41 Chunin Exam Part 3

"Hey, why don't you show us what you have on us?" Kibo asked with a mischievous smile.

"Why would I keep notes on some rookies who haven't even made a name for themselves?" Kabuto answered with a question of his own.

"We've made a name for ourselves!" Sakura shouted.

"Then maybe you shouldn't be asking me to reveal your stats in a room full of competitors," Kabuto followed up.

"He's got a point there," Hinata said while patting a depressed Sakura.

"Darn it! Why'd did that have to make so much sense. I thought it would be okay to show off a little," Sakura said before Naruto started laughing.

"I hear ya, Sakura. What's the point of doing so well if we can't gloat about it a little."

Naruto then took a deep breath in before shouting, "Listen up you guys, my name is Uzumaki Naruto, and none of you can beat me. You hear me?!"

Every Nin in the room shot stares of death towards Naruto as he just shrugged off their killing intent with a grin and a middle finger.

"You tell em, Naruto!" Karin shouted.

"What's wrong with him?" Ino shouted at an embarrassed Sakura.

In response, Sakura hid her face from the crowd before storming over to Naruto.

Sasuke shook her head in an, eh, what can you do kind-of manner while Hinata smiled and said "Naruto's so cool."

"Naruto are you a Baka? You just made everyone in the room your enemy! Man what a drag, he even got me mixed up in their stares." Shikamaru said shaking his head.

Choji laughed and said while eating his chips, "I think Naruto's best like this."

Before Naruto could hold his head up high, Sakura started choking Naruto from behind and shouting, "Can you not draw the attention to yourself just this once in your life."

Sakura then looked to the crowd and laughed as she dragged Naruto closer to the group, "Don't mind our friend, it's just how he deals with nerves."

As the pink-haired Kunoichi continued to scold him, a trio of Sound Nin made their moves against the group leaf ninja.

However, as they made their move to attack Kabuto, they found themselves blocking three expertly aimed Shurikens.

The Sound Nin jumped back and stared at Kibo who was flipping a Shuriken around his finger like a coin.

"You should find your seat. The class will be starting soon," Kibo declared, making them look like fools.

Kabuto turned and smiled at Kibo before giving the thumbs up and saying, "Thanks for the assist."

Kibo smiled back and responded, "No problem. I'm sure you'd do the same."

The Sound Ninjas looked at one another for what to do next.

Their leader was wearing bandages covering most of his face, leaving only his left eye uncovered. He wore a large poncho with long sleeves, with snake spot patterned scarf around his neck. Protruding out of his of the back of his raincoat, was a straw rain-catcher that made him look like a hedgehog.

For leggings, he wore loose baggy snake spot pants were tucked neatly into his strapped boots, and lastly, on his arms were holed gauntlets that covered his fingerless gloves.

The Leader of the Sound Nin stood hunched over. Which made him look smaller than he actually was.

The male Sound Nin next to him had spiky, black hair and dark eyes. He wore a beige shirt with two black stripes and three prints of the kanji for death down the front.

His forehead protector had an attached happuri under the cloth rather than connected to the metal plate, resembling Yamato's, and like both his teammates, he wore snake-patterned baggy pants and a scarf and around his neck.

The last sound Nin was a female. She had fair skin and onyx black eyes. Her black hair was long, almost reached the ground, and had a violet ribbon tied near the bottom of it.

She wore a forehead protector, a pale green vest somewhat similar to a flak jacket, and snake patterned pants and scarf, much like her teammates.

"Everyone take your seat!" A loud voice boomed throughout the room as an explosion of smoke appeared in front of the class.

Suddenly, a group of Shinobi appeared from out of the fog.

The man leading them stepped forward and then spoke with a sense of authority as he said, "Sorry for the wait. My name is Ibiki Morino, and I will be your instructor for this part of the exam."

Ibiki had a large imposing figure, he had two vicious-looking scars running across his face.

One almost spanned the entire length of the left side of his face as it ran from the top of his head, around his eye, and over his lips.

The other was on the right bottom side of his cheek and ran at a diagonal angle that was close to his nose.

The wounds were made with some kind of blade, as they had to be because the scars were small and sharp on the ends.

He was wearing a darker version of the standard uniform of the Intelligence Division, which consisted of a grey long sleeve button up coat, a black leather belt, and thick leather boots. Over their attire, he wore a black trench coat, thin black gloves, and had a capped-off bandanna that hid the top of his head.

His appearance was frightening, to say the least. But it was his eyes that stood out the most.

Ibiki was one of Konoha's most experienced interrogators, and he has served Konoha with the utmost loyalty. His sharp and focused eyes reflected his status as a veteran quite well.

He explained the rules and made everyone sit down. As they began, Naruto didn't look as freaked out as he did in the original canon.

He had turned a clone into a fly on the window and answered what he could.

Kibo didn't even bother, he just answered them all for kicks, then drew a cartoonish version of himself with his pants around his ankles. The caricature was facing away from Ibiki with the caption bubble next to it saying, 'This test is lame.'

He then proceeded to take a nap until the examination was over. Near the end, one of the watchers threw a Kunai on top of a participant's test papers and said, "5 strikes you're out."

The man caught cheating and his entire team was led out of the room while hanging their heads in shame.

During this moment of distraction, Naruto released the fly clone and quickly filled in the answers he couldn't before.

Even he thought the stuff on the sheet was difficult, Naruto did his best and managed to fill up half the exam without cheating. However, everything else made absolutely no sense to him, if not for Kibo telling him this test was about cheating, and not being caught, Naruto would have received a failing grade.

Hinata was in a similar situation except for the fact she filled up 3/4ths of her sheet before she used her Byakugan to cheat her way through the last 30 questions.

Sakura managed to answer them all without cheating.

Karin used her third eye to cheat through all of it except for the medical section.

Sasuke used his Sharingan to mimic the pencil strokes of another intelligent Shinobi.

Kankuro also went to the bathroom during this time. While he took a leak, his puppet made sure he passed.

When he returned and wrote down all the answers Ibiki shouted, "Pencils down! Time for the tenth question."

Kibo woke up and yawned before saying, "About time!"

Ibiki thought Kibo was an amusing one for being so relaxed in his presence. He then smiled at Kibo as he continued to talk, "And before I ask the tenth question, I'll be adding an extra stipulation before saying it. Oh, and this rule, is absolute."

The tension in the class was peaking as he said, "But first, you must choose whether you're going to answer the question or not."

Temari stood before she started to shout, "What do you mean, choose? What happens if choose not to?"

Ibiki looked at her and responded in a darkened tone, "If you choose to reject answering my question, you and your team will lose all their points, and be failed before being removed from the premises."

Say what!? Why would anyone choose to reject answering?" The other Shinobi's in the room started barking.

"Because of the next rule. If you choose to accept the question and you fail to answer correctly, then you will not only fail, you'll be banned from ever taking the Chunin exams again!"

This time Kiba shouted out, "This is crazy! If that were true, then there wouldn't be so many Shinobi repeating the exams."

Ibiki started to chuckle as he looked to the remaining Ninja's and said, "It's just your shitty luck. That's how someone else did their job before me, these are my rules now."

He gave everyone a deathly glare before finishing his sentence, "I've been up-front and honest throughout this whole test. Now, those who want to give up, you best do it now and try your luck next year. Because after this, there's no turning back."

The whole classroom shuddered. Many of the Nin began dropping out, leaving only around a third of the original Genin that came to take the test.

Naruto was shaking as he loudly slapped his cheeks before shouting, "Never! I'm never giving up! I'll answer your stupid question! Even if I stay a Genin my whole life, I'll still become the Hokage! If I'm ready to die for that dream, what makes you think I'm scared of you? So let's get this over with, come on out with the answer!"

Ibiki looked at Naruto with a wry smile and asked, "Are you sure? There's no going back past this point."

Naruto gave a confident expression as he pounded his fist against his chest and said, "I never go back on my word! Being the biggest number one stubborn ninja is what I'm best at."

Ibiki nodded to the other watchers, a smile came across as he said, "Good choice! Congratulations to everyone remaining, you've all passed."

Everyone started freaking out and asking questions. The rabbling turned into loud garbled non-senes before Ibiki calmed them with a shout.

Ibiki then answered their inquiries as he explained that the test was to determine how well they gathered information and their ability to hide their methods.

The yes or no question was just to make them understand the importance of what it means to accept a mission. For when they lead a squad, it's their teammates' lives that are affected by the decisions the Chunin has to make.

To prove his point, Ibiki removed his head protector and showed it was riddled with scars, depressions, and burns.

The Sound Nin Dosu thought, "Cool, I bet his hands are even worse. Though, that's what he gets for being dumb enough to get caught. That will never happen to me of course."

As Ibiki finished showing what could go wrong if they were captured, he then answered all their questions about the test to the best of his ability.

When all of the sudden, the nearby window broke. As glass fell to the ground, a sign was held up by a few well-thrown Kunai while a fairly tall woman who had a busty slender frame appeared.

Behind her, was the cloth sign that had the words, 'Newly Arrived Second Chief Exam Officer Mitarashi Anko' painted in thick black ink.

She stood in front of everybody so they got a good look at her. The female Nin had light brown pupil-less eyes. Her hair was black blue tint and is styled in a short, spiky, fanned-ponytail.

She wore a revealing fitted mesh body-suit that covers her from her neck down to her thighs. Over this, was a tan overcoat with a purple in-seam and a pocket on each side, and below her hips, she wore a dark orange mini-skirt, with a dark blue belt, and pale grey shin guards.

In addition to the typical forehead protector, she also wore a small pendant that looks like a snake fang, and a silver wristwatch.

"None of you are in any position to celebrate! I'm the second exam officer Mitarashi Anko! Time's 'a' wasting! Come on let's go~oo!" Anko shouted while pumping her hand into the air.

An eerie silence coursed throughout the atmosphere in the classroom.

Ibiki then appeared from out behind the flag and said, "Can't you read the mood?"

Anko had a very embarrassed look on her face for a few seconds as she rubbed the back of her head. However, when she looked to the crowd and saw so many surviving candidates, Anko turned to Ibiki and said, "A third of the applicants still remaining? Ibiki you're losing your touch."

Ibiki smiled and responded while shaking his head, "Not at all. This year we have some promising youths."

"Yeah right! I'll cut them down to half! Just thinking about it riles me up!" Anko let out a very scary face as the rest of the crowd's perspiration fell down their brow.

"Alright I'll explain the rules, you guys just follow me!" Anko cheered as she led the Shinobi out of the examination room.

While the crowd left, Ibiki began picking up the test results. When he saw Kibo's paper, his eyes widened as he thought, "Did he figure it out?" Impossible! All his answers are right? He didn't spend more than a few minutes on it!"

Meanwhile, Anko escorted the group to a giant gated-off forest.

Large locks and seals could be seen strewn throughout various sections of the barrier. The trees were grown so high that they blotted out most visible light from the sun.

Those with better vision could see strong Chakra monsters in the distance, waiting for their next meal.

Anko turned her head back and grinned before saying, "The location for the second test is here! At the Forest of Death."

Everyone was chatting about the size of the trees, monsters, and sounds coming from the forest when Anko said, "This is one of Konoha's most dangerous training grounds, and your all about to find out why we call this the Forest of Death."

Naruto started mocking her, by repeating her in a childish tone.

Anko grinned before she threw a Kunai in his direction.

Naruto dodged it, and as he hid behind Sasuke, the blond ninja shouted, "I dare you to try that again."

As he hid behind Sasuke's and tempted Anko, Sasuke turned around and pushed him off while saying "Lay off dweeb."

At the moment of their separation, Anko appeared beside both of them and put her arms around their shoulders.

A Kunai appeared at their throats, and as a single drop of blood appeared from the boys' necks, she licked her lips and said, "Cocky ones always die first."

Before Anko could take the joke any further, a man appeared and held out the Kunai that she threw earlier.

He used his 3 plus foot long tongue to return it before saying, "You dropped this."

Anko took back the Kunai and said, "Thanks, but could you not stand behind me while radiating such killing intent? Unless you wanna die?"

The long-tongued fellow pulled his muscular organ back into his mouth before saying, "I'll try, but seeing blood always riles me up! Especially after your Kunai cut a piece of my precocious hair. None the less, I'll try to keep it under control."

He backed off and moved next to his team.

Naruto and Sasuke rubbed their necks with chills down their spines as Anko started up again.

"Looks like we got some hot-blooded fellows this year." Anko pulled a stack of papers and shouted, "Alright before we begin you all have some waivers to sign, these are consent forms."

Naruto peeked over at the papers and asked, "Why do we need consent forms?"

Anko had a childish grin on her face as she said, "We wanna cover all angles before the first death occurs. So sign before you enter. You wouldn't want cute little me to be liable for when you die. I don't want to be held responsible after all."