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Come on!

Hey, my God.

Now that we've weeded out most of the hopeless cases, 15 minutes to go.

Time for the main event.

All right.

Listen up. Here's the tenth and final question.

Here we go.

Everything's riding on this one.

Believe it.

The tenth question.

All or nothing.

Man, this guy is full of himself.

This is it. The final obstacle.

Hurry up, Kankuro. What good is your chi -chi going to be if you miss the tenth

question?

But, before I give you the question, there are some more rules that you need

be aware of.

Made it just in time.

I hope you found your trip to the bathroom enlightening.

He's seen through the crow's disguise.

He's onto us.

Well, take your seat.

These rules are unique to Question 10.

Listen carefully, and try not to let them frighten you.

It's quiet without the rookies around.

I almost miss them.

Don't worry.

Chances are they'll be back again sooner than you think.

Why's that?

I heard that their first examiner this year is Ibiki.

So, already their chances of passing look iffy.

Great. Sticking them with that sadist right off the bat.

Huh? What sadist?

I forgot you're a new Jonin, Kuranai. Otherwise, you wouldn't have to ask

So I'm ignorant. Who is he?

He's what you might call a specialist.

Oh, yeah?

In what?

Interrogation. Torture.

Huh?

Oh. Of course he won't be using physical torture during the test.

He won't need to.

That's not really his thing, anyway. He works on people's minds, not their

bodies.

He's famous for it.

Everyone knows about the head of the Yambu Torture and Interrogation Corps

the Hidden Leaf Village, Ibuki Morino.

If even the rules are scary, what's the question like?

Very well, then. Rule number one.

Each of you is free to choose not to be given the final question.

It's your decision.

Say what?

We're free to choose?

Whoa, so what's the catch?

Let's say we decide we don't want to do it. What happens then? If you choose not

to take the tenth question, regardless of your answers to the other nine,

get a zero.

In other words, you fail.

And that means, of course, both your teammates fail as well.

Not so fast.

You didn't let me finish.

If you do accept the question but answer it incorrectly, you

will not only fail,

You will be barred from taking the tuning exam ever again.

Hey, that's bull, man. That's ridiculous.

What kind of bogus rule is that? There's lots of people here who've taken the

test before.

I guess you're just

unlucky.

I wasn't making the rules before, but I am now.

Of course, if you don't want to take it, you don't have to.

If you're not feeling confident, then by all means, skip it. You can come back

and try again next year.

Thanks a lot.

So if any one of us chooses to skip it, then all three of us fail?

Forget it! That's not gonna happen!

But on the other hand, you only get one shot. Screw up and you'll never get

another chance.

Either way, it's dead.

This is so unfair.

Why couldn't they just give us a normal test?

Now then, if you're ready, the tenth and final question.

Those who don't want to take it, raise your hand.

Your number will be recorded and then you're free to go.

What could the question be?

What if it's easy?

What if it's not?

If I get it wrong, I'll be a genie for the rest of my life.

And the way things are going.

But I can't just skip it. Then we all fail.

I can't do that to the others.

Well, I'm okay. He's not getting me to chicken out. No way I'm raising my hand.

Oh, but what about Naruto?

He doesn't stand a chance.

Go on, Naruto.

Put your hand up. It's okay. Don't worry about us. There's always next year.

Just think of yourself.

I'm out.

That's it. I'm out.

I just can't do it. I'm sorry.

Number 50. Fail.

Number 130.

Number 110.

That means you're out, too.

Can I? You know.

I'm sorry, guys.

I'm sorry.

That's it. I quit.

Me too, sir. I'm out.

I'm out.

I'm so gone.

Go

on,

Naruto.

Why don't you raise your hand?

Okage! Then the whole village will stop disrespecting me and start treating me

like I'm somebody. Somebody important.

Okage, Okage.

He has a one -track mind that dreams all he's got.

It would kill him to have it taken away forever.

But he's too stubborn to raise his hand.

I can't let you do it to yourself, Naruto.

You see, this guy, Ibiki, he's a master of interrogation because he understands

how the human mind works.

He knows just where to probe to uncover your weaknesses.

The thing is, he's so good at his job, he doesn't use physical torture. He

doesn't need to.

He just messes up your head so bad, you torture yourself.

You can act tough all you want! You guys aren't gonna scare me off!

No way!

I don't care if I do get stuck at the getting for the rest of my life!

I'll still be Hokage someday!

Hm.

He's completely clueless, but he's still going for it. The kid's got guts, I'll

give him that.

Way to go, you crazy little fool.

This decision is one that could change your life.

If for any reason you would rather quit, now's your last chance.

No way, I never go back on my word.

That's the way of the ninja.

Remarkable. That little outburst has given the others some backbone.

Even fired them into staying.

78 left.

More than I expected.

But I don't see anyone wavering. I think that's it.

Well then, I admire your determination, if nothing else.

For those of you remaining, there's only one thing left to do.

And that's for me to tell you.

That you've all passed the first exam.

Hold on! What just happened? What do you mean we passed?

Where's the tenth question?

There never was one. Not a written one, at least.

Actually, your decision to stay was the answer to the tenth question.

Huh? Wait a second.

So the other nine questions you gave us were just a waste of time. Is that what

you're saying?

No, no, not at all.

Quite the opposite. The first nine questions had an important overriding

purpose.

To test your ability to surreptitiously gather strategic intelligence under the

most adverse circumstances.

Well, that clears up everything.

Let me explain. You see, my objective was to test you not only as individuals,

but as a team, and on how well you function as a part of that team.

That's why the test was scored on a team basis, so you'd know that everything

you did or failed to do would directly affect your teammates.

I wanted to see how you'd handle the pressure.

Mm -hmm. Yeah, I figured it was something like that. That's why I kept

Yeah, right.

The first nine questions on the test were difficult. In fact, as you may have

realized, too difficult for any genin to be expected to solve.

I imagine that most of you quickly came to that conclusion.

That you'd have to cheat if you had any chance of passing. The fact is, the test

was designed to encourage cheating. It almost demanded it.

Of course it would have done you little good unless you had someone to cheat

from. So I disguised two Chunin who already knew the answers and had them

with you.

The answers were right in front of me the whole time!

What is it? A problem?

I don't know.

Oh, come on. I wasn't fooled for a second. You had to be a complete doofus

to see it. Isn't that right, Hinata?

Incredible.

So all the time he never knew.

Those who were caught at it failed.

Better not to cheat than to cheat clumsily.

Information. It can be the most valuable weapon in battle. How well you gather

intelligence can determine whether a mission's a failure or success.

There'll be times you'll have to risk your life to get it.

Man, what a map.

Scars and puncture wounds.

Burn marks.

What he must have endured.

Of course you must always consider the source of

your information.

Intelligence gathered from an enemy is not necessarily accurate.

Always bear this in mind.

Disinformation can be worse than no information at all. It can lead to the

of comrades.

or the loss of a village.

That's why I put you in the position where you had to gather accurate

intelligence, cheat, in order to survive.

And that's why those who weren't good enough at it were weeded out, leaving

rest of you.

Okay, but I'm still not getting what the tenth question thing is all about.

You're not.

The tenth question was the main point of the whole exam.

Surely you see that.

Uh, sure, but explain it anyway.

As I said before, the goal was to test you not only as individuals, but as part

of a squad.

The final question gave you two choices, both difficult.

You could choose to play it safe and skip the question, though it meant that

both you and your teammates would be failed. Or you could try and answer it,

knowing if you got it wrong, you would lose your chance of ever being Chunin.

It was a no -win situation.

But just the sort you need have to face almost every day For example, let me

give you a hypothetical mission to steal a document from an enemy stronghold You

have no idea how many ninja the enemy has or how heavily armed they are

Furthermore you have reason to believe that the enemy expects you that you

very well be walking blindly into a trap

Now, do you have the option of taking a pass on this insane mission of saying my

comrades and I would rather live to fight another day?

Can you choose to avoid danger?

No.

There will be many missions that will seem almost suicidal if you think about

it. But you do not think about it. You think only of the goal.

Achieving it through courage and discipline.

These are the qualities required of a tuning squad leader.

Those who choose the safer of two paths.

Those whose determination falters in the face of adversity.

Those who would put their comrades' lives in jeopardy by worrying about

own.

Those who would save their own necks at the price of sacred honor will never be

able to call themselves Chunin, at least as long as I'm here.

As for the rest of you, you have successfully answered the ten questions

to you.

You have earned the right to continue on to the next step.

You have passed through the first gate.

I hereby declare this part of the tuning selection exam completed.

There's nothing left but to wish you all good luck. All right! We did it! That's

one down!

Yeah! Yeah! Woo -hoo!

Yeah!

He's a funny one, that kid.

Hmm?

Is this part of the test?

Jump the gun as usual.

Heads up, boys and girls. This is no time to be celebrating.

I'll be your next proctor, Uncle Mirarashi.

You ready for the second test?

Good! Let's go! Follow me!

You're early again.

Great.

screaming nutcase.

She reminds me of Naruto.

How many are there?

Ibiki, you let all these guys pass.

Your test was too easy.

You must be getting soft.

Or it could be a stronger crop of candidates this year.

Hmm. They sure don't look it.

Trust me, before I'm done with them, more than half will be eliminated.

Huh? More than half? Really?

This is gonna be fun.

All right, you maggots have had it easy so far. But things are gonna be

different starting first thing in the morning.

I'll let your squad leaders know where you're to meet me.

Dismissed.

I just passed a candidate who didn't answer a single question.

Naruto Uzumaki.

He's a funny one, all right.

Whoa, nice place. What is it?

This is the location for the second phase of the exam.

It's the 44th Battle Training Zone.

But we call it the Forest of Death.

Never coming down. Breaking through the content.

Never falling down.

My knees feel shaken.

Like I woke up naked at the classroom.

By the back door. I'm all right, I'll be twice home. But I didn't care.

Cleaning is wasting for people like me.

I passed the first exam, and I didn't even break a sweat.

I'm one step closer to being Hokage, and I've got momentum.

Nothing can stop me now. Hey, what are these guys doing here? This is the

exams, not some nursery school field trip.

from the forest of death okay so maybe it won't be as easy as I thought