Start the finals.

The long-awaited day of the finals had finally reached the village of the leaf, many important people eagerly awaited to see the duels of the future ninjas who will have the opportunity to become true Chunin of their respective village.

Hundreds of people entered through the gates of Konoha to have a place in the coliseum and have the privilege of looking not only at the little Genin, but they could see very important people.

Events like the Chunin exam allow seeing powerful Hokages from different villages and even some Daimyo, but seeing them all together in events like this is very difficult because of the conflicts they have between them and that they hide with the peace treaty.

If a Hokage cannot leave his village, he sends a diplomat on his behalf to supervise and analyze the shinobi in his village or other villages, this is what usually happens in most Chunin exams and the case of the Daimyo is the same.

The streets of Konoha were packed with people peacefully waiting for a pass to the coliseum.

After the guards at the gate let all the people pass, many people could see how people with fine clothes entered through a different area, many diplomats could not have a bad appearance as they were a representation of their respective leader.

Diplomats, businessmen, or merchants were also given reserved rooms as a show of respect for their participation in this important event.

Genji arrived at the coliseum with some purple marks on his face, but his Uzumaki blood helped him by healing most of the blows he received from Tayuya and the crazy explosions from him.

Who would have thought that Tayuya had so many explosive blades in his hands that he did not hesitate to use them against Genji?

She and Genji returned to their house the night before so Tayuya could occupy one of the rooms that he was free. From what little she remembers from the anime, she knows that there are curse marks that Orochimaru uses.

The cursed seal that she uses to experiment with people is the one that Tayuya had in her body and marks that she has Anko that keeps a part of Orochimaru's subconscious and be able to revive.

He was tempted to remove Anko's mark with imagine breaker, but he thought twice before using his ability, Genji had no confidence in being able to win over Orochimaru's soul fragment if something went wrong.

That's why he left it the same, but with Tayuya it didn't seem like a problem and even she told him that she felt that her body became a little weak compared to the seal on her body, but that for some reason the ability of her with the rising sound.

Genji shows his identification card to the guards and they pointed out the path he had to take.

He looked around and could see that most of the participants were present, of course except for Sasuke who had yet to arrive.

He greeted his teammates and Temari who gave him some glances. Then he took a firm stance and lined up with the participants so that the audience could get a good look at the future Chunin as they clapped, yelled, and whistled for not putting up with the urge for the exams to begin.

Genma looked at his watch and placed his hand over the communicator to his ear, after listening to the communicator for a moment he announced to the audience, "PEOPLE FROM ALL TOWNS, I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE GETTING STARTED AT THE END OF THE CHUNIN EXAM! ".

People went crazy knowing that they would start the Chunin exam which they applauded with greater excitement.

"MY NAME IS GENMA SHIRANUI AND I AM THE MANAGER OF THE THIRD PART OF THE CHUNIN EXAM, ALL THE PARTICIPANTS AND SOME WORDS FROM THE THIRD HOKAGE ARE RECEIVED WITH A LARGE APPLAUSE!".

People applauded many times and soon the coliseum was silenced for the Hokage to speak.

The third Hokage who was sitting in his chair next to the Kazekage got up to walk around a bit and let people see him better.

"Welcome !!! We are grateful for your presence in the village hidden among the leaves to select the future Chunin of this year. We have reached the finals with twenty participants who passed the difficult tests, we ask you not to withdraw before all the fighting is over and let them enjoy the demonstration of these outstanding young men. "

People screamed with excitement to see what these little Genin who turned into Chunin could do.

With everything ready, Genma who replaced Hayate began to give some simple rules and say that Kankuro's match would put him on hold for the next round after Dosu handed over his resignation from the tournament.

Genji felt that he had forgotten something important with the previous Jounin who supervised the previous matches, but after seeing a few people behaving crazy, he was caught in the fuss that he quickly forgot that thought.

Genma who finished explaining, placed her hand on his ear to listen to the indications.

"Very good for the first meeting it will be between Genji from Konoha and Temari from Suna since we do not have one of the participants we will continue with a small change until he arrives or he will be disqualified," Genma tells them as he continues to listen to the orders being told him through his ear and looks at Genji and Temari.

"Both of you stay, the others can go to the waiting area," Genma tells him, but Temari notices Gaara's gaze, understanding that it was not time for the mission and that they had to wait for the signal so Temari interfered.

"Manager I want to retire so please continue with the next meeting!"

"Que!".

Genji couldn't help but say upon hearing Temari surrender, but he was not the only one who uttered the same words, many people were surprised that the first meeting gave up before it started, causing many people to boo because it all ended before begin to.

However, this would also be seen very badly to see that the daughter of Kazekage himself gave up, this would cause a bad reputation for his father and people would criticize him for not teaching manners to his daughter.

Genma looked at the entire audience and could only sigh for the development of things "Thanks to Temari's retirement, Genji wins by default."

After this rare development, Genma continued with the next fight that would be between Sakura and Shikamaru, while the others went up the stairs and entered a reserved place.

Genji wanted to ask why he gave up, but he didn't say anything and looked at his partner's very important fight.

Sakura started pulling out some shuriken and kunai from her ninja bag, but Shikamaru continued with the same lazy and tired expression as ever.

"What a bummer all this is, but it is also true that a man should not hit a woman," Shikamaru said in annoyance as he dropped a smoke bomb and fled to hide behind a tree.

Sakura admitted that Shikamaru's steps were quick to flee and hide in an area that gave him better control of the shadows.

She knew that she couldn't let her guard down with Shikamaru who started throwing some kunai with explosive tags.

"If he doesn't want to come out of hiding, all he has to do is make him come out voluntarily." She thought Sakura as she kept throwing Kunais around much of the coliseum.

The explosions didn't stop for seconds and raised dust that they couldn't see where Shikamaru was hiding, but Sakura jumped back when she saw Shikamaru's shadow move in her direction.

"DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME CRAZY?" Shikamaru complained to him when he saw the limit of her shadow that it was not enough to touch Sakura's and she returned to normal.

Sakura showed a slight smile as she used her tongue to moisten her lips a little, following the quality that her teacher Anko performed, very followed by her and that she imitated after living with her for 1 month.

She looked for where Shikamaru's voice was produced that made her position known and it was not difficult for her to see the shadow return to her body, Sakura used shuriken with wire thread that she threw in the direction of the shadow, but she wanted to try something that she used Haki on some shuriken to hit the shadow.

The shadow that she received the shuriken with Haki seemed to be returning with greater speed to Shikamaru.

Sakura shows a smile seeing that she could end this fight in an easier way seeing that the shadow only achieved a range of 15 meters, Shikamaru who looked at her smile sweated a bit seeing that Sakura would not be easy with him.

Shikamaru, seeing that he had to think of a way to hold Sakura with her shadow, performed a position of hands that had no ninja use. Something that confused Sakura a bit, but she didn't care much when she saw Shikamaru's eyes widen quickly.

With the plan made by the two of them, they both looked at each other for a moment before it was Sakura who started to move first.

Sakura started running towards Shikamaru as her chakra circulated through her body to improve her speed and she also waited for the right moment to use Haki on her feet as a preventive measure against Shikamaru's shadow.

Shikamaru seeing Sakura running in her direction was something he did not expect and he thought that he would not change her plans much until he saw Sakura perform some hand stamps that he recognized a bit.

Sakura took a deep breath as she inhaled as much air as she allowed into her lungs and… "Katon: Phoenix Flame Jutsu!" Sakura said as she finished all the hand signals and created small fireballs that came out of her mouth and flew in all directions.

Shikamaru, seeing how the small fireballs were approaching, quickly ran to cover a poor tree.

Boom! Small explosions were heard when seeing that the small fireballs exploded some parts of the wall, trees, and the floor of the colosseum with black marks from the fire.

Shikamaru remained behind the tree as he once again sent his shadow and captured Sakura who came within range, but he couldn't help breaking a sweat as he used his Kunai to cover himself from a shuriken that shot out from his left side.

- What the hell -. Shikamaru thought as he swallowed a bit of his saliva from the attack that he did not expect to receive. Shikamaru's thoughts are interrupted when he sees that Sakura placed herself on top of her using her wire strands as support for her.

"Where you least expected it Shikamaru! You may be very clever with your tactics, but Genji told me that you had a fatal weakness when using your shadows." Sakura tells him by using her tongue again with joy and sucking on her pink lips.

Shikamaru leaps back to take a little distance and is not willing to wait for another move from Sakura that sends her shadow on the attack, but Sakura smiles at him as she picks up four shurikens from her bag.

She places two shurikens in each of her hands, then bends her elbows a little to launch them in Shikamaru's direction.

Shikamaru undoes his technique when he sees how two shurikens approached his position and the others were thrown into the sky by Sakura without making any sense to him.

The shuriken was heading forward to hit Shikamaru, but it could be noticed that the two shurikens that were going to Shikamaru were getting a little closer.

Shikamaru got ready to jump to the side and avoid the shuriken, but he didn't expect anything different when he heard a metallic sound as both shurikens collided and one of the shurikens changed direction to wedge into his left rib.

Seeing the weapon on his body, Shikamaru withdraws it and holds the wound with his hand to jump away from Sakura, but he had to roll when he heard the sound of shuriken falling from the sky in the same position where he was standing.

"Tch… are you the same Sakura?" Shikamaru complains to her seeing that she could predict her movements perfectly.

A vein appears on Sakura's forehead upon hearing Shikamaru's comment, "Because you don't give up Shikamaru, your shadows are inefficient against me, as they have the disadvantage that you cannot move from your place when using the shadow and you can only move if you capture your opponent. "

"It seems that you have me as you wanted Sakura, but your threads also produce a shadow," Shikamaru told him to have Sakura's shadow and be able to handle it at will.

Shikamaru confidently walks to Sakura, while Sakura's body makes the same movements as his.

When he's ready to pull out a kunai and ask her to surrender. Sakura's smile grows as she has both feet black, letting Shikamaru's shadow return to her body.

Shikamaru opens his eyes when he sees his shadow return to his body and knows that he made a fatal mistake by having Sakura just a few steps away from him.

These few seconds were enough for Sakura to kick into the body of Shikamaru who was a few steps away from her.

Shikamaru as a last resort tries to use her arms to cover himself from the kick, but Sakura's blow was too strong that he feels both arms fracture from the blow.

Shikamaru's body flies for a few meters before stopping on the ground and lying down for a few seconds without moving further.

Shikamaru had a plan in mind, but the strength he displayed was too much even for him, who decided to pretend he was unconscious only for this encounter to end.

Genma went over to check on Shikamaru, but he didn't have as many fractures as he expected, as even he could hear a cracking sound with such power of force.

"Shikamaru can't continue anymore, the winner of this match is Sakura!"

The audience screams with excitement at the girl's demonstration of handling the situation.

Sakura raises her fist with emotion when she hears that I win the match, - How lucky that the shadow does not work with the Haki, I played it a lot by letting myself be captured by the shadow, but it worked very well, and what a stroke of luck that the shuriken that I throw to the sky they fell into Shikamaru's position.

Sakura thought as she leaped with excitement from her victory and returned to the waiting room, where she was greeted with joy and congratulated by her team.

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