Reborn into Naruto World with Tenseigan

While Raijin started to complete his exam, Samsara and Tengu also started to use their own means to write answers in their answer sheets.

At a certain point in time during the exam, a small chameleon with a black rod embedded inside its head arrived on the rooftop directly above Raijin’s desk. Nobody in the Exam Hall noticed the chameleon since it had seamlessly blended into the surroundings by assuming the color of the rooftop itself. With the ripple-patterned eyes in its eye socket, the Chameleon meticulously observed the answers written by Raijin.

Through the black rod, the chameleon’s vision is connected with Samsara, as such, whatever, the chameleon observes, Samsara can see that as well, and that’s how she starts to write the answers.

As for Tengu, things were quite similar as well. After confirming that no Sunagakure ninjas were in the same examination hall, he started using the ‘Eye of Sand’ technique to observe the answers and write them in his answer sheet.

The other candidates in the exam hall were also using their own means to copy the answers, of course, they were also making ‘more than five mistakes’ and getting eliminated along with their squad mates. By the time, thirty-five minutes had passed, more than twenty-five percent of the candidates in the first Examination Hall were eliminated, and among the remaining forty-five candidates, although many had not finished answering the questions, they did not dare to act rashly in fear of getting eliminated.

Having completed the nine questions in his answer sheet, Raijin was observing the situation.

Based on the occasional sound of footsteps in the corridor, it was not difficult to judge that the situation in other examination halls was relatively the same. But even if a lot of Genins were getting eliminated, Raijin did not think that the truly skilled would be eliminated.

Shaking his head, Raijin recovered his gaze and waited for the tenth question.

…

After writing eight answers on the answer sheet with Mika’s help, Naruto finally breathed a sigh of relief. Not long after that, the forty-five-minute bell rang, and it was finally time to give the candidates the tenth question.

The tenth question, it was ‘All or Nothing.’

Standing beside the podium, Ibiki began to speak, “For the tenth question, firstly, you guys will have to choose whether you want to try and solve it. If you do choose to take it and are unable to answer it correctly, then you’ll have to relinquish your right to take the Chūnin Exam forever!”

As soon as Ibiki announced the condition for taking the tenth question, the eyes of almost all candidates in the Examination Hall widened in shock, “Wha–?”

Ibiki continued, “But I am giving you the option to give up now and try your luck in the next Chūnin Promotion Exam, or the one after that. For those who lack confidence are free to not attempt to answer the tenth question.” Then he looked at the Genins–who have yet to recover from the shock–with a menacing gaze, and spoke, “Those who will not be taking the tenth question, raise your hand! Once I confirm your number, I will ask you to leave.”

Immediately, the candidate sitting right next to Naruto raised his hand with a stuttering voice, “I… I…” he stood up in a panic, and spoke, “I am quitting, I am not going to take it!”

“Me too…!”

“Me as well… I will try my luck in the next Chūnin Promotion Exam!”

“Count me out as well… I don’t want to risk my entire future!”

After the first candidate chose to give up, like a domino effect, more candidates started to withdraw. Before you know it, the number of candidates remaining was just a little over half the number of candidates originally taking the joint Chūnin Promotion Exam.

Unlike canon, Naruto did not attempt to give up here. It’s not that he was confident in his ability to answer the tenth question, he had zero confidence if anything he knew that he would most likely fail to answer the tenth question on his own, be that as it may, Naruto did not want to give up, because giving up now would bring shame to the name of Kuroto.

After all, Uzumaki Naruto is the disciple of Konoha’s Godaime Hokage, if he were to give up halfway without even trying, wouldn’t that mean that the disciple of Konoha’s Hokage is nothing but a coward?

Naruto can swallow anything, even his pride, but he cannot swallow bringing shame to Kuroto. For this reason, even if his entire body was shaking in dread, he remained glued to his desk while looking at the glove around his right hand, and screamed internally, ‘Mika-chan, you have to do something!’

Sasuke and Mika breathed a sigh of relief upon noticing that Naruto did not intend to give up here. As long as Naruto didn’t give up, the two of them were confident in their ability to somehow find the answer to the tenth question for all three of them and pass the exam.

Time passed bit by bit as candidates continued to give up until only twenty-four candidates were left in the fourth examination Hall. By this point, those who lacked confidence in their ability to answer the tenth question had given up, the only remaining ones in the examination hall were the ones who were willing to take the risk, and Ibiki passed all of them, and also explained the purpose of the tenth question.

Because Naruto hadn’t brushed away the anxiety of other candidates in the Examination Hall as he did in the Canon, a lot more candidates had given up.

Be that as it may, Konoha Eighteen was still in the game.

A similar situation occurred in the other five Examination Halls as many Genins who lacked confidence chose to give up, while the remaining ones passed.

The ones who passed the Written Chūnin exam all gathered in a single Classroom.

Originally, three-hundred-sixty candidates were participating in the Chūnin Promotion Exam, but after the Written Exam, only One-hundred-thirty-five candidates remained, the rest were eliminated.

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Inside the Classroom

After the first screening, the remaining candidates in the classroom were elites from different Shinobi Villages, as such, the atmosphere in the entire Classroom was inexplicably solemn.

Sitting with Naruto and Mika, Sasuke coldly looked at Kimimaro, Deidara, and Raijin while thinking to himself, ‘Sure enough… all three of them passed the Written Exam. I guess this is a good thing… now it’s up to me to take care of them…’

Besides Sasuke, Naruto was very emotional, “The Written Exam just now was really scary… Thank you Mika-chan, if you hadn’t helped, I would have definitely failed!”

“It’s okay Naruto-kun, we are a team, right?” nodded Mika with a light smile.

At this time, Shikamaru came over to their desk, and after sitting beside them, he spoke in a low voice, “Sasuke… for the second exam, we should formulate a strategy while we still have the time.”

“Strategy?” mumbled Sasuke doubtfully as he looked at Shikamaru. Even Naruto and Mika also looked at him curiously, wondering what he had in mind.

Shikamaru pointed at some of the strongest Genin squads one by one, and spoke, “Those people are far stronger than Genins, you should know this too from your earlier experience against that masked Amegakure Genin squad… In this situation, it would be best for us to work together in order to pass the second exam.”

Upon hearing Shikamaru’s suggestion, Mika muttered thoughtfully, “Well, that’s actually not a bad idea…”

Naruto glanced at the remaining members of the Konoha eighteen and noticed that quite a few of them were secretly glancing toward them, meaning that they did agree with Shikamaru’s suggestion.

Seeing that neither Mika nor Naruto raised any objection to his suggestion, Shikamaru continued, “In that case… for the next test…”

Before Shikamaru could finish, Sasuke shook his head, “No… I am not interested in that…”

Shikamaru was stunned, “Huh? Sasuke, what do you mean?”

Sasuke shrugged, “It’s fine if you cooperate with others, but I won’t do that… You can take my word for it, large groups would fall first… besides, I have some other plans for the second round…”

“Other plans?” mumbled Shikamaru in confusion and looked at Mika and Naruto, wondering if they were privy to his ‘other’ plans, as expected, both Mika and Naruto seemed to have some idea based on their expression.

Seeing that Sasuke refused to cooperate with Shikamaru, Mika could only smile helplessly, and refused as well, “Well, don’t worry Shikamaru-kun… there are still others… you can work together with them.”

Since the decision was made by Sasuke and Mika, Naruto naturally did not oppose them.

Shikamaru was a little speechless, he shook his head with a sigh and moved back to his seat.

At this time, Umino Iruka and the other instructors entered the classroom, and announced, “The second exam is about to begin soon, we will lead you there in a while, but before that, everyone here needs to sign the Death Certificate. Those who do not wish to sign may leave since they will be disqualified from the Chūnin Exam!”