C'mon!
Running like a fugitive,
Being chased by something
Inside my heart is pounding
My throat dry like it's withering
For no single one,
To none does belong,
This time is ours, right now...
Unraveling the pain,
Unraveling our hearts,
Unraveling shadows
Stifling our breath,
Reaching for beyond,
Tearing through the dark
In fighting and in love
To the distant light above,
Yes, we are on the way
I wanna rock...
Rockin' my heart
Sorry to keep you waiting.
I'm Ibiki Morino, proctor for the first test of the Chunin Exam.
You, from Hidden Sound Village!
No doing as you please before the Exam!
You want to be failed at the get go?!
Sorry. It's our first time taking the Exams, so we flipped out... despite ourselves.
Hmph. This is a good opportunity, so I'll say this.
There will be no battles, competitions and the like
without the permission of the proctors!
And even if you get permission,
actions that could lead to the death of an opponent will not be permitted.
Any pig that screws with me will be disqualified immediately.
Got it?!
This Exam looks to be easy!
Now then, we will start the first test of the Chunin Exam!
Turn in your applications,
take one of these number cards in exchange,
and sit in the seat matching that number!
After that, we will hand out the paper for the written test!
Written? Paper?
Paper...
A paper test?!
Start Your Engines. The Chunin Exam Begins!
Everyone's seats are all scattered... What should I do?
He's deflated, deflated...
It's the worst type of test for Naruto...
Naruto...
Oh! You are Hinata! Since when have you?
L-Let's both do our best.
Y Yeah.
I didn't notice her at all.
Hinata has no presence at all...
There are several important rules to this first test.
I will take no questions, so listen well accordingly!
Rules? No questions will be taken...?
First off is the first rule!
You are given ten points each from the start!
The written test has ten problems in all!
Each problem is one point.
And, this test is a point deduction system.
You are deducted one point for each problem you get wrong!
If you get three wrong, you'll have seven points!
If I get ten wrong, I'll have z ero points...
The second rule.
Pass or failure will be determined
by the total points of the three person teams.
W Wait a minute!
What do you mean... total points of the teams?
Shut up!
There's a perfectly good reason for this!
Shut up and listen!
Reason...?
If you've got it, here is the most important next rule!
Those who are deemed by the sentinels
as having committed an act of cheating or something similar to that...
will have two points deducted for each act.
What?
Oh!
In other words...
there may be those who will be dismissed during this test
without waiting for test grading.
This means they're deducting points
from things other than the written test problems.
Know that those who commit awkward cheating...
will bring ruin upon yourselves.
I'll check you anytime.
If you aspire to become a Chunin at all,
know that Shinobi should act like exemplary Shinobi.
Relax! Yes... yes!
Naruto aside, Sasuke and I are okay!
Even if Naruto gets z ero points... if we cover that...
And, in the case of even one person on the team getting zero points...
Everyone on that team will fail!
Wha?!
What did he say?!
I feel two menacing stares...
Naruto?
By the way, the last problem will be given forty five minutes
after the start of the test!
The time for the test is one hour.
Begin!
Could it...
Could it be that, the fat is really on the fire now...?
Naruto! Just don't get zero points!
Naruto isn't getting jitters from the get go, is he...?
This is bad...
As if!
I know I've cleared many obstacles like this before...
At times like this, one should look at all the problems
without feeling pressed or making a fuss!
And then with utmost effort
I should tackle the problems that look easy to understand!
Let's see, the first problem... is a code text, eh...
Excellent, I say!
Next! Next!
Let's see... the second problem...
The parabola B in the diagram illustrates the greatest possible distance
Enemy Ninja A can throw his Shuriken from a tree seven meters high...
Predict and answer the Enemy Ninja's character inferred
from the ellipse this Shuriken forms,
also answer the longest firing range in battle on flat ground
and explain your basis.
T This is an... integrated problem based on predictions
of uncertain conditions and dynamic energy analysis application!
There's no way Naruto can solve this!
I mean...
hardly anyone except me can solve this problem!
Okay, next! Next!
These other problems... are nothing but difficult ones.
I see...
I don't... understand even one of these problems.
Oh, no, this is bad!
For real! For real!
What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?
If about ten of all fifty one teams are able to pass,
it will be bad if I didn't stretch myself and get a considerable amount of points.
It's like a system inviting cheating...
I hope Sasuke and Naruto won't panic and cheat.
It's okay... Naruto's not that much of an idiot...
I know that...
Don't panic...
For now, all there is to do is to be very, very cautious...
and cheat without being found out!
No! No! I can't, that's no good, no good!
I can't tread on such thin ice!
At any rate, this elaborate fuss...
It's like a trick assuming that we're going to cheat.
They probably check with that paper...
Somebody got nailed.
Cheating deducts two points.
Two point deduction, huh...
Ordinarily, it'd be failure the moment the cheating was discovered...
Know that those who commit awkward cheating
will bring ruin upon themselves.
Shinobi should act like exemplary Shinobi.
I see, so that's how it is, eh.
This wasn't just an achievement test!
The real aim was...
a test to see the ability for intensive information collection
with the full use of deception and concealment techniques.
"Shinobi should read the double bluff, " eh...
In other words, the true intention of the proctor is...
if you're going to cheat, not "awkward cheating,"
but "like exemplary Shinobi", don't get caught.
Viewed in this light, the extraordinariness of the point deduction system,
the lenience of only deducting two points for each discovery of cheating makes sense.
In other words,
what's being tested here is how we can gather the correct answers
without having our cheating detected by the proctors or
by the one being cheated on.
Realiz e it quick, Naruto!
Lt'll turn into a fatal mistake!
Realiz e it!
This is bad. Believe it...
If the purpose of this test is seeing the ability to gather information...
then there should be someone in this classroom somewhere...
who knows the answers to the problems!
So Gaara has also started, eh...
Hmph... l'm counting on you, Crow.
Yahoo, good boy, Akamaru! Next is problem four!
Judging from this rhythm...
The stroke order... and the number of strokes...
I see.
Okay! Please tell me.
Eight, huh.
Lee, if you can see it, wear your headband!
Time is rapidly going by!
Oh, man! I'm afraid all there is to do is cheat...
But, if I'm discovered,
it'll be trouble for Sakura and Sasuke.
On the other hand, if I get zero points...
Sakura and Sasuke will be my companions in failure.
Naruto...
I'll show you... my test.
Huh...?
What is Hinata saying...?
W Why would she do such a thing for me?
Could it be... some kind of trickery?
But Hinata is not one to do something like that...
No... But she might've been coaxed into attempting to trap me by Kiba and others...
Hinata, let me ask you one thing!
Huh?!
Why would you show me?
Uh... uh... actually...
I... I...
I don't want you, Naruto... to leave at this stage...
Y-You see... the nine of us are the only rookies...
and I have many anxieties about what's to come, so!
I get it now! I was kind of strangely suspicious of you!
Anyhow! This is craz y lucky, I say!
Thank goodness I'm next to Hinata...
W What was that? I was about to turn...
W What was that for, sir?!
You made five mistakes. You fail!
N No way...
His two buddies, both of you get out of the classroom, right now.
#23 fails!
#43 and #27 fail!
Noooo!
Hey, hey! Do you have proof that I cheated five whole times?!
Really, are you guys properly checking this number of people?
Listen up...
Even among us Chunin, we're elite who were selected for this Exam.
We don't overlook you blinking once...
In a matter of speaking, this strength is the proof.
Naruto?
Hurry... Look...
Hinata... You don't get it, do you?
What?
An awesome ninja like me won't cheat. Believe it!
N -Naruto.
B But...
Also, if something went wrong,
you'd be in a hot spot for helping me cheat, right?!
What?!
Naruto...
I'm... sorry... I I did something uncalled for...
Nah, it's okay.
I... went and acted big.
What should I do? I'm extremely stupid.
Byakugan!
Sharingan!
I'll copy all his movements!
My hand is moving fluently...
I hit the jackpot straight away with this guy.
Sakura, it looks like you're done, eh.
I'm acknowledging that your smarts
and the width of your forehead are exceptional.
So you should thank me.
Thank me for getting to be the target for this Jutsu.
Ninja Art, Mind Transfer Jutsu!
So Ino... started using that Jutsu...
There's no countering that spell of Ino's...
Sakura, I let myself move into your mind for just a little bit.
I have to memorize the answers quick.
I've got to pass these answers to Shikamaru and Choji.
#59! Fails!
#33! #9!
This is the thirteenth group to fail.
#41 fails.
#35, #62 fails!
No way!
That brat...
He coolly proceeds through this ruckus without moving an eyelash.
Very well done considering he's new.
The optic nerves are connected...
The third eye... open!
Ugh! There's dirt in my eye...
Dang it!
Excuse me.
What is it?
I need to go to the bathroom...
We will accompany you to the bathroom.
I see...
Anyhow... the proctors are nothing so special!
They don't realize that the proctors have increased by one...
Eh, don't you think so...
Crow?
Forty minutes have passed since the test started...
Twenty minutes left... huh...
Since it's come to this,
it's the last problem to be given forty five minutes after the start of the test.
All there is to do is bet on this. Believe it!
Even if I take it, I'm a Genin for life once I get it wrong?!
Really? Really? Really?
If I don't take it, I'll fail with my comrades immediately?
No way, no way, no way.
The hopeless rule for problem ten!
Not good, not good, not good.
No way can I choose which one!
What to do, do, do, do.
This is seriously, seriously bad!
Bad, bad, bad, bad.
Next episode: "The Tenth Question: All or Nothing!"