8

Not a Test for My Power

Sasuke rubbed his neck as he waited for the first match of the third test was decided. The Uchiha's body was still sore form all that had happen in the Forest of Death, he had waken up in the last day with barely any memory of what had happened before. He remembered having waken up after the strange nin bit him, he remember attacking the sound-nin and Sakura pleading him to stop, and the last thing he remembered was Naruto pinning him down to the ground, after that everything was just a blank.

He had asked what had happened but both of his teammates were reluctant of talking about it, one thing Sasuke did notice was that Naruto seemed even more distance than before, and Sakura kept on glancing nervously between the blond and the Uchiha.

Sasuke snapped out of his thought when he saw what the first match was, Inuzuka Kiba vs. Uzumaki Naruto. Sasuke saw how Sakura, Lee, and the members of Team 10 tensed when they read it; the only thing was that the raven-haired boy didn't know why.

The Uchiha watched his teammate leave the group without a single word to their sensei, Sakura, or to him. Sasuke gaze was then redirected towards Team 8 where Kiba was ranting about how short the match will be.

The raven-haired boy watched as the two genin face each other in the area, the only thing that was heard were Akamaru's barks. Sasuke looked at Kiba first; the dog-lover had a triumphant smirk on his face, as though he had already won. Sasuke's gaze shifted to look at his teammate, if the Uchiha didn't know any better he would say the Naruto looked bored, the match didn't seem to excite him in any way.

The chunin called Hayate gave the order to start the match. "Why don't we skip the trash talk and go straight to the beating." Kiba said getting into fighting stance. "I'm feeling generous today, so I'm going to make this as quickly as possible." The brown haired boy finished, while Naruto stood unmoving. Kiba started towards the blond, "Tsuuga" Kiba screamed before he started spinning, creating a destructive tornado.

Naruto watched the attack as it got closer and closer, at the last moment the blond lazily sidestepped and dodged the attack. Kiba turned around and tried one more time, unfortunately for the dog-lover, Naruto sidestepped again and evaded the attack, the blonde's lazy movements made dodging the attacks look easy. The brown-haired boy tried his luck a couple of times more without succeeding. After being unable to get a single scratch on the blond, Kiba stopped, it was evident that he was tick off. "Bastard" Kiba murmured as he clenched his taking two pills and putting one in his mouth. "Akamaru" The brown-haired shinobi said as he threw the second pill towards the dog.

Suddenly Akamaru's fur turned red as the dog jumped on his owners back. "Juujin Bunshin" Kiba cried out as Akamaru barked. Immediately the brown haired boy's body turned best-like and the Akamaru turned into an exact copy of Kiba.

"Gatsuuga" Kiba cried out as he and Akamaru started spinning towards Naruto. The blond kept on dodging all of the attacks, moving on the last possible second and still without getting his cloths ragged. Kiba growled in frustration. "What's the deal? Naruto would've never been able to dodge all of the attacks." The brown haired boy thought.

Both Kiba and Akamaru started circling Naruto, they were still using Gatsuuga. Naruto extended his arms and grabbed both Kiba's and Akamaru's forearms. Using their momentum, Naruto rotated on his heel and released Kiba and Akamaru, sending both of them crashing towards opposite walls. Akamaru reverted back to his dog form while Kiba struggled to stand up.

"Bastard" Kiba murmured again as he started towards the blond with his clawed hands. Naruto dodged Kiba's swipe with ease, immediately the blond drove his fist into the brown-haired boy's stomach, sending him back to the wall. Kiba stood up and dashed towards Naruto once more. The blond started to make handseals and gathering chakra on his index finger. "Akuma Zenshin no Jutsu" Naruto said as he started towards the incoming genin.

There was some sort of flash that blinded every one in the audience, as Sasuke started to regain his eyesight; he immediately looked down at the arena. There stood Naruto behind, the blonde's right arm and index finger was extended. The Uchiha the looked towards the other genin, Kiba stood frozen in mid-attack for a few seconds before the boy started screaming and clenching his head.

Inside his mind, Kiba was watching how hundreds of people were slaughtered; he could their screams as the pleaded, but it was useless, whatever was causing this was completely merciless. Kiba then looked down to find his hands cover in blood and then it hit him, he was the killer, he was the one who was savagely slaughtering this people. With one final scream Kiba fell unconscious.

The medic-nins started to check Kiba condition as Hayate declared Naruto the winner. The blond didn't give any acknowledgment of being victorious; he just walked back in the direction of his team. Sasuke's hand was trembling, whatever Naruto had done to Kiba had possessed an evil chakra, but somehow he had the sensation that he had felt it before.

The Uchiha was snapped out of his thoughts once again. Akadou Yoroi vs. Uchiha Sasuke, Sasuke nodded towards Kakashi and started his way towards the arena where his opponent was already waiting for him.

Naruto watched his teammate face off against the older nin, the blond felt the same evil chakra that Sasuke had use at the Forest of Death, only this time the Uchiha was able to hold it back and still achieve a win. After the match Sasuke was taken to the back by Kakashi, Naruto just shrugged and continued watching the third part of the Chunin Exam.

Naruto watched how Shikamaru defeated the sound kunoichi, the colored face sand-nin defeated Yoroi's teammate using a puppet, and Sakura ended up in a tie with her rival Ino, the sound kunoichi defeated Lee's teammate, and Shino was able to beat the black-haired sound-nin. The blond couldn't help but smirk when Lee use the 'Ura Renge' against the red-haired sand-nin, he had heard that spandex-clad nin just to be the academy's death-last before him, sadly Gaara was able to emerge victorious, Naruto felt something coming from Kyuubi as he watched Gaara appeared between his teammates.

Naruto watched as Chouji and the last sound-nin eliminated each other form the exam. Everyone of the adult tensed up before the last match. Hyuuga Hinata vs. Hyuuga Neji. Both genin descended to the arena, Hinata was shaking while Neji was glaring at her. "You should quit while you can Hinata-san, you're not cut out to be a shinobi." The black-haired boy said evilly, Hinata started to back away. "People shouldn't judge others; anyone who put their hearts into everything they do and never give up can achieve anything." Naruto said loud enough for everyone to hear, every in the audience looked form Neji to Naruto and back again while the two genin glared at each other.

Neji looked towards his cousin; the fear in Hinata's face was replaced by sheer determination. "I will never give up, Naruto-kun." The blue-haired girl thought as she activated her Byakugan, Neji activated his Byakugan too and got into fighting stance just as Hayate started the match.

Hinata and Neji exchange blows using Juuken, Naruto was familiar with the style, the Old Geezer had made him study and practice it. The match continued and it seemed that Hinata stood a change of emerging victorious until Neji completely turned the tables, the black-haired boy delivered blow after blow, and it wasn't long before Hinata fell to the ground.

Naruto wasn't disappointed, Hinata had proved that she isn't worthless like some people thing, but he was mildly surprised the she was able to stand up again, because Neji had gone unnecessarily brutal on her. It was obvious that she couldn't win anymore, but at least she demonstrated that she wasn't, by any means, weak. Neji completely lost all his self-control, and the hatred inside of him overwhelmed him, Neji dashed towards Hinata with every intention of killing his cousin.

Before any of the jounin present could react, Neji was pinned to the wall way from Hinata; Naruto had the Hyuuga prodigy by the neck. "What that hell do you think you're doing?" The blond growled. "Can't you see that she's in no condition of continuing the match?" Naruto asked. "This is none of your concern." Neji growled back glaring at the blond, as he tried to brake free from his hold.

"N-Naruto-kun" Hinata whispered before she felt a pain in her chest and felt unconscious. The sound of the kunoichi hitting the floor distracted Naruto. "Hinata" Naruto said as he looked back without releasing Neji. The black-haired boy took the opportunity and try to connect an attack on the blond, unfortunately for the Hyuuga, Naruto move his body to dodge the attack, immediately released Neji and drove his fist straight to the Hyuuga's chest, leaving the black haired boy gasping for air.

"I promise, I'll going to make you pay for what you did to Hinata." Naruto said low enough for only Neji to hear. After glaring at the black haired boy one last time, Naruto started towards Hinata who was already surrounded by medic-nin.

After a couple of minutes all of the injured were send to receive medical treatment, and the genin that where still in the exam, minus Sasuke, were listening to the Hokage's explanation of the next phase. "Now each one will take a piece of paper." Sarutobi said as Anko, the tokubetsu jounin that was in charge of the second exam, past carrying a box. "Once you take your paper please read the number on it." The Hokage added.

"Four" Shino

"Five" Naruto

"Seven" Gaara

"Two" Temari

"Six" Neji

"One" Shikamaru

"Three" Kankuro

"That means he's eight." Ibiki said, while the Hokage just nodded as Ibiki started to write something, once he finished the Sandaime spoke once again. "The matches for the next round will be: Nara Shikamaru vs. Temari, Kankuro vs. Aburame Shino, Uzumaki Naruto vs. Hyuuga Neji, and Gaara vs. Uchiha Sasuke." Sarutobi said. Immediately a strong killing intent was felt among the present, most of it coming form the Hyuuga prodigy and the blond genin.

"You have one month until the next round begins, I suggest that you take some time to rest and regain your strength before you start training." The Hokage said before he stood up and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto started to make his way out of the arena; he knew it was just a matter of time before Sakura catches up to him. Suddenly an immense pain went through his body; the blond clenched his heart, it hurt every time it beat. "Not again, this has been going for a month now, what is it?" Naruto thought, inside his mind he could hear the fox laughing. "Don't worry kit, you'll find out soon enough." Kyuubi manage to say between his fits of laughter. Naruto thought that only with his luck did he ended up with a demon inside his head, it had been a month now, and Naruto found a way to block Kyuubi form annoying him 24/7, but the fox still found ways to get through. "Asshole" Murmured Naruto before as the pain subsided and he was able to continue on his way.

Tsuuga – Piercing Fang

Juujin Bunshin – Beast-Man Clone

Gatsuuga – Dual Piercing Fang

Akuma Zenshin no Jutsu – Demon Conscience Jutsu (Made it up, inspired by Ikki's Phoenix Genma Ken (Phoenix Illusional Demon Fist) from Saint Seiya)

Ura Renge – Reverse Lotus

Juuken – Gentle Fist