-Chunin Exams Arena-

"Seems like foul play Minato," Ai declared as Kurenai strode out of the arena alongside her unconscious student.

"It was," Minato hummed.

Those seals were a very sensitive and controversial topic amongst the Hyuga clan and the entirety of Konoha's shinobi and civilian council.

On one hand, he disapproved of their use, due to the mistreatment of the branch members. But on the other hand, it was an ancient tradition that was passed down from generation to generation since the start of the clan, to prevent the theft of their eyes.

"We all know she didn't activate the seal, but do we eliminate her from the tournament?" Questioned Rasa to Minato. He, in turn, received a shake of a head from the Hokage.

"I'm sure little Hinata will back out of the exams after winning that way. After all her dream is to one day become strong enough to get rid of that seal," Minato said with a serious voice, waving for Genma to continue the exams.

"The second round will be. Naruko Namikaze vs Kurotsuchi of the Stone!" Genma announced much to the crowd's joy.

"Tch. Get a stretcher ready for your daughter Namikaze. She's going to need it once my granddaughter is finished with her," Onoki said smirking at the two girls who were glaring at one another in the center of the arena.

"Maybe I should be saying the same thing Onoki," Minato said, smirking confidently at the old man. He had never doubted his daughter could accomplish anything she put her mind to and he knew for a fact that she wanted to win the Exam.

So naturally, he had no doubt she would win.

"May the better heir win," was Onoki's response.

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"I'm going to prove to the world that the Stone is more powerful than you Leaf scum. Those two Hyuga's were both weak, especially that girl," Kurotsuchi sneered, not caring about the irate look Genma gave her or the glares and boo's from the crowd.

All that mattered was the glaring blonde in front of her and her grandfather up above. She was going to bring honor back to the Stone by wiping the floor with that murderer's daughter.

'What's this girl's deal? Is she still mad that I said that the Stone genin were weak?' Naruko thought to herself as she glared at the pissed off girl in front of her. She didn't know what was angering her, but she knew it had to do with her.

"Are the two of you ready?" Upon being ignored, Genma sighed and jumped back. 'Damn brats.'

"Begin!"

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With his heavy tired eyes, Haru watched in excitement as Naruko and Kurotsuchi's battle started off with a literal bang.

Sure he was disappointed about the outcome of Hinata's match but was ultimately pleased with Neji's loss regardless of how it was delivered. As long as Hinata did not have to get hurt anymore, he didn't care what happened to the prick.

He wasn't nearly as worried for Naruko though because she was strong and could protect herself, unlike the timid Hyuga.

He widened his eyes, amazed by the giant pool of lava that Kurotsuchi spat towards Naruko who dodged it by jumping atop a tree. He smirked when she and a hail of clones each leaped out of the tree to clobber Kurotsuchi only to be stopped by a dome made up of Earth and the rocks beneath them.

He and everyone looked up seeing another Naruko in the air with a small compressed blue ball of chakra, rocketing right for Kurotsuchi's barrier.

"Rasengan!"

She tore right through the dome sending the stone kunoichi out of the Earth made barrier and chased after her to engage in hand to hand Taijutsu.

"Wow."

Haru looked to his right noticing that both of his friends were watching with focused eyes, especially Satsuki who was studying everything with her Sharingan.

Behind everyone sitting in a corner by himself Shikamaru sighed tiredly at seeing the damage both girls caused in such a short amount of time and then to the fan using kunoichi.

"Troublesome girls."

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'I won't lose! I can't lose!' Kurotsuchi screamed in her head while being pushed back from Naruko's rapid flurry of punches. She grunted in frustration when Naruko created two clones that joined in the fierce taijutsu battle.

Becoming more overwhelmed by the now three blondes, Kurotsuchi backed herself into the arena wall putting distance between her and them. She snarled when the thunderous cheers of the crowd chanted the name of her sworn enemy.

"Come on don't you want to win?" Naruko asked grinning as Kurotsuchi's face became more pissed off.

'Sorry but I've gotta end this fast. I don't want Satsuki getting too much more out of me,' Naruko thought to herself, feeling some pity for the furious girl.

Time to end this.

"The stone is not weak. And you're going to lose Namikaze," Kurotsuchi said spitefully as she went through hand signs.

"Yoton (Lava Style): Intense Flow!"

Naruko and her clones jumped back as an eruption of lava soared out between Kurotsuchi's lips. The lava fireballish technique flew right past Naruko only for another to be shot out.

Naruko dodged Kurotsuchi's volley of attacks almost effortlessly and frowned seeing the desperation on her opponent's face.

'She really wants to win, but I want to fight Satsuki.'

Naruko glanced around when Kurotsuchi stopped attacking and cringed at the scorch marks all around the arena. Once done admiring the destruction Kurotsuchi caused she leveled her gaze back on her mad opponent.

"We can fight some other time so calm down," Naruko said smiling awkwardly while walking towards her. She tilted her head to the left with a sweat drop when all she got, in turn, was a thrown kunai and heated glare.

"I will calm down when you or your murderer of a father lie down defeated beneath my feet!" Kurotsuchi yelled, running to Naruko with another kunai in her hand.

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"Yes! She's got this," Tsunade whispered excitedly.

Jiraiya smiled proudly at his goddaughter as she tackled and restrained Kurotsuchi under her. The match was basically over, now they just had to wait for Naruko to finish talking to her opponent.

He moved his sight over to the Kage box and smirked seeing Minato's happily smiling face and Onoki grumbling to himself.

"Winner Naruko Namikaze!"

The sheer applause for the blonde was thundering. Under normal circumstances, it would've annoyed the toad sage, but Naruko was anything but normal.

Jiraiya didn't know why, but he then turned his attention to the contestant box and frowned seeing Naruko get bombarded by her friends.

Specifically the Jinchuriki.

He furrowed his brow more when the whiskered blonde hugged the boy and he too hugged back with a nose bleed and pervy look. Had he not been clear enough with the brat?

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Onoki was angry…

But he fully expected the blonde to win over his granddaughter. They just didn't have the same amount of time, rations, and shinobi to properly teach the younger generation.

Ever since the end of the third shinobi war and the deaths of a tenth of his shinobi force all of which were jonin, all he and his men have been focused on has been appeasing their Daimyo and extending their power over smaller nations that could possibly rob them of their title as a great ninja village.

It was a complicated lifestyle.

"She's quite a fighter Onoki but holds a lot of rage," Minato said smiling uneasily at the short old man.

Onoki watched as his goddaughter walked over to his son and sat down next to him, neither of the two saying a word. "She inherited it from her mother."

Minato frowned, "Who's her mother?"

"It doesn't matter. She died by your hand years ago."

Minato knew that the conversation was over and somberly looked at his happily laughing daughter to the reserved Kurotsuchi.

"What did Naruko say to her to calm her down?" He wondered as Genma made his way to the middle of the burnt arena.

"Satsuki Uchiha vs Samui of the Cloud!"

Minato looked at A and smirked at the challenging look he was sending him.

Satsuki and Samui looked at one another. Both were calm and silent as the crowd around them cheered and buzzed in conversation loudly.

Samui broke the silence by withdrawing her tanto from its sheath.

Satsuki smirked and took out a kunai, she's been dying to test her strength out on an opponent around her age and skill level. Kakashi was just too strong and thus sucked the joy out of her when sparring with him.

"Hope you're ready to lose," Satsuki let out as Genma raised his arm and jumped backward.

"Begin!"

Satsuki dashed forward with what she assumed was enough speed to blitz and maneuver around Samui to get an open strike at her back, but was surprised by the stoic girl blocking her attack easily and readily.

"You're pretty good Uchiha-san," Samui said as she turned around towards Satsuki staring boringly into Satsuki's crimson three tomoed eyes.

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An: Sorry about not uploading for a few days for almost a week. This month has officially been the hardest of my entire life lmao. Being laid off, shitty interviews, and finally family issues.Please bear with me and my weird story lol. It's probably going to be a random upload schedule from now on until everything gets back to normal. Now that I've cleared up that little bit of information let me apologize for this short chapter smh. Btw, Naruko used her Talk no Jutsu on Kurotsuchi. Working on writing something else rn too updates will be slower.