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Their First Meeting Chapter 13

Anko watched the TV screen very intently. There were minor scrimmages here and there, nothing really tipping her off. Every few seconds she would flip a kunai into the air and catch it.

"Anko!" She turned, kunai almost dropping to the ground when she saw the Jōnins face. It was pale white, and he looked as if he was going to pass out at any second.

"What is it?" She got up from her chair and walked to him with clipped steps.

"We have bodies, their faces are ripped off."

She froze mid step, eyes going wide. There was no way that he could be here. Not while she was proctoring! She snarled and asked where, disappearing as soon as she got the location.

The purple haired women looked around and saw the bodies hidden behind a rock. She felt their pulse, knowing that she wouldn't find one though. They were still faintly warm, but she wasn't sure if it was just from the weather.

In seconds she took off on her own into the testing site. Calls from her team came from the mic she was forced to wear and Anko turned it off in anger.

Her brown eyes blazed with hate as she sped through the tree tops. Anko was not letting that bastard get away this time.

Sakura had been watching over her team mates for a few hours now and still Gaara has not came back. Not that she was worried or anything like that. She was a proud konoichi! And she could protect her team and herself if needed!

Even as she thought that, her eyes started to droop. The pinkette picked up a rag and wet it in the cold water, placing it on her head so the water would drip down her back. Thankfully it woke her up a little and her head cleared from the fog that was setting in.

A chipmunk came out of a bush, scaring the pinkette just a little. It scurried over to one of her traps and then stopped, sniffing. She pulled out a kunai, hoping to not use it if possible. The small furry animal jumped into the other direction, avoiding all of her traps.

Sakura let out a sigh of relief and put the kunai next to her, just in case. Sasuke twitched once, and sat up, mumbling things. He clutched his mark and then fell back, peaceful.

The grains of sand made their way down the tree and danced around her. She held out her hands and the orange-ish sand pooled in them. They made an arrow and she looked towards the pointed end, freezing up.

Three people stood at the other end of the clearing. With a deep breath, she remembered they were those Sound nin from before. Shivering once she picked up the kunai and stood, placing herself in front of her team mates. No one would hurt them if she was still alive!

"Now," The mummy like one started. "Why don't we make this easy and you just hand us Sasuke?" His hands were held out as if telling her to put the Uchiha in them. "And we'll let you go nice and quiet."

Sakura snorted and pulled out another kunai, making sure to hid the exploding tag.

"Fat chance, mummy." She said, a little more confident than she felt.

The hunched over one sighed and lowered his arms. "Fine, have it your way." The other boy moved and he was running towards her as the girl ran to her left side. Sakura snarled and threw the tagged kunai towards the boy because he was going faster and would take longer to stop.

It landed way in front of him and he snorted, gaining more speed.

"Is that all you got pinky?" As soon as he was on top of it, the tag exploded and he yelped. The explosion created a large dust cloud, covering the whole clearing. This gave Sakura a few minutes to plan out her next moves while they tried to find her.

As the dust settled she could make out the two outlines of the boys but couldn't see the girl. Silently pulling out another kunai she crossed them and waited.

Up!

The girl was there and Sakura let out a barrage of kunai and senbon. The Sound nin managed to dodge most of them but was hit pretty bad. Thankfully one of the weapons that hit her had been dipped in one of Sasori's milder poisons. But it was still powerful.

The Sound nin smirked and ran towards Sakura again. As she got closer her attacks became uncoordinated and she lost her balance. Sakura gave her one good punch to her solarplex and she was sent back towards her team mates.

The mummy caught her and then laid her on the ground. He nodded towards the other boy.

"I got this." The tall boy ran and was messing with his arm thing. She readied herself, new kunai pulled. In a second he was half way across the clearing and running right to one of her traps. With a few steps to her left, he followed and stepped on the trigger.

A log on thin wire swung around and went straight to him. He smirked and jumped over it, only to have a wave of shuriken come at him. His eyes widened and a strangled gulp came out before he was hit.

Like with the girl there was one dipped shuriken in the wave and it hit him in the thigh. He ripped all of the weapons out and then put up his arms. There were ripples coming from the arm contraptions and Sakura knew she had to get away. She made handseals and a cloud of cherry petals covered her and her team mates.

The red blossoms were violently blown away, and there was nothing left inside the hide out. The two Sound nin left looked around confused, wondering where they went.

In seconds though they picked up on sound waves and found where they had gone. Running towards Sakura the Sound boys came up with a plan and executed it.

Sakura was confused when she couldn't hear anything for a few seconds but then figured it out.

"Kai!" The genjutsu slacked and she could see the two Sound nin right next to her.

She ducked, rolling away from them. Her fingers formed a single handseal and she took a deep breath.

"Wind Release: Air Bullets!" The small balls of fast air flew to her opponents, hitting them squarely in chakra points.

The last things they remembered before blacking out were her eyes and how they turned demon like. Her Rinnegan eyes.

She collapsed to her knees, panting heavily. Her eyes stung but she let them be, more worried about her team mates.

Naruto had slept through the whole thing, not stirring once. Sasuke had moaned and moved into a ball after she had moved both of them.

Thankful that they were heavy sleepers she moved them so she could deal with the Sound team. All three of them were knocked out so she decided to move them close together and tie them up, taking their weapons away.

As a second thought she checked their scroll and was delighted to find that it was the one they needed. The Sound weapons would be a good addition to theirs seeing as they lost a lot in that battle against Orochimaru.

With the Sound team tied up and not going anywhere she turned her attention to filling up their packs. Still not taking chance Sakura kept them in her line of vision.

It was getting dark and Gaara still had not come back. Even though she knew that he could handle himself, she would still worry about him. Not to mention Kankuro and Temari.

The pinkette glanced up to the sand that was floating around the hideout, holding up a hand. It piled into her soft hand, trailing around her wrist. The grainy texture relaxed her only a little, just enough so she could lean back against the trunk.

Gaara watched her from afar, eyes blinking slowly. He had watched the fight, ready to jump in at any moment. The Ichibi had assured him that it wouldn't be necessary though. He had agreed for the most part, but he still made sure that he would be ready in seconds if needed.

He was satisfied with how she had dealt with them, the red head did have a few pointers for his pink haired mate though.

The Ichibi was greatly surprised Gaara had controlled himself, not jumping in at all. He knew that the girl would be able to handle herself for the most part. She needed to show her strength, to be let loose, and she did just that.

With that strength, the two would have powerful cubs, and that made the tanuki chuckle. The red head and pinkette would have their hands full if they were anything like their parents.

Anko had made it through half of the arena and then she felt it. The chakra she hoped to never feel near her again. Breathing once she shot off into the direction that it was coming from.

Orochimaru chuckled from his hiding spot as he had felt her's much before she had felt his. She was coming soon, and that meant it was almost time to teach her another lesson.

Slowly he stood up and stretched. Satisfied with the snaps and cracks he melted into the tree that was behind him. It wouldn't be much to her because she knew most of his tricks but it would throw her off slightly.

Speak of the devil, he thought as the purple haired nin jumped onto the tree branch he had been sitting on moments before.

She snarled and glanced around before launching a barrage of shuriken at his location. Slipping further down the tree he easily slithered between them, managing to not be hit by a single one.

Going through the branch his ex-experiment was standing on he appeared behind her, smiling, tongue licking his lips.

"Ah, Anko. It's so nice to see you after so long." He snickered as she stiffened slightly. "Tell me, how is that curse mark coming along, hm?" His tongue lashed out and licked the spot where the curse mark laid.

Swiftly Anko turned, slashing at his tongue only to see it was gone. "Fine." Was her only response.

He chuckled, covering his mouth. "No pain? Even with me right here?" As if to test his theory he sent out a wave of chakra, knowing the mark would react.

The purple haired woman grit her teeth against the pain, eyes glaring at him.

"Get out of here. Now, Orochimaru." Even as she was in pain she could still manage to sound strong and stern. The snake Sannin blinked and then smiled.

In a second he was behind her, hands on her shoulders. "Do you really want me gone that much dear Anko?"

Raging Anko turned and shoved a kunai into his gut and then jumped back, hands working on seals.

"Yes! Fire Style: Dragon Fire Technique!" Being that she was only a few feet from her target she didn't need to put out strings, and the roar of fire burst forward towards Orochimaru.

The fire demolished the tree they were in, causing Anko to jump from the falling branch and to land on another close by branch. The two poor trees that happened to be behind the tree were burned down as well, sending up smoke and wood chips.

Anko sucked in air, trying to find his chakra. She felt it, and then made hand seals.

Less than a second passed and a wave of kunai stuck out of the large branch.

Orochimaru looked around once and found her, sending another wave over to where she had just teleported. She yelled and disappeared again, landing a little farther away.

She took in a few more breaths and then made hand seals she hoped she wouldn't have to make.

"Twin Snakes Mutual Death Technique!" Snakes sprung up around Orochimaru and herself, ready.

Orochimaru just smirked and made a simple hand seal. In seconds the snakes disappeared and Anko glared.

"Did you really think that would work on me? On your teacher?" He said and turned to her hiding spot. "Come now Anko, you could do better than that. Or are you getting spot here in Konoha?"

She snarled and came at him one last time, kunai in each hand.

"You will die by my hand Orochimaru!"

They traded blows for a while, testing each other, never really going full out.

When he grew bored he ducked under one of her punches and helped her over his shoulder. She flipped in the air and landed on her feet.

"I think we're done here. I will see you another time Anko, dear." He melted into the tree and then he was gone. Anko sent out chakra to find him but couldn't sense anything.

"Damn it!" She threw a kunai into the nearest tree, causing a crater to form around it. Anko looked around at the mess they had made and took a deep breath. She had to stop him one way or another, that was her promise to herself, to her team mates, to Konoha, and to the little brats now and to come. She, Mitarashi Anko, would stop Orochimaru no matter what. One last glance around at the destroyed forest and she was gone, back at the command house.

me-yeahh... I'm sorry it's been forever since I've updated. Any of my stories really. I haven't because I did things of the summer and then school started of course. And I've just had a massive writer's block. I'm kind of getting over it now so hopefully I can get more done tonight. I joined the swim team at my school so that's part of the reason why I haven't updated. I've been getting closer with a really great person lately, another reason. My classes are hard/take up a lot of time/have a lot of work on the weekends. Honestly I normally have a chapter of notes I have to write/summarize/make up questions/connections every weekend. Sometimes two. But this week I only had to study so its not too bad. I will be going to Disney soon, in February. I'm so excited because it's going to be me time. No whine-y people, no annoying people, no problems I have to try to fix. Just me. Sigh, I can't wait. I will try to update another one tonight. We'll see. I'll also try to update in February seeing as I'll have a 24 hour buss ride down :/ yay..