Chapter 2

the next day

waking up Naruto looked at the time and saw that the others academy students would be arriving for the team selections, swinging his legs out of bed he slowly went about making breakfast, followed by showering. Coming out of his Apartment block Naruto glanced at the clock tower that could be seen from any direction in the village saw it was coming up for 10 am the time he was meant to meet his sensei, shrugging he headed for the hot springs deciding to take a soak.

As he got closer to his destination Naruto henged himself mainly just changing his hair and eye color so no one would recognize him, getting in the building he paid for his entry before walking into the male changing room and stripping down and grabbing a complimentary towel. Walking into the steam enshrouded spring he dropped his henge and slid into the water and was surprised when he noted that there was a couple of females on the males side and sighed when he looked over to the wall and saw that it was mixed bathing day.

Sighing he moved to the far side by a rock formation and sunk into the water keeping to himself while trying in vain to tune out the voices of the chatting woman on the other side of the spring to him.

Anko who was waiting by the forest of death growled when she noted the time and stomped off toward the village proper intent on giving her genin a piece of her mind, getting to town she reached his apartment and summoned a snake "Alright trace the most prominent scent and follow it."

Said snake shook it's head and had it's tongue dart in and out before hissing "the chakra isss foul, it ssshould be eassy to follow." Anko just nodded and followed as her snake slithered off.

Making it to the hot spring Anko growled in frustration 'ohohoho boy is he going to go through hell for this little stunt.' walking in she ignored the receptionist walked in to the males changing room ignoring and not noticing anyone there she continued out to the hot spring area and sighed when she noted that a sign was up for mixed bathing, continuing further in she scanned the steam enshrouded area before spying a red head by the back near the rock formation.

shunshinning over to the rock she appeared lying down "So this is where you are, you know insubordination warrants a hefty punishment."

Naruto hearing his sensei's voice tilted his head back and looked up "So you found me...I didn't know where the forest of death was and I thought you meant 10 at night."

Anko hearing that narrowed her eyes "bullshit don't play dumb, but I suppose now that I have you cornered how about introductions..."

"Naruto Uzumaki Genin of the leaf village." was all he said as he moved so he was reclined on the rock formation and facing Anko but still in the water.

Anko hearing him cut him off sighed at the thought this was going to be tougher than she thought "You know you have a pretty shit attitude kid, how about we try that again this time say your name, likes, dislikes, hobbies and dreams for the future."

Naruto hearing that looked at her quizzically "And why would I want to tell you anything bitch."

Anko at that had an eye twitch at the bitch comment growled before lashing out and knocking him out and shouting in annoyance "ALRIGHT I TRIED THE PATIENT AND KIND WAY NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT." She then slung his body over her shoulder before disappearing.

about 5 minutes later.

Naruto shaking his head as he opened his eyes looked around found himself in a plain steel walled room that had some blood stains on the floors and walls, he then tried to move but found he couldn't looking down he found himself chained to a chair still in a towel "FUCK!"

It was then the door to the room opened and Anko stepped in "ready to play nice now or am I going to have to get physical?"

Naruto frowned and closed his eyes "Fuck it fine, Naruto Uzumaki, I like sweet and savory food, Living and surviving this village. Dislike's there too numerous to count let alone say, hobbies playing with my kunai, training, getting stronger so I won't be used as a weapon by the village. Dreams for the future easy I want what every Jinchuuriki wants."

Anko hearing that sighed she had figured as much that he knew about the Nine Tails, deciding she didn't really want to get into that mumbo jumbo now of all times pulled a seat up from the corner of the room and spun it round so the back of it was facing Naruto while she sat down "You see was that so hard. Now I'll introduce myself...I'm Anko Mitarashi, I like conducting tea ceremonies and eating dango and red bean soup. My dislikes I have a few all of which involve a certain snake that you don't need to know about, my hobbies conducting tea ceremonies and well as of now whipping your ass into shape and making you an all round nicer person."

Naruto nodded and replied sarcastically "Great now WOULD YOU REMOVE THESE FUCKING CHAIN'S!"

Anko at that tutted as she lent forward "Ask me nicely or you'll stay chained up."

Naruto turned his head away slightly with a frown marring his face as he breathed heavily out of his nostrils making them flare up a bit as he attempted to compose himself "P...Ple...Could you untie me now so I can get changed for training."

Anko at that gained a playful look in her eyes as she snapped her fingers making the chains loosen and slide down into his lap allowing him free movement again. Anko then stood up and walked out called over her shoulder "Once your dressed we have some solid training to do."

Naruto flipped her off as she left something she caught and giggled at 'It seems Naruto-kun is going to be a handful kukuku...excellent this will prove to be most entertaining.'

Naruto at this point had gotten his clothes on and felt a little better headed for the door and opened it only to come face to face with a pair of fishnet clad tits and could plainly tell the person before him didn't wear a bra and was extremely perky, lifting his gaze up he sighed at seeing it was Anko "What first Sensei?" he said the sensei part with as much sarcasm as possible.

Anko found his rebellious nature to be rather amusing having recalled being similar at his age as were a few of her other friends back in the day patted Naruto on the head none to gently "We're going to train!"

Naruto just nodded "Sure whatever you're the boss."

At a training ground

Naruto was stood in front of Anko hands in his pockets, slouched and looking bored out of his mind. Anko seeing this smiled broadly "Okay firstly some ground rules..." at that Naruto frowned as he looked at her showing he was listening, clearing her throat she began "Rule 1; If you're late for training ever again and you pull a stunt like this morning you will spend three days in the forest of death alone with no equipment as you punishment, Rule 2; No hands in pockets if I see this you'll drop and give me 100 push-ups, Rule 3; No back-chat will result in the 100 push-ups and Rule 4; if you so much as fuck about on a mission no matter the rank be it insubordination, bad mouthing the client, using excessive force, endangering the lives of a fellow leaf ninja or even toying with the idea of turning coat I'll skin you alive right after I've tortured your sorry excuse for a body understood...As of this moment your Ass belongs to me. Clear."

Naruto nodded as he removed his hands from his pockets "Crystal."

Anko again smiled happy she got that all out the way "Let's get training.!"

Month later.

Having spent the month doing chakra control, Taijutsu and Shurikenjutsu Naruto found that he was dead tired at the end of each day for one simple reason...those four damnable rules his sensei had pulled outta her ass on the first day, out of his month he had spent six of those days surviving, struggling and trying not to die while he was at it. He also had an average of around 500 push-ups a day.

Right now Naruto was waiting about having gotten into the routine of religiously turning up at the usual training area outside the forest of death at least 10 minutes before Anko see as he learnt his lesson the first two time and the second time he was literally 10 seconds late thanks to having to help and old lady cross the road as he had also been tasked to do at least one nice thing a day under pain of death of course.

With all the training it also had the effect of him being to tired and not in the village proper enough for people to give him a reason to kill them, that and for some reason the Nine Tails his dark whispering had receded a lot almost to the point he couldn't hear the beast.

Leaning against one of the well it wasn't a rock it was more like the remnants of an earth wall that hadn't crumbled and had become a permanent part of the small field, looked at the sun and if he were right his sensei who he would refuse to admit to and would deny vehemently was probably the only one besides possibly his pseudo student Konohamaru that he cared about.

He then felt a presence above him and looked up if it weren't for the fact his sensei also in the month of training and doing pointless D-ranks had done anti-seduction training with him where in fact he had seen her completely nude and vice versa had become somewhat desensitized to her body that and she had a private hotsprings she found in the forest of death and shared it with him at the end of each day as a way to help the body relax and help recharge his chakra quicker, didn't bat an eye as he got an up skirt view of her. With his arms crossed he raised a brow as if prompting his almost grinning sensei to talk.

Anko loving that she could get under his skin jumped down off her perch and landed softly on the ground in front of him wrapped an arm round the shoulders of her adorable genin as she had taken to calling him much to his anger and her friends and hokage amusement "We have a mission and not a D-rank...Come on Naruto the Hokage will explain more!"

In the Mission Assignments Office.

Standing in front of the Hokage and couple of other tables occupied by the accountants who were counting out the money for the missions that were constantly trickling in, Naruto rather uncharacteristically burst into a fit of laughter when the Hokage finished talking "HEHEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH THATS BRILLIANT..." he then calmed down and wiped away a tear "...Go on Hokage say it again, please it was music to my...Ack..."

He was quickly stopped at the end of his sentance by a karate chop to the head thanks to Anko rubbed his head "Fuck, fine I'll stop but to think your sending me to save an Uchiha that's rich I mean oh how the mighty have fallen, he will never live it down...An Uchiha being saved by an Uzumaki...Hehehe..." He then put a hand on his knee while held another out "Hehe...sorry...hehe...give me a sec...hehe...umph."

Naruto soon found himself face first in the wooden floor with Anko standing next to him with an extended fist as she glared fire at her groaning student she had sucker punched in the back of the head "Sorry lord Hokage." she apologized hastily.

Hiruzen just shook his head, in all honesty he wanted to send Squad 8 or 10 to back-up Squad 7 "No, no it's fine Anko...I was actually expecting that reaction, one of the reasons why he isn't on Sasuke's team and he is with you. Now like I said you just need to back up Kakashi and his students just until the bridge is complete, that's all."

Anko nodded "Will do, could you send a message to Kakashi and tell him we'll be camped by the bridge so and will take over Guarding it so he can concentrate on his students, that and if possible prevent the likeliness of Sasuke and Naruto meeting up and starting something."

Hiruzen nodded and waved them off.

Half an hour outside the village Anko who was walking beside Naruto suddenly reached out and placed a large pressure on his shoulder making him stop and try and squirm out of her grasp and soon found himself being dragged along "Sen...Sensei!?"

Anko smiled sweetly "Silence Naruto..." seeing him quieten down she nodded satisfied ""...Good boy, now I'm going to say it once and once only if you so much as think about goading or verbally attacking Sasuke or you two come to blows so help me...I'll see to it that your washed out of the program and made a civilian...Am...I...Clear!?"

Naruto nodded "Cry...Crystal"

Anko nodded and let go before taking a lighter turn in tone "Good...your going to be learning water walking and skating since we will be camped on the shore by the bridge and take over in the guarding of the builders and men working it..."

Naruto nodded "I take it you're trying to keep me as far away from the Uchiha as possible"

Nodding she motioned him up into the trees matched Naruto's pace seeing as though he could keep this certain pace up for at least 10 hours, she should know after all she had tested his endurance after telling him to get to a comfortable pace before she began timing him. "That's the long and the short of it yes, mainly what I've heard from the Hokage and your academy sensei Iruka you and Sasuke take the word rivallry and spit on it you to despise and hate each other with a passion, according to lord Hokage it's because your Uzumaki and he's Uchiha two clans who had the same relationship as the uchiha and Senju...Let's just say he likened it to the relationship between Tobirama Senju and Madara Uchiha."

Naruto nodded "Good because the less time I have to spend around the bastard the better."

Anko sighed at his response but shook it off it was still early days yet and she had got him to at least be a little less moody around her at least she wasn't sure how he would act around his old classmates, that reminded her possibly ask Kurenai or Asuma if she and Naruto could join in one of their training days. While they were running Anko remembered something it was Naruto's first time being properly outside the village "So feels pretty good being outside the village doesn't it."

Naruto grunted as they jumped through the tree tops "Feels less constricting than in the Village that's for sure...I almost feel happy but that emotion doesn't compute."

Anko rolled her eyes at his answer "You know if ya keep frowning all the time, not smiling and keep up your less than stella attitude you'll never get yourself a girlfriend."

Naruto again grunted in annoyance at the jab at his attitude "I am who I am deal with it."

Shaking her head they slipped back into silence as Anko figured they had just passed the halfway mark on there four hour trip to Nami no Kuni.

Reaching the opposite shore to Nami, Naruto groaned as he saw the large stretch of water before him and could see the edge of the bridge a short distance away but to far for him to jump looked at Anko "I refuse to be carried."

Anko sighed "Fine suit yourself then how are we going to get across then genius?" she rose an eyebrow at him and tapped her foot.

Naruto shrugged but then froze when he heard the sound of paddles in the water "How about we just ask the boat that's coming this way nicely?"

Anko at that frowned a little and looked in the direction Naruto pointed and saw a boat come into view nodded "Fine, Fine..." she then rose and eyebrow along with Naruto as a couple of arrows landed embedding in the ground a few feet in front of them "...Of all the boats you choose one full of Mercenaries unbelievable."

Naruto turned his body away and stared at the boat with an excited and gleeful look shinning in his eyes as he stared at the boat "Who cares..." he then pulled out a pair of kunai and licked each blade "...This will be fun!"

Anko who was sure that Naruto was a maniac when it came to fighting was reminded of when he was fighting Mizuki if you could call that a fight pulled her own Kunai out "Just don't sink the boat."

Naruto nodded "I know..." he then sprinted forward at the boat and launched himself into the air flying in a near perfect arc landed in the middle of the crew that were all milling about on the deck "...Tick tock...your time is up! Who want's to die first!?" he then jumped at a man who was bringing a sword up to bare but soon found a couple of blade shoved in his chest cavity before he pulled them out and allowed the blood to spray out and hit him, he then looked left and right and with each hand in one fluid motion threw his two blades in those respective directions plucking the two men off their feet.

He then drew another pair of kunai and charged off towards the helm of the ship and began slicing and stabbing the men as they came into range, instead of running up the staircase that would get him to the helm he deftly used one of the mercs as a springboard knocking him over did a spin in the air and saw his sensei had a couple of snakes running rampant on the deck while she herself had taken to giving him support by sniping some of the mercs with well placed thrown Kunai taking any would be attackers out, not that it would matter he had tested it he could sustain any number of shallow cuts and be healed within the hour and at the speed he was moving if a merc managed to even land a blow it would a glancing one at best.

while in the air he drew another four kunai placing them between his knuckles and then threw them out and was happy to watch as the three men who were guarding the helmsman fall with kunai lodged in their torso's. Coming down from his airborne state landed on some railing and kicked the helmsman in the head making him fall over on to the ground clutching his face in pain. Naruto then had to dodge as a man appeared to his left and swung down with an axe shattering the railing he had been on previously.

Having rolled onto the deck Naruto found himself inside the mans guard and plunged his blade into the large barrel gutted man making him roar in pain, howling in ecstasy of the mans pain Naruto repeatedly pulled his kunai out and stabbed the man over and over until he was slumped up against the railing.

Naruto then looked around and laughed a little as he looked at himself covered in blood and gore while the ships deck was slick with blood. Straightening up he turned at the sound of groaning and saw the man he had kicked in the head had his whole bottom half of his face covered in his crimson life blood. Walking over to the man he hauled him to his feet and stood him in front of the wheel "Take her to the beach just under the right side of the bridge now!" he finished as he tickled the nape of the mans neck with his kunai making him gulp audibly.

"Yessir." He said hurriedly.

Naruto then saw Anko walk over to him "Make some shadow clones and pile the bodies up my summons can take the carcasses with them. Your clones can the clean the deck of all the blood"

After five minutes of traveling by boat Naruto looked at the large bridge with a hint of wonder but hid it well and suddenly said placing his thumb on his forehead "I bags the captains cabin for sleeping in."

Anko looked at him with an evil grin and soon felt the ship nose up onto the beach, in two fluid motions she lodged a kunai in the back of the mercs head making him slump over the wheel before she grabbed Naruto and tossed him overboard "You need to clean off the blood first. And the cabins mine sensei gets first dibs!"

Naruto who was falling towards the waters shallows sighed in frustration at what his sensei had done before muttering "Well fuck..." he then hit the shallow water with a resounding splash but did feel quite refreshed as he found himself bathing in the cool water that was combined sand was doing a brilliant job of removing the semi congealed blood that had started to dry.

Sitting in the water Naruto was living up his killing spree he went on and was somewhat disappointed there weren't more of them to slaughter. Standing up he waded his way out of the shallows and up onto the beach where he saw Anko perched on top what looked to be some form of rubble that had possibly fallen off the bridge, coming to a relaxed posture he regarded his sensei with a little annoyance at the stunt she had just pulled "Well what are we doing now...We don't need to make a camp we have the boat and I can't sense anyone on the bridge considering it is about six in the evening."

Anko nodded "How observant captain obvious...your're going to begin learning the water walking exercise."

Naruto snorted at her sarcastic comment and managed to suppress a sarcastic comment not really wanting to do 100 push-ups "Are you going to tell me how to do it or are you going to sit there grinning like a mental?"

Anko shot him a look that warned him he was pushing his luck and close to having to do push-ups, she then decided to enlighten him and give him the instructions for the water walking that would soon progress to skating, dancing, fighting and lying down on the waters surface. "Right okay then like with tree walking you have to build up your chakra at the points of contact and discharge it but unlike the tree walking instead of the discharge being constant you have to continuously adjust the discharge of chakra."

Naruto nodded with a sigh "Alright then so it'll have the same benefits as the tree walking as well then great my already kyubified reserves are going to get a boost..." he then saw Anko shooting him a pointed stare and raised his hands in defeat as he moved back towards the water "Calm your tits sensei, I never said I wasn't going to do it...Kami I can never tell when your're suffering from P.M.T, it's like your're permanently going through it." he all but muttered the last bit hoping she didn't hear him, which she didn't much to his relief as he really didn't want to have to do any push-ups.

Getting to the waters edge he channeled his chakra to his feet and placed one of them on the surface and slowly calibrated his chakra to be in tune with the water somewhat. Feeling comfortable with the calibration he placed his other foot on the water and felt himself sink down to his ankle as he kept a float and attempted to readjust his chakra. As he did he lost balance and pitched forwards but tried leaning back which only resulted in him doing belly flop for his troubles "Son of bitch!" was all he got out before his face met water.

This routine continued for another hour much to Anko amusement and pride never let it be said that her student wasn't a dam hard worker even with the natural talent he has for ninjutsu, bukijutsu and hopefully fuinjutsu in the future if her hunch was correct. After an hour of giggling, laughing, giving advice and out right mocking Naruto something she found oddly motivated her young grasshopper...Hopped down from her perch on the pile of rubble and clapped her hands gaining Naruto's attention and at the same time making him go for another swim in the now near freezing water which had the expected reaction of making the boy curse like a sailor 'Ahhh music to my ears'..."Naruto that's enough for tonight...tomorrow you'll continue practicing this for another hour or so and then till mid day you have free training choose what you want to learn then you have guard duty during the afternoon, look I'll say it again tomorrow but don't threaten, belittle act sarcastic, narcissistic, blood hungry, moody or anything else that may put you or I in a bad light, just sit quietly and act emotionlessly and don't talk unless spoken to that's the best way to avoid any unneeded friction to appear between us and the clients."

Naruto sighed as he had made it to shore and hopped on to the bridge of the boat flipped her off something she didn't much care for anymore as he followed it with a so so gesture "Yeah, Yeah, I know your're starting to sound like a broken record...Ah sensei is there a chance after guard duty tomorrow if I can explore the island a little."

Anko hummed and placed a finger on her chin as she thought about it "We'll see behavior dependent that is." she finished as she landed beside him and walked towards the cabin for the cabin. Naruto seeing this jogged past her and jumped through the open door way and stared shocked when he saw two beds and a small desk and almost cried he had been planning on slamming the door in his sensei's face and if that didn't work and he ended up in one of the hammocks in the bowels of the ship would have snuck into her bed in the middle of the night and freaked his sensei out in the morning. The ass kicking that would undoubtedly follow would be worth it though to experience something that most people would die as he found out his sensei was quite high up on the most desirable list. 'Would it be worth risking taking some compromising photo's of sensei and selling them...nah don't want to die just yet...' he finished thoughts with a shudder as he pictured a demonic Anko towering over him with glowing red eyes, horns and pointed tail with a couple of knives in her hands.

Anko seeing her student chuckled and none to gently kicked him onto his bunk while she jumped onto hers "We're in friendly enough territory so no need for a sentry."

Naruto nodded and stretched out on his bed and closed his eyes.