Escape From Konoha

"Excuse me, who are you?"

Sasuke was slightly surprised when he heard the other party call his name accurately, and couldn't help but ask the other party's name.

It was certain that Sasuke was excited when he suddenly saw his 'people', but besides being excited, there was also a complicated emotion in his heart.

He already knew through some channels that there was still a line of Uchiha tribesmen remaining outside Konoha Village.

This part of the tribe seems to have left Konoha more than ten years ago due to some things in the past, seeking development outside, and at the same time avoiding the fate of being bloodbathed by Weasel.

Last time I went on a mission to the Land of Waves, I saw that some of the ninjas from the Land of Demons had the crest of the Uchiha clan marked on their clothes.

Sasuke understood clearly that the Uchiha clan members of that line had taken root in the Kingdom of Demons and continued the Uchiha bloodline.

According to Sasuke, the relationship between Konoha and the Kingdom of Demons is extremely bad.

Sasuke couldn't help but guess that the main reason for the bad relationship between the two parties might be related to the incident where the Uchiha clan members of that line left Konoha more than ten years ago.

As for the specific situation, Sasuke didn't know much.

Because when those tribesmen left Konoha, he was not born yet. Even Uchiha Itachi was just born at that time.

In particular, Konoha seems to intend to block this disgraceful history belonging to Uchiha. It can be said that it is very difficult for Sasuke, who is still a genin, to start investigating.

His intuition told him that once this kind of matter is investigated in depth, it is likely to cause some unnecessary trouble.

Asuka didn't know Sasuke's extremely complex emotions. There was no need to hide Sasuke's questions, and Asuka introduced himself generously:

"Hello, my name is Uchiha Asuka, from the land of ghosts."

He didn't know much about Sasuke, he only knew that he was the orphan of the Konoha Uchiha clan.

As for other information, I only heard the name accidentally from my parents' conversations. Asuka did not understand the deeper things in detail.

"...Uchiha Sasuke, Konoha ninja."

I don't know if it was because he didn't plan how to interface, but Sasuke once again reported his name and identity and fell into silence.

Because the encounter with a clan member from another clan was an unplanned event. There was no preparation at all in advance, and the encounter was still so unexpected.

If it was just two people alone, Sasuke would certainly want to hold the other person and understand something.

But looking at the people present, I knew that it was a bit inappropriate now, so I just had to suppress the impulse in my heart.

"Hey, Uchiha!?"

Compared to Naruto who was still talking about what flavor of ramen he wanted to eat later, when Sakura heard Asuka's introduction, she immediately covered her mouth in surprise and looked at the boy who was two or three years older than her with wide eyes. .

In the end, his gaze, like Sasuke's, rested on the uchiwa sign on his clothes.

Sakura, who got perfect scores almost every time in the theory test, was naturally familiar with this conspicuous symbol.

That is a family symbol that only the wealthy Uchiha clan ninjas are qualified to use.

In other words, the boy in front of them who is older than them is a member of the Uchiha clan! ?

Moreover, the fact that he claimed to be from the Kingdom of Demons and not from Konoha made Sakura's brain a little confused and she couldn't react for a while.

"But, I remember that Uchiha is the only one in Konoha..."

Before Sakura could finish her words, a voice rang out:

"As a Konoha ninja, you don't even know about this kind of thing. You can understand this kind of thing just by asking around outside. Your Konoha genin's ability to obtain information is too poor, isn't it? Could it be that you used to hang out in school? Is it a day?"

Xianglin, who heard the commotion here, walked over quickly, with one hand on her hips and a very rude tone.

"Uh...Sorry, these contents are not in the textbooks we study..."

Facing Xiang Rin's powerful tone, Sakura unnaturally succumbed and defended in a low voice.

In the Konoha Ninja School textbooks, although the country of Oni is also mentioned, it has never been mentioned that there are Uchiha ninjas in the Oni.

Just then, Sakura remembered something.

I remember that when I left the Country of Waves last time, I met a group of ninjas from the Country of Demons who were also boarding a ship to leave at the port of the Country of Waves. One of them seemed to have the emblem of the Uchiha clan embroidered on his clothes.

It's just that Sakura didn't pay too much attention at the time, thinking she was just dazzled by accident. But now it seems that is not the case.

Sakura is also a little confused now. The textbook clearly states that the Uchiha clan is one of the founders of Konoha. Since the Warring States Period, this wealthy ninja clan has been living in Konoha and is an integral part of Konoha.

But why are there Uchiha ninjas who are not under Konoha's management in the Kingdom of Demons?

Doesn’t this statement appear to be contradictory?

"Who are you to speak so arrogantly?"

Seeing Sakura being suppressed by Xiang Rin's momentum, Naruto suddenly became dissatisfied and pointed at Xiang Rin's nostrils and asked.

Xianglin gently fiddled with her long red hair, kept still with one hand on her hips, snorted and said, "Isn't it common sense to state your own name before asking someone else's name?"

"Then listen carefully, my uncle's name is -"

Before Naruto could finish speaking, Xianglin interrupted him and said:

"Forget it, you don't need to introduce yourself, I'm not interested in your foxy face. Handsome guy, can we get to know each other?"

As she said that, her eyes were fixed on Sasuke's cold and handsome face, and her face was quite moved.

Seeing Xiang Rin ignoring him directly and accosting Sasuke, Naruto's heart suddenly burst into anger.

Damn it, why is Sasuke stealing the limelight again? He's obviously just a badass! Naruto was filled with jealousy.

"No, I'm not interested in you."

Sasuke's eyes didn't stay on Xiang Rin's body for a moment, but looked at Asuka.

"If I have time, I want to chat with you alone and learn something from you, is that okay?"

Xianglin, who was ignored, stood awkwardly on the spot, and then gave Asuka a resentful look, as if saying something like 'Captain Asuka, you are in the way'.

Don't take it out on me. As for Xianglin's brain circuit, it was difficult for Asuka, who suffered the disaster, to understand.

Asuka didn't care about Xiang Rin's dissatisfaction, and said to Sasuke: "Yes, but I may not be able to answer you some questions. And the day after tomorrow is the day when the Chunin Exam starts, and you are also a candidate for this joint Chunin Exam Well, I'm looking forward to your performance then."

"It will not let you down."

Sasuke stared closely at Asuka's face, his eyes burning with fighting intent.

Although they are of the same race, Sasuke also has a strong desire to compete with Asuka.

He wanted to know the strength of his own race.

Sasuke was looking forward to the Chunin Exams that would start the day after tomorrow.

"Brother Feiniao, Xianglin, we are almost here, are you ready to talk?"

Cai's shouts came from over there.

"That's it, let's talk again when we have the chance."

Asuka nodded to Sasuke and walked towards Sai.

Xiang Rin looked at Sasuke and then at Asuka, knowing that now was not a good time to strike up a conversation, he sighed and left after Asuka.

"Hey, you two, wait a minute, I haven't given my name yet!"

Naruto wanted to stop Asuka and Kaoru, but neither Asuka nor Kaoru were interested in him. After ignoring his shouts, they met Sai's place.

"hateful!"

Naruto felt even more unwilling when he saw Asuka and Xianglin ignoring him and leaving directly.

Rather than saying that he was unwilling to be ignored, it was better to say that he felt the frustration of being completely outmatched by Sasuke, which made him feel unhappy.

"Give up, Naruto, I'm obviously not interested in you. After all, Sasuke is too good."

Sakura patted Naruto's shoulder, suppressing a smile and saying something that she didn't know if it was meant to be comforting.

"What, even Sakura said that! In what way am I inferior to this guy Sasuke?"

The jealousy in Naruto's heart was about to overflow from his body.

"idiot."

Sasuke replied to Naruto.

A certain nerve in Naruto's brain was broken, and he immediately clenched his fists, wanting to rush to Sasuke and teach him a lesson.

"Naruto, don't mess around here, many people are watching you!"

Seeing Naruto running away, Sakura had no choice but to stop Naruto.

There are not only people from Muye Village here, but also many people from other countries. Xiao Ying dare not let him do anything wrong here, if something goes wrong, there will be trouble.

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September 15th is the day when the joint chuunin exams begin.

The Genin candidates from all over the world who came to participate in the Joint Zhongnin Examination arrived at Muye Village one after another before the 13th. There were more than 200 Genin candidates in total. The number of Genin candidates who participated in the exam also exceeded any previous Chunin exam, which proves how huge the scale of this Chunin exam feast is.

Morning, seven-thirty.

All the candidates who took the first test of the Chunin Exam set off from the hotel or from their own homes one after another, and started to gather at the ninja school in Konoha.

Among the candidates who took the exam, Konoha's jinnin participated in the largest number, a total of 81 people, and 27 teams of jinnin, that is, the number of jinnin who participated in the Chunin exam in Konoha this time.

Allowing so many lower ninjas to participate in the joint chunin exam shows how much Konoha attaches importance to this joint chunin exam, as if announcing a fact to the rest of the world-Konoha is bound to win this joint chunin exam.

Regarding Konoha's behavior of sending a large number of genin to participate in the exam, the villagers tacitly agreed. Although some jounin in the ninja village said nothing on their faces, they sneered secretly in their hearts and felt disdain for Konoha's approach.

Thinking that Konoha has stuffed so many genin candidates, there must be a lot of genin who are filling up the numbers.

There are only a very small number of ninja teams that can truly be called elites.

Since the first exam was held at the Ninja School, Konoha had already given the Ninja School students a holiday a week ago. As a result, in the Ninja School now, in addition to the Genin candidates taking the exam, only the examiners were present. .

And for the sake of confidentiality, the entire ninja school was strictly banned during the morning exam.

The ninja school is surrounded by a large number of Konoha ninjas, and the school is surrounded tightly without any flaws. The purpose is to prevent irrelevant people from breaking into the examination room and disrupting the order of the examination.

After all, it is a joint chuunin examination of various countries. In terms of security work, Konoha, as the organizer of the first examination, naturally has to carefully arrange the order of the examination room and dare not take any chances.

"Isn't this a bit too many people?"

Mixed in the crowd, Xianglin looked at the genin from various ninja villages and secretly sighed.

Although she had been mentally prepared for this, she was still a little surprised by the spectacular scene of so many genin taking the exam together.

"After all, the six major powers are jointly leading the effort, so the number of participants will certainly not be small."

Asuka was quite calm about this scene.

"Not only that, but the chakra of some of these genin is a bit unusual."

Xianglin frowned. Although the people were mixed, she still found many genin with powerful chakra.

Although chakra is not the absolute criterion for judging the strength of a ninja, a ninja with huge chakra will never be too weak.

"The genin who can take this kind of exam will basically have the same strength. It seems that we have done well in the first two exams."

Asuka let out a breath.

Although he didn't have Aya's Byakugan, nor did he have Kaoru's excellent perception ability, but just from the extremely confident expressions on the faces of the surrounding genin, you could tell that these genin taking the exam had two skills.

Some genin are older than him. Although this age is still genin level and belongs to the category of talent deviation, at this stage of genin, these older genin have obviously accumulated a lot of practical experience. And it is definitely not the first time to participate in the Chunin Exam. Compared with the genin who are taking the Chunin Exam for the first time, this group of experienced genin obviously has a greater advantage.

"Do you still remember the tactics we planned when we came here?"

Before entering the teaching building, Feiniao looked at the people on both sides and asked softly.

"Of course I will keep this in mind, Captain Asuka."

Xianglin answered in a brisk tone, as if she didn't take this kind of exam to heart.

Cai nodded, indicating that she remembered the tactical arrangements.

The three of them had conducted this kind of mock exam many times on the road. They basically took all the situations into consideration and made corresponding plans and arrangements.

"That's good. Let's see what kind of questions the examiner will ask then, and then adopt different response plans based on the questions the examiner asks."

For Asuka, passing the test is definitely the top priority for his team.

But if the test questions set by the examiner have room for manipulation, then using the rules of the first test to eliminate more opponents is also a tactic.

After all, the ultimate purpose of this exam is not to serve oneself, but to serve the prestige of the Kingdom of Ghosts.

If possible, Asuka wanted to eliminate all the genin teams except Demon Country in the first exam.

But Asuka can only think about this kind of thing, but it is actually impossible to do it.

Although he was extremely confident in his own strength, the genin who came to participate in this chunin exam also had powerful enemies that he was extremely afraid of. It was completely unknown what kind of methods these people had. It would be too difficult to eliminate all the genin. It's not realistic either.

Asuka took the lead along the stairs and walked up.

Xiang Rin and Cai followed closely behind.

Arriving at the second floor, Feiniao frowned, noticing something was wrong, and glanced not far away.

A group of genin candidates were standing at the door of a classroom on the second floor, seemingly waiting for the examiner to open the door.

If Feiniao remembered correctly, this should be the second floor of the teaching building. The first exam was held in Room 301 of the teaching building, which was obviously on the third floor.

Illusion?

Asuka's eyes fluctuated for a moment, the bright red in his eyes flashed away, and then returned to normal.

"We have enough boring pranks, let's go."

Feiniao shook his head and did not go over to remind the candidates. Instead, he took Xianglin and Cai and continued to the third floor.

The group of candidates didn't notice the three Asukas going upstairs, and just waited there quietly.

This kind of illusion may not be very powerful, but it is easy for genin who are not good at dealing with illusions to fall prey to it.

But this trick is completely useless against Asuka who has Sharingan.

Aya and Korin can also use the Byakugan and Sensing Ninjutsu to detect the abnormal flow of chakra in the surrounding air and crack this extremely simple basic illusion.

It should be those examiners who are playing tricks on me. Asuka guessed in his heart.

After all, such a large-scale illusion that covers one floor of the teaching building cannot be maintained by one ninja. It requires multiple ninjas who are proficient in illusion to maintain it.

When we arrived at the door of Classroom 301 on the third floor, the classroom door had already been opened. Many candidates who had cracked the illusion on the second floor walked in. The situation was completely different from the classroom on the second floor where the illusion trap was faked.

The interior space of Classroom 301 is large, more than enough to accommodate hundreds of candidates taking exams at the same time.

There are a large number of desks placed in the classroom, with twelve desks in each row, a total of twenty-five rows, and a total of 300 seats, which is almost equal to the number of genin taking the exam.

Asuka carefully observed the layout of the classroom, ignoring the genin from other ninja villages around him. His eyes glanced at the 300 seats before moving in another direction.

During this time, Feiniao discovered a very interesting phenomenon.

Three hundred desks are placed in the center of Classroom 301 in an order of twelve in each row, totaling twenty-five rows, with spacious walkways on both sides for people to pass through.

The aisle is not empty, but there are two rows of chairs with their backs against the wall.

Sitting on this kind of chair, you can clearly see the situation of each row of desks from the side.

Candidates are undoubtedly sitting on the desk in the center for the competition, and the chairs on both sides, Asuka can only think of one situation, that is, these chairs are seats for the invigilators.

There are thirty seats in total, fifteen seats in each aisle.

Each seat is spaced apart by a certain distance, and the final length of the distance is exactly balanced with the candidate seat in the middle of the twenty-fifth row.

Twenty-five rows of students, thirty proctors... Asuka felt a little headache.

In any case, Asuka felt that the number of proctors was a bit too much.

Fortunately, instead of having fifty invigilators, there are two invigilators in each row watching together.

If it evolves into that situation, even if you want to cheat, you will be discovered by the invigilator immediately.

In other words, the reason why there are only thirty invigilators is to a certain extent to leave room for candidates to cheat?

Asuka was speechless at the Konoha examiner's bad taste.

"This situation is a bit unexpected..."

Xianglin also felt embarrassed.

The layout of the 301 examination room is not placed randomly, but is used to convey some information to the candidates in advance.

Use cryptic information to tell the candidates how to act under the watchful eyes of so many invigilators.

Because the written test means theoretical assessment, the theoretical assessment must be linked to the score.

If your score is low, you may be eliminated. If you want to improve your score, you must answer the questions correctly.

There are two ways to answer the questions correctly, one is to pass by yourself, and the other is to rely on cheating to plagiarize others, so that you can get high scores and avoid the fate of being eliminated.

Smart people have already started discussing with their companions how to plan their actions when the exam begins.

In other words, discuss how to cheat.

Then, the thirty invigilators who are about to appear will also be the candidates' biggest opponents, not just the questions that will be placed on the test paper.

"The information is hidden in the dark and will not be disclosed on the bright side. When the examiner announces the exam questions later, he will definitely hide some unspoken rules that can be manipulated. If you score by cheating, then someone must be able to come up with the questions on the test paper. It makes sense to 'cheat' in this test. Otherwise, I estimate that there will be very few genin who pass the test by then."

It seems that there is no way for the candidates to survive, but before the real test questions and rules are announced, Feiniao does not dare to be too arbitrary.

But according to his understanding, if so many invigilators are arranged to prevent candidates from cheating and to make all candidates behave in the written test, then this kind of test will be too boring and rigid, and there is nothing to praise.

Cheating is different. Cheating can get the correct answer from your opponent, or you can get the answer to the question through "hints" with your peers.

Isn't this a disguised test of the candidates' intelligence gathering and information transmission abilities?

These abilities are exactly what a Chunin should possess.

Thinking of this, Asuka looked at the seats in the aisle on both sides, and somewhat understood the intention of the chief examiner in the first round.

But I still have to say that the character of this examiner is quite bad!

Do you have any weird habit of abusing people?

"Let's meet up there, and I'll explain some of the information I know."

Asuka looked towards the corner of classroom 301, where twelve Oni no Kuni ninja gathered.

Xiang Rin and Cai didn't ask what Asuka knew, and followed behind Asuka without saying a word, walking towards the position occupied by Kaminin of the Demon Kingdom.

After joining up with the rest of the ninjas in the kingdom of ghosts, these ninjas nodded slightly to the three of Asuka, automatically surrounded a small circle, and watched vigilantly for the movements of the ninjas of other ninja villages.

Seeing all the ninjas from the kingdom of ghosts gathered here, Asuka lowered his voice and said: "Time is limited, let me briefly explain that there are two things you have to do when you take the exam later. The first thing is that you can't do it when you meet Don’t copy anyone’s answers except the ones made by our team. As for how the answers will be delivered to you, Xiang Rin and Cai will be in charge at that time. You all sit down in your seats honestly, and don’t act rashly without orders.”

"Yes. What's the second thing?"

asked a genin from the Demon Country.

Asuka took out pieces of mirrors from his pocket and distributed them to everyone, a sharp look flashed in his eyes.

"The second thing you have to do is to find a way to place the mirror on a high place, and find out among the candidates who can solve the problem at that time..."