"That was anti-climactic." Aoto murmured. Before he could say another word, Rasa had already vanished and all the other sand ninjas too dipped out. Aoto moved his hands a bit and all the things around the arena started fall in place as the place was practically healing itself.
The other shinobis had never seen a ninjutsu like this and couldn't even believe that something like this was ever possible. A ninjutsu that could almost be equal to time reversal. Who the hell was this dude?
Whoever he was. He was equally as dangerous as the special jonins. One needed to keep an eye on him. All the dramatics didn't stop the last fight to happen. Choji vs an unnamed guy who Aoto didn't even bother to pay much attention. If Choji won it, it fine, it's great, if he didn't, it was also fine.
Sadly he didn't win at the end as he was too kind and let go off the edge. Many other teachers weren't happy about it at all. But it was what it was. Aoto was expecting more fights since there were more shinobs from the Iwagakure, even the girl who in future became the Tsuchikage, but she didn't show up at all.
Maybe it was all due to the directions of Ohnoki. But it didn't matter. Everything would be revealed later. Now he had other related matters which needed his attention. The genins were all allowed to go back home and take rest and the next fight would be the finals. Aoto brought everyone out of the forest fast after opening a portal for the others which led to the village.
The more other shinobis looked at Aoto, the more they were scared. This man could literally walk inside another village with his own army and crush their village. This was terrifying but nobody spoke a word.
Aoto and Naruto came back home only to realize the whole home was mess. The futons were torn apart. The walls were broken at sides, the rooms were a mess and in between all of this lied a young girl on the floor, crying and sleeping at the same time.
As soon as Aoto and Naruto walked inside, the girl got up and looked at Aoto with anger. She attacked straight at Aoto with her fist clenched. Naruto was still energetic so when he saw her, he thought of a home invasion and stopped her attack.
He used her own momentum against her which threw the girl on the ground and then Naruto proceeded to do the most disrespectful thing possible. The girl was thrown to the grown with face down while Naruto sat on her back, making her unable to move.
"Let me go your spiky yellow haired idiot. I want to kill him."
"Who are you? How did you come to our home. I will beat you up if you lie." Naruto shouted at the girl.
"Naruto if you want to intimidate someone, you need to be more cruel. Like - bitch, you better spill out everything or else I will bury you on the sand and then throw some poisonous scorpions on your face and some fiery antes beside. maybe that will jog through your memory. Do you understand?" Aoto taught Naruto. This made both Naruto and the girl beneath shiver in cold. But instantly Naruto's eyes became bright.
Having to learn torture techniques from Aoto was the best. He also fed into Naruto's sadistic side that seemed to have grown while living with Aoto.
"You. You won't really throw me to the desert right?" The girl said while gulping down her throat.
"Of course not. You are guest at our home. We will treat you with respect and care." Aoto said. The girl they were talking about was Karin. The reason Aoto didn't exactly decline being the referee was because of her. He needed to get to her before Orchimaru wasted her talent and kept her as a lab rat.
The girl was confused while Naruto was more so.
"Wait, brother, you invited her? Who is she?"
"Someone from your clan." Aoto replied as he proceeded to the kitchen to make some food for these two. Karin's stomach was already growling when Aoto went to the kitchen only to see everything being destroyed.
He could only look at Karin and she had an embarrassed but proud face. After being sent to this place she had tried to run away but this place didn't allow her to escape at all. There was an invisible wall that didn't allow her to come out. She was frustrated and thus she proceeded to trash the place.
Destroying everything came at a cost and that was hunger and exhaustion. She was exhausted in the forest and now committing this crime also came with a price. Aoto just sighed and just waved his hand which made the whole place back to the way it was. Karin, who could already sense chakra was in disbelief. She couldn't feel any movement of chakra at all.
"Brother, what did you say? My clan? You have never talked about my parents. Who.. Who were they?" Naruto meanwhile, though hungry became alert hearing about his parents.
"We can talk about it but let's eat first." Aoto said as he started cooking and Naruto reluctantly started helping him. Karin was still in a daze of what she just saw and couldn't explain. She trashed the place mostly because she was a bit scared but she was also grateful that she was saved at the end by him.
She could tell that it was Aoto who had saved her. At first she thought Aoto was a pervert and thus that fear came with frustration. But as time went by she understood that Aoto might not be the bad guy and maybe there were other reasons why she was saved.
She knew that she would have to pay a price for saving her and hoped it wasn't something bad. But hearing that this spiky yellow haired boy belonged to the same clan as hers made her feel a bit nostalgic.
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