- I'll amend the conditions of the first stage - you may not leave your seats or attack your opponents, or you're out," the jonin hissed, glaring at the smiling Kushina.
- Hey, why didn't they kick them out? - Some guy from Kumo was outraged, pointing at Hoshi and the red-haired kunoichi for clarity before everyone calmed down.
Ryo's apprentice took it in stride, promising herself to teach herself to be polite when they met in the Forest of Death.
- Because you managed to exploit a loophole in the rules first, no one prevented you from doing that," the examiner snarled angrily.
The white-haired boy sat down, grumbling unhappily, and the exam resumed. The participants tried to discreetly cheat off each other, the chunins sent away the teams that had spent points, but Hoshi didn't pay attention to it, diligently copying down detailed answers to the questions.
Once she was done, she simply turned the sheet over and leaned back in her chair, prepared to wait for the forty minutes to end. The seconds ticked away, the genin who had begun to panic were getting caught more often and legitimately flew out, and the class gradually emptied.
- Time! - announced the chief examiner, looking at his watch. - Put your pens aside and you have one last chance to surrender, before you turn in your answers, decide wisely," he received a couple of sheets from the chunin, but began to read out, "Team number seven, Kumo, six points left; team ten, Konoha, four points; seventeen, Konoha, nine; three, Suna, two; four, Kusa, six....
Some teams with too few points left gave up almost immediately, the more stubborn ones held on, but a spirit of despair hovered over most of the remaining candidates. After looking over the rest, the jonin and waiting to see if anyone else wished to surrender, he grinned suddenly, and threw the sheets on the table, standing up and stepping in front of the genin.
- Congratulations, you have made it to the end and are moving on to the next stage!
There was a deafening silence, after which the class erupted in cheers.
- What about the questions? - someone asked.
- The questions were to motivate you, because otherwise you can pass without doing anything," the man shrugged his shoulders.
The door opened and Hyuga's jonin appeared in the doorway.
- Finished? - He asked.
- Just now.
- Seventeen teams, not enough for my stage," the new examiner looked around at the Genin, turning to his colleague, "you're on fire today.
- As many as there are," he shrugged.
- All right, genin, follow me, the second stage of the chunin exam is waiting for you, no one will wait for the latecomers," Hyuga turned around and disappeared into the corridor, followed by the morally exhausted but happy candidates.
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