35 PRELIMINARY ROUND

Iruka sensei offers to take us to ichiraku's for ramen . Hearing this naruto jumps with excitement , while sakura sighs ' just where does he get that much of energy from '

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Iruka interrupts " but there is still time as a meeting will held now with all members who have passed "

Sasuke asks " sensei what would you have done if we had opened the scroll "

Iruka says " Sharp as always sasuke"

"Well , if anyone opens the scroll before reaching the tower we were ordered to knock them out , so you guys would have been disqualified if you had did that "

Sakura asks " Sensei what does the words on the board mean we can't understand it at all "

Naruto says " why do you care about it , we passed it's all that matters "

Iruka then explains us the meaning of the words and tells naruto to prepare more before mission and tells sakura to practice daily to improve her body.

Iruka then advices naruto to give up the third round because of its difficulties. Naruto replies " Sensei you gave me this headband because you acknowledged that I was not a kid anymore , I might be restless but I'm not a kid anymore , right now I am a ninja "

Iruka then apologizes to naruto .

Elsewhere the hokage seals the curse mark of anko . The anbu beside her say " I thought that orochimaru , one of the sannin had died already.

What is his goal coming to konoha at a time like this . Anko remembers the words of orochimaru and was about to sasuke's name when the hokage says " Uchiha Sasuke huh "

An anbu then announces in the t.v " The second round has been completed . we will now conduct the preliminary round for the first time in five years"

Hokage says " Well for now we will conduct the preliminary round and keep an eye on him "

We gathered at the hall where all the people who passed were present . On the opposite side were the hokage , jonin of the students and some chunin , anbu and the hokage.

Ino seeing us exclaims in joy " sasuke's team has also qualified " Shikamaru replies " of course with a person with monster like abilities , it would be strange if they did not pass "

Kurenai then notices that akamaru was behaving strange , which I too notice I conclude that orochimaru must be present here . I then feel urge to locate orochimaru and beat him up but I cool down and I decide ' Orochimaru , I am going to mess your plan up for now , when I become strong enough i will take your head '

The hokage then says a speech about not to confuse about this exams as friendly test conducted by allied nations but to the exam as the epitome of war . The villages have always been fighting in previous era , in this era inorder to improve thier reputation we do it the form of these exams . You all need to risk your life and battle because only in a true life or death battle does a shinobi truly improve .

A shinobi then comes to the hokage and says " Lord hokage , i ,Gekko Hayate, the judge will explain the further details to them "

Hokage says " I will leave it to you then"

He turns around , we can see a person with a sickly appearance , he says " Hello everyone , i wanted to tell you something before the start of the third round . You are going to fight in a preliminary round before the start of the third round ."

Sakura the asks " Sensei , I don't know what this preliminary round is ?but I want to ask why you can conduct the third round for us now "

Gekko hayate says " I don't know if the first and second exam were too easy or something but this time there are a lot of students so to decrease them we are carrying out the preliminary round"

" There are going to be many guests at the third round this time so inorder to manage time we cannot have many matches you see "

He continues " so those who are not feeling well " he starts coughing , some genin mock him while hinata was worried and says " are you feeling well sensei " in low voice . He then continues " So if anyone wants to quit based on the given explanation please raise your hands "

Sasuke then starts feeling pain in neck because of the curse mark , i too had burning sensation but it was not severe as sasuke maybe it was due my large chakra reserves . Sakura then says that she was going to report our situation to the sensei but sasuke was preventing het , suddenly kabuto raises his arm and decides to quit the exam .

Naruto asks desperately " kabuto , you were very good during the exam why do you suddenly want to quit the battle "

Kabuto replies " Naruto , on the first day when the sound ninja attacked me , my left ear was severely damaged , so right now I am not in the state of going through life or death battle "

Kabuto then leaves after taliking to his teammate .