I got all the rules from the manga directly, so I know this is how the first exam goes :P Do I have to make a disclaimer that? Oh well! :D I hope you apreciate all the trouble I had to go through to get it.

Please answer this question, do you think more people would read this story if it was A Yamato/Gai fic, then just a Yamato fic?

Also i might start doing scenes on the borderline between T-M But thats a while from now, just wanted to warn you!

After the room had settled down and the papers that Ibiki had bled all over were passed out the man stood up and started talking. "Now that we have finally settled down, lets get started the papers before are the written part of the chunnin exams," No really?! Kaida was itching all over to make that sly remark, she caught Kiba's eye. She knew he was thinking the same thing. "Do not turn your test over and listen closely to what I'm about to say. There are a lot of rules in the first exam, I will not take ANY question, do you understand me miss?" Morino shot at Kaida, She tried to look innocent, what she really wanted to do was stick her tongue out at him. But she saw that Kiba did that for her. "The first rule is that you guys will start out with 10 points. The test is made up of 10 questions 1 point each, but this test uses the subtraction system. Basically if you answer all 10 questions right you get all 10 points, if you answer you keep 10 points. If you miss three questions, you'll get 7 points. Is that clear?"

Ibiki shot Zaki a dirty look, she was trying not to fall asleep, and she mentally cursed the guy for putting her in the front. "The second rule is whether you pass or not will be determined by the combined score of your team mates." NO FAIR! Kaida shouted in her brain. Zaki was pretending to be asleep; at least Kaida hoped she was pretending. Keiji was sweet and she loved him dearly, but he wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the box. Oh well if they didn't make it she would just have to drill them for the next test.

"And the third most important rule is that if anyone caught doing sneaky activities, AkA cheating, will have 2 points subtracted for every offense." Kaida rolled her eyes, who would be stupid enough to cheat during this exam? She looked over at Keiji his eyes were furrowed what wasn't he getting these rules were simple enough. "We will have our eyes on you guys, realize that the pathetic ones that get caught cheating will be destroying themselves, as shinobi trying to achieve the level of chunnin be proud ninja."

"Now the final rule, those that lose their initial points during the test, and those that don't answer any question correctly, will be failed along with their two team mates. Now get going."

Kaida looked at the sheet, these question were hard they required either years of studying from a book or years from experience. And what was with question number ten? 'This question will be revealed 45 minuets after the test has begun. Listen to the examiner closely before answering.' Kaida puffed her bangs out of her hair, time to get to work.

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Keiji was disgusted at this exam, why would they let anybody cheat? People who cheated never got anywhere in life that's how his grandfather always taught him, they should just kick those people out right away! He was right people who cheated were pathetic, Keiji looked at the test.

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Oh god, that's why people cheated! These questions were hard, Kaida probably could answer them. Keiji looked over to Zaki, she was sleeping!!!

Keiji narrowed his eyes at the paper; most people would not be able to answer these questions. Keiji knew he was dumber then most, but even average people were going to have trouble. Be a proud shinobi, but some shinobi weren't like him. He was a brutal tank of battle, his clan name said that enough, "One who looses no battle" That's what Keitaru meant. But not every shinobi was a good fighter; some were good at cryptology and tactical thinking like Shikimaru. There was so much to being a shinobi….

A proud shinobi, which was an odd thing to say. Some shinobi weren't even the smartest or the strongest, some were sneaky. The picture of Zaki handing him the bells when they first met popped into his head. She hadn't been smart or fast or even strong, frankly Zaki in Tai jutsu only battles was sad to see, she was horrible at it, and didn't really try to get better. Her Ninjutsu was above average if nothing else. But what did she do, she got into Yamato's thinking how he acted what he thought of them at the time. Zaki got into his head. That's what Keiji needed to do now.

He looked over at the other chunnin surrounding the walls; they were all marking down something, probably people they caught cheating. There were a lot of marks going down. Lots of teams getting caught, Keiji looked over to Adara who was smirking; she was smart enough to get these answers even if she would never tell herself she was.

Keiji's eyes drifted down to her slender hand, how it daintily flew across the paper, he loved her handwriting, by the movements of her hand Keiji could tell she had just written a K then an E and then a I she was writing his name? Keiji started copying her movements.

Keiji get your head in the game you dumb dolt! You can't lose your cool now; come on you can do it, just look at your chair.

Keiji didn't look down he didn't want to attract attention. He slowly lowered his head like he gave up; On his chair was a bunch of odd dots. A kunai flew across the room, it landed on somebody's paper, "You OUT!" A team stood up. It had been 7 minuets all ready. On his chair were little dots like somebody chewed at it? A combination of dots reminded him of the Hokage Mountain. There was the first, second third, that reminded him of the day they talked about what they wanted to do. What had Kaida wanted to do, restore glory to her fragmented clan? That didn't help him any, he looked at the other clusters. Each was a different shape or something, what did he say he wanted to do that day? He wanted to learn how to control himself, which he had immensely. He never had to count to ten any more. Wait a second….

All the clusters were arranged in a number of tens. There were ten clusters of ten, One for each question, why the hokage heads? How many dots were there, She used …Another couple of Numbers were called out having people leave. Lots of people were leaving. Keiji had to look around; the room was diminished by a third. None of the teams he graduated with were gone.

Back to this code, she tapped once, first question, two to the left. Ok that was a swirl, shape, she started turning her hair. One turn, two turns 2, is it a B or a two, it was a math question, so it must be a two. Ok he was getting this now.

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Kaida hoped that he would get the dots were symbols of different types of chocolates. In the Ice cream parlor they also served chocolates, and they gave you a list of the different symbols on the chocolate said what type of chocolate it was. She hopped that he would get it, but really what else could it be? Kaida looked over at Adara; she was the only one smirking through out the test. Zaki was still asleep.

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Adara knew the story of Morino Ibiki, he was the top Interrogator of Konoha. She had read the book he written on interrogation. No wonder he was so flustered, the first thing in the book was that you need to make sure that you are always in control of the situation. The interrogator needs to be smooth and unpredictable. The little display of Keiji, Kaida, Zaki and Kiba made him look incompetent and hot tempered. He showed them that he wasn't in control, which was bad, it means if he tried any of his mind games on them there would be a less likely chance of success. And the mind games were bound to happen.

There was a reason he was in charge of this exam, not only was it a test on the skills to gather information, but to see if you could cope with high pressure situations. He was here to make them uncomfortable and be unpredictable changing temperaments quickly and not staying on one topic for too long was one of the main things he had stressed in the book.

The tenth question just oozed out something interrogators would do, she wouldn't be surprised if he changed the rules on them right before he gave them that question. IT would be an easy enough move, flustering some people. Though her and her father had disagreements on most things she was happy he was such a high level Jounin. He talked about a lot of people and a lot of stuff that most people wouldn't know about; especially when Uncle Chouza and Uncle Inoichi were around they were a whole slew of information to be gathered there. She sometimes sat on the top of the stairs at night listening to their information and absorbing. At first it was just because she used to like to hear her father's voice, but now it was because the information could be useful in the future.

Morino Ibiki had come up in many talks; he made her father and two uncles uncomfortable. That had to say something, so when she had seen a book by Morino Ibiki she had to pick it up. Of course it was in a restricted section and she had to use the transformation jutsu to look like her dad to get it, it was totally worth it. The book had been a fascination too her. It kind of made her embarrassed, girls her age weren't supposed to be fascinated by intense interrogation sessions but she was.

Adara wrote down the answers, she was glad Keiji got her note, she had scene Kaida tapping her chair and sneaking glances back at Keiji. Kaida was not one to complain about seating, Adara knew there was a reason she wanted to switch seats. So she gave Keiji a hint, hopefully he got it.

Adara looked over at Kristi; she wondered how her team was communicating. Kristi's specialization was poison, she knew that. Looking over at Keiji she couldn't help but see that Zaki had finally lifted up her head and was writing something down on her paper.

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Zaki was smiling, she was so happy she was late this morning. If she hadn't bumped into that man she would be in deep shit right now. So as she was frantically trying to help him pick up papers she had seen glimpses of the sheet. Which said, 'first chunnin exams on it' and the gods were smiling down on her today, she had picked up the answer sheet and forgot to give it back. So right now she was just copying answers from the answer sheet. The only problem was that it didn't have what question number ten was. Nothing she could prepare. She looked to her left, kid names Micah kind of loserish looking. He slumped down on the paper sweating from the tension. Looking to her right showed the ice Queen Hinabi, she looked stunning with her hair in an uncommon French braid it also made her look like she was a little uptight. Oh wait a second she was!

She looked up she was amazed at how long it took her to look at the answers and secretly write them down with people thinking she was sleeping. But now it was time to leave this Ibiki guy a little note. She had 5 minuets to spare; she could use it to mess with the guys head.

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Keiji was worried; he didn't think he deciphered Kaida's clues correctly. Cause for answer number 4 the cryptology one; she had signified the answer was, 'the butterscotch pig flew across the pneumonia sky.' That was the sentence he could make out the most. Crap there was only 2 minuets left, he guessed that he would have to rely on the last question. Finally that rough voice broke his worry, "Put your pencils down, its time for the tenth question." Everyone stopped and looked up.

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When Morino found that he had everyone's attention he continued; "Ok now we will begin the 10 question."

"Now before get to it, I would like to go over the added rules for this question." Kaida looked up; this guy was such a shit head, more freaking rules! She looked around most of the class was surprised. Except Adara she had a big smile on her face. "These are the rules of desperation"

The class was silent holding on his every word, Kaida could tell Morino was more in his element. "First for the 10th question you must decide to take it or not."

One of the more desperate looking Gennin stood up, "Choose, what what does that mean?"

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Adara looked disgusted at the kid's outburst, could he be playing into the proctors wants any more. "It means that you don't have to listen to the 10th question, and if you choose not to take the question, you fail the whole exam along with your two team mates."

Adara was just waiting for him to come up with another rule. She looked over at Hinabi, she took a sadistic satisfaction that Hinabi was showing signs of nervousness. "Oh and another rule," Adara smiled more; this was something seeing the best at work. It kind of made her sad that he wasn't having his whole effect cause of the whole fiasco in the beginning. But if he was hundred percent effective she would probably be sweating right now. "If you choose to take it, and answer incorrectly…" The room took a collective breath, "That person will lose the right to take the chunnin exams ever again."

Most of the room gasped, come one Adara thought, if he was going to give you a choice to make your team cop out he had to give you a good reason to. She looked over at Hinabi, who was looking at her. And her expression was readable, 'if you raise your hand I will give you hell' Lee was fine too, he was nervous like most of the crowd, but he gave her a week smile he wasn't copping out.

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Keiji knew that Kaida deserved this chance to get to Chunnin. So he couldn't bail out on her, and Zaki would probably want the chance to fail so she never had to take it again, so bring on this dumb question. Adara was the only one in the room who maintained her composure, she was kind of taking a pleasure in how nervous other people where. "Those who aren't confident can choose to take it next year." Ibiki goaded. Keiji had to brace himself to the chair. He wasn't going to get Keiji like this. That man had yelled at Kaida and Zaki for things that were his fault! He wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of scarring him out of the test!

"On to the tenth question,"

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Zaki didn't like this guy, she wasn't going to back down, and just because she knew it would make him mad if she passed. And then he couldn't do anything about that little note she left him on the paper, and even if he didn't read it, he was bound to know about it.

"Those who do not wish to take it raise your hand."

About 4 odd people raised their hands. All of them shaking, Zaki looked over to the boy Micah; his hand was starting to move. Wait he was part of Keiji's graduating class. Without even thinking, she clamped his hand on the table. His eyes looked at her, as if crying in outrage that she just did that. Zaki didn't back down keeping eye contact with the guy with coke rim glasses. He then pulled his hand away and looked away shoulders shagging and giving up to what Zaki wanted.

They waited 10 more minuets after a while a couple other people giving up. Leaving 90 people left in the room. That was 30 teams for the next test. "No point in dragging this on. Now to everyone remaining."

Zaki held her breath, this was nerve racking, and "I congratulate you on passing the first test."

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Kaida was mad, that was the tenth question, and this guy was driving her insane! Really that was the tenth question, how lame! "Congratulations you just passed the 10th question" Ibiki was smiling now like a fool. Kaida saw through it, she wanted to smack him.

"So the first 9 questions aren't getting scored?" Keiji's voice rang out obvious relief in his voice.

"No they had a purpose to test your individual gathering information ability. So they had a purpose."

"But the first 9 questions aren't getting scored in the end right?" Keiji asked again.

"No."

Kaida didn't understand why Keiji was so happy about that, she had given him perfectly good answers if he got the code right!

"As a shinobi information is more important then life. And on missions and battle fields people risk their lives to get their hands on it," Morino said as he showing his horrible scarred head. Kaida felt her stomach churn, this man just made her uncomfortable he was weird and unpredictable and she didn't like him. He had the word creeper written all over him. She looked at his head again, why that looked so familure. Kaida widened her eyes from the connection just popped into her head and had to smack her head to stop from laughing so much.

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Adara looked at his head in fascination, those scars were from professionals. He started covering his ugly head again. "If the enemy or 3rd party notices you…there is no guarantee the info will be accurate."

Ibiki now looked directly at Adara; he had seen her through out the exams not sweating she hadn't even looked worried. These words were directed at her, and they made her feel powerful, "I want you to remember this. Important information in your hands can be a powerful weapon for your comrades and for the village." Her mind flashed with the memory card in her shoe on the bottom of her bed; and then the Jounin who had been stalking her. He thought that Shikimaru had taken it for some reason. This what ever it was was powerful information they were willing to go to extreme lengths to get. But not yet desperate enough to kill, something was going to happen soon. She doubted this Ibiki knew anything about it, but it still reminded her of the importance of this information.

"We would like you to go wait in the courtyard for the second exam proctor."

The masses straggled out meeting up with the team mates.

The Konoha teams stayed behind the pack a little. Kaida looked up at Zaki, "Was it just me or did that guys head look like Mojojojo from the powder-puff girls?"

The whole of them started laughing, "Yeah it does Kaida." Zaki agreed smiling at her.

Adara tried not to laugh at this. Morino Ibiki was a man to look up to, not to make fun of. But now was not the time to mention that, she was too drained to. Keeping her composure was a lot harder then she had ever anticipated. Making sure nobody saw you sweat or worry was a whole knew thing. Even though she thought it was fascinating some people crack under pressure, she didn't like being under pressure at all. The three teams all broke off from each other to talk strategy with next test, she decided to walk over to Keiji's team.

"Why were you so worried about the first 9 questions?" Kaida asked Keiji.

"I don't think I got your code," He admitted guilty "I don't get what the Hokage Mountain was there for."

Kaida looked at him eyes going wide, "There was no Hokage Mountain, it was different symbols that you put on chocolate, you stair at it at the parlor long enough I thought you had memorized it!" The little girl whispered.

Keiji looked at Kaida, "We got to practice our communication skills."

Adara sensed ice queen looking at her, the master calls time to go back.

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Yamato wasn't drinking, the only person here who was drinking was Anko, and moderate for her was liver failure for regular people. Most of the Jounin even those who don't have a squad sat here and waited for Morino to come and asses the batch this year. He usually had very little to say.

Morino came in with a smashed nose. "What the hell happened to you!" Anko asked brashly.

His eyes got cold, "Skate board," Yamato eyes widened and he tried to sink into his chair, "Who is the Gennin squad leader of Rookie squad #9?" He asked teeth clenched. Yamato gulped and raised his head.

Morino looked like smoke was going to come off his ears, "Your team shows no respect." Yamato just wondered what Zaki did to piss Morino off. "First the Zaki girl tripped me on the way to the exam and only out of sheer luck did she get there on time. Plus she didn't get out of her Pj's yet she was wearing pink bunny slippers"

Yamato didn't want Ibiki to criticize his team, "At least she didn't forget." He defended.

"Then the little one starts complaining that her seat is too big," Morino went on.

"Hey she's only 8! She's going to be smaller then the average twenty year old of course the seats will be too big for her!" Yamato didn't want to make a scene but he all ready believed it was too late for that.

"Then the boy on your team stands up and tries to give her his seat without permission."

"Yes how dare he try to help his team mate?!" Yamato was standing up now yelling at Ibiki.

"Then while he gets up he trips on the other girls' skate board sending it through the air smacking it into my face! And breaking an exam table in the process."

"Well you are a Jounin you should know enough to know when too duck! And it's just a table god!"

"That's nothing compared to what was on there test!" Morino was as heated at Yamato. Yamato didn't have a comeback for that one either, so he just stared at the proctor. "This note left by the girl Zaki is cause enough to throw them out of the exam!"

"Let me see it" Anko interjected, Ibiki handed her a paper and she read through it and then she gave it to Yamato.

Dear shit face,

I didn't appreciate you yelling at my team mates like that, it was a real bitchy and whiney thing to do. You think your better then us? I could see it when you walked in the room you thought you were better then everyone else there, here's a little reality check monkey brains-you aren't. Cause if you did actually have IQ points you would have realized that I picked your pocket even before the test began. You are an arrogant little piss face that isn't really worth an ant's life. I hope day when you die and your soul is rotting in hell Satan ass rapes you with kitchen appliances.

Sincerely

Nariko Zakuro

Yamato pursed his lip together that was a little insulting, but only a little. Could he really kick his team out for that? He looked at Anko who had read it again and was holding back a smile.

"Don't worry about Hot head here Yamato, he can't do anything. He can't kick them out for this note or even the disturbance they caused before the class." Anko reassured him. She then turned back to Ibiki. "SO besides your ego getting bitched slapped by a bunch of gennin's what else happened during the test."

Morino narrowed his eyes at her, "The other 29 teams remaining are all ok, no team stuck out as exceptional. One person did stick out as exceptional though," Morino then turned to Neji.

Neji puffed up a bit, "I knew my cousin wasn't going to let me down."

Morino shook his head, "She was a nervous wreck during the entire thing and I saw her using her Byakugan 2 times. It was your other student Nara Adara; she has been the first in a long time not to show any emotional trauma during my interrogation methods. The last one who did that was the Kazekage and he was already too screwed up a kid to show any emotions at all. I'll see how she progresses but I might want to take her on as my apprentice." Ibiki warned Neji.

Neji's eyes were lost in thought. It was very very odd for Ibiki to look at any Gennin as a potential interrogation team candidate. He usually picked out of the best of the Anbu, even Kakashi didn't get through Ibiki's scrutiny. Adara must have impressed the hell out of Ibiki. Yamato would have to tell her later, cause he knew that Neji probably wouldn't pass on that piece of information not wanting to boost her ego too much. But Yamato believed compliments were good teaching methods.

Anko started chuckling, "I wonder how we will fare in the second exam," She mused. Right just because they passed the first test doesn't mean they are home free. They still had the forest of death to work through.

Oh my writing this chapter was really really hard! Oh well I hope you enjoy it, it wasn't really my forte.

This chapter reminds me of the first concept of this story, Zaki was going to be Kakashi's bastard child and Gai was going to be her uncle that she lived with after her mother died of cancer. Max was supposed to be a guy her age that ran off from an abusive parent to live with her when they were younger and decided to follow her to Konoha. He was also supposed to look a lot like Sai!

Yamato was still going to be their sensei, but her team mates were going to be Parker and Micah instead of Kaida and Keiji, they were originally side character's that showed up only during the first exam.

The first plot was supposed to be about stopping all the Akatsuki!

Adara was never supposed to be part of this fic, and the main people who were going to be shown in the manga would have been Gai, Lee and Tenten I amaze myself on how much it has changed, frankly I like these characters and plots better they are a lot a lot more interesting and complex then my first story.

SORRY JUST getting a little nostalgic, like always RnR