A/N: Hope you guys enjoy this one! I'm coming out with another story, (yayness) and I've got school (booness) so I might not be updating as much. Well, enjoy.

Answer To The First Exam. Help, Jin!

After my unexpected spying on Hinako and Psycho guy, I had been walking around for a few minutes when I landed into another trap. Fire shot from the walls. I rolled along the ground to avoid them, but then sharpened bamboo sticks shot out from the ground. I had to roll across the ground while dodging them. When I was finally out of range of fire, I got back up and accidentally pulled a string. Arrows shot out from the walls and I ran frantically trying to dodge them. After that, I triggered yet another hole in the floor. But this time, I jumped away to safety. I had been running into nothing, but traps the entire way. I needed to find one of those rubies. While I was thinking my foot stepped into a loop of rope on the floor. It tightened around my ankle and lifted me up into the air. I screamed out of shock. During this movement, my pouch, conataining all my kunais and shurikens opened up and they all fell onto the floor. Oh no. If I had those, I could've easily cut myself loose. But they were to far away from my reach. Now what was I going to do? I strained and tried to lift myself up. When I was able to grab my legs, I tried to untie them, ut this knot was new to me. I couldn't figure it out. After a while, my muscles got tired. So I let myself just hang there. I was tired from strainging my muscles too much.

I had been sitting there for soime good minutes when I heard footsteps. Someone was coming my way, but who? Maybe it was the psycho killer! Maybe he heard my scream and knew that I was caught ina trap and helpless! I began to squirm. I tried to wiggle my way out. The closer the steps got the more I tried to wiggle free.

"I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die."

The footsteps reached me, but to my surprise, it was't the psycho killer guy. It was Jin! I was releived. "I see you got yourself into another trap," he said. "What kind of Chuunin are you?"

I laughed bitterly.

He sighed. "Looks like I'll have to help you. He took one of my kunais and cut me down. "You know, you have the rottenest luck, having your weapons pouch fal open like that."

"I know." I picked them up and put them back in my pouch. I saw something shiny coming from Jin. I realized that it was a ruby. "Jin! You got a ruby!"

He frowned. "I don't just have a ruby. I have two."

I frowned too. What was he going to do? Would he give me one, or leave me with nothing? Then, he thrust one of them forward and said, "Here."

"Huh?"

"You can have it. I don't need it."

I smiled and took it. "Thank you, Jin. You're not such a bad guy after all."

He blushed. It must've been very hard for him to do something so selfless. I rubbed his head affectionately. "Hey, I'll make you a special lunch for this, when we get back home."

His face lightened. "Really? Augh, ugh, I mean, man, you're cooking stinks."

I laughed and then we walked on.

After a while, we bumped into Hinako. When she saw our rubies she frowned too. I was happy that Jin gave me one, but Hinako now didn't have one. It was silent. Then, I stepped forward. To my dismay, Hinako's hand went to her scythe. That hurt that she thought I was gonna attack her. I rememebred the scene I stumbled upon with her and the psycho killer. I grew up the courage and handed her my ruby.

"Sarafu?"

"You can have it. I'm not that great of a Chuunin anyway. I probably set off every trap there was."

"But-uh,..are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"Ummm...thanks."

We walked on, and eventually saw a light. We were coming to the end of the cave. We walked outside and were blinded by the light. We had been in the dark cave for so long that daylight hurt our eyes. When we adjusted to the new scene, a man was standing there, waiting for us. From his appearance, he seemed to be a Cloud Jounin. "Where are the items?" he asked.

Hinako and Jin handed them over. He looked at me. "So you do not have one?"

I nodded solemnly. DAMMIT! WHY THE HELL DID I GIVE HINAKO THE RUBY! I WANTED TO BE A CHUUNIN!

"Do not panic. You pass as well."

I looked up at him. "Huh? But I didn't have a ruby."

"The rubies were not the answer. If someone from your team had arrived with a ruby, but without a teammate, he woud have been failed."

"But why?"

"Because, the whole lesson of the first exam is to put your teammates before yourself. Everyone's lives are more important. Say, for example, that during a mission, one of your teammates are badly wounded, but you are being chased by the enemy. Time is crucial, so, do you leave your teammate their to die? Or do you stop to help them?"

We were silent.

"You stop to help them. Why? Not for theirs lives, but if an enemy gets hold of your teammate, through certain methods, they can extract information from them. You must not ever let that happen. If the enemy were to find about secret information, or techniques, it could seriously injure your village."

We sat there, thinking.

"Congratulations on passing the First Exam. And breaking a new record."

"Huh? New record?"

He looked at me. "For setting of the most traps, and escaping." Jin and Hinako laughed.

"Now, you are to wait here for the other teams to finish. Oh, and there is absolutely NO fighting during this period. When the second Exam starts you can have all the fun you like."

Fun? We went over to the wall, where there was shade and sat down. It was unbaringly hott. From the looks of it, we had climbed about a quarter of the way up the mountain in the cave. We looked around. Besides us and the Jounin, there was no one else. So we were the first to pass. After a couple of hours, we saw Gai's team exit the cave.

"Congratulations, guys!" Hinako said as they came to sit by us.

"I see that we are the only ones to pass so far. Was it really that hard?" Neji stated.

After a while, more people exited the cave. Of course, Gaara's team passed, but by the time they were out, about 20 teams had passed from the original 36. Unfortunatly, the Sound ninja passed too. Psycho Killer smiled at me as he walked past. I could tell that everytime he looked at me, he imagined me on a dinner plate.

Shigame arrived and yelled at everyone to shut up. "The First Exam has ended. All of you have passed, now on to the Second Exam!"

...to be continued.

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Sarafu gives Hinako her ruby:

Sarafu: "You can have it. I'm not that great of a Chuunin anyway. I probably set off every trap there was."

Hinako: "But-uh,..are you sure?"

Sarafu: "Now that you mention it . . ."

Hinako: "Wait! No! It's mine!"

Sarafu: "Hey give that back!"

Jin: sits down on ground and drinks random slurpee "Oh, I love Cat-fights!"