He opened the door of room 301, and, instantly, all eyes were on this new arrival, weighing him up, seeing if they thought they knew what he could do.

"Yeah, hi" Adam said, sitting down against the wall, "How are you?"

All the others looked at each other, confused; who was he talking to?

When they looked back, he was gone. Adam was sitting on the roof upside down, a Chameleon Jutsu in action. With a Chameleon Jutsu, the user could choose how transparent they were, and Adam was about 85% transparent, so if someone looked closely, they might be able to see a shimmering outline of a boy on the roof. He then evaluated the room. There was about two hundred Ninja in the room, sitting on desks, the floor or chairs, all from various Villages. The door opened again and the rest of the Konoha Ninja walked in. Nine of them, including Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata, were rookies, this being their first Chunin exam. The rest were older Shinobi who had taken the test before, but failed. An older Shinobi walked over to Naruto and the other members of squad seven and began talking to them. Adam flipped off the roof, ending the Chameleon Jutsu, startling some of the assembled Ninja. He walked over to Sakura and sat down next to her.

"You really did see through the Genjutsu didn't you?" asked Adam.

"I felt something was wrong," said Sakura slowly, "but I couldn't put my finger on it until you said that I could probably see it."

"You have the sharpest eyes I have ever seen," said Adam, "and that's including other Shinobi. Remember, I've been here for ten years, so I have seen a lot of Shinobi."

"Oh, thanks," said Sakura, beginning to blush.

"Hey, what's your name?" asked the new Ninja, who had grey hair, but a young face.

"Adam," said Adam, shaking the proffered hand, "and you?"

"My name is Kabuto," said the new guy.

"I'm guessing by your age that you've taken this test at least a couple of times before?" asked Adam.

"Seven times, to be precise," said Kabuto, laughing.

"Seven?" asked Adam, "Why so many? Surely you're not that bad."

"I am…sort of," said Kabuto.

"Sort of?" asked Adam.

"I gather information on the contestants and put them on these cards," said Kabuto, producing the cards.

"Uh-huh," said Adam, "So you fail on purpose then?"

"I have once," said Kabuto, "The others I failed from either stress or my teammates failing, and me being dragged down with them."

I see," said Adam. He gestured to the cards, "What do they say about, say, Naruto?"

"Let's see…" said Kabuto, shuffling the deck and drawing one seemingly at random. He placed it face down on the ground and tapped it with a forefinger. It went blank for a second and then showed Naruto's face in the top left corner. The bottom left was taken by a hexagon, with the words 'Stamina', 'Chakra', 'Ninjutsu', 'Genjutsu', 'Taijutsu', and 'Chakra Control' on the outside of each of the points. There was a large coloured spike towards the word 'Chakra', while 'Taijutsu' had almost no spike at all. The rest were somewhere around the middle. In the bottom right corner, a box with the letters 'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' on the left hand side was present. Next to 'D' there was a small number 5. Next to 'C' there was a small number 2. "Those represent the number of missions the person has been sent on," explained Kabuto. In the top right was the Konoha symbol and Naruto's Shinobi I.D number.

"Interesting," said Adam, "Do they have anything on me?"

"Probably," said Kabuto, pulling Naruto's card back into the deck and drawing a new one. He placed it face down and tapped it again. When it became clear, Kabuto gasped. Where the photo normally was, there was just a black indistinct shape with a white question mark in the middle of it. The hexagon showing the skills was fully lit, all the spikes going all the way to the edge. The mission box had a question mark against both 'D' and 'C' ranks, but there was a small number 47 against the 'B', and 136 against the 'A'. There was a Konoha symbol, but next to it was a different symbol, 適, sign of the Psykers (but Kabuto didn't know that). The I.D number was a mix of letters and symbols, as if it was a computer and it had an encountered an error. The longer Kabuto looked at it, the less sense it made: dA/\/\-1$--P5yK3r. Naruto's had been a standard 1411-8222-115. He quickly mentally checked his own, he knew it by heart, and it had said 1112-2221-100.

"Well?" asked Adam cheerfully.

"Y—your card is like none I've ever seen!" said Kabuto, "and I made the things!"

"You really like confusing people, don't you?" whispered Sasuke into Adam's ear. Adam just smiled. A second later, a Jonin appeared with a puff of smoke at the front of the room.

"I am the proctor for the first exam," he said, "As some of you may have guessed, this is a classroom, so take your seats, anywhere will do."

There was stunned silence for a second, then the Genin started moving. Adam sat in the far back left. Sasuke and Sakura sat side by side near the middle of the room. Naruto sat at the front, fourth from the left. As soon as they had all sat down, the door opened and twenty Chunin entered.

"These Chunin are here to make sure you don't cheat during the test," the proctor said.

A written test? thought Naruto, I'm terrible at those!

The Chunin dispersed among the Genin, distributing the test papers.

"If you are caught cheating four times, you, and your squad, will be removed from the room, and will immediately fail the exams," said the proctor, "Also, this test's scoring system is slightly different from most others. You start with ten points, and for every question you get wrong you lose a point. Every time you cheat, you lose two points, so you may be seen cheating four times before, on the fifth time, you will be ordered to leave. One more thing, the squad's points tally is not totalled, so if two members get ten points, and one member gets zero, the squad still fails. Now, you may begin!"