Three days later, as ninjas from Kusagakure and Takigakure arrived in Konoha one after another, the Chunin Exams jointly organized by the Five Great Shinobi Villages were about to begin.
Before the official start, Konoha held a temporary assembly to ensure the Chunin Exams proceeded smoothly.
Konoha gathered all the ninjas from every village participating in the Chunin Exams on the Ninja Academy's training field and publicly announced the rules and regulations for the exams.
On the reviewing stand.
The Five Kage representing the Five Great Shinobi Villages took their seats one after another, surveying the ninjas from each village participating in the Chunin Exams. Meanwhile, Itachi, the vice principal of the Ninja Academy, was reading out the rules.
Since the primary purpose of holding the Chunin Exams was to strengthen cooperation among the major shinobi villages, while competitiveness was emphasized, meaningless killing during the exams was strictly prohibited by the rules.
In short, accidents were allowed in these Chunin Exams, but malicious killing was absolutely forbidden!
On the training field.
The ninjas from each village participating in the Chunin Exams also took the opportunity to observe one another.
Hyuga Kagami, who was also on the training field, briefly swept his gaze around and found that the number of ninjas participating in the Chunin Exams was roughly the same as the information he had obtained beforehand.
Konoha had sent a total of thirty teams, ninety ninjas in all.
Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure had each sent six teams, with eighteen ninjas apiece.
Kirigakure had only one team, with three ninjas.
Otogakure had two teams and six ninjas. Kusagakure had ten teams and thirty ninjas. Takigakure had three teams, and with Fū, who was already in Konoha, they had a total of nine ninjas.
Eight shinobi villages, sixty-four teams in total, and