Chapter 3: No ABC's here

The next morning.

"You asked for me Hokage-sama?" The snake mistress was about to drop by her little victims when an Anbu told her that the Hokage had summoned her.

Sometime during the night Hiashi had left Anko's place. She herself only woke up a few hours ago and her hung-over state shouted for dango. Forced to listen to this desire she left the comforts of her bed and got dressed, heading out to the nearest shop. After a healthy breakfast (well in her eyes – let's be fair 20 dangos for breakfast cannot be healthy) she decided on keeping her promise to train the kiddies and visit them. However before she could even go off and find them an Anbu interrupted her path and that is how she now found herself in the Hokage's office.

"Yes Anko, I have an A-rank mission for you. It is a long term infiltration and information gathering operation.

Not faced by the missions rank all Anko simply asked: "How long?"

"Two years." A deafening silence followed. Anko didn't know how to respond. She was supposed to train the brats, the academy started in less than three months and she wanted her brats to be the rookies of the year. Scrap that the best ever! Hold on since when did she started to refer to them as 'her brats?'

Sarutobi was seemingly clueless to her internal monologue and had continued with the details of the mission. "... not only do we need to know where Orochimaru's laboratories are, we also need to know what is going on inside of them."

The mention of Orochimaru shook Anko out of her internal musings. Her hate towards Orochimaru obliterating her thoughts regarding Naruko and Hinata completely. "What?" Came out the single worded dumbfounded reply. Sarutobi sighed going over the mission stats once more. After a lengthy and rather dull (as if the Hokage did it on purpose to teach her not to zone out during briefing) explanation the Third gave some parting words of advice. "You might wish a goodbye to certain people." While his eyes twinkled with secret knowledge 'Especially the kids who depend on you' adding this last bit in his thoughts.

"Sure, thanks" Anko's tone was professional but she couldn't help but wonder what the old geezer was actually hinting to when leaving his office. It didn't matter she had to arrange important things before leaving. 'F*ck, the gaki's!' Slapping her forehead for forgetting about them.

She would have to leave tomorrow morning arrange a whole load of things as she would be gone for two freaking years and find some way to train her little students. That meant that she would just have to write out her basic training plans for them to build up stamina and develop analytical minds. This may even work out in her advantage, that way she when she returned there was no need for her to bother with untrained pesky little brats crying about training being too hard while not having the ability to throw a bloody kunai straight to save their lives. Plus it would allow her to skip the boring dull stuff of basic training exercises as well as hours and hours of explaining battle scenarios.

Anko grinned. A win-win situation in her eyes. She got to go after Orochimaru-teme and pass by the most annoying part of training. She decided to congratulate herself with some more dango before writing everything down.

It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon and Naruto just awoke with a shock. Slowly the events from the previous night started to come back. He had stayed talking with this Hyūga girl till early morning after she had cooked this most amazing dinner for him. Hinata, that was her name. While they were talking about his hobby gardening his sister had passed out on the couch so it was just the two of them left. He was rather disappointed that she had left earlier as soon as the sun started coming up. Apparently she was scared that the clan might have noticed her absence and hoped that she managed to sneak back in. But she promised to come back later that day so he was happy about that. Of course Naruto being himself a natural albeit awkward true gentleman he had escorted her to the Hyūga compound, wondering why this made his new friend blush. While walking back home he smiled all the way, as he was sure that both he and his sister just made their first official friend.

A soft snore came from the other room. It seemed like his sister wasn't up yet either. Deciding to surprise her with some ramen for breakfast Naruto made his way to the kitchen. After all after such a great night the finishing touch would be ramen for breakfast. The only question was which flavour to pick. Ok so really he just wanted ramen for breakfast himself too and since his sister wasn't up it would seem like a great excuse to start the day with that instead of rice and something else. Looking at the pictures he decided on miso ramen with extra pork. Five minutes later he was happily slurping away.

"Oi nee-san, what are we having for breakfast?" Naruko's voice sounded groggy from the sleep. In hindsight a couch is not a very comfortable place to spend the night. So she was rather moody and irritated at the moment.

Naruto just pointed at the ramen, continuing his delicious meal.

"Really Ramen again? I don't see why you like it that much." This caused an immediate reaction from Naruto. "How can you say that sis. Ramen is the best! You're just moody from sleeping on the couch all night." Despite knowing that Naruto was right Naruko did not want to admit that. "Oh yeah! Well if you knew that why the hell didn't you just wake me up to go to bed?"

"I tried but your moody ass just swapped my hand away" with that Naruto washed his plates and went to the shower not feeling like arguing with his sister. She could be such a pain when she woke up. His sister was, unlike himself, definitely not a happy go lucky person when she woke up.

Naruko huffed, sat down to eat and cursed away at the couch for being uncomfortable.

Time skip to later that afternoon

A soft knock interrupted the twins from their activities.

"Did we expect anyone?" Naruko turned next to her wanting to ask her brother but all she saw was an empty space.

The moment the knock sounded he sprinted towards the door. He had waited all afternoon for Hinata to show up again. However as he opened the door it wasn't his friend that he saw. "Who are you?"

This question set into motion the immediate fireworks and banner effect:

'Anko Mitarashi - Konoha's top konochi'.

"Wow! That was sooo cool. Can you teach me that?" Naruto was thrown away by the awesomeness of the fireworks. He was clearly impressed.

"You know what kid? I like you, stick around and I might teach it to you."

Naruko just watched and sweat dropped, hoping that her nee-san wouldn't learn how to do that. Dealing with Anko doing that every time someone asked her name was already enough of a pain. Did the crazy woman really need to infect her brother with it too?

"Eh, Anko-sensei what are you doing here?"

Naruto was already filled in about the events leading to them meeting and the promise of training. From the stories he heard he thought the woman who was supposed to train Naruko and Hinata was insane and not nearly as cool as the woman in front of them. He voiced his opinion towards his sister.

Anko smirked, she loved leaving impressions but it was rare that someone openly admired her crazy firework banner stunt as much as Naruto did. She was sure she would regret this eventually but it seemed like she finally found someone with as much passion for flair and great humour as herself. "Kid, what's your name?"

"Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage in the making. Why do you want to know?"

"Well I need to know the name of the guy who is going to give me the best missions once he is Hokage as soon I finished training him"

Naruto couldn't believe it. This woman didn't only offer to train him but also took his dream serious. This day just kept on getting better and better.

"Hate to say it kids but I can't train you personally just yet. Hokage-sama just gave me a two year long mission."

Naruto felt like he just got the proverbial cold shower. Just as he thought he would finally get some serious training in she slammed him with this news. Naruko's reaction was along the same lines, seeing her brothers disappointment she voiced her dislike. "Oi what is the deal? First you offer to train my brother too only to say that you will be going and can't actually train us at all! What kind of crap is that?" Naruko was angry darn she just got rid of her bad waking up mood as well.

'Nani, that kid has one over the top moody side to her' Anko thought. She could have sworn she saw steam coming out of her ears at one point. "I didn't say I can't train you. Learn to listen brat. I said I cannot train you personally just yet as I have to leave for two years. Hence I wrote down instructions for you to read and train from. Also just mention to the librarian that I gave you permission to check out any ninja theory books – that means no actual practise from them without supervision got that?"

Suddenly the twins started blushing, looking like a certain Hyūga heiress. "Anko-sensei, we can't read yet." Came the embarrassed reply of one of the twins.

"Nani?! Seriously? But what about pre-ninja academy, surely they thought you there?"

"No, they always found some reason to give us detention or something. Honestly we have no clue why." This time Naruto spoke clearly no longer embarrassed, instead he was just annoyed. He knew that they were for some reason ostracised, he was just puzzled as to why it was.

'Well fuck that complicates matters.' Anko wasn't sure what to do next. There was no way she could let someone else in on the secret training and she already accepted the mission. Truth was she was also selfish in this matter as she did really want to go on a mission to do with Orochimaru. She was forbidden to go after him as revenge but that didn't mean she would let go of a chance of being a torn in his side. How should she solve this?

At that very moment another knock sounded on the door.