Repo

The ninja opera

Repo girl

Three months she had been at it for three months now and she was sure the only thing that was keeping her sane, well as sane as she was before she had taken this mission anyway, was her precious dango. The only thing better would be large amounts of alcohol, but seeing as how she was now a 'civilian' and there for under the current drinking age limit that was no longer an option, so dango would just have to do for now.

It was still early in the afternoon and she still had almost four hours to kill before she had to be at work. So obviously there was only one place to be. She had found this little gem almost two years ago and had instantly fallen in love. It may not have been much to look at but they had the best dango in the village, not to mention it was one of the few places she could eat at without everyone giving her dirty looks, well at least not about her past anyway some people still didn't appreciate her wardrobe but that was their problem. So like almost every day she bought a plate of dango and retreated to a deserted both to enjoy her meal and catch up on her reading. Before she had actually joined repo she would of never guessed at just how much you had to know about the human body, hell if she wanted to she could probably become a medic-nin after this, not that she had any plans to actually do that she liked hurting people not making them feel better. The thought of medic-nin inadvertently brought up thought about the man she was currently training under. It had taken more than a few days to get over the fact that the man training her on how to remove someone's heart properly was also the same man who use to be the best surgeon in the entire village. It made some sense in a grotesque sort of way, after all both jobs required skill with a knife and knowledge of the human body, really there was almost no difference between the two jobs other than repo men don't replace the organs they remove. She was also a little shocked when she found out that the Hokage already knew about Naruto being in repo, not to mention the fact that apparently he had actually been his genin sensei. Unfortunately since then she had not come across much that was worth informing the Hokage about, just the names of the other repo men, she was still in training so didn't have access to anything too sensitive. But still if everything went according to she would soon start practicing on people. She was honest enough to admit that she was a little nervous about it, not the killing people part, she had no problem with that, but she still didn't know about the hanging around and pulling their guts out part. It was one thing to practice on some on who was already dead but to just start cutting into someone while they were still alive was something else.

However she was soon brought out of her thoughts as a shadow fell across her. Looking up from her book she was surprised to see one of her only friends in the village. She and Kurani had both graduated from the academy together, even thought they had ended up on different teams they had still managed to keep in contact with one another. Unfortunately since she had accepted the mission to infiltrate repo they had not had a chance to get together. "What's up kurani-Chan?" She just stood there with her ever present scolding look. Anko really did like her but sometimes she thought that the other girl needed to lighten up or get laid or something.

"Don't you 'kurani-Chan' me. It's been almost three months since I've seen you last, and what's this I hear about you being stripped of your ninja status?" she said with her holier-than-thou tone while tapping her foot.

All Anko could do was laugh weakly and rub the back of her head. "Heard about that did ya?" all she got was a curt nod from the girl that was now sitting across from her. "bah, nothing to worry about, sooner or later they'll realise just how awesome a ninja I was and come begging me to come back, the way I see it I'm just on an extended vacation." She wished that she could tell her friend the truth but she knew better than anyone just how many recourses Gene co. had and she really didn't want to try her luck anymore than she already was.

"Honestly Anko, sometimes I wonder about you." said the other 15 year old girl. "One would think that being discharged as a ninja would make you take life a bit more seriously. But here you are the same as always."

"Hay now, that's not true. As you can plainly see it's well past noon and I'm not drunk I would think that would make you happy. And besides maybe it's not me not taking things too seriously but you who need to loosen up, think about It." she said in her best old wise man impression.

"Dam it Anko, I'm not the one who lost my job because I have an attitude problem." Kurani all but hissed out.

Now that was a low blow. "Now what the hell is that suppose to mean?" Anko responded in a hiss of her own.

"It means that you got fired because you have the mental maturity of a five year old. Not to mention your lack of any kind of a temper or professionalism, and don't even get me started on the fact that you're a border line psychopath. Seriously it's a wonder that you even made it to chunin." She finished in a huff. "I had hoped that maybe this would have been like a wakeup call or something but I can see now that you're not going to change for anything."

'What the fuck?' where the hell did she get off telling her that she was a screw up like that? And what the hell did her acting the way she did have anything to do with anything, it wasn't like she let it get in the way of completing a mission or anything. And she was most certainly not a psychopath, she spent enough time around them to know, a little sadistic maybe but she most certainly wasn't a psychopath, at least not yet anyways. "well fuck you to, you uptight bitch!" she all but yelled as she stood up from her seat and stormed out of the little dang stall, it was still a little early but she would much rather hang out at the lobby at repo HQ then hang out around here and have the chance of running in to kurani again.

XXXXXX

She was still fuming as she walked back into the main lobby/lounge room after changing into her repo uniform. Unfortunately, though for who exactly is debatable, she wasn't the only one there.

"Hay flat-chest, your here early." Over them months she had gotten use to Sai's odd behaviour, but she was in no mood for him today. So before he could get off anymore insults she let loose her strongest punch and sent him flying into one of the walls.

"not that we don't appreciate you shutting him up for a few minutes, but you mind me asking what's got you in such a foul mood to day?" came the voice of the only other repo man that was in the room.

His name was Takashi. He was an orphan who failed to graduate his last year of the shinobi academy when he was younger. Unfortunately that was about all she knew about him other than the fact that he was probable the sanest person here, though he was rather new having only been doing this for a little over a year now but even still he was easily the most normal person in repo. "It's not important." She waved him off, as normal as he was this was still repo and getting all emotional over a stupid fight was not something she really wanted to do. "By the way where's the captain, I know I'm a little early but I saw his stuff in the locker room."

He seemed to think on it for a minute before the answer came to him. "Yha, he came in early today. Probable a big job down in one of the operating rooms, didn't seem particularly pleased to be called in early either."

"Thanks kashy-Kun." And with a wave she walked over to the door that would lead down to the operating rooms. However the just as she was about to walk in she stopped. For some odd reason there seemed to be music lying in the back ground. As quietly as she could she opened the door. However what she saw, or more importantly heard left her flat footed. There was Naruto, who was apparently just about to start operating on the squirming man until the now vertical table. But instead of his usual silence, he was actually singing. Deciding that this was most definitely not something to miss she stayed where she was and started to listen as hard as she could.

"IT'S A THANKLESS JOB,
BUT SOMEBODY'S GOT TO DO IT..." Here he made his first incision completely oblivious to the man's screaming.
"PEELIN' OFF THE TISSUE INCH-BY-INCH,
SKINNIN' OFF THE MUSCLES, TOO." There was now a large hole in the man's chest, his large and small intestines spilling out over the edges.
"HARVESTING THE KIDNEYS FOR THE FALL.
SAVIN' UP THE LIVERS IN THE FRIDGE." The man was now all most dead from blood loss, his earlier screams now nothing more than laboured breathing.
"NO ONE EVER THANKS ME WHEN I'M DONE.
HOW SELF-ABSORBED PEOPLE CAN BE!" He than grabbed one of the large plastic tubs sitting on one of the tables surrounding the operating table then reached into the new hole that he had just made and began to pull out the man's large and small intestines. It was then that the last spark of life in the other mans eyes went out and he was well and truly dead.
"WITH A SLICE, OR A SNIP,
EENIE-MEENIE-MINIE-MOO..." finished with the man's GI tract he then reached up into the man's chest so that his arm had almost disappeared into the man's torso. Quickly he pulled it out now holding his heart.
"WITH A CUT, AND A STITCH,
RETURNING ORGANS GOOD AS NEW!" he then placed all the organs he had repossessed into individual bags and stored them in a freezer off to one side of the room, all the time humming to himself.
"IT'S A THANKLESS JOB!
BUT SOMEBODY'S GOT TO DO IT!" he then almost danced over to the now cooling corps of the man he had just killed and rammed his arm back up onto him so that it had almost disappeared.
"LIKE A MOP! LIKE A MOP!" He sung in a different voice while making the man's mouth move.
"AND A BROOM! "AND A BROOM!" He pulled his arm out of the man's chest.
"NO ONE WANTS A THANKLESS JOB!" He finished with an overeducated bow.

She was speechless for a moment, her brain taking the time to double check that what she just saw was real or not. Having come to the conclusion that what she had just seen really had happened she could only think of one response.

Naruto spun around at caught off guard from the Sudan noise. It didn't take him long to figure out just what had happened. There standing in the door way was the newest addition to the repo, almost dabbled over in laughter. Embarrassed at being caught in a slightly embarrassing position all he was able to do was rub the back of his neck in embarrassment. "Hehe, uh ... how long have you been standing there?"

This was just too funny; to think that she had caught one of the most feared men in the village using the corps of his most recent repossessions to practice his ventriloquism. "Oh ... oh this is just too good, wait until I tell the rest of the guy's." She said wiping a fake tear from her eye. The thought had crossed her mind that a normal person would probable of found the entire thing horrifying, that made her think of her earlier augment with kurani. 'Well fuck her, I like who I am and I think this is funny.' Unfortunately that entire train of thought completely ruin her good mood.

"Yha, yha laugh it up while you can. But after three days of no sleep I need something to keep myself occupied with." He said in annoyance. "Now come on, I have something for you." and without another word he walked by her motioning for her to fallow.

Following him down the hallway she could help but notice that instead of going back up the stairs to the common room they were instead heading to one of the other operating rooms.

"I have to admit that you're progressing much faster than I though you would originally, so I decided to speed up your training." And with that he pushed open the doors.

Before the door was even opened Anko knew what was waiting for her behind it. She had already started on human corpses so that only left one option as to what could be waiting for her. And sure enough she was right. There strapped to the table was a man she had never seen before in her life, not that that wasn't uncommon, it was a rather large village after all.

"Seeing as how this is your first repossession I decided to keep it simple, all you have to do is remove the man's heart." And with that he took her hand and placed his signature double bladed scalpel in her hand.

She just looked down at the sharp surgical knife in her hand then back up to the man standing beside her. All he did was give her a reassuring nod before gesturing for her to get started. She gulped in nervousness. This was going to be her first real repossession, she had practiced before on cadavers but it just wasn't the same thing. Taking a deep breath she slowly walked up to the operating table to get a good look at the man she was about to kill. He was probably only in his mid twenties with long scraggily brown hair. He wasn't wearing a shirt leaving his chest bare. It was when she was about to make her first incision that his eyes snapped open in fear and looked wildly around the room. it was when he saw the knife in her had that he started yelling, well tying to yell he was thankfully gagged. She was a little startled and looked back at the man standing by behind her. she may never of said it out loud but over then months she had become to idolize her sensei, he had taught her more than her genin sensei had ever not to mention he, as well as the rest of the people in repo had treated her better than almost all of the other people in the village, and the thought of disappointing him left a bitter taste in her mouth. So she gathered her convictions remembered what she had been taught and began to cut away the skin and mussels around the man's rib cage, all the while his screams had become more and more wiled. She had cracked open the man's ribs with some difficulty before cutting the still beating organ out and placing it in a plastic bag that Naruto had handed her. over all it had taken her five minutes, a little slow, she knew that the blond standing behind her usually could of done it in less than three, but for her first time she was rather proud of herself. All doubts about herself that her argument with kurani forgotten in the face of this accomplishment.

"That was rather impressive for your first time, a little slow but that will come with practice." Came a calm voice from the man standing behind her.

"Dam strait it was impressive, but seriously what were you expecting, I mean this is me were talking about." Any squeamishness she thought she might of felt at cutting open a man was quickly banished at the prise she got from what was quickly becoming the most important person in her life, not that the list was all that long to begin with mind you.

"Of course, what was I thinking doubting your, what was it again, oh yes, your 'kick ass awesomeness'" he chuckled at the putting face she gave him.

"hay now, you know that I'm the only one around here that's allowed to tease people, if you start doing then so will everyone else then I'll have to find a new thing to call my own, and I'm far too lazy to do that." she joked.

"Whatever you say 'repo girl'. I'm just glad you're in a better mood. Now come on, the nights still young and I still have work of my own to do." And with a simple wave of his hand they were both off.

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Anko was currently lying on her bed in her small apartment. She had just come back from a meeting with the Hokage and was really in no mood to be out amongst the general public. It had start off like always, he asked her if she had seen or heard anything suspicious, she told him the same thing she always told him, that she was still a trainee and they sure as hell weren't about to tell her about their plans for world domination yet. Normally that was it, but today had been different, instead of just accepting that she really didn't know anything he had started to ask her about how her personal life had been going. Well she certainly didn't appreciate the man sticking his nose in where it wasn't wanted but couldn't really just tell him to fuck off; he was the Hokage after all. That had gone on for an uncomfortable twenty minutes, cumulating in her realising that her personal life sucked. After her argument with kurani she had distanced herself from the other girl, not that that was her fault mind you. The entire meeting had ended with the Hokage warning her about becoming too attached to the people she was suppose to be spying on. She had simply scoffed at the man's warning and walked out of the building. However now that she had had some time to think about what he had said she found that he might of been right. She was honest enough to admit that the only reason she had found she had no problem playing spy was because there simply wasn't anything to spy on at the moment, however the thought that sooner or later she was going to be in a position where she was going to have to make a choice that could very well get not only orochimaru in trouble but maybe all the other repo men as well. And that was a though that she found left her feeling very guilty. She would admit that over the months she come to see the repo men in a different light. Well they may not of been the sanest of people she had ever meet they had almost become a kind of family, a feeling she was rather sure was not unique to her. Sai may have been annoying but he was almost like that crazy uncle every family has. And Takashi played the role of big brother, even though he was hardly the oldest or most seiner repo man. It really wasn't that surprising to her, most other repo men had almost no life outside of the job so all they had was each other. Then there was Naruto, she wasn't entirely sure what role he fit into, he seemed to take it upon himself to play several. One moment he's acting the father, trying to keep the rest of the repo men in line then he switches over to being everybody's little brother trying to make people laugh and then he switches to playing the over baring mother, which for the record is a rather disturbing thought, making sure everyone had their paper work finished and that they kept their equipment in clean and put away in their lockers. She had actually laughed the first time she saw him chew out Sai for leaving a bloody knife on a stack of magazines in the common room. However it was the thought of getting the blond in trouble that bothered her the most. He had taken her under his wing and had in his own silent way shown her more kindness than anyone else had in her life. She wasn't entirely sure what she felt for him, admiration, respect maybe love, she really couldn't give the feeling a word. And if it came down to choosing either her mission or him she really didn't know which she would choose.

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"You sure you're ready for this?" he asked. She just nodded her head in the affirmative. "Alright then," He grabbed on of the folders on his desk and handed it to her. "You understand that I'm only going to observe, this is all you?" again she just nodded her head. "OK lets head out, it's going to be a long night."

XXXXXX

This was it, the final part of her training. All she had to do now was show that she knew how to do the job and she would become a full member of repo, well that was still a week or two away but that really wasn't that important right now. However before she got the chance to show her stuff she still needed to find her target and that was proving somewhat difficult; she was neither at her apartment nor at her place of work nor anywhere in-between, it was really starting to get frustrating.

"Just calm down and remember everything I taught you, it's almost three, the bars and night clubs will be closing soon. Just is patient." Came the calm voice of her sensei.

'right, right, all I need to do is take a few deep breaths and calm down, the nights still young and she has to come home at some point.' She thought to herself trying to calm her frazzled nerves. Unfortunately no matter what she did she just could not seem to calm herself down. This may of only been her first time out tracking her own targets and she knew that she would have all week to prove herself but she still wanted to impress her sensei by getting it right on the first try. Unfortunately the gods were apparently against her on this night as just then the heavens opened up and it started to rain. "Perfect, just perfect." She mumbled to herself, this was just what she needed. So now on top of being nervous she was soaking wet, could the night get any worse.

XXXXXX

She had been sitting out in the rain for almost an hour now and was in less than happy, she almost felt sorry for the person she had been waiting for because she knew that she was probable going to be less then gentle with them when they finally decided to come home. As if on cue she noticed a person walking along the road in the direction of the apartment she had been staking out now for well over two hours. Unfortunately it was too dark to identify them from her current hiding place, but it was almost four in the morning and the chances it was not the person she had been looking for were slim. Looking back at the man that had been teaching her for almost half a year now she nodded her head in the direction of the person down on the street. All the response she got was him giving her a nod oh his head as if to say that this was her repossession and he wasn't going to do any of the work for her. Shaking her head she jumped down of the building and tried to hide herself in the shadow like she had seen Naruto do on many occasions. Now she was no slouch when it came to stealth and all that, but for the life of her she just couldn't understand how he had become so good at it, it was like he almost melted into the shadow themselves. However despite the fact that she was sure she would never be as good at hiding as her sensei she was still competent and in no time at all she had been able to get a good look at the woman that was now approaching the apartment building she had been watching, and sure enough it was the same woman she had been waiting for. Deciding that it would be best to get her before she entered the building Anko put on a burst of speed and in less than a second she was standing behind the girl that could be no older than 25. It was now that her training kicked in, not quite as confident in her skills as the man who was no doubt watching the entire thing from back up one the roof she decided to just slit the girls thought so she wouldn't have to deal with her kicking and screaming. Tightening her grip on the knife in her hand she slowly reached out and in one quick movement she grabbed the girls head in her free hand pulling it back to expose her slender neck and in a flash of dragged the knife across resulting in a large spray of blood and the girl suddenly going limp in her arms. Letting her fall to the ground she kneeled over her, quickly cutting through her cloths revealing the skin underneath. Deciding that this was no time to be taking chances she slowly and methodically cut away the skin and mussel around her stomach area and pushing both large and small intestines out of the way so she had a clean shot at the woman's liver. After that it was almost too easy to remove the large triangular organ and place it in a plastic bag. That don she stood up and started to walk back to where she had thought that Naruto had been waiting for her. however, as he had done on many occasions to her, instead of simple jumping down of the building he walked out of the shadows of to the side and gave her a start, no matter how much time she spent with him she still had been able to track the man once he had gone all stealthy on her. "Dam it, how many time do I have to tell you to where a bell or something." She called out cheerfully. Her spirits still high from her first successful repossession in the field.

"Well, that would kind of defeat the purpose of hiding now wouldn't it, besides I doubt that even if I was warring a hundred bells you'd be able to find me." He said mockingly.

All she was able to do was shake her head at him, he may of been crazier than her but he was still fun to hang out with, well most of the time. He had an unfortunate habit of getting all dark and broody every now and again but for the most part she was glad she had had the chance to learn under him. "Well as soon as you find a suit with a hundred bells on we'll test that theory but until then," she held up the bag with the liver in it. "Why don't you throw me the storage bag so I can put the sucker on ice and we can get out of here, it's almost five and unlike some people I could mention I do need my beauty sleep."

Naruto just laughed at his student antics as he threw her the large leather bag the used to transport organs. "All right, all right were done for the night, all we have to do is drop this of back at Gene Co. and you can go get some shut eye."

She mad what sounded like a happy chirping sound at the thought of a warm bead as she followed the blond man back down the streets in the direction of the Gene Co. complex.

"So how'd I do, how'd I do? Come on tell me, was I as awesome as or what?" she asked still on a high from her first repo.

"Well, you were a little on the slow side and some of these cuts seemed kind of sloppy from where I was watching." He said not even needing turn his head to see the disappointed put on her face. "But over all I have to say that I'm rather proud of you kid, I've seen gown men do much worse on their first time, not that I'm all that surprised. From the first time I saw you hold a knife I knew you were going to be one of the best, and you just proved me right back there."

Her face lit up with excitement. He was proud of her, no one had ever been proud of her and she meant no one. Not only was he proud but he had said she was one of the best, not that there had been any doubt in her mind about her own greatness but for someone else to see it as well was almost more than she could take. Letting out an almost ear splitting squeal she flung herself at her sensei's back warping her arms around his neck.

"Ack, get off, get off. If I knew you were going to throw yourself at me at every little complement I never would of said anything." Said the blond in-between choked breaths.

Realising that she had made a fool of herself she quickly jumped oh and rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly, something that Naruto did and apparently had rubbed off on her. "Hehe, sorry about that, just don't get that many complements coming my way you know."

"its fine, really, just remember next time to keep your feet firmly planted on the ground and for the love of god never squeal like that again." he said having a bit of difficulty keeping the mirth out of his voice so as to sound at least a little bit annoyed.

"Whatever you say boss man," she said with a mock salute. "But seriously, was I fucking awesome or what?"

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A/N well they you go, a bit fillerish (is fillerish a word?) but I liked it, a bit more about how Anko feels about Naruto, as well as lots more blood and even a song, what more do you people want? Seriously what do you want?

Oh and just in case you couldn't tell bolded words are song.

Also this arc will be ending either next chapter or the one after that and I want to know who you want to read about next your options are

Grave Robber – I have an idea as to which Naruto character I want to use but nothings definite yet so any ideas would be appreciated.

I also want to devote at least a few chapters to orochimaru and his fucked up family before the end

Also had an idea of doing one or two chapters about kakashi, but there would be considerably less blood in those as it would mostly be political manoeuvring and the like.

Also if these any one in particular that you want to see let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Anyways that's it for now and as always reviews are much appreciated.