the last student The Child Arc

chapter 37

*it was nighttime in konoha, while the Shinobi on the night shift protected konoha from outside forces, while Ibiki got his hands dirty on new enemy shinobi, while the shadow clones of Hiruzen were taking care of all the paperwork, while the original trained to regain his previous strength. We see the mitarashi family in their home together. Naruto and anko were sharing her bed, while anko was finishing reading a nighttime story for her son. Naruto yawned tired and then looked up at her mother, who had just as tired eyes as himself. But as it usually does, Naruto's mind wondered itself into a question that he just had to ask his mother.*

Naruto: Mommy, can you defeat anyone?

Anko: That depends.

*anko said with a yawn of her own since her son infected it to her. They were again sharing a bed, they've been doing this ever since that night with Kurenai, Naruto hasn't been able to sleep on his own bed, and anko wasn't going to force him to sleep there until he was ready. Anko wasn't even surprised that Naruto asked her a question. She was used to it at this point. And more to the fact, even encouraged it. Since she wanted her son to always keep that curious mind of his, she closed the book and gave her confused looking son her full attention. Naruto, wanting to know more, asked his mother what he meant, since he asked a simple question in his tiny still developing brain's opinion.*

Naruto: On what?

Anko: What am I fighting for?

*anko said with another yawn, she was really more tired than she thought. After a full day of getting information from Shinobi of Iwa, how could she not be tired? Especially when one made the mistake of trying to escape and attack her. Since she couldn't die. Not while her son was waiting for her back home, she had something more important to her own nation, to fuel her, into fighting and winning against that shinobi. But now? Now that she was sharing the bed with her little Naruto? That energy simmered down and was ready to go to bed and get some much needed relaxation. But that could wait till after she answered Naruto's question, the poor boy looked more confused than before.*

Naruto: Huh?

Anko: What am I fighting for? Baby, fighting just for the sake of fighting should only happen for fun between friends. Any other circumstances a person has to fight for something. So what will i be fighting to protect?

*anko asked her little ray of sunshine, smiling softly but very tiredly at him. Naruto looked almost as tired since he himself had a big day of coloring, playing with his friends, reading with hinata, well... reading while hinata was passed out, for some reason, she passed out when their arms touched how strange that was, right? Naruto shook his head before his overthinking brain forgot the original question and thought about what her mother could be fighting. He crunched up his face for a minute in such a way that it made anko chuckle over how cute it was. But after a few seconds, her son came up with an idea.*

Naruto: hm.... oh! You'll be fighting to save our dango shop! Some mean people are coming to destroy it, and only you can protect it!

Anko: Heh. In that case, there's nobody in the world that can stop me!

*anko said confidently,  as she turned on their shared fan and got comfortable with her son, almost using him as a sleeping plushy, a nice big sleeping snake plushie. Not a monkey plushie, that would be ridiculous and ugly like all monkeys. Anko laughed a little since her little snake was scrambling so much that it tickled her a little. Naruto, for his part, was buzzing with excitement since his mother just became cooler in his eyes, since if she said she could defeat anyone than it must be true, since his mommy would never lie to him.*

Naruto: i knew it! Mommy is the strongest! No one could ever beat the superhero!

Anko:" Hehe. Naruto. If you ask me to. I'll even fight God for you. I'll defeat Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki himself. If it means that you'll smile at me after it's over."