Darkon: Today's discussion 'Originality', GO QUICKLY TRIO!
Trio: All Naruto stories are starting to stale for originality, take for instance our story we have originality mixed with already existing stuff, but how many fan fictions can you honestly say have the kyuubi incident happened because she was tanked and in the middle of her period while drugged dude?(demons do have different biology and I'm proof of that dude) For unoriginality the incident is usually caused by Madara/Orochimaru/Itachi/Minato and or involves the kyuubi being directly attacked and or it's (gender neutral for a reason dude) family killed dude.
Darkon: SIR ADD ON NOW OR I'LL KEEL YOU!
Sir: Too much Jeff Dunham lately huh Darkon, anway there are other ways to cause said incident such as accidentally unleashing the demons fury on Konoha by freeing it from a different seal only to be sealed into Naruto, someone becomes a demon and attacks konoha like Orochimaru suddenly finding out a way to turn into a giant nine tailed fox demon, people need to expand on the originality but not to Darkon Bizarre levels.
Darkon: Primell… because you just won't leave us alone.
Primell: There's also the way other Naruto fan fiction follows the general plot, Naruto becomes ninja wants to be hokage the whole shtick only adding gimmicks to the story changing it slightly, but basically it's always the same, speaking of gimmick our story has an overly affectionate snake but it's far more less linear and we also will continue to throw curve balls into it or at least my Squee Darkon will, plus from what I've seen Darkon is staying far away from Konoha as possible while still being in the same world.
Darkon: NOW DARKON…
Trio: dude…(Trio: flatly stated dude)
Sir: Uh…(Sir: One can wonder sometimes even if one is his minion)
Darkon: WELL WHY ISN'T DARKON TALKING UP!
Primell: Squee you are Squee. (Primell: 'squee' is the metroid term of endearment, 'skreet' means something more aggressive and volatile that's today's lessons on metroid's.)
Trio: Idiot dude…
Sir: I worry for your Sanity sometimes Darkon, but then I realize you have none to worry about.(Sir: then again we have four people typing at one computer at some times or to check up on Darkon to see if anyones killed him yet.)
Darkon: Oh… right… I'm… well now, I consider Harem fictions to be highly unlikely and unoriginal, not to mention the description of any female will sound like one girl doing a shadow clone jutsu throughout the entire story sure there are cosmetic difference but how can you have that many girls with that many differences not out to catfight or to assassinate each other as they are ninja and assassinating the competition is in the blood, also the impossibly powerful Naruto stories while fun they need to limit or keep a weakness on Naruto's powers or else he's just like Madara; who practically has 'I'm a unstoppable god modding asshole' on his ID alongside Pein with his 'I have multiple not easily killable impossibly powerful bodies' ID. (Though it does pique the imagination to an extreme, it's blatantly flashy like we know all ninja's are with their flying duck robots that fire beaver torpedo's and have chemical flame throwers, also the robot is somehow a descendant of Viking mythology, no none of this is sarcasm it might actually be part of the story later if I can figure out how to make it plausible in the stretch that so far I've hit anything with anime(Chrono Trigger OVA for instance), cartoon(Garfield the ramen eating cat) or mythology (the Thunder God Sword, with a smattering of Thunder Cats and He-man) going for it that could actually work to the setting)
Trio: before anyone complains that this fan fiction is unrealistic take it into context considering how unrealistic every other fan fiction is, bizarre… yes, crazy… maybe, unrealistic dude? We have ninja's summoning giant creatures and are loud obnoxious and there's no stealth or subterfuge involved in all of this dude. (Darkon: I will have them working on stealth... I can ruin the next chapter by stating more than that though)
Darkon: I have at least three other people telling me writing something this bizarre that hardly makes any sense is a somewhat not worthwhile venture as a hobby, but do I care? (Note: You think ninjutsu using cats, a snake in love with a human, cameo's from a similar world and the Gato machine appearing in this story is bizarre wait till you see what happens when Jiraiya meets up with Naruto, 'from out of left field' doesn't even begin to describe what I'm cooking up for him and since Naruto is going to have problems with toads being partly the cause of his grief he wouldn't want to sign that contract now would he?)
Trio: Nope dude.
Sir: Not really as I see it Darkon.
Primell: I'm still working on my own writing skills, so far I've got nothing but I think it isn't worthwhile because you keep avoiding me and I'm sorry if I come across as a little forward.
Trio: Trust me you're not trying hard enough Primell dude.
Chapter 9: The fall of Waves Hope.
"So… why did you go back to fire country and how did you end up in your container" Nabi the two tailed cat demon of lightning and fire that could raise the dead by feeding electrical elemental impulses to a dead bodies skull as long as it still had a brain, that really didn't do too much good against the two cloaked men and now that she thought of it Nabi didn't realize where her container went, but she would consider that later as mistress Kyan looked to be worried.
"Well let's just say I wanted to celebrate… something special… from the place I was born with some friends; that fucking giant toad ruined it by slipping me something trying to get lucky and I went stumbling towards Konoha, unfortunately my wife is within her rights to kill me or to leave me where I am and she might even divorce me the second we come back to… to…" with that the giant nine tailed fox of doom started wailing, tears formed in her eyes and she curled up into a ball while Nabi started pawing her and the tried to start cuddling up to the fox only to be shoved away roughly by one of the tails.
"What's wrong, are you okay" Nabi the Nibi was worried about her mistress, she was loyal to nine tailed fox but then again she was also loyal to her mate which was actually male, but it was kind of hard to find where he got to as the tailed demons each had their area of expertise along with preferred climate, hers involved lightning storms, minor zombie apocalypse's(doesn't come up ever again) and causing forest fires, doing all of them at the same time usually brought up hilarious results but she really couldn't teach Naruto any lightning elemental ninjutsu, she only taught him about manipulation which is what the demons were known for and that was the basics of Nabi's knowledge as she never bothered to learned any human lightning ninjutsu, other than that she was a party girl, she like cuddling and she can make zombie's do 'Thriller' but in combat they weren't really all that great and they were poor conversationalist but they livened up a dead party.
"I don't see how she'll ever take me back… I'm just a dumb creature of natural disasters and I didn't even want to cause that one, we're supposed to keep the balance of nature well fat lot of good I did by being drawn towards Konoha while defending myself in a drunken stupor, death would be the kindest thing she could do to me… just… just leave me alone for a while" Kyan the nine tailed demon fox was known for the high level natural disasters compared to Nabi's smaller scale ones, the lowest scale natural disaster was the rending sandstorms demon which was situational to desert regions, as the highest Kyan was the one that caused tectonic shifts, volcano's and landmass covering floods but that was just her job and that was not even the cusp of what she could do, otherwise she was quite a nice person for a large powerful demon that would command respect from just about anybody but her wife who could in fact kick her ass at a mortals limit of strength which was saying something as most mortals couldn't even damage her demonic hide.
"I'm sure she'll forgive your transgressions if any ever actually occurred mistress Kyan, I'm quite sure she misses your presence even if your nature is something she doesn't like but she still sees it as necessary, she did wish to join with you despite that and that has to count for something right" Nabi wasn't sure how Kyan was ever lucky enough to actually have a wife like the one she had or the fact that the fox even got her to agree to the marriage, Nabi was really quite curious about how that happened and equally so about why Kyan seemed distraught about her wife as she was a kind and loving being that loved to laze about in a field of birds, rabbits and deer, but let it not be said that Kyan's wife wasn't aware of the circle of life and the need to end and start life in steady balance and in that balance she found she liked giant cuddly foxes with a nice fluffy somewhat pronounced chest and nine tails worth of silky fur.
Kyan didn't respond she just lay there crying away as a lake formed beneath her body flooding the area and Nabi took to sitting on a floating cloud to avoid getting wet not being able to reach her mistress at this time she started making the sky all cloudy around her in a soothing blanketing nature, but now she understood why Naruto's mind was like a sewer now and it was because Kyan thought she belonged in one, the adage 'face down in a gutter' came to mind for her poor mistress who didn't feel like she deserved cuddles now when she needed them the most.
"Haku hurry up, I don't want to arrive at the bridge to find that our client is dead, besides aren't you worried that the rabbit might die in our line of work or that it makes you look exceptionally girly to be cuddling it like that" Zabuza watched as Haku crouch down and eventually a rabbit came out from behind a tree in a random forest area they happened to be in and she picked it up to start hugging the rabbit to her which made happy squeaking noises.
"I don't care if it make me look girly, I was partially raised by rabbits when both my parents died after all, one parent of which I don't care all that much for since he killed my mother and that was all before you threw that sword at me while I was standing on that bridge" Zabuza just shook his head they had important business and here Haku was stopping to pick up a rabbit, ah well … what kind of danger could the orange wearing kid possibly get into, he might not look it but he was tough for his age, plus he had that neat sword with the gimmick like Raiga's weapons and he didn't rely on the gimmick so that meant he at least worked on skills over gimmicky powers, not to mention he must have gotten the sword from Aoi Rokusho that was bonus points in his book for taking out someone that sounded like a tough missing ninja but then again he's seen weaker missing ninja with higher ranking then a orange jumpsuit wearing civilian with ninja training.
"Fine, you've got your rabbit, now come on" Zabuza motioned for Haku to follow him and she nodded before stuffing the live rabbit into her clothing, leaving it to the imagination to where she could possibly be keeping it, they quickly made their way into town and towards the bridge only to stop when they noticed a gaggle of civilians taking up arms against what looked to be soggy and wet bandits, some of them had charred clothing and were somewhat badly burned.
Zabuza was about to ignore them and continue on to the bridge only to stop when he felt Haku holding on to his arm and he looked back at her seeing her big eyes staring up at him like the time after he almost killed her with his very first greeting at the bridge he summarily destroyed with his huge sword before he decided to adopt her after finding out she didn't have any parents and was living in a carrot patch, he quickly found a spicy curry restaurant to feed her as it was the closest thing he could find; Zabuza thought it was odd for an ice user to have such a hot sense of taste, and despite knowing she had a bloodline and he could probably have used a faithful tool to throw away on a whim he couldn't for the life of him bring himself to see or use Haku like that despite his cold and aloof exterior.
After a few moments of looking at Haku the rabbit poked its head up and started staring at him as well adding to the mixture of Haku's stare, Zabuza looked at both of them and sighed.
"FINE, DAMN IT ALL" Zabuza pulled his sword off his back and went to throw it only for Haku to speak up in protest in a rather cold and rather scary tone as a lance of ice formed on her arm pointing towards his manhood.
"Not at or anywhere near the civilians" Zabuza stopped and looked at Haku before nodding and then he reeled back and let his sword fly and it carved a very fine path through the air, how Zabuza managed to throw something as heavy as his sword with no aerodynamic ability whatsoever as accurately as he did was quite a strange oddity, but he always easily explained that away to Haku by stating one word whenever asked how it worked and that would be 'Ninja'.
The civilians paused in their advancement as something swooped from overhead and down straight into one of the bandits that abandoned the fight at the bridge still currently in progress and impaled him through his body up to its hilt, causing the bandit to just sit their staring in shock at the sword that stabbed neatly though his entire upper torso and spine going down into the ground, he was clearly dead and the bandits standing around the area all crapped their pants and when a man landed on the tip of hilt which was pointing slightly skyward driving it deeper into the ground with the dead bandit and glared at them, all the other still living bandits pissed themselves.
"Hello… now would be a time for the citizens of Wave to launch an all out attack on these guys while their busy crapping themselves" Zabuza said to the crowd of horrified civilians who suddenly after a few moments of having their minds blown finally decided surged forward, Tsunami in particular brought her frying pan hard against the first still shocked bandits face knocking him clean out as the first blow against their oppressors by a normal civilian.
"Nice entrance and good way to drop the bandit's morale completely, but can we mop them up now or are you just going sit here to watch the militia beat the tar out of them" Haku watched as Zabuza was now leaning against his sword which was still impaled through the nearly upright dead bandit; whose glassy death stare kind of creeped out Haku, and brought his hand to his bandages that hid his face in thought.
"Hmm… I'll watch, if anything the kid, the princess and the snake can't be doing all too bad without us if those wet bandits have anything to say about it, but we'll be moving in a moment after we're sure they're alright" They heard a man scream and they saw one of the bandits was being kicked hard in the groin by multiple able bodied women and one man in particular was wielding a sword and actually looked like he knew what he was doing with it, it was probably a good thing he was on the side of the civilians then or else Zabuza would have singled him out for a decent fight that wouldn't have lasted past a minute, but then he vaguely remembered Naruto talking to the man with familiarity so he thought better of introducing himself to the man by way of sword tossing.
"To think not too long ago these people where so peaceful, it is good to see they have this much fight in them" The rabbit that now crawled onto Haku's shoulder squeaked happily in reply, while Zabuza watched a rather one sided bloody fight, those poor stupid bandits trying to amass and take over Wave without Gato after a nice swim, of course the construction crew from the bridge warned people that they had seen the bandits jumping from the bridge and were swimming towards the town, so they were well warned ahead of time.
While the bandits where busy getting lynched Tazuna was telling Kaiza about some crazy blonde kid calling Gato out and some helpful girl appearing from out of nowhere telling them all to make their escape while Gato was distracted, then some weird snake with a small red scarf and cherry blossoms on its head slithered up from the side of the bridge and had some rope coiled around it's body with a kunai in its mouth that it handed off to the girl who promptly used the; as Tazuna described it, knife like instrument and threaded the rope through the hole on the end tying it off before jamming it hard into the bridge and telling them to slide down the rope into the water and to head to town, the girl jumped over the side of the bridge after they had all gone and swam off at a really fast speed that none of them could even hope to match, a few of the people saw the snake slithering back along the side of the bridge as if it could stick to any surface with relative ease.
Kaiza chuckled as he watched the bandits get what was coming to them after having picked on the civilians for so long, now the revenge was sweet though he could only hope Naruto was doing okay against the monstrous thing Gato had taken to the bridge, Tazuna had described something of a metallic sumo armor thing and Gato's horrible singing which he was trying to forget it ever happening, he was already wishing that man something far worse than death and possibly worse than eternal torment even if he wasn't close to it when Gato did sing he could still hear that wretched voice vocalizing horrifyingly in his super ears.
Speaking of which the situation at the bridge wasn't looking to good for the three 'would be heroes of Wave' and it all started when Naruto asked a question amidst the fighting and dodging Gato's long range ball and chain weapon that kept shooting from his machine at rather quick intervals it didn't seem like Gato was going to move the machine around all that much, his bandits were doing most of the leg work, but they weren't getting very lucky at dispatching any of the three in the confusion that Viper brought to the table every now and then when she could concentrate well enough to get a genjutsu going, making a genjutsu stable enough that pain won't immediately remove it was hard work and she could always use the Null Pain genjutsu to help with that as if they couldn't feel the pain they couldn't use physical pain to break the genjutsu.
"Isaribi got any more of those napalm arrows" Naruto shouted punching a bandit hard and with a twirl he sent a roundhouse kick to the face sending the guy flying to the bridges stone floor, before he blocked a sword being swung at him by pulling a kunai, he swung hard after deflecting the blow scoring a cut across the man's chest as the guy moved backwards quickly to avoid getting killed.
"Sorry that was the only functional one I had, I'm still working on it and it's still in the experimental stages, it was posed to have a wider range of effect" Isaribi gave a frightened yelp as she dove out of the way of the ball of metal as it passed the space she had been occupying a moment before and a bandit was trying to capitalize on her prone form by charging forward only for the water on the bridge; from the few exploding water seal arrows Isaribi had fired, gathered to explode upwards in a geyser like formation taking the bandit by complete surprise as he was launched skyward and this was followed up by another Isaribi coming from the geyser and smashing the bandit hard in the chin sending him even further upward the Isaribi clone landed and started straight for the bandits to support the Naruto clones in the fight even if the water clone was weaker than a shadow clone it could still do quite a bit of damage, the bandit slammed into the bridge face down and Naruto stomped down on his spine as he moved forward and fought against another bandit .
"WHAT IT WAS POSED TO DO MORE THEN THAT AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WAS EXPERIMENTAL" Naruto was distracted for a moment and a guy ran at him wielding a spear only to have two senbon needles nail him in his neck causing him to fall down never to get back up again, Naruto looked over to Viper who flipped her parasol open to block a guy actually taking initiative to attack the snake as she was a hard target to find or even attack.
"Stop distracting each other and keep an eye on that thing, these bandits might not be powerful but they are still very much a threat as that thing is and even if it is more likely to kill us then they are" Viper pushed the guy's sword back with a grunt and a forward shove of her parasol which she then promptly whipped it around and slammed the edge of the canopy halfway through the guys wrist causing him to drop his sword and yell in pain about nearly having his hand amputated, Viper quickly ripped the parasols edge of out the man's wrist closed it and shoved it hard straight into the man's throat causing a sickening cracking sound to be heard and the man started choking before he fell over and clawed at his throat because he couldn't breathe anymore with his one good working hand, Viper took a second placing her parasol off to the side to grab his sword and with a hard flick of her tail she sent it flying to one of Naruto's clones who quickly grabbed it and started to use it, while Naruto wasn't effective with a sword he could definitely use it better then these guys.
The other clones started to get the idea to pick up weapons for themselves from the bandits and that made it even worse for Gato's gradually depleting army of cutthroats, when the clones started to use the few spears, many swords and even a mace or hand axe here and there to fight back all the harder only they didn't last too long against Gato's machine when they got to close in between the firing of its metal sphere because the machines arms were a lot faster than the ball and chain attached to the machines navel point.
"Isaribi, Naruto, I can handle the rest of the bandits if the clones don't do it first, start attacking Gato now with anything you have, your going to need some good ERGH…. FORCE…. to do anything and see if you can disable its ranged weapon first" Viper didn't stop to talk, she kept in the fight and blocked a mace holding bandit, before closing the parasol slamming the guy to the side of head taking him down before she slithered back a bit and launched another genjutsu to confuse a bandit into running right in the metal sphere path as it launched once again towards one of the many Naruto's in the fight Gato hadn't bothered to tell the difference between Naruto and his clones, though it was easy given the real Naruto was the only one with a glowing sword floating off of his back.
Naruto looked to Viper he could tell she was getting tired, constant genjutsu use and wielding a heavy weapon without having arms tends to do that, Isaribi was relatively still good as she was conserving her strength he himself wouldn't have to worry unless he got hit by that flying metal sphere of pain and rupturing organs, it'd take a while for even him to get up from a full on direct hit but he was sure it wouldn't outright kill him.
"Isaribi load a mushroom maker and see if you can shoot it into the launcher when it opens to fire again" Isaribi nodded to Naruto and started to ready the arrow in her crossbow, she wasn't the greatest shot in the world or the greatest ninja for that matter and still being a rookie with hardly any time to recently train in her crossbow she decided to close in after the thing fired as it couldn't close over the chain.
Isaribi's skill in sealing was far better than Naruto and Vipers and it was something she could readily focus on other then the base ninja skills, so far she can make storage seals for mostly inanimate or barely live objects like a plant, the normal explosion seal which she learned to modify for a much greater effect given her high yield explosives were very handy and then there was the more recent storage and explosion seal cross that required the seal to store oil and release before the explosion seal activated thus making the napalm seal, other than that she could make a few barely useful seals most notably one for detecting anything that passes by it, she was toying with the idea of proximity explosives for that seal and she was working on how to seal elements into a seal and attach said element to an object so far she hasn't had all that much luck, she could seal normal water but she couldn't seal the water element that's used in ninjutsu of said element.
Having a knack for explosives actually gave Isaribi a one up on Viper and Naruto, since in this situation Viper couldn't cast genjutsu on heavily armored opponents as the chakra for genjutsu won't go through solid metal or a defensive technique very well unless she wanted to fill an entire area with her genjutsu which would drain her flat out of chakra ten times faster to have any semblance of effect, thus it was more efficient for Viper to stick to nailing the bandits asses to a wall, Naruto had some useful techniques but it came into question whether or not they could even damage Gato's machine which really hadn't done all that much yet except make itself very recognizable as well as giving a 'tell' whenever it would launch its main attack when it squats slightly before launching its belly mounted ball.
Which was the moment Isaribi was waiting for when her water clone sent her a signal that it died as it was splattered all over the bridge getting quite a few people simply wet and no one except the bridge took any damage from that weapons launch, she took a kneeling position and aimed slightly high before firing, she was kneeling in preparation for covering herself from the fallout of the high yield explosion, Viper stopped fighting, slammed her parasol's edge into the bridge and put as much of her weight on top of it as feasibly possible so as to not be blown away when Isaribi's arrow hit as she didn't think she had the chakra to glue herself to the bridge like what Naruto was doing when he quickly crouched down putting his hands to the bridge sticking himself to that spot with his chakra and he had been running the distraction for Isaribi to get the shot in so he was going to be pretty close to the big boom.
The arrow hit Gato's GATO machine, but it didn't hit its mark that being inside the launching mechanism instead it hit the machine in its upper left side a bit above the upper open weapons hatch and the explosion the arrow set off was massive as to be expected of Isaribi's high yield brand explosives, causing a massive wave of heat to wash across the bridge.
The civilians were celebrating their successful defense of their homes and small nation, when quite a few of them saw a bright light, followed by a rising pillar of smoke that mushroomed outward from the direction of the bridge causing both Zabuza and Haku to start running for the bridge since the people of Wave didn't need their help at the moment and their clients certainly did judging by that explosion.
Once the smoke started clearing the obvious question came up, was everyone alright and thus Viper spoke up first to get a sound off if her love and friend were still alive, she was the furthest back from the explosion and properly shielded they however were not and were exposed to the blast where proximity could do some damage.
"Naruto, Isaribi are you alright" Viper called out into the roiling smoke from behind her parasol.
"I'm singed but you don't honestly think that being that close to an explosion would kill me did you Viper" Viper smiled Naruto was clearly okay if incredibly singed (his jumpsuits are fire resistant at least) and then Isaribi answered with a groan of her own from right next to Viper who wondered how Isaribi ended up way back to where she was, she could also vaguely make out Naruto picking himself up off of the bridge slightly ahead of her having been knocked back a bit.
"What… hit… me" Isaribi reached up to her forehead and gasped in pain, Viper saw a bit of a bleeding wound on Isaribi's forehead it looked like the poor girl had incurred a heavy concussion despite being as tough as she was; Amachi certainly hadn;t cut corners on the genetics engineering with the only person it worked on, and that wasn't good if Gato's machine was still operational, they were going to need some heavy munitions if that was the case, then she noticed the reason why Isaribi had her concussion as the smoke finally cleared enough for her to see Gato's machine.
The upper hatch of the launching mechanism was blown clean off by the explosion and from the way it was bent and from the blood on the ground it had slammed into Isaribi pretty hard and she was second farthest from the explosion, the chain had been slightly melted otherwise still seemed usable as it continued to reel the sphere into the launcher with the still apparently operational bottom hatch, the machine didn't seem to take as much damage as all the nearby bandits were killed, blown over the side of the bridge or just knocked flat out from that one arrow.
Naruto stood up and just stared Gato's machine for all intents and purposes had looked barely scratched as the ball seemed to load itself automatically and the lower hatch flipped up other than that there was no other movement on the bridge other then the downed injured Isaribi and Viper tending to her by ripping a piece of cloth from a nearby bandit as well as she could being a snake to try and wrap it around Isaribi's head and the girl was lucid enough to help her do just that, looking back to the heavily scorched purple and grey armor on the machine Naruto noticed that the arrow did put a somewhat sizable dent in it but as per previous estimates that really wasn't damage from a second and better look at it, he decided to regroup with Isaribi and Viper as it looked like Isaribi had taken a nasty hit.
Inside the machine Gato the self proclaimed; maybe Spanish, conquistador of Wave slowly sat up sweating from the heat of the exposion, he opened his eyes and saw that there was only one of that multiplying brat and he was running towards the girl and… was that a snake acting tenderly towards a human being, no matter… the boy was still well within range as he slowly gripped the controls, the shockwave from the explosion had messed up his hearing slightly and he was slightly off balance after being unconscious for a few moments but his machine was still quite operational, he triggered the firing mechanism as he felt the soft clunk of the sphere loading into the launcher.
"NARUTO" Viper screamed as once again he was in the path of imminent pain as the sphere launched at Naruto, he'd survive if the metal sphere didn't instantly sever his spinal cord first the world had slowed down for everyone, Isaribi who was barely conscious, Viper who was tired as get out from constant chakra usage and Naruto; who was covered in a fine coat of soot, dust and blood, was busy turning his head towards the now approaching death on a chain that had pockmarked the entire half built bridge with craters.
Five walls of ice popped up between Naruto and the sphere, the walls didn't do much to stop the forward momentum but they were enough to slow it down by a fraction of a second for Naruto to suddenly disappear from sight as soon as the sphere passed through the space he once occupied and slammed into the stone surface creating another crater in the bridge.
Viper blinked and smiled seeing the small circle of ice on the bridge and quickly turned her head to Haku who was stepping out of a wall of ice with a shivering Naruto who looked to be really cold and his teeth were chattering, It was a good thing that Haku was a friend as her bloodline was one of Vipers many weaknesses, but hell if it wasn't useful for transporting people around and slowing down a injured persons vitals as Haku was going to be a good medic ninja.
Gato was livid inside his giant metal sumo robot thing, but before he could start reeling in the chain for another attack something came flying from out of the sky in a curving arc that looked like it flew from out of the sun and it was spinning at a incredible speed as it sharply curved downward and slammed shock straight into the bridge severing the chain at a point where it was melted coming incredibly close to hitting Gato's machine.
"Wow Zabuza has great aim" Naruto said as he whistled appreciatively before a coughing bout to expel the dust from his lungs, Viper had to agree as Isaribi smiled that they were going to be alright and Haku to look proud in the fact that Zabuza has disabled the most dangerous thing about the machine with his prowess in large sword throwing.
"DAMN YOU HEADWINDS THAT WAS NOT WHERE MY SWORD WAS POSED TO LAND, I WANTED IT TO GO INTO THAT THING FOR HURTING THE PRINCESS" It was the Demon of the Bloody mists Zabuza himself who ran in and was apparently angry that his aerodynamically challenged sword didn't hit where he wanted it to, causing Naruto to take back what he said almost immediately, Viper to sigh sadly releasing a anime puff of air, Haku to look morally disappointed and Isaribi to start thinking they were doomed when she watched Gato's machine lift the sword out of the stonework of the bridge and heft it easily in front of itself with its right arm. (Darkon: Take note that Gato's machine has wielded a microphone before, so who's to say it can't wield Zabuza's sword which is much bigger and easier to hold on to)
"Heh heh heh… since you destroyed one of my toys, I'm going to destroy you with yours, but don't think that my ball and chain is useless quite yet" The machine then proceeded the pick up the severed chain with its left arm and pull back sending the sphere into the air before whipping it forward, causing the sphere to slam into the ground and then the machine took a few test swings of Zabuza's Massive sword.
"Yes, these will do just nicely don't you think, don't say anything because I won't be able to hear you over the sound of your screams if I could hear you at all" Gato knew how to work his machine quite well considering how well it seemed to take to grabbing and wielding things, not to mention Zabuza just armed it with a new weapon, they watched as it slowly stalked away from the unfinished end of the bridge and that caused Viper to narrow her eyes in thought.
"AW FUCK, Haku get the princess to safety then see what you can do to help her, kid you better be ready for one hell of a fight… oh and snake you go with Haku, let the men handle this" This was pretty much everyone's idea mostly Zabuza's, with the exception that Viper took to sealing Isaribi's and her stuff away before unsealing a bunch of as Naruto termed it 'Mushroom Makers' from Isaribi's pack and wrapped her tail around them before giving both Naruto and Zabuza a determined look while Haku vacated the area.
"Start attacking that thing, you need to keep it near the unfinished end of the bridge as much as possible I've got a plan that can take care of it and as soon as it is enacted you better be ready to get Naruto and yourself out of there Zabuza, Naruto seal your sword away It's not going to be very useful in this fight as that thing is mostly built to keep out the elements and when you guys pull out it'd be easier if Zabuza is not constantly getting shocked by your sword" As soon as Viper turned away from Zabuza to talk to Naruto he immediately took off towards the far end of the bridge towards Gato's machine without a weapon and promptly dodge the things attempt to smash him with its ball in chain, as the chain rebounded off the bridge Zabuza jumped on top of the chain as it was shifting upward ran along it a few feet before leaping off of it and clambered onto the machines right arm to try and pry his sword out of it's dangerous hands yelling about wanting it back.
"What are you…" Naruto tried to say as he sealed his sword away and looked into Vipers serious eyes, ignoring Zabuza being swung around wildly by the machine in the background trying to shake him off.
"JUST GO, don't worry about me I have to get this set up and there will be ramen, I promise" With that Viper flipped her entire body back over the edge of the bridge with the exploding notes still in her tail and it suddenly occurred to Naruto what she was planning as he made his way to Zabuza's current struggle in progress as he was slammed into the bridge after the machine had swung him down hard.
"You better not die Viper; I can't live without you and your annoying habits plus who else am I going to find that I can share my love of ramen with" He said this all the while rushing the machine and summoning hundreds of clones to weigh down the chained weapon to prevent it from being used after it attempted to smash him with it and managed to stop it from cutting Zabuza in two as it went to bring his own sword down on him, to be pushed out of the way by a unfortunate Naruto clone, causing Naruto to shiver at how fast the thing could swing Zabuza's sword.
Zabuza's sword was impressively made to handle shear force like what Gato was putting on it by his machines movements and when it hit the bridge after dispelling the clone it causing a quite a huge crack to form in the floor of the bridge, causing Zabuza to get angry as that was his sword that was being used against him but in the end he decided to keep his calm and stick to using water ninjutsu to defend himself and the kid; he was still under contract, but it looked like the kid didn't need it as he was handling the makeshift morning star quite well by preventing Gato's machine from being able to whip it around.
The clones on the chain however were getting dispersed brutally with each swing of Zabuza's sword only for a bunch of water clones made by Zabuza to join the fight trying to get back his sword from the machine not by just attacking its grip on his sword but also by making the sword a little slippery to hold on to by sending water clones purposely to explode all over the machine, he also launched bullets of water that turned into sharks but that really didn't do much but distract Gato along with the waves of water that slammed against the machine.
Meanwhile on the underside the bridge Viper could swear she was sweating as she saw cracks start to form on the underside, she was running a bit dry of chakra to be sticking to the bridge like she was currently was but there was one thing she learned about Gato's machine that made what she was about to do the fastest way to end this fight and it was either that or wait for the machine to run down which would take too much endless combat that would involve death and after all those bandits they wouldn't last very long, by the time she was finished setting up and setting the powerful explosives off at key points under the bridge she would hardly have any chakra to get herself out of this mess, but they made a commitment to help the people of Wave and restore the ramen Wave country once prided itself on and they damn well were going to do just that, they've been through too much in the last few days without a ramen infusion not to and the lack of ramen tends to make her and Naruto stir crazy.
Viper pulled another high yield explode note from her tail with her mouth and started sticking it to a specific spot under the bridge, she didn't know how long Zabuza and Naruto could keep that thing distracted and she still had a good twenty notes to place in several hard to reach places whoever designed and built this bridge was really good at it but since it wasn't complete and because of Gato's heavy weight machine putting a lot of stress on the bridge with all the constant damage it's support structure could be easily targeted, if Viper was right Gato's machine was designed for all weather purposes even if it was not designed for anything but open land operations so it's definitely not going to float and while it was designed to stand up to heavy winds, rain, ice, freezing cold temperatures, heat resistant considering Isaribi's mushroom makers made a large amount of heat when they went boom, lightning proof and most likely insulated on the inside even if it wasn't lightning proof, someone really designed that thing with Ninja's in mind and considering Gato was a business man working close to the elemental nations that has lands full of them it was understandable why he went to the expense to get something like that crazy thing built.
Putting her thoughts aside Viper continued to work on the bridge setting it up to fall down, hoping at least that Naruto would escaped the blast, she wasn't sure she could because she had to set these things off and then book it to survive she was glad she'd can naturally float in water but she was going to be slithering out of the way of both the falling pieces of bridge and not to mention the waves this will create in Wave.
Naruto leapt back as the left hand of the machine let go of the ball and chain to attack him directly getting a glancing blow that sent him flying and destroying all his clones in the process, he quickly created five more clones that softened his landed and he got up and decided to take the offensive and help his hired help get his weapon back, despite not being able to pierce the heavy armored body of the machine he figured that's where Gato was, how he was controlling the thing he wouldn't know but he could tell it would be hard prying him out of that thing and then something odd happened as per Naruto's usual status quo of increasingly bizarre situations, like fighting a nearly ninja proof machine.
"Prime Naruto and Zabuza need our help boys, I say we hit the arm holding the sword as we need that weapon free and in Zabuba's hands he'll do way more damage than we clones ever can, okay come on special howitzer formation guys, UZUMAKI TORNADO CANNON BARRAGE" Naruto blinked in confusion because he finally realized that one of the five clones that he made was a female version of him and it also seemed to be gathering his other four clones into a half circle where the female naruto clone did some hand signs and started forming the Twin Tornado Cannon jutsu in both hands before his four clones closed the formation into a open ended box pointed towards Gato's machine where Zabuza was still struggling to hold his ground and even without a weapon he was doing extremely well in causing more dents then any of Naruto's clones with just water attacks.
Naruto was confused as to how his clones seem to be acting of their own initiative and the female one even called him Prime Naruto, he knew he could get information from the shadow clones but for some reasons he doesn't remember them being able to do stuff like this on their own or getting any information from them that made them seem this ridiculously sentient as there was nothing about this happening written down in the forbidden scroll about the shadow clone technique going nuts.
He watched as the four clones started throwing their shadow cloned kunai and shuriken; one shuriken and kunai thrower on both sides, into the open air not to particularly well until the first tornado from the female clones left hand blasted through all the airborne weapons following the weapons heading towards the machine they were focused more on the right arm like the female clone stated and before the weapons hit they multiplied with the shout of "Shadow Kunai/Shuriken jutsu" being used by the four clones.
The clones that hadn't used their kunai and shuriken switched off which weapons they started throwing towards the center of the box formation in front of the short blonde haired female Naruto clone in a feminine orange jumpsuit that threw the other hand forward launching another tornado blast catching all the weapons again sending them towards Gato's machine which was followed up by another shadow weapon multiplier, pelting the machine heavily.
The effect was actually rather spectacular considering Naruto didn't even know how to do those shadow weapon jutsu that his clones did and he wondered why, but then again he didn't need to know since his clones shadow his clothing and weapons already, except the thunder god sword which touching causes them all to disperse violently and is the only thing about him that they couldn't shadow copy.
Zabuza was surprised at the first wave of drilling kunai and spinning disk that once they were stopped by imbedding themselves halfway into the Gato machine he finally recognized them as being shuriken, the kunai had done the most damage as each impact caused the metal to ripped up slightly and was more amazing is that every single weapon hit and eventually the clawed hand of the machine was thoroughly wrecked and then the second wave came in causing his sword to clatter to the bridge and deal even more damage to the less armored arm of the mechanized monstrosity being driven by a money grubbing man.
"WHAT THE HELL KID" Zabuza said as he picked up his sword and looking back at the clones that started forming another formation while Zabuza dodge out of the way of a partially destroyed right arm of the machine and swung his sword dealing the most damage of the entire fight in his first strike nearly disabling the machines arm by almost taking it off, it was more than Isaribi or Naruto did the entire fight against it.
"I DON'T KNOW I'M KIND OF FREAKED OUT RIGHT NOW TOO" Inside of Naruto, Kyan uncurled from her furry little sobbing mess and sniffled a bit and started watching what was going on in pure interest as to what the hell was just going on, Nabi looked horribly confused as well as surprised at what Naruto's shadow clones were capable of and something wasn't right about them.
"Prime we each require explosives notes so that we may sacrifice ourselves for you, we must not live much longer for we are draining to much chakra from you, we are sorry for stealing more energy from you then what you give us" the female clone said sadly followed with nods and agreements from the other clones, Naruto just blinked blankly and quickly went through his pack before he held out five explosive notes as there were no words for what was going on here he just stayed silent and watched his clones get back after they each got an explosive tag and attached it to themselves, they all took on a look of hard concentration as the female clone stood center of the four other clones in a x-shaped formation.
"Whatever the hell it is they're doing now kid, they better hurry up even with all the damage to this thing I can't hold it back much longer" Zabuza deflect a blow of still perfectly fine left arm with his sword and prevented it from grabbing the ball and chain again, before he actually tore a small hole in the upper torso of the machine around the spot Isaribi's explosives made their mark with a really hard and well defined swing before back off nearly losing his head.
"For the PRIME, FIVE STAR TSUNAMI SPHERE SHOT" What happened next was what looked like four simultaneous activations of the Tsunami Shell Jutsu stuck together to form a huge roiling sphere of water held together by normal, wind and some water elemental chakra with all four clones floating inside the clone in the center once again formed the Twin Tornado Cannon jutsu and aimed it not at the machine but just threw its arms back and let loose sending the giant sphere propelled by two tornado's streaking across the bridge elongating slightly into an oval shape with the water continuing to hold it roiling shifting pattern.
Gato seemed pretty confident considering all the missing ninja he's killed before with the machine and has seen worse damage done to it before, that was until he saw a giant sphere full of rotating water firing at him full blast, when it hit it smashed the entire belly of the machine inward and the follow up was all five of the clones each hitting their own area of the machine, the right arms was totaled from the clone that had impacted with it in a brilliant explosion of a average explosive note and the others didn't do as much but the machine had been knocked on its back a good five feet from where it had been standing, Naruto ran up to it as Zabuza went in for an attack.
"You think that's going to stop me brat, I've faced more powerful ninja then you and… I'm stronger then that" The machine started to sit up and it struck out at Zabuza only for Naruto to push him out of the way again take a full on blow from the things left arm slamming him into the railing of the bridge and he started coughing up blood while wrapping his arms around his chest staggering to his feet, that hadn't been to smart and he realized that it was the exact same thing he lectured Iruka on as he chuckled to himself slightly as he understood now. (Darkon: Ninja Stupidity Law #1, sacrificing yourself for a comrade when you could have easily saved yourselves both from injury and maybe the Inverse Ninja Law where one ninja can kill one hundred people with ease, whereas one hundred ninjas no matter how skilled can be killed by one person that isn't a ninja)
"KID, why in the hell do you keep taking blows for me you asshole" Naruto chuckled at Zabuza's anger trying to stand back up, his ribs had probably been busted by his save a few seconds ago because he was being an idiot that was taught by one.
"Because you're a friend, but I'll live as I've had worse" Naruto said standing up shakily clutching his ribs he was in quite a lot of pain and was glad that he would heal from severe injuries like this, he just wish he couldn't taste his own blood.
"Oh I'm sure that's touching and all, but you're done for…. " Gato had nearly got his machine into a standing position again when the entire bridge jumped upwards in a massive explosion and beneath the bridge a smiling snake could be seen falling away from the bridge into the water as she inhaled as much air as she feasibly could and closing her eyes before impact with the water.
"Come on I think it's time we got out of here" Zabuza grabbed Naruto around the waist and started leaping for the side of the bridge that was connected to land as chunks and pieces started to fall from out from under him, Gato started to scream in terror as his machine was falling with the rest of the bridge while Zabuza leapt away with Naruto towards safety jumping off falling pieces of the bridge and easily making it back to land, grunting with a minimal amount of effort even if he was tired from having to wrestle his sword out of that cold hard machines hand, maybe with a little help from Naruto and getting slightly cut up... and a lot of other things but the kid and his friends had earned his respect.
Zabuza turned around in time to see Gato's machine being pushed into the water by the larger pieces of the bridge and it was holding up a single clawed finger on its left arm before it finally disappeared causing him to shudder as he stabbed his sword into the ground to keep himself upright, Ninja just weren't meant for fighting something heavy and armored like that without an ample amount of explosives, which he wondered where his three clients got all of them from as he would be willing to buy quite a few of those for himself if he could find the supplier.
On a nearby shore Viper's head shot out of the water onto land gasping for air and hacking up water, she was cold, partially drowned and almost out of chakra to the point it might have caused an exhaustion faint but she took pride in her accomplishment when she saw that she took the entire bridge down and it was bigger than the one Naruto blew up, speaking of which she slithered away wanting to snuggle up to Naruto hoping he wasn't too badly hurt or worse, they were going on a date tomorrow after all and the least the country could do now would be supplying them with the ramen for it.
Isaribi was propped up by Haku watching the entire bridge blow up; she took pride knowing that her explosives where always in constant demand, but when the opportunity arose she wanted to blow up the next bridge as Naruto and Viper both got their chances so now it was her turn, she was completely ignoring the fact that they killed anybody today as coping strategy number one of the ninja handbook was said to be used on people you had no connection too or people that no one would care are gone in the first place, but you still had to feel somewhat bad about it later to stay human which Isaribi wasn't entirely, neither was Viper obviously and Naruto had a strong resolve to help people in need even if it meant killing to protect someone.
The people of Wave country ran up to the now collapsing bridge and they looked to see Zabuza help Naruto limp away from the bridge hacking up blood, Haku taking care of Isaribi and finally a snake slowly slithering her way up the path towards them with a weak smile on her face that grew bigger when she saw Naruto she made her way up to the four and they all relaxed that they were all present and accounted for, even if Naruto was coughing up blood he could take more serious injuries then any of them.
"Well Haku it's about time you got some on the job training for your career" It was Zabuza's way of saying he could use a medic ninja right about now.
They were all soon called the five heroes of wave, but not before Tazuna threw a rather big hissy fit.
"They… THEY BLEW IT ALL UP, why… what did my bridge ever do you… it was made of sweat and tears… you just destroyed the Waves Hope bridge" And old man Tazuna's rant continued while he drank from a bottle of his chosen poison, before Kaiza finally came up to him and exclaimed something that got the citizens of Wave happy and ready to start a party.
"But didn't they just kill Gato, you know the man that was causing us the most problems, not to mention he's the one that brought in all the bandits and tried to take over" Kaiza said as he watched the five rest on the ground while one of them took care of the other four by patching up their injuries, the snake didn't look to particularly hurt but she looked ready to drop where she sat.
"Yeah, BUT MY BRIDGE, I BUILT IT TO BE AWESOME, MY POOR BRIDGE WHY DOESN'T ANYONE CARE ABOUT MY BEAUTIFUL DEAD BRIDGE" Tazuna was still wailing about it while everyone else celebrated until someone asked about the money issue in wave country, Haku happened to hear what was going on while she was patching up Zabuza's cuts and scrapes, she motioned for him to comment on it.
"Wave country is now in possession of a large portion of Gato's money, we cleaned out his base earlier" Zabuza said carelessly watching as Viper flopped onto Naruto who grunted in pain and she promptly passed out, Haku diagnosed Chakra exhaustion as about as good as she could considering she really didn't have much in the way of training as a medical ninja and Naruto commented on his freshly banadaged chest being quite a pain to breathe with before he too fell asleep in a slightly pained matter with a snake slowly coiling up on his body, Isaribi took a look at both of them and giggled before clutching her head and she decided to join them by just lying down and closing her eyes it would be much easier to deal with sleep than her current headache.
"BUT… MY BRIDGE! THE HOPE… IT'S ALL GONE! WHY ARE YOU ALL CHEERING, AREN'T YOU LISTENING THEY BLEW UP MY BRIDGE! WHAT ABOUT YOU GUYS, YOU WERE IN MY CONSTRUCTION CREW FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, WHY ARE YOU JOINING THE REST OF THEM IN CELEBRATION… ARGH… my bridge…" Nobody was paying attention to Tazuna at the moment and he just decided to have a drink while crying to himself silently for his lost bridge away from the crowd, Kaiza saw Naruto lying on the ground with the snake coiled on his belly and a girl with bandages wrapped around her head, he also noticed a girl looking them over one last time before she turned to the man with the large sword that helped out the citizens.
These were the heroes of Wave, they were beaten, burned, bloodied, bruised, drowned, tired, weak and most of all they were still alive at the end of the day after what they've been through.
"Exscuse me, but is there anything we can do you for you for helping us" Both Zabuza and Haku's attentions were grabbed, they both looked at each other levelly Haku had a stern stare on her eyes and the bunny crawled up onto her shoulder and started to nuzzled her instantly making her drop the glare to smile and start petting it.
"Actually we have something we want and those three have something they want, what we want is a place to stick around for a while and we can protect Wave from any stragglers if you're interested, but as for them those two specifically wouldn't shut up about bringing ramen back to the country" Zabuza was pointing out both Viper and Naruto, causing Kaiza to smile he could get a ramen stand set up in no time and it wouldn't be hard for them to ask this man with the very large sword to stick around to make sure things stay quiet.
Later the next day.
They had both woken up rather dreamily in the same soft bed in the guest room at Kaiza's living arrangement and went downstairs to see both Kaiza and Zabuza interacting like old friends at the table for breakfast, Tazuna was still moaning about his bridge, Haku was continually trying to establish her nonexistent manhood to Inari who was constantly being skeptical about it, Isaribi was eating at a normal pace while talking to Tsunami about the many ways to cook an egg on a bandit dented frying pan before she stopped and said hello to the sleepy heads, one who was still very much in pain even if he had healed from most of the damage while sleeping it off.
Viper yawned and slithered up to the table and stole whatever bacon there was and swallowed it slowly to savor the taste, Naruto ate his breakfast in silence before taking a shower and when he descended the stairs fresh for the day Viper was giving him an expectant look, he nodded and she smiled brightly before slithering up his pants leg causing Tsunami to get slightly disturbed but she kept quiet about it when Isaribi commented on the fact that Naruto didn't mind hauling Viper around as to have her slithering alongside Naruto into a town full of people would cause problems, not that it would be a problem in Wave country but still Viper wanted to see how the people of Wave were celebrating their victory over the tyranny of the ramen hating oppressors.
Later around Lunch Kaiza had brought them both to a recently opened ramen stand named 'snakes and fishcakes' in honor of Naruto and Viper, it was opened using some of the money they got from Gato and they spent all night setting it up for two of the lands heroes and Isaribi had gotten something else in the way of food for herself as well, he also mentioned that he understood that they were on the run and nobody in wave country would say anything about it except maybe Tazuna because they blew up his bridge.
Sitting down to the stand; after watching Kaiza go off to join the still continuing celebration, seemingly all alone the girl running the stand exclaimed her hello and Naruto just had to say the most downright awkward things imaginable without really meaning too considering Viper tended to frequent living inside of his rather roomy orange jumpsuit which was as roomy as any other of his entire collection of multicolored jumpsuits.
"Um… you wouldn't mind serving the snake in my clothing Ramen as well, right" The girl blushed heavily at the wrong implications looking to Naruto's pants, which was quickly fixed by a very irate snake that wanted some ramen and to get the date started.
End chapter, poor Naruto you just had to say something suggestive sounding.
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Uzumaki Tornado Cannon Barrage- ninjutsu combo-Target area: line of sight or arcing fire from the user's position towards a target within a set amount of distance depending on the user capability- effect: long range ninjutsu propelled weaponry particularly done in two volley's with clones that assist by throwing weapons into the ninjutsu and multiplying the weapons mid flight, used to lay siege to an enemy, used to rain down weapons on an enemy encampment, used as a long range assault, used for launching weapons with explosives attached into groups of targets and used to attack heavy armored slow moving targets up close.
Requirements: ninjutsu that can propel weaponry, a method for implementing that propulsion with deadly force and you have to be Uzumaki "Ninjutsu Howitzer" Naruto who the jutsu is named after.
Shadow "weapon's name" – ninjutsu- Target Area: on an object that is motionless or in motion- effect: creates a copy of a weapon when used, if used when thrown the weapon multiplies mid flight the copies appear randomly or by choice of the user within a short range of the weapon, the copy will be moving in the same direction at the same velocity, use to arm an opponent with a false weapon, used to create throwable weapons that can't be used against the user, used to created a flying wall of death, used to replace a destroyed weapon for dual wielders, used to create something to use Substitution with and used to cheaply duplicate object when needed like a chair.(Trio: Only you would think a chair could be used as a weapon Darkon dude)
Interesting note: When you create a normal shadow clone all weapons on you are cloned along with your clothing so technically when using the shadow clone jutsu, your making shadow clothing, shadow weapons and of course the shadow clone itself with all the abilities of the user except it can't take too much damage, but the fact that you make more than one thing when you shadow clone would explain the reason for the high amount of chakra needed to use it, Zabuza hardly wears a shirt so he doesn't have to form on that Water Clothing portion of his Water Clone jutsu which might actually save on some chakra since his water cloned sword probably takes up a good chunk of it.
*FIVE POINT TSUNAMI SPHERE SHOT*- Special ninjutsu combo- Target Area: around the group and directed at a single fortified live target-
This jutsu consists of four physical clones of any kind or people compressing four Tsunami Shell's into a Tsunami Sphere which provides the protection of a normal Tsunami Shell but from all sides and the barrier made is effectively dangerous to touch or even be inside of for too long without a breathing apparatus or the ability to holds ones breathe, this jutsu by itself would be only defensive but when the Twin Tornado Cannon is added to this jutsu used by the person in the center of the barrier sphere that person can direct the sphere for a effective barrier attack, upon hitting the target the five inside the barrier can attack several spots simultaneously or focus around the same spot for great damage, this jutsu is of a high class that if given enough power could wreck some smaller house sized summoning animals and demons, even if it is incredibly draining, difficult to use and requires large amounts of precision and concentration it is considered to be as powerful as it is complex.
-effect: creates a barrier in the shape of a sphere made of swirling water that is promptly launched towards a target with wind ninjutsu, used to launch a heavy attack, used to attack a summon creature, used to create a mobile barrier that's dangerous to touch, used as a defensive to offensive ability and can be used to train in elemental jutsu.
Interesting note: Naruto's clones acted of their own accord to create this jutsu and they have used jutsu Naruto has only read about beforehand in an interesting thought this might have to do with Naruto's main element as it is no element at all, thus the water portion of this jutsu is not as great as it should have been which was replaced with the wind element to hold it together, this was as if to say if Isaribi were to use it the effects would be for more better but since she can't use wind Ninjutsu she can't propel the sphere forward and the use of a rising geyser would send it flying at an arc, unless she was using herself and three water clones and Naruto took up center of the formation direct attack which is impossible for Isaribi, but this would require far more coordination between the two to perform together.
Darkon: And thus I can start barely caring bringing Konoha into the picture now, sure there will be a few attempts to catch Naruto, but let's see how well that will go when his stealth is shown off in the next chapter where he isn't wearing orange all that much.
Trio: No chapters title this time dude?
Darkon: Nope, it's a 'and now for something completely different' moment, Konoha has hardly anything to do with the plot from this point forward except for references to what may or may not be happening there and if anyone is being sent to capture the specially ranked civilian shinobi.
Sir: What about the problems of not being allied with a ninja village such as buying ninja specific tools addressed in one of the chapters, given that there are assassin shops but they don't primarily sell ninja tools.
Darkon: Of course there are problems and one of them is getting ninja weaponry which Naruto uses and or any new ninjutsu unless they could find someone they could pay off for jutsu, not that arrows and senbon are going to be hard to get considering assassin shops sell them in good supply whereas normal ninja weapons they don't for various reasons.