In short, everyone ended the exam with different feelings. Moriyue did not deliberately wait for Konoha's rookie squads. In his own words, he had gained enough and did not need to stand out too much.
"Yeah, if by keeping a low profile and not standing out, Captain means offending every candidate in the first two exams and openly selling scrolls in the final exam, then we really did keep a much lower profile."
Ando's sarcastic spirit was blazing at that moment. There had simply been too many things along the way worth mocking, okay?
Darui had sent Moriyue on this mission to prove his strength and silence the others in the village who opposed him. At first, he and Kazeki had indeed come to help Moriyue. Given the strength Moriyue had displayed at the time, having the two of them protect him would naturally make things safer.
To be honest, when Ando had first learned that Moriyue was his captain, he had felt somewhat dissatisfied. After all, both he and Kazeki had received a better ninja education than Moriyue, and their backgrounds were completely different.
What were his and Kazeki's backgrounds? They had come from the proper ninja system. They had started learning ninja knowledge back at the Ninja Academy. And what was Moriyue? A lucky modified human discovered by Big Darui. Besides, they were already reserve members of Darui's team, and they were not weak.
They had only put aside their reservations because they were going out on a mission together. In truth, they had not thought highly of Moriyue's strength. After all, following Darui, they had seen plenty of people modified through forbidden techniques die violent deaths.
But Moriyue was clearly very... different from the forbidden-technique subjects they knew.
*You were merely modified by a forbidden technique. It