Systematic Shinobi - Chapter 21.1

Even with his eyes closed and not using his ocular abilities, Daiki could literally feel the gazes on him after he pulled his little punch and snatch.

Even Kankuro at his side was outright gaping at him for a few seconds before buckling down and getting back to his own test.

It took him a few more minutes into the test to realise something though, '…I need to wait a full hour for this to end.' he grimaced.

A total waste of time. That was time he could be using for training. Sure, there were quite a few people around that he knew as well…but he couldn't exactly talk to them to pass the time, seeing as it was an exam after all and no talking was allowed between people.

…Why did he think taking these exams instead of just accepting his promotion was a good thing?

Resisting the urge to sigh, Daiki channelled chakra through his eyes and peered through his eyelids, idly letting his head loll back and forth as if bopping to a tune only he could hear.

He was really just taking the time to examine everyone and see what they were up to.

As it turned out…not a lot.

Neji and Hinata he could see easily, had their Byakugan activated and were already copying answers down from someone else…possibly even from him. Sasuke had his Sharingan activated and it looked like he was copying the movements of a guy a few tables down from him.

Gaara was using his sand eye, which was interesting, but nothing Daiki could replicate himself.

Honestly, the most interesting was probably Tenten. She'd somehow got a mirror onto the roof without anyone noticing and was manipulating it with ninja wire, hiding the wire in the flashes of light coming from the ceiling lightbulbs above. Not only was she getting the answers for herself, she was manipulating the mirror for Lee to see up into as well.

Lee was lucky Tenten was on his team, or he'd be up shit creak without a paddle like Naruto i-

Just then, four small rock walls rose up around the area where Naruto was at, blocking him and the two beside him from view.

It caused quite the commotion, and two of the chunin proctors quickly smashed the walls apart, only to reveal Naruto, a massive grin on his face, and the two guys beside him, both unconscious.

Daiki only managed to catch sight of two wisps of smoke and just barely thanks to his eyes behind the two unconscious examinees.

And with no proof Naruto did it, they couldn't deduct points from him either.

'Huh…was that the Earth Style: Barrier Jutsu I showed Sasuke?' Daiki blinked.

So Sasuke actually did teach it to Naruto. 'How the hell did he make four walls at once?' he wondered for a moment.

Shadow clones maybe? It was definitely shadow clones that knocked the two beside him out at the very least.

…Interesting, Naruto actually got the answers on his own merit because of a jutsu he'd shown Sasuke and offhandedly mention teaching to Naruto.

That was new. And something He'd need to keep his eye out for, Naruto went stupidly far with a limited amount of jutsu under his belt, he got exponentially more threatening for each single jutsu he gained and played with to make a stupid amount of variations with.

…Also Naruto just totally copied what he did. Visual learner indeed. It probably helped that Naruto actually had the balls to go through with something like that in the first place as well.

Probably a good thing he did as well, since he wasn't beside Hinata this time around.

Still, now it was back to boredom.

He couldn't even just send messages to Fu and chat with her to pass the time either. While nobody else could get the message of the Wave Transmission Jutsu if he attuned it to her chakra, they'd still be able to sense his chakra, and he'd get pulled up for assumed cheating, maybe.

There were others blatantly abusing chakra, but Ibiki specifically had his eyes on Daiki, his eyes kept coming back to him and examining him. Why, he didn't know, probably to do with his blatant cheating and abusing of the rules, but either way he didn't want to push his luck, he didn't know if the guy was a sensor ninja or not.

He was distracted for a moment, by his seatmate calling out that he needed to go to the bathroom, and one of the proctors who had been silent up till now, standing up from where he was sitting and agreeing to take him.

Daiki's eyes sharpened behind his eyelids with interest.

From Kankuro's fingers, thanks to his eyes, he could see strings of chakra travelling along to the Chunin…

Who was not a Chunin at all, but rather a puppet in disguise.

He already knew that of course, but his interest was piqued by the Chakra Strings themselves.

'So that's how you use them.' Daiki mused, watching keenly how the other boy manipulated his chakra to create them.

He was compressing his chakra at the tenketsu in his finger tips, making it a near tangible, physical thing. He could only see the strings thank to his eyes, but now he had a very good idea on how they were created.

Lowering one of his hands out of view, Daiki focused chakra at the tip of his index finger and decided to try and copy him.

It took a few seconds, but compressing his chakra at the tenktsu and forcing it out, was quite easy. His training with chakra flow and creating elemental chakra made it a cinch actually.

A thin strand of chakra extended out of his fingertip.

And flopped around uselessly like a wet, slimy noodle dangling from a tree branch during a windy day.

…Well, he had the technique down at least. He just had to train with it to get proper control with it, that was all.

He already had a good idea of how it worked by sticking to and controlling things as well, he assumed it was an application of the surface walking technique…

"Alright maggots, pencils down!" Ibiki called out thunderously, bang on the second the clock at the front of the classroom hit five, "Turn your test papers over, it's time for the tenth question."

A wide, malicious grin spread across his face and he looked all around the room, making sure everyone's attention was on him, "Now, the tenth question has some special rules, very special rules," he said before pausing, letting a tense silence build up before continuing, "Simply speaking, you can choose to leave right now, but if you decide to stay and take the tenth question, if you get it wrong, you fail and so do your teammates. If you leave, your teammates have to go with you.

It's all or nothing, especially since, if you fail the tenth question after deciding to stay, none of you will ever be allowed the chance to be promoted again."

All around him, Daiki could see many lock up in shock, go wide eyed and more, a variety of shocked and horrified expressions being directed at the man.

"You can't do that!" someone near the front spluttered, voicing his complaints.

"Yeah, he's right! You're just a Leaf ninja, you don't have the power!" another agreed, and moments later, there was a chorus of shouting and agreement from others spread throughout the room.

"SILENCE MAGGOTS!" Ibiki roared, killing intent flooding the room and shutting them up instantly. Daiki had to withhold a whistle, it was some pretty nasty killing intent the man had developed, though it didn't even come close to the mere presence Isobu gave off when he first met the Bijuu, "Your little peanut brains might not understand, but I have all the power here. All your leaders agreed to this the second they sent you here, this is my exam, and if you talk back to me one more time, every person who opens their mouth gets automatically stamped in the face with a big fat F for failure."

And they shut up real quick at that, not a single one willing to open their mouths after that.

The tension in the air was heavy as shit, Daiki could even see one kunoichi trembling just in front of him.

"I'm sorry!" she exclaimed, pushing up to her feet and looking around, presumably for her teammates, "But I can't be stuck as a genin forever!"

"Fail!" Ibiki barked, "Now get outta here you trash." he jerked his thumb at the door, making the kunoichi and her two teammates trudge out sullenly.

They were not the only ones, bit by bit, over the period of a minute, more and more gave up and trudged out of the room like little bitches.

Well, not many more will leave. After all, Naruto should be about to light a fire under their asses and get them motivated.

….More teams got up and left.

The seconds ticked by.

Naruto didn't speak up, in fact, a quick glance back at the blonde let Daiki see that the blonde was smirking smugly, arms crossed, completely immune to the oppressive atmosphere within the air.

'Naruto's not speaking up!' Daiki's eyes went wide.

Why?

No wait…was it because of him?

Naruto got all his answers this time around, thanks to the jutsu Sasuke got from Daiki himself and Daiki telling Naruto to cheat and working as an example for him to learn from!

That meant…!

His eyes flickered to a few tables behind Naruto, where Sakura sat. The cute pink haired girl was trembling, face pale, her eyes locked onto the back of Naruto himself.

He pushed chakra into his eyes and focused on her, '- Always acting like a fool who only knows one thing, Hokage, Hokage you always go on about. I'm sorry Naruto, that impossible dream of yours that means so much to you…I don't want to see it crushed.'

Her thoughts echoed through to his mind and Daiki grimaced. Both Sasuke and Naruto were in front of her, so they couldn't see her either.

She was totally dead set on giving up, though not for herself, or even Sasuke, but for Naruto, to protect his dream.

His respect for the girl went up a notch. She was looking like a real four out of ten now.

…But if he didn't do something, she was going to get them all disqualified.

For a moment, the thought went through to. To let her. If they weren't in the examines, Orochimaru couldn't mark Sasuke.

…Only then he realised that nothing stopped him from just following Sasuke to his house and doing it then. He was already in the village.

And if they didn't go through with this, they wouldn't get the training they did in the month leading up to the final round. They'd be vastly weaker. Daiki himself would probably have to deal with Gaara…

If that happened, there was literally nothing he could do to help out proper during the Crush to avoid the Sandaime dying. Not unless he full on wanted to reveal everything in his hat and go full Isobu Bijuu Mode and wreck shit.

And even then, it would make Naruto and Sasuke weaker over all for later, when shit really hit the fan.

Fucking hell…such a little thing could cause so many damn ripples!

Daiki ground his teeth for a moment, before sighing and deciding to intervene himself.

He placed his hand down out of view and concentrated, a rippling wave of chakra leaving his palm and spreading back through the room just as Sakura's arm began to raise.

'Calm down Sakura, it's a test, trust me, don't go giving up, you're better than that.' he transmitted through the Wave Transmission Jutsu.

Sakura froze a split second later, eyes widening minutely before her head whipped from Naruto's back to look at him.

She stared at him and he gave her a smirk, before winking and turning around.

'Daiki…you're speaking in my head?' Sakura's inner thoughts reached him.

'It's a jutsu I picked up and costs a lot of chakra, so just listen okay?' he transmitted.

'…Are you sure?' she fretted.

'Don't worry that nice and perky round ass of yours, Ibiki is talking shit, he doesn't have the power he's claiming he does, he's testing everyone's mettle here, basically, if you can't put your rank, a little thing like that on the line as a ninja, then you aren't qualified to be one.' he told her.

'…I see…wait, the hell do you mean perky round ass you pervert?!' she spluttered.

His smirk grew and he glanced over his shoulder at her, 'Well, it's a nice ass and those spandex shorts you like to wear show it off pretty well.' he transmitted once more, before cutting off his line to her thoughts.

Her cheeks went as pink as her hair and those green eyes of hers glared at him.

He turned back around and ignored her glare.

Heh, worth it.

Thankfully from there, things progressed much in the same way they had in the other timeline from what he remembered, Ibiki passing everyone who stuck around and explaining the point behind the tenth question, most getting riled up and pissed off, and then him taking off his bandana to show off his skull, wrought with scar tissue, burn marks and holes from outright screws being screwed into his head.

It was a horrifying sight, much more horrifying in person and Daiki had to admit, the fact the man endured that kind of torture and escaped to come back in person, was worthy of admiration.

Ibiki was a real badass for sure. Not as badass as Daiki himself, but a badass nonetheless.

..Actually, if he remembered right, it was Rokusho Aoi that tortured him like that before abandoning the village and joining the Hidden Rain.

Daiki made a mental note to torture that traitorous fuck head and go full on Tobirama on his ass if he ever found him, maybe shove the Raijin down his throat and electrocute him from the inside out while he was at it.

He was broken from his thoughts by a speedy black blur smashing through the window, glass raining across the classroom.

The black blur unravelled into a banner with white letters, while landing on her feet before it, was Anko Mitarashi, and dayum what a body that lady had on her.

The mesh under her open trench coat was a lot thicker than he thought it would be, so her skin underneath wasn't in full view, but it didn't hide any of her shape at all, he could easily make out every contour of her breasts despite the thickness of the mesh, and damn did she have some big titties, she even had Kurenai beaten out.

"You fools, this is no time to be celebrating!" Anko barked, eyes narrowed into a furious glare, "My name is Anko Mitarashi, the proctor for the second exam, now follow me!"

Nobody moved, just staring at the woman that appeared out of nowhere and started making demands.

Daiki mentally shrugged and stood up, time to get a move on. 'I could have sworn she said something about being sexy and single at some point.' he thought.

She was a lot more hardcore here it seemed.

Or was he just actually remembering wrong?

As he got up, others took it as their cue and copied him.

"Hey, Ibiki, the hell is this?" Anko glared at the bald first proctor, "There's a full damn twenty six teams left, you goin' easy on them or something?"

Ibiki shrugged and gave a snort, "We've got a few interesting ones this time around." he replied vaguely, eyes meeting Daiki's for a moment before looking away.

Anko followed his gaze and met Daiki's eyes as well, one eyebrow raising up. "That so?" she grunted.

How unladylike.

Them tits though.