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That clinched it. The point wasn’t to not cheat, it was to cheat well. To be subtle. Now contrary to popular opinion, Naruto could be stealthy. One does not graffiti the Hokage monument without getting caught by being obvious. Granted he’d been found out after the fact, but that didn’t change the fact that no one caught him in the act.

Naruto fingered his pencil. The problem was, he didn’t have that kind of mobility here. It wasn’t a matter of vanishing into the sub-ceiling and spying from above; he had to cheat while still at his desk. That was a kind of subtle he’d never been good at.

Well, he’d never really tried to be subtle since his transformation. If he could sit in a room of ninja with clothes made of chakra and none of them suspected his true nature, he could do something. Now what were his new jutsu? It was a harder question than he thought; as a ninja he’d always been more of a doer than a thinker; he learned intuitively. Dragons were much the same way; his awesome came naturally to him. But finally he hit on an idea. It was a little crazy, but if it worked, even if he got caught he should come out ahead. But he had to do it now, before the test started. Hinata would be a good target; her byakugan was basically the ultimate cheating aide. Also she wouldn’t mind helping him. He hoped.

Naruto looked at his pencil and paper and activated his fabricate jutsu. It was delicate work, but he managed to use the one piece of paper to create two half-thickness pieces of paper. One, the one on the bottom, still had the test on the reverse side. The other was blank. He activated the jutsu again and pulled graphite from the center of his pencil, so that the loss would not be visible, and turned it into a thin sheet between his two papers. Then he just needed a distraction…

“…and if any team member manages a score of zero, the entire team will fail.”

“WHAT DID YOU SAY!?”

That worked. While everyone was glancing at Sakura’s scream of despair, Naruto placed the blank half-sheet on top of Hinata’s test. He smiled inwardly as he outwardly panicked. He’d have to thank Sakura for her teamwork later.

“BEGIN!”

Naruto carefully flipped over his test and wrote his name on the top. The paper was thin, and if he tore it the proctors would realize what he had done. He smiled slightly as, in the corner of his eye, Hinata did the same thing without revealing the layers of her test.

Naruto’s plan was simple. The layer of graphite was a crude example of carbon paper. As Hinata applied pressure to her test by writing on it, that would push the graphite into Naruto’s half-paper on the bottom. Once Hinata was finished, Naruto would retrieve his paper…he wasn’t quite sure how but even if he got caught that would only be one cheat…and reassemble the two halves of his test. That last part would be really tricky.

Naruto looked at the first question. It didn’t hurt to have a plan B, after all.

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