Two months has passed since graduating and Nariko had worked harder than ever to improve. One of the first things she and Anko had worked on was to find a fighting style. After the first week they found one that fit Nariko perfectly. It was a physically demanding style that focused on the use of speed to hit your opponents in the most damaging areas of the body. If that didn't work the style included grappling and submissions to eliminate their opponents. It was a no-nonsense style that focused on eliminating your opponent's quickly. So far, they had yet to find a name for the style. They found another style based on the first that was a double chokuto style that Nariko figured out as fast as the taijutsu style with how similar they are. Nariko had also begun using a garrotte that would help with assassinations where stealth was required.

Anko had also worked hard on improving Nariko's chakra control. So far, she knew the tree walking exercise, water walking exercise and was almost done with the kunai balancing exercise.

Nariko had improved her stealth, infiltration and sabotage from all the "missions" she had received from the hokage. The latest she had performed was to infiltrate the ANBU headquarters, put sneezing powder in all their masks together with glue that would keep them in place. She also added itching powder in all their uniforms. The only ones she didn't do anything on was the commander and Yugao. Yugao, because she liked her too much, and she was the one who trained Nariko to use her swords. She didn't target the commander, simply because she isn't stupid and wasn't skilled enough to get him. When the ANBU's found a red spider lily, something that has become something of a calling call for Nariko, they knew they had been had. The scolding the ANBU received was the stuff of legend.

She had also been given permission on looking on a few interrogations performed by both Anko and Ibiki, she immediately knew this was something she wanted to do. To be able to dig out somebody's deepest secrets was something she wanted the ability to do.

Finally after two months, she has completed all the necessary D-rank missions, focusing on the physically hardest to do, and was ready for a C-rank. But before that Anko had told her she would be having a joint training session with team 8 and 10.

Nariko was hanging from a tree without her jacket and doing inverted crunches while Anko sat bellow her as they waited for the other teams.

"Why did we come here so early, I could have been doing more important things instead." Anko complained.

"You just want to cuddle some more with Hana. Need I remind you that she is currently at work in the clinic." Hana had moved in with Anko and Nariko about a month ago. So far Nariko had only walked in on them having sex one time.

"Whatever, how many reps do you have left?"

"This is my last set of 100."

As soon as she began the two teams entered the training ground. They stopped in their tracks as they saw Nariko. Anko just stood up and walked up to them.

"Don't worry, she is done soon. So these are your brats Asuma, Nai-chan." Asuma chuckled at the sight of the other genins, the only one not staring in shock being Hinata.

"I know I shouldn't be surprised by how hard she works, but it's easy to forget when I spend so much time with my team." In all honesty Kurenai sort of agreed with him. The only one that seemed to want to do more than they already did was Hinata, that she knew was also able to do inverted crunches, having caught her one time before the team met up.

"Students this is Anko Mitarashi, and in the tree is her student Nariko Uzumaki." Kurenai tells her students.

"I thought Naruto was the only Uzumaki in the village." Kiba says confused.

"Naruto and Nariko is the same person." Asuma responds. "For reasons I won't tell she spent the last eight years under the guise of a boy with the help of a seal. After she graduated, she was given to Anko as a student and the seal was removed. They have the most completed missions of any of the rookie teams."

"How can she do that?" Ino screeches. As Nariko finishes, put on her jacket and light a cigarette she gets a good look at the girl. "How can she stand looking so manly, I mean she has more muscles then even the guys from our class." Hinata shakes her head at the girl.

"She doesn't care what boys think of her. She truly is a hardworking serious shinobi." She tells the blonde girl. "Hey Nariko." Quickly she runs and embraces her friend.

"Hey Hinata, how are you doing?"

"I'm good, dad wonder if you would like to join us for dinner tonight. By the way, how many reps can you do now, I've just reached 100?"

"I would love to join you this evening. Today I did 10 sets of 100 reps."

"You're insane. So, what do you think we will do today?" She didn't have time to respond before Kurenai announced the start of the exercise.

"Today my team and Asuma's team will track and capture a single target, Nariko. She will get a five minutes head start, and she will be allowed to fight back. Nariko, the time starts when you disappear."

Nariko begun to walk away before she was called back by Anko.

"Now Nariko, I want you to take it easy on them. That means no killing, no maiming and no permanent damages."

"How about non-permanent damages, bleeding and permanent physical marks, like scars?"

"Those are fine. Not, that I don't trust you, but could you please hand me your chokutos?"

Cursing under her breath she handed Anko her swords before beginning.

"You begin to search and capture in five minutes, prepare yourselves." While the genins begun planning together Anko walked over to Asuma and Kurenai. Just as she reached them, she stopped.

"FUCK, I forgot to remove her garrotte." She swears loudly.

"She uses a garrotte?" Asuma wonders. It isn't an all that common shinobi weapon.

"She's damn good with it." She shows them a mark around her neck. "She got me good with it yesterday. At least I let her promise not to kill, maim or permanently injure your students." She listens in a bit to the geins and shook her head when she heard that they would take it easy seeing as Nariko was the class dead last. As the five minutes were up the other genins ran into the forest. "How good are your brats?"

"Like I thought, it's hard to get them to work. They are almost completely reliant on Shikamaru's strategies. They don't seem to realise that enemies won't wait until he has finished strategizing before attacking them. Hopefully this exercise will serve as a wake-up call." Asuma says as he sighs thinking about his lazy team.

"My team work great together; the problem is that they have become overconfident. Hinata is the one that has improved the most and is the one that isn't overestimating their abilities. Shino and Kiba on the other hand, they think they are better then they are, have improved more than they have and are able to do pretty much anything." Kurenai says as she looks into the forest.

"Basically they're fucked." Anko comments.

"Yep." Asuma agrees quickly. Kurenai sends a quick glare at them before taking a deep breath having planned to ask this question already.

"You have always skirted around the subject of what actually happened to Nariko, would it be ok for me to ask?" Asuma glances over at Anko.

"It's your student, your choice."

"Nariko has already agreed to tell you and Gai, Kurenai." Taking a breath to steel herself she jumps into the story.

"Throughout Nariko's life she was often attacked by mobs and different groups. Usually they would beat her up and leave her bloody in some alley. Luckily there were still enough kind people that would alert people to help her. That changed when she was 6.

She was attacked by a group of men. Before she could react, she was knocked unconscious, bound and dragged away. For two weeks she was missing. The hokage had ANBU out looking for her, but they all came up empty. It wasn't until after two weeks that Hiashi Hyuga of everybody found her. He had been walking through one of the woods around Konoha when he heard a sound. Being a jonin he went to investigate, inside a cave he found a group of men and Nariko." Anko dried the tears that now fell. She saw that Asuma had lit a cigarette and Kurenai was openly crying now. "She had been constantly gang-raped during those two weeks by an unknown number of men, an unknown amount of times.

Hiashi immediately took them out and alerted the hokage. Nariko was unconscious for a week, during that week she met the Kyuubi and they bonded. When she woke up, she was terrified of any man." Here she stopped and struggled to continue. Asuma decided to continue the story.

"I remember how distraught my dad was, this was his surrogate granddaughter and she was terrified of him. Because of that she was only handled by female nurses and doctors, she was most often guarded by Yugao as an ANBU and by Anko, which is how they knew each other beforehand. She had regular meetings with Inoichi's sister Yumi to help her recover to a certain degree. It took months before Teuchi Ichiraku was able to approach her giving her ramen. After that the men she was able to trust slowly grew to my dad, Hiashi, me, Kakashi and Ibiki. We're still the only men that are allowed to have physical contact with her outside of "work". I still have no idea how she got close with Ibiki." Anko wiped her eyes again and chuckled at the last part.

"The only two that does know that are Nariko and Ibiki, and none of them will talk. He walked into her hospital room one day and a few hours later walked back out. The only noticeable difference was that Nariko learnt how to gamble. In her left chest pocket are a deck of cards, while in her right are cigarettes.

All the clan heads were informed of what happened and was told that Nariko was to become Naruto. It was then that Nariko and Hinata became friends, Hiashi introduced them.

That is the incident we always mention, and that is the reason she trains so hard, and that is the reason she will probably never allow any man to touch her in a way that is close to intimacy. It should be said that Nariko has been given permission from Tsume to break Kiba's arms if he tries anything."

Kurenai was crying so hard she could only nod in response and agree to the terms laid down with Kiba.

"Do you know for a fact that she is gay?" Asuma asks. "I always assumed, but she never said anything."

"You know how me and Hana lives with her?" Seeing the nods she got she continued. "One night she started to ask questions about our relationship. Following a couple of quite embarrassing questions she admitted to being gay."

"Does she fancy anybody?" Asuma asks as he leans over. Kurenai barely managed to cover her chuckle, she had never expected Asuma to be a gossip.

"She used to have a crush on Ayame Ichiraku. That was before she knew Ayame was interested in somebody else of the male gender. It's funny because both Teuchi and Ayame knew about the crush. Me and them has agreed to never let her live it down."

"Shame, perhaps we should hook her up with someone." Anko giggled knowing she had gained at least one ally in her mission to embarrass her student as much as possible.

Before they could continue gossiping, they felt somebody approach, they turned and saw Nariko appear in a swirl of leaves. She saw that Kurenai and Anko had tear streaks down their cheeks and knew what had happened.

"I'm assuming you told her then?". Anko just nods. Nariko lay down on the ground and lights a cigarette.

"What have you done with our students?" Kurenai asks curious.

"They´re only unconscious, should wake up pretty soon." Nariko responds casually. Asuma palms his face while Anko laughs.

"Can you at least tell us how they did?" He asks, wanting to know how the six genins were defeated.

"I begun by allowing them to track me for a bit, it didn't go so well considering how loud they were. I got bored quite quickly and decided to fight back. I set up an explosion that was designed to separate them as much as I could. Knowing that Shikamaru would be the person to come up with a strategy I targeted him first. I simply came up behind him and knocked him out and tied him up in ninja wire. He did move quietly; the problem was that he didn't bother to keep out of sight that much and he moved too slowly.

I then moved on to Hinata, as she knows me the best. Knowing that she can't hold her byakugan active constantly I waited until it was deactivated and hit her with a senbon coated with a poison that knocked her out and will screw with her control when she wakes up, I caught her before she hit the ground as to not alert the others before tying her up. She did good, the problem was that I know her too well. She should improve her stealth and chakra capacity just to be sure.

Shino was the next target with his bugs. I threw a pellet with pepper gas around him, while that was risky, I wasn't sure how to handle his insects otherwise. In the confusion I knocked him out and tied him up in ninja wire. The biggest problem with Shino was that he followed the routes and direction they had agreed on. Even when they got separated, he kept to them, he showed no ability to think on the fly and improvise.

Choji was the person I targeted next. I just tagged him with a kunai coated with the same poison I used on Hinata earlier before tying him up. His clan isn't known for being the best when it comes to stealth and he showed that.

When it came to Kiba I used a stink bomb to confuse his and Akamaru's noses. I hit Akamaru with a poison coated shuriken while I quite forcefully forced Kiba's head to collide with a tree violently, multiple times. When they were tracking me Kiba was so loud I had little trouble keeping away.

Ino was probably the easiest to dispose of. She wasn't aware of her surroundings at all and was so loud I didn't even have to try to find her. I just sneaked behind her and choked her out with my garrotte. I just left her tied up. She didn't do anything right and was the loudest of the group.

I must apologize Asuma as she will have the mark of my garrotte around her throat for a few days."

Asuma and Kurenai couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed at how poorly their students performed on this task. While they knew Nariko was probably going to win, it didn't make them feel any better about it as they felt they should have done a bit better than they did.

Looking at the forest they saw the genins approach them. Some of them looked irritated, while others looked quite angry.

"LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY THROAT!" Ino screamed at Nariko who simply blew out a smoke ring into the air.

"It will disappear in at most a week. If you had taken this profession seriously and actually trained, you might have been able to avoid that fate. You were the worst of the group." Ino looked incensed at that comment.

"What do you mean I was the worst. I survived the longest." Letting out a sigh Nariko explained what she meant for the genins.

"I target the ones I thought was the worst threat first. Shikamaru because he is the one to come up with the plans. Hinata because she knows me the best and I know how skilled she is. Lastly Shino who can search a big area with his insects.

I have gone through what you all did wrong and what you need to improve on to your senseis."

"Why should they care what you think. You're just a genin like the rest of us." Kiba demanded.

"That's because she is honestly better than many jonin when it comes to stealth. She is able to infiltrate the ANBU headquarters and prank them before getting out unseen." Kurenai responds.

"I have an idea. Each team choose one member each that will have a spar against Nariko. Sounds good." Kurenai suggested, everybody agreed.

The first match was Nariko versus Choji, as soon as the match started Choji used his family technique to enlarge his fist and arm before throwing it at Nariko. Nariko who's used to sparring with Anko easily sidestepped the punch before using her speed to run up to Choji. Not being fast enough he could do nothing as he saw Nariko throw a hard punch to his liver. It didn't matter what he tried, he fell down on the ground in pain and couldn't continue.

"Winner Nariko." Kurenai called, impressed by Nariko's strength and speed.

The next match was Kiba versus Nariko, and despite having seen Nariko win her previous match with only one punch he was sure he would win against the dead-last.

"You sit on the side-lines and wait Akamaru, I won't need your help for this." Looking over at Nariko he decided to attempt to intimidate her. "You won't have a chance against me, I'm a true alpha male. I will beat you into submission and then I will truly dominate you and make you my bitch."

The three jonins couldn't help but wince when they heard those words. They knew that Kiba was in for a visit to the hospital when Nariko was done with him. Anko started grinning with anticipation to see how much her student would hurt the dog boy.

Kiba used his speed to close the distance to Nariko and threw a punch towards her face. Not expecting her to duck he over reached and was unable to defend himself when Nariko stepped past, threw her arm across his throat and threw him over her hip. Being comfortable fighting on the ground she put on an armlock and easily dislocated Kiba's shoulder and broke his arm at the same time.

Screaming in pain Kiba fought hard and managed to stand back up. Standing at a distance from Nariko with a useless right arm he didn't even think about giving up. "You bitch." He grunted out.

"You should be honoured Kiba you will be the first person I use this technique on." At the side-lines Anko could see how the redhead was working her chakra and knew what was about to happen. Leaning over to her fellow jonins she whispered.

"Whatever you do, don't blink. The technique she is about to do is a bloodline technique she has never used on anybody before. Kurenai, be prepared to take your student to the hospital soon."

Back at the match Nariko finished preparing as she looked up at Kiba and did a few quick hand seals before calling out. "Boil Release: Unrivaled Strength." Quicker than they could blink, Nariko disappeared from sight before reappearing in front of Kiba as she punched him in his sternum. As the punch landed steam was expelled from Nariko's fist. Kiba flew a dozen meters before landing in a heap.

"Winner Nariko." Kurenai said as she ran up to her student and did a quick scan. "Dislocated right shoulder, broken humerus bone, fractured sternum, several cracked ribs snf domr burns." She picked him up and body flickered to the hospital.

"I think we can all agree that the training session is done." Asuma said and they all left quickly afterwards.

XXXXX

Ino, Choji and Shikamaru walked through the gates into the Yamanaka compound where they knew their parents were. The parents saw the trio coming and also noticed they seemed more down than usual.

"Hello kids, how did the training go?" Inoichi asked. Seeing how the others didn't want to, Shikamaru answered in their stead.

"It went bad. We had a joint training with team 8 and team Anko. We were supposed to work together with team 8 to track and capture Anko's student Nariko." The gathered people raised their eyebrow at the name. Yumi smiled a little to herself. "She knocked us out before anybody knew where she was. Then Choji and Kiba sparred against her. She beat Choji with one punch. She then sent Kiba to the hospital."

"Why did she send Kiba to the hospital?" Shikaku asked the genins.

"Because he deserved it." Looking at the entrance they saw Tsumu Inuzuka approaching, a feral smile on her face.

"Tsume, what are you doing here?" Shikaku asked the Inuzuka clan head.

"I wanted to see if you knew what had happened at the kids training session. Nariko apparently kicked some ass." The adults again turned towards the three genin.

"We didn't stand a chance." Choji quietly answered the unasked question.

"Kurenai explained to me in more detail. Apparently Nariko got bored, evading them so easily, she begun taking them out. I don't know the details of how your kids did but apparently Nariko gave good criticism." Tsume exclaim.

"How did you get taken out and what did Asuma say?" Yumi Yamanaka asked.

"Troublesome." Shikamaru mumbled. "I was the first one targeted, since she knew I was the on with a plan. She first separated us with an explosion. She then manoeuvred behind me and knocked me out before tying me up. Apparently, I didn't bother to stay out of sight enough and moved too slow.

Choji was hit with a poisoned kunai that knocked him out and messed up his chakra control for a while after he woke up again. Apparently, his overall stealth wasn't that good.

Ino apparently did the worst. She was so loud that Nariko had no trouble at all knowing exactly where she was, and she was so unaware of her surroundings Nariko had no trouble just walking up behind her. She used a garrotte and choked her until unconsciousness." The adults looked and saw the mark that was left around Ino's throat.

"Thank you Shikamaru." Inoichi said before turning to his daughter. "I thought you would start training properly now that you had graduated, but I guess I was wrong. I will forbid you dieting, and I will start training you myself until you are at a level I feel is fitting." Ino gave her father a betrayed look that did nothing to him.

"We will also train you harder." Shikaku said pointing between him and Choza.

"Why does everybody take what that cross-dresser says seriously. Just a few months ago he was the stupid dead-last and now suddenly he has turned to a girl, and everybody listens to him. He's probably just faking being a girl, I mean he is too ugly and muscular being one." She was immediately blasted by a large amount of killing intent emanating from Yumi and Tsume.

"I have never before been so ashamed of you as I am right now Ino." Yumi began. "There is a reason why Nariko acted like she did as Naruto, but that is something I will not tell you. She had the seal that turned her into Naruto put on her when she was 6-years-old, and she has been going to me for therapy since then as well.

The reason why she is so muscular is because she works out more than many jonin, and she does that for one reason. Ino, what happens when kunoichi gets captured by most enemies?" Ino started to shrink away in fear from her aunt. Bravely she swallowed and answered.

"We get killed." Yumi just shook her head.

"If you're lucky you get killed. Most kunoichi that gets captured get raped and used like sex toys first." Tsume continued seeing that it would hopefully help the girl.

"That is why you should train hard, so you can escape that fate. If you don't get serious, I might ask permission to teach you a lesson like Kiba was taught today."

"Why did Nariko send Kiba to the hospital?" Choza ask the clan head.

"He was talking about how he was going to beat her up and afterwards make her submit to her and make her his bitch. He was lucky he didn't die."

Everybody there agreed that Kiba was indeed lucky.

XXXXX

Nariko and Anko was standing inside of the hokage's office, it was the day after the joint training session, and they were about to accept their next mission.

"Hokage-sama…" The phrasing in itself from Anko alerted the old man something was up. "…I think me and Nariko is ready for a C-rank. We have successfully completed the required amount of D-ranks and I think she is ready." Looking over his notes the hokage saw that she was indeed correct.

"What sort of mission do you want?"

"I want to bloody her." Hiruzen Sarutobi stared at the woman in front of her silently demanding that she explain what she means. "I want her to have her first kill in a situation where we know it will happen. Not in an escort or currier mission where it might happen without her being mentally prepared." Hiruzen could find no fault in her reasoning but he still looked at Nariko to see what she would say.

"Do you agree Nariko-chan?"

"I agree that it would be for the best to do it like that."

"The I will allow it." He handed a scroll to Anko. "There is a bandit camp a few hours out that needs clearing. They have taken some women from nearby villages." Anko and Nariko nodded before leaving.

XXXXX

It was the middle of the night and team Anko had spent a few hours staking out the bandit camp. It was a decent size camp with six bandits guarding the perimeter and another twenty bandits in camp. The only problem they had was that Nariko almost lost her temper when she saw a number of women held captive, naked in cages.

"Listen up, we each have to take out three guards each. Do it silently and signal me when you are done. Then we will go in and take everybody out." Anko ordered while Nariko listened. "We will need to kill all the bandits, so you need to be prepared for that. Let's go." Nariko nodded in understanding and jumped away.

Nariko soon stood in a tree over the first bandit she would need to take out. She tried not to take any identifying features of him into memories in hopes that it would help her cope, but already knew she would be affected.

Waiting for the right moment she slowly drew her swords, and as the bandit lowered his head she dropped. Spinning in the air she aimed to cleanly remove his head from his shoulders. Sadly she didn't cut through completely and the head just folded over causing the blood that now squirted from the bandit to shower Nariko in blood. She worked hard not to stop there and throw up, instead she continued on.

When she reached the next guard she planned to sneak up behind him and use a kunai to slit his throat. She began sneaking up behind him, but before she could attack he turned around. Acting on instinct she slashed out with a kunai and cut his throat. As he slumped down over her, she got another shower of blood. She had to physically swallow her vomit back down again to continue with the mission.

Not wanting a bloody repeat she approached the next target quicker and with her garrotte this time. Reaching up over the bandit she positioned it over his throat and pulled. She used her small stature to flip the bandit over her hip, making him hit the ground on his stomach. This gave her more leverage to choke him to death. She took a few deep breaths before hooting like an owl. She heard another hooting from the distance signalling that the attack on the camp would begin.

Entering the camp, the first thing Nariko does is throwing a kunai at the nearest target's head impaling it. Seeing a group of bandits ten meters to her left she goes through four hand seals, slammed her hands to the ground and called out "Lava Release: Lava Creation". The ground beneath the bandits turned to lava and they were too slow to escape. Their screams drowned out most of all other noise in the camp.

Having most of the bandits' attention on her now Nariko called out her next technique. "Lava Release: Hellhound". From the glob of lava Nariko spat out, a dog-like structure formed that started attacking the bandits. Pulling out her swords Nariko began dancing a deadly dance.

It only took a few minutes to clear the camp, but as soon as the last man fell Nariko started to throw up everything that had previously been in her stomach and tears fell from her eyes. After freeing the other women Anko approached the girl. Ignoring the fact that she was completely covered in blood, she embraced her.

"Am I a monster Anko? Everybody calls me a demon and a monster, am I that?" Anko hugged her harder.

"You're not a monster, nor are you a demon Nariko. You are a beautiful girl that just saved several women from a fate worse than death. A fate you're familiar with." Struggling against the embrace, Nariko reached into her pocket and pulled a cigarette that she lit. "When we get back to the village, I want you to return to the compound and take a shower and go to bed. After I report back to the hokage I will join you in bed, I think it will help if I hold you as you sleep."

XXXXX

The hokage was taking a short break from his paperwork when a figure entered from his window. He immediately knew it was Anko without needing to look up.

"How did it go Anko?"

"It went as can be expected. She didn't hesitate, but she did some rookie mistakes resulting in getting her showered in blood twice before we entered the camp. Luckily by the time we entered the camp she had shaped up and executed the extermination well." The hokage let out a breath of relief he didn't know he had held.

"What about her mental state?"

"I ordered her home to take a shower and sleep. She reacted as expected with vomit and tears. After we're finished here I'm going to join her in bed and just hold her."

"Good work Anko, I will excuse you, but I want a written report tomorrow."