Two Sides of the Same Coin
Chapter Two
Chunnin Exams Part One
A/N: I don't own Naruto, only Narumi. Also, please read all the way through and read the Author's note at the bottom.
"Where is he? He's late!" A girl with pink hair said.
"Calm down Sakura." A man with gray hair and a mask covering half his face told the young girl. "Perhaps he forgot we were meeting at the academy today?"
"I guess so Kakashi-sensei." Sakura looked up as the glass double doors of the academy opened.
Narumi walked into the large entrance hall wearing an orange jumpsuit and blue sandals. He was slightly wet, even though it had stopped raining.
"Sorry I'm late. While I was walking someone threw their wash water out of a window, and obviously the water hit me. I stopped to wring out as much of the water I could and ended up getting stuck in the morning traffic." Narumi shrugged as he walked towards the student and teacher. "Where's Sasuke?"
"Sasuke went ahead to try and stall for time since you were late." Sakura informed Narumi, hands on her hips.
"Well then, shall we get going?" Kakashi said as he motioned towards the staircase. The two teens nodded and followed their teacher up the stairs.
The group walked up three flights of stairs before they reached their destination. A boy with raven hair and black hairs was leaning against a wall, obviously waiting for the group.
"About time you guys showed up." The boy said coming towards the group.
"Have they started yet, Sasuke?" Sakura asked indicating towards a door on their left.
"I was able to persuade them to wait a few minutes." Sasuke grinned and opened the door.
"Ah, thank you team seven for deciding to join us." A man wearing a black bandanna and scars all over his face told the three young people as they entered.
All the occupants of said room turned around in their seats to gawk at the newcomers. The occupants numbered about hundred and fifty and were all relatively young.
"Yes, very sorry about the lateness Ibiki." Kakashi told the scarred man as he made his way down to the front of the room. "Naruto was running a bit late, so we waited for him.
"And why was a ninja applicant such as Naruto running late?" Ibiki addressed Narumi as he asked this. Narumi kept his head down and avoided looking his eyes. Ibiki was one of the few people that Narumi had worked with over the years, and could easily recognize him.
"I'm afraid that Naruto's lateness is my fault Ibiki." The old man from the night before said, coming into the room from a side door. "I asked him to stop by and see me this morning. Afterwards I heard he had some trouble with water and traffic." The old man chuckled.
"Hmm, Naruto explained to us about the water and traffic, Lord Hokage, but he made no mention of coming to see you." Kakashi told the Hokage, scratching his grey hair as he did.
"It was only a small chat, not really worth mentioning actually." The Hokage looked at Narumi and winked. Narumi sighed and looked for his teammates. He found Sasuke in the fifth, Sakura in the seventh, and he himself was situated in third row.
"Whatever." Ibiki motioned towards the door and two adults wearing green vests started walking down the aisles on either side of the desks. As the passed each desk they handed out sheets of paper to be passed along, one sheet of paper for each genin.
"The two ninjas are handing out the written part of the exam right now. These eleven questions will test your overall knowledge of battle strategies and basic maneuvers used by ninjas extensively. The eleventh question is an oral question that will be answered when an hour has passed." Ibiki snapped his fingers and thirty ninjas entered the room, each carrying a clipboard. Fifteen ninjas sat on each side of the side of the room in the chairs provided.
"These ninjas will be watching for any signs of cheating. If you are caught cheating three times, then you and your entire team are eliminated from the Chuunin Exam." Ibiki grinned as many of the genin grimaced. "Now, when I point to you, please stand up and state your name, country of origin, and team name."
Ibiki began with the girl sitting next to Narumi. She was a little shorter than Narumi with her purple hair laying on her shoulders. The most noticeable feature of the girl was her full white eyes. In a shy voice girl answered, "Hinata Hyuuga, Konoha, and Team Eight." Afterwards she immediately sat back down.
After that it continued with a red haired guy from Sand country, then a girl from water country. Ibiki kept randomly choosing people who would say their name, then sit down. Throughout this process, the old man in the red robes just sat and smiled.
Finally Ibiki pointed to Narumi, and the Hokage's smile disappeared. Narumi stood up, head down, and mumbled his response.
"Lift your head, and speak clearly, Naruto." Ibiki ordered. As Narumi lifted his head, Ibiki caught his eyes, and gasped.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, I'm from Konoha, and with Team Seven." Narumi then sat down, head down once more.
When all the names has been said and recorded, Ibiki once again addressed the group as a whole. "Now that the formalities have all been dealt with, I will give the floor to our honorable Lord Hokage." Ibiki said stepping back, allowing the old man to have the rooms attention.
"First of all, I am truly honored to have so many guests from the other villages attend this event. Second, as you already know the purpose of this test to, well test your skills as a ninja and see if you possess the skills needed to advance to the next rank of your ninja career." With that, the Hokage gave the floor back to Ibiki and sat back down.
"You have one hour to complete the first ten questions. You may begin!" Ibiki bellowed and the scratching of pencils on paper could be heard immediately.
Narumi sighed as he stared at his paper. He was certain that Ibiki had recognized him, and Narumi was just waiting for Ibiki to call him on it.
Narumi had been trained as a Black Ops since he was very young, as a way to protect to his twin from the village that wished him dead. Narumi smiled as he remembered how exhilarating it was snuck into an enemy village, stealing secret information right under the enemy's nose. There were even a couple of times when Narumi had been present as Anko and Ibiki interrogated a prisoner.
Narumi sighed once again and looked at the first question. The question read: "Line B, as seen in the picture, is the greatest possible distance a shinobi can throw his shuriken from a tree of seven meters. For enemies who appear within the circumference or the shuriken's range, explain the attack the options using this distance. Show your work."
'This is so easy.' Narumi thought as he started to fill in the answers. 'Let's see, these questions are tough, now that I look at them. I'm only able to answer them because of my training.' Narumi looked out of the corner of his eye and saw that most of the students were using clever tricks to cheat their way through the test. 'So that's it.' Narumi smirked and started gathering chakra in his eyes. 'Aoiro metsuki douten! (Blue eyes transistion)'
Narumi pupils spun until two distinct colors could be seen forming a ying yang symbol. The colors were black and white, within a sea of dark blue.
'Thank you Mom.' Both of the twins had gotten their kekkai genkai from their mother, Kushina Uzumaki. Narumi's had awakened when he was five years old, and Naruto's when he was seven. Naruto hid his to keep the villagers from thinking he was becoming to powerful. Narumi used his in missions.
'Let's see, which unlucky contestant do I get to use?' Narumi thought. He chose a boy from Waterfall village and focused one eye on the boy and the other on his paper. Immediately Narumi could see everything that his chosen target could. Narumi soon realized that this boy wasn't of genin level, that it was a Chuunin in disguise. 'Pretty smart, put someone in who knows all the answers, and see who can cheat off them. I still don't know why Naruto didn't use his eyes during this part of the test.'
"You left the test completely blank?" Narumi asked his brother as they sat in their apartment.
"Yep. I didn't know any of the answers, so I just faked my way through." Naruto took a drink of his root beer and leaned against the window.
"Why didn't you use the eyes? Wasn't the whole point of the test to try to cheat without anyone seeing?" Narumi looked at his brother and saw a solemn expression on his face.
"I just didn't feel like it."
'There was something else, I know it. That expression on his face was just to sad.' Narumi sighed and glanced at his paper. 'What do you know, I've finished the test, except for number eleven. I didn't even realize I was writing.' That was a downside effect of the eyes. If you copied something, you really needed to watch what you write. Your muscles can easily take off on their own and write while the mind wanders. Narumi once wrote fifty-seven pages of enemy information from a stakeout, before he realized he was still writing. He only needed the first five pages to complete his mission.
"PENCILS DOWN!" Ibiki's voice rang out in the quiet of the room. Narumi glanced at the clock and saw that an hour had indeed passed. That was another downside, whenever you use the eyes, you go into a sort of trance and lose all track of time.. That's why he always had a partner with him on a mission where he intended to use his eyes. As Narumi removed the chakra from his eyes, he knew that Ibiki had yelled for the very purpose of waking Narumi up from his trance.
"I will now tell you question eleven. But first, there is a condition that follows this rule. If you do not get this question right, then you will be banned from the Chuunin Exam, forever." A hushed silence fell over the room. "However, if you leave now, you may still participate next year. Just raise your hand, and you and your entire team will be eliminated." At Ibiki's words, four hands went up and four teams were eliminated.
Out of the original fifty teams, only twenty-five still remained. Ibiki smiled, a smile that sent shivers up several of the genins backs.
"All of you who are left, congratulations. You pass." Ibiki laughed as he saw a few of the looks that the young ninjas were giving him. "It really didn't matter if you were able to answer the questions or not, all that mattered was if you could fake your way through this part of the exam. Now, everyone that is left, please proceed out of this door and follow the chuunins, they will lead you to the next site for the next part of the exam."
All the genins got up and walked past Ibiki. When the last shinobi was out of the room, and Ibiki was left, he sighed. 'Why is Narumi posing as his brother?' Ibiki wondered as he picked up the exam papers. When he came to Narumi's paper, he saw a note had been hasily scribbled in the lower left hand corner.
Ibiki…yes I'm posing as my brother. I don't want to, but it's a mission from the Hokage. Naruto's injuries from last time, from Orochimaru, put him in a comatose state, so now I'm basically him until he heals. The medic nins say that he's almost fully recovered, so I'm only posing for a little longer. Please don't tell. Right now THIS IS AN S-CLASS SECRET. Narumi.
Ibiki sighed once again, and then used a fire jutsu to burn the parchment. 'So the Hokage put you up to it huh. I guess I'll go watch your brother for you.' As Ibiki walked out of the room, he stopped, and his eyes widened with sudden realization. 'Shit, Anko.' Ibiki started walking again. 'Oh well, I'm pretty sure he can handle himself against Anko. Maybe I'll send a Black Ops just in case.
A/N: Thanks for reading! So what did you think? I know it's a little rushed, but I wrote this at like midnight and beyond. Do you like the plot? This is just going to be a small piece, maybe a few more chapters. I'm not going to introduce any big baddies, just put some chaos and a few tear jerkers. Please review, whenever you review, it fills my heart with joy!