Naruto plans ahead!

Everyone watched as the spinners slowed to a crawl before landing on the next two chosen fighters. Soon as the names stopped spinning, the two contastents were chosen and the proctor called for them to come to the floor.

Naruto Uzumaki VS. Jirobo

The reactions were for the most part of intrigue. Some wondered how Naruto, who had been the dead last in school as Sasuke put it, would handle the new villages strange competitor. One group however, the two mist ninja were sweating a storm at the killing intent Haku was inadvertantly leaking out as she was denied yet again to fight Naruto and would have to wait for her turn yet again. Both Kiri-Genin could tell there would be hell as soon as they got back to the hotel after this.

Naruto looked around to see who his opponent was and, to his surprise ,someone from the other sound team began to walk into the area with a unending hard look on his face. "Naruto-kun, be careful.", Ino said worriedly. After all, the sound shinobi they had fought so far were all strange and weren't like the rest of the nations ninja. Who knew how this big guy would think and how he could fight?

Naruto grinned and patted Ino on the head reassuringly for a moment. "Don't worry Ino-chan, I got this covered.", Naruto replied with a grin as he walked to the stairs and down to the arena floor. "Are both contestants ready?", the examiner asked and, getting a nod from Naruto, he looked to see if the other fighter was.

Jirobo seemed to stare at the apparent sensei of the team, as if asking a silent question. Getting a shake of the head from the Jounin, Jirobo sighed and nodded. "Yeah, I'm ready.", he spoke for the first time as the proctor looked between the two. "Okay. This is the second match... ready? Begin!", he yelled as Naruto jumped back, wanting to put distance between himself and the large sound shinobi before him.

'Have to play this smart. Remember what sensei says, don't charge in! Think it over!', Naruto repeated his lessions in his head as he pulled a kunai from his pouch and held it in his hands. Surprisingly, Jirobo didn't move from his place one bit, not even bothering to uncross his hands, as if he was waiting for something. "You do know the match has started, right?", Naruto asked confusedly as Jirobo just shrugged in reply. "I'm waiting for you to forfeit the match, puny. You're not going to really try and fight me, are you?".

"What did he say?!", Ino asked in shocked outrage that this guy wasn't even taking Naruto seriously at all. Naruto was also getting aggravated by the disrespect he was being shown. "Of course I am, you jerk!", Naruto yelled as he pointed his kunai at the shinobi before him. "I won't back down, no matter what! Because one day, I'm going to be the Hokage of this village.", Naruto said determinedly, making Jirobo stare at him with a sudden grin.

"Hokage, huh? Well, then you have to be strong to lead a village and you don't look like you could lead anything more complex then a bug!", Jirobo stated as he unfolded his arms. "What was that?", Naruto asked in anger. This guys total lack of respect was getting on his nerves fast. Jirobo, instead of answering right away, walked over to one of the walls of the room and replied "I'll show you real strength!".

Then he did something that made the entire group of shinobi stare in shock. He thrusted his arms through the wall and started pulling a chunk of it out, making Naruto stare as he held a piece as large as a large cart in his hands and said "You wanted a fight, puny? Well, here you go!", he yelled before throwing the boulder in his hands at Naruto. Naruto just barely jumped out of the way as the rock flew towards him, missing him by inches and impacting on the wall behind him.

"You're strong.", Naruto commented in a bit of excitement as he finally got the fight he had been called for. Not that he wasn't going to just do a suicidal charge at the Otokagure ninja before him, but now he could show off his skills he had learned.

As naruto charged, Ino and Sakura couldn't help but look on worriedly. They weren't the only ones, since Tenten and Hinata were doing the same. Also, most of the guys in the room who were on friendly terms with Naruto looked on in concern. "He's a strong one. Up against a guy like that, Naruto doesn't have may options.", Shikamaru said as Choji worriedly ate from his seemingly never ending bag of chips.

Kiba growled out and under his breath, he said "Come on, Naruto. You're better than this guys is.". Shino, who was standing right next to Kiba, commented, "This will be a hard match for him, but giving Narutos personality, it will be a hard match to predict.".

Kurenai, seeing her students worried about their teammate walked up and put a hand on their shoulders, getting their attention as she smiled comfortingly. "Relax, you two. You know Naruto wont let this stop him, but he needs you two to be strong and believe he can do it to win.", Kurenai smiled warmly ,making her two students nod their heads before returning their attention to the match.

Naruto growled in frustraion. This guy was insanely strong. Even if Naruto got close enough to hit him it, probably wouldn't do much good. A whole ten minutes of the fight was of Naruto just dodging the things Jirobo threw at him and trying to ge his own attacks in, tossing a kunai every now and them only for it to be blocked by whatever th large shinobi was holding.

"What's wron? I thought you wanted to fight? Changed your mind, you puny punk?" Jirobo taunted as he tossed another thing at Naruto. Naruto tried to think of a solution to this. So far, he was having no problem avoiding attacks from his opponent, but how was he going to win the match? Naruto however suddenly recalled what Kurenai had taught them about fighting larger and stronger opponents.

Grinning, Naruto began taunting Jirobo as he ran, ducked, and dodged everything the shinobi sent his way. "What's wrong are you as dumb as you are ugly? Or are all your brains in that gut of yours?", Naruto yelled, inciting Jirobo as his temper started to rise. "Shut up, you punk!", he yelled, to which Naruto replied "Make me!".

"Is he insane?", Kiba asked as the sound of one redheaded Sound kunoichi laughing filled the room, "He's only making it worse!". Shikamaru however grinned. "No, he's being smart.", the lazy ninja said, realizing Narutos game.

As Jirobo began to grow more and more agitated with each moment the blond shinobi mocked him, he suddenly stopped throwing pieces of the now cratter ridden wall and yelled "I'm going to make you eat those words!". Naruto cheekily replied "Good! Because I don't think you need anymore food yourself!". Jirobo charged Naruto as if to tackle him, but before he could do that something grabbed his leg and tripped him.

Jirobo caught sight of several Naruto clones grabbing his arms and legs as they jumped from their hiding places among the remains of the wall. "What the hell?", Jirobo yelled as the real Naruto charged him, jumping onto his back and grabbing him in a **** hold and held on for dear life. What insued was one of the strangest battles the leaf ninja had ever seen. Naruto wasn't even throwing a puch to beat his opponent.

Instead, Jirobo seemed to be turning a bit blue as his oxygen was cut off. Even as he struggled, it seemed an endless number of Naruto copies were trying to hold his arms down. 'Damn it! I cant use my cursed seal! If I do, I'll break the masters orders!', Jirobo thought as he tried to wave the clones on his arms off.

But even someone like Jirobo needed to breathe and as his face slowly became more and more colorful, his movements slowed to a crawl. His last thought in his mind was that it really didn't matter if he won anyway. His mission was completed for now and it was up to the rest of his team to do their parts. Finally, Jirobo passed out on the spot from Narutos hold.

Several clones were crushed under the immense weight of the shinobi and poofed out of existance while the real Naruto breathed heavily from his wild ride. "I'm never doing this again", Naruto said to himself as he stepped away from his passed out opponent. "The winner of the match is Naruto Uzumaki!", the proctor said evenly and the gathered shinobi were amazed.

Naruto's girlfriends all cheered for him as he waved up to his team. A lot of talk went between Narutos friends on how he had won the match, but with him being the number one unpredictable ninja in the village, Naruto had shown a good deal of planning. Naruto walked up the stair to the sight of his teammates waiting for him. "Good job, Naruto-kun!", Ino said, showing off her perfect smile as Sakura nodded.

"Well done, Naruto. Looks like you've listened to my advice after all.", Kurenai said with a smile as he rubbed his neck. "It was only because you taught us so well, Kurenai-sensei. If you hadn't, I'm sure I would have lost in less then half of how long the match went. You're a great teacher!", Naruto commented, making Kurenai smile with a slight blush. "Why thank you, Naruto."

Eventually, even Lee's shouting of how youthful Naruto was in beating his opponent died down low enough for the examiner to call for the next match. And the names yet again began to spin wildly...