REPO
The ninja opera:
Repo Girl
She had never really noticed until now just how big the Gene co. building was, mostly because ninja weren't allowed to run across the roof of the building unlike the rest of the village, and so had never really had a reason to be this near the complex. To say it was large would have been an understatement. It highest point was easily twice as tall as the Hokage building and the entire complex stretched out for almost a quarter mile. Also the gene co. building was much darker, being made up of mostly steel and concrete, instead of the stone most of the other buildings in the village were made of. This had the effect of making the whole thing stick out against the back drop of the village, making it look like the complex wasn't even part of the same village.
However she soon squashed any nervousness that the building inspired. She couldn't afford to lose control of her emotions now. She had a meeting with one of the most powerful people in the world and she couldn't let him even get a hint of her true reason for being there. After all this is a guy that will harvest peoples organs if they even miss one payment. At that thought she once again was thankful that she had never fallen in to the whole new organs as a fashion statement. So plucking all the courage she was able to she threw on one of her patented sexy smirks and walked in through the door.
The outside of the building was rather misleading; at least when it came to building expectations about just what the inside of the building was going to look like. Unlike the dark and dreary feel one got from looking at the outside facade this inside looked like what one would think a hospital should look like. Clean tiled floors, white walls and ceiling, with everything being lit by a number of florescent lights. It was actually a little disorienting, something that was probably done on purpose, though for what reason she had no idea. Shaking off her unease she looked around what looked like a hospital waiting room before walking over to the nurse that was manning the front desk.
The gentern sitting behind the desk just ignored her as she approached. "Hi I ... uh was told to give this to the person at the front desk." She said handing the red card the repo man had given her the other night to the girl on the other side of the desk.
She took one glace at the red card and suddenly straitened up. "Of course. Now let's see." She then turned to the schedule book of to the side and began to leaf through it. "OK, orochimaru-samma is waiting in his office. Just take the elevator to the top floor and talk to the secretary there."
"thanks." And with that she simply walked past the girl over to the bank of elevators and after a short ride she was now standing in a much more luxurious waiting room. Not paying her surroundings any mind she walked up the receptionist, however before she even had a chance to open her mouth the woman at the desk cut her off.
"Ah Miss Mitarashi, we've been expecting you." she said with a friendly smile
"You have? Wait how do you know who I am?" now she was confused, sure her name wasn't exactly top secret but she knew she had never been here before.
The receptionist just laughed lightly. "Now, now that would be telling. Now I believe you have an appointment to keep, don't want to keep the big man waiting do we?" and with that she pushed the button to open the doors to orochimarus office.
"Uh ... right." And with a slightly bemused face she walked into the office of one of the most powerful men in not only the county but the entire world. And there he was sitting behind his desk giving her what she could only assume was a friendly smile, though it seemed almost predatory to her but that might have been her imagination playing a trick on her. However soon she realised that they weren't alone. Standing off to the side was the same repo man she had meet on the street.
"Ah, Anko-Chan, I'm so glad that you could make it. I was almost afraid that you weren't coming." He greeted in his overly friendly way.
She wasn't quite sure how to respond to that, not to mention no one had called her Anko-Chan ever and to hear someone like orochimaru call her that thru her off her balance a little. However it only took a moment to regain her composure. "Ha, like I would pass up a chance like this."
"I'm glad to hear that, really. It's not very often that I get someone with shinobi training wanting to join my little organization. For some reason they seem to find what we do ..." he paused to think of the right word. "Distasteful."
It was true, she knew. Most ninja she knew found the whole idea of repo men distasteful. It wasn't so much that they killed people, after all shinobi did the same thing every day. But most ninja saw themselves as defenders of their village and did what they did out of duty. Whereas repo men were seen as people who were only concerned about themselves and killed for profit only. Even Anko saw the hypocrisy of that but none the less it was the view of most ninja. "Well I'm not most people, besides what the hell else am I suppose to do, become some merchant or something? Well fuck that."
"Ku ku ku, I must say I do admire you spunk. Now on to business." At this he pulled out a file-folder from a stack on his desk. "I've already read through you shinobi record and I must say that I'm impressed, after all not many people make pass their first chunin exam, wouldn't you say?" at the end he turned to the repo man standing off to the side. "Not to mention the fact that even at your young age you already have a number of successful A-ranked missions under your belt. It makes me wonder just what kakashi-san was thinking dismissing such a promising young kononichi. I don't suppose you would be able to shed some light on that?" still he kept a friendly smile on his face, not a hint of accusation in his voice.
Anko was left flat footed. 'How the hell did he get a copy of my records? There suppose to be sealed and only other ninja are suppose to have access to them.' she thought to herself. Then there was that look he gave the only other man standing in the room. It was obvious he was referring to the man's own chunin exam, which meant that he had passed his own chunin exam on his first try as well, so obviously he was, at least at one point a ninja as well. Then finally the man all but called her out as being a spy for the Hokage. However her shock only lasted a fraction of a second before she was able to compose herself and answer him. "Fuck if I know. All I did was start a few bar fights and the one eyed bastered gets all bent out of shape."
"Ku ku ku, yes your file dose mention that you don't exactly ... play well with others." He chuckled at his own little joke. "Not to worry though, you'll find that here at gene co. were a bit more excepting of peoples ... quirks. So long as you get the job done everything else is inconsequential." He looked back to the repo man at his side then back at Anko. "now seeing as how your still here I'll take it that yore sincere in joining up so just let me say welcome gene co. and that I'll be watching your progress very carefully, after all there's only two other repo men with shinobi training here in Konaha and I'll be expecting great things from you. Oh, and Naruto-kun I'm trusting you with her training, after all you are the best and who better to learn from?"
The repo man, Naruto apparently, just nodded and signaled for her to follow as he started to walk out the door. 'Naruto, Naruto, where have I heard that name before?' she asked herself as she followed the repo man back to the elevators. It was only once the doors had closed that he spoke.
"you shouldn't of come, I honesty had hoped that whatever common sense you had would of told you that this was a bad idea." His voice was muffled by his mask but he still sounded young.
"Yha well what are you going to do? Besides like I told the big guy upstairs, what else am I going to do for work?" she was a little annoyed by the man standing beside her. She wasn't a little kid; she knew what she was getting herself into.
"The way you dress I could think of a few professions," a joke, she had never thought that the day would come when she heard a repo man make a joke. "Don't look so surprised; repo men are just as human as ninja. Anyway seeing as how there's nothing I can do about it now I might as well show you around." At that the doors to the elevator opened up in what appeared to be the basement of the building. "Come on, the entrance is just this way." And with that he walked out of the elevator and walked down the poorly lit hall way until he reached a dead end. However after pressing a number of random looking bricks a section of the wall opened up to reveal a well lit corridor. Simply signaling her to fallow him walked down the hall and opened up a frosted glass door to what seemed like some kind of lounge. "This is our head office. Over there," he pointed to one of the doors on the right. "Is the training room, you'll be spending a lot of time in there for the next few weeks. And over there," he pointed to another door at the back of the room. "Is the entrance to the tunnels that go under most of the village. Finally there's the meeting room, storage room and my office as well as a number of operating rooms on the lower level. We also have a dormitory downstairs but most people prefer to sleep at home." He pointed out the direction of each room as he named them off. "Now come on we still have some work to do to make you an official repo man ... err girl." And with that he walked over to the door that he had pointed out lead to his office and opened the door for her.
Taking a seat behind his desk he rummaged through a beat up filing cabinet for the proper paper work. "Here, all you need to do is read this over and sign where ever it tells you to." With that he tossed a number of papers at the girl. "Now well your doing that let me just give you a brief run though of what your training will involve. Thankfully you've already made your first kill so we don't have to worry about getting you use to that. Instead you'll be shadowing me for at least a month from Monday to Friday. At the same time you'll need to read up on not only anatomy but basic medical knowledge, I'll give you a list of books to read before you leave, but you'll be expected to read them on your own time. Once I think you're ready, and only when I think you're ready, will we move on to hands on training, will start out with cadavers and work our way up until you're ready to go out into the city and kill your own targets. At this point I'll be the one shadowing you for a week or two, if after that everything looks good, I'll say you're good to go and you'll be working solo from then on. Over all this should at least take up to six months. Any questions? No good. Once your done there will get you set up with some proper equipment and a uniform."
That caught her attention. Even ninja, who in general dislike everything repo had to admit that their costumes where pretty bad ass and now she was going to get her own. Not even reading the rest of the papers in front of her she signed her name where ever it was required. "Well then what the hell are we waiting for? Let's go."
Naruto just chuckled at her enthusiasm. "Well someone's excited." He got up out of his chair and opened the door to his office and lead her to the door he said lead to the storage room. "You'll find a locker with your name on it. You'll find your uniform as well as your basic equipment in there. Once you're suited up will head out."
"Right, whatever you say boss man." And with that she ran into the room with barely controlled glee.
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It only took her a few minutes to change into her new uniform and it was even better then she could have possibly hoped for. The mask was very similar to Naruto's only there was no bottom so her voice wasn't muffled. However where his was bulky and completely covered him from head to toe hers was almost a polar opposite. A black leather shoulder less dress that went down to mid thigh as well as a black vinyl apron that was just as long. As well as a pair of black boots and gloves. (Picture in profile.)
"Good. Now that we've got that out of the way lets go." And with that he turned and walked out the door at the back of the room that he had said lead to a number of secret tunnels that lead to various places in the village.
She was a little put off that she wasn't able to get a rise out of him, hell she was sure that she would be able to catch the attention of a blind gay man in this thing. "So what exactly are we doing tonight?" she asked
He threw a piece of paper at her. "Just one repossession tonight. I thought that we would start things off simply." He said
She just nodded her head and looked down at the piece of paper. It had the picture what seemed like a young looking guy with the words repossession stamped over it. It also had his home and work addresses as well as what organs needed to be repossessed. In this case it was his small and large intestines. "so what exactly is the plan, are we just going to stake out his house or are we going to go looking for him?" she was actually curios how exactly repo men found their targets, it's not like someone who missed a payment would just be walking around the city, that would just be stupid.
"Will check out his house first if he's not there will check the route he takes to his place of work. If that doesn't work were just going to have to stake out his house." He said still walking down the tunnel that apparently lead to the residential district. "However you'd be surprised at how often I find them just out on the street."
"What kind of idiot would just be walking out in the open when they knew that they had a repo man coming after them?" she asked incredulously.
"I use to wonder the same thing, but it makes our jobs all the easier. Besides it's not like we send them a notice or anything." He said shrugging his shoulders at how people could be so stupid. "In any case when we do find him I want you to hang back and watch, at least until I have him down."
"Whatever, less work for me then." She was actually a little miffed, she was perfectly able to handle some random villager but if he wanted to do all the work so be it.
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It had been a few hours now and unfortunately they had not been able to find their target out on the streets. That led them to taking up a position on the building across the street from the man's apartment. "How long exactly are we going to wait for him? It's already three in the morning, if he hasn't come home yet he probable isn't going to." Asked a frustrated Anko.
All Naruto could do was shake his head. "We've only been out here for four hours, there's still plenty of time for him to show up. Besides the bars will be closing soon, chances are he knew that he had missed a payment and went off to get drunk."
Anko just nodded her head. She properly would of done the same thing, though in all honesty even if there wasn't a repo man after her she would still be out getting drunk anyways. "Fine fine, whatever you say."
Thankfully only a few minutes later their target stumbled down the street in the direction of the building they were watching. "There he is. Now stay here until I have him on the ground." And with that he jumped down off the building and disappeared into the shadows. Anko was actually surprised at just how well he was able to conceal himself. Unable to spot him she turned her focus onto the man they had been waiting for. He was rather ordinary looking, though obviously drunk out of his mind. It was then she noticed that somehow Naruto had gotten behind him and was slowly sneaking up behind him. It was when he was standing right behind him that she saw his hands reach out and grab him from behind and ram his head into the wall of the building adjacent to them. He then made a motion for her to come down and join him. Jumping down to the street below it was only a matter of seconds until she was standing beside him. Giving her one last look he then reach down and grabbed one of the blades he had stored in his boots and leaned down over the man. It was then that she noticed the man wasn't dead when he let out a low moan and opened his eyes. She was even more surprised when she noticed that Naruto paid the man's moans no mind and began cutting into his torso. That was when the screaming started and the man started to thrash around. However it made no difference and soon there was a large hole in the man's stomach area. A few minutes later he was done and had both large and small intestines in his bag. He got up and started to walk away. Anko however was still standing in the same spot. Her mind running over what she had just seen. It wasn't that he had killed the man, she had done that before and it no longer bothered her. However she had never stuck around and disemboweled them afterword. Not to mention she had always prided herself on making a clean kill, it was just professional curtsey. But he hadn't even made sure the man was unconscious before cutting into him.
"Common kid we don't have all night!" he yelled at her from the end of the street.
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They were back in the tunnels on their way back to deliver the organs they had just repossessed. Anko was still lost in her thoughts about what she had just seen, and Naruto wasn't much of a conversationalist. It was only once they got back to the main room at repo headquarters was the silence broken.
"Hay dick-less who's that?" asked a black haired man probably no older than twenty. He was wearing a black trench coat with a white apron underneath that just happened to be covered in blood. He was sitting on one of the couches spread out in the lobby part of the room.
All Naruto could do was sigh. "She's the new girl." He turned to her. "Anko this charming fellow is Sai, he's the second most seignior repo man and also in charge when I'm not around. Sai this is the new girl so play nice."
"When am I not nice dick-less?" he asked with that creepy fake smile on his face. He then turned to look at Anko and what passed for a contemplative look passed over his face. He then reached out to shake her had. "Hello my names Sai, it's a pleasure to meet you flat-chest." His fake smile never left his face, even when Anko's fist connected with it and sent him flying across the room.
"Don't mind him, he may be a complete sociopath but he's still the only other repo man in Konaha that has any extensive ninja training. Now come on the nights almost over and I want to get home as soon as possible." He then walked back to the storage room with Anko in toe. "You can just hang your stuff up in your locker, but once you start to kill your own targets there's a shower room back here that you can hose the blood off in." He then walked over to the back of the room and disappeared around the corner.
This was her chance, after all she had no idea just how long she would be able to last as a spy for the Hokage and finding out just who the head repo man was high on her priority list, also she had to admit she was curious to see just what kind of person was able to do what she had just seen him do. So changing back into her street cloths she snuck back to the shower room and found the last person she had ever thought she would see in repo. Naruto Senju, head surgeon, well up until a few weeks ago anyway, at Konaha hospital, greatest medical genius of his generation maybe even surpassing his adopted mother the legendary medic Tsunade, was a repo man. It was almost to imposable to believe, hell she was sure that if someone had just come up and told her that she would of laughed in their faces and walked away. She may of been too young to of known him in the academy but had certainly seen him around town and at the hospital. Hell he had even been her doctor when she had broken hr arm during training a few years ago and she could say with confidence that he in no way seemed like the kind of person that would be involved in repo. But there he was standing thee hosing the blood off of his suit.
"I know what you're thinking, 'how can someone like me do something like this?' right?" he didn't even turn to face her. "The truth is I'm just as crazy as everyone else her, probably more so. The key to this business is not to not loss your mind, but to loss on your own terms. Me I came to the conclusion that as Naruto, the doctor, the person that I simply wasn't able to do what I had to do. So in a sense I decided to stop being Naruto when I was working, and now, in effect I'm almost two people sharing the same body, almost being the key word there but it works for me. Sai is a sociopath so has no moral compass to tell him if what he's doing is right or wrong. All repo man that last any significant amount of time have to be at least a little crazy. So now I ask you after everything you've seen tonight, knowing exactly what it takes to make it here do you still want to join, because this is your last chance to just walk away?" he still had his back to her as he finished not even turning to face her once.
Anko's mind was racing, was this really a good idea; did she really want to do this? The Hokage had given her an out when he had assigned this to her, surly he would understand that she didn't think that she would be able to finish the mission. Besides from just this one night she had learned more about repo then any outsider would probably know. But then the image off all the people that had told her that she would never make it as a ninja or called her names because she was related to a pair of missing Nin, all the cold looks she had gotten and her resolve strengthened. No she would not back down now, not after coming so far, consequences be dammed. "Fuck that, people already tell me I'm bat shit crazy so no worries there, besides I'm already here and I far too lazy to start looking for another job now."
"Alright then." He then turn to face her "if you're sure then meet me here at seven on week days, will do training until ten and then go out and do the same thing we just did. And remember to start reading those books, remember are job isn't to kill people, it's to get back gene co's property intact." He then started to walk past her back out into the now empty lobby. "Now we're done for the night I would suggest you go home and get some sleep, tomorrows going to be a long night."
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A/N
Well there's chapter two, what do ya think? Seriously tell me what you think, good bad whatever I want to hear it.
Anyways like I said there's a link to Anko's repo suit on my profile as well as Naruto's. Also I promise more blood in the next few chapters, lots more. Also in case any of you are wondering if this is going to be a Naruto/Anko pairing well yes and no ... kind of ... maybe ... I think.
Also I hope you enjoyed my making Sai a repo man, he's going to be my comic relief so there'll be more of him in the future.
Also I'm still looking for a Beta any volunteers would be greatly appreciated.
A little shorter than I wanted but still good I think. Anyway that's all for now keep your eyes open for the next chapter, it's going to be mostly training as well as some other stuff, can't give too much away now ca I. Anyways I got side tracked, so that's it for now, till next time.
And as always reviews are much appreciated
