The Hokage did his little speech on friendship between villages then let the next proctor take over.

"Before the 3rd and final round we shall a preliminary round there are to many of you so when you name pops on the board you will fight till a winner is determined. In the fight my word is law so you will listen or you will not pass" the proctor said.

The board started to turn and stopped on Gaara of Suna and Hai from Taki

Both Garra and Hai stood in the in the down in the battle ring.

"Ready" both nodded "fight" the proctor yelled.

Hai took his sword out and rushed Gaara.

Gaara put his hand down to the ground and yelled (Sand Tsunami).
Sand burst from the ground making a giant wave. The sand wave came forward to crush Hai.

After it hit him Hai was out cold and the match was over.

Gaara walked back over to Naruto and Temari.

The board starting moving again. It stop on Fuu from Taki vs Shino Aburame.

Shino walked down the stairs when fuu jumped the railing to the fighting arena.

The proctor looked at both of them. "
Fighters ready" both nodded "Fight" He yelled.

Shino jumped back. " Proctor I give up" Shino said.

"Really your fun at all" The green hair girl said.

"Its only logical that I give up my bugs won't attack you for some reason" Shino stated.

Both went back up to the where there teams where when the board started moving again.

Tenten of Konaha vs Kin of Oto.

Both girls came down and got in too position.

Kin went to for her bell trick but Tenten broke he bells with Kuni. The Tenten jumped in the air and seem to float and hit Kin in the neck with a needle of her own knocking the girl out cold.

The board moved again and a fight was to begin. Naruto of Suna vs Zaku of Oto.

Both hurried down to begin to fight.

"I'm going to blow you away" Zaku said.

"No thanks I have a girlfriend for that I'm not in to guys" Naruto laughed.
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Up in the stands Gaara was laughing at his brother in all but bloods bad taste of a joke.

Temari rolled her eyes.
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Zaku send a blast of wind chakra at Naruto who flickered out of the way.
This went on for a few mins before Zaku got mad.

"Stop running so I can blow you away" Zaku said.

"What's with your obsession with trying to blow me dude. I don't swing that way dude. Its okay if you do but you can't force it on people. That's a no-no bad touch"Naruto laughed.

"That's it I'm done with you" Zaku yelled and more power wind attack at Naruto.

Naruto was laying on the ground. He was out cold.

"Stupid big mouth now ill finish you off" Zaku said.

Zaku put one arm out ready to finish the fight. When in a blink of an eye his whole arm was cut off.

The Naruto that was on the ground was a clone the real one was on the ceiling. Wait for the right time to strike.

Naruto had cut his arm off at the shoulder.

"Oh man my bad looks like your going to need a hand with that" Naruto laughed again as he tried to hand him his own arm back.
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"Kami I hate when he gets like this" Temari said.

Gaara was rolling on the ground "Naruto your too much".
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Zaku was losing lots of blood " I'm still going to kill you for this". As he raised his arm to fire wind chakra one last time.

Naruto used his wind blade at quickly cut of the head of Zaku. He was made the winner. Naruto went back into the stands.

Gaara congratulated Naruto. Temari was happy he wasn't hurt. The board then displayed two new names.

Ino from Konaha vs Sakura from Konaha.

Both girls were yelling about so fan-girlish dream when they both knocked each other out.

Next was Neji from Konaha vs Hinata from Konaha but Hinata quit.

After that the board had Sasuke from Konaha vs Kiba from Konaha.

Kiba was put in a genjutsu from the start and couldn't win. Sasuke smirked in victory and pointed up at Naruto. "Your next dope you will fall before my feet for I am an eilte" as he moved back up to the stands.

The new names on the board were Lee from Konaha vs Chouji from Konaha.

"I'm so going to win this so Sensei will buy me all the BBQ I can eat " Chouji said.

"That is very un-youthful if you eat to much you will get fat" Lee said.

"What do you say Im not Fat" chouji yelled .

"HUMAN BOULDER" Chouji yell again.

As Chouji rolled at Lee. Lee kicked him like a kickball planting him in the ceiling for the win.

Next on the board was Shikamaru from Konaha vs Sai from Konaha.

When they went to fight Shikamaru used his SHADOW POSSESSION JUTSU to stop Sai and made him give up.

Last match Temari of Suna vs Dosu of Oto.

Temari did want to play around and went right for the win.

"WIND TORNADO JUTSU" Temari yelled as Dosu was caught in Tornado. He hit the ground hard. Temari looked at the proctor as she was declared the winner.
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"You all have won month to train the matches for the final are set.

Neji vs Naruto

Temari vs Tenten.

Lee vs Shikamaru.

Fuu vs Gaara

The winner of Neji vs Naruto fights Sasuke for the right to make the second round.
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Everyone started to leave and head back to there hotel rooms.

"So what do you guys want to do go back to Suna or stay here for the month.

"What you should do is stay here and caught up with old friends" a voice said from behind them.

Naruto and his team turned around. To see Tenten and Lee standing behind them.

"It's been a while Naruto we missed you" Lee said.

"I've missed you guys too but let me introduce you guy's to my team. This is Gaara my future brother inlaw. The blonde beauty you see beside me in Temari my bride to be. And this is Tenten and Lee two of my friends from back at the orphanage "Naruto said.

Everyone said hello and got to know each other. They all went out to get Ramen from there favorite place.

Tenten was talking to Naruto for the min when she asked. " So you got your self a fan-girl hun" Tenten teased.

"Hey I'm know fan-girl" Temari glared at Tenten.

"I can tell you are not a fan-girl I just like teasing Naruto here it's been a while since I could do that" Tenten replied.

"So I take it your the girl who was always trying to get him adopted with you" Temari asked.

"Yes he has been my friend since I can remember. Him and Lee are like my brothers I've always tried to look out for them. When he ran away it hurt me and Lee we became ninja just so we could leave the village to go look for our brother. But now we found him and we're happy that he is safe and happy with you guys. So thanks for looking out for him. But I'm not going to go easy on you in the finals because of it" Tenten said.

Temari smirked as her and Tenten watched Lee Gaara and Naruto race each other up and down the street having fun.

"I don't plan on going easy on you either. But thanks for looking out for him I love that boy" Temari said.

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