(So my friend , Rio Skyron, revently did a Reading of Silent Moon. If you haven't checked out Silent Moon or his story, you really should! A great writer, and a great friend, please support him in his writings!)

Anko took a deep breath, yawning as she got up and scratched her behind which was just clad in white boxers. Her T-shirt was a beige with black stripes on the arm, a heavy metal band painted on the back, she used her feet to scratch the back of her legs.

She walked over to her hakama, grabbing it, and sliding it on with a purpose.

"Fuck me, I got drunk last night." Anko pinched her nose and walked into the bathroom.

She stumbled about for a moment, but then lurched and vomited into the open toilet, gripping the edge of the sink in the process. Wheezing, coughing, bile worked its way out of her and it was all due to an alcohol-fueled night of T.V and regrets.

Many regrets.

Breathing hard, she wiped her lips with her forearm, "fucking hell…"

Walking toward the bathroom door she opened it, finding that as she walked into the living room the blonde charge she had taken was still asleep, his tail was wagging every so often, and even more often was a mumble.

"Mmm…Ayame…" Anko giggled, she walked over to him silently, "Oh…that is so good…"

"I knew this fucker wasn't so innocent," she hummed as her thoughts ran wild, "then again a man loves a woman who can cook…fuck me…I can't cook."

"More Miso…more…pork…with…extra…noodles…" Naruto then began to snore loudly.

Anko's right eye twitched, she looked at the blonde with annoyance, "goddamnit…keynote…start corrupting when he is thirteen."

Sighing, she took notice of something on the half-naked blonde, it was a seal array on his stomach, a special seal array.

Only someone of a level in Sealing Arts could've made, and that someone was probably the boy's father, she saw it glow for a moment. Taking note of a scar that was on the boy's chest as well, which was odd, she never really noticed it beforehand.

He was a heavy sleeper, so tentatively, she rolled him over and saw that another scar was on the exact opposite side of his body. This meant, rather disconcertingly, that Naruto had at point been impaled by something.

Normally this would render anyone, especially a child, with life-threatening injuries.

However, what was odd in Naruto's case? That he was just walking around, behaving and acting like a normal child, rightfully so, but it was disconcerting to her all the same.

No normal child just gets up from a critical wound, let alone in the chest, which would've made it a mortal wound.

Letting the blonde flop back down, she just looked at him, noting the whisker marks on his face. Placing her hand on him, she focused deep into his spirit, and mostly on his reserves of aura and life energy.

He was very well gifted in the in fact that his reservoirs were astonishing, it was like staring into an endless sea, an endless horizon at best. She saw that his aura color, ironically, was orange. However, deep inside of this aura sea was a black speck, which was odd.

Red, yellow, violet, orange, gray, white, gold, silver, and even blue aura was common

But, Black Aura, the black aura was an aura that she merely heard of.

And, the stories she heard of it, they weren't pretty.

Red symbolized passion.
Yellow symbolized life.
Violet was royalty.
Orange signified a general warm heart.
Gray was a balanced person.
White in a sense was nobility and purity.
Gold represented honorable and prideful individuals.
Silver meant that someone was strong hearted and stalwart.
Blue represented just someone with an average outlook.

But, Black, Black Aura represented darkness and rage.

Death.

Aura color had no basis on the power of someone, everyone still had to train it, but an aura color often signified a sort of affinity toward an element.

Gold and Orange signified an affinity toward Fire.
White and Gray represented Wind.
Blue and any similar color were Water.
Yellow was the color of Lightning or Electricity.
Silver and Red represented an affinity to Light.
Black unsurprisingly represented Darkness.

Anko's teachers drilled this into her, but it didn't mean that a blue aura individual had to have an affinity for Water, no less than a red aura individual wouldn't have an affinity to Wind. It was based on how physical energy in the form of aura and spiritual energy in the form of the life force mixed in the formation of chakra.

Magic for her was based in the old ways, thousands of years in heritage, when it was rumored the world was one giant continent instead of the smaller ones that they had today. Indeed, many things could change, but old archaic mudras of the past live on.

The Mudra, Hand Seals, were used to channel one's chakra into a usable force. They weren't always required, in fact, basic techniques really only required single seal just to focus it better, but more advanced ones required more seals to essentially mold it into what you needed.

Which is why Chakra Control was going to be hell for Naruto, he was disproportionally gifted in physical energy in his aura, and his spiritual energy reserves were larger than normal, but that was hardly a gift if you were to become a user of magic.

In fact, in many ways, it made the training to do the basic things a little harder.

These were the things that Naruto would learn, once he proved himself worthy enough, then he would be privy to all of her knowledge and all of her skills.

From her combat style to the healing Jutsu she used on occasion, and then he would go about, learning and maybe even creating his own.

Looking at the blonde child, the child she had convinced to leave everything behind for a chance at life, her frown only grew.

She was never supposed to take a student Outcasts were not supposed to, in fact, Outcasts weren't really supposed to be using their magical techniques either.

So, there was a small chance that some of the more noble clans, namely her clan of The Silverbird, being irritated and irate at the idea she took a student.

But, as the blonde snorted, she couldn't help but wonder what he was dreaming of…

Naruto twirled a large, comically large mind you, ramen noodle like a lasso. He was riding on top of Maki and he used the lasso noodle to rope and then hogtie a Beowulf. He giggled, standing on Maki, posing as he assumed something akin to the Drunken Boxer's stance from a movie he saw.

The child landed on top of the Beowulf, kicking its head off as he threw his arms in up in the air!

"I'm the greatest, you're the lamest, this dope rap doesn't sound like crap, yeeaaah~" Naruto crossed his arms bouncing on his feet.

Mimicking his favorite rap artist that he heard on his dad's scroll.

Only for a sudden record scratch noise to be heard throughout the entire dreamscape, he frowned, "great…you again."

Shinobi of a new age!

Chapter five: Saving Ren! Nora's plea for help.

"Run, Fishcake, run!" Anko screamed as she watched Naruto do laps around a park she was sitting in.

The blonde was sweating profusely, "I thought you said we were taking a break from training!"

Anko looked at him, chuckling, "never said I wasn't a liar!"

"Gah!" Naruto screamed as he started hopping on one leg, "but why make me hop on one leg?!"

The purple haired woman laughed, "because I love making you squirm Fishcake, now move it!"

The woman watched as he started to slow down a little, she rolled her eyes, getting a shuriken from her pouch attached to a string she then smirked. Naruto was busy hopping on his legs interchangeably that he barely dodged the first throw and return by Anko.

Who had been aiming at his tail, "what the hell!"

"Run, bitch, run!" Anko yelled as she got up, chasing after Naruto.

Naruto's eyes went wide and white as he started to take off away from Anko, hopping over a few benches and rocks as he sprinted as fast his legs could take him.

This woman, his mistress, was insane!

The violetnette laughed menacingly as she aimed for his tail, the blonde's tail moved instinctually away from each attempt, but she knew she'd get him eventually. That, or she'd have to buy him dinner because that boy was running!

A few hours passed, and Naruto collapsed on the ground in front of a fountain, he breathed hard as he managed to lose Anko somehow.

"Jeez, she's crazy, but it was fun…minus the whole shuriken thing," Naruto mumbled aloud as he brushed himself off.

"Ren!" a girl called out, "Ren, where are you?!"

The girl was a little taller than Naruto, she looked about the area, "Ren!"

The girl looked about frantically, shouting, "Renny!"

Naruto jogged over to her, hopping once he started to get a cramp in his leg. He stopped right in front of the girl, she took notice of him, she seemed awfully pale and looked sickly.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Naruto questioned.

"Have you seen my friend, he's a little taller than me, he's got a single strand of pink hair! His name is Lie Ren, and he's not been at the school dorms since this morning!" The girl, struggling and failing to hold herself together, explained to Naruto.

"Wait…Ren?! You know Ren, hey…wait a minute…you're Nora!" Naruto pointed at her, "Ren told me he was getting your medicine yesterday!"

"Yeah, that's the whole thing I'm worried about. We're too poor to get into the pharmacy so Ren goes out into the woods!" Nora nearly screamed, fear gripping her, "what if…oh no…what if a Grimm got him!"

"Calm down, hey, Nora just calm down. I'll go into the woods…err…what part of the woods?" Naruto inquired, trying to get a general location.

"It's somewhere in the east, can you please help me, please-please-please!" She begged over and over until she started going into a coughing fit.

Naruto grabbed her before she fell over, then he noticed a small patch of blood on his clothing from where she had coughed up, he froze in a realization of what she had.

It was Flu, more specifically Pneumonic Flu, and the blood on his clothing just maybe got him sick. Griping slightly as he picked her up, he looked at her.

"Hey, I need to get to my place really quick, I need to get a couple of things." She nodded, allowing herself to be carried away by someone her age, but a complete stranger.

Naruto got to the safehouse, sighing as he opened the door, he noticed that Anko wasn't inside. Cursing under his breath, the eleven-year-old put the girl on the couch as he went and got his bow. He took a deep breath, watching as she coughed up.

"Hey…what's your name?" he stopped walking toward the door, "please tell…me…just in case…"

"Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki, and don't worry I'll bring your friend back." He put his thumb up, "just count on me, Dattebayo!"

As he left into the hallway he began to text Anko.

Anko stretched out as she looked at the grounds, she looked at Lionheart, "sup kitty."

"You're late, nearly a month and a half late." Lionheart growled, "it was hard enough holding Kuro here for the duel."

"Pfft," Anko blows raspberries as she looked past Lionheart's shoulder, "he's not bad looking."

Kuro was a tall man, walking with a bit of swagger, he had a long needle-like sword on his back hip. He had dark hair tied into a ponytail and jet-black eyes. He wore black leather armor over his entire body, minus his hands and forelegs.

He looked at Anko, "I have to admit, I expected someone a little bit more…weathered."

She giggled, "down boy, if you win maybe."

Kuro chuckled as he gripped the hilt of his blade, looking right at Anko, "I heard you fought better drunk?"

"That is a true statement, but its also when I have a slippery hand, meaning I may accidentally cut that tool off." She says with a devilish sneer as she licked her lips, placing her hand on the hilt of her blade.

Several dozen students were watching from open windows from dorms and had stayed on the edges of the courtyard, they had been promised a spectacle by their Headmaster, Lionheart. Anko yawned as she slipped her sword out of its scabbard, lightly stepping forward as if dancing until she readied herself.

Kusanagi began to glow a bright white, shining and radiating a lovely hum as Anko held it in front of her with one hand.

Kuro rolled his eyes, untying his sword's sheath and kicking it into the air before grabbing the blade out of it. He twirled his blade about, revealing it had no cutting edges on Anko's brief once-over. He took a deep breath, strangely, the man took a deep breath and smiled.

Without much notice both Anko and Kuro charged at one another, their swords clashed against each other, sparks flew from the blades as they began to clash rapidly. Lionheart yelping as a clash nearly took his head off, giving very little regard to his safety as the duo "danced" in the middle of the courtyard.

Anko thrusts Kusanagi, only for Kura's eyes to briefly turn red as he deflected the blow, she took notice of this and then leaned back when he thrust his weapon at her.

She hopped up and gave it a good kick, but much to her surprise it was like he was seeing future since he spins with the counter and counterattacks. Anko barely dodged the stab, deflecting several more blows meant to bash her aura down.

Taking a deep breath, she then hops back, switching stances to where she gripped her sword above her head, slowly bringing it down to her left hip. Kuro smiles, switching his stance as well, but added a spin for effect.

He held his blade in reverse, oddly, he had it held up in reverse to where it touched his forearm.

"That stance, it looks familiar…" Anko examined as she stood her ground.

Kuro charged and jumped up, spinning in the air on his side, that's when he righted his grip on his blade and attempted to spear Anko. However, she managed to block the strike and countered, but Kuro in turn just smirked and hopped off the ground no sooner than he landed on it.

She growled when she felt something stingy, finding that he managed to nick her back with the very tip of his blade.

"Should've fought drunk," Kuro states as he hopped up and stood up the top of his sword and smiled, "but looks like the stories were a little bit of a stretch."

"Motherfucker…" Anko hissed as she reached behind her and pulled out a flask, "want me drunk?"

"By all means," Kuro motioned her, "show me what the legendary Anko Mitarashi has to offer!"

"And there goes my temper and my very expensive two hundred and twenty proof Vacuoian Whiskey." Anko swallowed the entire contents of the flask, hiccupping afterward but fire blew from her mouth after the hiccup.

She stumbled about before smirking as she pointed her sword at him, "hey kiddies, cover your ears…and it's about get motherfucking filthy up in this bitch!"

Kuro eyed her, smirking as she watched him have green aura flow around him, he had a shadow around him as it malformed and began to form tendrils around him. His semblance represented his name, Black, Dark, thusly Shadow.

Anko rolled her eyes, "so what you can bend shadow, bitch I can bend everything else and then some, limp dick motherfucker~"

She stumbled about, nearly falling on her own sword, Kuro's eyes narrowed at her.

She was totally unpredictable in this state.

"Behold," Anko struck a pose with her sword pointed up while bouncing on one foot, "The Drunken Mistress of disaster…the luscious wielder of Kusanagi!"

She charged, a whistle of air followed her movement as she charged right at him, Kuro's eyes widened as she suddenly stopped in front of him and slung her sword upward. He barely blocked as she twisted her body to lean back while swinging the sword up.

They clashed several times as she walked backward, and when he launched a shadow tendril at her, she simply disappeared in a blinding display of speed. He looked around, stunned silent as he felt her presence behind him, he made his shadows form a shield around him only for her sword to pierce through it.

He barely dodged from being impaled, "shit…"

He turned around and blocked her sword thrust as she tried again, but when she fell forward he didn't expect her to suddenly throw a kick at him. It caught him by surprise, smashing him right in the face, he was knocked back as she rolled forward and stood up on one foot.

Belching loudly, eliciting a few laughs from the students, she blew a small flicker of flame from her mouth.

Kuro shook his head, his nose was bleeding as he looked at her, "Drunk Sword Technique…not a stable of The Silver Bird or Snake Clan…"

"Dragon Clan?!" His eyes widened as he looked at her, he readied his semblance and gathered it around his sword.

"Oi-oi-oi-oi, getting serious eh-eh-eh?!" Anko drunkenly screamed as she mimicked his movement, her sword glowing brightly, "I will smite you motherfu-a…a..ack!"

She held up one finger, "one minute….one minute…"

Kuro rolled his eyes, "really…"

Anko smirked as she suddenly appeared in front of him, "psych~"

He barely brought his sword up in time to block the slash she attempted, only for her to suddenly lash out and kick him across the head and knocking him to the ground. She placed her foot on his back, reaching toward her belt, pulling out a flask of water.

She chugged it down, hiccupping all the way as she ground her foot into his back, her sword pointing down at him.

Finishing the flask off she then tosses it in the air, "I win~"

Lionheart just smacked his face, leave it to Anko to turn a serious duel into a charade.

To be fair, Kuro let his guard down way too much.

Naruto was in The Eastern Forest Region of Sai. Tall oak and maple trees littered the ground around him, he wondered what kind of herbs Ren would have to get to treat Nora's affliction, and he had been trying to reach Anko now for a few hours!

Things were going to crap, he was sure he was going to get scolded when he got back, but Ren was his friend!

At least he thought he was, so Naruto couldn't just stay behind and do absolutely nothing, he had to try. So, now, walking in the woods of an unknown land alone and wielding just his bow and a few arrows he put all the years of hunting to work.

He found a trail, humanoid footprints, small and about his size. Ren was just a year younger than him, so it would be easy to guess that he, in essence, would have the same size of the foot or a little smaller. Tracking the trail, the blonde found that the footprints became further apart.

Meaning if it was Ren, Ren had run away from something, high tailing it by the looks of it.

The blonde sniffed the air, taking time to slow down, listening to the forest around him. He noted the distinct absence of bird calls, meaning there was a predator in the area. He took a moment, taking a deep breath as he paused in his step.

He heard footsteps!

Naruto turned around and readied an arrow, he pointed it right at…Ren.

Ren's eyes wide, filled with fear, the magenta of nearly gone from how dilated his pupils were.

"Ren are you okay?!" Naruto ran over to the younger boy, "jeez you look pretty beat up."

"He came…" Ren mumbled, "the guy that's been killing people Mistral…he…he…tried…"

The boy shook, "he tried to eat me…"

Naruto's eyes widened, a murderer and cannibal, and with the smell of death now feeling his nose the blonde grimaced as he heard a branch snap. He put his bow around him, grabbing Ren as he quickly ran for a tree.

A shot rang out from the bushes near him, a high-powered rifle!

He ran up the tree, barely dodging the bullet, he got into the canopy and jumped between the trees as he held Ren. He was breathing hard, if the man was a normal man he'd be safe, but he wasn't going to take the chance!

Naruto breathed hard as he noted that Ren had a wound on his arm, a bullet had grazed him at some point.

The man was hunting Ren if Naruto hadn't shown up in time the cannibal was going to score his latest victims.

Tripping over a branch, Naruto held Ren tight as he tucked and rolled on the ground. He was breathing hard as Ren activated his semblance, decoloring them.

"Grimm," Ren said as he pointed toward some Beowulfs, "my semblance can hide us."

"Whoa, close call…" Naruto murmured as he hid behind a tree, hiding Ren behind him.

"How did you know I was out here?" Ren inquired as he looked at the Beowulfs, oddly enough, their only line of defense if the guy was coming.

No way someone like that didn't exude an enormous amount of negative energy.

Suddenly The Beowulfs were alerted and ran at something, several rifle shots could be heard as Naruto and Ren looked around. The blonde quickly began to dig, with Ren joining him, and discovered that there was a tree well under the tree.

Naruto shoved Ren in first, while he went in, covering the hole up save for a small little hole.

A man wearing a black mask and cloak, and holding a hunting knife in his hands, along with a rifle draped around his shoulder came out of the bushes. Indicating that the man was capable of killing Grimm, which furthered alerted Naruto.

The man had a tape recorder at his side, he looked around, and then click the button.

"And, they called it puppy love…oh I guess they'll never know…" The tape recorder played as Naruto winced.

This person was certified insane!

He huddled Ren deeper into the tree well, looking at the person as the tape kept playing. He kept shaking, looking at Ren, who was breathing hard. Naruto slammed his hand on Ren's mouth, biting his own lip, trying to make as little as noise as possible.

"Little kids, little kids, come out and play…" the person spoke, revealing a man's voice. "Come on now, I only want a small nibble pink eye."

"I know who you are, I know where you sleep, I'll get you eventually…come to now…I'll get you…" the man walked around the area, scraping the knife on his mask.

He chuckled and looked at the bush in front of him, "I'll eat you fast, that way you don't feel nothing…I love the meat of little boys…so tender…"

Naruto shook more, watching the man walk about, "there you are!"

His eyes widened as the man took his rifle and aimed toward the hole, only to fire and hit a fox that scurried just in front of the tree. The man growled, throwing his rifle down, and just walked over to the fox before gutting it a mere few feet away from Naruto.

"Fucking little bastards…got away…kill them next time I will…" the man repeated as he gutted the fox, while it was alive.

Ren looked up Naruto, shaking heavily as they huddled in the tree well.

The ground was muddy, damp, and smelled now due to the man being nearby and the dead fox.

As the man finished he took the gutted fox, hanging it up on a tree and stabbing his knife into it, holding it there.

"I'll find you, and I will kill you, you blonde Faunus bastard! How dare you interrupt my hunt!" The man screamed out, walking away.