Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, I assure you it'd never be seen on Cartoon Network again. I make no money off of this.

Rating: MA

Summary: Ibiki has become Team Seven's sensei. Being a part of the Torture and Interrogation has some serious set backs- one's life tends to lean towards a certain way of life. What happens when they all end up following in their sensei's path?

A/N: I would like to thank Macavity the Mystery Cat for allowing me to use the idea of Ibiki being Team Seven's sensei; for allowing me to use some of her plot at all. Thanks. You should all go check out her story, the one that gave me the idea for this, Something to Die For.

Beta: Acindra

My Dark World

Chapter 4:

Iruka sighed as soon as he entered his mainly bare room that had nothing but the essentials- a bed in the corner of the room, a desk with some drawers, a plant, a shelf, and a dresser. He walked over to the dresser and started to unpack his ANBU clothes; black cotton pants, with a black cotton top.

He looked at his right hand and saw his cut- the cut that marked him as nothing more then the Hokage's soldier; someone who walked, talked, ate, slept, and killed on command. He didn't know what to feel about this. He only knew it had to be harder on his two best friends and team mates- they were already having a hard time just being together as a couple, now to add on the fact that they'd become nothing but killers, he worried that they wouldn't make it.

He quickly started to unpack everything he had, which wasn't much; just a few photos that no one knew he had even had to begin with and wouldn't mean anything to anyone who might happen to see them for whatever reason. He also had his favorite weapon; an elongated sword that had electrical current run through it so that even if he missed with the actual sword, the electricity would strike out and kill his opponent. He had his normal ninja hand set which included at least 50 of each kinds of kunai, some ninja wire, poisoned smoke bombs, and about 45 blasting notes. He carefully placed his weapons down on the shelf, above his photos where they would be easy to reach in case of a breach, however unlikely that may be. Then, on the shelf just below them, he put all his scrolls.

He sighed again and let his concealment jutsu drop and his already burned-in ANBU tattoo show. He wondered if he would survive longer then three years- that was the going rate for ANBU these days. He dearly hoped he would one day be with everyone he had once helped; once loved. A small sad smile appeared on his face; he would never see the people he loved again. After all, he was ANBU.

He didn't exist.

Even after his death, his real death, the hunters would come and burn his body. His house would be cleared out if he still lived in it. Everything about him would be eradicated. His existence would be wiped off the face of the earth. He heard a small knock on the door. It came in three sharp, yet quiet raps; it was Kotetsu and Izumo or, rather, Sajie and Riki. He quickly shook his head and dispelled any such thoughts; there was no need to make them feel down, too. He walked over and opened the door.

There before him stood two men with their masks on. He also had his own still on. When not alone, or not with each other, the masks would need to be kept on, least someone realized who they were and everything was blown to bits. He moved to the side a bit and waved them in. He noticed another anbu, Anko, watching them curiously.

Anko had not attended the coronation, he remembered quickly. She wouldn't know who they were; might even be suspicious of the three people who suddenly appeared in the headquarters. She turned her attention on them fully now, instead of the brown haired man in front of her. She held her hand up and motioned for him to wait a moment, then she continued on towards them with a slight limp in her step.

Iruka knew that limp anywhere, and quickly pulled his own kunai out, blocking the seven she shot at him. He didn't know how he should address her; after all, he wasn't supposed know who anyone really was yet. Still, he didn't feel like he should end up dead after only a few hours of full ANBU registry.

"Ano, what is your problem, ma'm?" Iruka asked quickly and with respect, hoping that might calm her down enough to simply ask him who he was and what he was doing. That didn't seem to work because she went to grab another set of kunai to throw at him. He was about to use one of his smoke bombs and then attack but the brown haired man came forward and softly grabbed her upper arm, making her pause. It was Yamato- Iruka hadn't noticed it was him without his head plate. He was thankful however, because he was there the night when they were insinuated into the ANBU. He spoke into her ear for a moment. She turned to look at them. Her stance changed quickly. She smiled and rubbed at the back of her neck.

"Sorry about that, I wasn't around last night. So you're the new maggots I've been hearing about. I'm Anko, and this here is Yamato. He is going to be showing you around and start some basic training with you three. Don't worry, you'll learn to trust us enough to remove your masks soon enough. After all, we're the only family you have left, now. Well, I'm off to get my dango." She said, then waved and started to leave, apparently to get some dango. Yamato hung his head and Iruka swore he heard him mutter something along the lines of

"But I said I didn't have the time to take them on. Besides the Hokage asked you!' He didn't seem to want to make anything of it, though, because when Anko asked what he said, he jerked his head up, smiled, and said 'Nothing'.

"Right, well as you know, my name's Yamato. So how about we start off with what your names are?" He asked as he moved to step into the room. Izumo didn't seem to want to move, though. In fact he had blocked Yamato's way into the room at first. Iruka didn't understand why until he remembered that he had left some files on the bed. He heard the distinct click of a drawer closing then Izumo moved out of the way which to allowed Yamato to enter. Yamato raised an eyebrow at him. Iruka just shrugged and went in before him. He frowned slightly, but followed him nonetheless.

"So, your names?" Yamato asked while he leaned against the door frame.

"I'm Riki, that's Sajie, and that's Sibe." Kotetsu said and pointed to them each in turn before leaning back onto the desk. Izumo was seated at his feet. Iruka stood next to them but a ways off, next to the plant in the corner. Yamato looked them over for a minute, apparently trying to get as much information out of their appearance as possible. He then sighed when he couldn't seem to get anything.

"Look, why don't we start with what you each mastered?" Yamato asked, as it was a safe enough question- one had to have mastered the three forms of the ninja works: genjutsu, ninjutsu, or taijutsu.

"Nin, gen, and nin selectively." Kotetsu said, again pointing to them each again and telling Yamato what they were specialist of while he was at it. Yamato nodded and seemed to think about this for a moment.

"So what do you specialize in, if you don't mind me asking?" Yamato asked Kotetsu, seeming to accept that he would speak for them unless they wanted to add something, which they wouldn't. If Kotetsu felt like leaving something out then, they trusted he had a good reason. He had always took charge before and brought them home. There was no reason to not let him do so again.

"We specialize in what we specialize in." Kotetsu said, keeping it to himself what we could all do. Yamato just nodded; not all ninja liked their talents to be known. In fact, almost all ANBU kept their skills hidden unless they were training with their team mates. After all, when you're a full ANBU, all of your family is your team mates. You come to trust them with your life. Iruka had with Kotetsu and Izumo, though it had helped that we were on the same genin team and that they passed to chunin together. Then they decided that they would pretend to be happy with that, and become ANBU members secretly.

"Well. we'll take on some beginning training tomorrow morning. alright? So get some rest. I expect you to be in top shape come 6:00 a.m. which happens to be in 6 hours." When no one made a move to leave first, he sighed and left, shutting the door behind himself. Iruka could have been helpful and walked him out, but there was no reason to fake anything. Kotetsu and Izumo's sleeping arrangement would be simple, really; they would sleep in there with Iruka unless they were doing something private. They were all tense and wouldn't really want to leave each other too soon, not with everything that was riding on them remaining hidden. Iruka turned to the other two who also seemed more relaxed since Yamato was gone- Izumo even removed his mask once he locked the door. Iruka did, as well, and, after a moments hesitation, so did Kotetsu.

"Well, this is turning out to be one hell of a first day." Izumo said as he went and sat down at Kotetsu's feet, only this time leaning against him. Iruka nodded but just headed to his bed after placing some low level detection jutsu outside the bed room door so he would know if someone was about to try to enter his room- that way, they would have time to get their masks back on. He wondered how long they were going to be able to pull of that they were just weary before the others started to notice they wouldn't take off their mask in front of anyone. It would be a bit suspicious to their teammates, but everyone else who wasn't close to the, would just assume they were trying to keep their identities hidden. Iruka heared more then saw Kotetsu move and make them a makeshift cot with blankets he hadn't noticed them bring in, then lay down with Izumo crawling in behind him.

"You'll just have to drag your futon in here tomorrow." He mummered before falling asleep without hearing their reply.

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Genma stretched as he started to jump from tree to tree. He had to get back to the headquarters. Apparently, they had there new teammates. They still needed training but, as far as he knew, Anko was suppose to cover that. He wondered idly if they were the new ANBU they had swore in not eight hours ago. He hadn't slept at all, and neither had he seen Raidou since the Hokage asked him to come back and take on a sick chunnin's duty who was suppose to take over Izumo's and Kotetsu's work. He hadn't realized how much work those two had had to do all that time. First he would go and collect Raidou, maybe get a quickie out of him. Genma smirked at the idea of hearing Raidou scream his name; he hadn't been with him like that in far too long.

Still, the likely hood of that happening was slim to none. They needed to get back to the ANBU headquarters; Raidou wouldn't really want to slow down the return home. He couldn't blame him; he missed it too. They'd only just been reinstated back into the ANBU tactical and assassination squads. Though they hadn't decided if they want to be fully reinstated or try for a cover again. They would need to make a decision soon. He just didn't know; they tried it once before and it had been too much to hold down the fake life as a jounin and doing ANBU work all night long. Still, they don't want to give up everything they had gained in the last five years after they had retired from the ANBU forces. They had gathered many friends: Kakashi, Gai, Iruka, Izumo, Kotetsu, Asuma, Anko, Hayate, and they gained their new status as lovers outside of the ANBU forces. They were extremely close friends and great mission partners when back in the ANBU forces, but only became lovers after they left.

Were they really willing to give all that up? Well, they wouldn't give up the lover part, but were they ready to give up all their friends? The only reason they hadn't really made a decision yet was because they still needed their new teammates before they could start taking on missions with ANBU status again. He sighed and jumped down at their current apartment's door and unlocked it, disarming all the traps easily before walking through and smelled some bacon frying. That was Raidou, always caring to make sure he ate something. Though, how he managed to always get the right time he'd be home, he never knew. After all, they always refrained from giving each other time limits in case something came up and it took longer than expected; the other would be at home, worried that the other was dead. He smiled and headed into the kitchen.

"Hey there, my sexy jounin." He said as he walked over to him by the stove and wrapped his arms around him, kissing his neck. He turned in his arms and gave him a proper kiss that left him breathless.

"Humm, you taste good. I missed you last night." Raidou said before leaning back in for another kiss, then he turned around and finished cooking the food in silence as Genma walked over to the counter and got out the plates and cups and silverware out for them to eat with. They could discuss things over breakfast.

"Yeah, well I never knew those two did as much as they did. Maybe I could convince you to give me a back massage before we leave for h.q.?" Genma finally answered him when he set out the plate and started to serve up the eggs and toast before adding the bacon. He looked amused as he sat down to join him after he poured them some orange juice.

"I would, really, but that'll lead to something else, and we really don't have time for that. I'm sorry, baby. I will make it up to you later tonight, alright? As it is, we're going to be late. But, after being up for over 42 hours, I wasn't about to let you miss another meal, too." Raidou said as he started to dig into his own meal. Genma groaned but followed suit, knowing it would be useless to try to get him to give in.

"We still have to figure out what we're going to do. We're going to have to tell them something. It was fine before because we still couldn't take those missions on yet, but now we're going to start. What do you want to do?" he asked, letting him know he would do whatever he wanted. Raidou bit his lip like he always did when he was worried about something. Genma reached over and took his hand and squeezed it, letting him know he was there.

"I don't really know what to do, Genma. We gained so much yet lost so much when we left. I don't want to lose all our friends, but I also know what stretching ourselves out did to us last time. I nearly lost you on that mission. I can't and what's more is I won't risk that, no matter what I have to give up in the process." Raidou said with a small grimace as he remembered the last mission they took on. Last time they were in ANBU, they never went to full time but were always too tired to try and have an actual life outside of it, even though they chose to do so just for that reason. It caught up with them on their last mission, and Genma caught a kunai to the gut, heart, and throat. He wasn't suppose to be alive, but there happened to be a medic nearby and Raidou forced them to heal him enough to get him time to get back to Konoha and was saved there.

"So then we agree; we're going to be full ANBU this time? That'll need a bit of a cover up story. We can ask the Hokage to fake our deaths. Or we can pretend to become missing nin together." Genma said, giving him the choice of the only two things they could really do to make it work.

"No, all our friends would know we would never desert Konoha. We would never become missing nin, Genma. We'll have to fake our deaths. I'm going to miss hanging out with everyone every Friday for drinks at the pub." Raidou sighed before getting up and putting the dishes in the sink. He would clean them later, or Genma would. Then, he turned around and held his hand out in an offer to Genma who was still seated. Genma smiled and took it, pulling Raidou to him for another quick kiss that Raidou gave into.

"Shall we, then? We've a lot to get done, but not a lot of time." Genma said and pulled Raidou with him out the door and onto the roof to head to the Hokage's tower and inform the old man of their decision before then heading over to the headquarters to meet their newest team mates.

TBC….

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Hey guys sorry about the long wait, and yes I know not a lot actually happened, but I needed to introduce Genma and Raidou into the fic. Hopefully it won't take as long for another update, but school is in session and I have a lot going on at the moment so I won't make any promises that I can't keep, but reviews will make me want to write more faster.