Took a bit of time, but here is Chapter 6! Just a heads up though, its a bit of a long chapter...though if anything you can blame Kabuto and his long ass explanations/descriptions. Also, for those wondering the pairings, first obviously, is Harem, and no, I'm not going to tell you all of the girls yet...though I will at least say I will likely have Hinata and Haku in it. Just wait for now though for who else will be included. Now, we got the team entering the chunin exams. Let's see how they interact with their colleagues, as well as get past the Written Exam. But first...
DISCLAIMER: I will say this every time if I have to...I DO NOT OWN Naruto, its characters, locations, techniques, or any part of the franchise. Those belong to Masashi Kishimoto, Shueisha, Viz Media, TV Tokyo Co., and Shonen Jump, and other content creators. I do own the story itself and any techniques I come up with for characters to use. Now that you understand this, enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 6: Something Reeks
In Front of the Konoha Ninja Academy, Konohagakure, Land of Fire
The next day, the team of four found themselves standing in front of the Academy, where within, the Chunin Exams awaited them.
Haku asked "So, are you ready?"
Naruto, and Sakura as well, pumped their fists with a grin as they responded "Heck YEAH! We're gonna win this!" ...though Naruto also added a "DATTEBAYO!" at the end.
Sasuke merely nodded with a 'hnn', as well as a smirk on his face.
Haku simply nodded, happy the rest of her team were in high spirits. The group then walked in and headed up the stairs.
As they walked up the stairs, they saw a large line of people headed towards a door that was being guarded by two other 'genins'.
"Why won't you let us in!? We're here for the Chunin Exams!" one voice spoke. Sakura facepalmed for a moment as she recognized that voice a bit too well.
One of the genin at the door sneered as he said "We can't let you weaklings get in the exam, it isn't a place for chumps, go home brat."
At this point, Sakura was about to tell them they should just go up to the next floor since this was actually just the second floor under a genjutsu, but then the source of the voice, Might Gai's student, Rock Lee, noticed her.
"OH HEY! SAKURA-CHAN!"
He then dashed over to where she was, no longer pretending to be injured from the 'genins', who did widen their eyes for a moment as they realized they got played a little, but they ignored it for the time being.
Sakura couldn't help but let out a sigh, before she spoke "Hi Lee…"
Lee let out one of his cheesy smiles, which ended up making the rest of Team 7 a bit...weirded out, before he said "So you're here for the Chunin Exams right!? That's excellent! We can both show our power of youth! And love if you will accept it!"
Sakura shot him down instantly though with a "Yes I'm here for the Chunin Exams, and for the LAST TIME LEE, NO MEANS NO!"
Lee looked a bit downcast before his two other teammates, a boy with long brown hair and pale eyes like Hinata's, and Tenten, joined the group.
Tenten grabbed Lee as she said "Lee, I know you like her, but you really should give up at this point. She's already shot you down more than 50 times. Also hi Sakura!"
While Sakura ended up having a short chat with Tenten, Naruto went over to Lee as he asked "You also get rejected by Sakura a lot?"
Lee said to him "Sadly, yes, but I will not falter!"
Naruto gave the green spandex boy a nod, before he then put a hand on Lee's shoulder as he said "I understand you very well in that regard. Maybe someday she'll actually accept someone other than the edgelord. Believe it!"
At this point, the two ended up making a strange bond of sorts, which Sakura didn't notice, Sasuke simply decided to ignore, and Haku couldn't help it as a giggle escaped from her mouth.
Meanwhile Neji looked at Sasuke before he called to him.
"Sasuke Uchiha."
Sasuke looked at him and asked "And you are?"
"Neji Hyuuga. I hear you were the top of your class, as was I. I hope to see just what you can do...though I will show you just who's doujutsu is superior." Neji answered him.
Sasuke simply gave him a quick 'hnn'. Neji smirked a bit. He then walked towards the stairs, his two teammates trailing along with him.
Sakura then said "Well, guess we should head up too then?"
The team nodded in agreement, just as they were about to head up the stairs though...Naruto decided to ruin the 'genins'' fun.
"HEY GUYS BY THE WAY THIS IS ACTUALLY THE SECOND FLOOR! ALSO THOSE TWO AREN'T GENINS! BYE NOW!"
Everyone who had been fooled by the genjutsu had their eyes widen before they all realized they had been played. And were now rushing towards the stairs.
And the two 'genins' who had been exposed undid their transformations and were going to chase after Naruto.
But by that time, he was gone.
Upstairs
Sakura deadpanned at the blond ninja before she asked "Did you really have to do that?"
"It was worth it. I regret nothing!" Naruto replied with a foxy grin.
Haku gave him a thumbs up as she enjoyed it as well.
Sasuke added "...okay it was kind of funny."
Sakura couldn't help but nod at the least to Sasuke's statement about it.
The group then walked down the hall to the door they were supposed to enter, finding not only their sensei, but Lee's team as well as their sensei.
While originally everyone other than Sakura would have made some reaction about Might Gai's eyebrows…
They were too distracted by the fact the TRUE ultimate genjutsu was occurring before their eyes.
Gai and Lee were having a master/student moment where they were crying and hugging each other, with a cliff overlooking the ocean with a sunset was occuring behind them.
Haku was questioning reality, Sasuke was constantly trying to dispel the nightmare-like genjutsu, meanwhile Naruto in his curiosity, grabbed one of the rocks from the cliffside and then tossed it, and as a result it went into the water below.
What kind of sick genjutsu is this!? Naruto couldn't help but think.
The Kyuubi cried out "TURN IT OFF! I DON'T WANT THIS BURNED INTO MY MEMORY!"
Minato meanwhile shrugged as he shook his head. He had seen it enough times already between Might Gai and Gai's father. It was too late for him.
Meanwhile Sakura walked over to them before bopping them both on the head as she yelled "CAN'T YOU NOT MENTALLY SCAR US WITH THAT DAMMIT!?"
The fact that from what Kakashi could tell that punch actually hurt Gai, he sweatdropped a bit. Though he had to admit he was impressed that Sakura could actually ignore the effects of the nightmare fuel and disable it. But then again, she tended to play straight man, er woman, a lot to Naruto's hijinks.
Tenten gave Sakura a thumbs up, as she was the one who taught her how to do that, and Neji meanwhile, grabbed Lee and then went into the exam room, with Tenten following after.
Kakashi eye smiled as he looked at the group and said, "Well, that was interesting, and I'm glad you all made it here! Just remember to work as a team, and I'm sure you'll do fine!"
After that, the team then went into the doors, leaving the two senseis alone for the moment.
"...how hard did she hit you by the way?"
Gai stopped holding the bump on his head. He then replied "Well...about as hard as Kushina in her prime."
Kakashi couldn't help but shiver at the thought. If she could hit as hard as Kushina, the second most physically strong female ninja he had known, he was terrified at what level she might get to later on.
In the room for the Chunin Exams
As the group of four entered the room they were met with the stares of the many other participants. Some were curious, some were annoyed more brats showed up, others didn't really give much of a crap, and more.
Of course, the group didn't seem too bothered by it. Even Sakura, who originally was a weak link in the team, didn't seem perturbed too much.
"Quite a decent amount of people." Haku said as she started to gauge some of the other participants.
Sakura responded to her "Well, based on those Suna Shinobi yesterday, there's probably a good amount of people from other villages."
Naruto in his usual attitude towards life simply said "Then all we gotta do is prove we're the best!"
Sasuke was about to do his usual 'hnn', but was then interrupted by what was to him, a very unwelcome hug.
"Hey Sasuke-kun! Did you miss me!?" the blonde who hugged him from behind said with a bit of flirting in her tone.
Sakura yelled at her "Hands off Ino-pig!"
Ino then looked towards the pinkette and said "But I don't want to Forehead, I like this."
While she was distracted, Sasuke got himself out of her hug, much to said blonde's disappointment when he did so.
At this point though her two teammates walked over, one of which spoke "Ino, stop being troublesome."
The one who spoke was Shikamaru Nara, a boy with short black hair with a single topknot in the back, who wore a short grey vest over a t-shirt and netting with a similar pair of shorts. He, like much of his clan, was known to be a genius, but also like his clan, he was quite lazy.
Ino then retorted "And how about you stop being lazy?"
Shikamaru simply replied "Too troublesome to do so."
Meanwhile Ino's other teammate went over to Naruto and asked "Hi Naruto, been well?"
This person was Choji Akamichi, he was a...big-boned boy with a hat of sorts on his head so that his light brown hair went up through the two openings. He tended to wear a green coat over his shirt that had the character for 'meat' on it. While he had what some would call a black hole for a stomach, he was also quite a kind kid...as long as you didn't call him fat.
Naruto let a smile come to his face as he greeted "As always Choji. Also hi Shikamaru!" to which Shikamaru simply replied with a nod...he was too lazy to come up with an actual response.
He was on decent terms with these two out of his classmates from the Academy. The two boys were some of the very, VERY few kids Naruto hung out with when he was younger. They had good times indeed one could say. Lots of getting into trouble, and sometimes one or both of them ended up being pulled into Naruto's pranks.
Shikamaru then noticed their team of four before he said "You know, I heard you guys got an extra member, but I never got the chance to meet them...but then again, that would be troublesome."
Naruto simply shrugged as he told Haku "Okay basically the lazy guy is Shikamaru, he's smart, but also too lazy to use it more often than not. That one is Choji, he's a nice guy and can pack a decent punch, just don't call him the f-word. And lastly the blonde there is Ino, another Sasuke fangirl who is also the rumor mill."
Ino couldn't help to retort "I'm not the rumor mill!"
Shikamaru couldn't help but sarcastically add "Sure you aren't."
With a short glare from Ino, Shikamaru simply sighed "What a drag."
At this point the other team from their year came over to join them, which started with one of them saying "Hey hey! Looks like the gang's all here!"
This boy was Kiba Inuzuka, a member of a clan that worked closely with their ninja dogs (aka ninken). He had short brown hair and black eyes, with two triangle marks on his face that were shared amongst the clan. He worse a gray hoodie that had the hood and sleeves ending with a bit of brown fur. And on top of his head was his ninken partner, Akamaru. The dog was essentially a small puppy at this point in time, with rounded floppy ears. Though supposedly based on all the other ninken their clan used, he would become as big as a human if not more in due time. He also considered himself an alpha male...though everyone agreed that he wasn't.
The second member who joined the group was Hinata Hyuuga, in her tan jacket as she always was. Of course, she went over towards Naruto as she greeted him with a "H-hi Naruto-kun."
Naruto replied to her with a "Hey Hinata, how have you been?"
Hinata responded back to him with a "G-good." She had a blush and smile on her face as she was happy the boy, her crush, responded back to her. Of course he remained oblivious to her blushing as he said to Kiba "So, how have you been Kiba?"
Kiba looked at the blond boy as he smirked "Doin' well. How about you? Thinking of quitting yet Loser?"
"No way in hell dog breath."
Haku looked at the two of them before she asked their third teammate "Are they always like this?"
Said teammate was Shino Aburame, a boy with dark brown spiky hair who always wore sunglasses and a jacket that covered the lower half of his face. He tended to be a quiet individual, but let's just say…
Don't fuck with the guy who can instant summon a horde of chakra devouring insects.
"Yes. Naruto and Kiba have had a bit of a rivalry going for a while. Both of them are too stubborn to quit though." Shino answered her.
At this point Kiba noticed Haku, and of course, couldn't help his instincts as an 'alpha male'.
"Hey there hot stuff, what's your name?"
At this point, the group had several reactions. Sakura simply facepalmed, Sasuke let out a sigh, and Naruto...Naruto actually felt a little annoyed. He couldn't guess the exact reason other than maybe it was because Haku was his friend.
Elsewhere in Konoha, Zabuza couldn't help but feel annoyed about something, like more so than when Naruto and Haku were together with each other. He decided he would figure out why later though. But if someone was hitting on Haku...he probably would have to, and a quote, cut a bitch.
Haku however simply responded with a "My name is Haku. Also, hit on me like that again, and I will use my senbon on you...and trust me, you don't"
To that, Kiba quickly backed away with a yelp, much to the amusement of the rest of the group. Haku had already gotten annoyed with some of the civilians hitting on her before. And let's just say...if Zabuza didn't get to them first, they'd be riddled with a few senbon so that they would be paralyzed for an hour or so...plus maybe doing a bit of a prank while she was at it.
However, the group's merriment was cut short by a grey haired teenager. He said to them "Hey, how about you kids quiet down, this isn't some sort of field trip here."
The grey haired teenager walked over to the them. He had his hair done with a tail in the back, and wore black rimmed glasses on his face, and a black uniform of sorts on his body.
However, Naruto was interested in something else that he noticed was unusual.
Is it just me, or does something reek about him? Like I don't know...a snake? Yeah, probably snakes.
This happened to spring alarms in both Minato and the Kyuubi, considering they knew only a few people connected to snakes, one in particular was quite a problem. However, both the fox and ex-Hokage agreed to wait on it at the moment. They didn't want to jump to conclusions just yet.
Naruto asked the teenager "Who are you?"
"I'm Kabuto Yakushi, I'm here for the chunin exams just like you all...though this is my seventh attempt."
Kiba couldn't help but reply "Wow you must suck then."
Kabuto shrugged before he said "More like my luck is bad. But as a result, I know a decent amount about the exams. Plus I've also been using the exams as practice for my info gathering skills."
Shikamaru simply nodded as he spoke "Yeah, that makes sense. Might as well make what you can from it. What can you tell us though?"
Kabuto used his hand to push up his glasses before he explained "Well for starters, the exams tend to be separated into three parts, though what occurs in the parts tends to change every time. The only real constant is at the third and final part is that the remaining participants fight in front of those from other nations as well as their own."
Naruto was excited at the idea of fighting in a sort of tournament to show how awesome he was, along with Kiba. Sasuke thought it was interesting, but didn't really show it. Shikamaru simply nodded as he waited for Kabuto to continue.
"As for my info gathering skills, I've determined the amount of applicants that have entered from each nation. While the majority is from Konoha, there's a few from Suna, and others from some of the surrounding smaller countries. Earth and Lightning obviously wouldn't show up. And not many people really know what's going on in Mizu right now since they've been closed off." Kabuto explained further.
He then pulled out a deck of cards as he then spoke "And lastly, these are my pride and joy, my ninja info cards. I've managed to compile the data on a majority of the genins here. Though if some things are missing, don't be surprised."
This seemed to pique the interest of Naruto, Sasuke, Kiba, and Shikamaru. The first three had some people in mind they wanted info on. Meanwhile the latter was interested in what kind of info he had.
The first to ask was Sasuke.
"What can you tell me about Neji Hyuuga and his team?"
Kabuto in response laid out three cards before charging chakra into them. The cards then showed the group the info Kabuto had gathered. It showed a portrait of them, who their sensei was, their attributes in the ninja arts, a bit of text, and lastly, most important to at least two people there, the number and rank of missions they've been on.
While Shikamaru simply just thought of it as him maybe knowing some of the chunin who did the mission requests, Minato was somewhat alarmed. It meant this boy had very, very good information gathering skills. But more importantly, he had to know at least one thing in particular. If he was right, he planned to warn Naruto and co about just what might be coming for them.
Meanwhile Kabuto began his explanations.
"Neji Hyuuga is a member of the Branch Family of the Hyuuga Clan. His team consists of Rock Lee and Tenten, with Might Gai as their sensei. Mission wise, he and his team have done the usual D's, with a few C's and one or two B rank missions, though I wouldn't be surprised since they decided to wait a year before entering the exams. He tends to specialize in his clan's taijutsu which focuses on immobilizing their opponent as well as dealing internal damage. Lastly, he was the top shinobi of his class. So he might be a decent challenge."
"Next we have Tenten. Not from a clan, but fairly decent. From what I can tell she's a weapon specialist, but not anything worth extreme mention in comparison to her teammates. Though the fact she's been with Might Gai for a year does say some things considering how enthusiastic he is about training."
Sakura couldn't help but shudder at the last remark, she knew quite well what he meant.
Kabuto then continued.
"And lastly we have Rock Lee. He relies entirely on taijutsu due to an issue with his chakra coils. However, it can be noted his taijutsu skills are within the chunin level or higher. So if you ever have to fight him, my recommendation is Genjutsu."
After that Sasuke simply let out a 'hnn' as he then let the next person go...which was Kiba.
"What can you tell me about Haku from Konoha?"
This caused the rest of the group to let out a sweatdrop. He was clearly still showing his attraction to her. But they all knew she would likely never return it after she threatened him earlier.
Kabuto shrugged as he put away the previous three cards and pulled out another one that he then put his chakra into.
"Let's see here, Haku is a member of Team 7 who joined a month ago, and her teammates are Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno. I will say 4 member teams are a bit rare, but based on their mission record, I'd say it works. As a team they've done the usual D missions with some C rank ones. However, here's where things get interesting, she originally came here with Team 7 and Zabuza Momochi, the Demon of the Hidden Mist. From what I know, both have joined the village, though I don't know where Zabuza is at the moment. Also, she seems to have a Kenkai Genkai that lets her use Ice Style. Quite impressive."
Kiba couldn't help but gawk at the info. Not only did said girl have a bloodline, but she also had connections to one of the most infamous shinobi from Mist. He could already imagine what Zabuza would do to him if he got fresh with Haku.
And thus, Kiba decided to give up on trying to woo Haku.
Before Naruto could ask Kabuto, he heard Minato tell him "Naruto, other than whoever you ask to ask about, ask about yourself. Say you just want to see how you stack up. Something seems a bit fishy here."
After listening to his father's advice, he asked Kabuto "Gaara of the Sand and his team...and myself."
Kabuto gave him a smirk "Narcissist much?"
Naruto shot right back as his father recommended "Just want to see how I stack up."
Kabuto gave him a shrug before he replied "Fair enough."
He then pulled out another 4 cards before he went into his explanations.
"Gaara of the Desert, the son of the current Kazekage. His teammates are Temari and Kankuro, who happen to be his siblings, and his sensei is Baki. He's got a pretty good mission record of only a few Ds, a lot of Cs, and even a few Bs. While I don't have too much info though, supposedly he's never gotten a single scratch when on mission."
"Next we have Temari. From what I know she tends to use wind style jutsu in tandem to the fan she has on her back. Not much else I can note otherwise."
"And here we have Kankuro, I unfortunately don't have too much info on him either, other than he carries this one bandaged thing on his back...and the fact he wears face paint."
"I say its makeup" Naruto noted as a joke. It managed to cause some of the others to stifle a laugh. And further in Temari overheard it and also couldn't help but stifle a laugh as well, much to her brother Kankuro's confusion.
"To each their own I suppose, now then…Finally we have Naruto Uzumaki, the deadlast of the latest set of genin from Konoha. His teammates are Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. From what's known, his favorite jutsu is the shadow clone jutsu and he hates the normal clone jutsu...that makes sense considering chakra control I guess. And his mission record is...the usual Ds, some Cs, one B...and one A that originally started as a C rank. Wow, don't know how you survived that one."
The rest of the group, excluding his teammates, were all a bit shocked. Naruto had an A class mission under his belt and survived it? A few of them, mainly Ino and Kiba, for a moment couldn't help but consider revising their opinion on the boy.
On the other hand, Naruto was having a bit of a chuckle on the outside...but on the inside…
OH FUCK! HOW DOES HE KNOW ABOUT THAT B-RANK? THE OLD MAN SAID WHAT HAPPENED WITH MIZUKI WAS SUPPOSED TO BE KEPT UNDER WRAPS! WHAT THE HELL!?
Essentially due to what happened with Mizuki, the Third Hokage decided to count it as a B-Rank mission for Naruto since he did essentially beat up a rogue chunin. Though of course it was also classified due to the information of the Kyuubi being leaked to Naruto. Plus it gave the boy a bit of money as a sort of pseudo graduation present. But anyways...
Minato calmed the boy as he said "Calm down Naruto. Good news is there's nothing about your more recent things in here, so it's not like he and whoever he's working with know about your transformation and new abilities. However, if he's working for who I think he's working for, it's best to not trust him, alright?"
"Even if he wasn't working for that snake, I wouldn't trust this guy further than I can toss him. And I have a really good throwing arm." the Kyuubi added on.
This managed to calm Naruto down for the moment. However, four people managed to notice Naruto's chuckle was fake.
Shikamaru was the first one since he also sometimes did so. He was curious as to why the most extroverted person he knew did so, but he decided it would be a drag to try and find out.
Haku and Sakura noticed this as well, though they also couldn't put a finger on why he did so. Both of them in their minds decided they would ask him about it later.
Meanwhile Sasuke instantly caught why Naruto was panicking. He knew the team had never been on a B rank mission, especially since the disaster that was the mission in the Land of Waves. He guessed that whatever it was, it was something people were not supposed to know about. He like his two female teammates also decided he would ask Naruto about it later.
Meanwhile Kabuto decided to put away his cards and spoke.
"In any case, if there's anyone else you guys need a bit of info on, I can show you. However, one of the new, smaller villages, Sound, I haven't gotten much info on their ninja. Though for all we know, they could either be strong, or just small time"
As if on cue (hint hint), one of said Ninja from Sound decided to make their move, he was wearing a grey jacket lined with fur, and had his head covered in bandages save for his eyes and Sound headband. He rushed towards Kabuto, his footsteps alarming both him and the Rookie 9.
"Small time? I'll show you small time!" the Sound nin yelled as he made a hook punch as Kabuto. Kabuto managed to dodge in time though as he moved away from the Sound nin, the punch barely missing his face. However, a moment afterwards Kabuto's glasses then broke, and eyes bulged and he kneeled on the floor, his last meal coming up in the process.
"What the!?...also ugh." Naruto said as he then pinched his nose shut, and Kiba did the same. It was at times like these heightened senses only made things worse.
"Small time that, glasses." the Sound nin said as he stood up normally.
Naruto finally had enough as he yelled "What was that for bastard!?"
The Sound nin looked at Naruto as he said "One, its Dosu, not bastard, second, someone had to teach the rat some manners."
While Naruto was considering attacking him, he also noticed something else. Much like Kabuto, this guy also smelled of snakes.
At this point the Kyuubi couldn't help but say "Okay, once is coincidence, twice is suspicious, especially if this is a new nation. And me and Minato both know there's one rogue ninja who uses snakes."
Naruto couldn't help but mentally ask them And that would be?
However, his question went unanswered as a cloud of smoke appeared at one of the sets of doors, with a voice that yelled "Alright that's enough! Any more fighting from here on unless you are required to do so is forbidden!"
From the smoke appeared a set of Konoha ninja, made up of chunins and jonins, led by a man who wore a black coat and a bandana, and had a face riddled with scars.
At this point, the Sound nin sighed as he backed away, but gave the rookie 9 and Kabuto a glare that implied 'it's not over' before he went back towards where his team was.
The man continued "My name is Ibiki Morino, I will be the proctor of the First Section of the exam. Please come here to take a number from the lot, and then enter the next room. From there, sit at the seat that matches with said number"
Everyone nodded as they followed his instructions, though Naruto couldn't help but have a bad feeling as to what was going to happen next. Though he was at least mildly satisfied that one of the people he was kinda friendly with, Hinata, was sitting next to him. He also couldn't help but notice that he could actually hear her heartbeat, but he just assumed it was because she was as nervous as he was.
Ibiki then pulled out a stack of papers as he then explained the test and its rules.
It was a paper test.
I'M SCREWED! Naruto thought.
Meanwhile both Minato and Kyuubi sweatdropped as they couldn't help but think back to Kushina, who had a similar reaction back when she had her own run in the Chunin Exams.
Before long the test was handed out and they were ordered to begin. Of course, Naruto was in panic on the inside with Minato getting him to stop after a little bit.
Meanwhile, both Haku and Sasuke as they heard the rules realized they were supposed to cheat without getting caught, and Sakura due to her studies already knew the answers and just simply worked on her sheet.
Haku managed to get one of her ice mirrors to appear out of everyone's notice as she used its reflection to get the answers. Sasuke was using his Sharingan to copy off people he thought were doing well, though he felt he really hit home on his first target.
As for Naruto.
Wait wait wait, we're supposed to cheat?
Kyuubi growled at him "Duh. Everyone else is doing it already, have you not noticed?"
At this point, Naruto used his senses on the area around him and noticed that everyone was using all sorts of forms to cheat. Be it jutsus, well placed mirrors, and even a floating sand eyeball.
Naruto then asked Hey dad can I-
"No, I'm not giving you the answers. Just think out of the box." Minato answered him.
Naruto inwardly swore, before an idea came to his mind.
He then carefully pulled one of his hands down to one of his pockets and grabbed a small smoke bomb from it.
Well here goes….YEEEET!
He then tossed it from under his desk, past where Hinata sat, and a few more seats over until it landed under the desk of one of the participants, blowing up into a cloud of smoke. As a result it clouded the entire front row and some of the row behind them.
"Okay, who's the wise guy!?" Ikibi yelled, though on the inside he thought it was a fair play since he couldn't tell which of them threw it.
Meanwhile within the smoke, Naruto quickly summoned a shadow clone and had it transform into the smallest thing he could do.
A fly.
Minato smiled as he said "Yeah that's outside of the box."
Meanwhile the Kyuubi thought it would be hilarious if someone swatted the transformed clone down.
As the smoke settled, all it revealed was all the participants at their seats. And so, everyone was none the wiser as a fly flew up to the ceiling.
Ibiki then barked "Alright, I don't know which one of you did that, but if it happens again, I'm deducting points from all of you in the front row."
All of them couldn't help but pale a little before they went back to their tests. Though Naruto knew he probably wouldn't need to do so again.
Sasuke caught on to what Naruto did due to his sharingan and mentally admitted that it was a solid plan.
The two Hyuugas in the test noticed as well. Hinata was impressed at how Naruto came up with such an idea. She was a bit worried that she would have to help him cheat by showing him her answers. Meanwhile Neji thought while the idea was dumb, it worked, so he had to give him some points in that regard.
Meanwhile Haku and Sakura had a feeling it was Naruto who did it, especially when a fly landed near Sakura's paper and did what looked like a wave at her. She simply rolled her eyes at that and let the clone take a look at her answers before it flew away and dispelled itself somewhere...though not before it went to troll some poor shop owner that wouldn't sell to Naruto due to him being a 'demon'.
With that its memories were sent to the original Naruto, who had held back a laugh at the memory of a shopkeeper desperately trying to swat him as the clone kept landing all over the man's body, which also caused said shopkeeper to hit themselves in the balls three times, proceeded to write in the answers he got from Sakura. He also quickly wrote something on the back of the paper before he flipped it back up.
Just as he did so, Ibiki barked "Alright, its time for the tenth question!."
Okay screw it, this is taking too long. I'm just going to say everything went as it did in canon, from where Ibiki explained the rules, some of the people deciding to quit, and Naruto making his statement so that Hinata didn't quit out of fear. Yada Yada Yada. Okay, back to actually writing the story.
As a result of Naruto's little speech, no one else left the room, causing Ibiki to smile as he said "Well then, congratulations. Everyone here has passed the first exam!"
"...EEEHHHH!?"
Sakura: Well, that was a longer one.
Haku: It was...just don't make us look at that genjutsu again.
WVH: No promises
Naruto: I guess next chapter we'll be dealing with Orochi-Pedo?
Sasuke: Probably
Orochi-Pedo: HEY! I AM NOT A PEDO! STOP INSINUATING THIS WVH!
Kyuubi: Okay, how many brats have you used for your body snatching jutsus and experiments?
Orochi-Pedo: ...this isn't over
Kyuubi: Suuurree, whatever you say Orochi-Pedo.
Minato: Well, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter everyone! Be sure to R&R, as well as come back for next chapter! Now if you excuse me...I need to keep Kyuubi from goading Orochimaru into a battle he can't win...
Naruto: KICK HIS ALBINO ASS!
WVH: ...he's not wrong...
