Moving forward, Team Guy and Team 7 successfully arrived at the written exam venue, a large classroom.
Upon entering the classroom, Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, and the other young rookies greeted each other before taking their seats. The loud shouting seen in the original work did not occur.
After all, Naruto was no longer that hot-blooded idiot.
If the situation in the classroom continued like this, Yakushi Kabuto would likely have no chance to appear.
He couldn't possibly shamelessly walk up to Sasuke and force an awkward conversation, could he?
Fortunately, he wasn't alone; he had a 'divine teammate'.
"You are Uchiha Sasuke?"
Hearing someone call him from beside him, Sasuke turned his head to see a guy dressed in a shit-yellow outfit with three 'death' characters written on it, looking at him with an arrogant expression.
"Who are you?"
"Remember, I am Zaku from Sound Village."
Seeing Sasuke look at him, Zaku didn't show the slightest panic. Instead, he continued to provoke, "You're nothing special, I don't understand why that person would take an interest in you."
Hearing Zaku's words, for some reason, Sasuke suddenly thought of that pervert who wanted to take over his body.
"And then? What do you want?"
"What do I want?"
Zaku smirked sinisterly, then opened his left hand towards Sasuke and arrogantly declared, "I want to kill you."
Zaku was insidious; he wanted to take advantage of Sasuke's lack of knowledge about him and ambush him.
Unfortunately, the moment Zaku opened his palm, especially seeing a tube inserted in the center of it, Sasuke immediately became wary.
Now hearing Zaku wanted to kill him...
Then he should strike first.
"Zankū..."
"Whoosh~"
Sasuke's mind stirred. Before Zaku could even unleash his Zankūha, Sasuke had already used the Sword Control Incantation. In just one move, Zaku's left arm was directly severed by Sasuke.
"Ah!"
All ten fingers are connected to the heart; even cutting off one finger is extremely painful, let alone Sasuke directly severing his entire left arm. Zaku must have been in unbearable pain, letting out humanity's strongest 'high note'.
Zaku's scream attracted the attention of all the examinees in the classroom.
As they turned their heads towards the source of the sound, Sasuke had already controlled his magic sword back into its sheath.
"Bastard!" Zaku, with his severed arm, bled all over the floor, looking at Sasuke with eyes full of hatred and fear.
"Sakura."
"Understood."
Sasuke didn't want to kill someone in plain sight, so he called out to Sakura.
Sakura understood Sasuke's meaning and used One Yang Finger on Zaku.
"Biubiubiu~"
After a few continuous jabs, Zaku's severed arm had completely stopped bleeding.
This scene astonished all the examinees.
They had never heard of Medical Ninjutsu being used in such a way.
"Thank you for the treatment, but we will not let Zaku's matter go unpunished."
Dosu, the strongest of the three-man Sound Ninja team, picked up Zaku's arm, thanked Sakura, and then stated his stance to Sasuke.
"It's fine. No matter how you want to come at us, we'll take it."
Dosu came forward to state his position, and Naruto, as Sasuke's teammate, naturally wouldn't be outdone.
"Good luck to you all."
After speaking, Dosu helped Zaku back to his seat and then calmly waited for the exam to begin as if nothing had happened.
Among the many examinees, Yakushi Kabuto, who had been silently observing, cursed 'useless' under his breath before continuing to lurk.
The examination room, which had been quiet for a short while, soon returned to its noisy state.
For these people, Zaku being cut was nothing unusual.
However, the expressions in their eyes when they looked at Sasuke were, without exception, grave.
Especially Kankuro, he hadn't forgotten yesterday's conflict.
If Sasuke had been carrying his sword yesterday and attacked him like that, could he have successfully dodged it?
Kankuro found it a bit difficult.
If the distance was far, it would be fine, but if it wasn't far enough, he figured he'd end up like Zaku.
As he thought, he looked at Naruto again.
This guy also had a sword on his back today, and considering Naruto's strength in sending Gaara flying yesterday, it was clear he was another 'monster'.
As for Sakura, her 'biubiubiu' just now also showed her extraordinary abilities.
Thinking about the various aspects of the three members of Team 7, Kankuro could only sigh, "These three are very troublesome."
..."You bastards, shut up!"
Time passed, and it was now time for the exam. Ibiki, the chief examiner, arrived late.
His first words were direct and flowery.
Of course, it wasn't that he had low quality; he only did this to intimidate this group of Genin.
"Who can tell me what happened here?"
Before he could even inform them of the rules, he smelled blood.
Following the scent, he saw a large pool of blood in the hallway.
"Nothing, someone provoked me, and I just taught him a lesson."
Ibiki glanced at the calm Sasuke, said nothing, and simply ordered his subordinates to clean up the blood.
His subordinates worked quickly, and after a short while, apart from a faint smell of blood, not a single drop of blood could be found at the scene.
"Alright, the exam begins now."
With the blood cleaned up, Ibiki began to announce the exam rules.
To put it simply, it was just answering questions on a test paper.
The answering rules were also simple: the exam consisted of ten question-and-answer questions with a deduction system. One point was deducted for each wrong answer, and if any one of the three team members scored zero points, the team would fail.
As for the tenth question, it wasn't on the test paper; Ibiki would announce the final question later.
"This question... are you sure you're not kidding us?"
"It's too difficult."
"Phew~ Thankfully, I know all of these."
...Looking at the questions on the paper, some were happy, some were worried.
Because the requirement for the first round of assessment was to calculate the total score of the three-person squad.
This made Sakura and Sasuke feel very uneasy.
Naruto's theoretical knowledge level, not to mention Sakura and Sasuke, was clear to basically everyone who was in the same class as Naruto.
Therefore, after seeing the exam questions, Ino Yamanaka, Nara Shikamaru, and Shino Aburame looked at Team 7 with a hint of sympathy in their eyes.
Among them, the usually boisterous Inuzuka Kiba almost burst out laughing.
Gazing at the content on the paper, Naruto truly wanted to cry but had no tears. He genuinely couldn't understand any of it, Naruto wailed inwardly.
After a while, Hyuga Hinata, sitting next to Naruto, saw that he hadn't started writing. A hesitant expression appeared on her face, which was then replaced by a determined one.
Hinata gently touched Naruto's right arm.
Naruto, who was in great distress, suddenly felt an anomaly in his right arm and turned his head in confusion.
Suddenly, a test paper appeared in Naruto's sight, very close, so close that Naruto could easily see the content on the paper. Naruto's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately shifted his gaze to Hinata.