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Okay, back to business. This is chapter 11 of Unexpected Second chance Edited Version :) If you guys haven't noticed, I combined two chapters to form the last.
"Yo!" -Speaking
"Yo!" -Thinking
"Yo!" -Inner Saku
Unexpected Second Chance
Written Test: No One Shall Cheat
Everything was silent as everyone stared at Ibiki with fear and awe.
"First, you candidates from the village Hidden in the Sound! Knock it off! Who told you guys you can fight!? Do you want to fail before we even begin!?" Ibiki shouted, pointing at the Sound nins.
"Sorry. It's our first time so we're a bit…jumpy, Sir." The bandaged dude said and Ibiki could've sworn to himself that he heard a bit of mockery when he addressed him.
"I'll only say this once so listen up! There will be absolutely NO combat between candidates! No attacking each other without the permission from the examiner and even then the use of fail force is STRICTLY prohibited! Anyone who even thinks about messing with me will be disqualified immediately! Got it?" Ibiki said staring –glaring would be the right word for it- at each and one of them, daring anyone to object. Everyone continued to stare at him until one of the sound nins muttered,
"No fail force? That's no fun..."
The jounins in the back of Ibiki smirked and chuckled at the fear that crossed the faces of the participants.
"Now, if we're ready we will proceed to the first stage of the Chunin Exams. Hand over your paper works and in return you will each be given a number. The number will determine where you will sit. We'll start the written test once you are all seated." Ibiki said holding up a number.
"What? Did he just say...written?" Naruto muttered, staring at Ibiki in horror.
"Argh...I don't even know where the others are sitting! It hasn't even started and I already know it's a disaster!" Naruto thought pulling his hair a bit.
"Umm...N-naruto-kun?" A timid voice sounded beside him.
"Huh? Hinata! Where did you come from? I didn't see you there!" Naruto said when he saw the shy Hyuga Heiress beside him.
"I-I-I just wanted to say...G-good luck in every t-t-thing." Hinata finished with a smile.
"Oh thanks!" Naruto said appreciating the encouragement. Woow, that's so weird! I didn't even know she was there.
"Everyone eyes in front. There are few rules you have to be aware of and I won't be answering any questions so you better pay attention!" Ibiki shouted when he saw a couple of genins whisper to each other.
"Alright, Rule #1: The written part of the exam is conducted on a point reduction system. You will all start the test with a perfect score of 10 points." Ibiki finished, writing the first rule on the chalk board before continuing,
"One point will be deducted for each answer you get wrong."
"So if I miss ten my final score will be...zero," Naruto thought a thunder cloud on top of his head.
"Rule #2: A Team will pass or fail base on the final score of all three members."
Everyone immediately gasped and whispered to each other. Murmurs of disbelief were heard all over the room.
"Hey what..?"
"Are you serious?"
"Are you saying we all score as a TEAM?!" Ino yelled.
"Silence! I have my own reasons, so shut up and listen!" Ibiki yelled back. Ino huffed before sitting down again and crossing her arms.
"Rule #3: The sentinels you see positioned around the room are there to watch you careful in case you cheat." Some of the participants looked towards the ninjas beside them.
"Cocky idiots..." Sakura thought looking at the faces of the smirking jounins.
"And for every incident they spot they will subtract two points of the culprit's score." Ibiki said, a smirk making its way to his face.
"Be warned. Their eyes are extremely sharp and if you are caught five times you will be dismissed before the test is even scored."
"Sheesh! They're making all sorts of things for you to fail," Ten-Ten thought.
"If you want to be a shinobi then show us. Show us what exceptional shinobi you can be."
"Okay, okay. Stay calm. I know that Sakura will be alright and I'm sure I can do fine. So even if Naruto gets a zero in this we can still pass this..." Sasuke thought looking at Naruto.
"And one last thing, if any of the candidates gets a zero and fail then the ENTIRE team fails."
"The fuck man?! I bet that's you up there Shisui, who is making my life like this!" Sasuke thought glaring up at the ceiling.
"The final question won't be given out until 15 minutes before the end of the exam. You will have an hour in total...You may start on my signal." Ibiki said looking at the clock.
tick.
tick.
"BEGIN!"
Scribbles and tapping of pencils could be heard immediately. Beads of sweat were running down their foreheads when they looked from question and question, trying to figure out the answer.
"This isn't good...He's just sitting there! He's going to choke!" Sasuke thought looking at Naruto.
"What am I worried about? I did LOTS of things that are harder than this! All I have to do is take my time sweep through all the questions and find the one that I have a chance in answering...no pressure." Naruto thought smiling picking up the test paper.
"Okay first question...Oh I see it's a cryptogram!" Naruto said picking up his pencil still smiling.
"Alright...mhmm...Okay, forget the first question. What's the second question...?"
"What the fuck?! These problems are integrated problems that is based on principles of uncertainty...How the hell did I answer all of this before?" Sakura thought sweat dropping. Glancing around, Sakura nodded.
"Sasuke found out the true meaning of the test already...Naruto is freaking out and all the others already found out before Sasuke did..." Sakura thought. Sakura looked at forward and accidentally met the eyes of Ibiki. They stared at each other for a bit before Sakura thought,
"I wonder if what Anko-sensei said was true. Let's test the theory, shall we?" Sakura thought before letting her lips form to the most sadistic smirk she could master and let her eyes adapt a slightly crazed look. Ibiki blinked and suddenly Sakura is staring at him innocently.
"Did…that just happen?" Ibiki thought in surprise. "But that girl…number 54. Sakura Haruno…" Ibiki chuckled, shaking his head. She's a Haruno. He probably just imagined it. Or it could have been the wind that made him shiver. He conveniently forgot that the window was shut close.
"Interesting bunch we have this year…"
"Okay, time to help Sasuke..." Sakura thought before staring at Sasuke at the corner of her eye hoping he would feel it.
Thank God, Sasuke wasn't anything like Naruto.
Sasuke looked to the right feeling a gaze on him and was surprised to find it to be Sakura. Sakura let her head nod to her paper and wrote a word on it indicating for him to copy her hand movements. Sasuke nodded before activating his Sharingan. Sakura wrote down the answers for the questions with Sasuke quickly mimicking her movements but stopped at question 6. Sasuke gave her a questioning look.
Sakura stared at Sasuke, annoyed. "Let me rest! I'm tired!"
Sigh. "Fine..."
Sakura put her pencil down and let her eyes wonder. She saw Akamaru barking silently at Kiba giving him the answers, Shino using his bugs, and Ten-ten moving the mirrors in the ceiling with her wires.
"NUMBER 43! FAIL!"
"No way! How would you know I cheated?! Where's your proof!? You can't keep track with all of us here! You got the wrong guy-!"
BAM!
"We were chosen for this because we don't make mistakes. We are the best of the best so I suggest you shut up and leave. Take your team with you!" A jounin said, banging the genin on the wall.
Sakura stared at the guy on the ground before glancing at Sasuke indicating that they will continue. Sasuke nodded before picking up his pencil and activating his Sharingan.
"Okay Sakura...let's see if you have a brain in that over sized forehead of yours! Now...I'll let it put to work for me...Be flattered! I don't just use my Mind Transfer Jutsu on anyone!" Ino thought making the boar seal.
Sakura suddenly stopped and Sasuke, who was copying her, stopped as well looking at her and noticed her hand was pointing to her paper. Sasuke raised an eyebrow before looking at his own paper. Sasuke's eyes widened when he read the last sentence she wrote: "Ino is using her Mind Transfer on me so wait for a bit."
"Look at this one...staying focus as if nothing is happening. Huh, not bad for a rookie..." Ibiki thought looking at Gaara.
Gaara was focusing his sand on his hand when suddenly a small sand ball turned into an eye ball with brown eyes. "The Awakening of the Third eye..." Gaara thought before crushing the eye ball.
"Err… excuse me?" Kankuro said, raising his hand.
"What is it?" one of the jounin said.
"Gotta use the Can...Sorry..." Kankuro said sheepishly smiling.
Clank.
"I'll go with you. Make sure you're not up to something." the jounin said hand cuffing Kankuro and holding the rope that was attached to it.
"That's perfectly understandable." Kankura said smiling. Gaara watched as his brother was escorted to the bathroom before resuming his concentration.
"Heh...Thank you Sakura..." Ino thought before canceling the jutsu.
Kankuro sighed as he finished 'using the can' and decided to converse with the jounin.
"Security is tight around here, aren't they? But those sentinels aren't really as eagle eyed as they said they were after all… they didn't even notice there was one more sentinel then they used to be...right, Crow?" Kankuro said looking at the jounin who escorted him.
"Why are they all copying from me?" Sakura thought annoyed as she felt Neji's Byakugan on her form and noticing the beads of sand on her table.
"Maa, who cares? It won't matter anyway…" Sakura muttered continuing to jolt down the answers.
-Tenth Question-
"Man, these guys are cocky..." Sasuke thought, rolling his eyes.
"This is it..." Most of the Rookie 7 thought, sweat trailing down their foreheads.
"Hurry up, Kankuro! What good is your cheat paper if you miss the final question!?" Temari thought, anxiously glancing at the door.
"But before I give you the final question, there are more rules you should be aware of..." Ibiki said his face void of all emotion.
Door opens.
"Ahh, made it just in time. I hope your trip to the bathroom was...enlightening," Ibiki said looking at Kankuro.
"Shit! He's on to us!" Kankuro thought eyes widening.
"Well...take your seat." Ibiki said impatiently. Kankuro headed to his seat passing by Temari and secretly passing a small paper to her.
"These rules are unique for question ten. Listen carefully and try not to let them frighten you." Ibiki said staring at them at the corner of his eyes and as if to frighten them more the wind outside became harsher.
"Very well then...Rule #1: Each of you is free to choose not to be given the final question. It's your decision." Naruto's eyes widened at that.
"It's...our decision?"
"Wow! What's the catch?! Let's say we don't want to be given it? What happens to us then?" Temari shouted.
"If you choose not take the tenth question regardless to your answers in your test paper you get a zero in other words...you fail and that means of course that your team mates fail as well."
Whisper.
Murmur.
"Not's so fast, you didn't let me finish. If you DO take the question but answer it incorrectly not only will you fail...YOU WILL BANNED TO TAKE THE CHUNIN EXAMS EVER AGAIN!" Ibiki shouted glaring at them.
"That's bull! What kind of bogus question is that?! There are a lot of people here who took the test before!" Kiba shouted pointing at Ibiki and standing up. Ibiki chuckled before answering Kiba's question,
"Well, I guess you guys are just unlucky. I wasn't the one who made the rules before but I made them now but of course if you don't want to take it you don't have to..." Ibiki smirked sadistically at them. Kiba faltered a bit and unconsciously taking a gulp.
"If you're not feeling confident then by all means skip it. You can come back and try again next year." Ibiki said laughing.
"Now then, the final question. Those who don't want to take it raise your hand!" Ibiki said staring at each and one of them.
"I'm out...That's it..." A genin said standing up and raising his hand.
"Bang..." Sakura muttered closing her eyes.
"Bang..."
"I give up..." Raise hands.
"Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. Bang...Bang..." and 8 more genins raised their hands. Sakura blew an air out as if she just finished shooting people and a giggled escaped, eyes still closed. I feel so bad ass…
With Sasuke, he was looking at Naruto with a hint of worry in his eyes.
"Naruto...Don't raise your hand...Come one..." Sasuke thought. Sasuke's eyes widened in surprise when he saw Naruto's hand rising up. Sasuke looked at Sakura who glanced at him and shook her head. Sasuke glared at her, but she just shrugged. It's his choice…
All was silent until,
…
…
BAM!
"Don't underestimate me! You're not going to scare me away! I don't care if I get stuck as a genin my whole life! NO WAY I'M RUNNING AWAY!" Naruto shouted before sitting down and crossing his arms together and looking away.
"Incredible...after that outburst he gave everyone a back bone...78 left...and I don't see anyone wavering..." Ibiki said looking at the teams left.
"I admire your determination. For all of you who is left there is only one thing I have to do. It's for me to tell you...that you all pass the exam!" Ibiki said smiling happily.
"He looks like Kakashi-sensei when we passed his test too..." Sakura said sweat dropping a bit before sighing and resting her head on her palm.
"Wow, wait a minute! What do you mean we passed?! Where's the tenth question?!" some random girl said.
"There was never a tenth question! Not a written one at least! Actually your decision to stay is the answer of the tenth question!" Ibiki said laughing out loud.
"So the last nine questions was just a waste of time?!" Ino yelled.
"No. Quite the opposite actually. Those nine questions are actually to see how well you can gather information without getting caught. Let me explain. You see my objective was to test not only as an individual but as a team as well and how well you function, that's why my test was scored in a team basis so you know that everything you did or failed to do directly affect your team. I wanted to see how well you handle the pressure."
"Mhmm, I figured it was something like that's why I kept my cool," Naruto said nodding his head.
"Yeah right...don't flatter yourself, boy!" Inner Sakura yelled.
"The first nine questions were difficult. In fact, TOO difficult for any genin to answer and as expected some of you came to that conclusion that you have to cheat for any chance of passing. Of course it would have done you little good unless you had someone to cheat from so I disguised two chunins who already knew the answers and had them sit in with you."
"WHAT?! THE ANSWERS WERE INFRONT OF ME THE WHOLE TIME?!" Naruto yelled in his mind.
"Hahah! You have to be a complete doo fuss to not notice it!" Naruto yelled laughing.
"Incredible...he didn't know the whole time..." Sasuke said his eyes twitching.
"Those who were caught cheating failed immediately. Better to fail than cheat clumsily." Ibiki said taking out the tie in his headband and taking it out.
"Information...It could be the most valuable weapon in battle. How well you gather and seek information can determine if you fail or did a mission successfully." The genin gasped in horror as they saw Ibiki's head covered in all kinds of wounds, burn marks, and scars.
"There will be a time where you will have to risk your life to get it." Ibiki tied his head band back before continuing,
"Of course you should also consider your source of information. They might just not be giving you the right information. Always bear in mind: Disinformation can be worse than no information at all, it can lead to the death of comrades or a loss of a village! That's why I put you in a position where you have to accurately get information. SEEK in order to survive." Ibiki said with a hard look on his face before smiling again.
"As for the rest of you, you have successfully answered the tenth question and are able to pass on to the second stage of the Chunin Exams."
CRASH!
"...jump right into action as usual..." Ibiki thought sighing.
"HEADS UP BOYS AND GIRL! THIS IS NO TIME TO CELEBRATING! I AM ANKO MITARASHI, YOUR NEXT PROCTER!" A girl with purple hair that was tied up in something similar to Shikamaru's yelled. There was a huge purple curtain behind her, held up by two kunais and had her name written on it.
Everyone was staring at Anko like she was crazy then Ibiki's voice sounded from behind the curtain.
"You're early...again." Ibiki said staring at Anko with an annoyed face.
"Uhh… Heheh..." Anko said blushing a bit before noticing something.
"Ibiki, are you losing you touch?! There are a lot of them than usual!"
"Or...it could be a stronger crap of candidates this year." Ibiki said defending himself.
"Heh...Doesn't matter when I'm done with them...more than half will be eliminated." Anko said, a dark and sadistic smirk on her face that could just maybe, MAYBE rival Sakura's.
"More than...half?"
That's all for this chapter :D I hope you guys enjoyed the edited version and I hope it's better than the last :D I took quite long for this chapter, for some odd reason.
Next Chapter: Forest of Death Part 1
Until we meet again :X