Chapter 76 – The First Exam

Chapter 76 – The First Exam

“You guys are the rookie nine, fresh out of the academy, right?”

Carrying on like that with cute faces... man... This isn’t a field trip.”

“Who are you acting all haughty?” Ino plays out her line, pretending not to know.

“I’m Kabuto Yakushi...”

I avoid making eye contact with the guy... from his arrogant introduction to his actions in the future, this guy’s a priority 0 target in our plans.

So sinful and crucial was his role in using the reincarnation jutsu in the fourth war that plans were several times considered in which everything is thrown out the window just for a chance at killing him ahead of time.

But in the end, we chose to get both snakes at the same time, and don’t want to risk Orochimaru’s plans so he gets to live... for now in Plan B-5.

Plan B-3 would have had me approach him right at this introduction and fry his body.

From here things play out normally, Kabuto provides some information on the Exam using his [Ninja Info Cards].

The number of ninjas participating from each village matched what was in the anime.

(leaf)Konohagakure: 72

(sand)Sunagakure: 30

(rain)Amegakure: 21

(grass)Kusagakure: 15

(waterfall)Takigakure: 12

(sound)Otogakure: 3

153 total, the same as in the original plot but with my participation instead of Chouji.

Speaking of Chouji, he has recently graduated from the academy and joined a fresh genin team.

Kabuto offers information on the contestants and Sasuke asks what he has on Gaara and on myself instead of Lee even though I’m standing right here.

Without having been beaten by Lee he must considers me his biggest threat currently.

Gaara’s information is as expected, a large number of question marks.

As for the information on myself...

It hurts to watch.

1 C rank mission, 20 D rank mission, almost the bare minimum for admission.

There is no mention of my ‘Kekkei Genkai’ but the pentagram chart shows me rated quite highly in taijutsu and genjutsu.

A Katana is also drawn as my weapon which means Kabuto knows about my training with Yugao and Kurenai.

Kabuto stares at my face and smirks.

“Yami Yuumo, skilled in body combat and recently trained in kenjutsu and genjutsu. Rumored to possess an unidentified support type Kekkei Genkai and for seducing every kunoichi he comes across, his teacher, his teammates, not even the Hokage son’s girlfriend escaped his clutches.”

As we are handed the tests we have a lot of fun.

‘How is it Sakura?’

‘I can’t believe they actually made a test like this...’

‘Isn’t it too hard?’ Hinata asks.

‘Isn’t that the whole point? They don’t really care how smart we are, they want to test our cheating skills’ Ino says.

‘Exactly, have you found any Hinata?’

‘I think the ones in seats 42 and 69’

‘Yeah, they are also the ones I found’

As we head inside the classroom, Ino having learned her clan’s mental network jutsu set up a mental chatroom for us.

She also used another for her team to share the answers they found between themselves without bothering us.

As if having 2 unnoticeable Byakugans wasn’t enough, we also have the phone home hotline.

Anko is on the floor above with the rest of the Genin team leaders and I can use my telepathy to talk to her if needed as well.

‘Honestly Sakura, I wouldn’t be surprised if the right answers are the wrong answers.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘They aren’t looking for smart scientists, they are looking for Shinobi, skilled in the art of intelligence gathering ’

‘So far their answers are matching.’

‘And what about... them?’

‘They seem to have known the answers beforehand and are writing them normally’

‘That also counts I guess...’

Orochimaru had already gotten the answers in advance somehow and thus had a free test for all his pawns to pass, and still, Team Dosu was threatened to fail due to their petty ego.

We have fun casually chatting for a while while everyone around us is tensed and nervously trying to cheat or solve the problems.

I looked at the problems and there is maybe half I could solve, the ones related to encrypting information, advanced mathematics and anatomy.