It was quiet, finally. All week people have been stopping by the compound to give their condolences. Maiku was sick of it after the first day. Maiku was now laying on a couch in his clan compound. He was wearing a black t-shirt, black baggy pants and black shoes. His headband tied around his right arm.
"You ready?" Someone asked as they walked into the room. Maiku rolled over to look at his fiancé. She wore her usually outfit, except that everything was black.
"Yeah, I'm ready." He got off the couch and left the compound. Tenten walked after him and took Maiku's arm. He kissed the top of her head. "Hey Ten-chan. Would you, um, move into the compound with me? I don't really want to be alone anymore. This week being there, in that empty place was terrifying."
Tenten took him into a tight hug. "Of course. I planned on forcing you to let me stay there anyway." She kissed him on the cheek before taking his arm again and leading him to the funeral location.
There Maiku listened to the Hokage talk about his family, their loyalty to Konoha, their dedication to their craft and skills in battle. Then me started on about coming together as a village of such tragedy. 'Now is not the time for unity old man.'
'Quiet Bogu, just listen. Its almost over.' Once the speech was over Maiku got up to speak. "Thank you Hokage-sama." Maiku decided not to ruin the moment and call him an old man. "This is truly a depressing state. Though if one thing my father wanted me to remember it is this. "'Suck it up and move on.'" And I will." Maiku looked into the small crowd then over to the headstones. Each one had a slit in it so Maiku could wedge the late owners blade into it.
"That is all. Thank you for your sympathy." Maiku bowed to the crowed, to thank them for their support. Slowly everyone left except for Naruto, Tenshin and Tenten. Tenten gave him another tight hug.
Tenshin put a hand on Maiku's shoulder. "Maiku, I'm sorry. If there is anything you need you can always ask." Tenshin said.
"Hey aniki, you can ask me to. You helped me more than once so I'm gonna return the favor." Naruto spoke up, not wanting to feel left out. "But I do need one favor." Naruto said.
"Oh my god it better not be like the last time I helped you." Maiku's palm went to his forehead as memories of two months ago of pranking Anko resurfaced.
"Ah no. The thing is my place got attacked yesterday, beyond repair, completely destroyed." Naruto began rubbing the back of his head. "So can I crash at your place?"
"Yeah no problem, not like I'm short on room or anything." Maiku put his arm around Tenten's waist. "Lets go."
Sarutobi stared at the purple haired jounin in front of him. "We need you to take a genin team. We don't have enough jounin, and I these two I'm sure you would enjoy teaching."
"Oh yeah, who could that be." The Hokage handed over two files.
"Well Anko?" The old man smiled when he noticed Anko's.
"This'll be fun. I get to torment my brat's" She laughed. "I've got some training they're going to love." With that she left the office. Once alone the Hokage pulled out an orange book and began reading.
Maiku and Naruto were sitting in the back of the classroom talking. "So when is the official wedding?" Naruto asked.
"I think in two years, but I want it sooner. Why delay it you know?" Maiku got an agreeing nod out of Naruto, but he knew that wasn't what he wanted to hear. Maiku sighed. "Yes you're my best man."
Naruto now had a large smile. "Yes!" He shouted.
"Quiet dobes." Sasuke said.
Naruto just flipped Sasuke off and Maiku did the 'up yours' gesture. Ino sighed and walked over to the demon duo. Naruto it is rather annoying to be loud. Can you please keep it down?"
Naruto flashed her a smile. "Since you asked nicely. Oh hey aniki, you got that list Tenten gave you this morning? I think Ino can take care of something on it."
"What list?" ino asked curious now at the mention of her possible involvement.
"Wedding plans. Your family owns a flower shop right?" Ino nodded. "Here." Maiku handed her a list of flowers Tenten stressed she wanted. "Can you do it?"
"Whose it for?" She asked.
"Aniki and Tenten. A weapon maker and a weapon mistress. Perfect I say." Naruto had on his fox like grin.
Maiku slapped Naruto upside the head, not to hard. "You say to much. But yes I am engaged."
Ino let out a squeal of excitement. "Congratulations!"
"What happened to not being loud Ino?" Naruto asked, earning a playful punch on his arm. Ino was about to say something else when Iruka popped into the room.
"Ino please sit down." Not wanting to see Iruka's Demon Head technique she quickly sat in the seat next to Naruto. "Now we had to put off team assignments for a week due to an 'incident'." Maiku glared at Iruka, who felt a rise of killing intent. "Ok we have assembled the teams, I'll call them out." Iruka looked at his clipboard.
"...team seven: Sasuke, Sakura, and Sai. "Your instructor will be Kakashi." Iruka sighed at Sakura's yell of excitement.
Naruto leaned over to his left a bit. "Sorry Ino." Ino had a look of sadness.
"Team eight: Hinata, Kiba and Shino. You have been assigned to Kurenai Yuhi. Team ten: Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji. Your sensei will be Asuma." Iruka glanced to the last row. "And finally," He couldn't finish when a black ball crashed through the window. It burst open and the corners of a black sheet lodged itself in the floor and ceiling with kunai. On it read 'Anko Mitarashi.'
Maiku and Naruto had their heads on the desk when the window broke. They didn't need to look up to know who it was. "Hey brats lets go, we got work to do." They didn't move. "Hey come on or I'm gonna kill you two myself."
Maiku looked up. "Anko-nee-chan, did you seriously have to do that?" A kunai landed dangerously close to Naruto's head, which was still on the desk.
"Hey! Ok we're going! Later Ino." The blonde shouted and ran out of the room.
"Take care of that for me will you?" Maiku asked referring to the list he had given her before following Naruto.
Anko turned to Iruka. "See, well place kunai can solve everything." She smiled before leaving.
Naruto had just place an order of dango when Anko sat down. "Good, you two were smart enough to figure out where to go." She smile.
Naruto nodded. "Please we remember meeting you here those years ago. Thanks again for helping us in that fight."
"Yeah, thanks, fight whatever. I'm hungry." Anko said as the plate of dango was set in front of her. The two waited as their sensei, Maiku occasionally sipping water while Naruto was reading a book. Anko patted her stomach and had a look of content on her face. "Well I wont need Dango for at least another three hours. I'm going to skip that introduction crap. Also that teamwork test bullshit."
"Yeah, me and Naruto have great team work." Maiku chugged the rest of his drink. "Guess we spend tomorrow training before we go onto missions?"
"That's half correct. We'll spend a week training. I don't want you guys dying on me when we do C-rank missions. Hope your ok with not doing any D-rank?" She asked, though she already knew the response.
"Aniki and I wont die on some C-rank Anko-sensei. That would just be embarrassing." Well that was unexpected. "And we're fine with no D-rank."
"Good! Now I'll see you guys tomorrow." Anko got up and left, so did Maiku and Naruto. The two went back to the Yaiba compound.
"Naruto, lets spar." Maiku took Naruto to the backyard where they had set up a sparing ring yesterday. The two took similar stances before Naruto attacked first, going with a punch. Maiku blocked it and jabbed with his left hand. Naruto caught it and held onto it and once again punching with his free hand. Maiku caught that, the two were now locked and pushing, trying to knock the other off balance.
Maiku got the upper hand by placing a foot behind one of Naruto's who fell back over it. Naruto landed on his back and received a punch in the face from Maiku. "Alright I lost, now get off me." Maiku did and went back into the building and found his way to his office.
"What are you working on now?" Naruto looked over Maiku's shoulder.
"It's a present for Ten-chan. She' s going to be a Yaiba soon so she'll need one of these." Maiku tapped the sword he had on his back. "And a little something for a friend of mine. Now please I need to work on this."
Naruto left Maiku in his office. He went to his room and pulled out a large scroll on Fuuton jutsu. "Yeah this is complicated. Guess I gotta get Anko sense to explain it to me."
Tenten walked in the front door, only to be greeted by the loud sounds of a hammer. She made her way to the center of the house. There sat a forge, and he fiancé working on a glowing piece of metal. She stood there waiting for him to finish which didn't take long.
"What are you working on?" She asked, giving him a kiss.
"Just something for you." He held up a slip of paper with diagrams on it.
"Your making me a sword, like yours?" Her excitement grew.
"Yes I am. You are joining my clan aren't you, so it would be perfect for you." He leaned in closer. "I'm also making one for Naruto, just don't tell him." He kissed her cheek before going back to work.
"Alright brats, I got a special training for this week. I'll tell you this though, you won't like it." Anko said with a grin.
"Yeah I can tell!" Shouted Maiku, who was tied down to a chair. But the chair was hanging upside down from the ceiling.
"Please tell me this isn't what we think it is." Naruto pleaded as he was hung upside down on the wall.
"Yes." Anko smiled. "I'm training you to resist torture."
"Hey things are starting to get fuzzy up here." Maiku announced.
"Too bad! You can begin Ibiki." Anko left the room. "I think I'll get some dango."
"Try to escape, I can guarantee that it will take awhile so this training has two purposes. Resisting torture, and escaping it at the same time."
"Hey aniki got any ideas?" Naruto asked.
"Sorry, all the blood went to my head. I can't think straight right now." Maiku tried moving. "I'll let you know when I think of something'."
"Same here." Naruto went to work trying to slide his hand out from one of the restraints.
After about three hours Naruto and Maiku passed out. 'Hm, they lasted for a fair amount of time.' Ibiki picked up the two unconscious boys and took them to the hospital. 'This will be a fun week.' Ibiki looked at the boys he had just set in hospital beds. 'For me at least.'
"This week is going to royally suck." Naruto said as he sat up. "I can see the benefit of the training, but the process is a little risky."
Maiku rolled from his side onto his back to meet Naruto's gaze. "I know. But we can do it." Maiku rolled up his right sleeve and pumped chakra to his arm. A black seal on the back of his forearm. "These guys wont let us die in something like this." Maiku touched his seal with his index and middle finger of his left hand.
A cloud of black smoke appeared next to Maiku's bed. "Right Bogu?"
"Dumb bastard." Bogu sighed.
Naruto and Maiku just laughed. The rest of the day they just talked, not having a decent conversation since they Yaiba incident. "Hey Naruto I have a theory I want to try out but first I want to know. Want to control the Kyubi?"