Akumi POV______________

After having to wait for Naruto to get released from the hospital I was dead set on killing a white haired pervert and it wasn't Kakashi.

I had been training to the point I had to stay in the training grounds for a few hours to rest after collapsing from exhaustion.

I had also made a point to lifting weights, not to brag but I could see the perfect out line of my muscles.

I was currently walking home from the market. The red light district was as rowdy as ever. Foreign nin and our nin mingling in the bars and so were the people who had come to see the final round of the exam.

From what I heard, outsiders were being charged a hefty price to watch the final round and there was also limited seating.

"Look at that cute little thing. Damn I heard red heads were freaks." I twitched at a person's comment.

"Damn the leaf has such exotic varieties of women it's like they have all kinds of beauties locked up in the village. Makes me want to find a concubine from here and make her mine." I rolled my eyes as I was trying to get home.

I was annoyed at the amount of attention I was getting today. But then again with my bright hair color and people moving away from me like I had the plague I was the center of attention.

"Red hair?! That's akuma! Where is that little good for nothing theif?!" I felt a familiar presence coming from behind me.

I ducked down easily avoiding a roundhouse kick. I was quick turn and see my opponent.

I clicked my tongue as chikore, the alcoholic chunin I always ended up fighting was red faced and angrily attacking me.

I could hear the crowd began to gather around the fight as I dodged his attacks and held onto my groceries.

I couldn't help but feel annoyed, first some perverts make some comments about my body and how they wanted to make me their whore. Then chikore wants to fight me.

I swiftly deliver a kick on his temple making him stumble back. Using his loss of footing as leverage I sped forward using my knee to hit him in the middle of his lower ribcage knocking the air out of him.

My hands were swift and I swooped his wallet. I pulled out the wad of cash and shoved it in my bra.

"Get lost chikore." I snap as I landed on my feet.

"Hey she's stealing from him." I head some justice warrior say and I rolled my eyes as a ninja tried to grab me from behind and I easily slipped away from him.

"What the fuck do you want." I grumble in annoyance.

"You're a theif you have to be stopped." He exclaimed. Some people were muttering and wondering if he was insane trying to challenge the Demon spawn, child murder or the Second coming of the demon hidden in the mist.

"Stay out of business that isn't yours everyone in this district knows that." I say in annoyance

He looked taken back. "Get the hell out of my way I have shit to do. " I roll my eyes walking past him bumping into him harshly.

He stumbled back and I could feel his eyes watching me as I stormed off.

I wanted to cackle and laugh. Idiot, I know Naruto disagrees with stealing a bit of cash and pick pocketing but that doesn't mean I'm against it.

I glanced back and smirked. Sucker! I was holding his wallet filled with cash, only an idiot let's himself get pick pocketed.

I strolled home happily I definitely had enough to keep my cute brother well fed.
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I got home and put the groceries in the fridge and began cleaning the house. Naruto still wasn't home and I was planning on going to the hospital to see if he had awakened.

I sighed, tomorrow was the chunin exams and I wondered who I would fight. I set the wallet down and pulled out the wad of cash.

I began counting the money a smile spreading across my face as I counted my hefty loot.

I threw away the wallet and put the money in our piggy bank. if Naruto doesn't know I stole it the. I didn't have to worry about it.

I heard the door open and saw Naruto walking in. "I'm home!"

"You were released from the hospital?" I asked and he nodded.

"yeah, they said I could go. I was also going to go training but Shikamaru said it would be best to rest my body to be at full strength tomorrow." he pointed out and I nodded.

"anyway, so what's for dinner?"

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I was packing all my ninja tools and took in a deep breath.

I picked up the list and scanned over the battles.
round 1
1:Neji vs Naruto
2:Sakura vs Shikamaru
3:Shino vs Kankuro
4:Temari vs Akumi
5: Sasuke vs Garra
6: match 2 winner vs dosu

who ever won the matches made it to the next match, the semi final matches the of the first match of that round gets a chance to redeem themselves with another match and then in the final match only winners proceed to fight.

I cracked my knuckles and headed out to the stadium. Naruto had already left saying he was going to do something before the match.

I arrived and noticed that everyone was there except for my brother and Sasuke.

I waited impatiently as I looked around. I notice an orange blob arrive and I let out a sigh of relief, but where was Sasuke at.

Sakura walked up beside me. she wore A mesh shirt and a sleeveless red shirt on top of it, she wore black spandex shorts, she had bandages on her hands and some black gloves over them she also had all of her ninja equipment.

Another thing I realized was the toned muscles that had developed even more since the last time I saw her.

"Where the hell is Sasuke?" She grumbled out her brow twitching a bit in annoyance.

"I don't know." I say crossing my arms and looking around.

I notice the Hokage stand up and begin the opening speech.

"Naruto-nii, good luck." I said turning to him and he gave me a big smile.

"Don't worry about me, neh." he smiled and I nodded.

We all sent to the waiting area as Naruto and Neji got into fighting position.

I was nervous to see how the fight played out.

Alike me, neji was considered a prodigy his skill and intelligence being far beyond his years.

I was also going to observe his movements for reference in case Neji proceeded to the next round and had to fight me.

I was also going to observe Naruto's own skill and determine how much he had improved.

Genma started the match and they both stared each other down for a second. Neji was quick to underestimate Naruto and mock him in a derogatory fashion to pressure him into quitting.

I snickered Neji was never one to acknowledge someone easily. He too had mocked me and I ended up saving his ass in one of our missions together.

Naruto didn't use our kekkei genkai right away. He placed what seemed like a distortion seal on himself to abstract the chakra points and keep Neji from using his full potential.

They both clashed, Naruto was dodging at a fast pace as neji struck in graceful precise strikes.

He would miss a few times and manage to land a hit occasionally.

The battle dragged on. Naruto was slowing down due to the junken strikes to his chakra points all he had to do was use our ability to hold him down and force his surrender.

But it seems Naruto wasn't displaying his kekkei genkai but his taijutsu ability.

Was he hiding his kekkei genkai for the last matches? It seemed logical not to use up all your aces.

Naruto's chakra points were all sealed up and he fell back with a thud. He took deep breaths, neji was smirking and probably mocking him but at our distance it was hard to hear over the roaring crowd.

The ground behind neji burst and Naruto kicked neji in the middle of his spine. He used his heavenly chakra chains to grab him and hold him down the other Naruto burst a seal with a small pool around it was left, a blood clone .

He placed a kunai to the back of Neji's neck and had neji completely trapped.

"surrender!" Naruto yelled breathlessly as he held neji down.

Neji struggled but even with the chakra he flared he couldn't escape.

The Procter waited and waited until Neji was being nearly squeezed to death and caved in. "I forfeit!" He gasped out.

Naruto let go and was smiling widely as he waved at the crowd. he glanced at me and gave me a thumbs up before being proclaimed the winner and sent back to the waiting area.

I quickly hugged Naruto as he entered the waiting area.

"So a blood clone huh?" I smirked and he gave me a cheesy grin.

"Jiraya taught me alot of cool tricks." he replied and I chuckled.

"Seems like I'm going to need to be careful when we face off." I grin back and his eyes widen in surprise and a soft smile spread across his face.

I know I always treated him like delicate glass and never really acknowledging his strength but now I realize he is a force to be reckoned with.

The next contestants were called.

Sakura and Shikamaru quickly went down to the arena.

Naruto cheered loudly for our teammate.

Sakura grinned as she lightly stretched. I had been taken back that Gai trained her, he was a close combat nin and her close combat skills were lacking.

If she became a close range fighter our team would be a front battlefield squad with all close range fighters and two medics. If we learned more of Kakashi-sensei trade we could also become an assassination squad or if we used our kekkei genkai' s right an infiltration squad or even a sabotage squad . The possibilities were vary at this point.

Genma began the match and Sakura threw kunai with explosive tags at Shikamaru before retreating. Fighting Shikamaru in close range with his abilities was a risky and fatal move.

Sakura took a look at her surroundings. I'm guessing the whole long range studies she had were finally paying off.

She would engage him lightly and leave traps as she went. They were too obvious but Shikamaru seemed to get annoyed having to keep up with them and keep track if they connected.

For brief moments Sakura engaged him in taijutsu. Shikamaru was slightly pushed back by her raw strength. Sakura had a mean left hook and hook kick and it was obvious.

The battle was more of a strategy one. It was a drawn out battle to see who would fall in who's trap. Shikamaru was also sparingly using his jutsu, since this was a drawn out battle it was pointless to waste his chakra.

Shikamaru was also starting to leave traps of his own, it was like a game of shogi but in real life.

The civilians were rowdy but didn't seem to see the strategic play as they were cheering and screaming that they wanted to see a fight. Neither one of them budged and continued their game of cat and mouse.

That was until the traps were set off. Both had the other where they wanted the kunai and explosives went off they were both forced to dodge each trap moving them from one specific place to another and making a trap go off and before they knew it the field became a miniature battlefield.

Both of them were forced to dodge and whoever miscalculated a step would probably be pinned down by kunai, trigger an explosion or be trapped by a jutsu.

The crowd roared as they watch the final bits of the match play out.

Others watched in awe as the battle came to a climax.

The dust settled down and Sakura was breathing heavy unable to move. She stood infront of the hole where Naruto had bursted out.

Shikamaru was gritting his teeth as he held her in a shadow possession jutsu.

The crowd roared having watched their share of battle.

Sakura tried to move without avail.

"You should forfeit." Shikamaru stated and she frowned and closed her eyes.

"I forfeit." she stated she knew when she was beat.

Shikamaru let her go as Genma called the match. Sakura began healing her own injuries as she walked back to the waiting area.

"Why did you quit Sakura?" Naruto asked as he nearly pounced on her.

"I'm low on chakra wouldn't have been able to fight the next match and..." she showed me her light cuts and burns.

"I was injured." she mumbled as she healed herself.

"The judges will probably take your forfeit as a strategic move, and with the display you showed no doubt you'll be promoted." I say and Naruto thinks for a moment and nods.

"it's a display of skill, winning is just for the bragging rights." Sakura nodded and shrugged. she was practicing her medical ninjutsu on herself.

The next contestants were called but Kankuro quickly quit. He said he injured himself in traininng and was unable to fight.

The Procter nodded and my name was called along woth Temari-san

I flashed Sakura and Naruto a smile and jumped into the arena.

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I hope you like the chapter.

I'm planning to finish the chunin exams next chap since I have been dragging out but I wanted to write fight scenes that weren't cannon and used the skills that I have gave them instead of the ones from cannon.

comment on whether Sasuke should leave the village or not.

also the person that commented and told me to update this one is for you btw 😙😙😙
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