Heibachii watched Kaoru take Dou to the ground, knowing he would probably end up getting both of them immensely scratched up if he did anything to help. "Um, thank you," he said, sitting down with a grimmace on his face. "But that was his seat, y'know... It's not very nice to beat up on someone before the tournament. But I guess It's okay if he wasn't hurt too badly. Um, sir? Excuse me?" He said to the owner of the restaurant. "I'll have one bowl of ramen please. With a bit of extra seaweed if you could. Thank you." He said, turning back to Sako. "So, how do you feel about the test? Are you a little nervous?"

Genji was a little less disgruntled when he heard Heibachii's comment. He thinks I'm the owner...that's pretty funny. I thought it was obvious Mr. Inshu owned the place...whatever.

"Yeah, I'm on it. Just don't go making trouble like a certain someone over here..." Genji said with a dirty look in Sako's direction. He then entered the kitchen area and started to cook up Heibachii's order.

OOC: I won’t continue the argument. I think Dou needs to be intact for the exam :D. Sako will be occupied for the rest of the time until the exam.

"Kaoru's not MY pet," Sako muttered under her breath. The panther likewise gave a disgruntled growl at Genji's comment. It didn't matter. Kaoru made a feint at Kyasshu's outstretched hands and relented from his pestering Dou.
The continuous attention (be as it may negatively) Sako turned a blind eye to. With a small wiggle of her left pinky, she called Kaoru to her side again. He came, carrying his meal and grumbling softly.
"Just watch him for now. It doesn't matter what Mr. Pervert thinks of me," she whispered conspirationally to the panther. She was about to reply to Hebachii's question when she caught the comment Genji shot at her along with a dirty look.
The look in her eye would've kept away a pack of starving wolves.
She abruptly stood up, and, before anybody could react, was out the bar door, Kaoru disappearing around the side along with her, the only thing they saw was a flick of a long, black tail.
A thin wad of yen fell with a soft *splash* in her half-empty ramen bowl. Genji took a surreptitious look at it before entering the kitchen. She paid too much, Kaoru's meal included.


"[You make great friends like this,]" Kaoru commented sarcastically. Sako ignored him, chewing convulsively on a bar of chocolate she had fished out of her coat.
She was standing upside down on the thick branches of a high tree. Kaoru reclined on top, a paw draping down, swinging in the breeze. They had run from the bar and straight into the woods, where she had sought her favourite tree to hide in. Now, with the fresh, forest breeze blowing through her hair and the noise of nature around her, she felt herself calm down.
Privately, she was ashamed of herself. She had let herself go too far. Damnit. Why am I so nervous? It’s just a bloody exam.
She had felt the insistent tug at the bottom of her coat before she could go over to Genji and give her a piece of her mind. Kaoru had kept his head better than she did… though he didn’t show it. It wasn’t my fault, she thought, before catching herself. A thought of selfishness. Damnit! Every time I see Dou, it ends up with me losing my cool! He’s such a – and at this her mind went into explicit detail about what she thought about him.
“[--- made me excited for no reason!]” Kaoru was saying, before realizing that Sako had tuned out of his browbeating a while back. The ninja felt five exquisite pinpricks of pain in her ankle. Shocked out of her own train of thought, she lost control of the flow of chakra to her feet and went into freefall.
As cats land on their feet, so, subsequently, did Sako. The recoil didn’t hurt as much this time. She had been working on her landing. But still, she swore and glared at Kaoru, snatching the falling candy bar from midair.
“[Pay attention, kitten,]” Kaoru growled, “[you, as my partner, shouldn’t let your emotions wash onto me. I’m far more sensitive to my surroundings than you humans are. Leash your feelings, or we will fail the chuunin exam.]”
Nibble. Ponder. Gulp. Sako waved the half-a-bar of chocolate in the air, dismissing his small speech.
“I’ve heard this from my father.”
“[Then why don’t you follow it? You females are all so hotheaded. So much emotion, but not enough logic and brains.]
Sako inhaled deeply. Her answer was exhaled out with a great deal of wasted breath, “Alright. I’ll leash my feelings. But it won’t be easy. It’s like you standing next to a ball of yarn and not batting at it. Speaking of which,” she had a wicked glint in her eyes. Kaoru tensed.
“[Oh no, nononono, don’t bring that out.]”
She produced a perfect ball of yarn and threw it at Kaoru. He caught it with a single paw, and Sako spent the rest of her time before the chuunin exam enjoying the special antiques Kaoru performed with that ball of naughty yarn.

Sacho got up from his seat. "Well sadly I cant demonstrate my special attack quite yet. I think I will just wait, where the first part of the exam will begin." Sacho's stomach growls. "After I make a quick stop." Sacho heads off towards his home. He goes inside and grabs some snacks and quickly heads back to where the exams will take place. He walks calmly in. "Lets see...should be in this room"

The exam had started, everyone was in their seats. The examer was explaining the rules

"This is a point deduction test. You start with ten points, for every question you get wrong, you lose one point. There are nine questions on your paper, I will give you the tenth question when fifteen minutes are left."

"If you are caught cheating by one of the examiners during the test, you will be deducted two points. If you thoughtlessly cheat, you will only hurt yourself.

"You're testing to become a Chuunin, if you want to be a ninja, act like a first rate one.,

"To pass, everyone on the team must pass. If one person fails, they are all fail. You have one hour, begin!"

OOC: Questions are all impossible to answer, no one who signed up is that smart.

OOC: Just make up

Istus was worried, he couldn't understand any of the questions and he had very limited ways to cheat. The person sitting next to Istus however was writing furiously. 'Damm know it all' Istus thought as he looked with contempt at the Genin sitting next to himn. 'Wait thats how ill do it!' Istus smiled as he whispered to Ssith "Put yourself in the hand of my shirt and copy that kid's answer, but whatever you do don't let yourself be seen. Istus let the sleeve of his shirt fall over his hand and then positioned his arm so that Ssith had a good view while still trying to remain incospicous. 'I just hope my teamates are well off'

OOC: tell me if i can do this.

While Sako remained confined to her seat to sweat away at the questions on her sheet, Kaoru had free reign in the room. Which is a damned good thing they don't know he can read, she thought happily. She and Kaoru exchanged a secretive glance across the room, and though Kaoru had to remain perfectly silent, they could still communicate. Besides, how does a pack of lions bring down prey if they don't have silent language?
[Watch me closely, cub,] was what he said in the few movements that he did. From where he sat, he could keep a sharp eye out on all the genins taking the exam. His eyes became heavy-lidded, and he began licking his paw. His eyes roved about, watching carefully.
His ears twitched, hearing the sound of pencil scraping against paper. Aha! somebody that knows the answer. He homed in on the genin in grey clothing.
Suddenly, he left his position, padding over there meekly like a feline wanting a pet. He bumped his head hard against the 'genin's' knee, and the man began to pet him nervously. Damned good I'm a metre from the ground. Can see the paper from here, he thought while he half-closed his eyes and pretended to be in ecstacy while reading the answers on the paper. Got'em, he thought after a while of scrutiny. He stayed purring at his side a while longer, getting more scratches from the genin, before moving on to another sweating genin. He did the same thing, getting a few head rubs, though did not bother to look at the answers on the man's sheet. It held no interest to him. He had got what he had come for.
Performing the 'cat-wanting a scratch' a few more times, he returned to his seat at the front of the chuunin exam tables. He caught Sako's eyes. She held up one finger. Question one... he thought, licking his paw once to acknowledge it.
Sako smiled inwardly as Kaoru lifted his paw to his ear and cleaned it with five strokes. She wrote down five, then two (at this Kaoru transferred his paw to his muzzle) and then one (when Kaoru playfully rolled once on the ground, as if dislodging some irritating object from his immaculate fur).
521 for question one. Sako put down two fingertips and touched the paper. [question two?] it meant. Kaoru yawned, as if bored, but showed only a selected amount of razor sharp fangs. Sako did a quick count. 14, including the canines. She put a finger into her mouth. [Reason for answer?] Kaoru chose to shake out all his fur. Sako pretended to look thoughtful, then wrote down the answer. She had to improvise a bit, because she knew there was no 'air resistance' in silent language, and what he had told her was 'the air that moves around me and slows me when I move like the wind'
Sako was satisfied. She will have no trouble passing this exam. The last question, however, will be the only problem.

Oh joy, written test, Kyasshu thought to himself. The last few hours spent preparing for the Exam were a blur to him, it went by so fast. Unfortunately, partying on with his teammates (while getting 'the look' from Genji) didn't prepare him for these difficult questions.

Most of the time, Kyasshu didn't work in any particular order. Thus, he started with question number 7, which read: "How many ninjas are in this picture?"

http://img164.exs.cx/img164/3407/ninjapic1td.jpg

Crap, I don't know the answer to this...I mean, there's a guy standing right there, but he doesn't look like a ninja. C'mon, what do I do, what do I do... It was rare for Kyasshu to show panic in any way, shape, or form, and this was one of those rare times. Usually when it's called for, he'll resort to very drastic measures...

Well, I set my hair on fire five times in my entire lifetime before getting my mad skillz, and during each of those five times I was cooking four egg rolls... four plus five is nine! Kyasshu happily scribbled the number nine as the answer to the question, and moved on with the test, answering the rest of the questions in a very similar manner.

Sacho sat down. 'Crap I only know element based facts. There isn't a single question I know. But I think I might know someone that does.' He made a few hand signals and constructed an ice mirror system. 'lets see here, I only have so long. I have to destroy the ice before it melts.'

Kyocho...had no idea what the answers were. However, he didn't need to.

It was simple. When someone got caught cheating they'd lose two points. Get caught five times, they'd be knocked out. If he couldn't solve it neither could most of the genins here wouldn't either. The trick would be to trick his competitors with some pretty good bullshit. He'd just erase all the answers later and just receive ten points.

As he wrote each answer in, he smiled to himself and sat back, obviously pleased with his answer. Making sure not to glance at anyone else's paper while at the same time giving plenty of room for people to see him. As he finished writing the answer to the fifth question (how far a shuriken would fly off in any direction if thrown into the wind created by a jounin ninja with the chakra that could summon a seventh level deer summoning no jutsu; he answered using the nonexistant Hatake Formula) already three people were caught, eliminating twelve people from the exam.

He took this chance to look up and sighed. That still leaves quite a few people...