As he stared blankly at the exam, his heart was in his throat. This paper could very well be the difference between fulfilling his dream of becoming hokagae or staying a weak little genin for the rest of his life. Naruto was fully aware of this, and could feel the thick beads of sweat pouring off him as the minutes went by.
An hour was the allowed time for this test, (and with a proctor like Ibiki Morino, thats pretty generous) they were on the final few minutes, then that all important "tenth question" would be given. The rules were yet to be explained, but at this point in time, the rules of a so far non-existant question didn't even cross his mind. He knew he didn't have much time left. He
wanted nothing more than to turn around and assure himself that not only he was struggling with what seemed to be the impossible. Just a simple turn of his head could put him at ease. Even moving a little to the right would suit him fine, even just to see if Hinata could manage to do anything. The thought couldn't have came any closer without being reality when all of a sudden, the chunin sitting at the side, watching their every move came back into his frame of mind.
"Naruto!", he thought to himself,
"Control yourself!"
On his answer sheet, were numbers labelled 1-9 down the left hand side and "Naruto Usomachi" placed in the the top right corner...This could wait no longer, he had to put his mind to it.
"RIGHT! PENCILS DOWN AND LISTEN UP!"
A cold sweat and quick shoot of pain jolted down Naruto's back. His expression grew blank. Was time really up already?
"Alright, it's time for the 10th question. I see theres no where near as many of you as there were in the beginning? HAH! From well over 100 to under 70! I didn't even think this many of you pathetic runts would make it this far if I'm honest with you! Thought there would be plenty more CHEATERS among you!"
and as if where this was going wasn't bad enough for Naruto, Ibiki continued,
"However, not all of you will be sitting this question..."
-many gasps around the room-
"...Well, heres whats going to happen, basically, if you don't want to sit this question, then you may leave but should you leave, then so must your other two team mates."
Almost every face in the room was now blank and/or confused
"Yes, you can leave...if you're not ready that is. If you realise that you only entered these life threatening exams to please the rest of your team and now realise that you're not ready then you may leave and you'll have the oppertunity again next year. So who's gonna give it a go again next year? No-one? You're all staying?"
Still no hands were raised
"Alright then. Ah yes, I forgot to mention, if you stay on and take the tenth question but get it wrong, then you will be sent back to the academy and denied the oppertunity to take this exam again, and you will be kept a Genin FOREVER!"
Now everyone seemed intrested, a lot of the young genin now looked physically sick. At least 10 hands shot up as soon as the first of them was ready to give up. After all of the "chickens" were taken out of the exam, Naruto realised his big mistake, he was never going to be able to answer this question, and if he failed, he'd only be letting Sakura and Sasuke down. They would be so upset, and after all, it's not even their fault. He was convinced that they'd pass on their own merit. His hand began to shake and was about to raise when Ibiki began again.
"Well, here it is!"
Naruto realised it was too late, he was just going to have to try and do his best, and worry about the concequences later. He took a deep breath and waited for Ibiki to continue...
"You all pass!"
An hour was the allowed time for this test, (and with a proctor like Ibiki Morino, thats pretty generous) they were on the final few minutes, then that all important "tenth question" would be given. The rules were yet to be explained, but at this point in time, the rules of a so far non-existant question didn't even cross his mind. He knew he didn't have much time left. He
wanted nothing more than to turn around and assure himself that not only he was struggling with what seemed to be the impossible. Just a simple turn of his head could put him at ease. Even moving a little to the right would suit him fine, even just to see if Hinata could manage to do anything. The thought couldn't have came any closer without being reality when all of a sudden, the chunin sitting at the side, watching their every move came back into his frame of mind.
"Naruto!", he thought to himself,
"Control yourself!"
On his answer sheet, were numbers labelled 1-9 down the left hand side and "Naruto Usomachi" placed in the the top right corner...This could wait no longer, he had to put his mind to it.
"RIGHT! PENCILS DOWN AND LISTEN UP!"
A cold sweat and quick shoot of pain jolted down Naruto's back. His expression grew blank. Was time really up already?
"Alright, it's time for the 10th question. I see theres no where near as many of you as there were in the beginning? HAH! From well over 100 to under 70! I didn't even think this many of you pathetic runts would make it this far if I'm honest with you! Thought there would be plenty more CHEATERS among you!"
and as if where this was going wasn't bad enough for Naruto, Ibiki continued,
"However, not all of you will be sitting this question..."
-many gasps around the room-
"...Well, heres whats going to happen, basically, if you don't want to sit this question, then you may leave but should you leave, then so must your other two team mates."
Almost every face in the room was now blank and/or confused
"Yes, you can leave...if you're not ready that is. If you realise that you only entered these life threatening exams to please the rest of your team and now realise that you're not ready then you may leave and you'll have the oppertunity again next year. So who's gonna give it a go again next year? No-one? You're all staying?"
Still no hands were raised
"Alright then. Ah yes, I forgot to mention, if you stay on and take the tenth question but get it wrong, then you will be sent back to the academy and denied the oppertunity to take this exam again, and you will be kept a Genin FOREVER!"
Now everyone seemed intrested, a lot of the young genin now looked physically sick. At least 10 hands shot up as soon as the first of them was ready to give up. After all of the "chickens" were taken out of the exam, Naruto realised his big mistake, he was never going to be able to answer this question, and if he failed, he'd only be letting Sakura and Sasuke down. They would be so upset, and after all, it's not even their fault. He was convinced that they'd pass on their own merit. His hand began to shake and was about to raise when Ibiki began again.
"Well, here it is!"
Naruto realised it was too late, he was just going to have to try and do his best, and worry about the concequences later. He took a deep breath and waited for Ibiki to continue...
"You all pass!"
'well wat r u watin for gaul bring it' cynder said 'ur gonna regret ever coming in to the world' gaul said then gaul brought out his swords and smashed the groundtryin to hit spyro and cynder he missed couple of times but hit spyro once then gaul stood there and caught his breath then spyro and cynder attacked then cynder said 'hahahaha take that u filthy ape' then he groweld and pounced on cynder then spyro said ' get off my love!!!!!' cynder just said 'wat' then spyro turned black he was darkspyro now then he rose up and used his dark fury even stronger than the one he used in the eternall night and then he said in dark form 'never touch my love again' and destroyed gaul forever and then spyro turnd purple again and cynder said ' u really love me?' ' forever and for always'
chapter1 THE KISS Spyro had been looking for Cynder all morning then he found her at the lake '' oh cynder finaly I found you ive been lookin everywere'' ''why were you looking for me spyro?'' well... there's somthin i wanna ask you...but i couldnt find the courage'' '' its ok spyro u can ask me any thing'' ''.... ok here gose cynder i admire you very much but in a different way ya see when i first saw yure real form i thought that u were very atractive... so wat i wanna ask is...'' '' wat spyro'' ''I LOVE YOU CYDNER WITH ALL MY MIGHT will you be my mate please'' ''(gasp) spyro u love ''me'' u want ''me'' as yur mate'' ohh she dosent love me'' thought spyro then he looked to see cynder kissin him on the lips and said''spyro no one has loved me like that be4 and i love u too'' they then shared the deep loving kiss then spyro said '' hey cynder follow me to the cliffside'' ''ok'' cynder said