Darkon: Today we'll be breaking down two ninja faults predictability and repetition; we'll also cover how to disassemble what seems to be a jutsu that works one hundred percent of the time with relative ease by dissembling them in story and explaining ways around them along with a bit of amusing bashing of Team Asuma and how horrible at being ninja they are only relying on clan techniques, also none of this is actually plot related at all, so in fact I'm not telling the truth.
Trio: Yeah we're still trying to work out which of the three girls can actually get Naruto's wife Viper to approve of them, we tossed in female Haku because let's face it Haku looks like a girl and has a pretty sad sack story dude.
Sir: We tossed in Shion for her future predictions of people's deaths and she'd be constantly predicting Naruto's death if we were to choose her as the main interest (After Viper of course because she'd have to go through the her to even start a relationship with Naruto) for Naruto or something like appearing where she wasn't posed to do to the change of time like in many Naruto time flaw universes.
Primell: I tossed in Isaribi because she could be modified by story to have more snake like qualities then fish.
Darkon: But all of you have to remember I'm the one that gets the final say on them, the only reason why I'm considering it is because Shion is a rare fan fiction character to write into a story effectively, Isaribi's transformation is never fully expanded upon as having any other side effects then good swimming and breathing underwater which I will do as you'll see eventually and finally Haku since many people have a problem believing she isn't a girl and I would want to make a lot of gender confusion jokes about her trying to be a boy while staying entirely nothing like one just to make it a running joke.
Sir: With that said cue chapter title.
Chapter 4: Losing combination, Inept-Shaken-Choked.
It's been three months and Konoha was still in shambles from Naruto's fake forbidden scroll and everything else he managed to do within a short amount of time to nearly collapse the economy, the hokage was not meeting Team Kurenai in the tower because as anyone could tell in the background it looks to have collapsed, it was a good thing that only one person got hurt and that was the guy that opened the fake scroll named Ebisu who was was in the running for most arrogant ninja of the year, now the current hokage the old man was meeting them in a different building.
"Hmm… I have catching Tora…" The old man was looking over available missions for them and didn't get any further when he saw Kurenai and her teams reaction to hearing the word Tora.
"YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE!" Kurenai ; Viper's short lived idol, shouted as she slammed through the closed glass window and made a break for it laughing insanely, Kiba and Akamaru pissed themselves and whimpered in the corner with a constant muttering of 'No' and 'I don't want to go' made along with whining noises that was very afraid while huddling in each other's comfort zone, Shino tried to drink insecticide to save himself and the hive the torture of facing Tora but luckily the Anbu managed to stop him before he could harm himself, but it does beg the question why he would be carrying something lethal to himself and his insects.
Hinata was the one with the most diverse reaction by jumping to the ceiling with her back facing everyone and her head did a one eighty and she growled at the Anbu and sent one of her chakra laced hands towards them as they tried to get her down with a stick.
The old Sarutobi sighed and had to get Team Kurenai taken to the hospital as well as making sure his Anbu caught Kurenai before she either escaped or ended up at Anko's again, he honestly did not want to know what caused the Hyuuga's reaction or how she survived having her neck bend like that, one of his Anbu muttered something about her being a possessed Hyuuga.
The wife of the daimyo actually released Tora on purpose so she could help with the economy and help the cute little genin in their training and just knew that Tora loved playing with its best friends the ninja as every generation of Tora before her or him always became so happy when they were away from the daimyo family for odd misunderstood reasons, but the ninja never knew this when she assigned the mission that it was just so she could give the current Tora all the exercise it needed.
"Anbu catch Kurenai alive and calm her down, make sure the Hyuuga gets to a hospital with her, get the Inuzuka checked up while you're at it and take the Aburame in to get a psyche evaluation" The hokage lost more ninja this way and he didn't know why, while standing on the window sill behind him looking into the room through the shattered window was an evil smile being given off by Tora who disappeared when the next team of Genin entered the room to see the broken glass and the hokage sitting there calmly like it was an everyday occurrence.
Asuma was a little put off by his 'relatives' lack of reaction to having a shattered window in his new office, but he asked for a mission anyway.
"Well after what happened when I suggested the first mission I'm currently suspending that mission from the roster for today until things cool down about it, now I have painting the fences, walking the Inuzuka dogs and this special long term retrieval mission if you want it" The hokage never exactly saw eye to eye with Asuma but he was going to give Asuma the ability to do what he wanted and hoped that he would be able to see him in a better light and hopefully Asuma would do him proud by actually training his students to be great ninja, instead of going to smoke himself into a early grave.
"Okay I'll give what's the special mission about" It occurred to Asuma that the hokage was hinting at a lot of free time and being away from the village, also training his students and that is a problem because Asuma is as lazy as Kakashi except he's punctual and courteous about it.
Off to the side stood his three students, first of which was the smart guy Shikamaru, he was a tactical genius but when it came to physically fighting and actually training he wasn't very good at anything except making plans which as most plans do, they fall apart upon entering a fight due to unseen or unknown factors and considering how average he wants to be in his ninja career, he was setting himself up to lose all his friends and family; the Nara clan, because he was too lazy to save them, he only knew the academy jutsu and his family's Shadow Possession hybrid jutsu which won't actually get him very far when it comes to light how you can easily beat it through multiple methods.
The second student was the muscle(read as: wide loaded)guy Choji that Viper used to tease with genjutsu, his family the Akimichi clan had a particular trait of eating a lot and being incredibly slow on the battlefield because of their weight, even with all power their jutsu give them and how much chakra they contain being a slow ninja tends to lead to death nine times out of ten even with enough physical strength to crush a boulder you won't be able to hit a single thing that's able to move faster than you which is why the Shadow Possession jutsu is used to stop targets from getting away or out maneuvering a Akimichi using their Body Expansion jutsu too easily and this requires extensive training on the Nara clan members part to be effective, not to mention the Akimichi clan has a huge weakness to being poisoned when they use any jutsu that require change in size or mass as it pumps blood through the body faster, they also become easily effected because they create more area for a person to attack them with making some jutsu all the more useful on them. (Trio: I swear it's like we all know what's going to happen to the Akimichi dude)
The third was Ino the token fan girl of any group with the smallest clan in the trio the Yamanaka clan who specialize in mind and body infiltrating jutsu, they have the problem with not being able to keep their bodies trained as it is their clan specialty to not really be in them half the time and should their bodies take an injury any jutsu they are using instantly falters and the cast time on some of the jutsu is also pretty bad not to mention a Yamanaka is easily beaten by a person who has unerringly high mental defenses or someone who set up those defenses for them, a Yamanaka does not make a good front line soldier and would only be useful in an interrogation or getting hands on information as an infiltrator, they are considered good in a team with a Akimichi and a is Nara because they have the combined ability to take down a single target such as those found in a bingo book and infiltrate the mind with relative ease if it wasn't strong enough to fend a Yamanaka off which is pretty easy. (Because if Sakura could do it, so could anyone else with a split personality)
Against multiple targets numbering more than two or if any one of these three were to fight one-on-one alone, they'd ultimately lose right off the bat with the slight exception of the Yamanaka, no matter how well they planned for things to go as by now their family styles are already out in the world and that means someone will come up with a way to beat these three as their predecessors have done it all before them so any combined clan based tactics they used would be far outdated, thus repetition of the three clans coming together in a group because their clans wanted it to be that way put Ino, Shikamaru and Choji into a group that would inevitably be a huge failure because they were all rather predictable if they relied on their clans oft prized jutsu too much, they weren't the perfect team they were a shadow of what was a perfect team that was their fathers combined together using the same jutu's they had for years to the point it'd be recognizable.
Repetition without change is doomed to failure as was this team and predictability brought on by the right kind of actions would physically snap this teams teamwork completely in half from the instant Asuma took the mission and set off for an island between Sea Country and Tea Country to intercept one Naruto Uzumaki presumed to be traveling alone and is assumed training alone by use of the repeatedly stolen forbidden scroll having received suspected help from Anko or kami forbid Orochimaru because of a snake showing intelligence attacking one of the border patrol ninja that managed to intercept Naruto; Konoha obviously never fixed its security issues after the first few times, and he has yet to kill any leaf shinobi and even then he is labeled in the bingo book as a civilian target, in fact the first civilian target in the history of any bingo book to ever exist since he was never registered as a ninja he can't be labeled a rogue like the missing ninja and has a bounty on his safe return, also a bounty for his death and his body to be brought to Konoha to make sure he died which more than likely came from the council.
(Sir: repetition with change is a different story entirely as that's a key for success and that's how Naruto usually fights by using shadow clone swarms but they do things differently every time, it's also how fan fictions are written with repeating the same tired and boring storyline then putting something new to it to make it seem interesting, how many stories would have gone through all the filler arcs before ever getting to Wave and how Tazuna has to be dragged with the team through all the filler arcs before finally managing to return to wave now that would be unique as the old guy becoming a samurai due to insanity of having been dragged through so much danger and hell then gets told he has to pay a the sum of ten S-ranks for all the extra time because the ninja meter was running and they were still guarding him past the expiration date of their mission to wave where magically nothing horrible has happened and then everything continues as normal causing Tazuna to get even more crazy because people start ignoring the passage of time and everything, sorry I've been rambling Darkon was running this idea through me not to long ago as a idea for a different Naruto story, it's up for grabs)
Unfortunately for them Naruto wasn't alone, he wasn't actually using the scroll for training because some of the subject matter in the scroll wasn't entirely stuff he could use and he was travelling to Tea Country which was near Fire Country because he wanted to take part or bet on the foot race that would occur there, which is why he was now walking across the island he was on one a week later from when Asuma's team set out to intercept him, apparently this island had ships that didn't go around it straight to Tea Country, but it made for a nice detour and the sights were pleasant as he walked through the forest on the center of the island.
Slithering alongside him was his ever faithful snake companion Viper who nearly died nearly two months ago in a fight with a mad scientist that nearly drowned Naruto in a blob of living water and nearly personally killed her, it was a good thing none of the injuries were permanent as she was all smiles in Naruto's direction now and had a small sun blocking parasol opened over her head as they went through the grassy fields Naruto got that personally for her and she loved it, she took good care of her ninja tool and even learned how to use it effectively in combat from training with Naruto and their new friend who hopefully didn't have any interest in her Naruto whatsoever, though no one would know it from looking at it the parasol weighed a good thirty or so pounds mostly because of how much metal that actually went into making it while it appeared like a normal easily trashed parasol it was actually built to last.
The design on the slightly small parasol was that of a golden Chinese dragon (The kind of dragon that is long and snake like) fighting a fierce tiger; it had a load of ten senbon that could fire out of the top and with Vipers knowledge of anatomy that was a exceedingly useful feature as one or two senbon could take down a unarmored person, the edges of the parasol were made of metal that could be sharpened when a trigger was hit and the most unique feature of this parasol was that it turned into a short spear using the armored canopy that could still effectively launch senbon while in spear mode, reloading the parasol was a simple task and all that was needed was to reset the launching mechanism after replacing the senbon, this thing could also double as a small bo-staff type weapon if needed.
Naruto nearly lost her and that pushed him into accepting her more with how much of a struggle she put up to keep that crazy Amachi guy held down and of off nearly ripping Naruto limb from limb when he warped himself into a physically strong fish man, unfortunately for Viper her genjutsu had been ineffective due to the nature of what happened to the guys chakra when he used his experimental procedure on himself so she had to resort to her taijutsu style which was hard because he kept ripping her off of himself and slamming her into the walls of the secret facility multiple times and she could swear she still felt those bruises, it was what happened after the fight that made Viper the happiest snake in the world.
He didn't shrug her off, Naruto didn't get rid of her for being weak and most of all he became highly sensitive of her needs for a while until she was better saying tons of romantic things like 'Please don't die' it took two weeks but she managed to recover enough thanks to the help of Isaribi the limbed water serpent girl who joined them in the fight with Amachi after learning she was going to be part serpent for the rest of her life, but that girl wasn't important right now as what was important was that she received her second kiss from Naruto that he had ever initiated when she got better, that came along with the new parasol and that seriously meant a lot to her, Naruto had; keyword is had, plenty of money that he never used for more than Ramen or more recently shopping because people that didn't know what he contained made him feel normal for once in his life… that was until they were ran out of Sea Country with Isaribi for being friends with her, but the money was running scarce now and the Tea Country race seemed like a good place to get some or else they'd have to survive off of the land and without ramen, it was also a nice spot to relax as Tea Country didn't have that many ninja either and Naruto was still trying to lay low.
They were an odd group Naruto with tons of normal chakra for ninjutsu and sealed with a powerful demon that ripped that living chakra water; that Amachi called Umibozu, apart with a teeny drop of power before he could drown in it, Viper herself learning the ways of human ninja and emulating them to fit her needs while only having been a normal fangless snake otherwise who was trying to make a human agree that they were married while at the same time becoming a rare oddity in the ninja world and finally the nearly immune to any genjutsu Isaribi as her chakra network was like Amachi's was after he transformed the unfortunate downside was the inability to do any genjutsu and barely any ninjutsu at all, the ninjutsu that Isaribi was capable of performing was required to use liquid in some way or else she couldn't do it not even a simple substitution but the bright side was the incredible strength and a mild boost to speed and reflexes; that came from the experimentation done to her, on land and especially in the water her speed shoots up to at least three times as fast as she can run on land while transformed, she also had a talent for the sealing arts given she had a quick and steady hand with lots of chakra and the ability to move liquid to effectively make a quick seal helped, so far she was up to making seals to hold other things and creating explosive objects within a limited span of time.
Viper could write seals but didn't have the chakra to complete them and Naruto could provide the chakra for them but when it came to handwriting he was always unsteady and in sealing that was dangerous, Isaribi had the best of both worlds being rather calm about her newfound freedom and already had access to her chakra against her will from years of constant laboratory trauma while slightly wild it didn't have to be put to any form, just forced into the seal.
Speaking of forms her other form was large, scaly and green making her for intents and purposes a large humanoid sea serpent with only her face still resembling that of a humans with yellow glowing eyes and a distinctly changed tongue, but right now she was currently in her semi-human with scales form and was rather shy about showing her more armored scaled form that makes her look something like a sea dragon, especially when she got Naruto and Viper ran out of Sea Country.
Naruto after finding Viper to be alright didn't know what came over him but he knew he gave into Vipers constant loyal attention to him when he kissed her a second time and it was not to die this time but more likely he just gave her ammo for pursuing the relationship as getting him to admit they were married all that much harder, to think he wasn't as worried over his first near human kill; because Amachi technically was a monster that used to be human.
Amachi had died when Naruto used the Twin Tornado 'Kunai' Cannon jutsu to launch two kunai through Amachi's body one going straight through his heart from a point blank range, the jutsu used more than three times the chakra than a normal Tornado Cannon but at least this jutsu gave him a directional control over where he pointed the two tornadoes launching from his palms, that and though Amachi's skin was tough the direct impact with two palm slammed kunai being forcefully blasted through him with a drilling effect didn't seem to help his survivability in the slightest.
"Guys can we set up camp, the boats not going to get there until tomorrow and we have plenty of time, do you need a few shadow clones to train with girls" He learned very quickly that shadow clones were highly ineffective in combat unless the user was highly trained, otherwise he was just wasting large amounts of chakra like with his Twin Tornado Cannon jutsu however that was even more effective then the shadows clones in actually doing something against that bastard that nearly put him and Viper down for good, if it hadn't been for Isaribi joining in he was sure Viper would have continued on to sacrifice herself valiently to give him a chance live slightly longer then her, the broken, battered and bloody snake would always haunt his memory in comparison to how Viper seemed so blissfully happy right now.
"Okay, I'm also going to go hunting for rabbits later want me to get some for dinner" Seeing Naruto's nod Viper waited as he summoned five clones to go with Viper to help her train before turning to Isaribi who shyly followed the two around watching Viper interact with Naruto lovingly while he tried his best to ignore the constant attention he was getting from her, she didn't know what to think of Naruto at this time except that he and Viper accepted her; hey she figured if he could accept a snakes obvious attraction to him then he can accept a poor experimented on girl like her as a friend this couldn't be a very far stretch for him, so she finally spoke up when she thought about it.
"Yes I would like a few to help me learn your basic taught taijutsu style, but I also need to train in some more water based ninjutsu do you have anymore then the Rising Geyser jutsu?" Isaribi learned it from it from a scroll Naruto had, he had a little trouble using it but he preferred a more attack oriented jutsu then just pulling water form under the ground to knock an opponent into the air; he hadn't any jutsu to target the airborne person as his Tornado Cannon required the forward thrusting taijutsu movement and using his Twin Tornado Cannon after it would have been too draining, and so he handed that scroll off to Isaribi once it was learned that she could only do water ninjutsu and this was the first time she ever did a ninjutsu, it opened up a whole new world for Isaribi, that of the ninja the same world that Viper came to enjoy and share with her mate whom she wouldn't pressure to do anything he didn't want to except kissing and that was about as far as she was afraid she was only going to get but she could live with it if Naruto returned her affection every now and then.
"Yeah just one, it's called Tsunami Shell jutsu and its follow up Tsunami Shell Shot jutsu and those were slightly hard for me to do and I really can't think of a time I could have needed them because there wasn't any viable enough water source around to use them from when I did" He pulled off the jacket part of his newer dark orange jump suit and tap the inside of it with a finger and pulled out the scroll with the jutsu in question on it and tossed it to Isaribi who caught it eagerly wanting to prove she could be helpful to Naruto and Viper given she hardly came across people who cared much less two that she wanted to protect.
Naruto himself had tree climbing and water walking to go practice so he started setting up camp at the edge of the road to the other side of the island where he would catch a ship to Tea Country, these simples exercises in chakra were taking him forever to learn whereas it would take Viper seconds to do since she's a natural at it without chakra already not to mention she was the one that remembered all the exercises one can do with chakra in the first place from their academy days, that didn't mean she wouldn't train with it though as she did upside down tail-ups and focused on being more on top of the water without causing ripples in it, she was facing harder challenges with actually having to think of a way to make her exercises harder, while for him it was hard enough.
Once he was finished with camp he left and after some distance away he started to walk up the nearest tree while pushing chakra to his feet as this place had a pond he could practice on, after two hours of constant training he made his way back for camp when he suddenly stopped completely unable to move.
"Shadow Possession jutsu success, target Uzumaki Naruto is captured, now are you going to come along quietly and live or do you want to be troublesome" Team Asuma finally found naruto and had him trapped, that wouldn't last too long.
Shadow Possession jutsu is steeped with a varying history of failure until it was turned into a hybrid jutsu where its success rate is near one hundred percent which is why the Nara clan keep worrying that someone might find out the secret to the jutsu, because it used to be a double-edged sword jutsu for the user because before it became a hybrid jutsu it used to be a struggle of wills where the opponent would gain control of the user if they were stronger, that was until they added the genjutsu supplement to be more in control.
"Where is it, where is the forbidden scroll… INO I SAID NOT TO PREP THAT JUTSU OR USE IT ON HIM" Ino quickly dropped the opening procedure to her Body Mind Swap jutsu looking guilty while being scolded by Asuma, why was sensei so worried about her using the jutsu on Naruto it'd make getting the idiot back to Konoha a whole lot easier if she could just walk him all the way back carrying her own body, as is the capture method of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, Choji would be for assassinations or knockouts, Ino would be for causing confusion among teammates if the enemy had any, also to bring people in alive and Shikamaru was the main capture artist and plans for success knowing the limits of his two teammates abilities.
This jutsu was also steeped in history for being a double edged sword as when the Body Mind Swap jutsu is used if the user is injured while in another person's body then their body is also injured, this means that if the person was to suffer fatal injury like say Naruto while Ino was inside of his head then she would die from same injury affecting her body, though this doesn't necessarily mean Naruto would and another thing is that a person with a strong mental barrier can trap and hold a Yamanaka hostage inside their head, this has led to plenty of comatose Yamanaka's that never woke up, since Ino is not exactly the strongest willed person alive then it would stand to reason that the kyuubi known as Kyan Ubira would have a field day with her own new chew toy or maybe she could think of another reason to keep the Yamanaka if it does happen.
"Considering going back to Konoha would be an early death or staying out here where I'm free means a later death on my own two feet with my friends, then I'm safer out here, oh and no worries about the scroll it's in a safe place, so why don't you just let me go and leave me alone" Naruto's cold tone was shocking to his old classmates and they didn't think he had any say in the matter about not going back.
Elsewhere Isaribi saw one of the shadow clones disperse and all the shadow clones turned to that one as it wasn't posed to do that, but the signal to disperse one of them was heard by all the clones that started to converge on Naruto with Isaribi following them, because Naruto wouldn't disperse a clone personally without reason when it still had a job to do, that and Isaribi noticed the clones starting to run.
While at the same Viper was busy hunting a rabbit with the clones she had and she watched as they suddenly stood straight up and began converging on the signal to disperse that came to that one clone without warning, the clones shared intelligence with every other when they go so they were all alerted to a problem.
'If all the clones are running towards somewhere in a panic, then that must mean…' Viper eyes widened, before they narrowed whoever attacked Naruto wasn't going to get away with it.
"NARUTO" Viper hissed loudly and snaked her way into a tree absentmindedly dragging her parasol with her before lunging through the branches she slithered upon with her body following the now frantic clones.
"What do you mean going back would be your early death and what friends, I don't know if you've noticed this but you're not exactly the most well liked person Naruto" This is what Naruto had been looking for a opening to stall for time while the girls are alerted to something as being wrong and Shikamaru just gave him the opening even if he couldn't move he could still talk, which is one way to defeat the Shadow Possession jutsu if you can launch a jutsu from your mouth that can change direction after its been fired or have a eye based technique like the Uchiha it's easily beatable, but Naruto didn't have one of those and this brings up another thing about the Shadow Possession jutsu that whatever happens to the target also happens to the user ever since the inclusion of the genjutsu portion the target hasn't be able to gain control of the jutsu or had enough chakra to dispel the genjutsu without a hand sign, Naruto however has yet to recognize the genjutsu because of its hybrid nature and he has more than enough chakra to dispel the genjutsu portion and take control of this situation.
"Yeah well shows you how much you know I only had one true friend in all of Konoha and she won't leave me alone because of a mistake I would make, I also found another one in my travels two months ago where we've been on the move ever since trying to avoid situations like this… I knew that guy was from the Konoha spy network when I saw the triangle symbol, I was just too stupid to not take any precautions, I should have told them about it but I thought it was nothing and as for the scroll it actually belongs to my family" He needed more time to figure out how to get out of the Shadow Possession jutsu, it felt weird and confining like he should have more control than this, if only he could figure out what this jutsu was exactly doing and how he could still move his mouth and eyes independently of his body.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU IDIOT, you don't have any friends because of all those pranks you're always…" Before Ino got any further Shikamaru took those words in really fast and calculated what Naruto has said, something wasn't adding up here as why would Naruto have claim that the forbidden scroll belonged to his family when it was the hokage's that… could he be… he needed more info and he was still getting the feeling that Naruto hasn't said everything and is in fact trying to stall until help arrived from his traveling companions which would inevitably be troublesome as they would prefer to keep Naruto out of Konoha "INO ENOUGH, you're going too far and being troublesome about it, Naruto who are your traveling companions and you haven't said enough to make me understand why you think the forbidden scroll is yours because your stalling for time, by trying to get me to ask about it".
"You're pretty smart Shikamaru I'll give you that, but you're not exactly right about stalling as I've already done enough and you probably don't have the chakra to keep me from moving like this for too long" Then Naruto's Shadow Clones swarmed the scene causing Asuma to jump into action as he too was considering what Naruto meant about the forbidden scroll before he would order Choji to knock out Naruto or doing it himself the second Shikamaru released his jutsu, he even gave thought of doing it before Shikamaru released the jutsu should Naruto mention the Kyuubi and he didn't know who else left Konoha with Naruto other then what was sealed in his gut; as in nobody else was missing or seen with Naruto, so the fox demon must be female and had to be bluffing other than having one travel companion so it shouldn't be too hard to capture them as well, key word being "shouldn't" he quickly dealt with the shadow clones with a few rapid well placed kunai stabs and waited.
They; the clones that is, all went after Shikamaru meaning… Asuma quickly tossed a chakra pill to Shikamaru who took it and was told to keep holding the jutsu and to not let Naruto get away.
"Oh come on Asuma-sensei how dangerous do you think Naruto could really be? He's such an idiot" That loaded question that Ino asked unknowingly setting off a huge chain of events that led to Ino realizing her uselessness, Shikamaru shaken in his belief that he was a good strategist and Choji knew he would be sad when this was over with as he had been standing by quietly observing everything in their entirety, he had nothing personal against Naruto leaving the village as he was well aware of Naruto having more than one assassination attempt a week enacted upon his person but the reason still eluded him and he still hasn't brought this up with Shikamaru or bothered to ask anyone about it after councilor Danzo was executed when Naruto uncovered his secret organization that was bent on usurping the hokage, apparently there was a lot more to Naruto then anyone could have guessed with how hated he was and wasn't surprised that Naruto finally cracked although he expected a suicide attempt first and not a defection before he was even registered a ninja considering he passed his test.
A little while before she asked that question and when the clones attacked Viper and Isaribi met up out of sight to come up with a quick plan, but the sad thing was that the human girl couldn't speak snake so Viper had to pantomime a few things with her tail for Isaribi to fully understand the plan, such as tap the ground and then pointing up while pointing at the Yamanaka and Sarutobi, then pointing to herself and then to Choji.
"But what about the guy that has Naruto-san" Isaribi had asked and Viper just pointed to Naruto and then to Shikmaru then drew a quick kanji for fight on the ground meaning don't worry about it, she also pointed at the kanji while motioning to Asuma as Isaribi's target while noting to fight in her transformed state, Viper doubted Ino's fan girl nature helped her any in these past few months and she'd hardly contribute to the fight even if she used her family's jutsu she wouldn't know how to control a snakes body much less hit her with the jutsu or even that of Isaribi's alternate form not to mention the girl could use her mental trauma as a very effective shield and Naruto was blatantly immune.
With the plan set as soon as Ino uttered those words, a rumbling sound came causing the ninja to look around wondering where it came from before two giant spouts of water erupted from the ground knocking Ino and Asuma up into the air and Asuma was quickly tackled by a large indistinct green scaly blur away from his genin team taking a heavy blow to the ribs when he was, Ino slammed into a branch going up and was knocked senseless going down unable to do anything for a while as she was completely stunned when she hit the ground.
"Choji I need you to help me knock Naruto out before…" A loud hiss interrupted Shikamaru and he saw one of the strangest things he's ever seen, a snake with a parasol that flew by him and Naruto to directly attack Choji by jabbing him in the stomach hard when she whipped her parasol around and into Choji knocking him onto his back, he quickly got up and that was saying something for an Akimichi to face down a rather angry looking snake that was scowling at him as she hissed seemingly angry at Choji flicking her forked tongue in his direction.
"Naruto, use your genjutsu buster and then jump backwards as hard as you can, trust me, oh and use the Leaf Skin while you're at it we don't want the Yamanaka to enter your mind or Kyan might not let go of her as she doesn't get any other company then you" Naruto's eyes were looking at a angry Viper but he saw the vicious scowl was more of an act to hide her orders while she was hissing in what seemed like anger towards Choji.
Naruto wondered when did he fall under a Genjutsu, but decided to use his genjutsu buster anyway and his chakra cleansed itself starting from head to toe in a visible ring of energy appearing around Naruto and moved down disabling any genjutsu effect on him and he finally felt like he could move, he looked at Shikamaru who's eyes bugged out at him when he move his arm so did Shikamaru and there was a tree close behind him… oh now he gets now, looking behind himself before jumping backwards he made sure he wasn't doing the exact same Shikamaru was about to do.
With a mighty leap backwards Shikmaru slammed the back of his own skull into a tree causing him no end of agony and to slowly try to get up after hitting the ground from his dispelled Shadow Possession jutsu that just failed like people of the Nara clan have feared for so long that it would eventually happen, someone finally figured out the secret and Shikamaru's world was shaken obviously by the blow to the back of his head jumping backwards at the same enormous strength that Naruto had, he watched as he tried to get his bearing and feel some blood dripping from the back of his skull as Naruto kicked a tree and did a jutsu that caused all the leaves that were falling from the tree and also those that were on the ground to fly to Naruto's body and Mummify him in leaves except for his eyes and the bottom part of his nose and some of his mouth.
He didn't say the name of the jutsu so rightfully Shikamaru didn't know how to proceed as he didn't know what this jutsu did or how long Naruto can keep it going, but he was pretty sure that this was troublesome and that Ino needed to get Naruto now he didn't care what Asuma said if Naruto starts doing unknown things like knowing how to break the Shadow Possession jutsu then this was way out of their league.
Off facing a Jonin on her own Isaribi was barely surviving by the skin of her teeth and that was with her heightened reflexes, Asuma was using wind, fire and even a water jutsu but that one didn't do anything to hurt her while she was in sea serpent form and she quickly used the only jutsu she knew how to do properly in rapid succession sending pillars of water into the air to deflect shuriken, kunai and even creating four pillars around herself to stop Asuma from getting her with those deadly glowing trench knives that launched blades of chakra and wind at her, she was getting roughed up fiercely and even her minimally armored scales were started to wear down from the brutal onslaught.
"Body Expansion jutsu" Choji inflated to a large comical sphere and then followed up with Rolling Boulder jutsu trying to crush Viper, which was pretty much a large epic failure on his part as Viper was to small and fast to be crushed by something this ridiculously… slow… yeah that was the word for it and she waited for Choji's rapidly rolling form to slow down, when he did she struck him in the head with an over body swing of her parasol causing him to deflate and clutch his head in pain at how hard he had been struck by what seemed to him to be a normal flimsy parasol, thus far the only thing holding Viper from using her Viper Vomit genjutsu was several reasons .
One that genjutsu might just kill him, two he wasn't that bad a person it's just that they were enemies at the moment and lastly she wanted to fight using only her physical strength as she noticed she was getting too lazy and reliant on her genjutsu thus the heavyweight parasol which she could hold up with any part of her body and she used it for exercise but it wasn't light as a feather to wield quite yet but it was a pretty good bludgeoning device.
Naruto was carefully watching Shikmaru when Ino suddenly made herself known by jumping out behind him and using her Mind Body Swap jutsu and Naruto didn't have time to dodge as he was too surprised when his leaf covered body was struck by Ino's conciousness and then Naruto smiled.
"Good you got Naruto, now we have to go help Choji and…" Shikamaru was suddenly caught off guard when Naruto tossed a kunai at him and he dodged to the side as it deeply grazed his left shoulder.
"Not quite Shikamaru, Ino's kind of held up at the moment please leave a message after the beep" Naruto said with a defiant tone and smirk.
"What did you do with Ino" A loud angry hissing sound came off to the side causing them to look as Viper was dodging a rapidly expanding fist from Choji's Partial Expansion: Fist jutsu and she finally opened her Parasol to block it and got shoved back but otherwise she was fine and looking over the canopy shield she moved her body to angle the parasol just right and three senbon flew out one went wide uselessly impaling a tree, the second hit something important in Choji's shoulder with the enlarged fist and his arm exploded blue energy outward causing the fist to go back down to normal size covered instantly in painful bruises and the last one didn't hit a vital pressure point but it was close to the second one, Viper would make sure to work on her aim next time as that was just horrible and she wasted two shots having only seven left.
"Hit me and you'll see what happens" He knew that Viper just told him to say that and if guessed right if he gets hit Ino will get hurt as well meaning he had a hostage, most of which was currently stuck circulating through all the leaves thinly armoring his body.
Inside Naruto's mind a poor saddened teary giant nine tail vixen sniffled, she wanted to play with the Yamanaka how could Naruto be so cruel as to not give her something to… oh right, she killed his parents in a fit of drunken, roofied and on her period rage, that's more than enough reason for any hatred.
At least she was being tolerated by Naruto in this situation of being stuck inside him like he was tolerating that snake Viper falling in love with him, at least Viper might understand her now instilled hatred of toads but she couldn't communicate to anyone other than Naruto and he was still ignoring her.
"I wonder if he remembered me asking if we can find my wife or my favorite cuddle toy, well I guess I'm paying the eternal price for ruining this kids life from day one" Kyan Ubira was in fact married to another woman but when she tried to state the fact after hearing everything she did with Nabi Igki the two tailed cat demon he didn't want to hear any more from her and shut her off when she just got started on talking about her amazing life partner which was a celestial being that might be able to separate them, sheesh she didn't think Naruto was a prude especially considering his wife was a snake.
"I guess I have no other choice, I give up" It was the thought of the words Naruto said that lead to Shikmaru knowing he has lost and was completely shaking in fear or was it his inability to do anything with the constant pain running through his skull, his teammate was captured obviously and he was losing blood and Choji… just passed out from the lack of air of being choked by the parasol carrying snake who was using the parasol underneath Choji's chin pressing it hard into his neck and had released him as soon as he passed out after struggling for a few seconds to get the snake off of him.
"Hey Shikamaru just so you know, no hard feelings just actually train once in a while and try something new every now and then you lazy bastard and sorry about the coming pain" Shikamaru went to ask but he never got the chance when he heard several cracking sounds and felt himself being flayed alive by a whip before he blacked out from the pain with several large gashes in his back when he fell face forward to reveal a physically tired Viper behind him as she slithered up to Naruto and nuzzled against his leaf covered ankle slowly grabbing and dragging her parasol with her.
"You can dispel the Leaf Skin now; we have to go help Isaribi who knows what damage that man can do as he's a jonin, but then again a man of his rank shouldn't be taken by surprise so easily" Viper hissed as she slithered in the direction Isaribi knocked Asuma after launching him skyward with the Rising Geyser jutsu, Naruto quickly dispelled the jutsu making the leaves fall off of him and made a few clones to go back to the campsite and to get the gear packed up.
On the ground Ino was slowly waking up to a horrible sight despite taking a minimal beating herself and she hadn't done all that much, Choji had his badly bruised arm with two senbon in it and his body along with his neck didn't look so good, Shikamaru was bleeding from several gashes on his back and his head, Ino let off a horrified scream as it finally sunk in how badly hurt Shikamaru was, she hadn't done a single thing productive all the fight and her only clan ninjutsu was easily dealt with by a bunch of leaves.
Asuma hearing his female students scream rushed towards his teams side hoping he wasn't too late and Naruto arrived to find Isaribi still standing and she switched back to her human form the size of the damage on her bigger form was scaled down but still pretty bad and Naruto made a clone and then dispersed it quickly to tell the others to get the port as quickly as they could.
"I'm okay… I just need some… sleep…" Isaribi muttered slowly as her eyes closed and she continued to breathe lightly knowing Naruto was finally okay, she still needed a doctor though that wouldn't be affected by her rather strange appearance and finding one would be rather difficult.
Naruto quickly picked up Isaribi and made a mad dash for the other side of the island with Viper trailing behind dragging her heavy Parasol as its weight finally got to her at this point until Naruto stopped create two clones, one to carry Viper and the other to carry her heavy parasol.
Meanwhile Asuma saw the sorry state his team was in and tried to pick up the pieces of a completely shattered resolve by going back to Konoha and declaring the mission a failure, Ino was the only one in any shape other than him to do anything and she could hardly carry her teammates, she needed a lot more training if she was this inept at anything in the real ninja world such as carrying a injured teammate and was in dire need of far more exercise then she got chasing after Sasuke Uchiha, while Asuma himself wasn't complaining with his probably busted ribs from the first blow from that monster that held up pretty well against him using only one jutsu, it just made him feel like he was being toyed with as that was the only jutsu it did.
Ouch Asuma's team really has got nothing on Naruto's, End Chapter.
Jutsu listing, only the important ones this time-
Shadow Possession- ninjutsu/genjutsu hybrid- target area: as far as the users shadow can stretch on to a single or multiple live targets- effect: the ninjutsu portion binds two people to mimic each other's action by the user fusing his shadow to the target the more targets them more costly the jutsu, the genjutsu portion was added to disable the opponents ability to control their own bodies and because of the constant contact with the user the genjutsu effects are strengthed by the constant contact before that all the user had to do was be stronger then the possessor to counter the jutsu, used to trap an opponent, used to strategically move the opponent into injuring themselves, used to prepare a tag team action and used to set up for other shadow related jutsu.
Weakness: Is short ranged and can be subverted if you know how to or are able to break the genjutsu portion, you can even make it damage the user with it and you can use jutsu that only rely on the eyes or mouth without hand signs to break it, the only reason why a Uchiha can't do this jutsu is because they can't easily copy hybrid jutsu as they tend to focus on one side or the other too much thus failing to copy it and if Sasuke got this jutsu you can only bet that Itachi would break it easily enough.
Body Mind Swap- genjutsu/ninjutsu hybrid- target area: single live target- effect: uses chakra to form the ninjutsu portion that compacts the body's consciousness into a full body effecting genjutsu, when launched the user's body enters a comatose state and they enter their targets body with their own consciousness taking over the unprepared, thus causing the persons actual consciousness to fall asleep or be shoved to the back of the mind, used to infiltrate enemy territories, used to grab information from another's mind, used to control another person's body to force betrayal in the targets allies, used to walk a mile in another person's shoes literally and used to steal bloodlines by forced intercourse with selected person or the users own body which is; while a horribly wrong act, permitted by the Konoha council should they convince a Yamanaka of it and provided the target has no or very little mental defenses. (Someone should write a story about bloodline stealing Yamanaka's, though I'm not going to or someone probably has thought of it already)
Weakness: While long range the jutsu makes the user's body become immobile and can easily be killed, also the user can be easily trapped in another's mind never to get out, if the user is injured while still in the body they stole from the target their own body reflects the damage done to the host body making this jutsu incredibly risky, also the user of this jutsu can get trapped in objects charged with chakra causing them to miss latching onto the person's actual nervous system and become stuck until chakra stops being charged through said object, also the users body starts to atrophy from overuse of this jutsu.
Twin Tornado Cannon- ninjutsu- target area: direct line of fire , single or multiple live or inanimate targets- effect: Launches one tornado from each palm whenever the user needs to, this is a step up from the Tornado Cannon Jutsu as it doesn't require the taijutsu movement to launch but it does require several times more chakra to perform and weapons can be added for differing effects, used to knock back an opponent, used to influence kunai into a flying drill, used to influence senbon into a fast flying shotgun spread that imbed into a target painfully, used to influence shuriken into deep penetrating but highly inaccurate buzz saws, used to dish out double the damage of the Tornado Cannon while being able to direct the attack, used to inefficiently blow allies to safety, used to deflect projectiles and used during a jump to propel the user in any direction.
Rising Geyser- ninjutsu- target area: straight up from underground on a chosen spot as long as there's water, single to multiple live or inanimate targets- effect: causes a large pillar of water to burst up from the ground or water, used to deflect projectiles, used to stop fire jutsu, used to gain temporary relief in a hectic battle, used to launch opponent skyward, used to manipulate the terrain, used to launch something at an opponent and used to find water in a desert.
Tsunami Shell- ninjutsu- Target area: around the user and or allies near the user- effect: causes a turtle shell shaped wall of water to furiously rotate around the user protecting them from attacks above and around the shell, used to deflect projectiles, used to stop fire jutsu, used to set up the Tsunami Shell Shot, used to cause injury to the person who tries to attack physically, used to launch projectiles back at the thrower with careful control of rotational speed.
Tsunami Shell Shot- ninjutsu- target area: single or multiple relatively close live targets- effect: compacts the Tsunami Shell into a effect launched attack that's sharp cutting if thrown horizontally, a blunt drill if the top thrown facing the opponent and if the bottom is thrown facing the opponent then the opponent is wrapped in a swirling mass of water for a few seconds dealing moderate damage all over the target, used to focus the Tsunami Shell into a tougher directional barrier shield before launching, used for several various attack strategies, used to create a surprise attack and used to temporarily hold a person down for a few seconds.
Leaf Skin- chakra exercise that sticks hundreds of leaves to the user to create a full body shell of leaves that protect the user by catching genjutsu and deflecting minor water and lightning ninjutsu, it will also stop shurikens, it is an exercise involved with filling every leaf with chakra as you stick it to your body to create a protective shell, it is not a jutsu as it is the leaf balancing exercise taken to extreme measures, the person who knows the exercise can attract even more leaves to their body, this exercise tends to leave the user very itchy.
Darkon: Well that's a wrap, if you hate this then I'm not sorry for wasting all your time with reading this, but otherwise I do this for no apparent reason other than boredom, also if you haven't noticed it's T-rated you people have dirty minds if you can't read or pay attention to the rating on this and there is always the secondary pairing to think of and I'm leaning Shion, but I'd rather not implement Sir's idea in fact I have an idea that might work and if I move it in the right direction Naruto won't be needing to go to Demon Country to meet her either kufukehkehkehkehkehkeh.
Trio: I actually have anime's to go watch that aren't poorly dubbed English versions and maybe the manga's to said anime's that is actually written in Japanese as well, so if you'll excuse me I'm bowing out next chapter or so dude.
Darkon: No problem, next chapter is "Snaked, Rattled and Rolled", when Naruto and friends step up to bat to try and win the Tea Country race and the respect of two family's that are fighting for control over the local port.