Anko's mask

Chapter 4 - Resignation

She watched the days go by, trying not to focus too much on what was said in her session.

But sometimes her mind got too caught up in the problems trying to figure out when she did it wrong.

But this question had an answer, her own attitude was different from Anko's, she wasn't explosive, she didn't laugh openly, and she didn't trust anyone.

When she was still Alba, she had some difficulty opening up to people, always confining her annoyance, her anger... Always seems happy.

A positive and ladylike mask of never getting angry, at least until people got to know her better. There her attitude changed a bit.

She was unintentionally sarcastic and black-humoured, crudely honest, and tended to tell people what bothering her. More so when they were out of patience or hungry.

But only the ones who were close to her heart, if she wasn't in that rating, they always saw her cheerful mask.

Although she was more social than her sister.

She didn't try to get involved in her own psychological situation. When the time came, she would worry.

She took a long breath trying to relax and surrender to fate, if she died only one important piece would disappear, besides there was suspicion of returning to her home.

Maybe someone else would take that place, that void that Orochimaru's student would leave, she was realistic and always prepared for the worst.

She turned unwilling to probe her thoughts, she was tired of thinking.

During that time of resignation, she found running in the mornings, strangely relaxing.

Talking to people was exciting, more so watching their puzzled look at being the recipient of their attention.

They didn't use to be so open or emotional, the now usurper came from a country that was openly friendly by nature.

Cheerful smiles, occasional greetings, and helping civilians in any incident were disconcerting... coming from a shinobi.

Noticing the shinobi-civilian gap, even an old lady mentioned that it was the first time someone helped her after Odachi disappeared.

That he was a kind Uchiha who always went out of his way to go buy his vegetables, a nice boy.

The girl didn't know how to take that comment, but maybe she would ask who Odachi was... of course if she befriends an Uchiha, she would try to avoid it.

Others were not very friendly and even gave him an annoyed look, the civilians had a lot of stigmatizations of shinobi.

Some shinobi looked at her strangely or ignored her.

She often walked to look for food or clothes to change what she had, in addition to stocking up on kunai, shuriken, or senbon that Anko's memories told her were missing.

The town turned out to be bigger than she thought, even getting lost on one occasion and ending up at the monument to fallen heroes.

Meeting Kakashi with his sad aura made her feel uncomfortable, the young man looked at her and those eyes reflected such dark depth.

It shrunk his soul and intimidated her a little, this world was cruel.

She disappeared without returning the greeting, they couldn't blame her. She tended to greet everyone, in this life or the next.

She doesn't take it personally.

She watched the days go by, trying not to focus too much on what was said in her session.