Summary- Shall be known as the plot continues

Disclaimer- I don't own naruto that is all

note—Really? I left a cliffhanger? I don't think it was too much of a cliffhanger was it? Now the battles really do start with Tenten against Kankuro. Thanks for reading and have fun!

Chapter 25: Things that shouldn't have happened

Tenten had started the battle off with eight kunais as they speed to Kankuro. He dodged them as if they were nothing to him which really was pissing off Tenten.

"Hey, you stink, you friend Naruto is way stronger then you!" Kankuro said teasing her trying to aggravate her.

"I know, but it doesn't mean I won't kick your butt" Tenten said surprising Kankuro that she admitted the fact that Naruto was in a different league then her. "I'd like to see you try dodging all these!"

Tenten then through 20 chakra enhanced kunais and shurikens at Kankuro as she herself disappeared charging with her thrown weapons. Kankuro just smirked at her attempt to catch him off guard as he grabbed his mummified looking thing from his back and used it as a shield.

The enhanced kunais and shurikens then stabbed right into his object but stayed put as it shredded it apart.

"A puppet!" Tenten said in realization.

"Correct…but let's see how to face against it!" Kankuro said as he created chakra strings making it seem like it came to life.

"That's nice…but let's also see if it can survive all these!" Tenten then grabbed two scrolls from her pouches and unrolled them. Kankuro leaving no time for her to finish charged with his puppet.

"Karasu, go!" Kankuro said as he threw in more chakra speeding up his puppet.

"Too late…" Tenten smirked as over 100 weapons appeared out of nowhere. Whatever you thought of as a weapon was in there. From a metal toothpick all the way to oversized kunais. "Dodge this…I use chakra strings as well.

"Damnit…Karasu is going to have to take all the blows for me…" Kankuro said as he used karasu to block every incoming weapon.

"You forgot one thing Kankuro…we can pump chakra through our chakra strings." Tenten said as she started using enough chakra through every one of her weapons to Karasu before the puppet had exploded.

"KARASU!" Kankuro yelled. "Damn…"

"Who wins now?" Tenten said as her weapons left again. She then used one last scroll which popped out her own personal katana which she had made with permission from her parents as well of course.

"Not yet." Kankuro then smirked as he pulled out two more scrolls…only to find them missing. "When did you…"

"I was with my weapons coming at you remember?" Tenten said as she fiddled around with his scrolls in her hands.

"Fine…I give up…" Kankuro said finally admitting his defeat. "Now can I have my scrolls back?"

"Tenten Wins" Hayate said as Tenten then threw his scrolls back to him. Kankuro then went back to his team moping around about his poor Karasu who exploded.

Naruto seeing this had gone over to Kankuro and talked to him a little to cheer him up. He also was talking about the fight he was going to have as well. Kankuro then stopped moping to see who was going to be the next competitors.

"Next fight, Naruto vs. Shikamaru!" Hayate said.

"Alright! Go Naruto-kun!" Tenten said.

"Good luck Naruto-kun…" Hinata said.

"May you win." Haku said.

"Yeah yeah…enough with the good lucks!" Naruto said. "I don't need it for I have skill."

"Hello Shikamaru!" Naruto said as he put his right arm out. Shikamaru then shook his hand as they decided for a good fair fight.

"This is going to be way too troublesome…" Shikamaru said as he was about to raise his hand to give up.

"Damnit Shikamaru! If you give up I'm going to do something so horrible you wish you had not given up this time!" Ino yelled at him shaking him up.

"Just too troublesome…" Shikamaru said before Hayate began the match.

"KAGE BUUSHIN!" Naruto yelled starting off with a whole lot of clones for him to take on. He then started on another set of seals for one really basic jutsu using it in no time.

"Hmmm…?" Shikamaru said as he saw them charging at him. He then pulled a string he had with him triggering a wire causing every clone to fall destroying them.

Naruto seeing this sweat dropped by the effortless attempt to win. "That has to be one of the easiest and least consuming ways of destroying them I have ever seen…"

"Too troublesome to pull of the string though…takes a lot of energy." He said making everyone sweat drop at the pathetic moves he was doing.

Kakashi then looked upon from the balcony as he saw each move he made. "Lazy…pathetic…but so very effective. I wonder how he does all this. Maybe he could help me with all of my poor excuses…"

Naruto on the other hand was getting pretty pissed off on how lightly he was getting taken as well. He then started on a couple of hand seals before getting next to Shikamaru. He too though had seen him start and started his own set of hand seals.

"Suirou no jutsu!"

"Kage Mane no jutsu!"

When both of them activated their jutsus, it went to a part were both immobilized. Naruto couldn't move because his shadow was stuck, Shikamaru in the other hand didn't want to waste his energy to move his hand so Naruto lost hold of his Jutsu.

"Can we call this a tie?" Hayate asked.

"Not really…for my Kage Mane is timed as we must now wait until it runs out." Shikamaru said.

"This is really getting on my nerves." Naruto said. "But then again…I can't really do much about it can I?"

Suddenly from the backround Sasuke appeared as he charged at Naruto with a fully charged Chidori making a huge racket with hits loud bird like sounds.

Naruto not being able to move along with Shikamaru could not move out of the way so he received a direct blow strait through the heart as blood seeped through.

"Heh…And Orochimaru-sama said you were going to be hard to take down." Sasuke said laughing.

"And you would be stupid enough to charge right into enemy territory." Kakashi said jumping down. "Get the medic nin and take Naruto down to the clinic…NOW!"

"You don't think I wouldn't come prepared would you?" Sasuke cackled now as he released his curse seal level one. "Orochimaru taught me how to get to level two in the few days…I can finally avenge my brother! And to prove it none of you can stop me!"

"You still not strong enough to take us all on." Kakashi lifting his forehead protector to reveal his sharingan.

"Of course not…You haven't seen level two yet!" Sasuke then starting yelling in pain as he turned into a half demon with wings sprouting out of him. "Now let's see whose stronger."

"Damn…Medic nin…Is Naruto alive?" Kakashi yelled to behind him.

"No good…he's dead…"

"NARUTO-KUN!" Tenten and Hinata then ran all the way over to him as they mourned over his death. The only ones who were not affected by his death were the people who either despised or didn't know him, and there was Kankuro as well who was chuckling a little as they went to Naruto's corpse.

"Enough of this!" Jiraiya said as he leapt inside to face Sasuke. "You may be able to beat Kakashi, but I don't believe you will be able to defeat a sannin yet. Why did you join Orochimaru anyway?"

"For power…he gave me so much power to destroy my brother." Sasuke said.

"For what? He wouldn't give you enough that you could defeat him anyway. He's right now limiting you so you are unable to grow stronger then him with the false power of the cursed seal. Itachi was stronger then Orochimaru, but how will you beat him is Orochimaru will not let you become stronger then him?" Jiraiya said.

"…" Sasuke was left in a train of thought through what he had said.

"Let him leave and think this through for a little as he will know the right thing to do as soon as it hits him right in the face." Jiraiya said.

Sasuke then left to go back to the sound as he was quiet throughout the way back.

"Jiraiya-sama! Why did you let him go! He killed Naruto-kun!" Tenten said.

"Why did he kill Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked.

"I know we all mourn for him…but we should finish this chuunin exams first…He wouldn't want to hold you back you know…" Jiraiya said. Hinata and Tenten really looked sad from what had happened but they both knew that Naruto would not have wanted them to mourn after him as well.

"Why didn't his demon heal him…" Gaara asked.

"I'm not sure of why either…We'll get an analysis of him as soon as he is checked out from the medic nin..." Jiraiya said also knowing nothing of the five part seal on Naruto's stomach.

From there on the preliminaries went by quite quickly as the final rounds had approached so suddenly, the finalist were.

Dosu vs. Haku

Tenten vs. Shikamaru

Temari vs. Hinata

Gaara vs. Neji

And those were the final rounds that were to come up in the next day where many daimyos and hokage's were going to be to see their own competing ninja's fight. The Chuunin exams…the way to show a countries power besides by act of war, they live or die…only to serve their own country.

Author notes- I have no comment to give…review or flame me this time.