Here´s another chapter of the Yellow Serpent for you guys. Hope you like it.
Anbu was the elite of the elite. They were the hokages right hand, and were directly under his command. But starting out in the force, was not so much about doing all the things he knew Anbu did.
After getting through the initiation, Naruto was forced through numerous tests and trials to see if he was up to the challenge. For him, all of this was just a cakewalk. But if he told them about what he had experiences as the apprentice of Orochimaru, then the homage would know, and pull him out of Anbu faster than he could draw a kunai.
He had never really shared much about his time as an apprentice, the only ones who knew about it were his master and his fellow apprentice. She had sworn secrecy on it, and they hadn´t mentioned a word about it since he left.
Running through crisis scenarios and how to handle being captured and interrogated was not something he was particularly scared of. He knew how torture worked, after all, he had already learned it. And he had learned from the guy that could most likely get any kage in the world to spill his guts if he had the time to do it.
After finally completing all his tests, he was finally allowed to get to the part of training that he needed to know for Anbu. Luckily for him, the guy ho was teaching him was someone who he could call his equal in the village.
«So, Itachi-san, why don´t you tell me about this squad you want me on?» Naruto said to the weasel masked man in front of him.
«Firstly, when i wear the mask, it´s weasel and not Itachi. And secondly, you know about Team Ro already.» With a draw of his blade, he disappeared, and flew across the room towards the blonde. Naruto managed to block the strike, but he was still not quite used to it. He knew the tanto was standard for most Anbu, but he preferred to stay on the outside of the fight, and use his cunning and ninjutsu. When he came in close, it was usually for the kill.
«Yes, i know of Team Ro, and of the missions you have done. I was after all a temp on the team when we took out the rebellion in your clan. But there is still something more isn´t there?»
Naruto used his inhuman flexibility to get inside Itachi´s guard and went straight for the pressure point in his neck. When he hit however, there was only a flock of crows spreading from the body before it disappeared. Then all of a sudden, everything turned red.
«Team Ro is the elite squad of Anbu, and we serve directly under the hokage. He is the only one we take orders from, not even the commanders can give us an order unless the hokage gives permission. We are the ones tasked with the missions not even regular Anbu can handle. As you know, i´m the captain of this squad after Kakashi-senpai retired from Anbu. And our other squad members are Yamato-san and Yugao-san.» At the last name, Naruto smiled and licked his lips.
«Ooooh, i do remember Yugao, the feisty purple haired one right?» At this everything turned back to black, and Naruto could see the Itachi´s eyes turning back to normal. With a sigh, he sheeted his blade and walked over to his new underling. «Yes, and she remembers you too, so try to behave when we are on missions would you?» At this, Naruto only scoffed and chuckled. This might be some fun after all.
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«Wait, so you´re telling me that my airheaded sister managed to steal the forbidden scroll?»
Naruto had been summoned to the hokage´s office for an emergency. Apparently someone had managed to trick his sister into stealing the forbidden scroll.
«Yes, and from what i´ve managed to find out, it was Mizuki who told her that she would graduate at the top of her class if she managed to retrieve it.» The hokage was not pleased about what he had found out, but he was not able to find out were either of them were. He knew Naruto had delved into the studies of his fathers most famous jutsu, and even though it was not perfected, he could still use it to get into the close proximity of anything that was marked.
«Alright, i will go get her and Mizuki as well if he is with her. But just remember what we agreed on hokage-sama. NO ONE has to find out that i know this. I do really not need that kind of attention.» Naruto understood immediately what the old-man wanted him to do, and with the necklace that his sister had since birth, he would be able to get close to her location. Hopefully not too late.
With that, he disappeared in a yellow flash.
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To say Aiko was scared right now would be an understatement. She was terrified. Mizuki had told her that she would be able to graduate at the top of the class if she was able to do a little extra assignment. Stealing the forbidden scroll from the hokage tower, and bringing it too him in the forest.
The problem occurred when she met up with him, and Iruka. The scarred chuunin, told him that it was not an assignment, but a trick to by Mizuki to get the scroll. After that, she was attacked by her sensei while Iruka tried to help her. She bolted from the area as fast as she could, and didn´t look back. How could she fall for that trick, what would her brother think of her now?
Back with Mizuki and Iruka, they were battling it out, and Mizuki was the one winning thanks to the enhancements he had gotten from Orochimaru. He had promised the man to get the scroll with him when he was to leave the village, and he could not come empty handed. After kicking Iruka in the chin, he took off to catch up to Aiko. This was the part Naruto came to, Mizuki and Iruka catching up to his sister. He decided to stay in the back for a bit, and scope out the situation.
«Do you want to know why everyone give you the looks that they do? Do you want to know why your mother and father is not around anymore?» Mizuki was now shouting at Aiko with a crazy look on his face. At that moment Naruto decided to move, he could not let his sister now about her tenant in this way. In the blink of an eye he moved from his tree, and with a clothesline he sent Mizuki crashing to the ground. Before the traitor could get up again, he sent out his snake-hand to bind him up, and dragged him over to where Naruto was standing with a Kunai in hand.
«Now, i know you were not to do what i think you were doing you little scum?» Mizuki was now sweating bullets. Naruto was not someone you wanted on your bad side, and especially not when it was about his sister. He had heard stories about the people that tried to attack Aiko in her younger years. Many of them were never seen again.
Aiko could only stare in shock. Why was her brother here? and how did he find her? Then she started to think at what Mizuki said before her brother got him. She was aware of all the people staring at her with distaste, and some had even tried to harm her. She was curious now, but the knew this was not the time to ask about this.
She went over to see if Iruka was okay, and he was apart from a few scratches and a bruised jaw. As Iruka started questioning how she could be so stupid as to steal the forbidden scroll, she could not hold her tears back, and told him about why she did it. And Naruto, who had knocked out Mizuki, was listening in.
«He told me that if i did this, i would graduate at the top of the class just like onii-chan did.I just wanted to prove that i am just as good as he was at my age, and to impress him.»
Naruto only shook his head and sighed. But he had a small smile on his lips. His sister sure looked up to him. He would have to talk to her after this all had been settled. But first, he had a prisoner to deliver to T&I.
«Iruka, would you be so kind as to make sure my sister gets home? Aiko, when i get back we can talk about this. I also have something else i need to tell you, but i need to deliver this traitor first.»
After that he took his leave, and he now had a much more sinister smile on his face. He knew just the person to give this scum to. And she wouldn´t mind if he joined in on the interrogation.
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After telling Anko about what Mizuki had done, and who he was gonna run of to, she was just as ready for this torture…erh…interrogation session as Naruto was. She accepted the assistance of Naruto, and they both went in to the room where their prisoner was strapped to a chair. When he saw the two who where his interrogators, he could not deny the fact that he was scared. Morino Ibiki was perhaps the most known and skilled interrogator in T&I, but Anko was definitely the most sinister, and when the yellow snake of Konoha was with her, this was gonna hurt…a lot.
Anko was giving Mizuki a sinister smile, and stroked a snake that was coiled around her arm. Even though Naruto would not admit it fully, Aiko meant alot to him, and when someone tried to harm her she would give them hell. And when their bastard of a sensei was involved as well, she would make sure to get all the info out of this man no matter how.
«So little rat» Anko said, as she stalked around her prey. «I heard you were stupid enough to try and pin the theft of the forbidden scroll on a poor little girl, and kill her.»
Naruto then came forward from his place next to the wall. «And i also heard you were about to break an S-rank secret to the person that secret is about. The punishment for that is very very secvere you know.» As he said this, he pulled out a scalpel from his pouch, and licked along the blade before he put the blade to Mizukis temple.
«Now, we want some answers to why Orochimaru wanted you to steal this scroll, and everything else you know about his plans.»
Screams could be heard from the room, and on the other side of the glass, Morino Ibiki was looking in on the interrogation. He looked at the two interrogators with a small amount of fear. He knew Anko was crazy, but Naruto was just as much, if not more crazy. Hopefully he would not decide to do this full-time. He had enough to deal with having just Anko.
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After finishing off with Mizuki for the night, and reporting to the hokage. Naruto headed home to have a talk with his sister. The hokage had agreed to letting Naruto tell her about the Kyuubi, after a long discussion. She needed to know about it now that she was a gennin.
He found his sister sitting at the kitchen table with a somber expression, and her hand was holding her chopsticks over a box of ramen. When Aiko was not devouring her ramen, there was definitely something that was bothering her. He sat down on the other end of the table, and waited for her to register that he was there.
When Aiko registered that her brother was sitting at the table with her, she looked at him. His expression was neutral, but he was staring right back at her. She hung her head, and mumbled.
«Are you disappointed in me onii-chan?»
Naruto for his part, just sighed at the question and pinched his nose. Of course this was what she was most worried about. But still it was kind of sweet.
«To be honest Aiko, i am a little bit disappointed, yes.» She shrunk in her seat at this before Naruto continued.
«You should have suspected something when he told you what he wanted you to take. Even though he was your teacher, that seems like a kind of weird assignment to give you. But most of all, i was worried about you. Hokage-sama called for me, and told me it was about you and that it was urgent. I was afraid something had happened to you.»
At this, she met eyes with her brother again with a hopeful look. He was worried about her?
She then decided to ask the question that had been bothering her since the incident.
«Onii-chan. What was Mizuki about to say when you jumped in? He said it was about why everybody looks at me that way, and why tou-san and kaa-san is not here anymore.»
At this, Naruto moved his chair to sit next to his sister. He told her about the incident with the Kyuubi and the fact that their father could not kill the Kyuubi.
«If tou-san could not kill the Kyuubi, then how did he defeat it?» Aiko could not quite understand this, but she still had a feeling of dread in her stomach.
«The only way he could defeat the Kyuubi, was to seal it into a person. A new born child. And as the ´oh so noble´ person he is, he decided that that child needed to be his own.» His sister was now staring at him with wide eyes.
«Then…does that mean that he sealed it in…me?» Tears where now starting to form in Aiko´s eyes. She had a monster inside her. Did that mean that she was a monster as well? She could remember some of the villagers calling her demon and monster. Were they right about her?
Naruto could see where her mind was going, and decided to do something that he could not remember doing in many many years. He picked up his sister, put her in his lap and hugged her. Aiko was surprised at this, but welcomed the embrace while she started crying.
«*sniff* Does this mean that i am a monster? A *sniff* demon?»
Naruto only gave her a soft bop on the head before he pulled out a scroll and a kunai from his pouch.
«Silly little sister. Of course you are not a monster or a demon. Do you see these things here? If i seal this kunai into the scroll, does that make the scroll a kunai?» Aiko shook her head at this.
«It´s just the same with you. Even if you have that beast sealed inside you, it does not mean that you are the beast. What you are, is it´s keeper, or jailor if you wanna call it that.»
«But why did tou-san choose me? and why did they have to leave us here alone?» Aiko´s mood was getting a little better, but she had not stopped crying yet.
«I don´t really understand how he could do this to us. Do this to you. But if you ask me, i think it was stupid of him, and i do not agree with him. I guess he believed that you could do this, and use it for the good of the village.»
After talking for a bit more, Aiko fell asleep in her brothers arms. Naruto just lifted her up, and placed her in her room. It had been a rough day for the girl, but hopefully she would not take this to hard, and be back to her happy self soon.
Naruto had told her that if she ever had any questions about the Kyuubi and her seal, then he would do his best to help her. But she could not tell anyone about this just yet. Just as who their parents where, this had to remain a secret. At least for the time being.
After putting her to bed, he went back to the living room, and sat by the table. He pulled up a scroll which had a replica of the seal his sister had on her stomach. He was gonna get to the bottom of how this seal worked somehow.
Hope you liked the chapter. I am trying to make the chapters a little longer now that there is more stuff happening.
Until next time
-Zhilay