RWOL with a Naruto project I've been working on; the Naruto Drabbles. Here I'll do a collection of one-shots for a specific Naruto couple. The first collection that is up is my personal favorite, in my Top Ten, NaruAnko. Yes, it is NarutoxAnko drabbles for all the fans who like the couple of Naruto and Anko.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own the Naruto series, Masashi Kishimoto does.

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Many people questioned exactly how and why Uzumaki Naruto and Mitarashi Anko got together and became a couple. There was a ten year difference between them, they were of different ranks and specialties; he was a Genin at the time while she was a Tokubetsu Jōnin.

So many wondered exactly how Naruto and Anko hooked up.

Even the most simple minded of idiots could see the reason.

The understood each other.

Both were pariahs due to events out of their control and thus hated because it.

For Anko, it was due to her past affiliation to the late Snake Sannin Orochimaru. Because she used to be his apprentice, many branded Anko a traitor due to her former sensei's actions despite the contrary. Anko proved her loyalty time and again but the people of Konoha could not look past her past association with the monster. She couldn't even get past Tokubetsu Jonin rank for Elite Jonin because the so-called Honorable Elders didn't want her to have the freedoms and perks that came along with the rank and in a petty fashion punish her.

She was guilty by association.

For Naruto, he was born on October 10th, where the masked Uchiha Obito under the guise of Tobi attacked Namikaze-Uzumaki Kushina shortly after she gave birth to Naruto. Here Obito, under Uchiha Madara's thrall, kidnapped Kushina and forcibly released the Kyubi from the seal before having it attack Konoha. While Minato was able to fight, defeat and kill his wayward student, the damage was already done and Minato was forced to seal the Kyubi within his newborn son at the cost of his life.

His dying order was for the Naruto to be seen a hero but that order would not be followed.

Since then, Naruto was hated and ostracized by the villagers and most of the Konoha ninja. It was only because of a few brave souls who looked past the Kyubi and see Naruto for who he really that Naruto managed to keep his sanity intact.

And Anko was one of those people.

Thus it is not surprising that Naruto and Anko would be drawn together due to the village's misguided hate; finding solace and true acceptance in each other. Both having witnessed how the other was treated in the village. For Anko, she was on the ANBU squad Sarutobi Hiruzen put together to protect Naruto in case the villagers tried to physically harm Naruto. For Naruto, when he walked around the village trying to ignoring the glares and harsh whispering insults, he would come across Anko and notice she was being treated the same way.

Naruto watched this go on several more times before one day walking up to Anko when she eating her prized dango. It wasn't hard for Naruto to realize that Anko was one of his ANBU watchers for several reasons: 1) Hebi-chan's violet-black hair was distinctive along with the 'fanned' pineapple ponytail she styled it in, thusly he was able to deduce that Anko was indeed Hebi-chan; 2) only Hebi-chan had the distinct scent of snakes, dango and sometimes blood; and 3) either as Anko or ANBU agent Hebi, she was the only one who could eat half her body weight in dango.

These were the reasons Naruto gave her when she asked him how he'd know it was her when he approached her and called her Hebi-chan.

Smiling, Anko invited her favorite little blonde chibi to join her and partake of the dango, something she never did even with her best friends Kurenai and Yugao. That was just how much she cared for Naruto. Here they talked about any and everything, with Anko promising to help Naruto when she heard he wanted to be a shinobi legend. When evening approached, Anko carried Naruto, piggyback style, back to her apartment where she fixed them dinner before letting Naruto snuggle up to her when they went to sleep.

It was this one action of Naruto approaching Anko that would the first step of them becoming friends, lovers, and husband and wife.