A Secret That Cannot Be Told

Amid a heavy snowfall, the first round of the Chunin Exams officially began.

For top students, exams were always a welcome occasion, because they could finally get a few days of proper rest.

But it was far less friendly to poor students.

Still, there was one thing both sides had in common: neither could accurately judge the difficulty of the test paper.

The questions in the ninja Chunin Exams covered an extremely broad range of material. As a certain famous Chunin prep instructor once said: "Push it immediately. Give up the exam."

The test paper was difficult, and the intentions of the people who set the questions were equally hard to fathom.

For example, Minato's class had been tested on absolute obedience to Jonin orders. This year, it was information gathering.

In other words, this was an exam testing your ability to cheat.

Of course, as times advanced, cheating methods also improved. They were always bizarre, imaginative, and endlessly varied.

In the examination hall, the three students of Team One were not seated together, but each of them was completely confident.

Kakashi went without saying. With his abilities, he could answer the questions himself, but that would take a great deal of time. Some questions were purely meant to make things difficult for Genin.

For example, this question: How to kill the Raikage...

Asking Genin to explain how to kill the Raikage—were they sure this was not a joke?

Well, since Hidden Cloud had refused to participate in this Chunin Exams, it was only natural for Konoha to poke fun at the Raikage.

Besides, someone had actually accomplished this question in battle, hadn't they?

Konoha was mocking Hidden Cloud while praising its own war hero... This was a blatant display of military might.

For a moment, many Genin from the