A/N: This did better than I thought it would...
Chapter 2: Cheat or Fail
The First Stage of the Chunin exam was underway… Naruto, Usagi and Luffy attempted to do the first question… however they couldn't figure it out… they decided to do the second one… that was even harder than the first.
"Oh man… oh man…" freaked out Naruto.
"Oh no… this isn't good…" freaked out Luffy.
"I don't like written tests…" cried Usagi.
Somehow it gave them comfort that the people right next to them were also freaking out… it was very ironic.
Ami and Sakura were who were sitting next to each were thinking similar things.
"How many do they intend to pass…" wondered Sakura.
"If they only pass 10 teams what will who will fail…" thought Ami.
"If we it probably wouldn't help…" thought Ami and Sakura.
A Genin who sat on the other side of Sakura asked the thing that was on both kunoichis minds.
"Hey I keep wondering… how many of the teams do you intend to pass?" asked the Sand ninja.
Ibiki just laughed, "If you knew, would that change anything?" he asked.
"I guess you're right… sorry…" said the Sand Ninja.
"This test is almost designed to catch cheating…" thought Ami.
"I just hope Naruto and Sasuke don't' panic and try that way out." thought Sakura.
"I just hope Usagi and Mako-Chan doesn't' cheat…" thought Ami.
Meanwhile the panicking three realized something.
"The only way I can pass is if I cheat…" all three thought.
"If I get caught… its all over…" thought Naruto.
"If I get caught and I fail Nami will kill me…" thought Luffy.
"I don't' think I can cheat… I'm not graceful enough…" thought Usagi.
"But I get caught its all over…" all three of them thought.
Sasuke realized something… He remembered what Ibiki said.
"This test… is for our information gathering skills… the protectors want us to cheat like shinobi would… gather information like in a real life mission. The point system is set up so you cheat and get caught 4 times before your disqualified… we're not being tested on who we know them but how well we can discover them. Naruto come on! Those who have figured it out will start any minute now…" thought Sasuke.
It was indeed true. Just about everyone who didn't know enough of it were cheating… some of those helped their team mates…
"Zatch…" said Kiyo.
The mamodo boy, showed up.
"Zatch give one to Megumi and one to Lori, if you run into Tia or Kolulu before tell them to give to them okay…" said Kiyo quietly giving Zatch two sheets of paper.
After explaining to Zatch what they were and why he needed to deliver them, Zatch went to search for his teammates; he managed to find Megumi first and gave her the paper, then ran into Kolulu and gave her the paper, which she gave to Lori.
He wasn't the only helping out his teammate…
Something came out of Bobo-bo's nose… it was extremely long nose hair? It came close to a person's test but far enough to not be noticed.
Inside of Bobo-bo's nose the Booger Brigade were getting set up.
"You ready Booger Brigade!" said one of the boogers.
The boogers slid down the nose hair and took two sets of notes. When they were done they tugged on Bobo-bo's nose hair Bobo-bo moved the nose to Beauty.
"Psst… Beauty…" whispered a booger.
Beauty noticed the booger.
"Here's a cheat sheet" whispered the booger.
"Thanks…" whispered Beauty.
The Booger Brigade Went Towards Don Patch.
"Psst… Don Patch…" whispered the booger.
Don Patch saw the booger.
"Here's a cheat sheet…" whispered the booger.
"Cheat sheet? Cheat sheet? I don't need a stinking cheat sheet!" whispered Don Patch.
"Really…" said the booger.
"But I'm using it anyway.." said Don Patch.
"Okay…" said the booger handing him the note.
The nose hair retracted and the boogers when into Bobo-bo's brain and reprogrammed his brain so that he'd know the answers.
"So that's how it is…" said Bobo-bo writing down the test.
Ryoko did a few extremely subtle hands seals. She split into two different Ryokos, one of the disappeared in less then a second. She reappeared over a leaf Genin and she tapped him on the shoulder, when he looked towards where he tapped him she disappeared to the other side of him and memorized the answers.
Meanwhile Ayeka did a few extremely subtle hand seals as well… a tiny log appeared. The tiny log went towards a test and memorized it… it went back to Ayeka it seemed to prints out the answers
"Give it Lord Tenchi as well…" whisper Ayeka.
"Yes ma'am." said the log.
Tenchi was stuck on a few… but did a few as well… Then Ryoko appeared and gave him a note before disappearing… then the tiny log appeared.
"Lord Tenchi, Miss Ayeka wanted me to give this to you…" said the Log.
It printed out the answers.
"Thanks…" said Tenchi who sighed, "Great both of them gave the answers…" he thought.
Ranma saw that the person next to him was doing farley well he smirked, faster than the eye can see he grabbed the test, finished his test, took notes, and threw the notes to Akane and Ryoga… all in less then a few seconds.
"The Chest Nut Fist isn't just for punching…" thought Ranma with a smirk.
The notes Ranma threw hit his teammates on the heads.
"Ow…" said Akane as the fast ball of paper his her in the face at she was behind Ranma, she smirked "At least Ranma's not freaking out" she thought as she knew Ranma didn't to well.
The note Ryoga on back of the head, he picked up the notes, "Wow Ranma was good…" he thought.
Others did it for just themselves…
Zoro discreetly unsheathed one of his swords, and saw the reflection of a test that was nearly complete in the refection.
"Perfect…" he thought.
Makoto did some very discreet hand seals.
"Flower Telescope Eye Jutsu…" said Makoto, a small pink flower appeared in her hand she clothes her eyes and used the flower like an eye… she saw the effect test to cheat off of, she began to write down all she saw.
Not only were they cheating but others as well.
Gaara, an extremely powerful and scary Genin from Village Hidden in the Sand was using he controlled sand in some way to cheat…
Kiba, Hinata's teammate who was a member of the Inuzuka Clan listened to his Nin-Dog Akamaru who gave him the answers.
Shino, Hinata's other teammate who was a member of the Aburame Clan was getting answers from his insects.
Tenten, a Genin from the Village hidden in the leaves managed to hang a small mirror using kunai, her team mare Rock Lee adjusted his hitai-ate to his forehead (he normally wore in on his waist) to see if he could see the test, which he did.
Dosu listened to the sounds of a nearby ninja and translated what the person was writing.
Hyuga Neji, Hinata's cousin and Tenten and Lee's teammate used the Byakugan, his clan's bloodline limit, to see another person's test.
Sasuke used his Bloodline Limit as well, the Sharingan to copy the moments of one of the people taking the teat.
Even with all the cheating going on, the panicking trio still didn't get it.
"Should I cheat? Should I cheat?" thought Luffy.
"Oh man… oh man…" thought Usagi.
"Times almost up… times almost up…" thought Naruto.
A Kunai flew past Luffy and Naruto. It hit the test behind them…
"What was that for!" yelled the Leaf Genin.
"That was 5 strikes… and your out…" said one of the proctors.
The Genin left with his team.
"I thought I heard to attack…" said Luffy giving Naruto a smile.
Naruto gave a small laugh then they both began to freak out about the test again.
"Naruto…" said Hinata.
Naruto looked at the shy girl next to him.
"What?" asked Naruto.
"You can look at my test if you…" said Hinata.
Naruto stared at the girl…
"What?" he said.
"Naruto please look at my test…" said Hinata.
"This must be a trick… then again Hinata's not that that kind of girl… then Kiba and Shino must have put her up to it… I minds as well find out…" said Naruto, "What do you get from helping me?"
Hinata began to blush, "Well its just… that I…I" said Hinata trying to think of a reason to say she's has a crush on him, "I don't want you to leave so soon Naruto…"
Luffy and Usagi turned their attention to Naruto and Hinata… even though they were rivals right now may be they could bum off the test... then again they might pay if they lose all their points from cheating… both sighed… Usagi turned her attention towards Hinata.
"W…well its that we 9 newbie and we don't what we'll be facing, we should stick together for now then maybe the odds will be better…" said Hinata.
"That and she clearly has a huge crush on you…" thought Usagi with a small giggle then realized the test at hand and began to freak out some more.
Hinata discretely showed him her test. Naruto was considering it but noticed that one of the proctors wrote something down… unsure whether it was for him or not… but got nervous, if he was caught cheating then Sakura and Sasuke would kill him. So he came up with a lie that would rival lie that came out of the world's greatest liar (who Luffy happened to know and also grew up with).
"Don't worry Hinata… I don't need to cheat. If I get caught you might get caught as well for helping me…" said Naruto.
"Naruto…" thought Hinata.
"Don't worry a world class ninja like me can pass a test like this easily." said Naruto.
Hinata gave a silent nod.
Naruto cried slightly, "She believed me… I just hope my only hope is that 10 question…" thought Naruto.
It was strange, the test said the 10th question would be given out at 45 minutes into the test…
As time went by more and more teams were caught and more and more cheating was done.
Gaara implanted his plan, he used a jutsu to make another eye. After he dispelled the eye, sand got into another Genin's eyes and the sand eyes saw his test while the Genin wasn't looking.
Sasuke continued copying people's movements.
Ino, Sakura's rival and fellow leaf Genin used her family's trademark Jutsu which transfers her soul into another body on Sakura after she finished her test. She looked over Sakura's answers.
Meanwhile Zatch walked around the room, Kolulu wanted to be with Lori and Tia… she was also exploring but also in a bad mood for some reason… scary…very scary… he looked around and saw three people freaking out.
"All right! I can do operation hero of justice and see what's the problem!" said Zatch.
He walked behind the three and said "Hey you three need help?"
Naruto, Luffy and Usagi turned around and saw Zatch.
"What's wrong little girl?" asked Luffy.
"I'm a boy!" yelled Zatch.
"You are then why are you wearing that dress?" asked Naruto who also thought Zatch was a girl.
Zatch thought a for a minute, "Well a lot of mamodo boys dress weird… or where nothing at all…" said Zatch, "I like wearing nothing at all but Kiyo thinks it a bad idea t go nude… I don't wear under wear though…"
Many things went thought Naruto, Luffy and Usagi's head… Naruto was the first to speak.
"What's a mamodo?" was the first question that came to my mouth.
"I'm a demon… but a good demon, we mamodo live in harmony with the humans in our village and are bonded with them…" said Zatch.
"Oh yeah I remember that they said that mamodos didn't have to take the test…" said Usagi.
"Then why are you here…" said Naruto.
"I'm here for operation hero of justice…" said Zatch taking out a banner that said that.
The three morons stared at him.
"Oookay…" said Naruto.
"I'm going to help you. After the whole point of this test is cheating…" whispered Zatch.
Usagi, Naruto and Luffy froze.
"What?" said all three.
"That's what Kiyo told me…" said Zatch.
(Flashback)
"Kiyo, what are these?" asked Zatch when Kiyo handed him the cheat sheets for their teammates.
"Their cheat sheets… the point of this test is to cheat… its to test our information gathering skills…" whispered Kiyo.
"Roger that!" said Zatch who went to deliver the cheat sheets.
(End of flashback)
The morons were frozen still. Their mouths opened in shock and they just say there in shock.
"Why didn't I figure it out earlier?" they yelled internally.
Next Time: The 10th is reviled... at the worst possible time for Naruto, Usagi and Luffy... and not only that if they answer the question then they'll be stuck as Chunin for the rest of their lives! Will they pass or fail... or maybe there's a hidden motive behind this question... all this and more next time...