Dexter's POV;

The week we had left was spent with making preparations for the coming exams. Both Lee and I were working on our gates, while TenTen tried new tactics against wind user out. Lee is now able to open five gates, while I can open all eight, but they know of only six.

But we did not only train, I also bribed Anko into helping us. It only took me 100 immediate dango sticks and a month of 30 dango sticks a day to convince her that it would be good for my team to know a fast route to the middle tower of the Forest of Death.

We took advantage of this situation and get as familiarized as possible with the forest.

And now we were in the entrance hall of the academy, the place where we will have the fist test.

I even wore the coat I got from Anko, well a larger version and in black, but still her kind of coat. Under it was a tight black tank top with green flames. My trousers were bondage trousers with green linings and my shoes were the same black steel toed boots I usually wore. The last thing I wore was a pair of gloves with green linings.

What can I say, I like black and neon green.

°If I were into children I would eat you right now°, was the amused comment Kura-chan made when I looked into the mirror.

TenTen also needed a few seconds to come out of her stare.

Anyway, the Genjutsu over the second floor was barely worth mentioning and we simply walked past it without glancing at the large group that was standing in front of the two Chunin.

But this wouldn't have been the Naruto universe if not some things happened like what did in the anime. Namely Sasuke and his desire to stand out. He loudly proclaimed that the Genjutsu over the door was weak and walked on with a smug face. Followed by a lovestruck puppy and a bored Naruto.

I pointed at him and laughed about his stupidity, other more experienced Ninja did the same and I watched with amusement how the almighty Uchiha got reduced to the laughingstock of this year's Genin.

I could almost hear his gnashed teeth. And the best thing is, he doesn't even have the Sharingan yet. His fight with Haku wasn't near death enough to activate it.

“Stop laughing, you're just jealous of my Sasuke-kun. You only laugh in a meager attempt to hide your own incompetency of spotting the Genjutsu”, defended Sakura the now as well embarrassed Sasuke.

“Seems like the mighty Uchiha needs a woman to speak for him”, shouted a Genin from Iwa mockingly. And a new round of laughter started. Sasuke tried his best to not show his anger and increased his walking speed.

“Not even a comeback? It said that they are all bark and no bite, but the Uchiha can not even do that”, continued the same Iwa Genin and more laughter came.

°This is hilarious°, came from Kura-chan and I agreed wholeheartedly.

My team and I also went on and were before Sasuke in the classroom. They were still on the lowest floor when the whole thing started.

Each of us sat down near the wall and waited for the start of the exam. By the way, Neji was this time also here, his other teammates weren't really known to me and are most likely only there to fill the lines.

Other people I spotted were the sound three, Karin, Orochimaru in the body of a woman, Kabuto and my Uzu Genin. Their team was four men strong, two girls and two boys. One of the boys was an Uzumaki, his red hair showed it clearly. A girl came from the Gladius Lamina clan and the other two were civilians of origin. All four of them are strong for Genin, maybe lower Chunin level.

Their Jonin teacher was from the Filium clan and most likely somewhere from where the teachers are able to spy on the Genin.

°The Chakra from Orochimaru feels so vile°, commented Kura-chan suddenly and I looked over to the chair, where he was sitting on, he or she? Was looking back at me with a creepy expression. It reminded me of a predator that was stalking its pray.

°I think he's planning something°, I replied.

°Yes, and I don't think it is what we know will already happen°, agreed Kura-chan. I was forming another thought on this matter but was interrupted by the loud noise of two fangirls.

Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura came inside and Ino wasted no time to tackle her 'Sasuke-kun'. Sasuke looked still pissed, while Naruto now had a grin on his face. With Ino's tackle came the rest of the last years Genin.

Ino and Sakura fell into a screeching tournament and the whole room was now annoyed by them, that is until Kabuto came over to them and began his little speech about being a little bit more quiet for safety measures.

He then took his cards out and showed them the stats of Sasuke. He looked fairly proud with his high speed and Chakra control points.

I grinned and walked over to them, both Lee and TenTen knew that I have no love for Sasuke, so they could already imagine what my intentions were.

I reached them right in time to hear how Sasuke asked for mine and Lee's stats.

“Rock Lee, a Genin in his second year, he has no talent in any Ninja art other than Taijutsu. His teammates are TenTen Kimichi and Dexter Uzuki. They absolved 375 D-Rank missions, 45 C-Rank missions, 2 B-Rank missions and recently even an A-Rank mission.... Impressive.

Lee participated in last years Chunin exam as well but was taken out during the third stage.

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As for Dexter Uzuki”, explained Kabuto, he then took another card out and gave it a quick glance, before faking false wonder.

“He did the same amount of missions as Lee, but his stats are all higher than his. He was rookie of the year and specializes in close combat, the same as him. It isn't known if he knows any Jutsu beyond the basic ones, as he never uses any. But the most interesting thing is that he succeed where Lee failed during the last Chunin exams, only to surrender right after”.

“Heh, must've been a fluke”, scoffed Sasuke.

“Kabuto-kun, a pleasure seeing you again, hopefully, you'll last longer than last time. But what is that that I hear? You'll hand out information about me without my consent? That's not really nice”, I said jovially the moment I reached them and Kabuto smiled a faked awkwardly smile. Only Kura-chans ability to sense emotions gave him away. He's truly a good spy.

“Dexter-kun, what can I say. I just had to help these uninformed Genin”, he said to me and then turned back to the others, “but seriously, you have to be quieter, there are some people here who would love to take you out. And then there are the two new villages, the sound village, and Uzushiogakure. First-time Genins are always more...unpredictable”.

“Oy, what did I hear? Do you think we are weak?”, shouted Dosu from the middle of the room. My Uzu team simply watched the whole thing with indifference.

“I think I'll have to show you what it means to be from the Sound”, Dosu then said and rushed at Kabuto, who in return evaded the incoming strike. Only to get hit nonetheless by his sound wave, not that most of the Genin realized what happened.

“What happened? Kabuto clearly dodged that attack”, asked Kiba, but no one gave him an answer. They were either not interested in doing so or did not know the reason as well.

“That's enough maggots and Dexter. Sit down, the first exam will start and I'm not in the mood to play with bratty children”, said a gruff voice that belonged to Ibiki, the T&I boss of Konoha.

Ibiki was a 1.8 meter tall man with a blue bandanna and dark clothes. He wore combat boots and a black coat that was similar but not the same like Anko's.

He had a constant scowl on his face and looked overall very intimidating, which was the reason why we all rushed back to our seats.

“Why does he know you Dexter-kun?”, asked TenTen while I sat down.

“Anko took me along to her work once, Ibiki wasn't really amused by that but changed his impression of me after I got pieces of information out of an enemy Ninja”, I explained and then signaled her to be silent. Ibiki doesn't like it to be interrupted during his speeches.

“Now listen maggots, and listen closely, because I'm only telling this once”, began Ibiki now loudly. Other testers began to come in and were sitting down on the side lines or positioned themselves on at the back wall.

“Each of you will get a test and you will get an hour to finish it. The test will have ten questions, each worth a point and every noticed attempt to cheat will cost you two points. You'll need at least 5 points to not fail. There will also be an additional question after the hour is up, but this one will stay an unknown to you until then.

Any questions?”, he then said but didn't wait for anyone to ask anything. He simply started to hand out the tests.

“The time runs now!”, he then declared and everyone hurriedly tried to solve the questions, which were deliberately too hard for normal Genin.

°I know that this test is only a farce, but what will you do? Wait for the whole hour?°, asked Kura-chan once I had my own test.

°No, I once read a funny attempt to gain the answers to the test and I want to try it as well°, I replied and raised my hand after three minutes.

“Yes Uzuki?”, asked Ibiki grumpily, but he is always grumpy.

“Mister Proctor, may I have the answers to the test and could I give them to my teammates as well?”, I asked and looked directly in his eyes.

The room was suddenly as silent as a graveyard. No one said anything and some even gaped at me openly.

Ibiki stared down at me, a minute and then two until he finally grinned and gave me a fully filled out test.

“Sure, here you go”, he added.

“Thank you”, I replied with a smile and took the sheet before walking over to TenTen and Lee, where I had to write the answers down myself. They were too stunned to do so themselves.

After that, I sat back down and grinned.

°That...that was... I don't know, anticlimactic?°, admitted Kura-chan.

Then, a moment after I sat down, exactly like it happened in the fanfic, another examinee raised his hand.

“What?”, asked Ibiki, he must already know what this Genin wants to ask.

Sure enough, the Genin didn't disappoint and asked what both Ibiki and I already suspected; “Could I have the answers as well?”.

Ibiki glared at him and only said one word; “No”.

“But he did get them”, protested the now as stupid declared Genin. If there was one thing that Ibiki did not like, then it was a counter argument that was stupid.

“And? So what? Just because he had the balls to ask, and you had not before him, will force me to give them to you? Shut up and do the test”, barked Ibiki and the Genin hurriedly did as demanded.

I just grinned and went into my mindscape to chat a little with Kura-chan. I also had to cuddle with her tails.

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An hour later, Third Person's POV;

Ibiki hated to do these lousy jobs, but there wasn't anyone else in Konoha that was as good as he with mind games. And as such, it was his task to do this first test each time they were held in Konoha. That they were held in Konoha only every fifth time didn't lessen his annoyance.

But this time it was going to be a little more interesting than the many other exams he led. The brat that Anko was so fond of participated and Ibiki had to admit that he liked Dexter Uzuki a little bit.

He wasn't as bratty as other children his age and his skills in interrogating were good for someone this young.

Anko introduced Dexter to him when he was only 9 years old. She said the Gaki had to see the fun things of being a Ninja, but in reality, Ibiki knew that it was only Anko's way to show him that being a Ninja isn't all good and pretty.

It obviously backfired. Dexter was very attentive when it came to new interrogation techniques. The hell that came over Anko when Dexter's sister got wind of him being in T&I is still something that gave Ibiki a fond grin.

But back to the here and now, Ibiki was impressed with the guts that Dexter showed when he asked him to get the answers. It wasn't really what he meant when he gave his explanation about the test, but he did not say that it wasn't not allowed as well.

Ibiki glanced at the clock and saw that the hour was almost over. He looked to the remaining Genin, some of them got disqualified, but the next question will lessen the remaining Genin a lot more.

“Okay maggots, time is up. I'll now tell you the last question but before that. I have to warn you that a false answer will end your life as a Ninja. And don't come with the crap that I'm not allowed to do that. I have permission from each village leader to kick you out.

But!, I feel generous and will allow you to step down now. Those who don't want to risk it are free to go and try again next year”, he said and bathed in the shock that was shown from most Genin.

Only a few didn't show any signs of being nervous.

“You can't do that, the other Genin that took this exam before us had never such a rule”, proclaimed one Genin, a Suna Genin with war paint.

“I'm not always the proctor, sucks to be you”, this was a lie, but every Genin is forced to sign a none disclosure contract when they start the next part of the exam.

Ibiki stared down at the now very nervous Genin and gave the whole thing the final touch by giving one of the other proctors, that were sitting between the examinees, a signal.

The proctor promptly did his act and stood up while looking like a nervous wreck.

“I heard from my brother that there is a proctor that simply loves to fail the Genin in the exam. He said that more than one of his friends were no longer Ninja thanks to him. I for one don't want to risk it, I'm out”, said the disguised Chunin and then almost run out of the room. His 'teammates' followed him quickly.

“Wise choice, anyone else?”, asked Ibiki now with his most sadistic grin. aided by a little killing intent. The whole thing had its effect and more and more teams walked out. Five minutes later only half of those who finished the first test were now left.

“Anyone else? This is your last chance”, he tried again, however, it seemed like the pussies were all gone and only those with resolve or guts were left.

“Good, then...you've all passed the first test”, he stated after a grave pause and listened to the shouts of shock and disbelieve that came from the remaining group.

“If we didn't have to do anything to begin with, why then even bothering?”, asked the same guy that annoyed him from before. That war painted pussy from Suna.

“Because”, started Ibiki and began to undo his bandanna; “there might be a time where you have to either finish the mission or stop being Ninja altogether”, he finished and showed his scarred and burned head. A wave of shock, disgust, and discomfort from seeing his wounds washed over the Genin and Ibiki couldn't stop himself from grinning his trained sadistic grin.

“This is what happens when you get caught by the enemy. It shows that I failed a mission, but also that I didn't run away like a pussy. The ability to put the mission over his or her own life and career is something a Chunin must have”, he explained. He did want to say more but wasn't able to do so, because the window exploded and a banner was pinned at the blackboard, right in front of him.

The banner, that now hid the T&I boss, had something written on it, it stated “The second exam starts now! Your proctor is the sexy and single Mitarashi Anko!”.

Anko, who was obviously the reason for the whole thing, stood in front of the Genin. Her chest proudly pushed out and showing what she hid under her see-through mesh shirt. Some Genin already blushed deep red and the whole thing felt really awkward.

“Anko you're too early”, grumbled Ibiki while he came in front of the banner.

“Yes yes”, said Anko dismissively. She then turned to the still slightly stunned audience and grinned her wide grin. “Okay, as you can read, I'm Anko and will be your next proctor. The test will start in twenty minutes. Follow me or get disqualified”.

She then jumped out of the broken window and everyone, who was not too befuddled from the whole thing, tried to follow her as fast as he or she could.