Chapter 4, yea, yea, I know it's been a while and I can't say it was anything other than laziness and writer's block, I'll try to update more often, but I don't know when.
"Speech"
'Thought'
"Whispers"
Stressed words
- End of the day-
While the boys were off to the woods, the girls were lead to the fields. Anko couldn't help but think about how she got assigned a job like this.
Flashback
Anko was walking down the village's streets, a new batch of genin had just graduated meaning arrogant sensei and fresh meat during the chunnin exams, during her chunnin exams... she let her predatorily smile show. Sure most of the people on the path decided to leave the area but she wouldn't complain if anything her smile grew. If only she hadn't passed that bar on her stroll.... several men had gotten drunk and had decided to get up and wander the town, just as she was passing.
"Hey boys look." Drunkenly they stumbled to look in her direction, the sudden change in lighting making more things blur, there were about five of them in the group.
"Hello babe." After one of the group said it soon followed the others, giving one pickup line after another.
"Want to come to my place!" As normal she would just ignore them, let them stare and leave her alone, with a teasing grin she turned on her heal to leave, if only things had gone like usual.
"Hey listen when we speak to you." The 'leader' had grabbed her shoulder roughly when she turned, she decide to try to end this calmly.
"Just leave me alone." She shrugged him off but felt both of her shoulders gripped a second later.
"I don't like being ignored, I don't know who you think you are *Hic* but I'm royalty!" She sighed, just like a drunk to say something stupid and think they're at the top of the world. It was idiotic, especially to even speak to her. Well encounters with Anko Mitarashi never did end calmly.
"I don't normally pay attention to drunks but since you put it so nicely...." Anko laughed on the inside, she knew how to scare even an influenced head. "Let's see if a drink affects the flavor of your blood."
"Wha- Ah, how did you-!" She had cut through his sleeve into his arm with a kunai the group never seen in her hand, she licked the weapon clean. The man held his arm in pain and backed off with shaky steps.
"Yep, it tastes disgusting." He was still holding the cut tightly. 'What a baby, that barely was enough to draw blood.' The term ninja was muttered through the group, now most men would walk away from an angered kunoichi even if drunk, but the leader just kept yelling.
"You're insane!" He seemed to have sobered up somehow; it was probably from either the anger or the pain.
"Hmm... maybe you're all just too sane?" For a third time she tried to leave while they were, for the most part, unharmed as these were clearly civilians.
"You'll pay for this!"
"I'm not getting in trouble over a stupid scratch." She threw the knife behind her without even looking back, cutting his other arm at nearly the same place. "Or two..." She turned to show a large sadistic grin, and then disappeared before their eyes. If only that man hadn't complained to his father, his council seated father. Before she knew it she was in a trial for attacking a civilian with no battle knowledge.
'You have to be freakin' kidding me I barely drew blood!' Her eyes set on the village head, surly he would get her out of it, but only a sad look shown on his features.
"We hereby condemn special jonin Mitarashi Anko to three months community service in the ninja academy to find a way of reform..."
'With all that's happened these fools aren't giving me much slack in these trials, first Naruto and now Anko, they're using the stupid point system against me!' No, it wasn't like he wasn't strong enough to stop this, he was the Hokage, the legendary professor, but he had let the civilian council gain too much influence, he had to let them have their way at some times to state their hunger for power.
It wasn't like he could just toss them aside with their influence the could try a coup, just claiming that the Hokage had been corrupted by the Kyuubi or his past student or whatever else the populous feared and they would have half of the village, and while he knew that many of the loyal ninja of his village would follow him and not be deceived but he also knew there would be deaths on both sides, after his fights in the past ninja wars and Kyuubi attack he never sought unnecessary death, especially not civil war, so for the good of many lives he had to allow their demands.
"I apologize Mitarashi-san..." A glare was sent his way. "... but this is to help curb your negative emotions, you may leave." He had at least stopped them from giving her a swift execution, not that she'd ever know, but he wished he could have stopped this ludicrous trial from happening at all.
"Yes... Hokage-sama." The council could hardly contain their joy, not only had the 'demon' been hindered several more years but now the traitor's student was also where they could observe her, things were looking up for them.
End flashback
'Which is why they sent me here, surrounded by children, hoping that I, the sadistic time bomb, snap and hurt one of these brats giving reason for an execution, stupid old man, idiot council.... a chance to reform my-'
"Alright girls, this class is here to give you everything you need to know about being a proper lady!" Anko's eye twitched at being forced to end her inner thoughts, yet she did have to work with this woman. Kashin's statement made several hands shoot up regardless of her partner's emotions. "Yes?"
"I thought we would be ninja not ladies?"
"Well as a ninja you'll need to know how to blend in with the rest of the town or village you enter, so your going to be taught: flower arranging, etiquette, and other things like that."
"Oh sure, that'll help in a fight."
"What was that Anko-san?"
"Huh, uh... nothing."
"Ok, now everyone, I want you to go to the flower patches and try to make a bouquet of flowers, we'll come around to see how you do for your first time!" The woman's peppy smile was ever present.
"Ok!" All of the girls cried happily as they got up and ran to the fields laughing.
'What cute kids.'
'Someone please kill me, this is worse torture than the things I help Ibiki do!' Anko sat next to her partner on the ground as they waited for the girls to get a decent amount of plants before going around looking.
"So Anko-chan, how do you like your new career?" The woman wore a sly smirk that made Anko nearly growl, this woman took great joy in being her parole officer.
'I swear I'll kill her!' The snake mistress regained her emotions and answered with strained joy. "I really like the change of pace; actually I might even enjoy doing this full time, and please just call me Anko-san." She gave a soft grin. 'Like the nine tailed I'd stay here more than I'm forced to!'
"That's the spirit, and I thought all those stories about you were true... oh looking, it's time to check on the girls, let's split up!" Finally an action she was more than happy to do.
"Great idea, I'll check on the left side of the field." Before Anko got any reply she turned and began walking away. 'Finally a break.' She was stopped however, when she felt a tug on her trench coat. "Eh."
"Uh Anko-sensei, is this how it should look?" A small girl that seemed to be the only one around held up a large handful of colorful flowers.
'I don't know anything about... ah what does it matter.' Putting her facade up once more Anko replied. "They look good sweetie, but you may want to ask Kashin-sensei, I'm still new to this."
"Thank you..." Anko watched her leave, a bored expression appearing on her face, she spent the rest of the period walking around and approving every bouquet that she was brought, she found that this was luckily the easiest class to teach, yet...
'These courses seem so Sexist, I mean girls don't even learn any practical skills until year three yet the boys learn them from year one, whose idea was this anyway.' A bell sounded in the academy, she shook herself of her thoughts. "That means lunch right?" Without another thought she headed to a nearby tree while unraveling a scroll, the others headed to the building, her day was nearly over.
Lunch had ended and the class merged back to one, they moved to their final period, physical training.
"Alright, today we will be doing laps around the track."
"But this is our first day in this class."
"Yes and what I say goes, my name is Omori Joubu and you will do everything I tell you, now go!" He was a slightly chubby man with a bald head; he also wore the standard Chunnin style.
'Slave driver.' The children looked at the man angrily hoping it would change his mind.
"I told you to go!"
'Well he'll never change.' Naruto was the only one to start laps when the man had told them to.
'So he is back, I'll work him extra hard this year.' When the rest of the class started a slow jogging pace around the track he moved to sit on a nearby log and watched them. Joubu was a strange man, he was the physical trainer to all of the grades and was the one to teach the kid to fight and use throwing knives however he also had a thing about exercise. He himself was a strong and healthy man but what he loved was pushing others to their limits and making those he taught stronger.
So, while he didn't like the Kyuubi incarnate, he did enjoy pushing the boy to see how long his stamina would hold out, but his dislike did keep him from properly teaching the boy how to fight or throw, Naruto had to learn a lot of those skills himself. Even so he wanted to see just how long it took the boy to get tired, in the time he had for the period he had yet to see the boy's limit.
"Ah, my feet!"
"How much longer."
"I-I am, *Gasp*, tired!"
'Sad, but I am older than these guys, I really am forcing myself to like this aren't I, *sigh*, there's nothing to do, I can pass the course but they won't teach me anything I should know... well nothing I can do about it now.'
"Hey keep up the pace blonde!" Naruto knew he hadn't slowed down but shrugged and began moving faster, Joubu teacher was usually worse than this.
They'd been running for about ten minutes when the more conditioned children began to trip over their own feet while panting terribly. So Joubu, with a sigh, called a break to explain what would be happening in his class for the rest of the year, while yelling at Naruto to keep up pace. At the end of the class the blond was allowed to stop, the boy was breathing harder than normal but didn't look very exhausted; with a wave of his hand Joubu dismissed them.
"You're all free to go, try to come back with some effort." the man turned away and headed inside the main building.
'Guess I'll get some Ramen, I'm starved.'
Inside the academy the teachers were seated around a desk, Anko stood against a wall as they were short a chair. It was bad enough she was berated by her partner for sending her all of the students with questions to her but these people didn't even spring for a chair for her, this was a school those things were everywhere.
"And that is why we cannot afford new textbooks, now I believe Mikar has something to add." Anko was considering if death was better than that woman's running mouth combined with these other academy idiots.
"No, I'd like to discuss my demon problem." Anko winced at that, no one else did, she couldn't help but think that name was a bit harsh. "I'm not having him in my stealth class." The dean pinched the bridge of his nose and responded in an annoyed tone.
"That's too bad Mikar, as we've told you before, you have no choice, the Hokage will not allow us to cleanse any of the classes of it." The stealth teacher was about to give a retort when another voice piped up.
"Now, now, I think I have a good idea."
"And that would be, Joubu?"
"Give him to me for your hour; nothing is against us moving its classes around as long as it is still kept in the academy." Everyone, including Anko, gave him a surprised look.
"Why?"
"The way I see it, if I had more time with him I could find his limits, we all know of his endless river of stamina, I just want to see how long it takes to dry it up." Anko felt a bad taste in her mouth, using anyone for an experiment never sat well with her.
"Joubu may I ask if you've been drinking lately?"
"That was a bit uncalled for.... I know what it may sound like but I'd really like to know how far that demon can push itself, you obviously don't want him so why not?"
"You intent to make it stronger!" The chairman was hesitant to allow any type of growth for the boy.
"There we go, I knew you didn't understand. No, I will not be making that thing stronger, or at least to a concerning level, I simply want to know its limits. Making it physically stronger is not that much of a threat to us, no one with muscle and no skill can take down a shinobi, we all teach young ninja… shouldn't you all know that?"
"*Sigh*, so you will not be teaching it anything just running it into the ground?"
"Precisely"
"I still don't like it..."
"Well I guess I can't complain if it gets that thing away from my class, do whatever you want Joubu." Mikar didn't seem to care about the training; this was a blessing to him.
"I suppose if there will be no major effects then you are allowed Joubu, now onto the next order of business..." Mikar's words were harsh and unneeded, at least to Anko.
'I don't think anyone deserves that type of treatment I should know...' The woman felt her anger rise anew, she knew what is was like to be an unfavorable of this village, though she wouldn't do anything. Anko may have felt sorry for the kid but honestly she wouldn't change her entire personality or risk her life for one person, even a sob story that hit so close to home. No, Anko was only focused on getting the heck out of the damned academy. 'But then why do I feel so angry...'
And there you have it, again I'll try to post again soon but who knows, FlareXD.