Can you guys shut up?

The sword didn't stop and went for the wrist and it sliced straight through it. Both of his hands were on air as the sword was heading towards his head. Orochimaru was beyond appalled and had to shed his skin and throw a bunch of snakes at the Aoto while he made a run. 

He ran a few distance away but suddenly he lost his footing. No, he didn't lose his footing, it was him who got teleported and went through the portal himself, finding himself in a forest away from Konoha. 

Orochimaru was scared for the first time in a very long time. It was probably during the 3rd great ninja war that he had ever felt this amount of fear. He looked at his hands and tried regenerating. But nothing happened. When the sword cut through the wrists he had a feeling that it would never grow back. 

And he was right. Whatever sword Aoto had used in that attack was something that had either sealed away his hands or just other kind of jutsu which would never allow him to use his hands again. This meant that he could never weave hand signs. 

It meant that some forbidden jutsu would never come to fruition. This threw a wrench in his plan and he was angry that he let it happen. 

"Aoto Yamazaki.. You have both amazed me and infuriated me. I will see you soon and promise to provide you the harshest death possible." 

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Aoto walked out of the mirror dimension with a black cat at his side when he saw a handful of shinobi along with the Hokage and the Tsuchikage. Their faces were terrible, and one could easily see that both of them were worried.

"Aoto... Where have you been?" the Hokage said when he saw Aoto walking out of the yellow portal.

"Hokage-sama... Why are you all here?" Aoto was more confused about it.

"Ibiki came and said that Orochimaru had infiltrated the Chunin Exams, and thus I came here straight. Where is that bastard?" the Hokage was gritting his teeth. He hated the guts of his student—the audacity of infiltrating his home and assaulting the exams.

"He escaped. But I was able to cut his hands. He won't be using his hands to commit crimes anymore," Aoto said.

"Haa... What a load of bullshit. I say, as the chief examiner, you allowed him in and now you want a pat on the back just because you say that he escaped. For all I see, you have a pact with him because that is what businessmen do," Onoki was not having it and blurted out in the harshest tone possible.

He seemed angry.

The Hokage wasn't expecting such a response from this old man. When they heard that Orochimaru had infiltrated, both of them ran to capture him or kill him. But when they arrived and noticed the destruction around, they thought he had escaped while kidnapping Aoto.

But now Aoto seemed to be fine, and since he was fine, Onoki wasn't letting it go.

"Tsuchikage... This is not the time to throw accusations around without proof. We should start searching for..." Before the Hokage could finish his words, Onoki cut him off and said,

"Cut the crap. I want Konoha to compensate for the breach of security and for engaging the students in this dangerous game. And also a public apology for throwing our students into the jaws of death," Onoki said, and he didn't seem like he was backing down at all. He didn't seem scared at all as the Hokage and the other Konoha shinobi were now looking daggers at this floating three-foot-old man.

How dare they disrespect Konoha on its own soil. Aoto wasn't expecting that kind of outburst at all.

"So you are saying I am a liar?" Aoto said with almost no hurry and not even a tinge of fear for the fact that all of this happened because of him failing to capture or kill Orochimaru.

"I don't care who is lying and who is telling the truth. I am saying Konoha has jeopardized the safety of our students. This is not something that I will overlook, and I need a proper explanation and compensation," Onoki wasn't ready to back down at all.

"Konoha can say the same. Maybe Iwagakure had sneaked in Orochimaru with the rest. Orochimaru was my student, and everyone knows how I personally went after him to kill him, but he is a slippery loach. Who knows with whom he has been in contact all these years. For all I see, Iwagakure should apologize to us," Hiruzen said.

"You think Iwagakure will commit such scummy things like you did," Onoki roared. This had now transformed into a full verbal fight with fingers being pointed on both sides, and even the shinobi from both sides were ready to engage in a fight to show their loyalty to their own villages.

Aoto just looked at these two old men like they belonged to a circus. Yoruichi, who was sitting on his shoulder, couldn't help but whisper,

"Aizen was right about killing the ones in the judiciary. They are just a hindrance."

"Depends upon the context," Aoto said.

The verbal fight now had signs of turning physical, and it was then that Aoto intervened.

"Can you guys stop with your arguments?" Aoto shouted. But there was no response. This pissed Aoto off, and thus he shouted while using magic,

"CAN YOU GUYS SHUT UP?" The magic made the speech so loud that it actually made a tremor around, and both of them had to stop and look at Aoto with narrowed eyes. They didn't expect such a kind of jutsu.

"There... You both are civilized old men... Why are you fighting over such a matter?" Aoto said. There was a complete pause, and both of them looked at Aoto like he was some kind of idiot. Didn't he know why the fight began? Onoki had his own political agenda, but Hiruzen too was a bit annoyed with Aoto.

Why did he have to face Orochimaru alone when he knew who he was?

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