Chapter 1

Naruto woke up the next day with one mission in mind. He needed to find that woman for yesterday. He was mostly only going to ask her about how she could with stand the hate of the village and maybe some training. He entered the Hokage tower, ignoring the glares he got from the other ninjas. He neared the Hokage’s office and faced his assistant. She was one person who didn’t look at him with hate in her eyes. Wether it was because of the old man or fear of losing her job, he really didn’t care.

“Hi Muki, is the old man in?” Naruto asked

“Hi Naruto. I really wish you would show a bit more respect for hokage-sama. He’s really busy but I guess he could use a break. Go on in.” she said

“Thanks.” he said and he entered the office. He saw the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi. He was wearing his Hokage robes and his Hokage hat with the symbol of ‘fire’ on it. Sarutobi looked up from his paperwork and smiled at Naruto.

“I hope I don’t have to do this when I become Hokage.” Naruto asked. Sarutobi laughed. “Muki said you could use a break.”

“Yeah I guess so. So to Ichiraku’s then?” Sarutobi asked

“Actually I was wondering if you can help me find someone. A girl actually.”

“Oh? Have a little crush, do we?”

“What? No way. She much older than me plus I like Sakura-chan.”

“Fine, fine. So what does look like?”

“Well . . . she had almond eyes, raven hair . . . she wears a trench coat . . . ” Naruto was explaining. Sarutobi began to think as well.

‘A trench coat? He couldn’t possibly be talking about Anko, could he?’

“...oh she doesn’t wear a bra.” Naruto finished

‘Yep, that’s Anko. What does he want with her?’ “I know who you’re talking about but why are you looking for her?” Naruto told him about what he saw and began to understand. Though both of their lives were different, they were both outcasts. Naruto because of the Kyubi no Yoko and Anko because of his old student-turned traitor, Orochimaru. “So you wish to talk to her?”

“Yeah. Do you know who she is?” Naruto asked

“Her name is Mitarashi Anko. She’s actually a Tokubetsu Jounin. I believe she is out patrolling around training area 44.”

“What’s a Tokubetsu Jounin?” Naruto asked

“Why don’t you ask her?”

“Ok. Where is training area 44?”

“I’ll draw you a map.” Sarutobi said

Mitarashi Anko sat on the roof one of the outposts that surrounded the training area. She was busy eating dangos and drinking bean soup. She took a sip of her soup when she noticed a blond boy come into the clearing. He looked around until his eyes laid on her.

“Hey, are you Mitarashi Anko?” he asked

“Who wants to know?” she asked

“My name is Uzumaki Naruto and I have a question to ask?”

‘The Kyubi vessel what to talk to me?’ “Get lost kid.” Anko simply said. Naruto was instantly furious.

“Hey lady, I had to walk three miles to get here. The least you can do is get your lazy ass down here and answer my question.” he yelled. Something fast whizzed right by Naruto. Suddenly Anko appeared right behind him.

‘Woah! She fast.’ he thought as a kunai was pressed against his throat. Naruto gulped as Anko licked away a small streak off blood from his cheek. Naruto flinched in fear. ‘She’s nuts.’

“Little boys like you should know their place. Never know when someone crawls up on them and eats them whole. Understand?” Naruto nodded his head dumbly. “Good, now scram.”

“But I haven’t asked my question yet.”

“Wasn’t like I was going to answer it anyway. Later.” Anko disappeared. Naruto just sighed but he was determined.

Anko got out of bed and stretched her muscles. She proceeded to take off her top and grab a towel. Wrap around her, she opened her bathroom cabinet to get toothpaste and closed it back. She began to brush her teeth when her sleep deprived mind noticed something in the mirror. It was blond, had whisker marks and was grinning like a mad man. She turned sharply to face the boy she had met yesterday.

“What the hell are you doing outside my window?” Anko asked

“I was wondering if you have time to answer my question?” Naruto said

“Can you see that I’m undressed? What are you? Some kind of pervert?” she growled

“Please lady. Like you aren’t trying to get any attention with the fact that you walk around with a net shirt with no bra on. Who are you to criticize?” Naruto said. He was sent flying as Anko’s fist connected with his face.

Anko couldn’t really enjoy her dumplings as she was still angry about Naruto’s comments.

‘Little punk. I’ll feed him to my snakes next time I see him.’ Suddenly she felt a familiar charka. She turned to yell at him but she saw nothing. ‘Probably nothing.’ she thought. When she turned around, the blond’s face was right in her. Startled, she fell back off her seat. Naruto sat down and just laughed at her.

“Oh man you should have seen your face.” Naruto joked. It was short lived when Anko jumped up and slammed the boy’s face into the counter and left while shouting curses. Naruto just sat up and rubbed his head.

Anko sat with her friend, Yuhi Kurenai. She looked tired and pissed. For a whole week, the blond rat, as she called him, had bothered her. At home, at work, everywhere she was, he was there. She looked around her surroundings just to make sure that she couldn’t sense him. Kurenai looked at her friend with a worried expression.

“You all right, Anko?” she asked

“Yeah just peachy.” Anko said curtly. “I swear if he bothers me again, I’ll kill him. He’s like an annoying little brother.”

“Who is?” asked the chunin.

“It isn’t important. I just want a peaceful lunch that’s all.” She smiled as her dumplings were in front her along with some sweet bean soup. As she reached out to grab them, an orange blur came out of nowhere and took her lunch. “Hey!” The two turned to find Naruto sitting on the balcony, eating Anko’s food. Kurenai just couldn’t believe it. Naruto just finished the food and looked at Anko with a confused look.

“This thing isn’t as good as ramen. Probably could make a good recipe though.” Naruto said. Anko finally lost it.

“YOU’RE DEAD KID! YOU HEAR ME? D-E-A-D!” Naruto took off with a furious Anko right behind him. Kurenai just sat there wondering what the hell just happened.

Naruto was hanging for the top of the monument. He was kicking and screaming in fear. Anko just had a crazy smile on her face as she held the rope. She just chuckled as her summon, Kyodaijya, was under the boy taking snaps at him.

“Are you nuts lady?” shouted Naruto

“Heh, heh, heh, it’s over you little rat. I’ve had it with you. Now you’re snake food.” Anko said

“All this over a question that I wanted to ask?” he said

“You mean that question from a week ago? You caused me hell because of that question?” she shouted

“Well if you had just answered it instead of being a pain in the ass, then we wouldn’t be in this situation.” Naruto said. Anko let go of the rope. She watched as Naruto plummet to his doom. He screamed as Kyodaijya’s mouth closed down. She started to laugh insanely as her problem was now gone.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA . . . ”

“Anko, Anko, ANKO!” someone yelled. Anko bolted up and surveyed her surroundings. She noticed that she was in Konoha’s hospital. She turned to see Kurenai, the Sandiame Hokage and him. He was still alive

“YOU!” she growled. She lunged at him and was restrained by Kurenai as Naruto ducked behind Sarutobi.

“Ok that’s enough.” he ordered. Anko calmed down but glared at Naruto. “Anko, Naruto apologizes for him antics.”

“Why must I apologize? She just being a pain. One question is all I’m asking for.”

Naruto complained

“If I answer this question, will you leave me alone?” Anko asked. Naruto nodded. “All right then.”

“How do you do it?” he asked

“Do what?”

“How do you just ignore the villagers’ hate?” Anko was taken back by the question. Naruto continued on with his question. “All my life, I’ve been hated. I never really did anything wrong. They hit me and trash my apartment. At school, no one will talk to me. They call me a demon for some reason. I usually just run home and cry or sulk. Then I saw you. You didn’t care about what the villagers called you. You would just scare then off or laugh it off. So how do you do it? How could you laugh and stuff and know that you’re hated? Could you teach me?” Sarutobi looked at the boy with sadness. Kurenai also felt pity for the boy. Anko looked at the boy.

“Sorry kid, I really don’t know what to tell you. It’s more of an attitude thing with me. It’s not something you could teach.” Naruto had his head down and Anko felt a little bad for him. His expression changed and he gave her a smile.

“Well thanks away. Besides it was kind of fun. Later.” Naruto ran out of the hospital room.

“Fun Huh? Why am I here anyway?” Anko asked

“You slipped while chasing him. He tried to save you but wasn’t strong enough to hold you up.” Sarutobi said. Anko just looked at the door where Naruto left from.

Another week passed by and Anko was a bit depressed. She kept looking over her shoulder just to see if Naruto was there. She would sometimes follow the boy. She saw how the villagers treated him and was kind of pissed. She even watched him train himself since no one wanted to take interest in him. She saw that he had potential and saw that his main problem was his charka control. She sighed to herself as she watched him pound the ground in frustration.

‘Why am I so concern about him?’ she thought. She watched as he just got up and kept on training. She sighed again and disappeared.

Anko walked into the Hokage’s office. Sarutobi looked at her and wondered what she wanted.

“Hokage-sama, I wish to have two and a half months off.” she said

“What do you need such time off?” he asked

“I have something that requires my attention. It will take about that much time to do it.”

“Well, I do not see a problem with it. I’ll grant you the time off.” Anko bowed and began to walk out. “Good luck Anko. You’ll need it.”

“Excuse me.”

“Nothing.” Anko looked at the Hokage as if he knew something. She shrugged and walked out. Sarutobi chuckled at what was going to happen. He only hoped that the two just didn’t kill each other.

Naruto sat at Ichiraku’s ramen stand and waited for his food. He was depressed that his training wasn’t bearing fruit. Ayame, Ichiraku’s daughter, gave him a smile.

“Don’t worry about Naruto-kun. You’ll do better tomorrow.”

“Thanks.” Naruto said with a smile. As his ramen was given to him and he was beginning to dig in, three shurinkens broken his bowl and poured the hot broth onto his lap. Naruto jumped around in pain. He looked to find who did this to him and ruined a great bowl of ramen, when Anko appeared next to him.

“It was you.” Naruto accused

“Payback’s a bitch, isn’t you little rat” Anko said

“Who you calling a rat, you psycho.”

“Good, good, you’ll need that energy for your training.”

“What training?”

“You’ve got two and a half months to get ready for the genin exam and I’m going to help you.”

“You’re going to help me?”

“Oh yeah and trust me kid it will be the most painful thing you’re going to go through. So as of today, you’re mine.” She said with insane laughter. Naruto gulped and wondered if messing with this woman was the right thing.

Authors’ Notes: Ok I know that I wrote that this was going to be a Naruto x Hinata pairing but I may change my mind decided on you guys, the reviewers. See I’ve been reading the future volumes of Naruto off the net and Sakura and Naruto seem to be much closer. So instead I’m not going to have anyone get together in this fic. When I finish this, there may be a sequel. So I’ve got a few pairing in mind and if you want to know e-mail. I would like to get some feedback. Other than that, I’m not going to make Naruto really strong just much better. Anko is going to be like his sister as someone suggested. Hope you like the chapter and I’ll see a later.