The blond held out his hand, smirking as Ibiki began grumbling a bit before pulling out his wallet. "How you managed to convince Anko to let you into our poker game I'll never know. Though you'll forgive me if I hope it doesn't happen again," Ibiki placed the money in the blonde's hand.
Naruto grinned as he unsealed his wallet and put the money in it before sealing it back up, "Well I suppose I can't blame you. It must be embarrassing getting cleaned out by a twelve year old Genin. But hey! That's life right? Well it's a pleasure doing business with you scar face-san."
Grin still in place Naruto walked through the surprised crowd and made his way back towards the other rookies.
"Naruto, how do you know Ibiki-san?" asked Ino.
Naruto looked at her and shrugged, "I have a friend who works in the I&T division. I managed to convince her to let me play poker with her, Ibiki and a few others. I managed to clean them out completely. A few were left walking home in nothing more than their underclothes." The blond shinobi tilted his head, "How do you know Scar face-san?"
"That's easy, my dad was the former head of the I&T division, Ibiki-san worked under him as an apprentice for a time so I would often see him over at the house," Ino replied.
Naruto clicked his tongue, "Huh, small world."
"Now that that's out of the way," Ibiki started, hoping to regain some of his lost composure. "We will now start the first stage of the Chunin Exams. Now then I want all of you to come up here and grab a tab so you can find your assigned seats. Once that is done the written test will begin."
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN A WRITTEN TEST!" Naruto shouted. Studying or no, written tests have always been the bane of his existence and he doubted that would ever change.
Ibiki smirked, feeling the need for some payback, "That's right Uzumaki, a written test. Now I suggest you shut the hell up and sit down before I kick you out!"
Naruto began to cry anime tears as he sat at his assigned seat, which was coincidently right next to two other blonds. Temari was on his left, while Yugito had gotten the seat to his right.
Temari looked at Naruto and smirked, "I take it you don't like written exams?"
"Not liking something is like saying it's mildly disdainful," Naruto answered with a derisive snort. "It's something that is a minor nuisance to do, but not outside the realm of actually doing. I despise written exams. They have been the bane of my existence ever since the academy. If I could I would gladly find every single exam ever written and let the Shinigami eat all them, though he would probably get indigestion."
Temari blinked for a moment before letting out a small laugh, "Well it seems you're in for quite the dilemma."
"You're telling me," Naruto groaned, "stupid scar-faced teme, I bet he did this on purpose. But I'll get him back for this travesty." Naruto stood up and pointed a finger at Ibiki, "You hear that teme, next time we play poker I'm gonna clean you out so badly you'll have to walk home in the buff!"
Ibiki tossed Naruto a glare as the blond sat himself back down with Naruto returned the glare.
What an odd ninja, thought Yugito as she looked at Naruto. Though, he is kind of cute with those whiskers. She stopped her train of thought right there as a small blush spread across her face before shaking the thought away. What's wrong with me? Thinking about competition like that...
Naruto sighed as his glaring contest ended when Ibiki began to explain the rules for the exam.
"Alright! I will now explain the rules of this test and pay attention because I'm only going over this once!" Ibiki waited for a moment to see if anyone was dumb enough to speak. When no one did he turned to the board, "The first rule for this test is that each of you will start off with ten points, the same amount to the number of questions on this test. For each answer you get wrong one point will be deducted from your overall score. The second rule is that this will be a team test, meaning that if one of you fails, all of you fail."
"Wait a minute!" Sakura shouted raising her hand, "I don't underst-"
"I said no questions!" Ibiki barked, cowing the girl to bring her hand back down, "the third rule of this test is that anyone who gets caught cheating, either by one of the chunin or myself will automatically have two points deducted from their test."
"I've got my eyes on you," one of the chunin said, freaking out a few of the more susceptible genin.
Well, I don't think Naruto will do well. Even if he sounds smarter occasionally he's still a baka, Sakura thought. But I know Sasuke-kun will do alright, and I'm confident I can do this, so we should be ok.
"As for the final rule, anyone who loses their initial points during the test or those who don't answer any of them correctly will fail, along with their teammates!"
"What!" Sakura shouted.
"We're doomed," mumbled Sasuke.
"Somehow I feel like someone's trying to kill me with their eyes," Naruto said to himself as he felt the killing intent from his teammates. Not one to be outdone he simply flipped them the bird without turning his head.
"The last question will be asked at the end of the hour," Ibiki paused as he looked at all the genin, "Begin!"
"Good luck," Naruto said to Temari, who felt a smile come onto her face. He looked over at Yugito and gave her a grin, "Good luck to you as well."
Yugito blinked for a moment surprised that someone from another village, especially one her village did not get along with was wishing her luck.
"Thank you," She mumbled before looking away.
Naruto sighed as he flipped over his test. He looked at the first question and frowned. It was way too hard for him to even begin answering, despite the studying he did. He went down each and every question and found that all of them were too hard for him to even begin to understand.
In fact, I don't think anyone can answer these except for a walking dictionary like Sakura.
Behind him Sakura sneezed before writing down the answer to another one of the questions.
The blond shinobi discreetly looked around to see what the other genin had figured out. He saw Neji was using his Byakugan to get the answers as was Hinata, Tenten was using mirrors that were controlled by ninja wire to get the answer and other genin were using various ways to find the answers as well.
It seems that everyone else has also realized that the questions are too hard for them. That has to mean Scar-face never intended us to know the answers, he made it hard enough so that we have to cheat without getting caught. Figures he would do something like this, Anko always said he specialized in mental torture.
Having figured out what was going on Naruto now had to find a way to get the answers without anyone finding out.
First, I need to find someone with the answers. Looking around the blond noticed that the person in front of him was scribbling away and seemed confident that he had all the answers. Bingo.
Naruto smirked as he waited for the Genin in front of him to finish his test before enacting his plan.
Using his control over wind Naruto created a large gust that forced the windows open, scattering the papers all over the place. Naruto kept his eyes on the paper he wanted and used the confusion to Kawarimi it with his own paper. He replaced the other Genin's name with his own, before grinning and leaning back in his seat with his feet propped up on the desk.
Both Temari and Yugito looked over at their fellow blond who just minutes ago, had been freaking out and raised an eyebrow, wondering what had changed.
Ibiki frowned as he watched people shout and try to grab their papers; he had felt a quick burst of chakra but had not been able to determine where it came from. He looked around the room before his eyes caught Naruto, leaning back in his chair with his feet propped up on the desk....