REPO

The ninja opera

Repo girl

Just to get a few things out of the way now. One this takes place immediately after the last bit, just from a different point of view. Two this is very AU, that means I'm going to be messing with people's ages and histories; I'll try to explain things as they come.

Anyway that's it for now. So let's get this party started.

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'How had it come to this?' that was the question that hakate kakashi formerly known as the Hokage of the village hidden in the leaves. He had read the report twice now and still he couldn't understand what had happened. Somehow, in the course of twenty four hours not only had he lost one of his most promising tracking-nin, though she had been out of the field for months now it was still a blow. But even worse, one the brightest medical minds in the village, also incidentally the husband of the now late Hinata as well as his old genin student Naruto, had just up and quit his job at the hospital and as far as the public was concerned had cloistered himself in his house. Unfortunately that wasn't the half of it. It seemed that his old student had fallen back into his life as a repo man.

However there wasn't much he could do about it. As much as he hated letting gene co. and their repo man run around doing whatever they wanted his hands were tied. He may of been the military leader of the village but he still needed the approval of the council to do anything involving both civilian and economical problems and orochimaru had almost all of the councillors in his pocket, besides he had seen what had happened when the third had tried to interfere in the operations of the now single largest cooperation on the continent. 'They had closed their doors and waited until so many people had died that the third had no choice but to allow them to do however they had wanted.' No, if he was going to get anywhere with gene co. and the repo men he was going to need someone on the inside. But there in lay the problem, how the hell was he going to get someone into the repo men. He had first thought of Naruto but had quickly written him off, they had never really connected and he had been a repo man longer then he had been a ninja or doctor, he just couldn't trust him to go behind orochimarus back. So that left the most obvious method. He would just have his spy snoop around gene co. and the repo men and find out how they recruited new members.

Now it was just a question of who. And there was another problem, there weren't many people that would willingly become repo men, even to ninja the job seemed particularly unsavoury. Pulse orochimaru knew about most of the ninja in the village and if one of them suddenly asked for a job he would more than likely be suspicions. No what he needed was someone who wouldn't draw any suspicion to themselves, at least not suspicion of them being a spy anyway. Their weren't many people that he could think of off the top of his head, at least none that would be able to play repo man for very long. Wait no, that wasn't entirely true there was one person that he could think of. Now that he thought about it she was perfect, no one would suspect her as a spy she just wasn't the type, not to mention she was already alienated by most of the population of the village. Having both your parents become missing-nin will do that to you. And as an added bonus she was already a clinical psychopath so she would probable jump at a chance to be killing people every night. It was perfect the only probable he could see was just getting her in, but that was something that they could work out latter.

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Anko was not a people person. Never had been, never would be. Unfortunately it seemed that this idiot had hadn't gotten the memo.

"Hay there hot stuff, what's a place like this doing in a girl like you." he slurred obviously drunk.

Anko's eye twitched, why was it every time she went out to get drunk that some idiot always tried to hit on her. Just because she dressed like a slut didn't mean that she was one, she just liked to dress like one. Besides the guy had to be almost twice her age.

"Aww, what's the matter think you're too good for me or something?" again the thirty something man slurred out angrily.

'Fuck yha she was too good for him.' she thought to herself. Honestly what kind of pervert go's around hitting on fifteen year old girls, even one as smoking hot as her. She was now getting annoyed and that did not mean anything good for the drunk sitting beside her.

"Fucking bitch, who ya think ya are ignoring me?" he said grabbing her by the arm.

Dumb fuck should have just walked away, well if he wants to play rough so be it. She jerked her arm free from the drunks hold and elbowed him in the gut making him double over then brought he fist up and hit him in the nose. The man fell to the ground holding his now broken and bloody nose.

"Arg, you fucking bitch you broke my nose!" he yelled out.

"Maybe now you'll know that 'fuck off' means just that." She said giving his a sharp kick in the ribs for good measure. She then turned and walked out of the bar she had been trying to get plaster in.

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It had been a few hours since the incident with the drunk. And Anko was now well and truly drunk, all ready having been thrown out of more than one bar. She was now stumbling thru the disserted streets of Konaha back in the general direction of her apartment. All in all the day had been a resounding success, she was drunk, she had been able to hurt someone what more could she want. Unfortunately her day was about to get far more complicated.

Just as she was about to turn down the street that would take her to her comfortable bed a shadow jumped out at her. Instinct kicking in she jumped back and got into a fighting stance. She was hardly surprised, this not being the first time some stupid villager had tried something. However as the person soon stepped into the light she relaxed slightly. No one in anbu had seen fit to try and kill her yet so that meant he properly wanted something else. "Ya know it's not polite to startle a girl like that." She was more drunk then she had thought as she heard her own slurred words come out of her mouth.

The anbu just shook his head at the obviously drunk kononichi (sp?), why the Hokage would want to speak with someone like her he had no idea but his job did not require he understand the inner workings of his kage's mind, just to deliver a message. "Mitarashi Anko, you are to report to the Hokage at 0900 tomorrow."

Anko just stared at him blankly, 'well aren't we mister strait to the point.' Really now no small talk or nothing. "Fine fine, I'll be there now if you'll excuse me I happen to have a sleep cycle to maintain so I'm just going to go home now." And with that she turn her back on the anbu and began to wander off back to her apartment, not really in the mood to fuck with the overly stuffy anbu like she normally would of thoughts of why the Hokage had called on her personally. It was a general rule that being call to a meeting with the Hokag was either a very good thing, like a sudden promotion or a very bad thing like getting a sudden promotion then being sent on a suicide mission, and with her record it was more than likely that the outcome of this meeting was not going to be good.

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It was the next morning and kakashi was in his office contemplating if anyone would notice if he just burnt the paper work on his desk when the doors to his office were flung open and an apparently hung-over Anko burst in yelling something about how she had never seen that man in her entire life. All he could do was blink (wink in his case) owlishly at the apparent denials coming out of her mouth. "Ah ... I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about, but I think you might be a little confused about why I called you here."

"So this isn't about the bar fight last week?" she asked hesitantly.

"What bar fight?" he asked the now flustered girl in front of him.

"Bar fight? What bar fight; I never said anything about a bar fight. Your getting paranoid in your old age, you should take some time off or something. But we're not here to talk about some imaginary bar fight now are we? You called me here so I assume that you've finally realised that I'm far too bad ass to be merely some random chunin and have decided to promote me to full blown jounin right?" Anko congratulated herself on moving the conversation away from what could have become rather dangerous waters.

"Ah ... I ... right, anyway. I'm not entirely sure what you thought that this meeting was about, but I assure you that you're not in trouble. I actually have a mission for you. Now before I begin I want you to know that this is entirely optional but no matter what you decision this meeting is classified and no matter what must stay secret, do you understand?" he asked in the best authoritative voice he had.

Whatever she had been expecting this wasn't it, by the sound of this was a very high level mission that he was talking about here and the fact that it was optional could only mean that it was either dangerous, incredibly difficult or both, sounded like fun. "You bet." her hangover disappearing at the thought of getting what sounded like a rather important mission.

"Glad you understand. Now what can you tell me what you know about gene co. more specifically about the repo men they employ?" he asked

Now that left her flat footed, she may of been a bit young to of been affected by the mass organ failures that had lead to the rise of the company, but she would have to be blind, deaf and of lived under a rock her entire life to of not at least heard of them. And if he was asking about them that could only mean that this mission had something to do with them. "Nothing more than most people I would imagine, heck I've never even seen a repo man in the field before." She answered honestly. Sure she had heard stories but that was it.

"I see, well that's not really important anyway. Now the reason that I called you her was to ask, and I do mean ask this isn't an order, you to infiltrate the repo men organization and to be my inside man so to speak. However before you say anything let me tell you that this will not be an easy assignment. Orochimaru is no fool; he's not going to take the chance of hiring one of my active ninja for fear of my getting a man in his organization. If we're going to make this work you will either need to quit or be dishonourable discharged from the ninja ranks. Even then it's no guarantee that he'll recruit you, in fact I'm not entirely sure just how new repo men are recruited, that will be up to you to find out. even if you are successful in joining you should know that being a repo man is not the same as being a ninja, believe me when I say the there's a much higher burnout rate then even anbu. In fact as far as I've been able to tell there's only been one person to have lasted any significant amount of time. Now knowing all this do you accept this mission? Believe me there will be no hard feelings if you decline, I wouldn't even want this assignment." He was serious to, he had been in anbu for almost 6 years before he went back to being a regular jounin and he had no trouble saying that in those six years he hadn't seen anywhere near the same amount of death as a repo man would of in half that time. The fact that Naruto hadn't lost his mind yet still boggled his mind, though in all honesty he wasn't entirely sure that his old genin hadn't lost it somewhere along the way and was just a very good actor.

Anko was shocked, this wasn't the kind of mission that you sent a chunin on, hell she doubted there were many anbu that would be up to this. But here she was standing in front of the man who had just asked her if she wanted to infiltrate the most powerful and influential corporate entity in the world and she had no idea what to say. On one hand it was a mission like this that got you promoted all the way to anbu if you could pull it off. Then again on the other hand he had basically told her that she would have to give up being a ninja, at last for the duration of the mission, and not only that but there was a good chance that the job would driver her crazier then she already was. 'Yha right, like that's possible' she thought to herself with a snort. Who was she kidding this sounded like the best mission in the world, well except for the fact that she knew that if she was found out it was rather unlikely that there would be much of a body to find afterward. But that was fine with her; after all it wouldn't be much fun if there was no risk. "Hell yha I'll take the job, it sounds like fun."

Kakashi could only shake his head at her. It was obvious that she had no idea what she was getting herself into. Hell even he wasn't entirely sure what he was getting her into, but the image of Naruto back in that clearing back in wave came to mind and the insanity he saw in his eye and all he could do was hope that the girl in front of him didn't turn out the same way. "Very well, we'll start tonight." He looked down at a stack of papers on his desk and picked one out. "As of right now you have been dishonourably discharged from the ninja corps of Konaha for behaviour unbecoming of a ninja, you can take that however you want. Now unfortunately there's not much known about repo so you're going to have to spend your knights out looking for them, I would suggest starting with the residential district, it seems to happen around there the most." He told her. Anko just nodded her head; this job was shaping up to be fun. Hell she might even get to find out who the head repo man was, the man was practically an urban legend in of himself. "Good, now get out of here, we'll set up a dead drop system latter once you've gotten yourself settled."

Anko turned to leave office stopped at the door gave the Hokage a mock salute and then proceeded to storm out of the office.

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She had been at it for almost a week now, and still she hadn't even seen one repo man. It didn't make any sense, she should have at least seen one of them, there were at least ten operating in the city. But the best she had been able to do so far was find the mutilated bodies of a number of villagers. She was getting frustrated to the point that just walking in to the gene co. building and asking for a job application was sounding more and more appealing. However her frustration soon disappeared as she felt the cool mettle of a scalpel against her neck.

"You're rather persistent, you know? It's been a week now and still you haven't given up. So that either means you're one of the more dedicated fan-girls I've seen running around the city, or you have something important to say. If I were to guess I'd say it was former, but I could be wrong. So which is it?" the person standing behind her asked.

'Shit, how the hell did this guy sneak up on me!' she screamed in her head. It was then that she took the chance of looking over her shoulder. 'Its him!' again she screamed in her head. Out of all the repo men she had thought that she would run into, the head of the repo branch of gene co. was the last on the list. However the feel of the sharp mettle on her neck soon brought her out of her inner musings and back to why she was there in the first place. "right, well it's just that, I'm ... kind of looking for a job and well I thought that I could, you know ... be a repo man, err person." Fuck, what was wrong with her. She sounded like some scared little girl just now.

"Stupid girl, do you have any idea just what it means to be repo? Don't answer, of course you don't, if you did you wouldn't be here asking me this." Was all the reply she got.

That did it, all nervousness left her at being insulted and was replaced by a feeling she was far more accustomed with. "Hay fuck you, I'm not just some stupid little girl. I'll have you know that I was a chunin level ninja until recently, and I know dam well what repo men do. Fuck I've already got a body count that would make most jounin look like pussies." A slight exaggeration but it's not like she hadn't killed anyone either.

"Is that so? Well then you'll have to excuse my ignorance, I wasn't aware that I was talking to an experienced killer." The amusement in his voice was not lost on her. He removed the scalpel from her neck and turned her around so she was looking him strait in the eye (she had to look to do that but that was beside the point. "now then, other than other then what I'm sure is an impressive body count, why exactly do you think you would make it in repo?" he asked still with a hint of amusement in his voice.

'Shit.' She really didn't have much else then that that qualified her for repo; actually she didn't even know what the hell they looked for in repo man candidates. Fuck it just go with your strengths. "I'm not squeamish around blood if that helps, I'm also pretty dam good with a blade if I do say so myself." She said proudly hoping that that was what he was looking for.

He just stood there looking at her in silence, it was actually starting to get creepy and she couldn't help that she was starting to fidget. "Fine, you think you can cut it then show up at the gene co. building tomorrow and hand the receptionist this card, then we'll see how things go." With that he gave her a red plastic card no bigger than a business card. And turned away and started to walk off.

"Wait! Is that it, I just show up and bam I'm in?" she asked in confusion.

"Of course not, that card will get your foot in the door. After that you'll have to meet the boss man and convince him." he finished and not even waiting for her to respond he turned around and walked out of sight.

Anko paled at that last bit. She had never talked to the man personally but she knew of his reputation. And she really did not want to get on his bad side, of which she was sure being found out as being a spy for the Hokage would be a sure fire way of doing just that. Still she knew that this was going to be a dangerous mission when she had agreed to take it. She was just going to have to try be convincing and hope the man bought it.

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A/N

Alright so here's my continuation from my last story as you can see its Anko centric though Naruto will be playing a large role as well. As you can see I've made Anko younger then Naruto, also instead of being orochimarus apprentice her parents were missing Nin. But other than that it's basically the same Anko we all know and love. Also still looking for a beta so anyone wants to volunteer let me know.

Anyway that's it for now, let me know what you think and as always reviews are always appreciated.