The night before the exam, Kakashi specifically reminded his beloved students that the Chunin Exams is a very important occasion. So if possible, they should dress formally.
The three Genin nodded solemnly, indicating they had taken his words to heart.
…
The next day, Kakashi was not late for the first time and waited for the three Genin at the meeting place early.
He actually didn't want to come in the first place, but Hiruzen had ordered him to keep a close eye on Naruto and make sure he didn't cause any trouble during the Chunin Exams.
After all, this Chunin Exams is a joint event between five villages. If Naruto caused trouble now, the embarrassment wouldn't just stay within Konoha, and it would spread across the entire Shinobi World.
Hiruzen didn't even want to imagine the fallout.
…
"I told you all to dress formally..."
"Naruto! Sasuke! What the hell is going on with you two!?"
Sakura was wearing a bright red dress and looked no different from usual, but Naruto and Sasuke's appearances really made Kakashi's vision go dark.
Naruto was wearing a set of gold and red armor with a glowing blue circle on his chest …
The boy even drew a beard on himself with a marker.
'Please!'
'The first exam is a written test!?'
'Why on earth are you doing wearing that?'
And Sasuke next to him...
He was carrying a Kubikiribocho that was taller than him and wearing a black hooded robe. The hood shadowed his face, leaving only his chin visible.
Kakashi stared at the sky, feeling utterly drained.
'Damn it!'
'I really can't stay in this Team 7 even for a day longer.'
Kakashi had it all planned out in his mind.
Naruto will be handed over to Jiraiya at that time, and then he will ask Jiraiya to introduce Sakura to Tsunade.
As for Sasuke... he'll just leave him alone for now. As long as Team 7 gets disbanded, it's fine.
"Kakashi-sensei, don't you say dress cool?"
"Am I not cool enough?"
Naruto struck a few Iron Man poses while muttering incomprehensible gibberish.
"Besides…"
"This thing I'm wearing is a weighted training gear."
As he said this, he patted his chest a few times, and the dull sound really sounded quite loud.
At first, Naruto wanted to use those special foods as weights, but the moment he hung a steak around his neck, the smell distracted him too much.
After that, he could only return to normal weight-bearing equipment, but Naruto felt that it did not look good when they're worn on his body, so he asked Uzumaki Stark to make a set of Iron Man armor, the weighted edition.
"My Xuan Heavy Ruler is also a weighted gear."
Sasuke said in a low voice, then gently turned the weapon behind him to show that there was nothing wrong with his outfit.
Kakashi pursed his lips and said nothing. He was really helpless against these two boys.
'They don't even look like Shinobi from Konoha Village...'
'Forget it...'
'Let other villages also feel the pain that Konoha has gone through over the years.'
Kakashi led the members of Team 7 to the entrance of the examination room with a desperate look on his face.
He also received all kinds of strange looks along the way.
There are villagers from Konoha, fellow Konoha's Shinobi, and examinees from other villages.
They were all stunned by Naruto and Sasuke's outfits.
"What the hell??"
"Since when did Konoha have a Puppet Master?"
"Look at that red puppet... Tsk, it looks very powerful!"
"No, no!"
"You don't understand Puppet Master at all. Maybe that boy in black robe is the puppet."
Kakashi and Sakura were so embarrassed listening to other people's discussions that they wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
But Naruto and Sasuke felt nothing.
One of them wore a full helmet and the other covered his face with a hood, so no one knew they were Konoha's yellow-haired delinquent and Konoha's Thin Ice Bro.
Before entering the examination room, Kakashi, with his usual deadpan expression, gave the two boys a final warning.
Although Kakashi knew that they wouldn't listen to what he said, he felt that in this way, he could shift blame later.
"Behave during the exams, got it?"
"Especially you, Naruto."
Kakashi paused and found that the boy was facing away from him, swinging his hips back and forth and shaking his shoulders, obviously not hearing what he said.
'Alas... I feel so tired.'
'The exam is about to start, and this brat is dancing at the entrance of the exam room wearing some weighted training gear...'
Kakashi and Sakura seriously considered turning around and going home.
They really didn't want to participate in the Chunin Exams anymore.
Uchiha Xiao Yan and Uzumaki Iron Man walked into the examination room with the Accessory Sakura, and immediately attracted Shikamaru's attention.
Hinata recognized Naruto immediately when she saw the gold and red armor and ran up to him happily.
"Naruto-kun..."
Raising his hand to touch the little girl's head, Naruto began to observe the examinees on the room.
'There were way too many background characters to count.'
'It seems that the Chunin Exams is far even more brutal than I imagined.'
"Did you see that?"
"That's Team 7..."
"Sandaime-sama ordered us to keep a close eye on Uzumaki Naruto this time."
"Whatever happens, don't let him cause any trouble in the exam venue."
The examiners started discussing the moment they saw Sakura, but many of them talked for a while without noticing the iconic yellow hair.
"Strange…"
"Where are Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke?"
The group of examiners searched for these two people for a long time, but couldn't find them. They even suspected that these two guys were absent from the exam.
In the crowd, Kankuro's eyes lit up with excitement when he saw the strange red-and-yellow puppet.
"I didn't expect there was a Puppet Master in Konoha."
"Heh, this is interesting."
Just as everyone was murmuring, there was a loud 'bang' and all the examiners appeared before the examinees.
"I am the chief examiner for this exam… Morino Ibiki."
After introducing himself, he began explaining the rules of the exam.
There were quite a few rules, but neither Naruto nor Sasuke paid much attention.
Sasuke believed in Naruto, and Naruto believed in the all-knowing fox inside his stomach.
Naruto did remember a rule: if caught cheating five times, he would be disqualified from the exam, and all members of his team would also be eliminated.
A few minutes later, everyone took their seats and received their test papers...
There weren't many questions, just nine in total.
When sitting in his seat, for a moment, Naruto genuinely felt like he was back in his college entrance exam days.
It's just that the questions on the test paper are different.
Naruto rubbed his face with both hands and looked at the first question…
Question: How many types of Chakra Nature Transformations are there? Calculate the optimal angle for shuriken throwing.
Naruto: "???"
'What kind of old geezer came up with this question?!'
'What does Chakra Nature Transformation have to do with shuriken throwing?!'
He kept reading and realized he didn't know how to answer any of the questions, so he turned to the big fox inside him for help.
"Big Fox, can you solve these?"
Inside the sealed space, Kurama flicked his ears twice and said with a disdainful tone, "Brat, are you looking down on me?"
"I am one of the oldest beings in the Shinobi World. How could there be something I don't know?"
Kurama spoke with great confidence, and Naruto believed him.
Then, following Kurama's answers, Naruto began writing with a blank stare.
In less than ten minutes, Naruto had filled out the test paper, leaving no blank space.
Naruto was so satisfied after seeing this.
'As expected of Kurama!'
He picked up the paper to admire his work, but when his eyes landed on a few words in the answers...
Naruto immediately realized something was wrong.
It was something like…
Question: What are the best locations for setting traps or poisoning in the wild?
Answer: Three ways to cook steak...
The further he read, the more he realized Kurama's answers were all about food.
'This is worse than me answering it myself!'
"You Big Fox! You tricked me!"