Author's Note: All timestamps end with either "5" or "0", here are two examples: 10:15 or 14:20, but that doesn't mean it's the exact time. I don't want it to seem like I'm being nitpicky about the exact time of events, but know that all times are always within three minutes before or after a timestamp. So if I write 17:00, it could be anywhere from 16:57 to 17:03, I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone was wondering.

On the first day, Anko had to do laundry first thing in the morning because Naruko wet the bed, she had to go shopping because she literally had nothing left in to eat and drink after breakfast, she also had to buy bath products specifically made for children and nappies for bedtime until Naruko no longer wet the bed at night.

Anko bought food and drinks that were not overly processed but would enable Naruko to regain a healthy body and weight. She bought new bath products for children, because Naruko desperately needed a bath, as she smelled like the beginning of a walking apocalypse. And Anko pretty much spent the whole day bonding with Naruko and getting the little girl used to living with her.

Anko put Naruko to bed, went out to do some shinobi work while her snake summon Noki guarded Naruko, after returning from work two hours later, she went to bed herself. {Overall, I think my first day with Naruko went pretty well.} Anko thought before she fell asleep.

Naruko and The World Tree

Adoption Arc

Chapter 3 – The First Days - Day Two

Anko's Apartment

Anko and Naruko woke up at seven in the morning. Naruko's nappy had done its job and prevented Anko's bed from getting wet, but her bedsheets still needed washing because Naruko had peed in her nappy and the smell of urine still lingered.

Fortunately, Anko only had her bedsheets to wash, so it only took her half an hour to do that and hang them out to dry. At seven thirty, Anko made breakfast for herself and Naruko, this morning they had cereal, Anko helped Naruko because cereal plus milk plus a young child usually equals big mess at the end.

{Bloody hell, I think I'm turning into my mother.} Anko began to notice herself acting just how her mother use to with her.

At eight, Anko gave Naruko her first morning bath because she smelled of pee, and there was no way Anko was going to let her smell like a walking dead ever again, but it didn't take her as long to give Naruko a bath this time, and there were no incidents with shampoo this time either.

From nine until ten, Anko and Naruko watched some children's TV together for an hour. {Looks like this will be the morning routine for a while, well, until Naruko stops wetting herself at night.} Thought Anko with amusement, not bothered about choring away this morning, because it gave her something to do other than laze around all morning, which she'd normally have done before she took Naruko into her home.

Hallway

10:00

Anko has to take Naruko outside with her today because she needs to buy her several sets of new clothes, a new pair of shoes, some pyjamas, a hairbrush and hairbands, because the only things Naruko has are the clothes Anko found her in and she still has to wear.

Anko as washed them because she doesn't want Naruko to wear dirty clothes even if they're ruined, but Naruko needs new clothes. {I have to take Naruko with me in order to buy clothes and shoes in the right size, but a few sizes bigger because she will grow into them, but she can't go out naked, these tattered clothes will have to do for now.} Anko really didn't want Naruko wearing them, but she had no choice at this moment.

{By taking Naruko outside, I will be exposing her to abuse from the other villagers, but I can't keep her locked up away in my apartment, that'd be no different to being imprisoned, and the one thing my home will not become is a prison for Naruko.} Anko will have to be extra vigilant today, not only to protect herself but also Naruko.

Anko picked Naruko up the same way she did the first night they met, and suddenly a wave of protective instincts began to flood her emotions. {I will hurt anyone who tries to bring harm to Naruko, I will protect her with my life.} Thought Anko with deadly seriousness.

Streets of Konoha

10:05

It didn't take long before the first people started pointing their fingers at them. {It only took four minutes since we got outside for them to notice us together, but I will hospitalise this whole fucking village if they try to attack me and Naruko.}

It wasn't long after they started to notice the two of them together before the first wave of verbal abuse was hurled at them. "Look, the Snake Bitch carrying the Demon Girl." More or less things like that.

{Petty insults is all these fuckers can vomit, I've heard worse from Ibiki and my Dad, it's almost like comparing a nipping puppy, these fuckers, to the crushing bite of a crocodile, Ibiki and Dad.} Anko smiled in amusement at her comparison.

A man attempted to physically attack Anko and Naruko, but was promptly kicked in the chest and was blown backwards by the kick over a hundred metres parallel to the street they were walking on. {Stupid bastard.} Anko was delivering on her own promise to protect Naruko.

After the first attack, a woman threw a glass bottle at them, Anko using chakra control stopped the bottle with her right foot, spun around three hundred and sixty degrees right and sent the bottle flying back into the woman's face, shattering on impact, knocking her out as a result. "Now that's what I like to call Gender Equality." {Bitch.} Anko grinned and made a peace sign, also making sure to curse in her mind so Naruko wouldn't hear it.

Shinobi tried to arrest Anko, some of them were genuine because of her violent retaliation against civilians, but most of them just wanted to arrest her because she was carrying and protecting the Demon Girl, Anko resisted without discrimination.

A group of five attempted to attack Anko, but she simply used her Crystal Release to create five crystal walls that resembled earth mud walls and crushed them beneath them, but didn't kill them, but injured them so much that they had to be treated at the hospital. {Dumb fuckers, I'm the daughter of Orochimaru and Guren, who trained me and taught me everything I know. I'm not going to be taken down by some Low Tier Trash.}

When Anko began to use her Crystal Release, the villagers and the other Shinobi retreated. Word quickly spread that Anko was retaliating against all who attacked her and Naruko, all plans to attack her were abandoned, of course some didn't get the memo and were hospitalised just like everyone else who had attacked Anko and Naruko.

Clothes Store

10:40

Anko takes Naruko to a clothes shop to buy her new clothes, and uses Noki to intimidate anyone who thinks of expressing their discomfort about them being there, and to stop the cashier from running away, because they will be served, even if the method of getting service is a little underhanded.

Anko had Naruko try on different jumpers, T-shirts, pants, skirts and shoes to see what worked and what didn't. {I think Naruko is a blue and orange kind of girl, but I'll add in some colours that I like.} Anko thought long and hard about what would look good on Naruko and what wouldn't.

{I wonder how much thought my Mum put into buying clothes for me. The fact that I'm putting so much thought into buying clothes, it's safe to say Naruko is bringing out my feminine side, which I never thought I had, but I actually kind of like it.} Anko has never once felt feminine in her life, she has always had a tomboyish personality, even as a young child, but it seems that Naruko is bringing out her feminine side. {It seems that looking after children can have a big impact on the people who look after them, bringing out a side of their personality they never thought they had.}

Naruko was just enjoying her time with Anko, that was the only thing she really cared about, but she was having fun trying out all kinds of new things.

Same as when she went shopping the other day, Anko had to make sure she wasn't being overcharged or undercharged for her purchases. Anko is able to buy new clothes, shoes and pyjamas for Naruko at the standard price most people would be expected to pay, minus the things already shown as discounted, in which case that's fair to expect the same discount as everyone else.

Makeup and Body Care Shop

11:30

Anko visits the same make-up and body care shop she went to yesterday to buy a hairbrush, hairbands, toothpaste and a toothbrush for Naruko, using the same tactics as always to ensure that the store owner and cashiers do their jobs properly.

{Since we're being all feminine today, I might as well get this stuff for Naruko so we can maximise her cuteness, I will turn her into the most adorable little girl in the whole flippin' world.} Anko has made a commitment choice with Naruko and she's not going to half ass it, for Anko it's all or nothing.

Sweet and Pastry Cafe

12:00

Anko decides to take Naruko to her favourite café to get some dango. Fortunately, the owner of this café has nothing against Anko as she has known her for years, she doesn't believe for a second that Anko has anything to do with Orochimaru's crimes, she welcomes them with open arms.

{I love this café, the lady who runs it has always been kind to me, even in the last two years, and besides, her pasties are absolutely delicious.} Thought Anko with a smile as she ate her dango.

Naruko ate her dango and loved it, even though she knew in her heart that there was something better out there, something better than dango, something divine and not of this world, not of this universe, with long, thin, soft, stringy spaghetti served with various toppings and bathed in boiling hot soup, complimented with a slurp, a burp and an "Ahh..", before proceeding to order at least four more servings. something only an old man and his daughter can do.

Naruko didn't say it, she just imagined it, because firstly she wouldn't be able to say it all properly because she's only three and can't speak properly yet, secondly you readers wouldn't understand it because it would be written in broken English on purpose, and thirdly, telling Anko that her sacred dango isn't as good as her sacred meal, which she hasn't eaten yet, might cause the Snake Princess to detonate, and since it's over her sacred meal, with the force of a nuclear bomb.

Naruko ate her dango anyway, her mouth getting messy from eating the sweet treat. "So gud." Which was shortly followed by a burp.

"I'm glad you liked them." Anko said pleased to hear that, though she had a feeling Naruko just had thoughts comparing her sacred dango to her sacred meal she hasn't eaten yet. {Being an Uzumaki her sacred meal is almost certainly ramen, Kushina was addicted to eating it, guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.} Anko didn't mind, at least Naruko liked eating her sacred meal, but will have to take her to get some ramen some time.

Anko cleaned Naruko's mouth with a cloth after they had finished eating. "Geez you're so messy." Anko complained with a grin on her face.

Streets of Konoha

12:25

After they ate, Anko carrying Naruko began making their way home, on the way a few more civilians and shinobi tried to attack them, for the same reasons as before, Anko carrying and protecting the Demon Girl is a crime and must be stopped. {Blah, blah, blah, god I hate this village.} Anko ensured all of them ended up in need of medical attention.

Anko does have fans of her more violent methods of retaliation, and they were the people who ran and work at the hospital, because unfortunately, injuries caused by the Snake Princess don't get people free treatment at the hospital, if they're stupid enough to attack a high class kunoichi such as Anko, then they deserve all the punishment they get for doing so, which is fine with them because they get to make a whole lot of money from it, so they're big fans of Anko's more extreme methods of dealing with people, "Anko's Unintentional Charity Work" as the hospital likes to call it.

Hokage Tower - Hokage's Office

Hiruzen received numerous reports of Anko's violent attacks on civilians and shinobi, all of which failed to mention that Anko was doing so to protect Naruko Uzumaki. After the first report Hiruzen used his crystal ball to spy on Anko, he was very surprised when he saw that Anko had Naruko with her, it made complete sense to him why she was so violent, she was protecting Naruko from people who hated her because of the leaked information about the Nine-Tailed Fox being inside Naruko.

{Those damn Elders, not only have they compromised the safety of Konoha, but also the life of Naruko, I know why they did it, to ruin the life of that little girl, to break her spirit so they can bend her to their will, well I will not let them, they will pay with their lives for leaking that information.} Hiruzen was furious, his experience with Orochimaru two years ago has made him a much tougher man, he will have the Elders executed for the information leak.

Hiruzen watched Anko and Naruko until they got home, he didn't want to invade their privacy, but it put a smile on his face to see the two of them together. {I don't think I've seen Anko this happy since Guren died, especially not in the last two years, Naruko seems very happy with Anko too, maybe your meeting with Naruko was fate, Anko.} Hiruzen is genuinely happy for Anko and Naruko.

{Anko and Naruko together may have just opened up an opportunity for me, an opportunity to humiliate the Elders before I have them executed, revenge for all the times they have tried to stab me in the back over the years, I will have Anko and Naruko attend the next meeting of the Village Council on the pretext that Anko is trying to adopt Naruko, I'll continue to watch them on and off, I may even give Anko the chance to officially adopt Naruko.}

There is still plenty of time before the next Village Council meeting is due to take place, but Hiruzen will keep watching them until then, and depending on how the relationship between Anko and Naruko develops, he may well allow Anko to officially adopt Naruko.

To Be Continued

Next Chapter - Chapter 4 - Surrogate Big Sister, Kurenai Yúhi

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