I just returned to Konoha and found that all my clan members were gone.

Brilliant fireworks continued to bloom at the venue, and nobles from big cities had already arrived. Ninjas from the village and some residents who were just watching the fun also came to the venue to watch the game.

"Brother Ye Lan!" Xiaoying saw Ye Lan in the meeting hall and ran to him quickly.

"You are here too, the game is about to start." Ye Lan saw that Ino was with Sakura, and the two of them made an appointment to watch the game together.

"Since we've met, let's go together. You can analyze it for us then." Ino said from the side. It would make you feel much better to watch the game with a handsome guy.

"That's fine." Although the Hokage asked him to keep an eye on Gaara and prevent him from going berserk, he didn't specify a specific location in the venue where he had to stay. Moreover, if he was with Sakura and the others, he could protect their safety if anything happened. Therefore, Ye Lan thought about it and agreed.

"Speaking of which, who do you think will win in the first match between Naruto and Neji?" Sakura said with some concern after finding a seat and sitting down. Even though she usually has a bad attitude towards Naruto, she still cares about him very much during the game.

"Nine will definitely win! No matter how you look at it, Naruto is no match for Neji." Ino expressed her opinion before Ye Lan could speak.

"If we look at the situation a month ago, Neji has a better chance of winning for sure. However, I don't know how much both sides have improved in the past month. We still have to see how they perform then." Ye Lan knew that Naruto was a descendant of the Uzumaki clan. If he awakened some of the Uzumaki clan's talents, it was still uncertain whether Naruto could win with the Byakugan.

As time went by, the audience seats were gradually filled with people who came to watch the game, and the atmosphere was very lively. At the same time, the Genin participating in the game gathered in the center of the venue. The referee of this game was Shiranui Genma, who stood on the sidelines, looking at each contestant with a serious expression. As the game approached, the tense atmosphere on the field became more and more intense.

Finally, the figure of the Kazekage appeared in everyone's sight. The Kazekage wore a regular shadow robe and a bamboo hat, but his face was covered so that others could not see his appearance. This might be the custom of the Sand Village. However, he still nodded slightly to the people around him. Then, Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up and announced: "This competition officially begins!" The voice resounded throughout the stadium, instantly igniting everyone's enthusiasm.

All other Genin left the stage, leaving only Naruto, Neji and the referee. After Shiranui Genma called for the start, both sides immediately took action.

Naruto directly used the Shadow Clone Technique. He cleverly divided the chakra evenly among each shadow clone, so that the Byakugan could not see through his real body. However, the difference in physical skills between the two sides was too great. Each shadow clone could not withstand two moves from Neji and was defeated. In desperation, Naruto used shuriken to attack. Shurikens from all directions shot at Neji at the same time, as if he could not dodge.

Neji raised his arms and spun rapidly, his entire body wrapped in a hemispherical chakra, and all the shurikens thrown by Naruto were bounced away.

"What kind of attack is this?" Ino asked in surprise. She hadn't seen Neji use this kind of ninjutsu a month ago.

"It's Kaiten." As a member of the Uchiha clan, Ye Lan knew the Hyuga clan's trump card clearly, but this trick could only be used by people from the main family. As Neji was a member of the branch family and was so resistant to the main family, it was impossible for the Hyuga main family to teach him. So he had to learn it by himself. Unexpectedly, a good person emerged from the Hyuga branch family.

"Kaiten can defend against physical attacks from all angles, which in some ways can be considered absolute defense," Ye Lan explained to Xiaoying and the others.

"Then no matter how Naruto attacks, he will be blocked by Kaiten. How can Naruto win like this?" Sakura was a little worried.

"No matter how powerful a ninjutsu is, it depends on how it is used. Moreover, a jutsu like Kaiten consumes a lot of chakra. Neji can't use it many times. It depends on how Naruto handles it." Ye Lan said comfortingly.

In the blink of an eye, Naruto's clones were eliminated by Neji, leaving only the real body in front of Neji. Neji saw the opportunity and used the Eight Trigrams Sixty-four Palms to knock Naruto to the ground.

"It's over, Naruto lost." Ino, who had never been optimistic about Naruto, said with her hand covering her face.

Naruto stood up again with difficulty. He was hit by the soft fist and couldn't gather the chakra in his body. Seeing Naruto's embarrassed look, Neji began to mock him, saying that people's fate is doomed except death. He kept talking about the evil of the main family to his father, and even showed the caged bird on his forehead to prove what he said. Naruto was not like Hinata who kept fighting back against Neji verbally, saying that if he became Hokage, he would definitely abolish the rules of the Hyuga family. After hearing this, Neji looked at Naruto with a funny face and said that he, a loser, didn't know anything and had always lived in his own fantasy world.

Just when everyone thought Naruto was about to lose, a red chakra burst out from Naruto's body and immediately healed all the wounds on his body.

This chakra! Ye Lan looked at Naruto in surprise. It was the Nine-Tails. This guy was the legacy of the Fourth Hokage. The Uzumaki clan, the Nine-Tails, so this guy was the village's Jinchūriki. Ye Lan knew there was a Nine-Tails in the village, but he didn't know who the Jinchūriki was. Maybe most of the jonin knew, but he didn't know about it because he had been away from the village for a long time. And he couldn't take the initiative to ask about the Jinchūriki, so he only knew now that the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki was Uzumaki Naruto.

After the Nine-Tails Chakra erupted in Naruto's body, his speed and strength instantly increased to a higher level, and Neji also opened his Byakugan to improve his strength. The two kept fighting in the venue, the sound of kunai colliding, and the dust splashed on the venue all indicated the intensity of the battle.

However, as time went by, the two gradually ran out of energy. Finally, they used their last move, and this time Neji used Kaiten, and the Nine-Tails Chakra on Naruto's fist collided with it, making a loud noise, and then both of them fell to the ground. Shiranui Genma looked at the two people who fell, and secretly sighed at the intensity of this game.

After a while, Neji stood up first. He walked to where Naruto was lying, with a smug smile on his face: "Sorry, the last one, this is reality. The winner..."

At this moment, there was a sudden sound from the soil under his feet. Before Neji could react, he saw Naruto burst out of the soil and hit him directly with an uppercut. Neji was caught off guard by this sudden attack, and his body flew backwards involuntarily and fell heavily to the ground. This time he could not get up again. It turned out that the one lying on the ground just now was just Naruto's clone.

Naruto walked up to him and said, "The graduation exam used to be the clone technique. I failed three times, but now I have mastered it. So don't keep saying that fate cannot be changed, because you are different from me, you are not the last one."

This sentence made Neji lose the will to resist and he willingly accepted the defeat. Then Shiranui Genma announced that Naruto had advanced.

"Naruto actually won!" Ino said in surprise. She didn't expect that Naruto, who was the last in the class, would grow to this point.

Naruto has been working very hard. Sakura sighed in her heart when she heard what Naruto said.

Can he use the Nine-Tails' chakra? I don't know how Kakashi found a teacher for Naruto. It seems that the one month was not wasted. While Ye Lan was thinking, Ino said anxiously, "By the way, why hasn't Sasuke come yet? The first game is over. If he doesn't come, he will be considered a forfeit."

"Don't worry, Kakashi should know what's going on. From what I see, we'll have to wait until Sasuke's match is about to start."

Seeing Sakura's puzzled look, Ye Lan continued to explain: "You know Kakashi is always late. This time he will definitely not show up until the critical moment."

After hearing Ye Lan's words, Sakura thought about what Kakashi had done in the past and felt that this was most likely the case.