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Chapter nine

Written part of the chuunin exam

1

"Hey, Gaara, since today's the last day we have to stay together, di we have to go see the Hokage, or will someone come get us?" Sakura asked.

"I'm not sure, but I think someone will come get us," Gaara said, putting the last of his clothes in his duffel bag.

'Knock, knock,' someone knocked on the door.

"Yes?" Sakura answered, "Oh, Kakashi-Sensei!"

"Hey, Sakura, the Hokage wants to see everyone who passed the first part of the exam," Kakashi explained.

"Alright, would you like to..." Sakura started, but Kakashi was already gone.

"What did he say?" Gaara asked, curiously.

"That we need to see the Hokage," Sakura said, as she and Gaara picked up their bags and left the apartment.

2

"Isn't Kakashi-Sensei coming to get us?" Ino asked Shikamaru, whom was getting dressed.

"Yeah, but you know he's always late!" Shikamaru said, walking from the bedroom to the living room.

'Knock, knock,' someone knocked on the door.

"I bet that's Kakashi-sensei," Ino said, opening up the door.

"Hey, Ino, you and Shikamaru are to go see the Hokage, now," Kakashi said, as he turned to leave.

"Alright, but Chouji's coming, right?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yes, everyone else is already there," explained Kakashi, leading the two ninjas to the Hokage.

3

"Hello, everyone, the one's who made it here today, are the only one's who have passed the first part of the exam," the Hokage explained to all the Genins who were standing before him.

"So, when's the fight start?" Naruto asked.

"The second part of the exam is the writing part. You are to take a test, and I'm the one holding it!" said a man, with a hat on his head, named Ibiki.

"Now, follow me!" Ibiki ordered, leading the Genins to an empty classroom, and started handing everyone test papers.

4

"Before you begin, I will write the rules on the chalkboard," he explained, as he picked up a piece of chalk, and started writing.

The Chuunin Journeyman Ninja Selection exam rules for part one

Each applicant begins with a perfect score of ten points. There are ten questions, worth one point apiece. A point is subtracted for every incorrect answer. The grading system is entirely based on a principle of penalization.

The exam is a team event. What matters is how close each three-ninja cell can come to retaining its initial 30 points.

Anyone caught attempting to cheat or aiding and abetting a cheater will lose two points for each offence.

Anyone who has no points left at the test's end whether due to being caught cheating or to an inability to answer any of the questions correctly will automatically fail; if a single individual fails, the remaining two members of that person's cell will be failed as well.

5

"You have one hour...starting... NOW!" Ibiki exclaimed.

"Whoa... first up is cryptography. They want us to work our butts off," Sasuke said as he read question one.

Question no. 1

Decode the following cipher and summarize its meaning.

'I wonder how Naruto's doing...' Sakura thought to herself.

Question no. 2

The parabola marked B represents the greatest effective distance the enemy Shinobi, A, could throw a shuriken star from the top of a 23-3 foot-tall 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 operation within the arc that the flight of the shuriken describes. Show your work.

'This...This is...to solve this, you need to hypothesize under very uncertain conditions...and then apply the laws of kinetics to whatever you come up with!' Sakura thought surprisingly, 'There's no way Naruto could solve something like this! Of course, neither can most of the people here. It's a killer...'

'Well, well...I don't know how to answer a single one of these questions,' Naruto thought to himself, as he looked down at his paper.

'I get it now, they're testing our information gathering skills!' Kala thought, as she looked down at her paper.

'...' Gaara glared at Kankurou.

'Stop glaring at me, I get it already!' Kankurou thought looking at his younger brother.

'I guess, I'll just have to use my Evil Eye to cheat off the other people's paper,' Neji thought, as veins started showing up around his eyes.

'Ahh, question no. 10, let's see,

This question will not be provided until 45 minutes into the exam. At that time, please answer the proctor's question to the best of your ability,' Naruto read.

"Well, I guess we have to wait now," Sasuke whispered to himself.

6

"Alright, here it comes. Get ready for the tenth question! Ibiki exclaimed, "Let me explain. This rule is absolute. First you must choose...whether to accept or reject this question."

'Accept or reject...?' Sasuke thought, a serious look on his face.

"Ch...choose? What happens if someone doesn't accept the question?" Temari exclaimed!

"If you reject the question, and don't try to answer it, you'll lose all your points immediately...and fail! And both of your teammates will fail right along with you!" Ibiki said.

"Say what?" some of the kids yelled!

"Then why would anyone choose to reject it?" one kid asked.

"Because...of the other rule," Ibiki answered.

'Oh, come on, what more can he add?' Sakura questioned in her head.

"If you try to answer the question, and you get it wrong, you will never be permitted to apply for the Journeyman Ninja exams again," Ibiki answered Sakura's unasked question.

"That's ridiculous! There are ninja here who've sat for the chuunin exams more than once already! We know there are!" Kiba yelled.

"Heh, heh, heh, I wasn't making the rules in past years, but I am now!" Ibiki smirked.

'Talk about a no-win situation!' Sakura thought wide-eyed.

"Those who choose not to accept should raise their hands, once I've counted, and then you and your team leave the room!" Ibiki ordered, as a couple of kids raised their hands.

As Sakura started to raise her hand, Naruto raised his first, and slammed it down on the desk.

"NEVER UNDERESTIMATE ME! I DON'T QUIT, AND I WON'T RUN!" Naruto exclaimed, "I'll accept your stupid question! Even if I risk ending up being a rookie for the rest of my life...I'll still become Lord Hokage, even if I can only it by pure stubbornness, I don't care!"

'He never gave us a second thought, but he certainly does have guts!' Sasuke thought, as he smirked to himself, and Sakura was also smiling.

'With that speech the kid pulled, no one else will back out, this is more than I expected!' Ibiki thought.

"Good call, so everyone who is still here...you've just passed the second exam!" Ibiki exclaimed.

"Huh?" Naruto asked.

"What do you mean passed? When did this happen? What about the tenth question?" Sakura asked.

"There is no tenth question, beyond the whole 'accept or reject' thing," Ibiki explained.

"Huh?" Sakura questioned, when Temari asked a question of her own, "Why did we have to suffer the other nine questions? That was a total waste of our time!"

"There was no waste. Those questions had a purpose, which they've already served," Ibiki explained.

"Such as?" Temari asked.

"Our goal was to test your skills at spying," Ibiki said.

"Naruto then said he understood, so Hinata started laughing, cause clearly he didn't.

"In other words...we set up the test on the assumption you'd cheat. Humph!" Sasuke smirked.

7

"Okay, everyone, come with me!" a woman, by the name of Anko ordered.

'She reminds me of Naruto!' Sakura thought.

Anko then led the 78 Genins to the Forest of Death, hopefully some of them would return. Out of some of the ones who returned, were: Sakura, Sasuke, Temari, Gaara, Naruto, Kala, Kankurou, Neji, Tenten, Kiba, Shino, Hinata, Naruto, Rock Lee, Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji, and Nana.

Later on, it seemed as though the ones who got out of the Forest of Death are all the ones who passed the Chuunin exams, and went on to become ANBU, so everyone who hadn't already achieved their dreams were close to it, and Sasuke was coming closer and closer to finding his older brother Itachi.

Author's note: Remember leave in a review or email if you think I should do a sequel. This is the end of the story, I hope you liked it; I didn't like the ending, and didn't know, how else to finish it, sorry for the inconvenience, and don't forget to R&R. It has been fun writing this fic, and I'm glad I'm finally finished with it, please do not send me any flamers, I know I've already said this but I just want to repeat myself. Thanx 4 all those ppl who reviewed my story.