The classroom door swung open with a bang, and a red-haired kunoichi flew in, her scowling face and the pressure of her ChI causing the teams standing nearby to recoil and try not to attract the attention of the clearly irritated girl. Some of the genin present couldn't keep their faces straight at all, glaring at the rookie team with horror.
Such Hoshi noted as chakra-sensitive, or maybe even sensors, since not everyone could sense the huge reserves of jinchuriki chakra among the genin. Ryo-sensei noted the avoidance of several individuals before the third stage, including Mito Uzumaki's pupil.
Another Konoha team, led by a tall, handsome blond man, flew in, heading straight for the frowning Uzumaki and whispering something in her ear. Hoshi couldn't hear anything because of the distance, but judging by the hardened face of the girl, she could confidently say that the handsome man would hardly get his way.
- Minato, back off! - Kushina hissed, her voice almost too loud to contain. - We'll be fine on our own.
- But Kushina!
A chunin peeked into the classroom at the commotion.
- Hey, you two lovebirds, you'll have to settle this outside, and this is an exam," he said with a sneer, "or I'll kick you out of here and do whatever you want.
- I'm sorry, Sempai, some people can't shut up when they need to," Uzumaki bowed her head and elbowed Namikaze, who wasn't expecting it, with a sharp elbow to the breath, "it won't happen again.
- I hope that goes for everyone," he gave the class a hard stare, "if you don't know when to keep your temper, there's no room for such among the chunin.
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In the time before the scheduled start of the first phase, the teams continued to arrive and gradually, the spacious classroom began to get crowded, especially since a third of it was occupied by furniture.
From the conversations of the new arrivals, Hoshi could tell that at some point one of the teams had simply demolished the genjutsu they'd discovered and the latecomers had no trouble getting through to the second floor, even if they didn't know anything about illusions.
Even so, only forty-four of the sixty-two teams had made it to the second floor, and the rest had to huddle in the false classroom, and with the questionnaires turned in, they could be crossed off the list of participants.
Asani carefully checked the small scroll where she'd ticked off the arrivals, and when the time was almost up, gave her partners a thumbs-up - the dropouts included not only weaklings from various villages, but also some serious contenders that the seventeenth team should not have had a direct battle with, even though they had numerous advantages and elaborate battle plans.
Of course, it was Konoha that had the most dropouts, simply because everyone who could make it through the requirements had applied, regardless of the genin's true degree of willingness to take the exam, and the candidates fielded by other villages were usually at least something in both skill and experience.
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