Chapter 15: Obstinate Ordeal

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Outside the Uzumaki Compound

Kushina watched from her hidden position as Anko slid into a defensive taijutsu stance. They had led the snake mistress right in front of the compound and now they had two possible options. First and easiest one was to knock her out quickly without giving her a chance to fight. Kushina would have preferred this, but she wanted to see how well Naruto was going to handle a Konoha jōnin. That didn't mean they were going to take any excessive risk though.

Being a seal mistress that specializes in kekkei fūinjutsu, Kushina had almost no difficulty in erecting a privacy barrier around half kilometer wide outside the perimeter walls of the compound for a day. This way any and all chakra spikes that result from the battle will be contained within the barrier.

Another good thing was that anyone outside the barrier couldn't see what was happening inside of it – as it displayed the permanent scenery of the time that the barrier was erected.

In other words, Kushina and others will be waiting in the sidelines to prevent Anko from escaping, and maybe interfering if things start to get too rough for Naruto. Meanwhile, Naruto himself will engage Anko in a battle and render her unconscious.

Anko watched as a boy around eighteen years in age approached her, he was quite handsome, but that didn't shake Anko as she knew he was after her head. She was impressed by him though, as he had been able to conceal his location from her, a Jōnin – even though she had known he was there, she didn't know where.

"Well well well, look what I have here," she smirked, "have you been trying to catch me so that we can do something?..." she used her usual seductive voice in an attempt to catch him off guard.

Naruto himself was caught a bit off guard at her attempt to seduce him. "You do know that you are probably going to die, right?"

Anko giggled. "Aw, you won't be that rough with me, will you cutie? You didn't even need to go through all this trouble to get me here, you could have just asked." She mocked in a playful tone.

Naruto grinned and shook his head; she didn't know how much she was pissing off some people with her words. "That's enough talk… let's see what a Tokubetsu Jōnin of the leaf is truly capable of!"

Anko had been trying to stall time by talking with the young Uzumaki, but unfortunately he didn't want to give her that time. 'Fuck, I didn't figure out where others are at yet!'

She wasn't a tracker type ninja, so it wasn't easy for her to be able to do that, additionally the blond's accomplices seemed to be well hidden. 'I can't make an effective escape plan unless I know their positions. Running around like a headless chicken won't help, so maybe I should just throw around powerful jutsu and hope people come to investigate the chakra spikes, if only to watch a fight. That will at least make the Hokage aware of what these people tried.

Not to mention the Hokage might be seeing this through his crystal ball, and thus the help might be on their way. I just need to hold out as long as I can, and escape if and when I can get the chance!' she thought furiously.

She was completely unaware of the barrier that currently surrounded her, or she would have known that the Hokage's crystal ball couldn't view anything within the barrier. That was why the Hokage was even more wary of Kushina and her family; he didn't have any idea what they were truly capable of.

'But why did he come out alone? Maybe the others are brats too and the older ones are not involved...Well, that's a relief. Too bad, he was sexy too, it seems I will need to kill him to get out of here. But…' she smirked. 'if I catch him alive we're going to have fun~…' she licked her lips.

Naruto decided to wait for Anko to come at him as his ability to predict movements gave him a distinct advantage when he started off in defensive. Moreover, he had noticed Anko's taijutsu stance shift from defensive to offensive when he had shown himself. That meant that the jōnin intended to take the lead.

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