Chapter 9/10 (cant remember)

It's a well known fact that gossip travels faster that the speed of light (which happens to be 3108 meters/second or so the author thinks)

KONOHA DAILY NEWSPAPER

FRONT PAGE

WRITTEN EXAMS GONE HORRIBLY WRONG

Is Uzumaki really dead?

The second part of the chuunin exams said to be deadly towards one's health has gone horribly wrong. It is said that the examiner (rumoured to be a jounin named Hayate) is still recovering in Konoha's trusty hospital in the Special Case Department.

Our ANBU specialists tell us that this incident may cause a giant rift in between the Sand allies and the Leaf our home. This arises many questions such as, what happened around 10am yesterday morning that would cause something so dirastic. What should we, as Leaf citizens do to help? And the biggest question of all, who the hell can we blame this on?!

10:30am, Yesterday

We now see a hysterical Hayate be taken away by Medical Ninja's…

"I'll get revenge on you for this Subaku no Gaara and your stupid sand!!! I'd get revenge on you too Uzumaki, but you're already dead! You think you're all that Uchiha…BUT YOU'RE NOT!"

Hayate was never to be seen again.

It is also rumoured that a genin died in the second part of the exams. The unbelievable part is that death in a written exam is rare. This makes us, the public, even more curious as to what really took place. Was this exam just a hoax? Was 'written exam' code words for 'sudden and random death'? Who was this ninja? Was he/she from Leaf or Sand or any of the other hidden villages? Does this mean the exams are over?

Sadly, this reporter can't give out any more information, simply because she has no other information. So to end of this report, I say to all children whose dreams are to become ninja to proceed with caution. Sudden random death seems to be the latest trend.

10:00am, Yesterday

"Listen up!" Hayate yelled "Today you write the second part of the chuunin exams. You and your team will go up to the-

"Did you say written exam?!" A ninja yelled in outrage, "What the hell does that have to do with being a chuunin?"

Hayate cleared his throat, clearly annoyed.

"SHUT UP! You can't be a ninja if you only know the techniques but not the way it works. You can't attack a country without knowing their land. You can't even protect your own country if you don't know the land. This test is to see what you know, I assure you every question on this test will apply to real life."

We could see Naruto and the rookie nine completely ignoring him.

"Geez what a stiff…" Naruto whispered 'quietly'.

"Doesn't he know that we already know this stuff?" Kiba 'whispered' back.

Ino huffed. "This is what we went to the academy for! Let's get on with it!"

"-which is why you will be partnered up randomly." Hayate finished.

Cries of outrage.

"I said shut up and get to the freaking desk up front and get your freaking piece of paper so you know who the hell you're partnered up with!" SOMEONE doesn't have patience.

Naruto pulled out a sheet of paper from the box at the front. "Eh..? A #13?" What do I do with this…

WELL if you were listening maybe you would know.

Were you listening? What do I do?

WELL if happened to care I might tell you.

What the hell is wrong with you?!?!

WELL-

SHUT. UP.

"-let's go. Naruto! Are you listening to me?" Sasuke growled in his ear. Baaaaaakaaaa, I dun liiike him nii-chaaaan…

Be good my foolish litte brother

Demo…

Quiet little brother, or you shall never defeat me! Silence is the key!

I thought it was hate and clinging to life?

"-say something? Sasuke!" Naruto screamed in his ears. He was getting a bit worried, everyone was sitting down on random desk and he still didn't know what to do. Not to mention Sasuke looked like he was about to start bawling his eyes out.

"Let's go, we're at table four." Sasuke snapped.

"You have the same number as me? COOL!" Dragging Sasuke to table #4 (as if it was all his idea.)

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KONOHA NEWPAPER

GOSSIP COLUMN

Our resources tell us that Uchiha Sasuke of the Uchiha clan of course has gained the Sharingan! This is of course great news; we expect nothing less from one of our…greater shinobi.

But the questions remains, what triggered the Sharingan in the first place?

Sasuke being the last of his clan, we must pester, annoy, irritate and infuriate him as much as possible with this question. Thought we did this thoroughly the only answer we received was a death threat. Though thankfully, not directed at the media. The threat was this:

"When I find whoever had the brilliant idea for a written exam, death will seem like mercy."

10:10am, Yesterday

No. No. No. No. NO, dammit!

This was not happening, Naruto decided. He was not going to be sitting by a guy that screamed i-want-to-kill-you-really-badly-but-am-restraining-myself-for-reasons-i-will-not-tell-you. And he was not sitting beside his teammate that screamd i-am-brooding-leave-me-alone-can't-you-see-I'm-busy-planning-some-weird-freaky-revenge-with-the-voice-in-my-head?

Naruto knew the second he sat down on the table he was doomed.

Sasuke was warily looking at the two on each side of him. There was a red head (those eyes…) from the Sand village. On the left of him there was Naruto looking sullen (for a change, hmm…mood swings?).

There was only one paper on the table. This was their test. They had to work together, as three man team. The test was designed to see if you gather information effectively in team, with people you didn't even know. "This like this happens when we do recon mission" the examiner had said.

Quite frankly nobody cares; in their eyes they were helping the enemy.

I can't believe I'm paired with these pathetic 'ninjas' though the Uchiha…he interests me…Gaara was getting excited, his siblings could tell.

If someone were to be listening to Temari and Kankoro they would find the conversation entirely suspicious. It went something like this:

"-should have received a signal by now!"

"Shut up Kankuro! Someone might hear you!" Temari whispered harshly. "We have to be patient; otherwise our plans will all go to waste."

"Dosu's already ten minutes late! What are we suppose to do if he's gotten caught?" Kankuro retorted, "Look at all the examiners, it's obviously they're on edge."

On the other side of the classroom we see examiner #54 eating a muffin…

"Not to mention Gaara's getting restless…there's only fifty minutes left of the test. If we don't cast the Genjutsu soon, we'll have stupid little brats getting in the way." Kankuro continued.

"I see your point but what are we suppose to do, start this war on our own?!" Temari frowned. "Look Baki-sensei said to wait and that is what we're going to do. In the meantime we'll pass the Chuunin exams, understand?" Kankuro nodded reluctantly.

"But, call Baki-sensei anyways." He said finally.

Temari pressed an electronic piece in her ear and whispered, "007 are there? This is Sn4 calling in, I repeat Sn4 calling in. Do you copy?"

There was a silence, then electronic bussing.

"007 here, what's the problem? Over."

"We haven't received the signal, it's been ten minutes. Over."

"We had some complications. The plan is ready to move out at any given notice. Be ready to move. 007 out."

The tension in the air lingered. Temari opened her mouth until—


a/n: I'm baaaaaaaack. O-o

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