Soon the written exam came to an end; it was hard and annoying to once again give a written exam after reincarnating. Sukuna for once found himself hitting his limit after he spent 7 years in the academy. No more...
As for his earlier query about how to help Karin, it was rather simple. He used his genjutsu on Tenten, who seemed to be cheating with mirrors attached on the ceiling. From there, he made Tenten turn the mirrors to flash light on Karin, who was sitting further away from him, thus the entire way around way to attract her attention.
Once he had her attention though, it was entirely easy. Just put the girl in genjutsu and write her the correct answers and Valla. Karin suddenly gonna top the test if they gonna ever release the result.
Spoiler alert, they won't.
Then came the last tenth question. This was a mind bender. Even Sukuna would have found himself stunned if this was the first time he was hearing it, and the fun fact, the question was never asked. Only the condition to hear the said question left candidates shaken.
Either you answer the question right and pass or you'll be banned from taking the exam ever again. If you don't wish to take the question then you fail, but with you fails both your other team mates.
'Ibiki is such a bastard, asking questions like this from kids.' Sukuna grumbled to himself. However, he had to give it to the man; he was hardcore. Especially when he removed that cloth covering his head.
All the marks would definately give those younger rookies a good nightmare tonight, good for them since sleeping in the forest of death is not adviced anyways.
Sukuna waited for Naruto's outbrust, but nothing happened. The boy neither lashed out like a cornered animal nor did he stand up and give up on the exam. He just stood there, confidently, doing nothing. Waiting for the final question like he was sure he will get it right.
That was surely new to Sukuna. But perhaps this time around he wasn't in so much pressure that he lashed out instead of just sitting tight and waiting for the question.
Rest of the Konoha 15 did the same. (With team 11 now in the counting)
Resulting in many of the candidates giving up this time around. Leaving, afraid of taking the exam any further, getting the answer wrong and missing out on being a Genin ever again.
One by one, all those candidates who couldn't stomach the risk of staying genin their entire life left the exam room with their cursing teammates, and finally, when no one stood up anymore, Ibiki finally let go of his stiff face and a hint of smile appeared on his face.
"So, everyone who stayed back until now...
Congratulations, you all have passed the written test."
"..."
"..."
"EH..."
Needless to say, Ibiki had to explain the situation. Once he did though, that completely left everyone speechless.
And that when the window broke open, entering one Anko Mitarashi.
Purple hair, wearing a long trench coat on the outside while inside, nothing more than a net shirt was covering her modesty. She was indeed very sexy like that. Still a dango in her hand, she behaved a lot like a female Naruto than a teacher.
"You're early ?" Ibiki said with irritation. The broken window, he wasn't paying for that.
"Haha... worry about the small stuff Ibiki," Anko waved her hand nonchalantly and then looked at the number of candidates. "Come on kitties, we are moving you to the next stage of the exam. Follow me." She shouted.
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Just outside the forest of death, all the teams came to a stop. Most teams generally crowded together where their own village's shinobi were. This of course meant that Konoha had a bigger group than even all other villages combined.
Sukuna took a look around. Everyone from the Konoha side made it. Then there was the sand team, mist team, sound team, and so on. His eyes darted among the teams which he wasn't closely familar with.
Finding that one person who shouldn't exist in this exam. But he couldn't find her, or him for that matter.
'Where is that snake...' He grumbled internally. At least his senses couldn't pin point any powerful negative emotion outside Gaara and Naruto of course.
"Now listen here, his is how the exam will be conducted," Anko grumbled and pointed at the temporary tent they erected a little away from the forest.
"One member from your team will go there and get the number of your team and one of these scrolls." She showed two scrolls in her hands written with heaven and earth on them.
"Each of the team will be given one of these scrolls. To pass the test, your team will need both scroll. Earth will need heaven and heaven will need earth. Got it." She pointed them to make a line.
Sukuna, Sasuke, Shikamaru, and one representative from each team made a line.
"The number you get will be the entrance gate your team will use to enter the forest. Make sure the goal is to reach the tower at the centre of the forest with both type of scroll." Anko shouted and afterwards took out dango ready to devour them, her work being done.
Sukuna's eyes lingered on her Dango's for a while.
"Man, this is just a drag." Shikamaru, who was ahead of him in line, complained.
"Everything a drag for you Shika, just move and get it over with." Sukuna pushed the lazy Nara to move on while keeping an eye on which team was getting what scroll. Of ocurse there was a shed where they got their number and scroll; it wasn't open for everyone to pry.
But some idiots didn't bother capitalising on that, not hiding the scroll when coming out.
Soon his turn came and he drew the gate number 33. There were 44 gates and not all would be in use.
Next was the scroll, and of course, he got the earth scroll. With that done, he quickly took his team and moved toward the gate, while keeping his eyes open.
He still couldn't spot Orochimaru, which was a bit confusing to him since the man should be here by now.
However, once he had time to really think about it, while coming all the way to the forest of death, he realised something important.
Orochimaru didn't have to target only Sasuke or Kiyomi for that matter. There were more Uchiha now alive in the village.
That little detail, a change of his own making, almost slipped his mind when going through his motions and following the story which was surprisingly going as he recalled it did outside Orochimaru's appearance.
'Okay, that make things either extremely smooth sailing or ridiculously annoying. Either he will not show up entirely, which of course is the good part, or he will and now I'm uncertain whether that possibility is a 100%. Meaning I have to stay alert for him the entire time.
Fuck...!' Sukuna sighed.
"Where are we going ?" Karin asked, Kiyomi also followed up.
"Gate number 33. Keep up."
"Where is the scroll ?" Kiyomi asked.
"I have it..."
Kiyomi frowned, clearly seeing that the boy planned on keeping it with him. She wished to argue for just the sake of it, but knew better that it was the safest with him.
"So what's the plan ?" She asked.
"We go in, find ourselves a heven scroll and then get the fuck out of there."
"Meaning you have no plan."
Sukuna shrugged, "Darling I'm the Plan. You don't need anything more than me here."
"Eww... don't call me that." Kiyomi said with a disgusted look on her face.
"Yeah... don't call her that." Karin chidden, hands going around Sukuna's arm, locking and pinching his arm at the same time.
'Sigh, I'm a bit low key worried about pursing any relationship with this doki doki redhead. She's increasingly sounding like someone from my memories.'
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A/N : Give a Doki Doki in the comment if you want her as female lead. Though I'm taking her either way. I want her.
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