Today is day chunin finals will be held, even though I want to participate in chunin, I can't. today all of us, Uzumaki's were going to see the Nurumi battles. I hope something bad is not going to happen.
Soon we reached battle stadium and waiting for battle to start. Next to me Karin sat with lots of snacks, I have to say she can fight with Choji in this aspect. Due to her special Uzumaki bloodline, she needs to consume lot of food to maintain proper body condition.
I started to look around to find familiar faces, it's been long time that I met with other people. After looking around I found familiar faces, team 8, Kiba and Hinata. After looking at her pale face I am shocked, 'something is wrong with Hinata. I have to look at her condition'.
I told to others that I will come in a minute and I moved towards Hinata, just as I near her, she also looked at me and tried to stand up suddenly. But due to her body condition she fell forward and I caught her. Her face is looking pale white, her lips dried and a blood is oozing at the end of her lips, over all her looking at her complexion is too bad.
Looking at her I felt pain in my heart. This is not due to love, but her affection to us, me or Nurumi is genuine. She always there to support us and stands for us. In my heart she is brave and dashing kunoichi.
Next to me Kiba is looking at us silently, I know he also wants to talk with me but decided not to. I decided to cure her, ignoring other people gages at me. I looked at her blocked pressure points and I gently touched those points and passes my chakra into those. Due to healing properties of my chakra, it can cure up to certain points, but to cure other people it needs precise chakra control.
After fifteen minutes I eased her pain, "Kiba take her to medic immediately. Don't waste any time."
Kiba nodded at me and took her moved towards exit and I looked at leaving figure. As they left the exit another figure with mask who is staring at me intensively. I felt chills, my felt something is wrong this person, but decided to ignore and moved to my place, since the first match between Nurumi and Neji is going to start.
Hokage stands, take a puff of smoke and releases and speak, "welcome all, our deepest thanks for coming here to the village hidden in leaves for this year chunin selection. We have come to the final competition between the candidates who made it through the preliminaries. We ask no one leave until all the matches completed. Now everyone enjoys"
As old man announced the beginning of finals, in the field a referee, Genma-san stand in the centre of the field and faces all the candidates, "alright! Listen up, the terrain is different but rules are the same as before. That is there are no rules. Match continuous to until one candidate acknowledges defeat or dies. That being said if I determines the match is over, I can step in and stop it at anytime and no arguments permitted. UNDERSTAND?"
"For the first match, Nurumi Uzumaki and Neji Hyuga. These two stays and the rest of you can go to waiting area."
Now Nurumi and Neji were the only people standing in the arena. Nurumi faces Neji and rises her fist, "I will win this match no matter what?"
Genma-san, "alright, now let the first match begins"
Nurumi throws three kunai at Neji and he caught one and deflects the second and third kunai with first. Nurumi runs towards Neji with a punch and Neji deflected it with palm. Nurumi tries to kick Neji which is avoided by Neji. Nurumi takes distance and moves to his front and throws series of punches aiming at his face, which were avoided by Neji moving his head to side.
Neji takes a step forward and attacks with a gentle palm on her chest and tries to hit Nurumi's shoulder chakra point using his hand but Nurumi avoids just before it touches chakra point with her quick reflexes. She takes ten feet distance from Neji.
Nurumi, "lets step-up to next level", makes hand seals, "shadow clone technique"
Soon ten more clones appear around original Nurumi. The Nurumi clones are looking more solid than other's clones, which surprised everyone.
"Your clones may distract others but not me", Neji activated his Byakugan and shocked. Audience was waiting eagerly for Neji's next move.
Looking at Neji who is sweating, I felt funny. Karin, "hey..! Naruto why are you smiling?"
"you see Nurumi shadow clone works differently compare to others. Unlike other clone jutsu which is D rank, Nurumi's clone jutsu divided the total user's chakra equally among clone. Since she has ten clones, each clone has one tenth of chakra, makes them undistinguishable even to Byakugan user. That's why this jutsu is classified a forbidden jutsu even to most of jonins"
Karin is shocked and looked at Nurumi closely to see her condition. Looking at her, I decided to clarify her doubt, "don't think too deeply, us Uzumaki has enormous amount of chakra compare to others. We will be fine up to some extent."
Looking at Neji who is not making any move, Nurumi clones attacked Neji. Kunai attacks, fist attacks were all rain down on Neji. But all attacks were deflected by Neji. As expected, defeating Neij is not as easy as possible for Nurumi at least for now.
Neij, "you thought you can beat me with your little clone jutsu. Indeed, that surprised me. But it can't change the outcome this match. You see these eyes of mine shown me, people's limitations are set fixed and unchangeable. Only fool waste their time trying to become something they can never be"
Nurumi looks frustrated. Looking at her losing control, I decided to intervene, "Nurumi…!".
Nurumi who heard my voice looked at me, I just smiled at her and my fist. I know this won't change anything at all, but this our way of convey our feeling to each other.
Nurumi finally calmed and laughed, "a fool haa... indeed, I may be a fool compared to my brother. But compared to you, a self-hypocrite, I am not. Be josh you are facing my brother. Let's fight seriously now, since my brother bored. I want to end this battle quickly."
She put hand seal, "shadow clone jutsu", soon thirty clones of Nurumi appear from puff of smoke and started to attack Neji. The battle between Neji and Nurumi started.
After continuous attacks, Neji moves towards a specific clone, "you are the one controlling others and keeping distance from me out of fear"
Neji appear infront of Nurumi and punches hard. Nurumi burst into smoke and disappear. All other Nurumi appear around Neji and attacks him,
"told you don't underestimate me"
Just before the attack is going to connect to them Neji executes a rotation technique, "Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven", blows away everything around his arm's length, including the floor. I have to say this technique is bothering me. But I am sure Nurumi can break this.
Nurumi is on ground, slowly stands up and wipes the blood trail leaks from mouth corner.
"shadow clone jutsu", ten clones were formed around Nurumi and moves towards Neji to attack him. Again, Neji uses "Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven" to deflect all incoming attacks.
The clones attacked Neji were burst into smoke blocks Neji's vision. Neji stopped rotation and looked at smoke, suddenly a kunai comes at him. Neji stops it with his hand.
After few seconds the smoke disappears, Neji and audience were waiting to see what happened. The smoke that filled the arena is cleared and Neji with kunai in his hand is standing in the center of the arena. But Nurumi is no where to be seen.
Just everyone is searching for Nurumi, the kunai in Neji hand is burst into smoke. From that smoke a fist moved towards Neji chick at high speed. Just Neji noticed the burst of smoke from his hand, a fist flying at him and hit his chick powerfully, which send him flying and fell on earth.
From that smoke Nurumi appeared. Entire crowd were burst into uproar. After a minute, Genma-san checked Neji, who is not moving and declared, "winner of first match is NURUMI UZUMAKI"
Looking at Nurumi, who is jumping in happy, I decided to go hospital to check on Hinata.
"ma… I am going to see Hinata, I will return by Nurumi match"
Kushina, "ok…! Take care of her. We will see her again evening"
-------------------- AFTER THIRTY MINUTES ----------------------
I arrived at hospital; By the time I arrived at her ward Hinata mother along with Kiba is talking with doctor and Hinata is sleeping on bed. Soon doctor left, she is much better now and soon healed completely in a week of complete rest.
Hinata mother, "thankyou Naruto, if not for your help she would have been in much danger by the time she reached hospital."
I felt awkward by her formal talking. Usually she talks much friendlier, I felt I am avoided.
"aunty, you don't need to say thanks, I will always Hinata and don't make me out sider"
I told her in impulse, after telling her I realized the words are miss leading. But I decided to play innocent.
Hinata mother surprised at my sudden declaration and looking at my innocent expressing, she laughed ambitiously, "hoo… then little Naruto I will entrust my daughter to you"
I felt chills, but I can't escape from this situation now. So, I decided to pass on.
Since Hinata is ok, I decided to go to arena to watch battles. But Hinata mother stopped me and told me to watch over her for some time.
After two hours, I decided to go to arena, since Nurumi battle is going to start. But that's when something unexpected happened. As I am about to leave hospital, we heard a loud roar from the direction of arena and multiple explosions.
I started to run towards arena and reached arena in ten minutes. By the time I reach arena, all civilians were sleeping may be due to genjutsu. Some Konoha shinobi were fighting with Suna and Oto shinobi and some Konoha shinobi were evacuating civilians. A big purple barrier is erected in a place where old man is sitting, but I decided to ignore for now.
I moved towards mother and others. Big sister Honoka and Karin were helping to evacuate civilians while Mother, Rin-san were battling three Suna shinobi. I moved behind a Suna shinobi and killed by cutting his neck. Other two were distracted by my attack and were killed by mother and Rin-san.
Mother, Rin-san and me were discussion our next plan.
I said, "We will have to move to shelter first. This time we were exposed and other will definitely will attack us later."
I can guess a lot of people were hiding in shadow for us, but others may not be a problem as root, lets discuss about root later.
But mother is against my idea, "but this is not the best option. Instead of hiding in shelter, we better introduce ourselves to the world. We use this invasion to gain strong foothold to face future problems. Using merits from this invasion we can gain support from the village"
Rin-san also voted for mother, "since our enemy were in dark, instead of fighting in dark, we will stand in light and drag them into light."
Looking at mother and Rin-san, I can only accept their suggestion. Thinking again, I do feel why not take a daring step instead of hiding in dark. Since all were know about us by now, we can simply announce to the rest of the world.
Rin-san and Karin were going to help medic team. Mother, big sis Honoka were going to help Uchiha police force in civilian evacuation. As for me, I decided to check up on Nurumi and then ensure others safety.
I moved to contestant area in arena and found no one is present except Ino and others.
"Ino where is Nurumi and others?"
Ino surprised by looking at me and told me, "Naruto, Sasuke followed the Suna shinobi and later Sakura, Nurumi, Shino and Shikamaru were followed Sasuke."
I nod, "ok! You just escape to shelters and help civilians since you are Konoha shinobi now. But make sure you are safe"
I told her and moved towards mother and big sis Honoka, to help them.