I was on a four hour car ride today and thought of this on the way. It amused me so I wrote it down and kind of just went with the flow. Might write more some other time. Depends on how well this is received. Also bring spelling and gramar errors to my attention. thanks

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Anko was bored. Which made her a very dangerous person to be around. Three things would happen when she got bored, one she would go eat dango and throw the sticks at people, two she would go ask for a mission, or three she would prank the daylights out of someone, not necessarily in that order. Either option available to her did not bode well for individuals or the public at large, luckily she was at an impasse standing on the Hokage monument. She couldn't decide between getting some dango or going and requesting a mission. Her choice was made for her as a chunin from Tsunade's office landed next to her and bowed. She smiled, no reason she couldn't prank someone if she couldn't have her dango.

"What's the woman want now?" she drawled stepping closer and leaning forward hands on her hips, giving the young man a chance to sneak a peak and skirt death.

She could see in his face that he was fighting the urge to look and she saw his eyes make several attempts to look but they didn't get far before he closed his eyes and blurted out his message. Her grin widened, he was where she wanted him.

"Hokage-sama would like to see you and Kakashi-san in her office immediately concerning a mission," with that he turned to jump off into the trees, but before he could jump she wrapped her right arm around his neck pressing herself into his back and leaning her head on his left shoulder still grinning.

"Oh Iruka-san, were you ogling me just then?" she hissed in his ear, with a little lick to his ear lobe.

She could feel him shaking with either fear or excitement, either way she was having fun, she always enjoyed playing with people for a bit.

"No Anko-san, I wasn't ogling you," he said, but she heard the fear in his voice.

"You don't find me attractive Umino-san?" she said with a pout, her right hand grabbing the zipper to his vest and zipping it up and down.

With that question he knew there was no right answer and anything he offered would cause this situation to continue to spiral out of his control.

"Mitarashi-san, you need to get to your meeting with the Hokage and I-"

"Don't be silly 'Ruka," she purred, unzipping his vest half way and sliding her hand in to rub his chest, "I'd rather play with you."

Her suggestive sentence sent a shiver down his spine as he briefly imagined what she would do to him, and he started as he felt the cold steel of a kunai against his cheek. Out of the corner of his eye he saw her smiling face which did not bode well for him.

"Anko," said a disinterested voice from the trees, "Iruka has better things to be doing than be felt up by you and we have a mission to report for."

"Oh do I detect some jealously Kakashi?" she happily yelled at the trees and into Iruka's ear. Extricating himself from her hold, he leapt into the trees and bounded away.

"Kakashi you ruined my fun, Umino's aways so nervous around me he makes an easy target for some fun," she said as she shushined to the tree branch he was sitting on, nose buried in his little orange book.

"He didn't look like he was having fun," he commented dryly.

"You can't be in my presence and not have fun," she said grinning widely.

"Well, that's debatable. But we should really get going, Tsunade doesn't like being kept waiting."

Grimacing she turned and followed him as they leapt towards the hokage's tower.

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It was dark. But that's how he liked it. It was also quiet, another plus. Looking to his left he saw the five rogue shinobi he had gathered together to form a team to complete this mission. All he had to offer was a pay check and room and board and they were sold. Granted they barely ranked as Chunin on his scales they didn't seem overly powerful, but their submissive jutsu was all he was interested in. looking back to the clearing he waited until he heard the telltale signs of his quarry approaching. He knew it was them, he could hear the lead man step lightly every other step, still feeling the wound he had given him the day before when they had tangled.

Looking to his left again he nodded sending the signal that everyone should prepare their genjutsu for casting. He looked back at the grove of trees that the enemy nin were hiding in. Each of them had a bounty on their head that would keep his and his accomplices wallets fat for a few months. Combined that with the reward the town was giving them to get rid of them would be making his day. These ronin he was waiting for hailed from Cloud and had once been a four man cell that had gone rogue during a mission. He didn't know the specifics but he knew they wouldn't have the price if they had left quietly. They must have something they wanted. Probably some information or a jutsu scroll. That was irrelevant. He and him team would take them down and claim their reward and continue dodging the hunter-nin squads.

Looking to the grove again he saw the bush nearest the clearing move and a figure step out. Dressed in gray pants and a blue shirt under his chunin vest, he looked warily into the morning mist that blanked the ground. His shifty gray eyes looked blood shot and his mouth sagged open as he stepped further into the clearing. This was it. As soon as the other three came into view they would be his.

"You didn't think it would be that easy did you?" said a voice as a kunai pressed against his throat.

Shit.

"We didn't get this far by being stupid," said the Cloud ronin's leader, his voice snarled into his ear.

"Apparently your just one lucky son of a bitch, but that ends here," the nin said evenly.

"With your blood on my hands I doubt it," with that he slit the nin's throat and the same action took place simultaneously in the other trees.

Grasping at his throat the nin fell forward into the light and his brown hair fell into his eyes, coughing up something that dripped wetly against the tree limb.

"Fool, you shouldn't have tangled with us. Be cause we-" he was cut off as the man at his feet burst into water and swirled around his legs trapping them. Before he could attempt to free himself a shrukiken trailing a wire wrapped his arms to his sides and the nin dropped from the branch above.

"Like I said: luck, you're my prisoner now," he said. Stepping forward he punched the Cloud nin in the side of the head laying him out cold. Reliving him of his weapons and gear he released the water jutsu and tied his legs with more wire and tossed him over a shoulder and leapt into the clearing.

The mizubushin that has stood at the edge of the clearing now sat as a puddle and its creator lay next to the other three nin trussed up on the ground.

The other five landed and looked around. They then looked to him.

"Well, one cell taken down and time to cash this check," said a stoic Mist nin.

"Yeah, Jer is right, we need to get moving soon, this will probably attract some other missing nins, don't need our prize being stolen," said another.

"Agreed," said the nin, stepping forward into the light they could now see his medium length brown hair that fell into his green eyes. He was busily wiping some grime off his glasses with a cloth. Sliding them back on he grinned. They looked up at his massive frame. Standing at roughly six and a half feet tall he towered over his shorter allies.

"Where do we make the trade over?" asked a blonde Iwa nin.

"Its north of here, its about a three hour trip to the meeting spot, but I say wait until tomorrow. The town has offered to house us tonight and we could all use the rest," which looking at the group he knew was true after fighting for three days strait. Looking off into the trees he commented, "Plus those nice Konoha nins in that tree over there probably have some questions for us."

He pointed to an oak and two figures jumped out of hiding and into the clearing.

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Anko and Kakashi sized up the six shinobi standing infront of them. They were tired and wary looking but the most desperate animal is the one pushed into a corner with no escape. The only one who looked potentially threatening was the one closest to them. He stood tall with black ninja sandals and dark blue pants taped at the shins, with a kunai holster on each hip and shin, he wore a flak jacket over a black long sleeved shirt that had a strange symbol on it and two weapons pouches on his back with a short sword resting above those. His head band bore no symbol and his hands were bandaged under his fingerless gloves. He studied them from behind his glasses with green eyes his jaw shut firmly.

"How'd you spot us?" said Kakashi stepping forward arms crossed.

"Easily enough Copy-nin," he said mimicking Kakashi's stance.

"What are you doing in Fire country ronin?" said Anko stepping up even with Kakashi, her hands in her coat pockets.

"A job the locals couldn't do themselves. And couldn't send for help. I just happened to be passing through and offered my services. But the real question on my allies minds is simple, what are you going to do now?" he asked.

She saw the signs of the ronins preparing to fight or run from them, they might not stand a chance but they would try. Thier survival depended on the answer.

But this guy who appeared to be the leader was pissing her off, he was refusing to look at her. Dismissing her as though she wasn't there. Though that shouldn't have surprised her, of their reputations, Kakashi definitely had the better one.

Thinking back on the mission brief earlier and what the hokage had said.

As Anko and Kakashi stepped into her office they saw that the Hokage was currently working furiously on her paper work while Shizune hovered behind her.

"Hokage-sama, you wanted to see us?" said Anko loudly.

"Yes," said Tsunade, no looking up from her work and throwing her a folder, "in there you will find your mission brief, this is an important mission for the village, I want you two to set out immediately, we won't get another chance like this, you must go observe this group and discern their intentions and write a report and profile on their group leader, the others are already on file. I've been receiving reports of this group of ronins battling with another ronin group from the hidden cloud village and the cloud nins seem to have stolen an important document from thier home village, I want you to retrieve it, the village will be able to use it as a chance to bridge some of the connections between our villages. The cloud nins are attempting to fight off the others and they seem intent on cashing the bounty on their heads."

"What if we need to fight the ronins to get the document?" asked Kakashi.

"Use whatever methods you think necessary. From coercion to killing, use your best judgement."

"We weren't sent to engage, merely observe your intentions, and we won't be calling the hunter-nins either," said the silver haired jonin.

"Surviving is our intention, and arigato for not calling the hunter-nin," said the brown haired man, "since we are not pitted against each other today, could I possibly interest you in joining us in a drink? We were about to head into town."

"Wouldn't mind more than a drink with the one," whispered a Sand nin behind him. Holding up his hand to silence them he looked at Anko for the first time.

"Gomen, snake mistress, I hope my comrades didn't offend you with their coarse language."

"Fuck no, takes more than a little innuendo to set me off, plus" she said and disappeared, reappearing behind the sand nin with a kunai at his throat, "I don't think he's man enough to handle this anyway."

Smiling the nin bent over and picked up two of the prisoners.

"I guess not. Then we should get moving. The town will be dying to hear of the success. And I would relish a warm meal and a strong drink," he said still grinning at her antics.

"Before we go, you seem to know our names, but what is yours ronin?" said Kakashi.

"They call me Nashna Gyro, and I'm not a ronin, you'd need a village for that," he said as he leapt into the tree tops followed closely by the others.

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After an hour of traveling they arrived at the town and sped through the streets of the small farming settlement and arriving at the town square where a monument stood to the Kami and those who had fallen in the last shinobi war. Dropping his charges and leaning them against the monument he turned as a crowd started forming. Raising his hands he called to them as his team stood behind him.

"I kept my promise to you, my team and I have brought you peace, we have removed the threat to your lively hood, here they sit, defeated," he said. The people in the crowd started whispering and then cheering for them.

A larger man with a thick beard stepped forward and shook his hand.

"Arigato, shinobi-san, I don't know what we'd have done with out you."

"Called a real shinobi to help you," muttered Anko, low enough that only Kakashi heard her. They watched as the mayor started talking to the crowd saying it was time to celebrate and they moved steady to a bar, while they were distracted the mayor handed Gyro a large wad of cash. His eyes widened in surprise as he counted the bills in his hand. It was more than they had agreed upon, judging from Gyro's reaction. The mayor waved him off as he tried to hand some of it back moving to join the crowd.

The other ronin moved to Gyro and he dolled out the payment. Words were had and he handed out the rest of the cash and the ronins walked off to the bar.

Smiling he moved over to the Konoha pair.

"Like I said" he said, "your welcome to join us for a drink."

The square was now empty and a great deal of noise was coming from the bar. Glancing at Anko out of the corner of his eye, he locked eyes with the smiling nin.

"Pass," he said, noting that the nin's smile faltered and faded.

"I see…" he murmured putting his hands in his pockets, "I saw this coming. Since I paid off my cohorts they are no longer obligated to help me, so I stand alone against you two, now you wish to fulfill your true mission, huh? I thought I'd be able to buy more time with the drinks."

"All we need is a document they were carrying," said Anko stepping forward, kunai in hand, her tongue licking at its edge, "And we'll get it with or without your permission."

"I'd love to see that."

That was the starting bell.

Kakashi leapt backwards to gain some distance and Anko leapt forward to grab him.

He pulled his hands out of his pockets and threw a glittering powder into Anko's face. Closing her eyes, he kicked out and sent her into a building sent on the corner of the square. Turning toward Kakashi he saw him finish a set of hand seals ending on tiger, thinking quickly he pulled a water bottle out of his pouch and pulled the stopper out and flung it, flashing through hand signs. Pulsing his chakra he managed to put up a shield before the katon Grand fireball technique slammed against his thin water shield. The shield disappeared in a burst of steam and he leapt through it at the jonin short sword in hand.

Using a kunai he blocked the swings of the larger man's sword and locked arms with him.

"It doesn't have to go this way," Kakashi gritted out, Gyro was putting all his weight behind his sword pushing him back.

"With out the scroll they are worthless," Gyro said, with no real passion behind it.

Then Anko kicked him in his side, to her surprised her foot went right through and he turned to water. To their horror the water didn't fall away but stayed in a humanoid form and grabbed her and began to flow over her form. Kakashi took a step forward to help her when he saw two gloved hands protruding from the ground gripping his ankels.

"Oh hell."

"Doton: Earth decapitation technique"

Kakashi sunk into the ground up to his neck and Gyro broke through the surface two feet from him.

Turning and looking at his trapped foe he frowned when the silver hair turned to mud and he fell into chunks of dirt.

Looking to his left he saw that Anko still struggled with his water trap. He rolled to the left as he felt the killer intent sweep over him and rolled to his feet and faced the now two eyed Kakashi.

"That eye won't help you here, you have a choice, either save your team mate or chase me. Which will it be?"

Turning his back, Gyro condured another clone and they picked up the prisoners and ran into the trees.

Kakashi was already at Anko's side as she thrashed on the ground. The water had almost reached her face. Focusing he called upon his chakra and used it to adhere his hands to the water and began pulling it off, much in the same manner as if he was tree walking, those old lessons came in handy. Soon he had her out of danger and then the water lost its cohesion and spilled off of her.

"Dammit Kakashi, why didn't you knock him out when you had the chance?" she sputtered standing up.

"Cause neither of those was the real Gyro, he was beneath you poised to stab you in the heart," he said moving towards where Gyro's clones had disappeared into the trees.

"Oh." was all she managed to say with a frown. She hated being used as hostage on a mission.

"If we hurry we might catch him before dawn."

With that they sprinted into the trees. She was intent on fixing her mistake.

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He glanced behind him, they hadn't got in range of his senses yet, so he created a kage bushin to hang back and report when they passed this spot.

Glancing at his other two clones he smiled, he had out witted two of Konoha's finest and if everything else went as planned he'd be in the clear soon anyway.

He just need to reach the larger trading town north of that tiny village, it was there he would make the exchange. Smiling at his fortune he hummed a tune. He only wish he didn't have to earn their animosity to complete this mission and have them hold a grudge against him. Maybe he could swing it in his favor. His clones however looked at him strangely as he started to laugh.

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The sun was rising over the horizon as Anko and Kakashi reached the town, henging into two inconspicuous non descript people they moved into the town looking for the brown haired nin. Walking down the main street, Kakashi nodded to a bar on the right and they entered. Sitting at the end of the bar sat and old man in a grey suit sipping on a large glass of water.

His eyes crinkled as he smiled at them.

"I was wondering when you'd catch up."

Dropping their henges the three eyed each other and the bartender looked worried about the state of his bar and the other patrons looked nervous with three shinobi about the face off.

"If you aint going to order something, get out." he said gruffly to them. Glaring daggers at the man through tired eyes Anko started when Gyro spoke.

"Give them some sake on me, make it snappy, they're probably tired after coming all this way," he said grinning.

She had just about had it with this guy, he beat them, smiling through it all and now was buying them drinks to commemorate their failure, that crossed a line. The bartender placed two bottles of sake and two saucers onto the counter for them with more than usual trepidation. His sharingan still spinning Kakashi took a step towards the young man.

"I take it you've already collected on those four and they're outside our range of recovery."

"Yeah I collected," said Gyro nonchalantly, still smiling "your sake is getting cold there all alone."

Pulling a kunai Anko was at the end of the bar before he could stop her gripping the nin's shirt front in her fist knife at his throat, her face close.

"You mocking us you piece of shit?" she hissed in anger.

"If you wanted to get close to me, there are better ways," he said wrapping an arm around her waist pulling her closer, smile dropping, a trickle of blood slid down his neck as the kunai nicked his neck, "and I never said you failed, you needed the document they were carrying so I lifted it before I turned them in."

A scroll poped out of his mouth and he held it with his teeth and offered it to Anko, pushing it into her face. Releasing him she snatched the scroll and opened it.

"This is a sealing scroll. I take it this is all their possessions," she said looking through the number of seals reading his labels.

"Yeah, I figured no reason to have one of Konoha's best shinobi and one of their finest kunoichi holding a grudge against me, makes my life more difficult," his smile was back and he wiped the blood off his neck.

Lifting the kunai to her mouth she lick the blood away and savored it in her mouth. Even with it cold it tasted spicy and put a blush to her cheeks. Anko then handed the scroll to Kakashi and sat and poured herself a generous amount of sake and truly taking in his appearance.

"Cheers you smart ass," she said toasting him. Still smiling she downed it and licked her lips.

"So how did I taste," he asked gesturing to his cut.

"Not the worst I've ever had," she said. This should be fun, thier mission did say to find out some about him.

"Well, I have other assets than just being tasty, you could find out more if you wanted," he said with a wink.

Oh yes, this would be great fun. Kakashi settle into a seat and resumed reading his book.

"I don't know," she said stretching her arms over head giving him an ample view of her 'assets', "I've not met a man yet who can handle this."

Chuckling he tapped the bar for a refill.

"You must not have been looking in the right places, I'm sure I know a couple people who could sate your hunger, one inparticular."

"Really, that would be most helpful," she said coyly leaning towards him. This was too easy.

"Sure, lesbians are easy enough to find in this town," his smile got wider. She took the comment in stride.

"Not for me, I like men with a certain quality about them…" she said glancing toward his crotch to get her message across.

"I hate to interrupt," said Kakashi, "but we'll need to be leaving soon to report back."

"What? Don't be daft, I'll buy you guys a room tonight and you can head back tomorrow, stay, enjoy the night life with me tonight, especially since I just got paid," he said with a wink.

"I don't think-"

"Of course, it should be fun!" said Anko nudging her team mate.

"Awesome, then lets go get some rooms at an inn, all expenses on me."

Hook line and sinker.

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Well this hang over officially sucked worse than the one she had when she had drank herself into a stupor when the third died. Some how she and Gyro had argued that they themselves were the better drinker. She laughed and point out that he'd been drinking water all night. Laughing he said he'd drink her out from under the table any time. So they had done the only logical thing, started a drinking contest. Bottle for bottle they drank until they both realized that Kakashi was carrying them back to the hotel. Apparently they had punched out a guy who had tried to pick up Anko while he spluttered something about rancid chicken gobblers and she yelled about shit flinging trees. All and all it was an amusing sight, but Kakashi was not amused when they simultaneously threw up on his vest. She giggled at that memory. She rolled over onto a large bump in the bed and to her surprise it moved grabbing her and pulling her close in a very muscular embrace.

"Stop moving so much."

A tousled brown haired mess poked out of the mound and blinked at her.

"Your making the world shake."

Her breath stopped, then she checked herself over. Still had her clothes on, minus the coat. She breathed again, thanking whatever kami was out there that she'd not done something stupid.

"Let me go," she said.

"Why? Your softer than the pillows and you wouldn't let me go last night."

"I was drunk though, I didn't know I was hanging off a less than average man."

Laughing he sat up releasing her from his grip. He still wore his shirt but one sleeve had rolled up to reveal some sort of tattoo on his forearm.

"What's that?"

"Nothing," he said quickly, sliding his sleeve back down his arm.

"Oh come on, you can tell me," she said, wrapping her arms around his neck and pouting.

"I'd rather not. Besides your Cycloptic friend looks less than amused," he said looking over her shoulder.

"Yo," he greeted them, "ready to go?"

"I guess so," Anko grumbled, rising and seeing her coat hanging off the end of the bed.

"Well, I guess I'll see you two around," said Gyro as he rose stretching.

"The Hokage said if we judge it prudent, you should come back with us, she wants to meet you," said Kakashi in a bored tone.

"Naw I'm good, I've got better things to do than run around with you two, so thanks but no thanks."

"Oh and what would you being doing that ranks higher than meeting with a village leader?" asked Anko with a bit of a sneer, pulling on her coat.

"Doing what needs to be done," he said seriously, "but is nothing you need to concern yourselves with."

"That depends on what it is your doing."

"Well, then you'll have to take my word for it cause I aint telling. I guess you'll be leaving now then?" he said without a trace of smile.

"I guess so," said Kakashi snapping his book shut and heading towards the door.

As she closed the door, Anko blew him a kiss with a wink and walk down the hall.

It was always fun to meet new people.

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It had been a month since she had been on that mission with Kakashi. But strangely her mind kept dwelling on it. They had filled out their reports and turned them in. The nin known as Nashna Gyro was still an unknown force, as they had noted in there reports that he didn't seem the least bit fazed about running that distance to the trade town and summoning clones to assist him. Tsunade had classified him as an A-ranked nin and sent it on to filing with all their notes on him, which were sparse.

Over the last month, rumors began reaching Konoha's ears about a new village being built in one of the smaller countries near their border. The rumors said the village was going by the name of the Hidden Village of the Lost. Taking in any who wished to become a ninja or was fleeing their home village. Tsunade had been contacted by the other four Kages about this new village that had sprung up. She only knew about it cause she had been acting as courier to the Hidden Mist Village. Sighing tiredly she thought back to the fight with Gyro. He had an interesting water techniques, which would lead her to believe he came from either Mist or Rain, either one would have put a price on a nin that strong, but his words kept coming back. 'I'm not a ronin' but would he go to this new village? She idlely wondered if he had started this village then laughed, he didn't strike her the type to do something so risky.

Why should I care anyway, he can do what ever the fuck he wants.

Chewing on the dango stick in her mouth she looked up at the clouds.

"Hey Anko, still hanging by the Forest of Death I see," said a scarred jonin walking up.

"Hey Raido," she said, still preoccupied, "whats up?"

"Nothing just that Hokage-sama would like you to report to her office, something about a ronin you met a month ago."

Ah, the subject of her thoughts had come to the hokage's mind as well. Rising she stretched and flicked the dango skewer at a tree completing another leaf symbol.

*******

Stepping past the Anbu that was standing guard out side the hokage's office she stepped inside the office.

"Hey Tsunade, what'd you want?" she said hands resting behind her head, "something about that mission a month ago."

"Yes, sit down."

As the doors closed behind her she remained standing and looked at the woman behind the desk.

"Is this going to take long? I've got dango to eat."

An anger tic appear in the Hokage's forehead, she smiled brightly at the woman.

"Well I hate to ruin your purpose driven and important day, but I have a mission for you," she said smiling sickly sweet handing her a manila folder, "your friend from a month ago decided to lend some assisstance to a genin squad that ran into a missing-nin on their mission, it was stacked against them and their sensi but he saved their butts. It appears he's taken up residence somewhere in the southern forest. We want you to look into it."

"Fine, do I get back up or anything?"

"Do you think you need it?"

"Not this time. I'll be ready for his tricks. That it Hokage-sama?" she said yawning.

"Your dismissed. I want a report on my desk by weeks end."

"Hai, Hokage-sama."

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I started writing this at 12am and went until 215, drinking water and eating peanut butter mms, snack of champions. As for techniques, I'll do what I feel like at the time concerning whether or not I change them to Japanese or English. Also I haven't decided where to go with this yet and I'm kind of just floating from one idea to another so I guess I'll flip a coin later.

Definitions:

Ronin- Rogue ninja