As soon as the hands of the wall clock in the classroom converged to show twelve o'clock, something went up in a vacant lot, smoke billowed in all directions, but quickly dissipated, making the nearest genin recoil, and a broad-shouldered shinobi in his thirties, with short black hair slightly graying, a small mustache and a short, neatly trimmed beard, wearing the standard Leaf jonin uniform, appeared in the room. In his hands he held several senbon, kunai, and shuriken, sent by the most nervous of the candidates toward the source of the sudden noise.
Hoshi could barely contain herself, knowing full well that no outsiders could be in the classroom, but Asani reflexively tried to put some holes in the examiner with senbons lubricated with paralyzing poison. He recognized it, and gave her a sharp look, but didn't react.
- Quiet! - the jonin pressed the crowd of Genin with murderous intent, forcing even the most restless to be quiet, and began an obviously pre-prepared speech. - Congratulations, you've confirmed your desire to become chunin by passing the first test and have the right to try to pass the initial stage of the chunin exam," the shinobi looked around the audience and grinned faintly, "unlike the rest of the fools who couldn't recognize even the best quality genjutsu and failed before the beginning.
- Was this some kind of test? - The genin from Kusagakure, whose team was one of the last to show up, asked perplexed.
- I'll correct myself - most of you," the jonin grinned, giving the boy a glare, "some of you were just lucky.
Out of the corner of her eye, Hoshi saw a dozen or so chunin, obviously the assistant examiners, trickle into the classroom through the door, spreading out along the walls while the genin's attention was focused on the speaker.
- Naturally, it won't help you much where you need to move your brains, - the shinobi grinned gloatingly and with a wave of his hand pointed to the far part of the classroom, - now you will quickly and silently take your places under the guidance of my assistants and the first stage will begin, - he glanced at the chattering geninins and added, flaring ChI, - and the most uncomprehending ones will be out of the door with their team.
In the ensuing silence, the genin quickly arranged the furniture and seated the participants in the only order they knew, placing a couple sheets of blank paper and a pen in front of each of them.
Hoshi, who was almost in the center of the room, noticed that the team members were scattered as far apart as possible, and that the genin from the same village were not gathered together.
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