Okay, as promised, here's the next chapter. Not much to say here as I said everything I had to say in the previous one, I guess, so without any delays:

Chapter #27: The First Exam! Conclusion

Chapter Cover: river outside the village: Jun is fishing from a large rock near the water, Urusai is jumping into the water from a cliff, Ayame is swimming on a boat and Naruto is sleeping on the ground

"Time to reveal the tenth question!" announced Ino. "But before that… some rules will be added…"

"Say what?" Homura gave away a surprised look.

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"Well, what do you think?" Naruto gave his companions an asking glare. "Will our students be able to pass at least the first test?"

"This might be troublesome, actually…" replied Shikamaru, laying on the couch. "Haven't you heard who's the first examiner this year?"

"I have…" announced Hinata. "It's Ino. With her information gathering skills and interrogation techniques… well, I think our subordinates can have problems with advancing to the second exam…"

Naruto got a little worried for his students, but didn't show it: "They'll be fine… Ino is worst then Ibiki, but not even she can think of anything harder then he did…"

"I wouldn't be so sure of that, dope…" announced Sasuke, who just appeared behind the window. "I've heard that during the last year's exam she actually was able to fail more then half of the participants, because she thought of an extra rule to the test…"

"Extra rule?" the blonde jounin gave him a questioning glare. "What extra rule?"

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"First of all I want you to decide whether you will take this question or not…" announced Ino.

"Choose whether to take it or not?" Kyoudai's eyebrow went up.

"Let me tell you that if you choose not to take it… your points will be reduce to zero… and you'll fail, along with your teammates, of course…" explained Ino.

"So what's the point in even asking?" asked Kigahen calmly. "It's rather obvious everyone will take it. Unless they don't really want to become chuunins…"

"That's not the only rule to this question…" continued Ino.

"Not the only rule?" repeated Nibai. "What is she getting at?"

"If you choose to take it…" began explaining Ino. "… and answer incorrectly… you'll lose the right to participate in the Chuunin Selection Exam ever again!"

"Come again?" Urusai's eyes widen.

"What kind of a dumb rule is that!" yelled Gaki as he stood up. "I never heard of anyone being banned from taking the Chuunin Exam! More so, my cousin took it five times!"

"That's not my problem…" replied Ino. "While I'm the examiner, I made the rules…"

"So as it is now…" thought Ayame. "It's either take the question and risk becoming a gennin for your whole life… or fail this test along with your team… some choice…"

"And I have… the last rule for you guys…" announced Ino, looking around the class.

"One more rule…" winced Hige. "What is this sick hag up to?"

"You can avoid the question and still pass this exam…" continued Ino. "But there's a requirement… you guy would have to separate from your teammates and take the next test alone!"

"What kind of choice is that?" thought Hisaki, looking at the jounin. "What trash would leave their comrades? Then again, if you'd decide to do so, no matter how many answers you gave, you're sure to pass this test… these are big profits… but I won't leave Hinako and Kumo on ice at the time like this…"

"Dammit!" cursed Urusai. "Such a choice is no choice at all! If I decide to take the test and answer wrong I'll be an eternal gennin! But if I decide to avoid it, Ayame-chan and Jun will fail as well… what to do?"

"Some choice…" smirked Jun under his nose. "Remain gennin for the rest of your life, lose your teammates or make them suffer your lack of courage…no way you can choose one…"

"Okay, let's start with those, who wish not to take the tenth question…" announced Ino as two people raised their hands. "So few? Looks like this year many are confident in their abilities… or maybe…"

The two teams left the room with their heads down.

"An easy way out…" thought Kugutsu, looking after them with disapproval.

"Urusai didn't raised his hand?" Ayame's eyebrow went up. "He… he's not planning to leave us, is he?"

"Now then, let's see which of you wish to get through this safely…" announced Ino as few people raised their hands. "Those of you who raised their hands are to go through this door…" with those words she pointed at the door behind her. "There you'll find information what to do next…"

Kei turned around to Gaki, giving him an evil glare: "Don't you even dare raising your hand, you wicked bastard!"

More and more hands went to the air and as time flu, Urusai shaking raised his hand half-way as well.

"What?" Jun's eyes almost went out of orbits.

"Figures…" hmphed Isseki at the sight.

But to everyone surprise, Urusai smashed his hand to his desk, yelling at those who began to raise their hands as well: "What is wrong with you people? Your teammates are your friends and family, dammit! How can you just abandon them for a stupid title? People like you are the worst kind of trash!"

Hinako smiled under her nose slightly: "Well said, Urusai-kun…"

"Interesting brat…" thought Kai, looking at the blonde leaf-nin. Then he stared at his teammates, noticing Nibai blushing slightly as she looked at the blonde Konoha shinobi and Saboten smiling under his nose.

"That shrimp…" thought Ino, looking at the boy. "Guess he's from Naruto…" and with a smile appearing on her face she said out loud: "Alright, it seems no-one else wish to withdraw in any way. Guess it's time for me to announce… that those who stayed in the room, all pass!"

"WHA?" was all Dajaku could say after hearing that.

"The 90 people who remain in this room have passed the first Chuunin Selection Exam test with a positive mark…" repeated Ino.

"We all pass?" Kei's female teammate was confused. "What about the tenth question?"

"You already answered it…" replied Ino. "It said: do you quit or continue the game?"

"So what was the point in answering the nine, other questions?" yelled Hagetaka. "What the hell was that for?"

"To test your information gathering skills. It is them that we tested…" explained female jounin. "The first rule said that whether you pass or not is determined by the team total score. With that we put pressure on each of you: you mess up you take your teammates to the bottom as well…"

"This makes a bit more sense now…" thought Saboten. "That last rule fits this idea perfectly."

"Then again, the questions were not the type a gennin can answer…" continued Ino. "That's how most of you came to a conclusion that in order to get any answers right, you'll have to cheat. But with just gennin in the room you wouldn't have anyone to get the answers from, so we placed two chuunin at two ends of the class, so you guys wouldn't be left on ice…"

"That explains why the number of participants was indivisible by three…" added Kumo.

"Finding the right guy wasn't that hard though…" announced Chisoku emotionless.

Ino just ignored the sand-nin and continued: "Those who cheated poorly were destined to fail. In shinobi world information is extremely important. Sometimes it may save your life! If anyone spots you while you're gathering information, it usually becomes useless…"

"But the final question seems out of place in this case…" noticed Choumura (A/N: and just barely held himself from adding 'mom' at the end of that sentence).

"The final phase of the exam… was also the most important part of it…" announced Ino.

"How come?" asked Toge, not moved by any statements.

"Allow me to explain…" asked Ino. "The choices you had to make were painful. It was either take it and risk becoming a gennin forever, fail along with your teammates or leave them on ice. A cruel test of loyalty. Not always you're able to avoid a treat… in the shinobi world it's practically impossible. People who don't take the risk… cowards saying: there's always next year… don't deserve to be a chuunin in my opinion!"

"Then what about those who decided to separate from their teammates?" asked Ayame. "They avoided the question and yet they'll participate in the next test…"

"They won't… I only said that they'll pass this test… but the next exam is also a team test… taking it alone is out of the question… they passed the first test but fail the exam…" explained Ino. "During missions your team is everything. Once you're on enemy ground you can only trust your teammates… leaving them for your own sake is unacceptable… and as chuunin you'll become squad leaders. The lives of your subordinates are your top priority!"

Urusai just smiled under his nose.

"Who would have thought that mister Dead Last is that type of guy?" wondered Hisaki as he observed the blonde gennin with a smile. "What else are you hiding, Kodawari Urusai?"

"You broke the first door…" announced Ino. "You passed the first test of the Chuunin Selection Exam. I wish you luck during the next phases…"

"HELL YEAH!" Urusai threw his hand to the sky in the act of victory.

"I don't think you should be celebrating yet…" they all heard a voice and suddenly the whole room got filled with red smoke.

As the smoke cleared the young gennin saw a kunoichi with long, brown hair, clipped in two buns, wearing a black t-shirt with orange vest on it, short, dark blue pants and a hitae-ate with the Leaf symbol on her forehead.

"My name is Hyuuga Tenten and I'm the examiner for the second Chuunin Selection Exam test!" announced the woman. "And what awaits you won't be as easy as the test you just passed! Follow me!"

-To be continued-

And so this chapter ends. Hope you enjoyed it. Next one should be up rather soon.

And since no-one asked for a certain character profile, I'll take the easiest way out and write the profile of one of my own, as I know everything about him anyway:

Name: Hashira Hisaki

Name origins: his first name means simply flames. Considering he's from the clan of fire users, this name fits him perfectly. His clan's name can be translated as pillar… but that I'm not allow to explain yet

Age: currently 13 years old

Birth Date: 8th of November

Blood Type: 0

Height: 143,8 cm

Weight: 48,7 kg

Favored style of fighting: taijutsu mixed with ninjutsu

Current rank: gennin

Village: Konoha (Hidden Leaf)

Team: cell led by Hyuuga Hinata; his teammates are Emimaru Hinako and Aburame Kumo

Family: he comes from one of Konoha's greatest fire-using clans. He has an older brother, Naraku and his parent names are Gouka (mother) and Karyoku (father)

Bloodline limit: fire jutsus that are known only to his clan

Techniques: none yet

First appearance: 25th chapter

And thus this chapter ends. Hope you enjoyed it. The next submission will most likely be the last one I made, so those of you who don't like the way I'm managing this fic can start cheering already .