Hello there readers o' mine, here's another short chapter of this story (That I'm really begining to hate the title of...)

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Standing alone, in the middle of the desert field, Anko took a deep breath and stared at her arms, lifting them up to eye level.

She had been training, something she hadn't done in a long time since back at the Leaf Village she didn't get to do any missions, hoping to be able to use the cursed seal.

She couldn't.

Anko didn't exactly know why she felt the need to walk up the stairs out of the underground base and into the blistering heat and sandstorms of the desert, but she knew she had to.

She had to find out if she was strong enough. All her life she had been a strong ninja, but never amazingly so.

Sasuke was thirteen and just yesterday had been able to use curse seal level two. Anko was twenty four and had had this curse seal on her neck for years and never been able to use any level of the seal.

That whole time Anko thought it was because she didn't want to, because she could find her own power to be strong and be free of Orochimaru and part of Konoha.

She was wrong.

Anko turned around and walked back through the dust clouds back to the base.

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The building exploded in a cloud of smoke and flames, knocking the Find-Anko Team off their running feat and on to the ground, luckily under the smog and fire coming their way.

"We survived!" Kurenai coughed.

"Barely…" Kakashi replied and Asuma glared at him, through watering eyes.

After the smoke had dissipated, Kakashi stood up and looked at the burning building.

"We have to put out this fire or this town's going up in smoke!" Asuma declared and it might have been the most intelligent sentence he has said all mission.

"Well none of us have water chakra," Kakashi groaned, "So we better get some buckets…"

He looked over to the couple who were not really paying any attention. (I would make a joke about Kurenai already being wet, but that wouldn't really be appropriate.)

Kakashi sighed as he and Pakkun started walking towards where they hoped was a river.

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Tsunade sat at the head of a long table, seated next to her were Jiraya on one side and Shizune on the other. The council of elders sat opposite of them, their wrinkled mouths frowning at those on the other side of the table.

"I don't see the problem." The old woman stated, "Anko Miratashi was bound to leave anyway, she could never be trusted. No one associated with Orochimaru can."

Tsunade stood up, "She could be trusted, until you people suspended her without my permission. This is your fault. And for the record, in case you memories have faded, Jiraya and I are associated with Orochimaru. Does that mean we can't be trusted?"

"I don't know." An old man said, "Tsunade--"

"That's Hokage to you, buster." Jiraya said, trying to be helpful but only earning a glare from Tsunade and Shizune.

"As I was saying…" the man continued, "I don't know if you can be trusted. You go on gambling trips almost everyday leaving the village the possible victim to who knows what could happen while you're gone. And you, Jiraya, you're not even a ninja anymore, I don't know why you're at this meeting, you never even wear leaf emblem or show that you are part of Konoha. That's not patriotic. How can you be trusted?"

It was Jiraya's turn to stand up now, "I care about this village more than anything, the reason I'm not here most of the time is because I have information to gather that can help this village. It already helped to locate Anko. And I also am busy training a ninja that may well become our hokage one day so I think I'm doing what I can to help this village."

"But that's not what this meeting is about." Tsunade said, "We came here to discuss getting Anko back, not who can be trusted or not. The only people I don't trust in this room are the people that try to do my job for me without my permission and force perfectly good ninja to feel that they should leave the village."

"But Anko Miratashi left the village." The other old man sniped, "That's the point. That proves she can't be trusted. A real leaf ninja would take their punishment for their actions and be thankful we decided against jailing her."

"You were planning to jail her?!" both Tsunade and Jiraya shouted, slapping their foreheads.

"A necessary precaution." The elderly woman explained, "If you think about it, she could have warned the whole Leaf Village that Orochimaru was here and tell his plan. She chose not to."

"She told the third he was here." Shizune said quietly, not wanting to intrude out of her place.

"And do you remember that it was the third hokage, your sensei Jiraya and Tsunade, that gave Anko the title of Special Jounin and not regular Jounin that goes on missions." The first old man said.

"Yes I remember." Tsunade said, "But the Third Hokage, may he rest in peace, is not me. We are different people who make different decisions, both for the good of this village. And I decide that Anko Miratashi is hereby unsuspended."

"Go ahead and tell her that." The old woman said, "If you can find her."

The elder council stood up and walked out of the room.

"I don't get it, Lady Tsunade." Shizune asked, "Yesterday you said Anko leaving and joining with Orochimaru was unforgivable, now you want her to be a ninja again?"

"I was thinking about it." Tsunade explained, "This isn't her fault, life has never been fair to her. She's been mistrusted and ignored. When Sasuke left the village everyone went after him despite his decision. No one even would have missed Anko if that food hadn't gone bad and I only sent three people after her who didn't even really want to go. Then to punish her, after all she's been through; she's an innocent victim in this, maybe more so than the Uchiha, she just needs to know people here in Konoha care about her, then she'll come back."

"Oh." Shizune said.

"Plus," Tsunade added brightly, "I just like sticking it to those old fartbags!"

"I have to agree with you on that one!" Jiraya grinned.

And they all laughed.

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Well thanks for reading, and like I said I'm kinda sorta hating my stupid title so does anyone have any good title ideas. It's always cool if a reader names a story cause then the story's life is expressed from those who see it, not somebody (like me) who created it and may have a warped perspective of it. I want to see how the readers see it.

PLEASE REVEIW!!