eevee when he came to give a mission scroll in hokage tower last time.

" Hinata its eyes looks quite like eevee but why it looks totally different ," kurenai asked hinata. Hinata just shook her head. She has not seen eevee for a long time.

Kiba and akamaru dashed again towards naruto but this time max got even more angry . Max doesn't knew it is a match. He got summoned and they got attacked and he has never seen kiba before.

Max eyed glowed for a while . kiba and akamaru stopped in air and they were thrown in the wall by unknown force. They both got unconscious by this unknown attack . Max was about to continue the attack.

" That's enough max , they are unconscious, " Naruto said to max. It came closer to naruto and try to cuddle his thɨġh with its head. Naruto in response pet max head . Hayato checked on kiba .

"Winner : Naruto uzumaki ," Hayate announced the result .

" I thought it was max's match for few seconds, " Naruto said to hayate. Hayate looked at him for few seconds with a blank face. Naruto left the arena before he could say anything. Max followed him to balcony.

" It was a quick one naruto , I never thought you could win the match with only summoning eevee ," Kakashi said to naruto. Naruto didnt reply him back. Hinata came and congratulate him.

On screen another names appeared it was hinata hyuga and neji hyuga. Hinata get tensed after looking at the name. They both arrive at the arena.

" You should give up hinata sama , fate has already decided me the winner ," neji said to hinata. Before hinata could say anything naruto voice was heard.

" Hey hinata you never told me your cousin is an oracle grandma ," Naruto asked hinata from balcony. Kakashi from his side sighed. He understood that during this match he will hear a lot of taunting from naruto.

Neji didn't react to naruto but he was angry. Hayate began the match . Neji and hinata fought a technical battle of gentle fist. Naruto encouraged her. But hinata is losing to neji . Hinata lashes some words on fate to neji which he doesn't like . He went for finishing blow which is stopped by jonins. Hinata was about to collapse on floor from cardiac arrest. Naruto jumps from balcony to arena before she could hit the ground and looks at neji. Doctors comes and take hinata for treatment .

" You have just sealed your fate you hyuga branch servant . You couldn't accept your own fate but always keep talking about fate ," Naruto directly said to neji. Neji got very angry on naruto.

" You don't know anything uzumaki , you should pray that we should not meet in chunin exam finals . You will regret it , " Neji is still angry from naruto's comment .

" So a rebel servant who just attacked his master says I will regret it. Dream on , you fate shit . First thing you don't know anything about fate in first place. You tell what you see from your eyes. You cannot even count the exact number of stars with those eyes ," Naruto said to him and leave the arena. Neji is angry but can't do anything. Naruto then sends a shadow demon secretly to protect hinata.

On screen next name appeared . Its Rock lee vs gaara. Rock lee fought brilliantly but his attack got stopped by gaara's sand. Gaara wanted to crush him but lee avoided it and removes his weight which earns a lot of reactions from present audience. Lee bashed gaara with his speed and delivers primary lotus. Gaara counters it in the last moment by substitution jutsu .

Lee is forced to open his chakra gates , he then beats gaara black and blue in air. He delivers primary lotus but gaara's sand gourd turns into sand cushion and saves him from defeat . Gaara uses his sand and crushes one hand and leg of lee.

Gai intervenes before anything happens to lee. Lee is taken to hospital.

Hokage congratuled to everyone who advances to next round.

" You have one month time to prepare for your finals and against your next opponent , so best of luck ,"hiruzen said to remaining participants .

They drew the lots and naruto has to face neji for the next round after one month.