Hey XxXPippinXxX here. So chapter two of 'Sirens' is up, Hope it captures your attention a bit more than the first chapter did, I am currently in the process of securing a friend to edit and spice up this story so I hope to see her soon. Until then enjoy. Please review.
The 5 Sirens of the Apocalypse
Chapter Two
'Bonding'
The Leaf warriors retreated back into the darkness Temari, Anko and Kakashi driving the wagon at the back of the procession while the rest of the Ninja streaked ahead through the trees.
"So Anko are you gonna let me in on why you have the sudden urge to be a mother?"
"I'm going to train her Kakashi; we need more female warriors to protect the village"
Kakashi shook his head "What's so wrong about being someone's wife Anko? Someone to come home to? To raise a child? Don't you want any of that?"
Anko looked away "No, I have no desire to have any children of my own and who are we kidding the husbands are rarely at home there's too much risk of losing you"
Kakashi looked at her strangely before Anko corrected her mistake "them, too much risk of losing them"
Kakashi sighed loudly and looked into the back of the wagon where Temari lay being rocked to sleep by the gentle motion of the cart.
"She won't replace the one you lost" He said quietly. Anko's head whipped around to face the copy ninja. Fuming and trying to maintain control of her emotions she glared at him fiercely and without a word picked up a sleepy Temari and jumped into an overhanging tree. She could hear Kakashi calling her name as she jumped from branch to branch ahead of the wagon slowly gaining speed and putting a distance between her and the wagon driver.
Anko reached the village in the next few minutes slowing her speed; she jumped to the ground soundlessly managing not to wake the sleeping girl in her arms. She glared at Asuma as he walked past with Kurenai, Asuma simply smiled and waved annoyingly. This only infuriated Anko more as she strode to the old run-down house on the outer edge of the warrior barracks where all of the eligible males slept. At the moment it was full of trainees in their twenties looking for wives among the eligible females in the village around the same age, it was a time of hell for Anko as the males spent a lot of late nights trying to woo their prospective wives. Unlocking the door Anko slipped inside her bedroom and lay Temari down on her bed, tomorrow Anko would have to dig out the old bed she kept in the shed for the girl.
Anko crept silently around the house gathering her pyjamas and changing out of the sweat and blood covered clothes from the raid, next she rustled through the cupboard for a first aid kit. Finally locating some bandages and antiseptic she limped slightly out of the bedroom and sat on the couch to dress her wound. Wiping away the blood with a wet rag Anko saw that there was still some dirt and debris inside the deep wound. Swearing she set about washing away the dirt resulting in her finding part of the arrow head still embedded deep in the flesh. Scratching her head trying to decide whether attempting to remove the arrow was a good idea she failed to notice the sound of a window opening. Steeling herself she picked up the tweezers and gingerly lowered them into the wound.
"Do you need a medic?" asked the dark figure standing in the doorway.
Jumping in surprise the tweezers slipped from Anko's grasp and dug deep into the wound causing Anko to shriek and howl in pain. Kakashi ran to her side and pulled the tweezers quickly from her flesh and wrapped the wet towel around the wound to stop the bleeding. Screwing her face up in pain and fisting her hands Anko bucked trying to pull her leg out of Kakashi's grasp, but he held tight. Anko fought and kicked telling him to let go and get out of her house but Kakashi manoeuvred his way next to her managing to keep pressure on her wound with one hand and pinning her to the side of the lounge with his body, placing his free hand over her mouth.
"Damn it Anko stay still I'm trying to help! If you don't shut up you'll wake the kid!" Anko glared at him but ceased moving. Kakashi took his hand away from her mouth and sat up still holding her leg.
"What are you doing here? How did you get in?" Kakashi didn't answer but lifted the towel and checked her wound. He whistled lowly when he saw the damage to and looked around the floor for the tweezers. Finally locating them he looked at Anko silently asking permission to dress her wound for her, she nodded and watched as he lowered the tweezers to the gash in her leg. Before he dug the tweezers into the wound he looked up and locked eyes with Anko.
"This is going to hurt" he said quietly she nodded and bent her leg up so she was closer to him but he was still able to access her wound. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and rested her head against his neck preparing herself for the pain. He wrapped his arm around her waist holding her leg steady so that she wouldn't move about while he was working and he dug the tweezers deep into the wound. Hissing in pain Anko tightened her grip on Kakashi to keep from moving; trying to console her Kakashi whispered that it would all be over soon. After what seemed like eternity Kakashi pulled the fragment of arrow from Anko's leg, he then bandaged it and kissed her knee to let her know he was done. He felt something hot and wet covering his shoulder worried that it might be blood he lifted Anko's head from his shoulder carefully only to find that she was asleep and further more crying in her sleep. Smiling to himself he tried to pry her arms off his shoulders but the more he pulled the tighter her grip got, knowing her since he was little; Kakashi knew she wouldn't let go until she woke up. Sighing he leaned back making himself comfortable on the couch with Anko laying on top of him intertwined in his arms, pulling a blanket over them Kakashi drifted off to sleep.
The next morning Anko was woken by sobbing coming from the bedroom still sleepy she lay back down on her couch head buried in the pillow. Her pillow rose a little bit and said "Your daughter is awake" Frowning Anko came to the conclusion that whatever she was laying on was either a talking pillow….not likely… or Kakashi. Groaning she rolled off the couch landing on the floor with a thump, rubbing her eyes she peered up at the couch and indeed Kakashi was laying there his head turned to look at her amusement playing across his handsome face. Scowling she pushed herself of the floor and snuck into the bedroom were a tiny Temari was sobbing in her pillow. Unsure of what to say to comfort the girl Anko said the first thing that came into her head.
"Hey, your getting my pillow wet" she said softly sitting down on the bed looking at the girl curiously. Temari lifted her head to look at the older woman tears still streaming down her face. Anko wiped away her tears and said "what's the matter Temmy? What's there to be sad about?" The girl didn't answer but broke into a fresh bout of silent tears. Scratching her head Anko tried to cheer her up "Hey! I know! How would you like to start your training right now?" Temari looked at her unable to hide the curiosity shining behind her aquamarine eyes. "It'll be fun I promise! You like pranking people?" Temari nodded a smile twitching to her small face. "Ok well we're going to do that but it'll be educational too okay?" Temari sat up any trace of sadness quickly evaporating listening attentively.
Temari followed Anko tiptoeing silently out to the kitchen, passing down all sorts of things from the cupboard Temari took a bundle of strings, water balloons, flour and honey and snuck back to the opposite side of the room to the sleeping man on the couch. Anko then tipped the table to provide a shield fro the two before instructing Temari how to tie strings in different knots, to predict the trajectory and plan ahead by predicting movement. Half an hour later the two were done setting the trap and were hidden behind the table, putting their plan into action Temari lobbed a water balloon over the table where it hit a sleeping Kakashi and burst over his chest. Panicking Kakashi stood up but the movement set off the rest of the traps, water balloons fell from a cardboard box suspended above him, honey spurted from bottles set up around the room coating him in the sticky substance. Then Anko and Temari stood up from their hiding place and bombarded him with flour bombs, unnoticed by Anko Temari pulled a string to her left and turned on the fans set on either side of Kakashi which blew white feathers toward sticking to the gooey mixture of flour and honey. When the torture was over Kakashi turned toward them spitting out feathers and glared at them which went unnoticed by both girls.
"Nice! Did you think of the feathers all by yourself?"
"Yeah me and Kankuro did it to Garaa once!"
"Masterful!!"
"Anko was that really necessary? Wouldn't a 'Kakashi wake up' been a lot less trouble?" asked the gooey Ninja.
Laughing Anko replied "Yes but then Temari would have learned nothing!" gesturing to the young girl in gales on laughter still sitting in their table hideout. "She stopped crying" added Anko shrugging.
"Yeah really good! She can prank the leader to death!"
"God its one day of training and she already knows 5 different types of ties, how to predict trajectory and analyse movement I don't see any of your boys able to set such an intricate trap yet!" Anko yelled pissed off.
"Oh and what's your next exercise? Learning how to shoplift as training for stealing scrolls?" he said exasperated cleaning the feathers off his uniform.
"Now that you mention it…."
"Anko!"
"I was kidding geez you got no sense of humour!"
The Copy Nin scowled and left still covered in honey and flour, Temari giggled and stood up. "What next?" she asked eyes shining with excitement.
Anko grinned "next we go shopping for your very first training outfit and then we'll go and get some paint and drag out the old bed and make you a kick-ass bedroom how about that?"
"Yeah! Can I pick out the paint?! Huh?! Can I?!"
"Sure but of course this is still part of training, strength training you have to carry the paint cans back and haul the bed out to strengthen your arms ok?!" said Anko a grin plastered manically across her face. Temari's smile faded a little but nodded determinedly.
"Before we do that we better go get Kurenai to help pick out some new clothes I'm no good at that stuff" said Anko picking up her keys and stowing them in her weapons pouch. Temari nodded enthusiastically and raced out the door. Jogging to keep up with the excited kid Anko directed them to Kurenai's house on the other side of the village. Temari knocked on the door too excited to wait for Anko to catch up. The door opened and Temari was face-to knees with the biggest man she'd ever seen, she squeaked in fright when he looked down, cigarette ash falling to the ground. He bent down and looked her in the eyes but before he could speak she dashed away back in the direction of Anko's house. Almost instantly she ran into Anko and fell to the ground bouncing off her mentor.
Anko looked at her strangely "What's the matter with you?"
"There's a monster at Kurenai's house!" she squeaked.
Anko picked up the frightened child and raced towards her friends house where she found Asuma still standing in the doorway looking very confused. "Well Temari it seems you were right, there is a monster at Kurenai's house" said Anko smirking.
"Grow up" Asuma puffed before stepping outside and striding off into the village, just as he left Kurenai came out of the house still in her night robe.
"Anko? What are you doing here?"
"Catching you red-handed you little whore" said Anko with a grin pointing at Asuma's retreating back.
Kurenai clapped her hands over Temari's ears "Anko!"
"Part of life K deal with it"
"Other than that why are you here?"
"Temari needs new clothes and paint to make a kick-ass bedroom!"
Smiling at the younger girl who was beaming proudly at her Kurenai replied "Then we better get started!"
Cheering Temari wriggled out of Anko's arms and raced down the street, sighing Anko said tiredly "Well at least she doesn't need too much speed training" before taking up the chase.
Xx End of Chapter xX
Ok so next chapter we'll see what kind of mischief Anko and Temari will get into styling up Temari's new room and starting training. Stay tuned. See you next time please review even if its to tell me "yeah I read it" I would totally welcome that :-p
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