This was a ninja village though, and silent alarms were more the norm than the exception. These would shine a light or were on a watch-like band that would vibrate.
This particular alarm clock was built by Naruto Uzumaki, the number one unpredictable hyperactive genius mad scientist of the Leaf Village. Soft lighting or gentle vibration? Pshaw! A simple bell, buzzer, or whistle? Boring!
The alarm clock made a loud clicking noise as it arrived at the preset time and extruded little metal legs to manuever near Naruto's head. Little metal arms unfolded out of the sides of the clock, with little metal cymbals at the end. The alarm eyed the boy's position, repositioned itself slightly, calculated angles.
CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!
Naruto being Naruto, he didn't want to wake up this early. Especially after working long hours on various devices. He grumbled and threw a kunai in the direction of the offending device.
A cymbal/hand deflected the kunai and responded by throwing a raiton-charged wire at the sleeper.
"Would you just wake up already?" asked Terutora. "This is the day of the genin exam."
Brief silence.
"WHAT?! HOW LATE IS IT?! OH MY GOSH!" managed Naruto as he exploded up out of his bed and started running around in circles. "Where's my gun?! Where's my Utility Belt? Where's my goggles?!"
Terutora sighed the sort of sigh that spoke of long periods of suffering.
The alarm clock, seeing as it had completed its task for the day, simply settled down and began recharging itself.
Naruto frowned as he went over the questions on this written part of the exams.
"If a leaf falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, how many ninja are involved?" What kind of cockamamey question is that?
Putting down one as the answer, Naruto went to the next question and upgraded his frown to scowl.
"Kumquat, Apricot, Tomato, Squid. What comes next?" What the heck is that supposed to be? A recipe? Was there a course on ninja cooking?
"Derive an analytic form for the square site percolation threshold." Uhm. Right. Moving to the next question.
"What is the square root of indigo?" Colors can have square roots? What the frak, skippy?! Why is everyone just pencil-scratching away and I get stuck like this? Maybe... lavender?
Naruto let out a deep breath and concentrated on his Fabricator access. Fab-1?
Yes sir.
I'm going to have to cheat on this.
Very good sir. Analyzing now.
"Okay, you can do Kawarimi and Henge, now do Bunshin," said Iruka. "Not very well, but you did it."
Naruto frowned. "Can I do something else as a substitute?"
"No, it has to be a Bunshin," said Iruka. "It's one of the three basics. Everyone who graduates has to be able to do some form of each of the three."
"Right," said Naruto, forming a hand-seal and concentrating. "Bunshin." Concentrating. Still concentrating. Concentrating while straining. Concentrating while straining and gritting his teeth. Concentrating while straining hard enough that he cut loose a mighty blast of wind from his nether regions.
And lo, did Kiba of the clan of Inuzuka gag and fall to the floor clutching his nose.
"Bunshin!" tried Naruto again.
There was a poof and a sickly looking clone sagged to the floor.
"Me no like this game," complained the clone before dissolving into smoke.
"That the best you can do?" asked Iruka.
"Hologram system on, target me, display," said Naruto to Terutora.
A flickering image of Naruto appeared next to the real one.
"Better, but that's still a fail," said Iruka.
"I'm still working on this," said Naruto. "I've almost got the flickering removed and look - this one actually looks like he's standing on the ground."
Iruka shook his head. "Sorry Naruto."
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