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Chapter 14: The First Exam, Ari's Way Of Cheating
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Ari gasped as she saw the image before her. There were many, many rolls of ninjas from different villages. The air was thick with tension and it felt like you could cut it with a butter knife.
Suddenly, a loud voice broke her concentration
"Sasuke-kun! Where've you been?" Ino latched onto Sasuke, "I could hardly wait! It's so exciting seeing you again after all this time!"
Ari would have laughed at Sakura if she wasn't also annoyed also
"GET OFF SASUKE-KUN! INO PIG!" Sakura shouted
"Why if it isn't Sakura," Ino kept her hold on Sasuke while taunting the pinkette, "Big ugly forehead as always"
"Excuse me Ino, but I think you should let go now" Ari declared as she walked up to them and took her arm off Sasuke
"What do you think you are doing Ari? Sasuke-kun belongs to me!" Ino glared
"I don't think he belongs to anyone. He has the right to chose" Ari stated holding his hand
"Then why the hell are you holding his hand!" Ino and Sakura screamed
"I-" She was about to retaliate when others began to show up
"Can you guys not be so loud?" the voice said," This is so troublesome"
"Shikamaru!" Ari greeted happily before also seeing Choji, "And Choji too!"
"Hey" Choji said before once again eating from his bag of chips
"So-why are you holding Uchiha's hand?" Shikamaru asked staring at their joined hand
Ari could help but blush before she answered, "Be-"
"Hey! There you are!" shouted another interrupting voice
They all turn to see Kiba and his team
"Hinata-chan! How are you!" Ari let go of Sasuke's hand to wave enthusiastically at her friend
"I-I'm...f...fine" she mumbled, blushing as she kept taking glances at Naruto
'I swear, Naruto must be blind if he can't see that Hinata has a crush on him' Ari smiled at the shy sweet girl
"Hey Ari, how's it feel to be a 4 person team?" Kiba smirked
"It's not that different. Only 1 more person" Ari shrugged before turning to Akamaru, "Hi Akamaru, were you being good?"
"Woof!" Ari laughed as Akamaru wagged his tail happily
"Don't get too friendly Ari" Kiba teased, "Akamaru is my fighting partner. Who knows...you might have to go against us"
"Hmph. We all know I'll still win" She glared back playfully, "Hello Shino"
"Ari" he acknowledge me with a nod
"So, are you going to tell us why you were holding Uchiha's hand?" Shikamaru asked again
"Ari-chan! You don't like Sasuke-teme...do you?" Naruto asked
Said girl could fell herself blush red hot at his question, "I...um..."
"It would be best for you to keep it down" another guy interrupted me," Some of the people here aren't too friendly"
The guy that was talking had silver hair and glassed. He looked older and taller then us.
"My name is Kabuto" he stated
He then showed them a weird deck of cards. It was all blank until he used his chakra on it and it revealed the stats of anyone he wanted. Sasuke had wanted to know about Rock Lee and Sabaku no Gaara. It was then that some sound nins came and picked a fight with Kabuto, who in the end...threw up from a punch that did not even hit him.
'Their hitai-ate says their from sound' Ari glared, 'They look really strong'
She was about to go and try to stop them when there was a huge poof sound and there were many shinobis standing in the room.
In the middle of them was a very tall guy wearing a black jacket.
He began to explain that the first exam was a test
"A PAPER TEST!" Naruto exclaimed
'I'm with him' Ari sighed, 'Why is there a paper test'
"Alright, come turn in your applications, draw a number, and find your seats!" the guy, who they now know as Ibiki ordered
I went up to the box and drew a number
'19...hm...who am I near?' taking her seat, Ari found out that TenTen was right behind me.
The test began and she took a look at the questions...
'Hm...decode the following and summarize its meaning' Ari read to myself, 'Nope, too hard. What's the next one? 'The parabola marked 'B' represents the greatest effective distance the enemy shinobi, 'A', could throw a shuriken from the top of a 23.3 foot tree...calculate the specific features of the scenario and deduce the range of the shuriken's effectiveness, assuming a consistent speed for shinobi A's assault upon any enemy shinobi operating within the arc of the flight of the shuriken describes. Show your work...what the hell is this!...I really hate tests'
Ari then notice a thin line of wire going from TenTen's seat to the top of the room. Looking up, she saw a whole bunch of kunais, wires, and mirrors.
'So...she's cheating. Not a bad idea. Don't mind me TenTen. I'm just gonna borrow your mirrors for a minute' Ari smirked concentrating chakra within her mouth as she learned to do with climbing trees, 'Ninpou. Fukumi Hari'
Ari spat a needle so fast that she was sure no one had seen it at one of TenTen's string from her mouth until she could see the answers on TenTen's paper,"This is much better"
Quickly, Ari copied down all the answers, 'I have to wait for the 10th question. Fine. Sasuke should be okay. Sakura is smart enough to answer all the questions. I'm only worried about Naruto. As long as he can get just one answer right, we can make it'
Laying her head down, Ari decided to take a nap before they gave the 10th question
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She was having a nice relaxing dream when a loud sound woke herup
"Okay, you have a choice" Ibiki announced, "You may choose to take the 10th question, but if you you get it wrong, you may never take the chuunin exams again. If you go now, you may retake the test next time"
"What?" screamed many test takers in a fury and discontent
"I...I want to quit" one ninja raised his hand
"Number 50 failed" one of the proctor announced, "Number 130 and 111 fail with him"
Soon, more and more began to leave, afraid of the final question
Ari then saw Sakura beginning to raise her hand when Naruto's one shot up
'It looks like we're not going any futher' Ari sighed to myself until Naruto slamed his hand down and shouted, "DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME! I DON'T QUIT AND I WON'T RUN! I'LL TAKE YOUR STUPID QUESTION! I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU!"
'You tell them Naruto' Ari smirked, 'Sorry for doubting you'
"I'll ask one last time" Ibiki glared at Naruto, "Anyone else want to quit while they can?"
When no one else raised their hand, Ibiki sighed before saying 79 of you who are still here, you pass"
"What? How?" Sakura questioned
Ibiki began explaining the importance of being a ninja as Ari just sighed in relief, 'Thank god'
Suddenly, something broke through the wondow, and it turned out to be a lady dressed in fishnets and a cloak. She introduced herself as the next examiner, Anko, and promised to cut their numbers in half as she walked the remaining challengers towards a forest that was completely fenced off
After they had an encounter with a creepy guy with a long tongue, everyone signed a paper stating that out deaths will not be blamed on the examiners and then were assigned a gate. Gate 12 to be exact.
'Hm...we have gate 12, Kiba's team is at gate 16 and Ino has gate 27. Gaara is at gate 6. One of them must have the scroll we're looking for...but which one?' I asked myself, 'Onii-chan, if I die, I will haunt you forever.'
Somewhere in Konohagakura, Kakashi sneezed.
As soon as Anko gave the signal, we we all rushed through the gate into unknown dangers
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