Darkon: I've decided to throw in Isaribi as a candidate (because she has scales and will have be the same general age as Naruto for it to work) for Naruto eventually being another love interest in a human, Naruto will only have Viper and one other person, the other already mentioned girls will be more of a sister like ambition if they don't get Vipers approval, in fact none of them might pass for Vipers approval as she could be that greedy.
Trio: In the continuation of this chapter you may have an idea of what we have planned, IE Naruto might be meeting Isaribi first, but we'll confuse you with the next chapters title no doubt about it, oh and there will be a minor time skip if Darkon does it that way dude.
Sir: I would like to point out that Darkon pokes fun at the main story in that it is always done the same way in this chapter despite the obvious interference to make it not happen at all and we hope you don't mind the cameo's that Primell wanted us to include as she can be very demanding when it comes to that sort of stuff.
Chapter 3: Slither for your lives.
Viper and Naruto had a long standing tradition of thinking of plans, then not following them at all unless it was a prank and this situation was no different as winging it as you go along had always worked for the two and this day would be no different after having stolen an important object.
Naruto was the offensive and front line monster with his healing ability all he needed to do was out last his opponent while focusing on rapidly firing ninjutsu as Viper suggested he was a 'ninjutsu howitzer', Viper was also a front liner but in a defensive fashion as she could attack physically while using genjutsu at the same time, also because of her anatomical studies she knew what pressure points to strike to make a person vomit as well as plenty of other ailments, it was just that Viper really had a sick fascination for making people vomit as while she couldn't poison someone personally she could be like one when it came to attacking someone slowly working her way through someone's defense slowly weakening the body with her Living Whip taijutsu skills and then getting them to hurt themselves with their own weapons should they try to stab her with a kunai or other small bladed weapons.
Viper never liked shuriken's, holding them or catching them with her tail was a pain and even throwing them with that or her mouth also could lead to more pain, it's why she primarily focused on using kunai as a main weapon but after tonight she was going to start training in the art of the ninja parasol as her choice of weapon which would give her a much needed boost in offensive abilities as she wanted to be all around in every area with a weapon that she was able to attack and defend with effectively, plus a ninja parasol was a somewhat simple if elegant weapon befitting a growing lady like her when she can finally find one to suit her specifications, then it was a matter of getting Naruto to buy it as a token of love.
The major thing to Viper was she never stopped thinking of new genjutsu to use as not only does genjutsu attack the senses it can even control the actions of another to do something highly predictable if it was well thought out and predictability was the greatest weakness ninja's have when they stuck only to something that works for too long or traditionally like the hyuuga who have become failures at detecting genjutsu despite the fact that their bloodline should be really useful for making them and yet they waste the potential on their petty taijutsu only life style while maybe using academy level jutsu for the rest of their lives. (Predictability will be brought up next chapter)
Viper was the one who came up with the Null Pain genjutsu as she was currently thinking of originality in her field in comparison to the staunch Hyuug a clans never change what works personality, it was a genjutsu with medical applications in case you need to keep a person awake and calm while giving them medical attention as a positive use of genjutsu… or if you want them to not suffer in their dying breathe… she hoped that never came up with Naruto as she made it just in case she wasn't able to protect Naruto from another beating, the other side of the application is deactivating the genjutsu at the right time and causing the ninja while having the precursor that said ninja was unknowingly injured to feel pain at the wrong moment thus making themselves entirely open for attack if they are injured in the part of the body where the genjutsu is placed in as it could target individual parts of a body quite easily and that makes the genjutsu hardly noticeable, genjutsu was powerful if one were to actively think outside of a box and that was the one she used on Kurenai without getting noticed.
Naruto however was going to rely on kunai, shuriken and the more lethal trap making gear that would be used in place of his prank making gear, he was a ninjutsu specialist but even he recognized he was lacking a real close combat style other than his instinctive moves in combat and the Academy Primer taijutsu fighting style after Viper led him through the forms using her body to move his arms and legs to how he was posed to move them after the academy instructors tried to mess him up; leading Viper to creating the Living Whip as she had a good understanding of how to manipulate a humans body with her own, the primer was simply just a building block for learning other fighting styles, he was going to search out a style for close quarters combat as his long range to mid range abilities were already good, he just needed a more better style that could go with his most favorite ninjutsu which was the first he got from Viper on one of her outings called the TORNADO CANNON a hybrid taijutsu/ninjutsu attack, it wasn't lethal on its own but hit enough times with it and it could kill, it only gained more range the more chakra put into it so it never grew in power but it does hit hard when done at point blank but mastering it without doing hand signs was really slow progress as he wanted to do it on an instant where his enemy wouldn't have time to maneuver away while he was busy with his hands.
Speaking of ninjutsu, the ninjutsu Naruto recently learned was a lot cooler then the clone as it was a ninjutsu called Shadow Clone and it was involved in the events that were happening right now, because he just stole the forbidden scroll that now was in his current possession… the same one that happened to be made and written by his father and that wasn't all he got, he had several letters he was posed to get when he turned eight and ten as well as the other letters that just spoke of family heritage all in one neat little package, not only this but he also stole a beginner and intermediate books on sealing techniques when he detoured to the Konoha library after using a Mod Shape Shift to bring down the old pervert who was still mourning about the loss of his one-of-a-kind autographed collection of perverted novels with a gender flip and the sex appeal of his female form, that knocked the hokage flat from blood loss and the people who said it was a stupid and demeaning to women obviously don't care for the outcome or effect like Viper did because she thought it was a good idea for handling someone who didn't get his position by sitting around and signing papers all day.
Naruto was tired and he had done it, he had learned to make shadow clones after Viper had carefully looked over the technique of course and made sure Naruto read about every single trait a shadow clone would possess for his awesome new jutsu, the learning aspect was the nicest trait and with Naruto having as much chakra for ninjutsu as he does was just given a boon for how to use genjutsu when he was normally incapable of it and didn't have a talent for it, unfortunately Viper couldn't do the Shadow Clone as it might kill her to just try it.
Naruto could at least now do genjutsu… just not personally, his shadow clones however did have the capability for genjutsu and given how many he could make he could throw a literal storm of genjutsu in all directions but the effectiveness of it was cut because his mind wasn't geared toward it quite like Vipers but it would still be useful and now he didn't have a reason to not be balanced if he stuck to learning a few low level genjutsu by having his clones who had less chakra then he did when made use them, as they were one hundred percent capable of whatever he was and more considering the free thinking aspect to the jutsu as so his clones would be able to come up with more ideas and given that they would put more control into the jutsu since they had less chakra to work with… this really excited Viper but Naruto obviously didn't see what this ninjutsu did for him in the ways of being a ninja and Viper would bring it up with him when time was available as Iruka had just arrived to find Naruto alone while Viper hid in the surrounding area keeping careful watch of the situation prepping the genjutsu she'd cast in her mind as her body coiled beneath her waiting for someone to make a wrong move so she would strike from the shadows without ever leaving them.
"NARUTO WHAT ARE DOING, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE" Iruka yelled as he finally found Naruto when he dropped into the clearing that the blond haired blue eyed academy student 'soon to drop off the face of the map' looked to Iruka knowing exactly what it was he did but Mizuki told him to do it and if he can finally nail that bastard for all these years of pitting him against Sasuke then he would be happy to have at least done one thing for someone in Konoha and that was Iruka who had to work with the jerk and who once bought him and secretly Viper a lot of ramen, though the thirty nine bowls was pushing it and Viper needed to work it all off, they eventually got back into shape as did Iruka's wallet.
(Insert classic scenes of Mizuki implications up until the point he launches the giant windmill shuriken, with except that there is no kyuubi reveal scene)
"Iruka –sensei… why did you…" Naruto was staring horrified as after he explained to Iruka who told him to do this, Mizuki appeared and has yet to drop the Kyuubi line that inevitably comes up in every other Naruto Fan Fiction that follows the plot closely had thrown the oversized shuriken at Naruto when he was running and Iruka took it in his back, but Iruka was ignoring Naruto's question in turn for listening to Mizuki.
"Funny, I didn't think you would do something like that Iruka why are you protecting him don't you know that he's the…" Mizuki said in a tone that Viper knew where he was going with this and sighed as she place her tail over her snout and shook her head sadly.
Why wouldn't anyone believe a giant nine tailed demon of death and destruction was female, roofied and went crazy because she was in her period and drunk, the giant toad in question that did that to the fox whose name was actually Kyan Ubira didn't get the chance to capitalize on the opportunity of the drugged fox before it was slaughtered as the fox stumbled around before ending up at Konoha's gates and after having been bitten by a few of Vipers family and breed of snakes for passing through their territory in the forest of death, she had been slowed down in the rampage enough by the poison so a different toad and a man that was Naruto's father could seal Kyan into him, it was just coincidence that she tried to say her name during the entire thing that it came out sounding like she was yelling kyuubi slowly when she was actually trying to say her name was Kyan Ubira as people kept calling her the kyuubi, she swore off drinking forever from the inside of Naruto's seal where she really didn't do much except play solitaire with a mentally made deck of cards or healing Naruto as she felt bad about killing his parents.
"NO DON'T… THAT'S A S-RANK VILLAGE SECRET AND…" Iruka shouted only for Naruto to interrupt the cliché by throwing a bit of intelligence into the mix, because he seriously saw the reason why Viper said this village couldn't guard jack shit.
"HOLD IT, WHY DID YOU DO SOMETHING SO STUPID IRUKA-SENSEI, I AKSED YOU WHY AND YOU JUST IGNORED ME" That outburst caused the two men to turn to Naruto and stop ignoring his presence.
"Naruto what do you…" Iruka was shocked trying to ask about it before he was promptly cut off because Naruto had officially hit 'angry rant small burst of intelligence' mode and Viper decided to go off and catch a rat and made it back just in time as he was finishing his long speech, maybe helping Naruto to learn to question things in case he couldn't deflect a genjutsu wasn't a very bright idea after all.
"You damn well know what I'm talking about, how in the hell did either of you make it to Chunin because you were both born after the last shinobi war ended, which makes me wonder if you are even ninja at all, Iruka why didn't you throw kunai at the windmill shuriken or deflect it personally while still holding one, also you could have shoved me out of the way in a way that you wouldn't have gotten yourself hurt and you could even change course of that giant shuriken with a single smaller well placed shuriken it doesn't matter where it went it wouldn't have hit either of us and furthermore Mizuki who in the hell fights with windmill shurikens and to any great effect at that, sure it's good for long range and surprise attacks but here you are out in the open and chasing me down with one at close range with no likelihood of ever hitting me, what's funny is that I was going to use a substitution until the person who as a student I'm posed to look up to goes and does this, what kind of fucking ninja are you two idiots and how in the hell did Konoha fall so far that only it's clans actually have any amount of skill left and that's mostly because of bloodlines and private practices that probably anyone could do if they figured out how to in first place, I'm talking about the fact that you guys are loud and are both not acting like ninja at all right now and what's with all the talking if you have time to stop and chat then you have plenty of said time to kill each other as you are both each other's enemy at the moment".
(As for private practices that anyone could do… Akimichi, Yamanaka, Nara and possibly Inuzuka which you probably don't want to know about, Sakura just sucks period as nobody forced her or even got her to train seriously until Tsunade and by then she's still the weakest ninja in Konoha and mid to long range would be her ultimate weakness, not to mention she's slow and required Chiyo to control her body to fight effectively for once in her life and that was because she was much better as a live puppet, I'm sorry but bashing Sakura is just that easy and also how often does she ever use her what I assume to be a onetime used cherry blossom blizzard genjutsu)
Both ninjas sat there in silence, Mizuki just stared blankly at Naruto and so did Iruka who was silently berating himself because of the fact that he was right about chasing someone down with a windmill shuriken as being highly ineffective as was using his body and maybe his spleen to shield Naruto from injury not to mention how they were talking when he could be busy preventing Mizuki from spilling the secret by throwing kunai at him instead of sitting on his ass and letting him do that, if one were to look one would see Viper happily slithering back onto the scene with a bulge in the center of her long slender blue eyed form.
Iruka would make a recommendation to be rotated out of the academy every now and then to train and go on missions because being in the academy has turned his brain into non ninja mush if he couldn't accurately understand when a person was ready to be a ninja because he has grown so complacent forgetting what being a ninja was truly like while talking about it like he still did, Mizuki was thinking along a similar line about the academy but he thought 'screw it' as it was too late to stay in Konoha so things continued on like they should with Iruka stupidly twiddling his thumbs waiting around for Mizuki to spill the beans except Naruto didn't say anything about that or protecting Iruka; he was at least a freaking Chunin he shouldn't need Naruto to fight his battles for him like this, and just summoned fifty shadow clones and let them beat the tar out of Mizuki while he stood back and watched.
Apparently Mizuki was all talk and years of just teaching the academy style really screwed him over as his taijutsu sucked and he barely had the chance to fight back before he was swarmed with shadow clones that started kicking him in the nuts, stabbing him in non vital places with kunai and punching the dumb look off his face, ranking apparently didn't mean much in this village if a Chunin got his ass kicked by an academy student and the only reason why Naruto was using the clones was plausible deniability.
Viper told him if he had to reveal anything about himself that no one knew about, it would have to be the thing he was told to learn on the scroll so he could easily deny having learnt anything else or having any extra abilities that no one was aware of come into question as he was leaving the village anyway, but not learning anything else from the scroll after tonight was impossible and it would come up shortly because the Anbu who took their damned time finally arrived or were just waiting for the drama to finish because one of them was a jerk like that.
Before Iruka could give Naruto a headband or specifically his own and claim Naruto a Genin, Naruto quickly turned to the Anbu and said something to the effect of getting Iruka to the hospital in a panicky and dumb voice that sounded more like the Naruto Iruka knew of and to take the scroll back to the hokage, in truth Naruto saw that look in Iruka's eye and saw it coming a mile away what he was about to do, the Anbu didn't question it as Naruto handed over the scroll and given that they knew the entire story as they had been there they didn't need Naruto to come in and left him out in the forest to find his way own way back.
This was the Anbu unit that had the dog masked one after all which is why they were late to the party, but the other three Anbu were actually more loyal to the previous and current hokage's wishes where Naruto was concerned and had to be ordered to stay out of the scuffle as Naruto made himself look stupid by expending all that chakra on clones that fought and worked together poorly, obviously Kakashi didn't see the threat Naruto possessed quite yet given how dumb he looked when he charged Mizuki even after giving a speech about how they gave ninja's a truthfully bad name.
Viper slithered out and looked questioningly at Naruto when she was sure no one was around, well he didn't need her assistance with that and if he did they were going to need to push themselves harder to make up for it, now all they had to… wait why was Naruto smiling like he just won a lifetime supply of ramen, that to Vipers calculation would actually only last for about two months between them and if they were given an entire years worth on their idea of how much it would take to fulfill them for said year, whatever company that made the ramen would have to file for bankruptcy.
Naruto seeing his best friend's; he was avoiding the fact that the Viper saw him in a different light, quirking look walked behind a tree and pulled out the scroll, causing Vipers mind to blank for a second before it rebooted… 'he didn't'… Naruto continued to smile cheekily at her and her eyes widened 'he did'.
"If that's the scroll of sealing… what in the hell did you give the Anbu operatives?" Viper slowly hissed trying to make sure she was seeing this right, Anbu operatives just took a fake scroll and have not likely noticed their mistake at all because they underestimated Naruto, though she had to admit the fake scroll was a pretty good rendition of the originals outer appearance.
Naruto looked away from Viper and started whistling innocently, it was a tune Naruto would whistle when he had a semi-lethal prank planned and considering his history of trap making… Viper guffawed, she just burst out laughing in a lilting tone that not many would expect of a snake, in fact hearing a snake laugh is a once in a life time thing except when you have Naruto and Viper together, Konoha security has lost yet again so that would make it seven thousand two hundred and forty three, he got one for beating the hokage with a seemingly stupid maneuver and the other is tricking that asshole dog mask and squad.
After she calmed down Viper looked to see that tonight the moon was full, everything was bathed in its glow and it was very romantic and one thing stood out above the rest to Viper who would always try to get a kiss out of Naruto, she pointed with the tip of her tail and Naruto looked at the moon.
"Uh yeah, it's very beautiful but… what…" Slowly Naruto's eyes turned to Vipers who was coyly smiling at him while keeping her nose below a part of her own body, that look in her eyes spoke of a certain kind of intent of what was coming and Naruto realized what time it had to be considering the position of the moon, so that would mean...
"Aw s…" He didn't even get to finish his sentiment as Viper shot at him with her eyes close and her mouth open wide and slammed her mouth over his and quickly got her body around his neck, under his arm pits around his torso and touching his left leg to the best of her ability as he was knocked onto his back by her sudden attack.
Viper's one move special taijutsu she made just for Naruto was what she called KISS OF THE FLYING SNAKE it wasn't actually a taijutsu move it was just something her family was good at that was meant to take out creatures with one really fast lunge and a single bite before the prey could react to it but she couldn't do that but she still used the lunge to catch food and Naruto's face apparently.
Naruto silently wondered why he had kissed this particular snake years ago and thought better of it as this snake was the only person in the world thus far to state that she wanted to be in his company and to be married to him despite the complications; again ignoring Vipers insistence that they already are, that come with the fact that they both shouldn't be together like that even with Kyan muttering in the back of his mind to just lay back and accept it as she already has, the reason why Viper was kissing him was because it was a really romantic moment and it was in fact past twelve midnight meaning she got her daily dose of Naruto earlier than usual.
After she finally finished kissing Naruto it finally sunk in for Viper that they should probably be running right about now before anyone gets wise to the fact that Naruto pulled a fast one and now has the village's penultimate jutsu scroll and found out he actually kept it, Naruto moved their plans ahead of schedule but there's a large plus side to it at least, she quickly hissed at Naruto to grab their stuff and run to the outskirts they agreed on as the exit strategy while she goes and make sure they aren't followed to soon, she had some cats she needed to let out of the bag and boy would the graduating genin be surprised when Tora ripped them a new one especially if Kiba and Akamaru were involved, the cats have finally had it with the dogs being able to do things they couldn't, that is until now and if they had to make a few people's lives a living hell because they really deserved it to learn from mistress Viper then so be it.
The next day Iruka was in the classroom with bandages and a medical jutsu healed spleen, he was sitting at his desk as he was informing people of their test scores.
"Sakura after what you did and considering the score on your test paper, not to mention your horrible throwing scores that even Kiba beat despite his wild… erm… enthusiasm, you failed horribly and there is no chance of you ever becoming a ninja unlike everyone else in this room with the kind of mistakes you made" Sakura just sat there and looking horrified, she thought that Iruka would forgive her for what happened when she went to do the Clone jutsu, apparently not and she left the room her entire world destroyed and Vipers ultimate revenge nearly complete, because Sakura would probably peruse Sasuke in a civilian setting thus the Ninjutsu Cat Corps would certainly make all her attempts at getting Sasuke's attention flat out impossible even if Sasuke were to take interest in her and he never had to begin with for the mentally broken girl who wouldn't stop her pursuit of what she thought Sasuke to be and not what he was.
Iruka figured Naruto wasn't here today because he was tired from last night's problems and after hearing about the kyuubi he did a jonin level ninjutsu without a word and then beat Mizuki into a bloody pulp and afterwards it looked like he gave up on life in general when he told the Anbu to help him and to take the scroll back to the hokage, they executed Mizuki this morning in his sleep after Inoichi Yamanaka; Ino's father, learned some interesting bits of knowledge about him after getting inside his head…
Iruka had graded Naruto's last test paper and then looked at it again when he realized it wasn't a genin paper test and it was actually for the next upcoming Chunin exams and Naruto got every answer correct that would have put him over the top even if he hadn't learned to use shadow clone he might have passed just on the principle of being able to answer the questions on this test without a plant in the room to cheat off of, so he decided to give Naruto a higher grade than usual.
What Iruka didn't know was that he just failed the student who actually answered all the questions on the test and was currently being ambushed by twenty cats in a violent massacre of the ear drum busting girl who tried to scream for help only to get a gag shoved into her mouth as if the cats were expecting her to try and scream, which they were and it had yet to be discovered that Naruto had already left the ninja village because the cats were doing all they could to make sure people saw something orange, so that they'd think it was Naruto when in fact it was just Garfield the laziest genjutsu using cat of the NCC who actually liked Naruto's appreciation of good food and was covering for him for just one day only by causing havoc in only the way Garfield could, by eating other peoples food and causing destruction of public property on a wide spread scale all the while having dyed his fur from brown to orange and used simple genjutsu to make himself seem like Naruto.
The biggest thing about today was that Garfield wasn't being lazy at all… he was being hellfire to the people of Konoha and after learning of what a certain Anbu did last night, that Anbu has just lost his entire collection of signed perverted novels which he loved above all else to Garfield's claws and he even got his best friend Odie from the Inuzuka kennels to do some pretty nasty things to the populous as well as keeping any of the dogs from wanting to track Naruto when it became known he's left the village, today wasn't a good day to be a Konoha citizen, oddly enough the ramen stand was untouched in all the recent destruction that befell Konoha and an orange cat was seen being picked up by a girl named Ayame who was asking why Garfield was all orange and went to scrub her cat down hoping that his fur wasn't stuck like this, but then again Garfield would go on to become a great mascot of the ramen stand because of his self induced oddly colored fur, he was also incidentally dating the Haruno's rare pink furred cat Arlene and boy was Sakura in for it when she finally managed to get home… can you say ailurophobia? (Sorry we couldn't resist throwing in the cameo's because of Primell dude)
It was several days later with Viper and Naruto, it seems Naruto had finally been discovered (remember nobody other then Anko and a few people that were at the thing with the falsely accused assassination attempt has actually seen Viper) to have stolen the forbidden or sacred scroll when his trap finally set off causing even more damage to Konoha and they were trying to figure out where to go, Viper wanted to go to Grass country as she liked grassy fields, Naruto wanted to go to Wave country as he heard they had decent ramen and they both liked the idea of heading to Sea country as it would have them avoid all these dang border patrols that moved off the borders and on their tails as Konoha was scrambling around with their pants down trying to catch Naruto who has already managed to lay traps that had moved some of them out of the way and Naruto has yet to kill, well… he has killed it just wasn't in his own species yet so there was no shock value as he has killed rats and a few other things for Viper to snack on, she was his… precious person he guessed… even if it was awkward that she wouldn't quit kissing him.
They were at a cross roads while looking at each other they could go any direction and they needed to choose fast on their options, both Naruto and Viper had very little in the way of idea's of where they were going, but they would work it out eventually as this was the first time they've been outside of Konoha, Viper always did want to see the world outside the forest of death and thought of this as a first opportunity honeymoon having learned of the human word for vacation with your significant other.
Naruto didn't like the idea of going towards grass country and reasoned that sure it was perfect climate for a snake but they would need to cross the borders something that would definitely be watched by Konoha ninja, not to mention the ninja of the lands they'd enter along with any missing ninja that was probably going to be coming after them as Konoha had tons of loose lips so everyone knew by now that Naruto had the scroll of sealing, that was currently sealed on the inside of his jump suit as his shadow clones helped to learn how to quickly if barely able to make a written seal that could hold things (his hand writing is worse than Vipers, penmanship is critical in the sealing arts), he was still having problems getting his clones to use genjutsu, they were going to need chakra exercises to give his clones some semblance of control over the chakra they are given to work with as a temporary extension of Naruto.
Viper agreed and thought about why they should not go to wave, it was where missing ninja's and bandits went the most and that was because there was no ninja village there in the elemental countries and it wasn't near the borders were ninja's travelled, that left Sea country which probably had minimal amounts of ninja if probably none at all as there was no reason to go that way for a ninja and missing ninja and bandits hardly did so, so she voted Sea country to lay low for a while.
Naruto still stubbornly wanted to go to Wave, but he decided to go with Sea Country as well when Viper looked at him sadly wanting him to at least head in a direction that wasn't likely to be blocked by anyone that would attack them constantly and wouldn't lead them to an early grave because Viper would die before Naruto could if she could help it thus they set off in the direction of Sea country only to meet some trouble on the way in the form of a average team of ninja intersecting their path.
"Damn it" Nearly taking a hit as he dropped out of the tree nearly getting a kunai in one of his legs Naruto got up and saw the team that barred his way, they didn't look so tough but he wouldn't underestimate anyone as there were a lot of powerful people in the world and he wasn't one of them yet, but with Viper at his side he would become as great a ninja as possible, he pulled out a kunai and prepared for combat against these three male ninja.
"Well, well, well, what do have here if it isn't the Kyuubi brat and he has no one here to… h-ulp…" Before the man who was obviously the leader of this team of three could get any further Viper decided to target him because he was just another one of those kind of assholes and within a seconds of the genjutsu striking him he was already barfing up whatever he had for lunch which seemed to be from the looks of it… tempura and rice cakes, Viper just couldn't get over the fascination of seeing what other people ate come spewing out of them.
The two other ninja's jump back looking slightly green as their friend was puking up a storm to distracted and weak to do anything for right now apparently his upchucking made him unable to carry out whatever threat he had planned for Naruto, 'Viper Vomit has struck again' Naruto silently chuckled as he ran past them followed by Viper while they were distracted and not looking down at the puke as even that could even ruin his stomach for wanting to eat ramen, Viper even trained him to deflect genjutsu using it… on an empty stomach of course because he didn't want to waste any ramen by throwing it back up and because he always took the Happy Mouth genjutsu head on except when Viper was suggesting she could improve its strength by kissing her, Naruto didn't take the bait and he still got kissed, but it tasted great in retrospect.
The two ninja gave chase as they were the ones that weren't incapacitated or weakened by a bout of what was thought to be bad food poisoning, which seemed to come up a lot in the last three years in Konoha but nobody thought much of it, Viper was pleased that nobody ever discovered her special nasty attack genjutsu as it was hard to detect for the extremely short duration it took to take effect , nobody could try to reverse engineer it without knowing the mechanics in the first place and she didn't exactly do hand signs so it was impossible to tell what hand signs she was exactly using so not even a Uchiha could copy it as they required hand signs or movement to copy things and she could do this genjutsu sitting completely still, not to mention the Sharingan is only effective for copying other humans or humanoid movements and she doubted a Uchiha could copy a taijustu style where you had to be a snake or different animal to perform it and given most people couldn't or didn't even know of the existence of the Mod Shape Shift she doubted it would ever come up or would even be useful to one if it did.
She watched as Naruto; leaping gracefully from tree to tree as she did, deflected a Kunai thrown at his back with his own and went through some hand seals as a wave of shuriken thrown by the other guy was about to hit him and he couldn't change his direction in mid-air as he jumped while deflecting the kunai, but Viper knew that particular sequence it was a ninjutsu she wished she could do as Replacement used up to much energy to be useful to her and being able to do it would give you results like what Naruto just did, but he had enough chakra for it to be very useful but it was still impossibly draining to switch with a live target even for the amount Naruto had as you had to account for the chakra difference to make an effective swap.
The guy who threw the Shuriken watched in horror as his own friend had appeared where all his Shuriken were flying and he took them into his body, on a fortunate side Shuriken were never immediately lethal to the target as long as they don't pull them out before they got a medical kit out and they never sunk deep enough into the body to kill it unless it was shot out of a rotary cannon, but you only hear of those in snow country.
Naruto appearing where the guys friend was when he threw the shuriken had two kunai out and he swung randomly at the brown haired ninja who deflected his blows quite easily with his own as the guy had more experience as a ninja even if he did just injure his own teammate and he held off Naruto with little problem and managed to stab him in the left shoulder which Naruto tried to retaliate after as he had been knocked down losing one of his kunai only to get stabbed again in the right side of his chest, the ninja had him on the ropes and he gave a loud hissing sound as if he was in terrible pain after nearly getting stabbed again getting sliced across the lower part of his chest creating a thin stream of blood while having his other kunai get knocked away.
"Heh you're a few years too young to beat me you de…" as he raised his kunai to strike down on Naruto Viper barreled into the back of his head putting her full weight into the blow causing him to become dizzy as he tried to stop himself from falling forward he dropped the kunai from his left hand into Naruto's waiting hands and he promptly got stabbed in his inner right thigh causing him to scream in pain.
Quickly fighting the pain off the ninja went to stab Naruto with the kunai in his right hand only for it to be redirected by an unknown force into the top of his left kneecap causing him to scream in agony and this is where he finally notice the snake wrapped around his body, neck and right arm, he stared dumbfounded at the snake who smiled demurely before unraveling and leaping off of him only to receive a Tornado Cannon to the gut seconds later via Naruto's left palm vertically pointing up and his right palm pointing down while held flat, it sent the ninja flying back into the one who had shuriken in his body that was started to recover from being hit with so many shuriken only to be blown down by his own teammates body as it slammed into him after being tossed by a twelve foot long tornado sprouting from between Naruto's palms where he thrust them in a twisting motion.
Not giving the guy that vomited any time to catch up to them as he probably recovered by now, Naruto turned tail and bolted hoping he was going the right way with Viper hot on his tail making sure they weren't being followed, they were officially on the run now that they actually got into a serious but short fight, Naruto was used to being hurt so the injuries didn't mean that much but it still broke Vipers heart to see him like that but Naruto needed the combat experience.
And he ran, he ran so far away… but he got away, End Chapter.
Jutsu listing, we will only list what's new-
Living Whip- Taijutsu- target area: single target- effect: A taijutsu style made for a snake that involves striking sharply with the tail mostly to hit pressure points and damage a person's body like they were struck with a whip and the style also adds the ability of wrapping around the opponent to control some of their movements through manipulating specific muscles and nerve endings with as minimum effort as possible to save on stamina, used to redirect the force of an opponent's attack, used to cause physical damage and pressure point ailments and used to pin down an opponent.
Null Pain- genjutsu- target area: self, single, multiple or selective live targets- effect: a genjutsu that can be easily focused to a small area to cause a person to ignore pain where applied which usually would cause a genjutsu to dispel making this a crowning achievement in genjutsu usage however the more area the genjutsu encompasses the more noticeable it is otherwise it's hard to noticed until it is removed, used to ignore injuries and poisons that only cause crippling or deadly pain, used to drop a person's defense while they are unknowingly injured under the effects when removed, used to help a person in horrible pain to calm them down in medical situations and used to make a person who is dying not feel the pain as they do giving them a peaceful death.
Academy Primer- taijutsu- target area: single target- effect: a basic taijutsu fighting style for learning more advanced fighting styles, used to fight civilians, used as self defense when all else fails for low skilled ninja and for exercise purposes.
Tornado Cannon- taijutsu/ninjutsu hybrid- target area: direction the user is facing- effect: a forward twisting motion that hits a double vertical flat palm strike while launching a tornado that's range is powered by the amount of chakra used thus also making this a mid to long range jutsu with the exception that it's most powerful at point blank where the users strength adds to the damage the tornado does, the tornado itself doesn't grow more powerful with more chakra and it is impossible to overcharge the jutsu the taijutsu portion is dependent on the users strength along with the ability to strike the target, used to knock back opponent, used to damage the opponent, used to make a powerful taijutsu combo and used attack a group of enemies moving in a line.
Shadow Clone- ninjutsu- target area: any open space within one to fifty feet of the user depending on skill- effect: creates phyiscal clones of the user that can attack, speed up learning and train chakra abilities, used to gather important information without endangering the user, used to distract or trap opponenet, used to fight opponents, used to take non piercing hits for ally or user, used to train mentally in informatio, chakra or taijutsu movements and used to be in more then one place at a time.
Kiss of the flying snake- ?- target area: single target- effect: While technically not a taijutsu art Viper made up a name for it as it is a powerful lunge she was taught by her family when she was younger that makes a snake look like it's flying through the air, used cover short distances with relatively high speed, used to perform silent sneak attacks and used in conjunction with Living whip taijutsu to get to and wrap around any opponent swiftly.
Darkon: So far neither Viper nor Naruto has met a decent challenge because they've done everything from the shadows and haven't actually garnered much combat experience; if you want to complain about the Garfield thing take it up with Primell.
Trio: Ahem, you forgot to tell people about the next chapter and their waiting dude.
Darkon: Right well, Naruto, Viper and a new person who has taken up sealing arts in a spectacular manner because Naruto and Viper are incapable of it on their own joins them in a fight against the tracking team of genin sent to capture Naruto in "Losing Combination, Inept-Shaken-Choked" next time on 'To Kiss a Snake'.