Sozen the Ghost Shinobi

Chapter Five

✦𝔽𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 ℙ𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕖✦

Shortly after the teams return, Sozen had a personal mission to deal with. After donning his fox mask, he decides to embark on a mission about the past. While his quest to find out more on the Fujimoto clan ran cold within the time he had. During which time, apparently the Chunin exams had been announced and ninja from other villages had started arriving. Naruto and Sasuke had happened to catch some Sand nin's attention for one reason or another and that was the daily gossip Sozen had missed.

The next day, Sozen again missed the action but reportedly Sakura got herself a fanboy from Team Guy. Sozen didn't mind the fact he was missing things, he was just getting annoyed that apparently, even the Hokage didn't know anything about his family and despite being two days in. Sozen was getting annoyed.

Then the next day, Sozen is informed of two things. First, his participation in the Chunin exam and second, his entrance as the only solo members as teams are supposed to be in threes. All present kage (reluctantly) agreed so as to aid the odd team that was Team Seven. When the groups arrive the next day... Team Seven is stunned to find that they are only three of over a hundred looking to become Chunin. They mingle with the members of Team Eight and Team Ten, members of the same graduating class, but the fact remains that they are mere rookies in comparison to the other examinees.

They are befriended by a shinobi called Kabuto Yakushi, who gives the groups advice and intel on the exams and its participants. Although this is meant to intimidate them, Naruto loudly promises that he will defeat all of them. Before the commotion could end, Kabuto draws attention to Sozen by somewhat yelling,

"It's the Leaf's Ghost Shinobi!" Kabuto seemed to be among one of the most informed here as many Leaf nin looked at Kabuto if he were dumb.

"I don't like that name," Sozen sighed from behind his mask.

"You're this Ghost Shinobi?" Naruto pulled a wildly unimpressed face before going on about beating Sozen.

By the looks in the room, Kabuto just raised the bar for Sozen and he was rather pissed. Meanwhile, Naruto earns angry looks for his words. With everything that happened, the room became quite busy with talk. To prevent the situation from escalating, the exam proctors, led by Ibiki Morino, appear and settle things down. Revealing that the first phase of the exams will be a written test, much to Naruto's dismay, the Genin are assigned seats. They are instructed to answer ten questions within half an hour. If anyone is caught cheating too often they will be disqualified, as will the rest of their team. The entire team will also be disqualified if any one member fails to pass the test, much to the dismay of Sakura and Sasuke.

As the test began, Sozen observed as the other Chunin went about and figured out their way of cheating without being caught. Judging from the looks on both Sasuke and Naruto's faces, they didn't know the answers. Sakura was quietly writing, likely knowing the answers from her intellect. Getting into the last five minutes, Sozen answered all the questions flawlessly.

When it came time for the final question of the test, it was to be an elimination question. Where the choice needed to be made, it was like an all for one situation. If you failed the question your team would fail and you'd remain a Genin forever. The proctor, Ibiki, offered everyone one last chance to leave before the test commenced.

Serval teams left, Sozen remained not really caring as he finished the test without cheating. When the question was about to start, Ibiki congratulated everyone. They had passed as it was a test of confidence and team resilience.

The team left, cheering that they made it to the second part. Deciding to go out for ramen, Sozen was invited to go with them. While Sozen did agree, he didn't know much about what ramen was like. It reminded him of a situation from long ago.