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Neji will not be a prat because his dad is still alive because when Cloud tried to get reparations for their dead ambassador Minato threatened them with war because they were trying to get something after an attempted kidnapping gone wrong. They shut up after that and so Hizashi survived the ordeal.

Quicksilver Sensui. One of Jinsoku's titles

The Iwa Shinobi Chapter 9: The Firs t Exam: The Oversight

The next day when all the teams congregated at the academy, Akahana moved quickly up the stairs to the second floor where she saw a large group crowding around a door that said 301.

Confused, and remembering what floor she was on, quickly deduced that it was a Genjutsu and simply went up the next flight of steps to the real third floor where they went inside and waited.

When she went to the stairs, she just missed Sasuke's team arrive and his big reveal of the Genjutsu, irritating Sakura for his trying to "show up" her Naruto-kun.

The night before, all the teams from Konoha had been warned that Suna, Oto, and Iwa had joined together in attempt to destroy the village. They had also been informed that one of the Iwa Shinobi was actually a girl in disguise and on top of that was really the Hokage's long-lost daughter who had been kidnapped the night of the Kyuubi attack.

With this knowledge in hand, the Konoha teams went forward into the Academy eyes looking everywhere for a team from Iwa.

Both Neji and Hinata kept their Byakugan active as they looked through the crowd, looking for any sign of a henge. When they finally spotted her, they couldn't believe how much she looked like Kushina-sama, even without color, their features were far too similar for her to be related to anyone else.

With her location in hand, they quickly gathered the other chuunin-hopefuls and told them. Sasuke immediately bobbed his head up trying to catch sight of her but was summarily smacked upside the head while getting a furious reprimand for almost blowing the entire operation.

They couldn't risk them finding out that they knew she was here, and who she was hiding out as, as that would put them on the defensive. They also couldn't risk removing the henge too early as if they did it now it could be seen as attempted sabotage and they might pull some crap about an advanced henge that they forced on her. So they would have to bide their time until they could get her alone.

But in the meantime, they would tell everyone else where she was. And it was at that moment that Team 7 walked in the room. And, having seen the henge in place before, were able to pick Akahana out immediately. So when Hinata informed them of where the missing heiress was, they cut her off and said, "We know."

And, while only briefly, Sasuke caught her eye, and gave her a look filled with something that made her turn away with pink cheeks, although only those with a doujutsu would be able to see it. And so, it was at that moment Kabuto Yakushi made himself known.

And, offering his services to them, was promptly asked to tell them about Gaara no Sabaku and Naruto Sakamoto.

They were then told that Gaara had completed 17 C-rank missions and 1 B-rank and that he had come out of all of them without a scratch.

But when he came to "Naruto's" card, He saw that it kept fluctuating, and settled on image of a red-headed girl that Sasuke knew well. Kabuto was puzzled by this. He hadn't heard anything about the Hokage's lost daughter being in Iwa, not that he didn't see the correlation between the girl's disappearance and the sudden absence of hostility toward Konoha from the Rock village. It made sense, but there was no way that Iwa could have pulled it off, they were too brash and tended to look after they leaped. Of course, with the kid being who she was, that meant she was a Jinchuuriki, and that also meant that she could be a valuable tool in in taking down Konoha.

He only hoped that the Hokage didn't find out about it (Kabuto and his team weren't present at the meeting held earlier to announce that Akahana had been found, as they had been reporting to Orochimaru at the time).

Sasuke cleared his throat, bringing Kabuto back to the real world.

Looking around, he smiled sheepishly, and said, "Akahana Namikaze, eldest child of the Yondaime Hokage, is a water element user with high marks in Ninjutsu, Average marks in Genjutsu, High in Fuinjutsu, and again average Taijutsu. She is probably one of the strongest Genin here, and she's on the young side. She has been on 18 C-rank missions, 6 B-ranks, and 3 A-ranks, the most recent with her clashing with Konoha Shinobi in the Land of Waves where she fought under the orders of Gato who died during the final confrontation, along with many of his mercenaries. She is also known to possess the Shadow Clone Jutsu, but where she learned it is unknown, seeing as she grew up in Iwa. Also, she is reputed to be the only person besides Mito Senju to have earned the infamous Fox summoning contract, which is known to only be given to those chosen by the Kyuubi himself. In addition…"

He was going to continue but at that moment three Shinobi wearing hitai-ites with a musical note on the metals plates charged and the one impersonating a mummy threw his right fist forward and only just missed Kabuto, who managed to dodge, but despite this his glasses still cracked.

Right then the sound of multiple shunshin was heard and smoke filled the room as well as a loud yell.

"Alright you maggots listen up!" the shoutee immediately became known as the smoke cleared, and everyone saw a tall man wearing a black trench coat with a bandanna covering his hear and a scar going down the middle of his face. "There will be no fighting while I am in charge am I understood? Good. My name is Ibiki Morino and I am the proctor for the First Exam. Now step forward to find out where you're sitting. The First Exam is under way."

Everyone moved toward the chuunin surrounding Ibiki and got their seat number and went to sit down. Sasuke got his number and was sure that the Hokage had it set up so that this would happen, regardless of the fact that the Hokage had no idea who his little girl was henged to look like.

Leaning over, he whispered into Akahana's ear, "Hey beautiful, I see you're looking as lovely as ever."

Whatever possessed him to say that he didn't know, but the reaction he got was more than worth the embarrassment he was feeling as the henged girl turned as red as a tomato. Lucky for her no one noticed except for the person whose name was really Naruto, who seethed at the sight of an Uchiha flirting with his sister. I swear, if he comes anywhere near her after this I will personally castrate him. (Kushina had made a point of teaching her children how to defend against perverts, in his younger sister's case, and how to protect his sister, in Naruto's. Needless to say he was capable of carrying out his threat, or would that be promise?)

So, after passing out all the tests, the contestants were told that every time they were caught cheating, they would lose 2 points, and if they were caught five times they were out. They were also told that the final question would be revealed after 45 minutes had passed. And so it began.

Gaara released some sand and created a third eye and looked at the other people's work; Sasuke activated his Sharingan and copied the hand movements of the person in front of him; Kiba sent out Akamaru to check out someone else's work and see the answers before running back and telling him with quiet barks; Neji and Hinata used their Byakugan to see another person's answers; Shino sent out one of his bugs; Temari used her wind jutsu to swap someone else's paper with her blank one; Kankuro took his fake chuunin exam assistant and went to the bathroom and got the answers that way; Sakura just wrote the answers down being so smart she didn't need to cheat, meanwhile Ino used her mind possession jutsu to take over Sakura's body to get the answers; Tenten used angled mirrors; Lee suddenly shouted something about youth (its YOUTH!) and was able to swap with the person next to him while he covered his ringing ears; Shikamaru just laid his head down, finding it all too troublesome to bother with; Choji used his expansion jutsu to upset the table slightly allowing him to swap papers; Naruto, well, he just wrote down the answers, finding it wasteful to reveal one's abilities (beyond simple intelligence) so early on; And Akahana, well, she simple wrote the answers down as well, well, at least half of them she did, the other half she quietly used a replication jutsu to copy the answers from Sasuke's paper next to her.

And with that the First Exam was coming to a close: all that remained was the tenth question.

Ibiki, having just disqualified another team, wasn't happy with the results, he needed to get at least 6 teams to give up on the last question or else Anko would say he was losing his touch.

"Alright you maggots, listen up!" he began, causing some of the greener genin to jump in their seats, namely the members of Team 8 and 10 as well as those who hailed from Kumo. "Before I reveal the last question I have to tell you the rules." Here he started smirking maliciously, "Every question you answered before this one is useless, and if you don't pass this question you will remain a genin forever!"

"Nani!" Kiba yelled, "That's bull, you can't do that!"

"Yeah," a genin from Kiri shouted, "I've seen people who have taken it multiple times!"

Ibiki's smirk deepened, "That was before I was in charge, and I am now. If you back out now you can try again at the next Exam, but everyone who stays will have to put it all on the line."

It was at this point that people who's willpower wasn't strong succumbed to Ibiki's leaked KI, raised their hands were removed from the room apologizing to their teammates.

The count had just gone to two (it was slow going) when Kiba slammed his fist on the desk and shouted, "Hey, bastard! You can keep me as a genin for the rest of my life, but know this, as soon as this test is over, I will just go the next one in a different village and you can bet they'll let me compete! So bring on the last question!"

And so, after his rousing speech, people stopped putting up their hands, a new resolve burning in their eyes, and thus Ibiki was going to have a large group when Anko showed up.

But, sighing mentally, he had to make himself seem terrifying one last time, just to see who would break before passing them.

So, releasing his KI at max, he saw shivers running up the majority of the genins' spines, and scowled menacingly, and yet, despite all this, the young ninja held firm. "You all…" for whatever reason, lightning seemed to strike behind him, (however physically impossible that was, considering the intact ceiling)"Pass!" and the oppressive KI vanished.

Everyone started yelling as Ibiki explained what the final question was and then Anko broke through the window and announced the beginning of the Second Exam. Everyone raced off after her leaving the proctor and his assistants behind.

Still in the academy, Ibiki was going over the papers when he came across Neji Hyuuga's, and he frowned as he read the message hidden within. It seemed he had something Hokage-sama needed to read for himself.

I am so sorry for taking so long with this. School was awful and I just couldn't get the chapter going.

But now that the hard exam is over, the real fun will begin. Stay tuned for next time: The Second Exam Begins: Revelations