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Chapter 2: The First Exam
Hiorie slowly opened his eyes, the light shinning on his headband. He looked at his surroundings. "Man, what I wouldn't do for just a bit more sleep." He said sleepily. He looked in the sky. 'It's about midday, judging from the suns position.' He thought. "OH FUCK!!!! THE EXAM!!" He screamed. He jumped into the trees and made his way towards Konoha as fast as his newly awoken body would let him.
"It's about damn time you got here!" Kuro said once Hiorie had reached the exam area. "Come on in already! We're late enough as it is!"
"Where's Kysona?" Hiorie asked, gasping for air.
"She said she wasn't going to wait for your sorry ass. Now get in the fucking building already!" Kuro responded angrily.
Once they had met up with a pissed-off Kysona, they registered and walked through the exam door. When they arrived on the other side, they were greeted with countless dirty looks. As well as nine very curious ones really close.
"What are you all staring at?" Kuro said, taunting the crowd.
Hiorie looked around and spotted a pleasant sight. Kabuto was on the ground throwing up blood. "Kabuto, get your ass off the ground." Hiorie complained, pissed at the fact that he wasn't the one who did it to him. The sound ninja standing near him turned his head and stared at Hiorie. But before he could say anything, some kid in an orange, jump suit interrupted him.
"Hey, what's with the blindfold?" The kid said.
"I wear it so I don't have to look annoying kids like you in the eye." Hiorie said, not even looking at the kid.
"Don't underestimate me, my name is Naruto Uzumaki and I'll kick your ass, believe it!!" Naruto boasted.
"Yeah, that'll be a sight to see." Hiorie responded sarcastically.
There was an explosion at the front of the room. "Ok, listen up! My name is Ibiki Morino your examiner, and from this moment on, your worst enemy." A big man, twice the size of anyone else in the room, yelled proudly. Everyone stood, looking at the giant man and the countless ninja surrounding him. "First, you ninja from the sound village, knock it off, who told you you could fight! You want to fail before we've even begun!" Ibiki said more than asked.
Sorry. It's our first time, guess we were a little jumpy, sir." One of the sound ninja said, pretending to show respect.
"I'll say this once so listen up." Ibiki said loudly to the group. "There will be no combat between candidates. No attacking each other without the permission of your examiner. And even then, the use of fatal force is strictly prohibited. Anyone who even thinks of messing with me will be disqualified immediately. Got it?"
"No fatal force, that's no fun." Another ninja from the sound village taunted.
"Now, if we're ready, we'll proceed to the first stage of the Chunnin Exam." Ibiki said, ignoring the last comment. "Hand over your paper work and you each be given a number. This number determines where you will sit. We'll start the written test once you're all seated."
'God damnit! I hate written tests.' Kuro thought to himself.
"The what? Did he say written?" Naruto asked, not wanting to know the answer. As if trying to taunt him, one of the chunnin held up a stack of papers. "NO!! NOT A WRITTEN TEST!! NO WAY!!"
'Geez, this part of the test is so annoying. What a waste of an hour.' Hiorie thought, once they all had their seats. 'I wonder how the others are? Especially Kysona. These have always been her weak spots. Kuro should be fine, if he can stay sitting still for this whole part of the test.'
'Why does it have to be a written test?' Kysona thought, desperate for a way out of this besides leaving. 'I knew I should have studied more in the academy.'
'Well this is going to be boring as hell.' Thought Kuro, already growing impatient.
Ibiki tapped a piece of chalk on the chalkboard to get everyone's attention. "Everyone, eyes front," Ibiki said, easily getting the attention of everyone in the room. "There are a few rules you need to be aware of. And I won't answer any questions; so you better pay attention the first time around! Alright, rule number one is this: the written part of the exam is conducted on a point reduction system. Contrary what some of you may be used to, you will all begin the test with a perfect score of ten points. One point will be deducted for each answer you get wrong. So if you miss three, your final score will be seven. Rule number two: teams will pass or fail based on the total score of all three members."
Most everyone gasped. 'God Damnit!!! Man, they're going to kill me for this.' Kysona thought, resting her head in her palm.
'Kysona, please, please don't fuck up on this.' Kuro prayed.
"What?! Wait a second, you're saying we all get scored as a team?!" A girl called out.
"Silence!" Ibiki order. "I have my reasons, so shut up and listen! Rule number three: the sentinels you see positioned around the room are there to watch you carefully for any signs of cheating. And for every incident they spot; they will subtract two points from the culprits score. Be warned, their eyes are extremely sharp, and if they catch you five times you will be dismissed before the tests are even scored. Anyone fool enough to be caught cheated by the sentinels doesn't deserve to be here.
'I've got my eye on you guys." One of the sentinels said, scaring two genin next to Kuro shitless.
"If you want to be considered shinobi, then show us what exceptional shinobi you can be. One more thing, If any candidate should get a zero and fail the test, then the entire team fails."
"That's bull shit!" Kuro screamed, causing most everyone in the room to look at him.
"The final question won't be given out until the last 15 minutes before the end of the testing period." Ibiki said, ignoring Kuro. "You will have one hour total. Begin."
Everyone turned over their papers and started. Hiorie could here annoyed grunts from the people around him, along with countless pencil taps. 'I wonder how many of them are actually writing something useful?' Hiorie wondered. 'That Uchiha kid behind me will probably figure out the point of the exam soon. I think I'll push his buttons a little bit.'
'Line B in the diagram indicates the trajectory of a shuriken thrown at enemy C by ninja A seated atop a tree seven meters tall. Describe and formulate the trajectory required if ninja C was positioned at points D, E, and F. Also predict the farthest possible range of the shuriken and explain how you arrived at your answer.' Kysona read to herself, dumbfounded. 'What the fuck does that mean?!?!?!'
'Holy shit! I doubt even Hiorie could solve these!' Kuro thought. ' Wait… That's it!' He thought after a long pause. 'They want us to cheat. Just without being discovered. I see, I still don't get why Hiorie didn't tell us that in the first place.'
'I guess that would make for a logical explanation for this test.' Kysona thought. 'Still, Hiorie could have given us a little heads up.'
"He's finally figured it out." Hiorie whispered to himself. And so, he began to write.
'Score, I hit the jackpot with this guy.' Sasuke thought, 'Wait, what am I writing?' He stopped coping Hiorie's paper and looked at his work. There was a picture of Sasuke laying on the ground knocked out and Hiorie standing triumphantly on top of him. Sasuke was stunned, 'What the hell? Damnit,' He reached for the eraser because the picture took up most of the paper, but it wasn't there. He looked up and saw Hiorie twirling two erasers in his hand. He stopped twirling them and Sasuke could make out a massage on them. There was a smiley face on one of them with its tongue sticking out at him. Sasuke growled inwardly. An eraser hit him in the face and he looked at it. It had a message as well.
It read 'come' on, you're better than that Uchiha. You'll have to step it up a notch if you want to pass this exam. Good luck.' Sasuke looked up and Hiorie was still showing the eraser with the face. He laughed inwardly and went back to getting information after he had erased the picture.
Hiorie reached into his pouch on the back of his waist and pulled something out. It was a six-sided cube with nine smaller squares on each side. Each side had a different color. Hiorie took the liberty of naming it, he called it a Rubric's Cube. He held it in his hand and poured his chakra into it. It spun faster than any ninja could hope to follow then slowly came to a stop. It was now completely mixed up and Hiorie grabbed the side of it and turned it.
'If they want to get threw this quickly then they probably won't even bother grading them……. Wait, he said he'll give us the tenth question late Why not now? What is so important about the tenth question that we can't get it immediately?' Kuro wondered. 'It can't be a knowledge question, that wouldn't make sense. It would be to hard to copy. I'll guess I'll have to wait and find out. I have no jutsu fit for this situation. Damnit. How did he get threw this the first time?'
'Well, I give up. I never bothered to study any undercover jutsu so I guess I'll just have to follow Hiorie's lead when it all comes down to it.' Kysona decided. 'We have about ten minutes until the last question, please make it easy.'
Hiorie had now completed the cube three times and was rearranging it again. 'I need to make a more complicated one. This is to easy.' He thought as he continued to solve, mix up, and resolve it again and again.
Suddenly Ibiki's voice rang through the room. "Alright, listen up! Here the tenth and final question."
"Well it's about damn time." Kuro whispered to himself.
"But," Ibiki continued. "Before I give you the tenth question; there are some more rules that you need to be aware of." Suddenly the door opened and a kid from the sand village walk in after using the restroom. "Take your seat." Ibiki ordered. The sand ninja obliged and took the long way to his seat. Hiorie noted that he dropped something on the table where his teammate sat. "These rules are unique for question ten." Ibiki said slowly. "Listen carefully, and try not to let them frighten you.
"Man, does this guy think that he's actually scaring us??" Kysona pondered.
"Very well then, rule number one: each of you is free to chose not to be given the final question. It's your decision." He said seriously. This cause numerous gasps and whispers from without the room. "If you choose not to take the tenth question, regardless to your answers to the other nine, you'll get a zero. In other words, you fail. And therefore both your teammates fail as well." More distinct whispers flew threw the room now. Some people shouted out at Ibiki for such a dumb and important rule, but he quickly shut them up. "I wouldn't be to eager to jump to conclusions if I were you. You didn't let me finish."
'Come on already. I'm tired of these damn rules. Let's just get it over with.' Kuro thought.
Ibiki waiting for everyone's attention then continued. "If you do accept the question but answer it incorrectly, you will not only fail, you will be barred from taking the chunin exam ever again!!"
"Say what?!?!" Kysona screamed.
"What kind of stupid rule is that?!?!" A kid with a dog on his head yelled. "There's lots of people who have taken this test before!"
Ibiki slowly started to laugh. "I guess your just…… unlucky." He taunted slowly. "I wasn't making the rules before; but I am now. Of course, if you don't want to take it. You don't have to. If your not feeling confident, then by all means, skip it. You can come back and try again next year." Ibiki started to laugh again, enjoying their moment of torment. "Now then, the tenth and final question. If any of you don't want to take then raise your hand. Your number will be recorded and then your free to go."
Slowly, people started raising their hands and giving up. Kuro and Kysona looked over to Hiorie who shaking his head lightly. 'I'll take that as a 'don't give up' sign.' They both thought. Most everyone in the room started to leave. Eventually there was only a handful left, but still more than Ibiki expected.
Naruto slowly raised his hand. Everyone who knew who he was looked at him with utter astonishment. Hiorie was a little surprised as well. Naruto suddenly slammed his hand on the ground. "Don't underestimate me!! I don't quit and I don't run! You can act tough all you want, you guys aren't going to scare me of. NO WAY!!! I don't care if I do get stuck as a genin for the rest of my life! I'll still be Hokage!!"
"This decision is on that could change your life." Ibiki said. "For any reason you would rather quit; now is your last chance."
"No way. I never go back on my word." Naruto said. "That's the way of the ninja."
"Well then, I admire your determination. Nothing else." He said after he exchanged a few nods with the sentinels. "With those of you remaining, there is only one thing left to do. And that's to tell you; that you've all passed the first exam!" Suddenly people started to ask question and Ibiki smiled broadly. "There never was one. Not a written one at least. Actually your decision to stay was the answer to the tenth question. For those of you who didn't figure it out. The first nine questions were to test your ability to gather information under serious circumstances. Most of you did a good job at that so you pass." Ibiki took of his bandana, showing his head. "Information, it can be the most valuable weapon in battle. How well you gather intelligence could determine wither a mission is a failure, or a success."
Everyone looked at him with the utmost disgust. His head was covered in scars and puncture wounds. 'It's amazing to think what he must have endured.' Kysona thought.
"Remember this." Ibiki continued after he put his bandana back on. "Disinformation is worse than no information at all. It can lead to the death of comrade or the loss of a village. That is why I put you in the position to gather accurate intelligence. You have all successfully answered the ten questions I have given to you. You have earned the right to move on to the next step. I hereby declare this part of the chunin exam over."
Suddenly, something came smashing threw the window a long flag hung from the ceiling. "Heads up boys and girls! This is no time to be celebrating." A woman in the middle of the flag said. She wore a fish net and a trench coat over it, a skirt and shin guards. "I'll be your next examiner, Anko Mitarashi! Ready for the second Exam? Good then let's go!! Follow me!"
'She's psycho!!' Kuro thought. 'And I thought Kysona was scary.'
Ibiki's head popped out from behind the flag. "Your early again." He said plainly.
"Ibiki, how many are there? You let to many pass, you must be getting soft." Anko responded.
"Or it could be….. a strong crowd of candidates this year." He said.
"They sure don't look it. By the time I'm done with them, less than half will remain." Anko taunted. "Alright you maggots have had it easy so far but, things will be different first thing in the morning. I'll let your squad leaders know where to find me. Dismissed.
"Damn!! She is one psycho bitch!!" Kuro said on their way home.
"Please, you haven't the slightest idea of what we are going to do tomorrow." Hiorie said, still playing with his cube.
"Then how about you tell us so we can prepare." Kysona said irritably.
"Was that the wind?" Hiorie mocked, ignoring Kysona. "Well I guess we'd all better get some sleep. Rough days coming."
"Days??" Kuro asked suspiciously, hoping that it wasn't suppose to be plural.
"Good night." Hiorie said, turning down his street and heading home.
"I hate it when he does that." Kuro complained angrily.
"Oh well, just deal with it. Hiorie won't tell anyone anything, remember??" Kysona replied, still obviously irritated. "Well good night."
"But it's not even dusk yet. Why are you going to bed??" Kuro questioned.
"Hiorie said we'll need our sleep so I suggest that we get it." Kysona said, yawning. "Besides I'm tired so…." She let out another big yawn.
""Yeah, you have a point. Well, good night then." Kuro said, he then turned and walked home.
Well!!!! It has been way to long since I updated this thing so I thought I should. Hope you liked it and thanks to my reviewers!! You rock!!!