Chapter 30: Secret Mission

As time went on, several teams were gradually eliminated by the examiners who caught them cheating.

Unlike Canon, in this exam, they did not deduct points, if you were caught cheating you were immediately disqualified along with your entire team.

It was in the last few minutes that more teams were eliminated from the exam because they were desperate to get the answers and were more careless in trying to steal the answers.

Finally, the exam was over and an examiner went through each row to take the exam from all the ninjas present.

Rasa had been waiting for the last question they used to ask the ninjas in Naruto's Canon to scare them out of the Chunin exam, but he was surprised when that never happened.

It seems that this time they will actually check the exam papers and only will pass those teams in which the three ninjas that conformed them had passed the exam.

'Yeah..., Naruto was definitely very lucky or it was all planned from the beginning, who knows...' thought Rasa remembering how Naruto passed the written exam in the Canon.

If he was now in this situation he wouldn't have had any chance to pass.

"Thank you Rasa, I thought I was ready for a written exam but those questions were very tricky, I could only understand them once I read your answers" thanked Custus as she approached Rasa along with Nomad.

"Yeah, I didn't understand anything, it was just a bunch of junk words as if that would help in real combat" complained Nomad.

"It depends on the role of the ninja and the situation. There are cases where having great knowledge can be what ends up saving the lives of many" replied Rasa calmly.

"Sure..., whatever you say. By the way, what do we do now?" asked Nomad completely ignoring what Rasa said.

Rasa could only deny as well as Custus, it was obvious that Nomad would not understand how vital a good strategy or general knowledge can be in life and death situations.

"For now we just have to wait for the results and then take the second exam," Rasa said.

"And... this... are you sure we will pass this exam, it's not that I distrusted the answers you passed us but... I don't know, they were pretty short in my opinion" commented Nomad a bit unsure if they can pass the exam.

"Tell me you're kidding, please. The answers Rasa passed us were just his summarized ones, not everything he wrote, we were supposed to fill them" said Custus in desperation.

"Ohhhh, it was like that, well..., I actually might have written only what Rasa passed me... will that be a problem?" Nomad asked embarrassed and a bit worried.

Custus started to look at him with a lot of anger, it almost looked like she would attack him at any moment.

But luckily Rasa spoke up before anything came to pass.

"It's not optimal Nomad, but the answer summaries I pass you should be more than enough to get you through the exam."

Nomad nodded with a sigh of relief, while Custus still looked at him with anger, but she was a bit more relaxed now, she trusted Rasa a lot.

Rasa, on the other hand, decided to go over the plans he had for the second exam.

The Kazekage or rather, his master had not made things easy for him when he asked him to attack a group of Kirigakure ninjas pretending to be an Iwa ninja.

---------Flashback secret mission given by the Kazekage-------

"Well, I can only trust this mission to you Rasa, I don't trust anyone else to carry it out. You must eliminate some Kirigakure ninja during the Chunin exams."

"This..., I understand Master, at what moment of the exam should I do this?"

"The second stage of the Chunin exam is outdoors, and the ninjas who do not participate in the exam will not be able to get involved unless there is some reason to justify it, so it will be your chance to eliminate the Kiri ninjas."

"Well, I'll take care of them then, any specific ninja group or no one in particular?"

"It doesn't have to be anyone in particular, any group you think you can deal with is acceptable. But I do need you to do something else when you kill them."

"What would that be?"

"Do you remember your Anbu training before you started doing missions?"

"Yes, I remember that I wasn't allowed to use my gold dust, so I had to use only wind or earth Jutsu."

"Exactly, well, now it will be the same, you won't be able to use your gold dust Rasa, since I want you to pretend to be an Iwagakure ninja when you kill those Kirigakure ninjas."

"Iwagakure, aren't we seeking to ally with them?" asked a doubtful Rasa.

"That's right Rasa, but you must know that any alliance made is extremely fragile if there isn't something to support it, that's why we need to make the conflict between Iwagakure and Kirigakure increase" the Kazekage started saying seriously.

"We have information that in these Chunin exams all the 5 great villages are planning to participate, and it will also be the first time Kirigakure joins, so it is very strange and leads many to think that Kirigakure is only planning to participate to get revenge on Iwagakure for what happened in the first world war."

" That is why you want me to eliminate the Kirigakure ninja by disguising myself as an Iwagakure ninja?" asked Rasa already understanding what the Kazekage intended to do.

"Right, we need to make the Kirigakure ninja believe that Iwagakure is attacking them in the Chunin exam" nodded the Kazekage.

"But if Kirigakure is already going to attack the ninja of Iwagakure, why is it necessary to make them believe that Iwagakure is targeting them too, once Iwagakure gets attacked it is likely that they will seek revenge themselves."

"Rasa, you must understand that even though we believe Kirigakure has that planned, one can never be sure that they will actually do it, and that is why your real mission is to make sure that happens."

"If you eliminate two of the ninja from a Kirigakure group and just by chance one managed to escape or you left clues that would lead one to believe that it was the Iwa ninja, that would cause the other Kiri ninja to seek revenge whether or not it was their mission to eliminate the Iwagakure Ninjas."

"I see... and that would make Iwagakure more willing to keep the alliance with us?"

"Exactly, Iwagakure suffered as much as we did in the war, so if they have a potential enemy, they are going to want to keep us on their side to prevent us from allying with Kirigakure in a combined attack against them"

"I see..., I get it, then my mission is to pass the first two tests, draw some attention and also eliminate some Kirigakure ninjas making them think it was Iwagakure, increasing the resentment between both villages"

"Looks like you understood perfectly, then... You think you can handle this mission, take into consideration that your teammates won't be able to help you or know about this mission, so you must do it behind their backs."

"Well... I definitely couldn't stand by myself against a group of Kirigakure's best ninjas, but if it's a common group it shouldn't be a problem, so I'll accomplish the mission, but if the death of their fellow ninjas isn't enough to provoke Kiri?"

"Don't worry about that, this will guarantee you to get results" said the Third Kazekage as he handed Rasa a document with the profile of three Iwagakure ninjas.

" What about this?" asked Rasa without understanding the need for it.

"This is your trump card, these three ninjas are part of the group of ninjas that will participate in the Chunin exams representing Iwagakure, Skull got the information of these three for you to choose which one you can imitate to eliminate these ninjas."

"I see..." said Rasa as he looked at the profiles of the three ninjas he could choose from.

" Someone useful?"

"Well... most of the techniques they use aren't familiar to me, but I think I could imitate this one ninja who specializes in all kinds of weapons."

"Oh, you mean the one who is an expert in using all kinds of Ninja weapons and tools, I thought he would be your last choice since he only focuses on using weapons to kill, he doesn't use many jutsus like the other two," said a bit surprised the Kazekage not expecting Rasa to choose the ninja who least resembles Rasa's fighting style.

"Precisely because of that it's the best option Master, I don't know many of the jutsus that Iwagakure ninjas use, and apparently this ninja uses only some basic jutsus and then relies on weapons, so I could imitate his jutsus and his use of weapons."

"I didn't know you trained in using weapons and tools, you never mentioned it, and I don't remember seeing you using weapons in combat either."

"That's because it's my trump card, since I wasn't very good at Taijutsu, I had to learn quite a bit of close combat with weapons, so I think I can do a good job imitating this Iwa ninja" Rasa replied with a slight lie.

It was true that it was his trump card if someone approached him for close combat, but not because he was good at weapon combat, it was because with his control of metal it was easy for him to manipulate all kinds of metal weapons to fight as if he was an expert in their use.

"Hmmm very well, I will trust you, just keep in mind that his mastery in the use of weapons and tools is at the level of an elite Chunin, so it won't be easy to imitate his fighting style," said the Kazekage rather doubtful that Rasa's skills were good in weapon combat.

"I know Master, but I already have a good idea on how to do it."

"Good, then take this ninja's profile and prepare everything to imitate him during the exams."

" I will do so Master"

"I do not doubt that you will do it, just remember, no one must discover you."

---------------- End of Flashback---------------------