Chapter II: Beginning of Chaos_

Naruto had a very interesting day, he met and made acquaintances with a Toku-jo, named Mitarashi Anko, he was now her apprentice, and after some time, a partner and teammate.

During tea and dinner, he found out a lot of things about his new sensei/partner.

First fact, she was 16 years old, graduated the academy at the young age of 9, got team placements and was a chunin at the age of 12, she didn't tell him who her sensei was though.

She was partial to Dango in fact one of her dreams was to have a dango recipe named after her, as much as he was partial to Ramen, she liked doing tea ceremonies, and before she took interest in his abilities, Anko liked working part-time with Ibiki, with his T & I division.

She loves her snakes, all except for the boss summon, Manda.

The best Anko fact he learned throughout the day though was that, she loved pranking people, and shared a few ideas which they could do after training and on their days off.

The only thought coursing through his head that night was that he couldn't wait for tomorrow.

Oh how he would regret that.

XXX

Naruto woke at six, which unnerved him since he was NEVER an early riser, he wondered why.

It was still three hours before he would meet Anko in Training ground 44, nonetheless he made breakfast, some eggs and cereal, since Kyubi only allowed him ramen during lunch, every other day.

After breakfast, Naruto showered and changed into his outfit, and did morning exercises; he started getting restless when he saw that after all of those activities it was only 7:15.

At this point he was asking (read: begging) Kyubi to let him go out for Ramen to pass the time.

After about 20 minutes of asking (really Naruto was begging) Kyubi gave her consent, leaving Naruto with enough time to get at least 3 bowls of Ramen.

XXX

"Ohayo! Teuchi Ji-san!", Naruto greeted loudly.

"Ohayo Naruto-kun bit early dontcha think?", Teuchi Ichiraku asked the blonde Ramen dispenser.

"Yeah, but I couldn't sleep anymore, so here I am, 1 miso Ramen and pork slices please!", Naruto asked, excitement rolling on the floor with his drool of anticipation.

"Sure thing Naruto", said Teuchi as he went to prepare Naruto's orders.

'Naruto, you can only have 3 bowls, alright?', Kyu-bi reminded him as he was waiting for his first bowl.

'Hai Ka-chan', agreed Naruto dejectedly.

'Good Boy', Kyu-bi replied, but was left talking to none as Naruto's Ramen arrived.

As per usual Naruto breezed through the 3 bowls, even with Ayame Ichiraku warning him to slow down.

"Naruto, I could never get how you can inhale Ramen, I know it's good, but—", asked Ayame, but then someone cut her off.

"Hey, Naruto, I figured I'd see you here", Iruka said as he entered the ramen bar.

"Hey! Iruka-sensei! How are you feeling?", Naruto asked, seeing his former sensei limping a bit.

"I've had better days", Iruk winced.

"What exactly happened sensei? You look like you had you fought someone strong", Naruto asked.

"Well...No, the guy wasn't that strong, but he was a former comrade, It was hard, to take down someone you knew closely you know?", Iruka explained.

"Who was it sensei? Mizuki-sensei? Bariko-sensei?", Naruto asked, curios.

"How did you know it was Mizuki?", Iruka asked, surprised for he did not see Naruto getting that intuitive.

"Well, one time, I think he was trying to let me overhear him joking about stealing the Shodai's scroll, the one that was listed as kin-jutsus", Naruto explained.

"Ah...well it's good that you didn't try Naruto", Iruka said relieved.

"Didn't need to you know?", Naruto replied sweetly without missing a beat.

"W-what?", Iruka stammered.

"All I needed to do was distract Hokage-jiji with Naruko, and well the rest is history", Naruto replied, with a devlish smirk on his face, reminiscing about that particular event.

"Hehehehe...as long as you weren't arrested Naruto, and well, that was not an easy feat, you know?", Iruka said, laughing at the fact that Naruto distracted the Hokage with a gennin jutsu.

Taking glance at the clock Naruto stood up and said, "Gomen, Iruka-sensei, but I have to meet Anko in a few minutes, she promised to clean her hands of what would happen if I was late, I promise to tell you the story some other time", Naruto ended with a smile, giving Ayame a note, he laughed and left.

"Iruka-san, Naruto said to give this to you when he left", Ayame said as she passed the note to Iruka.

'Iruka-sensei, thanks for paying for my ramen'

-Naruto/Naruko'

Iruka face palmed as he finished the note.

"Naruto-"

XXX

Naruto arrived just about a minute before nine a.m. therefore securing his safety.

As soon as he arrived though he found Anko sitting on the roof of the registration booth for the training ground, she was reading a scroll from the looks of her.

Remembering women's behaviour when disturbed and not wanting to get hurt so early in the morning he leaned on the booth and waited for Anko to notice him.

Not long after though Naruto got bored and decided to make his presence known, and sat beside Anko.

Not turning from her scroll, Anko said,

"Your late, gaki"

"I wasn't Anko, I was waiting by the booth, I didn't want to disturb you", Naruto explained.

"Hmm...", Anko turned to face him, giving him a scrutinizing look, as if trying to tell if he was lying.

"Honest!", added a worried Naruto.

"I believed you the first time, gaki", Anko smiled at him and beckoned him to follow as she jumped to the 44th training grounds.

After a while they came into a clearing, and Anko beckoned him to come forward.

As he took a step to Anko the ground beneath him crumbled, before he could fall though, he leapt out of the way, sadly, as he landed, the ground again failed him, but this time he couldn't react on time and fell in the trap.

As Naruto recovered his bearings, he looked up to see a chuckling Anko.

"You set this up, didn't you, Anko?", Naruto asked as he tried to get himself out of the hole.

"Yep", She said, forcing herself to be serious, "Naruto, It's great that you trust me, but as a ninja, you have to keep some doubts alive about everybody, because, whether we want to or not, there are always people wanting to get us, you and me especially, withing or without these walls, got it?",

Anko reached a hand to Naruto,

"Hai", the blonde replied as he took Anko's hand.

"Second lesson is, trust your comrades, completely when the situation arises, Konha nins value and have the best teamwork in the elemental nations, because, when it comes to fighting, we fight alongside, not nins from the same village, but fight like family, and we never let family down, right?",

Anko said as he pulled Naruto out of her trap.

"Hai Anko, I get it, trust when you must and keep caution when needed", Naruto summarized the lesson.

"Good, now let's find a nice, clearing and start your training shall we?", Anko said and walked alongside Naruto.

XXX

"Doton: Idaina chikyū no kabe", Anko shouted as she blocked Naruto's 'Futon: Pāmu senkai kiyanon'

As she dispelled the wall, she looked around to find Naruto missing, she turned right, left, back, beneath, no Naruto, that left up, as she looked, she saw the blonde doing hand seals.

In a blink of an eye she was soaked as she got hit by Naruto's Suiton: Gurēto-sui bōru.

"Alright that's enough!", shouted Anko.

"So Anko, what's next", asked Naruto sweetly.

"This", Anko whispered to his ear as she suddenly appeared behind him, a second later he was wrapped in snakes.

"You've still got a long way to go gaki", Anko smile at his bound form.

"Heh, yeah, I know, that's why I got you right?", he asked.

"Yup, now that I know what jutsus you can perform, let's move to Tai-jutsu", Anko suggested as she posed the primary stance for her hebi-style.

"Sure thing Anko", Naruto said as he moved for his Kitsune style.

As it turned out, Kitsune-style was the perfect match with Hebi-style, every time Anko moved to offence, Naruto could predict her moves, and their styles had distinct similarities and very specific differences.

After a few minutes of subsequent draws, Anko called for a break, since it was high noon.

"Good one Naruto, say, If you'd like I can teach you my Hebi-style", she suggested.

"I can feel an 'If' here somewhere sempai", Naruto added.

"Hehehe...funny gaki...right If you teach me your Kitsune-style, I think it can be helpful for any team combos we can find, what do you think?", Anko asked him.

"Sure thing, we'll be kicking ass soon, right?", Naruto exclaimed.

"Well, I don't take you for D-rank missions, am I right?", Anko hoped, he wasn't for she hated those poor excuses for missions.

"Yuck! Those are boring! I want to go straight to C-ranks up to B-ranks!", Naruto shouted, he knew what thos D-ranks entitled, having done a few for extra cash in the past.

Confident as he was, he knew he needed more training to go on A-rank missions, even with Anko's supervision.

"I thought so, that a given, we're going to spend a whole month and a half perfecting our teamwork, survival skills, combos, collaboration jutsus the works, we get a mission when we get that down, you hear me, gaki?", Anko stated.

"Hai! Got it Anko", Naruto answered energetically.

"Now come on!" She called as she started walking.

"Wait! Where are we going?", Naruto asked catching up with her.

"Well it's lunch time. So I'll let you treat me to dango", She explained nonchalantly.

"Eh?", Naruto face-palmed

"Any problem?" she asked with a devlish smirk on her face.

"None at all ma'am!", Naruto replied quickly, before anything untoward happened to him.

"I thought so".

XXX

Before Naruto could make his way to Ichiraku's Ramen stand, Anko dragged him to her favourite Dango shop.

"It's lunch! We can't have Dango for lunch!", exasperated Naruto in outrage as Anko pushed him to a booth.

"I know, I'm having one for an appetizer, then we'll go for bar-b-cue, got it?", Anko asked.

"Hai!", Naruto cowered against Anko's glare.

Naruto and Anko left the Dango shop a few minutes later and headed to a nearby bar-b-cue stand.

"Hey Naruto, drink this", said Anko as she passed him a white bottle.

"Eh?, What is this?", asked Naruto sniffing the bottle to make sure it wasn't something nasty.

"haha...don't get to paranoid, I told you to trust me right?", Anko stated.

"Alright, I trust you, Anko", and Naruto drank, the purple colored liquid then passed it back to Anko, who took a swig as well.

Lunch was a bit quiet as Anko ate quickly, made Naruto pay and they left quickly.

Naruto didn't notice the Chef's smirk as they left.

As soon as they left the bar-b-cue stand Anko turned to Naruto,

"You feeling O.K, Naruto?", she asked.

"Yeah, why?", Naruto asked tentatively.

"Our food was laced with a simple poison, sorry Naruto",

Naruto's face fell as he heard this.

"Why are you apologizing Anko? I should be the one apologizing, They probably did that because of me, gomen-nesai sensei", Naruto said.

"Nah, It isn't your fault they were ugly and stupid, kohai", Anko smiled, trying to lift Naruto's spirits.

"Hehe...yeah, you're right, should we report this, taichou?" Naruto asked, remembering a clause in the Ninja rules about those kinds of incidents.

"No, I don't want to bother jiji...er...Hokage-sama, and besides, I don't want to give them the pleasure", shooting a glare at the stand.

"Let's just forget it taichou, let's go have Dango", suggested Naruto.

"Hmm...good call gaki, let's go, you'll need the energy for later".

XXX

Naruto decided that he was lucky to get a superior who understood his life, and was like him, he hated the fact that every idiot villager hated them, most especially her. She who was really fun, talented, young, she was a real extraordinary ninja.

Anko, felt sorry for Naruto, he didn't deserve their treatment, he was a sweet kid, liked playing, running around, a real stamina freak. Because of those villagers, he keeps to himself, mostly anyway. He wasn't shy at any rate, and the kid knew when to say what he thinks of people and when to shut up.

Anko was thinking on a way to be able to spite those villagers, other than the occasional prank.

She couldn't come up with anything yet, but oh she will, just you wait you idiots, we'll get you, one way or another, me and him will be pissing down on your decapitated necks and-woah there girl, too gory, gotta stop while you ahead.

The 16-year old toku-jo shook her head, and turned to her soon to be ninja-partner.

"Yo, Naruto, we're going to rest up before anything else, can't have you getting appendicitis on me now, can we?", she said with a wink.

"hehe...yeah, so what are we going to do, Anko?", He asked.

"I don't know yet, let's just take a walk, eh?", the Toku-jo suggested.

"Sure, why not".

XXX

"Hey gaki", let's head over to training ground 13, alright?", Anko asked.

"Sure thing, why do you have a date there?", Naruto teased.

"No I don't!",

"Hahaha...I was just pulling your leg taichou", he saved before Anko hit him.

"If you must know we're just going to a friend's favourite training ground, I'll even introduce you",

"Oh sure, I don't see why not"

When they arrived, they saw they were training.

Naruto recognized, Kiba and Hinata sparring, dog-boy was taking it easy on Hinata, probably to help her, but in Naruto's opinion he's only dragging her down, when he's underestimating her. Shino was looking at some maps, but was surrounded with bugs; he looked up as did their sensei as he and Anko arrived.

"Hey Kurenai-chan!", Anko greeted team 8's sensei.

"Hi, Anko-chan", she smiled, "Team 8 this is a friend of mine, Mitarashi, Anko, Tokubetsu Jonin.", she introduced.

"Hey!", Kiba greeted.

"O-Ohay-o A-anko san, Na-naruto-kun", Hinata stuttered.

Shino just nodded.

"Hey guys!", Naruto said, happy at seeing his friends.

"Kurenai-chan, this is Naruto, he's my apprentice of sorts", Anko said as Naruto bowed lightly.

"Ohayo Naruto-san, I hope Anko-chan is a good teacher", Kurenai smiled at him.

Her smile was nice, warm and comforting, just like Kyu-bi's when she wasn't in the mood to smother him.

"She's well, we haven't gone on learning stuff yet, just practicing our teamwork", the blonde answered.

"Yeah, I'll give him some training later", Anko said as she winked at Kurenai.

The woman must have gotten Anko's meaning as she said before turning to her students,

"Goodluck Naruto-san",

"Right, anyway we just stopped to say hi, Kurenai, team 8 we have to go", Anko said as she walked back.

"See you guys", Naruto waved and followed Anko.

XXX

A few minutes later Naruto and Anko were back inside the "forest of death", to begin their training.

"So eh..what now, sensei?", the blonde asked looking at Anko.

"Now, I'm going to give you, to the count of three to get ready, before we start our dodge training", Anko stated with an evil glint in her eye.

"One", she counted and threw a kunai by her feet.

"Two", throwing a kunai between her and Naruto.

"Three". A kunai swept past Naruto's cheek, stinging him, then he got the idea of Anko's training, she practiced throwing, while he was the target.

*gulp*, as he ran dodging Anko's hail of kunai.

"This is the beginning of chaos gaki, and boy will you be thankful after it", she called, just behind him, throwing kunais, shurikens, senbons, sinks at Naruto.

"Where the hell did you get a sink?", asked an outraged Naruto as he ran for his life.

Beginning of chaos indeed.

Chapter break!

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