Ch. 10
Konoha main gate, 3 days later
"I...I don't think I can ever look at smoothie again." Ino said, her voice dull and almost lifeless. Horror was the only emotion one could feel from her, and even that was muted.
"Me neither." Kiba agreed, his condition almost identical to that of his teammate.
"You two go swing by the counselor's office, some one there will be able to help you...cope...with what happened." Asuma said, not exactly fine himself.
"Are you guys still going on about that? It was like...sixteen hours ago!" Naruto said, counting his money carefully to make sure he hadn't been shorted. He saw that chunin giving him the stink-eye.
"I'm also going to take Naruto to get a psychological evaluation." Asuma said, glancing at the blond that seemed completely unperturbed by what he had done not even a day ago.
"Why?" Naruto asked, wondering what he did to...oh, right...
[Flashback]
As Team 8 made their way back to Konoha to report a successful mission and collect their pay, a group of roughly forty men suddenly bolted out from the forest around them, all brandishing weapons of various shapes, sizes, and quality.
"I am Thag the Impatient! I am the new ruler of this road and I demand tribute from all those that travel upon it!" One of the men yelled.
He was a head taller than the others, which made him just about a half-inch taller than Asuma, who seemed unimpressed. He also wore what looked like the skull of a dear with the antlers still attached as a makeshift helmet and held a slightly rusted and dented katana in his left hand while his right was occupied by a large machete. His men were simple thugs dressed in rags and not worth describing.
Before Thag could say another word, Naruto appeared in front of him with a spinning blue orb in hand. "Rasengan(Spiraling Sphere)!" He shouted as he thrust the jutsu into the bandit leader's gut.
The result was a large, bloody pile of sludge that dropped to the ground that greatly resembled a half-blended smoothie.
"Awesome! I've never used this thing on a person before!" Naruto shouted, completely unperturbed by the blood and guts that had been a human being a moment ago. "Let's try my newest jutsu," Naruto mused, grinning as he formed another Rasengan in his hand and aimed it at the nearest bandit. The jutsu suddenly shot hundreds of needles made entirely of chakra at the now terrified thug. "Rasenbon!"
It only lasted two seconds, but the bandit's body had turned into a combination of swiss sheese and ground beef. It dropped to the ground, shredded and punctured to the point that it barely resembled a human being.
"Sweeeeet." Naruto said, glancing from his hand, to the body, and back to his hand before he rushed towards the other bandits with a manic grin on his face.
Two minutes later, Naruto was covered in blood that was not his own as he returned to his now mentally-scarred teammates and impressed, yet disturbed, jonin sensei. "I need a shower now." The jinchuriki complained as he continued down the road. He stopped when he realized his team hadn't moved.
"Come on! We gotta get home to get paid!"
[End Flashback]
"Right...nevermind" Naruto said as he went back to counting his money. He was payed the proper amount, much to his surprise.
"Come on Naruto, we have a shrink to see." Asuma said as he grabbed his most volatile student's shoulder and escorted him half-way across the village.
Five minutes of fast-walking later, the two shinobi arrived at a small building that read "Konoha Psychiatric Treatment Center". Coincidentally, the building was right next Konoha's Torture and Interrogation headquarters. They were also connected. Nothing odd about that, not one bit.
"Asuma-sensei, I promise you there is nothing wrong with me aside from a complete and utter disregard for human life. And that only applies to strangers." Naruto said, not taking his eyes off the conjoining buildings.
"Okay, that's good enough for me." Asuma replied as he turned around and headed off in a seemingly random direction, though he may have been headed home.
"Really?" Naruto asked, surprised.
"Yup, but the Shrink will need more than that, so go in and tell them you were sent here for a psych eval." Asuma answered, smirking at the now-frowning genin. Naruto had an idea that might get him out of seeing a shrink.
"I'm willing to bribe you if you'll let this go." The blond declared.
"Okay, I'll humor you. How much ya got?" The jonin asked, more than a little curious as to what the blond could offer him.
"One hundred explosive tags." Naruto answered. Asuma's eyes widened a bit. He was expecting cash.
"Yeah...No, nice try." Asuma said, walking away. "As your sensei, I order you to see a Shrink." The jonin said, hoping that Naruto wouldn't disobey a direct order. He was right.
Grumbling, Naruto made his way to the mental institution, already feeling the glares and hatred focused on him. He perked up a bit, he might be able to make this entertaining. He made his way up to the front desk, where he saw a dark-haired woman giving him an obviously strained smile.
"Hello, Uzumaki-san. How may I help you today?" She asked in a voice so sickly sweet it almost made him gag.
"Well, my sensei sent me here to get a psychological evaluation. I killed a few people on the way back from a C-rank my team was on and he was worried that I wasn't bothered by the fact that I killed some bandits." Naruto explained. He could almost hear the woman plotting against him. It went something like this: 'If he's labeled as mentally unstable, then he'll be taken off active duty. It'll crush him!'. There was probably an evil laugh in there somewhere.
"I see...well, lucky for you Mitarashi-san is on call for the mandatory fifteen hours of counseling service that all members of the T&I Division are required to put in every six months!" The woman said, here smile almost splitting her face as she wrote on some papers that she handed to him. "She's with some one now, but she'll be done in ten minutes." The secretary said. Naruto could almost feel the evil laugh in her mind.
Ten Minutes Later...
"I can't believe I'm getting a psych eval from someone in the TORTURE and Interrogation department...then again, I just have to be more stable than them and I'll be fine." Naruto thought as he sat in the office he was told belonged to 'Mitarashi-san', the person who would be evaluating his mental health.
...That name was familiar for some reason.
"If it's important, I'll remember it eventually." The blond genin muttered to himself as he got comfortable on the weirdly-shaped therapy couch...he would have to look into getting one, they were rather comfortable.
"Hey, Gaki, you Fishcake?" A rough, feminine voice asked. It was obvious this person wasn't too social by the rough and abrasive tone she used.
Naruto used this moment to examine his shrink...and contined to do so.
The woman he was looking at was dressed in a fishnet bodysuit, orange mini-skirt, tan trenchcoat, and shinguards with black ninja sandals. The coat was left open, and the bodysuit left little to the imagination in reguards to the front of her body, the lack of a bra under said bodysuit was something that surprised him, but he wasn't going to complain about an unobstructed view of the kunoichi's impressive cleavage. He was sure he could see part of her left nipple too...
"Enjoying the view, gaki?" The woman asked.
"Very much so, Mitarashi-san." Naruto replied, not moving his eyes so much as an inch. If she didn't want people to stare, she shouldn't wear clothes that made it so easy.
After a few more seconds of staring, Naruto took the time to actually look at the woman's face. She had an amused smirk on her face, clearly not bothered that he had been staring. Not like he would have cared, but good to know he wasn't on her shit-list in less than a minute...unless she hated jinchuriki, in which case, fuck her!
She had beautiful features that were actually more of the 'sexy' variety, which went well with her body and attire, as opposed to kunoichi that were beutiful in the made-up and fashionable way. There was a definate difference between 'hot' and 'beautiful' and she was DEFINATELY hot. Her eyes were a light brown and she had black hair with a bluish tint to it. It almost looked violet if you looked at it properly, though it was probably just the lighting. Her hair was pulled back into a spiky ponytail and he noticed she was wearing a necklace with what looked like a snake-fang on the end of it.
"...That's why your name sounded familiar." Naruto muttered to himself, though she easily heard him.
"What'd'ya mean, Gaki?" She asked, a look of confusion on her face.
"You're Mitarashi Anko, former student of Orochimaru, the Snake Sennin." Naruto explained." He instantly felt a large amount of killing intent wash over him once he finished that sentence. He blinked, surprised, but unfazed, in response. "I apologize if I offended you, I was just mentioning where I know your name from." Naruto said, causing her KI to disappear in an instant. He saw her scribble something down on a note pad, though he assumed it had something to do with his response, or lack there of, to Killing Intent.
" 'Seemingly unaffected by Killing Intent.' " Naruto read aloud from her note pad. Anko looked at her hands, only to find them empty, and looked up at Naruto who was now holding her note pad.
Hands...Note pad...Hands...Note pad.
"How the fuck did you get my notepad?" She asked, more surprised than anything.
"Same way I got your panties." Naruto said as he handed her a black pair of silk panties...very soft.
Anko just looked at him for a moment before she took her panties and placed them in the pockets of her trenchcoat.
"Okay...that was actually pretty impressive...how'd you do that?" She asked.
"I...don't really know, I'm just really good at it somehow." Naruto replied as he also gave her back her note pad.
"Fair enough gaki...why're you here anyway?" The busty kunoichi asked, suddenly realizing she had no idea why she was here.
"My sensei wanted me to get a psych eval because I didn't give a shit that I killed...however many bandits I killed...I think it was around forty of 'em." Naruto explained.
"Oh, it's one of those." Anko replied as she quickly grabbed a slip of paper and scribbled something on it before handing it to him. "There, you're all cleared for duty." She said as she pulled a stic of dango from her pocket and began eating it.
"Sweet, thanks!" Naruto said as he examined the slip of paper.
"The gaki's fine, he's cleared for duty and the next person that you send better actually need help...and hope that I'm not on call."
-Anko
The slip even had a little smiley-face with it's tounge sticking out in bottom-right corner.
"So...my teammates were a little traumatized by seeing their first death in the field...my jutsu is probably the biggest part about that, but I don't have anything to do at the moment, so do you wanna blow stuff up?" Naruto asked, pulling out a stack of explosive notes, waving them for emphasis.
"Hell Yeah!" Anko cheered as she finished her dango stick...only to pull out another one as she followed the blond shinobi to the window. "Let's go to Training Ground 44, no one will care if we destroy stuff in there." She said as they headed to the giant forest in question.
Naruto caught a glimpse of what looked like a tattoo on the kunoichi's neck as the leapt across rooftops. That wouldn't have bothered him if it weren't for the fact that the tattoo was of three tomoe positioned in a circle, something that he found rather odd. Naruto then tried to sense the area around him and picked up a rather foul chakra coming from Anko.
That wouldn't have bothered him either, if it wasn't for the fact that he could feel two different chakra signatures from her. That wasn't normal...unless you were a jinchuriki, which she wasn't.
As the two of them leapt over the walls of the 'Forest of Death', Naruto asked his question.
"Mitarashi-san-" He was cut off.
"Call me Anko, Gaki, or Anko-Chan if you want." She interrupted, flashing him a grin as she spoke.
"Anko-chan, this may be a sore subject, but may I ask about the tattoo on your neck?" Naruto asked carefully. He didn't want to piss of someone so awesome. She declared him fit for duty without really knowing much about the situation, he owed her a little gratitude.
"...You're right, it is a sore subject." She replied after a moment of silence, landing on a large branch as she spoke. "But it's not exactly a secret either. It's the "Ten no Juin(Cursed Seal of Heaven)", and I was the only person out of Orochi-teme's ten test subjects to survive having it placed on me." She continued.
"...I know a bit about fuinjutsu, mind if I take a look?" Naruto asked. He was curious what it did and if it was worth reverse-engineering. That and it was obvious she didn't want it.
"Fine, but Jiraiya of the Sennin didn't know how to remove it, so don't feel to bad if you can't do anything." She replied as she sat down and shrugged off her trenchcoat.
Ignoring the kunoichi's bountiful bosoms for the moment, Naruto walked behind her and examined the seal on her neck.
"...Interesting, it seems to be designed to absorb natural energy and direct it into the subject's chakra network...kinda like a type of steroids, or maybe a shot of adrenaline." Naruto mused as placed the fingers of his left hand on the seal. "Okay...I'm pretty sure I can remove it, but it will have to be done in steps." Naruto said. He was interrupted before he could say more.
"You can get this slave-brand offa me!?" Anko shouted, whirling about to look him in the eye, squeezing his shoulders tightly. She was desperate, he could see that now.
"Let me explain, the problem isn't removing the seal, the problem is keeping you alive afterwards. By periodically altering the seal to absorb less natural energy and weakening its connection to your chakra network, your body will be less dependent on the seal, and I will eventually be able to remove it entirely. The slower we do this, the less recovery time you'll need when I remove the seal." Naruto explained. Anko paid rapt attention, and had three questions.
"How do we do this, how long will it take, and what is it going to cost me?" She asked seriously. Naruto thought for a moment.
"Like I said, I alter your seal a number of times and eventually remove it when its weak enough. The shortest amount of time possible...I'd say about three months, but you'll be out of commision about a year while your body recovers from the removal... If I repeatedly weaken it over a course of six months by a degree that leaves you bedridden for a few days, then you'd only be laid up for two months after the actual removal...as for my fee..." Naruto muttered, trying to make it easy to unferstand for the kunoichi that was pretty much placing her life in his hands...actually, there was no 'pretty much' she could die if he screwed this up, and she'd be incredibly weak even if worked exactly as he predicted.
"Gaki, I will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING if you can get this thing off me." Anko pleaded, pulling him closer to look him dead in the eye as she spoke and inadvertantly, or perhaps intentionally, pressing her breasts against his torso,
"...As awesome as that sounds...and probably would be...let me sign the snake contract and we'll call it even." Naruto decided. He was a perv, he was a bit of an asshole, but he was not 100% a dick.