<div class="floatleft">(http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj499/MzHyde/Temujin/Temujin1_zpsb8361ca3.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Water off a duck's ass, or so the saying goes.</strong></span>Riko's hurled insults and obnoxious temperament didn't seem to phase Temujin in the slightest. Much like a cat annoyed by it's human during naptime, Temujin just opened her eye, looked at<strong>Riko</strong>for about half a second, then shut it again. She didn't move until<strong>Tengu</strong>yanked<strong>Riko</strong>down to her level, bringing the three of them close together. The redhead opened her eye again and looked at them both.<br/><br/>"...First off, I can't read well, so I can't complete the test regardless. Second, that is a terrible plan. They will disqualify us all for starting a fight during the test. I'm surprised all the shouting hasn't gotten you two dismissed already. Third, the test is entirely pointless. Need I remind you both that this is a school for ninja? Ninja are all about subterfuge and misdirection. This is obviously a trick," she said, glancing off to the side a moment, seeming to slowly take everything in.<br/><br/>"Upperclassmen are seeded through this room. The questions are impossibly difficult, based on the murmurs I've been hearing from those around us. The point of this, therefore, is to goad us into cheating off of the the upper ninja. Cheating under the watchful eye of many proctors and higher level ninja. Getting caught will doubtless mean disqualification. A risky and pointless gambit, if you ask me. They mean to weed out poorer students by tempting them to cheat. Only highly skilled students would be able to either cheat successfully or complete the test with correct answers," Temujin closed her eye again and sunk back against the wall, finishing, "Collectively, we are neither stealthy enough to cheat, nor smart enough to finish the test. Therefore... we take the third route, the less obvious path. We wait and see. Patience is a ninja skill too. If we wait, we'll find out what Dao is up to. Now be quiet."<br/><br/>It was the most she'd ever said to just about anyone since arriving at the academy, probably. The redhead's words rang true, however. Was it not suspicious that they'd be encouraged to cheat? It was almost too obvious a solution, given how difficult the questions were. And to be brutally honest, their team probably didn't have the skill to pull it off without getting thrown out. Either way, Temujin wasn't budging, so she wasn't about to help<strong>Riko</strong>or<strong>Tengu</strong>. It would be up to the pair to decide if they wanted to follow her train of logic or not.<br/><br/>On the other side of the hall,<strong>Nara, Mizuki, and Ryujin's</strong>team seemed to be doing the exact opposite. They seemed to be working together rather well and, in fact, actually managing to cheat with some cleverness and skill. Nobody seemed suspicious of them quite yet, so they seem to have managed it. Time was ticking down steadily and only two minutes remained until time would be up... and another surprise would be thrust upon the hopeful students.