Chapter 77 – The Cheaters

Chapter 77 – The Cheaters

Bored at having to sit around for an hour waiting for the test to end, Hinata and me make it a game out of finding as many cheaters as we can.

We have the ones being very discreet.

Team Dosu using the tapping sounds of pencils to identify what others are writing.

Kiba somehow has Akamaru softly barking his answers as he surveys the surroundings acting as a puppy telescope.

Ino shares our answers with Shikamaru and Kiba, fixing the barking mistranslation mistakes while pretending they came from someone she used her possession jutsu on.

Sasuke uses his Sharingan to copy the arm movements of the person in front of him.

Then we have the ones not very discreet.

Gaara summons his sand eye to spy from above. You can see sand around his hand as he even holds a finger sign before covering his eye suspiciously...

Shino has his bug tell him the answers it found and after pestering Naruto for 30 minutes he finally understood the fly bothering him was from Shino and managed to write the solution to a couple of questions as well...

Neji uses his Byakugan, his veins are showing...

And then we have the more ridiculous cases...

Kankuro has a puppet disguised as an examiner join since they first showed up from the smoke, then went to the bathroom and wrote the answers on a tiny paper for Temari.

He was even called out by the proctor as he walked back happily thinking every Konoha ninja was an idiot.

Tenten had set up an entire mirror system while everyone was distracted by Team Dosu and Kabuto's earlier confrontation, and would look at the ceiling to get her answers and then aim the mirrors for Lee to cheat with as well.

As for innovating cheating methods I didn't know about the plot, we find a couple.

With his speech ended he declared the end of the first exam, with 24 teams having passed, a couple less than the plot due to Naruto not having moved their heart it seems.

Ibiki announces our Jonin teachers will have the information on where the 2nd exam will take place the next day as he bids goodbye and wishes us good luck.

We didn’t get to find out who was the proctor for the second exam today.

‘Hey Anko, tomorrow’s exams?’

‘Yes, forest of death as planned’

‘Ok but... who is the proctor.’

‘Ah, it’s a surprise, you’ll be excited about it’

So it’s another woman... Anko is getting a bit too easy to read.

After all the genin left the classroom Ibiki goes around collecting the sheets they left behind.

‘Uzumaki Naruto, what a funny guy, to cheat and still not get any of the answers right...’

Ibiki smiles, as he finishes gathering every sheet.

‘72 ninjas passing, 21 of them were able to acquire all the planted questions correctly’

‘Of the 72, half of them we found how they cheated to get their answers.’

‘Of the 21, 5 of them we know how they cheated 7 of them we don’t know how they cheated, but the final 9 of them not only didn’t cheat but already knew the answers and wrote them before the planted ninjas could write them which mean... the answers had been leaked...’

‘And then there is this guy...’

‘Yami, on the back of his answer paper wrote in an Anbu cipher how he and several of the other participants cheated, having found even more than us...’

‘Combining the Yamanaka and Hyuga was certainly a genius move but the strange thing is we never saw the Hinata girl activate her Byakugan.’

‘This guy is also funny in his own way. Not only did he realize how gathering information was the goal of the exam.

By giving the information discreetly he earned himself extra points from this proctor when it came to deciding if a finalist should be promoted to Chunin or not.’'