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My Golden Heart

Chapter 7- Time with Kabuto

"I hate my life!" Anko yelled as she was being dragged away by the one and only Kabuto.

Kabuto pinched the bridge of his nose while gripping the chain with so much force it caused his hand to shake.

"Don't we all?" He muttered. He was clearly upset with his latest task. He was a medical ninja for God's sake! Not a babysitter! Not to mention caring for this girl was definitely going to hold him back on his research, and he couldn't have that happen.

Kabuto continued walking down many hallways, he had work in the lab to do, but he couldn't do it with Anko there. Orochimaru had told Kabuto to watch her, but he also said to get the reports done.

Kabuto sighed. He would either have to forget about the reports for the day, no chance of that, or keep Anko in a spot where she won't get into trouble. Well, her room was definitely out of the question, it was too far from the lab if something were to happen. But where else could he put her? Kabuto's face lit up.

"Hey, Anko," He said with a fake smile. "How would you like to spend some time in the lounge?"

"Lounge?" Anko repeated raising an eyebrow.

Kabuto nodded as he took a left down another hallway. The lounge would be perfect. It was relatively close to the lab but not close enough for her to suspect anything. All he would have to do is put her to sleep for a bit, get his reports done, and then sneak back before she woke up.

Kabuto made a right and opened the door to the lounge. It was a pretty cozy room. It had two purple couches across from each other with table in the center, some bookcases on the surrounding walls, and an unlit fireplace across from the door.

Anko walked in and looked around while Kabuto tied the chain to the leg of the couch. It didn't matter that the chain could probably be easily pulled off from the couch, she'd be asleep anyway, but he'd be sure to lock the door just in case.

"So what do you think?" Kabuto asked curiously.

"It's alright." Anko said as she eyed the bookcase. There had to be some information there, if only she could get away from Kabuto for a bit to look at them.

"So you wouldn't mind if I left you here for awhile so I could…run some errands, would you?" Kabuto asked. It was like the answer to her prayers.

Anko smirked while her back was still to him. Perfect.

"I guess not." Anko responded while shrugging her shoulders. In response Kabuto pushed up his glasses. Everything was going according to plan.

Anko could hear the soft sound of his footsteps as he made his way to the door, but before exiting he turned around.

"Nehanshoujo no Jutsu." He quickly said after he made the hand signs.

"Huh?" Anko asked as she turned around to face him, but he was already out the door and locking it shut.

"He is so strange." Anko murmured as she picked some books off the shelf to begin flipping through. She opened the book on forbidden jutsus, but just as she got to the first page, she began feeling a little tired.

"Chapter 1- Seals." Anko read out loud.

This caught her attention; however she felt her eyelids begin to droop involuntarily on her. She tried to ignore it and focus on the book but the will to sleep was over powering her.

"I'll just close my eyes for a few minutes." Anko told herself as she curled up on the couch. "Just a few…minutes."

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Kabuto moved away from the door. It had taken his jutsu longer than he expected to take effect; she must have been one amazing ninja. But she was asleep now so everything should be okay. He'd only be an hour, that's all he needed. She would still be asleep and Orochimaru would still be training with Sasuke. Yes, everything would be fine.

Kabuto began walking down the hallway toward the lab. Upon opening the large metal door, he noticed the bodies in their cells sprawled on the ground. Great, they're dead. Oh, well. They'd served their purpose. Kabuto grabbed his knives. Well, he shouldn't leave a perfectly good bodies go to waste.

Kabuto went into a cell and dragged a large, limp man out.

"Well, Taymaki, wasn't it? I bet your wondering how the woman who beat you is." Kabuto said to the dead man. "Don't worry, she's fine. It's all because of Orochimaru-sama's orders that she's getting special treatment. But if I had my way, she'd be down here with the rest of you."

Placing the body of the man on the table, Kabuto made an incision at the chest down the stomach.

"Sadly, it's because of her that I have to hurry with these reports, so I'm sure you won't mind me writing up the report using your organs, correct?" Kabuto snickered. This was always his favorite part of his job.

Pinning back the flesh to look at the perfect pink organs inside, Kabuto took his knives and began his work.

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Anko looked around. This place… this dream, it was really peculiar. It wasn't like all the other dreams she'd had, they were more like memories. This one was kind of creepy. She was alone in a pitch black area; there was no temperature, no scent… absolutely nothing. Anko walked forward, not even the sound of her footsteps was heard.

Suddenly, out of nowhere there was soft humming, a familiar tune. Anko looked around frantically trying to discover to source of the song. She wanted to make it stop, it was so peaceful and comforting, yet so sad.

Anko felt herself push to run faster, she didn't know why, but she felt like something was ahead of her…waiting.

'Just a little farther!' Anko told herself.

Anko looked ahead. Now there was a little girl sitting a few feet in front of her. Where has she come from? She wasn't sitting there a moment ago. Her back was toward Anko so she could see a little pony tail sticking up on her head and her maroon shirt was too big for her small frame.

Anko stared wide eyed at the girl.

'This girl… She…she's me.' Anko thought, trying to grasp this.

The humming stopped as the girl turned around to look at her. She smiled at Anko and stood up.

"Have you seen sensei?" Young Anko asked in a honey-like voice.

Anko could feel her whole body stiffen at the sound of her younger voice.

"He's been gone for awhile, and I really want to find him." The little girl continued. Looking around like he just might show up.

Anko swallowed, feeling her heart pounding inside her chest.

"Y-You don't want to find him." Anko shakily said. "He'll only destroy you, if you don't get away."

Younger Anko looked at her in confusion before her eyes darkened.

"Then why are you looking for him?" She asked in a bitter-sweet tone. "Why don't you run away?"

Anko froze at her younger self's remark.

"I-It's my mission." Anko stuttered.

Young Anko tilted her head to the left, letting her bangs fall in front of her right eye.

"Does your mission involve loving him?" She asked in a sickly tone.

"Huh? Wha-?" Anko began.

Anko paused though when she saw a smile stretch across her younger self's face

"My sensei's the best! That's why I love him." Young Anko interrupted in a cheery tone, almost as if the previous conversation never happened.

"I love him as a teacher, but what do you love him as?" she asked with those dark eyes again.

"Hold on." Anko began again but the younger Anko clearly wasn't paying attention anymore.

She was crumpling her shirt in her hands and looking around frantically, until something behind Anko caught her eye.

"Sensei!" the girl cheerfully exclaimed out into the darkness. Anko turned around to see if he was actually there, but there was nothing. Even so, younger Anko ran off.

"Wait!" Anko called out. But the girl was already gone, leaving her alone again to be engulfed by the darkness.

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Anko's eyes shot open only to realize she was still in the lounge.

"Holy shit!" Anko yelled sitting up immediately. "How long have I've been asleep for?"

Anko looked at the clock to see that it had been about a half hour since Kabuto left. Anko quickly grabbed the book that she was originally reading from the floor and picked up from where she left off. Just when she thought she might have something, Kabuto came into the room with a surprised look on his face.

"It's only been forty-five minutes, why are you awake?" Kabuto said as he breathed heavily.

He had run all the way down from the lab to make sure he came back while she was still asleep only to find her wide awake with a book in her hands. Hopefully she didn't find anything that would be of use to her mission.

"What do you mean? How did you know that I was asleep?" Anko all but yelled. Kabuto immediately cursed himself for letting that slip, how foolish.

Anko was livid as she stood from the couch and made her way toward Kabuto.

"Kabuto, you bastard, you did some kind of jutsu to put me to sleep, didn't you!?" She said through her clenched teeth. "That's why I had that weird dream, because you messed with it!"

Kabuto's head snapped up when he heard this.

"What do you mean I messed with your dream?" Kabuto asked, completely confused. "I just put you to sleep for a bit, I had no control over your dreams."

"Well, ummm," Anko began, slightly embarrassed that she accused Kabuto for no reason but shrugged it off. "You still put me to sleep without me knowing, ditched me to run 'errands,' and did, God knows, what else."

Kabuto's back stiffened for a second. He pushed up his glasses up as he looked down.

"Look, I… apologize for leaving you like that but I had some things to attend to." Kabuto admitted quietly.

Anko looked up at him a little shocked that he actually apologized, but then put her hands on her hips and shifted her weight.

"And you couldn't attend to those things with me there, huh?" She replied gruffly. "And what were these things anyway? Did they take place behind that heavy metal door by any chance?"

Kabuto looked up from the ground and stared at her coldly. No matter how much he wanted to lock her up in here, he knew Orochimaru wouldn't permit it. If she entered, it would most certainly have a negative effect on her state of mind. This was probably why Orochimaru wanted to avoid that situation at all costs.

"If I were you, I would forget about that place." He warned. "If you go in there, I can't promise you'll come out alright."

If that was a warning, it was a rather poor one. It only made her want to go in even more. Whatever he and Orochimaru were hiding from her was sure to be important, maybe even beneficial to her mission. Yeah, she definitely had to get in there somehow.

"Ok, Kabuto," Anko said with a fake smile. "Whatever you say."

Kabuto quirked an eyebrow at her but then just shrugged it off before bending down to untie the chain on the sofa. While he did this, Anko swiftly took the book she found on forbidden jutsus and slipped it into the inside pocket on her trench coat. It definitely could come in handy later on.

"So Anko." Kabuto said causing Anko to turn around and look at him. "Since I'm done with my work, is there any place you want to go?"

Anko paused for a second. She would have said that place with the metal door, but Kabuto already made it perfectly clear that she was prohibited from entering there. But that thought hadn't even occurred to her at that time; she had another place that she wanted to see even more.

"I want to see the training grounds."

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Kabuto was leading Anko toward the training grounds. He told her that it wouldn't be wise to actually enter right now, but she could observe from a window. Anko didn't mind at all. She actually didn't care about what the training ground looked like, what cared about were the people in the training ground.

Kabuto seemed to have caught onto this because he was mentioning Orochimaru quite a bit as they walked. Either that or he was just excited see Orochimaru as well.

"Here we are." Kabuto said as he stood before a relatively big glass window. "See? There are Orochimaru and Sasuke training below."

Anko pressed her hands against the glass and peered down. There were many explosions as Sasuke angrily attacked Orochimaru with multiple tools and jutsus. However the sanin merely side stepped to avoid getting hit. While they trained, Anko could see Orochimaru's lips moving, but she couldn't hear a thing. The room was definitely sound proofed.

Kabuto watched Anko as she stared intensely at Orochimaru. Her breath fogged up the window while her hands clenched every now and then. Kabuto followed her gaze out the window to see what she was so captivated by. She had seemed to forget entirely about him being there, all she saw at that time was Orochimaru.

Kabuto smirked. It appeared that Anko was getting a bit too attached to her former sensei. He had no idea where her sudden emotions came from, but it was quite intriguing. Kabuto shifted himself so that his back was propped up against the window.

"Orochimaru-sama is performing well today, isn't he Anko?" Kabuto asked. His head cocked to the side.

"Of course." Anko breathed lightly in a dream-like state. She was clearly not paying attention.

"You trained under him, correct?" Kabuto continued, speaking in a tone that one would use with a child. He already knew the answer was, but he just wanted to see how she would respond.

Anko just nodded her head in response, her eyes never leaving the training field. It was almost as if she wanted to be out there training with him too.

"Would you say he's a good teacher?" Kabuto smirked, referring to Orochimaru.

"My sensei's the best." Anko excitedly responded without looking away from the window. However, once those words left her mouth, the smile vanished. Anko pushed away from the glass and sharply turned toward Kabuto who stood with his mouth slightly open.

"Kabuto…" Anko warned with a panicked look on her face. She couldn't believe that she had said that; and Kabuto was there, to make matters worse.

"I knew it." He grinned. His back was no longer against the window, but he was positioned so that his whole boy stood facing her.

"Kabuto!" Anko warned him again with more force this time.

"I can't believe that you still think of him as your sensei!" Kabuto continued, not paying attention to her serious tone. "Just wait untill he hears-"

Anko didn't give Kabuto the chance to finish what he was saying because she sent her fist right into his nose. A crack was heard as Kabuto was sent flying back into the wall from the force of the hit.

"Damn…" Kabuto coughed as he staggered up from the floor and held onto the wall for support. "You held back last time."

The blood was flowing heavily now that he was standing up causing Kabuto to put his sleeve under his throbbing nose.

"I want to go back to my room, now." Anko scowled while looking at the floor. Her bangs covered her eyes as her fists clenched at her sides to try and hold back everything she was feeling at that moment.

Kabuto looked at her a bit before gathering himself against the wall in order to make his way toward her.

Picking up the chain, Kabuto led Anko out the door and into the dimly lit hallways. Neither of them spoke on their way back; Kabuto, because he was too scared of getting hit again and Anko, because she was too embarrassed to hear what he might say.

The tension between them was thick at that moment. The unbearable silence was only interrupted through the sound of their shoes tapping again the floor and the sound of material brushing against each other. Stopping in front of her room, Kabuto opened the door and let her inside. Unlocking her chain, Kabuto shoved the metal cuff in his pocket and went to go work with the lock on her door.

Hesitating for only a second, Anko turned toward the young medical ninja.

"Kabuto," Anko spoke softly as he turned to leave. "I'm not feeling well."

Kabuto, still holding his sleeve to his face, turned toward Anko. He knew this was a complete lie, but felt the need to ask if she wanted an examination anyway.

"I'm going to rest a bit." She continued before he had time to speak. "So I want to be left alone for awhile."

"Of course Anko-san." He said while bowing mockingly toward her. "I'll be sure to inform Orochimaru-sama of your… current state."

Slamming the door forcefully behind him and locking it, before she had a chance to question what he meant, Kabuto smirked as he made his way down the hallway toward the kitchen. He couldn't wait to tell Orochimaru-sama about his time with Anko.

To Be Continued


Well there you go, the long awaited Chapter 7! I actually wrote this entire chapter with my Orochimaru plushie on my lap and my sound ninja head band tied around my waist. Originally when writing this, I had absolutely no idea on what to do. (Curse you writer's block!) But once I had my little Orichi-kun by me, *pets his head* ideas started flooding in.

Anyway, since I'm in such a good mood, I'm going to respond to my amazing unsigned in reviewers. This is because a lot of the reviews I got on the last chapter seriously made my heart swell up in joy. (Thank you so much!) :)

Snowy Sakura- Thank you so much for review. It made me so happy to read that you were excited for the next chapter. I hope this one was just as satisfying! ^^

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Thanks again for all the wonderful reviews!
See you in Chapter 8!