The Battle to Become a Chunin

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Hello! How are you doing? LISTEN TO THE AMV IT IS AMAZING

The Tigers above (yes I know that Ao is a wolf but he is a tiger in mah story!) Are Ai and Ao (one behind the wolf is Ai and the one in front of Ai is Ao) (kind of confusing but eh)

Well, here is another chapter! Hope you all enjoy! It's a lot different than the show, but I notice that most fan fictions follow the stoy line closely during this part (not a bad thing) but I wanted to spice it up! (And I've been writing some random stories in my free time, so I might post another book some time soon, and I will most likely end this book in December of January. But not to worry! It will have a sequel!)

Peace

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3rd Person POV

The crowd exploded in cheers as they saw the underdog, Naruto Uzumaki, win against a Hyuga.

With his will, determination, and strategy, Naruto Uzumaki was able to win. Skipping around in circles and waving to all of his 'adoring fans' Naruto couldn't feel anything but proud of himself.

He was smiling a happy genuine smile, but something was weighing him down.

His friend, Kaji.

He didn't know why she was so mean to his friend, and why she said all those hurtful things to Kabuto. She made him cry, and if you looked through his point of view, that was a sin. A bad one, at that.

The proctor made the underdog walk back up to the steps, and ordered medic ninja to take the Hyuga away, who was staring off into space, a defeated look on his scratched up face.

The proctor coughed to adjust his voice, before yelling out two more names. "Moriko Natsuki and Kaji Tora, come down to the field!"

The man, Moriko, came down in a matter of seconds. The crowd remained silent as no sign of Kaji was shown, the Hokage and many contestants sighing in disappointment.

Not that long after, and right before the proctor was about to disqualify her, a huge puff of smoke covered the center of the field.

There she was, one of the most anticipated fights was about to begin. Most people only came for Sasuke and Kaji, and they didn't want to come all the way to the Leaf just to not see the battle.

They would get the show of their lives.

The smoke clears, and Kaji was there. With her hands crossed over her now bandaged chest, her eyes were trained on Moriko, who looked slightly scared. Not one piece of skin was shown, save for the part of her face that wasn't covered by her mask, and the crowd started to cheer even louder than when Naruto won.

Naruto looked down at his teammate with a sad look on his face.

Everyone could feel it.

She was much stronger than before. Wherever she went, the other contestants wanted to go there.

A ghost of a smirk was on her face as she walked towards the proctor, a few feet away from her opponent.

"Kaji Tora VS Moriko Natsuki, BEGIN!" He yells, before poofing a ways away.

Kaji doesn't bother moving, her opponent jumping back a few feet and chucking a barrage of kunai and shuriken her way.

She gracefully jumped up, easily dodging all of them. He smirks, as if that was his plan.

He shoots towards Kaji, who is still in the air, and manages to get above her.

She widens her eyes as he lifts his foot up to strike her back, but she surprises everyone.

She flips around and smirks, grabbing his leg and dislocating his ankle, making him call out in pain. She throws him to the ground, and he tries to land on his good foot, but hisses in pain as he slightly lands on his injured foot.

The crowd watches as Moriko twists his foot back in place, crying out in pain as the crack is heard.

All of their eyes turn back to Kaji, who is holding her arm in the air. Her palm widens and a scythe poofs into her palm, making her close her hand around it. The crowd looks at the shiny, and obviously well kept, scythe in amazement, watching her as she moves into an offensive position. She holds the scythe slightly above and behind her, the three blades glimmering in the sunlight.

She sprints towards him, swinging the blades at his chest. He jumps to the side, jumping up and aiming a kick for her side. He hits his mark, but she doesn't go shooting back as he expected. She stays right in her place and doesn't look his way as she swings the scythe behind her, managing to nick her opponent in the knee. He back flips a few times, managing to create some distance between him and her, and proceeds to do rapid hand signs.

She smirks and does different hand signs just as fast, and they bother gather substances in their mouths.

"Great water wall!" Moriko yells, spitting out a huge wall of water. It races towards Kaji, who smirks through her mask.

"Great fire annihilation." She says, puling down her mask quickly and spitting out a bigger wall of fire, aiming for Moriko's wall of the opposite element. She quickly pulls her mask back up, making sure no one saw her face, and watches as both of their big attacks clash.

A huge puff of steam rises from the collision area, and the crowd watches in amazement and slight fear as the contestant's jutsu's cancel each other out. The steam creates a barrier between the crowd and the opponents, the crowd blind to their attacks and the opponents blinded towards the enemy attacks.

Just as Zetsu taught her, she concealed her chakra as well as she could. Sneaking through the steam, not caring as her bandages get wet, she prepares another attack.

Moriko slightly panics as all of his opponent's chakra is gone in an instant, and he gets into a defensive position, trying to steady his breathing. He suddenly feels her chakra make an appearance all around him, and he slightly panics as he is rendered immobile.

The steam starts to clear, and all the crowd can hear is Kaji laughing. They finally realize the reason, as Kaji makes Moriko dance like an idiot. He has tears of embarrassment streaming down his face and his skin is as red as a tomato. The crowd starts to laugh with her, and he tries to lower his head, but her chakra strings don't allow it. She makes him smile, but his eyes show the opposite to the crowd. The higher ups start to calm down, and Kaji takes this opportunity to take the chakra strings off. Her scythe poofed away while the steam was heavy, and she smirks towards her embarrassed enemy.

She holds her bandages arm up again, and the crowd watches in amazement as a katana poofs into her opened palm. It was a long, slim, shiny black katana, and she unsheathed it. The sheath poofs back, to wherever she keeps them, and the matte black blade is in an offensive position just like its holder.

Moriko looks back up at Kaji, pure hate in his brown orbs. The tears of embarrassment are still stained on his pink cheeks, and she snorts at him, only fueling his rage. He shoots towards her with a speed the crowd didn't know was in him. He aims a punch for her face, but she jumps up just in time, and lands right on his outstretched arm. She lifts on her her legs up and jumps up a small bit, spinning around and kicking him in the face, making him shoot back like a rocket.

He makes a dent in the wall, and you can hear the crowd cheer as blood pours out of his mouth. Her eyes light up as she sees drops of blood falling out of Moriko's mouth, watching as he shakily gets up. He does a hand sign, and she can tell that he has channeled chakra everywhere in his body to rapidly heal it.

She narrows her eyes at Moriko, who starts to get healed, looking brand new.

He smirks towards her, grabbing a kunai and throwing it at her. She catches it between two of her fingers, right before it touched her cheek. He smirks at her, waiting for something.

She grunts as she quickly realizes the paper bomb attached to the kunai, throwing it back at Moriko. The explosion was a puny one, making her smirk. She grabs a kunai and coats it with something, throwing it at her opponent through the retreating smoke.

He notices this and catches it, stuffing it in his pouch. He doesn't realize his mistake until it was too late, and a huge explosion sounds throughout the arena.

Kaji waits, pouting as she unsummons her katana, sad that she didn't use it yet.

A minute later. The smoke has cleared and Moriko is shakily getting up, a chunk of his torso gone. Kaji smirks through her mask as she watches the relentless tears fall down his scratched up face, and keeps an eye on the healing flesh.

She takes his moment of weakness and shoots towards him, no weapons in her hands. Her eyes start to glow for a moment, and he freezes.

A shrill and girly scream resonated throughout the arena, the crowd watching with interest as Moriko started to spasm on the ground. Tears stain the ground where his face is, and the Hokage looks at Kaji's back, slightly saddened at his bloodthirsty ninja.

The proctor looks up at the Hokage, silently asking him if he should end this match. The Hokage notices his gaze and shakes his head no, he can't end this match or else everyone will leave. They are all so caught up in the blood and destruction that Kaji is causing, that if he stopped it, everybody would just leave. He couldn't have that, though he felt deeply sorry for the poor boy subject to Kaji's wrath.

Kaji releases her Genjutsu, slightly panting, but still keeping a watchful eye on her opponent.

That's when she felt it.

Orochimaru's chakra.

Her eyes immediately stray away from her opponent who is shakily getting up, and instead focuses her sensory abilities.

The rage builds up inside of her, and black chakra suddenly coats her.

"Orochimaru!" Kaji yells out, clenching her fists at her sides, and a sudden gust of wind blowing her hair above her face.

'She looks just like a demon.' The contestants think, watching as she frantically looks around the viewing section, trying to sense where he is.

But she knew that unless he wasn't covering up his chakra, she'd never be able to find him in this sea of heartbeats.

Moriko takes this opportunity to finish healing and shoots towards her at top speed when her back was turned.

Right when his kunai was about to pierce through her head, she spun around and held him tightly by the throat, making him dangle above her. He was clawing at her chakra-covered hand, and she threw him to the opposite end of the field. He bounced and rolled across the field, and Kaji sprinted to land right behind him, too fast for the human eye to see.

All the crowd saw was Moriko stopping, and a black chakra covered leg smashing his head open, a sea of blood crashing onto her clothes and bits of brain and bones scattered around the field.

'She was just playing with him, she could've killed him at any time.' Gaara thought, watching as the girl who preached about friendship was mutilating a body on the field below him.

She kicks the body aside, sniffing the air and concentrating on his chakra, which was slowly dissipating.

A bundle of leaves appear in the middle of the field, and Sasuke and Kakashi make their grand entrance.

The crowd starts to cheer and Kaji turns around, seeing Sasuke and her sensei.

A huge boom sounds through the arena, and the attack on the Leaf Village begins.