Chapter 44 - Snake

Yuki after leaving the training grounds had exited the Village and was currently practicing jutsu that were more destructive and deadly.

So as he walked by he realised that he was being followed by someone.

"A professional..." he murmured and stopped as he kneeled down trying to take out his kunai.

*whoosh!*

A shadowy figure jumped at him, his long hair floated in the air for a second until it all fell down on his face covering it.

Yuki dodged the strike from the assailant and grabbed the stalker's wrist while twisting it in an unorthodox way.

"guh!" the assailant grunted in pain as Yuki smoothly went behind him while pointing his kunai into his neck. He knew it was a male from the voice of the assailant, it was too low to be a female.

He was shocked as he saw the assailant's face "Orochimaru!" he thought inwardly as he released the genius of the legendary sannin.

"Orochimaru-san what are you doing here?" Yuki asked carefully as he helped the sweating jonin that was holding his wrist worriedly.

"I was here to test you" Orochimaru answered with a weak smile and glanced at Yuki's left arm, the arm that was sliced in half by the Suna commander.

"What about it?" Yuki asked as he turned to the side to break Orochimaru's stare on his arm.

"I can fix it..." he said as he licked his lips with his abnormally long tongue, menacingly. Yuki who heard these words shivered ever so slightly and looked at Orochimaru cautiously for a while.

"What do you want?" Yuki asked nonchalantly as Orochimaru chuckled and replied "Your blood is very precious to me..." as Yuki nodded and spoke more about the details with Orochimaru.

Yuki was in no mood to continue his training and turned back to leave however at that point Orochimaru reminded him "You can't be a ninja!" as Yuki stopped and spoke in a cold tone and asked "What do you mean?", Orochimaru walked past him and said "Your balance is a bit off! I believe that in about three years, your nerves in your left arm will weaken and damage your nervous system..."

Orochimaru flickered as his statement kept on echoing through Yuki's head.

"he didn't have to use that excuse..." Yuki mumbled and continued walking homeward.

The next day...

Yuki felt something heavy on his body and tried to push it away however he realised that it was Mikoto and gently moved to the side to avoid waking her up in anyway.

After wearing his uniform he flickered to the hokage building and walked in. The receptionist nodded her head as Yuki went upstairs to meet the hokage.

"Yuki what is it?" The hokage asked as he kept on stamping papers, Yuki thought of an idea and spoke up "I want a mission, possibly S-rank!". Hiruzen g.r.o.a.n.e.d, a mission meant more paperwork and shook his head as he lied "There are no missions today Yuki, spend some time with your wife, isn't she pregnant?".

Yuki smiled cunningly and turned around while mumbling loudly "I guess you won't get the secret way to complete paperwork, hokage-sama" Hiruzen who heard it dropped his stamp and suddenly stood up.

"Repeat what you said!" Hiruzen shouted excitedly as Yuki chuckled and replied "Give me an S-rank mission!", Hiruzen stared at Yuki for a while and sighed as he took out a scroll from his drawer and gave it begrudgingly.

"You better not lie!" he said as he threw it towards Yuki who caught it.

"Now... tell me!" He said with hope in his eyes, Yuki smiled and stated "I'm solid yet a gas, forbidden yet used! what am I?".

Hiruzen was left shocked as Yuki smiled and walked out of the Hokage building. Within minutes a loud laughter could be heard all over Konoha as Hiruzen mumbled "Kage bunshin no jutsu!" and a clone of his was formed and was ordered to complete the paperwork instead of the original who was reading the last book of Icha Icha tactics...