Author's note: This chapter it dedicated to xBUzzOFF15x, who was kind enough to review my story and is officially my first fan! Words cannot describe my excitement!
~back to the story~
Konohagakure. That same Wednesday. Late afternoon. Anko was dumbfounded.
"You want me to eat something? That you brought me? Again?! How stupid do you think I am?"
"Aw, come on! From the looks of it, this weird stuff was never even alive before!"
"What are you trying to feed me, a rock? No thanks."
"Aw, come on!"
"No! If you think it's weird, there's no way I can eat it."
"But people from the village were eating it. From the way they were gobbling it up, it can't taste nearly as bad as it smells."
"You're not very good at convincing people, kid." Anko was glad she was up wind. If it smells bad and it's a rock, it must be sulfur? Why were people in town eating sulfur?
"I'll eat it first and everything! To show it's not poison!"
"Says the girl who was scarfing down caterpillars! You could eat toxic waste and still be okay."
"Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment!"
"Awww..."
The sparkly blue eye looked down with disappointment. A short silence followed.
"...would you mind if I ate it, then?"
"Knock yer self out." Anko said as she began to walk away.
Anko heard a thud, and spun around, expecting a prank. Instead, Aoi had collapsed. Anko rushed over, and saw she was foaming at the mouth and couldn't breathe. Anko gave the girl a hard whack in the chest, and an amorphous lump flopped out of her mouth and onto the ground. Aoi writhed around and groaned while Anko looked down at the food which had done more damage to the kid than she had been able to. What she saw was a single stick of dango, with one dumpling missing.