A small hamlet outside of Vacuo, near an arid forest, was bustling as people crossed the desert roads of sandstone. The town had recently had fallen into bandit's hands, with a leader of the bandits being called Midori Hana, a feminine name for a very brutish male bandit leader with green hair and pale green eyes.
He looked at the small hamlet, laughing as his bandits ransacked the place, "good! Soon we'll have all of the gold from the mine in our possession, and with a big payday boy!"
Suddenly the leader grabs an elderly man, "Okay old man, where's the fucking key!"
"I don't know…please…have mercy!" The old man cried out in fear, "the key to mine is not in our village, it is in Vacuo City with the owner of our town."
"Bah!" Midori throws the elderly man to the ground, "if you won't give me the key willingly then I'll have to make you."
Midori motioned his hand, watching as two of his Dust Bandit Gang members grab ahold of a woman and child before dossing them in wine from a nearby jar. The bandit leader took a cigar out, lighting it with a smirk on his face and he walks over to them.
"Okay, guy, we're gonna play a game. Either tell me where the key is, or I burn the woman and child!" Midori yells as he held the cigar above them, "clock's ticking gramps."
A figure wearing a cloak, lying near the open stall bar of the small town suddenly raised up, pulling the cloak over their purple spiked ponytail, the person got up and struggled to bar and sat in a stool. The mas hanging above her face was that of a snake, a white snake to be exact.
"Barkeep, hey barkeep, bar~ keep~" She sings as she hicks before yelling, "barkeep!"
She rubbed her eyes chocolate brown eyes, mumbling something about hangovers and deserts. Yawning, she licked her lips, looking at the empty bar and noticed movement behind her. She then felt a hand on her shoulder, her bloodshot eyes had long dried in the heat, she just felt the urge to hurl and then turned to see where the affliction on her shoulder was coming from.
"Oi there, missy, we can your barkeeps, you just need to join the rest of your lovely friends over there." The Bandit gripping her shoulder pointed toward the villagers, "if may do so kindly."
She blinked once, twice, and yawns as she stretched. "Nah, I'm good, bye fuckface."
The Bandit stammered, "excuse me, you little bitch?"
"Hehe," she giggled before rolling her eyes as she drunkenly faced the man by turning her stool around on its leg in a pivot, "the only thing here that's little is you bitch."
"You got a mouth on you, don't ya, that's fine…I can use that pretty little thing here soon~" He gripped her chin, only for her to suddenly lash out and bite into his hand.
He screams in pain, holding his bleeding hand as blood dripped on the sand, "ah, what the fuck?!"
The woman drunkenly got up, swaying slightly side to side, "sorry…sorry…I get a little rough on the first date~"
She drunkenly moved toward the man, the men around the boss howled in laughter, "hey Chestnut you can't handle a little old woman?!"
The Bandit, Chestnut, growls as he grabbed his sword before pointing it at her. She stopped in her tracks sputtering in laughter as she looked at his sword, and then rolled her eyes as she held her forehead. Slowly, taking a deep breath, and then looking at them.
"Seriously," she speaks with a hint of confusion, "anyone can tell me how long I was out?!"
"We thought you were dead, but I'll make sure to make that reality, hyaa!" Chestnut charged and attempted to stab the woman.
The woman huffed, sidestepping the man as she slashed at her, she kept both of her hands behind her as she continued to dodge him. She hopped up, kicking his head and landing behind him with a drunken look on her face still.
She playfully giggles, turning to the man as he turned on his heel, slashing at her again. The chocolate eye woman rolls her eyes and dodges him while keeping her feet on the ground. The sound of her boots sliding on sandstone filled the air, she danced around him.
"Hey," the woman calls out as she dodged several stabs, "you kind of suck at this~"
"You'll be sucking something else when I remove your fucking hands, bitch!" Chestnut screams as he went to stab her in the stomach, "die, bitch!"
The woman dodged him, only to hit his hand upward and send her elbow into his face before taking his sword from his own hand and stabbing him in the chest. She then kicked him off the blade in one motion in tandem with the others, she stumbled around, looking at the blade that blood flowing down it.
She giggled, "oopsie, thought he was a guy~"
"You fuck, not Chestnut!" A Bandit screams, "kill this bitch!"
The woman sighed, easily cutting an arrow as it flew toward her, she watches as the leader dropped his lit cigar toward the woman and child. She then disappeared from view, only to reappear and she was holding the lit cigar in her free hand.
She took it, smoked it once, shrugging as she tossed it to the ground. "Really cheap tobacco!"
She turns to him, "you are a leader right, what the fuck are doing with a cheap cigar?! You know what, my buzz and hangover are going away, motherfuckers done pissed me right the fuck off! Do you know who the fuck I am, I am The Snake Mistress, The Goddess of Pain, The Stylish Swordswoman!"
Striking poses that were somewhat between crazed and even lewd, she finished on one as she held the sword into the air, "I am Anko motherfucking Mitarashi, The White Snake Mistress of Remnant!"
The mighty wind blew to a halt, everyone staying silent, she then had a tick mark grow over her head. "Seriously, really, no one knows me in this part of Vacuo?"
The woman looked around, looking at the blade in her hand, "hey…what the fuck, this isn't my sword!"
"Um, miss," she snapped her head toward the bar and noticed that it was sitting on top of the counter. "You passed out, trying to do a trick with it."
"Oh, yeah, that about makes sense. How much did I drink old man, I mean seriously, I feel wasted still?" Anko rubbed the back of her head, "and woozy."
"You three jars of high-quality wine complained that it was stout, had an entire bottle Vacuoian Whiskey, which is one hundred and eighty proof." The elderly man pointed out, revealing himself as the barkeep, "you were making me a killing."
"Alright, that's it, I'm about to make a killing if you don't all shut the fuck up!" Midori screamed as he held the Barkeep up in the air, "surrender or he dies!"
Anko raised her eyebrow out him, "Goddamn you are terrible villains, I mean how cliché can you be. Don't get me wrong, I cuss like a sailor on some good fucking shit, but you're cussing for no reason. Jeez, seriously, and really…green armor…green hair…green eyes. We get it, Midori is the old word for green, sheesh."
She rolls her eyes and mocks him openly, "this is probably the shittiest cliché name making strategy out there, what did you decide one morning. 'Oh, look at me, my name is Green Flower in the old language, I must dress it and live it like a two liens hooker on Saint Ire's Day in Mistral.' I mean cmon man, put some red on that green!"
The purple haired woman then flipped her cloak down, revealing white scaled armor underneath and a black hakama at the bottom of it as her cloak fell off. She took a deep breath, the crest of a white snake on the back, she stretches and looked at them all.
She then winked at the bandit leader, "this is how you style, not that'll it'll matter."
"What, you gonna capture me?" He mocks as he held the elderly man up more, "I'll kill this man!"
"See, terrible, just fucking terrible." She walks over to the sword laying on the bar, picking it up, "hello baby."
She hiccups as the sword smelled of alcohol, at least the sheath did, she rolled her eyes. Suddenly several bandits charged toward her, but she disappeared from their view as she faded in an afterimage that was struck instead.
Appearing behind Midori, she stood to his back, "capturing you is for cops and Huntsman. Me, well, I'm just a mercenary. So, instead of capturing you, I'll just be detaining that pretty little green head of yours."
Midori went to move only Anko to suddenly unsheathe the sword she had, it had a curved blade, in a sort of smooth flow motion throughout the blade to the hilt. She spun on her heel and the blade fully came out of its scabbard, which went flying into a bandit and knocked them to the ground.
The Bandit's leader screamed as he saw death coming toward him, only for Anko to flip up in her slice and take off both his hands that were holding the man. She spun the sword around, which was bright whiteish metal, it even left a sort of light trail from the speed.
The man backed away, looking at the stumps that used to be his hands.
"Haa…ah…" he breaths rapidly before screaming, "ahahah!"
Anko rolled her eyes as she blocked several arrows heading toward her in rapid succession, she disappeared in a burst of speed and appeared behind two bandits and sliced their arms off in rapid succession before slicing through their heads.
She then butterfly-kicked one coming toward her front, spinning her blade around as it began to glow, and then spinning on her foot as a wave of light traveled from it and impacted a larger bandit heading toward her.
He stopped, falling in half, his halves cauterized by the energy, so no blood leaked everywhere. She whistles as the blade glowed brightly once more and she gave a middle finger salute to Midori, turning to another one of his misfit minions before killing him with a quick stab to the heart.
Anko kicked the man off her blade as he flipped backward, afterimages from her speed, she spun her sword around to clean the blood of it. Smirking as she kept the double-edged blade pointed forward as she approached a bandit holding a gun.
The bandit let loose a hail of fire upon her, his weapon being an automatic, but Anko weaved and cut through any round that was getting too close to her. Her weapon destroying the rounds as she cut through them, making them bounce harmlessly against her aura.
She then held two fingers up in her free hand and closed her fist as she flowed aura into gale stone into her sword. The woman spun on her heel and sliced through the air as two bandits tried to jump her from behind her.
They all stopped moving mid-air, falling to the ground in the heap, bleeding heavily from deep wounds across their body. She took a look around, sighing as every one of the bandits but Midori was dead. She sheathed her blade back into the scabbard that she placed back on her right hip.
She was left handed after all.
"The Flight of The Silver Bird is complete," Anko murmurs as she took a deep breath before walking toward the handless former Bandit Leader. "So, gonna cry like a bitch or are you going to take it like a man?"
"Don't kill me, please!" Midori begs, making Anko roll her eyes, "please…?"
Anko took a deep breath before suddenly palm thrusting into the man's chest, sending a wave of aura through it that made his heart explode, blood leaked from his mouth as he fell over dead in a heap. She took a deep breath, dusting herself off and stretches.
"Holy crap," a man said as he got up, "they're all dead."
"Yep," Anko walked over to the bar, "and I'm needing some to go orders!"
Everyone looked at one another, then to her, "what do you want…on the house?"
Anko laughed boisterously as she rode her horse, on the sides of the horse was literally wine jars and even a pack of bottles she got from the bar. She'd leave the burying of the worthless trash to the villagers of that hamlet, she just wanted to drink and have a good time.
She pulled her cloak back up, hiding her face as she made sure that her sword was there. "Alright, Kusanagi, next stop, Haven Academy for my grandiose duel!"
She then blinked, realizing something, "son of a fuck I'm on the wrong continent…"
Shrugging, she grabbed a bottle and then pours the contents into her mouth. Relaxing on her steed, which was a brown Balikun from Mistral she had gotten from her master when she started her journey. Taking a moment to pet the horse's head, she coos it before clicking her tongue.
"Gitty up Maki were on the clock here, ya!" Anko ordered the horse, "ya!"
Shinobi of the new age!
Chapter one: A snake meets a fishcake!
Naruto Uzumaki was a young lad, just growing his first chest hairs at the tender age of eleven, his fox tail swished back and forth as he held his bow up. Taking a look at a massive buck in front of him, he was a hunter in training for a small village in Mistral.
He wanted to be something more than just a hunter, he wanted to be a legendary warrior, a Huntsman.
However, being an orphan after his father's recent death due to the plague, that he somehow managed to avoid allowed no such possibility. It required lots of money to be a Huntsman, and himself was barely scraping by with leather trading while cleaning any animal he had hunted for the meat.
He held his longbow tightly as he overdrawn the string to give it the oomph it needed to give a quick death shot, he didn't want to make the deer suffer, it went against his beliefs to make things suffer. Taking a deep breath, he took a deep breath, focusing on the deer.
Finally, time itself slowed down for him and he let fate decide as he let go of the string. The bow snapped the air, and a very audible thwack sounded as the arrow hit the deer center mass. Right through its heart, an instant kill, though its body reacted by trying to run forward only to fall no sooner than a few seconds later as the body realizes that it was dead.
Naruto fist-pumped as he strung the bow over him, his quiver bounced on his hip as he hopped down from the tree, and as he walks over toward the dead deer. Taking a moment, Naruto clapped his hands and took a deep breath.
One of the last things his father taught was unlocking his aura, his father having been a former Huntsman, but since he was wheelchair bound he couldn't do much of anything before his death. Naruto didn't hate him for cruel twists of fate, he just hated the fact he was gone.
His mentor, his best friend, the only family he had left!
The blonde took a gander at the deer, scratching his whisker marks, the buck was at least a six-pointer. Taking a moment to examine the carcass, checking for worms and various other signs of disease, Naruto determined the buck was edible and the skin was good for leather.
Grabbing it by the antlers he then begins the long drag back home, heaving as he slowly drags the deer behind him with one hand. He may have been a young tween, but his aura increased his strength to the level of a full-grown man and perhaps beyond such.
Part of the reason he got a bad rep inside of his village, and the fact that his dad went unmarried before having him and his mother disappears. Which started rumors of him being the son of a spirit, which was preposterous since he'd be see through.
At least that's what he thinks.
The Village was known as Busan, a village on the west coast of Mistral's continent of Anima. The forested west side of the continent was a far cry from the mountainous east, where the capital rested on perhaps the safest of the natural barriers in all of Remnant save for Atlas's bitter cold.
However, Atlas hated his kind anyhow, so screw Atlas and their cold.
The West Coast of Anima was home to various species of deer, wolves, and even bears like brown bears, black bears, and even grizzlies.
Naruto had the misfortune of losing a deer to a grizzly, he was smart enough not to be stupid enough to stand between a carcass and an apex predator. Despite what Mankind and even Faunus thought, they weren't on top of the food chain in the wild.
They were at the midpoint unless they had a spear, and even then, there was no assurance of coming in the top.
Apex Predators like wolverines, bears, and even the damn honey badgers that roamed the outer edge of the forest were the apex animals of this kingdom.
Naruto learned not to mess with wolverines or honey badgers, especially when he saw a wolverine kill a bear by ripping its stomach open when it tripped on the ground.
His biggest fear was that one day if he wasn't careful, he'd be the bear!
Yawning, the blonde Faunus stretches as he as he continued to drag the deer, stopping as he sensed danger. Looking around, he saw nothing, but he knew well enough to never doubt your instincts. Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and focused.
The snapping of a tree branch made his eyes shoot open, "crap!"
Naruto lets go of the deer, rolling forward as a large creature dropped down on it. It was a large Beowulf, a Grimm, a true demonic creature that craved mortal flesh in any form. It growled at Naruto, apparently, it had been hunting him since he had the deer.
The blonde took a deep breath, gulping down his fears as he readied his bow, getting arrow only to discovered when he rolled forward his arrows had dropped out of the quiver. He looked at the Beowulf, then at the ground, and laughed nervously.
"H-hey," Naruto held his hands up, "deer is right there…I mean…wanna eat something that won't fight you?"
The wolf demon took a step forward, Naruto cringed as he heard his arrow snap. Naruto took a deep breath as he turned literal tail and ran fast as the Beowulf gave chase. The blonde tween sprinted as fast as he could toward the village.
His aura enhanced legs allowing him to keep out of reach of the Beowulf as it sprinted toward him as well. Naruto then saw a large oak tree and ran full force at it before running up it, literally.
It was trick his father showed him involving sticking your aura to objects and holding yourself in place, Naruto practiced it just in case he needed an escape. However, when he heard Beowulf's claws dig into the bark he knew that this method was not going to work.
Naruto then hopped from tree branch to tree branch, looking down as he saw another Beowulf, "oh c'mon!"
He dropped down to the ground and took a deep breath as he found a river and ran parallel to it as he saw the two Beowulfs following him. He took his bow off and threw hard at one of them as he ran, needing to lose anything that could snag him on something in the escape anyhow.
However, as he ran, he started to lurch forward until he was on all fours and began to like that. It was something he did with conscious thought most of the time when running for his life, in fact, it helped as he started to pull away from the Beowulfs until a third and much larger one almost caught when it leaped from a bush to his side.
The loud splash in the river signaled he overshot Naruto, thankfully, because the blonde hadn't detected him at all.
Power sliding on the ground as he suddenly changed directions, Naruto then leaped onto several river stones trying to get across the river that would undoubtedly slow the monstrous wolves down. He made it across and kept running as if he was escaping Kuro, the mythological giant demon owl.
Naruto took a deep breath as he continued to run, his lungs begging for him to stop, but he knew if he did he was dead meat!
The child climbed up to a very top of a tree, leaping from canopy to canopy as he made sure to take the high ground. using his aura to help with the leaping and the landings that would've hurt his hands if he hadn't had the energy to protect him.
Taking a moment to look down, noticing that the demonic wolves were gone, Naruto landed on a nearby path and stopped as he took several deep breaths. He noted a horse on the path, and a woman lying near a tree.
She was drunk, obviously, the number of bottles around her was staggering, to say the least. Naruto ran over toward her, intent to warn her about the incoming Grimm.
"Miss!" He screams, "please get up, there's Grimm coming!"
Naruto then heard her snoring, she mumbled in her drunken sleep, "I don't wanna go to the lame pageant~"
He winced as he heard the horse whine, turning to see the two smaller Beowulfs flanking the large, obvious Alpha Beowulf. Naruto fearfully recoils, his eyes widened as they approached him and the woman.
The blonde looked around for something, like a gun, anything!
He found a sword lying near her and was faced with a choice as he reached down and grabbed it. He could easily run away, leaving her to a death that would not be swift, and she'd probably wake up once they ripped a piece of her off.
Then again, he could stay, try to fight, and more than likely die!
Taking a deep breath, he knew his father would be disappointed if he just left someone there, and so he winces as he says a quick prayer. He took hold of the scabbard, gripping the handle of the sword, and tried to pull it out.
A strange glowing sigil formed across the scabbard as he tried to pull it out, only for it to hold steadfast, Naruto's eyes widened tremendously as he continued to try. He gave up after the fifth time, tossing the sword and scabbard and unknowingly hitting the woman in the head with it.
She groans, waking up to see a kid standing over her, his back to her as he reached down in his boot and got a small little carving knife out.
"I'm the son of a Huntsman, you don't scare me," Naruto screams at the Beowulfs, "go away!"
They stopped, seemingly chuckling at the blonde before slowly backing up suddenly. Naruto blinked for a moment, he then smirked as he spun his carving knife around and took a deep breath as he got ready to charge at one of them reckless abandoned!
Only to feel his hoodie grabbed by a woman and him getting tossed to the ground on his ass.
"Oi," Naruto looked up at the woman as she spoke to him while nursing a lump on her head, "are you the little prick that gave me this lump?"
"Huh, what, oh…" Naruto realized he accidentally hit her with the sword when he tossed it away, "sorry…"
"Motherfucker, fucking shit, shit~" She hisses as he watches her grip the lump, "fuck a nut, fuck a duck, fuckity-fuck-fuck!"
She roars out, "why can't I have a hangover in fucking peace!"
The Beowulfs howled at her, they had drool dripping out of their mouths as they started to growl loudly. The woman gave them a flat look, blowing a loose strand of hair out of her face, she then growled as she reached for her sword.
Only it wasn't at her side, she blinked once and then looked on the ground, "son of a bitch…give me a minute…"
She walks over to it, looking at the Grimm with drunken annoyance, she hickuped as her hand gripped the sword's handle and in one smooth turn she launched the sheath at them. The sheath impacted the Beowulf flanking right of their leader, smashing its head in and killing it.
She spun her sword around as she suddenly appeared in front the Alpha Beowulf and sliced its head off in one smooth motion before stabbing the other in the head. Backing away she then spun on her heel and sliced her sword with reckless abandoned until the demonic wolves split apart into many pieces and turn into black dust.
She took a deep breath as she starts to sober up, only to look over her shoulder and at the kid as a large King Taijitu lowered its head from the tree. She pointed up with her thumb, making Naruto shakenly look up as he felt his heart stop.
"Holy," he rolls forward as he nearly gets eaten whole, "crap!"
Naruto's orange hoodie ripped on the ground's jagged rocks, however, he suddenly dodged to the right as he dodged the black head of the snake. He marched in place as he looked at the large snake, breathing hard as he kept marching in place.
Anko got a toothpick out, watching as the boy dodged the snakeheads some more, "he's kind of fast."
"Crap, crap, oh crap, oh crap, please, help, me!" Naruto screams as he dodged the heads as they tried to bite him still, seemingly playing with their food, "beetle dung, beetle dung!"
The woman watches as his head suddenly snapped toward the carving knife laying on the ground, she then watches him roll forward and grab it. Holding the blade in his hand as he resumed marching pace as he kept dodging the snake.
Naruto took a deep breath as he focused hard and then dodged backward as he then threw the knife and luckily hit the white snake head's left eye with it. It sunk in deep, a hard throw for a preteen in Anko's book, and she was surprised to see the snake demon roar out in pain.
The blonde Fox Faunus in front of her turned ghost white as she watches him freeze when both heads lurched up, bearing their fangs.
"Well kid, I guess they're done playing with you," Anko turns her back to him. "Try not to fight too hard in there."
"Ah!" Naruto screams to the top of his lungs as the snake suddenly launched themselves at him, only for their heads to suddenly come off as Anko stood on the tree branch above him.
He shook, watching her turn to him, he then felt something wet cascade down his pants. Anko laughs as she turned to him, she looked at him, noting that he had just pissed himself.
"Oopsie looks like you sprung a leak!" Anko teases as she watched Naruto turn red and cover the wettest area and facing away from her as he walked away from her, "hey where the fuck you are going!"
"Home!" Naruto yelled back as he hobbled along, "I'm not staying here to get eaten by a giant snake as fun!"
Anko rolls her eyes, "oh c'mon kid, I wasn't gonna let you get eaten…maybe let them have a tinsy tiny nibble."
"See!" Naruto accuses as he hobbled faster.
Only for Anko walk backward behind him, her horse following them as she picked up her scabbard, "so does mommy and daddy know you're out here so far away from home~"
"My parents are gone, my mom left and my dad died a couple years back…" Naruto told her unconsciously, he sped up his hobbling, "just leave me alone…I'm so embarrassed…"
"What, you're a midget and you went against Beowulfs and a giant Taijitu, so what if you pissed yourself?" Anko then jumped in front of him, "at least it's a sign to let you know you're alive and well."
"Yeah, well, I'm not comfortable talking to you strange lady." Naruto told her as he hobbled past her, "Busan is this way if you're looking for an inn."
"Busan, wait, Busan…" she got her map out and her eyes widened, "son of a motherfucker! Maki, Maki, you dumb Balikun!"
The horse neighed in response.
"You sent us westward, we needed to go east, EAST!" Anko emphasized as she looked at the horse before smacking her face, "I'm arguing with a horse…"
The horse neighs and then blows raspberries with its mouth.
Naruto chuckled, "he's saying you're a dumb-dumb."
The woman suddenly erupted on the horse, "you piece of fucking walking glue, I'll have you taken to a wig factory, you can understand me…you…little bastard…"
She turned to the boy, he chuckled sheepishly, "s-sorry."
Huffing, crossing her arms, "I outta just leave your little ass out here in the woods, smart little asshole, don't you have an inkling of who you're talking too?"
"Um," Naruto looked confused his hobbling stopped and now he was walking normally, "some crazy woman who named her horse after a noodle topping?"
"How dare you," she jumps in front of him striking a pose, "I am the sexiest, the most gifted, the one and only, ANKO MITARASHI!"
She launched confetti, somehow, form her hands as she held her hands in the air. She was expecting the blonde to gasp at her, dropping down to his knees in apologies, but instead he blanched at her and looked like his face got hit with frying pan for how flat his expression was.
"Seriously, this backwater hamlet hasn't heard of me, I'm one of the best swordswomen in the world. In fact, no, I am the fucking best swordswoman in the world!" Anko proudly stated with a huff of her chest, "I can beat anyone, anything, anyway."
Naruto nodded, "well, you did take down the Grimm while drunk…"
"Yeppers, I am the best-drunk fighter ever!" Anko pumped his fist as he rolled his eyes, "say whiskers where are you taking me…thought you said the village was that way!"
"I am going to take you to the village, I just have dead-drop out here, just in case something happened, and I lost my stuff." Naruto then smirked as he looked at a hollow tree and reached inside of it and pulled a rather large rucksack out.
Naruto took off his hoodie and tossed it into the hollow tree before grabbing another out of the rucksack along a set of blue sweatpants and underwear with little froggies on them. Anko held in her chuckle, meaning she didn't and laughed at the blonde's furthered embarrassment.
He stepped around the tree, out of her sight, and changed rapidly. Throwing the dirty clothes into the rucksack and pulling a quiver and bow that he tucked in. Unlike the longbow, he had before this was a compact bow that was foldable.
He took a deep breath as he held the bow, counting his arrows, "dang I forgot to carry nine…nine is my lucky number!"
Anko rolled her eyes, "how many do you have?"
"Ten, oh well, I'm sure we won't get attacked. I need to stop and retrace my steps to my deer…if a bear didn't get it." Naruto sighs as he nocked his bowstring with an arrow, "just in case~"
"Fuck me, you ran this far away from them Beowulfs, jeez kid how fast are you?" Anko complains as they got to where Naruto was before he looked at the blood pooled on the ground, "kid?"
"Damn it," Naruto dropped his bow to where his tail grabbed it, "you dark yogis stay away from my bucks!"
He held both his hands over his mouth as he yelled to project it, he then held the middle finger out and waved it all around the forest, thinking that at least one bear was bound to have seen it. He then sighed, grumbling as he looked at the blood pool.
"It was a six-pointer too, dang it all, dang it!" Naruto kicked a rock on the ground, sending it toward a tree where it bounced off and hit another.
Anko's eyes widened slightly, "he's strong, wait I can sense aura coming from him…interesting."
"How old are you kid, seem like you know your way around the woods well enough?" Anko questioned him as she looked at the broken bark of the tree, "well…"
"I'm eleven, okay, sheesh! What, are you some Chomo?" Naruto spat as he looked at her with his arms crossed, "and you are right to say I know my own woods. I've been hunting, fishing, and trapping here since I was four with my dad!"
"Save you're doing it by yourself now, hmm, kind of feel bad for this brat." Anko watched as he looked up and then rolled his eyes, "found my other quiver, dang Beowulf must've thrown it in the tree when it ripped off me."
He walked toward the tree, taking a deep breath, and Anko's eyes widened when he began to walk straight up on it. Walking upside down, he gets to his quiver before hopping off and landing on both of his feet.
Looking at her, she seemed disturbed, until he spoke up. "What, never seen someone walk on a tree?"
"Yeah, because I can, who was your father?" Anko questioned as she saw the blonde Faunus stretch and take the two arrows that were tucked in the quiver.
Naruto finished prepping himself, "Minato Namikaze, he wanted me to keep my mother's maiden name, Uzumaki."
Her eyes widened slightly, "The Flying Thunder God, motherfucker had a kid?! Wait, and with a Faunus, son of a bitch got lucky!"
Anko looked at him, "and he's dead-dead…not dead asleep?"
"Yeah, dead-dead, why?" Naruto inquires as he stretches with the bow still in his tail, "you're acting really weird right now."
"Oh, no reason kid, I'm pretty sure that village treats your well since you are the son of a Huntsman." Anko tells him as she spoke without thought and assurance, "and I know this because your father was a legend in Mistral."
"Yeah, until he got with my mom and she walked out on him after he lost his ability to walk. I only remember that my mom had red hair, that's it, I have her round face." Naruto told Anko as he rubbed the back of his head, seemingly not unaffected by talking about it, "he hit a downward spiral with his cancer and I woke up one day and he was just gone…"
Anko sighed, "bout the way it usually happens, one minute fine next minute poof."
Naruto rolled his eyes, he noticed a smell in the air, "you stink…"
"Oh, I know, it's called being drunk and constantly getting fights, you should try it kiddo." Anko ruffled his hair and yawned, "I need a nap."
Naruto sighed, looking down at the ground, "my home isn't far from here. You could shower and take a nap there, I'll even cook!"
The woman turned to him, "young man, you aren't getting fresh with an older woman, are you?"
"What?" Naruto questioned, "I mean I am fresh, I took a shower today before I left."
Anko just slapped her face, "just show me the damned way…I lost too many brain cells as is…"