In the utterly silent exam room, One person's voice rang out especially loudly.
Gaara froze. Naruto, who had been sitting in his chair just a moment ago, now stood before him with both hands in his pockets.
"I, I wasn't..."
Just as Gaara tried to explain, he suddenly felt One unprecedented sense of danger. Remembering Naruto's entrance earlier, that feeling actually cleared his head in One instant.
One instinctive response prompted him to make the very sensible decision not to argue.
"Good, you know how to behave. One more word and you'd have been eliminated on the spot." Naruto nodded with a smile, then gave the eye that had just formed from sand in midair One jab with his pen.
Crack!
The crisp sound of shattering rang throughout the exam room.
With its chakra control cut off, the sand fell from the air onto Gaara's head, steadily sliding out of his hair.
Gaara jerked his head up, his eyes brimming with icy killing intent, but...
He still didn't dare say anything.
Ignoring his glare, Naruto took out his Notebook. "You know when to back down. Let's just deduct five points, then."
Five points?
The entire exam was only worth ten points, and he was taking away five?
When had Gaara ever been treated like this? He was practically bursting with rage and even wanted to throw caution to the wind and start slaughtering everyone.
But he glanced at the rows of Konoha examiners and Naruto Uzumaki, who was still watching him.
Scratch, scratch.
Gaara clenched his pen so tightly that his eyes turned bloodshot. This was going too far. He had no choice but to—
Start considering how to save that backward little nation from an economic standpoint.
"Cheating is wrong. Answer the question properly, okay... And you over there,