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Chapter 8

The next day found the purple-haired ninja sitting with her friends at the gryff's table, all of the students of the house either glaring at the girl with hatred or staring with awe. It is easy to figure out why as Snape was not the most well-liked teacher in the school. Seeing one of their own beat the man impressed them even if it was by someone they despised.

As Anko ate her meal for the day, she felt a tap on her shoulder. When she turned around, she was confronted by a scowling McGonagall. "Follow me miss Potter!" She almost growled at the younger girl. Doing as she was told, Anko grabbed her satchel and went with the cat-woman.

The pair traversed the corridors until they stopped at a gargoyle that led to the headmaster's office. Anko already could infer the moment that she was picked up that she would find herself at the headmaster's office because it would be kind of stupid if they just ignored her nearly killing a teacher in a duel. "Sugar nuggets," McGonagall told the chunk of stone. The stature leaped out of the way and the pair went up the stairs. After knocking, they are told to enter by the headmaster.

The pair walked into the room and Anko took a seat in one of the chairs without prompt. "Before you go off on me for the duel. Know that Snape challenged me, not the other way around," Anko said when she sees the head of the lions about to open her mouth.

McGonagall bristled at this and looked like she wanted to storm off. "That... That is not why you are here lass," McGonagall told Anko with a slight accented growl. "I for one thought that duel was outstanding. I however am not happy you fought a teacher in front of the student body. It undermines our authority!"

Dumbledore decided now was a good time to cut in, "That is also not why you are here. I want to know where you found that kind of magic and how you can move like you did. In complete detail." This came out as a command, not a question.

Anko stared at the old man in front of her. After a few seconds, she answered, "That would be none of your business Headmaster. All you need to know is exercises is a grand thing as well as reading the books in the library." Anko did not want any of her abilities commanded out of her. Not even the Hokage had that much disrespect as to demand his subordinates to give him all their secrets. Sure the man wanted the people to give out some of the more dangerous techniques to put in the scroll of seals, but he did not demand it from people.

"I must insist that you tell me, my dear. It is for the good of the school that I know what you can do." That damned twinkle in his eyes made Anko want to punch him in the face.

The ex-ninja put on an amused grin before she gave her reply, "Insist all you want. You are not my parent nor my guardian. If you want the spells that I can do for the safety of the school, why not get all the seventh years to give you a list as well. It's only fair right? They already know how to almost kill an eleven year old girl with their wands, so they need to be documented correct?" The headmaster looked less than comfortable when Anko brought up her old assault by the student body. She may not have pursued any legal actions, but Anko wasn't above using it to guilt trip the people.

"This isn't about that my dear. Where did you learn a spell like the shield-breaker and all those combat spells."

Anko sighed as she rubbed her eyes. Anko was getting sick of this back and forth game really quick. "Where do you find anything about magic in this school? Books Headmaster! I read books in the library for combative spells and taught myself them! They were not hard to even do! They mention a shield-breaking one that was advance, so I found the book and did it after some practice. Happy?!" Anko asked impatiently after giving a vague answer. The only thing the headmaster knew was that she read some books from his library that lead to more books.

"What books we-" Dumbledore started to ask.

Anko cut the old man off, "Stop. Just stop questioning me on this. I hurt no one but my opponent and I have yet to injure anyone in this school unless they started the issue. You're school is fine, well... Not really, you know with that thing that is paralyzing the cats around the school." Anko got up with a smiling when she brought up the cat, "You might want to look for that instead of interrogating a powerful second year on how she beat a professor in a legal duel. Good day Professor McGonagall." On this note, Anko left the room and went to the library.

Anko pulled on her cloak as she walked down the empty hall and entered the library. The teen went to the back section to steal a little more knowledge and put back some of the pieces of literature she had already finished copying down. Well... What another clone had finished copying down. The teen had a system that she would steal the books and a clone would copy them as she trained. It saved time for the ex-ninja.

Anko stared at the shelves and decided to pick up some illusionary magic for this time around. The lack of glamour pissed her off and Anko wanted to fix that problem. After Anko transferred the tracking and anti-theft charms to the book beside them, Anko slid them into her satchel and fled the room to go get them copied before they are missed.

The teen got into the room and tossed the bag over to a book clone as the clone attacked her. This started a long training session that lasted the entire day. By the end, Anko was spent and all her magic was used up. Like always after an intense session, Anko couldn't move much of anything, so the clone picked her up and deposited her on the bed for a nights sleep.

The purple-haired girl pulled herself off her sleeping clone to begin the day. Anko found her journal on a pedestal inside another room with the new entries inside the index, along the twenty she had yet to read. Deciding to have a lie in day, the girl took the book and went back to bed. The teen snuggled against her naked partner, who likes to try to tease her older/younger self with her body, before cracking open the first book on... minor necromancy.

Blinking at her selection, Anko started reading the text without a care for the subject, commenting to herself every now and then when something interesting caught her attention. "Didn't know wizards were so deprived of sex. Undead sex slaves, ew!" The days passed quickly enough for Anko. The girl started to go to her classes again out of sheer boredom and want to interaction with her friends.

McGonagall was not happy with how much Anko had skipped and made a point in making her have detention with her for the rest of the year. Flitwick backed the woman up and gave her double detention with him after McGonagall's let's out. Anko didn't even bother going to defense or herbology due to the lack of practical lessons for the year. Nearing the peak of winter, Anko was getting out of her detention with the goblin half-breed where all she did was practice fourth year charms with the man. The short teacher saw how good she was with charms and is "Taking her under his wing," teaching Anko everything he knows.

The man justified not sticking with normal detention by telling Anko, "You have too much potential to be just sitting there doing nothing! You're punishment is I want you to be ready for OWLs by the time school lets out for summer!" McGonagall however did not break tradition and all Anko did in her detention was strengthen her mental barriers as the clock ticked away.

Yawning from anything late night training with Flitwick, Anko made her way down the hall only to trip on something in the middle of the floor. Anko absently rolled out of the fall and looked what she fell over. "That's a dead body. And that's a dead ghost," Anko noted aloud as she looked down at a downed Hufflepuff and a frozen ghost.

Taking a knee next to the body, Anko checked for a pulse and even found one. "I guess this is like Norris?" Anko thought to herself aloud. Realizing something, Anko had to sigh as she reached down and picked up the boy, holding him under her arm. "House elf! Someone!" Anko called out. A pop sounded next to her and revealed an elf. "Carry to guide the ghost behind me. Need to get these two to the hospital wing." The elf looked from the two frozen entities and nodded, her ears flopping all over the place.

The house Elf clicked her fingers and the ghost started to float forward which creeped Anko out seeing the unblinking blank dead eyes. "Well that's one reason not to go into necromancy," Anko told herself. 'If the eyes on a dead ghost creep me out, the eyes on a zombie would do the same.'

Anko began trudging to the medical wing with the near two hundred pound teen under her arm, but the girl didn't get ten steps in before what looked like the whole school came running around the corner. 'Dinner... Was over an hour ago.' Anko knew because Flitwick ordered up some food for the both of them when they got too caught up in the lesson and dueling to see they missed dinner. 'Why are they here?'

The students all stopped in a line in front of Anko, two teachers leading the way. Snape and Sprout. The former man sneered at Anko until he saw the two frozen things around her. The two teacher drew their wands on the girl and Anko picked that time to be the best to explain. "Look. I was just coming from Professor Flitwick's room. I tripped over this guy," Anko shook the puff, "And I am now carrying him to the medical wing. The ghost was there to which is why there is a house elf..." Anko looked around but didn't see it anywhere. "Was a house elf with me to make the ghost follow. Now if you'll excuse me and make a hole, I need to get this boy to Pomfrey."

The boy suddenly zipped from her arms and floated next to Sprout who was glaring at Anko. "I can't believe you would assault one of your own classmates!" The woman shouted at the girl.

Anko threw her hands in the air when she heard this even if she expected it. "Do none of you ever fucking listen?! For Kami's sake people! I have yet to lie to any of you once and you keep demonizing me as some lunatic that is trying to kill things!"

"Silence Potter!" Snape snapped. "You are coming with me to see the headmaster for your expulsion!" Anko could only pinch the bridge of her nose at the stupid man.

"Really. Well then, if I'm going to be expelled for something I didn't do. I might as well say this." Anko took a few steps forward until Snape's wand was touching her throat. The man refused to put it down, even if Anko made no motion for her own. "You are nothing but a bitter old pathetic excuse for a man who wastes the space of this school. Are you really that great of a potions master anyways? If you were, you'd be advancing the field, not teaching brats the task, terribly might I add due to not teaching the basic safety steps to the students!" Snape was shaking with rage at the end of her insult on his teaching. "I wish you would drop dead where you stand you pathetic bastard of a teacher. It would save so many people from having to deal with your petty ways!"

Anko saw the hand coming, but only smirked at the man. The weakling gave a truly pathetic backhand that only accomplished pushing her face to the side and making noise. "Ah, little Snapey need to hit a child. Remember boyo, I'm still twelve~" Anko sang out as she moved back to standing straight. 'Man, this guy is EASY to rile up!"

"That's enough, both of you!" A familiar voice sounded from down the hall. Anko's smirked stayed on her face as she backed up away from the seething man. Flitwick continued on, "I am disappointed in everyone here! I heard everything!" The short man got in between everyone. "Sprout, take the boy to the infirmary to be examined," the teacher ordered. "Snape, Potter, stop antagonizing each other! Now, we're going to the headmaster to sort this out. No one is going to be expelled tonight." The short man turned to Anko and said, "What have I told you about thinking before you talk!"

Anko could only sheepishly rub the back of her head before she followed the professor to the headmaster's office. They arrived at the room in no time and Anko took her usual seat in front of the desk while Snape stood beside Dumbledore. Flitwick took his spot to Anko's right.

"What seems to be the problem?" Dumbledore asked after a minute of examining everyone.

Snape started, "The Potter brat paralyzed student and is trying to lie about her involvement." Anko wanted to defend herself, but held off so she didn't make anything worse than what it already was.

Flitwick sighed at Snape's explanation of the incident, "Snape, the girl just came out of my detention. She was at most a minute ahead of me. There is no way she could have paralyzed a student and a GHOST in that amount of time. But, let's get her side of things before we begin this debate of who's right and who's wrong."

Anko retold what happened to her to the headmaster, ignoring all of Snape's snark as she spoke. "I was just leaving the class when I tripped on the Puff. I checked his pulse, found he was alive, so I picked him up to carry him down to the nurse. I called in a house elf to bring along Sir Nicholas due to him being a ghost. I have no faintest idea how to touch a ghost and thought the elves did. They apparently do and we make it a few steps before Snape along with Sprout rounds the corner with about half the school for some reason. Tried to explain things, but the two didn't take my word and it all went downhill from there. Now I'm here. Done, believe me if you wish, I really don't care anymore."

Anko leaned back in her chair and listened as the teachers try to convince the headmaster on what happened and if she was innocent or not. Dumbledore took in all the words and after a time to think, came to the conclusion, "My dear, it would seem you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, but we can't just go off your word that you didn't do it. So until this mess is resolved, you will have an escort to and from you classe-" Anko raises her hand to cut the man off.

"If that is how it will be. I'll just self-study at this point then go to my detentions. I'm already at fourth year books and Professor Flitwick knows I am at this level in charms as he is helping me perfect it. I refuse to have watchers escorting me everywhere. I am not guilty and if you do this, everyone will believe I am so they will attempt to harm me... AGAIN!" Anko growls at the old man. "Ask the house elves where I sleep if you haven't already. I'm sure they'll tell you."

On these words, Anko stalks out of the room, seething with rage at the mistrust they have unfairly placed on her. "Not even the Hokage was this suspicious when he found me after the snake bastard!" Anko growled to herself as she made her way back up to her room.

The teen hops into bed, ready to just put the day behind her. She pulls out of journal of forbidden arts and reads through some of the drier text to help her calm down. Getting sleepy reading about the inner workings of the Celtic language is a bonus for her. The teen was already mostly fluent in the rune set and is working on learning the script to better understand the written part of the language.

True to Dumbledore's word, the moment she stepped out of her room in the evening for her detention, Filch snatched up her arm and got a reflex punch to the gut hard enough to lift him off the ground. The man was left coughing and Anko, not feeling particularly caring that day, did nothing to help the man but wait.

After the school's keeper caught his breath, the man was about to rant and threat Anko, but one burst of killing intent was all that was needed to shut him up. "You grabbed me. You got what you deserved," Anko simply said as she started off towards McGonagall's classroom. The elder man took a second to get to his feet before chasing after the purple-haired teen.

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Time passed as it does and winter became Spring. The escorting didn't get toned down one bit even as other students still turned up paralyzed. Anko took to just not go talk to anyone after telling them of her situation. The trio immediately thought it was unfair and stupid.

Filch kept trying to get into the room, but the man was never successful and the only glimpses that Anko allowed him to see was a bed in a spartan room. The man thought himself a fine interrogator of children, but no matter what he implied or threatened, the man could not get any information on what Anko did in her room all day.

During the days, all the girl did was training and read or sneak around the castle to the forest to play around in the trees. At the nights, Anko would sleep or go out to steal and replace books in the library using her cloak or just her own skills if she wanted a challenge. That day was a lazy day for Anko though, so she kept her cloak along for the journey.

On one of these campaigns for knowledge, Anko heard something in the walls, hissing out curses. "Fucking stupid human! Telling me what I can and can't do! I'll show her, I'll eat her face when she least expects it! Commanding me to meet her in the middle of the night when I could be sleeping!" Curious, Anko followed the cursing serpent through the halls. Anko knew it was a snake because it doesn't sound human and the only other thing she understands in a spoken language is snakes.

The cursing halted right outside a familiar bathroom. Anko shudders when she saw where she was, but curiosity killed the canine in her place, so she pushed through and into Myrtle's bathroom. The ex-ninja entered just in time to see the sink close in on itself. Anko stared at it before circling the fixture. "Why was there a snake here?" Anko asked aloud. "How did it open this thing?" The girl hissed out. Parseltongue is rather unintentional as Anko had learned. All it took is the thought of a snake to activate it.

The sink cracked open and sunk back into the ground. The ex-ninja blinked in surprise at the sudden action before thinking back to what she had said. "Umm... Close?" Anko spoke in English. The sink did nothing. "Close?" The girl repeated in snake speech.

The sink rose out of the floor and went back together like nothing had happened. "Interesting. Open." The sink once more opened for her. The purple-haired girl looked down the pipe it opened to see streaked grim coating that descended into darkness.

Shrugging and having nothing better to do, Anko hopped down into the abyss, sliding down the steep angle on her feet. The invisibility cloak fluttering around her as she fell. Anko had to lean back to almost lay down on the pipe so she didn't lose her footing, but when the end came into sight, all she had to do was straighten up to land on her feet. There was a door in front of her with Snakes all over it, so Anko hissed, "Open," once more.

The door opened in a highly elaborate way that really had no meaning except to take up her time. The door opened up into a large chamber where Anko noticed a red-haired girl standing in front of one of the biggest snakes she had ever seen. 'Fucker's almost the size of the second-in-command!' Anko noted in her special way.

Sensing something dark around her, Anko let her magic seep into her eyes to look around. The darkness was coming from a book in the red-head's grasp. Along with the darkness, Anko could see what seemed like the girl's magic filtering into the book at a rather alarming rate. "Why is this so hard for you?! All you have to do is kill a student. You kill by looking at people, so why is no one dead?!" A male voice sounded out of the girl and it sounded pissed. A figure flickered next to the girl, it looked like a ghost of a teenage boy, but ti was gone before Anko could get a good look at his features.

"I'm sorry master~" The snake snarked. "Maybe if you weren't just a little girl, I would try harder." This caused whatever the thing is to whip out their wand. The shift in the body let Anko see that it is Ginny Weasley, but her eyes are solid red.

Anko stayed hidden, musing over what she was seeing, 'Yep. That girl's possessed by something. Should help before someone actually does die.' The thought in place, Anko drew out her pistol and lifted the cloak up. Taking aim, Anko discharged a round into the girl's wand and it stopped in the snout of the snake.

Both the entities roared with rage from the sudden assault as Anko tossed the cloak off and charged. Ginny tried to cast, but was stunned when she saw her wand was missing a good three-fourth of its length. Seeing as the twelve year old girl unarmed and with a below average strength, Anko ignored her and attacked the snake with magic-fueled strikes.

Anko caught glimpses of the snake's eyes, but they did nothing to her like she knew they wouldn't. If they do kill, then Parselmouths are immune to them then because the girl would be dead if they weren't. Of course this was a very thinly supported theory as Anko did not even think that it could have been a spell, but it worked out in the end, so not another thought was spared on the matter for the purple-haired combatant.

The two opponents danced around each other. The snake doing a great job lunging in, but retreating before it took any real damage from the practitioner of the Snake Fist. The snake gave an open mouth lunge, fangs dripping with poison out of the bottom, but Anko was ready and sidestepped the attack then countered with a devistating punch to the right fang, breaking it. The bone skipped off the floor to lay at rest in the middle of the floor, near Ginny who was screaming out insults at the two as they fought. Who ever possessing the girl really was displeased at what was going on.

Anko had to leap back from another lunge, but before she could avoid the counter attack, a small hand grabbed her wrist. The split second it took to register the hand and break the grip with a backhand to the chest was all the giant serpent needed to put the remaining fang into Anko's outstretched arm.

Screaming in pain at the fang and poison, Anko grabbed her wand from its resting spot. The wounded girl cast the first thing that came to mind, "Avada Kedavra!" The green beam slammed into the roof of the snake's mouth as it withdrew its fang. The creature went limp immediately, but Anko's quick reflexes kept the fang from going back into her hand.

Growling in pain, the Potter child looked back at the coughing girl. Anko pulled her pistol back out and discharged a round into the diary, but it did nothing for the dark magic within the pages. Anko looked at the diary and back at the snake. The spirit seemed to understand her thought process, but it mattered not. The possessed girl gave a horrid yell as it charged the ex-ninja, but it didn't matter. Another killing curse struck the diary, turning it into ash.

The charging girl collapsed as if all her strings were cut. The purple-haired girl could only stare at the downed girl before cursing loudly, "Fuck! There goes my help!" Sighing, Anko fell to her knees, then onto her bottom as the strength in her legs went. "Man. At least I died like a badass," Anko noted as she looked over at the corpse of the snake.

Just as she was about to give up and lay down to let the poison take over, a loud chiming song echoed the chamber. Looking over at the origin of the noise, Anko saw a phoenix come flying in and towards her. It landed on her arm and stared up at her before looking down at the wound. Before Anko could question what was going on, the bird was crying on her wound and it healed right before her eyes, leaving only a fresh scar.

The poison seems to fade from her blood stream, letting strength fill her up once again. "Um... Thanks... Bird," The now healed girl awkwardly thanked the fire bird. "Check out Ginny, whatever that spirit was probably did something stupid to her." The bird trilled a confirmation before doing just that. While the bird looked the girl over, Anko stumbled to her feet and picked up the fang she knocked out as a trophy. The next thing she did was go back and pocket her cloak, so she didn't forget it in the darkness of the chamber.

The phoenix came over once the wispy cloth was folded and in her pocket then started to pull Anko towards Ginny. Once they were next to each other, the bird let out a loud screech before fire exploded outwards, engulfing the two girls. The next thing Anko saw was the tiled floor of the infirmary. Coughing, Anko didn't want to deal with Pomfrey or someone finding that she snuck out of area and back to her room. While still in a slight weakened state, Anko made it back to her room undisturbed due to it being around three in the morning.

Anko dropped down on her bed without a care if she was covered and grime and let herself pass out. All the woman turned girl wanted was for the year to end so she could leave behind the stupid teachers and weird things that seemed to always happen within the castle.

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