"Come with me."
Anko glanced at Naruto and the others and said.
She walked towards the tower, and Naruto and the others looked around curiously.
Not long after, after passing through a corridor, a huge arena appeared in front of everyone.
In the center of the arena, there was a stone engraved hand seal.
Beside him, there were many figures standing tall and proud.
Wood Leaf and the Sand Ninja mentors.
"Waterstop -sensei!"
"Kakashi -sensei!"
Naruto and Sakura waved to their respective sensei.
Waterstop smiled and nodded at them, while Kakashi's eyes were staring at the book in his hand.
Hearing Sakura's call, he raised his eyes and waved at Sasuke.
"What, it seems that Sensei doesn't care whether we really passed the exam or not …" Sakura said. After waving at them, Kakashi's eyes continued to fall on the book in his hand.
Sasuke didn't care and continued to observe the duel.
"Haha, congratulations to everyone, you passed the second exam smoothly."
At this moment, a hearty laughter fell in everyone's ears.
"Dad?"
"Dad?"
Following this extremely familiar voice, Naruto, Qianyou, and everyone suddenly looked in the direction of the voice and raised their eyes.
On the second floor of the arena, a golden-haired man in a white haori was looking down.
It was Watergate.
Watergate heard Naruto and Sakura's call and looked at them and nodded with a smile.
"Yondaime Naruto!?"
The rest of the people, especially the Sand ninjas, when they saw Minato, their eyes were filled with shock.
Because Watergate's name is too famous in today's ninja world.
The name of Konoha's Golden Flash still exists.
But when Minato actually stood in front of them, the difference from what they had imagined was simply too great.
Because of Nine-Tailed Chakra, even now in his thirties, Watergate's appearance hasn't changed much compared to that year.
The gentle smile on his face makes it hard to connect him with the flash that made all the ninja countries tremble in fear in the Shinobi World War.
My Love, who has always been indifferent, also inadvertently looked at Watergate.
"Boom!"
His heart trembled violently, and My Love's face changed dramatically.
"It's … It's afraid?"
My Love clearly felt that the monster in his body was afraid of Naruto's eyes.
This was almost unbelievable to him.
He clearly didn't feel any dangerous aura from the man in front of him.
My Love didn't know that in the third ninja world war, Watergate once fought with Shukaku.
And that confrontation ended with Shukaku's defeat.
Watergate also felt the fluctuation of Shukaku in My Love's body, and slightly raised his eyebrows.
His eyes swept all the candidates, the list of candidates who passed the second survival trial is not much different from what he estimated before.
Shikamaru, Kiba, Sasuke, Naruto, although they are all newcomers, most of them are the heirs of the famous families in Wood Leaf.
They have been trained since childhood, of course, ordinary people can't compare with them.
Wood Leaf has been established for decades, and there are only a few strong representatives among the civilian ninjas.
Except for himself, there are only a few people.
Most of the backbone of the village is still from the major families.
"Next, Naruto -sama, please explain the third test!" At this time, Anko wearing a headset said.
Everyone looked at Watergate.
Watergate's face was serious, and he began a simple explanation.
The general content is that the so-called Joint Chunin Exam is like a small war between major countries.
Through the exam, the quality and strength of the new generation of ninjas are tested and used as a reference.
These factors will affect the number of tasks accepted by a ninja village, political diplomacy, and so on.
Even if today's Wood Leaf has Watergate's existence, and the position of the leader of the five major ninja countries, after all, the tasks are carried out by the people below.
Therefore, if the client wants to give the task to Wood Leaf, Naruto's performance in the Chunin Exam is also very important.
After Watergate's brief introduction, a Wood Leaf ninja fell in front of Naruto.
He was carrying a ninja sword on his back, and from his face, his physical condition didn't seem to be very good.
"My name is Hayate Gekko, and I will serve as your judge." The man said.
"Judge?" Everyone was stunned.
Hayate Gekko nodded and said, "In fact, the number of people who passed the second test is still too many."
"So, next, all of you will face a qualifier."
"Only by winning the qualifier can you be qualified to advance to the third test."
"How can this be …"
Sakura's expression changed slightly. This Chunin Exam is much more difficult than she thought.
"Next, everyone will come here to draw lots to determine the opponents in the qualifier."
Hayate Gekko didn't talk too much. Behind him, a Chunin staff member came over with a white box.
"There are eight groups of twenty-four people in the field, and the qualifier will be divided into twelve rounds."
"In the box, there are twelve balls of two colors with the same number."
"People who draw the same number are in the same group, that is, opponents."
"The numbers are from low to high, representing the order of appearance."
The staff member took the box to Naruto and the others, and they drew lots.
“1”
Looking at the number in his hand, Naruto was a little stunned. He didn't expect to draw the first round.
He immediately looked at Shane, whose number was "7", and Shin got "11".
"Great, we are not in the same group."
Shane smiled, and at this time, she went to Sasuke.
Sasuke got "2", Sakura got "6", and the number in Sasuke's hand was "11".
"In that case, Shin and Sasuke are going to fight."
Naruto's face changed. The relationship between these two people is very good.
But he didn't expect that they would meet in the qualifier.
"Sasuke, you have to work hard, I won't be merciful."
Shin smiled at Sasuke.
"Well, I will do my best to fight Shin-senpai!" Sasuke also chuckled.
"These two people are really strange."
Seeing the two opponents showing a gentle smile to each other, Naruto raised his eyebrows.
...
"Naruto -sama, this is the list of the qualifiers."
The staff member handed a statistical table to Watergate.
Group 1: Minato Naruto VS Kaze Yamagawa
Group 2: Uchiha Sasuke VS Inuzuka Kiba
Group 3: My Love VS Nishimajo
...
Group 6: Haruno Sakura VS Yamanaka Ino
Group 11: Shin VS Sasuke
"The first round …"
After Watergate saw the list, he smiled and glanced at Naruto below, who was eager to try.
Naruto's opponent is Wood Leaf Ninja, who is several years older than him.
After reading the list, he returned it to the staff member again and disappeared in an instant.
So far, Naruto and Sen You have been guided by him, Shinna Kushina, Jiraiya -sensei, and Tsunade -sensei.
So, after seeing the list of the qualifiers, he has already determined that Naruto and Sen You will advance, and there is no need to look at it.
...
After the groups were determined, the qualifiers officially began!
Naruto stood in the duel arena, and the opponent standing opposite him was much taller than him.
"Onii-san, come on!" Sen You cheered him loudly.
"Well." Naruto nodded heavily, looked back, and stared at his opponent intently.
"The first round, begin!"
With Hayate Gekko's voice fell, the first round officially began.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Naruto used all his strength as soon as he came up, and hundreds of shadow clones covered the ground and the walls of the arena.
His opponent was shocked, and this person has never encountered an enemy like Naruto.
After a few battles, Naruto won the first round as expected.
Naruto jumped and landed next to Sen You, and looked at Sasuke with a rather proud expression.
Sasuke was too lazy to pay attention to him, and jumped and landed in the duel arena.
He raised his eyes and looked at Kiba in front of him indifferently.
Kiba used the same secret technique passed down in his family, Inuzuki-ryū.
Akamaru, who has been following him, is his fighting partner, and under the cooperation of one person and one dog, their combat power skyrocketed.
Facing him, Sasuke was not easy.
However, there was still a gap in strength between the two sides. Under the combination of Sasuke's delicate Shuriken and Fire Release Ninjutsu, Akamaru temporarily lost his combat power, and Kiba was knocked down.
"That child's technique is different from the average Uchiha …" Kiba was defeated, and his instructor Kurenai frowned slightly and commented on Sasuke's fighting style.
"Hehe."
Waterstop chuckled, Sasuke's fighting style is very similar to one person.
His brother, Uchiha Itachi.
...
The third round.
My Love's opponent was also a Wood Leaf ninja.
Facing him, no matter how he attacked, he couldn't even break the defense formed by the sand on the surface of his body.
Finally, when Nishimajo was almost exhausted, My Love raised his hand, and the sand in the gourd behind him gathered and turned into a big hand, and grabbed the former.
At the same time, My Love looked at the high platform, Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji were looking at him with a bit of ridicule in his eyes.
My Love was telling them in this way that this is their fate.
Immediately, his hand slowly clenched.
"Ah!!"
Saijo's scream resounded throughout the arena.
"This guy!"
Naruto was angry, and Sasuke and Neji were also frowning.
The big hand formed by the sand gradually oozed blood.
As soon as My Love let go, Saijo's body fell softly.
"The winner of the third round, My Love!"
Hayate Gekko announced the result with a dignified face, and then Wood Leaf's medical ninja appeared beside Saijo.
"Don't worry, I won't kill him." My Love grinned and jumped on the high platform.
...
The game continued.
Sakura and Ino, who were both friends and opponents, met in the qualifiers, and although the battle wasn't very beautiful, it was still very exciting.
In the end, both of them exhausted their strength at the same time, and it ended in a draw.
The seventh round, Minato vs Kankuro!
In the arena, Minato's delicate little face was slightly angry, staring at Kankuro in front of her.
Before the start of the Chunin Exam, Kankuro and others looked for trouble with Naruto, plus Kankuro's malicious interference in the first exam and My Love's cruel means to Wood Leaf's ninja.
Now, Minato was disgusted with the sand ninjas in front of her.
Whoosh!
As soon as Hayate Gekko announced the start of the battle, Minato's figure turned into a golden light and rushed toward Kankuro.
Kankuro didn't dare to have the slightest neglect and directly summoned his puppet to fight.
Although this guy is annoying, his strength is really good.
With the cooperation of the puppet, even Minato couldn't get close to him smoothly.
After the two sides fought for more than a dozen rounds, Minato turned her hand and held a strangely shaped Kunai in her palm.
"Buzz."
As her palm slowly clenched, there was a faint wind blade lingering on the Kunai.
"Is that Naruto -sama's special Kunai?"
On the high platform, the crowd was shocked when they saw Minato's movements.
"She can already inject Chakra into the Kunai!" Sarutobi Asuma murmured.
Minato was able to grasp Tsunade's strange power, indicating that her manipulation of Chakra has reached an extremely delicate level.
Therefore, she can still manipulate the Chakra nature of the wind.
Minato's figure flashed again, and the target was the Chakra line controlled by Kankuro's puppet.
The Chakra line was directly cut off by Minato.
Kankuro didn't have a chance to control the puppet again, and Minato's figure rushed over.
After a few rounds, the girl, who was shorter than him, pointed the tip of the Kunai at his throat.
The anger in that pair of beautiful azure eyes had yet to completely fade.
She gritted her teeth, then slammed her fist on Kankuro's chest.
"Puff!"
A terrifying strange force directly caused Kankurang to cough up blood and fly out. Then, he crashed into the wall of the Duel Arena.
Kankuro's body was directly embedded in the wall.
After obtaining victory, Qian You rushed back to the high platform. Only then did her tense expression slowly relax.
Those who were familiar with her all showed an incredible expression.
From childhood to adulthood, even Naruto had never seen Minato get angry and hit someone so hard.
However, in this battle, if it was him, he would only be more ruthless than Minato.
Minato's ruthlessness made the ninjas on Wood Leaf's side excited.
Everyone's eyes looked at My Love.
The latter, who was crossing her arms, indifferently glanced at Kankuro, who was being carried away by Wood Leaf's medical ninja, and snorted.
"What a waste!"
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