On his way to the second test, Anko jumped in front of him, holding a folder with Dokuja's name on it.

"I almost forgot to give you this," she stated, handing it to him. "This is the folder with your information about the last test in it. Keep it with you for the rest of the stat-check exam. Each proctor will give you a pamphlet to put inside. If you lose it, you'll have to start over."

"Thanks for the warning," Dokuja replied, taking the file. "But that won't happen anytime soon." Anko the soon leaped back into the forest trees without a sound. Dokuja then continued onward towards the Hokage faces.

When he was almost there, Naruto stopped him in his tracks.

"Well, what do you know," Naruto said in a surprised tone. "It's you again. I saw you fight that Gaara guy; you're pretty good for a late entry. I hope we get to fight in the future."

"Oh we will in the Finals."

"Yeah, right!"

"What, afraid that you won't beat Neji?"

"No, you'll get slaughtered by Sauske."

"He won't get more than a hundred yards near me."

"Have you EVER seen Sauske fight?"

"Are we looking at the same person?"

"Look, just face it; you against Sauske is no match."

"I know; I'd beat the tar out of him in mere seconds. Now, if you'd excuse me, I have to finish my registration." Dokuja walked by, glaring at him while Naruto did the same. That was the beginning of there rivalry.

When he finally made it to the next proctor's test, he gave Ibiki his folder and waited for further instructions.

"Hello," Ibiki said, calmly. "This next leg of the exam will test your physical strength and Taijutsu skills. I have put a large boulder somewhere in the village. I want you to find and destroy it as much as possible within ten minutes. This will also test your ability to think of strategies. There are four hints on slips of paper posted around the village as well; witch will point you in the right direction if you think critically or outside the box. The easier it is to find the stone will determine how you're mental capacity is. The easier it is to actually reduce the stone will affect your Taijutsu status. I set the stopwatch for ten minutes. Get ready….Go!!"

Dokuja instantly started flying about the village searching for hints or clues. He knew he would never find the boulder until he had a clue on where it was. He found the first clue on the side of a small convenience store on the east side. It reads as follows:

All the important are sharper than a diamond's edge.

Dokuja had no idea what it was supposed to mean. He stood there gazing at the note for a few seconds, reading it over and over again.

What does this mean? He asked himself many times. I don't get it. Important….Diamond's edge……Wait! Of course! He started to make a mad dash towards the next key point: The diamond shaped gravestone in the training fields. He was just approaching the next site when he noticed that two minutes has gone by. Oh crap, he thought. I better speed it up or time will be up before I ever find that stone! He started going faster than he ever seen himself go. He finally reached the grave and found another clue witch read:

The education of one leads to the inspiration of one thousand.

Again Dokuja had no idea what the note was trying to tell him. He thought for even longer that he did the last riddle.

Can this guy ever give anyone a break? Geez, my head already hurts… Wait, that's it! Dokuja then again made a large leap towards the next location: the academy. Now he only had six minutes left when he reached the front doors and found the next note:

The water of relaxation brings the fire of determination.

This time Dokuja knew almost instantly where he needed to go now.

This one is too simple. Maybe I was wrong about Ibiki…eh! Snap out of it! Focus on the mission.

Dokuja, tiered as any man could be, made another sprint towards the next location: the hot springs. He went faster than before, making it to the final note before the five minute mark. It read:

Annihilation of nature is also the extermination of all hope.

Dokuja analyzed the note carefully, but still only came up with one illogical answer.

He couldn't really want me to go and hunt for it THERE could he? There has to be something more, something that I'm missing. Dokuja flipped the note over and found a fragment of some sort of list. Wait a second… Didn't he say something about thinking outside the box? HE then gets a flashback when Ibiki was telling him the instructions:

There are four hints on slips of paper posted around the village as well; witch will point you in the right direction if you think critically or outside the box.

Dokuja takes the rest of the notes and finds the rest of the fragments to the list. It was directions to an abandoned outpost outside the village.

That must be where the stone is. And only four minutes left! I better get moving or I'll need to start over! Dokuja made the fastest dash anyone ever seen before. He was almost there at the two minute mark. Ibiki was standing in the practically rotted down post gazing at the boulder and his stopwatch.

One and a half minutes, and counting, He thought. Dokuja was closing fast on the target until he had a visual and threw himself at it with all of the strength he had left. He thrusted his legs and his arms at the rock until he had driven a deep hole that he could fit through. He tunneled through the boulder at a swift speed, almost like he was a living jackhammer. He was about in the center of the rock when he unleashed an uppercut that blew the top right off the base. Ibiki stopped his watch with the time left: thirty-two seconds.

"Very impressive," Ibiki said, looking down at him. "You took long enough getting here, but you destroyed the target in mere seconds. Well done" He leaped down next to him, holding another pamphlet and his folder. "The proctor for your final exam is over at the training field with the diamond gravestone, I suppose you know ho to get there. Good luck. You'll need it."