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(A/N) Ok...Wow, I was not expecting to have like 80 views and like 5 followers in 2 days. You go guys!

Anyway on to Chapter 3!

"Talking"

"Thinking"

"Bijuu Talking"

"Bijuu Thinking"

Chapter 3: First Encounters and a New Hideout

LAST TIME ON DRAGON BA-er...sorry...

"SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHHHHIIIIITTTTTT!"

Cole looked at the two Anbu in front of him. "I'm gonna have to be creative to get out of this one.." he thought to himself while he sized up the two elites in front of him. He was definitely taller than both of them, with him being about 6' 2". But he also knew they were both way more experienced than him in using ninjutsu and fighting in general.

"What are you doing trespassing in Konoha, and what are you up to?" asked the Anbu wearing the bird mask. Cole took a second to come up with a reason that might by him a few more seconds. "You see I was lost on the road to life and found myself in this village, then I happened to cross paths with a black cat and I am currently trying to find a way arou-" he was cut off from his obvious lie when Bird decided to attack him.

Bird came at him with a kunai in each hand making a crossing slash to try and cut Coles' throat. But Cole was able to duck in time. With some rather fast reflexes and flexibility he never knew he had, he bent at a near 90 degree angle backwards. In mid movement he snapped his fingers to form a Truth Seeking Ball and had it strike the Anbu in the knee. While the Anbu was off balance Cole balanced on both hands and delivered a powerful kick with both legs to Bird.

Bird went flying into a tree and was immediately knocked out. Cat watched in utter disbelief as her superior officer was easily defeated. She turned to her enemy and launched a few shuriken at him before preforming a few hand signs.

Cole batted away the deadly projectiles with a Truth Seeking Ball he turned into a short staff before noticing that Cat was about to launch a fireball right at him.

But before the fireball was able to hit he sunk into the ground using Dochu Eigyo. He could have easily used the Preta path to absorb the jutsu, but decided to keep some of his techniques hidden. He emerged from the ground behind Cat and took a swing at the back of her head only to miss and take a powerful kick to the stomach.

Cole was thrown back a few feet but stayed on his feet. He barely had enough time to avoid Cats follow up attack with a kunai, but was able to dodge and get some distance.

"If you come quietly now, Hokage-sama will be merciful," Cat said in hopes of ending this seemingly long lasting fight before it got any further. Cole weighed his options for a moment but replied, "sorry, I'm not ready to reveal myself to your Hokage at the moment."

With that Cole reached out a hand towards Cat and yelled, "Bansho Tenin!" With that Cat was pulled forcefully towards Cole and he delivered a chakra enhanced palm strike to her stomach. Cat was sent skidding across the ground. When she stopped she painfully got up, panting from the force of the blow. "You're stronger than you look..." she said.

"What, do I look weak?" Cole asked sarcastically. "How about you pick up your friend over their and be on your way, I don't want to have to hurt either of you any more than I have already.

"Not a chance," Cat replied as she lunged back to Cole, kunai in both hands. Cole just sighed and made his short staff into a six foot long bo staff. However before Cat made it to Cole she quickly side stepped and threw a kunai at him, causing him to dodge and lose his footing. With the brief disturbance to his defense Cat lunged with the other kunai, aiming for his neck. However, before Cat got within a inch of his neck, Cole formed a second Truth Seeking Ball and had it strike her in the gut, stopping all of her forward momentum. Cat fell to her knees coughing and holding her stomach.

"Man what's you guys always going for the neck..." Cole mumbled to himself. He proceeded to deliver a chop to the back of Cats neck knocking her out. "Huh, that actually worked..." Cole said in disbelief that he was able to perform a K.O. neck chop on his first try. He took Birds supply pouch and kunai holster, thinking he might need the weapons in the future, and proceeded to flee the seen. He went back to the Namekaze estate to pick up a few more jutsu and kata scrolls and made a hasty retreat out of the village.

"So where do I go know..." Cole thought to himself trying to figure out where he should go to now that he couldn't hide within Konoha without having the Anbu on his trail. But then he had a thought. "Hmmm, it's dangerous...but it'll have to work." he said to himself as he made his way to his new potential hide out.

It took him an hour to find but he finally made it to the gate of the fence that led to a certain forest Cole knew that hardly anyone would enter without reason. Cole jumped the fence and made his way into the Forest of Death.

About three hours into the forest he found a small cave next to a stream that had been inhabited by a giant bear. With one clean blow the head with a Truth Seeking Ball the bear died and Cole had shelter and food for days.

. . . .

Two weeks pass. Cole has now mastered both the water walking exercise and Gokakyu no Jutsu, still amazed at how much control he has over his own chakra. He continued to do the exercise he came up with, but he added more leaves to each finger while doing the leaf camouflage exercise at the same time.

Over his time in the elemental nations Cole came to notice that he also had a extreme amount of control over his Rinnegan. He tested his limits with it and noticed that, not only that he could use every one of the paths, they came like second nature to him. Easily making strategy that could utilize each path in junction to each other and use them to the utmost efficiency. The only path that gave him problems was the Animal path. He figured that he didn't have any contracts or other means of summons yet so he let that path be. The Asura path also proved to be somewhat of a challenge to use but once he figured out that he need detailed knowledge of the machines he wanted to make he slowly made progress to forming weapons out of his own body. He was even able to form chakra receiving rods at will.

While practicing some taijutsu katas from the scrolls he had he came to notice that he seriously lacked in the department of taijutsu skill. He had never really been a fight before his encounter with the Anbu and figured the only reason he got out of that fight unharmed and alive was either due to sheer luck, or insane amounts of instinct. Cole figured it was the former reason and started to heavily train his physical limits and learn how to use various taijutsu's to have more of a advantage against his opponents.

Cole's day had been going well like the others in the past week. Not many animals of the forest dared come after him after he killed the giant bear. But his day was about to be turned around by a certain purple haired kunoichi making her way through the forest.

. . . .

Anko was on the hunt. There had been a few rumors of a strange man in a mask wandering the village since the Kyuubi's attack. And those rumors were made truth when a couple of Anbu agents encountered said masked man and had their asses handed to them.

Thirteen year old Anko was determined to capture the man and raise her popularity by catching someone the Anbu couldn't. Maybe then the village would look at her differently. Not as the Snake Whore of the village, but as a actual shinobi of Konoha. Ever since Orochimaru betrayed the village a year ago, with Anko being his apprentice, she had been ridiculed by the citizens and many of the other shinobi. But today that would change, today she would capture a potential enemy of the village and prove herself to be loyal to the village.

It only took her an hour once she got into the forest she knew so well to find signs someone had been through the area. She followed the trail until she came to a stream going past a cave. She stopped at the edge of the trees and remained out of sight. She looked over the area until she found what she was looking for. And...it wasn't quite what she expected.

Cole at the time was practicing his taijustsu with a bo staff he made out of a Truth Seeking Ball on the stream. He began to work up a sweat so he ditched the mask, kimono, and body suit, only wearing his pants boots and shin and forearm guards. He had learned how to change the weight of his Truth Seeking Balls, so he was using a staff that weighed about fifty pounds and was spinning it like it was almost nothing. For some reason once he began to learn how to use certain taijutsu styles, he adapted and learned how to use them extremely fast. He had already mastered the basics of two other taijutsu katas before beginning with his bo staff.

What Cole thought was sloppy first tries at a new taijutsu, Anko saw a clearly experienced staff user. Sure a few of his moves looked a little off, but the speed and ferocity of his movements made his movements look more like a solo dance of death than practicing taijutsu. She also was able to see the weight and sheer force of the staff when it splashed a large amount of water into the air as the tip touched the surface. She also took into account the handler. He had the facial looks of someone only a few years older than herself. But he was physically larger than anyone she had ever met her own age. He was also completely cut. Not an once of unneeded fat on his body. Normally any other kunoichi would staving off a nosebleed, but Anko was on a mission for redemption. Even if she felt the blush on her face she wouldn't let it distract her.

She was broken from her trance when he came to sudden stop. Cole took a few deep breaths and headed back to where he had his gear sitting. He wiped himself down with some dry moss he had been using as a towel and put his clothes back on. When he was about put his mask back on he had the sudden thought to duck. When he did so he noticed three shuriken fly over his head. "Damn it, someone already found me...and I liked this place too," Cole thought to himself as he put his mask back on.

"Come on out, hiding won't help you!" Cole shouted into the unresponsive forest. "Damn, can't they ever just listen and be civil...just gotta go for the 'kill first, interrogate later' route. Troublesome." Cole thought as he channeled his inner Nara. He stood and waited for his assailant to either show themselves or give away their position.

"Shit he dodged," Anko thought to herself as she changed locations. She herd his warning and thought he was a complete idiot. "Honestly, what ninja would just reveal there location right after catching their target by surprise," Anko thought in a very non Uzumaki fashion. When she got to another vantage point she set up a few exploding smoke seals set to go off in the next thirty seconds.

Cole looked to his left and saw a burst of smoke. He went right in the smoke trap and fell victim to Anko's plan.

Anko watched as the idiot went straight into the cloud of smoke and internally laughed. "Sen'eijashu! (Hidden Shadow Snake Hands)" Anko shouted as five large snakes came out of her wrist and attacked their prey.

Cole turned when he heard someone shout, he was instantly assaulted by five snakes. He was able to bat away four of them with his bo staff but the fifth caught his arm in a vicious bite. "Aahh!" Cole seethed as he ripped the snake from his arm and crushed its head with his staff. "F-fuck!" Cole said as he fell to one knee feeling the effects of the snakes poison. While fighting to stay conscious he herd a feminine voice say, "You like that? It's a new poison I've been working on. Making it out of chakra, it works just like a Hyuuga's attack to your chakra network. Too bad for you there is no antidote yet so you'll be without chakra till I come up with one." The voice finished with a giggle.

Cole thought the situation over for a brief moment and then thought, "Wait made of chakra?" Cole instantly activated the Preta path and instanly felt the poisons effects leave his system. "Hehe"

"What's the laugh for huh?" Anko asked her newest victim. "It's just...you don't know what...you're getting yourself into," Cole replied, still a little shaken by the momentary weakness. He proceeds to sink into the ground with Donchu Eigyo and disappeared from Anko's line of sight.

"What the hell! His chakra network was supposed to shut off completely!" Anko panicked as her plan fell into shambles. She quickly dodged a swift kick that was aimed for her head and was forced out of her smoked covered vantage point. Once she landed she saw her target still coming at her. "Sen'eijashu!" Anko shot a few more snakes at him and forced him to back away.

Cole looked at his attacker for a moment before he recognized who she was. "Oh, looks like I've been found by the Snake Mistress of Konoha." This got him a odd look from Anko and he raised an eyebrow. "I am facing Mitarashi Anko correct?"

"Yeah, but nobody calls me Snake Mistress. At least not anymore. They usually just call me Traitor's Bitch or Snake Whore..." Anko said, mumbling the last part. She intended that last part about the names the villagers call her to be too quiet for her prey to hear, but Cole did happen to hear it.

"Ah...so the village has yet to see that you are your own person and a loyal Konoha nin, and not just another of Orochimaru's slaves." Cole said with actual concern in his voice. This made Anko look at him questionably. She couldn't understand what he was getting at. Why was he in the village, why was he training in the Forest of Death, and why did he sound concerned for her? "W-who are you?" she asked in pure curiosity.

Cole thought for a brief moment and bent into a deep bow with one arm over his chest and one behind his back, "I, Mitarashi-san, am the Oracle. And I know a great many things."

(A/N) BOOOOMMM CHAPTER 3 GET!

So guys what did you think of chapter 3? Remember to probably maybe review maybe? I can't force you...not that I want reviews or anything b-bakka.

But serious mode, thanks for reading and I'll see you in the next update!

(P.S.! Cat is not Yugoa Uzuki, she wasn't in the Anbu at this time. Cat is just a random Anbu lady!)