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Young Akina up there. Looks a bit like Hashirama and her mother. Except she has paler skin and redder hair.

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"Hey bitch!" 

I turned to look at Kankuro coming up the stairs towards us. 

"Don't call Akina chan a bitch you bastard!"

Kakashi raised his eyebrow to look at me. 

"What is it Kankuro? Information gathering?" I asked.

He blanched. "Uh no.. I wanted to be friends..?"

Sasuke snorted. "A likely story."

He frowned. "Its for your safety that I am telling you this but forfeit straight away if you fight my brother. Gaara is dangerous. The bitch is the only one left who has to fight along with that green kid. And some random shinobi."

"Gaara dangerous? Pfft he's a cuddly bear. I could hug him all day and squish his cheeks! He's such a cute panda!" I squealed a little fangirling about Gaara.

"What?!" Kankuro said appalled. 

Sakura waved him off. "She has weird tastes in boys. Ignore her."

"Now we have Gaara no Subaku versus Rock Lee."

"All right, go LEE!" 

"Yosh!"

Lee took his stance. He grabbed the cork which was about to hit his face.

"Please do not be in such a hurry." Gaara glowered at him.

"Start!" Hayate said as he jumped away from the battle. I concentrated, looking at the match.

Lee ran towards Gaara quickly and attempted Leaf Hurricane but was blocked by the sand. The sand formed above Lee making him jump back and avoid the sand. He stood back and observed the sand.

"Not that disaster again.." Shino whispered.

Lee ran towards Gaara trying kick and punch him, attempting to get one hit in. The sand deflected his every hit and crept behind him. Lee narrowed his eyes and took out a kunai spinning it as he cut through the waves of sand. He rolled over to dodge it and jumped in the air as he sent kunai and shuriken flying in his opponent's direction. 

The sand defense is much more amazing in real life.. 

The crowd tittered nervously wondering how Lee would beat Gaara.

"Is that it? Entertain me a bit more. Blood." 

The sand rushed towards Lee and grabbed him by his leg, flinging him towards the wall. I winced as Lee's body hit it with a thud. He got up and dodged the sand coming towards him as he attempted to punch his face again and again. Lee dodged the attacks by back flipping but tripped on the sand. His eyes widened as a wave of sand covered where he previously was. He was now standing on the statue of the jutsu hand sign.

"Lee take them off! I give you permission!" Gai sent him a shiny smile.

Lee chuckled as he sat down and removed his weights dropping them on the ground. It caused a large explosion wiping the smirk from Temari's face. Sasuke's eyes slightly widened and he activated his sharingan.

"Its going to become fast Akina. You sure your eyes can keep up with the speed?" He smirked. I snorted.

"You Uchihas and your pride of the sharingan."

"Go Lee!" 

"Yosh!" Lee jumped and my eyes widened as he disappeared and appeared behind Gaara.

"What speed!" I exclaimed. Lee is in another league of his own. Next to me Sasuke hned.

Lee attacked Gaara from all sides, his sand defense barely able to protect him on time. Gaara couldn't track him with his eyes. Neither could I for that matter. This time Lee broke through the defense and almost hit Gaara.

"You can do it Lee san!" Sakura cheered.

His speed became faster and a blur was seen just before he'd attack. He was fast. 

I can't even imagine how powerful he'd be when he grows up.

"Neither can I Yume." Sasuke shot me a weird glance and he continued observing the match.

Suddenly Gaara's head went down and I realized he got kicked. The Suna team looked shocked as seeing Gaara hurt.

"Youth is explosion!" Gai screamed.

I slightly smirked. "Art is an explosion un. Remember that Sasuke."

"What are you talking about?"

"A blonde terrorist from Iwa.." who you might fight.

"How do you know him?" 

I shrugged. "Connections."

The fight continued and I heard Kankuro mutter an oh no. I turned to look at Gaara and gulped. He was angry and his blood thirst was evident. He slowly got covered by a sand armor.

"Is that all?"

"Not yet!" Lee kicked Gaara up and bandages were wrapped around his body. Gaara was grabbed from behind and he whirled them face downwards towards the ground.

"This is bad." I said. "Its almost time."

"Time?" Sasuke asked.

"Primary Lotus!!" They dashed into the ground breaking it. Lee came out panting.

"I got him good!" Lee cheered.

"Be careful Lee! You didn't get him!" I shouted extremely worried. He and the others shot me a confused glance.

Gaara's body started to disintegrate into sand and Lee had a dumbfounded look on his face. 

"Nani?! Its the empty shell of sand!"

Gai gasped. "That's not possible."

"When you started praying.. Lee winced and Gaara took his chance." Kakashi said. 

Lee turned around to see Gaara and I shivered as sand surrounded him. 

Talk about creepy.

Gaara had a crazy smile on his face and Kankuro and Temari had troubled faces. The sand spun in all directions and shot towards Lee causing him to fall. Lee tried to get up and failed. His legs were shaking. Gaara's sand attacked him once more and he couldn't dodge it.

My grip on the railing tightened. The sand attacked him again and he barely dodged it. Gaara smirked. The sand attacked him once more as he screamed in pain.

I whimpered not able to stand the site of Lee getting hurt. Sasuke held my shoulder.

The bruised boy got up and held out his hands in a cross to protect himself as he panted.

"Stop it Lee! If you fight anymore you'll die." Sakura shouted.

"The Leaf's Lotus blossoms twice!" He dodged the attacks by Gaara's sand and smiled.

After a few minutes into the match Lee opened his Gates. However, he failed. Gaara's sand sped up to crush him.

Now's the time!

"Gaara stop it!"

The sand shot towards Lee and wrapped around his leg. 

"Blood!" 

I stood panting as I stabbed my hand with my kunai harshly. Blood was dripping down my hand and onto the ground. Gaara paused and stopped to stare at me.

"Gaara... stop please. Don't hurt him." The sand slowly receded and Lee finally fainted from exhaustion.

"The winner of this match is Gaara of the Sand!" Hayate announced. Gai was already there hoisting Lee up in his arms. Gai shot me a somber look. 

"Thank you for stopping it before it became worse.. or too late." He rushed towards the medics coming from the door. I felt Kakashi stand beside me.

"Done." said Sasuke. He wrapped up my arm without me realizing it.

"Thanks. If I hadn't intervened Lee wouldn't have been able to practice taijutsu for a long time. I had to intervene somehow without disrupting the flow and I wasn't even sure if my idea would've worked."

"Hmm my question is why does.. he listen to you?" Kakashi sensei asked.

"The next match between Senju Akina and Akado Reo will be slightly delayed in order to patch up the ground for the next match." Hayate announced as he and some ninjas got ready to rebuild it.

I shrugged. "I am not sure. Yume any ideas on who he is?"

Nope. He's an unknown character. But he is Akado Yoroi's brother.

"How would I know who is Akado Yoroi?"

"He was my opponent. Maybe you could've paid attention." Sasuke said.

"I already knew you'd win. Besides I need to know the names of the winners, not the losers."

You are way too overconfident.

Sasuke smirked. "I agree with you on that." 

Kakashi shook his head. "Maa maa my kawai genin are too overconfident."

I smirked. "Oh please bakashi sensei you were just like that when you were our age." 

I felt a dangerous aura behind me and I gulped. I am dead.

Sakura's POV

I giggled as I saw Kakashi sensei glower at Akina as she hid behind a smirking Sasuke. 

"Won't you stand with your own team mates?" Kurenai sensei asked me. I shrugged.

"I feel.. weak compared to them."

"What do you mean?"

"Naruto has unending stamina, Sasuke kun has his sharingan and Akina has her mokuton. It feels like I can never catch up to their level. Kakashi sensei won't understand. Naruto will ask me out on a date. Sasuke kun won't care and Akina is so amazing and pretty and she's the one I most feel inferior too."

Kurenai sensei paused and I glanced at my team. Naruto had now joined them and was rambling something about protecting Akina chan's innocence and keeping her away from creepy old uncles. Kakashi sensei was blushing madly and denying everything as the other Jonin sensei shot Kakashi sensei suspicious looks. Sasuke was glaring at Naruto who was now carrying Akina bridal style.

"It doesn't help the fact that the boy I like likes someone else."

"Hey stop reducing your self esteem kid. You are amazing, strong and as smart as Akina. She has a kekkei genkai. So what? I know for a fact that you are the only civilian who became sorted into a team in the first place. You are the civilian who will become an amazing medic nin and is taking an equal stand against a clan heiress and fared well. You are beautiful. Don't give up because that is not the ninja way. We girls feel inferior to boys because they have a more developed chakra system in the first place. Akina is.." Kurenai trailed off as she saw Akina reading Icha Icha quietly in the corner a perverted look on her face.

".. she just passes as a girl. I doubt she's taken kunoichi classes in the first place." I giggled feeling myself get motivated further.

"Its time for the last match. Participants please get ready." Hayate said as he coughed. I frowned.

"His hay fever will become worse if he doesn't take medicine." 

"Hay fever?"

"Oh I meant allergies."

"How do you know what he has?"

"I am just guessing. Ja ne." Kurenai sensei became silent and I walked towards my team.

"Let the match begin!" Hayate called out before jumping back.

Neither of the participants moved. They stood still, kunais drawn as they assessed each other. The boy, Akado Reo wasn't bulky but he had chains and various weapons all over his body. 

"I think he is a weapons specialist like that girl on Lee san's team." I said. Naruto nodded.

A full minute passed and Hayate coughed breaking the silence. 

"Senju san.. Surrender or die." Akina raised her eyebrows.

"I choose option C."

"There is no option C."

Akina slightly faltered and her eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Gaining a passive face she smirked but looked slightly worried and confused.

"I make my own options." She took out her black sword and ran towards him with it, its shiny metal blinding his eyes. He took a step back and Akina attacked him with her sword. He brandished his own sword and they clashed. Reo started putting chakra into his sword and it overpowered hers as she went jumping back and attacked again with her sword.

"Why isn't she using her mokuton dattebayo?" Naruto asked confused. Even Sasuke kun seemed to be frowning.

"I am not sure. In such matches it would be best to end it quickly without showcasing much of your talents. She's either too confident or she's avoiding ninjutsu." Kakashi sensei said.

"No. Akina acts overconfident before the match but she takes them seriously. Something is wrong." Sasuke said. He activated his sharingan.

"Her chakra system seems normal but slightly diminished."

"If he and Akado Yoroi are brothers then he might be draining her chakra slowly but not enough for her to notice." I said.

"Maybe." Sasuke kun said pausing.

Akina was panting now. Her attacks weren't working at all. She put her sword back inside. Her head suddenly shot up as her eyes widened in realization. 

"Y-you bastard." Akina snarled as she tried to do hand signs. She let out a yelp and clutched her stomach. Reo grinned at her. 

"This is payback. For your team mate defeating my brother." Akina muttered something towards him and fell on the ground. Reo walked towards her as he unwrapped his chains. 

"He must've cheated!" I said frantically as I shook sensei. 

"That's what I think so. It makes sense but unless she can provide proof to the Proctor she has to fight."

"So why doesn't she tell the Proctor?!" Naruto asked, his face furious.

"Does it look like she's in a condition to speak dobe?!" Sasuke kun snapped. We looked at her. She was clutching her stomach as she tried to stand up, her face furrowed in pain. She lifted her shirt up and I saw some black seals on them. Akina cursed and she shunshined somewhere else. Grabbing a scroll and paintbrush she began to draw something on it. 

"She's making a seal to try and neutralize the one on her stomach!" Naruto suddenly shouted. 

At our confused faces he spoke up. "Um Akina chan has been teaching me fuinjutsu since she joined the Academy since its in my heritage. Whatever that means." 

"Your heritage?" Sasuke kun asked.

Naruto shrugged. "I am an Uzumaki." 

"Hmm. She didn't tell you anything else?" Kakashi sensei asked. 

"Nop- AKINA CHAN LOOK OUT!" 

Akina looked up too late as chains shot towards her and wrapped around her ankles and wrists. She was now suspended in the air as she struggled against them. 

"The chains are taking her chakra away." Sasuke kun said. 

"And her stamina. She is losing." Kakashi sensei said quietly.

"No. She can't lose. She's the strongest in our team dattebayo!" 

Akina's eyes closed shut as she muttered something under her breath. Sasuke kun took a step forward his eyes widening.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Hinata. Activate your byakugan." Sasuke kun snapped at her. Hinata looked at him slightly shocked before complying and she gasped out loud.

"Her chakra-!"

"is coming back." Sasuke finished.

"What do you mean?" I asked. Reo was almost bored, not noticing the discussion around him. 

Akina's eyes shot open and I saw her eyes flash purple once before it disappeared. She stared down at Reo, her lips curling into a sadistic smile and I shivered.

"Shit." Naruto took a step back and Kakashi sensei gasped along with the Sandaime.

Reo laughed. "Looks like you are a powerhouse Akina san. It'll be more interesting to slowly destroy you!" 

"Destroy me?" Akina's voice was soft, silky yet had a malicious threat lurking underneath her words.

"Yep. Everyone will hear you scream and my.. sensei will finally acknowledge me."

"Sensei? Oh.. You mean.. I get it. Why don't you remove the chains and let me down? We can have a nice chat. Also your seal was quite weak. At a burst of my chakra, it overpowered your seal."

Reo became angry. "Weak?! Those seals are my signature move."

Akina tilted her head and giggled. "Even my Naru chan can remove those seals. Anyways its your death."

Reo finally took a step back realizing something was wrong.

"He is going to die." Sasuke kun said.

"Die?!" I asked alarmed. 

Please don't kill anyone Akina. It'll be horrible!

With a burst of chakra Akina broke the chains and landed on the ground as she cracked her knuckles and neck. She stretched and I could hear her bones cracking. I winced. 

"Ah that is much better. Now since you aren't required for the plot-"

The plot?

"-you are unimportant and can therefore die." Akina ran forward after brandishing her sword and passed him. She put her sword back inside. The Sandaime narrowed his eyes.

"Akina chan, you missed dattebayo!" 

Akina looked at the proctor. "Its over." Hayate looked confused until Reo's head fell off and his body slumped to the ground. My grip on the railing tightened. 

"Oh um Akina Senju is the winner for this match and she proceeds to the final round."

Kurenai sensei raced towards her. Akina fell down and coughed out blood. Kurenai sensei caught her and rushed out.

"Where is she going with my student?" Kakashi sensei made to move after her but he suddenly stopped. Asuma sensei had also begun to move but stopped as well. Turning around I saw the Sandaime have a grave look as he held out his hand in order to stop them.  

"Stop. Hayate please continue."

Hayate coughed as he saw the medics clean up the remains of Reo's body. His brother was in the hospital, already admitted.

"There's something wrong with her for sure." Ino said. 

"Now then. All the participants who have won, please make your way down." Hayate said as he stepped back and let the Hokage speak.

As Sasuke kun and Naruto went down Ino and Hinata came to stand by me.

"It was a good match. We tried our best." Hinata said, slightly dejected.

"Yeah. Honestly it was an achievement getting to the pre lims of the third stage. I am happy." Ino said.I remained silent.

"The final round is where all of you will show off your battle skills in front of everyone. I want you to satisfactorily show off your ability as representatives of your lands. The final round will commence one month from now so that you have enough time to train. It is time for you to analyze your enemies moves and plan against them in order to have higher rates of success." Sandaime said.

That's quite good. That means Akina will have time to rest. Naruto and Sasuke kun will improve with sensei's help and Konoha will have more security measures, especially after that breach.

"Now you all will choose pieces of paper with numbers and the shinobi with the adjacent number will be your enemy."

Uzumaki Naruto vs Hyuga Neji

Gaara vs Uchiha Sasuke

Kankuro vs Aburame Shino

Temari vs Nara Shikamaru

"What about Akina chan dattebayo?!"

The Hokage sighed. "Well we do have an odd number of genin this year so Akina will be going against the winners of the first two matches."

"Excuse me Hokage sama, what do you mean?" I spoke up.

"That means that the winners of the first and second match and Akina will be battling each other at the same time. This is to test wether you can handle two enemies attacking you at once. They can also form teams of two to go against a common enemy but then, they'll have to fight each other until the remaining shinobi gives up."

I looked at the board again.

Neji and Naruto... Sasuke and Gaara.. If my team mates win it's going to turn into a full out war between them.

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Jiraiya didn't know what to do.

When he arrived in Konoha he had had a bad feeling. Of course, for the sake of his research he ignored his gut feeling.

He should've followed his gut feeling.

As soon as he entered Konoha, he made way to the hot springs to do his 'research'. Everything was peaceful until a stupid Jonin wearing Aburame specs and a cloth tied on his head decided to attack him. Then came the blonde brat.

He furrowed his eyebrows wondering where he'd seen the brat before and then he realized that it was his godson with Kushina's personality and Minato's hair.

After Naruto's skills had impressed him, he decided to train him for the Chunin Exams after seeing his Sexy Jutsu of course.

Now he couldn't concentrate on his research. Feeling a little guilty for leaving his godson alone he decided to take care of him even if it were temporarily.

The next thing you know, he met Tsunade's cousin who was surprisingly as old as Naruto. She was training with Tenzou when the duo stumbled upon them. Her chest was as flat as Tsunade's when she was younger which led the Toad Sannin to believe that she'd have a rack like Tsunade's.

"Ero sennin I want you to meet my team mate and best friend. Oy Akina chan!"

Jiraiya saw a girl with reddish brown hair perk up at his call and she turned around.

"Hey Naru- oh Kami.. Is that..?"

She turned around hurriedly when she felt a man with wood release attack her.

"Y-Yamato senpai please stop for a min- FUCK YOU CAN'T YOU HEAR ME?!"

The man named Yamato gave her a glare and increased his pace. Jiraiya chuckled. He did the same to Minato whenever he'd get distracted by Kushina.

Naruto scratched his head.

"Maybe some other time."

"Naruto wait I am free after 10 mi- AGHH YAMATO SENPAI STOP!"

The girl made mokuton bunshins of herself and made them fight Yamato, discreetly putting seals on his jacket.

"Stop being hasty Akina. You'll never be able to defeat me if you do so."

Akina smirked and the seals burst.

"It's over." Yamato said as he pointed a kunai at Akina after he materialized in front of her.

"Yare yare. Yamato san you fail."

Akina came out of the ground behind him and threw a kunai at him. It hit his ass.

Naruto howled with laughter and Jiraiya couldn't help but laugh as well. Akina giggled.

Yamato chuckled. "After months of training you finally hit me there."

"Weeks." Akina said as she corrected him. She gave him a bow.

"Arigatou Yamato Senpai. My mokuton training is complete."

Yamato ruffled her hair and smiled. "Whenever you need me, give me a chakra flare. I'll come if I am not on a mission." He shunshined away.

Naruto gasped. "Sugoi Akina chan!"

She ruffled his blonde hair. "So what have you been up to Naruto?"

"Akina chan meet my sensei, Ero sennin."

Akina came on her knees.

"Jiraiya sama! Please tech me how to do a summoning jutsu!!"

"Oy Akina. Can we talk?"

Akina got up and turned around her to see Sasuke with a light blush on his face but he was scowling. Kakashi stood behind him as he rubbed his neck and Naruto had an inkling that he was smirking.

"Maa Sasuke couldn't concentrate on his training without making things right with you."

Jiraiya pulled out a notebook and laughed.

"Naruto this is exactly the story I needed for my next book. You have great teammates. Young prepubescent love is the best story."

Hey guys!

So whatever are you all up to? I apologize for updating after such a long time. I'm on vacation rn.

I had to rewatch a few Naruto episodes to remember what happened so that took up some time.

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