Chapter 10: A Day of Chaos in Suna

"Stop them!"

"Over here!"

"Don't let them get away!"

Dozens of Suna-nins tried to follow the four dark cloaked persons, who had the tendency to color the Kazekage Tower in bright green paint. And they didn't stop there. Whoever they were, they somehow dyed the hair of her first twenty persecutors in different neon colors. Those, who escaped their new style got feathers and flowers glued onto them.

To say the shinobi were pissed, was like saying Jiraiya was hugged from Tsunade for every time he peeked on women.

Naruto jumped from rooftop to rooftop. He would have never approved of his imouto's idea if it hadn't been for the Kazekage being in another country for some new treaty.

He put a hand up to his radio and activated the Fuinjutsu. It was hard figuring them out, but with Kurama's help, he created a set of four radios that transmitted a person's thoughts and could also be used to translate and animal's sounds into human words. Sure, it had been his godfather who had introduced him to the art of sealing, but he only showed him storage seals due to his research…

"I made them go south. You guys all right?" He thought.

"Yeah, but the guys annoy me… Can I please get rid of them?" The bijuu answered back and seemed to purr.

"No, Kura-nee! That's not nice," Naruto could imagine Anko pouting and tried not to laugh. He still had to get away from the angry mob.

"This one will be back at our headquarters in five minutes"

Mukuro had a weird way of thinking/speaking, Naruto thought. But who else could say, they understood a huge tiger? Some weirdness he would just have to deal with.

"Okay, I will go back and start the clean up. Don't take too long"

Thoughts of "Yeah, yeah", "Got it", and "Affirmative" reached his brain through the radio.

Nodding, he turned around the corner into the next street and upon checking if it was empty, he let himself sink into the earth and traveled into their hotel room, hiding all traces of their absence and little adventure as fast as he could.

After the incident with Orochimaru after Tsunade left them alone, she decided it would be better to take them along when she did need to heal somebody and risk letting them get discovered, instead of getting them killed. And if one of his godfather's best informants was hurt and his other colleagues in the same village already poisoned to death, they had to do something.

For the younger Senju it just meant to be stuck in the hotel… officially. But if you grew up, training to become a shinobi, wanting to visit a Hidden Village in years… you tended to risk the Sannin's fury. And it wasn't like they knew, who the Shi no Mononoke were, right?

Just as he was done with hiding the left over paint, he noticed flames appearing behind him. And out of the fire emerged a cloaked woman who just threw the dark hood from her long red hair, showing her long and furry ears.

"Those guys were plainly annoying. And some of them dared insulting me! Please, let me torture them," an evil grin grazed her features, but the young Senju just sighed and shook his head.

"No, can't do"

"Damn it!" She vanished in red chakra, which went into Naruto's abdomen, and her cloak, as well as the radio fell to the floor.

Naruto picked it up and sealed it - together with his own prankster equipment - into the scroll he hid his sword in. After Killer Bee and the other had left, he couldn't just get home and say, he found it in the woods. He was already lucky enough they didn't notice the blade as he got back. But it could have just been because somebody still had a little hangover and the other adults were a little bit busy with that somebody…

If they had noticed, he would have been dead.

Right then a small boy entered the room via window. He was about half of Naruto's high and seemed a little stiff, but the Senju was used to it. Not a lot of people/tigers could get along with a reshaped body.

The boy took his radio and cloak off, to reveal his black and white stripped hair and… clothes? The first time he changed it had been through Kura-chan's chakra, he had only a little hair left on his head and had to wear human clothes. He could even speak on his own, what he couldn't do yet if he changed on his own account. But as he had exhausted all of her chakra, he became a huge tiger again and ripped all his clothes to shreds.

So to get past that little handicap, they changed the jutsu into keeping his fur like clothes around his upper body and legs. Sure, upon closer inspection it wouldn't look normal, but from far away it was only a weird kind of dressing. And even if somebody noticed… there were a lot people wearing fur hats out there…

Mukuro folded his cloak gently, before handing it over and dropping on his hands – instantly changing back into his feline body.

"Where are you, Anko?" Naruto thought a little afraid. Even if Anko was good at hiding and getting out of trouble, he couldn't help but wonder if she was alright. She was his imouto after all.

"Just got rid of the annoying pedophiles," Naruto's sweat dropped, leave it to Anko to get into their mother's shoes and start calling people names, "But I will take a little longer… Can you cover for me? I won't take long; I just need to… figure something out?"

The blonde felt her reluctance and something else… he wasn't sure what it is, but it seemed important to her. And that's all he needed to know, after all she had done to help him keep his Kumo-nin friends a secret.

"Try not to come home too late, I am not sure what kaa-chan would do and she seems ready to run out of here as soon as possible and after our little stunt…"

"Yeah, yeah. But she will still need a while till her patient is fully healed. Those stupid pervs take always so long to heal"

"Alright," he sighed not bothering to correct her. If his godfather way a pervert it simply meant to her: Jiraiya=pervert=informant "Contact me if something goes wrong"

Silence greeted him, but Naruto was used to it. Anko wasn't that talkative and even thought she didn't approve of it, she could hold her own. After they found out, she could use the Mokuton as well he had trained her in secret and slowly but surely she was becoming better. It seemed like the only thing hindering her, was her… fire-nature? She sometimes just burned down, what she created a second ago…

At least, he argued with himself, she knew when a situation became dire enough to call for help…

Or that the blonde hoped… But if he kept in mind that it was his imouto who took a tiger home as she was only three years old…

"Well, Anko will be home later," he told said tiger and Mukuro just lay down on the floor, yawning.


Anko had been running from all of the Suna-nin and was quite surprised as they stopped following her. It seemed like they were scared of something. But of what? It couldn't be her; she didn't do anything but… a change of style?

She started to slow down and turned around, trying to focus on the chakra around her through the earth and sand. The little girl wasn't as good as her onii-chan, but she could still tell that every house around her was empty… and the chunins stayed far away from her, not moving.

Why did they-

"I made them go south. You guys all right?" Naruto interrupted her trail of thoughts.

"Yeah, but the guys annoy me… Can I please get rid of them?" She heard Kura-chan and had to roll her eyes.

"No, Kura-nee! That's not nice," She pouted. Sure she could understand her… somehow, but that didn't mean she had to think about ripping the poor humans apart.

"This one will be back at our headquarters in five minutes" Her Kuro-kun replied, while she walked through the deserted streets, not really caring about the conversation.

"Okay, I will go back and start the clean up. Don't take too long"

With a tired "Yeah, Yeah" she turned off her radio. Her onii-chan could still reach her without that thing. Sure it cost more chakra, but it wasn't like they hadn't got enough of it through Kura-nee. Sighing she took her hood of, it was just too hot with the dark cloak.

She looked at one of the shops. The sign on the door said it was open, but nobody was there. It was completely empty. As she looked in one of the restaurants, she saw the food still lying on the table and some chairs were thrown to the ground. But it was still empty. Every living being was gone.

Why did the people all leave? And that's probably in a hurry, too? She hadn't even seen a dog since she had entered the district!

Then she noticed Kura-chan returning into her part of the seal. It was just like the twitching feeling in her stomach finally stopped. But thankfully the fox didn't choose to comment her wandering around.

Slowly, she kept on walking and tried to find at least somebody. It couldn't be that a complete district in the middle of such a huge village was just left empty from one moment to the other, that is!

"Where are you, Anko?" Her onii-chan called out to her.

"Just got rid of the annoying pedophiles, But I will take a little longer… Can you cover for me? I won't take long; I just need to…" She said watching turning around the corner and seeing a destroyed house with blood on splattered on its destroyed walls. It took her a moment to focus back on the conversation, "…figure something out?"

A moment of silence followed, before he answered her: "Try not to come home too late, I am not sure what kaa-chan would do and she seems ready to run out of here as soon as possible and after our little stunt…"

"Yeah, yeah. But she will still need a while till her patient is fully healed. Those stupid pervs take always so long to heal", she tried not to sigh and complain about that stupid idiot, the Toad Sannin called informant. Sure, she had only seen him for a moment, but that was enough for her to identify a baka, when she saw him.

"Alright. Contact me if something goes wrong"

Anko ignored it and inspected the house closer. It looked really solid. Good enough to hold its own against several of her fire and wood techniques, so whatever hit it must have been really strong… And all the blood - it was enough for three grown adults! She wasn't sure, if she wanted to look inside and turned away. Just judging by the smell it couldn't be something pleasant…

That's when she noticed him sitting on the roof across the bloody scene. The boy was maybe only two or three years older than her, but he certainly appeared younger. Without her medic-nin training she would have guessed him being her age instead! He was just too malnourished and way too skinny. His fire red hair was dirty and something seemed to be written on his forehead.

"Hi," she called out to him, but he just spared her a sleepy glance. Not used to being ignored, she jumped up to him, hitting him on the head with as less chakra as she could master – the Senju wouldn't want to knock him out accidently, "I'm talking to you!"

The sand around him flew softly around him, like it was blown from a non-existent wind. Slowly, he looked at her, an afraid look in his eyes, while moving his hand to the back of his head. The redhead winced in pain, before his eyes widened.

"How?" He asked her softly and she just blinked surprised, "How did you hit me? How did you… silence her?"

The young Senju just blinked at him. What now? What was she supposed to have done?

"Do I have to hit ya again?" She crossed her arms annoyed. First he didn't spare her a glance and now? Now he kept asking her weird questions. Well, technically it only had been one, but still… She was the one with the missing answers!

"Where are all the people? What happened here? And why are you the only one here?" She had a couple of questions more, but those weren't making her that curious.

He just blinked at her, before slowly looking at the scene of crime. The redhead moved his left hand up, leaving the right on the back of his head, and the sand followed slowly.

"Mother wanted their blood, so I gave it to her," he moved his pointer finger in circles and the sand corns created a sandstorm in the size of a golf ball, "And now she's quiet. She is quiet… for the first time"

Anko's eyebrow rose. Okay… What was that guy? Did he have some case of schizophrenia? A psycho-

"Just the container for my youngest brother"

The younger Senju blinked surprised. Kura-nee's answer confused her so much she forgot she was standing in front of the weird redhead and spaced out completely.

"How do you know?" She asked her.

"I can feel it. The rest is up to you to figure out. But try to not judge a book by its cover," with that the bijuu's presence vanished from her mind and the girl knew she had gone to Naruto, giving her and her thoughts some privacy.

"-lo? Are you alright?"

Anko blinked and found herself looking straight into a pair of green eyes. She instantly noticed the bags under them, when was the last time the boy… jinchuriki slept? She stepped back and would have fallen from the roof if his sand hadn't created a flying step stone for her.

"Of course!" he shrieked back and she bit her tongue, before adding a silent "Thanks". She stepped back onto the roof, the boy giving her some needed space. He didn't seem as crazy as she first thought…

But what was wrong with the boy? Kura-nee said he was a jinchuriki – just like her. So, who was that mother he spoke about? And why did she want blood? Wait; didn't he say something like she shut her up?

She sat down, taking a deep breath. She wasn't the person to sit still and start a calm conversation. She was far too fiery.

"My name's Anko," the young Senju looked expectantly at him.

"Gaara no Sabakuno," he kept gazing at her, his fear gone and replaced with gratitude "How did you silence her?"

"Wait a sec," she exclaimed pointing at him, "You think your bijuu is a female?" She laughed heartily, even without knowing of his jinchuriki status before, it was common knowledge that the Ichibi Shukaku was in Suna's hands… and he was the only one.

"She is my mother"

Okay, now the girl knew for sure that something was not right in his head. But because of that, she liked him… sane people were just too boring.

"Stupid," she said smiling, "Shukaku's a guy. So you should start calling him daddy if ya want to"

He didn't look angry at her. It was more like he was confused of her... and something else, but she just wasn't sure what it was and what to think of it.

"Why are you afraid of me? I can't remember threatening to kill you"

He kept staring at her and Anko was sure he could remember every inch of her face by sundown if he kept it up. Anyways, before she could snap at him, he spoke up again, his calm voice surprising her.

"You hit me…" The girl blinked a big question mark on her face, "Nobody ever hit me before… and you silenced her… him"

It took her a moment to realize what he meant. Somehow, something the bijuu controlled protected Gaara and she disrupted it with her Mokuton chakra. Granted, her control over the special chakra was far, very far from being perfect, but she was still able to use it. Her katon chakra just prevented her from using it to its fullest potential. But it was this special chakra that must have reacted with the bijuu or at least with the seal.

Thinking back to her kaa-chan's explanations about the Mokuton chakra, she knew that it wasn't just a mixture of earth and water chakra, but also the first healing chakra ever discovered. It was the creating element. Because what could you possible create out of fire, wind or lighting? Nothing of its sub-elements would be able to live on its own? Nothing could compare to the trees the first Mokuton user created decades ago and still lived.

Also, Mokuton chakra was the exact opposite of a bijuu's youkai like chakra, which was the most destructive power one could find. It was because of all that, that her great-grandfather Hashirama was able to tame the huge beasts. The healing and calming abilities of its pure form changed the Tailed Monsters into loveable little pets.

And Shukaku felt that chakra in her.

"Did you want to…" She signaled to the blood down in the street. As bold as she always acted, she was still just a six year old girl and had never been confronted with dead bodies before. Every injured or sick person she had met so far, was released of her families care in perfect health.

"Mo- he wanted me to, so I did it," he told her like speaking about the weather.

"If he had been quiet… would you have left them alone?" Anko asked him eyeing him suspiciously as he looked away.

"They would have left… run away…"

She wasn't sure if she felt pity, responsibility or something else, but she took out the seeds Naruto gave her to train. It took her a moment to select the right one; both Senjus preferred vines, because you could so easily shape them into different forms and tying people up in their soft branches, but she had to train with flowers and trees as well…

But as she had it, she tried to put some of her Mokuton chakra into it as she let spread a small leaf out of it. If she could keep it up without burning it, she could probably create something which Gaara could use as a way to control the bijuu, before it could hurt him – she just hoped Kura-nee wouldn't feel offended…

"Okay, give me your arm," Anko looked up and saw him staring at the seed, eyes huge like plates and mouth open. She rolled her eyes and took hold of his left wrist, "Please try and move the sand with your other hand, I don't want to interrupt your abilities"

Slowly he nodded and did as he was told, while the young Senju let the vine grow around his arm. It took all of her concentration to put Mokuton chakra into it and not burn it down instead as well as to focus said energy not to be used to create new leaves, branches or roots, but to connect with a part of Gaara's chakra system.

She inspected it a moment before nodding. It should work and stay where it was… as long as it wasn't hit by any lighting…

"I can still…" with huge eyes he moved the some sand into the shape of a ball, before changing it into a pyramid, then into a dice, "…control it, but she-he… he is quiet"

The girl smiled, he looked so much younger than her and she felt like she was the older one developing a soft spot for him: "It will probably only hold a couple of years as it is, but say: Thank you, oh great Anko-sama!" She said teasingly.

"Thank you, Anko-chan," the girl become as red as Kurama's fur, trying to hide it by coughing and turning around.

"You're welcome," she muttered silently, before remembering something else, "But you are not under any circumstances ever allowed to tell somebody of those abilities of mine, understood?" She eyed him and let some of her Killing Intent out. For a six-year old she had quite a lot, which wasn't that surprising considering two Sannin and a bijuu being a part of her family.

"But," she added as an afterthought, "You can tell onii-chan if you need any help. He's better with it than me anyways… Just keep watch for a blonde who listens to the name Naruto and would heal even his worst enemy"

The young Sabakuno blinked before nodding.

"I will take your secret into my grave if I have to," Now that his thoughts were finally free from the bijuu, he noticed something different, "Yashamaru-ji will be angry"

"Your uncle?" She wasn't sure why, but it felt like his family was one screwed up bunch of weirdoes… not that hers was any better.

"He takes care of me. Father has too much to do… and my siblings… we don't really know much of each other," Anko wasn't sure if she imagined the sorrow in his voice. The jinchuriki seemed to not have a good time in his life. She had to wonder, how people would react if they knew of Kura-nee in her…

"Does not sound that bad," she saw the questions written all over his face, "Mom's an alcoholic and gambles all our money away, onee-chan's so busy with keeping tabs on her, that she forgets about onii-chan and me at times, while Ero-ji is mostly away peeping on women. And did I mention our pets? It had taken lots of time to keep our tiger from eating our house-pig… not to mention all the traveling," she looked at him, "I have absolutely no clue, what your family is like… but whatever might be wrong with them, they are still family"

"I never said that I have problems with them," Gaara replied perplexed.

"Yeah, but you didn't need to," she watched him closely for a second, "Life as a jinchuriki is never easy from what I heard"

Slowly the Sabakuno nodded, thinking about everything the girl in front of him had said. He wasn't sure why, but he trusted her. Then his eyes widened a fraction.

"You are the one responsible for the trouble at the Tower"

She stuck her tongue out, before grinning from ear to ear: "Guilty! But that had been lots of fun."

"You did it to prove your existence?" Gaara asked her and now she was the confused one, before her smile returned tenfold.

"You could call it that. Wanna try it? It's better than sulking about the dead – just make sure to make up for the kills, got it?" She stood up and started walking to the other side of the roof.

"Why do you suggest it to me? Why do you ask of my company, when everybody else-"

"Because you are a human being! And a nice one at that if we can keep that bijuu of yours on the leash or at least give him an anger therapy," the girl felt his need to argue flame up and turned around. She was tired of talking and just wanted to do something fun. The next words came out, before she realized it, but that didn't mean they weren't sincere from her heart…

"Just consider it as something friends do, when they hang out"

"Friends?"

"Are you coming now or what?"

Anko put her hood up and together they started playing pranks on the poor village.

They never knew what hit them as they noticed their personal monster becoming a carefree prankster…


First: THANK YOU FOR THE REVIEWS AND FAVES!

I was just too happy with each mail I got telling me there are new people out there who enjoyed my story- it makes me really hyper and makes me want to write everywhere! Thank you!

This chapter had been Anko-centric for the most part, but hey! In canon you read/see so much about the Uchiha and it's still called Naruto XD

This was the last chapter before Konoha! I can't wait to get that blonde Senju finally into the village... Oh, and yeah… Gaara is about two years younger than in canon, it will all make sense later on.

Also, considering there had been no jinchuriki in the village and even the Hokage didn't know about Naruto (Kakashi knows when to keeps his mouth shut or suffer a painful death from two Sannin and get haunted from his sensei afterwards), there will be some differences to canon…

But you will see next chapter.

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