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Wow I did not think that the decision would be so easy for you guys.
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Time Tested Bonds
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Chapter 2: Snakes, Foxes, and Wolves Oh My!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Biju/Ancient Beings/Large Summons/Time Eater Talking"
'Biju/Ancient Beings/Large Summons/Time Eater Thinking'
'Tele-communication between them'
Jutsu
{Point of View}
[Location]
{Naruko 1st Person P.O.V.}
[Forest of Death, Chunin Exam Building]
Oct 11, 8:42am
I woke to the feeling of a nice warm bed and a nice warm body pillow, one that I gave a gentle squeeze as it let out a bark.
…wait, what?
As I opened my eyes to see what I was hugging I met face-to-snout with what I could only presume was a very large puppy, whose upper body seemed to be made out of some soft mineral that is currently mimicking fur, that proceeded to lick me to full awareness. (Note: if you have any trouble thinking of an image of the Direwolf pup than search up the 'Diamond Direwolf' from yu-gi-oh and turn that into a pup.)
"Hey *giggle* quit that *giggle*alright, alright I'm up."
I slowly get up out of the bed, noticing that I was still in my clothes from last night, and tried to scope out my perimeter.
The room was sparse and the only things that seemed to be in here where a bathroom, a bed, a table and nightstand, a mini-fridge and a window which overlooks the forest that I might have been traveling in. Other than that I would say that this room would at best be for a guest.
'And that brings the questions back to, who found me and what do they want.' I thought. The pup got off the bed and trot up next to me, obviously wishing to tag along with me as it saw what I was going to do. "So you're tagging along with, eh? Well then you are going to need a name." I got a better look at the pup and saw that the mineral/fur had mostly resembled diamonds that I had seen in jewelry stores that I had passed from time to time. "I'm-a call you Daiya-Se (Diamond-Back), pup, that o-kay with you?" *Bark*"Okay then."
Just as that sentence finished there had been a couple of knocks on the door, which brought me into a weak boxing stance to try to defend if needed. "Yo, kid are you up in there?" a feminine voice asked from across the door. 'Well at least she doesn't seem unfriendly' getting out of my weak guard, but still keeping my guard up, to open the door. At the door stood a tall, at least by her standards, woman who stood about 5'5" with brown pupil-less eyes and purple hair pulled into a spikey pony-tail. She wore a tan trench coat with a purple inside over a full body mesh armor that stopped at her knees and an orange 'YAY ORANGE' mini-skirt. She wore shin-guards over open-toed shinobi sandal/shoes and had a bag of what appeared to be food by the smell on her arm. "Good you still have your guard up, that's a smart thing to do when you don't know where you are kid." She said, congratulating me on my insight.
"And who the heck are You?" I asked, staring at her.
"I'm Glad You Asked Kid!" she said in apparent excitement as she put down the food in her arms. Then there were suddenly spot-lights and confetti and a poster/banner with the words as followed.
"I AM THE SEXY AND SINGLE ANKO MITARASHI, YOUR NEW CARETAKER AND GUARDIAN!" she said as she did a dramatic pose. As that soon as that subsided between the confetti, the lights, the booming poster and what she just said all I could process and utter was a deadpanned "What."
"Well it went like this kid." As she went to explain what she was on about?
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{Anko 1st person P.O.V.}
[Konoha Outskirts]
3 hours earlier
I was making my way into the tower to report about the little gaki (Brat) I had found when I came across the argument that was unfolding in the street here.
"I swear to Kami if you don't find her in the next Hour your heads will roll with the rest of those traitors. Now GET TO IT!" Shouted the Hokage towards a couple of ANBU, to which they Shunshined (Body Flicker) into the forest. Seeing as he was here and not at the tower I decided to hail him my usual way.
"Oi, Hokage-jiji, over here!" I Shouted.
At this he visibly twitched but remained relatively serious looking. "Anko-san as much as I would like to entertain you I am having a bit of a cri-" he stopped short as if he had realized something important mid-sentence. He then rushed over to me, startling me slightly, before questioning me on if I have found a kid in my resident forest.
"Red head, whisker marks, about this small." I started to list out. The amount of relief that I saw on his face both answered my question and made him look his actual age, if only for a couple of seconds. "Thank you Anko, for finding little Naruko, thank you so very much." That name set off a couple of alarms in my head. From what I heard she is the current Jinchūriki so what happened to make her go there of all places. "Hokage-sama exactly what happened to her to make her go into my forest?" I asked in a Dead-serious tone. He sighed and went over the events leading to now, all of which made my blood boil. After finishing I had finally had enough and to which I told the Hokage the same. "Hokage-sama, with all due respect, what the HELL are you Thinking! Even I can tell that the village is no-longer a safe place for her; and you want to bring her back into it? You're just INVITING more of this shit to happen!" I had said, seething at the idiocy being displayed. At this he sighed again. "I know this but where else is she to be placed. The orphanage is a no since the matron and the staff hates her and none of the clans can take her in due to politics. You give me a better idea on where to place her." The answer I gave to him was so natural that I wasn't even shocked I said it.
"I'll adopt her."
That was not the answer that he was expecting given the absolutely startled "What?" he gave out. "I'll take her. And hear me out first before you start. When I found her she was in the middle of a pack of junior Direwolves, all of which were PROTECTING her, one of which she was CUDDLING, making it pretty clear that the inhabitants of the forest seem to like her. I live in the Chunin exams tower which houses more than enough room for another person. And most importantly, and glaringly, she doesn't have that many real bonds with the village, if any at all, she might not even want to fight for it given all the shit she has been through. I might be one of the only people in this village that can truly bond with her, and even I don't like it here that much. Find me a good reason not to adopt her. One." I had finished, feeling a bit less angry.
He opened his mouth to respond, only to shut it soon after finding decent reason in my words. "You're going to need a new job in the village." He said. "I'll switch myself over to the T&I division; kami knows Ibiki would love me there." He briefly shuttered at the image of me torturing prisoners into insanity. "Very well, you've raised too many good points for me to argue with. Come with me and we'll start signing papers." "Alright then."
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{Naruko 1st Person P.O.V.}
[Forest of Death, Chunin Exam Building]
9:16am
"And that is how I am now your legal guardian." She had finished with a wicked grin.
I just stared at her at this point, what was I supposed to say to this? I mean, she just flat out stated what she was here for leaving no detail out, completely unedited and all, but why? Why was she doing this for me? I just had to ask.
"Why, Why me?"
She sat down next to me as I moved to the bed during the story, "Because kid, we are more alike than you would think. I was the apprentice to the traitor Orochimaru of the Sannin; I was for a while even after he left the village, following him around and pitching him ideas to make procedures safer for his test subjects, save for the nukenin or bigot villagers from all over. After a while he had come up with a seal, now dubbed the Cursed Seal, which was made from a, willing, prisoner who couldn't control his bloodline. He had given me the choice of volunteering to be a test subject, and I accepted. The experiment ended in failure with me being the only survivor who held a, still volatile, Cursed Seal. The seal while unlike some other probable versions I saw didn't have any portion of his soul or anything like that but put the user in a berserker state and had subtle influences on the user. Because of this I refused to use it and told him that it was too dangerous to use without heavy modification; I had also suggested that he use me for a different experiment, monitoring how the person adjusts to the seal over time. Naturally he saw through this as me wanting to go back to Konoha. So he set up a seal to remove my memories up towards a certain point and tipped off some Konoha Nin to my location while moving shop. They found me and after some interrogation deemed me to be clean enough for reintegration into Konoha. Even then, and now, I'm considered an outcast to all but a few, Hokage-jiji included in the few. If it weren't for the seal breaking a couple years ago then I probably would have been a lot worse then what you see now." She had finished with a grimace at how she could have been.
"Long story short kid is, we're outcasts and we need to stick together." She summed it up with a small smile. I had a lot of questions in my mind after her brief little personal history lesson but they were surprisingly interrupted.
'Hello, Hello-hello, know before you do anything that might make you look weird in front of you caretaker, use your thoughts to speak, not your voice.' Said a familiar voice in my head.
'Spirit-kun?' I tried to reply.
'Ah, good this is working. I'll tell you about this later when you are alone, so go ahead and carry on.'
'O-Okay?'
Back to what I was going to say I looked at Anko, who took my silence as digesting her story and asked my question. "What was Orochimaru like?"
She somewhat smiled in what looked like nostalgia, "He was a weird person to be honest. To those who didn't know him all that well he acted somewhat like a robot from those old Si-Fi books that you see from time to time, leaving emotion most of the time in exchange for cold logic when needed, and often times people think that he wanted immortality for more selfish reasons then he has, but to me he was, is, the father I never had due to being an orphan; Always listening when I needed someone to talk too. But that's enough about him and me kid; I have a question for you now." I can already guess what the question will be given the previous topics. 'I might as well choose now rather than later'
"Kid, Do You Want To Be A Ninja?"
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And so ends Chapter 2 with the Million Ryo question. Thank you all for the support so far you guys are awesome. The poll will be up for another 5 days before I cut it and proceed to make the next chapter. This chapter might be a bit shorter than the last one but this chapter was to gear up for the (hopefully) much larger chapter in the future; And now for a reiteration of the Important Note.
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