Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Chronicles of a Self-Made Shinobi ❯ Written Examination (1) ( Chapter 18 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Chronicles of a Self-Made Shinobi: Written Examination (chap. 1)

Lee drilled all the details he remembered of the last time he took the test into her head on the way to the Ninja Academy. The whole purpose of the examination was to cheat and not get caught.

“So what is this idea you had?” Lee asked as they were walking to meet Neji in front of the Academy.

She smiled. “It's simple. With this.” She held up her finger.

Lee stared at it. “Um…you're going to cheat with your finger?”

“Let's find Neji so I can explain it to the both of you.”

They found him sitting on a bench in the playground with his eyes closed, arms crossed. Kumiko was going to enjoy this. When they approached he still didn't open his eyes and waited for her to explain the plan.

“Neji is going to cheat and then we're going to cheat off Neji,” she explained. “I've got a small camera, here on my finger. All I have to do it stick it to Neji's face and, bingo, we can see his test.”

She reached into her pocket and pulled out two small boxes. “In here I've got two lenses that will transmit the signal. You put it on your eye and it looks invisible.”

Lee stared at her, not quite understanding. She laughed. “Let's try it out.”

She took out her lens and fitted it into her eye, then helped Lee. His eyes watered a bit. “Don't worry you're get used to it.”

She then put the camera on Neji's forehead, if not a little roughly, and flicked a switch. Immediately her left eye filled with the view from Neji's forehead. Lee swooned.

“Ahh…dizzy.”

“You'll get used to that too.”

Neji seemed unimpressed. “Pretty clever, but they know what my byakugan looks like. If I use it to cheat then we'll get caught.”

Kumiko smiled evilly inward. “I can fix that.”

She pulled out a cylindrical container. She opened it up to reveal a mix the color of Neji's skin, with the consistency of pudding. “I made this last night. I'll put it on you while it's activated and it'll cover up the lines that appear on your face. Unfortunately though, you can't de-activate it because it's very sticky and will crack.”

Neji's eyes widened and Lee started to laugh hysterically. “AHAHAH it's like makeup! AHAHAH Neji-kun…makeup, HAHAHA!”

Neji's eyebrow twitched and he scowled. After protests he agreed, it was the only way to pass the exams. After Kumiko put it on she and Lee started to giggle. It made his face look a little too small, and his skin a little too tightly wrapped.

The bell rang 9:00 and the students began to file into the Academy.

As they entered Lee turned to her. “I almost forgot. Last time at the end, there was a twist. They told us the last question decided if you moved on or not. But if you got it wrong, then you could never come back to the chuunin exams, and had to forfeit your ninja title. It was a dirty trick but…I expect we'll get something like it again. Be ready for it, Kumiko-san.”

She nodded, and they entered.

The small room was packed with ninja, all in groups of three. Immediately they were spotted by Hinata's team and they huddled together.

“It's still s-scary the second time,” Hinata told Kumiko.

Kumiko eyed the room warily. Some of the ninja looked a lot older than the Konoha genin. But this fact didn't scare her.

“Hinata-chan, if they're this old and they still haven't become chuunin, that means we're probably stronger than they are. Our sensei's believe we're ready now, and theirs waited a long time.”

“GENIOUS!” Lee shouted in her ear.

Neji grumbled at the attention Lee was attracting, and the annoying pinch the makeup was putting on his face.

“Neji-kun,” Hinata asked. “You're face looks strange, are you okay?”