"This test got a lot more complicated if Ibiki-sensei is in charge." Maiku picked up a numbered card and went to his assigned seat.

"This sucks." Naruto said as Maiku walked by. Naruto sat down and just stared ahead.

"Ok as you can tell this will be a written examination. You have an hour to answer ten questions, only the last one will be given until the last ten minutes. Now no cheating, if you're caught you get a to point reduction from your final score, get caught five times an you're out along with your teammates." Ibiki said. "Begin!"

Everyone turned their papers over. Maiku looked at the first question, then to Naruto. 'We're fucked.'

'We're fucked!' Naruto shouted in his head. 'Kyuubi, buddy, help me out here.'

The fox sighed. "Alright."

'You know the answers?' Naruto let out a sigh of relief.

"No I don't know the answers. But unlike you I'm smart enough to figure this out." Kyuubi then gave Naruto the answers, only having to pause to think.

'Ok, Kyuubi is feeding Naruto the answers. Idiot can't possibly figure them out.' Maiku began to observe everyone one else.

"Here kid I already got them for you." Bogu sent maiku the answers.

'Sad to say that I don't know this either.' Maiku wrote down his answers and turned his paper over before pulling out a deck of cards. He engaged himself in a game of solitaire until the exam was called for the tenth question.

"Alright pencils down!" Everyone looked up. "It is now time to administer the tenth question. Now the choice to take it is up to you, and if you accept and fail you will not be able to take the exam again. So if you are unsure of yourself, give up now."

"Can't take the exam again? Thats not fair! Other people have taken it more than once!" Someone shouted. It sounded familiar but Maiku wasn't paying attention.

"To damn bad. They never had me as a proctor." Ibiki smiled as he saw a few hands. "Alright all of you leave. Now then anyone else?"

"You won't get us Ibiki-sensei." Maiku said.

"Damn straight. You won't punk us into walking out." Naruto added. "We figured out what you are trying to do." Ibiki asked again, but got no more hands.

"Ok then you all pass." The scarred instructor said.

"What?" Came from many of the genin.

"As many of you discovered, cheating was the only way to pass the test. It was to test your information gathering skills. We had a few chunin who knew the answers for you to find and get the answers from. And what the two knuckle headed students of mine here were getting at was also true." Ibiki chuckled as insults were directed back at him from his students.

'Bastard.' Both naruto and Maiku thought.

"A chunin is required to do any mission asked of them, regardless of the cost of failure." Ibiki removed his bandana. "These scars I earned in the line of duty for my village. I knew the cost of the mission but I continued on regardless. Those who risk it all earn the right of chunin."

They window suddenly exploded as a black ball burst through it. "God damn it." Maiku muttered.

"We're so screwed." Naruto sank in his chair.

The ball opened to reveal a purple haired women with revealing clothing. "Alright maggots, I'm your proctor for the next exam. Anko Mitarashi."

"You're early Anko... again." Ibiki said as he calculated the repair cost of the window. 'I need to reinforce that thing.'

"Damn it, I always do that." She turned to the crowed. "You getting soft Ibiki? I knew your exam seemed to easy."

"Maybe we just have some good genin participants this year." Ibiki finished his internal calculations. 'Damn it, thats a lot. I should look into insurance.'

"Doesn't matter, by the end of the second exam, I'll have cut them down to half. Meet at training ground forty four tomorrow at ten. You two!" She pointed to Maiku and Naruto. "I expect to see you two crawling out of there by the time I get there." Anko left the same way she came in.

Maiku pounded his fists on the table. "Damn it, I should've known she would put us through that insane training the day before." Maiku stood up and left out the open window, Naruto following muttering something about a crazy bitch.

Maiku and Naruto leaned against the gate breathing heavily, they were bloody and covered with bruises. "Damn fucking tigers."

"Dude don't remind me." Naruto sighed as he collapsed onto the ground, unable to support himself even with the aid of the fence. Maiku soon fell shortly after.

"Hm, I can use this." Someone grabbed the two boys and left the forest.

The genin had gathered at the designated time near the fenced in forest. Near the gate sat a booth. "Alright brats pay attention. This is training area forty four. But it has another name given by the jounin who spend time here, and my students happen to agree with them." Anko pulled two sleeping bodies onto the booth. "They call it the forest of death."

"Properly named if you ask me." Maiku shot upright, knowing where he was. He slapped Naruto in the face. "Wake up."

"Breakfast already?" Naruto scratched his head.

"No you idiot, its time for the exam." Maiku got off the booth.

"Oh right." Naruto followed.

"You are going to be given one of two scrolls, heaven or earth. Your objective is to obtain the other and make it to the tower. The time limit is five days." Anko studied the crowd. "Pay attention!" Anko tossed a kunai.

'Chouji is probably going nuts.' A kunai flew past Maiku. 'Shit.'

Naruto was sitting on the ground trying not to fall asleep. His mind barely registered the image of a kunai coming at him, but it still cut him on his cheek. Thats when Anko appeared behind him and licked his wound. "Such tasty blood Naruto."

"Anko-nee-chan." Anko looked at Maiku, a but of annoyance in her eyes. "Shouldn't you get back to work?"

"Always have to spoil my fun." Anko went back to the booth, not before giving Maiku forms to hand out.

"What are these?" Sakura asked.

"These state that Konoha can not be held responsible in case you were to accidently die during this exam." Anko now had a grin on her face.

"Is it really that bad?" Ask a Suna-nin with blonde hair and a metallic object on her back.

"YES!" Maiku and Naruto shouted.

Maiku stared at the gate with deep concentration. "You trying to set it on fire with your mind?"

"If I was trying to do something like that I'd be using you as a target." Maiku laughed. "Just getting impatient."

"Yes you tend to do that a lot." Naruto said as a voice came over the speaker, it was Anko's.

"Ok, the exam starts now!" The chunin at the gates unlocked them and everybody ran through. "Good luck brats." She smiled as she set the mic down. "You two better not die."

yeah i know short, but the next one will be longer i promise.

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