10'oclock morning , academy building.-

Mari walked towards the staff room slowly, her long blond hair was plaited like normal and she was wearing her pale blue fishnet style top over a dark blue jacket, she was also wearing a dark blue skirt over a pair of black shorts a bandage was wrapped around her left thigh just above her knee and she was wearing her shuriken pouch on her leg.

When she reached the office she knocked before entering.

"Mari-san what are you doing here?" iruka said as he saw her enter the room.

"I'm supposed to be meeting kotetsu- san and izumo-san here." She said smiling at him when he nodded.

"Neither of them is here yet. You can stay here until they arrive if you want. I'm sorry but I have a class to teach now." Iruka said as he smiled at her again before leaving the room.

-Half an hour later-

"Hey Mari-san." Kotetsu said as he entered the room dressed in the uniform the proctors wore for the exam.

Izumo smiled at her warmly before glancing at kotetsu. "Sorry we're late we had to see the hokage." He said.

Mari smiled and shook her head slightly "well we better start setting up the little preliminary test for the exams." She said softly.

"I'll do the genjutsu on the door." Kotetsu said smiling slightly as they all got ready.

"Henge" Mari murmured as she changed her appearance she was now shorter with short brown hair and green eyes. She was now wearing a purple dress with shorts underneath and had her kunai pouch on her waist.

She turned to see that both kotetsu and izumo had changed their appearances already before leaving the room quietly.

Half two outside room 201-

"Do you really think you're ready for it if you can't get past us?" Mari said as she punched the boy in green in the face making him fall backwards.

Kotetsu laughed "It's true maybe you should give up now. This test isn't for weak little girls." He said as he pushed the girl with two buns in her hair over.

"That's enough. Let me past." Sasuke said as cool as ever, "Release the genjutsu on the floor while you're at it."

"Yes this is the second floor not the third." Sakura said, before smiling when naruto nodded.

"So you saw through my genjutsu, but did you see this." Kotetsu said before aiming a kick at Sasuke's head which was quickly stopped by rock lee the boy in green.

Kotetsu, izumo and Mari disappeared into the room behind them as the genin began to head upstairs. "This is going to be fun." Izumo said as he changed back into his original appearance.

"Definitely." Mari said as she smiled at them both before changing back "I'm glad kakashi's team are on the ball though, they did learn something from us both after all." She added making them both smile as she watched the teams walk away.

3 o'clock, outside room 301.

Kakashi stood outside the room his back against the door as he looked at his genin. "Nice to see you all here." He said as he glanced at Mari who was stood next to him.

"I'm proud of you all for coming, you are now officially registered for the exams." He said as he moved out of the way for them to enter.

"They'll be fine. " Mari said when she saw the look on kakashi's face.

They both chuckled when they heard naruto shout out to the rest of the genin before starting to walk away. "I better go. I'm helping with this exam." Mari said before vanishing.

15 minutes later-

Mari looked at the genin in front of her as she appeared in the room behind Ibiki. She saw the startled looks on the faces of the people who knew her and smiled slightly.

She listened to Ibiki give his instructions before sitting down in between kotetsu and izumo her clipboard in her hand.

"Number 35 fails." Mari said as she caught him cheating for the 5th time in a row.

"How can you watch us all at the same time!" he shouted "who says I cheated 5 times." Mari appeared next to him suddenly a kunai near his throat.

"We are all here because we are the best, now leave and take your teammates with you." She said before picking her clipboard up again and glancing at kotetsu.

She smiled slightly when she saw his grin behind the clipboard before going back to watching the genin.

I hope he's going to be alright. She thought as she watched naruto begin to panic before looking around at the other candidates. She frowned when she saw the guy with the gourd on his back cheat without taking any notice of anything around him.

How can anyone be so calm in this situation? She thought "numbers 8 and 43 fail." She said seeing the looks they gave her she sighed slightly.

She looked at Ibiki as he got ready to announce the tenth question; she tried to hide her smile as she watched people leaving the room before her eyes widened when naruto lifted him hand.

She jumped slightly as he slammed his hand down on the table "screw you! I'm not going to run away! Even if I stay a genin for the rest of my life I'll still be hokage someday." He shouted before sitting back down in his chair his arms crossed defiantly.

Ibiki glanced over at Mari a few minutes later; Mari looked around at the 78 remaining genin before nodding.

"Well I have one thing to say to all of you. You pass." Ibiki said before beginning to answer to questions that were thrown at him.

Mari glanced at kotetsu before rubbing her forehead gently, She wasn't sure why but she suddenly felt weary about the genin. "Mari-san what is it?" kotetsu whispered leaning towards her to hide it from the genin; she tried not to glance sideways when she felt izumo look at her.

"You know about my abilities don't you." She said softly smiling when they both nodded. "Someone here isn't what they seem; I just can't determine who it is."

She stopped talking as someone burst through the window.

"Anko you're early again." Ibiki said to the shouting women, rolling his eyes when she looked at him sheepishly.

"I'm Anko miterashi your next proctor, by the time I'm finished with you over half of you won't remain." She said "Be at the 44th training ground tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock."

She left the room all of the genin following behind her, Mari watched as the chuunin around her began to disappear leaving her with Ibiki, kotetsu and izumo.

"What is it?" Ibiki said he had noticed kotetsu and izumo's concern for the jonin near the end of the test.

"One of the genin are not what they seem, I could sense his emotions during the exam. I could feel he has harmful intentions for someone. I couldn't determine who it was though." She said softly rubbing her forehead again.

Ibiki nodded "I'll pass the information on to Anko it seems we'll have to keep a close eye on the genin taking the exam."

1 hour later kakashi's apartment-

Mari sat curled up on the sofa her head resting on the arm as her eyes began to drift closed.

"You shouldn't sleep like that you know you're neck will start hurting you." Kakashi said as he sat down beside her.

"My head's killing me." She murmured as she lifted her head up, it seemed to be a lot of effort just to lift her head off the arm of the sofa and Kakashi noticed it.

He put his hand on her head gently "you have a fever again, were you using your abilities."

Mari looked at him "yeah I didn't intend to though. I think there's someone in the exams that shouldn't be there. I could sense a change in the emotions in the room one of them has more harmful intentions towards someone else thank I've ever seen. It made me feel sick when I felt it.

"It's ok we'll work it out." Kakashi said pulling her towards him gently he smiled as she slowly fell asleep in his arms. Picking her up gently he took her to he took her to his bedroom and gently lay her down on the bed before putting a cold cloth on her head.

He frowned when he heard a knock on his front door, heading over he opened it to see Asuma and kurenai standing there.

"Where's mari-chan?" kurenai said when she saw that her fellow kunoichi wasn't in the living room.

"She's asleep, I came back to find her curled up on the sofa with a fever." He said glancing at the bedroom door before sitting down.

"Can I ask you what this visit is about?" he said looking at them both.

"We came to see how she was holding up, we heard about what she felt during the first exam." Asuma said as he exhaled a cloud of smoke.

"She's fine, she did feel something but she couldn't determine who it was coming from." Kakashi said before standing up. "I better go and check on her."

Asuma and kurenai glanced at each other before taking their leave of the other two jonin.