Repo
The ninja opera
Repo girl
She was finally in, after only a week of observation Naruto had said she was ready to start working on her own as a full fledged repo man. It may have taken her more than half a year but she had done it. Unfortunately this brought up some serious moral questions on her part. Namely the fact that she was now in a position where it was rather likely she would come across information that could potentially get Gene co. as well as the other repo men in a lot of hot water. And although she, as well as most of the other repo men, was never very fond of orochimaru she really didn't want to get Naruto and the others in trouble. They had almost become the family she never had and the thought of them going to jail or worse left a very bad taste in her mouth. However that was not the issue right now and the only solution she had come up with so far was to simply focus on her work and hope she never came across any information that would put her in a place where she had to choose between them and the village.
So with her rather flimsy plan in mind she shoved all thought of the future aside and instead focused on the job at hand. This was her first time working solo and she was determined that nothing was going to go wrong so long as she had any say in it. Not that she thought that this was going to be anything other than a standard repo but she'd be dammed if she let naruto-sensai down now after he had put his confidence in her. so remembering all the thing he had thought her she was now staked out on the building opposite from the apartment complex her target was suppose to be living. And sure enough after only an hour of waiting there she was. A rather unassuming girly, probably no older then herself if that, with long brown hair and a liver that was now 90 days past due. Shaking her head to clear it of all thoughts about her double life she jumped down of the building and rushed at her target, deciding that as sneaky as she was it was just faster to rush them and be done with it. Circulating chakra through her legs she was able to close the distance before the girly even had time to react to her. Taking a note out of her sensei's note book she used her momentum and slammed the girls head in to the wall of her apartment building with a sickening crack. 'Oh well, I wasn't really in the mood to listen to her screaming anyway.' She thought as she stared down at the now lifeless corpse at her feet. After that it was all too easy to cut open the girl and remover he still warm liver. 'A little anticlimactic for my first time solo but no complaints from me.' She thought as she packed the organ for transport. Stepping back and wiping some of the excess blood of her gloves she turned around and started to walk off.
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A week, she had been a fully fledged repo man for a week now and still the thought of spying on her colleges left a bitter taste in her mouth. She knew that she could no longer put it off like in the past. The Hokage would undoubtedly be on her back demanding results. Hell she had a meeting scheduled for the next day and she already knew what he was going to say. The only problem was that she had nothing to report, despite what he obviously thought repo men really weren't told anything all that secret, except for Naruto she supposed, he was the head repo man for not only the village but all their other operations around the world, and the thought of braking in to his office was something she really didn't think she could do. She owed him too much to do something like that to him. but she could already hear the hokage's voice in her head telling her that her loyalty to the village superseded all others and that no matter her personal feelings she had a job to do and if she wasn't able to than he might as well pull her from the mission. And that was something she really didn't want to happen. "Arg, why does life have to be so complicated?" She said slamming her head down on her kitchen table in frustration. Deciding that sitting in her apartment lamenting her life was doing no one any good, she decided to do the only sensible thing any sane person would do in her position she decided to go out and get drunk. Most places wouldn't serve an underage 'civilian' girl but thank fully she had found a particularly seedy bar that had no such moral qualms.
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Anko wasn't entirely sure just how long she had been sitting there, thought the large stack of sake bottles beside her seemed to indicate it had been at least a few hours. Though in her inebriated state time seemed to lose all it importance and besides she was quite happy just where she was thank you very much.
"God dam it Anko, what the hell do you think you're doing?!" came an oddly familiar voice from behind her. "It's been almost seven months and still since you got suspended and you haven't even tried to change, what the hell is wrong with you?!" 'Ah now she remembered.'
"Hhaayyy, its Kurani-chan, long time no see." She slurred. "And I'll tell ya whatz wrong," she picked up a sake bottle, "I'm out of sake!" she laughed.
All kurani could do was stand there looking like a fish out of water.
"Well don't just stand there grab a set and let's get drunk, come on it'll be fun."
"That's it Anko, I'm done, no more. I've tried to patient with you but I can see it's no use. No matter how much I scold you I can see now it's pointless, you're a lost cause Anko and I'm washing my hands of you right now."
"Ah, don't be like that kurani-chan; I'm just having a bit of fun. Besides I keep trying to tell ya I don't need to change, lots of people like me just the way I am. Now sit down and have a drink with your old friend Anko."
"No Anko, I meant what I said, I just can't do this anymore, I hope that you pull your life together eventually but it's going to have to be without me there. Good bye Anko." And with that she turned around and started to walk away.
"Well fine, I don't need ya anyway; I got lots other friends that like me for being me anyway! You ... you ... you up tight bitch I'm better off without ya anyway!" She yelled at the retreating back of her former best friend. Turning back to her ever growing pile of sake bottles even more depressed than when she had come in.
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She hated the sun, hated it with a passion. It may have been that she had gotten use to working at night though it was more likely because the large shiny ball of light had had the nerve to shine through her window and wake her up after an all night binder, yha that was probably it. Unfortunately she wasn't simply able to ignore it today, she had a meeting with the Hokage in half an hour and even she wouldn't keep the man waiting if she could help it. so growing she quickly threw off her covers dashed threw her morning rituals and was out the door a stick of dango hanging half eaten out of her mouth as she struggled to get her arm into one of the sleeves of her trench coat. All ready she knew that the one eyed bastered was probably going to chew her out for not producing anything valuable. Not that it was her fault, really. 'I mean really, I'm just a low level repo man, I probably had higher clearance when I was still a ninja.' However before she had a chance to continue to think of reasons she hadn't produced any useful intelligence she arrived at the small tea house that they had been using for their clandestine meetings. Not even giving the old man at the front desk a look she walked to the back of the store, and there he was, the single most powerful man in the village sitting on a create of tea, giving her a very stern look. However it soon morphed into a more natural one and eventually into his patented eye-smile.
"Ah, hello Anko-chan so nice of you to drop by, it's been so long since I've heard from you. I was beginning to worry something had happened." He said all the while keeping his voice light and airy.
Anko however knew better than to take the man at his word, she knew that he was more than a little displeased at the lack of information she had been able to feed him, and more than likely a little suspicious considering she hadn't set up a meeting with him in months. "Well, what can I say; I haven't had much to report. I mean I only got promoted to full repo man status recently, and really repo men don't really see anything all that interesting so there wasn't any reason to risk contacting you." she hoped her reasoning would satisfy him.
"Hm, be that as it may, I would still have appreciated a note every now and then, if for no other reason than to let me know that you were still alive. However that's not why I called you here. One of my sources in the council gave me some rather disturbing news recently. It seems that our good friend orochimaru has been 'donating' rather large amounts of money to a number of 'charity's' that just happen to be controlled by a number of council members. He's up to something, and if the amount of gold he's giving out is any indication it's something big. You're my only source, hell the only source in all of orochimarus organization, and I need to know what he's planning. I don't care what you have to do to get me this information; you have my full authorization to do what needs to be done. Even if you have to compromise you identity, though I would much prefer you don't unless it's absolutely necessary."
Anko was shocked, this was big. If he was willing to compromise the only source, all be it not a very productive one, in all of Gene Co. than this had to of been bloody important. "Are you sure, I mean as far as I know I'm the only person to have successfully infiltrated orochimarus organization. I mean I'll try my best not to get caught and all, but I know I'm going to have to break into at least one office, probably more than that and the odds aren't exactly in my favour here."
"I know this isn't going to be easy and it I'll take a miracle to pull this off and still maintain your identity as a repo man, but there's no point in having someone in you position and to not use them. But like I said completing this mission takes precedence over keeping you cover.
"Alright, alright. I'll do it, but I can't make any promises" her mind was flashing threw all her memories she had in that please and sadly she found that they were some of the happiest she had. They had accepted her and taken her in and treated her like the family she had always hoped for. And here she was sneaking behind their back and it made her fell physically ill.
Kakashi was no fool; he had taken part in more than on infiltration mission in his life and knew exactly what the girl in front of him was thinking. It really was an inevitability in these types of missions, you had to get close to your targets if you wanted to get any information, the key was not to get to close, something he feared Anko had done. Not that he could blame her. She had been alone most of her life, it wasn't unreasonable to assume that she would cling onto the first person who showed even a small amount interest in her life. Add to that that person had been his former student who, even if it was subconsciously, was easily one of the most caring, all-be-it less than stable, person he knew and it all added up to a very real chance that he could lose his source to the enemy permanently. If he was honest with himself he would only give her a 50/50 chance of completing the mission and returning the information to him, and this was one of the main reasons he had given it to her. She would either deliver the goods and prove that she was loyal to the village, or she wouldn't and he would have lost one of the more promising ninja of the latest generation. Either way this was probably going to be her last act as his spy. "That's all I ask, just remember I need this information ASAP."
"Yes sir." And with that she turned around and walked back out the front of the shop and back to her apartment.
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'Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, what the hell am I suppose to do?!' she scream in her mind as she slammed her head down on her kitchen table. What the hell was she going to do? On one hand she had her loyalty to the village not to mention that kakashi had placed his trust in her to carry out this mission. And on the other she had Naruto and the rest of the repo men. Over the months she had come to see them as the family she had always wanted. They had accepted her as she was something the people she had previously thought of as friends seemingly weren't able to do. And just the thought of betraying them almost made her want to throw up not to mention what they would think of her when they found out she had been spying on them the hole time. 'Agh I just need to calm down and think this threw. Now I'm pretty sure I can get the information without getting caught, it'll be the investigation afterword that will probable get me caught. So I'll just find what the hokage's looking for and then decide if it's worth compromising myself for, yha, that'll work, besides it's probably nothing anyways. All right now I just have to figure out just how the hell I'm suppose break find anything on just what the hell orochimaru is planning.
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Unfortunately the only high security area she had clearance to be in was repo HQ and of that the only place that might sensitive documents was her sensei's office. Actually now that she thought about it there was a good chance that whatever she was looking for would probably be in there, he was in charge of all the repo men around the world and as such spent a good amount of his time with orochimaru, there was a good chance that whatever had the hokage's underwear in a bunch could be found in there, or at least some idea of what it was. The only problem was actually braking in. Thankfully she knew that Naruto only spent as much time there as was absolutely necessary, come to think of it she had never seen him spend any more time then was needed at HQ, hell even she had just hung around every now and again if for no other reason than to chat with some of the other repo men. Oh well, just made her job all the easier. No the real problem was that the door to his office was just off the lounge and anyone walking threw would probable sound the alarm and then she really would be screwed. Oh well all she could do about that was throw up a Genjutsu and hope it held up to any scrutiny.
Plan firmly in mind she timed her arrival almost an hour early so she could get her target and get back before anyone else and put her plan into action. Thankfully it was a simple kidney job and the fact that target had almost literally run into her in one of the back streets made for one of the quickest repos on record.
Having dropped of the organs in the freezer she walked over the locker room and noticed that all the other repo men had apparently already suited up and left. Knowing that she had at least a good half hour before anyone would be coming back she quickly stalked over to the door that lead to Naruto's office. Quickly picking the lock she cast a quick Genjutsu over the door to make it seem to be closed. It wouldn't hold up to heavy scrutiny but Genjutsu had never really been her forte. Quickly looking around the rather spartan room she noticed all there was a desk, chair and a number filing cabinets. Not entirely sure what she was looking for she decided to search the desk draws firs before moving on to the filing cabinets. Again she picked the locks on the draws and shuffled threw the papers within. Quickly scanning the papers she noted that none of them were very interesting, mostly things like the number of organs repossessed a week in each village and things like that, interesting but probably not what she was looking for. The other draws were the same. Unfortunately just as she was about to move on to the filing cabinets the light to the office flickered on. On instinct she whirled around and reached for one of the blades she had hidden in her repo suit. Unfortunately as she saw who was leaning up against the door frame the reality of her situation caught up to her and she realised she was well and truly screwed, she may of been able to fight some of the other repo men if she had been forced to but she knew that there was no way she would be able to beat fight, let alone beat the man in the door.
"Hello Anko-chan." He greeted her without a hint of hostility in his voice. "You know if you're looking for the more sensitive stuff there's a safe the wall over there" he said pointing his finger at the far right wall.
Anko was speechless, she had been caught red handed and he was still treating her like he always had. It didn't make any sense he should at least be angry or something.
"but then again if your here for what I think you are then I'll save you some time," he paused as he reached into a inside pocket of his lab coat ,that he wore when not wearing his repo suit, and pulled out a file folder. "I think this is what kakashi-sensei is looking for." He put the file down on the desk.
Now she was just plain confused, why the hell was he giving her the information she was looking for. The only explanation she could think of was that it was fake or something but after spending so much time with him she doubted it, he may be a little unbalanced but he wasn't a liar. "Why are you giving me this? I mean I doesn't make any sense. You know I'm a ... a ..."
"A spy? Of course I did. Honestly Anko-chan do you really think so little of me? I may not of specialized in counter intelligence but I'm not blind either. It was rather obvious why you wanted to join repo."
Now Anko was really shocked. He had know, seemingly from the beginning that she had been a spy and he still let her in. It didn't make any sense. "If you knew I was a spy then why did you let me join?"
"Hm, oh that. Like I told you when we first met I saw something in you. Potential maybe or it could have just been that I saw that you were one of the few people that could do this job and not break after a few years, who knows. The point is I saw something in you that told me you would make a good repo man and I was right, the fact that you were a spy was beside the point." He finished matter-of-factly. "As for why I'm giving you this file? Well think of it like a test, because that really is what it is. And don't give me that look it's not just my test its kakashi-sensei's too. You have two options and only two. You can either take the file and walk out of here and give it to the Hokage and in doing so more than likely have a number of people in the company and council arrested or you can leave the file on my desk in which case the council will give orochimaru the power create a police force to enforce the law in the village taking away the power of the Hokage to use his anbu for the same purpose. The choice is yours to make and if you make the first one I promise not to stop you."
This was not how this was supposed to happen, it was suppose to be simple, she would break in, find the information and find that the Hokage had gotten all worked up over nothing, then she could continue to go on like she had been all this time and no one would be any the wiser. But now here she was standing in this office being forced to choose between two worlds, she knew that after this she was either going to be a shinobi or a repo man there was no in between anymore. Looking down at the file on the desk in front of her she could already feel her resolve cracking and in that instant knew what her answer was going to be.
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The clouds rolled gently across the night sky casting long shadows over the world around her. Slowly breathing in the cool night air she looked down upon the blooded corpse of her latest target. Almost three months had passed since that fateful night she had chosen to remain a repo man. Not long after orochimaru had gotten his bill passed and all police and internal security matters were handed over to him. Originally the repo men had had to cover this new duty until a sufficient force of men could be trained to take over for them. That had been a particularly long month and she had been more than happy when the first of the recruits had taken over for them. Other than that it had been thankfully been uneventful. In any case she was happy with the choice she had made and would happily make the same again if given to chance.
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A/N:well there you go the end of the repo girl arc, not terribly found of this last chapter but what are you going to do.
By the way, sorry it was so late. I had a really bad case of writers block and well you know how it is. Anyway the next arc is about the grave robber and I've decided to let you pick who it should be, I have a pole on my profile page and I'm not going to start writing the next chapter till I have a good number of votes. So if you want me to update you better leave vote (if you have a good suggestion that I don't have on the poll leave it in a review or something and I might add it.)
Anyways that's it for now and as always reviews are very much appreciated.
P.S. I really am sorry it took so long to get this out and I hope you're not too mad at me.