"If you could take this seriously!"
Aoi was laughing, despite her bloody nose. The fact that she wasn't crying was astounding. She sniffed hard and wiped her nose on her arm. Gross. At least the blood stopped.
"I'm thorry, An-chan!" Aoi sputtered through some re-emerging blood, which Anko had taken the initiative to stop up with some bandages.
Add 'stuffing cotton up a child's nose' to my resume.
"I was trying to give you some easy questions because I know more about An-chan than An-chan knows about me."
That was a red flag.
"What do you know about me?"
The response almost made Anko regret asking. Almost.
"... and you have pretty hair and you squint your left eye a little when you throw a kunai, and you can eat sugar which is totally cool, and you're never here at noon, and you know all about ninjutsu, and you're super fast, and you're my best friend, and you're always looking at stuff real hard..."
It was half nonsense and half flattery. It went on for 20 minutes. But it did show that Aoi had some semblance of information retention. She also did not relate anything that would indicate that Aoi had been following Anko past the training grounds. Which could either indicate she was a great ninja and lying or else actually not following Anko.
But Anko was then granted 47 free questions which yielded answers that were also half nonsense. What she was able to worm out of Aoi was: she had no last name because last names hadn't been invented yet when her father was born. She was from a town of refugees made up of women and children led by a princess they call Taicho. She was so good at physical activity because she was a kid. When Anko asked about her village, the name was given as "Nomisto" and instead of directions to said village Anko received the information tid-bit that she would get there "eventually no matter what". Aoi was fairly adamant about Anko not going there yet, though Anko did get Aoi to promise to take her there one day.
Which helped her put together a profile of Aoi. Anko had now decided that the reason there was a discrepancy between the idiocy and the actual ninja ability was due to Aoi being a really bad ninja. A carefree ninja. A ninja so good she could be carefree in a foreign land. But she was letting Anko know she was a ninja, which made her a bad ninja. Basically, Anko was more worried than ever.