Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

clack clack...

The ticking of the second hand sounded like a hammer striking steel nails. Naruto felt as if three corners of his coffin had been nailed shut, with only the last corner still clinging to life.

Staring at the blank exam paper, his forehead and chin itched incessantly, no matter how much he scratched, he couldn't stop. The rhythm of his knees hitting each other became faster and faster. If you pulled up his trouser legs, you could probably see two bruises on the inside of his knees.

He looked at the clock on the blackboard again and again.

The exam officially started at eight o'clock, and twenty minutes have passed now. Apart from Hui Li, no one in the entire exam room has handed in their papers yet, but the room has become much emptier.

If you stand on the podium and look down, you can even see small or medium-sized cavities among the dense group of candidates.

"Student number 22 cheated five times, his score is zero. Students number 31 and 37, get out of here!" The proctor, holding his notebook, crossed his legs and a cold smile appeared on his lips.

Three Rain Village genin clenched their fists, stood up, and walked out of the classroom with their heads down.

"Scores for number 15 will be reset to zero. Those in the same group, please leave."

"Number 72...Shut the fuck up! My word is law. You don't want to be a ninja anymore, do you? You piece of trash!"

In the blink of an eye, nine more ninjas were kicked out of the classroom.

Every five minutes or so, Naruto could hear the proctor yelling, followed by students being dejectedly cleared out of the exam room. Some even tried to resist, but were instantly knocked unconscious and dragged out of the exam room like dead pigs.

If the proctor says they saw you cheating, they don't need any evidence, and the cheating students don't even have a chance to defend themselves.

Under intense pressure, both physical and psychological, the failure rate of cheating is extremely high.

There were even small notes that were accidentally thrown onto his desk, which startled him so much that his heart almost jumped out of his mouth. He would kick the notes away with his elbow and not dare to lift his head.

But looking at his almost empty exam paper, he couldn't help but feel a pang of regret.

If he had unfolded the note and taken a look, he might not have gotten a zero on the test. As long as he didn't get a zero, based on the theoretical level of Hui Li and Sasuke, they would definitely be able to fill in his huge hole.

How to do?
Want to take a gamble?
Naruto gripped his hair tightly, as if urging his barren brain to work harder.

beside,

How can I help Naruto?
Having finished the exam, Hinata saw Naruto clutching his hair, his face contorted in pain, his small hands clenched into fists, and his milky-white eyes filled with distress.

She had just tentatively tossed a note when Naruto elbowed her away. When she tried to pass it again, her sharp Byakugan had already spotted the proctors on either side looking at her suspiciously.

If she were caught cheating multiple times and her exam scores were reset to zero, she wouldn't care about herself, but Kiba and Shino would be implicated. She couldn't be so selfish!
"Teacher, I want to hand in my paper!"

"Me too."

A clear, cheerful voice echoed in the air. On the other end, Shino Aburame, who had already finished writing, pushed up his sunglasses and raised his hand in response. Hinata wasn't surprised. As Konoha's sensory class, this test was child's play for the three of them.

As she watched Kiba and Shino walk to the front of the class and hand their exam papers to the teacher for grading, she also saw Kiba raising his chin at her, as if asking her what she was waiting for.
Hinata bit her lower lip, her milky-white eyes reflecting Naruto's image. Then, glancing at her teammates' questioning gazes, she deflated her clenched fist, picked up her test paper, and left her seat.

"I'm handing in my paper."

The soft, sweet voice echoed in the air. Hinata didn't dare to move. She placed the test paper in front of the teacher grading the paper, as if she had been covered with a layer of glue.

Soon, the scores of the three students from Class 8 were entered into the system, totaling 18 points, successfully obtaining three tickets to the Forest of Death.

Why did I get such a low score?

Looking at the score in the system, Ya was filled with disbelief; he only had a pitiful two points.

Upon seeing this, Morino Ibiki grinned and sneered:
"You brat from the Inuzuka family, you don't think your cheating methods are so secretive, do you? That little dog peeked at other people's exam papers four times, and I deducted eight points from you in total. Is there a problem with that?"

Kiba's face was grim. Compared to Byakugan and Insect, his cheating method was indeed too obvious. If it weren't for Akamaru's strong memory, he wouldn't have even gotten those two points.

Hinata, who was next to her, turned pale when she saw her score of six. She hurriedly turned around to look at her seat. At that moment, a proctor with a face covered in bandages was holding the second crumpled piece of paper that she had left for Naruto before leaving, and was sneering at her.

Four points will be deducted for passing the note twice.

Team 8, with their exceptional sensory abilities, lost a full twelve points for cheating, narrowly escaping elimination by just one point. This demonstrates the incredible difficulty of this exam; ordinary genin have absolutely no chance of passing.

Even those skilled in secret techniques must be extremely careful to barely pass the test.

drop!
A faint machine notification sound rang out.

The counter on the podium changed numbers and eventually stopped at 92. Before Hinata and the others passed, not counting Hairi, five people had already passed the exam.

……

Hinata and the others handing in their papers seemed to set off a fuse, prompting many other examinees who were waiting for their chance to start taking action.

"Teacher, I need to go to the toilet."

After Kankuro, his face covered in purple greasepaint, raised his hand, a stiff-looking proctor handcuffed him, and the two quickly left the classroom.

One of the examiners chuckled and scribbled on his notebook with a ballpoint pen.

Seeing that the examiner's attention was drawn to him, Gaara, who was sitting in the back row, quickly covered his left eye, and sand gathered in his hand, with his optic nerve also connecting to it.

The eye of sand dissipated into dust, only to reappear above a student's exam paper in the blink of an eye. But what he saw first was not the answer, but—

The other eye!
In the southeast corner of the classroom, Hozuki Suigetsu covered his right eye, while his left eye widened in shock. His Water Eye and Sand Eye stared blankly for a moment, then their eyes instinctively focused on the exam paper.

I see!
The two covered their eyes and quickly copied the answers onto the test paper.

Finally saw it!
Enlarging Gaara's exam paper tenfold, Chojuro nervously pushed up his glasses, his expression extremely serious, his glasses slightly bulging and gleaming with an eerie watery sheen.

Water has a higher refractive index than air, so light refracts when it enters water from air. By maintaining the water flow in a stable convex lens shape and combining it with a concave lens, the focal length of the entire optical system can be changed.

Ta da...ta da...

Listening to Chojuro's writing frequency and pressure, Oninkaku Tosu's ears twitched slightly, and the ballpoint pen in his hand synchronized with his movements. Right behind him, Sasuke's scarlet eyes shone with chakra light, and he was also imitating and copying Tosu's movements.

Before they knew it, the three of them had completely synchronized their movements.

"hehe!"

Noticing the three's slightly strange synchronized answers, Kurotsuchi chuckled and made a '未' hand seal in her sleeve.

Da da da……

The Chunin teacher, disguised as a test taker, kept writing, completely unaware that a layer of gray powder had quietly covered the tip of his pen.

"Molten Escape!" Kuroto's handprints shifted, and the dust on the exam paper, written on by the pen tip, began to tremble slowly.

A thin layer of dust detached from the writing, twisted into the shape of characters, and drifted away with the air, finally landing precisely on Kuroto's exam paper. The handwriting was exactly the same as that of the Chunin, as if it were a photocopy.

She looked at the test paper that had been filled in a flash, picked up a ballpoint pen and traced along the light gray ink marks.

In his arms.

A tiny clay figure, no bigger than a palm, clung to the edge of the table, its little head gradually emerging as the black soil was drawn, and rows of characters began to be silently etched onto its brownish-yellow body.

When the writing on the clay figure became densely packed, Chitu, under the guise of touching his nose, glanced around at the proctors and then retrieved the small gong from Heitu's arms.

Watching the little mud figure hopping and running on the ground, Flying Bamboo Dragonfly's eyes flashed with a fierce light as it quickly jotted down notes in its notebook. But before it could write more than a few words, an unusual sound suddenly came from behind it.

Tweet!

Tweet!

He turned his head to look behind him and saw that right outside the classroom window, a sparrow's head was pressed against the glass, looking at the students' exam papers by the window, while making a series of piercing chirps.

Are there any experts?

He suddenly turned around and scanned the many examinees who were writing with their heads down. He searched twice but could not find the ninja who was controlling the sparrow to cheat. He could only shake his head helplessly.

Even if he knows someone is cheating, he can't deduct points from them if he can't find the cheater.

This year's test takers are truly exceptional!
Call ~
Jugo, who had been listening intently with his head down, secretly breathed a sigh of relief and released all the mice hidden in his inner pocket. They carried small slips of paper filled with answers and handed them to the members of Otogakure.

at the same time.

Karui and Omoi exchanged glances. The test papers on the table were blank, not even with names written on them.

As ninjas of the Hidden Cloud Village who revere martial prowess, disguise and intelligence gathering are indeed their weaknesses, but that doesn't mean they can't be remedied.

After all, cheating once only results in a deduction of two points.

"Teacher, I want to hand in my paper!" *2
Karui and Omoi raised their hands in greeting, and then the two picked up the exam papers and walked toward the podium. No one saw that a layer of blue-green electric arcs had quietly climbed onto their bodies.

Whoosh! !

Just as the two approached the two Rain Ninja, their bodies suddenly paused for a second, their arm muscles bulging in unison, creating a strange afterimage as if drawing a sword.

"Sorry, I forgot to write my name!"

Karui smiled confidently, picked up the test paper that had been quietly filled with writing, returned to his seat, crossed out the unfamiliar name with a ballpoint pen, and rewrote it with his own name.

light

This is the true meaning of 'Karui'.

"Ho ho..."

The Rain Village genin, paralyzed by lightning release, had his tongue lolling out of his mouth but couldn't utter a single word.

He could only watch helplessly as his completed exam paper turned into a blank page without even a name, his eyes filled with despair like that of a man whose wife had been taken away by a blond-haired man.

His teammate, who had just given him the answer, was also staring in disbelief at the blank space in front of him.

"Oh, I forgot to write my name too!"

As if reminded by his companion, Omoi chewed on his lollipop, patted his head, returned to his seat, and quickly wrote, but instead of writing his own name, he wrote Atsi.

They can use lightning release and sword-drawing techniques to briefly achieve high-speed scroll changes that exceed the limits of vision, but Atsui is only skilled in fire release and cannot replicate their techniques.

and so……

Omoi's eyes sharpened as he walked over to Atsui with the exam paper in hand. After taking the blank exam paper from Atsui's desk, he then set his sights on the last member of the Rain Ninja Squad.

One, two, three, four, let's do it again!
brush brush...

The proctor's pen is practically going crazy from writing so much!
The Cloud Village's cheating methods were too arrogant and domineering, but the speed of the Lightning Release combined with the sword draw was indeed too fast, and the movements were indeed secretive. They only knew that the other party was definitely not honest, but they couldn't see what tricks they had played at all.

Only Morino Ibiki vaguely understood the trickery involved, but seeing that the three Rain Ninjas were only paralyzed and not injured, he turned a blind eye and let the three Cloud Ninjas pass by.

The examiner, Yoru, once instructed him: "Be extremely strict with the Konoha ninjas, and don't let a single one slip through the net. But be a little more lenient with the ninjas from other villages and try to let them pass."

Faced with this order, which could be described as a loss of national sovereignty and humiliation, Ibiki Morino had no idea what this bigwig meant.

He outwardly agreed and went back to report to the Third Hokage, but the Third Hokage only told him to carry out the orders. Unable to fathom the intentions of the two big shots, as a junior Karami, he could only obey.

……

Time flew by, and some candidates raised their hands to hand in their papers, but many more were ruthlessly kicked out of the examination room.

Seeing that many people had already handed in their papers, the candidates, unsure of the number of available spots, became increasingly anxious. The frequency of expulsion every three minutes was no longer sufficient; now, cheating candidates were being expelled from the examination room every half minute or less.

gradually.

The huge examination hall became empty, with scattered candidates in various corners, even fewer than the number of invigilators in the hall.

Trying to cheat under these circumstances is incredibly difficult!
Sasuke clenched his fist, picked up the test paper that was already filled with answers, and his palm was already sweaty.

His seat was in the upper left corner of the classroom, while Naruto was in the very center. The route was wrong, so he couldn't imitate the Cloud Village's strategy of exchanging scrolls.

At first, he dared to look back at Naruto's movements, but now, with fewer and fewer people, the black jungle between the two has disappeared, turning into a vast plain.

In this situation, let alone cheating, even just turning around once would attract the attention of five or six proctors.

He can only rely on himself!
Sasuke sighed helplessly, picked up the exam paper, and walked to the front of the class. During the break between grading papers, he ignored Naruto's pleading look and looked at the frightening counter, but was blocked by Ibiki Morino's body and could not see the exact number on it at all.

Damn!

Everyone else can see it!
Sasuke's face was grim; he felt like he was being targeted. He had just seen ninjas from Kumogakure and Sunagakure staring at him. Could it be that he was being deliberately retaliated against for hitting an enemy comrade in front of Root?
Drip!

The counter beeped, indicating that the number of spots had decreased again. Looking at his and Hui Li's bright 10s, Sasuke nodded to Naruto, who was pale-faced, and turned to leave the examination room.

In the blink of an eye, there were less than ten people left in the examination room.

Hui Li and Sasuke had already left the examination hall. Naruto stared at the empty desks and chairs in front of him, his eyes filled with despair as he looked at the blank exam paper on the table. (End of Chapter)