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Rhaim continued to stare slightly downward at the shins of the instrutor who had posed such an odd question. There was no way that he could justify passing since he had just admitted to failing to meet the goal of the test. On top of that the teacher had agreed that it was his fault that the makeshift team had taken the wrong statue all the way out there. Logically there was no good reason for the man to ask why the boy should be passed since he had failed. Rhaim cocked his head and slowly shrugged his shoulders at a complete loss for words. He stumbled on however since it would do him no good to not take hold of the obvious bone he was being tossed.

"Well sir... I... I think that I can be useful to a team someday. I know that I'm a liability now but I think that in time I can be an asset. And I think that I can gain that best through real world experience instead of more academy lessons. I think maybe I should be passed not because I'm talented now, but because I have potential to be talented later, sir... maybe. I hope."

His eyes did not raise above the waist level of the Chuunin before him, for fear of being caught up in the same intimidation as he had in the beginning of the exams. His hands didn't move from the pockets as his arms hung semi limp from the sockets at the shoulders. The Nara's feet shifted the weight of his body over to his left hand side while his head stayed cocked.

"That and I really don't want to listen to my sisters tease me for failing. Again."

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Rhaim couldn't help but close his eyes and sigh at the fact that the Senju before him had even suggested standing up to his sisters. Clearly the Chuunin had never been versed in the workings of a Nara household before. It was no matter though since he could at least avoid some of the nagging that was going to recieve. In fact it might be so low as to seem loving in the eyes of the Deer Clan. The child stepped back from Taiju and nodded his head forward in preparation to leave his immediate area and wait on a particularly cozy looking patch of grass for Tenma, the rear security, to catch up. He was caught by a single thought towards the end though.

"Well sir, if that's it I'll wait by the tree for the Hyuuga and Tenma to come back. Um, and who is Yarotai? That sounds like the name of a lecherous old man."

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Rhaim shrugged slightly at the comment about Yarotai being an Academy teacher. So far not a single teacher from the Academy had taught him anything that he knew. Tenma and especially Conan had taught him the better part of the lessons and he had taken it upon himself to learn what few extras he knew. The fact that he was trained by himself and his peers was probably the reason that he was so much weaker. He considered that if he had been properly trained that he would actually be a student worthy of graduating instead of gaining pity through being honest.

The second piece of what the Chuunin had to say caught him off guard almost as much as the previous chance to vouch for himself to pass. Perhaps the exams weren't over after all and he was being tested on loyalty or impartiallity. He leaned back a little at the waist and looked straight up at the sky as if he hoped to see the answer above himself.

"Sir, I'm pretty biased about that. I've known Tenma since I started the Academy and I just learned Tairu's name from you saying it. Tairu would probably win in a fight nine times out of ten. However he's also dangerously overt with how he approaches situations. Tenma works hard and easily carries her own weight. But she didn't do near as much of the leg work during the exam. That being said, I wouldn't have helped those two if she hadn't asked."

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Rhaim brought his squinting gaze back down to the meet the man speaking for a second time. Though this time he wasn't sure if the guy was stark raving mad or just really unobservant. The only thing that he had gotten right was that everything he had said was to place them all on even ground. He didn't know the other two well enough to say if they were good or bad and the only calibration he had for his own skills were his obviously stronger sisters. There was no way that he could do a fair assessment on the three of them except based on the exam task.

"Sir? You're asking me to decide which one of us did the most on this task, since that's the only thing that I can base passing off of. And to that no one of us did more than the others. We each had our strong and weak points. So I guess I fail since I can't tell you who out of the three of us deserves to pass above the other two. Sorry sir. I'll try harder next semester."

The key was to simply ignore and avoid the entire protion of the rant that still made no sense to the boy. Chances were that he had somehow missed some secret code hidden within the words that he was supposed to decipher. Kind of how he knew that if his sisters were talking about buying new kunai pouches it really meant that they had a date with someone mom didn't approve of. Or worse yet, it was a probe by his sisters to get him to admit to false feelings for Tenma as they had the nights before.

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Aryza glanced at the Uchiha has he made his way closer to her. She was curious. What did he want? Another thing she found interesting was the sudden change in his expression. It had been so fierce during the fight now it was calm and soothing. If she had maybe been a couple years older she probably would've paid attention to how good looking he was. But the girl hadn't yet starting showing interest in guys.

Hearing him call her name she took a while to reply. "....how do you know my name," she finally was able to mutter.

Kuroi was also curious of this new comer. When the Uchiha opened his hand to the cub he looked at it for a while. Slowly he leaned his head forward and sniffed him. There was a familiar smell that he liked but he couldn't recall what it was. Finally after a few moments the cub wagged his tail and licked Kiyoshi's hand.

Rhaim was a bit dissapointed in himself for jumping to the conclusion that whatever he said was set in stone. It made perfect sense that the procter wasn't going to act upon the words of a mere child alone. He would surely take into account everything that they had and had not done, combined with how the children assessed each other. After all even the Nara knew that he didn't act the same way around those of higher rank as he did around his peers. The sort of advise that Taiju was asking for was simply another dimension of the situation that Rhaim was not fully involved in. He nodded his head slowly at the realization.

"Well sir, then I should definately fail since I sort of expect it anyhow. Tairu should definately pass since he's determined and the Hyuuga have long proven themselves a valuable family in the village. And Tenma should be the toss up since she's so much younger than the rest of us students and is already able to hold her own."

Rhaim lowered his head to stare at the ground at the feet of the Chuunin, somehow satisfied that he had at least failed on his own terms if his words were the deciding factor. In the end he had done everything that he had done and right, wrong, or otherwise there was nothing he could do to change to that. All that was left was to wait for the decision of the large man that had beaten the Hyuuga rather soundly.

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Rhaim shrugged his shoulders at the question as to why he was so set on failing. The truth honestly was that it just seemed like the most likely course of events given his performance thus far. He couldn't even begin to imagine that there was even a possibility that he was stronger than both Tenma and the Hyuuga. If that were the case then he could have easily made up for their shortcomings and the task to retrieve the statue would have gone off flawlessly. Or at least that was what being strong was to the boy after watching his sisters advance through their shinobi lives. The only portions that he even saw or perhaps noticed were the victories and proving of power. Due to the extreme difference in the amount of time that Rhaim had learned what being strong and smart were from his sisters and what Taiju seemed to think it was, he was in no position to change his stance on the matter. That however was not what the man wanted to hear.

"Yes sir. I'll work harder on improving myself in that area."

He hoped that a noncommital answer that only adressed his desire to better his own condition was what the Chuunin wanted to hear. Otherwise he was at a complete loss of how to respond. In the end he still believed himself to be the weakest of the three, though he was stronger than when he had started out.

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