Chapter 65

First there was theory. I dealt with it quickly, and handed over my sheet one of the first. As a result, in this exam, I proudly took third place. And if I had already come to terms with what Shikamaru had done to me, then Ino who stepped forward was a pleasant surprise. So without a drop of envy, I immediately congratulated that one. But at first she didn't believe me, especially considering how the same Sasuke reacted negatively to the fact that Sakura made him (and she still tried to console him!), But after that she happily hung on my neck.

Kiba also passed the theory by killing us all to death...

- Yes! Thirty points with five minuses! I passed! Shikamaru began banging his head against the wall monotonously at this shout from Kiba.

- It seems to me, or did they simply not want to leave him for another year at the academy, sparing their nerves? Sasuke, standing next to him, snorted, whose gloomy face was no longer so gloomy. Well, yes, everyone below thirty points simply failed, and Kiba was clearly so hinted that he pulled it out simply because of the reluctance of the teachers to suffer with him for another year!

Well, it didn't scare me with 98 points, I'll stupidly graduate from the academy on theory. But there is still a taijutsu test ahead.

Purely by the way, Ino scored all one hundred points, and Shikamaru also managed to find an inaccuracy in the wording of the question, what he wrote on the sheet, explaining his position in detail, and what this could lead to, but at the same time answering everything. In general, this cheater received 110 points.

After a short break, the taijutsu exam began, in which the teachers had to evaluate our level. Mizuki was placed against me, and three more unfamiliar teachers assessed everything from the outside. Actually, Iruka was the host at the next site, and also with three other teachers from the academy.

And, something for which I really praise Mizuki. He did not try to fail me or flaunt the strength of a chunin (the worm of doubt still sharpened me), and worked exclusively at the level that was needed to pass the exam. Damn, it would be a pity if he did climb for that stupid scroll or persuade someone else to do it. Having received "excellent" here too, I went to the office where academic ninjutsu would be taken.

Here everything was already more serious, the technicians in question were announced in advance, one by one was called to the audience, and the commission consisted of Mizuki, Iruka and eight more teachers (in fact, we had only ten of them at the academy) and some old woman, sort of like the Councilor Hokage.

Replacement and Transformation went without any complaints, there was even stingy praise, but clones - I immediately showed the Shadows. Well, why bother with less advanced technology, which still does not come out plainly?

The result was a dispute among teachers. On the one hand, I did not demonstrate what was required, but on the other hand, the shadow ones, this is a really impressive technique, far from even an academic level. To my relief, they argued not about expulsion (Well, what the hell does this canon know?), but about the points that should be awarded. Mizuki and Iruka pressed for a pretty decent amount, the old woman, on the contrary, offered to cut it so that it would be repulsive for stupid genin to use something so dangerous, because if I didn't have enough chakra (ha ha, ten times), I would be like a corpse and stayed. The rest of the examiners leaned now to one camp of the conflict, then to another.

As a result, I came out of there with 76 points. Not a hundred, but not bad, given the previous tests, I still entered the top ten students in our class. Let me go to the first place as far as China from here. However, Shikamaru was actually right behind me! He stupidly leaked taijutsu, but in the rest he got not just hundreds, but even a little higher. I do not know how he managed to do this in the ninjutsu exam, but the fact remains.

Kiba, by the way, managed to pull out both tai and nin, so even if he didn't enter the top ten, he also went quietly, and now, like me, he was already trying on a protector. Sasuke, who was standing nearby, snorted in displeasure at his third place, and Hinata, who was spinning not far from Kiba, was ready to collapse from everyone's attention. This shy girl wrote the test perfectly, only two points lower than me, even though she was very embarrassed, she perfectly worked out the clan taijutsu, and passed the ninjutsu just off the bat. Here's a shy girl for you!

Uh-huh, as you might guess, Hinata took the first place. The second, greatly surprising everyone, was Aburame Shino, the third was the already marked Sasuke, the fourth was an unknown surname, the fifth was Saya, the sixth was me! The seventh is Shikamaru, and the eighth is Aya. Well, the ninth Ino. The surname of the tenth was unfamiliar to me.