• Dark Dawn •

Ep 15 - Challenge (Arc 2)

(Arc 2 - Chunin Exams)

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Naruto

I see what he's trying to pull here. Naruto thought as he tapped his pencil on the table, resting his jaw on his hand, looking very bored as he considered the situation.

Naruto looked up at the proctor, Morino Ibiki, and stared at him with a lazy face. I've been gathering information on all of the ninja here. I remember his face. His profession as a ninja...if I remember correctly, it wasn't just an ordinary ninja since I remember him at all. Knowing that, it's obvious there's something sketchy going on. Do you remember who he is Kurama?

How am I supposed to know things like that?

Naruto scoffed. True enough.

He looked back down at his paper. The proctor Ibiki had told them that they had 10 points to start off with and ten questions to answer. Each question was worth one point. Getting one question wrong would mean having a point deducted from your original 10 points. Pass or failure will be determined by the total number of points in the three  people teams. If one of the members on the team gets zero points, the whole team would fail. Pretty high stakes here.

Naruto swiftly swept his eyes around the room. There were experienced ninja lined up everywhere, watching every applicants' move. If anyone showed sign of action of cheating or something similar to that, will have two points deducted for each act. The had an hour to finish the test, and the tenth question would only be revealed forty-five minutes into the test.

Naruto narrowed his eyes on Ibiki once again. He also mentioned that we should be exemplary shinobi if we aspire to become chunin.

Then it hit him. He rembered what Ibiki was well-known for. Interrogation.

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Sauske was staring hard at the questions. He smirked after thinking over the rules and looked at the questions. I don't understand a single question on this test.

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With Sakura, she intently read over the questions. I think that I might be the only few who could actually solve this problem on this room right now! I just hope that Sauske and Naruto know how to do these and not cheat. She put her hair behind her ear. This kind of system is practically inviting cheating.

They're making such a fuss over this whole thing. Sauske thought to himself.
It's like a trick that they're assuming we're going to cheat.

Just as he thought that, one of the many ninja sitting on the sidelines of the room wine down something on his paper.

Someone just got nailed. Sauske thought. Cheating deducts two points. Sauske returned his face to his paper. Ordinarily, being caught cheating results in immediate failure.

His head snaps up. He remembered what Ibiki said to them earlier. "Those who commit akward cheating will bring ruin among themselves. Shinobi should act like exemplary shinobi."

Naruto and Sauske came to the same conclusion simultaneously. This test isn't a test of achievements! It's a test of information gathering and concealment! The reason this system is practically inviting cheating is because they actually want you to cheat.