Became the mastermind behind the Akatsuki organization

Chapter 370 Heaven and Earth Scroll
Half an hour later, as the bell rang, the first Chunin Exam reached its final stage.

After all the candidates put down their papers and pens, Morino Ibiki glanced at each candidate and began the last big question of the exam.

The content of the last big question is very simple, testing whether the ninja has the determination to persevere.

In this round of exams, many ninjas doubted themselves and gave up on the test, but all the remaining candidates passed this round of exams.

After seeing this scene, the Third Hokage and Sasori in the monitoring room smiled, as if recalling past experiences.

For a ninja, perhaps bloodline limits and talent are not necessary, but the decision to move forward is a must. Any hesitation while carrying out a mission will lead to direct failure.

Bai Ye also fell into deep thought. He almost figured out Konoha's talent selection mechanism.

Ninjas who can pass the Chunin Exam and are valued by the higher-ups are almost all reserve jonins. Even if they cannot become jonins in the future, they can still be treated as special jonins.

As for the remaining ninjas, they are cannon fodder like the Chunin captains. Even though the Chunin exam is so difficult, many Chunins are not as strong as Genins, and will be killed instantly by Genins when they meet.

Retracting his gradually dispersing thoughts, Bai Ye looked at the surveillance again. He was looking forward to the next performance of Rasa and Orochimaru, as well as the actions of Uchiha Obito.

According to the report of White Zetsu Afu, Obito has appeared near the Konoha Village and joined the fight.

……

Not long after, the second round of the Chunin Exam began.

The examiner of the second round of exams is Mitarashi Anko, a former disciple of Orochimaru and now a top jonin of Konoha with good combat capabilities.

Arriving at the outskirts of the Death Forest, Hongdou first gave the candidates a warning and then announced the rules of the exam.

The rules of the second round of exams are very simple. Two kinds of scrolls, Heaven and Earth, are distributed to ninja teams. Only if you collect both scrolls and reach the tower in the Death Forest within the specified time, you will pass this round of exams.

At the end, Hongdou deliberately told the candidates that it is allowed to kill people in the Death Forest.

After hearing this, the candidates present looked embarrassed and began to whisper, but they still made up their minds and entered the Death Forest one by one.

Seeing these young juniors, Hongdou frowned, always feeling that something bad was going to happen.

Touching the mark on her neck, Hongdou thought of her former teacher Orochimaru, the man who abandoned her when he defected and left her alone in the Konoha Village.

After arriving at the Death Forest, Team 7 found a secret open space and began discussing the battle.

After repeating the rules of the second round of the exam, Naruto asked Sasuke and Sakura:
"We have the Heaven Scroll. If we want to pass this exam successfully, we must defeat a team and get the Earth Scroll. Do you have any battle plan?"

Sakura thought about it for a moment, then said, "Why don't we go find other classes to join up. If we join forces with Hinata and Choji, we can all pass this exam."

Sakura's idea is very simple. As long as she can find other classmates, she can defeat the enemy through the advantage of numbers and get the corresponding scroll to pass the Chunin Exam.

Sasuke shook his head and said:
"I think this plan has many loopholes. Even if we unite the eighth and tenth classes, what if there is an uneven distribution? What if they have the scroll we need?"

"It's the Chunin Exam now. They are our enemies. I won't pin my hopes on our enemies, even if we were once in the same class."

After a pause, Sasuke continued, "And even if we both pass the exam, we will still meet in the third round. We will still be enemies, and we will fight sooner or later."

In Sasuke's opinion, the Chunin Exam is an exam, and it is not okay to bring things from outside the exam room into the exam.

Sakura thought about it and felt that what Sasuke said made sense. She was too naive. Everyone had to pass the exam, so why should they unite together?

After thinking for a while, Sasuke said, "My plan is to take the initiative and look for those isolated teams. With the strength of our team, we will be able to fight any team we meet."

Sakura had no objection to Sasuke's proposal, but Naruto frowned and said:

"I don't think we need to take the initiative to find other teams. We can just go directly to the finish line and stop people near the finish line."

Sasuke was stunned for a moment, then said: "As expected of you, Naruto..."

After discussing the battle plan, the members of Team 7 stood up from the ground and immediately headed towards the central area. One of them had the Sharingan and one was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, so they were confident that they could defeat any opponent.

……

Gaara's team also had similar ideas.

Gaara's high-profile performance in the first round of exams has attracted the attention of most teams. Before entering the Forest of Death, they all stayed away from Gaara's position.

I don't want to meet this team that looks difficult to deal with.

After searching the area within several hundred meters and not finding any ninja, Kankuro returned to Gaara's team with the puppet and looked at Gaara with resentment.

If Gaara hadn't made a high-profile move in the first round of exams.

They might have encountered other ninja teams, obtained the corresponding scrolls from them, and passed the test easily.

Gaara noticed Kankuro's look and ignored this incompetent brother.

He actually didn't care about passing the Chunin Exam. As the One-Tail Jinchuriki, he knew that even if he couldn't pass the Chunin Exam, he would still be a high-ranking official in the Sand Village in the future.

What he cared about was the enemy he encountered in the first round of the Chunin Exam, the mysterious Sound Ninja.

Thinking of this, Gaara turned to the other two and asked, "During the first round of the exam, I was disturbed by a Sound Ninja. What about you two?"

Kankuro thought for a moment, then said, "That's true. When I was delivering the answers outside the examination room, my puppet manipulation ability obviously declined a lot."

"I thought that the strong men of Konoha discovered my cheating and deliberately interfered."

"From what you said, could it be that this matter was not done by Konoha Jonin, but by someone else?"

After hearing this, Gaara looked at Temari. Temari, who was being stared at, said slowly: "I was not disturbed, but during the exam, the Sound Ninja that Gaara mentioned did look at me several times..."

"I originally wanted to report this to Lord Scorpion, but then I thought better of it."

"Otogakure is just an unknown small ninja village. Even if they have a Jonin disguised as a Genin to take the Chunin exam, it won't make much of a splash."

"But after hearing what you said, I also felt something was wrong."

"Who on earth would be watching us all the time?"

Temari's doubts caused the three of them to fall into silence. Then they remembered a name, and their faces changed instantly. After looking at each other, they said in unison:
"Could that Sound Ninja staring at us be our father?" The three siblings will never forget their father, who once served as the Kazekage but defected because of betraying the village and the country.

If it weren't for Scorpion's efforts to protect the three of them, they would definitely have been monitored for the rest of their lives.

At this moment, the thought that Luo Sha might be observing them in the dark made them feel a little scared. After all, Luo Sha was not very friendly to them back then.

Gaara also thought of Rasa and his face became extremely gloomy.

Trying not to recall the memory of Rasa, Gaara gave the captain's order: "Don't think too much, let's think about how to get the scroll and pass this Chunin exam..."

After saying that, Gaara took the lead and took a step forward.

The other two followed Gaara, looking at his back and fell into silence.

If their feelings towards Rasa are very complicated, Gaara's feelings towards Rasa are only hatred. After all, Gaara has been assassinated many times by assassins sent by Rasa.

The last time they even sent their uncle Yashamaru, which made Gaara completely hate Rasa.

……

Dozens of minutes later, Team 7 encountered the first team and stopped.

This team was none other than Class 10, which was their class, and the same class as Ino-Shika-Chou. The two teams became alert the moment they met.

Although both parties are friends, they are in the examination room at the moment.

As long as the other party's scroll is the missing half, he can pass this test directly. Therefore, even if they were friends in the past, they can only be opponents now.

After taking out the kunai and preparing for battle, Sasuke opened his Sharingan and Naruto also performed the Shadow Clone Technique.

Facing the team composed of top students in the class, Akimichi Choji asked in a panic while eating potato chips: "Shikamaru, what should we do? Should we fight with Naruto and the others?"

Shikamaru glanced at Naruto across from him, then looked at Ino and Choji beside him, and said calmly: "Throw the scroll to them, we won't fight them."

Ino said hesitantly, "Not fighting them? But if we lose the scroll, we won't be able to pass the Chunin exam. We'll have to wait half a year before we can be promoted to Chunin."

Shikamaru explained lazily, "Handing over the scroll doesn't mean you're eliminated. We can just deal with two more teams. The scroll isn't that hard to get."

Shikamaru didn't think too much and just threw the scroll over.

Naruto took the scroll steadily, opened it and took a look, then threw it back and said to Sasuke and Sakura: "They also have the Heavenly Scroll, there is no need for us to fight."

After hearing this, both sides breathed a sigh of relief.

If it is not necessary, they are not willing to fight each other. After all, they both understand each other's strength and know that the other party is a ninja who is not easy to mess with.

If you spend too much energy here, you will easily be ambushed by other teams.

"Great, we don't have to fight..." After a pause, Sakura said to Shikamaru, "Shikamaru, why don't we unite and fight the rest of the team together."

After hearing this proposal, Shikamaru thought about it for a while, and then said, "It's not impossible to join forces. Long before I met you, I thought about the problems encountered by the Konoha team."

"If they were classmates from the same period, would there be a fight between the two sides? How would the village solve this problem?"

"Now that I've seen your reactions, I can confirm one thing."

"What's the matter?" Sakura asked curiously.

Shikamaru is a member of the Nara clan, and the Nara clan has always been the think tank of Konoha. They have assisted successive Hokage and are considered an important brain in the village.

Shikamaru paused, then said, "In order to prevent us from killing each other, the village has made some moves in the distribution of scrolls. If I'm guessing correctly, all of us in the Konoha team have the Ten-character scrolls."

"The village uses this method to unite our Konoha teams and use the advantage in numbers to defeat the teams from other ninja villages."

At this point, Shikamaru looked at Naruto, the captain of the other team, and said:

"So, Naruto, are you willing to join us temporarily? If we obtain the Earth Scroll, we will give the first one to you."

Shikamaru's proposal was very tempting, and after Naruto thought about it for a while, he agreed.

The team he formed with Sasuke and Sakura was strong enough to intercept any passing ninja teams at the finish line, but there were clearly many hidden talents in this Chunin Exam, and there was a risk of a car accident if they rashly blocked the finish line.

If the other party ignores them and rushes directly to the finish line, everything will be in trouble.

Thinking of this, Naruto said to Shikamaru: "I agree to cooperate with you. Forget about the priority. We are all ninjas from the same village. Let's try to get as many earth scrolls as possible."

After the two parties reached a cooperation agreement, the six people in the two teams immediately expanded their scope of activities and began to take the initiative.

Soon, the two teams found a Kusanagi team. After a battle, the Kusanagi team chose to surrender and voluntarily handed over the Earth Scroll.

Two hours later, Naruto and Shikamaru met another Konoha team, this Konoha team was Team 8, the class where Hinata, Shino and Kiba were.

Unlike the team Naruto and Shikamaru were in, Hinata's team was in a much worse state.

They had just experienced a battle, and after barely defeating the enemy, they encountered another powerful team and had their spoils robbed.

They were no match for the other team, so they immediately started to run away until they met Naruto and his group.

After seeing Naruto, Hinata and the others immediately began to ask for help, taking out the scroll and saying, "Naruto, Shikamaru, this is our team's scroll..."

Instead of giving the scroll to the enemy, it is better to give it to classmates and let them advance.

This is what Hinata's team is thinking. Anyway, they don't have the chakra to continue fighting now.

Naruto and Shikamaru took the scroll, saw the word "Ten" on it, and immediately returned the scroll. Just as they thought, all the Konoha teams had scrolls with the word "Ten".

This is the village's extra care for the Konoha ninjas.

At this moment, another team emerged from the woods and appeared in front of them.

(End of this chapter)