You already know, don't be a boi, and my Characters are mine, MINE, Don't make me bring the sea gulls out. Just so you know, Takimatsu is actually Mashua.

Normally, I don't bite my nails, though I do unintentionally pick up what other people do. When We all flipped our tests upward, I could see almost every head tilt backward in unison. I was on the back row and could easily spot my teammates. Not that this would do any good for me I assume. There were ten questions on the exam; each consisting two of Math, English, History, Physics, and logistics. History and logistics were out the door of questions I could answer. English was dull and woefully unappealing. I did have math on my side though, and physics is just a formula monster, much like math.

4. Target B is blocked behind object C, which object C has a given radius of 4 meters. Given your starting point, which is 20 meters total away with a 5:1 ratio of distance between the object, you, and Target B, map out 4 possible equations that can satisfy the result of incapacitating Target B.

This doesn't give me height for the object. So, let's plug in my height... 24 feet distance total... carry the 1 to imitate the upside down parabola... *sigh, I can't focus with this doofus that keeps looking at my answer, it's breaking my train of thought!

Suddenly, a kunai bounced off of Tenten's mirror in the ceiling, and landed on the desk next to mine.

"Numbers 62, 84, and 106, fail!" Ibiki scowled in my direction. It was the kid next to me that was whimpering and shaking about. His teammates scoffed, and made abrupt sounds in frustration as they left. I couldn't help but grin a bit. Now I didn't have someone breathing over my neck, waiting for the answers.

I looked at the clock, 3:55... I had wasted 25 minutes on one damn question. ONE! I hope the others are doing fine, cause I ain't gonna help cut the slack any for points.

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Come on... Look this way darn it! Tenten thought to herself. You have the eyes to spot types of wildlife a mile away yet you have the peripherals of a damn bind man! How are you not seeing these flashes on your desk and face!

She fumed at Mashua's tunnel vision of focus. She had most of the anwsers and had already helped Lee with nearly half of them until Ibiki broke the mirror. She now squints in attempting to make them believe that she can't read the text in the dim light. She still had one invisible wire and a partial mirror still hanging. Wether they knew what she was doing or not, it sure doesn't look like she could now. And that's the sweetest type of cheating, cheating with a dash of ignorance from both parties. Well, we'd assume both parties.

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Aha! bouncing a shuriken off of a weighted kunai, that's the fourth equation! I beamed to guarantee a point on the board for us. This glare was starting to get really annoying in front of me. I put a hand up to block the light from burning a bigger hole in my retina. I scanned through the quiz and couldn't bother to start on any of the other problems. Man, I'd be mortified if everyone else wasn't struggling like I was. To pass the time, I decided to draw the face of one of the over watchers in the distance. I couldn't see his eyes through his mask but it looked like he wasn't paying that much attention.

More time passed and the room felt quite more airy since 10-20 teams got caught cheating in excess. I'm sure Tenten is on her third or fourth strike already. Thankfully, she isn't doing much else now. Huh... She might have actually been trying to help me all this time with the mirror... Oops.

"Alright class, once again you get to hear me blab a bit." It was 10 till 4:30. "I'm about to put the last question on the board... But there are a few rules with this question here too."

"More Rules?" A blonde girl scoffed.

"You have the option to answer this question." I laid back in my seat To Ibiki's Sentence. "But, if you choose to not answer the question, you and your team will be disqualified from the exam, regardless of points on other questions."

Holy Crap! So, that means this test doesn't count for squat!?

"If you choose to answer the question and get it wrong, you and your team will be permanently disqualified from ever taking the exams again!" Expressions on many people's face looked dumb struck, horrified, and in many different forms of disbelief. I for one didn't have the pressure of choosing not to answer the question. It was in the Hokage's best interest that I stick with the other two as far as they wanted to go. This was not my choice or call to question.

"Please, speak up now and raise your hand if you don't want to risk your team's permanent expulsion of the exams." To Ibiki's words, many hands were raised, almost like a defiant cult which thought of the exams as nothing but under their feet. Of Course, the cult wasn't the case. They left with utter shame.

"Any others?" He made a last call. Naruto, of all people, raised his hand.

Naruto then slammed it down and uttered a giant NO. He babbled on about something I didn't pay attention to, but it seemed to be reassuring to the other genin examinees. Absolutely no one quit after his speech. There wasn't a trembling hand to be seen in the exam any more.

"Last call... Alright, here's the question."

He wrote in chalk to the board, which annoyingly squeaked and hurt my ears.

Is a kunai considered a weapon?

Are you serious? ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS? IS A KUNAI A WEAPON? I mean... it's used as a farming tool time in and out and it serves multiple life roles like a swiss army knife would... Is it freaking weapon? Unbelievable... To think, one teammate's gonna answer like a smart-ass and get his team screwed. YES, by whatever means necessary, be it you lose a limb if it takes you to say yes... Just put that down, don't be a dumbass.

"Alright, pencils down, now pass up the exam." He said almost instantly after writing it on the board. Papers shuffled forward, mine was somewhere in the mix.

The room started to tense up. Ibiki was checking off his list and staggered from his grading rhythm. Someone missed the question...?

And that was the end of that individual... It didn't matter whether or not that he got everything else right, he was known to the room and his teammates as dead. Dead minded, dead brained, dead.

"Takimatsu?" Ibiki paused. Everyone turned to Ibiki's glare which then turned meet my eyes.

Well ****. Tenten and Lee faced me with disbelief and slight anger. "Could you tell me why you drew one of our over watcher's face on the test?"

"Well, the individual's face does look more attractive than the rest of the bunch." Snikers were heard throughout the room.

"Hmm, it's pretty accurate I'm not gonna lie, but this gets you no bonus points on the exam." Ibiki scorned. This kid is unbelievable, drawing on the test as though an artist more than taking it seriously. I probably shouldn't have given a double ended question.

"Listen up." He tapped the desk after a bit of time passed. "I'm not so happy to announce that many of you have chosen different answers."

Heads turned to look everywhere, many like mine looked dumbfounded. "You who stuck through to the end of this, passed." Dead silence continued.

"But wait, this was only a yes or no question." A sand village shinobi called out. "How was it that both answers are correct?"

"Well, the answer wasn't as important as making a quick decision on the fly. You see, it took nine minutes and twenty-eight seconds to rat you spineless weaklings out of the classroom. Then this courageous orange fellow gave a sense of encouragement to travel forward in spite the idea that failure meant permanent expulsion. There wasn't much time, about five seconds for you to answer after I had written the question on the board. Those others would have choked before answering the question, and not making a decision sometimes is worse than making a bad one. Think of it as a game of chess, you each get one move per turn. If you don't take your turn and you let your opponent move, it simply sets you up for a less practical situation." Ibiki monologued.

"But that still doesn't answer my question. Why give a double sided question?" The sand villager asked.

"Come on, your simply Genin at this point. Most of you couldn't react mid test to the kunai I threw at the tests for the cheaters." Ibiki chuckled. "And to have shinobi with potential such as yourselves, it would be an outrage to many nations to have students illegible for the next coming chunin exams. In theory, that can almost become means to start the next world war, and as far as I'm concerned, I would prefer to wait a few years before that happens. Gotta break in the fresh meat.-"

And with his forced to be last words, he was suddenly interupted by someone breaking through a window to his desk. A blur with smoke in the way threw two kunai at the ceiling to let hang a banner. "*Sigh Jumping the gun again as usual." Ibiki thought to himself.

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Anyways, that's a rap of the written exams for now. I had my wisdom teeth removed two days ago and it's my birthday today! So, I'm gonna proofread and update this chapter as well as post the next one in about two weeks. I got my ENG 251 midterm coming up tomorrow (Which is probably why she's an English professor and not a math one lol). Also, I gotta get caught up on my musical repertoire so I don't lose my scholarships and stuff. The next few weeks are gonna be rough and this probably is as well. If you don't see much updating, now you know why.

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Reguards! *Snaps fingers at the Indonesian folk who view my content more than the Americans.