Chapter 9 The Chunin Exam Begins

Kakashi returned home, opened the door and said, "I'm home," as usual.

He took off his shoes and walked into the living room. After the sun went down, the shadows of the wall covered most of the living room. When Kakashi was about to walk forward to turn on the light, he saw that there seemed to be a shadow in the living room. Suddenly, the outside that was bright just now became dark. Before Kakashi could react why the sky suddenly turned dark, a loud thunder resounded through the sky.

The light of lightning allowed him to see clearly what the shadow in the living room was. It was a middle-aged man who looked 70% like him, lying on his side on the floor of the living room, with a ninja sword stuck in his abdomen. Kakashi was very familiar with this ninja sword, and this scene had always been a childhood memory that he dared not recall.

"Father..."

Kakashi woke up with a start and sat up in bed, panting and no longer as calm as a copy ninja in the past.

I actually had a nightmare? It seems that Ye Lan's words that day still affected me... Kakashi looked out the window and found that the sky had begun to brighten.

"The Chunin Exams will be held today. I hope nothing unexpected will happen..."

"Hey, Ye Lanjun, it seems that your cousin has already started his first exam. Why don't you go and take a look?" Hongdou said leisurely as she looked at Ye Lan who was sitting in front of the monitor.

"Captain, you are the chief examiner of the second examination room. Is it really okay to let your subordinates leave their posts like this?" Ye Lan felt helpless about the captain in front of him who had a bulge in a certain part but not much brain capacity.

"Well, I'm just worried that you'd be bored. The exam should be over soon. By the way, aren't you worried that your cousin will fail the exam?" Hongdou said with a smile.

"He seems to be the top student of their class. If he can't even pass the first round, he is no longer an Uchiha. He has the Sharingan. Even if he can't do it, he can pass it by cheating." Ye Lan, who had participated in the Chunin Exam, was not worried at all.

"How could I forget that you Uchiha have this thing called Sharingan? You can just copy it casually." Red Bean then realized that the first exam was the easiest for Uchiha.

"By the way, would you like to come with me to greet the students who have passed their first exam? I haven't met this year's freshmen yet. I'm sure they will all be very interesting." Hongdou said excitedly.

"I, I won't go..." Ye Lan felt that with Hongdou's way of thinking, something bad would happen.

"Let's go together and see your lovely juniors. This is also a necessary lesson in life. Maybe you will be a guiding jonin in the future, so get familiar with them first." As she said that, Hongdou put her arms around Ye Lan's neck, as if to say, "You must come with me."

Ye Lan felt something soft touching his neck and blushed instantly. He quickly said, "Let me go. I promise you."

"Then the first exam of the Chunin selection is over. Congratulations on passing the first exam!" Morino Ibiki said to the Genin who chose to stay.

The examiner of the first exam gave the candidates a choice. Those who were unwilling to take the exam could leave and give up this exam and take the next Chunin exam. Those who stayed to take the last question could continue the exam, but if they did not answer the tenth question correctly, they would be eliminated and could not take the next Chunin exam. This choice made many Genin panic, but Ibiki, who stayed at the end, announced that the exam was passed.

"Great, great, I passed the exam! Yeah!" Naruto danced with excitement. He didn't finish any questions, but he didn't expect that he could pass the first exam like this.

Click—

Just as Ibiki announced the end of the exam, a round object smashed the classroom glass.

Objects flew into the classroom and two kunai were seen hanging a large cloth in front of the desk, directly covering Ibiki.

Really, you are the only one... Ibiki looked at the cloth in front of him awkwardly.

Boom—

After a puff of smoke, a group of Konoha ninjas stood in front of the cloth. The female ninja in the middle was Anko, and on the cloth was written "Examiner of the second exam, Mitarashi Anko, present!"

"Now is not the time for you to be happy!"

Looking at Hongdou's appearance, Ye Lan couldn't help but cover his face. He wondered why he agreed to her. Fortunately, he brought other colleagues with him. He hoped that Sasuke didn't see him.

"Hurry up and take action, the next exam will start soon!"

Sasuke looked at the ninja who was covering his face in the corner in a daze, and felt a little familiar. Ye Lan seemed to be the examiner of the second examination room, so that person couldn't be him.

Looking at the unresponsive Genin, Anko raised her arms and yelled, "Follow me!"

The classroom suddenly became quiet, and a group of Genin stared at Hongdou in amazement.

Ye Lan really wanted to find a piece of floor to crawl into now, but finally Ibiki came out from behind the curtain and said, "Look at the atmosphere, idiot."

Even the usually forthright Hongdou couldn't help but blush. She had been thinking about this opening remark for many days.

"Ibiki, you're being too soft-hearted. There are so many candidates." But Hongdou is someone who has always been able to adjust quickly.

“There are many outstanding candidates this year.”

"Hmph, I'll eliminate half of them for you next time." Hongdou sneered. It was these Genin who made her so embarrassed.

It was only at this moment that the group of Genin realized that the female ninja in front of them was actually the examiner of the next exam.

Finally, the Genin followed the Jonin's instructions and arrived at the second examination venue, the Forest of Death.

At this time, the ever curious Naruto asked, "Why is it called the Forest of Death?"

"You'll know why I say that soon," Hongdou said with a smile.

Hearing Red Bean's perfunctory answer, Naruto started to act funny and imitated Red Bean's speech, but was frightened when his face was scratched by a kunai thrown by Red Bean.

At this moment, Ye Lan, who was hiding in the dark, focused his eyes and instantly appeared behind Hongdou. Hongdou also reacted and took out another kunai and looked behind him.

Ye Lan was about to grab the examinee's neck, but the examinee stopped, stuck out his tongue half a meter long, held the kunai and said, "Give her the kunai back."

Hongdou saw it and took it with a smile and said, "Thank you so much."

"You're welcome." Although he said this, the Genin looked at Ye Lan meaningfully.

A very uncomfortable feeling. Ye Lan slowly let down his guard. After all, this was Konoha, and even if a Kage from another country came here, he would need to be careful.

He glanced at Sasuke not far away, nodded to him, and then disappeared in front of everyone.

That guy was so fast that I couldn't catch him even with my Sharingan. It seems my training is still not enough.

"Sasuke, who is that?" Sakura had also seen Ye Lan, but she didn't expect that he was really the examiner of the second examination room as Kakashi said. She didn't seem to see him at the end of the first examination room.

"Nane, Sakura, did you see that? The examiner just now was so handsome! I couldn't even see the movements clearly! He didn't seem to be much older than us and he was already an examiner, so he must have become a Chunin! I didn't expect to see a handsome guy today!" Ino on the side said in a crazy way after Ye Lan left.

"Oh, yes. But he's a Jonin." Sakura couldn't help but say this to her nemesis when she saw that she was sick again.

"Eh? Jonin! How did you know?" Ino put her finger to her lips and thought, "Just now I saw him nod in your direction. Do you know him?"

As she said this, Ino grabbed her nemesis Sakura's shoulders and shook her.

"Tell me quickly, what kind of person is that!"

"Ah! I'm not sure! Sasuke is more familiar with him!" Sakura said this after she couldn't stand being dazzled anymore.

Hearing that Sasuke sounded familiar, Ino started to feel conflicted again and asked Sasuke for the information of a boy. She felt a little embarrassed, after all, Sasuke was also her idol.

Hongdou then began to introduce the rules of the second exam. Simply put, each team took a scroll, and the scrolls were divided into two types: heaven and earth. In order to pass the second exam, they needed to possess both heaven and earth scrolls at the same time within 120 hours and reach the high tower in the middle of the examination room. Only then would the exam be considered completed.

After introducing the rules, each team entered the examination room from a different entrance, and the second exam officially began.