Hebi no me
A ninja need not speak
Chapter 1: Silence and rebirth
*I decided to modify the story into a harem so the may the original author not kill me*
It's just another day in the village. Konohagakure no Sato was recovered from the Kyuubi and academy classes were going strong.
Here we find an 8 year old boy with bright blue eyes and sun kissed blond hair with whisker marks on his cheeks at his favorite stand.
This child is Naruto Uzumaki. Currently Naruto was finishing his 15th bowl of ramen at Ichiraku when he noticed a group of villagers in the corner of his eye.
The ramen chef's daughter, Ayame noticed as well.
"Don't worry about paying Naruto; just get to the ANBU, fast." Ayame whispered as Naruto nodded and ran, the villagers chasing after him.
Naruto ran though the streets as fast as he could as more people joined the mob. Naruto heard calls of honoring the Yondaime and slay the demon behind him. Naruto was almost at the headquarters when he noticed another group of villagers blocking his path.
Naruto turned down an alley and ran only to find a dead end. Naruto turned around only to find that the exit was already blocked off by the villagers.
Naruto huddled up and tried to shield himself, waiting for the impending pain that didn't come.
Naruto looked to see an ANBU behind the mob, sword drawn. This ANBU had long purple hair and a Neko mask.
"Touch him and you die!" Neko growled.
"Dammit, to hell with you Demon lover!" A villager yelled as he turned to Naruto while the mob rushed Neko to stall her.
Neko lashed out at the mob, cutting down villager after villager as the single assailant advanced on a trembling Naruto.
"You will die here and now, Demon!" The villager yelled as he slashed a rusted kunai across Naruto's throat.
Before the villager could do anymore however, a sword stabbed out from his chest.
"That will be enough of that." A voice said behind the villager. "Hey Neko, you alright?"
"Yeah, just mopping up the rest of them." Neko said as she stabbed the last survivor through the heart.
"How is he, doctor?" Neko asked worriedly.
The man dropped the villager and knelt by a choking Naruto. "Not good, his throat's been slashed. I'm gonna open an air way below the gash." The man said as he pulled out a neck poker and stuck it in Naruto's throat below the wound.
Naruto stopped choking and his breathing became a little easier.
"Let's get him to the hospital." The man said urgently.
"I'll lead Gekkou-Kun." Neko said as Gekkou picked Naruto up and the two rushed off.
Next day
Naruto woke up rubbing his eyes. He looked around, he was in a room that was all white and smelled of antiseptic and looked to be very clean. He was in a hospital.
Naruto scrunched his face. Last he remembered he was in an alley, his throat had been slashed and he was choking. The brown haired man, Gekkou, he thought his name was, stuck something in Naruto's neck and he could breathe a little easier.
Just then a nurse came in. It was Naruto's own personal nurse Kiko.
"Ah Naruto, You're awake. How do you feel?" Kiko asked smiling.
Naruto smiled. His throat hurt a little but other than that he felt fine.
He opened his mouth and tried to say so. Nothing came. He tried again. Nothing. No sound.
"Naruto? What's wrong?" Kiko asked worriedly.
Naruto moved his lips. He tried desperately to speak, but nothing came out.
"Hold on, I'm going to talk to Neko, she's just outside the door." Kiko said frantically.
Kiko ran out the door and Naruto could hear her talking to Neko. Neko came running in alongside another person. A doctor, one of the few that were kind to Naruto.
"I'll go get the kunai that was used against him, with luck; it might still be in the alley." Neko said frantically as she shushined.
The doctor used a needle to take a blood sample form Naruto's neck where a faint scar was.
"It doesn't make sense, he should be healed, and he always heals. Why not now?" Kiko cried.
Neko returned and handed the kunai to the doctor.
"Rust, so the wound was infected begin with and so the healing factor blocked." The doctor sighed.
"What do we do? Being a ninja is his dream. Jutsu require that he is vocal." Kiko said as she looked at Naruto sadly.
"Not all jutsu, true he can't use ninjutsu, or genjutsu but he can still use taijutsu and kenjutsu." Neko said.
"Still, Naruto, I'm so sorry my boy. You throat..." The doctor began.
Naruto paled before he looked down.
"I can't talk, I'll never talk. I'm mute..." Naruto thought, shell-shocked.
Naruto then looked at the three with determination.
Naruto made an action of writing.
"Right, I'll go get something." The doctor said as he left the room and soon returned with a notepad and a pencil.
Naruto then wrote in the notepad and gave it to Neko.
"Neko, can you help me get into the library, they won't let me in alone." Neko read.
"Count on it." Neko replied.
Naruto wrote another note and gave it to all three.
"I once read something that there was an age before the global disasters where ninja did not have chakra; they used skill, stealth and technique only, no fancy moves, just the right gear and the knowledge to use it right." Neko read as she understood immediately.
"You want to see if there is anything on this in the library." Neko replied.
Naruto nodded.
"You taking this awfully well." Kiko said with a small sad smile, seeing Naruto hadn't given up.
Naruto wrote again.
Neko read it. "A ninja needs not be able to speak."
Neko nodded before helping Naruto out of the bed.
"It's Saturday so we can get right to it and have you good to go by Monday. Let's get you back on course; after all, it's just a small setback for you, this flesh wound." Neko said smiling behind her mask.
Naruto nodded as Kiko and the doctor left the room smiling followed by Neko and Naruto.
Library
"Get lost you demon, this library is for humans only, not for your kind." The librarian said as she snarled at Naruto until she felt a ninjato under her neck.
"He can come in because the Hokage has allowed it. You will never throw him out again or you will meet your end by my blade. Are we clear?" Neko threatened.
The woman nodded to Neko in fear as Naruto continued into the old part of the library.
Neko joined him and the two began looking through scrolls and tomes on ancient history and ninjutsu.
Naruto pulled out a large tome and brushed the dust off it.
The book was black in color and had an emblem of three pairs of red lines, each over top of a single line. The Kanji on it said Arashikage clan, history and regiment.
"Arashikage Clan huh? Interesting." Neko said as she pulled out another book.
Naruto sat down and began reading the book at the Arashikage clan and found it to being history of the clan along with instructions for hand to hand styles, and weapons training styles and various other instructions on the clan's ninja arts.
The book that Neko had pulled out had a star with a set of stripes going out from the right, the stripes were red white and blue and in the centre of the book was a gold shield with a black eagle head on it.
She read the name. "Hm, G.I. Joe. What a strange name." Neko said as she sat across from Naruto and began reading as well.
Hours passed as the two came across a single figure in both books.
A ninja clad in black with swords crossed on his back with a visor of some sort on his mask where his eyes should be.
"Hebi no me. Snake Eyes. A ninja of the Arashikage clan and a war hero, his true name is unknown. He was framed for the murder of the Arashikage clan's hard master but eventually cleared his name, becoming the new hard master. Snake Eyes was also a member of G.I. Joe and a Ninja Master. He was the sensei to two students. Kamikura and Jinx, huh it also says he was mute, that his throat was damaged severely and could not talk." Neko read.
Neko looked at Naruto whom was staring intently at the image of Snake Eyes.
Neko smiled. "I think I see Snake Eyes right in front of me." Neko said as Naruto's head shot up, looking at her before looking both ways and behind him.
Neko chuckled at the child's antics.
"He's not around us. It's ironic that you can't speak and neither could he. You were looking at his picture rather intently. If I didn't know any better, I might say that you intend to take his mantle as the new Hebi no me. The new Snake Eyes." Neko said smiling.
Naruto looked back at Neko and smiling and nodded.
"Then we have work to do. First things first, appearances. We're getting you an ANBU grade suit in Snake Eyes' image. Here I'll rent the books." Neko said as Naruto nodded.
The two left the isle and checked out the books before leaving.
Naruto bowed in thanks and was about to head home before Neko grabbed his collar.
Naruto looked at Neko curiously.
"You not living in that rat's nest anymore Naruto, Gekkou already packed what little you have, we're taking you in whether the council likes it or not. Now come on." Neko said as she led Naruto back to her and Gekkou's house.
The two arrived just as Gekkou was cooking dinner. He looked to see Naruto and Neko before she took off her mask.
"Welcome home Yugao and Naruto." Gekkou smiled as he dished out soup into some bowls.
Naruto bowed his thanks.
"Hey Gekkou, tomorrow, can you get Naruto sized for a ninjato while I take him to Higurashi to get sized for new armor. We found something that fits Naruto's situation like a glove." Yugao asked.
"Sure thing, what'd you find?" Gekkou asked.
"Books on a clan from the old age, it's called Arashikage and we found a ninja in their ranks who like Naruto was mute, so I figured, bring back his code snake since his real name is unknown." Yugao said smiling as they all sat at the table.
"So Naruto intends to take up the name?" Gekkou asked.
Naruto took out his note pad and wrote.
Yugao and Gekkou read it.
"Naruto died with his voice. I'm Hebi no me. I'm Snake Eyes now."
"Hmm Snake Eyes eh?" Gekkou asked as he looked at Naruto and saw he no longer had the eyes of a child but the eyes of a constant persistent gaze.
"You do have the steely gaze of a serpent. So Snake Eyes it is then." Gekkou said smiling.
"Then tomorrow, all the crap that the academy started, ends. Tomorrow, Snake Eyes will raise again and with him the rebirth of the Arashikage Clan." Yugao said smiling.
Naruto nodded with his now steel gaze.
Alright here is the harem and their future code name
Tenten= Jinx
Kin= Scarlet (I know that Scarlet is a red head and Kin was a black haired girl)
Yugito= Cover girl
Hana= Mutt
Samui= G.I. Jane
that's it for now I might add more later.
I figure out who is going to the rendition of Cobra
Orochimaru= Cobra commander
Kabuto= Dr. Mind Bender
Karin= Baroness
Sasuke= Fire Fly
Itachi=Storm Shadow
Gato= Destro
Sakon and Unkon= Tomax and Xamot
Madara Uchiha= Serpentor