CHAPTER 8: TEST 2! THE CREATIVITY OF GENINS!
"Congratulations to all 60 of you for passing the first exam. It seems we did a bit better this year...by about 18 I believe." Hisashi smiled.
"Are you trying to tell me that hassle was the first part of the chuunin exam...?" Kiba muttered tightening his fists.
"That would be a correct assumption."
"So only 60 eh?" Neji smirked. "Much easier than last year."
"That's what you think, Neji-CHAN." Hisashi chuckled.
"WHAT!?" Neji said, getting furious.
"The next test, in my opinion, is FAR tougher than last year's forest of death test...Of course, you will have to take that up with your next instructor." Hisashi said, grabbing his materials and walking out of the class.
"Well... I guess that went well." Kenshi said, trying to liven things up.
"Yeah, I guess you could say that." Ill chuckled. "So, you guys have been in a chuunin exam before right? What were the exams last year?"
"Well. The first exam was a written test which was used to test our ability to get information. The 2nd exam was a trial in the forest of death- survival training- and the 3rd test was a tournament." Sasuke replied, filling in the info.
"But will they do they do the same thing this year?" Ryu asked, propping his feet up onto a chair in front of him.
"I doubt it." Shino said breaking his silent nature. They don't want to give anyone an advantage."
And so the casual talk continued...for several hours. It was starting to get on the nerves of some of the genin. "...you know? With the horrible timing of the next instructor, its probably Kakashi sensei." Naruto joked.
Sakura laughed, "Maybe, but I doubt it. Don't Chuunin normally handle this exam?"
"Yeah, they normally d-"Lee tried to say, but was interrupted by the door opening. Turning around they saw 3 ninja enter. Maito Gai, sensei to Rock Lee and co, Shikamaru, and Kamaasu.
"SENSEI?" The shadow genin and students of Gai yelled. "YOU'RE THE INSTRUCTOR!?"
"Actually, Kamaasu and I are here to give some helpful advice on the next exam. Shikamaru is the actual instructor." Gai said, chuckling. "Oh, and Kamaasu..." Gai whispered. "I may be on par with Kakashi, but you see my team made it this far. They are far better than your team!"
"...Uh, Gai? My team made it too..." Kamaasu said, shaking his at the stupidity of Gai's rivalry ambitions.
"Ergh..." Gai said, plopping his head down in defeat.
"Welcome to the second test of the chuunin exam." Shikamaru said, chewing on a piece of straw from the fields he was in earlier. "Sorry for being late, but I wasn't informed of this job until 10 minutes ago. So if you're mad, blame Hisashi, but I couldn't care either way." He stared at the genin, and chuckled. "You're going to have fun with this test."
"Just tell us the damn test already Shikamaru!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs. Team 7 shook their head in embarrassment. Shino, Neji, and Kenshi stared; the others all laughed.
"Heh, I can take as long as I damn well please, Naruto." Shikamaru snickered. "But I actually feel like moving this along. I wanna get back outside."
"Shika, I'm actually on Naruto's side on this. Please move along." Kamaasu said bluntly, putting his hand behind his head. After getting up for the "surprised anime style fall" Shikamaru gave a blank stare at his uncle and continued.
"Alright then. The second exam is to, with your genin team, create a new jutsu." Shikamaru announced.
"That's it!? THIS WILL BE EASY!" Naruto screamed, thinking of Sexy no jutsu.
"Wrong." Shikamaru said, anticipating what Naruto had in mind. "You must create an entirely new jutsu. Never before seen anywhere in the world. Your whole team must be involved with it. We will check the jutsu against others stored in PC databanks. You have 3 hours starting..." Shikamaru looked at his watch. "3 minutes and 42 seconds ago." Immediately, the lecture hall emptied and was filled with the sound of shuffling footsteps as the genin scrambled to complete their task.
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"So..." Naruto said blankly. "What're we gonna do? We only have about 2 ½ hours left..."
"We create a jutsu...duh." Sasuke snickered.
"YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!" Naruto screamed, flailing his arms in anger.
"Calm down you guys!" Sakura screamed, startling the two boys. "What we're gonna do is calmly think out our strengths, weaknesses, and how to combine them into an unstoppable jutsu!"
"Sounds like a plan to me." Naruto said, smiling at Sakura.
"Whatever. If it gets us to the last exam, I don't care what we do." Sasuke said kicking a rock don the path.
Sakura's head immediately drooped in depression.
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"Great...another jutsu we have to make up..." Ryu complained, shuffling along the way.
"Oh come on Ryu!" Kenshi said trying to get him more excited about the task. "We have one up on the competition. Kamaasu sensei makes us come up with Jutsus to help the village along anyway.
"Well, yeah, but this is different." Ill responded.
"How so?" Kenshi questioned.
"Well, a lot of people have made their own jutsus, including us. Hell, even Naruto has come up with one. You saw his face back in the lecture hall."
"What's your point Ill?" Ryu said bluntly.
"My point is that this is a hell of lot harder than any normal jutsu." Ill sternly replied. "We have to make a jutsu that requires ALL of us to participate in. That's the hard part."
"So? We can do it. We have to do it!" Kenshi exclaimed, thinking of his home. "We have to bring prosperity to our village!"
"He's got a point." Ryu chuckled. "So...let's get started shall we?"
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Gai, Shikamaru, and Kamaasu stood waiting in the lecture hall for the students to come back with their new jutsus. "Well, Kamaasu..." Gai smirked. "Wanna make a wager? I bet you that under 15 kids will pass this test. Lets wager 50 bucks. And if by chance I lose, I'll do 700 laps around the building! Do we have a deal?" he finished, outstretching his hand.
"Why not?" Kamaasu said shaking Gai's hand, sealing the deal.
"You guys are idiots..." Shikamaru muttered, looking at his watch. "10, 9, 8, 7..."
As he was counting down, 60 genin rushed into the room and sat down. "3, 2, 1..." Naruto rushed in and tripped over his shoes falling flat on his place, making the room erupt with laughter. Standing up and brushing himself off, he said,
"Well. At least I made it on time."
"Just sit down Naruto..." Kamaasu laughed, shaking his head in disbelief.
"Well, everyone is here and accounted for." Shikamaru announced. "If any of you had been but a nanosecond late, you would have been failed. Punctuality is a necessity in any mission, and it will not be forgotten. Now I will call you up team by team, and you will perform your jutsus. First up, Team 8 from the Hidden Rain."
Groups went up and came back, few passing, MANY failing. "Wow, half these people are trying to get away with slightly altering a basic jutsu..." Kiba said in amazement. "Not a creative bone in their bodies."
"Well, I'm not complaining." Neji said. "It'll get a lot of people out of the way."
"Seems like one of the Hidden Rain teams passed..." Shino muttered, getting the others to like towards the instructors."
"What'd they do for a jutsu?" Ten Ten asked.
"No clue. It was really fast. Apparently Shika doesn't want to pass them, but the other two do. Oh well." Lee replied, looking at the team celebrating.
"Team 1, Hidden Shadow." Shikamaru called.
"Looks like we're up!" Ill said excitedly, rushing down to the instructors.
"That guy needs a sedative." Ryu said, slowly getting up walking down with him.
When all three were at the bottom they received an approving nod from Kamaasu and Shika, and began their jutsu. Getting in a triangle, the boys began crossing their arms, making katas by touching each other's hands. Soon, they all thrust their hands into the middle and screamed, "SHADOW FORM NO JUTSU!" Immediately, a large 3-D shadow came out of the ground, very ghostlike in appearance. No eyes, no mouth or other distinguishable facial features, and it had no legs, just a connecting shadow.
"So uh...what does it do?" Gai asked, looking over the figure.
The three shadow genin chuckled. The Shadow Form thrust its hand into its torso and pulled out a spear of shadow, in addition to a sword, mace, and shurikens. "Not only can it provide many weapons for an entire army," Ill began.
"It can merge into the shadow surrounding it and move along nearly undetectable." Kenshi finished.
"Well, that's actually a really handy jutsu. And original. Pass." Shikamaru said, making some marks on a clipboard.
"Alright!" The 3 exclaimed making their way back up.
"Team 7, Hidden Leaf." Shikmaru called. The Leaf genin walked down and also got into a triangle. "Hopefully, Naruto," Shika snickered. "This jutsu won't have so much...promiscuity, shall we say?"
"Naruto chuckled and said, "Don't worry about it. It doesn't." The three genin began to create their jutsu.
As they performed the katas, Kamaasu moved over to Gai and whispered in his ear, "That's odd. They've combined the Earth and Grass Styles...Guess they truly are the leaf..."
The genin threw their hands up, touched each others' hands, and screamed "NINJA TOTEM NO JUTSU!" The floor cracked as 3 totem poles arose from the ground. They stood silently, doing...nothing.
"So, uh, this does what?" Shikamaru said unimpressed.
"Each totem has a different ability." Sakura began. "You place them around your camp. My totem creates a Genjutsu to hide the camp. Naruto's can create clones of things to further hide the camp, and if worse comes to worse, Sasuke's totem can emit Ninjutsu like the Fireball at attackers. It's a barrier jutsu."
"Well, it is original." Shika said, looking over the totems. "Eh, Why not? Pass."
"YES!" Team 7 exclaimed going back up to their seats.
Soon, the 2nd test was over and the afternoon had just begun. "Well done to all of you who still remain in this room." Shikamaru shouted to the 18 that passed the second exam. "3 leaf teams, a shadow team, a sand team, and a Rain team. Well, if you are ready, I believe we are supposed to have a prelim or something to that extent to get your numbers lower." Shikamaru wondered.
"Great...another prelim..." Naruto sighed, leaning back in his chair.
"Well Gai..." Kamaasu chuckled. "You owe me 50 bucks."
"Of course." Asking out his wallet, Gai gracefully handed over 50 bucks. "I always keep my word!"
Taking the money from Gai, Kamaasu looked around the room. "I've got a better idea..."
"What?" Shikamaru asked. "What are you talking about?"
"In the past there has always been to tests, and a final tourney, right?" Kamaasu asked.
"Yeah, but what's your point?" Shikamaru said blankly.
"I believe its time for a 3rd test. MY test."
"Congratulations to all 60 of you for passing the first exam. It seems we did a bit better this year...by about 18 I believe." Hisashi smiled.
"Are you trying to tell me that hassle was the first part of the chuunin exam...?" Kiba muttered tightening his fists.
"That would be a correct assumption."
"So only 60 eh?" Neji smirked. "Much easier than last year."
"That's what you think, Neji-CHAN." Hisashi chuckled.
"WHAT!?" Neji said, getting furious.
"The next test, in my opinion, is FAR tougher than last year's forest of death test...Of course, you will have to take that up with your next instructor." Hisashi said, grabbing his materials and walking out of the class.
"Well... I guess that went well." Kenshi said, trying to liven things up.
"Yeah, I guess you could say that." Ill chuckled. "So, you guys have been in a chuunin exam before right? What were the exams last year?"
"Well. The first exam was a written test which was used to test our ability to get information. The 2nd exam was a trial in the forest of death- survival training- and the 3rd test was a tournament." Sasuke replied, filling in the info.
"But will they do they do the same thing this year?" Ryu asked, propping his feet up onto a chair in front of him.
"I doubt it." Shino said breaking his silent nature. They don't want to give anyone an advantage."
And so the casual talk continued...for several hours. It was starting to get on the nerves of some of the genin. "...you know? With the horrible timing of the next instructor, its probably Kakashi sensei." Naruto joked.
Sakura laughed, "Maybe, but I doubt it. Don't Chuunin normally handle this exam?"
"Yeah, they normally d-"Lee tried to say, but was interrupted by the door opening. Turning around they saw 3 ninja enter. Maito Gai, sensei to Rock Lee and co, Shikamaru, and Kamaasu.
"SENSEI?" The shadow genin and students of Gai yelled. "YOU'RE THE INSTRUCTOR!?"
"Actually, Kamaasu and I are here to give some helpful advice on the next exam. Shikamaru is the actual instructor." Gai said, chuckling. "Oh, and Kamaasu..." Gai whispered. "I may be on par with Kakashi, but you see my team made it this far. They are far better than your team!"
"...Uh, Gai? My team made it too..." Kamaasu said, shaking his at the stupidity of Gai's rivalry ambitions.
"Ergh..." Gai said, plopping his head down in defeat.
"Welcome to the second test of the chuunin exam." Shikamaru said, chewing on a piece of straw from the fields he was in earlier. "Sorry for being late, but I wasn't informed of this job until 10 minutes ago. So if you're mad, blame Hisashi, but I couldn't care either way." He stared at the genin, and chuckled. "You're going to have fun with this test."
"Just tell us the damn test already Shikamaru!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs. Team 7 shook their head in embarrassment. Shino, Neji, and Kenshi stared; the others all laughed.
"Heh, I can take as long as I damn well please, Naruto." Shikamaru snickered. "But I actually feel like moving this along. I wanna get back outside."
"Shika, I'm actually on Naruto's side on this. Please move along." Kamaasu said bluntly, putting his hand behind his head. After getting up for the "surprised anime style fall" Shikamaru gave a blank stare at his uncle and continued.
"Alright then. The second exam is to, with your genin team, create a new jutsu." Shikamaru announced.
"That's it!? THIS WILL BE EASY!" Naruto screamed, thinking of Sexy no jutsu.
"Wrong." Shikamaru said, anticipating what Naruto had in mind. "You must create an entirely new jutsu. Never before seen anywhere in the world. Your whole team must be involved with it. We will check the jutsu against others stored in PC databanks. You have 3 hours starting..." Shikamaru looked at his watch. "3 minutes and 42 seconds ago." Immediately, the lecture hall emptied and was filled with the sound of shuffling footsteps as the genin scrambled to complete their task.
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"So..." Naruto said blankly. "What're we gonna do? We only have about 2 ½ hours left..."
"We create a jutsu...duh." Sasuke snickered.
"YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!" Naruto screamed, flailing his arms in anger.
"Calm down you guys!" Sakura screamed, startling the two boys. "What we're gonna do is calmly think out our strengths, weaknesses, and how to combine them into an unstoppable jutsu!"
"Sounds like a plan to me." Naruto said, smiling at Sakura.
"Whatever. If it gets us to the last exam, I don't care what we do." Sasuke said kicking a rock don the path.
Sakura's head immediately drooped in depression.
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"Great...another jutsu we have to make up..." Ryu complained, shuffling along the way.
"Oh come on Ryu!" Kenshi said trying to get him more excited about the task. "We have one up on the competition. Kamaasu sensei makes us come up with Jutsus to help the village along anyway.
"Well, yeah, but this is different." Ill responded.
"How so?" Kenshi questioned.
"Well, a lot of people have made their own jutsus, including us. Hell, even Naruto has come up with one. You saw his face back in the lecture hall."
"What's your point Ill?" Ryu said bluntly.
"My point is that this is a hell of lot harder than any normal jutsu." Ill sternly replied. "We have to make a jutsu that requires ALL of us to participate in. That's the hard part."
"So? We can do it. We have to do it!" Kenshi exclaimed, thinking of his home. "We have to bring prosperity to our village!"
"He's got a point." Ryu chuckled. "So...let's get started shall we?"
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Gai, Shikamaru, and Kamaasu stood waiting in the lecture hall for the students to come back with their new jutsus. "Well, Kamaasu..." Gai smirked. "Wanna make a wager? I bet you that under 15 kids will pass this test. Lets wager 50 bucks. And if by chance I lose, I'll do 700 laps around the building! Do we have a deal?" he finished, outstretching his hand.
"Why not?" Kamaasu said shaking Gai's hand, sealing the deal.
"You guys are idiots..." Shikamaru muttered, looking at his watch. "10, 9, 8, 7..."
As he was counting down, 60 genin rushed into the room and sat down. "3, 2, 1..." Naruto rushed in and tripped over his shoes falling flat on his place, making the room erupt with laughter. Standing up and brushing himself off, he said,
"Well. At least I made it on time."
"Just sit down Naruto..." Kamaasu laughed, shaking his head in disbelief.
"Well, everyone is here and accounted for." Shikamaru announced. "If any of you had been but a nanosecond late, you would have been failed. Punctuality is a necessity in any mission, and it will not be forgotten. Now I will call you up team by team, and you will perform your jutsus. First up, Team 8 from the Hidden Rain."
Groups went up and came back, few passing, MANY failing. "Wow, half these people are trying to get away with slightly altering a basic jutsu..." Kiba said in amazement. "Not a creative bone in their bodies."
"Well, I'm not complaining." Neji said. "It'll get a lot of people out of the way."
"Seems like one of the Hidden Rain teams passed..." Shino muttered, getting the others to like towards the instructors."
"What'd they do for a jutsu?" Ten Ten asked.
"No clue. It was really fast. Apparently Shika doesn't want to pass them, but the other two do. Oh well." Lee replied, looking at the team celebrating.
"Team 1, Hidden Shadow." Shikamaru called.
"Looks like we're up!" Ill said excitedly, rushing down to the instructors.
"That guy needs a sedative." Ryu said, slowly getting up walking down with him.
When all three were at the bottom they received an approving nod from Kamaasu and Shika, and began their jutsu. Getting in a triangle, the boys began crossing their arms, making katas by touching each other's hands. Soon, they all thrust their hands into the middle and screamed, "SHADOW FORM NO JUTSU!" Immediately, a large 3-D shadow came out of the ground, very ghostlike in appearance. No eyes, no mouth or other distinguishable facial features, and it had no legs, just a connecting shadow.
"So uh...what does it do?" Gai asked, looking over the figure.
The three shadow genin chuckled. The Shadow Form thrust its hand into its torso and pulled out a spear of shadow, in addition to a sword, mace, and shurikens. "Not only can it provide many weapons for an entire army," Ill began.
"It can merge into the shadow surrounding it and move along nearly undetectable." Kenshi finished.
"Well, that's actually a really handy jutsu. And original. Pass." Shikamaru said, making some marks on a clipboard.
"Alright!" The 3 exclaimed making their way back up.
"Team 7, Hidden Leaf." Shikmaru called. The Leaf genin walked down and also got into a triangle. "Hopefully, Naruto," Shika snickered. "This jutsu won't have so much...promiscuity, shall we say?"
"Naruto chuckled and said, "Don't worry about it. It doesn't." The three genin began to create their jutsu.
As they performed the katas, Kamaasu moved over to Gai and whispered in his ear, "That's odd. They've combined the Earth and Grass Styles...Guess they truly are the leaf..."
The genin threw their hands up, touched each others' hands, and screamed "NINJA TOTEM NO JUTSU!" The floor cracked as 3 totem poles arose from the ground. They stood silently, doing...nothing.
"So, uh, this does what?" Shikamaru said unimpressed.
"Each totem has a different ability." Sakura began. "You place them around your camp. My totem creates a Genjutsu to hide the camp. Naruto's can create clones of things to further hide the camp, and if worse comes to worse, Sasuke's totem can emit Ninjutsu like the Fireball at attackers. It's a barrier jutsu."
"Well, it is original." Shika said, looking over the totems. "Eh, Why not? Pass."
"YES!" Team 7 exclaimed going back up to their seats.
Soon, the 2nd test was over and the afternoon had just begun. "Well done to all of you who still remain in this room." Shikamaru shouted to the 18 that passed the second exam. "3 leaf teams, a shadow team, a sand team, and a Rain team. Well, if you are ready, I believe we are supposed to have a prelim or something to that extent to get your numbers lower." Shikamaru wondered.
"Great...another prelim..." Naruto sighed, leaning back in his chair.
"Well Gai..." Kamaasu chuckled. "You owe me 50 bucks."
"Of course." Asking out his wallet, Gai gracefully handed over 50 bucks. "I always keep my word!"
Taking the money from Gai, Kamaasu looked around the room. "I've got a better idea..."
"What?" Shikamaru asked. "What are you talking about?"
"In the past there has always been to tests, and a final tourney, right?" Kamaasu asked.
"Yeah, but what's your point?" Shikamaru said blankly.
"I believe its time for a 3rd test. MY test."