Chapter-29: Chunnin exam begins!

There were a lot students sitting inside the exam hall right now.

The 1st part of the chunnin test was going on and was about to end.

"That's it. STOP WRITING!" Morino Ibiki said in a commanding tone.

"The last question will decide the future of your team. Answer it wrong and you and your team will be a genin for rest of your life."

This shocked everyone.

The tension was in air was so thick that you could cut it.

"I think we should give up. The risk isn't worth it." A boy in green hoodie said.

Suddenly everyone started discussing and a lot of people started leaving the exam hall.

"All right! Are you all sure that you don't want leave now? Remember, answer the question wrong and your whole ninja career will be ruined." Morino Ibiki said as he circulated his chakra a little.

After torturing prisoners for a long time and being tortured a lot himself, his chakra felt...scary to the most.

After this went for a few seconds, he stopped circulating his chakra and said, "So the last question is..."

"...You all pass the test." He said as he removed his bandana to reveal his head, which was riddled with holes and scars.

"This test is supposed to tell how you would work in unimaginable pressure like dragging your teammates down and cracking from pressure or working your way coolly and calmly? It's an important characteristic sought in chunnins. One wrong move under pressure and whole team cracks. This is what happens to people who get captured. Remember it." Ibiki said as he pointed towards his head.

Everyone was somewhat relieved but suddenly a wild Anko appeared after breaking through a window.

"It's no time to relax! Come on and let's proceed with the next part of the exam! Come to the location by evening!" Anko said in a happy go lucky way as she flickered away.

Students were surprised because of her but no one questioned her much and everyone relaxed for now as they discussed everything with their teammates.

Naruto who was being controlled by Kazuya currently was sporting a bright smile on his face and walking along with his teammates.

Up until now, his plan of cutting short the exam candidates was working and he was the one who incited everyone to leave while signaling his own team to not give up.

This cut off a lot of candidates and only 16 teams remained which was considerably low than what was in original series.

As he was talking to his team about what to do next, a boy with a bowl cut and green spandex jumped in the air and confronted them.

"Uchiha Sasuke! I'd like to fight you!" He said but the team didn't even bother giving him attention and walked past him.

"I said something! Is your youth so feeble that you won't even acknowledge my challenge?" Lee said with such passion that his eyes appeared as if they had flames.

Sasuke just sighed and said, "See...I already declined your challenge because of the exam. I am strong enough and I know it. Us engaging in a spar won't change anything and only exhaust both of us. But if you want..."

Sasuke cracked his knuckles as he activated his 2-tomoe sharingan "...I will indulge you-"

"Shut up." Naruto (Under Kazuya's control) Suddenly appeared.

"We talked about this, Sasuke. You work under my orders. Don't overstep your boundaries and exhaust yourself pointlessly." Kazuya said as he glared at Sasuke.

"But-" Sasuke tried to retort but Kazuya cut him off.

"Is becoming a chunnin important to you or getting in a fight with another genin of our village?"

This time, Sasuke couldn't say anything.

"Yeah. That's what I thought. Now keep moving and discuss our plans with Sakura." Kazuya said.

Sasuke didn't say much but just left, swallowing his pride.

He needed to get stronger and this statement from Kazuya reminded him of his goal.

"As for you, Rock Lee. How about you fight after this exam? It won't kill you and I am sure your team could use your full strength. So how about assisting them and be a good teammate?" Kazuya said with a terrifying grin.

"U-uh-" Rock lee tried saying something but he was speechless.

He didn't have any retort as well.

"I am sure we will be meeting in the forest of death so you can test yourself there. Seee yaaa." Kazuya said as he walked away.

Kazuya couldn't let Sasuke be exhausted. He was really close to infecting all the ANBU and just some more progress was needed. Creating trouble now meant involvement of ANBU and jonins which will hinder his plans a lot.

After arriving at forest of death, Anko gave a short introduction on it.

"...Here. Sign these consent forms. From this point on, the danger level will be increased so you might die or something." Anko said with a smile.

"Death isn't funny and you intimidation tactics are stupid." Sakura said as she snatched the forms.

"Ohoho we have some feisty ones, don't we?" Anko said, still smiling.

She threw a kunai towards Sakura which grazed her arm and flickered behind her.

"People like you die first in such-" Anko said but suddenly felt cold kunai touching her stomach and neck.

One kunai was in hands of Sakura and the kunai on her neck was held by Kazuya, who was behind her, in the blind spot.

The kunai near her neck was scratching her neck very carefully, slicing her skin from her cheek and proceeding towards her neck but it stopped just before it hit any vital points. The wound wasn't too deep.

"Try to do that again and I will kill you. She would only stab you but I will cut the artery right near you neck and blood will go psshh. And I will also use your body parts as bait to get some wild game. I think I can handle cooking some snakes, can't I? After dealing with their poison, they are really delicious. You don't want to miss on it by die too early, do you?" Kazuya said with a terrifying grin of his own as he released a bit of Kyuubi's killing intent directed towards her.

This made Anko sent a deep chill in her spine as she got to know that the person she tried to threaten and use to intimidate was the Kyuubi's jinchuriki's teammate!

She messed up big time, unknowingly!

Under Kyuubi's Killing intent, she froze for a good 3 seconds, enough time for any decent ninja to kill her.

What can a half-baked jonin do against Kyuubi's killing intent?

Something that was accumulated for centuries!

She collected herself and responded, "Calm down, boy. I was just checking her-"

But she got cut off by Kazuya.

"I don't care. Either you remove yourself from this position or I will be jabbing this kunai right in your throat. I am craving for some bear meat as well. Their taste is too strong but I can handle it after some processing. I am sure they fall right into my trap if I use your guts as the bait."

Anko didn't argue further and removed herself from the position.

"Good. It was easy, wasn't it? Let's start the exam now, shall we?" Kazuya said as he threw a roll of bandage along with a cheap healing cream towards her and withdrew the killing intent as if it didn't exist in the first place.

He looked towards people who were shocked by what he did.

Oto nin were really scared but one particular shinobi wasn't shaken and looked calm.

'This must be Orochimaru.' Kazuya thought as he signaled Sakura to start healing herself.

The motive behind this was to catch attention of all the jonins as well as ANBU members so that his ANBU clone can deal with the ANBU members surrounding the forest.

It was the last batch of ANBU members that were specifically assigned to team-7 so that they can monitor them. Naruto was the jinchuriki of Kyuubi, the strongest Bijuu out of all and Konoha placed a lot of importance on him. Sasuke being the last descendant of the Uchiha clan just made them even more important.

All ANBU members are now infected.

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(A/N: Opinion or questions here.

Gimme them power stones.

Thanks for reading!)