"And the first exam may commence!"
Takamitsu viewed in front of him what he could describe as questions in the form of bloated hogwash. What looked like seconds took Takamitsu an internal 3 hours to finish for one equation.
Identify the arc approach of a Shuriken vs Kunai from object A to Object B, each with differing arcs. Prove why the Kunai arc is the better answer. Apparently, math tells you that throwing a kunai straight upward fare's better than a shuriken around a tree. Math with angles based on averages had a lot of hit and miss guessing, because every answer within 2º led to a drastically different numerical answer per decimal place, so there wasn't averaging for a guess.
Question 2: Transcribe the encoded message into language x- relative to language y… Nope, just gonna take the L on that one...
Question 3: In the case of Earth chakra beating electric chakra, name 5 ways in which a shinobi with an elemental disadvantage can overcome the process.
"God, it's like they want a dissertation to go along with each answer!" Tenten internally screamed. "About the only thing I can figure out is the code deciphering, and that was thanks to reading from the temple of fire's library."
Out of the corner of his eye, Takamitsu saw a white eyed individual similar to Neji staring at his answers. Jokes on her, half of his answered questions were well thought guesses within a fragmented hypothesis. Of course, real life demonstration would have fared much more quickly for the majority of the paragraph answers, and he would have simply said no, but it's humbling to know he's not the only one who would consider cheating under the system.
Takamitsu saved himself the mental anguish of listening to the proctor before announcing a stipulation on the last question for the exam. It caught his ear when Ibiki mentioned a perma ban from taking the exams after missing the final question. But leave it to Naruto to rally up the others and safeguard everyone who remained. For because of him, we received an instantaneous pass for the written exam.
Soon to follow, team Guy didn't raise any suspicion of their abilities as they were lined for the second exam.
"Take note of who was given which scroll. I say we make for speed and pick off an unsuspecting team at the tower." Takamitsu noted to Lee and Tenten.
"And then immediately get picked off after doing the hard work? We stand a better chance finding one early in and hiding."
"But we're more likely to find an enemy to pick from the closer we are to the final objective."
"Have you seen some of the ninja we're facing?"
"Why yes Tenten, one of them has a nice skirt they wear and- Of course I do. What's next, you're telling me to keep my guard up from the rookie nine?"
"Like a fucking book. And don't you go wandering off and lone wolfing this shit either." Tenten's tone sharpened among Takamitsu's sarcasm.
"I know it's a team sport Tenten, otherwise we wouldn't be where we are, right Lee?" And with both heads turning, it seemed that Lee went off somewhere before the exams started.
"Son of a bitch." The two held which remained held in unison.
Tenten managed to drag Lee back just before the gates opened. After a light scolding, the three were off, taking the path diagonally to the right of the objective tower
"After some nimble reconnaissance Tenten, it seems that the squad under Kakashi has a heaven scroll." Lee blurted.
"And remind me, which scroll do we have?" Takamitsu asked.
"You should have paid attention." Tenten grumbled. "Besides, I call the shots for the squad. You're not going willy nilly in."
"Not even for a leaf hurricane?"
"No… Not even for that."
As team guy went throughout the day, they settled in the open forest, with a dim lit fire and conveniently placed logs for sitting. Tenten pulled out some dummies for target practice while Lee and Takamitsu were to rest. Rotation occurred and Takamitsu was up next. Every ten minutes, he would flare up his kekkei genkai to do a quick search around him, and observing if any entity was stirred from its spot. The patterns of forestry baked into his eyes from still observance. To his relief, there were to be no encounters for the night.
The team set off the next morning, and Takamitsu knew he would be at an awareness disadvantage by night fall. Tenten had some mobile reconnaissance snacks in reserve so they could focus more on the objectives instead of basic necessities. The proctors were right about how many things were inedible behind the fences. The three came across a giant web nest, and Takamitsu's green spandex clothing rolled right off of the grips of meter long webbing. Tenten had pulled a short sword out to chop her way through. They headed west out of the webs and took a second look of what they were running through.
"Great, this web is acidic to metals. It's chewed up the blade, but my hand and leather handle is fine."
"Sounds like you need to use a chakra blade maybe? Did I teach you stuff on that?"
"Yes Takamitsu. I figured this wasn't some ordinary spider web. Some would dare consider it a trap of some kind."
"Oh shit get down!" Takamitsu exclaimed as he tackled his two teamates. Seven thunks audiated toward a nearby tree, and Takamitsu observed them to be stingers- poison stingers. "I don't think his fangs are corrosive to metal…"
A human sized spider appeared from the direction it fired from. Takamitsu had the Dragon saber in his weak hand, ready to thwart off the animal with chakra.
"Not yet!" commanded tenten. So from her word, Takamitsu wielded it two handed and was focused on the opponent's web shooting behind. The other two teamates spread out as Takamitsu held the creature's attention.
The spider's fangs looked to be a foot long, and its body resembled a cool blue-grey tint. It lunged for Takamitsu, and he proceeded with a full swipe right to hit the approaching limbs. After failing to hit, Takamitsu rolled forward to miss the spider's body. The hind of it spat out webs, and his elbow blocked the sticky substance from touching his weapon. The butt of the spider shifted upward and away, while the head was coming at him upside down.
"Leaf Hurricane!" Lee piled drived his ankle from above onto the back of the spider. The creature stopped inches from Takamitsu.
"Awesome Lee!" Takamitsu commented. "This shit from the spider may provide useful."
"Hey, come on you two, before we get caught with another one!" Tenten whispered. With one small flask filled with spider venom, Takamitsu, had either a cruel weapon, or a scare tactic he could pull off for later. The three bolted off and was ready for the next fight… Hopefully...