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"Eh?!" Naruto screeched as he was looking at Anko, "you want me to just leave my home and everything behind!"

"Yeppers, you pretty much sum it up Fishcake, I mean c'mon you did say you wanted to become a Huntsman, didn't you?" Anko looked at the child as she buttered him up a little, "and I'm the best teacher you'll ever get."

"How many people have you taught?" Naruto inquires as he hangs upside down from a tree, trying to meditate and relax before Anko blindsided him with the idea.

Anko rubbed the back of her head, giving him a toothy grin, "honestly Fishcake…you'd be my first student."

Naruto looked at her, sighing as he let his legs slack and he fell to the ground on his hands, he looked at her and then at the home his dead and he had shared all of his life up until two years ago.

"I'm pretty sure your house will still be here, just in case you want to come to Busan, or to keep yourself a place to go just in case things go way south in the journey we call life." Anko threw out there as she reached her hand out, "life has so much to offer besides Busan anyhow."

He blinked at her, sighing as he looked down at the ground, "yeah but who'll tend my father's grave?"

"Kid," Anko looked him dead in his eyes as she pulled his chin up to where their eyes could meet. "Don't take this the wrong way. All that is there is just a pile of bones, a hole, a stone."

"That's father!" Naruto screamed as he backed away from her, "he was everything to me!"

"And, he's gone Fishcake, I bet he wouldn't want to keep you here suffering. Besides, you seem like a little religious goodie-goodie. So, you believe in the soul, well his soul isn't in his body anymore and isn't it the soul that makes you, you?" Anko questioned philosophically as she rubbed her chin, "and if that's the case, are you truly tending to your father?"

Naruto gripped his hands, tight enough to where his knuckles turned white, he then looked at the ground. He watches as fireflies gather around the area, signaling that the night was coming, he took a deep breath and looked at Anko.

The blonde nodded, "okay…"

Anko clapped her hands and squealed a little, "finally, I got my first victim-I mean student!"

Naruto blanched slightly, leaning forward, slightly weirded out her line of celebration. She then looked at him, shrugging, and then watches as the sun goes down toward a large mountain.

"Well, Fishcake, better get some sleep. I'll be packing your stuff, don't worry, I have a method!" Anko states as he looked at her, tilting his head to the side.

Naruto blinked, "it's going to be something that is ludicrous and makes me question everything…isn't it?"

Anko clicks her tongue, chuckling, "you're pretty good Fishcake."

"Please," Naruto begs a little, "stop calling me Fishcake~"

Anko was surprised by how heavy a sleeper Naruto was, he slept through her moving all of the furniture into a pile. A large scroll rolled out underneath it, his clothes were easy to get since she could just blatantly walk into his room and get them.

She discovered, hilariously, that he had a manner of fish pajamas and even underwear. The pile of clothing, unorganized, was resting on top of a much smaller scroll than the furniture. She was whistling Hall of The Mountain King as she walked toward the closet, grabbing food cans and ramen packs.

Tossing them onto the floor, right on top of a much thinner scroll than the others, she continued whistling, plucking pictures off the wall as she kicked a scroll to unfurl it on the ground. She found one of Minato standing, young, probably before having Naruto and meeting his mother.

"Mmhmm," she licked her lips as she looked at him. "I wonder if Naruto will grow up to look that good, who knows hehehe~"

She tempted to keep it for a more personal stash of photos in another scroll, but she decided against it, placing it on top of the pile of pictures and such. Whistling still, she skipped across the kitchen, into the living room, and then came to the ultimate thing she was going to need in Naruto's training.

The Flying Thunder God Blade itself, she giggled, picking it up and then curiosity took hold of her. She attempted to pull it out of the scabbard, pleasantly surprised when she couldn't, meaning the holding seal was intact on the sword.

The Shinobi Clans taught the users of their techniques well.

The Fox Clan no doubt Naruto's clan and his father's.
The Snake Clan in which she trained in.
The Silver Bird Clan to which she was formerly born into but cast out.
The Bear Clan.
The Shark Clan.
The Hornet Clan.
The Dragon Clan.
The Brawen Clan.

They weren't blood-related, even the members weren't, it was just a small collection of individuals who learned the ways of old and was able to muster the courage to look into the unknown. Magic was as old as time itself, aura and its many names being the catalyst and fuel for its use.

Anko chuckled as she looked at the piles of stuff across the house, debating on either waiting for Naruto to wake up and show him what she meant by magic, or to simply scare and say that she had gotten drunk and someone broke in.

She chose the first option after a moment of the debate.

Walking toward the front door, yawning, she opened the door and walked toward Maki. The horse whined a little bit, she looked at the reason, finding it had a wound on its side from an earlier encounter with Grimm that Anko decided to hunt down for fun.

She applied her hand over the wound, forming a symbol with her hands that involved her middle and ring fingers being bent and connected. Her index and pink stood up, connect while her thumb was folded inside of her palm.

"Yang Release," Anko called forth the spell as she changed the hand seal she was holding up, "Mending Technique."

putting her hands together, ring fingers cross each other to touch opposite index fingers, middle fingers crossed over them. Index finger, pinky and she kept her thumb straight. The glow of a light green flowed from her hand and into the wound.

The horse began to relax.

The wound on its body closed, rapidly healing faster than natural nature would allow, but what she was doing was just the manipulation of nature. These mudra, hand seals, were key to forming these techniques and she was a master of all mudra even if she couldn't use all techniques or even the natural forms of them.

Taking a deep breath, ending the spell, she patted the horse and smiled. "There, there Maki, that's a good boy."

The woman walked away from the horse, back into the house, and looked at the bare bones of it all except for the furniture. She even had the television set over a scroll, she did all of this just in case Naruto wanted to really become a Huntsman after she showed him her way of life, slowly though.

Plus, it'd be great to have a T.V in a safe house, she had one in every city, even the defunct Mantle, and they were all under different names. No one batted an eye at her, not even when she gave a name that was like flower children.

Bloom Violet.

She wasn't ashamed of the way she acted, it was how she was trained, and it did wonders to get her far in life. Shinobi's were like Huntsman, save warriors of the shadow rather than the famed Huntsmen being in the light.

Unlike Huntsman, which were many and far common, Shinobi like her were very rare, rarer still were ones that could put forth mudra and be casting into actual practice.

The things described as miraculous in ancient books, from those able to dance with fire, to those walking on water are all examples of casting and control of what she was still mastering as time went on.

Her master had been arrogant, believing that one could truly master the ways of nature, but in all reality, if there was such a way it died out a long time ago. Other than that, even if one could master nature, there'd still be so much experimentation that one never truly masters it all.

An infinite expanse of knowledge, and all of it available for a limited finite mind.

Shinobi of the new age!
Chapter Three: Leaving Busan, your training begins, Fishcake!

Naruto screams out in the morning as he looked at the piles of clothing, furniture, and other stuff. "Wh-what did you do to my home?!"

"Huh, oh shit, you're awake at last!" Anko happily states as she gets up from the ground by hopping up from her back, "like the redecorating?"

"Redecorating!" Naruto screamed as he gripped his hair, "you've trashed my home, Anko!"

"Ah, ah, ah." She wagged her finger and then looked at him, "we're taking home with us…sort of."

"What," Naruto looked down and saw parchment under the piles of stuff, "what is that?"

"Oh that, that my little student is your mistress's little method of transportation. By the way, Fishcake fits you very well since you got a bunch of fish pajamas and froggy underwear." Anko then rubbed the back of her head and looked at him, "so you ready to see something cool?"

Naruto sighed, rolling his eyes, "I guess…as long as it doesn't destroy my home…"

Anko rubbed her nose, waving his melancholily off despite him seeing his house trashed, he watches her then form a hand seal.

"Okay Fishcake, back away from the pile!" She ordered him with a lighthearted yell, smiling brightly as she interlaced her fingers and slapped her palm together, "Sealing Art: Storage Seal!"

Naruto then gasps as they all suddenly turned to smoke, getting pulled into the parchments which suddenly rolled up, tying themselves with strings even, he stood there like a deer in headlights. Unmoving, mouth hanging wide open, and then it finally clicked.

"You weren't lying about magic, holy crap, that was totally wicked!" Naruto screamed out as he ran around the house, nothing was there now save the house itself, "what happened to everything?"

"I stored them in the scrolls, so long as they exist you stuff will exist and if something tears them apart…well…" Anko lightly waved it off as she chuckled, "poof."

Naruto winces, looking at the scrolls, and then smiles brightly. "This is so cool, and you're gonna teach me this?"

"Yep, so long as you obey my commands and stuff like that, all that good master-student bullshit. Anyway, when would you like to learn?" She asked with a cheery smile.

"R-right now, I wanna learn it right now!" Naruto stated as he looked at her, his tail wagging with joy.

Anko laughs, patting his shoulder before her eyes looked into his, "you'll learn it in due time."

"Wh-what, but why ask me when?!" Naruto complains as she picks up the scrolls around her, attaching them to a backpack she carried on her back under her cloak, "I bet I could get it done easily!"

"Sealing, maybe, other things not so much. You see, Sealing Arts are based on four-level symbols. Level one seals are things like what you just saw, and level four are things involving distorting time. Sometimes these seals can manifest naturally, in semblances, but don't be mistaken…there's a difference between semblance and magic." Anko tells him as he tossed the biggest scroll out the door, with landing in a pouch on Maki.

The horse's neigh indicating the impact had been rather unpleasant.

Naruto walked out with her, shutting the door and locking it, "so when do we leave?"

"Right now," Anko tells him as she hopped up on the horse.

Naruto goes to get on the horse, only for Anko to block him, "huh?"

"You need work on your cardio a little kid, plus build some muscle, if you're going to learn how to use a blade properly you must master your body first…and it'll be painful~" She hums out loud, making him wince.

Naruto spoke as he rubbed the back of his head, "um, why is that a good thing?"

"Oh, no reasons, just the daily torture…err…training you'll be going through. Besides, you want to be Huntsman, and learn my tricks, so here we are the beginning. So, all you need to do is just L.W.L." Anko then held up three fingers and put them as she gave the abbreviation meaning, "Learn, Watch, Listen."

Anko then nodded, sipping out of her bottle, "but once we start this there is no quit."

Naruto nodded, "I understand."

"Do you really," Anko says as she continued drinking. "You don't get a second chance with me boy, and there's a chance you won't be coming back."

The blonde held his head down, his fists gripping hard. "I know, but what else is there. You say I have a talent for something, and that I should, no one other than the Ichiraku family said I would amount to anything."

He grimaces as he starts to cry a little, "I just want a chance, a chance to prove that I am someone. I want a chance to prove that I, Uzumaki Naruto, am alive."

Anko looked at him, nodding, "alright then. You'll be expected to never quit, fight with Grimm, and be badass at the end of it all."

"I promise!" Naruto promised loudly, "you'll get no quit out of me."

"Good." Anko then took a deep breath, "you'll be going behind me on foot."

Naruto nodded, "alright, so all I could do is just walk behind you? That's a piece of cake!"

Anko laughs, slapping Maki slightly as she roars out, she looked right at Naruto. "Oh, Fishcake, walking?! Hahaha, oh no, I'm gonna run you like a race dog."

"Eh," Naruto tilted his head, "what's a race dog?"

Anko leaned toward him, she gave him a toothy smile as she told him what a race dog was, "you are silly~"

Maki was in full gallop, Anko was on the back of the horse enjoying some fine liquor, she looked behind her to see a bare-chested Naruto Uzumaki running at full speed behind her. He was very fast, but for his age and being able to keep up with a horse? That was impressive.

The blonde was breathing hard, sweat rolled down his body, the first five miles had been a piece of cake!

Then five miles turned into ten, ten turned to fifteen, fifteen turned to a never-ending leg cramp for the last forty-five miles. The sun was high above the plains they were now running in, no tree cover, the longest he's ever been from home!

Anko suddenly stopped Maki, the blonde behind her nearly ran into the horse, but stumbled in front of it as he collapsed, she looked at him, chuckling.

"So, how was the run kid, been about two hours. I was surprised you were able to jump an over a stream Maki barely made over, good job!" Anko gives him a thumb's up, "but now I need you to stand on your hands."

"Huh?" Naruto looked up from the ground, he watched her cross her arms.

"You'll be doing upside down pushups until I get back," Anko tells him as she grabs her sword. "Oh, and I sealed your sword in a scroll, in case you were wondering."

"What," Naruto screamed as he looked at her. "What if something happens?!"

"Well too bad I guess, any way you better be doing those pushups, because you're not I'm gonna cut your hands off~" Anko sang as she walked away, and then looked at him and winked.

Naruto felt fear, was she being serious?

Normally this would be a no, but from what he's seen of this Anko woman from the last three days, and add in the fact that she never lied to him before…

The blonde got on his hands, breathing he began to bend his arms up and down, doing the pushups as ordered. It couldn't be so bad, his legs were dead tired, but his arms were good to go!

Besides, the night was coming in a few hours, he doubted she'd make him run another eighty miles!

After all, Naruto was sure they left Busan's entire area the last ten miles, and he knew it had to be eighty because he was behind Maki who had run at full gallop. Horses were fast creatures, and he was just as fast, and it wasn't like he'd be a normal person with aura and all.

Anko was hiding behind a little boulder inside of the plains, she chuckled, "fear is my greatest training tool…Muahaha."

She got up and walked away, going for a nice peaceful walk while drinking the liquor she carried with her. She wanted some peace and quiet, a nice buzz, and then she'd continue to test Naruto for a breaking point later.

The woman was behind on her schedule, and she had a duel to win at Haven Academy against an instructor who called for an open challenge any sword wielders in Mistral. Supposedly he called himself the great Mistralian swordsman alive, and Anko was more than happy to set the date up.

A date of love, romance, and swords.

Minus the love and romance.

Just swords, and possibly a very painful ass kicking.

Anko was riding Maki again, Naruto looked like hell as he followed behind her, "I was hoping we'd make camp!"

The woman was pickled as she got the last of her liquor, throwing the bottle behind her and forcing Naruto to dodge, "bitch-bitch-bitch, seriously Fishy, you be bitchy~"

The woman drunk, he had run another thirty miles since doing the pushups, he had tears brimming at his eyes as he felt both of his legs cramping. The tears were comical in a way, he was scared they'd lock up and he'd collapse.

Anko looked at him, outwardly she was scowling and being judgmental, inwardly she was ready for him to call it a day. "All you gotta do is tell me when you want to stop."

Naruto breathing became hoarser as he continued to follow her through the night, he had long taken his shoes off due to the soles being worn down, to begin with. His tail was waving behind him, free of care, he kept going as fast he could.

"Remember Fishcake, you can't stop until I tell you to stop!" Anko warns him and then she reaches down, finding there was no more alcohol, "motherfucker…"

Suddenly she heard a thump, looking behind her as Naruto fell down, and Maki was quickly gaining ground. "Maki!"

Maki stopped, nearly slinging her off, she got off the horse and stumbled about as she got toward Naruto. Grabbing the back hem of his pants and hoisting him up, he placed him over her shoulder and walked back over to Maki.

"Alright kid, you wanna keep going to till you collapse, fine. Just don't think it wins you brownie points, my little student." She pats his head, setting him to where she could tie his legs and made sure he was secured on the horse.

Naruto was doing crunches on the ground as Anko ordered him to do so, it's been five days since he started his training, nearly a full week. He was bruised on his legs, she had him to knee crawls across a few miles over hard stones.

He felt sick and turned over in time to vomit on the ground, he was breathing hard as he stood up. She told him to keep going until he got sick, well with the stomach cramp and the vomiting, he had thought he qualified for being able to quit for the day.

Anko was sitting on a tree limb above him, "get some water, and get ready to keep working on that cardio and lower body strength!"

Naruto nodded, walking and getting the canteen. He drank the contents quickly, draining it bone dry as he swallowed in big gulps. Burping as he got done, he placed the canteen back in a pouch on Maki, taking a deep breath as he stretches.

The woman hopped off the branch and landed on Maki, "and get ready to run again!"

"Gah!" Naruto grimaces loudly, he began to run as Maki took off.

Anko came to see the walls of Mistral City, a couple of weeks of trekking across Anima, and finally, she would have her duel. Naruto behind her was struggling to stand up, the last couple of weeks had been hell to him probably.

However, not once had he said he wanted to stop, no one.

The kid had a heart of gold, but a brain of bronze.

She looked at him as they were able to enter the city when she scanned her scroll, "welcome to Mistral City, Fishcake."

Naruto's eyes widened as he saw the buildings all around inside of the huge wall, he looked at the bustling streets, and the people riding bikes across the roads and up and down large stairs. He saw a giant templelike structure on top of the second mountain.

"That right there is Haven Academy, Fishcake," Anko pointed out the second mountain's large structure.

He was helped up by Anko, "and this where you'll be taking your first break. We'll be in Mistral City for a few days, so let's relax a little bit."

Anko looked at Naruto as he looked at the city with mesmerized eyes, the blonde smiles and felt the cool air run over his hands, the blue-eyed Faunus smiles brightly. The woman smiles at him warmly before holding out her hand, Naruto looked up at her.

She nodded, "c'mon Fishcake, you earned your ride."

He took her hand and gets hoisted up on the horse, the blonde child looked at the roads as they headed toward stairs that would lead to the top of the twin mountains, the closer they got the evidence of a sort of small bridge became apparent between the two mountains.

"You look starstruck Fishcake," Anko said as she looked to where he was looking, "that's The Road of Heroes."

"Road…of…heroes." Naruto breathes as he looked at it, "it is amazing…"

"All new students in Haven take that road, its decorated with the names of fallen Huntsman and Students alike. The Road of Heroes is a memorial like no other kiddo, a memorial made to get names closer to the anyone upstairs." Anko tells Naruto as she felt Maki go up the steps.

Naruto looked around, "so where will we be staying?"

Anko laughs a little bit, looking at the various apartments and such, "I have a safe house nearby."

The blonde looked at the small apartment room as they entered it, "so are we going to talk about how you shed sometimes?"

"Not really," Naruto tells her as he rubbed the back of his head, "my fur can turn white on my tail in winter. But, it hasn't been white in over three years."

"White you say, that's an unusual color. So, what will it be this year, isn't it Spring?" Anko questioned as she took the small scrolls with clothing and made the clothes appear.

Naruto walked over, picking up an orange pair of tie-up shorts, a yellow T-shirt, and some underwear with frogs on them.

"I got soap in the pile too, so Fishcake, get cleaned up," Anko tells him as she walks toward the door, taking her sword.

Naruto looked at her, "w-where are you going?"

"I am going to meet an old friend, you just stay here, I got a T.V in my room but once I am back you'll be moving to the couch." Anko tells him, "just don't do anything bad on my bed~"

Naruto blushes, "w-what?"

She giggled, walking out of the room, leaving Naruto there blushing still.

She was demented.

Anko hadn't worn a dress in a long time, however, the one-piece dress, violet in nature, allowed movement if she still needed it. Walking into Devil May Cry, a very big nightclub in Mistral, the woman found her old friend drinking a beer at the bar.

He sat there, drinking it as he had a piece of cloth over his right eye, taking a deep breath as he looked at Anko as she took a seat by him.

"The Silver Bird flies in the sunset," Anko says as she tapped the bar, a barman giving her a beer.

"To land as the moon rises with it," her friend says as he sipped his beer, "hello Anko."

"So how have you been, Dante?" Anko looked at the man, watching him chuckle.

"I've been good, come for another round?" Dante winked at her as he leaned back in the chair, "hmm."

"Sorry, too busy at the moment, but I was wondering if my father is still asking about me?" Anko inquired from her old friend, "after all what is one of the fellow clan for?"

"Former," Dante corrects, "until your old man cast you out for showing promise in darker forms of the magic we use."

"Can't help it, Orochimaru got me curious, taught me everything and more. He died, by the way, a few years back. Been journeying the world ever since, gaining a reputation of being a great swordswoman, and all around badass." Anko told him as she popped the cap off the beer with her teeth, "and I've come here for a simple duel."

Dante chuckled, "simple duel…my fucking ass Anko, you're here for information."

"Lionheart plays the deck, I am merely needing twenty-one to win the game, and I am hunting for my next big paycheck." Anko sips her beer after she speaks and then hums, "I see you got married."

"I did, I have a daughter on the way." Dante chuckled as he sipped his beer, "she'll be born within my Clan's rights."

"I know, so why to ask me for a round~" She teases as she took a deep breath, hearing the music.

"Merely a joke, Anko, merely a joke. Alabasters never cheat, also, I smell a scent on you." Dante said as he finished his beer, "you had a kid?"

"No, I got a Fishcake with me. He's a real sweet kid, I'm guessing Fox Clan, his father died of cancer a few years back. Minato Namikaze's to be more exact," Anko finished her beer, tossing it into the bin.

"Fuckin hell, you got Minato's kid, you lucky bitch." Dante says as he gets another beer, "is he a father's son or a mother's son?"

"Definitely his father's, he's a strong-willed little guy, great at archery more so than the blade." Anko got another beer, "and I am aiming to change the outlook of The Snake Clan's reputation within our little secret shadow civilization."

"Hahaha," Dante laughs as he took the top of his beer, "don't worry Anko, your secret is safe with me. By the way, be aware there is a murderer about, the strange thing is that he's hunting kids."

"Get out of here, really?" Anko frowns as she sipped her beer, "some evil fucks in this world man…"

"Yeah, just giving you heads up when you're away from this Fishcake kid, he stalks the upper sector and middle sector." Dante gets up from the bar, waving at Anko with his scroll, "if something comes up you know where to reach me."

"Right, I got you, take care of yourself, Dante. By the way, was it a boy or girl, haven't told me yet asshole!" Anko called out to him, "well?"

"Little girl, she's about ten, Petal." Dante takes a deep breath, "and now if you excuse me I have to go duel someone with a scythe and an attitude…hell of a drinker though."

"Don't get killed!" Anko yelled at him, "you got family back home asshole!"

Dante flipped her off as was laughing and as he walks back into the crowd, "hey Qrow, the fuck are you at, you emo motherfucker!"