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The finals were held in arena in center of Konoha. A lot of civilians had come to watch it, there wasn't many shinobi in the crowd only senseis of genin who passed and some of genin who participated earlier. Everyone was waiting for arrive of Hokage. Some of the participants were already there.
Hokage arrived a five minutes early and was followed by Mito, Anko, Kakashi and Orochimaru. And of course Anbu. While Anko and Kakashi had to go to stage, Hokage and rest of the group had to go to gallery. Hokage seemed satisfied by the crowd and eagerness of genin participants. Hokage began his speech :" Genin of Konoha, you are hope of this village, you will the next weilders of great will of fire, be proud of yourself, show us what you got." many genin were inspired by those words, while civilians were awed.
Some of the civilians saw Mito and started spreading rumors like Hokage - sama and his pupil seemed to be very close and he even brought his favorite student.
Hokage gave signal and the genin started to draw a number. 1 would fight 2 and so on. After drawing it was decided that Hayate would fight Fu, Shisui would fight the other genin, Rin would fight Kurenai, Genma would fight Asuma, Ibiki would fight Raido, and Obito would fight Guy. Mito was satisfied she could see that everyone was matched equally except Shisui.
The first fight was the one Mito was most afraid of. She whispered to Hokage :" Fu - San, has a Uzumaki seal on his tongue."
Hokage looked at her and tried to keep his face as stoic as possible. The first match started. Both Hayate and Fu stood there, Fu was first who took his blade out, Hayate then took his out. They both rushed forward meeting in the middle of the arena, the clash was loud but it seemed it was a stale. Hayate was faster than Fu but Fu managed to block all of the strikes. Fu still looked like he had something up his sleeve he didn't show any emotion on his face. Well that is because Danzo training. However when Hayate started using his technique with illusionary swords he got advantage over him. The battle seemed to be one sided but Fu wasn't going down. In fact it looked like he was waiting Hayate to tire himself out. But Mito knew that wasn't going to happen. After getting cured, Hayate worked so hard on his stamina that he could last over a hour fighting. In the middle of the fight Fu sword broke down, just like Mito when she fought Hayate. He started throwing kunai which had paper bombs on them. The explosion was strong but Hayate managed to dodge all of them. Fu was out of options he had to use his family jutsu. He started forming seals but was stopped when a hand with blade was on his neck. Apparently Hayate wasn't using his full speed until the end. Fu had to surrender.
Everybody was impressed by the show, except Hokage and Mito. Hokage tried his best to stay calm apparently Danzo knew how to train clans secret jutsu, which wasn't allowed outside of the clan that jutsu belong to. The next match wasn't as interesting. Shisui had a easy job. He didn't even used any chakra he just run straight at his opponent and knocked him out. The crowd wasn't as pleased with this fight.
The next fight was between Rin and Kurenai. Civilians weren't excited about this one, because they thought that Rin and Kurenai were weak. After all they were woman. Mito was happy that those two would fight each other. Because they were perfect opponents for each other. Or they were worst opponents by everyone else standards. Rin stood confidently and didn't look unsecur. She was ready, Kurenai too looked confident. The match started by genjutsu, which Rin broke in few seconds and Kurenai didn't manage to decrease distance between them too much, she still wasn't in range. Rin reaction was to jump backwards and increase the distance because Kurenai had a momentum. Rin managed to make enough distance and rushed forward and now she had same amount of momentum as Kurenai did. They made a contact. They were blocking each other hits, Kurenai was at disadvantage she could barely keep up with Rin. So she took out kunai first and Rin followed. Rin managed to have advantage even in this kind of combat. It looked like Rin would win until Kurenai got her with kunai. Kurenai was going to take her down now, nut Rin secretly healed herself with chakra. She used almost all of her reserves and surprised unguarded Kurenai. The match was over with Kurenai surrendering.
Thr next fight was between Genma and Asuma. Mito smiled softly at Genma and totally ignored Asuma. She got glance from both Hokage and Orochimaru. She dared them to say anything with her eyes. Hokage obviously favored Asuma while both Orochimaru and Mito favored Genma. Mito didn't know why Orochimaru favored Genma but it seemed like he didn't get along with Asuma. The fight was at beginning stalemate. Both Genma and Asuma were very good at taijutsu and neither had a advantage. However once Genma created a distance between them, the balance was of, Asuma obviously tried his ninjutsu but his attacks were easy to dodge because he was reserving chakra, so it turned that Genma with his senbons had advantage, he was extra precise he could predict were Asuma would be every one of his senbons left some kind of mark on Asuma body, some were just minor scratches and some were more serious but not deathly. Asuma was still standing even though he had so many injuries he was standing on his willpower. Genma seemed to respect that and decided to finish him with knocking him with senbons. Asuma was down he fell like a sack of potatoes. Hokage seemed surprised by events, he still seemed proud of his son he could see how he tried his best, but maybe he still wasn't ready to become a chunin. The crowd was surprised the Hokage son lost.
The next match was Ibiki VS Raido. The fight was equal the whole time. While Raido had advantage in speed, Ibiki had advantage at strength, Raido attacked first trying to surprise Ibiki, but Ibiki managed to block most of the attacks. Ibiki tried using ninjutsu but every time Raido would attack him before he could finish his seals. Ibiki however managed to scratch Raido few times with his kunai.
The fight was intense but Mito knew that Raido would manage to win because she knew he wasn't using his full speed not even half of it. Even though he didn't wear anything that slowed him down he could move faster like he did when he would spar against her. As the battle progressed, Ibiki seemed to slow down more and Raido speed up. The fight suddenly was in Raido favor. Raido moved so fast that some of civilians couldn't keep up with him, Ibiki had surrendered when he felt like Raido was still holding back a lot. He wasn't satisfied with himself but wasn't as nearly disappointed as he thought he would be, he know he was lot stronger then he used to be.