The morning saw the chunin Anko Maharishi enter her friend Kurenai Yūhi's apartment. Anko herself had purple hair shaped like a pineapple, and pupils less gray eyes. She was also wearing a trench coat with mesh armor. She was a little shocked to see a boy sleeping on Kurenai's couch. Never the less she made her way to Kurenai's bed and shook her awake.
"Kurenai I knew you liked them younger but that kid is what five years old. Even I find that creepy." Anko said with a grin on her face.
Rubbing the sleep from her eyes Kurenai replied, "Kami Anko that's disgusting. I am watching him on the Hokage's personal orders. Plus he's six."
Anko raised an eyebrow, "Really what could the old man want with him, the kid doesn't look like much?"
The question never got answered because the two women heard a banging from the other room. They ran into the room expecting an attack, only to see a pan on the floor and an embarrassed Toshiro blushing.
"What are you doing?" Kurenai asked.
"I was going to make you breakfast as a thank you for taking care of me. But I dropped the pan."
Kurenai thought that was sweet well Anko thought that it was too darn sappy and was mentally throwing up.
"Well that is nice but next tell me. Now come on let's make breakfast." Kurenai said
It was just after they had finished breakfast that Toshiro asked Anko, "Are a ninja?"
"You bet your ass I'm ninja why?" Anko asked.
"It's just you don't look like a ninja. Ninja are supposed to blend into their environment, and you stick out like a sore thumb. The only reason ninja dress like you do is if they are super strong, and you don't look super strong." Toshiro said as if it was a fact.
As Toshiro was speaking Anko was getting angry and angry. Her grip on Kurenai's kitchen table was so great that it was starting to getcracks in it.
"Fine about we have a friendly spar and you see how "super strong" I am brat." Anko said her dangerously low.
"Anko please he's just a kid." Kurenai started to protest only to get interrupted by Toshiro.
"Fine, but I choose the training ground." Toshiro said.
Anko just smirked, "Deal brat"
A few minutes later the trio was at a training ground covered by trees expect with a lake that was behind Toshiro. Kurenai was acting as the referee.
Anko licked her lips, "I'm not going to go easy on you brat."
Toshiro ignored the jeer and closed his eyes, when he opened them his red eyes had turned cold and had a hint of steel in them.
Anko to take a step back. As soon as Kurenai said begin Toshiro rushed at Anko who dodged the hit. As she landed Anko saw that there was a cut in her coat. She looked at Toshiro who now had a kunai in his right hand. 'Where the hell did the brat get a kunai?' She thought. But that question would have to be answered later because Toshiro rushed at her in a flurry of kicks and punches. Well Anko admitted that the kicks and punches flowed well together and had a good amount power behind them he was simply to slow to hit her. It was a blocked kick that caused Toshiro flip back in front of the small lake behind him.
"You're going to have to be better than that to hit me kid." Anko boasted.
Toshiro started making hand signs, "Water Style: Water Wolf Jutsu" he said as a wolf made of pure water with yellow eyes appeared behind him.
In her shock Anko didn't dodge the dragon as it smashed into her. She expected to hit the ground only to feel a shoe on her back. She glanced behind her to see that Toshiro had gotten behind her, and with a kick he sent her sailing into the lake. When Anko got up she heard chuckling from the trees. All three on them looked to a dog masked ANBU with white spiky hair.
"You know Anko I might have to talk to the Hokage about bumping you back down to genin if a kid who isn't even in the academy yet can get the drop on you like that." The ANBU said.
"Shut up why are you hear anyway?" Anko asked while moving her hair out of her eyes.
"The Hokage wishes to see the boy and I have been told to get him, both of you are relieved of the duty. I'll be sure to tell the Hokage all about how you started training him." The ANBU said and you could swear that he was grinning behind the mask.
The ANBU jumped down and gestured for Toshiro to follow him. Before he could Anko asked a question. "Brat where did you hide the kunai?"
Toshiro smiled, "Ninja need to keep some secrets. I thought you would know that maybe you need to go back to the Academy." With that he and ANBU left the training ground.
'Go back to the Academy hey?' Anko thought. As she thought more about it a smirk appeared on her face. She could kill two birds with one stone. With a quick good bye to Kurenai she dashed to the academy.
While Anko had her breakthrough, Toshiro and the ANBU walked toward the Hokage's tower. The ANBU was reading a little orange book and was giggling every now and then. Leaf ninja were weird Toshiro decided. His mother was a med-nin and his dad had been a retired member of the Mist ANBU and he never acted like that. To end the silence Toshiro asked a question.
"ANBU-san do you know why people chase a small red hair girl?"
This caused the ANBU to lose a step, and slowly close his book and have his voice change to a serious tone, "Because they are fools who can't tell the difference between a scroll and the kunai in the scroll." The ANBU said his voice getting a little angry at the end.
Toshiro raised his eyebrow wondering what that meant, "Any way next time I run into her I'm going to ask her to be my friend. She looks like she needs a friend, and so do I. I never really had friends back in my other village. Mom and dad were worried that someone would tell the ninja that could use water justu easily." He finished with a smile and a small blush on his cheeks.
The ANBU nodded smiling behind his mask. "Come one we have to get there quickly." With that the man grabbed the boy's shoulder and disappeared only to reappear in front of the Hokage's door startling his secretary who mumbled something about "ninja never making a normal entrance".
"I have to learn that." Toshiro said in slight awe
The ANBU smiled and ruffled his hair, "I have no doubt you will one day. Now the Hokage is expecting us."
With a knock and a come in from the Hokage both of them entered the room. To see not only the Hokage but his advisors in the room as well.
"Thank you Dog for getting him so quickly. But I am afraid I must ask you to stay if things turn south." The Hokage said. The ANBU nodded and disappeared into a corner in the office. The Hokage turned to Toshiro, "Toshiro in just a few moments your aunt Tsunade Senju will arrive she was one of my students and until recently she was the last senju. Be respectful okay?" The Hokage said with a gentle smile.
Toshiro nodded just quickly enough before banging was heard from outside, and the door entering the Hokage's office was kicked off its hinges, which then smashed through the window in the Hokage's office and fell to the ground. Miraculously no one was hurt by the door. In front of all four of them was a blonde women who looked to be in her mid-twenties, dress in a green gi with hazel eyes, and she had a giant bust. Behind her was a teenager girl with black hair and black eyes wearing a dark green robe, she was also carry a pig.
"I swear sensei Hokage or not if this was just a plan to get me back to this village I will punch you so hard you will be in Earth country by the time you land." Tsuande said. Tsuande looked around the room to see the Hokage and his advisors simply staring at her. She then saw Toshiro peek out from behind the Hokage's legs.
'He has the same eyes has Granduncle expect they aren't as hardened.' Tsuande shook her head, "How do I know this isn't some trick sensei."
The Hokage threw Tsuande the file with the blood test. "I had his blood tested and a med-nin of your skill would be able to see if it was faked. Which it was not, he is fact the grandson of Tobirama Senju."
Tsuande's hands started to tremble and with tears in her eyes she engulfed Toshiro in a hug, which after a moment of hesitation he returned.
While the two senju were having a touching moment. At the academy the chunin instructor Iruka Umino was in a moment he wished he could escape. He didn't know how he got into this position, one moment he was planning for the class that was entering the academy in one months' time, and the next Anko was straddling him on the floor. He noticed she was dripping wet and admitted that see did look quite pretty with her purple hair cascading down her back instead of it being in its normal pineapple shape.
"Hey Dolphin-kun, I was wondering if you could do me a favor." Anko said licking the scar that ran across Iruka's nose.
"W-W-W hat would that be Anko?" Iruka asked stammering. He cursed his stammering he should be used to this by now. Anko did this at least three times a week, but it was normally at his home or in a side alley that he took as a short court home. Why would she do this now?
Anko pouted "Dolphin-kun we talked about this. You can call me Anko-chan or Mistress but not just Anko. I'll punish you for that later. Any way back to my favor I was wondering if I could be your assistant for this year at least. If we enjoy each other's company enough maybe it can continue? I would also owe you a favor. I take my favors very seriously. Her voice had turned lustful by the end.
"I'll see what I can do Anko." Iruka said
Anko clapped her hands, "Thanks Dolphin-kun" she said. Then took out a kunai cut his cheek lick and then kissed the wound would be healed by tomorrow. She jumped off Iruka and onto the window. "If you want to help me dry off I'll be in the shower, you know where my apartment is." With a wink then she left.
He did know where her apartment was, because one night she had broken into his apartment and spray painted the address all over his walls. Iruka took a few deep breaths and picked-up his papers. Why did Anko want to work at the academy? Was this her bizarre way of trying to get closer to him? Not that Iruka would mind getting to know Anko better. He shrugged it couldn't really hurt, he was fairly sure that he could rein her in if he needed to. He also needed help controlling 20 plus kids, and that only got harder as they got older, how he hated teenage hormones. Plus it wouldn't hurt for the girls to have someone to look up. Even if it was someone as unorthodox as Anko. Not that the other female instructors were bad at their jobs, but it was beneficial for them to see a female ninja that kept trying to move up in the ninja world. Yeah he could call in a few favors and have her as an assistant for this year at the very least. Now as for her other offer, while it couldn't hurt to stop by her apartment.
As Iruka was making plans for the future Tsuande was in the present, she had stopped crying but stilled held Toshiro as if he was a lifejacket.
She turned toward the Hokage, "What's stopping me from taking him and leaving this village right now?" The Hokage handed her the letter from Toshiro's parents. Tsuande's face turned from one of anger to surprise, sadness, understanding, and finally defeat.
"Fine old man you win I'll stay, but you'll got to find someone else to take the hat. I'm only here for my nephew, I will however become chief medic of the hospital and make sure that it is up to par. Shizune bring Ton-Ton were doing home." Tsuande said she got to her feet, and she felt a small hand grab onto hers. She looked down to see Toshiro.
"Home?" he asked.
Tsuande smiled, "Yes home the senju compound." She said. With that the three humans and a pig left the Hokage's office.
A few moments after leaving Koharu spoke, "Will that was unexpected."
Danzo nodded, "Your students always were a handful Hiruzen."
The white spikey haired ANBU appeared from the shadows.
"He fought the chunin Anko Maharishi and beat her soundly, but he had the element of surprise on his side. I put his taijustu at mid-genin, speed high chunin, and he was able to use a B-rank water justu without much trouble. He also carries a kunai that resembles that of the second Hokage. It seems he has had previous training. Toshiro also encountered Kanami, and saved her from a mob by using the camouflage justu. He wishes to become Kanami's friend."
The Hokage raised an eyebrow, "Well the boy is very impressive, and having a friend in a founding clan will help Kanami as will having a friend. I assume Tsuande will enroll him in the ninja academy, with Kanami being there as well they will most likely become friends. It seems things will go well for a while. You are all dismissed."
As the elders were leaving Danzo thought, You are too soft Hiruzen. 'You should have let me take the girl when she was born. I would have had her loyal to the village and the power of the Nine-Tails would be at the village's fingertips, but instead you are placing your hopes in a child. Pathetic, I should have be elected as the Third Hokage. With those thoughts Danzo also left.
Meanwhile Toshiro and his new found aunt and cousin were walking through the streets on the way to the senju compound with his hand gripped tight by his aunt. All around him he heard the whispers of the villagers,
"Tsuande-hime is back."
"Is that boy her son is that why she left in the first place?"
"Does this mean that the senju clan is back?"
Toshiro put his head down, and as if sensing his discomfort the pig Ton-Ton jumped out of Shizune's arms and into Toshiro.
Shizune smiled, "His name is Ton-Ton and he seems to like you."
Toshiro smiled, "Hey Ton-Ton how are you?" Ton-Ton oinked in response.
They soon made it to a massive gate with a seal on it, and after pricking her finger the blood of Tsuande opened the gate. As they walked in Toshiro asked
"What was that?"
"That was a seal Toshiro , your Grand Uncle my Grandfather's wife was Mito Uzumaki, and the Uzumaki were well known seal masters from the island of Whirl Pool. Unfortunately most of them were killed during the Third Great Ninja War from a combined attack from Earth and Lighting country. The survivors were spread across the five great nations."
"What happened to rest of the senju?" Toshiro asked looking around the empty compound that looked like it was made out of wood.
Tsuande took a breath, "Most them were killed during the three great ninja wars, as for the rest I assume the Nine-tails attack took them out."
"You weren't here for the attack?" Toshiro asked.
"No, and I'll tell you why when your older. For now let's find some food, you look hungry." Tsuande smiled
The four entered a kitchen and opened a cabinet only to find no food, after checking every kitchen in the compound they found they had to buy food. A few hours later they returned with a year's supply of found. They also found out that the Hokage had paid off Tsuande's gambling debts, and Toshiro got to see how strong his aunt was. She carried fifty shopping bags compared to his two and Shizune's four. Ton-Ton didn't carry any bags because he is a pig, but he did drag a bag all the way back to the compound with his mouth so take that for what it is worth.
Anyway after dinner is when Tsuande decided to get serious. She looked at Toshiro with a critical eye, "I'm going to be blunt with you Toshiro. I failed as heir to the senju clan, but I will use all of my power to make sure you don't. That unfortunately includes playing a little bit of village politics. The senju clan has to be seen as strong, so from tomorrow until you enter the ninja academy a month from now, and every day after the academy I will train you understand? I want you to be able to beat any kid in that class with your tied behind your back. I will go over a schedule tomorrow, but for now it is time for bed. You had better get some sleep because we get started bright and early tomorrow."
It was later that night and Toshiro was in his bed, it was the most comfortable bed he had ever slept in but he just couldn't fall asleep. He got out of bed and quietly made his way to his Aunt's room, as he peeked door he saw his Aunt sleeping peacefully but let out a loud snore. Toshiro snuck into the room and slide into bed and cuddled next to Tsuande. In a matter moments he was fast asleep.