Sakura slowly opened her eyes. Blue skies, white clouds. An odd weight on her chest.
"Waking at last? The ressst of your team hass already made two lapsss."
Sakura slowly looked down. There was a snake on her chest. "Uhm." Sakura carefully moved her head, tracing the length of the serpent. Apparently the serpent in question was coiled up to completely surround her and just a small portion of it was on her chest. "Uhm."
"Anko-sensei is training the boysss," said the serpent, apparently trying not to hiss. "Are you feeling okay now?"
"Other than having a big snake on me, okay," said Sakura, trying to go through her checklist of what to do when a giant talking snake had you in its coils.
"Oh good, good," said the snake. "My name is Monty, by the way. My main job isss jokesss, puns, riddles, cyphers. Unfortunately, nobody ever sssummons me for that sort of thing."
"Oh, so what are you normally summoned for?" asked Sakura, trying to reach for a kunai.
"You're lucky, Sssakura-chan," said the snake. "You get genjutsu-resistance lesssons."
"What do you -" began Sakura as the snake reared up and then looked her in the eye. At which point everything went black.
"And now you get to run while carrying me," said Monty. "Why can't anyone sssummon me for a ssskit or comedy routine?"