the last student The Child Arc

chapter 2

With anko

*We see her walking to the hokage office. She should be picking her son up right about now, but instead she has to talk with the hokage. Hopefully he'll make it quick. She opened the door without knocking, and sat down while Hiruzen was busy with the mortal enemy of all the leaders of the elemental villages, paperwork. Hiruzen looked up, when anko leaned back on her chair, and put her feet on the table*

Hiruzen: you know this table is a relic right? It was made by the first hokage himself

Anko: and you know I took off of work early for this, and now I'll need to run to the other side of the village, to fetch my son right?

*Anko shot back, with a lazy smirk forming on her face. It was so lazy, that it didn't even fully form, and just became a crooked smirk. Hiruzen sighed and kept working*

Hiruzen:...fair enough. How is little Naruto doing?

Anko: he's a ball of sunshine. You should've seen him, when I bought us bunk beds. He was so excited to sleep on the top bunk

*Anko said with a little laugh, her smile turning a full one. Full of life. Hiruzen smiled softly at that. But he did give anko a bit of a side eye, by the bunk beds comment*

Hiruzen:.... You bought bunk beds?

Anko: hey now. I'm not made of money. Even with the financial help you give, I can't just buy a better apartment, or a house. Especially not a house. I don't have the money for a mortgage. So when I saw the prices of beds, I almost had a heart attack. Then I saw this bunk bed on sale. Big enough for me, and it won't take away space in our home.

*Anko said with a shrug. Hiruzen couldn't help but wonder, how Naruto's sisters must be living right now, in a huge mansion on the fire capital, with there own room filled with stuff, while Naruto gotten something as simple as a bunk bed, made him jump over the moon with joy. He really was happy with the simple things in life*

Hiruzen: I see. Well you've certainly thought about it. How are his academics fairing?

Anko: all A+. You should see him. He's always on a book studying to be the best Shinobi he can possibly be. He wants to become worthy

*Anko said with an even brighter smile. But then she froze. Since she kinda. Might've, accidentally spilled a secret, she pinky promised her son, she wouldn't tell hiruzen. Hiruzen looked at her confused*

Hiruzen: worthy? Of what?

Anko: yeah...that kinda slipped out. I was gonna tell you later, but oh well. He kinda wants to be trained by you and me.

*Anko said, she had no problem training her son, when he's a little more older. But Hiruzen, looked conflicted. He wanted to train the boy, that wasn't the problem. It's his past that was the problem. His track record was stopping him from being on board with the decisions. Hiruzen sighed and stopped what he was doing. He took his pipe out and started smoking it, as he thought on that information*

Hiruzen" orochimaru, betrayed his village, experimented with civilians, and is on a war path against me for choosing Minato over him. Tsunade, she abandoned the leaf, becoming a drunk and shell of her former self, one that Dan and nawaki would be so disappointed to see, if they were alive. And then there's the crowning jewel of my failures, jiraiya. Betrayed his student, betrayed his moral, he betrayed everything, over a prophecy. If I train Naruto, can he go a different path, then my other students? Could he be the one who can make me proud? Or will he be poisoned by my mistakes"

*Hiruzen thought, as he took a deep puff of his pipe, before exhaling it out. He sighed, not knowing what to do, since he legitimately want what was best for Naruto. Since this was canon hiruzen, not Fanon hiruzen, where all the problems are somehow his fault. *Cough* anyways hiruzen sighed deeply, before he finally spoke again*