Ikuza's greying eyes bulged, barely catching the speed at which Seiyuri delivered her fatal payload at the unconscious girl.<br/><br/>Mashing his hands together quickly, he performed a reverse-summons jutsu on the girl, which, apart from saving her life as the senbon whistled bare nanometers past her chest, would be inherently suspicious to any and all of the genin present. Especially Seiyuri. Apart from clearly being determined to overthink things and analyse situations to her pleasure, the med-nin girl certainly didn't miss a trick. Was this really the first time Ikuza had seen the so-called spy?<br/><br/>With a<em>poof</em>the purple shift wearing girl appeared at the Mad Hermit's feet.<br/><br/>He also noted the new commotion in the Kuroda/Kyo fray, the taijutsu girl making her presence known.<br/><br/>"Very well. This has gone on long enough, and I have seen more than I need to in order to call this exam to a close."<br/><br/>Smacking the ground again with both hands, the Mad Hermit put his chakra into an earth-jutsu, creating four-foot walls of solid mud either side of Reina, blocking the three combatants from further violence and stopping the confrontation.<br/><br/>"Not to mention I'm damned hungry and could murder a kipper or twelve."<br/><br/>"You four especially have all proved your worth. More so than the other genin that came here today. I don't care about people's feelings so much, so I won't bother with the trash but will concentrate on the cream that's risen to the top. Reina, seems you finally woke up. No true harm would have come to anyone whilst I stood here, but your actions show a level-headedness that will be worthy in combat teams. Those two testosterone-ridden kippers had a right to go hell for leather at each other as far as I'm concerned, but your willingness to get involved in what is essentially an inter-team spat is worth noting, not to mention the actions that took you to get here."<br/><br/>The Mad Hermit turned slightly to Kuroda.<br/><br/>"Uchiha. Your devotion to your village embodied in your professionalism at taking orders is commendable. You will make a valuable asset to any team you are put on, and as befits one of your clan, your grasp of ninjutsu is intimidatingly good. The efficiency at which you perform the tasks given to you will make you an indispensible asset to Konoha."<br/><br/>A brief incline of the shaggy white-haired head to Kyo.<br/><br/>"You're brave. I like that. You'll need to work on either getting past your obsession with your toy, or making your toy so powerful that you don't need any other fighting style, but nevertheless, it can be worked on. Some other genin need work like you do, but none of those have your potential. Your willingness to put your life on the line for your beliefs is part of what makes our village great, and we simply cannot do without ninja with your mindset. I don't know if you and the Uchiha boy are set to become deadly rivals after this or the bestest of friends, I don't really care either way. Bear in mind that every encounter you walk away from makes you stronger, whatever the outcome."<br/><br/>Now to Seiyuri.<br/><br/>"If I talk of your intelligence, I believe you already have the maturity to not let it go to your head. I'm sure you're already smart enough to give your own assessment of your actions, and know that they are sound. All I have seen from you is razor-sharp calculations backed up with razor-sharp decisiveness. Your clarity will give others strength, and your analytic nature is the mathematics on which all ninja ways should be based."<br/><br/>Ikuza looked up to the sky, for apparantly no reason at all.<br/><br/>"You four all pass. Think on today and learn what you can. Don't forget anything that happened here. I'm going to tell the rest of the surviving examinees that they all failed."<br/><br/>His steely-grey eyes returned to the group of four.<br/><br/>"You heard me right. You four raised the bar for this exam so high that your potential comrades suffer, but so be it for they aren't as strong as you. They will get chance to take another exam soon. I however want you four put into teams immediately."<br/><br/>His eyes shifted again.<br/><br/>"Green Shadow wants numbers churned out into combat-ready teams, that's why we have so many exams so close to each other. But I want quality, and he can drag himself out of wherever he hides and fight me over it if he cares to."<br/><br/>Ikuza knelt down and put a hand on the girl's arm.<br/><br/>"By the way...I'm not going to explain her part in all this, yet."<br/><br/>A fiendish grin.<br/><br/>"I<em>could</em>, and post-exam perameters require that I should. But...as Kuroda correctly pointed out...I'm supposed to be bonkers, right? Congratulations on your passes, Chunin."<br/><br/><em>Poof.</em><br/><br/>Both Ikuza and the girl were gone, apparantly to some other part of the forest where the other examinees were. That left the four to make their own way back to Konoha's main grounds in their own time.<br/><br/>Night was falling.