"Crap, crap, crap!" Kishomi thought. She bit her pencil nervously. This test was a no-win situation. Her team needed each member to get all ten points. Kishomi was nearly screwed. Four members, forty points- and she only knew how to answer the first and third question.

Kishomi's eyes darted suspiciously around the room. Proctors were seated in chairs, watching each and every move of the test takers. Her glance finally stopped on Kiba's head, where Akamaru, his dog sat atop, peering around the room with his narrow eyes. Kishomi stared at the dog, thought for a minute, and then froze.

"So that was it! Ibiki wanted everyone to put their stealth skills to the test! They wanted us to cheat, but yet be unseen!" Kishomi thought, almost blurting out the words. She paused, then dropped her pencil with a soft clatter.

"My true Sakada clan power must be unveiled, unheard of by others… Kiwaku Haaku- the memory grasper technique, kekkai genkai of the clan!" Kishomi thought loudly inside her head. She closed her eyes and concentrated on one target that she had studied carefully before. Kishomi would extract and trace the memory back to this particular person. Her mind closed in on the person three rows down to the left.

"Heh…now for the perfect aim." Kishomi thought, smiling behind her brown hair. She opened her eyes very suddenly, staring far into an imaginary distance. The target was sitting and carefully writing, but then stopped so suddenly. He was stock-still.

"Wha- what's hap…?" Kishomi's target thought, but all thoughts were shut down, as well as any physical movements.

Kishomi smiled. Her memory grasper could take full control of anyone's previous thoughts and memories. "Now all I have to do is dig through this person's thoughts on how to figure out the problems," Kishomi thought to herself. A 'thought' symbol was engraved across her neck. She was thinking.

She concentrated on how problem 2 was done, then scribbled the work down onto her paper, as well as the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth question.

"Looks like my target was the worthy one on the first attempt!" Kishomi mused as she jotted down the fifth question. This memory was so much to withstand, even for a first-timer.

After writing non- stop for ten minutes, Kishomi 'un-prisoned' her target and immediately felt a wind lash. She lurched forward and then invisible arms seemed to yank her back, as if prying her away from that person's mind. "Uhn… ow…" Kishomi muttered, rubbing her head. The 'thought' mark across her top half of her neck, indicating neck a special move had disappeared.

Kiba eyed the recovering Kishomi curiously. "Seems she caught on too- heh." He thought, smirking. Kiba's test was already filled with writing of all sorts, except for question ten. Kishomi's looked nothing different.

"Crap… a headache…" Kishomi thought, wincing when a pang of throbbing pain surged through her head. The memory grasper didn't usually have side effects if someone wasn't lost in thought. But when the target is struck, their thoughts are put on hold, causing the memory to jumble up. Then the memories would start forming a mass of strange chakra extracted from the person's reminiscence, sending all of the energy into the user's body. (Like Kishomi) But negative side effects occur because the brain can't handle too much chakra at once, since it has been forced into Kishomi's body so fast. Her body can only take a little at a time, but the pressure causes a headache, while making Kishomi's chakra reserves bigger and stronger. This special kekkai genkai is also for maintaining your on chakra reserves to enlarge from another's memory. (Just a little lesson to share that I conjured up while writing! )

Kishomi stared down at her sheet of paper. Her eyes seemed to burn holes into the paper as she waited for a long time.

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"The tenth question will now be announced!" Ibiki bellowed, snapping Kishomi out of her blank stare. She sat up straight, and picked up her pencil and flicked it back and forth, awaiting the question.

"But the thing is… we don't have time for lowlifes anymore- so whoever wants to reject this question will fail immediately!" Ibiki said. Kishomi looked around in surprise as people reluctantly rejected and stalked out of the room, never to become a chuunin.

A sudden gesture caught Kishomi's eye. Naruto was slowly putting up his hand, while trembling. "I'll accept your stupid question! I don't want to throw my life away!" he yelled, which stunned the remaining test takers.

Sakura: Good, an idiot like him needs to. He didn't even stop to think of us.

Sasuke: Anything for passing this exam! sigh

Kishomi: Nice, you almost scared us to death, Naruto!

Ibiki grinned, and then hesitated. "Well… all of you who are still here… you have PASSED THE FIRST PART OF THE CHUUNIN EXAMS!" Ibiki stated defiantly. Kishomi's eyes grew big.

"But… why? We did other questions for no reason then?" she thought. Everyone else was just as taken back as Kishomi. Whispers were heard from throughout the room.

"We wanted to cheat like shinobi, using your own unique skills to do so!" Ibiki explained, "You still had to do the problems, but with your stealth skills!"

"So I get it…" Kishomi thought. She grinned and put down her pencil. Her eyes glowed with excitement for Part 2 of the Chuunin exams.

PREVIEW OF NEXT CHAPTER…

Kishomi and her teammates are charged up for Part 2 of the exams, but can they stand the sadistic Anko? Kishomi is faced with a no-win situation… she's lost her teammates and worse, taki (waterfall) genin are after her scroll with a strong intent to kill! Will she be able to escape their abstract skills?

RR! Domo arigato, tomotachi!