AN: Oh, new chapter? I do declare good sir, wtf? I am so sorry I haven't updated earlier, I felt uninspired for a while, and then I got a terminal disease called World of Warcraft. It required a juicy death treat from Erik to get me to write again. So thank him for this chapter ;; Oh and thanks so everyone that reviewed! I truly appreciate it! Rating set to PG-13, as this Fan fiction won't be as violent as I planned, nor is it sexually explicit enough to truly be rated R…Yet! Grins

Onwards with the story!

In the office of the Godaime Hokage, Tsunade sat in an almost total solitude; only the occasional bird flying outside the window broke it with its chirps.

Finding herself being too restless to really do any of the daily paperwork, she had leant over to the trusty Sake bottle to relieve her stress. She wouldn't claim to be an alcoholic, no one would. Usually due to the threat of being pounded to an unrecognizable puddle of go though. But the return of that blond boy she had met those three years ago had made certain marks in her mind, and stress easily followed it; as anything involving Naruto often did. It certainly made sake a good way to rid her of it.

Even though Naruto had indeed answered the questions about the past years that the council had set up for him, she found her mind still riddled with questions about the young enigma.

What powers did he posses, what were his motivations, and why did he return to the leaf right now?

He had sought out Anko the day before, as the Jounin in question had reported, she had been lead to believe it had something to do with Uchiha Sasuke and his curse seal, which certainly did sound feasible, if not slightly disturbing.

How did the demonic fusion affect his rivalry with said traitor one could ask, had it evolved into wishes of murder and revenge?

But if he were indeed looking for revenge against the raven haired traitor, Naruto could prove to be a loyal ally. As it didn't seem like Sasuke was going to switch sides anytime soon, as many had hoped before. And with the demonic power, Naruto could have at his disposal, it could flip the favour to their side.

No, Sasuke was a trustworthy soldier in the sound army, a powerful one at that. With abilities rumoured to transcend even his mentor. It could prove difficult for Naruto to attain his revenge.

Tsunade took another large sip from the cup of sake, letting the liquid flow soundlessly down her throat. She winced slightly at the burning sensation that followed shortly after, and released a breath of air as to try and cool it down.

The Medic-nin returned to the deep patterns of her thoughts. For any outsider it would look like she was staring stoically into the air, but on the inside the wheels of thoughts where churning heavily. There were so many questions, so few opportunities to ask them.

Tsunade's deep trance was interrupted by a firm knock on her door, sitting there confused at her sudden disruption; she looked around the office, a slight paralyzed expression taking dominance in her face. It required a second knock to make her aware of her guests.

Before she could bid the visitor or visitors to enter, the door was crudely knocked open by the looks of it, a rather pissed off Naruto, and with a battle worn Kakashi leaning wearily on his shoulders.

For a moment the female Hokage stood there frozen, taking a few seconds to cope with the intruders. Naruto growled in impatience, as not wanting to carry around an old man such as this, thus he ended up dropping his old sensei into a conveniently placed couch in the corner of the office.

"A little help right now would be really dandy Hokage-sama." His voice, although calm, was integrated with burning sarcasm, the honourable suffix even more so.

Tsunade finally managed to get herself out of her trance and moved to the wounded Jounin.

She quickly examined him to find several bruises and gashes around the little exposed skin he had, though there were many that had gone through his uniform as well. The most noticeable was the distinctive wound in his abdomen, where it had gone through the padded vest as well as the thick clothing Kakashi usually wore.

The penetration of skin moved in a spiral pattern. Tsunade recognised the wound as the one the Rasengan would cause and it disturbed her a bit that Naruto would use such a dangerous technique against a comrade. The legendary ninja looked up at Naruto with a scowl.

"What the hell happened?!" She had demanded, but the demon-like boy only sneered at her, trying to keep his unstable temper in check.

She wasted no time and started the handseals for a healing jutsu. Soon Tsunade's hands were illuminated with a faint green light, and they were already healing the many wounds covering Kakashi. Luckily none of them were severe and could easily be cured with minimal complications.

While the copy-ninja recovered from his state, Tsunade went to inspect Naruto, who only reluctantly let her check him. To her surprise, there wasn't a single scratch gracing the perfect complexion, although there was shredded clothing here and there, but that was it.

Could the boy known as the dead-last really defeat one of her best Jounin without even a single scratch to pay? The thought sounded absurd, but yet here she saw a half fainted Kakashi, and Naruto still going at a hundred percent.

Soon the silver haired Jounin was healthy enough to speak clearly, which was good enough for the Hokage.

Tsunade cleared her throat in an attempt to gain the two men's attention. "If you two gentlemen could come with me, I would like to discuss a few things with you." She had a sweet tone in her voice, compelling them both to obey her. Naruto and Kakashi moved silently towards her desk, the Hokage frowned slightly, her eyes focused on the Kyuubi vessel; she raised a delicate eyebrow amusement.

"If 'Anko's property' here" She said, pointing gently at the newly placed collar that was proudly covering Naruto's neck. "Could wait outside, it would be great, since I would prefer to hear Kakashi's honest view on the match, and your presence might just disrupt that, so if you could…" Tsunade motioned towards the door, silently ordering him to leave the room.

Naruto's feelings about being mortified by the nickname, and that he was being thrown out were not ones to be hidden, as the whiskered teenager released a barrage of curses. Many which were directed towards one purple haired, dango-loving Jounin; and a certain leather contraption circling his neck. Naruto slammed the door behind in a display of his displeasure. In response the medic-nin only sighed lightly.

"Teenagers…." Upon hearing the comment, Kakashi's eyes curved up, reflecting his general amusement, as Naruto's mood swings mirrored the comment perfectly She released a second sigh, while seating herself down behind her desk, with Kakashi standing in an uncharacteristically 'at ease' stance.

"So what can you report, Kakashi?" She looked up at the silver haired Jounin, which face turned deadly serious, and a small glimmer of terror flashed across his singular eye.

"Maa, all I can say that Naruto is certainly in possession of some rather monstrous jutsu's, as well as a large array of Katon styled ones. It was kinda odd that many of the jutsu's he knew I couldn't even recognise, nor could the Sharingan copy them. But I am guessing they are connected to the Kyuubi." The Godaime furrowed her eyebrows in deep thought

'Jutsu's the Sharingan cannot copy; how can that be?'

"Kakashi, I want you to recite what happened in your fight" The scarecrow ninja nodded in confirmation.

"Hai, Hokage-sama."

"Kinjutsu: Youma Satsui!"

Naruto maintained a firm eye lock with his combatant. In a split-second the demonic pupil lit up as the energy contained within it churned in a fiery spiral. Kakashi's eyes widened momentarily before vanishing into a white cloud of smoke, leaving only a wooden stump left.

The blonde enigma clenched his teeth and balled up his fists to absorb the disappointment when his jutsu had failed. A small droplet of blood trickled down the palm as the clawed fingers had penetrated his skin.

Ignoring his failure, Naruto turned around; with a feral look that darkened the face. He looked around him an attempt to spot the copy-ninja. But to no avail, the Kakashi was far too advanced in the art of stealth to be found so easily. Naruto's upper lips curled into a sneer; and a low growl emitted from the depth of his throat. The four orange-red tails flowed gently behind him, making the animal image complete. Naruto tried to lean on his animalistic senses to see if he could spot the elite ninja.

The whiskered man could feel his own senses heighten as he kept failing to detect his adversary. He could feel the sensation of grass tusks under his palms increase, and the pure air, only slightly polluted by the hidden village, only half a kilometre away tickled his nose.

'Found him!' Naruto mentally danced a victory dance, although the he did regain his calm exterior. In his desperate attempt to escape; Kakashi had forgotten to hide his smell. The bittersweet odour from his cologne was distinctive and didn't blend with the nature at all.

With a smirk gracing his lips, Naruto pulled out his folded Fuuma Shuriken from the inside of his jacket, and with a snap of the wrist, the elegant weapon unfolded.

'He is… Behind me!' The black dressed ninja turned around and threw the gigantic weapon, all in one smooth motion. The shuriken flew towards the source of the smell, but before it reached its target, Naruto had finished doing a small sequence of hand seals.

"Fuuma Shuriken Kage Bunshin!"

While calling out the name of the technique, the single weapon turned into half a dozen. The six giant shuriken spun its way through the trees surrounding the area, shredding them to shards.

He walked towards the spot where he had smelled Kakashi, he pranced in an arrogant way, while radiating the infamous Uzumaki self confidence.

When inspecting the wrecked trees, he only found a doll that had a remarkable resemblance to his old sensei, much to the blonde's disappointment, and when taking a deep breath inwards to again cope with his failure, he noticed the smell it radiated. Exactly the same odour Kakashi had. The doll had been put her to mock him, and to show his knowledge. So the old man had taken notice of the animal keen senses. The scowled, that was another advantage that was gone-

The feeling didn't last long when a barrage of kunai where swung towards him with great speed. Naruto's tails weren't there for no reason, as they quickly deflected them with efficiency. While trying to spot his attacker, another kunai flew from the opposite direction, cutting an almost invisible wire.

Following, several more kunai flew from a third direction, as the wire had released a set up trap. This time they were too many, and the powerful tails could not reflect them all. While trying to dodge the metal objects, a kunai lodged itself in Naruto's shoulder. The blonde demon screamed a feral scream of pain when he just as quickly pulled it out. Blood flowed freely from his wound, and Naruto had to apply pressure to it, lest he wanted to bleed to death. And seemingly miraculously the wound stopped bleeding only a few seconds later, though Naruto didn't seem surprised.

Naruto was beyond pissed, if the large vein throbbing in his temple was any sign of it anyways. The single blue iris started to stain red as he was starting to lose control over his temper. He started doing the longest sequence of seals yet. This time he moved both hands to his mouth, both of them making a circle. Before starting the attack he yelled out.

"No more hiding Kakashi!"

"Katon: Koudaiokawa no Gouka!" Following, a grand tsunami of fire left Naruto's mouth, consuming the clearing and burned all the trees in the desolate training area with great ease.

As grand as the jutsu was, it had left Naruto quite exhausted and almost totally chakra depleted. His heavy breathing was not helped by the fact that the fire had used up most of oxygen in the remote area. The inferno was dying down, revealing a slightly singed Kakashi sitting behind something that used to be shrubbery, but now was only charred plants. Naruto wondered slightly how he could even be in one piece after that, but knowing his old mentor, he probably used some convenient jutsu. The copy cat seemed to be unconscious, as he didn't respond to the continuingly approaching Naruto. It was more of a limp than a walk, his steps felt like sharp needles up his spine, but he kept moving forward. He called mentally called himself an idiot, as using that jutsu would be suicide for someone else, and it would still hurt him badly.

A self confident smile graced the blonde's features when he saw that Kakashi was indeed unconscious. He saw his opportunity. Naruto summoned the last bit of chakra by making the crimson Rasengan that had become almost of a habit for the teenager. His fox tails disappeared when the spinning orb was completed, as too little chakra was left to keep them active. The loose clothes baffled wildly around in the wind created by the jutsu Naruto turned around Kakashi's inanimate body, and plunged his orb of destruction into the Jounin's abdomen.

The spinning feeling in his gut awakened Kakashi from his temporary unconsciousness, to his horror he saw Naruto grinning madly, with both eyes burning red and the Rasengan connecting to his gut. The Jounin thought he was going to die, but to his favour, Naruto was indeed out of chakra, and the Rasengan dissipated before the technique could be completed.

The silver haired shinobi saw his chance and launched himself into the air, using Naruto's confusion of the failing jutsu as an advantage. Kakashi did a few hand seals, and upon landing he pushed his hands to the surface of the ground. The effect was a wave of stones rippling towards his enemy.

The swift actions of Kakashi had yet to be discovered by the young shinobi, and before he could even locate him, he felt something hard hit the back of his head, darkness ensued.

He saw Naruto hitting the floor hard, and smiled wearily at his success; although it had still been too close for his taste.

Kakashi felt the stress of the numerous jutsu's, including the incredibly taxing Sharingan, weigh heavily upon his body. The several gashes and the wound from the Rasengan didn't help either, and he felt his consciousness slip fast. He took a step towards Naruto, he felt incredibly heavy, and the next was even heavier.

The world around him became a blur, his head felt dizzy, and soon he found himself face to face with the charred grass, groaning slightly before welcoming the warm darkness.

"Later I woke up to find Naruto sitting next to me, all his wounds were healed up, so he could help me back to the office. He was extremely pissed off that he lost, though." He added the last part with a half-hearted laugh, and winced a bit from the still residual pain in his stomach.

"So you actually defeated him? I would have sworn the exactly opposite happened when you two walked in here." With a smirk, Tsunade again went into deep thought before continuing. "It bothers me how he tried to kill you, but from what you told me just proves what I suspected. Naruto will just too be big of an asset in this war for us to be able to pass up. But as you said, he got the muscles, but lacks the brain, which is why I am going to ask you to train him through doing missions together."

Kakashi's singular eye widened uncharacteristically in shock, he had spent one afternoon with the demonic blonde, and had gotten hell, plus a tummy ache to pay. Now she wanted them to do missions together? He noticed the strict demeanour Tsunade put up, and saw no way out, and he could only nod his acceptance.

"Excellent, now, what do you recommend as a rank for him? We shouldn't go too low, as we don't know how he'll react to it."

Kakashi had put up his nonchalant demeanour again and answered her dully. "Make him a Jounin then, he's got the ability for it. I'll just show him a few tricks and he'll be fine."

Tsunade nodded her head while making a few notes on a piece of paper. "Hmmm, okay, Kakashi, can you go get the baka? He should probably be present for this."

Again Naruto found himself seated in the ever so dull waiting room, his foot rhythmically tapping against the wooden floor, in what was, a nervous habit he had adopted while being renegade. He was certain that if they weren't done soon, he'd go insane in and kill everyone in an extremely bloody massacre that would prove equally pointless.

He started to finger the leather collar, letting his fingers gently caress the studs. He looked down onto the infernal device, inspecting the medallion which placed traditionally on the front, hovering slightly under his Adams apple. Naruto started fantasising about what he'd do to Anko when he'd see her, most of which were revenge. Others which were of the variant a teenager at his age would think about. In an attempt to diverge his thought pattern, he started snapping his fingers.

The sound of cracking limbs replaced the repeated tapping, as Naruto had started to crack his fingers, one by one, the sound echoed slightly in the empty hall.

Kakashi's head poked out from the door leading to the Hokage's office. He scanned the room quickly to find Naruto leaning himself towards a corner, still the sound of cracking fingers could be heard crisply.

"Hey Naru-"

Crack

"Could yo-"

Crack

"Please come in-"

Crack

"Now." His tone was firm and headstrong, although the glimmer in his eye still shone the cool and lazy attitude he had become famous for.

In an act of defiance Naruto snapped his last finger.

The blonde enigma looked towards Kakashi, with a sneer gracing mouth, but he acknowledged the order nonetheless and walked into the office. Before entering the office fully, he whipped his head to his right, causing several pops to travel down his neck, and all the way down to his spine. A faint hearted person would certainly get the chills from Naruto's little habit. Kakashi scowled, he was the definition of a disrespectful brat.

The Hokage bid Naruto to seat down as he entered the grand room, which he did promptly. After a few minutes of silence, with only the sound of the pencil scratching against paper could be heard and of course, Naruto's restless fidgeting, she started to talk.

"This is the deal Uzumaki. We'll make you a Jounin." She was quickly interrupted by an exuberant cry of victory. "On a few conditions."

Another cry was heard, this one was a clear and soundly "Damn it!" It would take a clear flick from the finger before the whiskered Shinobi would shut up, and she could continue.

"First is that I want you to learn all the jutsu's presented in the scroll I gave you, I trust you have read it." She said.

Naruto started to shift uncomfortably, before nodding a hesitant nod, and an awkward grin spread across his face. "Uh, of course Baa-chan!"

The Hokage was no idiot and understood quickly that the boy had not even glanced at it, but continued nonetheless, although not without a sweat drop hidden behind her head.

"From Kakashi's verbal report I got that you attack rather straightforward. This is a habit I want you to get rid of, by doing missions, for us, of course. So you can gain some firsthand experience. Your good friend Kakashi here will aid you in every one of these missions; he will also give you tips and hints so you can create at least some reasonable strategies."

Naruto only harrumphed, even though he was very aware of his problems, he had never been very good at handling criticism, but even worse was that he had to be with Kakashi at all the missions he'd do for this shitty village.

"I trust we have an agreement then?"

The blonde demon's slight pout turned into a feral grin before nodding strongly. "I haven't come this far, just to turn around!"

The Hokage smiled and pulled out blue cloth from her desk. She tossed it over to the seated Naruto, who quite easily got a hold of it. "Now wear it proudly, you dumb ass." Her words, although harsh, could not hide her pride over the boy who reminded her so much of her little brother.

The newly appointed Jounin inspected the item. The cloth was an elegant blue, with a metal plate embedded in the middle of it. On the metal plate, there was an artistic version of a leaf. It was the emblem of the Konoha village.

With some kind of mocking respect, Naruto tied the hitai-ate around his head, again the mark of the leaf graced his forehead. It was a sight to be seen, as the phoenix was reborn from its ashes, Uzumaki Naruto, the shinobi of the leaf had returned.

Tsunade smiled softly as she inspected the boy, she got from her position behind her desk, she bend over and took a hold of his chin, and gave him a light peck on his cheek.

"Make us proud." The Hokage whispered softly, making Naruto both grin and blush.

"Well, you're both dismissed." But before the two men got to leave the office, the Godaime Hokage added. "Oh, and get your stuff Naruto, we are not paying for you to have a luxury suite in a hotel."

Naruto's only response was flipping her bird, before swiftly fleeing her wrath, which came in the form of a heavy book being tossed at him.

"Damn teenagers, ruining my day." Tsunade muttered before again falling asleep on top of her paperwork.

As Naruto left the Hokage building, he was stopped by his newly appointed sensei, Kakashi. When he had turned around to see who had spoken to him, he had growled at the appearance, but still retained to courtesy to hear him out.

"I think you and I need to talk Naruto." He had suggested loosely, but no positive response was given back, only the animalistic sneer he had picked up a habit of showing.

"Oh is that so Kakashi, now how would I benefit from that, hmm?" The two Jounin locked eyes for a while, before the silver haired one conceded.

"As I was his sensei, I knew a lot about Sasuke's weaknesses; maybe I could reveal some of them to you? They might still apply." His voice was an odd mixture between a sweet luring tone, and the laidback one he always used. The demonic boy was unable to resist, as being strong minded was never one of his fortes.

"Fine, Kakashi, what do you want then?" A heavy sigh followed, with Kakashi accompanying it with an unseen smile.

"We'll talk it over a glass, what do you say?" Naruto raised his eyebrow, a small smile graced his lips, making the smartass image complete.

"But aren't I too young?"

"Maa, I'm sure no one will notice." He replied dully.

Naruto smirked a bit before continuing towards the exit "I trust you are paying." The blonde said mid-walk.

When the silver haired Jounin stopped him again, it started to annoy the blonde, and he let it show with a low growl emitting from the bottom of his throat.

"Now, trust me on this Naruto, singular red eyes tend to freak people out. You should probably conceal it."

He turned towards Kakashi, giving him an undignified stare. "And how do you propose I do just that?"

Kakashi's eye curved up in what would be a smile. "Oh I got an idea."

The two shinobi's walked down one of the many boulevards of Konoha. One of them had a rather angry demeanour about him. The frown and clenched teeth where evidence as of this. Both of them wore the mark of leaf on their forehead, and the thing that stood out with both of them was, that the said hitai-ate was tilted over their left eye.

"I do not like this Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said stoically, trying to uphold a sense of temper. The silver haired man made a surprised sound and raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"Sensei?"

Naruto only grumped and pocketed his hand; his singular blue eye glanced over at his teacher. "That's what you are, correct? So it would be the right thing to call you. It's as simple as that."

Kakashi curled up his eye in a friendly smile, as it seemed rebuilding something that could resemble a friendship with Naruto had taken its first step.

Another uncomfortable silence ensued between the two, although it was not noticed in the fading crowd. It was already at the end of the day, and people were starting return to their homes, even the Konoha Shinobi.

Kakashi took a note of the lack of luggage the blond kitsune had. As except for the scroll containing the jutsu's of his sensei, Naruto had nothing. It seemed a bit odd, as for someone who had been away for three years.

He was going to question his pupil for it when he noticed he was only a few dozen meters away from the bar he usually spent his time at reading his 'cultural' literature, as well as getting discreetly wasted, of course.

"Well, we're here." He wavered lazily for Naruto to follow him inside the shoddy bare. Which the younger shinobi did, reluctantly, as the exterior of said place didn't seem that welcoming.

Seeing the inside, the blonde recognised it as the place he was at the day before, when he met Anko. He put his clawed hand to his lips instinctively when he remembered how she had kissed him. A smile graced his mouth when he thought back to the other things that happened as well.

'Man, she has such soft lips.'

They sat down at an empty table, when Kakashi eyed him lazily. "Naruto, are you blushing?"

The demonic Jounin's eye widened as he covered his cheeks. He snarled a reply at Kakashi.

"No!"

The response he got from his sensei was a blank stare, the baggy eye making it seem annoyingly nonchalant. "Maa, whatever. You want to order something?"

Naruto nodded carefully in response. "Yeah, I'll just have a beer or something."

His silver haired partner gave a quiet nod, he continued walking over to the barkeep, obviously to order something to drink for the both of them.

'Man, I should probably apologize to Anko-san though. I let my control over the demonic side slip a bit last night. Oh I made so much of an ass of myself.' Naruto groaned a bit and let his hand cover his eye as if he hid in embarrassment.

Kakashi came back, this time with two bottles in his hands. Seeing the situation, Kakashi laughed gently. "Having fun over there?"

"Yes, wailing in the torment of my own stupidity is great fun for the whole family. You want to join me?"

Kakashi tossed him a bottle, which the blonde caught easily. He used one of his sharp nails to open the metal cap. It did have its perks being a demonic vessel after all.

"What did you want to talk about, Kakashi?" It sounded more like a sigh, than an inquiry, but the elite-Jounin ignored it.

"Sasuke" Kakashi replied stoically.

Naruto got himself out of his trance. His face seemed more feral than before. He blotted his fangs with a large sneer, his eye was narrowed down, and his sky-blue eye got a darker, almost crimson colour.

"What do you have to say about that bastard?" It sounded more like a growl than a sentence, but older man got the picture.

"Well, at least it is about him indirectly. You have to understand that none of us are to blame for his betrayal. Not me, not you or Sakura. He is blinded by his ambition, all three of us tried to stop him, one way or another." The lazy voice was gone, replaced by the dead serous mood of a professional shinobi.

"Oh really now, what was your sacrifice? Losing precious reading time?! And what about Sakura? Yes, sweet, innocent Sakura. She tried to stop him, I heard of it. But she what did she lose? A crush, Is that it? Wow that almost lines up with losing your humanity, I have to say."

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, he was starting to lose his temper, and that was not an easy task. "Naruto, it was not a childish crush, the poor girl is still in love with him, even when everyone else forgot about him. She lost two good friends; it was not easy for her. And me? I lost two of my only three of pupils…"

Naruto's frown deepened before the chunked down the entire bottle. He the bitter taste made him wince. "What do you want from me? Accept that this was destined to happen? That I should just bend over and thank you guys for not being there when I needed you the most?"

The silver haired man shook his head softly. "No… Just don't blame us for something Sasuke did. We did what we thought was right, and so did you. It just isn't fair that we should be blamed for his hunger for power."

That hit Naruto dead on; he lowered his head shamefully, hiding his eye out of sight. His whole behaviour changed accordingly. "I… I guess I've always known that. It's just hard to carry the burden of failure alone, without anyone to blame but myself and the person I trusted the most." The demonic shinobi talked in a monotone voice, making him hard to interpret. He grabbed the bottle and downed the rest of the content. "I'll think about it Kakashi-sensei, but I won't just bend over and accept just because you told me to."

Kakashi nodded in acceptance, as it was better than nothing at all.

"Seconds!" Naruto yelled abruptly, shaking his empty bottle, Kakashi's eye widened. He hoped Naruto didn't drink like he ate Ramen, or else he'd be done for.

Mitarashi Anko was done with today's mission. It had been a fun one too, if not for the sole reason that it had been a gruesome massacre of an assassin. She smiled happily as she was on her way to reward herself with a drink and some dango. For it was her official bar-day, she of course ignored the fact that every day was bar-day for her. Anko followed the rule "that every day that ended with a 'y' was a bar-day" rather strictly.

She wondered silently if she'd run into her new plaything, as it was fun playing around with that little prude. The purple haired wonder would never pass up a chance to mess around with his head.

Walking down the dim nightlife of Konoha she received a lot of lustful stares from the male population. One would say that it was the 'nothing but body netting' policy she kept, but Anko explained it as her 'unique spirit'. It was obvious which one it was.

She didn't mind though, if they kept their hands to themselves, they've might just stay attached.

Speaking of males who can't keep their hands to themselves, she thought back to the day before, when she had run into the elusive blonde. It had been fun turning the table on him like that, and the facial expression he had after she had literally sucked his lunges empty had been priceless. Oh the many tortures she had planned for him.

She stopped outside the unofficial water hole of the Konoha Jounins. It was rather shoddy by appearance, but the drinks where cheap, and the atmosphere unique, although most people did indeed come for the cheap alcohol.

She noticed someone sitting in the alley next to the bar right when she was to enter; the person was obviously trying to sober up through sleeping. She would normally pay no attention to this, if it hadn't been for the mop of pale blonde hair that stuck out from the black clothing.

The netting clothed Jounin walked towards the prone figure, to check if it was indeed the person she thought it was.

She flipped him over, and to no one's surprise it was Naruto, if the whisker-marks were any kind of indication. She noticed the hitai-ate gracing his forehead, and the way it was tilted to hide his eye almost made her giggle, but she retorted instead to a smirk, even if the resemblance to his old sensei was ever so eerie.

Usually one would wake someone like that softly, but not Anko, she gave him a swift kick in the side as to wake him up from his alcohol induced slumber; she did not however, get any response as the younger boy was still snoring loudly.

She grimaced at the situation. This was not the time for her insignificant sense of moral to start an uprising, but then again, could she just leave her new toy out here? Signs pointed to no. At this time of year the nights where chilly and sitting outside with alcohol in your blood was never a good idea, even for the vessel of a relatively immortal demon fox.

The snake goddess thought about how she could handle this, as he couldn't stay out in the cold, nor did she know where he currently resided. The only thing she saw as an opportunity was to take him home to her place, as the lazy ass Nara would say, 'How troublesome.'

Anko sighed as she pulled Naruto's sleeping form from the dirty ground, he groaned from the sudden movement, but did not wake up, to the disappointment of Anko.

He was heavier than she'd thought, but managed to move his limp form back to her place. Her cheeked reddened slightly when people gave her all sorts of odd looks when she limped down the street, with the infamous demon fox leaning on her.

"You better be glad that you are the hottest thing since Yondaime roamed the streets, or else I'd kick your ass so bad, that you'd be shitting' blood."

Naruto responded by suddenly sniffing aimlessly in the air. He turned his head to Anko, who was letting his arm rest on her shoulder as she walked. He snuggled his nose into her hair and took a deep breath inward. Anko gave him a disturbed look, as being smelled was one of the things she didn't expect to happen. He let out a childish laugh, one that sounded almost like an innocent giggle.

"You smell nice…" He talked in a sedative way; it seemed that the alcohol was stilling taxing his body and mind. He opened his only visible eye and looked at her, the cerulean blue pupil pierced her mind and it felt like it looked right into her soul. It had an innocent glimmer that only a child could have, something that was odd on the 16 year old teenager. "You're pretty lady, you know that?"

She laughed a bit, he sounded like a child as well, and it made him see oddly adorable to her. "Why thank you, you bra- I mean Naruto-kun."

He gave her a sedated grin, which she returned, ending it with a small giggle. The rest of the trip was silent, as the poor drunkard had to focus the little brain capacity he had to try and walk, even with her as support.

Anko stood outside her apartment, with Naruto leaning lazily on her shoulder. The building was a standard one, nothing fancy, but it did do its job, as she only used it to sleep anyways.

She managed to open the door, which proved to be a task in itself as Naruto kept kissing her cheek. She had found it hard not to laugh at the treatment, as the flurry of kisses tickled a lot.

They've stumbled into the small complex; it was a small apartment, very similar to the one that the young Uzumaki had used himself, but with the absence of an unnatural amount of ramen cups, instead many of the walls where filled with large toothpicks imbedded in the wall, many which depicted rather artistically images, such as the Konoha leaf.

Anko figured she would let him sleep on the couch, so she walked over to the living room, the nexus of the small apartment. While limping over to the said furniture with the large teenager still leaning on her shoulder, they both tripped on the carpet and fell onto the big sofa.

That left Naruto in a rather compromising position, even though he didn't notice, as he had miraculously fallen asleep again.

He had landed head first into Anko's bosom, making her blush a wonderful shade of scarlet. She felt split between screaming bloody murder and calling him a pervert, just kill him horribly, or let him stay there as the whole position was rather comfortable in the first place.

The latter happened, as it would both make him extremely embarrassed in the morning and she admitted she found it rather cosy, the fact that Naruto had evolved into what most women would call a piece of meat did help a bit. This situation would equal great fun for Anko.

Poor Naruto snuggled closer to her, unaware of his impending doom.

"Yeah, be glad you're hot alright…." Soon she as well drifted to sleep, forgetting her complimentary dango.

TBC