A/N: Sorry for the poor quality of this chapter. It's more transitional than anything else, I wrote it and rewrote it several times, and I'm still unhappy with it, but I figure with it out of the way I can move along. Also, I got an anonymous review from a "Boom" that pointed out my poor spelling so I corrected it in the previous chapters, I don't know if that is going to spam the mailboxes of you wonderful people that have put my story on alert or not, so if it did I am very sorry.
The usual disclaimers apply; I don't own Naruto or any of the wonderful characters in it. And now on with the show.
Chapter 10 – Paying the Piper
Hana skipped gleefully down the Konoha thoroughfare hand in hand with her mother; the Haimaru Sankyodai nipping playfully at her heels, while Kuromaru strode alongside regally, scolding the others endlessly for their bad behavior. Today was a good day, the sun was warm on her face, a cool breeze wafting through the village carried the scent of orchids, her favorite flower, and she was happy as a clam. Just this morning she'd figured out how to run as fast as Kaijin*. The youngest of the triplets, he was also the fastest, and usually always faster than poor little Hana-chan, but today through the jumbled thoughts, feelings, and emotions he'd communicated to her she'd been able to discern the process of molding chakra into her limbs, though she didn't actually know that was what she was doing. All the littlest Inuzuka knew was that by doing it she could leave Heisui in her dust, – granted he was the laziest of the three – easily outpace Kumari, and run side by side with Kaijin. On top of that miracle, she was going to see her Izumo-kun, and he was even going to teach her how to use a sword. She couldn't have imagined herself a better day.
Hana could tell her mother was not sharing in the same feeling of happiness about seeing Izumo-kun – at all – but she chose not to let that bother her, after all, if her mom punished Izumo-kun and Kotetsu they would be spending more time around the Inuzuka compound, and that was always a good thing.
"*Haha," Hana tugged on her mothers' hand to get her attention. "What did Izumo-kun do? Why are you mad at him? Isn't he a good ninja anymore?"
"Yes Hana, Izumo is a good ninja; he's just not a good boy today."
"Why Haha? What did he do?"
"Well, Rikku-chan made a yummy animitsu for Konoha's nice policemen, and when she went to give it to them Izumo and Kotetsu started fighting and smacked into her nice present. And when they hit it, the animitsu splashed all over the police station and the nice police men working there, making a big giant mess. And now, they're in trouble and your momma has to go get them out of it like she always does."
Hana giggled unabashedly, animitsu all over the policemen and their office was a funny thing. "Kaasan? Did you ever think that maybe Izumo-kun didn't do it? Maybe it was that bad Kotetsu. He's always getting Izumo-kun into trouble. Haha, maybe Kotetsu is doing this so you won't like my Izumo-kun and you'll never let him marry his Hana-chan."
"I don't think that's it sweetie, but you can ask him when we get there," Tsume smiled down at her offspring, inwardly chuckling at Hana's loyalty to her student, in her daughter's eyes that boy could do no wrong.
About three blocks before the police station Hana felt her mother suddenly tense up and stiffen with anger. "Hana-chan, you know where the police station is, right?"
Hana nodded at her mother.
"Alright, then I want you to hurry up and get there, Mom's a little worried about Izumo-kun and Kotetsu, so I'm going to run over and check up on them. Kuromaru, Heisui, Kaijin, and Kumari will take you right to me, ok?"
"Okay, Haha," Hana eyed her mother determinedly. "You run fast mom, make sure my Izumo-kun is safe."
Tsume nodded at her daughter, secure in the knowledge that the nin-dogs would get her to the police station safely and took off to save her foolish students. The insane amount of angry chakra pouring out of the building from her former teammate was inexcusable for the offense her students were accused of and she was going to hand that mighty Uchiha his ass on a platter.
Hana watched as her mother practically popped out of sight and smiled merrily at her new found freedom. Here she was in the heart of Konoha with no supervision and she intended to get some exploring done. She turned at the very next alley she passed, only to run directly into Kuromaru.
"Where do you think you're going Hana?" he asked, being the Inuzuka pack leader he was the only nin-dog that could actually speak out loud, and to Hana's ears he sounded a bit bossy.
"Exploring Kuro-chan!" she responded exuberantly, hoping that if she put enough excitement into her delivery some of it would rub off on the serious canine, sometimes he just wasn't any fun, in fact, Hana didn't think Kuromaru was ever any fun.
"We most certainly are not. We are following your mother directly to the police station, as we've been ordered to do."
"Are you sure Kuro-chan?" Hana asked with a wicked grin.
"I'm sure," replied the nin-dog at the same time Hana summoned her chakra and took off down the alley, only to smash right back into Kuromaru.
"That's it Hana, you have forfeited your right to walk to the police station," he barked imposingly.
Hana smiled triumphantly, secure in her win. After all Kuromaru had just said she didn't have to go to the police station. "Well, then let's go to the weapon shop. I could use some new kunai."
As she stepped off in a random direction that she was somehow sure would take her to the weapon shop, her feet were lifted off the ground and she found herself being carried in Kuromaru's mouth by the scruff of her collar.
"Heeheehee," Hana could hear the triplets laughing and knew how funny they thought the situation was. "Shut up!" she yelled to them.
Moments later Kuromaru dropped his charge unceremoniously on the steps of the Konoha police station. Dogs were not permitted on the premises, not even nin-dogs. Hana stood up huffily and began smoothing out her coat and tidying up her appearance. She didn't want her mother knowing she had tried not to follow her orders, even though she knew Kuromaru was a tattle-tale.
Striding purposefully up to the main door, the tiny Inuzuka pushed heartily against the heavy teak door barely managing to crack it open. "Heeheehee," she heard again from the triplets and something that roughly translated to, I guess little brats aren't allowed inside either. Hana shot them a dirty look and stomped her feet. Setting her jaw determinedly the youngest and most stubborn Inuzuka smashed her small body into the door, managing to open it just enough to squeeze through, though it was tight enough that for a split second she thought she might not make it in alive and then she wouldn't ever get to marry Izumo-kun.
Once inside, breathing a sigh of relief, Hana looked around. The main lobby, which she was currently standing in, was empty of people. There were several glass windows looking into various rooms, but all were darkened and their signs read "CLOSED." To any casual observer the building appeared deserted, however due to the large amount of chakra being expunged from down the hall, as well as the heightened smell of anger pouring through the building Hana knew exactly where she would find her mother.
Reaching the room that the ruckus was coming from, she peeked in. Nosey to a fault, apparently this was where all the policemen could be found. Also, to her left, chained to a bench sat a fidgety Kotetsu, while on her right, directly across from the fidgeter was her precious Izumo-kun handcuffed to an identical bench. Chained next to him was a small dark haired boy about her own age with a red handprint on his face. Past the benches, the room widened into a large pool of desks, doors lined the back wall leading into offices for the higher ups. All the policemen Hana hadn't seen since arriving at the station were milling around in here. Some standing, some perching on the ends of desks, and some lounging in their desk chairs with their feet up, but all – to the man—had their eyes glued to the back left corner office, listening and commenting on the argument taking place inside, completely ignoring their antsy prisoners.
From the chief's office came the loud antagonistic bark of her mother, followed by the vehemently hostile shouts of the Uchiha police captain, and they certainly were not saying any nice things to one another. Hana noted that her mother was going to have to put quite a bit of money in the curse jar tonight.
"Hana-chan!" a loud whisper came from her right, and she blushed. Izumo-kun was talking to her!
"K-Konichiwa, Izumo-kun," Hana greeted him with a shy smile.
"Sshhh…" Kotetsu whispered from the other side. "Can you pick locks yet Hana-chan?"
"Hai," she said quietly, while feeling a little insulted. All shinobi could pick locks.
"Then can you pick these and get us out of here?" Kotetsu asked. "We've been here all day with no food."
"Gomen nasai, Kotetsu-san. Kaasan is very mad at you for being bad boys. I shouldn't help you escape. She will want to yell at you."
"Please, Hana-chan," Izumo begged. "We've been here sooooooooooo long and I'm hungry. They're never going to be done fighting."
Damn! Hana didn't want to say no to Izumo-kun, but her mother would be so angry, she might not even let her play with the triplets if she did that. "S-sumimasen, Izumo-kun. But I can't, Kaasan will be too mad."
Kotetsu and Izumo sighed heavily and slumped back against their respective benches in defeat.
"Gomen nasai, Inuzuka-san," a soft but intriguingly pleasant voice came to her from Izumo-kun's direction. "I understand why you will not help them, as you do not wish to anger your mother, but could you help me? I have someone I need to see in the hospital."
As endearing as the boy sounded, Hana was suspicious; after all, he too was handcuffed in the police station. She narrowed her gaze and eyed him sideways, "And just who are you?"
"Sumimasen, Inuzuka-san, I forgot my manners. I am Uchiha Itachi."
"Well Uchiha-san, why should I let you out?"
"Because I haven't done anything wrong. I will tell you the whole story if you get me out of here. But we must go quickly before anyone notices."
"Hmmm…" Hana thought it over, now that she was getting a better look, this boy was even cuter then Izumo-kun, and she did like hearing stories, but there was one pesky little problem. "Even if I get you out of here, my mother's nin-dog Kuromaru is right outside. He won't let me go anywhere."
Ever the opportunist Kotetsu cut in, "He will if we go with you and tell him Tsume-sensei said you could. Which Izumo and I will certainly do if you help us out, we'll even buy you some dango."
"Okay," she said, after a short moment of thinking, and set about unlocking Itachi's handcuffs. Woohoo! She was finally going to get to explore some new places, plus she got to hear a story from the cute Uchiha boy, Kotetsu was buying her some dango, and best of all Izumo-kun was coming. When Itachi's cuffs clicked open she moved to help Izumo while Itachi unlocked Kotetsu's and the four of them snuck quietly out the front door. Hana noticed she could hear crickets, even audible over the screaming match in the back.
XoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoX
Obito groaned as he climbed the last fifty stairs to the top of Hokage Tower. His feet were sore and his legs ached, maybe he shouldn't have taken the stairs fresh out of the hospital. Upon introspection perhaps the elevator would have been a much better choice, but his damn Uchiha pride had prevented it from happening. Sure, it would have been easier on his decimated body, but he just knew that if he'd taken it up, consequent to reaching his destination the doors would have slid open to reveal that damn smug bastard Kakashi, who would have winked at him as if to say, "I knew you were a lazy bastard," or "This is why your still a chunin," or something else equally as infuriating. So to prevent this from happening he had taken the stairs, and now he was completely regretting it.
Hobbling up the final stretch he made it to the huge double doors that led to the Hokage's office. Not wanting to look weak in front of his former sensei Obito asked the secretary for a few minutes and sat down to catch his breath and compose himself. While his breathing stabilized he thought about his plan to stay with Rin and was fairly certain it would work. Really he could be quite brilliant when he put his mind to it, or so he thought anyway. If only he had a little more confidence that Minato-sensei would go for it.
Now, if he knew the hokage, which he was pretty sure he did, the man was sure to be nervous about the upcoming discussion. Minato had never been good at setting rules, arguing his point, or asserting authority, and upsetting people always bothered him far worse than the receiving party. Obito just knew he was in there dreading the meeting, knowing how upset his student would be probably had him wearing holes in the carpet. If Obito could play up his anger, make a statement his hokage couldn't ignore, then Minato-sensei would probably cave to his very reasonable demands. Then it came to him, Obito believed he had found a way to unnerve his former teacher enough to get him to agree to his request, now he just hoped he had enough chakra for his plan to work.
XoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoX
Minato slouched down on his chair wishing the day was over. He hoped against hope that Obito would continue being later and later until it was time to close and he had missed this altercation completely. His backup was sitting back in his private chambers awaiting his signal when Minato felt Obito's chakra signature growing outside the door. Thinking this was as good a time as any, and not wanting to face his angry student alone, he pushed the phone's page button, "He's here, why don't you come on in."
His surprise guest had barely made it out of his private chamber when the giant main doors to his office exploded in a hail of wood chips and Obito flew through the air shouting, "Dainamikku Entori!"
"Wow! That was amazing!" Minato looked over to see his backup weeping at the beauty of Obito's ridiculous entry and cringed.
"Obito! What were you thinking? Are you insane? That was completely out of line!" Minato shouted at the insubordinate Uchiha.
"Gomen nasai, Hokage-sama," Obito replied sheepishly, glancing around at the amount of damage he caused. "I didn't think my actions through to their conclusion sensei. Ummm… Also, I didn't think the door would explode quite like that. I really thought it would just swing open kinda fast and I'd jump through. I guess the technique needs some work. I'm really sorry sensei."
"I think it's perfect just the way it is! A wonderful technique that utilized the full power of youth! Please don't change it at all!" Minato's backup shouted exuberantly.
"It was pretty awesome, huh?" Obito asked scratching his head.
"Ugh," Minato groaned. "What am I going to do with you?"
"Well actually, I was hoping you would ask that," he responded, instantly morphing from apologetic into his carefully crafted used car salesman persona. "As you know, I was recently crushed into a pulpy sludge in a sack and Tsunade-hime and Shizune-san saved my life, giving me a whole new respect for medical ninjas. Without their medical jutsu I would certainly have died a mushy mess. Instead I am standing here in front of you today, the First disowned Uchiha. Now I know to most people this would be an unsettling development, but let me tell you something Hokage-sama, for me this is not the case. Now I know you are dying to know why, so let me tell you."
"Okay," Minato said. (And here it comes, he thought.)
"Well here it is. Prior to this incident there has never been an Uchiha possessed of the sharingan permitted to study medical jutsu. Even among the Uchiha healers there aren't any with an active sharingan. In the mighty Uchiha clan all members who have activated their kekkei genkai are required to train for combat. In my opinion, this is a terrible travesty sensei. I know you have seen the enormous amount of destruction that can be done with the sharingan, now imagine how amazing it would be if that power was used for healing jutsu. If it was used for saving lives instead of taking them! Now imagine if –"
"No. You are not going with Tsunade," Minato interrupted.
"But hokage-sama to be a medic-nin is my heart's greatest desire," the boy begged. "Since Tsunade-hime saved my life, there is nothing that I want to do more then be a medic-nin and help others. Please let me go with Tsunade and Shizune. There is so much I can learn and maybe one day I can return the favor and save someone's life just like mine was."
"No Obito."
"But why sensei? Why?" he practically sobbed.
"For several reasons, buddy. The foremost not being that you just tried to feed me a pile of horseshit, though it is up there, nobody likes a liar. You have never been interested in medical jutsu before, I remember you refusing to even learn a simple on for healing cuts and bruises because it was a waste of time. Another thing is that you don't have the necessary chakra control. Tsunade-hime would have to waste years getting your precision up to snuff. And most importantly your body is not ready. Your medic, the great Tsunade-hime, has demanded you complete your rehabilitation just as she set it out. This as you know, means you are not to mold any chakra for three months, doing so could damage your chakra pathways irreparably. They had to rebuild your tenketsu completely and they need that entire time to stabilize. Who knows how much damage you did with that stunt you just pulled. As such, you will be training only in taijutsu for these next few months, and I'll be equipping you with chakra inhibitors in case you are tempted to do anything foolish."
Obito's face fell. His once hopeful demeanor did a complete 180 and the only disowned Uchiha wanted to throw up. "Only taijutsu? For three months?"
"Yes, for three months. And I've arranged for you to have a motivational coach to help you out and push you through the difficult parts. This here is Maito Gai."
Obito just stared at the green jumpsuit clad boy with giant eyebrows, and then he slightly smiled in an attempt to be polite.
"It is a pleasure to meet you Uchiha-san. The power of our youth shall unite and prevail against this most terrible setback to your dream. At the end of this three months you will be well on your way to becoming the first Uchiha medic-nin. I will do my best to make your dream come true!" Gai exclaimed before giving Obito his patented "good guy" pose. "Then you must teach me that dynamic entry. I have never seen its equal!"
"Arigato, Maito-san," Obito said softly. "I appreciate your help."
"Dewa mata, Gai-kun," Minato dismissed the blindingly green youth.
Minato stood and walked over to his depressed shinobi. "It's going to be okay Obito."
"Is it? How sensei? How? Everything is ruined. My life is ruined. I've been thrown out of my own family. I have no place to live. You aren't my teacher anymore, and worst of all Rin, the girl I love more than anything in the world, is leaving and I can't do anything about it. I don't know what to do. My world is falling apart around me and there is nothing I can do," the teenager broke down sobbing and Minato's heart broke. He held Obito in a tight hug and let him cry out his sorrows.
"Obito, look at me," he said. "Everything is not ruined. Your life is not ruined, and your world isn't going to crumble, it's just going to be different. I will always be your teacher and friend, regardless of what hat sits on my head. Anytime you need me I will be there for you, to listen, to advise, or to help you in any way that you need. And as for having no place to live, that's just not true. Kakashi has volunteered to have you live with him. Even if your clan is no longer in your life, you have a family. Kakashi, Rin, me and Kushina, and the new baby, will always be your family and we'll always love you. Even if you shatter our doors into a million pieces, and we don't really like you at the moment, we'll still love you. Got it?"
Obito looked at him through tear soaked eyelashes, "I love you too sensei. Please don't ever leave us."
XoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoX
A loud breath could be heard down the hospital corridor as Tsunade exhaled heavily. Jiraiya would be arriving shortly and until then she was busy trying to get as much nutrition into Mitarashi Anko's body as she possibly could. Even at her best, a healthy Anko was tiny for her age. Not short, but her bone structure was small, dainty even. Most of the girls who had been in her academy classes were between 75 and 80 pounds; Anko was lucky if she came in at 70, soaking wet. Now though, in this emaciated state, the scrawny girl barely weighed 60. She resembled a bag of bones, her face was gaunt and haggard and her slight body bony and cadaverous. If Tsunade hadn't felt the girls' pulse herself she would have sworn her body couldn't be alive.
Tsunade seethed in anger over the treatment Orochimaru had given his sole pupil. In addition to the skeleton like appearance, her former sensei had gifted Anko with some kind of curse mark that was eating away at her sanity, leading her to attack her friends and family unprovoked. Tsunade wanted to get as many vitamins and calories into her young malnourished body before Jiraiya looked at the seal, sure that anything they could do for her would take a toll on her already wasted body.
"Tsunade-sama," her heretofore unconscious patient croaked and looked up into her medic's eyes. "Am I going to die? Are you and Jiraiya-sama going to have to kill me?"
"What?" a befuddled Sannin asked. "We're not going to kill you. Why would you think that Anko?"
"Because I hurt people. I can't control this, it's too hard. I didn't… I didn't mean to attack Sarutobi-san. I tried, I really did. I tried to tell them what would happen. I didn't ask for this, I don't even know what it is," Anko's small body shook as tears slowly dripped down her face and she began weeping. "He… he… asked me to… to help him. I just… I just wanted help my sensei; I wanted him to be proud of me. And then he bit me, and he hurt me. Why? Why did he do this to me? What did I do? I was always good, and I… I always did what he said. I just wanted to help him like he asked. Did I do something wrong?"
"I don't know why he did this Anko-chan," Tsunade soothed as she sat on the hospital bed and embraced the undersized kunoichi. "I just don't know why he does anything he does. But Jiraiya and I are going to do everything in our power to help you, okay?"
Anko sniffled and made a low whimpering noise. "Thank you, Tsunade-sama. But you probably shouldn't sit so close to me. I don't know what I'll do and I don't want to hurt you too."
Tsunade did as the girl asked and moved to the other side of the room, just as Jiraiya arrived.
"Ah, our little Anko-chan's gotten into some trouble, huh?" he bellowed jokingly in an attempt to lighten the girl's mood. As Orochimaru's former teammates and friends he and Tsunade had been around the girl somewhat frequently and knew her better than most other ninja in the village, the snake Sannin had been quite solitary in turn making Anko a mystery to everyone, and he held a soft spot for the usually forward and outspoken shinobi. "I hear you've got a doozy of a curse seal. Why don't you let Uncle Jiraiya take a peek at it?"
"Okay," she said while lowering her head to give him a good view of her neck. "Just don't touch it. When anyone touches it I lose it, and I don't want to transform again."
"No problem sweetie. I'll keep my hands to myself."
As Tsunade watched Jiraiya flinched backward at the sight of the seal, wincing and shaking his head. This was obviously not a good sign and again she cursed Orochimaru for the atrocious crimes he'd visited upon his only student.
"Anko, I'm going to ask you some questions about the seal and I need you to be completely honest with your answers, ok?" Jiraiya said, and Tsunade thought she'd never heard him sound so serious.
"Ok," Anko nodded in understanding.
"Can you tell when the seal is going to activate?"
"Yes, right before it happens."
"How do you know when it's about to happen?"
"All of a sudden I feel really angry for no reason and my neck starts to itch."
"Did anyone else get this seal that you know about?"
"When I woke up I was in a room with 9 other people. They were all dead and Orochimaru-sensei said that only 1 in 10 had survived. Making me the one. I don't think he gave it to any more but I can't be sure."
"Have you ever been able to stop the transformation?"
Anko bit her lower lip and hung her head shamefully. "Hai," she answered so softly they almost didn't hear her.
"You were?" Tsunade asked. "You said earlier that you couldn't stop it."
The girl took a deep breath and sighed. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean… I… I… I lied to… to you. I stopped it… once."
"Why did you lie Anko?"
Looking up, her eyes wet with unshed tears, Anko blubbered, "Because you would want me to do it again and I can't."
Tsunade opened her mouth to ask her why but Jiraiya cut her off before she could. "What did you have to do to stop it Anko?"
"I had to let it in. It's hard to explain, but it's like the seal is alive, like its own evil little person sitting on my shoulder that wants to get in and be in charge. It makes me think awful thoughts and wants me to do terrible things. When I ignore it I can't stop the transformation. It just overwhelms me and takes over my body, and it hurts so much, like my body is on fire and I'm caught and can't do anything. It's like I'm trapped in my body just burning away. But the one time I listened to it and I opened myself up, then I was able to control it, and it didn't hurt. It felt amazing, like I could do anything. Nothing was out of my reach. But in that time I wanted to hurt everyone else. Kill them all in horrible ways. And I liked it. I liked wanting to murder everyone I know and care about. When I realized I liked it I knew something was wrong and I managed to shut it out. But when I turned it off I felt filthy on the inside, like my soul was tainted and a piece of what makes me me was missing. I lied because I don't want to do it again. I don't want to lose anymore of me, with less of me somehow there's more of it, and less of myself to fight it. I don't want to like hurting my friends."
"It's okay Anko," Jiraiya put a hand on her shoulder quieting her down. "We won't ask you to. I'm going to talk with Tsunade in the hallway. If you need anything just give a shout okay?"
Anko nodded her head pitifully and set about calming herself down while Tsunade followed Jiraiya out into the hall.
"Hime, this isn't good," he said while frowning and slowly shaking his head. "That mark is the Ten no Juin, the Cursed Seal of Heaven."
"No!" Tsunade gasped. "I thought he was ordered to stop research on that."
"He was, apparently he ignored the order, because that's what it is."
"Can we remove it?"
"No, I don't think so."
"Well what are we going to do? We have to help her." It's our fault, Orochimaru is our mess, went unsaid.
"I'm going to have to find Orochimaru's old research, but from what I remember, I think we have to kill her, so she can be reborn. It's hard to explain, but if we don't do it the seal will corrode her body and mind, and corrupt her chakra. Slowly killing her very painfully."
"What?" Tsunade asked incredulously. "We have to kill her? I told her she was going to be okay."
"She will be. Once she dies, the seal will bring her back to life. She'll be stronger, faster, and tougher, with deeper chakra reserves then she would ever have had without it. Best of all, she'll be able to control the seal without, as she says, losing herself."
"Only because she'll have lost all of herself Jiraiya. How are we supposed to tell her to let us kill her?"
"You don't have to tell me. I'm sorry; I was eavesdropping the whole time. Sorry, force of habit. You know," Anko shrugged her shoulders. "That whole sneaky ninja thing is hard to turn off, especially if it's about yourself."
"Oh Anko," Tsunade fretted. "I'm so sorry; we should have gone down the hall. You shouldn't have had to hear that."
"No, it's better this way. It's better that I know," the small girl firmed her jaw. "Jiraiya-sama, can you please go look up how to do this?"
"Of course Anko-chan," Jiraiya confirmed. "You'll probably be able to hold out a few months before we have to do this, and Tsunade can get you something for the pain. We can keep you here to stop the transformations—"
"Hell no! I want to get this dying thing over as soon as possible, and get back to my training. If this is gonna make me all stronger and faster and all that jazz, I'm gonna make the most of it, and use this "gift" to kick my sensei's ass," Anko interrupted vehemently, sounding, Tsunade noted, like the Mitarashi Anko of old.
XoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoX
2nd A/N: Here are the meanings of the names I gave to the Sankyodai triplets in case anyone was interested, also if I poorly used any Japanese I will include the translation here.
The triplet's names:
*Kaijin-ash, embers, complete destruction, *Kumari-cloudiness, cloudy weather, shadow, *Heisui-calm water
Poorly used Japanese (sorry for butchering the language):
Haha=mommy
Kaasan=mother
Sumimasen=sorry or excuse me
Dewa mata=See you later