Author's note:
KingDingALing: a reply to the fact that he hasn't completely mastered the kage bunshin, quite simple only the forbidden scroll has the entire explanation on it. nowhere else is it written, just like the fact that anko and Kurenai could use it but don't know about the fact that it wasn't complete yet.
brown phantom: this is the dumb and completely useless council we're talking about. they wouldn't listen to anything the 'demon' says. And the fact that the pranks have been completely harmless could also be another reason.
adngo714: Kitsune is a species not an indication of a gender
Lednacek: ah but you forget this is Sasuke, he wouldn't be able to get his up if not for the fact that he has something in his ass :p and could it maybe be that Naruto has pranked them but because they don't want anybody to know they don't complain?
Deadzepplin: true the dogs could maybe smell it but the fact that to kill someone you don't need to spill any blood. SO that was also to point out that they shouldn't just rely on their noses. And about Uchiha, couldn't agree more though Itachi is still alive and he is kinda cool :p
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Disclaimer: The bunny has made it clear to me that it does not think it owns anything of Naruto, it said that some japanse dude does. Also in the event that the Kyuubi no Kitsune would be real that I should not let her be sealed inside of me cause it doesn't want to be eaten, even if that means that I could get a smoking hot woman inside of me. That said, on to the story.
Chapter 18
It had been a week since the last prank had been played and the Hokage was in the jounin meeting to discuss the chuunin exam, incidentally also the first meeting since the Wave mission. The meeting was going to start in a minute now when suddenly the door opened and Kakashi walked in and everybody froze. Kurenai was the first to get over it, focused her chakra and called out," Kai!" this quickly set off all the others and soon the entire room was filled with people calling out Kai, only for the what they believe to be a genjutsu to stay on. After a few minutes of this Kakashi finally looked up from his book and asked with his typical 'hip', at least according to Gai, attitude," Huh? You say something?"
At which everybody sweatdropped beside Gai who called out, "Damn you Kakashi and your hip attitude!"
The Hokage coughed to get the attention back to the original meeting despite the fact that Kakashi was on time for once.
"Okay now that everyone is here, even Kakashi, let's get back to the point of this meeting." And so the reports started of all the jounin who were training a genin squad, with the three jounin for team 7,8 and 10 remaining quite vague.
"Well now that that's done, let's first hear it from the new rookie genin. Asuma, Kurenai, Kakashi, are there any of your genin you would like to enter into this chuunin exam? I don't have to tell you but after a genin has properly completed at least 8 mission of high D to C, they may take the exam but only if nominated by their Jounin sensei. Of course 8 is the bare minimum. Now starting with Kakashi."
"Team 7 led by Hatake Kakshi, consisting of Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Inuzaka Kiba. Under the name of Hatake Kakashi, I nominate them to take the Chunin selection exam." replied Kakashi.
"Team 8 led by Yuhi Kurenai and Mitarashi Anko, consisting of Aburame Shino, Uzumaki Naruto and Uzumaki Hinata. Under the name of Yuhi Kurenai, I nominate them the same as to my left." added Kurenai
"Team 10 led by Sarutobi Asuma and Inuzaka Hana, consisting of Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Choji. Under the name of Sarutobi Asuma, same as to my left." finished Asuma.
"Hmm all of them, how very rare, though with Naruto nothing is ever normal." said the Hokage and sighed again.
It was at this that Iruka was about to interrupt however Kurenai quickly stopped him," Iruka-kun," getting some raised eyebrows from nearly all of the jounin and Hokage and a blush out of Iruka," though they were your students they are now our genin. They are soldiers and though I know that Kakashi-sans reason might be a tad different than mine, I am 100 percent sure that my shinobi will make it out of their alive, probably even as chuunin. As to what I think is Kakshi's reason, probably to stop them from complaining by letting them experience some pain and real life experience without him as back-up. Which to be honest is necessary before the Uchiha's head lifts him up because how full of hot air his head is." said Kurenai.
And then whispered so only a select few could hear," Don't worry and trust in Naruto as he trusts you." before bowing to the Hokage and leaving with the other three begin jounin.
Once outside Kakshi turned towards Kurenai and asked quite seriously,' Iruka-kun?"
Kurenai just looked away and said,' None of your business pervert." before looking towards Asuma, "I'm cancelling all of this coming weeks training."
Which Asuma replied to while nodding," Me too, though maybe we could still meet again and talk about our genin chances, this Wednesday?"
"Why Asuma-kun are you asking little old me on a date?" asked Kurenai with a smirk, after all that time with Anko and surprisingly Naruto and Hinata, getting her to blush was getting quite hard. Hearing this Asuma started to stutter incomprehensibly, Kurenai just laughed and replied," Pick me up at 8, but I'm bringing Anko and Iruka as well so could you bring Hana too? Might make it more interesting." at which Kakashi flew back thanks to a huge nosebleed and though Asuma didn't get blown back did let a small amount leek out and got a dazed stare. Hey he might not be a big pervert but you gotta admit that brings some interesting images with it.
Kurenai laughed again and shunshined away.
At the same time as the meeting in the centre of Konoha.
Naruto and Hinata were just strolling around, ignoring and sometimes even returning the evil stares from all the villagers when they finally had enough of being followed by a square that had black lines and brown-beige colour on instead of just even brown-beige colour then add to that the fact that it had two holes in it, just .
The couple stopped and before the stone could scurry back and away they were stopped by two cerulean blue eyes that were directly before the holes.
"What do you want Konohamaru?" asked the clone that was standing spread over the box.
"Wah!" was heard from the box as the trio that was in it rushed back in surprise and thus also fell. "How did you know?" asked Konohamaru once he was standing again.
Naruto sighed while dispelling his clone," You guys do know that no rock is completely square or has holes in it do you? So what do you want?"
"That's why you're my boss, and you promised to play ninja with us!" screamed Konohamaru. Naruto just sighed again, and was about to blow them off when Hinata stopped him and gestured to the trio that now had the puppy eyes on full blast.
"Ugh. Fine, we'll play with you!" sighed Naruto.
"YATA!" screamed the trio of Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon.
Naruto sighed again and Hinata just impishly smiled at Naruto's pretended misfortune. "Okay you guys get a 20 second head start. 20, 19,…" said Naruto as he started counting, at which the trio quickly started running away, Naruto was at 5 when they suddenly heard Konohamaru scream.
"OH Fuck!" said Naruto," forgot that the members of the other villages are coming into town." and so Hinata and Naruto quickly ran towards the scream.
When they got there, they found just like last time Konohamaru in the hands of Kankurou, with Sakura surprisingly standing there as well as Kiba. And this time it was Kiba who was screaming," Hey dumbass, let the kid go!"
But unlike last time Naruto now tacked on," I suggest you listen to the mutt." getting a growl from Kiba as well as a reply from Kankurou.
"Oh yeah, or else what? What are you going to do about it?" screamed Kankurou back.
"Well there are a number of reasons, first of if you don't than Sasuke in that tree over there is going to act all cool and throw that rock at your hand." said Naruto pointing over his shoulder." But to be honest I wouldn't really worry, however the second and the third reason are much more important. Secondly if you hit that kid and don't let go, than those ANBU who are shadowing the Hokage's grandson might just take matters into their own hands, added to you getting your ass handed to that then would be the fact that it could cause a war between our villages. And thirdly, which I'm thinking you're going to find the most important. If you don't then I think Gaara, over there," once more pointing towards the tree with Sasuke but now a little to his left," would simply kill you." after hearing Gaara's name Kankurou quickly swivelled his head towards where Naruto was pointing. At the same time Sasuke also looked back and came face to face with Gaara, acting on reflex he quickly jumped down next to his other two team members. After all his dramatic saving was ruined by Naruto and Gaara was way too close for him, after all he fell on blondes not redheads. (A/N: Sorry for that picture)
Thanks to Kankurou being so distracted Konohamaru had no problem prying the fingers of his head and scampered back behind Naruto and Hinata.
"Kankurou, you're an embarrassment to our village." Said Gaara before shunshiing next to Kankurou and then asking, "You, what's your name?" asked Gaara.
"Uchiha Sasuke and you?" however unlike last time Gaara replied,
" I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the blond. So what's your name?"
And before Sasuke could reply anything else Naruto quickly interjected," Uzumaki Naruto, and I presume that you guys are here for the Chuunin exams?" Only getting a nod from Gaara and Temari, Kankurou was still grumbling. So Naruto continued," Then I suggest you don't start anymore trouble, we wouldn't want to start a war now would we?" emphasizing the war.
Gaara once more nodded, turned and said," Kankurou, Temari, let's go."
Seeing that the trouble was over, Hinata and Naruto turned and told Konohamaru that they had to go somewhere now and that the three of them should stay out of trouble before shunshiing away leaving a grumbling Kiba, a moody Sasuke who was thinking, How does the dobe know that, and how did he know about that other guy in that tree, I didn't even sense him. And other such moody thoughts. And Sakura was once more asking Sasuke for a date as the mindless fan girl that she was.
The next day team 8 met up like usual at 8 AM on training ground 8, they had had the day off yesterday. And today should normally be the day that the team got their invites to the chuunin exams, at least if Kurenai had nominated them. But seeing as they were years ahead of where they were the last time, Naruto and Hinata thought they were quite sure to get it now as well.
And it was indeed just like last time though now instead of Kakashi getting a hug from Naruto, it was Kurenai who got a thank you though not as extravagant like last time.
"So you sure we're ready for this Kurenai-sensei?" asked Hinata.
Kurenai nodded while saying," Yes you are. to be perfectly honest I doubt there will be anyone who even has a shot against you two and probably only a couple who has a chance against Shino. No offence Shino. And although I am sure you guys are ready, I do have to remind you that it is your own choice whether or not to enter."
"None taken. I soon discovered that they where far ahead of me and still are. But thanks to that I have also become quite a bit stronger, lots stronger had they not been around. I'm even certain that you Kurenai-sensei have grown stronger thanks to them, as they have grown stronger thanks to you."
Kurenai just nodded, 'Good now since this is the last week before the exams we're not going to take anymore missions. And don't worry just because we're not going to take anymore missions doesn't mean that we won't train you guys anymore like Kakashi probably would. Though we will not be teaching you guys anything new anymore, we're just going to go over what you know." Reluctantly Naruto, Hinata and Shino nodded, they had expected to be told to do nothing so that they could train by themselves. "Don't worry you guys, even with Naruto's perchance of getting into trouble."
"Hey I don't get into trouble, it just seems to find me." shouted and then muttered Naruto, Anko just snorted," That's got to be the understatement of the century, how did you say it last mission, when once more a normal bandit extermination when the bandits had an ex-chuunin as a leader. AH yes that's it and I quote: 'Seriously I'm sick and tired of being Fate's whipping boy.'" while also thinking, Sure I'm not its bitch but it does seem that whatever situation I'm in Murphy's law strikes, like Fate just fucks with me for her own amusement.
Naruto just continued grumbling, while the rest of the team just smirked at his misfortunes.
Meanwhile in some other dimension containing a teenager with a lightening bolt scar and a ratty hat, said teenagers sneezed, then wooped and shouted," Woohoo, I'm not alone anymore." Before getting back to organizing his occlumency defences again.
And so the week continued, with nothing but revision, making Naruto a very bored boy and a bored Naruto is dangerous cause when Naruto gets bored, things start to go BOOM. And it was indeed during this time that Naruto finally revealed to his teammembers just why he called his weapon a BOOMerang.
It was during Wednesday afternoon that they were once more training their long ranged weaponry when Naruto got utterly bored. So as they we're once more doing the exact same thing again and again Naruto finally had enough.
"Ugh, I'm bored." said Naruto, now he had been complaining a little bit since the start of the morning but none had taken it serious, they should have.
And so Naruto being the person he is, decided that things needed to go BOOM to alleviate some of his boredom. So instead of once more throwing the boomerang and using the bumeran kage Bunshin no jutsu, like they all were or kunai or yajirushii, Naruto had decided that he would finally activate the first number of seals on his boomerang, giving it the ability to earn its name. And so when Hinata saw the seal that Naruto had his hands it quickly shooted," Everybody down!" showing how trusting the members of team 8 had become of eachother they all ducked just in time for Naruto's eyes to widen with glee as he called out,
"Ninpou: Būmubūmeran no naka" just as the boomerang hits the target pots. And as such the boomerang lets a giant blast of from his inside range completely obliterating the post, sending splinters everywhere and making the boomerang shoot back at accelerated speed.
After the explosion was done and all the splinters where incinerated, Naruto stood there with his boomerang in his hand and a completely insane smile on his face that was normally reserved for Anko when she talked about all things pointy.
Hinata was the first one to Naruto and quickly hit him over the head," Don't ever try that again without warning, hadn't I seen it in time we might have been hurt. Hell even now it was only a miracle that none of my arrows hit any of us." finished Hinata once more hitting Naruto over the head.
Next up was Anko and Kurenai who also both hit him on the head, in the same spot at the same time. Wait a minute how did they do that? How do you coordinate that, hell how is it even possible, according to the time-space theory no two object can occupy a space at the same time still they didthought Naruto, before he was once more returned to the land of the living from another simultaneous blow to the exact same spot.
"Have you listened to a thing we've just said?" asked a clearly irritated Anko who had splinters in her messed up hair that surprisingly was down now.
"Euh… No blowing things up without proper warning?" tried Naruto.
Only getting a glare from Anko and Kurenai, apparently he had gotten it right while he clearly hadn't been paying attention. Kurenai huffed," Yes so don't do it again."
And then after Kurenai and Anko were done Shino came up, Naruto cowered and raised his hands and asked," You gonna hit me too?"
Shino just sweat dropped, " No, I was gonna ask the more pertinent question, What the fuck was that?" all but screamed Shino, apparently having friends who accepted him completely and having a girlfriend did wonders to get Shino out of his shell.
Naruto just scratched his head," Oh that, that's my newest addition to my Boomerang, you see I made my BOOmerang able to go BOOM. hihi." giggled Naruto at the end.
Shino sweatdropped, Never ever give Naruto anything that could explode.
"Yes we've seen that," added Kurenai," we're more interested in just how you did that."
"Oh that, well it's a combination of Seals and kinetic energy. You see thanks to the spinning of the boomerang, the inside of the circle suck in extra oxygen, making it an ideal place for an explosion to occur. The seal part is just an adapted explosive and fire seal that can be used multiple times. Though the farther away it is the more chakra is needed to make it detonate and also the amount of chakra determines how great the explosion is, also the seal takes into account the ratio of CO2/ O2 and also instantly measures the NO in the air maximising the explosion with the least amount of chakra. And then there is also still the kinetic part I was talking about, you see thanks to the already spinning motion and the normal path of a boomerang using the right amount of power for the explosion I could in principal redirect my boomerang in flight, though I'm not 100% accurate with that yet. And I'm thinking of adding other seals to it as well but they're still in the experimental stages. You get that?" ended Naruto with a question.
The other three just nodded, not really understanding but not wanting to look stupid in front of the former class dobe. Seeing as the throwing practice was the last object on today's schedule, Hinata quickly led Naruto away before he could blow anything else up or at least not blow anything else up in public. "Come on Naruto-kun let's go eat ramen and if you're good you might blow some other stuff up as well." before turning back to the other three and shouting, "Bye Kurenai-sensei, Anko-sensei, Shino-san. I'll see you Friday at 4 PM for the exam right?".
Kurenai and Anko just nodded and waved back. Shino only nodded, hey he might have changed a bit but that didn't mean that he would do something as illogical as waving. He then turned towards his two sensei bowed and also returned home, he simply couldn't wait till the Chuunin exam, they were going to blow the others away, now both figuratively and literally.
Back with the two sensei's, Anko turned towards Kurenai, raised an eyebrow and asked," Did you understand even a word of what he was saying." Kurenai replied dryly," Words yes, some here and there, the concept, no fucking clue."
"Okay, hoped I wasn't the only one. But let's now get back to the apartment, we've got a date to get ready for." said a once more grinning Anko. Kurenai just nodded before shunshiing away with a few sparks, directly followed by Anko who shunshined after her with a flash.
The next morning at 3.30 PM, Naruto and Hinata arrived at the academy once again to see Shino already waiting. The team had decided that it was better to arrive early so that they could scout the other teams beforehand. Quickly greeting each other the team started towards the academy's back door. You see while the Academy did have a huge front door, this way would also be used by the most of people and would probably also have the most traps to weed out the losers, but to get trough these traps you might also have to reveal some of your moves early on. Now the back door on the other hand is normally only used by teachers and as such isn't very well known by students or genin, thus making traps highly unlikely and also giving their team and extra advantage of not revealing anything to anyone except giving away that they know the academy better than most genin.
They would then stay out of sight and out sight thus giving them the chance to spy on all the others. Though thanks to Hinata and Naruto already knowing and hoping that they still did know what at least the first test would be, after all they were quite certain that with Anko being their secondary sensei and all, she couldn't possibly be leading the second exams, right? So getting their early they quickly leaned towards the far wall where Naruto quickly put up a small misdirection seal, if genin were really searching they would find them but the seal gave more of a gentle nudge to disregard them then anything else, it was more of the sort that used the expectation of the other genin that they wouldn't yet be here and the fact that even if they were there they wouldn't be important enough to notice.
It was quite funny when suddenly after about 5 minutes being in the room Kurenai stuck her head in from the other side were the normal entrance to the class was located and where they would be expected to come from. Apparently Kurenai had been waiting for them just as Kakashi had so when she already felt her genin in the room she felt their chakra signatures already inside the classroom was quite surprised as she was sure that they wouldn't be able to sneak by her. The surprise was even greater when she had to focus her senses to see trough what seemed to be a genjutsu but wasn't. Quickly slipping in she walked over to her three genin who wore smirks on their faces, clearly finding her confusion funny. Though they could clearly see the confusion on her face, though if you asked anybody out of team 8 that was chuunin or below they wouldn't be able to tell, they waited for her to ask the question.
Seeing as her genin weren't just going to give up the information, Kurenai sighed and asked the question they expected," Okay, how did you get in here, I'm perfectly sure you haven't passed me."
Naruto's smirk got wider if that was even possible and he deadpanned," We used that entrance." while pointing towards the door that the chuunin teachers normally used.
Kurenai eyebrow just rose slightly higher clearly stating that that explanation just wasn't going to cut it.
Naruto sighed and pouted," Fine, We used that door over there cause I know the academy better than anyone else and knew that you and everybody else would expect that us cute little genin wouldn't know of the other entrance, never mind the fact that our teacher always came from another door than us." seeing the incredulous stare from Kurenai, he quickly replied," What, you think I would be able to sneak into the ANBU tower, play pranks on nearly the entire village, yet not figure out that there would be more than one entrance to this godforsaken place, especially since nearly none of the chuunin teachers used the common exit?"
Kurenai had to hand it to Naruto that he was correct, but then froze when she heard him say that it was him that had done all those pranks, quickly getting a tick mark on her forehead, she nearly screamed, though was able to keep her emotions in check and with a deadly cold yet at the same time incredibly sweet voice asked," Oh so it was you who thought it would be funny to die all of my white dresses in psychedelic colours?" thinking back to when she found them, it would be one thing if there was only one colour per dress but no, Naruto had painted every line another colour, so that you couldn't possible look at it at all..
"Well Kurenai-sensei they did wash out afterwards and besides you did increase security afterwards right, now imagine if I had been an assassin and hadn't just pranked you?" replied Naruto with another question to her," Plus it was on Hokage's orders." added Naruto just to be safe. And as she thought about it she visibly deflated from her rage, well as visibly as she was showing her rage anyways. "Fine, now onto the real reason I was here, normally I was supposed to make sure all three of you entered together but I see that isn't a problem now do tell me why do I seem to want to overlook you guys even though I know it isn't a genjutsu?"
This time it was Hinata who answered," Well that's thanks to Naruto's seal, you see we came up with a seal to divert attention away without it being obvious like with a genjutsu, so we made this seal that make use of the subconscious to let us stay overlooked. Unfortunately it only works when you stay relatively still and silent. And also if anyone is really looking for you it doesn't work, so it wouldn't work for surveillance and or spying."
Kurenai nodded and then bid them good luck and left having all her questions answered and her duty completed.
Afterwards team 8 waited till at about 20 to 4 the first team started trickling in, first came a few older genin squads of Konoha who probably would never even make it past the rank of genin. Next up we're a few squads of rain genin, one them Naruto seemed to remember from the test in the previous timeline, something about him and peeing, but Naruto just shrugged the feeling of and noticed the next team that came in being team 10. And though they had been training quite regularly with them team 8 had all been holding back so thought that the others might have as well, and seeing the extra pouch on Ino's belt seemed to confirm that suspicion. Next up were some sand teams followed by clearly the strongest team from sand consisting of the three children of the Kazekage. They like themselves went to stand beside a wall and observe the other genin, Gaara's eye like any other jinchuuriki seemed to be quite able to see trough the genjutsu like seal around them, or it could also have been that the Sukaku jinchuuriki was looking for him. Next up was the sound team, which made Naruto and Hinata tense for just a moment, luckily Shino hadn't noticed yet, he had been deploying his bugs to one person of each team, though his bugs seemed to not even want to anywhere near that redhaired genin that was staring at Naruto. Filling that bit of information away for later, he turned back towards the last entered team with a hiate that he didn't seem to recognize immediately.
Next came a few teams of Kumo which made Hinata tense a little, especially when they all smirked at her, only for Naruto to hold her back slightly while calming her through their link. Then another whole assortment of ninja seemed to come in immediately, teams from Taki, Kumo, Kiri, one Sand and a few more from Konoha.
The last ones that came in was team 9 followed by team 7 with Sasuke clearly beat up, it seemed that Sasuke had once again duelled and lost against Lee.
It was now only 3 minutes till 4 and Naruto once again noticed that Kabuto was about to give out information, so Naruto, Shino and Hinata quietly sneaked closer. They had just gotten within hearing range when they heard Sasuke as the following, " Gaara no Subaku from sand, Rock Lee from leaf and Uzumaki Naruto from leaf."
"Oh you know their names," pouted Kabuto," that's easy then." before quickly swiping of three cards from his deck and held them up with the backside to Sasuke.
"Show me." demanded Sasuke with his Uchiha arrogance.
"OK first Subaku no Gaara, Mission history: unknown number of D-ranks," but who cares about them thought Naruto,"8 C-ranks and 1 B-rank. Since he's a newcomer from a foreign country I don't have much info but…" trailed of Kabuto to build suspense," It seems he returned from all of his missions without even a scratch." shocking the rookies, except Hinata and Naruto who already knew of the Suna no Yoroi,
After having given them enough time to process that information, he proceeded with Lee," Rock Lee, Mission history: 20 D and 12 C-ranks completed, His sensei is Gai. It says here that his taijutsu have improved greatly in this year, but the rest is not impressive even having absolutely no skill in genjutsu and ninjutsu. He had already gained attention as a talented new genin but he did not participate in the exam them, so this is just like you guys his first time here. His teammates are Hyuuga Neji, the rookie of the year from the year before and Ten Ten." finished Kabuto, he then decided best now to give the information on the other villages as well before going onto the last card.
"So you see, there are many outstanding genin around just like lee here, from all over the Elemental countries, from Suna, Kiri, even though they are also at war, Kumo, Taki, Konoha. Well the hidden sound village is still a small village just created last year so there isn't as much info but the rest of the villages are all filled with talented youngsters. All of them the top elite of their village just like lee and Gaara." Said Kabuto.
He then turned towards the final card," AH right you asked about Uzumaki Naruto right," said Kabuto waiving around the card, Kiba was confused as to why Sasuke would like info on the dobe but he didn't care he had just seen Hinata come up from behind and the dobe wasn't anywhere in sight. "well then let's see, before channelling chakra into the card only for it too suddenly be replaced with a card of a chibi Naruto who was giving him the double finger." Naruto had decided heard enough, the speech was nearly the same as the last time and he didn't want any of his information to be given to anyone, so he had quickly plucked out the card from Kabuto's hand just after he had unlocked it and the replaced it with his calling card.
He then spoke up back beside Hinata," I don't like it that someone would give out information on me without my permission. Next time you do the replacement paper might just be something else." " Kabuto and such would've been more pissed hadn't sound three that now was a good time to attack. One might say someone had nudged them to be finally take action suddenly. And so Naruto saw Zaku jump up again and throw two kunai towards Kabuto who easily dodged them only to come face to face with …, "Hinata-chan, what was the name of the Hunchback again?" asked Naruto over the mindlink only the get the response,
"Don't really know, well just call him Quasimodo till we get his name again."
So Kabuto dodged the kunai only to come face to face with Quasimodo, our hunchback who had pulled his cloak back to reveal his melody arm to everyone. Now since Naruto was a bit smarter and had more experience he couldn't but feel that that was a really dumb thing to do, after all who would reveal their trump card just for that small insult, Naruto thought. And so it once more went and Quasi swung only for Kabuto to dodge just barely, even if he is a bastard i got to admit that he is good at hiding his true abilities, thought Naruto after seeing Kabuto suddenly go down and all the rookies get a disappointed look on his face. It was then that Quasi began his speech, "pfffh and he's already been here four years," unsettling a few of the rookies, aka Kiba, Sakura and Ino, though only slightly, " Write this down on your precious cards, The three genin from sound will be definite Chuunin." And before Quasi could continue he was interrupted by Ibiki and a couple of chuunin to arrive in a burst of smoke and then Ibiki's voice carried out of the smoke before he could be seen,
"Quiet down you worthless bastards!" before the smoke cleared and there stood Ibiki all serious, as he continued," Thanks for waiting, I am Morino Ibiki, the examiner for the chuunin selection exam's first test." He was then about to comment on the hidden sound but was stopped however by the outcry of Naruto," Yeesh Scarface- san, do you have to be so dramatic. I'll remember that the next time you complain about Anko-senseis tendencies to the dramatic." finished Naruto with an accusing finger pointed at Ibiki. Ibiki at hearing that particular nickname that Naruto had given him and that he never could stop the genin from using just ignored him though he did still get a tick mark and turned back to the sound three.
"Hidden sound guys, stop doing as you please. Do you really want to fail already."
At which the sound three's own Quasimodo quickly replied," We're sorry, this is our first time and we got a bit carried away."
Ibiki just turned his head slightly while spiting and then turned back to address the crowd," Okay now this is a good opportunity as any to say this, first rule of the test. There will be no fighting without permission from the examiner and even if permission is given, killing your opponent will not be tolerated. Those who disobey will fail immediately, Understood?" asked Ibiki with a voice as cold as ice. The sound three just smirked at Ibiki, before Ibiki continued,
"We will now start the first test in the chuunin exam, everybody get up and come get a number. These number will correspond with a seat and once seated you will be given your test paper.
It was at this point that Naruto, knew he had to draw attention back to himself and act like a complete idiot, so he first drew his face blank before suddenly seeming incredibly pissed and constipated at the same time when screaming out," WHAT! You got to be fucking with me scareface. A PAPER TEST! Noooooo!"
Ibiki just smirked and turned towards Naruto again, he knew full well that Naruto was nowhere near as dumb as he just sounded and acted, quite an accomplishment to be such a good actor, cause had Ibiki not know Naruto beforehand he would probably believe it completely. But Naruto had done it for another reason, one the last first impression that one had would remain and second reacting like this would make the other rookies think him as the dobe and disregard him snatching away the card from Kabuto.
But still despite the scream he still trudged to a seat, acting depressed. Surprisingly even though they now were on the same team Hinata was still seated beside him though she now did sit at his left instead of his right.
As everyone was seated, Ibiki began his explanation and called the attention to him." First of do not yet turn your tests over and listen closely to what I'm about to say, as I will only explain these rules once when writing," before adding, "and no dumb questions," said Ibiki shooting a glance at Naruto at which half the genins nearly snorted.
"The first rule. You will all start off with 10 points total. For each of the 10 questions that you answer incorrectly one point will be deducted. So if you answer a total of 3 incorrectly your point total will be 7." Naruto once more thought this over, he wasn't as dumb as last time and if he could get Ibiki to get the definition of incorrect slightly wrong he might just get a 10 without doing anything but he first needed to listen to the other rules maybe something had changed.
"Second rule, this is a team test, so it's the total of your test that counts not the individual. If you have 5 your other team member has 5 but your last team member has 4 then you still all fail." explained Ibiki, hearing this Sakura sighed feeling relieved that she didn't have the dobe on her team. Ibiki then continued with the third rule," The third rule, during this test anyone caught cheating will have 2 points subtracted, this said if one of you gets caught five times then they will automatically be asked to leave as they wouldn't be able to even have one point. The pathetic ones that get caught cheating will only have themselves to blame for not becoming a chuunin. As shinobis trying to achieve a level of chuunin have to be proud ninjas." said Ibiki and Sakura was once more glad that she didn't have Naruto in her team.
"The fourth rule is that once one of your teammembers get caught five times you will be asked to leave as well. Also should one of your team members answer all of his questions incorrectly then you will also fail." said Ibiki, and now came a shocker to Naruto as there hadn't been a fifth rule last time, so when Ibiki continued he had his full attention.
"The fifth and final rule is no drinks or food allowed during the exam." causing all the genin to facefault.
"The exam last one hour, you may now begin." And before anyone could actually really begin Naruto had his hand already in the air, Ibiki sighed, he knew Naruto was going to screw with him, probably the only genin who could and would do that.
"Fine brat what is it and remember no dumb questions."
Naruto just nodded before asking his question," Say Scareface-san, what would happen if you answer a question partially correct and partially incorrect? would you be punished for the incorrect part or get points for the correct part?" asked Naruto with a sweet tone. Just confirming that he was messing with him probably to allow Naruto to just write tons and tons of stuff without actually knowing whether or not he had answered correctly, so Ibiki trying to get out of that answered," Your answer will then be consider incorrect."
Naruto nodded before answering," So you take points for the incorrect answer that is written."
Ibiki sighed and just nodded, hoping that Naruto wouldn't ask anymore questions, only for him to suddenly stand up, with Hinata and Shino quickly following.
They than came over to Ibiki and handed him three blank papers with only their names on it," Here you go Ibiki-san, there are no incorrect answers on this test so you can't deduct any points from us." After processing what Hinata had just said had Ibiki standing stunned staring at the blank papers with only their names on it that he had received from team 8. Ibiki blinked a few times, before quickly asserting control again," Damn you." he whisper shouted. Before turning around again and shouted," Okay everybody extra rule, you must at least fill in the answers with something, a blank will now also be considered incorrect." Before once again turning towards team 8 that was still standing there, Ibiki was fuming, not only had Naruto fooled everybody else he had also made a loophole in the rules that hadn't been there thanks to letting Ibiki define the first rule further. But he had been had fair and square, Naruto had manipulated him and the situation perfectly, no wonder the kid is so good at interrogation thought Ibiki," For you three this rule doesn't count but you must still remain here and wait till the hour is up." sighed Ibiki. The three genin of team 8 returned to their seats and promptly began doing whatever the hell they liked, Hinata and Naruto leaned against each other and quickly fell asleep while also talking with Kura, Shino also put his head on the table and pretended to sleep while actually conversing with the bugs inside of him and having them spy on the other genin to see how they were doing.
Meanwhile the rookies jounin had been invited to the Hokage's office to see with him the first test. They had only arrived a few minutes later thanks to them all having to wait till their team was there and then shunshiing across the village which still took a few minutes despite what most people thought, the shunshin was not a teleportation more like a ultra speed technique in which you could only stop at your destination. So when they arrived there to see the Hokage rolling on the floor they instantly became awry only to find out a few seconds later that the Hokage was on the floor laughing his ass off.
It was Kurenai who regained her composure first and asked the question," Hokage-sama, why are you on the floor laughing?"
At first she didn't get much only laughter but after a few minutes the Hokage was well enough to talk only to burst into giggles again when he even thought about it so instead of just telling them he would show them. And so the Hokage brought them to his glass ball that luckily for them had a small recording ability built in though it could only store thing for a max of one day with a maximum duration of one hour. At first the two other jounin and tokubetsu jounin didn't know what to think, not only had the dobe outsmarted the proctor they had outsmarted Ibiki the man said to be able to write an entire series of books on psychological warfare. Kurenai and Anko on the other hand had found it hilarious and were now mimicking the Hokage and were rolling on the ground with laughter. Eventually the two regained their composure and seeing as their genin were already done quickly shunshined out before any questions could be asked. The other two jounin and Tokubetsu jounin stared at that spot for a few more minutes before turning back to the Hokage who was now once more waging war against the demon know as paperwork, at least if you didn't know the secret to defeating it. So seeing as they wouldn't be getting any answers they just looked back to their own genin.
It had been about fourty five minutes since the second start of the exam after the disaster of Uzumaki Naruto. Ibiki knew without a shadow of a doubt that it had all been Naruto even though Hinata had been the one to explain it. So now that three quarters had been passed only the genin with skill would remain.
"Okay runts, listen up. It's time for the Tenth and Final question. Even you Team 8 since for this question there are extra rules your little stunt will not have any effect on this question."
making Naruto and Hinata to just stare at him with sleep in their eyes. Shino also sat back up though he hadn't slept like Naruto and Hinata had.
"First of you must decide whether or not to take it." causing panic in nearly all the genin, Temari however decided to act on it and shouted out, "Why would we choose, what happens if we choose not to?"
Ibiki chuckled slightly making all the genin even more nervous, "If you choose not to, your points will be reduced to zero, you fail! Along with your two teammates."
Of course this caused another uproar but that was quickly silenced by Ibiki as he said," And now… the other rule. If you do choose to take the question and answer incorrectly … " said Ibiki waiting to build up tension," then that person will lose the right to take the chuunin selection exam again. You will stay a genin forever."
And once more just like last time Kiba shouted out," What kind of stupid rule is that? There are guys here who have take the exam before!"
Hearing that Ibiki just began chuckling louder and louder. before turning deadly serious, and saying," You guys were just unlucky, this year it's my rules. However I'm giving you a way out after all if you decide you aren't confident enough can chose to not take the question and then try again next year." finished Ibiki adding a little Ki to making him seem more dangerous. "Now those that do not wish to take the tenth question, raise your hand, once your number is confirmed an your team members numbers are also called you leave."
And so one for one the unconfident genin started leaving, Sakura was about to also raise her hand but Sasuke noticed and signed her not to, at which Sakura the ever obedient fangirl that she is complied and didn't.
After a few minutes Naruto quickly scanned the room and memorised those who were about to raise their hand they were clearly not chuunin material so should be easier to beat.
So Naruto calmly raised his had before smashing it down, "You wish Scareface, I won't run or give up! Even if I'm a genin forever I'll still become Hokage!"
And with that everybody's spirits rose, the impact of Naruto's words seemed to be just like last time and had quelled their fears. Ibiki looked around the room, seeing the determined faces of everyone decided not to prolong it any longer cause it wouldn't make any difference. But he had to try," I'll ask again, your life is riding on this decision. This will be your last chance to quit." Naruto just smirked at Ibiki and said," Like I said Scarface-san, I won't give up."
"Nobody? Good decisions. Now to everyone still remaining…" said Ibiki, never let it be said that even though they had already won wouldn't let the pain last a bit longer, so after pausing for a few seconds continued with," I congratulate you on passing the first test! To the 69 who remain congratulations passing the first test"
Everybody was silent at this, till Ino broke the silence," Wait… What do you mean? We already pass? What about the 10th question?"
Ibiki chuckled and was about to answer when the Uzumaki once again stole his thunder, " You just answered the 10th question did you guys not?"
Everybody was floored until Ibiki explained while still grumbling silently," Uzumaki's right, the 10the question was whether or not you would take the question."
And once again Temari screamed," Hey! Then what were the first nin question for? They were pointless then!"
Ibiki just smirked and explained again," No they weren't pointless, they had already served their intended purpose. You could say that this was a two part test." Before smiling brightly, making everybody uncomfortable as he continued," To test your individual information gathering ability that was the first purpose."
Temari once more interrupted though now much meeker and clearly confused," Information gathering?
Ibiki explained," The first test was as became clear on the rules a test about cheating, as no normal genin should be able to answer these questions." Making Inner-Sakura go like "Shannarooo believe it! We're special!"
"So we had some chuunin disguise themselves as genin to cheat off of. Add to this that the test also put pressure on each member not to mess thing up for their teammates thus making sure that they all trust each other." as he finished he began untying his bandana of," If you fail at cheating you failed," as he ripped of his bandana he continued," Because, at time information is more important than life. And on missions and the battlefield people risk their lives to get their hands on it. " once more tying his bandana on as he though he made his point he continued," If the enemy or 3rd party notices you or know that you know than there is no guarantee that your info will still be accurate. This little thing was picked upon by our very own Uzumaki Hinata who picked apart my rules and made use of a loophole that I accidently left inside my rules. So I want you to remember this, important information in your hands can be a powerful weapon for your comrades and you village. That was the reason for information gathering through cheating. This clearly separated those that did and did not have the required abilities. " Finished Ibiki smiling,
However Temari still didn't understand," But.. I don't understand what about the final question that had nothing to do with Information."
However before Ibiki could reply Uzumaki Naruto once more stole his thunder," It questioned your resolve." he said simply now completely calm, no sign of the dobe anywhere.
Ibiki once again nodded while once more grumbling about annoying blonds," Indeed Uzumaki is once more correct, to take it or not, both painful choices, those who choose the latter fail along with their teammates. But those who chose to take it, though they knew of loss of chance to take the test again you still decided to take it. Just like later you will have to decide to take more dangerous missions as chuunin, cause there is no way to avoid dangerous missions however you will have to have the resolve to take them knowing that they're dangerous. You then would need resolve and trust in your own abilities to know that you can take it and could do it. If you always think of next time who do not dare put their own destinies on the line, these will never have the right to become chuunin. You made it through the entrance, congratulations and Good Luck."
And just as Ibiki finished it suddenly four blurs fly in trough the window, one male and one female, though which was which wasn't entirely certain and just like last time, though now done by each only throwing one, threw out twin kunai with a spanner between them that said….
A.N.: And that's it for this chapter, next chapter we'll have the second test who are the two mysterious entries that replaced Anko, and what will happen in the second test.
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