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[construction]

Huh??

Hi there Big Brother Shikamaru! What's goin on?

Huh?

The first round of the Chunin Exams is going to be held here,

so we're making a few upgrades.

The Chunin Exams? It's sure been a while since they held them!

Yep, two years now...

That means we get to participate this time!

That's so cool! We're all gonna get to become chunin!

Hold up. You three are still Academy students.

You're not even genin yet so you can't participate.

That's kind of a disappointment, but also a big relief...!

Hold on! That means Big Brother Naruto's coming back, right?!

Huh, Naruto?

Isn't he coming back to take the Chunin Exams?

He's not coming.

What!?

[Groan] Who knows what kind of training he's doing now... Nobody even knows where he is.

I don't even know if he's even heard the news that we're gonna hold the Chunin Exams again...

They're really gonna go ahead without Big Brother Naruto?

It's not like the village plans things to fit his schedule.

Big Brother's gonna get left behind...

Yeah! Our boss is gonna be disqualified!

We're here to represent the Hidden Sand! We've just gotta become Chunin, OK!?

It's too soon to get all worked up.

She's right. Just calm down, Yukata.

[annoyed grunt]

It seems that Shikamaru's going to be a proctor for the exams.

That isn't surprising. That's because he's already a chunin.

Then I say we should just buckle down and get promoted to chunin, too!

[happy bark]

Let's do this!

We'll give it our all! Mhm!

Okay, so you three are taking the Exams. You're all registered.

There's no trick this time, like preventing us from submitting an application, is there?

Well, the exam's details are up to the proctor in charge.

Okay, pull lots, please.

Three...?

Two?

One, huh?

Please return the lots and go to the classroom matching the number that you picked.

(Choji) They're so polite, it's almost creepy.

(Sakura) I bet Shikamaru planned this.

(Ino) I wonder what he's thinking...

Next group in line, please.

You're from the Hidden Waterfall Village, right?

I'm Fuu!

All right, please pull lots.

We have waited so long! We definitely have to become chunin!

Hiya!

Do you have to be so loud?

(Naruto) This where the Chunin Exams are being held?

[gasps]

Hey! I'm back and ready for action!

(Lee) Naruto!

No way! Is that really you?

You're back!? Are you real?

You bet I'm real, ya know?

(Tenten) Seems you haven't changed much.

What?! Of course I have! Just look at the results of my training.

Hiiiiya!

This is my sexy jutsu!

Ya see? Pretty sweet, huh?

Well, he's still stupid...

And that is why Naruto is Naruto!

Byakugan!

I'm gonna take part in the Exams with you guys!

(Lee) But you need to be part of a team of 3!

Well I just got to the Village and there's no one left,

so I'm simply gonna have to ask them to make an exception for me!

Oh man...

[groan]

What's the big idea?

(Moegi) Don't get mad at Konohamaru!

You all right, Konohamaru?

We only did all of this for Big Brother Naruto.

(Neji) Naruto...

Because Big Brother can't join in the Chunin Exams...

He won't be able to become a chunin.

So you were trying to take it for him?

A stand-in test taker?

(Neji) You don't need to worry about him.

-Huh? -Huh? -Huh?

Because Naruto will continue to strive to become the Hokage even if he's not a chunin.

That is right! And, when he returns, we will welcome him with a big smile! Ha!

I get it now...

(Kotetsu) Next in line...!

One.

Three.

Two.

Leave the lots and go to the room with the number you drew.

Room One is the classroom straight ahead. Rooms Two and Three are up the stairs.

Huh?

We're being split up!?

We will be on our own for this?

I'm in Room One.

[gasp] Big Brother Neji!

So why were we split from our teams?

[annoyed sigh] I have no idea...

[grunt] It won't open!

I wonder what is happening!

Isn't the proctor coming?

I bet they're planning something.

Heh! That's fine! Bring it on!

(Komugi) A stack of papers...

Hey! Don't go around touching stuff!

(Shikamaru) Uh... Ahem. [loudspeaker interference]

I'm Shikamaru Nara. I'm the proctor for the first round of the Chunin Exams.

Please take one sheet from the stack on the teacher's desk and then take any seat.

So Round One's a written test, after all?

Oh. Good... it's the same as usual.

(Shikamaru) Is everyone seated? This is a drag, so let's get right to it.

-This is a drag for him? -It's serious business for us!

Heh! You guys are lucky 'cause I'm the one in charge this year.

He might be right.

Why's that?

'Cause he's not gonna do anything unreasonable.

This is a written test. Read the questions closely.

There are only three of them?

..The three questions are worth, from the top down, 30 points, 40 points, and 50 points

One hundred twenty is a perfect score?

Shouldn't it be one hundred?

(Shikamaru) Each of you will answer only one of the three questions.

Your team's total will determine whether you pass.

But if your total exceeds 100, then the whole team will be disqualified.

[confused chatter]

So, for example...

If a team has thirty, thirty, and fifty points, for 110 total

...thirty, forty, and forty, for one ten total...

...or 40, 40, and 40 for 120 total, those scores would disqualify them, right?

Then we'll average out the scores of the teams that remain,

and any who fall below the average will be disqualified, too.

(Shikamaru) Those over the average will pass.

Average score?

You'll average out the totals of all the teams' scores..?

Just a minute...!

How are we supposed to--?

The exam starts now.

[buzzer]

I don't know which question I should solve!

[groans]

I do not understand this test! At all!

This exam isn't only about solving the questions on it. The test's a test.

Quit saying things that'll confuse me more!

None of the three questions are that difficult... unless you're really dumb.

...anyone can solve even the fifty point question...

Don't underestimate me! I don't quit and I don't run! No way!

I don't care if I'm stuck as a genin for the rest of my life, I'll still be Hokage some day!

[Neji Thoughts] Come to think of it, there was a guy like that.

He couldn't answer one question in the first round exam, but he passed.

Which means They're not testing our problem-solving skills. It's the same as last time!

Now then... 100 points is either 30, 30, and 40, or 50, 50, and 0.

So what's the point of this first round?

The point of it is to try to think of the score that the

other two team members are going to get.

Or rather, how to make your fellow team members get a certain score.

Although that gives an advantage to any of the teams who might

know jutsu that enable them to contact each other.

If that's their solution to this, then that's fine.

That just means those teams that have those skills will get a hundred points.

And the rest have to suck it up and figure something out, huh?

The last Chunin Exams' first-round was just like this, wasn't it?

The point count isn't what's important.

The Chunin Exams are intended to illuminate who's team-captain material.

If the point was to test strength, I wouldn't be a chunin.

That's for sure.

Thanks for having my back...

[buzzing]

[gasp]

[thinking] It's completely sealed off...

Big Brother Neji?

Double paned windows, huh? They made sure we couldn't contact our teammates...

Should you be walking around like that?

We were told a few rules at the beginning,

but no one's reprimanded us yet for talking like this.

I see...

In other words, they don't care if we cheat or not.

Yes, of course. The last time around, the first exam was about cheating.

It won't open...

Leave it to Shikamaru to come up with a difficult exam.

For this test, if you're able to contact your teammates somehow,

you gain a very significant advantage

But no one on my team uses such ninjutsu.

I wonder if Shino has come up with any ideas yet...

The only thing left to try is to guess which questions my teammates will solve.

If we just choose the number that we each drew,

then our point total will be over one hundred.

(Komugi) Going over a hundred points means disqualification.

... We have to avoid that at all cost.

So if one of us just scores zero points, then we'll avoid going over one hundred, right?

But there's no guarantee the other two will both pick the fifty-point question.

And if the point total is too low, there's a good possibility

of being disqualified because of a low average.

If all of us were to solve the thirty-point question, Then we'd end up with ninety points.

But then we would just lose out to the team that has one hundred points!

Besides, if a lot of teams get 100, they'll raise the average

and teams with 90 points will be disqualified.

I guess finding a way to escape won't be possible.

(Sakura) The choices are, 30, 30, and 40... or 0, 50, and 50 to score 100 points.

So the question is, how do we figure out which question each team member is going to solve?

How am I supposed to know what questions Ino and Sakura will pick?

And what exactly are Shino and Kiba thinking of doing?

Those two are probably busy wondering the very same thing about you right now.

Got it! I finally figured it out!

What? Really, you did!?

Yes! I got the answer to the 50 point question!

Oh, I see...

I will not show you, though!

I won't look. I don't have to look...

[buzzing]

[sigh]

[buzzing]

Who are you...? You don't seem to be an Insect User.

I hate to say this... but if Naruto were here, this first-round exam would be easy.

Huh? Why's that?

I mean, you just know that he'd score zero points.

Well... I'm pretty sure that even Naruto could solve the thirty-point question.

Nope, no way.

Leave it to Naruto...

I mean it really would be much simpler for our team if Lee were as dumb as that.

Uh, hey, excuse me?

What is it?

So, uh... can you tell me what we're supposed to do for this test?

What do you think we've all been trying to figure out?!

Oh, you guys, too, huh? Yeah, these questions are, like, seriously hard, aren't they?

Uh, yeah... they are...

Doesn't it seem that the safest thing to do is for each of us to just choose the 30-point question?

But what about that average score thing he talked about?

Oh, I see. Then we have to score one hundred points, no matter what.

I can barely even figure out how to get one hundred points!

(Shibire) Meanwhile, our time keeps ticking away!

[thinking] All right, I've trained hard... I might as well try it.

...first I have to sense those two...

[thinking] Hey, you guys! Listen up...

Is that you, Fuu? Right, got it.

Hey, what's going on? What are you doing?

[Thinking] It's for my teammates...

Sensory Jutsu...

Four...? I got it!

[sigh]

I still don't get it...

(Ino) Choji...

I'll solve the forty-point question, and you do the thirty-pointer.

Ahh! Mhm.

(Ino) And I'll have Sakura do the thirty-pointer, too.

Hey! Gennai! Inaho! Can you guys hear me out there!?

Tanzo! Minoji!

[shouting]

What are you all trying to do!?

At this rate, no one's voice will be heard clearly!

Huh...? Do you guys hear something?

Is someone yelling?

Wait, of course! If they can hear me on the other side...

Hey!

Hey! Can you hear me!?

[whining]

I hear it, too, Akamaru.

Someone's yelling.

More than just some one ...

(Inaho) I get it!

(Inaho) Komugi! Gennai!

Woohoo!

[muffled shouting]

Shouldn't we put a stop to this?

If I stop them now, this exam would be meaningless.

Now then... Who's going to do what?

The fifty-pointer's mine!!

I'll do the forty-pointer one!!

It's way too loud! Who can hear over all this noise?

They're shouting in the other classes, too.

All the voices are blending together! We can't communicate clearly!

[Thinking] Can't communicate clearly, huh?

Heh... Just watch: Sand Letters Jutsu!

"I'll do the forty point question"

[Thinking] Huh? It's Sajin!

He wants us each to do the thirty-pointer, huh?

With that we'll total one hundred points! Heh, those fools...

Lady Hinata...

Let's continue your lesson right here.

What are you talking about, Neji?

There's just something I want to try.

Uh... Oh. Okay.

Eight Trigrams: Air Palm...

With all your might...

Yee! Watch out!

-Eight Trigrams: Air Palm! -Eight Trigrams: Air Palm!

[shouting]

(Komugi) Hey... What was that for?

Why'd you guys...

(Sajin) What the hell are you doing!?

We're merely showing you the way you need to go about about solving this question.

(Temari) What's the answer that you prepared?

(Shikamaru) This entire question wouldn't even exist if I weren't the proctor.

That's why there's no point whatsoever in me answering that question.

(Temari) What's that excuse all about?

(Naruto) Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "One Worthy as a Leader"

(Shikamaru) Neji's planning something... I can tell...