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Violetta POV
Hokage-sama had not lied when he said the gatekeepers were expecting me, they had simply waved me through. They terrain I had to traverse was typical, but to prevent anyone tracking me easily I backtracked and zigzagged endlessly. Crossing through every river stream and puddle possible, it was likely unnecessary but also exceptional evasion training. It's not even beginning to get dark when I reach the outpost. Immediately a chuunin is in front of me weapons drawn.
"State your purpose." With a groan I flip my pocket open and toss him my mission scroll in a single fluid motion. He catches it easily, and visibly relaxes at its familiarity. Upon reading it he tosses it back and motions me inside. "Alright, well how many messages do we have this month?" I pull out my storage scroll, and his face is extraordinarily perplexed.
"Just the one? Usually we have a dozen or more." Unfurling it, I unseal the second sealing scroll, and then unseal the master seal. All twenty-four scrolls appear, and I replace my storage scrolls in my jacket.
"It...um... seemed illogical to carry twenty-four scrolls in a conventional manner." The man grinned, and began sorting through the scrolls.
"Smart kid, I've had jounin deliver a mass of scrolls like this that didn't think of that trick. My name is Aizo, for your report. Alright here, you take these and come help me deliver them to the common room. You haven't run this mission before have you? I think I would remember you. I'm sure you were told the details though, after this I'll show you your room. Unfortunately, you're bunking with Mitarashi-san. Here we are, the common room." In the room there are several shinobi, a few I recognize in passing. One of them is... Oh my, so that's who Gai-sensei... Ugh, better not think of that.
"Mitarashi-san, show... Oh, I didn't catch your name." He's passing out the scrolls already, leaving some on the table to be claimed later I suppose, but he looks sheepishly over his shoulder at me when he realizes that.
"Violetta Watanabe." Nodding he turns to Mitarashi-san again, "Show Watanabe-san to your room, she's bunking with you for the duration of her stay." The woman groans, but flips from her upside down position on the couch.
"Yeah, stick me with the brat why don't ya, come on kid, this way. So, how'd a cute little thing like you get stuck with a boring old mission like this, huh? Oh, you're blushing! How cute, tell me, how far down does that blush of your go? I'm just messing with you kid, how old are you anyway like seven?" She opens the door to a room, and I give her a little sneer.
"I'm almost thirteen actually, what are you four?" Giving me a devilish grin she follows me into the room and plops into the most odd position on her bed.
"Four and a half actually, but good guess. I'll be seventeen next month actually, so neh." She makes a face at me, and throws a senbon at my head. In response, I toss the small box of dango I brought with me on the bed. She eyes it with excitement before snatching it up.
"Girl, I could kiss you, oh don't give me that look. I would do much more inappropriate things for dango, I have actually. See ya." Mitarashi-san disappears, leaving me to work on my mission report. After I double check I have all twenty-four scroll descriptions, I detail that I stored them safely and practically. I don't include how, one thing I know is that not every trick needs to be widely known. Besides, any shinobi worth their salt would know what options there are for that. Including then that the travel there was uneventful, and that I then passed the scrolls of to chuunin Aizo. I enscribe my arrival time next to it, and then create the layout for the information I will have to add later.
I'm done far to soon, and I so I meditate through my chakra exercises a few dozen times. Anko shows up a couple hours later, and I pointedly keep my eyes very shut while I hear a distinctly changing clothes type shuffling.
"Psst, what ya doin?" I open my eyes to peer at the woman, and her even weirder than last time position on her bed.
"Working on my chakra control, and trying to figure out how to make lightning chakra. What are you doing?" Anko grins, and flips off of her bed and onto mine. Thankfully, in a much less unique position.
"Pfft, none of your business. So you're a lightning type then?" Scooting slightly away from her, I nod, "Fire also, that I can form. Lightning I'm struggling with. Mitarashi-san, could you please go back to your own bed?"
Wiggling her eyebrows she grins in an extra unnerving manner, "It's Anko and, why? Am I not good enough to share a bed with? Kidding, Kidding, I owe you one for that dango actually, so I'll play nice. Unless of course... You want me to help you in that area, considering I can't help with lightning chakra." My blush at this point probably covers every inch of my skin, but I pull a shroud of confidence over and give the woman my best casual stare
"Anko-san, if you're really interested in that with me, you'll need to take me out to dinner first. Also, I'm on a mission right now so..." Her grin now is absolutely ravenous, and she promptly invades my personal bubble to push me back and hover over me suggestively.
"Don't say things you don't mean, as it is... Well, I should be back in the village a few days after you. I'll catch up to you and let you know when I'll be taking you on that date. The Inuzuka aren't the only ones indiscriminate on gender." With a wink she moves back to her own bed, and leaves me to wonder what the hell I've gotten into. With Anko Mitarashi of all people, I haven't seen what she's into perse but I know what people say... Oh well, it's not like I didn't know the Inuzuka thing anyway, the Watanabe clan head is married to a woman after all.
It was the day I'd been scheduled to leave, and I had just finished cataloging the scrolls I was taking back, sealing them, and writing my leave time when Anko flounced into the room. I flinch a little remembering how she'd threatened one of the guys that kept pestering me, half a centimeter higher with that senbon. Though, I was also grateful because he was making me want to punch him. She'd also gotten permission for me to run a perimeter check to see what it was like. It'd been enthralling, but uneventful.
"So, my cute little friend is leaving today, I'm sad." Giving me a pouty looks she perches on the desk, and that look immediately vanishes when I produce the second small dango container I had brought with me. "Better?" Taking it she nods, "Much better, in fact..." Pulling me rapidly, and unexpectedly up by my collar she plants a kiss on my cheek. Disappearing a second later, probably to eat her dango in peace.
I head out, waving goodbye to Aizo, and the others I see in the common room. Repeating my pattern of weaving around to avoid being tracked. Halfway back to the village, I run into see unprecedented trouble ahead.