Time for chapter four! Enjoy!
"Hurry, Lady Tsunade, hurry!" Shizune squealed to the hokage as she ran down the dirt road after her, carrying the pig, "We don't have anymore time to waste!"
"Hmm…" Tsunade stopped in her tracks and took along look around the gambling town she stood in.
She sucked in the fresh scam-filled air, stared and casino/restaurant and declared: "I smell a win!"
Half and hour later they were back on the road to Konoha, empty handed.
(All except for an odd silver piece she had won when a waitress had brought the previous owner, who she was betting against, a plate of dango. The coin had a snake on it.)
The creaking door, the footsteps and the breathing of someone staring in her face, didn't wake Anko.
It was the sharp pinch of a kunai in her shoulder that did.
"Ow!" she screeched, eyes bouncing open, Why'd you do that!? Who did that?!"
Anko looked for the culprit but her eyes were barely beginning to adjust to dark room.(Ooh, a dark room, really sets the mood.)
How long had she been asleep waiting?
"It's me." Orochimaru said, "Kabuto told me you were looking for me. Which is funny, because you hate me."
"I don't hate you!" Anko lied, "The truth is, I'm in love with you, ever since I was younger, I pretended to hate you so the village would accept me, but they're bigoted and cruel to me still and I couldn't keep in any longer so I came here, to tell you."
"Nice story, but I don't buy it." Orochimaru replied.
Anko almost growled, but stopped herself.
"Besides," Orochimaru began, sitting down on the bench next to Anko, "I know that you're just bitter at the people of Konoha, they're always treating people who are different so poorly, putting them in trouble for nothing, you probably just had enough and decided to leave, am I right?"
He was right.
"Yeah." Anko agreed, "First they wouldn't let me be a jounin and made me a 'special' jounin' and I know that means I'm not as good cause I barley got to go on any missions and only got paid when they remembered! I spent all my time cleaning the forbidden forest. And then they suspended me because they thought I was a spy working for you and withholding information from them!"
"Who?" Orochimaru asked, now getting interested in Anko story and quite happy to know she didn't leave because a boyfriend dumped her or something.
"The Council of Elders!" Anko exclaimed, using this conversation as a way to release some pent up anger.
"Oh, I hate those fossils." Orochimaru stated.
"You're old too." Anko said, and then remembered Orochimaru was a dangerous criminal that could kill her at anytime for saying even something as little as that, so she covered her mouth and ducked.
"Don't worry," Orochimaru confirmed, "I won't hurt you…unless I have to and if you give me any reason to have to, I will show no mercy and you will stand no chance."
Anko sighed, and then gulped.
Tsunade was back at her desk, after shooing the Elder Council of out her office, reading through her files. (Or at least pretending to.)
"Hey! Shizune!" she called and her assistant hurried in the door, "Go find Anko Miratashi, she hasn't done a mission in a while and I've found the perfect one for her. Lots of snakes and stuff."
Shizune just stood there.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Tsunade barked, now getting annoyed at Shizune's lack of response, "Go get her already. And find two others for the mission while you're at it."
"Well, Lady Tsunade, ma'am, um…well…" Shizune muttered, "Anko's been suspended."
"Well go find her and unsuspend her." Tsunade groaned, "I need her for this mission."
"Well, she's been reported missing, actually." Shizune explained.
"Well, what happened?" Tsunade asked.
"Well, the woman with the apartment next to hers, saw Anko run out with bag full of clothes and money and then the next day some food went bad in the apartment and the manager came to see and collect rent and she wasn't there and so he looked for her and she was gone and still hasn't come back."
(And so ends the 'Wells' at the beginning of the sentence.)
"But I need her!" Tsunade exclaimed, "Just when I thought this day couldn't get any worse! We've got to send a search party! A man says he'll pay a million to see a giant snake!" (In fact it was the same man who gambled with Tsunade before and won his million from her.)
"Ok then, I'll go find some people to find her." Shizune shrugged.
"That's a good assistant!" Tsunade smiled, and then threw her head down on her desk to take a nap, all her affairs for the day having been in order.
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