Today's Chunin Ninja Exams were perhaps the exams with the lowest losses and casualties in history.
These Chunin Ninja Exams really turned into a bunch of newbies pecking at each other; each pair of combatants going up would just throw kunai at each other to test the waters.
You could say that as a Genin, inaccurate throwing is understandable, but why did you bring dozens of kunai and throw every single one of them at me, the referee?
In the end, it all came down to who brought more kunai, who finished throwing their kunai first, and who was counted as losing. The ninjas who went up later all realized this and ran out of the arena to buy kunai.
First place was even more of a jerk, a Konoha ninja whose family ran a weapon shop, and he brought several sacks of kunai to throw. This made Dave miserable; he had worked so hard to come and be a referee, only to end up dodging kunai here and training his reaction speed?
Kakuzu was even more heartbroken. He had waited so long for just a single transaction, and well, it looked like he was going to severely rip off that Kirigakure guy.
After the exams ended, Kakuzu tearfully went up to pick up thousands of kunai, and then tearfully sold them at several times the markup.
And so this Chunin Ninja Exams ended in such a muddled way. The final result was that only first place became a Chunin in these Chunin Ninja Exams.
Whether someone could become a Chunin was jointly discussed by the Five Kage, but today's dramatic scene left the Five Kage with no other choice. If they had to blame someone, they could only blame the Black-Faced Buckle Ghost.
Still, they couldn't have literally zero