Sasuke knew he probably should have learned his lesson after the "Zabuza Incident", but he still wasn't convinced that the Dead Last Uzumaki Naruto was the Fourth Hokage's son, though he was willing to admit that he might concede to the fact that there was a slight possibility if there was a general enough consensus in the matter. If the Fourth Hokage had a kid however, he should be totally super awesome like It- That Man was before he went completely nuts and killed the clan...On second thought, bad example.

For the first week after returning from Wave, he'd had bruises on bruises on bruises, all compliments of one Hatake Kakashi. This should have taught him, but like most Uchiha - one Uchiha Madara for example - he could be tenaciously stubborn in sticking to his course despite the fact that he was quite obviously in the wrong and could even be seriously hurt or killed if he continued down it.

Now, it was the Chunin Exam and he had a larger pool of neutral and ideally completely objective subjects to poll in regards to the matter of Naruto's paternity. Noting that all of the attention on the room was centered on himself as well as the rest of the rookie Genin from their year shortly after entering the room in which the first phase of the Exams was to take place, he decided that now was a good time as any to ask his question.

"Attention Everyone! I have a question. Does my teammate Uzumaki Naruto resemble the Fourth Hokage? Yes or No?" he yelled as he pointed to the whiskered blond idiot.

The result was a brief silence as the room as a whole examined the subject of his inquiry before total pandemonium broke out.

When Ibiki and the proctors arrived to give the first test of the Chunin Exams, it was to the sight of the candidates from Iwa and the candidates from Kiri jumping out of the windows to shouts of "Holy Shit! The Yellow Flash Reproduced!" and "Run for your lives! It's an Uzumaki!" respectively. The candidates from Kumo were all gathered around Konoha's resident Jinchurriki, bowing and calling him "Uzumaki-Sama".

He didn't even want to know. Seriously, when it came to the Uzumaki, you were better off not knowing.

From his spot near the front of the room, Orochimaru sighed. Kabuto was looking at him, obviously searching for answers, answers that he didn't have as he had stopped searching long before the Uzumaki boy's mother had died. There were some things out there that man - even men obsessed with knowing everything about everything - wasn't meant to know. The Uzumaki had always been weird like that, which made their alliance and reputed relation to the rather straitlaced Senju rather odd.

He did the only thing he could think of in this situation, which was to give the boy a "Fuck if I know" shrug and attempted to repress the events of the last several minutes before the massive headache started like the one he'd gotten after that time Kushina had...Damn, he'd thought he'd repressed that. Of course, then again, repressing Kushina's entire existence as he had been doing for the last twelve years was an exercise in futility at the best of times. If only she hadn't become so obsessed with him after she'd decided she loved him and she hated him at the same time...

Edited 4/2/13