Chapter 11
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto because if I did, Mayume would be an actual character!
I'm sorry that I haven't updated in so long because 1. I was in Tennessee for a week 2. I had 2 ISPs (independent study project) due at the beginning of May and 3. … EXAMS. And I might be starting another fan fiction about the Naruto gang in high school in today's society. There are like 10 OCs in that one! I probably won't post the next one till summer break…sorry --'. Oh ya please review! Please, please, please!
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Updated profile
Name: Uchiha Mayume
Age: 15
Gender: female
Skin tone: slightly tanned
Eye color: dark brown
Hair color and style: black, up in a ponytail with side bangs- hair is shoulder length
Clothes: baggy training shorts, legs and arms are wrapped; shuriken holster on left leg, dark blue tank top- low cut- with fishnets underneath, headband around neck, ninja sandals- dark blue
Weapons: shuriken, kunai, smoke bombs, exploding seals and usually carries some soldier pills
Sharingan level: none at this moment in time
Special comments: loves to eat, likes to glomp and hug, clamato juice, ramen and sushi are what she survives on, very, very random and strange and is a cat lover!
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After everyone had handed their applications in, got their seat numbers, and sat down, including Mayume and Naruto, who had to be pried apart and dragged to their seats, Mayume by Sasuke and Naruto by Sakura, the tests were handed out. Mayume was now just pouting with her arms over her chest in her seat in the left bottom corner beside the window and the proctors, and Naruto was still sweating and shivering in his seat beside Hinata in the middle section, 4 rows up.
Mayume shifted her attention to the hyper ninja, not paying attention to the instructions that Ibiki was giving, to see Hinata staring at Naruto and blushing. 'I have to get Naruto and Hinata together! It would be so cute! I'll talk to her after…I'm so tired and the others don't seem to need me...' Suddenly her head fell on the desk and she was asleep.
Izumo who was the proctor beside her just stared at her weirdly and shook his head 'and I expected great things from her?' He just stared around at the kids trying to figure out the questions. 'The test has started! This will be fun!' he smirked as he called the number of one of the teams that he had already caught cheating.
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Sasuke was having a hard time with the questions. 'Heh! I see…I can't answer a single one of theses questions…they want us to cheat, but not get caught! That's what Ibiki meant. I just hope that Naruto and Mayume figure that out.' He activated his Sharingan then looked over at Naruto who was STILL panicking. Then he looked over at Mayume only to realize that she was fast asleep! 'Fuck…we're so doomed…'
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Sakura was speeding through the questions and was done in 30 minutes flat! Once she was done she rested her head on her hand and stared off into space, thinking of Sasuke. 'Oh Sasuke! I'll win your heart someday…' Sakura was so deep in thought that she didn't have time to react when she suddenly jerked up and someone took over her body and started copying her answer. 'Thanks big-forehead girl! It seems you huge brain came in handy for once! I better memorize these answers quickly so I can give them to Choji and Shikamaru.' Ino smirked as she read through the pink- haired kunoichi's answers.
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Sea green eyes rested on the sleeping Uchiha who was now mumbling in her sleep. 'Maybe I could kill her while she's asleep, but where's the fun in that? No pain, no fear and no screaming…I'll wait 'till the fighting part of the exams. Right now I have to concentrate on finishing and passing. Hopefully those 2 pathetic shinobi that call themselves my siblings won't screw up. If they do…they're dead!'
Gaara narrowed his eyes and placed two of his fingers on his closed right eye and an eye made of sand appeared in his hand. Gaara quickly sent it to look around the classroom for answers.
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Shino sat down with his back against his chair. He looked like he was waiting for someone…or something. Suddenly, around thirty bugs showed up in front of him and a bee buzzed by his ear "Now tell me the answers…" He quietly whispered to his little friends.
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'Ok, Gaara has started…' Kankuro looked at his brother. 'I'm counting on you Karasu!' One of the proctors looked at Kankuro "Excuse me! I need to go to the bathroom!" Kankuro stood up and smirked as the proctor by the door stood up as well, tied Kankuro's hands to a chain and escorted him to the boy's restrooms. "Now Karasu…Tell me the answers." The proctor's skin started to crumble off, revealing Kankuro's trusty scarecrow.
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Neji, like Sasuke, had almost instantly figured out what to do. He closed his eyes and reopened them a few seconds later 'Byakugen!'. He looked around the room, found his target. Looking through the figure with his white eyes, he started copying down their answers.
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Kiba had Akamaru perched atop his head. Akamaru kept looking around and barking things silently to his master. Every one in a while Kiba would pet his dog on the head, write something on his paper and whispered "Good boy! You're doing great Akamaru!"
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Naruto was sweating buckets as he felt the glares of his two conscious teammates boring into his back telling him to get a move on and write something. Just then he heard a small voice beside him "Na…Naruto-kun…here…y…you can look at my t…test…" Hinata was sitting beside him and she moved her arm up a bit so that Naruto could look at her answers.
"Hinata…why are you letting me look at your answers?" Naruto looked at her suspiciously 'Maybe Kiba told her to do this in the hopes that I would get caught and fail!' Hinata just started blushing madly and poking her fingers shyly. She was a bit thrown off by this question.
"It…It's just that…I…I mean we're all rookies and there's only 10 of us so we have to look out for each other." The shy Hyuuga answered quickly. Seeming satisfied with this answer Naruto turned to look at one of the proctors who was scribbling down something. Suddenly he looked up at Naruto smirking. Naruto quickly turned to look at his paper again 'Shoot! I can't cheat! That proctor is staring me down like an eagle!'
"Hinata! A great ninja like me doesn't need help! Believe it! But thanks anyway." Hinata just nodded her head, blushing all the while. The 2 rookies turned back to their tests 'why did I have to do that? Stupid honour! Now I'll fail for sure! My only chance is to risk everything on the 10th question!'
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Many mirrors were being held up to the ceiling in front of the light by kunai. Tenten was moving her fingers and her pencil ever so slightly to control the thin strings that moved the mirrors. 'Lee, if you can see the answers on the tests, put your hitai-ate on your head.' As if on cue, Lee tied the Konoha headband around his head and Tenten smirked. 'We are so gonna pass this!'
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Dosu was just sitting down with his eyes closed. It looked as if he was listening to something so intently that if anyone disturbed him, he would burst. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and he started scribbling down the answers on his sheet 'By the sound of his strokes and taps, this should be the correct answer!'
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It was down to the last ten minutes of the test…and the tenth question. Some people were smirking, some were panicking and some were just…sleeping…Anyway, Ibiki cleared his throat and looked around at the remaining teams. "Ok…and now we will begin the tenth question" Ibiki looked around at the nervous genin in front of him. Thoughts of panic and relief were running through everyones' heads…'this is my last chance everything is riding on this one question! Believe it!'…'Pft, it's about time!'…'This is the final mountain!'…'Hurry up and return Kankuro, you were supposed to pass the answers to me before the 10th question.'
"Now, before I give you the question, there are a few new rules I'd like to go over." Everyone stared at the proctor wide-eyed. Just then the door slowly opened and in walked a smiling Kankuro with the 'chunnin guard'. "Heh nice timing, was that doll of yours beneficial? Never mind, just sit down." Ibiki nodded towards Kankuro's seat and Karasu just went to sit beside the other chunnin examiners.
'Shoot! He saw through Karasu's disguise!' Kankuro thought as he silently dropped a little parcel on the top of Temari's desk while on the way back to his own seat.
"I'll explain now, the rules of desperation. For this 10th question, you can decide whether you will take it or not." At the proctor's comment, Temari stood up banging her desk and yelled out "Choose? What happens if we choose not to?" Ibiki just started to laugh evilly and stared at the sand kunoichi until she sat back down shivering. "If you choose not to take this question, your points will automatically be reduced to zero and you and your team will fail!"
"What's that supposed to mean? If that's the case then we'll obviously take the question!" Ibiki just grinned at the waterfall nin and continued with the rules. "Now, for the other rule. If you do choose to take this question and you fail to get it right…you will then lose the right to take the chunnin exam ever again!"
All the genin in the room sported shocked and frightened faces. There were mumbles of "That's not fair!" and "What? Is this some kind of joke?" passing from ninja to ninja. Just then Kiba stood up with Akamaru on his head. "What kind of stupid rule is that? Tons of people here have taken the exam before!"
Ibiki resumed his scary laughter and stated, "You guys were unlucky…this year, you're playing by my rules! But I am giving you a way out. Those of you who don't wish to take it, you can leave right now and try again next year." People were looking around at their teammates and mouthing opinions and others were mumbling to themselves about what they should do.
"Now let's begin the 10th question. Those of you who don't want to take the question, please raise your hands and you will be able to leave after your number had been confirmed." Everyone was still freaking out with confused emotions running through their minds, especially Naruto, 'what kind of question is it going to be? Damn it! If I get it wrong, I'll be a genin forever, but if I choose not to take it, Sasuke, Mayume nee-chan and Sakura-chan will also fail and I don't want that either!'
Everyone was still reluctant to put up their hands until the man beside Naruto stood up "I can't take it any more! I quit! I can't do this! I'm sorry Gennai, Inoho" The genin walked out the door with his 2 teammates beside him with his head hung low. After they walked out, team numbers that gave up were being called out by the dozens "Team 50 fail! 130, 111 also fail." Others were just standing up and walking out the door "I quit!" "Me too!" "And me!" "Sorry guys."
Even thought the pressure was greater than ever, Naruto was just o stubborn to put up his hand and quit while he had the chance. At least that's what team 7's pink-haired kunoichi thought 'Oh Naruto…just put up your hand. Sasuke, and I won't care and Mayume probably doesn't even know what's going on.' She sighed as the blond boy just kept his hand down 'If you won't do it, I'll do it for you so that your impossible dream of becoming Hokage…won't be crushed.' Sakura closed her eyes and smiled to herself as she slowly put up her hand.
When Sakura opened her eyes to look again at her blond teammate, he had stood up with his hand raised high in the air and he was shaking all over. Hinata, Sakura and Sasuke all sported a surprised and astonished look on their faces as they stared at their unbreakable friend who had finally given up…or so they thought.
"DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME! I WON'T RUN OR GIVE UP!" Naruto slammed his hand down onto the desk making a loud thud, "I'll take the damn question even if it means staying a genin forever! I'll will myself to become Hokage anyway! I AM NOT AFRAID!"
'He wasn't even thinking about the team…He's got guts I'll give him that.' The Uchiha smiled at his teammate's outburst while Sakura and Hinata smiled at the blond. Mayume started to stir from her sleep because of the noise.
"I'll ask you again, your life depends on this decision, this is your last chance to quit." Naruto just laughed at Ibiki and said "I'm gonna follow through with my decision. I never go back on my word. That's my ninja way!" all of the genin in the room smiled and no one else put their hand up to quit.
'Hmm…interesting. That blond kid's words seemed to have given everyone their confidence back. There are still 79 people left…that's more than I expected. Oh well.' Ibiki looked around at each of the chunnin examiners and they all nodded to something unknown to the genin. "Good decisions. Now to everyone still remaining…I congratulate you on passing the first test!" He gave a big toothy grin to the crowd of stunned ninja in front of him.
"What do you mean? We've already passed…but what about the 10th question?" Ibiki looked at the pink haired girl "There never was an actual 10th question… or you could say that that was the 10th question!".
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Now Mayume was starting to fidget and move around like she had a bug in her shirt and Izumo kind of looked at her weirdly 'Is she having like a spasm in her sleep or something? Oh well." He channelled his attention back towards Ibiki just as he was pulling his headband off to show the genin what people would do just to get information. 'Oh man! Why does he always have to show them? It's like he's proud of having holes in his head and scars and burn marks.' The chunnin looked away disgusted.
"The 10th question was the actual purpose of this test, the take it or leave it question is one that you will have to face everyday when you are a chunnin, except making the wrong decision could lead to the death of a comrade…or your own demise." Ibiki continued on for a few more minutes with his speech. After finishing, murmurs of agreement passed throughout the room and no one but Ibiki noticed the shape coming quickly towards the window.
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Mayume woke up just in time to see a kunoichi standing in the middle of the room, with a big black sign pinned to the ceiling with two kunai, behind her. On instinct, and because of the fact that she just woke up and was still kind of in dream land, she took out her kunai and pointed it at the woman with her good arm, "Oh my gosh! We're under attack" but before she could throw the kunai, Sasuke was sitting on top of her so that she couldn't hurt anyone…even if it was by accident. He sighed as the lady turned towards Mayume. "--'…you aren't under attack dobe…I'M YOUR NEXT EXAMINER ANKO! READ THE DAMN SIGN!" the lady yelled at the Uchiha girl, who had now lost all interest in the kunoichi and was looking over Izumo's shoulder reading the list of teams who failed.
"Hah! I knew that they would fail! They looked weak!" the Uchiha girl pointed at one of the team numbers on the list with her right hand whereas her left arm was still hanging limply at her side. Anko started to growl at the hyper ninja and Mayume took this as a sign to quickly sit down and shut up. "Now as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted," Anko stared at Mayume who just shrunk back into her seat with Sasuke sitting on her desk, "I am Mitarashi Anko, your examiner and executer for the second test. Now follow me!" She punched the air enthusiastically while the genin just stared at her like she was a maniac. 'She's kinda…Naruto-ish…' Sakura looked back and forth comparing the two ninja, nodding and mumbling to herself.
"Bad timing Anko" Ibiki peered out from behind the black sign. Noticing the other examiner she pointed an accusing finger at him "you left 79 people…that's 28 teams Ibiki! You made the test too easy this time." Ibiki smirked at her childish statement "There were a lot of outstanding candidates this time." Anko just scowled at his reply "Bah, what ever. I'll cut the number of passing teams down by at least half in the second test. I'll explain everything when everyone gets to the area tomorrow. Your jounin sensei will tell you where to meet me and at what time. You are dismissed!" Anko punched the air again and everyone raced to get out of the room and away from the scary examiner as fast as possible. "Oh and remember," Anko got everyone's attention once more, "get lots of rest, or your blood will be one of the first to be spilled."