Mythical Night
Chapter XI
Cheer-Ninja
Sakura was running fast up the stairs to the Hokage's office, and knows she's going to be a few minutes late, but hopes nobody notices, or lets her off without punishment since she isn't too late. She doesn't think anybody could be as late as Kakashi, and hopefully she'll never be. She had never had to get up so early before, even when they were working in Wave with the bridge.
She got to the Hokage's outside office and just darted for his door while the sectary went to stop her looking angry, but she ducked down dodging the annoying woman. However, she bumped into Sakura's crouched body, and tripped with the momentum screamed as she went flying out of the open window.
"Ow," Sakura complained rubbing her ribs as she stood up straight. "Somebody should really keep that window closed," she muttered to herself as she's seen other people tossing that woman out of the window… well she's seen Naruto do it once.
"You're late!" a cold voice hissed in her ear sending a shiver of dread down her spine before she hissed in pain as a woman grabbed her hair and pulled her head back at an uncomfortable angle. "I don't have time to be wasting waiting around for a tardy bitch like you! I'm not that moron, Kakashi! I'm Anko Mitarashi, and unless I have something urgent to get to I'll always be on time, and even then I'll send word ahead of time if I'm going to be late, understand me, Pinkie?"
"Y-yes, ma'am!" she whimpered out when Anko let her go and pushed her into a wall, her eyes cool and unconcerned.
"I'll let you off this once since you threw the bitch out of the window, but make me wait again and I'll strip you naked and walk you around town on a leash!"
Sakura gulped as she shuddered, nodding her head vigorously while she got a good look at the beautiful, but scary kunoichi. Anko has light brown, pupil-less eyes, and light black hair, which has a violet tint to it, which is styled in a short, spiky, fanned-ponytail. She is wearing a tan overcoat left open with a purple in-seam, which has pockets on both sides, and complete with a fitted mesh body suit that stretches from her neck to her thighs.
She's wearing dark orange mini-skirt with a dark blue belt around her waist that connects to her skirt that has an appendage-like sash. She has her forehead protector on her forehead half hidden by some fringe, and a small pendant that looks like a snake fang on a thick cord around her neck, a wrist watch, and white shin guards over her black combat boots and ending bellow her knees.
"Let's go, Pinkie!" she said after a moment while Sakura was blushing at how revealing Anko's mesh suit is, leaving not much to the imagination. Sakura followed her down the stairs unsure what they'll be doing or why she has to go with the crazy looking woman. "The old man says you're quite the pussy-shit cheerleader, so we need to get you some new clothes, and…"
She grabbed Sakura's weapons pouch, pulled out a few kunai, and shook her head in disgust before dumping everything out into a trashcan they were passing before giving the surprised and confused pink haired girl her pouch back.
"You'll need some equipment too," she answered the un-asked question, kind of. "Where the hell did you get that junk?"
"F-from this place down town near my house," she said timidly. "M-my mum said all of the best ninja go there for their gear."
Anko just snorted. "It's that shithole… umm… Ninja-Mart… whoever came up with that was an idiot and genius because they make cheap crap and all of the lame ninja go there and waste their money. I would rather spend more and not have my blades snapping on me during a fight."
Sakura just gulped as they were moving into an older part of town before coming to a small shop. "In here, Pinkie," she said. "They sell pretty much everything you'll need at a fair price for the good quality, got it, so get in!" she demanded shoving Sakura through the door with a tinkle of the bell they entered to see Tenten sitting on the pay desk juggling several kunai.
"Hey, Anko," the bun-haired girl greeted with a grin as she caught her kunai and set them aside as she saw Sakura looking terrified. "Naruto-kun said that the Hokage was giving her away for some remedial work or something as a punishment. I'm glad you got her, she deserves no-one being too nice or she'll never learn her lesson."
Anko laughed while Sakura seemed to now understand that she's getting treated like a very slow kid needing extra help. "Yep, the old man said I can do whatever I want with her," she said wickedly, which caused the pink haired girl to pale more. "So I got rid of all the crap equipment she bought from that dive, Ninja-Mart and brought her here. I was also thinking about some new clothes."
Tenten giggled as she hoped down from the desk and walked around Sakura checking her out with a few thoughtful nods, which were freaking Sakura out as she recalled what this girl did to her last time they were together.
"Yes indeed…" she agreed with a nod as she pulled the scared pink haired girl closer to her and held her arms out to her sides. "We actually have some reinforced outfits in the cheerleading range. Our supplier sends us all sorts of odd stuff to try to sell along with our normal ranges. You should see some of the freaky stuff she forces her daughter to model for her. Some are real cute but then others are plain odd or outrageous."
Anko snorted and rolled her eyes. "OK, since this is supposed to be a punishment for slaking off and not reporting her sensei for not training her. It wouldn't be much of a punishment if I let her get some more, 'normal' ninja clothes now would it."
"Of course not," she agreed smiling while Sakura just stood how Tenten held her looking dejected to wear whatever they put her in. "Let's see," she added in thought. She ran her hands over Sakura's arms and round over her small bust causing her to flinch before her hands stopped at her stomach before she moved the split dress out of the way to see her short covered legs.
Sliding her hands around Sakura's waist the blushing pinkie let out a sigh, as she didn't continue groping. "I don't think the sizes we have will need any adjustment, but the skirts will need a belt to hold them up. She's really too skinny, no muscle mass. She needs fattening up a little… this can't be healthy."
"Yeah, you're right there," Anko agreed as she poked Sakura's tiny tummy. "We'll grab a nice big breakfast later, full of carbs."
"I… I can't… I'll get fat!" Sakura suddenly blurted out, worried.
Anko rolled her eyes while Tenten just laughed. "You'll only get fat if you carry on doing nothing, but you're being punished so rest assured that you will burn it all down, maybe you'll get some muscles on that little bod of yours too."
Tenten laughed some more as Sakura quivered and most likely wished Kakashi had cared to teach her properly so she doesn't have to be here. "Well, if you ladies will excuse me, I'll go and get the gear for her to put on and try. You can take her into the changing room, Anko and strip her naked. I'll bring it to you…"
"I can-can change myself y-you know," Sakura embarrassedly stuttered out, bright red in the cheeks.
Anko just laughed, rolling her eyes. "Yeah, yeah," she said pushing her passed the racks of weapons and standard ninja clothes. "Just get in there, strip and wait for Ten-chan to bring your new outfit. If you take too long I'll come in there and shove her kunai up your little butt-hole, got it!?"
"Y-yes ma'am," she agreed as she was shoved into the changing room with the door closing behind her.
"And that's yes, Anko-sama," she corrected with a sadistic cackle. "Or if you like sensei, understand?"
"Yes Anko-sama," she agreed muffled from behind the door while Tenten arrived holding a pile of clothes with some black trainers and a new ninja pouch on top full of some new kunai.
"She's really in for a treat with you isn't she?" she asked the older woman smirking. "Anyway, I heard a rumour that the council tried to hire you to capture this Arrow guy but you refused. I've been dying to ask you about that when I see you."
Anko couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah, why would I want to capture him?" she rhetorically asked. "I mean, the Hokage isn't asking, so I'm not going to waste my time when I'm loyal to the Hokage, not the council. If anything, I would shake the guys hand, or suck his dick," she added the last, smirking while Tenten giggled, blushing. "Anyone who can royally piss off the council this much has my respect.
"I've seen some of the ninja sent out after him," she snickered. "One of them had an electric arrow hit him right between his crack. He shit and pissed himself so much, I couldn't stop laughing. I've had to deal with a few of them getting dumped in T and I too with printed notes telling us why they're there.
"Three of them had been watching a young woman getting attacked," she said shaking her head in disgust. "From what I got out of them they had talked about having a go on her afterwards if her attackers left her alive. They were executed for treason. The Hokage may not be able to bring down the underground with the council getting in the way, but they can't stop him from executing ninja for committing acts of treason against innocent civilians."
"It's sick how much power the council has," she replied with a sigh. "Naruto-kun lives in Greyland, but he is only safe because he's a ninja and doesn't mind kicking the crap out of them. Though, now Greyland has this Arrow guy in green, Green Arrow, or whatever they're calling him now stalking its streets, crimes down enough that Naruto's started doing up his apartment block and renting out rooms."
"His blocks at the edge of Greyland, right? Near to the hospital?" she asked in thought while Tenten nodded. "So it's a pretty good location if you faction out the district. How much would the rent be for one of the apartments? My freaking landlord keeps on putting my rent up, the greedy bastard. So I'm looking for somewhere else, but because of my connection with my ex-sensei these bastards are either trying to charge me a fortune or just don't want to know. The people of this village can be jerks… well most of the wealthy one's. I've never really had any problems with the normal civilians."
"I don't know what he's charging," she replied thoughtfully. "But I know he'll give you a fair deal. He has one bedrooms, two bedrooms, and three bedrooms. I've actually been thinking of renting one myself. It's nice living with dad, but I'm a ninja now and want something for myself where I can stay and have some more freedom."
"Hey, I'll go splits on a three bedroom if the price is right," she replied thoughtfully. "This way we'll have a spare room and not have to pay as much. I bet your dad would feel better if you roomed with me… to keep Naruto at bay…"
"You mean to encourage us," she replied when the door to the changing room opened and Sakura hid behind it pocking her face out. "Oh, right," she said smiling as she stood to block anyone from seeing her (if there was anyone else in the store) and passed the clothes to the naked pinkie, checking her out a little while she blushed and took her new gear before Tenten closed the door after her.
Anko just laughed as she wandered a little to the weapons with Tenten following. "So talking about this Green Arrow guy, do you supply trick kunai too?"
"We don't make trick arrows," she replied rolling her eyes. "We could probably come up with some special kunai given some time if you want to special order them," she suggested thoughtfully. "Dads pretty good with seals, but Arrow, or whoever supplies him is a lot better than him or me, or anyone we personally know. If you want trick kunai on level with Arrow's you'll want him, or maybe Jiraiya of the Sannin."
"You can at least make exploding kunai, right?" she asked hopefully. "Paper bombs aren't anywhere near as good."
"We can at least experiment a bit, but I'll make no promises," she agreed and disagreed at the same time.
"Cool," she answered with a grin. "Hey, what's up with these tonfa?" she asked as she pulled out the white baton like things, looking them over they have some black marks along them and flat, slim line buttons on the top of the black leather bound side handles.
"Oh, them," she replied with a laugh. "If you have pretty good control you can fire chakra blasts in rapid fire. They're not very dangerous with single shots, but in rapid fire can blow the crap out of anything or anyone. They also have a pulse function when you channel chakra at the moment of contact, to preserve power and they pack a larger hit than normal."
"Wow, that's pretty cool, Pinkie will take them," she said pulling out the belt holders that comes with them.
"Are you sure?" she asked, confused. "They're a one of a kind set and this is Sakura you're talking about."
Anko shrugged with a look of thought. "I don't care, she needs something to set her apart, other than cheerleading ninja gear, talking about which, Pinkie, hurry up!" she called as they moved back to the changing room door.
"Y-you won't laugh at me will you?" Sakura asked timidly from the other side of the door.
"Probably," Anko said laughingly. "But if you don't get out here in the next five seconds I'm coming in for you!"
"OK-OK, I'm coming out," she replied timidly as the door slowly opened and she stepped out blushing brightly.
She really did look good even though Tenten and Anko were laughing at her. She wore a dark red, burgundy short-sleeved top that was loose over her body and chest but cropped above her tummy. It has twin zeros on her chest and the leaf crest on her back in black. Then it has a slim line black long sleeve top underneath, fitting her body perfectly covering her tummy and arms.
She's wearing a burgundy rippled skirt with the edges in black and hanging halfway down her thighs. It has a black belt holding it to her hips with her kunai pouch on her right hip. She has black velcro running trainers with baggy and rumpled burgundy socks up just below her knees with black straps around her shins to hold her guards in place under them, and black fingerless gloves with straps ties around her wrists to keep them taught. The whole outfit is armoured and designed for a ninja, but looks cute.
Anko smirked as she placed on the girls' tonfa and told her what they do. Sakura had never thought that she would find such comfortable ninja gear, as what she was wearing isn't anywhere near as good. She's not sure why she would need the tonfas but they do look cool, so she'll just have to learn how to use them or something.
"Wow, looking good, girl!" Tenten said smirking as she went over to her and started touching her up and checking to make sure it fits in all the right places with some breathing room, and even lifted her skirt and felt the crutch and butt on the black armoured hotpants, feeling all the contours of her area before leaving her alone to blush brightly. (She wouldn't normally bother being so p0icky about fit but she likes Anko and wants to make sure she has made a good job of kitting, Sakura out).
"Well, I think it all fits quite well," she said to Sakura and Anko. "So I'll have the rest of your ninja stuff bagged up and delivered to your house by this evening because I doubt Anko will want you carrying it all with you," she finished off to the pink haired girl. "I'll set up an account so you'll be able to pay for it in instalments."
Sakura sighed and looked sad as all of her money is going to be spent here for the next several months. Though, she knows it could be worse, so she won't complain. It's good quality, and she had looked over the kunai. It's amazing how much better quality they are that even she can tell. Then looking over the price tags realised they're not too much dearer anyway, but they're not skimping on materials to make money.
"Well, later Ten-chan," Anko said with a wicked grin. "But Pinkie and I have to get going, get some breakfast, and then it's onto teaching her a few things," she said waving as she dragged the pink haired girl out of the store.
Tenten shrugged as she stretched when her large built father entered the store from out back looking sleepy and wearing some shorts and a tee shirt, (his nightclothes). He yawned as he looked to her before smiling.
"Ten-chan, I'm hungry, what's for breakfast?" he asked sleepily. This gave her even more reason to get her own place. He needs to learn to remember how to take care of himself again; he relies on her too much, especially when she's home, but even then she leaves a few lunches for him in the fridge.
She groaned and rolled her eyes. "Whatever the hell you make yourself, dad, you are seriously lazy. Heck, Naru-kun has come here a few times and made ME breakfast… why do you have to be such a troublemaker…?"
"We all can't be saints like Naruto-kun," he said chuckling nervously. "Anyway, who was just here…? And why are we open so early?"
She just shook her head, exasperated. "It was Anko with Sakura, and we're open because Anko sent me a missive yesterday to open up early. I didn't know she was bringing Sakura with her, but it's kind of funny. Anko is punishing Sakura for the Hokage for not training, so now Sakura will be near dead at the end of each day."
"Wow, she must have really pissed off Hiruzen," he said in surprise. "Now that's a hard feat. He is notoriously patient."
"Yeah yeah, whatever, dad," she replied locking the shop door before she moved and walked passed her father. "I'll make you some cereal and toast, nothing more…"
"Great, thanks sweetie…"
Sakura felt self-conscious as she followed Anko after their huge breakfast through town and got lots of looks from people setting up their stalls for the day. However, she was thankful that they soon passed by into other areas and then out into the training grounds with a large pond, miles away from anywhere. She was actually exhausted getting there.
"OK, Pinkie, let's get you started with some, chakra control, and chakra growth," Anko said as they finally stopped. "So that means some water walking, which means either getting your new clothes soaking wet or stripping naked, either way I don't care, now hurry up!"
Ino Yamanaka was just taking a stroll through the training grounds with the hope of finding something to do with Vine ridding her shoulder. It's so boring without Naruto to entertain her, or at least start a fight with those douchy Kumo ninja. She had heard the jerks had tried to kidnap Hinata's little sister, and if not for Arrow would have. Though, no one seems able to do anything about them.
She started a minute later as she heard a screech and a splash, so she quickly ran to the sound. However, seeing Sakura wearing a cheer outfit and soaking wet as she pulled herself out of the pond made her burst out laughing.
Sakura blushed and felt thankful that she hadn't gone naked, and she had been tempted as she knows this training field is far from anyone. "Dam, girl, Ten-chan said you might be in for some punishment," she said looking to Anko, amused before back to Sakura. "You should be a good girl like me and perhaps you wouldn't get into trouble."
The pink haired cheerleader pout glared at the blonde. "I bet you can't walk on water either, can you?" she demanded causing Ino to pause.
"Don't worry blondie, you can join her," Anko said smirking as she pushed the blonde girl into the pond with a splash.
"Not funny," she said as she swam back to shore while Anko laughed at the two soaking girls as she realised punishing slackers is really quite fun.
"OK, I'll show you both one last time…" she said whistling so off tune that it hurt Ino's ears.
Ino watched the exercise but also paid more attention to the whistling. She just had to wonder. Whistling is in essence just blowing air. She wondered whether she could come up with a wind technique that uses the sound more than just the wind. She has taken the element test, and wind is her element. It held merit and she wants Naruto to be proud of her, so she got to thinking about how to work her technique and then how to do it without hand-seals. It's all about the determination, Naruto tells her.
Two people snuck in the shadows across the rooftops of Konoha during the late evening, the sky darkening, one a small woman/girl and the other a huge set muscle bound man. They were heading in the direction their source said the Hyuuga girl now takes home from training at the Ninja Academy.
However, they didn't know that they were being followed until a small dart like arrow nearly hit the girl and sliced into a chimney as she barely dodged. They turned to see a girl/young woman behind them holding duel crossbows coloured dark purple and black. The crossbows reloaded themselves as she stood aiming the weapons for a second volley.
She's wearing dark purple combat hipsters and a tight black top with black boots and a holster on each thigh for her crossbows and a dagger in the back of each. She has a long dark purple battle robe on with black flames at the bottom by her ankles. She's wearing black gloves, but her hood is down showing her brown hair loose and untamed down to her shoulders. She has a dark purple, thick/wide mask around her brown eyes and over her forehead, bridging over her nose.
"What the fucking hell is wrong with this town?" the girl covered in black demanded as she cautiously eyed the interloper. "Is this whole town crawling with unchecked freaks in costumes, trying to stop us?"
"Possibly," the girl in purple answered with a harsh voice as she readied to fight. "But then, maybe it's my duty to stop a couple of Kumo ninja from sneaking around my town while heading in the direction of the mini-Hyuuga!"
"Who the hell do you think you are?" the girl growled out demandingly.
"Me… I'm just your hunter," she replied; her eyes cold enough that they might have frozen if she had an ice bloodline. "I may not be able to take you in to T and I, but I can get in your way, or if I'm lucky, kill you!"
She didn't wait around as she opened fire, her enemies dodging. However, while they fought they hadn't noticed they had a witness of three kids after they jumped up onto the roof having seen the suspicious people in black. The woman in purple fired more arrows, a few of them blowing up as she kept her distance from the two Kumo ninja.
"Whoa!" Konohamaru said to his two friends Udon and Moegi as they watched the new girl taking on the bad guys. "That is awesome; I wonder whether she knows Arrow… it will be awesome if he turns up too. If they're those Kumo ninja they'll get captured or killed."
"I think they're trying to kidnap Hanabi again," Moegi said, hushed. "I heard they've tried once already and that Arrow stopped them and rescued her. She's been acting oddly since then, and hasn't been her arrogant self. She was actually nice to me. I've been wondering what's going on in her head now."
"Yeah, but whose this woman?" Konohamaru asked, though he didn't expect an answer he got a guessing answer anyway.
"Hunter?" Udon suggested in thought as he heard her say she's a hunter.
"No silly," Moegi answered rolling her eyes. "She's a girl, so Huntress. She's going to go after all the bad guys. She's so cool."
"She's not as cool as The Green Arrow!" Konohamaru said with a smug look while Udon nodded in agreement, but Moegi wouldn't listen as she found herself a new role model.
To Be Continued…
