I am a humble person

Karin saw the team facing someone from the Sound Ninja. She didn't know anyone from the Sound Ninja and thus didn't realize what was so important about them.

"Aoto, is there something wrong with that man?" Choja asked. From the start, Aoto had asked them to keep an eye on him. The other person who garnered that much attention from them was Gaara, and what they saw from Gaara infuriated them, but it was one of those moments where their hands were tied.

And the other guy was from the Sound Ninja, who seemed to be roaming around and, from what they could tell, looking for something. But until then, he had followed the rules and didn't cause much havoc. But like Gaara, this person was incredibly powerful for a genin.

Aoto didn't answer and just looked at Orochimaru. And as expected, he and Team 7 went against each other. Aoto knew that it was time to leave and help them. He looked at Yoruichi and asked.

"Yoruichi-san, do you wish to come with me?"

The black cat, who was sleeping soundly on a chair, slowly opened her eyes, stretched herself, and then jumped onto Aoto's shoulder. The other shinobi were confused about what was going on and why the examiner took the cat. Aoto opened a portal and slowly stepped in, taking the cat. In the next moment, the shinobi were able to see Aoto coming out on the screen.

The same screen where the Sound Ninja and Team 7 were facing each other.

"Who is he?" one of the shinobi asked. Ibiki, Inoichi, and Choja were a bit concerned by now.

"Should we inform the Hokage since the head examiner has left?" Inoichi asked, as a head examiner deciding to interfere meant that the situation was serious.

"Why did Hokage-sama choose him? He has never even joined the Academy." One of the shinobi, like others, didn't like the fact that he didn't even join the Academy but still got to be a head examiner of the 2nd round.

"If you can perform space-time jutsu like him, you can become a head examiner too," Ibiki shut the shinobi down, as this was not the time for that kind of chat. He could see that most of the shinobi were quite skeptical about Aoto, but those on the upper echelon knew how powerful Aoto and others were.

"Let us observe what happens now, and if it's dangerous, we will inform the Hokage," Choja said as they continued to look at the screen with maximum attention.

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Orochimaru was quite intrigued by the duo that had appeared in front of him, and he was ready to go at them when an orange glowing circle appeared just between the two. Out stepped Aoto with the same cat that he had shown up with initially.

Orochimaru was appalled when Aoto walked out.

"Someone like Minato? No. There is no marking here, so how was he able to appear casually? What is this jutsu?" Orochimaru thought but didn't attack Aoto. He needed to understand the situation better.

"Brother! Why are you here?" Naruto was surprised to see his brother at this moment. Not only Naruto, but also Sasuke and Sakura were startled to see Aoto here. Aoto didn't even look at them and just looked at Orochimaru.

"Team 7... You should change your progress route," Aoto said.

"What?"

"Why? This is the fastest route."

"Just change your route," Aoto insisted. Orochimaru looked at them and said.

"An examiner helping students in the exam... It will be quite a scam if it comes out," Orochimaru said. In response, Aoto's hands glowed and Tao Mandalas formed.

"You are right. It is breaking the rules. But the rules had already been broken when a special jonin joined the genin exam. Don't you think?" Aoto asked.

"Special jonin? Who? Me? You must be mistaken. I am just a humble genin shinobi from the Sound village," Orochimaru said as he licked his lips. But Aoto's words were enough to ring the alarm bells of Team 7 as they jumped back. They would trust Aoto more than someone who had just appeared out of nowhere.

They didn't waste more time and used their full speed to leave this place. Naruto was a bit concerned when he left Aoto.

"Naruto, don't think too much. Your brother is really powerful," Sasuke could see the concern and said.

"I know. Hahaha... Of course he is. He is my brother," Naruto said. There was a reason for Naruto's worry. Normally, he wouldn't have cared, but Kurama, who seemed to be sleeping, actually woke up and said that the enemy they were facing was quite powerful. Kurama, until now, had never evaluated anyone. Not even when he met Jiraiya or the Hokage.

But according to him, this man was very dangerous. This was enough for Naruto to understand that the situation wasn't as simple as they expected. Orochimaru was angry when he saw his target leaving, especially Sasuke, someone he had been eyeing for all this time.

"You let my targets slip away, examiner," Orochimaru said.

"You should remove your mask, Orochimaru. Maybe then I can allow you to go after them," Aoto said. This made Orochimaru, who was ready to attack Aoto, a bit more serious. He didn't expect his identity to be revealed even though he had been quite cautious about it.

Orochimaru knew that he needed to move fast now, since he knew that it wouldn't take much time for the others to arrive. He attacked Aoto with the fastest speed possible, with the intention of taking him out.

With fast movement, he ran towards, or rather glided like a snake towards Aoto, but as he moved 2 or 3 meters and shortened the distance, he felt his body was caught up, and his eyes went wide awake as he realized he had been wrapped up under thick tree vines.

It was so fast that Orochimaru didn't even realize when the vines had appeared and wrapped around him.

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