Chapter 16: Back to Chuuin Exams

Me: Oh man, how long was I gone?

Sasuke: Mh, three weeks and two days… give or take.

Me: Oh crap, that long, geez sorry, but school is a bitch, especially when you got SBA coming up and you need to work your ass off.

Sasuke: I don't care; just get to the freaking story.

Me: *Sigh* Fine… do the disclaimers.

Sasuke: Author-chan doesn't own Naruto or any of its franchise, all rights goes to Masashi Kishimoto! If she owned it, Naruto would've owned the nine-tails at an early age.

Me: Mhhh… not sure about that…

Sakura watched nervously as Naruto, Neji, Temari, Kankuro, Haku, Garra, Shikamaru, Shino and Sasuke stood next to each other, in the middle of the stadium. The last weeks went by evenly; Naruto improved his use of the shadow clone and learned to summon at least a middle sizes toad, but not a big one. He and Sasuke par sometime but they didn't try to kill each other most of them Sasuke end up defeated but he just used the defeat to train harder and surpass Naruto.

Sakura been training her hardest and while she wasn't anywhere near Sasuke's or Naruto's level, she'll admit that she gotten slightly stronger.

Naruto looked up at Sakura and smiled at her. Sakura smiled nervously and waved at him due Naruto didn't seem to notice her nervousness.

Naruto turned back to see Genma walked by.

"Ok, there has been a little change." He said, everyone seemed confused. "Neji… instead of fighting Kankuro, you'll fight against Temari." everyone had a confuse expression. "The Kazekage requested for the battle to change." he explained. Everyone looked at the Kage's balcony; even Sarutobi looked at the Kazekage.

"Why would you change the lineup?" he asked a hint of anger in his voice.

"Please forgive me Hokage-dono, I merely wanted my strongest child to challenge against the Hyuuga prodigy, I should've asked for permission first." Kazekage said with fake regret but Sarutobi didn't pick it up before he then said…

"It's fine, but please… confirm with me first." Sarutobi said. Kazekage nodded with an evil smirk that Sarutobi didn't notice.

Neji nodded as he stayed behind and looked at Temari who smirked.

"Wow, this must be my lucky exam, first I'm fighting against someone who only uses weapons and now I'm fighting against someone who is only good in close-quarter combat, this'll be too easy." Temari said with a laugh.

Neji frowned. "Don't be so sure, you were unlucky when fate got you stuck fighting me, now you will see how fate will be on my side when I win." Neji said with a cocky grin.

Temari didn't know why, but suddenly she felt an urge to slice that guy to millions of bits. She glared at Neji as she opened her fan. "You're going to regret saying that." she said with a growl.

Genma looked at them both and decided that they were both ready, he raised his hand. "BEGIN!" he dropped his hand and jumped back.

Temari did the same as she put as much difference between her and Neji and threw a few mini tornadoes at him.

Neji simply dodge them and charge towards Temari, Temari blocked or dodge Neji's gentle strikes but some grazed her and two hit her stomach before Neji did a palm strike to her chest, throwing her to the ground.

Neji smirked. "What did I tell you? You'll lose to me and there's nothing you can do."

Temari's anger boiled, not only is he hurting her pride by beating her after he said that couldn't beat him, he was berating her in front of her teammates, brother, the whole village, and more importantly, her father.

In rage, she quickly swings her giant fan, catching Neji off guard right on his chest, Neji double over in pain and Temari jumped back. She swing her fan again, blowing a huge whirlwind at Neji who was too distracted by the sudden pain in his stomach but it quickly became yesterday news as the whirlwind cut him in several places but soon Neji started to spin rapidly, releasing chakra from his chakra point and made a dome of chakra which took over the wind.

Neji landed as Temari, still consumed in her rage, charged at Neji, aiming to knock him out with her swing of her fan. But he simply ducked but he stayed low. She was suddenly stuck in the trigram circle.

"EIGHT TRIGRAM: TWO PALMS!" true to the name, he gave her two death pokes. "FOUR PALMS!" four death pokes. "EIGHT PALMS!" eight death pokes. "SIXTEEN PALMS! THIRTY-TWO PALMS!" you get the rest. "SIXTY-FOUR PALMS!" he finished with a palm strike to her chest which blew her practically to the end of the stage.

Neji panted slightly before standing straight.

Temari couldn't believe the pain she was feeling, the first two strike were bugs bite, the next two strike were mere bugs bite, four more and it felt like a cute Chihuahua bit her, but the next eight, she felt more pain like it were normal punches, when it reach the thirty-two extra pokes… that when she felt the intense pain.

She had a lot of trouble standing but she was finally able to do it, albeit she looked as she could die just by trying to stand.

Neji smirked. "Look at you, could barely even stand without hurting yourself, I should just end this match right now." Neji walked towards her calmly as she fell on her butt.

"Mh, this match is over." Naruto said with a hint of sadness, he had hoped that that Suna chick had thought Neji that they are not tied by fate, but apparently that was too much to ask.

Neji was a foot away from her before pain ran through his leg as he collapsed.

"What… what happened?" Neji asked.

Temari tried to smirk but that was too much effort… but she still smirked. "It seems that my Wind Scythe cut your legs enough, I should be able… to finish you now." she said, somewhat weakly as consciousness was starting to leave her. 'Oh no, I won't let him get the satisfaction of beating me.' she thought as she tried her best to support herself as she walked towards Neji.

Neji watched her then he closed his eyes. "I guess fate has it for me to lose."

Temari growled. "Keep talking about fate and I'll rip your head off when you least expected, fate has nothing to do with this…" she smirked. "I was simply stronger than you, fate doesn't control me or you, you merely just let fate control you." she raised her fan and swung it but at that moment consciousness left her and she missed Neji's head, falling forward she fell on Neji's shoulder, Neji's barely notice the weight on him but he did notice some weight getting off of her as she started to slide off of him. He quickly caught her before she hit the ground.

"WINNER, NEJI HYUUGA!" Genma announced, getting everyone to cheer loudly.

The nurses and doctor took Temari in a stretcher; Neji stood and started to walk towards the balcony.

Naruto dreaded this moment as he looked at Haku who smiled weakly at him.

They both jumped done and stared at each other before Genma came between them. "Are you guys ready?" he asked, they both nodded though one was hesitant. "BEGIN!" and he jumped back.

They both stood there, hearing the crowd cheer for them.

Haku looked away before looking at Naruto with regret. Just last week did she learn about Naruto and Sakura going out and through the whole time all she learned was regret for not claiming Naruto sooner. She tried to forget about Naruto and accept defeat but it was still hard for her.

Naruto noticed the regret in her eyes. "Haku-Chan…" Naruto felt Sakura's anger at him. "Haku…" he said slightly nervous. "Let's go all out… no holding back." he settles to his fighting stance, Haku nodded and took her own stance.

Jiraiya and Tsunade watched Naruto settle into his stand along with Haku.

Tsunade lean closer to Jiraiya. "I thought you said that Naruto and Sakura were going out?" she asked.

"They are…" Jiraiya said, slightly confused.

"But why are they talking and acting as if they were ex's or he's still in love with her." Tsunade pointed out. Sakura's ear twitched, almost as if she heard something dire to her relationship with Naruto.

"Don't worry, Naruto would never betray someone's trust…" Sakura suddenly felt calm. "You'll see…"

(With Neji)

Neji walked calmly through the hall then opened the door, seeing Temari getting wrap with bandages to the chest. Temari turned to Neji and noticed Neji raised eyebrow, she glared at him.

"GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Temari roared.

"I need to talk to you."

"NO!" she threw a glass which Neji dodge.

"Is of most urgent important."

"No!" she threw a rock from out of nowhere but she missed.

"If you would just listen to me…" Neji didn't dodge Temari's fan that hit him straight in the face, both females heard an audible crack.

Neji didn't react as some blood fell down his nose. "I'll be back…" he left after that.

Soon Temari and the nurse heard a string of curses coming from the stoic Hyuuga, some of which included 'Suna bitch' 'Damn fan' and 'Stupid nurse for just standing there' during the whole time Temari continue to get madder and madder and was unconsciously leaking a huge amount of killing intent, the nurse was shaking due to been hit by the killer intent, so much that she fainting shortly after.

Neji returned with his stoic expression once again on his face. "Ahem… I'm back."

"No shit Sherlock…" Temari growled.

"So…" Neji smirked. "How does it feel to lose?"

"Shut up! I knew that whatever you came here for it wasn't important!"

"On the contrary, it just seem like you said that I let fate control me and that you were stronger than me. Yet, you lost and if I remember correctly, I said that your fate was to lose to me." Neji said with a smug grin. To his surprise, Temari grin too.

"But you also said that you were destined to lose to me and yet you won." Temari said with a smirk.

Neji didn't say anything after that, he was busy contemplating how to response.

Temari smirk. Thinking he didn't have an answer. "Guess I got you there, eh?" she asked with a chuckle.

Neji turned. "Why should I listen to a loser like you? You nothing but a waste of time and space…" he began to walk out.

"Get back here bastard! What do you mean that you don't listen to a loser! I'm not a loser! And I'm not a waste of time and space!" Neji closed the door. Temari growled while staring at the door, leaking killer intent again.

Sadly, the nurse choose that moment to wake up and again felt the killer intent and fainted once again.

(To Haku and Naruto's fight)

"WIND STYLE: GREAT BREAKTHROUGH!" a giant gust of wind came from nowhere, probably the sky, and pushed Haku back, she ran off from it as she appeared next to Naruto and was about to slash him with her senbon but Naruto blocked it with his kunai and they started to trade blows.

Sakura watched intentionally, naming how many time she'll kill Haku for hurting her Naruto-kun.

"You trained Haku well, you should be a teacher." Kakashi said to Sasuke.

"Hell no! That girl was a big pain in the ass! I'm never teaching again!"

"Even if you did you'll probably turn everyone emo." Kakashi muttered to himself.

"What was that!"

"Nothing Sasuke-kun…"

Naruto jumped back and threw a couple of shurikens which Haku effortlessly dodged then threw senbon.

Naruto jumped sideways before Haku grabbed his hand.

"Sorry…" she whispered to him before making one handed hand signs. Everyone gasped.

"What!" Tsunade and Jiraiya yelled as they stood in surprised.

Haku stomped her foot as ice appeared from the ground and turned to ice shards, pointing at Naruto.

"And ice user…" "She has an ice bloodline…" those what everyone was whispering.

The third Mizukage tensed slightly as his instinct to kill her appeared.

The Kazekage licked his lips, having second thoughts of getting the sharingan and instead getting the ice bloodline.

Haku jumped back and as soon as she did, the ice shards pierced Naruto in several places.

"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled in horror, if one would listen closely, they could hear some Konoha villagers cheer silently or sigh in relief.

Haku looked away, not wanting to see Naruto being taken away.

"Wow that was brutal…" Haku eyes widen and turned only to see a fist coming down on her face quickly; she reacted too slowly and received the hard punch.

Sakura sighed in relief upon seeing Haku get punched.

Haku stumble slightly before getting punch on the back of her head, she turned only to get uppercut by a clone.

"WIND STYLE: AIR BULLET!" Naruto yelled and blew a gust of wind at Haku but she somehow dodged it and landed gracefully on her feet.

"Not bad Naruto-kun." Haku said with an approving smile.

Naruto smiled too, but it fell when he saw Haku make a weird hand sign.

"SECRET JUTSU: CRYSTAL ICE MIRRORS!" several crystals appeared around Naruto as Haku entered her mirror. Everyone was shifting left and right, wanting to see what happening.

Naruto looked around for an exit. "Haku, I defeated you before, I can do it again."

"You defeated me because of your special chakra." Haku whispered o Naruto.

Naruto looked around and saw several Haku's in the mirrors. "This won't work." he said.

"We'll see…" Haku said as she took some senbons out.

Sakura watched the ice mirrors with worry while Sasuke and Kakashi watched anxiously. They heard metal piercing flesh repeatedly and Naruto's grunts. Soon Haku appeared out of the mirrors and the mirrors suddenly exploded. Naruto had his arms in front of him as if protecting his face with several cuts on him.

Naruto smirked at Haku; he made his signature hand sign. "MULTI SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" hundreds of clones appeared around Haku, everyone eyes practically popped out of their sockets, except team seven and Iruka.

Haku looked at them.

"Ready? Let's go!" all the Narutos charge at her.

Sakura watched Haku kick and slash some clones.

"So Uzumaki is still fighting?" Sakura turned to see Neji.

"Huh? Oh yeah, he is, but I'll be over soon." she said with a smile.

"I know, but the ice woman should probably take this seriously, she shouldn't make herself look weak fighting a loser."

Sakura angered flare but she forced herself to relax. "Hehehe, I don't know if you haven't noticed, but Naruto is my boyfriend." she said.

"Loser dating loser, sound fitting."

Sakura glared at him. "What's your problem! Naruto isn't a loser."

"You're right…" Sakura smirked. "… He's a failure, one who will never succeed in life."

She glared at him again. "You better watch your mouth bastard otherwise; I'll knock your teeth out."

Neji watched as Haku slashed two clones and jumped, making three clones crash to each other and vanished.

"You can try, but in the end, you'll just end up in the hospital, a failure like you can't ever hope to succeed."

"The hell is with you! What makes you think that we can't succeed!"

"Because that is reality, that is your fate, that is the destiny of those who are born as failures."

Sakura growled. She was having a hard time controlling herself. "People can change bastard, they work hard to get stronger and make a name for themselves, and not everyone will stay a failure!"

"Mh, that sound like something a failure would say."

"WHY YOU…" Sakura took a deep breath… a really deep breath… three times. "Naruto-kun is going to win, you'll see, fate doesn't control people, people can change their fate."

"Mh, we'll see about that." Neji muttered then left.

Sakura stayed glaring at Neji. "SASUKE!" she suddenly screamed, making Sasuke jumped, Sakura grabbed Sasuke's wrist. "You'll help me cool off." she said in a low growl. Sasuke looked back to Kakashi with eyes pleading for help… Kakashi simply wave at Sasuke.

Haku kicked the last clone away and turned to Naruto who quickly punched her face, sending several feet away.

Haku panted and struggled to get up.

"Come on Haku, give up." Naruto said, taking his fighting stance.

Haku stood and panted slightly and tried to steady herself.

Naruto shook his head and dash at Haku, hoping to end this with one last punch but Naruto suddenly couldn't move. He looked down to see ice over him and the ice grew and practically covered his body. Naruto struggled to get out but couldn't.

Haku stopped panting and charged at Naruto and did a two palm strike on him. Breaking the ice but also shattering his spine slightly.

"SHATTERING ICE SPEAR!" several ice spears appeared from the ground and almost impale Naruto but it missed, merely trapping him there. "Give up Naruto-kun…" several ice shards appeared in the air. "I can easily put you in an unconscious state right now, you lost."

Naruto smirked before he poof.

Haku jumped and turned when she heard chakra swirling. She saw Naruto right on her.

"RASENGAN!" he thrust the swirling ball of chakra and immediately stopped before he could do any permanent damage.

Genma looked at Haku who was unconscious. "WINNER IS NARUTO Uzumaki!" Genma announced. Naruto was blasted with a defeating sound of people cheering for him.

Naruto looked around at the people cheering for him; he blinked a couple of time before rubbing his neck sheepishly. He turned to Sakura who was also cheering with Sasuke simply nodding and Kakashi giving him a thumb up.

Naruto grinned as he picked up Haku and walked towards the people with the stretcher, not noticing Sakura abruptly stopped cheering for him and sent glares behind his back.

Naruto soon returned. "Hey everyo… omph!" Naruto got interrupted by Sakura hugging.

"Congratulation Naruto-kun, I knew you could do it, no doubt you'll become a chunin!" Sakura said with a smile.

"Yeah…" Naruto said.

"And I'm sure Sasuke will become a chunin, then you and Sasuke will be chunin… except for me… you'll go on mission without me… and I won't be able to…" Sakura went on about how she won't see Naruto that often if he becomes a chunin. Naruto quickly silent her with a kiss which Sakura quickly melt under.

Everyone who didn't know Sakura was going out with Sakura looked on in surprise, Ino smiled at Sakura while Hinata… well…

Naruto broke the kiss.

Sakura looked at Naruto with love in her eyes. "WHY DID YOU INTERRUPT ME? I DON'T CARE IF YOU KISS ME, IF I'M TALKING YOU LET ME FINISH!" she yelled, everyone sweat dropped.

'Why don't you destroy the ramen stand while you're at it?' Naruto thought.

Genma turned to them. "For the next match, we'll be having Shino Aburame fighting against Kankuro…"

"I forfeit!"

"… Who just forfeited." Genma sigh from hearing people boo. "So now we'll be having Sasuke Uchiha vs. Garra of the sand."

Sasuke started to walk down with Garra following him, soon they both reached the field, where's Genma?" Sasuke asked.

"Over here!" they both turned to see Genma behind a tree. "Um… the four match will… BEGIN!" Genma practically ran off almost as if he saw a ghost.

Sakura looked over at Neji who was looking at the fight with interest. Sakura smirk as she walked towards him.

"So, whatever happened to Naruto being a failure and that was going to lose?" Sakura asked.

Neji paid her no mind.

Sakura gritted her teeth. "Hey! I'm talking to you!"

"Talking to you is a waste of time."

"What's your problem! Why do you hate life!"

"I don't hate life, is just that there are certain failures in this world and those failures will remain failures."

Sakura crossed her arms. "You said the same thing about Naruto and you also said that he would lose, yet he won and he proved to you that he's not a failure."

Neji scoffed. "What, just because he defeated someone with an ice bloodline means he's not a failure?"

"That's exactly what it means, didn't you see how fast she become! I beat she could beat you!"

"I highly doubt it, Lee is easily faster than her and yet… he can't defeat me so in turn, she can't defeat me… face it, they cannot change their destiny and they are destined to be failure." Neji continue to watch the match, Sakura was trying her best to calm herself as she walked back towards Naruto.

She grabbed his wrist and started to walk away. "You're coming with me!"

"What? Wait… what did I…" Naruto turned to Kakashi for help but he simply wave at him.

Sasuke jumped back as he dodged some of the sand shuriken Garra was throwing then proceeded to run around Garra.

"Whatever your planning… it not going to work." Garra said.

"Heh, we'll see about that." Sasuke put chakra into his feet then dashed at Garra throwing punches and kicks but Garra easily blocked them with his sand. Sasuke threw a punch and just when the sand was about to block it, Sasuke vanished.

Garra blinked before sand arose from behind and blocked Sasuke's kick then the punch that followed up and jumped back a couple of feet.

"You're fast…" Garra said. "But not faster than the eyebrow freak…" he said.

"YOUTH!" a weird guy yelled.

Sasuke smirked. "Please, don't think even for a second that that's my fastest." Sasuke activated his sharingan.

"Then go ahead… go all out…" Garra face turned sadistic. "That way, mother will enjoy your blood even more!" sand shot out to Sasuke who quickly dodge it by jumping from side to side.

Sakura and Naruto finally returned with Naruto being slightly dizzy.

"Where did you go?" Kakashi noticed Naruto. "And what did you do?" he asked.

"Nothing Kakashi-sensei…" Sakura said with a sweet innocent smile.

"So good."

Sasuke wielded a kunai and slash sand shuriken in half as he tried to look for an opening in Garra.

'Keh, too bad his sand guard is practically automatic.' Sasuke thought then dashed at Garra again.

"Go Sasuke!" Naruto and Sakura cheered.

Sasuke started throwing punches but none of them did contact, he was feigning the hits, trying to catch him off guard. 'There!' Sasuke, almost as quick as Rock Lee, punched Garra in the face.

"YEAH!" Naruto and Sakura celebrated.

Sasuke smirked but it quickly turned into a frown when he heard chuckling.

"Is that all you got?" Garra asked as a wave of sand came from behind Garra and was about to cover Sasuke.

"Crap!" Sasuke jumped back in time to dodge the torrent of sand.

"How did that not hurt him?" Sakura asked.

"Not sure…" Naruto said, thinking slightly.

"Mhhh…" Kakashi said thoughtfully.

Sasuke continue to jump back before one piece of sand caught his leg and lift him up and slam him down.

"Damn it…" Sasuke made hand sign. "FIRE STYLE: FIREBALL JUTSU!" he blew a giant fireball at the sand, making it into glass and easily broke it. He made more hand sign. "FIRE STYLE: PHOENIX FLOWER JUTSU!" he shot several fireball from his mouth.

Garra, not wanting to get his sand turned to crystals, jumped out of the way and raised his hand. "SAND SHOWER!" several sand balls shot towards Sasuke.

"FIRE STYLE: DRAGON FLAME JUTSU!" Sasuke blew a dragon shaped fireball at Garra's sand shower, making the sand into glass and the dragon about to hit Garra but Garra jumped away at the last moment.

"SAND TSUNAMI!" Garra made another wave of sand go towards Sasuke who quickly vanished and appeared behind Garra, kicking him in the face.

Garra, stood as sand started to cover him.

"What the… hey! What are you…" but Garra already sealed himself in the giant ball as Sasuke waited for Garra to get out but Garra made no sound whatsoever. "Damn it… bastard…" he made three hand sign before thrusting his hand down. Electricity Started to come out of it.

"Kakashi-sensei, what's that?" Naruto said, amazed.

Sakura was also stunned by Sasuke's new jutsu.

Kakashi gave an eye smile. "For many years I've been copying jutsus but this jutsu is one of my originals, great for assassinations." he explained.

Sakura frowned. "And what's up with the sound, it sounds like-"

"A thousand birds chirping." Kakashi more stated than asked. "Because of that, I named it chidori…"

"Chidori?" Sakura asked in wonders.

"Yep, but because I used that same technique to cut a bolt of lightning, it got the nickname Lighting blade, impressive isn't it?" Kakashi asked, hoping his student could look up to him on something.

Naruto and Sakura continue to look ahead.

"Did he say something?" Naruto asked, bored.

"I don't know, something about cutting lighting…" Sakura trailed off, leaning into Naruto.

"You could act interested." Kakashi said miserably.

Sasuke ran towards Garra in his ball, yelling: "CHIDORI!" before thrusting the lighting hand into the ball, passing through it.

Temari, Kankuro and Baki gasped as they saw the hand drive right through as if it was nothing.

'Impossible, how could this happen?' Temari thought frantically.

Sasuke stood there, panting slightly before Garra started screaming.

"It took him this long to conform the pain?" Sasuke shook his head. "What an…" Sasuke grunt and grip his hand as he felt someone was crushing it. "AAAAARRRGGH!" Sasuke pulled his hand away as a hand made out of sand followed him before it stopped and returned to the ball, Sasuke continue to stare at it before he saw a raccoon eye look at him back.

Sasuke shuddered as he stepped back slightly.

Damn brat, he could ruin the plan!' Baki thought.

Suddenly, everyone started feeling the effect of a genjutsu.

"What the…" Naruto's vision became clouded, he quickly made a hand sign. "Release!" he yelled, along with Sakura and Kakashi.

"It's time…" one of the sound ninja said.

The Kazekage, slowly, almost dramatically turned to the Hokage and for some unknown reason, the Hokage did the same.

"Hi…" that's all the Hokage got to say before an explosion accord in the Hokage watch tower.

"HOKAGE-SAMA!" Kakashi yelled, he was about to run but sand and sound nin surrounded them. "Damn it…"

Naruto looked back to the arena and to his surprise he saw Temari and Kankuro carry Garra away while Sasuke followed. "Shit, I'm going after that Garra guy!" Naruto said then jumped down.

"W-wait! Naruto-kun!" Sakura called worriedly and she was about to run towards him but a sound ninja intercept her.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

"None of your business!" Sakura tried to run around but the Sound nin didn't let her.

"You ain't going anywhere…" he said, Sakura narrowed her eyes.

Kiba was sound asleep at his chair while Hinata tried to dispel the genjutsu from Kiba.

Shino walked by. "What shall we do?" he asked.

"I don't know…" Hinata said, she watched as some ninja started fighting. "I guess we should get the civilian out of here first…"

"Understood." Shino said as he turns to walk away.

"Wait, aren't you going to help me wake up Kiba-kun, he's a heavy sleeper." Hinata pleaded.

"Maybe later." Shino muttered and without letting Hinata answer, jumped down.

"Later, yeah sure…" Hinata muttered as she continues to try and wake up Kiba… he's not even under a genjutsu anymore.

Choji woke up with a bump on his head; the same can be said about Shikamaru.

"What was that for?" Shikamaru asked. "I was enjoying a nap."

"It was a genjutsu!" Ino said.

"As long as I get to take a nap, it could be death…" he muttered to him.

Ino groaned. 'How did this lazy ass turned into a ninja?' she asked herself. "Come on, we have to help Sasuke-kun!" Ino said.

"We have to help the civilian first." Shikamaru explained.

"I don't care, Sasuke-kun is out dare and could get killed!" and without letting Shikamaru answered she started running towards the arena, unaware that Sasuke is gone.

"Troublesome woman…" Shikamaru muttered to himself and started to follow her, unaware that Choji wasn't following.

"Where did my chip go?" he asked and started to look around. "Where are they?" he took another bag of chip but kept looking for his missing one. "Has anyone *munch* seen *munch* my missing *munch* bag of chips? *munch munch munch*" Choji asked, though most people were busy with other matter.

The Kazekage grabbed the Hiruzen.

"What is the meaning of this?" Hiruzen asked.

"Long time no see… sssssssensei…" Orochimaru hissed.

"O-O-Orochimaru!" Hiruzen asked in surprise.

Me: Well, that's the end, sorry for not updating sooner, it was my time of the years where I am incredibly lazy for no reason whatsoever… it really happens, in the month of January, I don't know why but you can easily tell by looking at my report.

Sasuke: Her grades are horrible…"

Me: *Sigh* I'm really sorry, but if you review with a "I forgive you" I'll make you a batch of cookies.

Sasuke: You don't want that, she's a terrible cook.

Me: WHAT THE HELL DUDE!