If you had left it like this the story would be a very good one-shot with the possibility of sequels, I'm glad there are more chapters :D

As soon as i read bagpipe, i just imagined Naruto play Scotland the Brave.

Naruto is MUAD'DIB!

this language whatever that these people of the leaf speaks is horid

please make a sequel this was soooooo good probably the best Naruto fiction I've ever read and definitely the best considering thus was pre academy absolutely amazing

Thank you. As part of my annual "read my favorite fanfics," I came to visit. I still love your story.

sir author ignore those haters send them to suck fifty thousand hectares of penises

I honestly think that my capabilities of playing pretend is equal now and back then. Obviously doing it was easier when I was a shameless child, but nowadays I honed my acting skills in VRChat.

this was so great! you are very talented!

And with confirmation of the shapeshifting jutsu... Naruto could use shadow clones in a snake henge to manage the more fiddly bits of the Snake style.

A pleasure to reread.

"bang went his idea of studying human anatomy in more depth if he couldn't have a bunshin or two lay down its ethereal life in the name of science"
This was where Orochimaru went wrong. Good thing Naruto's not following that path.

This was really enjoyable. I can understand stopping; the story kind of meandered and sprawled in scope, but it is a shame. You had fertile ground for things to go in an entirely new direction, and I’d loved to have seen that. For example, would the Chunin Exams really go generally the same way? I doubt Orochimaru would be expecting Konoha to tighten up its security so drastically, and there’s plenty of ways Kabuto could get caught out.

If I had one complaint, it’s the flow. Chapters were extremely long, to the point reaching the end felt like a slog. Paragraphs could be rather large in size, especially in the earlier chapters. Primarily, though, you use way too many commas. You have run-on sentences that can last the entire length of a paragraph. It makes it feel clunky.

Lastly, I wanted to say I really appreciated the smarts and wit that went into this. I was greatly impressed by the brilliance of several ideas, and the humor had me laughing solidly once or twice a chapter at a minimum.

This was a delight

what a great story. was hoping there was a sequel, but there is not.