Even with his eyes closed and not using his ocular abilities, Daiki could literally feel the gazes on him after he pulled his little punch and snatch.

Even Kankuro at his side was outright gaping at him for a few seconds before buckling down and getting back to his own test.

It took him a few more minutes into the test to realise something though, '…I need to wait a full hour for this to end.' he grimaced.

A total waste of time. That was time he could be using for training. Sure, there were quite a few people around that he knew as well…but he couldn't exactly talk to them to pass the time, seeing as it was an exam after all and no talking was allowed between people.

…Why did he think taking these exams instead of just accepting his promotion was a good thing?

Resisting the urge to sigh, Daiki channelled chakra through his eyes and peered through his eyelids, idly letting his head loll back and forth as if bopping to a tune only he could hear.

He was really just taking the time to examine everyone and see what they were up to.

As it turned out…not a lot.

Neji and Hinata he could see easily, had their Byakugan activated and were already copying answers down from someone else…possibly even from him. Sasuke had his Sharingan activated and it looked like he was copying the movements of a guy a few tables down from him.

Gaara was using his sand eye, which was interesting, but nothing Daiki could replicate himself.

Honestly, the most interesting was probably Tenten. She'd somehow got a mirror onto the roof without anyone noticing and was manipulating it with ninja wire, hiding the wire in the flashes of light coming from the ceiling lightbulbs above. Not only was she getting the answers for herself, she was manipulating the mirror for Lee to see up into as well.

Lee was lucky Tenten was on his team, or he'd be up shit creak without a paddle like Naruto i-

Just then, four small rock walls rose up around the area where Naruto was at, blocking him and the two beside him from view.

It caused quite the commotion, and two of the chunin proctors quickly smashed the walls apart, only to reveal Naruto, a massive grin on his face, and the two guys beside him, both unconscious.

Daiki only managed to catch sight of two wisps of smoke and just barely thanks to his eyes behind the two unconscious examinees.

And with no proof Naruto did it, they couldn't deduct points from him either.

'Huh…was that the Earth Style: Barrier Jutsu I showed Sasuke?' Daiki blinked.

So Sasuke actually did teach it to Naruto. 'How the hell did he make four walls at once?' he wondered for a moment.

Shadow clones maybe? It was definitely shadow clones that knocked the two beside him out at the very least.

…Interesting, Naruto actually got the answers on his own merit because of a jutsu he'd shown Sasuke and offhandedly mention teaching to Naruto.

That was new. And something He'd need to keep his eye out for, Naruto went stupidly far with a limited amount of jutsu under his belt, he got exponentially more threatening for each single jutsu he gained and played with to make a stupid amount of variations with.

…Also Naruto just totally copied what he did. Visual learner indeed. It probably helped that Naruto actually had the balls to go through with something like that in the first place as well.

Probably a good thing he did as well, since he wasn't beside Hinata this time around.

Still, now it was back to boredom.

He couldn't even just send messages to Fu and chat with her to pass the time either. While nobody else could get the message of the Wave Transmission Jutsu if he attuned it to her chakra, they'd still be able to sense his chakra, and he'd get pulled up for assumed cheating, maybe.

There were others blatantly abusing chakra, but Ibiki specifically had his eyes on Daiki, his eyes kept coming back to him and examining him. Why, he didn't know, probably to do with his blatant cheating and abusing of the rules, but either way he didn't want to push his luck, he didn't know if the guy was a sensor ninja or not.

He was distracted for a moment, by his seatmate calling out that he needed to go to the bathroom, and one of the proctors who had been silent up till now, standing up from where he was sitting and agreeing to take him.

Daiki's eyes sharpened behind his eyelids with interest.

From Kankuro's fingers, thanks to his eyes, he could see strings of chakra travelling along to the Chunin…

Who was not a Chunin at all, but rather a puppet in disguise.

He already knew that of course, but his interest was piqued by the Chakra Strings themselves.

'So that's how you use them.' Daiki mused, watching keenly how the other boy manipulated his chakra to create them.

He was compressing his chakra at the tenketsu in his finger tips, making it a near tangible, physical thing. He could only see the strings thank to his eyes, but now he had a very good idea on how they were created.

Lowering one of his hands out of view, Daiki focused chakra at the tip of his index finger and decided to try and copy him.

It took a few seconds, but compressing his chakra at the tenktsu and forcing it out, was quite easy. His training with chakra flow and creating elemental chakra made it a cinch actually.

A thin strand of chakra extended out of his fingertip.

And flopped around uselessly like a wet, slimy noodle dangling from a tree branch during a windy day.

…Well, he had the technique down at least. He just had to train with it to get proper control with it, that was all.

He already had a good idea of how it worked by sticking to and controlling things as well, he assumed it was an application of the surface walking technique…

"Alright maggots, pencils down!" Ibiki called out thunderously, bang on the second the clock at the front of the classroom hit five, "Turn your test papers over, it's time for the tenth question."

A wide, malicious grin spread across his face and he looked all around the room, making sure everyone's attention was on him, "Now, the tenth question has some special rules, very special rules," he said before pausing, letting a tense silence build up before continuing, "Simply speaking, you can choose to leave right now, but if you decide to stay and take the tenth question, if you get it wrong, you fail and so do your teammates. If you leave, your teammates have to go with you.

It's all or nothing, especially since, if you fail the tenth question after deciding to stay, none of you will ever be allowed the chance to be promoted again."

All around him, Daiki could see many lock up in shock, go wide eyed and more, a variety of shocked and horrified expressions being directed at the man.

"You can't do that!" someone near the front spluttered, voicing his complaints.

"Yeah, he's right! You're just a Leaf ninja, you don't have the power!" another agreed, and moments later, there was a chorus of shouting and agreement from others spread throughout the room.

"SILENCE MAGGOTS!" Ibiki roared, killing intent flooding the room and shutting them up instantly. Daiki had to withhold a whistle, it was some pretty nasty killing intent the man had developed, though it didn't even come close to the mere presence Isobu gave off when he first met the Bijuu, "Your little peanut brains might not understand, but I have all the power here. All your leaders agreed to this the second they sent you here, this is my exam, and if you talk back to me one more time, every person who opens their mouth gets automatically stamped in the face with a big fat F for failure."

And they shut up real quick at that, not a single one willing to open their mouths after that.

The tension in the air was heavy as shit, Daiki could even see one kunoichi trembling just in front of him.

"I'm sorry!" she exclaimed, pushing up to her feet and looking around, presumably for her teammates, "But I can't be stuck as a genin forever!"

"Fail!" Ibiki barked, "Now get outta here you trash." he jerked his thumb at the door, making the kunoichi and her two teammates trudge out sullenly.

They were not the only ones, bit by bit, over the period of a minute, more and more gave up and trudged out of the room like little bitches.

Well, not many more will leave. After all, Naruto should be about to light a fire under their asses and get them motivated.

….More teams got up and left.

The seconds ticked by.

Naruto didn't speak up, in fact, a quick glance back at the blonde let Daiki see that the blonde was smirking smugly, arms crossed, completely immune to the oppressive atmosphere within the air.

'Naruto's not speaking up!' Daiki's eyes went wide.

Why?

No wait…was it because of him?

Naruto got all his answers this time around, thanks to the jutsu Sasuke got from Daiki himself and Daiki telling Naruto to cheat and working as an example for him to learn from!

That meant…!

His eyes flickered to a few tables behind Naruto, where Sakura sat. The cute pink haired girl was trembling, face pale, her eyes locked onto the back of Naruto himself.

He pushed chakra into his eyes and focused on her, '- Always acting like a fool who only knows one thing, Hokage, Hokage you always go on about. I'm sorry Naruto, that impossible dream of yours that means so much to you…I don't want to see it crushed.'

Her thoughts echoed through to his mind and Daiki grimaced. Both Sasuke and Naruto were in front of her, so they couldn't see her either.

She was totally dead set on giving up, though not for herself, or even Sasuke, but for Naruto, to protect his dream.

His respect for the girl went up a notch. She was looking like a real four out of ten now.

…But if he didn't do something, she was going to get them all disqualified.

For a moment, the thought went through to. To let her. If they weren't in the examines, Orochimaru couldn't mark Sasuke.

…Only then he realised that nothing stopped him from just following Sasuke to his house and doing it then. He was already in the village.

And if they didn't go through with this, they wouldn't get the training they did in the month leading up to the final round. They'd be vastly weaker. Daiki himself would probably have to deal with Gaara…

If that happened, there was literally nothing he could do to help out proper during the Crush to avoid the Sandaime dying. Not unless he full on wanted to reveal everything in his hat and go full Isobu Bijuu Mode and wreck shit.

And even then, it would make Naruto and Sasuke weaker over all for later, when shit really hit the fan.

Fucking hell…such a little thing could cause so many damn ripples!

Daiki ground his teeth for a moment, before sighing and deciding to intervene himself.

He placed his hand down out of view and concentrated, a rippling wave of chakra leaving his palm and spreading back through the room just as Sakura's arm began to raise.

'Calm down Sakura, it's a test, trust me, don't go giving up, you're better than that.' he transmitted through the Wave Transmission Jutsu.

Sakura froze a split second later, eyes widening minutely before her head whipped from Naruto's back to look at him.

She stared at him and he gave her a smirk, before winking and turning around.

'Daiki…you're speaking in my head?' Sakura's inner thoughts reached him.

'It's a jutsu I picked up and costs a lot of chakra, so just listen okay?' he transmitted.

'…Are you sure?' she fretted.

'Don't worry that nice and perky round ass of yours, Ibiki is talking shit, he doesn't have the power he's claiming he does, he's testing everyone's mettle here, basically, if you can't put your rank, a little thing like that on the line as a ninja, then you aren't qualified to be one.' he told her.

'…I see…wait, the hell do you mean perky round ass you pervert?!' she spluttered.

His smirk grew and he glanced over his shoulder at her, 'Well, it's a nice ass and those spandex shorts you like to wear show it off pretty well.' he transmitted once more, before cutting off his line to her thoughts.

Her cheeks went as pink as her hair and those green eyes of hers glared at him.

He turned back around and ignored her glare.

Heh, worth it.

Thankfully from there, things progressed much in the same way they had in the other timeline from what he remembered, Ibiki passing everyone who stuck around and explaining the point behind the tenth question, most getting riled up and pissed off, and then him taking off his bandana to show off his skull, wrought with scar tissue, burn marks and holes from outright screws being screwed into his head.

It was a horrifying sight, much more horrifying in person and Daiki had to admit, the fact the man endured that kind of torture and escaped to come back in person, was worthy of admiration.

Ibiki was a real badass for sure. Not as badass as Daiki himself, but a badass nonetheless.

..Actually, if he remembered right, it was Rokusho Aoi that tortured him like that before abandoning the village and joining the Hidden Rain.

Daiki made a mental note to torture that traitorous fuck head and go full on Tobirama on his ass if he ever found him, maybe shove the Raijin down his throat and electrocute him from the inside out while he was at it.

He was broken from his thoughts by a speedy black blur smashing through the window, glass raining across the classroom.

The black blur unravelled into a banner with white letters, while landing on her feet before it, was Anko Mitarashi, and dayum what a body that lady had on her.

The mesh under her open trench coat was a lot thicker than he thought it would be, so her skin underneath wasn't in full view, but it didn't hide any of her shape at all, he could easily make out every contour of her breasts despite the thickness of the mesh, and damn did she have some big titties, she even had Kurenai beaten out.

"You fools, this is no time to be celebrating!" Anko barked, eyes narrowed into a furious glare, "My name is Anko Mitarashi, the proctor for the second exam, now follow me!"

Nobody moved, just staring at the woman that appeared out of nowhere and started making demands.

Daiki mentally shrugged and stood up, time to get a move on. 'I could have sworn she said something about being sexy and single at some point.' he thought.

She was a lot more hardcore here it seemed.

Or was he just actually remembering wrong?

As he got up, others took it as their cue and copied him.

"Hey, Ibiki, the hell is this?" Anko glared at the bald first proctor, "There's a full damn twenty six teams left, you goin' easy on them or something?"

Ibiki shrugged and gave a snort, "We've got a few interesting ones this time around." he replied vaguely, eyes meeting Daiki's for a moment before looking away.

Anko followed his gaze and met Daiki's eyes as well, one eyebrow raising up. "That so?" she grunted.

How unladylike.

Them tits though.

Sakura had quite the stink eye for him when they all left the academy behind. And it probably wasn't helped by the fact that he was behind her the entire way.

The pink haired girl kept looking over her shoulder and scrunching her face up into a pouty glare, which was not at all intimidating. It was all the more amusing when taken into account that she was trying to 'subtly' keep her arms crossed behind her back, with her palms hanging over her backside to hide it from view.

Both because one, her top already came down over her shorts, so unless it was really windy or she was pulling some acrobatic movements, it would block her spandex clad booty from view. And second, her hands were much too small to hide the dump truck she had back there.

Either way, it gave him a good little laugh.

That may have incensed her a little bit more.

Oh well.

It didn't take long before they all arrived at training ground forty four, a few stragglers taking a bit longer than the rest to make it, mostly foreign teams who didn't know the layout of the village well.

…The last to arrive being a certain grass team.

Daiki didn't even bother giving them any special attention. He already knew what he needed to know after all.

Instead, he was much more interested in how unpredictable someone could be, by being utterly predictable.

When Anko saw that everyone had arrived and began explaining the specifics of the second exam and the Forest of Death, Naruto decided to loudly run his mouth about how unafraid he was of the place.

Leading to a familiar sequence of events, kunai slicing cheek, hot lady licking the blood from the cut from behind a second later and a certain grass ninja creeping up to hand the kunai back…with their tongue.

'Maybe I should have bragged instead?' Daiki mused as he filled in the waiver he'd been handed by one of the chunin proctor helpers, sure he'd have to downplay his abilities for it to go the same, but them tits though, and Anko had been pressing them right up against the back of the lucky blonde's head.

…Was that Naruto's plan all along? It would make sense, since he hadn't expected him to run his mouth when he hadn't at the end of the first exam.

If so, he had to hand it to Naruto. He deserved a pat on the back for that move. He'd give him one later.

He met the blonde's eye and gave him a thumbs up.

Naruto gave him a confused look, before grinning right back at him and flashing him a thumbs up in return.

Daiki nodded, before looking away.

His eyes drifted to the booth that had been set up in front of the Forest of Death, where each team would enter, hand over their waiver that had them consenting to the fact that Konoha was not going to be held accountable if they died a miserable and pathetic death in the forest and be given either an earth or heaven scroll.

He hadn't really been paying attention to the teams entering and leaving, he'd be picking his target once everyone was ready…

But his interest was definitely piqued by the team that made their way out at that second.

Looking at them, they didn't seem all that impressive. A pair of dull haired boys, one with grey hair, another with light lavender, one tall and thin, the other shorter than Daiki and very pale, almost unhealthily so.

It was the girl that grabbed his interest though. She looked to be a few years older than him, probably around sixteen at the most, with fair skin and a dusting of freckles over the bridge of her nose, a pair of cute lavender eyes and brown hair tied up into a ponytail with two strands hanging over her forehead. She wore a pink blouse, with a turquoise and red patterned dress, which she filled out quite nicely, while a pair of pink chaps drew the eye to her long fair skinned legs.

She was cute for sure, and he liked her hairstyle a lot, like Anko's, but cuter, more peppy. It wasn't her looks that really drew him in though, it was that he recognised her, and the symbol on the headband around her forehead.

She was from Hoshigakure, the Village Hidden In The Stars, and if he remembered right, she was the chick that ended up with a crush on Naruto. He remembered her specifically, because she was pretty stand out in attitude, had been willing to stand against her village leader and all the gathered shinobi of her village to stand up for her friends and Naruto and such.

'The Mysterious Peacock Method, huh?' Daiki mused, pushing chakra into his eyes and examining the girl and her teammates. Their chakra was much more dense and powerful than most people here, well above the rank and file fodder.

It came at a cost of course, the girls two teammates, their chakra was fluctuating pretty consistently, and damaging their coils, one of them even had the their chakra itself growing so out of alignment it was forming patches of chakra on his skin that was damaging his body.

'The seal I've been working on for the Stone of Gelel might work on that meteorite as well.' he mused. He'd designed it with the help of Isobu specifically making his Bijuu chakra harmful to him, to filter out any harmful properties and purify it into something beneficial.

He put them out of mind for the moment as he was called over to the booth to grab his scroll.

Anko looked up at him as he entered from where she was sitting, before an eyebrow raised, "Well, look who it is," she smirked, "If it ain't mister special himself, the kid with the eyes of the Hokage himself."

Huh, she knew him? Well, he supposed quite a few people would now, "…How many people know about me now because of this mess?" he asked.

"Oh a ton, most of the top Jonin and Chunin were at the meeting where the Hokage put you up to take this exam by yourself, even a bunch of Clan Heads," Anko freely admitted, crossing her arms under that amazing bust of hers before looking him up and down, "Gotta admit, not really sure what the big deal is, but I suppose I'll see if you're worth the hype through this exam." she mused, dismissively.

…Well, it wasn't like she'd ever seen him in action and he was a Genin Corps member still, so he could understand the thought.

It still grated on his pride though to have such a hot ass bodacious babe of a woman dismiss him like that though. Actually, it grated in general.

"Kurenai-sense thought the same, and we all know how that went." he shrugged, a smirk of his own appearing on his face.

Anko blinked before she snorted, "Not really, that bitch has been right tight lipped about what went down when she tested you, she pretty much just keeps repeating the same thing, that you're definitely good enough," the purple haired beauty shook her head, "Honestly, the way she's acting, it's just like how she did when she got drunk stupid and let some idiot talk her into their bed."

Daiki blinked, and wasn't sure how to respond to that.

"…Oh you've got to be kidding," Anko face palmed and groaned, apparently that reaction of his was enough for her to infer enough, "That stupid slut fucked you didn't she?"

…Wow, that was a lot of vitriol there. Weren't they supposed to be close friends or something or was he misremembering something?

"I mean, she told me not to tell anyone, but yeah," Daiki shrugged, unable to stop the smirk on his face from growing with pride, "I wasn't interested in her little test for me at all, she was nothing to me. She got all huffy when I did though and decided to bet her body against me in her little test because she caught me checking her out, and I kicked her ass and had some fun with her."

Since Anko already guessed, he didn't see any point in hiding it.

The former apprentice of the Snake Sannin, burst out laughing, "Oh that's amazing!" she guffawed, leaning over and slapping her knee in pure amusement, "This is the best thing I've heard in ages. She's been acting all haughty since she got promoted to full Jonin and here she is getting fucked by some genin kid."

"Are you not friends with her?" Daiki found himself asking, her pure amusement out of it was throwing him for a loop.

Anko scoffed, "Me and her? As if, we're comrades, but that's it, I'm not a fan of that haughty attitude of hers, that girl needs a reality check, she has no idea how stupidly strong the real monsters of this world are," she retorted, before grinning at him again, "I suppose you must have given her a bit of one, eh kid?"

"I mean if you count me beating her in less than a minute and then fucking her silly all night long until she passed out, then waking her up, making her suck my cock and then kicking her out so I could get back to my training as giving her a reality check…" Daiki rattled off, before shrugging his shoulders, "Then yeah, I gave her a real hard reality check."

"Damn," Anko huffed in amusement, "This will be great to hold over her head the next time she acts all uppity and thinks she's better than most of us and on the same level as Kakashi of all people."

Hmm, he gave his word about not telling people so her reputation wouldn't get a black mark, he was only loose lipped here because Anko guessed correctly….but he should probably make at least a token effort to defend his fuck buddy.

"I mean, it wouldn't have changed all that much if you were in her place," Daiki pointed out with a shrug, "I'd still kick your fine ass just the same as her, and I'd plough you silly just the same, I'd just enjoy it more." his eyes blatantly drifted to her large round breasts stretching out her mesh shirt, with her crossing her arms like that and squeezing them up, he could just about make out her skin underneath the thick mesh.

"You think so?" Anko smirked at him, unbothered by the claim, or his ogling eyes, in fact, she tightened her crossed arms, pushing her breasts up even more for his gaze, "You're a real cocky brat, huh?"

"Hugely cocky," he shot back, baring his teeth at her challengingly, "Biggest Kurenai ever had by far if the way she was squealing and shouting about how amazing my cock was, is anything to go by."

The situation was sending blood rushing to his groin rapidly. He had to shift his hips a bit to make his dick harden down the length of his leg so it didn't tent out his pants like Manda had transformed into a giant spear.

"Must be pretty big then if that slut says so, going by how many guys she's fucked," Anko shrugged and stood up, before blatantly reaching forward and cupping his crotch, whistling as she got a feel for what he was packing, "Well, you're not lying at all huh kid, pretty damn impressive."

Hs fingers twitched and he had to resist the desire to reach out and cup one of her breasts, "You wanting the same treatment Kurenai got then?" he raised a brow at her.

"Nah, I'm good," Anko shrugged and just as suddenly, her hand was gone from his dick and she held a white coloured scroll up for him to take, "I'll take your word for it, if you can give that haughty Genjutsu bitch the fucking of her life, I don't doubt you could for me as well, seeing as I'm a virgin and all and have no experience in that department, but I'm not interested, waiver please." a shit eating grin appeared on the woman's face.

Daiki just stared at her, there was a lot to unpack there. For one, what a fucking tease, for two…Anko was a virgin?! Going around dressed like that.

Woodenly, he handed the waiver over to her and accepted the Heaven Scroll, "…What am I supposed to do with this?" he deadpanned, gesturing to his crotch.

"Not my problem kid, you should get a handle on your hormones," Anko shrugged, "If it bothers you so much, just find a kunoichi in the forest and have your way with her, though keep it to the foreign ones eh? That girl that left with her team before you, the Star Girl, she was pretty cute, why not hunt her down and grab her? If you can beat a Jonin, Kurenai or not, you should have no problem taking her and her team down."

…Did…did she just tell him to go rape foreign kunoichi to get his rocks off?

He left the booth a minute later, his Heaven Scroll stored in his Dimension Force Seal in a bit of a daze.

He'd almost forgotten since returning with Isobu…

Just how brutal a world this was.

And that's us back again with chapter 21

Still quite a few people sperging over the Kurenai stuff, and quite a few actually mass pm flaming me and crap, they seem to think Kurenai is this mysterious ice queen because of fanon portrayals, when she's nothing of the sort and is actually more of a party girl canonically who likes to get drunk every single night. And she was a cunt early on in the series, an incompetent cunt at that in the anime expansion fillers.

Well anyway, we're moving on to the second part of the exam and a lot of shit goes down here. We're currently up to chapter 29 on the Pa-atreon, and I'll be working on Chapter 30 today as well

Anyway, again, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.