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The Conqueror of The Shinobi World Chapter 51 (Writing Exam)
🕑 Added 2022-09-11 17:58:25 +0000 UTCNaruto
Everyone went quiet for a moment, then suddenly rushed to take a seat; Naruto sat in a chair and just waited for the exam to start, taking his seat; he saw that the person who took the seat at his table was none other than Yugito.
Five minutes later, all of the Genins had been seated in their pre-designated seats, completely separating the members of each team. He was stealing glances around him to try and map the seating system of the room. He noted many Konoha Chunin all around the room, sitting in chairs and intently watching every Genin. At that moment, Ibiki Morino, their examiner, coughed, gaining attention from every participant.
"Listen closely. There are many important rules for this first test. I'll write them on the board while explaining them. However, questions are not allowed." He looked over the nervous Genin and grinned mercilessly.
"The first rule: all participants start with 10 points, corresponding with ten questions in the test. This test uses a subtraction system, meaning if you answer all questions correctly, you'll end up with ten points. For any failed question, you lose one point. The second rule: this is a team test. Your passing is based on the combined score of your teammates. The third rule: anyone caught cheating during the exam will have two points subtracted for every offense. For that purpose, we have testing officers spread all around the room. If you lose all your points for cheating, you'll be asked to leave." Ibiki explained his hand with the chalk moving up and down the board. Naruto was listening closely to the speech with a frown.
"You have to realize that the ones who are pathetic enough to get caught cheating will be destroying themselves. As shinobi trying to achieve the level of Chunin, be proud ninjas. Oh, and the final rule: those that lose all their points, either by getting caught cheating or failing to answer, will be failed along with their teammates."
The last rule caused the whole room to break out in sweat and murmurs, Sakura furiously banging her head on the desk and even Sasuke widening his eyes in surprise. Naruto recalled one piece of information he had heard from Anko before concerning Ibiki Morino, his current examiner.
'Ibiki Morino: the best and, at the same time, worst interrogator of the Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force... what the hell is this kind of person doing here?'
"The exam will last one hour. You can turn the tests around and begin!"
Naruto hastily glanced at the test and read the first question.
'You are in a situation where the enemy used Wind Release: Great Sickle Weasel jutsu against you, and the only jutsu in your arsenal is Fire Release: Great Fireball jutsu. Will you be able to win? Explain... the hell? What kind of question is that? It's too hard for a Genin. Of course, the fire element is stronger against the wind. However, you have to take the level of the technique into account. If the Wind jutsu is a higher rank, then you can win, but only then. The Great Fireball is a C-rank but can be stronger the more influential the user who uses it... But still, the problem doesn't specify how strong the user is, so the answer is the Fire Jutsu.
Second question
'You are standing on the ground, you see several opponents surrounding you, the only jutsu at disposal in your arsenal is Shadow Clone, Wind Style Great Breakthrough, and Fire Style Fireball; Naruto stopped reading and massaged his temples. He reread the question, and he understood it.
First, use shadow clone and make another clone; with that done, make the clone use Wind Style while you use Fireball to burn down the area along with any enemy left around.
'These can't be questions for a Genin. Even Shikamaru would have trouble with this, and he's loads smarter than I am. There has to be something...' He glanced up at the examiner and the testing officers around the room.
'Now that I think about it... it doesn't make sense that they would let us cheat four times before sacking us out. Why wouldn't they sack us immediately? Why?' Briefly gazing over the rest of the questions, Naruto swallowed hard.
Hearing the testing officer on his far-right scribbling something, he mentally cursed.
'I'm missing something... I'm missing something... again... the examiner is a sadistic interrogator, and we have enough chances to cheat; what does that tell me? And what was with those final words? The ones who are pathetic enough to get caught cheating will be destroying themselves. As shinobi trying to achieve the level of Chunin, be proud ninjas... yeah, of course, we would be destroying ourselves...' Kakashi's face told him something showed itself in Naruto's mind, and he widened his eyes.
'Of course! A ninja should look underneath the underneath! If they tell us cheating would cost us everything... it's the same when on a dangerous mission where you either gather information or die. This is not a test of intelligence but one of the ability to gather information with our skills! It makes sense!' Naruto thought with a slight grin, but then it faltered.
'Shikamaru has his wits, and Ino can use her possession Jutsu to learn the answers,'
The minutes passed quickly, and many Genin got caught and expelled from the exams. Some of them tried to resist, but every single one of them was mercilessly kicked out. Naruto ignored it all, and after successfully answering the questions. He saw he didn't answer two of the questions.
With that done, his hand touched the desk underneath in front of him, leaving a Seal.
The words slowly moved away, and the seal reached the guy closest to him; the seal stopped shifting once it reached his chest and spread, creating branches.
Yugito had to give Naruto credit; he looked pretty intelligent, especially his move under the table; Yugito didn't see why he did it but figured there was a reason for it.
She turned her head, and her eyes turned to Matatabi's eyes; from the corner of her eyes, she could see the words of a student below their level; despite being very far away, she could see and read the words as if he was just in front of her.
Matatabi's eyes allowed her to see very far, even see the details of a coin from a mile away. Yugito smiled as she started writing for the test.
Sasuke activated his Sharingan, copying the student's movement in front of his table.
Karin did nothing but write the symbol of Uzumaki and wrote a seal around it. The seal was completed, and her red eyes glanced at everyone in the room, and her eyes noticed Naruto Uzumaki.
Karin remembered that was his name, and a chakra chain came from underneath her foot, reaching the blonde. The seal in her paper disappeared, and soon the answers were written in her paper.
She quickly moved her chakra chains away but wondered whether or not had Naruto noticed her and just let her copy the answers, or he didn't notice her; that would be pretty disappointing for an Uzumaki.
Fuu just smiled at the answers; her insects spread around the room and returned, giving her the needed information. She even 'hacked' one of Shino's insects.
Samui created a small mirror water jutsu in front of her right palm; with her left palm, she made another small mirror around the pink-haired girl; Samui noticed she did not once look distressed, so she figured she must know the answers.
The mirror around Sakura showed the view in the mirror to her palm; seeing that she had already answered every question, she started writing her answers.
Gaara put his hand on his left eye, an eye made of sand appeared around the shoulder of a student, and he started writing the answers.
Shikamaru was in a deep sleep, but he had already answered every single question.
The sound ninja Dosu used the sound wave around him to read the answers from the Shinobis around him.
Neji quickly used his Byakugan, and so did Hinata, who got her answers copied from Shino. While Akamaru was above Kiba's head, his eyes looked at the answers and barked at Kiba, answering him.
Ino used her clan's technique and took over Sakura's body and started answering one by one; later, she would help Choji since she knew that Shika had already answered all the questions, despite not being in the same team.
Kankuro had gone to the toilet during all this, and when he returned with a confident smile, Ibiki turned to him with a frown.
"I hope you find your trip enlightening, princess," Ibiki commented.
This caused many to hold their laughter, and the Suna Shinobi growled. "I'm a boy, sir, and is just war paint," Kankuro corrected, running out of patience that everyone was mistaking him for a girl.
"Could have fooled me; boys usually don't wear make-up and don't play with dolls," Ibiki answered, clearly indicating that he knew what he did, and his right hand had two fingers raised.
Showing that two more miss-steps and he's out along with his team, the Suna Shinobi felt like someone just threw a bucket of cold water in his face, knowing he could have easily ruined their plans with his little trick.
Kankuro walked back to his seat. Temari could hardly contain her laughter; Kankuro murmured 'Traitor' under his breath.
Naruto finished his final question, he had noticed the chakra chain from Karin and even felt the guilt, but it was a good sign. He was happy to know she knew Fuinjtsu, an Uzumaki who didn't know Fuinjtsu wouldn't make sense.
Kakashi
Meanwhile, in the jonin lounge, Kakashi, Guy, Kurenai, and Asuma were all relaxing as their students took the exam. Might Guy was beside Kakashi, Kurenai and Asuma sat near each other, across from Kakashi. Asuma took a long drag off his cigarette before looking at the copy ninja.
"Eesh, you really screwed that one up, Kakashi," Asuma said with a slightly amused expression after Kakashi explained precisely what happened during the Wave mission.
"Putting a team of green Genin through a mess like that without even calling for backup? I bet the old man tore you a new one."
Kakashi chuckled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head. "Well... we all make mistakes, right? And everything turned out fine in the end."
"I noticed you didn't answer my question." Asuma pointed out with a grin.
"Things are going to be boring for the next month. We can't even carry out missions while our students take on the exam," Kakashi complained, the usual lazy expression he tended to wear holding a hint of boredom.
"Now you know how I feel. I can't wait for this damn probationary period to be over," Guy said to the copy ninja, grumbling at the end. "But I have to agree; this is dull. At least before I had something to do."
Asuma chuckled. "Eh, don't worry. Those kids might be back sooner than you think."
"Hm? Do you know something we don't, Asuma?" Kakashi asked.
Asuma shrugged. "Just that word is the examiner for the first stage happens to be Ibiki."
Guy sat up and frowned. "Ibiki? Ibiki Morino?"
"The very same," Asuma replied.
Kakashi's usual, aloof expression gained a hint of concern. "They put them with that sadist from the start?"
Kurenai's brow furrowed, not liking the sound of that, and slightly worried about her team.
"Sadist?"
Guy raised a brow.
"You've never heard of him?"
"She's a new jonin, and unlike you, she never met him before. Not surprising, she never heard of him," Asuma pointed out with a grin.
Kurenai rolled her eyes at the slight dig on her status as a newbie.
"So, who is he?"
"An expert..." Asuma began, taking another puff of his stick before turning and looking at the sole kunoichi in the room. "... of torture and interrogation. The special jonin: Ibiki Morino of Konoha's T & I department. Don't worry; there won't be anything physical. That's not where his skills lie. His area of expertise ... is mental torture."
Kakashi wasn't worried for his team, but he wondered why he just had a bad feeling like everything would soon come crashing down on top of him like a boulder.
Naruto
He glanced at the 10th and final question and grimaced; it was almost time.
"Ok. All of you must have noticed the 10th question. It's time for it."
His head finally leaving the test form, Naruto realized that the number of Genin had drastically lowered, and barely half of them were still present. That was one thing he liked, but the thing he certainly didn't like was the examiner's sadistic grin.
"For this 10th question, I'll have to add a few additional rules. I call them Rules of Desperation. First rule: you must decide whether you will or will not take it."
"What?!" Sakura couldn't hold her emotions anymore and yelled in anger.
"It's quite simple. Either you choose to take the question, but if you fail, not only will you lose the exam, but you will be forbidden ever to take the exam ever again, or you can choose not to take it, and in that case, your points will be reduced to zero, and you will fail, along with the rest of your team."
The silence that followed after that was more than loud. The absence of any sound was so loud; the beads broke it of sweat dripping from the contestants' foreheads.
"W-What kind of stupid rule is that! Something like that has never been on the exams before!" Some Genin angrily asked. The rest of them gulped when the examiner started to chuckle darkly.
"He...heh...too bad for you, brats. You were simply unlucky. This year, I'm the examiner. However, as I told you, you have a way out. Just forfeit and try again next year."
Yugito felt uncomfortable and intense; she knew she would most likely know the answer, but what about Karui and Omoi? They would never forgive her if they failed because of her. Her hands started shaking, and her eyes checked Omoi and Karui, who were both pale and trembling.
She then noticed that Naruto looked as bored as a person could get, his hands behind his neck, his head resting on the head of the chair.
Ibiki saw many were calculating in their minds if they should surrender or try; he grinned evilly, but then his eyes found the blonde without a hint of fear in his entire body.
"Blonde, you're not afraid," Ibiki challenged him. He thought the kid was either a moron or intelligent or a bit of both.
"Why would I be afraid, if words are all you can give us, go ahead give me your stupid question, you think I'm afraid to end up a Genin my whole life, well you should know I never give up, what kind of Shinobi I would be if I surrender at the first blockade in front of me, and I don't need the Title Chunin to achieve my dream. I will be known as the strongest Genin ever," Naruto exclaimed and slammed his open hand on the table.
This caught mixed reactions from everyone; Yugito smiled and took the courage back; Sasuke had to give it to Naruto. He definitely knew how to talk.
Ino smiled and was really glad to have Naruto on the same team. Shikamaru smirked; leave it to Naruto to literally convince everyone into everything.
"Well said, Naruto," Shikamaru murmured with a smile.
Ibiki saw the mood had been broken and saw one by one getting back their courage back.
Interesting kid, he thought and saw that no one would surrender anymore.
"Is This Your Final Answer?" Ibiki shouted and saw many gulps in fear but still stood their ground.
"Then. Everyone Who is Still Here Has Officially Passed The Test," he declared.
For a moment, no one said anything, not even a whimper, when suddenly the shouts exploded. Temari stood up.
"What do you mean we Passed? Does that mean everything we did so far was"
"Bullshit," Shikamaru agreed immediately.
"You haven't understood it, have you," Ibiki said and started explaining the real meaning of the test.
Yugito glanced at Naruto beside her, and a smile erupted on her face; she owed him for passing the test.
Ibiki explained that the first part was to see how they would get information, and the second part was to see how much they would risk passing a blockade on their road.
Suddenly, something broke through the glass window. It looked like a black ball at first, until a young woman appeared out of it and threw two kunais on the ceiling, revealing a large banner behind her.
The banner was titled; The Proctor of the Second Test - The Super Sexy, Anko Mitarashi'
"Heads up, boys and girls! This is no time to be celebrating! I'll be your next proctor, Anko Mitarashi! Are you ready for the second test? GOOD! Then let's go! Follow me!" Anko said enthusiastically as she pumped her fist in the air.
Everyone's eyes were widened at the sudden appearance of the Special Jonin. Everyone except Naruto, of course, who was able to sensed that she was coming. The boys in the room however, were blushing heavily at the mere sight of the sexy and busty purpled-haired girl, which did not go unnoticed by Naruto.
"Simps," Naruto whispered under his breath. Ibiki, who was standing behind the large banner, sneaked his head out on the side and glared a deadpan look at the Snake Mistress.
"You're early again," Ibiki said. Anko blushed embarrassingly at her untimely appearance, as her fist was still in the air. 'Great. A screaming nutcase.
'GOD-DAMN! SHE'S A TOTAL BABE!' Kiba thought, with hearts in his eyes and drooled in his mouth. 'You know, on some level, Anko kinda reminds me of Naruto-kun.' Ino thought.
Anko looked around the classroom and was surprised that there were still so many candidates left. "How many are there?" Anko turned to Ibiki.
"....Ibiki, you seriously let all these guys pass? Your test was too easy. You must be getting soft." Anko said with a smirk.
"You can blame that on your 'Gaki.' OR. It could be a stronger crop of candidates this year." Ibiki stated.
"My Gaki? You mean?" Anko then turned her head and saw her favorite blonde, who was giving her a bright smile. She then Shunshin in front of his desk and grabbed his head with both her hands and pulled his face towards her chest. Smothering him between her voluptuous breasts.
"GAKI! I see you passed! You made your Anko-chan sooo proud...and sooo much money, tee-hee!" Anko says happily as she continues to smother Naruto. "An-kwo, I c-cwan't b-bweath," Naruto said out of breath, as his face was turning vermillion red, and he only managed to mumble his words between her breasts.
EVERYONE was shocked. All the male candidate's nose was hosing down blood, while the females were gasping with shock. Samui and Yugito were glaring at Anko with pure jealousy.
Wishing that they could be in her place instead. Hinata, Karin, and Fuu were blushing, their cheeks red. Kiba's face showed nothing but complete defeat. Naruto is literally a man-god, and hot women will always be drawn to him like a magnet.
He just needs to accept that as his norm now. The strange older Kusa kunoichi, however, was simply licking her lips with her unusually large tongue, as her dark eyes were saying; she had just found a brand new prey to hunt. Anko then released Naruto from her juicy milk-makers and was giggling when she saw the blonde's extremely red face.
She then walked back to the front of the class with a shameless smirk. She then turns to Ibiki. "Well, my money is still on my Gaki and his team, but the rest? Meh. They sure don't look like it. Trust me, before I'm done with them, more than half will be eliminated." Anko said with a sadistic smirk.
"Huh? M-More than half? Really?" Sakura asked fearfully. "Hihihi, this is going to be fun..." Anko said with a smirk, never leaving her face, "....All right, you maggots have it easy so far, BUT, things are going to be different starting first thing in the morning. I'll let your Squad Leaders know where you're to meet me. Dismissed." Anko announced.
And just like that, everyone left the classroom. Heading home to rest and possibly celebrating their passing of the first test. Once the classroom was completely emptied, Ibiki went to collect the candidate's papers until he came across Naruto's.
He smirked when he saw that the blonde Uzumaki was one of the few to get a perfect score. But what caught his curiosity, however, was the hidden note written on the back of the paper that was intended for him.
Ibiki then read the note, but his eyes immediately narrowed when he was done. 'Dear Ibiki-san. I just want to inform you that the candidate, Kabuto Yakushi, is a person of great interest. I strongly believe that he is an enemy SPY. He somehow managed to attain very detailed and incredibly sensitive information on the other candidates, both foreign and domestic, including myself. Whom he is spying for, I do not know yet. But that fact that a mere Genin can gather this level of info is quite suspicious. Please take this information directly to the Hokage. - Naruto Uzumaki'
Ibiki grasped the paper tightly and immediately Sunshin to Hiruzen's office.
THE NEXT DAY - TRAINING GROUND 44
All the Genin candidates were now staring at the massive forest behind Anko. The mere sight of the large trees, the rusted fences, and the growing shadows was enough to intimidate the bravest of souls. All except Naruto and his fellow Jinchurikis, of course.
"W-What is this place?" Hinata asked.
"This, little Hyuga, is the location for the exam's second phase. It's the 44th Battle Training Zone. But we call it......the Forest of Death." Anko said with a sadistic grin.
