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"Can you believe it? We've only been genin for two months and were going to be in the chunin exams!" Amaya said happily after Sasuke announced it. They just finished a mission that took a lot of traveling, so it took a long time to complete. Megumi nodded. Amaya and Megumi walked home together everyday because, as it turns out, they live in the same apartment building, just on other sides of the building. Megumi stopped for a moment and did her blind eye jutsu because her time just ran out. Amaya waited for her to catch up before they continued down the road.
"My dads going to be way to over protective. He probably won't let me do the exams." Megumi sighed.
"I doubt that. He knows what you're capable of." Amaya said.
"…thanks, I needed that." Megumi smiled. The two friends separated when they got in the building. Megumi walked up the stairs and into her home.
"Mom, dad, I'm back from the mission!" she called as she closed the door. Naruto and Hinata were in the living room.
"Hey, did you kick butt?" Naruto laughed. Megumi laughed too, then walked over and handed him a sheet of paper.
"Help me with it?" she asked, sitting down. Naruto looked at the paper and gave it back to her.
"No, you're not going to go in the Chunin exams." He said, starting to stand up. Megumi grabbed his arm and pulled him down.
"Yes I am! Dad, you know I can do this!" she said.
"…Naruto, trust her. She can do this." Hinata said suddenly. Naruto looked from her to Megumi, and sighed. He grabbed the sheet from his daughter and filled it out for her.
"Good luck Megumi." He said, handing it to her and leaving the room.
"What's wrong with him?" Megumi asked.
"He's just worried." Hinata said, getting up and going to her husband. He was sitting on their bed, staring at the wall.
"What's gotten you so worried? You were fine when she went on all those missions." Hinata asked, sitting behind him and wrapping her arms around his chest. He grabbed her hands but remained silent for a few moments.
"People die in this exam. Hinata, she's blind, she won't stand a chance." Naruto whispered.
"That is not true. She will be fine. Megumi is smart, talented, and has great cell members to back her up. You just have to trust her." she said, kissing his cheek.
"I do, but still…I can't help but worry about her." Naruto said quietly. Hinata kissed him again and again until he smiled. He turned his head and kissed her back.
-The next day-
"Oh, hello Amaya." Hinata said as she opened the door. Amaya smiled. Megumi came out of her room and left with her teammate. They did that every morning, Amaya would come to their home and they would walk to the academy together.
"Today's the day of the chunin exams. You excited?" Amaya asked.
"Yeah I am!" Megumi said. They turned the corner and met up with Hiroshi. Once they got to the academy they walked down the hallway to the exam room. They all stopped at the doorway and took in a deep breath.
"This is it." Megumi mumbled.
"Time for exams." Amaya said quietly.
"Almost to Chunin." Hiroshi whispered. He stood in between the two girls and they all held each others hands. They walked in the room and all gasped when they saw how many people were in the room, all but Megumi, who felt how many vibrations there were. Megumi canceled her jutsu, overwhelmed by how much there were.
"Megumi!" two people's voices blended together so Megumi couldn't tell who was after her. Akira and Koyuki rushed over to her and she recognized them once they started talking again.
"Awesome, you're here too? We had to wait four years before we could enter." Akira said with a sigh.
"Where's your other teammate?" Megumi asked, facing the direction of their voices.
"Haruko's...uh…oh, coming over right now." Koyuki said, noticing a boy walking over to them.
"Hey, so this is Megumi? My name is Haruko Tsujiai." He said.
"Hello, these are my teammates Amaya and Hiroshi." Megumi introduced.
"Any idea what's gonna go on today?" Amaya asked curiously, looking at the older cell members. The twins shrugged and Haruko shook his head.
"No idea." The twins said together. Within several minutes of waiting the time seemed more like hours than minutes.
Suddenly there was a loud popping sound and a poof of smoke and the front of the room had about twenty Jonin and the one in the front of the group had several scars running down his face.
"Everyone be quiet and listen up!" he yelled over the shocked students as they murmured about the sudden appearance. Instantly they were quiet.
"I am Ibiki Morino, the proctor and chief examiner for the first part of the exam." Said the man with the scars. "From this point on there will be no fighting without permission from a chief examiner like myself. If there is a fight there may be nothing that is potentially life threatening to another person. Any of you who break the rules will be disqualified. No second chances." He explained.
"Excuse me sir, but if there are no fighting how can we prove that we're talented ninja?" Amaya asked, raising her hand. Ibiki looked at her and then back at the whole classroom.
"The first part of the exam needs no fighting. It is about to commence, turn in you applications, take one of these seating assignment cards and report directly to the seat indicated. When every one is seated we will pass out the written part of the test." He said, showing them what everything looked like as he talked.
Megumi sighed. Perfect, just perfect. A written part. She thought with a sour expression. She grabbed a seating card and asked Amaya what number it was.
"Uh…number 53." She said quietly. Akira grabbed his and looked over Megumi's shoulder.
"Oh, hey, we're sitting next to each other." He said. His number was 52. Megumi smiled and let him help her find her seat. Once everyone was seated and the tests were passed out Ibiki began to write something on the board.
"Rule number one, each of you starts out with ten points. The test has ten questions each worth one point. For each question you get wrong we subtract a point from your overall score. Get all ten right, you get to keep the ten points. But, for example, you answer three questions wrong, you lose those three points. Take away one point for every wrong answer and your total would drop to seven. Rule two; this written test is still a team exam. Passing or failing will be determined by the sum of the points held by all three members of each cell." Ibiki explained. Megumi's face sunk. She had no idea how she was going to pull this off if she couldn't even see the paper in front of her.
"The object of each team is to have as few deducts as possible. Best score would be thirty. Rule number three: if during the course of the exam a candidate does anything out of the ordinary…in other words, anything that leads the proctors to determine that he or she has cheated; we subtract two points from each member of the cheater's team. If you fail you will be asked to leave. The proctors will be looking over you're shoulder when you least expect it. If you let the proctors catch you cheating you'll bring yourself and friends down! If any individual loses all ten points that person's entire cell will be disqualified!!" Ibiki said. Megumi's eyes widened and put her head in her hands and shuddered. Amaya looked down at her with a sad expression and Hiroshi sighed, looking at both his teammates.
"You have one hour…starting…NOW!" Ibiki said loudly. Everyone picked up their pencils and began the test. Megumi was resisting the urge to scream. She felt around and found her pencil and paper. She had no idea how she would be able to do this. Akira was too busy thinking about the first question to notice her expression.
She scratched her head and put her head on the table. An idea formed in her head and she moved her hands under the table. Slowly, as to not attract attention, she made the hand signs of the rooster, horse, tiger, dragon, and rat. She sat up again and tapped the desk with her index and middle finger and whispered so quietly no one at all heard it, "blind eye jutsu." She kept her fingers on the desk and she picked up her pencil.
Sorry Akira, but I have to help my team. Megumi thought with a small smirk. She felt the vibrations of his pencil as he wrote something down and she easily copied it onto her own test. Luckily she could tell where to write because she lined it up exactly like Akira's paper. He stopped, so she stopped. None of the proctors noticed what she was doing. Megumi had no choice but to cheat since she couldn't see the questions, and she didn't want to say she was blind in front of so many people she didn't even know. Akira began to write again, so she did the same.
Akira got down to the final question and stopped. Megumi wondered why he wasn't answering; she only counted nine answered questions. She waited for what seemed like several hours but he never wrote anything else. He wasn't even touching the table anymore. She canceled her jutsu and leaned back, waiting for the hour to finish. All the time she waited she was listening to the scratches of pencils and footsteps that were heading for the door, and every once in a while she heard a different proctor saying "your out" or "you fail" and then a seat number.
I hope you liked the chapter. Just a small note, they did pass the exam, I just really didn't want to write the whole 'cheating was the purpose' thing. I did copy a lot of the rules out of the manga, but that's only because I couldn't remember them. please review.
