Akatsuki's Blood Blossom

TWEP II, TFODP I, Orochimaru Again

Akatsuki's Blood Blossom

Chapter 6

Re-cap

I shrugged my shoulders and watched Ino with mild interest, a grin formed on my face when she looked pissed that I never wrote anything and dispelled her jutsu. Hm, a Yamanaka, interesting. This may be more fun that what I thought.

End re-cap

The written exam part II

Sakura's P.O.V

I took my time to check out all the people who were still taking the exam. About thirty minutes has passed since the exam started and so far about seven teams have been disqualified for cheating. I take a moment to observe the jounin in the room; I recognize one of them as Genma Shiranui, the man who was at the gate. He must have felt my stare because he looked my way and winked before changing his line of sight. About three minutes later Kankuro had asked to use the bathroom, I shook my head, silently muttering 'idiot' under my breath. After about another ten minutes Ibiki spoke up again.

"Alright, now listen up. This last question can't be answered until I add another rule." Okay seriously! What's up with all these rules? Just then Kankuro walked back in with the 'jounin' who escorted him, "Ah welcome back, you're just in time. Now let me explain, this rule is absolute, first you must choose, to either answer or reject this question." The hell?

"What if we choose not to answer the question!?"

"Then you will fail along with your teammates."

"Then why would any of us reject the question in the first place!?"

"Because of the other rule," What? More rules? What more could he add? "If you choose to answer the question and get it wrong, then you will never be permitted to take the chunin selection exams again and remain a genin for the rest of your ninja career." A series of protests were heard, well I guess he could add that rule...

"You can't be serious! There are ninja who have taken the chunin exam more than once already, and they're here now!" Ibiki started to chuckle, and I'll admit it, it was kind of unnerving. "Well it's just your luck that I'm the one who made the rules for the exam this year. You can fail now and take the exam next year or the year after that. Now, I suggest that if you're afraid or have any doubts, you should leave. Now, who wants out?" I looked around the room and within seconds a hand goes up.

"Sorry guys, but I can't do this."

"Yeah me either."

"Same here."

"Yeah, let's go."

And so on and so forth, about five other hands went up after that and one by one they left. I suddenly saw Naruto's hand go up which rather surprised me but as soon as Ibiki was gonna call his number he slammed his hand down "Don't underestimate me! I won't quit or run! I'll accept the stupid question; I don't care if I have to remain a genin for the rest of my life! I'll still become Hokage one day, even if it's only by pure stubbornness! I will become Hokage!" After his little speech, it seemed to have made everyone else in the room more confident. And after Ibiki realized no one else was going to raise their hand he spoke again. "For the rest of you who are still here, you've just passed the first exam! Meaning all seventy-eight of you can move on to the second part of the exam."

"What do you mean we passed, what happened to the tenth question?"

"That was the tenth question, beyond the 'accept or reject' thing."

"So what, the other nine questions were just a waste of time?"

"No, the goal was to test your skills in spying, remember the rules at the beginning? You pass or fail as a team? With that rule I pressured you into thinking that if you did anything wrong you would bring you're teammates down with you. Most of these questions were difficult for even jounin to handle. Some of you reached that conclusion, and the only way to keep the points you had was to cheat." (I'm gonna skip all of this explanation thingy, too much to write.)