"There's no fighting unless your proctor tells you to! Trash that disobeys this rule will get thrown right out!" Ibiki said before gesturing towards the group of Chuunin around him, who each held a box with a hole in the top.
"Each team is to approach one of the examiners and take a number. Go to the seat with your number on it. If you don't like where you're sitting, too bad! We will then hand out the written test," Ibiki explained. Soon enough, everybody was seated.
"Now that everyone has taken a seat, I can explain the rules. Don't turn your tests over yet, and listen up, because I'm only saying the rules once! No questions are allowed!" Ibiki barked and started to write on the blackboard.
"Rule one! You have ten points to begin with. The written test has ten questions, nine written, and one spoken. For each wrongly answered question, you lose one point. If you answer all the questions correctly, then you keep your ten points," Ibiki explained. "Rule two! This is a team test, which means we will be checking every team for their overall score. Your passing this exam is decided on the performance of the team as a whole."
A Konoha Genin jumped up and shouted, "What? How are we supposed to work in teams?"
"Shut up! Who gave you permission to ask?!" Ibiki snapped.
"S…Sorry," the Genin said and sat down.
"Rule three! If you're caught cheating five times, you're out. No exceptions!" Ibiki explained. "And remember, we see everything."
"Last rule! If someone on the team loses all of his or her points, or is caught cheating five times, then the whole team fails, no matter how well their teammates do!" Ibiki said, and a chorus of "WHAT" sounded through the room.
"I hope my words were clearly understood. If not, too bad!" Ibiki added.
"Naruto-kun, good luck," Hinata said from next to him. The couple considered themselves lucky to be seated together.
"Good luck to you too, Hinata-chan," Naruto replied, and Hinata smiled at him. Their attention was brought back to the front by Ibiki's booming voice.
"You have one hour. BEGIN!" Ibiki yelled, and everyone turned their test over. Naruto looked over the exam and the questions on it. A moment later…
What is this crap? These are questions only an experienced Chuunin or Jounin could answer! Naruto thought as he examined the nine questions on the paper. There has to be more to what Ibiki said earlier when he told us the rules to this exam.
Naruto recalled Ibiki's words: "If you're caught cheating five times, you're out! No exceptions!"
Wait a minute, so cheating won't get us automatically disqualified! We get four free shots at cheating, but if you're caught cheating five times, you're failed. So the purpose of the exam is to cheat and not get caught in the process! Naruto realized before he decided to see how others were doing. Several minutes later, he saw what started taking place in the room. He noticed that Sasuke was using his Sharingan while Sakura did her best to answer the questions based on her book smarts. Naruto saw Tenten twirling her kunai, with Lee watching to see the answers her kunai reflected. Naruto turned to Hinata, who was discreetly using her Byakugan and writing the answers down on the test sheet, something Neji was also doing. Using his own understanding based on experiences awakened in his mind, Naruto started answering the questions. Hinata peeked over to see if Naruto was carefully copying her answers. She found that Naruto wasn't struggling at the very least to answer the questions. In fact, he wasn't looking at anyone else's paper at all.
I should have more confidence in him, Hinata thought, After all, he taught and trained me.
Naruto also saw how, during the hour that went by, a lot of teams had been failed and dismissed from the room. Towards the end of the hour, Naruto sensed and felt a particular chakra in the room, which gave him a familiar sensation that he experienced before in Nami no Kuni.
That chakra! It…It has to be! There's no other explanation! Naruto thought excitedly while trying not to go crazy in trying to trace from whom in the room that chakra radiated from. However, the chakra died out as quickly as it came, as if it was never there, but it was enough for Naruto to feel it.
I'm going to have to thoroughly search and find the Genin in this room that that chakra signature came from! I can automatically rule out the Suna-nin, and of course, those from Konoha, which leaves those from Kiri, Ame, Oto, and Kusa, Naruto thought deeply.
Soon, all of the remaining Genin were done with the exams.
"Time's up! Pencils down, everyone!" Ibiki shouted, causing all of the Genin to do as instructed.
Now that the trash is kicked out, we can proceed, Ibiki thought and cleared his throat before he continued, "Now it's time for the tenth question-"
Ibiki was cut off by Kankuro, who came back from the toilet with one of the examiners.
"Just in time. Now that you are finished playing with your dolls, perhaps we can continue," Ibiki said, and Kankuro was shocked.
He knew about Karasu! Kankuro thought, referring to his puppet disguised as the examiner behind him. Kankuro walked down the rows towards his desk.
"Alright, now before I can give you the tenth question, there are some additional rules," Ibiki said. "First, you have to choose if you are going to take the question or not."
"What happens if we don't take it?" one of the Konoha Genin asked.
"Your points will be reduced to zero, and you'll fail, along with your team!" Ibiki replied simply.
"What a dumb rule! Of course we will take it!" an Ame Genin shouted out.
"However, if you take it, and get it wrong, you'll be forever banned from the Chuunin Exams," Ibiki said, and the room fell quiet.
Suddenly, Kiba shouted, "That's not fair! There are people here that have taken the exam before!"
"Well, they didn't have me for a proctor! Now choose! Wait until next year, or risk never taking the Chuunin Exams ever again!" Ibiki barked, emitting a faint bloodlust, enough to emphasize his threat. Murmurs filled the room. One by one, some of the Genin gave up and left. Naruto turned to Sakura and Sasuke and found them debating on which option to make, along with Hinata and the rest of his friends. Taking a deep breath and exhaling, Naruto stood up from his seat and started walking away from his desk. Some thought that Naruto was going to give up until they saw him head over to Ibiki, facing him in front of the entire room. Ibiki looked back at Naruto with a hardened glare.
What is Naruto doing? everyone wondered.
"Did I give you permission to stand and come before me, boy?" Ibiki said with a tone that intimidated most of the other Genin in the room.
"First off, my name is not boy. It's Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto replied calmly before continuing with a firm tone, "Furthermore, Morino Ibiki, you're so full shit it's sickening!"
Everyone, including Hinata, looked at Naruto in shock after hearing what he told Ibiki to his face. Sakura turned pale with a look of horror on her face.
"That freaking idiot is going to get me and Sasuke-kun kicked out, if not permanently banned from ever taking the Chuunin Exams again!" inner-Sakura screamed in panic.
"That imbecile!" Sasuke growled under his breath.
"What was that?" Ibiki asked venomously as he leaked out waves of bloodlust.
"I said you're full of shit! Did I stutter?" Naruto mocked, being unphased by the bloodlust as he continued, "Who the hell are you to say that we and those from foreign ninja nations can never become Chuunin? You backed yourself into a corner when you said that crap about all of us never being allowed to take the Chuunin Exams ever again if we chose to attempt to answer the tenth question and failed it! Tell me please, what political connections you have in high places to get all of the leaders of all of the other ninja villages to agree to that shit? I'm certain that Temari's father would never agree to your garbage!"
Ibiki looked at him and then turned to see the look on everyone's faces after listening to Naruto's logical words. They saw that everything Naruto said made sense.
"I trust Naruto-kun!" Hinata exclaimed. "I'll take the tenth question!"
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm with the dobe also. I find it illogical that the leader of another village would allow other shinobi nations to decide for them whether their ninja could ever be promoted to Chuunin or higher," Sasuke said.
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