Ino stared at the test paper in her hands until her vision practically blurred. Her knowledge had never been particularly strong, and these questions left her completely dumbfounded.
Her eyes kept darting between Sakura and Hinata, occasionally glancing toward the examiner, Ibiki. The moment she looked up and met his piercing gaze, she flinched and lowered her head again.
She forced herself to study her paper and picked out questions she could at least partly understand. But the more she worked, the more she felt that her approach was wrong. Barely fifteen minutes had passed before she began giving up.
Meanwhile, almost everyone in the examination room was in the same predicament, agonizing over the unimaginably difficult questions. That included Gaara from Sunagakure.
He had come to take the Chunin Ninja Exams on the strength of his overwhelming power. He knew very little about the basics and had always relied on practical experience. Faced with a written test like this, he was truly out of his element.
Gaara glanced at Ibiki in front of the room, his expression solemn. He muttered quietly, "Third Eye!"
The instant the words left his mouth, a small cluster of sand slowly gathered in front of him, eventually forming an eyeball that flew away with a whoosh.
Gaara covered his right eye with one hand while the Third Eye began searching for a target in midair. Within half a minute, it stopped above someone's head. The eyeball swiveled around, scanning the test paper in that person's hands.
Gaara paused, then picked up his pen and began writing rapidly. A closer look would have revealed that the contents of his paper were essentially identical to those of the person targeted by his Third Eye.
As though sensing something, Ibiki looked up and cast a glance his