The day of the finals finally arrived. Many people were in attendance to the finalist fight. All bets were placed on either Neji Hyuga, Gaara and Sasuke Uchiha. It was to be expected since they are the biggest names in the finals. Oh if only those poor fools truly knew what they were getting themselves into. For the first match so far the odds were 20 to 1 in Neji's favor. Not many people believed his opponent stood a glimmer of a chance against a Hyuga prodigy.

However those who did actually know his opponent well, knew that Neji didn't have a chance at winning. His opponent has gone through hell and back to prepare for this day.

Both Daimyos of Fire and Wind were in attendance. There are likely spies from other villages even here. Simply to see if any of the genin are worth being concerned about in the near future. All of the jounin and anbu were stationed. Every Konoha shinobi was informed of the invasion that's suppose to take place. Which means that they are prepared to fight for Konoha today. All academy instructors were given instructions on what to do once the invasion starts.

Hiruzen was sitting in the kage box. He had just finished greeting the Kazekage. By just having a simple conversation, the Third Hokage could tell something is off with the fellow Kage. He already had his suspicions from everything that's taken place so far. Hayate was reported dead three days ago. And with the Kazekage acting odd, Hiruzen figured that Naruto was right. Konoha will be attacked today.

'Orochimaru...I will not let you succeed. I will rewrite the mistake of not taking you out when I had the chance.' Hiruzen thought to himself.

'Soon Konoha will be destroyed, you will not leave to see another day Sarutobi-sensei.' Orochimaru in disguise as the Kazekage thought.

All of the finalists except for Dosu, Sasuke and Naruto were present on the field.

In the stands, Sakura sat next to Ino, Hinata, Choji and Kiba. Kurenai, Gai, Anko and Asuma were sitting a row behind them. Lee was sitting next to Tenten. He was in crutches from his battle against Gaara. Maki, Sasume, Kiroku and Ayane were a couple rows behind the jounin instructors.

As Genma began explaining who the rest of the matchups after the first round is going to go. Some were wondering where Sasuke and Naruto were?

"Oh no don't tell that idiot backed out. Damn it how can I lose to a guy who backed out of his next match." Kiba said.

"I can assure you Kiba, Naruto-kun would never back down. He swore on my blood that he would defeat Neji. Naruto-kun never goes back on his word no matter what." Hinata stated confidently.

To those who haven't seen her in awhile. It was surprising to hear her speak so confidently about Naruto when she could barely get out a sentence without stuttering a little over a month ago.

Kiba always wondered where Hinata's new confidence came from. He would smell multiple scents on her that he never smelt on her prior to a month ago. The main scent he smelled is Naruto's scent. Which is weird, when he asked Hinata about it. She didn't give him a direct answer. He figured that Naruto and Hinata must've been hanging out more during the month.

"How can you be so sure?" Kiba asked.

"I was with him earlier this morning." Hinata answered.

Now Kiba is even more confused. Why would she be with Naruto that early? He just couldn't figure it out.

Sakura sighed. "Naruto-kun you idiot, how are you going to be late when you were the one saying that you wouldn't be late like Sasuke."

Ino's ears twitched. "Naruto-kun? I thought you liked Sasuke-kun?" The blonde's voice is laced with shock.

Shrugging. "I used to until I figured out nothing is ever going to happen between us. Why should I chase after a guy who can give a rat's ass about me? I'm better than that. All the time I wasted chasing Sasuke. I could've used to focus on my career as a kunoichi."

Her answer surprised Choji, Kiba and Ino. Neither of them could believe that Sakura finally gave up on Sasuke. It couldn't possibly be true...could it?

Ino pointed her finger at the pinkette's face. "W-Who are you and what have you done with Sakura?"

Sakura became annoyed quickly. She knocked Ino's finger out of her face. "Cut it out pig, I am Sakura!"

"Liar! The real Sakura would never give up on Sasuke-kun!" Ino shouted.

Sakura inwardly cringed. "Kami is this how I used to be? So delusion over Sasuke?" She asked herself.

"Unfortunately you were Sakura-chan, in fact you were worse because of your loud voice." Hinata teased her best friend.

The pinkette rolled her eyes at the blunette's comment. "Very funny Ms. I couldn't say two words without stuttering and blushing like an idiot."

"Says the former number one fangirl of the Sasuke fan club. Poor boy must've been really to commit suicide." Hinata retorted with a smirk.

"Aren't you the same girl who couldn't even stay conscious if her crush said more than 5 words to her?" Sakura also smirked

Hinata blushed slightly. She cursed herself for not having a proper comeback. "Fine you win this round. But I'm still up by a win."

Sakura held up a victory pose. "I'll be retaking my crown soon. Keep it warm for me Hina-chan." She grinned.

Rolling her eyes. "Bitch please, you wish you could get this crown back. Even if you win the next one. I guarantee you aren't winning three in a row." Hinata said.

Those who were watching their interaction were shocked. This was completely unexpected.

"You should thank Naruto some more for fixing her confidence issues." Anko whispered in Kurenai's ear. Kurenai elbowed her in the arm to get her to shut up.

Ino spoke up. "Ok so since when were you two good friends?" She asked, truthfully she was jealous that Sakura found another girl friend besides her to be close to.

"During the last month, let's just say we spent a lot of time together with Naruto. I'm sure you'll find out more eventually." Sakura answered.

"Naruto? Why him?" Kiba questioned.

"Why not?" Hinata replied with a smirk.

Over by Kiroku and the others. They were also wondering what's causing Naruto to be late.

"Think he got lost?" Maki suggested.

"Of course not, he's too smart to get lost on an important day like this." Sasume replied.

"Maybe he fell back asleep by accident? He did do some last minute training yesterday. Plus he serviced a new brothel afterwards." Ayane brought up.

"It'll take more than that to keep him down. He'll be here, I wouldn't be surprised if he's running because of Jiraiya. I would say maybe he needed a quickie, but we already took care of that before we left the house. He should be more than satisfied until later on tonight." Kiroku said.

"That is true, he should be fine until later. Let's hope he gets here soon because I think Genma is starting the exams." Sasume voiced.

Down on the field, Genma just told everyone except those participating in the first match to go to the spectators area. Temari was walking towards the stairs. 'Of course you would be late, Naruto-kun. If I hadn't stopped by this morning to see you. I would be worried if you were going to make it on time.' She thought.

The time for the exams finally arrived. Genma waited a minute more for Naruto to show up. Once that minute passed, he was going to announce that Naruto will be disqualified if he doesn't arrive in 5 more minutes. However he never got the chance as cherry blossoms were flying all over the stadium.

Soon a tornado of cherry blossoms circled the field. When it stopped, it revealed a blond, blue eyes male with whiskers marks on his cheeks. Over the month he had grown a bit. Because of his Senju/Uzumaki traits being awakened. They caused his body to grow faster as a reaction to everything being awakened at once. Add on to his extensive training that would kill most people. He grew a solid 4 inches in a month! Something like that is unheard of because it's rare for a person to grow two inches within a month. Normally boys grow 4 inches within a year depending on their growth rate. The blond even lost some of his baby fat. He wore black shinobi sandals with black pants. An orange bandage is wrapped around his right thigh where his kunai holder is. He wore a see through sleeveless mesh shirt. His black headband tied across his forehead and his blue headband tied across his right arm. The whiskers marks were a bit more defined than they usually are. His hair grew over the month. It was still spiky, but longer and wilder. He made sure to cut his bangs that were growing. The blond felt like the bangs made him lose some of his manly look. As much as he loved his father Minato. He did not want to look as flaky as him.

The whole stadium was silent, it's expected after an entrance like that.

"And you are?" Genma asked.

"Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto stated his name.

"Good, you were almost counted as late. Now we can start the mat-" Genma was cut off by multiple loud screams coming from a certain section in the stands.

Those screams were coming from over 100 women who all had t-shirts on. On the shirts were a chibi version of Naruto with an orange heart above him. Above the heart are the words 'We Love'. The color of the shirts were white and the font color was also orange. Some of them even had stuffed fabric chibi versions of Kura in her fox form and Naruto that they were holding up. Others had signs with words on them saying 'We Love Naruto' 'Uzumaki Sex King' 'Naruto the God of Pleasure' 'Marry Me Naruto-sama!' and so on.

"It's him! He's finally here!" One woman pointed.

"Naruto-sama!"

"NARUTO-SAMA YOU'RE AMAZING!"

"PLEASE WIN THE WHOLE THING!"

"NARUTO-SAMA PLEASE FUCK ME AGAIN!"

"I WANT YOUR CUM DOWN MY THROAT JUST ONCE MORE!"

"NARUTO-SAMA I WANT YOUR BABY!"

"I LOVE YOU NARUTO-SAMA!"

"MAKE ME CUM THREE TIMES IN FIVE MINUTES AGAIN LIKE LAST TIME!"

"PLEASE FILL ME WITH YOUR SEED AGAIN NARUTO-SAMA! I WANT IT SO BAD!"

Everyone in the stadium could see all of those beautiful women ranging from 16 to somewhere in the mid 40s! What was even crazier, multiple women who were not a part of that group but spread out across the stadium were blushing thinking of their own times with Naruto. Luckily none of their husbands or boyfriends was paying any attention to them. Most of the men in the stadium were gawking at the amount of women who were all screaming such sexual sentences at Naruto. It made them feel jealousy towards the blond genin.

"What the hell?!" Kiba shouted in absolute shock.

Ino looked to see both Sakura and Hinata wearing the same shirts those other women were wearing. "Wait when did you two get those shirts? And you both slept with Naruto?!" Ino asked incredulously.

To add on more to her shock, both of them nodded!

"If you must know, yes we did. But unlike those girls, we are actually Naruto's lovers." Sakura answered.

"It's a group of nine of us. All of us are a part of Naruto-kun's harem. The rest are just his fuck buddies or a one or two time thing." Hinata wasn't to go too much into detail. None of them needed to know that Naruto is a male sex worker. It's really none of their business.

"W-Wait! You mean that idiot actually has his own harem! And he really had sex with all of those girls?!" Kiba questioned in jealousy and begrudged respect.

"Yeah he's in the CRA since he's the last one of the Uzumaki clan. He's a clan heir. If you wanna know more ask him yourself." Sakura said.

Kiba realized that meant to stop asking questions. So he kept his mouth shut.

Choji just continued to eat his chips. He too felt a tad bit jealous of his blond comrade.

"Well I'll be damned." Asuma whistled.

"What youthfulness!" Gai exclaimed.

"Yeah I guess you can say it's some of that to it as well." Anko grinned.

"Wait you mean you slept with the kid too?" Asuma asked in shock.

"Fuck yeah I did, I heard about his legend while at a bar in the red light district. And he's not a kid, he's more manly than 98% most of the men in this village. Naruto-kun is a living legend." Anko replied.

Asuma just shook his head.

"Well at least Kurenai-sensei didn't give him the time of day. She's too good for him. Right sensei?" Kiba asked with a smirk.

Kurenai blushed, she just looked the other direction.

Asuma couldn't believe it. "You too Kurenai!"

"Seriously?! He got Kurenai-sensei!" Ino yelled.

Sakura and Hinata were smirking at what was happening.

Kiba fainted.

Anko was grinning at her best friend.

'Damn how the hell did Naruto get Kurenai before me? That definitely hit me in my pride.' Asuma thought to himself.

Kurenai just sighed before she shrugged. "Anko brought him over one day, the rest is history. I don't regret it and as long as he doesn't mind. I'm going to keep having sex with him."

"Here, here Kurenai-chan!" Anko placed her arm around Kurenai.

Kurenai's words hit Asuma in his pride even more. He knew that he no longer stood a chance with Kurenai.

"Well Asuma and the others had the reaction I expected." Ayane said to her surrogate sisters.

"Definitely." Maki agreed.

"I didn't think so many would show up. I knew some would but this is something else." Sasume voiced with amusement in her tone.

"That's our Naruto-kun for you. He's one of a kind." Kiroku smiled.

"How the hell did he get so many of those women?" Kankuro wondered.

"Troublesome blond." Shikamaru yawned.

Shino didn't comment. Neither did Gaara.

Temari couldn't help but smirk. She was happy to see that her future husband already has so many fans. Temari was grateful that she is one of his lovers.

"Damn that kid is lucky." Kotetsu nearly shouted.

"Looks like there's more to him than we thought." Izumo noted.

Hiruzen sighed while facepalming himself. Only with Naruto something like this would happen. He should have expected this.

'I see why Jiraiya always complains to me about being jealous of Naruto. Any man would be.' The Hokage thought.

Orochimaru is intrigued by what's happening.

Genma was looking at Naruto with respect. He recognizes a fellow womanizer when he sees one. Genma could only dream to reach Naruto's legendary status one day.

'Wow they really went all out. Shirts with me on it and stuffed chibis of me and Kura!' Naruto shouted inside of his head.

'Damn now that's what I call commitment.' Kura said.

'I agree, who would've thought your fan club would show such strong support like this.' Kushina agreed.

'Well I can disappoint them. It wasn't like I planned on losing in the first place. But now I'll look really bad if I do lose.' Naruto thought as he waved at his fan club while smirking. Once he gave them a wink. They went wild again.

Looking over to Genma. "You can start the match now."

Genma nodded. "Hajime!" He backed away.

Naruto and Neji stared at each other, neither one making a move. The entire stadium was silent, waiting for either one of them to do something. A heavy breeze of wind blew through the air. Both fighters never tore their gazes from one another.

"Too afraid to make a move? I can understand, these eyes of mine can see everything." Neji taunted Naruto.

Smirking at his opponent. "No, in fact I'm thinking of what you did to my Hinata-chan during the prelims. You nearly killed her. So it's hard for me to restrain myself from killing you." Naruto replied.

'Hinata-chan? I see so he is the one Hinata has been spending much of her time around. Because of him, Hinata is no longer timid like she was prior to the exams. She's more confident and outspoken. It shows in her skills in gentle fist too. Seems like I will have to meet Naruto myself. Even with all of those women. Hinata is still very fond of him.' Hiashi thought to himself.

'I know Neji is strong, Otou-sama says he has the strongest byakugan in recent generations. But Hinata-oneesama told me that even if Neji is strong. He doesn't stand a chance against this Naruto guy. Let's see if she was right about him.' Hanabi thought.

"That failure again? I don't see why you're so upset. It was her fate to lose to me." Neji said.

"I don't believe that, Hinata would have beaten you if she had more training at the time. Now? She'll wipe the floor with you." The blond retorted.

Narrowing his eyes. "That will never happen."

"I wouldn't be so sure." Naruto said from behind Neji.

Neji's eyes widened as did some of the audience's. Turning around quickly, Neji threw a palm strike at his opponent. Only to hit nothing but air.

"You missed." The Hyuga turned around again to see Naruto standing where he originally was.

'What's going on here? There's no way he could be that fast now.' "Your tricks will not work, fate has declared me the winner." Neji told his opponent with his byakugan active.

"Then how about you prove it instead of talking about it?" Naruto rolled his eyes.

Neji ran towards Naruto and to his surprise, Naruto ran straight at him as well.

"You idiot a frontal attack will never work!" Kiba shouted.

Neji aimed a hit at Naruto, but the blond deflected it. He kept throwing multiple attacks using his gentle fist style. But Naruto was either dodging or blocking all of his attacks. For a solid minute, the Hyuga did not let up. To his aggravation even after a whole minute he still could not land a blow on his opponent.

Deciding enough was enough, When Neji threw another palm strike to his chest. Naruto smacked it away, then clenched his fists together to punch Neji hard in his chest twice with both of his fists. Following up with a hard punch to the gut. Placing his palm on his opponent's chest. The blond released a small burst of chakra from his palm. Making the brunet stagger back a step.

He was so stunned by what just happened that he couldn't even react in time to avoid the punch that was delivered to his jaw. Sending him back flying, he slid a couple feet across the ground.

The entire stadium was silent.

"You were saying Kiba?" Hinata asked her shocked teammate with a smirk on her face.

"Damn I've never seen anyone handle a Hyuga like that before." Asuma voiced.

"Indeed." Gai agreed.

"Sorry Gai, but your student doesn't stand a chance against Naruto." Anko told her friend.

"Don't you think it's a little early to decide that?" Gai questioned.

"Nope, you'll see just keep watching." Anko smirked.

Neji slowly pushed himself up. He coughed up a lot of saliva with a bit of blood. Those blows he received made him wheeze at the pain. However that's not what caught his attention. When he looked up, Neji saw his opponent looking down at him. Waiting for him to get up.

'I don't understand how he was able to release chakra from his palm. The same way the Hyuga clan does with our palm strikes? He's not a Hyuga so he shouldn't be able to do that.' Neji thought as he stood up.

"Took you long enough, ready for round 2?" Naruto voiced.

Neji scowled. "No this is over." He envisioned himself within the centre of an eight trigrams symbol. Taking a stance.

Naruto narrowed his eyes slightly, recognizing his opponent's stance instantly. 'Sasume-chan was right about him being immensely talented. To think he knows the techniques reserved only for the main family of the Hyuga clan. I doubt his hand speed is comparable to Sasume's though. Well only one way to find out.'

'Sorry Neji, even if you do that. You won't land a hit on Naruto-sama.' Sasume thought to herself while watching the match.

"Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms!" Neji charged at Naruto then spun as he aimed two strikes at Naruto.

"Two Palms!

Attacking again, but not making any contact.

"Four Palms!"

"Eight Palms!"

"Sixteen Palms!"

"Thirty-Two Palms!"

Growing frustrated with still not making any contact with the blonde. Neji increased his hand speed for his final barrage of attacks.

"Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms!" The brunet yelled as he finished his technique.

During that whole sequence, Naruto avoided or deflected his every attack. Being hit with this attack so many times during his training. Naruto can predict based on his memory where Neji will most likely aim his attacks. He was only able to do that efficiently because of the level of Neji's hand speed. It's not even close to the level Sasume uses against him. That's not even including her speed when she uses her lightning with her taijutsu. Naruto made sure to lace his own hands with chakra whenever he deflected Neji's attacks. So that none of Neji's excess chakra from his hands affects Naruto's own chakra flow.

Neji himself couldn't believe it, not a single one of his blows connected. If any did then they were blocked easily. Something like this was practically unheard of. Everyone knows that it's considered almost suicide to face a Hyuga head up in taijutsu. Yet Naruto did it and came out on top not just once but twice.

"H-How…?" Neji dared to ask.

Naruto smirked. "I had one hell of a sensei. A really sexy one too."

Sasume blushed and beamed at his compliment about her. She really did love Naruto.

"That still doesn't explain." Neji retorted.

"And who says I have to explain anything to you? Remember I'm here to kick your ass for what you did to my Hinata-chan. So if that's the best you can do…"

Naruto disappeared in a bust of speed that Neji couldn't keep track of. The blond gave Naruto a strong right hook right to the brunet's face. Again, Neji was sent flying. However this time, a shadow clone appeared behind his flying form. The clone kicked Neji hard in the back, now sending flying back towards the original's direction.

Thankfully for Neji, he was able to coat chakra around his body and spin in mid air. Creating a dome of chakra to create some separation between him and Naruto.

'He knows Rotation too? That still won't be enough.' Naruto thought as he jumped back a couple feet.

When Neji landed on his feet, he glared at Naruto. His face was bruised from the punch to his face.

"Otou-sama how come Neji knows two main family techniques? And how does Naruto keep avoiding Neji's gentle fist techniques?" Hanabi asked her father.

'That boy is incredible! To think that a non-Hyuga member is able to avoid the sixth-four palms technique so easily. It's unheard of. His speed is impressive too. Who could have taught him so well? And Neji is truly the greatest talent to ever come out of the Hyuga clan.' Hiashi thought.

"I'm not too sure myself Hanabi, Neji is more talented than I thought. So is Naruto." Hiashi answered his daughter.

Sadly Neji didn't get too much time to keep glaring as Naruto used shunshin to appear in front of him. Naruto is moving so fast, that all Neji can do is try to block what he can. Faster than he could track, he was hit in the face twice. Then elbowed hard in his chest. Followed by a roundhouse kick to his side.

The audience was stunned by the beat down they were watching Neji receive. This was completely unexpected.

"His taijutsu form has improved greatly." Lee commented as he watched the match.

"What the hell?! Neji's getting his ass kicked! Seriously?!" Tenten yelled in shock.

'To think he's even found a way to counter the Gentle Fist Art. His form is still that of brawler, but a lot more refined. He doesn't waste nearly as many movements as he did in the prelims. And his speed is astonishing! It's amazing to see just how much he's improved in one month. Such youth!' Lee said to himself.

Gai was thinking similar to his student.

Naruto once again delivered another blow to Neji. To finish this off, he gave Neji another palm strike. Releasing another small burst from his hand. His chakra causing pain to the Hyuga's chest. Not even letting him stagger, Naruto punched his opponent one last time in the face. Only this time his punch had been enhanced by his chakra. He made sure to hold back.

Neji flew in the air all the way to the other side of the stadium. He crashed hard into the wall, creating a decent sized hole from his impact. Slowly he slid down from the wall on to his knees, falling face first into the ground.

Not paying the silence in the stadium any mind. The blond walked up to his fallen opponent with his hands in his pockets. He stopped as soon as he was close enough. Neji slowly lifted his head to face Naruto. No matter how hard he tried, the brunet couldn't move. His face and body were bruised up and battered. Blood coming down both corners of his mouth.

"I heard what happened with your father." Naruto spoke up.

Neji's eyes widened.

"It sucks that things turned out that way. It should've never happened but unfortunately it did."

Neji grimaced at his words.

"While I don't approve of the way the main family treats the branch family like slaves. It honestly disgusts me. That doesn't give you the right to blame Hinata for something she had no control over. She was literally 4 when the kidnapping took place. What did you expect her to do against a jounin? Use your head Neji, I doubt they call you a genius just because. Do you really believe your father would want you to blame Hinata's existence over this?"

The brunet wanted to retort his words loudly. Asking him what does he know?

"You're probably wondering what do I know."

Once again, Neji's eyes widened in surprise.

"I know what it's like to have your parents taken from you at a young age. I lost both of mine the day I was born. And I also know what it's like to be branded with a seal. A seal that makes people judge you and treat you shitty. I failed the graduation exam three times. Did I give up on being a shinobi because fate declared I couldn't be? No, I kept busting my ass until I finally became a proud shinobi of Konoha. So don't come to me crying about how unfair life is. Suck it up and deal with it. If you don't like the hand life deals you. Then do something to change it. If you really believed in what you said, then you would know that you already attempted to deny your fate. When you tried to kill Hinata. Isn't it the job of the branch family to protect the main family? Anyways I've said my piece. Make sure you apologize to Hinata for being a dick to her for so long. And make an effort to get along with her. Unlike most members of the Hyuga clan's main family. Hinata despises how the branch family is treated." Naruto walked away.

Soon clapping could be heard, it started off as a few then turned into the whole stadium applauding Naruto for doing the unexpected and dominated Neji. All of those who bet money against him were in tears.

Naruto could hear his fan club going wild. He waved at them before sending a clone over in their direction. His clone was smothered by the beautiful women. Each giving it a kiss or groping its dick. The clone is even signing autographs.

The blond himself arrived at the spectators area where he walked straight up to Temari and pulled her into a deep kiss in front of the other competitors. Jumping in surprise, Temari immediately wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer to deepen their kiss.

"Hey! Get the hell off of my sister!" Kankuro yelled.

Ignoring the puppeteer, Temari and Naruto continued their kiss until Naruto pulled away. The sandy blonde had a blush on her face. She figured Naruto was going to pull something like this in front of her brothers.

"Troublesome blond, you really know how to stir things up." Shikamaru commented.

"I'm not called the number one unpredictable knucklehead ninja for nothing dattebayo." Naruto grinned.

Shikamaru sighed. "No you're not, good match by the way."

"And that is that." Sasume nodded.

"Naruto-sama went easy on him. Neji could've been on the receiving end of a rasengan." Ayane said.

"That would've surely drawn some attention. He may use it in his next match depending if he's going up against his teammate Sasuke or Gaara." Maki voiced.

"Knowing Naruto-sama, he will definitely do something to show off. I don't blame him either." Kiroku said.

"He really beat Neji…" Tenten was stunned.

"Neji lost." Gai's tone is laced with shock.

"Told you so Gai. There was no way Naruto-kun was going to lose to a virgin brat like your student. Your kid is talented though." Anko smirked.

Kurenai was happy for Naruto.

"Damn the kid really improved a lot in just a month." Asuma noted.

"Woah...I don't think I will be able to defeat Naruto anytime soon." Kiba admitted.

"You think?" Choji asked his friend.

"Oh screw you Choji!" Kiba grunted.

"That loud mouth idiot really won." Ino muttered in a shocked tone.

"That's my Naruto-kun!" Sakura cheered.

Hinata nodded in agreement with her best friend. She was very happy that Naruto won. Even if she knew he was going to win regardless. She just hoped that Neji wouldn't take a turn for the worst.

Over in the kage area, Hiruzen just received word from one of his shinobi that Sasuke isn't here yet.

"Very well, we will give Sasuke more time by delaying his match. Tell Genma to move on the others and then we'll see what happens if Sasuke still hasn't made it here yet." Hiruzen told the shinobi.

"Yes Hokage-sama." The shinobi disappeared using shunshin to go deliver the order.

Hiruzen actually was advised by the 'Kazekage' to give Sasuke more time.

'I know what you're up to Orochimaru, you will not succeed.' The Hokage thought to himself.

Genma just received the order. "Alright then if that's what Hokage-sama says to do."

When the shinobi disappeared, Genma cleared just throat before speaking.

"Due to Sasuke Uchiha not being present yet. The second match will be delayed until the end of the first round." He announced to the audience.

Some people who came to see Sasuke fight started booing.

"Shouldn't he be disqualified for not showing up on time?" Hinata wondered out loud.

"Probably but it's Sasuke, from the sounds out it. Most came to see him fight since he's the last Uchiha." Sakura replied.

"Favoritism much?" Hinata raised her eyebrow.

The pinkette sighed. "Yes but there's likely another reason besides that."

"Can't say I'm surprised that they showed him favoritism." Naruto voiced.

"What's so special about the Uchiha kid anyways?" Temari asked her lover.

"Well besides being the last of his clan kinda like me. Sasuke is very talented, he's known as the prodigy of our year. So the villagers tend to suck up to him. Jiji probably has a different reason he's giving Sasuke more time. But it still comes off as favoritism." Naruto explained.

Shikamaru looked at the blond Uzumaki. "You're from a clan Naruto?"

Nodding at Shikamaru's question. "Yeah, the Uzumaki clan once resided in Uzu no Kuni. We were a very powerful clan that was known by everyone. On the same status as the Senju, Uchiha and Hyuga clans. Our unmatched skill in fuinjutsu earned us both great respect and fear across the shinobi world. Around 30 years ago Kumo, Kiri and Iwa banded together in order to wipe out our clan. While the Uzumaki were defeated in the end. We took out 75% of the enemies total forces. Back then we were close allies with Konoha due to the Senju and Uzumaki being distant blood relatives. However, Konoha was delayed by a planned attack when they were sent reinforcements to our aid. My mother had already moved to Konoha about 2 or 3 years before that point. As an agreement between both villages, the Uzumaki clan is also a part of Konoha. Giving us the same rights as any other clan in Konoha. We were hailed as royalty just as the Senju, Uchiha and Hyuga." Naruto answered.

"Damn, how come we never learned about them in the academy if they were that famous?" Shikamaru asked.

Naruto shrugged. "I asked the same thing, I only just recently found out about my clan history during the last month. If you ask your dad about them. I'm positive he'll tell you pretty much the same thing I did. He might even be surprised that the academy doesn't teach about the Uzumaki clan like the others in Konoha. You know the red swirls on the flak jackets chunins and jounins wear? That's my clan's symbol. It's one of Konoha's ways of honoring my fallen clan. But I believe there's a good chance that there are some survivors out there. There's no way that a few didn't escape during the attack."

Shikamaru sighed. "Troublesome."

"The next match will be Kankuro vs Shino Aburame." Genma announced.

"I forfeit my match!" Kankuro yelled.

He received a bunch of boos from the crowd.

"Well that wasn't suspicious." Naruto whispered in Temari's ear. He was being sarcastic.

Temari just shook her head. Kankuro doesn't even realize the result of his decision. It was no way that he could know since she still hasn't told him about the change in plans yet.

'Well that certainly confirmed that Suna was in on this.' Genma thought to himself. "Alright, Shikamaru Nara vs Temari."

Shino is looking at Kankuro. He was wondering why he forfeited their match.

"Aw what a drag, now I have to fight sooner than I wanted to." Shikamaru groaned.

In the end, Temari ended up winning their match due to Shikamaru forfeiting as soon as he had her right where he wanted her. The entire audience couldn't believe that he just quit out of nowhere like that. What a letdown, Shikamaru received a lot of boos for his decision.

"Did you really have to quit like that? This win isn't satisfying." Temari asked the Nara, both of them were heading back up to the spectators area.

"Troublesome women, just be glad that I decided to fight at all. I really rather be watching the cloud right now." Shikamaru sighed while walking up the stairs.

Temari looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "How are you a shinobi with such low drive?"

"I'm a clan heir so it's not like I had little if any choice but to be a shinobi. Plus my mom didn't want me to turn out even lazier than my dad." Shikamaru answered.

'So laziness runs in his blood.' Temari summarized.

When they arrived back at the spectators area. It was announced that they will take a 30 minutes break. Basically to give Sasuke more time. That didn't seem to last so long. When the 30 minutes were up, Hiruzen made his decision.

'Damn it, where the hell could Sasuke be? No matter, Naruto will just have to do. Two jinchuuriki's battling it out should make an interesting match.' Orochimaru thought. He watched a shinobi appear next to Genma.

'Kakashi...what could have made you so late?' Hiruzen wondered mentally.

"Alright then." Genma told the shinobi. The shinobi nodded and used shunshin to leave the field.

Clearing his throat to speak. "Due to not making it within the given time range. Sasuke Uchiha will be disqualified."