How he became the person he is

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 10:

The other testing officers passed the tests, and left them on the tables upside down. "There are 20 questions. No one starts before everyone gets a copy." said Kaito. He stood in front of all the genins, watching over the ones that already got the test. After everyone got a copy, he shouted "You have two hours! Start!"

When Kakashi flipped his paper, he scanned through it, and realized that it was nothing. The first one went like this:

"Line B, seen in the picture, is the greatest possible distance a shinobi can throw his shuriken from a tree of 7 meters. For enemies who appear within the circumference of the shuriken's range, explain the attack options using this distance. Show your work."

Kakashi had seen a similar problem in his books, and he remembered all the possibilities that there were to attack from a place that wasn't in your advantage. You could use Touton No Jutsu(Transparent escape) to get close to the enemy standing in the tree, use bunshins to do so, throw kunais in the right direction, and many more. Kakashi noticed that the problems got harder each time, but he had no problem solving them. "Prodigy" wasn't a title that could be given to anyone. Kakashi didn't know, but the problems that he was solving weren't as easy as they looked to him. Most of the ninjas that were in the room spent their time training rather than reading or figuring out how they would have to react at certain situations. At a glance, Kakashi saw two kunais flying across the room, and landing in front of two ninjas who were in the seats at the end of the second row.

"You two! Get out of here. I said cheating won't be tolerated." Kaito had no mercy. There were at least a hundred genins, and he was supposed to pass no more than only one third of them. After that, many others had to leave the room without a word.

The last question was a totally different one from all the other decoding and situation problems.

"If you are given a mission in which nothing about the enemy is known, and you have to go and bring some top secret documents, would you accept it? Explain why or why not."

Kakashi thought that it was a question that tested a shinobi's determination to accept and complete the missions. However, he wondered how the examiners would know if the test takers were just lying or not. 'Writing it down is way different than saying it and doing it.' thought Kakashi, as he saw a other genins leaving. He flipped his paper and put his head down. There were like 70 genins in the room by the time Kaito began speaking once again.

"Time's over. Now, listen carefully to my instructions. If you trust yourself and believe that all your answers are correct, come up and turn in your tests, and go back to your seats afterwards. If your answers are all correct, we'll call you up tomorrow for the second exam. However, if there is even one answer that is wrong, you won't be able to take the chuunin exam for the rest of your lives. You will remain genins forever. Of course, if you leave now, you can try again at another time." Kaito made the point clear.

One of the boys who looked in his early teens raised his hand and got up.

"Sir, you didn't mention that part in the beginning. What's the point of making us take the test if we can't get all the answers correct to take the second exam?" he complained.

"That's part of the exam. And if you have any problems with that, you can leave like the others did." Kaito snapped and smirked. "In fact, all those of you who don't trust yourselves may leave the room."

"How come we won't be able to take the chuunin exams again if we miss a damn problem? There are genins here that took it for their third or fourth time!" this time it was a girl. She looked angry rather than hopeless.

"It depends on the examiner. This year, I'm the examiner, whether you like it or not." A few genins from the back rows got up and went out. The girl that asked the question went out as well. Kakashi looked around, and saw that there were like 50 left.

The room was silent. 'So, that's how he is testing the last question, huh. Mmm.. maybe I made a mistake on the paper, but there's no point in sitting here all day. Besides, nothing can be done beforehand to not risk something.' Kakashi got up and took his paper to the front very confidently. He was the first one to do so. Everyone followed him with their looks, until he got back to his seat. They mumbled things like "Is he a genin?", "He's just a kid!", "What is he doing!".

"Well, anyone else? I already gave the instructions. Now you decide." Kaito was impressed that a six year-old kid was the first one to make a rather hard decision.

A few genins sitting in the front rows turned in their papers. The examiners were all sitting at the end of the rows and kept watching over the genins. The atmosphere was tense, but all of the test takers left in the room went to the front.

"Good. I'm glad to tell you that all of you have the chance to be called up tomorrow. Even if you get a problem or two wrong. The purpose of the instruction I gave was to filter out the guys that wouldn't risk a chance. The top 30 grades of these exams will be choosen to take the second exam. The order in which you turned in your paper will also count, in case there are people who got the same grade. Any questions?" Kaito didn't look as irritated as when he entered the room.

"At what time is the second exam starting?" asked someone.

"That will be informed to those of you who pass. If you don't have any questions, you may leave." All the examiners stood up and went to meet up Kaito.

Kakashi left the room, and decided that he would go and meet his sensei in the Hokage tower. On his way out, he saw the guy that had picked on him earlier. Kakashi ignored him, but the guy stood on his way.

"So, you passed the first exam, kid?" Kakashi looked up. It was annoying.

"Move." said Kakashi.

"Hey, how is it possible that a kid like you can take the test, while I had to leave in the middle of the exam?"

"Maybe because you cheated?" Kakashi wasn't about to lose to this guy.

"You little...!" he tried to hit Kakashi in the head, but Kakashi held off the attack, and punched him in the stomach, which was the highest he could reach without jumping. Kakashi sent him a few feet away, and all the others were looking at him. He was indifferent about it, and said, "Wonder how you even made it to genin." and simply left.

Kakashi walked down the street thinking what the second exam could be. When he got close enough to the Hokage tower, he saw two familiar silhouettes conversating in the roof. They were Arashi's and Jiraiya's. Kakashi jumped up a few times, and sat next to his sensei.

"Hey, Kakashi! How did it go?" asked Arashi, who looked more enthusiastic than usual.

"Good. I think."

"I'm sure you'll pass. I saw the test earlier in the morning. Nothing that didn't appear in those books you were reading. Right?" Arashi smiled.

"Hai."

"So, Kakashi, you like reading? Did you know I'm a writer? HAHA." Jiraiya asked. Arashi glared at him with a look that said, 'You aren't telling him about your books, sensei!'

"Really, Jiraiya-sama? What kind of books do you..." Kakashi was cut by his sensei.

"Kakashi! I think you should go home and tell Tomoko-san how you did on the exam! Haha... Right, sensei?" Arashi gave a forced smile to his sensei.

"Sure." Jiraiya didn't look pleased for being interrupted by his student.

"Okay. See you tomorrow, sensei." Arashi nodded and waved his hand. Kakashi left jumping on the roofs.

"Geez. He's just 6 years-old, sensei." Arashi shaked his head.

"So what? The first time you read it you were 10. Since he is a prodigy, he can start earlier than you." Jiraiya laughed.

"No! He can't! Tomoko-san will think that I showed it to him! Besides, in my case it was an accident!" Arashi blushed a little at the memory of reading the dirty book. Both of them sat there remembering the first time Arashi read that book.

"Well, at least it looks like he did good on the test." Jiraiya changed the subject.

"Yeah, well... I'm still impressed, too."

"Oh, I almost forgot. I have to go to a meeting with the judges, boy." Both men stood up.

"Okay, sensei. I'm going to see the tests' results." Arashi smiled and headed to the building where the chuunin exam took place.

"He's still a kid." said Jiraiya to himself. He went inside of the tower through the Hokage's office. The old man wasn't there, and Jiraiya figured out that he was at the conference room, already. Well, Jiraiya was an hour late.

When Kakashi got home, hestayed a while in the kitchen with his mom.

"How did you do, Kakashi?"

"It was kinda easy..."

"Well, go and have some rest. I'll call you up for dinner." Tomoko smiled.

Once in his room, Kakashi started going over the hand seals of all the jutsus he knew. He thought that if the first test was about knowledge, the second one would be about the real thing.

Arashi went inside the room, and saw Kaito grading the exams.

"Long time no see, Kaito-san." Arashi smiled.

"Nice to see you, Arashi-kun." Kaito waved at Arashi to sit in one of the chairs.

"Where are the other testing officers?"

"Oh, I sent them away. I wanted to do it by myself. It is easier this way."

"I see. Haha. Sir, um... did you grade..."

"Hatake's? It's over there in that pile. Don't alter the order, though. It will take long to put them back in order, you know. You will find it easily, Arashi-kun." Kaito continued grading the next paper.

Arashi realized what Kaito meant by saying he was going to find it easily. It was the first one. Highest score for now.

"Wow, Kaito-san. Thanks!"

"Thanks for what? For grading it fairly? I still can't believe that Hatake boy is capable of solving these problems." Kaito smiled.

"Well, yeah. It's amazing how he does everything. Is tomorrow's tournament based on the grades or something like that?"

"No, there will be a draw. We're supposed to pass only the top 30. That is, if there are enough high grades. The tournament itself won't be anything official like the time you took it, though. Hokage-sama wanted to make it as small as possible. No one is allowed to go. Just the senseis and the judges will be invited."

"Yeah, I heard about that. It's good that I will get to see it."

Kaito nodded in agreement. The hours passed by, and Arashi stayed there going over all of the papers as Kaito graded them.

"Well, it looks like Hatake had the highest score, huh. Unbelievable." Kaito smiled.

"Haha. Still, he's just a kid. Even if he passes the test tomorrow, he'll need to practice a lot."

"That's true. Now I have to take the results to Hokage-sama. This is a lot of work. Trust me, you don't want to be an examiner, Arashi-kun. It's way better to do missions than sit here all day."

"Well, I better go now, Kaito-san." Kaito nodded, and Arashi bowed to the older man, and left.

'Who would have thought a six year-old would be the number one rookie? Haha.' thought Kaito and disappeared in a poof.

Kaito entered the conference room, where the Hokage, Jiraiya, the councils, and some elite ninjas where having a meeting. Apparently they had finished deciding where and how the second exam would go, and were waiting for the results of the first one to come.

"There were exactly forty three genins who turned in their papers.Ten of them got very low scores. Five of them got the same score, and I decided to pass the two that turned it in before the other three. We have exactly thirty genins taking the second exam."

"Good. Then all there is left to do is to send the messages to those that passed." said the Hokage.

"Yes, sir."

"Who scored the highest?" asked Jiraiya.

"Hatake Kakashi." Everyone in the room started murmuring, knowing that the named genin was just 6 years-old.

"I see..." Jiraiya smiled. 'No wonder...' Jiraiya smirked.

"Kaito, the exam is starting at 2 in traning ground # 1.Please make sure that the messages are given earlier."

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

"Well, this is it for today's meeting. Thank you all for coming." said Sandaime and stood up. Everyone else did the same, and they left the room.

'I can't wait to see tomorrow's tournament...' thought Jiraiya as he followed his sensei.

"I bet Arashi already knows that Kakashi had the highest score, right?"

"I guess so. He went off jumping to meet Kaito. He looked really enthusiastic, today."

"I must admit that I didn't expect the little boy to be the number one rookie, though."Sandaime smiled.

"I don't think anyone expected that, sensei." Both men laughed along the hallway.

A/N:

I was wondering... is a hundred leaf genins too much? Because in the manga it looked like there were a lot of genins, but there were some from other villages, so... yeah... well! Oh! And the first questions that I put, I copied it from the manga... didn't have any idea of what kind of problems there could be. Hope you guys don't mind that I put that the test was easy for Kakashi! I wanted to make things simple for me --; It is way easier to say that he was the best, rather than saying he was between blah blah blah...

Hope you guys liked this chapter!

Thanks to the reviewers!

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HanaTenshiHimeko: Hehe. Thanks for reviewing again! In fact, I put Kakashi's reaction to the guy that picked on him earlier. Hope you liked it!