One year later, at the Wood Leaf Academy's main gate.
The four members of the Watergate Academy who had just returned from a mission gradually appeared in front of the gate.
"Yo, Watergate, you're back."
When the four of them stepped through the gate, the young ninja on duty at the Wood Leaf Academy's main gate said.
This person wasn't an outsider, he was the one who had a small conflict with Watergate back in the Academy.
After so many years, he was already in his early twenties, and had become an excellent Chunin of the Wood Leaf Academy.
"Hmm," Watergate smiled and nodded at Chi Ban Yu, then turned around and looked at the three people beside him.
"There's one thing I want to tell you. Tomorrow, one year is up, and Lin will graduate from the Medical Department and return to our class."
"Awesome!"
Bordered Soil heard this and jumped up. Although within one year, although it wasn't to the extent that he couldn't see Lin, it was still better than being in the same class and interacting with each other day and night.
"Bordered Soil," Kakashi stopped the happy Bordered Soil and glanced at him.
Bordered Soil paused for a moment, then realized what was going on.
Lin's return meant that Waterstop might leave their class. After all, there was a standard for a ninja team.
Within a year, they got along quite well. With Shisui's personality, it was indeed difficult for people to dislike him.
Therefore, Bordered Soil glanced at Kakashi and thought to himself.
"It would be great if the one leaving was this guy …"
Waterstop's expression was very relaxed. His personality was somewhat similar to Watergate's, calm in the face of trouble, neither arrogant nor impatient.
"So when Lin comes back, Kakashi will temporarily leave our class …" Watergate continued.
Bordered Soil heard this and almost laughed out loud. Watergate added: "Because the Chunin Exam is approaching, Bordered Soil, Waterstop, you and Lin will form a three-person team to participate in the Chunin Exam. I have already recommended you to Naruto -sama."
"Kakashi is already a Chunin, so he can't participate. It just so happens that Rope Tree senpai is short of manpower for a task, so I recommended you."
Watergate said. Three years ago, Rope Tree, who graduated one year older than him, officially became a Wood Leaf Jonin.
However, he didn't teach students as a Jonin, instead, he was constantly doing some difficult tasks.
Rope Tree's current strength is quite good, and has become one of Wood Leaf's mainstay.
Kakashi nodded without any doubt.
"Then you go to Rope Tree senpai now and ask about the specific situation of the task, and I will go to Naruto -sama to hand over the task. Tomorrow, I will tell the three of you some things to pay attention to in the Chunin Exam."
"Most of the participants in this exam, except for Waterstop, are students of the same class. Don't lose."
Watergate said to Kakashi and the two who were about to participate.
"Then, let's go!"
As soon as Minato's voice fell, he suddenly disappeared from where he was, and Kakashi also teleported away.
"Bordered Soil senpai, let's do our best together."
Shisui let out a faint laugh. The two of them encouraged each other and began to make use of the remaining time to cultivate.
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The Chunin Exam was originally held by two or more members of the five major ninja countries. Most of the participants were the elites of various countries.
The intention was very obvious. The so-called exam was more like a small war between countries. It meant to observe each other's growth in strength in recent years.
But nearly ten years after the end of the Second Shinobi World War, the major ninja countries have not held a joint Chunin Exam.
That's because the result of that war, except for Wood Leaf and the Land of Fire, no ninja village or country could swallow it.
Everyone knows that the peace treaty between countries was caused by Wood Leaf's dominance at that time.
The seemingly calm ninja world is actually just a hypocrisy.
Over the years, the friction between the five major ninja countries has never stopped.
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A few days later, the Chunin Exam officially began!
The first round of the Chunin Exam, written test!
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Looking at the various questions on the test paper in front of him, Bordered Soil scratched his head, even if Watergate senpai had reviewed these questions in advance.
But when it comes to this kind of theoretical knowledge, his brain seems to be empty at any time.
But soon, in front of Bordered Soil's seat, Rin's fingers were fiddling with different shapes.
This is a unique code word in their class.
The so-called written test is actually just a test of the ability of these ninjas to pass information to each other.
Most of them seemed to be prepared, so less than one-sixth of them were eliminated in the first round.
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The second round of the Chunin Exam was a survival test in the Forest of Death.
The test method used was the same as the one that Watergate participated in. Everyone was imprinted with the Chakra mark.
The test this time was even harsher than the one at the Water Gate.
Because … as long as one of the three ninja team disappears, everyone will be eliminated.
Moreover, the number of people who can reach the central tower of the Forest of Death is limited to half of the people who participated in the second trial.
After five days of survival in the wild, if more than half of the people are left, then everyone will be eliminated.
This kind of test is simply to let all the teams in the forest kill each other.
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The third day of survival in the wild, in a corner of the Forest of Death.
"Bam!"
A huge fireball roared in the forest, and a ninja boy staggered to avoid the fireball attack.
"Whoosh!"
At this time, a ghostly black shadow suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Boom!"
Waterstop punched out and directly shattered the Chakra mark on his chest.
"Sorry."
He said to that person, then looked to the side and shouted, "Your companion mark has been erased. You have been eliminated."
In the forest more than ten meters away, Bordered Soil and Rin were in a stalemate with the ninja whose mark was erased by Waterstop.
Shisui and the young man appeared a few meters away from the four people who were confronting each other.
"Damn it!"
The boy's teammate couldn't help but curse, but there was no way, the strength of the boy was slightly worse than Waterstop.
The other girl's cheeks also turned white, but a failure is a failure, she had to curl her lips, then found a tree and sat there, looking a little depressed.
"Sorry, we won." Bordered Soil smiled at the boy, the latter fiercely gritted his teeth.
Rin looked at his somewhat unwilling expression and was about to comfort him, but who knew that the boy's eyes suddenly changed, and there was a trace of fierceness in his eyes: "Who needs your comfort!"
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, he threw several shurikens at Rin in front of him.
Waterstop on the side saw this, his pupils shrank, he didn't expect this at all.
However, even with his speed, at this distance, he couldn't save Rin in time.
The dark shurikens gradually enlarged in Rin's eyes.
"Whoosh!"
At this time, a figure suddenly appeared in front of Rin, then he waved his kunai in his hands.
"Clang!"
Bordered Soil knocked down the shurikens with a speed that surprised even Waterstop.
However, when he knocked down the last shuriken, he suddenly felt a pain on the back of his hand, causing him to frown.
Whoosh!
In the next moment, Shisui appeared in front of the young man. Although he had always treated others kindly, there was a trace of viciousness in his dark eyes.
"Bang!"
The boy only felt his body become light, and then his whole abdomen caved in, he was directly kicked by Waterstop for nearly ten meters, and then he slammed into a big tree.
"Rustle!"
The tree shook, the leaves shook, and the boy coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The boy's other two teammates didn't expect him to suddenly lose his mind, when Waterstop angrily sent him flying, there was panic in their eyes, but they didn't dare to do anything.
"Bordered Soil senior, are you okay?"
Waterstop looked away, his expression suddenly returned to normal, he turned his head to look at Bordered Soil, there was a trace of surprise in his eyes.
The speed that Bordered Soil just burst out was not his usual speed at all.
"I'm fine, hehe." Bordered Soil chuckled.
But at this moment, Rin quickly ran in front of him and pulled out his left hand from behind his back. At this moment, blood was dripping down from Bordered Soil's fingers.
Rin's palm pressed on the wound on the back of Bordered Soil's hand, and suddenly a faint green Chakra light appeared.
Soon after, Bordered Soil's wound stopped bleeding, and the pain basically disappeared. He looked at Rin and smiled.
"Rin, thank you."
However, Rin didn't respond to him, but took out a roll of white bandage from the ninja backpack behind her, and then wrapped it around Bordered Soil's wound.
At this time, Rin whispered in a low voice, "I should thank you, you saved me."
Bordered Soil heard this, his face slightly blushed, then he looked up and said, "It's nothing, the agreement between me and you, I will definitely do it!"
"Well, that's true."
Rin said softly, then cut the bandage, tied it tightly, raised her eyes, and looked at Bordered Soil.
"So … before the agreement is fulfilled, you can't hide anything from my eyes."
"I've been watching you all this time!"
Lin tilted her head slightly and smiled.
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