(change: Y/n didn't make it at the preliminaries bc she wasn't feeling the best and couldn't fight well)
«So tomorrow?» «Yeah, must be well prepared.» The next day the final would take place and we were ready, I think. We were all recovered from the preliminaries, nothing was going to stop us. «See ya, guys!» Naruto waved at us and left along with Sakura.
“What is going to happen tomorrow?”
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«Did you see Naruto?» I asked Sakura, quite concerned. «I'm sure he'll arrive soon.» «Let's hope so, but he seriously gotta take his responsibilities! The finals are about to start and he's the first one.»
Then, a brilliant idea came to my mind, «Excuse me, sir?» I asked the guy, who was given the task of lighting the fireworks. «Could you please light a firework?» «Sorry, I can't. They told me to do it exactly at the crack of noon.» «Please? Our teammate is late and we urgently need to alert him that it is almost the time.» Once more he refused.
Feeling disappointed, I went back to Sakura, «My plan failed. I also did puppy eyes but it didn't work.» «So what now?» «We wait. He said he'd light a firework at twelve o'clock, still seven minutes.»
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From the gate of the arena, which had now been closed, dozens of Naruto clones entered in mass. “What has he done this time?” I sighed.
After the Hokage's long and boring speech, it was announced the first fight:
Naruto vs Neji
«First round, begin!»
Naruto started by throwing some shurikens at him and attacked from the front, not strategic at all. “He shouldn't do it! Neji is going to attack his chakra point. Damn it.”
I watched as the blond boy kept trying to suffer his opponent from his attacks. «Shadow clone jutsu!». Neji defeated them easily, almost not moving from his place. “Wow.”
I couldn't hear what the two were conversing about, but it was obvious Neji was somehow messing up with Naruto. However he said it didn't affect Naruto, who, instead of listening to his words, did for another time his favourite jutsu. Now Neji was surrounded by hundreds of versions of Naruto.
He soon realised who was the real one, or that was what he was thinking. Naruto tried to punch him, but Neji blocked it. «Tell me, Hinata... How is this technique called?» I questioned, still not believing what I've just seen. «It's the eight Trigrams Palms Rotation, he uses it as defense.»
It was Neji's turn to attack back, «Eight Rotation, sixty-four Palms!» “Hold up- sixty-four!?”. He pressed all Naruto's chakra points, leaving him unconscious. Was it the end for Naruto?
No, not yet. He didn't want to give up, that's his Ninja way. Even though he was hurt in every part of his body, he stood up again, ready to continue the battle. However, once more Neji made him fall on his knees by using the Eight rotation.
Then, Naruto began accumulating more and more chakra until forming a big orange aura around him. The arena was full of dust so we couldn't see well what was happening between them. There were two holes, in one there was Neji and in the other one Naruto.
Later it turned out it was only a clone and he used it as a distraction. Naruto disappeared for a moment and came out of the ground, punching Neji right on his chin.
At the end, Naruto was the winner.
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Following Naruto's great victory, it was Kankuro and Shino's turn. The winner was Shino. Then, Temari vs Shikamaru: this match was sort of confusing, Shikamaru was so close to win but he suddenly gave up, letting the girl achieve the victory.
«Are you nuts!? Why? Tell me why-» I scolded him. «I have my reasons.» «These ‘reasons’ must be so important then.» I said sarcastically. «What a drag, Y/n.» «You decided to lose on purpose, unbelievable. You really don't know that there are people who wished they had a chance to participate at the finals...»
Yes, I was talking about me. I regretted not listening to Sakura the time she suggested to me to rest before taking action while we were in the forest of death. I was just sitting there, watching the others. I have to admit I was amazed by the techniques they used to fight and I was kinda jealous of them. I knew there were more chances to win the chunin exams but still, this year was very important. I wanted so bad to fight against such great rivals.
“If only I hadn't a fever…”
Sasuke vs Gaara
«Begin!»
The atmosphere was so tense. From Gaara's gourd came out lots of sand, but it seemed like he was hurting himself by doing it. He put his hand on his forehead to cover his face but he was clearly suffering. He even started talking about blood, taste and his mother. Such interesting topics, right? Not suspect at all.
«Oh my, he looks like a psychopath right now…» I heard the people behind us commenting. It made me so mad the fact that they called him a ‘psycho’, but I couldn't blame them because I would think the same thing if I didn't know him - yeah, we're not that close but nevermind. On the other hand, I wondered if he was fine, or if it was better to interrupt the battle.
I stood up, «Where are you direct to, Y/n?» Ino questioned. «I'll be right back!» I approached his siblings and asked if Gaara was alright. «Uh? A-about that, he just needs to calm down. Don't worry, he's completely fine.» I wasn't believing in what Temari said, but I didn't insist because it wasn't none of my business anyway.
We turned our heads back to the arena, «The shield of Sand became a replication of sand.» Temari realized, looking confused as hell. «He has never done that before?» «Never.»
Sasuke was doing the same moves as Rock Lee's in the preliminaries and thanks to that he was able to hit Gaara right in his face. My brother was faster than his sand and at the moment he was on the lead. But he was consuming a great quantity of chakra.
Gaara to defend himself used all of his sand to guard. He was protected by a huge ball of sand. «Kakashi-sensei! We have to stop this match! This is different from ours, he lives to kill people!» Naruto yelled from the other part of the grandstands.
“Is he going to kill Sasuke!?” Realization. So Naruto was thinking the same as me, but are we correct about it? about him?
«Stop whatever you're thinking right now, Y/n.» «What do you mean Kankuro?» «Not good at lying, we both know what I'm talking about. Gaara won't kill Sasuke.» I nodded understanding the situation but I needed an answer to my question:“Why am I trusting these guys so much?”
Meanwhile, Gaara formed a third eye with a strange jutsu. Around Sasuke's arms there were lightings: Chidori, Kakashi-sensei's technique.
It made a hole on the sand barrier and slightly hit Gaara, who began screaming «Blood! My blood!»
But then a group of special ninjas, the ANBU, assaulted all of the people present here and emitted a sleeping pill into the air causing everyone to fall asleep, except the three of us, Sasuke, Gaara, Kakashi-sensei, Sakura and some other Shinobi.
The sand shield broke, revealing a bleeding Gaara. The two siblings approached him, «Stop it Gaara!» «I'll kill you!» was his reply. «There's no point in fighting him any longer!» «Get out of my way!»
«What the hell is happening!?» Sasuke asked. «Chaos, this is what is happening. The match had been interrupted and we have to leave. This is what they told me to do. Let's go.» I offered him a hand to get up but he refused it and said he could stand up without my help. Little did I know, the three siblings, one in particular, were observing my actions.
To be continued...
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finally finished the chapters abt the chunin exams
ngl I regret having started the book with the exams 🗿
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