the last student The Child Arc

chapter 14

* Another day, the sun is setting on konoha, another day passed of little Naruto's life. We see him on his top bunk of the bunk beds. He had his plushie in hand, hugging it tightly as his mother was sitting on the bed, with a old second hand guitar in her hand that she got at this world's version of the salvation army's aka the salvation shinobi. Anko smiled at her son as she kissed softly his temple*

Anko: ok Naruto, one song, and then you go to bed. Understood?

Naruto: Yes, Mommy

*Naruto said as he got comfortable, anko nodded and started playing the instrument. After years of singing lullaby after lullaby, anko finally found one that spoke to her feelings for Naruto, straight from her heart*

Anko: If you leap awake in the mirror of a bad dream...

*anko started to sing softly, smiling as she sang, thinking of the last 5 years with her son. How much Naruto has changed it for the better, how different she is from the woman she used to be in the anbu force*

Anko: And for a fraction of a second
You can't remember where you are
Just open your window

*anko sang, as in the back of her mind, she thinks of what her old self would say to what she is now. She wouldn't be happy with it. In fact, she would be down right pissed*

Anko: And follow your memory upstream To the meadow in the mountain Where we counted every falling star

*anko sang, as she could practically hear her old self, saying things like "you've grown soft" "I never wanted to be a mother" " I hate kids, their so annoying". Things everybody says but very few people actually mean it*

Anko: I believe the light that shines on you will shine on you forever, forever
And though I can't guarantee there's nothing scary hiding under your bed

*anko sang softly, trying to keep a frown from her face, since that line of thought led to her to remember her time as orochimaru's "pupil," aka his lab-rat But that quickly changed after what she saw Naruto shift on his bed to his side, to get comfortable*

Anko: I'm gonna stand guard like a postcard of a Golden Retriever and never leave 'til I leave you. With a sweet dream in your head

*anko sang, All those words from the past, all just disappeared with the wind, when she saw the closed eye smile of her son.  She was a mother and she loved her son. A son she'll do anything to protect*

Anko: I'm gonna watch you shine Gonna watch you grow Gonna paint a sign So you'll always know As long as one and one is two There could never be a mother loved her son More than I love you

*anko sang in a more relaxed tone, as the truth really was just laid bare for her to see, wasn't it? when she saw her son smile, when she saw that look in his eyes that says she's his whole world, that he loves her more than anyone has ever loved anko before.*

Anko: Trust your intuition. It's just like goin' fishin'. You cast your line and hope you get a bite

*anko sang, as she knew the truth.  She wasn't that same rebellious shinobi she once was. She was a domesticated mother, and she was happy with this life. Even if she knows that her past self would hate it so much,*

Anko: But you don't need to waste your time Worryin' about the marketplace Try to help the human race Struggling to survive its harshest night

*anko sang, as she thought of her current life. A life she never even considered as a possibility that she could one day have, but she has it now. All because of this boy. All because of her boy, her son, her Naruto *