Chapter 12: CH12: A Shiny Ekans Appears

The muddy bottom of the river shifted and churned like the belly of a great beast while he found the right way to lift the barge. He stood in the water using the river to get leverage from otherwise shifting unpredictable footing. Water walking paid for the time it took to learn the exercise with interest; it was a shame there wasn’t an obvious next step outside of 6 path flight. He used controlled chakra enhancement and the tree walking exercise to keep the barge's hull from ripping itself apart. At the same time, he lifted it from the sucking hungry depths of the river. When he exposed the hole in its side, the barge wasn’t quite out of the water. Though when he felt the massive tooth stuck in the steel of the hull, he had some second thoughts about fighting Niko’s father.

 

Silas yanked out a tooth from the Oni’s hull, larger and wider than his forearm. Niko’s people were mutated prisoners captured by Pedomaru; what kind of experiment turned her father into a kaiju? Sage chakra could mutate people until they became giant toad statues, so it wasn’t impossible that snake sage chakra could turn someone into a giant snake. Captain Deku was tight-lipped about the attack and dodged any questions Silas asked.

 

No, he wasn’t going to turn his charisma on the guy and try to dig out all the Captain’s secrets. He had enough problems without the Captain following him back to Konoha, proclaiming Silas a god in human flesh. Controlling his charisma was a powerful tool allowing him to decide who he used it on.

 

Silas had practiced the shadow clone jutsu with terrible results. Making a clone with more than half his chakra wasn’t enough to form one. The personalities attached to the memories of his past lives must have been able to control Silas’s chakra better than he could himself. Or maybe there was a mechanic to everything he wasn’t getting. Technically he was an incarnation with theoretically all the memories of his past lives.

 

Bottom line, he couldn’t use a shadow clone to do the weld while he lifted the ship, but he had other ways of doing his job. Silas took one hand off the barge, and it creaked as it adjusted to his changed grip. But, so far, he hadn’t ripped the side of the hull off.

 

That was good if he did that; the mission was over, and they weren’t getting paid. Silas was here to do a patch job, and he would get it done.

 

He reached out for the massive slab of metal the Captain supplied and took out of the reward the bastard. Silas felt all the food and drinks Anko enjoyed also came out of the reward courtesy of Sensei's privilege. Even his charisma full blast probably couldn’t stop Anko from spending money like a college girl with daddy’s credit card. If he managed to be the 1% of the 1%, he was putting all his girls on a spending limit, starting with Anko.

 

Silas felt a familiar presence in the water and turned his head in time to see Nico, the blessed sexy Dratini girl herself, hand him the steel slab. Her hand brushed against his while she handed him the steel, and he felt butterflies.

 

Oh, he was going to do things to her sexy ass. He fought to calm himself down as his caring girl helped him more than his Sensei did. Anko refused to get up, saying he wore her out or something ridiculous. If she didn’t want to have sex all day, she should have rolled over after round one.

 

He pressed the slap against the hole, fitting it with his knee before slowly moving through hand signs one-handed. No, he hadn’t mastered the welding jutsu enough to use half-hand signs; he didn’t have a choice. Bubbles exploded around the tip of his fingers as the welding flame appeared. 

 

Silas slowly made a bead pouring on the heat to melt a truly ludicrous amount of steel together. He used techniques he learned from tree walking to shift the hot steel as he worked. While a visible bead would have been fine, he didn’t want to hear Captain Deku complain.

 

If they weren’t underwater, sweat would have begun pouring from his forehead as he worked, not from the heat but the expenditure of chakra. While the leaf still sat happily on his forehead, his reserves couldn’t handle lifting the ship, shifting steel, and welding at the same time forever. Even his regeneration had limits that became apparent after the first hour. Niko’s father had really made a big hole in the Oni.

 

Two hours later, he was halfway done and closing in on his limit. That’s when a crack appeared that quickly spread down the side of the steel sheet. Not only did Captain Deku charge him for the sheet, but he also gave him a steel sheet with a crack running through it. The weld was great, but the sheet would break.

 

Silas was low on options and, more importantly, chakra. If he welded the crack, it would take time and eat even more of his reserves. If this was sabotage, he could expect more problems with the sheet than a single crack.

 

Anger ran hot in his chest. He felt betrayed and wanted to lash out.

 

Niko’s hands gripped his shoulders, and he could feel her nature chakra. A soothing sensation ran through his body, and he wanted to smash her pussy. Silas gripped her hand, feeling the scales and webbing covering it. At this point, he was certain they were more like active adaptations to make surviving in different environments easier. On land, her webbed hands were far less noticeable than underwater, and her hand was smooth like normal skin.

 

If he got up to the surface and acted like an asshole to Captain Deku, it would make him look bad in front of her. People talk, and the deal they barely had could fall apart if he acted like an angry teenager. So while that was exactly what he felt like, he needed to use his head.

 

His arm felt stiff from lifting the barge, but his reserves quickly recovered thanks to the regeneration stat. Everything wasn’t lost; he needed to dig deep. First, he would weld the crack together and see if any more cracks appeared before finishing the weld.

 

Silas slowed down and let his reserves recover as the hours flew by. Two more fractures opened, and he welded those back together while using his sense of touch to check for any more fractures. He took time to weld each one until the steel sheet was whole, then moved on to welding the last of the hole closed.

 

Over twelve hours after he started, the hole in the barge was sealed. Silas finally felt how exhausted his left arm felt and released the barge. The Oni plummeted back into the riverbed. Deku could bucket out the excess water if they wanted it to float. Per the contract, his job was done, and he would collect his payment.

 

Silas grabbed Nico around the waist and used water walking to rise to the river's surface. Nico stared at him with her hawkish nose sniffing the air for enemies. Then, she turned her head down a river where Silas felt a massive presence rise.

 

“My father wants to test you to ensure you’re worthy. But, remember, you don’t have to win; just impress him, and we’ll go with you.”

 

In a burst of body flicker, a squad of Chunin led by a Jonin in a new-smelling green vest stood proudly. “Ah, Genin Silas Flex, I see you’re hard at work on your mission, flirting with the future clan girl very enterprising. Where is your Sensei? We have instructions to retrieve a more in-depth report from her for the shinobi council.” The Jonin said.

 

“A nobody; why didn’t they send someone like Kakashi Hatake, Asuma Sarutobi, or even Maito Guy? We have a perfect sage girl.” Silas held up Nico like she was the most precious thing in the world, she was. Dratini was all precious, but he was especially with her fin-like ears and cutely manicured eyebrows. Even if she was a little on the flat side, he wouldn’t count it against her; some good Konoha cuisine would fatten her titties up. Going by Tsunade’s eating habits, it all made sense.

 

“Genin, I’m the ranking Jonin here and deserve your respect. For your information, I’m,” The river rumbled before a massive snake head with long tree branch-like horns raised its head out of the water. Ice chunks formed on the river's surface from the massive being’s breath forming and shattering under the river's slow current.

 

Silas chuckled as the eastern dragon rose with small human-like arms sticking out of its body, each with three-toed claws. If his eastern dragon lore was correct, that made this dragon one of the lower varieties, unlike the perfect kind like Nico with her five fingers.

 

The dragon opened his mouth, and Silas felt massive amounts of nature chakra roll off the dragon. Silas couldn’t call the thing a mutant anymore because it didn’t look close to human. Long fluffy coal-filled, knotted clumps of hair covered the dragon’s body over blue scales the same color as Nico’s sword.

 

“You are the boy making big promises to my daughter though I hear you did not have the authority to make your promises.” The dragon said.

 

Mutants moved in far differently than the cannibalistic monstrosities he fought on the way.

 

Each of the mutants had something the ones before didn’t. Silas could see intelligence in the eyes of the mutants following their leader. While they looked like a menagerie of half-sea creatures with their curse mark transformations, they weren’t disgusting.

 

“Why should we leave the safety of our river and go to a far-off land from the promises of someone without the strength to back them up?” The dragon asked.

 

“I am here under the authority of the Hokage himself to ensure your deliverance to Konoha goes smoothly. With me are a team of our most experienced Chunin and Genin hand-picked for this mission. They will lay down their lives, if need be, to ensure your clan and daughter reach the safety of Konoha.” The Jonin said.

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Silas was honestly surprised the dragon hadn’t made a meal of the Jonin already. Of course, there was a chance the dragon didn’t eat humans, and white or black Zetsu were the only reason it attacked the Oni.

 

“What of the white devil who enslaved, tortured, and threw us away? How can we be sure he won’t find us again.” The dragon asked.

 

Silas looked around, but the snake bastard hadn’t taken his queue to make himself known.

 

That was one less problem to deal with.

 

“Our Hokage taught the white devil when he was a Genin. Then, when Pedomaru,” Silas looked around again, but the snake Sanin hadn’t taken his queue to show himself. “When the snake Sanin showed his true colors, our Hokage drove him away, and Orochimaru has been too scared to show himself since then,” Silas said.

 

The Jonin gave him a nod, and the dragon grumbled at the information. “You wish to marry my daughter, but only one with the power to protect her deserves her. Are you ready to fight me and prove your worth?” The dragon demanded. “My name is Riku, the snake that became a dragon,” Riku yelled, and Silas tossed Niko in the air before rushing forward.

 

Silas dodged a lung from the dragon as ice formed around Riku’s body as he moved. Water walking gave Silas leverage even with the river shifting constantly. He delivered a powerful kick to the side of Riku’s still-lunging body spreading his surface area with chakra to keep the impact from blowing a hole through Riku.

 

The dragon’s body rocked to the side before icy spikes exploded from its scales, before the dragon’s hairs stood on end. Icy spears shot out at supersonic speeds blasting past a dodging Silas. Normally he would commit to his initial attack, but he was interested in seeing what Riku could do. The massive dragon wasn’t bad, and its nature chakra jutsu was potent as hell.

 

An ice spear caught him by surprise and blasted a hole through Silas’s leg. The injury healed rapidly, bone knitting back together, muscles reattaching, blood scabbing over, and finally, his skin sealed shut, leaving no trace of the injury. Chakra amped his regeneration as much as it did his strength and stamina. Once he gained chakra control exercises, Silas had nowhere to go but up.

 

He shot forward, dodging the ice spears as they blasted out of the dragon-like a line of artillery while Silas moved in.

 

It wasn’t that Riku was weak, far from it. From Orochimaru's experiments with sage mode chakra, the second stage curse mark mutated man had become a dragon of all things. The snakes themselves haven’t managed to transition from snake to dragon, which was the point of their sage mode. Something about the combination of curse mark and snake sage mode did the trick, and it was passed on to Nico in a perfected form. Riku was an important step in developing a true dragon-like Nico. Still, he wasn’t a true dragon and lacked the training of a ninja by how sloppy his sloppy chakra control was.

 

Silas moved not with his own strength and weight atop water but with the leverage from hundreds of thousands of gallons of water weighed down by gravity sitting in a riverbed. Riku weighed 20 to 25 tons, and while that was much larger than a T-rex by nearly 4 times, it wasn’t more than the weight of over a hundred cubic yards of river. Still, he expanded his blow’s surface area with chakra to ensure he didn’t run through Nico’s dad.

 

His blow shattered the ice that had yet to launch and lifted the dragon out of the river before he took a step forward and punched again. The easter dragon shook as Silas delivered blow after punishing blow and stopped. The dragon skipped over the water once, twice, and three times before Silas walked over and caught Nico before she could fall back into the water.

 

A powerful feeling of death fell over the river as Silas turned to see Orochimaru slitting the throat of the Jonin. He sighed and turned his attention to the snake Sanin that was most likely either informed of the situation by Zetsu, knew about the situation all along, or was told by Danzo.

 

“Hello, grand sensei,” Silas said, and the Sanin twitched.

 

“As much as I enjoyed my time with dear Anko, it would be a mistake to believe there is anything between us,” Orochimaru said.

 

“Well, it wouldn’t be my first C-rank without fighting one of the Sanin,” Silas said.

 

The snake, Sanin, chuckled. “Yes, the first C rank's curse seems inescapable. But you don’t have to die. What is some girl’s life compared to your life? Hand her over to me, and I’ll let you live.” Orochimaru said.

“No, you won’t,” Silas said.

 

Orochimaru smirked. “Have it your way, play the hero, and die like one accomplishing nothing like so many promising talents. You remind me of another promising child, the brother of my teammate; he had big dreams, and so loved his village and sister.” Orochimaru said.

 

“I see you’re still in love with her,” Silas said.

 

Orochimaru snorted. “That was the other teammate. Tsunade was only ever a friend.”

 

“I’m not talking about your teammate,” Silas said.

 

Orochimaru’s eye twitched. A smile spread across Silas’s face as he finally found a chink in Orochimaru’s armor.

 

Silas held Nico. “I’m going to throw you up again, then crush this snake in the grass.” The largest snake Silas had ever seen shot up, mouth agape, ready to devour him. Silas stepped forward and kicked it, adjusting his surface area to send it flying in the opposite direction.”

 

Orochimaru moved at incredible speeds, but Silas’s senses could still keep up even if his body was too slow to react to a blow from the Sanin. So instead, he raised an arm to block a powerful blow that sent ripples through the river. Whirlpools erupted as Silas stood his ground while Orochimaru’s chakra fought his to gain control of the river’s leverage.

 

The snake Sanin’s eyes widened and then narrowed. Silas knew the jig was up when Orochimaru swapped into rapid taijutsu while taking ground in the battle for the river’s leverage. Silas tossed Nico high in the air while he struggled against shadow snakes from under Orochimaru’s sleaves.

 

“You are poorly trained even for a fresh Genin; what has Anko been teaching you.” It was his second week as a Genin of Konoha, and expectations were apparently through the roof. He normally wouldn't get so easily distracted but he could smell Orochimaru. He was a she and the snake was very wet. 

 

Orochimaru threw an uppercut, and Silas’s felt the river shake as he tried to cling to it with water walking until the snake Sanin hit him again. His feet left the river’s surface, and his leverage vanished. Orochimaru flew through hand signs and hit Silas with a great breakthrough. Hurricane-force winds pushed Silas further into the air.

 

Moment’s later, Nico reached the apex of Silas’s throw and started plummeting toward the snake Sanin. A massive snake shot out of the water, and fangs bared at Silas. He flew through the air, unable to do anything.

 

 

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