Again, much thanks to Black Dragon Queen and Kallipso, whose ideas are the backbone, brain, and pretty much every other important piece of the body of this chapter.
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Chapter 10
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The First Exam
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"Alright maggots!" Ibiki yelled, surprising many of the genin. "Get your asses over here, get a number, and sit your asses down in the seat with that number on it." It took a few minutes for all the genin to be seated. Ibiki continued, "Now, I'll explain the rules. You will be graded on a ten point scale. Every time you cheat, you will lose two points. If you're points go down to zero, you fail, along with your teammates. There is one point to be gained per question. The tenth question will be given after forty-five minutes. You have one hour to answer all the questions. Begin!"
Naruto put his head down. Sakura's eye twitched.
Naruto…what are you doing? Sakura.
Taking a nap. Last time I managed to pass with a blank paper. It's the same freaking test. Naruto.
"Ow," Naruto said aloud, as two pencils hit the back of his head. He glared at his teammates, as they raised their hands.
"Proctor, I need a new pencil," Sasuke and Sakura said at the same time. Ibiki's eyebrows rose.
"Why get a new one?" Naruto asked. "You can have these ones back." He threw the pencils back at Sasuke and Sakura.
"Take the test or die Uzumaki. I'm not failing because of you," Sakura growled. Naruto wondered if it was Black Sakura.
"Get to work!" Ibiki yelled. All the genin who had been watching Team 7 immediately put their eyes back on their own paper.
You guys want to play Hangman? Naruto.
"Dammit! Stop doing that!" Naruto yelled, as two more pencils hit the back of his head.
Naruto broke the pencils in half and stuck his tongue out at his teammates. One of the chuunin tossed the two an extra pencil each. Ibiki resisted the urge to bang his head against the wall.
"Naruto-kun, you can copy off of me if you'd like," Hinata whispered.
"No thanks Hinata chan," Naruto said, answering all the questions with some form of 'I don't know.' or 'Look at Sakura-chan's paper for the answer.' He figured that would get at least a chuckle out of the proctor.
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'Sorry forehead, nothing personal,' Ino thought as she used her family's special jutsu to take over Sakura's body, so she could get the answers to the test. She looked down to see the answers, only to find one sentence as the answer to every question: 'Ino-Pig Sucks!' At the bottom where there was space for the tenth question, a game of hangman was apparently going on. A Chibi Naruto had only a head and a torso, while A Chibi Sasuke had a head, a torso, two arms, and a leg. Naruto was winning. Ino counted the spaces and looked at the letters that were there. It only took her a few seconds to figure out that it was another 'Ino-Pig Sucks!' Ino left Sakura's body, with fake mental tears pouring down her face.
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Hinata looked at Naruto worriedly. Every few minutes, he would let out a snicker, right after one of the suna shinobi would sink further into his seat. Unknown to her, Naruto would leak out Kyuubi's chakra every few minutes and snicker when Gaara freaked out. Temari and Kankuro, who knew exactly what Naruto was doing, sighed and shared a look that said 'Poor Gaara'.
The snickers were not all that was worrying Hinata though. Every time the proctor of the exam, Ibiki, would turn his back to Naruto, Naruto spitballed him.
And this enraged Ibiki greatly, particularly seeing as he knew it was Naruto but couldn't prove it. Naruto's ability to look completely innocent was perfect. That, and the fact that another spitball would hit him every time he concentrated on Naruto for too long. Ibiki blamed those ones on Naruto's two teammates, but again couldn't prove it. Naruto had passed the ability to look completely innocent onto the two of them.
Ibiki's attention was drawn to the buzzer that was going off, signaling that forty-five minutes had passed.
Three spitballs hit the back of his head, causing most of the room to giggle.
"Shut it maggots!" Ibiki yelled, scaring the genin into silence (Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura still smiled at him). "I'll now explain the rules to the tenth question. This question is optional. If you choose not to take it, then you and your team will automatically fail."
"Of course we'll take it then," Kiba yelled. "What kind of option is that?"
"You have the option to not take it, because if you choose to take the question and you miss it, not only do you and your team automatically fail, none of you will be able to take the Chuunin Exams again," Ibiki said, grinning sadistically.
Unfortunately, he was staring at Kiba, so he didn't notice the next three spitballs until they hit him. A few laughs escaped some of the genin, but most were too scared to laugh at him.
"DECIDE NOW!" Ibiki yelled. A few genin chose to leave. Then a few more. Naruto decided to not say anything this time around, as he was having too much fun spitballing Ibiki. Another two genin dropped out, and another spitball hit Ibiki in the forehead. Ibiki growled in frustration, causing another seven genin (two on the same team) to drop out at once.
"Is that all who wish to not take the question?" Ibiki growled out ten minutes later, causing another genin to leave. Five minutes later, when no one else had left, Ibiki grinned at them. "Alright, everyone in this room…passes!"
"What?" Temari yelled.
"You pass," Ibiki said, completely ignoring the other spitball joining it's friend on his forehead.
"Then what was the tenth question?"
"To take or not to take – that is the question," Naruto muttered, before ducking. When no pencils hit him, his head popped back up. Not even a second later, two pencils hit him in the head. Naruto stuck his tongue out at Sasuke and Sakura before letting off some of Kyuubi's chakra and snickering when Gaara sunk further into his seat.
"The little blonde shit is right. When you are a chuunin you may be given a mission where you don't know how many opponents you will face, or what their abilities are. Do you choose to keep your team safe, or do you take the mission?" Ibiki asked, before continuing to explain the test.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura stopped listening and glanced at each other, grinning. Ibiki got spitballed by the three of them and several shadow clones that were around the room, hidden by a genjutsu. Ibiki's fists clenched and he glared at them, but he otherwise ignored the spitballs.
Suddenly, a blur broke through the window. Mitarashi Anko rolled into a standing position with her banner covering Ibiki's face. A spitball hit the banner where Ibiki's forehead would be.
"This is no time to be celebrating brats! The second examiner, Mitarashi Anko, is here!"
"Bad timing," Ibiki told her. Anko ignored him and counted the genin.
"You left me twenty teams?" The two examiners started arguing, as a genjutsu-hidden clone handed Naruto a crown made out of paper, and several hundred ryo.
"Alright everyone," Anko yelled, "follow me!" As the genin got up, Naruto used Kawarimi to trade places with a genin next to Kankuro.
"I'll give you all this to put this on the proctor's head," Naruto said, offering Kankuro the money and the paper crown. Kankuro looked at the crown in amusement.
"You got it kid," Kankuro said. Naruto used Kawarimi with the same genin as before, confusing the hell out of the genin further.
Ibiki growled as he felt something placed on the top of his head, causing the few genin near him, to speed up. When all the genin left, Ibiki took the crown of his head and read what was written on the front of it: 'Spitball King'.
Ibiki once again resisted the urge to bash his head against the wall.
He set about collecting the papers in the room, pausing when he came to Naruto's. There were several doodles on the paper, as well as several 'I don't know. Ask Sakura' type of answers. At the bottom was apparently half of a hangman game. But the part that pissed Ibiki off most – on one side of the paper was a chart titled 'Target Practice'. On this chart were the labels 'Naruto', 'Sasuke', 'Sakura', and 'All at Once', and there were several tallies under the labels. Ibiki counted the total. It was the same amount as the number of spitballs that he had gotten hit with. There was also a doodle of him with a crown on his head and the words 'All hail the Spitball King!' under the chart.
That blonde brat was so lucky he was the Hokage's favorite.
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This is part of a big update of all my unfinished stories. This is number fifteen of twenty-seven. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter as much as I've enjoyed writing it. Read and review please. In fact, all hail the Spitball King by reviewing! Smiles!
Rune
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