DATE: 1ST YEAR OF THE REIGN OF 5TH HOKAGE

LOCATION: CREEK VILLAGE, LIGHTNING COUNTRY

CHUNIN EXAM FILE CANDIDATE # 63

NAME: YAMANAKA INO

AGE: 13

EXAM TEAMMATES: # 62 AKAMICHI CHOUJI, # 64 HARUNO SAKURA

EXAM HISTORY

LEAF VILLAGE, AGE 12

1ST EXAM: PASSED
2ND EXAM: PASSED
3RD EXAM PRELIMINARIES: FAILED
3RD EXAM: DOES NOT QUALIFY

3RD EXAM PRELIMINARY RESULTS:
CANDIDATE #63 SUFFERED A DOUBLE KNOCK-OUT W/ OPPONENT HARUNO SAKURA

ANALYSIS

TAIJUTSU: WEAK IN FORCE, WEAK IN STAMINA, ADEQUATE IN SPEED

GENJUTSU: NONE DISPLAYED

NINJUTSU: SHOWED IMPRESSIVE CONTROL OVER SHINTENSHIN NO JUTSU AND INVENTIVE MANIPULATION OF CHAKRA THROUGH STRANDS OF SEVERED HAIR. HOWEVER NO OTHER NINJUTSU TECHNIQUES WERE DEMONSTRATED AND CANDIDATE WAS UNABLE TO MAINTAIN CHAKRA OUTPUT LONG ENOUGH TO COMPLETELY UTILIZE SHINTENSHIN NO JUTSU.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

WHILE THE CANDIDATE WAS WEAK IN TAIJUTSU AND SUFFERED FROM LOW RESERVES OF CHAKRA AND DID NOT DEMONSTRATE A WIDE RANGE OF NINJUTSU TECHNIQUES, IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT THE CANDIDATE DISPLAYED IMPRESSIVE CLEVERNESS UNDER STRESS AND LURED HER OPPONENT HARUNO SAKURA INTO A TRAP THAT WAS SPAWNED DURING THE COURSE OF THE FIGHT AND OBVIOUSLY NOT PREPARED AHEAD OF TIME. THE CANDIDATE CREATED CHAINS OF CHAKRA TO TRAP HER OPONENT BY CUTTING HER OWN HAIR OBTENSIBLY IN A FIT OF ANGER AND SPREADING IT OVER THE TOURNAMENT GROUNDS. THIS RAW MANIPULATION OF CHAKRA WAS IMPRESSIVE, PARTICULARLY GIVEN THAT IT IS NOT A SPECIALTY OF INO YAMANAKA'S AND THAT THIS TRAP WAS CONCEIVED AND CARRIED OUT SUCCESSFULLY UNDER THE CONSIDERABLE COMBINED PRESSURE OF THE EXAM AND HER PERSONAL HISTORY WITH HER OPONENT.

IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT INO FAILED AT THE PRELIMINARIES GIVEN HER PERFORMANCE, AND HAD SHE ADVANCED TO THE FINAL EXAM SHE WOULD HAVE FAILED THERE AS WELL. NEVERTHELESS, IF THE CANDIDATE CONTINUES TO IMPROVE AND WIDENS HER RANGE OF ABILITIIES, SHE IS EXPECTED TO MAKE CHUNIN RANK WITHIN HER NEXT THREE EXAM ATTEMPTS.

CREEK VILLAGE, AGE 13

1ST EXAM: PASSED
2ND EXAM: FAILED
3RD EXAM PRELIMINARIES: DOES NOT QUALIFY
3RD EXAM: DOES NOT QUALIFY

ANALYSIS

UNAVAILABLE

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

CANDIDATES NO. 63 AND 64 WERE KNOCKED UNCONCIOUS BY FALLING DEBRIS CAUSED BY THE EARTHQUAKE THAT INTERRUPTED THE SURVIVAL EXAM. FEARING TRAUMATIC HEAD INJURIES, CANDIDATE #62 CARRIED HIS TEAMMATES TO THE EXAM PERIMETER AND FORFEITED. CANDIDATE 63 SUFFERED A SEVERE CONCUSSION AND WAS ATTENDED TO BY CREEK VILLAGE MEDIC-NIN. IT IS UNDETERMINED IF THE CANDIDATE MADE ANY SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES OVER HER ROOKIE EXAM PERFORMANCE.

"Ino."

"Ino."

"Ino, wake up."

"That's it, Ino, wake up."

"Sakura?"

"That's me, Ino-pig. Do you feel okay?"

"I... yeah, I think so. Dizzy, mostly. What happened?"

"The earthquake. You and I were knocked out."

"Is the exam over?"

"The preliminaries are still going, but we're out for good. Chouji carried us out of the swamp and had to forfeit."

"Damn."

"Yeah."

"I trained so hard to prepare this time. I was going to decimate you, Forehead Girl. Everyone else too."

"I'm disappointed too, Ino-pig."

"I wanted that vest."

"I wanted to be able to tell Naruto I outrank him when he comes back."

"I hate swamps."

"I hate earthquakes."

"I hate Lightning Country."

"I hate being a foreigner."

"Next year I'm going to kick your ass, Forehead Girl."

"No way. Next year Tsunade'll have taught me to make your heart stop in your chest without even touching you."

"You're a big fat liar."