37 Chapter 37.

The days passed by and in a poof, today was the day when finals will take place, and also the day when Orochimaru will start his Konoha collapse plan. getting up early with excitement I took a quick and ate my breakfast, coming back to the bedroom I kissed her on the forehead of Miko as she was still asleep since she was with Yugao last night in the hospital and got home late, I still woke her up and quietly whispered her to go and not to come out of the hospital no matter what she hears. Although still groggy from just waking up she still unned me as I have talked about this the whole week. getting her affirmation I was relieved and rushed towards the Hokage-office.

Entering the office, I saw Hokage-sama heading out, seeing me he nodded and asked me to quickly follow him to the Meeting Hall. I quickly followed him, reaching the Meeting hall I saw all the elders and high-level Jonins have already taken their seats, while I stood behind Hokage-sama as he took his seat. Not wanting these guys to start the chatter and waste everyone's time he has already released his oppression from the moment he entered the room, so everyone was quiet waiting for Hokage-sama to talk. Seeing everyone was silent he still didn't take away his oppression but said.

" The anbu weren't able to contact Jiraiya." As soon as his word fell everyone started to panic and questioned him as to why couldn't he contact Jiraiya, how can we deal with one tail, what to do now, etc. He just turned and nodded at me understanding him, I also released my oppression. With both of our oppression finally, the room returned to silence.

When Hokage-sama saw that everyone was quiet he talked.

" Let's talk about how should we deal with this situation."

They analyzed the situation for a few minutes and couldn't come up with any solution, so from the side I could only whisper to Hokage-sama.

" let's see how the situation turns, if push comes to shove let every Ninja besiege the One tail while I use shadow clones to quickly solve the invading ninjas, but in this way, you will have to handle Orochimaru and Kazekage for quite some time, Although it won't be long with Flying Raijin this method is still quite dangerous."

Hearing my words he thought about it, and he didn't come up with any good methods so he can only go with this method. He announced this method to everyone, although reluctant but everyone knew this is our only option now so they quickly accepted it and started to move different methods revolving around this method. Like this time passed and it was time to start the final round. He dispersed everyone and let them do their part while we headed to the stadium.

On the other side, in the stadium, Kankuro and Temari were scared out of their minds as they knew what was going to happen and also the fact that Baki has disappeared god knows where for this whole month, but thankfully they got the news that their father Kazekage has finally reached Konoha, so they felt safe and knew they can proceed with their own tasks, as for Baki who is he? we don't know. Thinking of this they moved to the ground.

As they reached me and Hokage-sama has also reached the stadium, Hokage-sama took the main seat while the seat next to him was empty, at this time sounds of fireworks came from outside as Hokage-sama stood up to invite Kazekage who was walking towards here. Shaking their hands they both greeted each other and then took their respective seats. With Kazekage there were 4 ninjas but we both that is Hokage-sama and I didn't care and turned to look at the proctor of this round Genma Shirunei who knew that it was time to start the Finals.

So he let everyone go back except for Naruto and Neji as theirs was the first match and the same as the original work there wasn't much change in the end with Naruto being the victor of this match. Hokage-sama was astonished at the fact that Naruto could use the power of Jinchuriki which was not in the information provided by anbu, but he knew this was not the time to take care of this matter and signaled Genma to continue, and all this time Orochimaru just watched the match with amusement.

As soon as he knew that it was Sasuke's match now he was excited, seeing his expression Hokage-sama felt weird and asked me to call anbu and let him take care of Sasuke in-case something happens, but like always Kakashi was late and Sasuke who was training with him is naturally late, So Hokage-sama wanted to disqualify Sasuke but Kazekage on the side strongly requested to postpone this match, which he could only accept as he didn't want to change his face until it's the last moment.

So Genma was ordered to postpone Sasuke's match to the last and started to call Temari and Shikamaru to the ground. This match was also the same as the original work but Temari was defeated at a faster pace the original work, since Shikamaru stopped using those waste moves and dealt with her seriously, which was because I talked with his father Shikaku at the last meeting, and let him know that his son was not lazy enough you should do something.

After this round finished it was time for Kankuro and Shino to fight, but God knows why Kankuro forfeited and Shino passed this round, as for the b.s. of keeping his technique a secret no one will believe it.

At this time there was only Sasuke and Gaara's match which had to be fought, but Sasuke was still not here, as Hokage-sama wanted to declare Garra to win, Kazekage stopped him and requested to wait for 10 minutes and if he doesn't come you can continue, hearing this Hokage-sama felt it was only 10 minutes he can still wait so he agreed, and like in the original work Kakashi and Sasuke came in style, right when the 10 minutes had finished.

After this, the match proceeded like the original work with Sasuke hurting Gaara, who in-return tried to use feign sleeping technique but was stopped in the middle by Sasuke's Chidori, Gaara in Half tailed beast form moved out, while Sasuke followed him.

At this time on my side, Kazekage has already moved and placed the kunai at Hokage-sama's throat while his subordinate threw a smoke bomb covering the venue, as for the illusion outside it should have been taken care of by the anbu's since no one was allowed to get here except Hokage-sama and me, while at this time Hokage-sama just looked at Kazekage with indifference at the I was also calm and looked at him indifferently waiting for his next action.

On the ground, Sasuke as ordered by Genma rushed behind Gaara, while Shino, Naruto, Sakura, and Shikamaru followed behind him as Kakashi, Kai, and other ninjas took care of invading ninjas.

At this time Hokage-sama signaled me so I created a Shadow clone and let it follow Sasuke, while my main body followed Hokage-sama who with already revealed Orochimru was having a stand-off with him, also this time Orochimaru minions created a barrier separating us from outside.

Next It's battle time.