"You know," Anko said leaning on her elbows and turning to Naruto. "Why don't we just travel through the night instead? It would be a lot less strenuous since we won't have the heat of the sun hitting us and no one would be expecting it."
"I had thought about that, but their lies a problem with that theory." Itachi spoke up from his spot. "If we were to travel at night we would have multiple problems with defending ourselves as well as making our way to the village. There will be no daylight so we will not be able to see a thing. Plus there are poisonous animals in the desert, hat if we tread on one in the dark and it hits us?"
Naruto nodded as Anko thought about it. "I guess that a good point. But can't we use the light form the moon?"
"And what would happen if one night the clouds cover the moon therefore giving us no light?" Anko pouted as he spoke to her like she was a child and went back to lying on her back and crossed her arms as Naruto looked at her playfully.
"Fine then."
Naruto laughed while Anko shook his head at his teammate's amusement as he continued to stare up at the sky while Naruto and Anko made idle chat.
"I wonder how Kaa-san is doing back in Suna?" he thought to himself despite knowing Mikoto was more than capable of looking after herself since she was a powerful shinobi.
As Naruto made idle chat with Anko, Naruto thought back to the snake he had seen Anko use earlier and it had brought up a question in his mind that he had about Anko ever since the first time he met her and used those snake abilities in front of him. "Hey Anko," he said getting her attention. "How did you get the snake contract anyway?"
He saw next to him that Anko froze up and in her eyes had a brief look of panic hit her before she narrowed them a little and looked directly at him.
From his spot Itachi looked over as well since he had wondered the same thing.
"Why do you ask? You have never wondered before." she asked.
"Well like you said earlier, you said that summoning contracts rare to come by since not many shinobi actually have them. And it made me wonder just how you managed to get yours. The Snake contract is a very powerful summoning contract.
My jiji told me about one of his past students that went bad took off when I was only a few years old. Jiji told me that he had the Snake summoning contract and took it with him, so it made me curious to how you have it." Naruto looked back at Anko but when he did he was surprised to see an angry Anko lunge at him with an angry and upset look on her face.
She landed on him, but Naruto quickly turned the tables and managed to use his greater physical strength and flip her over onto her back while he managed to pin her hands to her sides as well place his knee's on hers to stop her from kicking him.
Itachi was going to help, but Naruto gave him a look that told him not to interfere.
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT! I EARNED THAT CONTRACT AND THAT BASTARD BETRAYED ME!" she shouted as Naruto put his hand over her mouth since they did not want nay nearby teams to hear them.
"Anko we still are in the second exam. You must try and be quiet." he said, but felt a little taken back when he saw tears cascading down her face. "Anko-chan?" "He promised he would look after me but instead he turned is back on me, saying I outlived my usefulness and branded me forever with his curse mark. I trusted him." she sobbed as Naruto was not sure what to do so he just hugged her into his chest and wrapped his arms around her.
Itachi watched in silence but listened in and felt his heart go to his friend.
"Tell me what happened to you, Anko-chan; tell me so I can help you." Naruto gently pushed as Anko sniffed a little before she explained.
She explained how six years ago when she was four, the Snake Sannin Orochimaru had taken an interest in her and had taken her under his wing and made himself her guardian and mentor.
She had spent four years with him and he had even taken her with him when he had turned his back on the village. At first she said he was a nice person who made her feel at ease but then would disappear for long periods of time and each time he had become more and more sinister like.
Then one day when he came back he hate bitten her out of the blue and put some kind of seal on her neck that caused her to fall into excruciating pain as it made her body feel like it was on fire and being ripped in two.
Afterward when she had woken up he had shaken his head at her saying it had not giving him the desired result he had wanted before just leaving her where she was and never looking back. Two days later she had been found by a team of hunter-nin from Konoha where she was quickly returned.
"Why has my father and mother not tried to get rid of this seal?" Naruto said with a look of anger on his face as he looked at the seal on her shoulder but felt Anko shrugged.
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