Herzblut trinkt man nicht

Translation

The written exam

Kai looked at her. “I'm Kai and you?” Since the examiner wasn't there, he didn't have to whisper. "Hinata," she replied in a shaky voice. "Don't worry, Hinata ..." he said and smiled. She just nodded, again not looking at him.
Aimi was excited, for weeks, oh what months she was studying for this test, what if it wasn't enough? Besides, this room wasn't exactly big ... Unnoticed, she glanced first at Kai and then at Neyo, her gaze fixed on her gloomy comrade. He looked so cool, he didn't care at all.
Aimi envied him. It was trembling next to her. She looked over. A little blond boy shifted back and forth in his chair. "What about you? Do you have to go to the bathroom?" Aimi asked mockingly.
He shook his head and didn't even notice her undertone. Before he even started screaming, Aimi put her hand on his shoulder. “Don't worry, little one, it'll be fine.” She grinned. The boy sat still for ten seconds, until Aimi's hand was gone again, then it started again and Aimi couldn't help but let out a sigh.Neyo just sat there. The boy next to him had fiery red hair and was staring straight ahead. Neyo eyed him suspiciously. His black rimmed eyes told everyone who looked at him: Come closer and I'll break your neck.
Neyo had to smile at this realization.
All of a sudden the boy stared at him. "What?" he asked hostile. Neyo grinned. “I like the look in your eyes.” Neyo said only. The boy snorted and turned forward.
Then finally a large ninja entered the room. If Aimi had been joking, she would have called it a cupboard with legs. He stood in front of the waiting shinobi.
The scene reminded Kai of his school days. "You get a sheet of paper with nine questions. The tenth is asked orally. For the time being, answer the first nine." He said and he looked serious about it. He handed out the papers the wrong way round. No sooner was he up front than they were allowed to turn the tests over.
Aimi let out a sigh of relief. For her, these questions were child's play.However, a hurricane raged on the chair next to her. Aimi ignored him and started answering the questions.
Kai looked feverishly at his sheet of paper. Some questions about fighting techniques weren't a problem, but he'd never dealt with the principles of ninja, nor had he ever given a shit about the rules.
He quickly scribbled down what he knew. Beside him he heard the scratching of a pen. He looked over at Hinata almost imperceptibly. He caught the 15th rule a ninja should always obey and wrote it slightly different on his own sheet of paper.
Neyo sat there. He knew the answer to most of the questions. He heard a rustle next to him. It was without a doubt from the red-haired guy, Neyo looked. Behind his long hair you couldn't tell that he was turning his head.
Startled, Neyo saw an eye formed in the boy's hand, made of sand.
He was cheating. ° Well then ... ° Neyo thought and was determined to do the same. He sat up straight.Closed his eyes and mumbled a short formula.
Shortly before the exam he had persuaded Aimi to write to me in pitch black ink. His blood legacy allowed him to see and control everything that was dark, gloomy, or gloomy.
He opened his eyes. In front of him the room glowed a bright blood red. And the black words on Aimi's paper just flew to him. Of course, Aimi didn't know why Neyo had given her this new pen, which he called a 'lucky charm'.
Satisfied, Neyo's vision normalized again. Confident of victory, he wrote off Aimi's solutions.
Kai looked back and chased away a mosquito. He saw Sakura busy writing on the paper, suddenly she suffered a slight faint attack. Seconds later she jerked and shook her head, continuing to write.
Kai gave up, he leaned back and let go of his leaf, leaf.
The examiner made a sign to everyone to stop writing.
All the shinobi let their pens sink more or less happily."The tenth question ..." began the examiner. Everyone was excited, some held their breath, including Kai. "The tenth question may be too difficult for you ... And if one of you answers the question incorrectly, the whole team fails. In that case, this team is never allowed to take a Chunin exam again ... But it is up to you whether you want to give up now and try again next year, or you just want to be a genin for a long time if you screw it up ... "He paused dramatically. "Anyone who logs in fails, his whole team with him."
Neyo gave a short, resounding laugh.
"You think you scare us?" he mocked, and leaned back. The examiner gave him a hard look and Neyo fell silent.
Some shinobi volunteered, apologized to their comrades and went outside with drooping heads. Aimi heard the boy next to her start to bite off his fingernails. She took a quick look at his paper.She was shocked, there was not a word on it. He was sweating and bruised his nails with his teeth. Aimi didn't think of giving up, Kai even less.
Slowly he watched Naruto's arm go up. But suddenly he hit the table so hard that Aimi winced next to him.
"We don't give up, no matter what! I'll be Hokage! This question will be a piece of cake !!!" he shouted with a smug grin on his lips and slumped back into the chair.
Kai smiled, he hadn't expected anything else from this whirlwind. Neyo looked at Naruto. Then he looked around the room, the Genins nodded in agreement and the examiner looked puzzled. “Really nobody anymore?” A general shake of the heads. "All right ..." He leafed through his papers.
Pulled out a sheet of paper, cleared his throat. “You all passed!” The shinobi cheered. The examiner briefly explained why.
Aimi breathed a sigh of relief. The examiner took another breath to say something."Because of a new regulation ... you will be divided into larger groups and sleep together in a hall. Get to know each other ..." He took out another sheet.
"Um, the ninja students on the wind and fire kingdom sleep in the warehouse by the lake ... The ones from the water, light and earth in the one at the edge of the forest.
With these words he gathered up the leaves and left.
Kai, Aimi and Neyo came together. "And how was it?" asked Aimi. "You helped me a lot." Said Neyo, Aimi only understood the train station.
Kai spoke up. "We should go to the lake I think ..." The other two nodded. "Do you know where the lake is?" asked Kai. Aimi shook her head in dismay, Neyo didn't know either.
Kai saw Naruto and his team walk past them. "Naruto, Sakura!" he called to them and they turned around. Kai and his team got closer. At the sight of Neyo, Sakura was speechless and she took a step backwards.
Neyo smiled contentedly at this reaction.Aimi poked him in the side with her elbow. "Leave it!" she scolded. Neyo grabbed her arm before she could poke him. "Yes, Aimi ..." he said and sounded disturbingly good.
"Where's the lake?" asked Kai, trying not to sound too curious. "We're going there in a minute ... are you coming with me?" Naruto cheerfully invited her.
“Why not?” Kai looked questioningly at his companion. You agreed. They quickly got things to stay overnight. Aimi was pretty sympathetic to Naruto from the beginning, but Sakura didn't like her ... She visibly languished alternately at her comrade Sasuke and Kai.
That upset Aimi. Neyo liked them all, better said, he didn't bother to talk to them, that gave him the advantage that nobody could get on the nerves
Kai chatted with Naruto, Aimi and Sakura all the time. The four also went ahead. Behind them, Neyo and Sasuke strolled side by side.
Naruto led them to the lake. Though Sakura had to correct a few times so they wouldn't go in the wrong direction.Then at last they discovered a large building on the edge of the clear lake.
Some teams were already waiting for them there. Neyo recognized the boy who had sat next to him during the test and had to smile. "What is?" Sasuke asked next to him.
"Nothing." The hall was still locked. So they just added themselves to the others. Kai discovered Ino with her team, Tenten and Neji with a comrade and Hinata with two companions. He waved to them. Then he saw another girl and walked towards it, without noticing it, the others ran after him. The only one who consciously went along was Neyo.
"Hello." Greeted Kai. He smiled at the girl. “I'm Kai.” The girl grinned and took a step towards him. "I'm Temari and these are my brothers, Kankuro and Gaara. And what are you doing here?" she asked and smiled.
"Just say hello," said Kai.
"Temari looked him up and down." Wow ... "she said and walked towards him, turned away and walked right past him towards Neyo.Surprised how Neyo was, he backed away. Very close in front of him, Temari stopped. Her hand traced his torso over his shoulders. “You are really a great guy.” She admired him. Kai gave her a confused look.
Neyo was frozen and just stood there. Next to them, Aimi bit her lip quietly, unnoticed but extremely painfully. Neyo pushed Temari away from him. "I think you are not my type." He reasoned and quickly disappeared again next to Sasuke.
Temari laughed. "I like you."
One of her brothers snorted, then they left.
Kai went up to Neyo. "One day a girl is interested in you and you push her off? Tz ... tz ..." Kai shook his head. Secretly he was annoyed green and blue that Temari thought Neyo better than him.
Then the sensei of the individual teams arrived with a guy who introduced himself as Hayate. He unlocked the door and the Genin stormed the hall. Camp beds were set up all over the hall.Hayate called them in the middle. The youth gathered. "It would be best if each of you first name your name!" he called so that everyone could hear him.
“Introduce yourself and name the shinobi on your team and that of your sensei,” he suggested.
Naruto answered violently. He started. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I'll be Hokage one day ... In my team are Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha ..." The name sounded familiar to Kai. "Uchiha?" he called in between. "Yes ..."