Finals

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"Why is he not here yet?" murmured Hanabi.

She was here, standing in the qualifiers compartment at the battle field.

The field was packed with ninjas of different villages cramping up every nook and corner of the field. There were some from Konoha, Kiri, Kumo, Iwa and the most eye grabbing Suna.

Everyone of the participants had come along with all the staff and audience. The chief guest along with the Kages' were also on their way to the field. The only ones missing were Reo and Sasuke.

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"Why is Sasuke not here yet?" exclaimed Sakura in the audience up above the participants compartment, "He was training with Kakashi Sensei. Did he also get into the habit of arriving late?"

"Calm down Sakura," said a woman siting with her. Her facial features resembled with Sakura and it could be seen in a glance that the mature lady was none other than her mother.

"Mom, I feel a bit restless. This is the finals and there will be Hokage judging the matches. How could he be running late on such an occasion." said Sakura in a worried manner.

"Honey, have some faith in your teammate. It is faith that binds us all with one another. You must trust him. He is sure to have his reasons of not coming uptill now. Right?" comforted her mother.

Sakura nodded on the surface but still her heart was jumping up and down. She was worried for the seal Sasuke had on his neck and grew tense as she thought further and further down the line.

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"Hanabi remember that you must perform better than Neiji, and in case you get a match against him, don't worry and take him heads on. He won't try to land an attack on you and hence, you could easily finish him off." said Hiashi as he walked Hanabi towards the resting place for all the participants.

"And remember," Hiashi lowered his voice as he continued, "if you fight against someone else, try to give it your all. I will be watching over you from the stands."

"Um," replied Hanabi with a weak voice, "understood."

"Good." said Hiashi as he walked back to the stands where all the audience were stationed.

"But," Hanabi looked over at the entrance, as her voice contained worry and  anxiety, "Reo..."

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"I am looking forwards to today's performance."

"Yeah, today would be the very day our village chunins would be selected. But why did they have to hold such a bif competition?"

"Oh, don't you know? It's because on the face of competition, it's held to get down any rivalries that are shared by the villages with one another."

"Huh...?"

"Yeah, you heard it right, since these ninjas' can't compete on open and above, they use the secondary method of conduction such competitions to contest any rivalries that are help down within them."

Everyone in the audience was chatting with each other until someone yelled out.

"Everyone stop your discussions, the kages' of Konoha and Suna Village are about to step in."

Along with shout out, two figures draped in white overcoats came in the audience's field of view. One of them, was wearing a hat with the symbol of Hidden Leaf - Sarutobi Hiruzen, the present Hokage. And the other was representing the Suna Village. His face was hidden from the crowd, but everyone with a good eyesight could sense that he was a powerful individual.

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"Sasuke..." whispered Naruto, "where are you, idiot?"

"Hey Naruto," a voice came from his back, "the instructors came down and told me convey that you would be finals will be started with you and Neiji taking on each other."

"Shikamaru!" Naruto looked over and saw Shikamaru informing him as he replied, "yeah! understood."

He, then stood up and prepared to move to the stadium on his call.

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Unknown to all the events and happenings that were happening inside the field, Reo was running along his way to get to location as fast as he can.

"Man, who picked the spot for the finals to be so far," complained Reo but his foots were continuously on the move, "If I knew earlier, then I would not have wasted so much of my precious time sleeping from the fatigue."

Yesterday, Reo spent all his time get used to the "Mystic Shadow" technique that he comprehended. And because of practicing till the morning, he slept thinking that the venue for the finals was at the same place where the trials were held, so the mix up.

He was lucky that he found it out at the right time, or else he could very well miss his fight on the big day of the finals.

"And finally," mused Reo as he came to a stop standing in the front of the finals' venue, "I'm here"

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As soon as Reo entered the stadium, a voice rang out.

"Match 1: Naruto Uzumaki v/s Neiji Hyuga"

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