Kaoru, his job done, went around the room once more to gain a few more pets, before loitering to his reclining spot and stretching out fully. He yawned satisfyingly and dropped into a half doze, the only sign of him being awake was the twitching of his tail.

Sako doodled across the borders of the paper, looking bored now that she had finished. However, inside she was anxious. She wondered if Mori is able to aid Miso in gaining the answers. It will be a difficult feat, but she hoped that Mori understood her simple, coded message. It was difficult enough for Kaoru to carry the answers to Hebachii, as the paper became lumpy and awkward in the collar. She had to make her answers as short as possible, and hoped that they could understand what she wrote.
She definitely knew that Mori had no trouble. Hebachii... Sako had dealt with that. Miso now was her only concern. She could not help Miso directly, but Mori can.

Mori had no idea how he would help the blind girl. There was no way he could secretly do it.

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Miso, who was worried that she could not answer the questions and couldn't cheat, decided to put everything into the tenth question. Hopefully it would be something she could answer.

Kyocho decided he would not cheat, not yet anyway. Even if he didn't know the tenth question, there was still a chance that a great deal of people would get caught before the end of the exam. At the very least, he would know he had the right answers at the end if he stole them; he'd just have to be more careful.

The tenth question...what was it anyway?

Mori looked confused, and Sako knew that whatever happened, they had to rely on the last question to pass. They must answer it correctly no matter what. She really didn't want the challenge to fail when it has really just begun.

OOC: just keeping the thread aliiive.

Dou settled back into his seat, then uncapped his pen and began scribbling away feverishly at the script. He secretly wished he could have caressed ehr soft chest, but he wasn't willing to take the chance of being sent away to another village for such a cheap thrill.

After all, 2.5 wasn't worth it.

Soon, he had finished transferring his stolen knowledge to the paper, and he sat back, eying the hot chuunin examiner beside him and imagining her with her clothes off, in various compromising positions with him. It's a cheap thrill too, he thought. But it passed the time.

Chumaru hadn't heard or seen any answers that he could intercept in a while, and his paper was bursting with doodles. Hopefully he wouldn't need any extra space for the last question, or maybe he'd get lucky and they'd give him some scratch paper. With no more space to draw, Chu occupied himself with daydreaming. He thought about the first place he could head toward when he became a wanderer. Maybe he'd head to the land of the Rain ninja. He didn't know much about it, but he knew it was to the northwest. It seemed like a long first journey, and it'd lead him through the Grass country; it'd be a good challenge. He thought he should probably bring Sacho with him for backup. But first, if he wanted to try, he had to pass this exam first.

"Now is the time for the tenth question. Before I give out the question, there is something you need to know. Your answer may not determine if you pass or fail. In your four-man groups, one person will be choosen at random. If that person is correct, everyone in your team passes. If they are wrong, everyone fails, but not only that, you will remain a genin, forever."

Some of the genins began to speak up, but where quickly silenced by a loud yell from the main examiner. "Silence! I am in control here, and I will see to it that anyone who fails never takes this exam again. However, you can leave at any time. Leave and take the exam in six months. If you do leave, your entire team must leave. If you want to quit, go now." The examiner stopped to allow genin who wanted to leave to do so.

Hell no. I'm not leaving. Nobody's going to say I screwed the rest of you guys in this.

Dou folded his arms and leaned back.

I'll be out of this village if I can't answer or if I quit... so I might as well go for it.

Sako was in a dilemma: She knew that if she didn't quit, and didn't get the answer right (she got a damned low mark in the written exam in her initiation as a genin) she would fail her teammates. She knew that Mori wouldn't be too concerned. He was more interested in his plants than anything else. Hebachii, she can deal with as well. She always could deal with him. Miso. Now, that was a problem. She wasn't sure how Miso would react if she failed them.

Then again, she wasn't sure the others would be able to answer the question either. Miso has a steel resolve. She wouldn't quit. Not until Sako herself quits. Mori... He'll probably wait it out. Hebachii...
Sako chewed her lip and stayed put, undecided and subdued. In the corner of her eye, Kaoru started scratching his side, as if saying "It's not my decision here. YOU'RE the human."

There is no way that I am going to leave this. I just hope my teamates don't either. Istus looked over at Dou, relaxing in his chair. I just hope this whoever has to answer knows the question.