Capítulo 57: Chapter 056
"Really," Naruto asked with interest. Anko made several quick hand signs. As soon as she finished, she shot her hands forward and two large snakes shot out of her jacket sleeves, one snake per sleeve.
"You'll teach me how to shoot and summon snakes out of my arms?"
"That and maybe a few other jutsus of my choosing," Anko replied. Shrugging, Naruto formed a seal and…
"Kage Bushin No Jutsu!"
Twelve Naruto clones puffed into existence. Naruto handed each clone a book or scroll from the bag Anko gave him and instructed the clones to study everything and practice what's in the books and scrolls. The clones nodded as they all sat down and started studying.
"That'll keep them busy," Naruto said, "So what now?"
"Damn I forgot you could do that," Anko said, "Those scrolls and books were to keep you busy for the rest of the week."
Naruto retorted, "Oh well. I'll have those books and scrolls learned in no time."
"Yes I see."
Naruto then remembered something and said, "Hey Anko-chan, there's something I want to ask you."
"And what would that be?"
"I wanted to ask about that seal you have on your neck. I saw it and I was wondering how you got it."
Naruto saw different forms of emotions flash across her eyes, from hurt, to anger and a lot of regrets and it left in another flash. He and Yondaime suspected that Orochimaru had something to do with it but Naruto want to hear it from her mouth. Just then he saw her involuntarily reach up and grab her left shoulder with a far away look on her face, like she was remembering something.
"It's a curse seal," she scowled, "Orochimaru's curse seal to be precise."
"How did you get it?"
The blonde saw her expression changed from looking angry to sad and hurt. She quickly masked it to look happy again.
"…I-I don't want to talk about it," Anko said, "I might tell you some other time, but not right now. Let's get some dangos to eat."
Naruto knew that she carried a lot on her shoulders but he wanted to hear her story directly and find out more about her.
(For The Next Few Weeks)
Tsunade had returned back to Konoha four days after Anko gave Naruto the books and scrolls to study from. During the next couple of weeks, Naruto did several D-rank missions with Teams 7, 8 and 10 much to his displeasure. He didn't mind working with the teams but he hated the kinds of missions D-rank entails. From pulling walking someone's dogs to carrying groceries for elderly people to cleaning somebody's storage house, etc. In all accounts, Naruto found D-rank missions to be nothing more than a waste of his talents and time.
Sandaime and Tsunade explained to Naruto that if he seeks to become Hokage he must cultivate an intense love for the village and view everything about it as precious and worth taking care of as a parent nurtures and takes care of their child or children. When it comes to raising and caring, refining, and protecting their children, no task is too tedious, too small or too great for the parent to assume responsibility for. This served to steam off some of Naruto's displeasure with the D-rank missions he had to do with the three teams.
During the weeks while doing these missions, he continued using Kage Bushin to train with Shizune at the hospital and have his clones study and practice whatever healing and medical scrolls or books he had to read. At the same time though, he practiced the summoning snakes jutsu Anko taught him, although Anko cautioned him about when and where he uses them seeing that snakes are infamous in Konoha because of a particular Sannin. Regardless, Naruto learned and in time mastered summoning snakes from his arms like Anko taught and he also learned and practiced some of her fighting styles though snake-oriented. Although Anko didn't say it verbally, she took pride in the fact that she had someone to teach who wasn't afraid of her or looked down at her harshly because of her past with Orochimaru.
Two days later, there was a report from Team 7 that a garden snake crawled into Sakura's dress during another D-rank mission while they were pulling weeds out of someone's garden. Tsunade was more than annoyed at that the stunt her son pulled, especially since the garden's owner disputed that his garden has no records of ever having snakes of any sort in it. The report was handled and no penalty was dealt against the garden owner since he wasn't the responsible for the garden snake's appearance.
(A Week Later)
Naruto was called into his mother's office with Kakashi and Team 7 already present. They were going to be assigned another mission.
"Kakashi," Tsunade started, "Naruto will be joining your Genin cell for your next D-rank mission. You and your team will be assigned to-"
"Kaa-chan," Naruto cut in, "I mean no disrespect but for the passed couple weeks we've been doing nothing but D-ranks missions and the last one involving finding and retrieving that fire daimyo's wife's cat sucked big time."
"That mission was supposed to strengthen and teach you four the value of teamwork and executing planning formations Naruto," Tsunade explained.
"I'd rather be taught the value of performing an autopsy on that damn cat after the problems it gave us," Naruto replied, "Personally I feel I speak for everyone when I say that we'd like to have a more challenging mission this time to test out skills as ninjas."
"I have the same opinion with the do-…I mean Naruto," Sasuke said after catching himself from insulting Naruto in front of his mother, not wanting to risk the Hokage's wrath, "We've been doing nothing but D-rank missions and I feel that our skills aren't being challenged or sharpened enough."
"I agree with Sasuke-kun on this one Tsunade-sama," Sakura spoke.
"Of course you would," Naruto snorted, "Right after he repeated what it was that I said just now."
"Expect nothing less from a fanatical fangirl in need of a facial bag Naruto-kun," Sai added mockingly, earning him Sakura's fist that nearly collided with his face had it not been for him evading the attack at a timed moment. Naruto noted this.
That kid has potentials, Naruto thought. Tsunade simply sighed at the scene. After giving what Naruto told her some thought, she came to a decision.
"Well, based on your accomplishments on all of the D-rank missions you four have made, I'll make give you different mission to further improve your expertise. All four of you and Kakashi will be given a C-rank mission. You five will be going to Nami No Kuni to escort a faintly elderly man home and also to protect him from bandits and the like," said Tsunade as she nodded to Shizune to bring in the client. A moment later, Shizune returned back into the office with their partially drunk client.
"Tazuna," Tsunade said, "These five will be your escort to Nami No Kuni."
The man turned and looked at the group in front of him.
"You got to be joking! (Hiccup) I asked for a skilled ninja escort and all I get is a team filled with children who've barely hit puberty and a scarecrow-haired cyclops? (Hiccup) And what's with the blond kid trying to dress up in a way to stand out in the crowd as if he's the greatest," said Tazuna as he went to drink from his bottle when…
"You'll do well to neither insult or underestimate us old man," said Naruto calmly but a bit coldly, "I had my share of being underestimated in the past, and for what it's worth, the one who underestimates suffers at the hands of the underestimated. Plus my mother who's sitting right in front of you and Shizune-neechan who brought you in here, and Kakashi-niisan whom you so nicely called a scarecrow-haired cyclops don't take kindly to strangers who insult me openly in front of them."
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