Tsunade slapped the assasin across the face the moment she entered the room. She was livid. In the middle of her search for Naruto, the Hokage recieved news of the death of all sixteen political figures under her watch, within the hotels on the South side of Konoha. Right now the white haired assasin sat chained to a chair in the middle of interogation room. An anbu squad stationed around the room and Ibiki directly behind the Hokage. The white haired women smiled softly in reply to the stinging red mark on her cheek. "I never would have thought you'd have an anbu squad stationed at the end of the sewer system." The women said softly. Tsunade smirked.
"Did you really believe that you'd be able to massacre our diplomats and get away with it?" Tsunade demanded.
The white haired women had the adacity to laugh. Her voice boomed loudly through out the room, many of the anbu shifted uncomfortably from their positions, Tsunade just glared. "Oh the tables have turned, who would have guessed that I would be in the same position as him." The white haired women whispered softly to herself. Tsunade growled and slapt the women again. "Who hired you to kill them?" Tsunade snapped. Ibiki stepped forward and cleared his throat.
"As much as I appreciate your brilliant work as an... interrogater, i think your time would be better spent searching for Naruto, Hokage-sama. I'll take care of the woman." Ibiki said sternly. The white haired women began to laugh hysterically. Tsunade turned on her heel, angrily grinding her teeth as she left the room, the worry over Naruto's sudden dissapearance was driving her nerves on end. Then the women spoke. "Tell me Ibiki-kun, what type of techniques do you use when torturing prisoners? My technique was very effective."
Tsunade stopped, something was bothering her about the women's words, she turned to see Ibiki frowning at the women. "So you admit to having prisoners?" Ibiki asked sternly. She laughed. "Only one prisoner. His chakra would have nullified the only seals within my knowledge to be able to pass by undetected of even anbu." The women whispered with a snicker. "I had to keep that awful dark chakra of his locked up somehow." Tsunade completely lost it. Chakra seeped easily into her fist as she slammed it into the women's chest. The sound of cracking ribs filled the air as the womens chair flew off its feet and slammed against the ground. As a jinchuuriki, albit a thirteen year old, Naruto's chakra was large enough that the mere residue of his chakra nullified hidden enemy chakra around the villages city district. This fact was a secret known only to the anbu, Naruto and Hokage herself though, so the fact that this women knew about Naruto's ability was terrifying.
"Where is Naruto?!" Tsunade hissed out through clenched teeth. The women laughed wetly, turning her head and spitting blood from between cracked lips. "In quite a bit of pain actually, the poor dear didn't enjoy his time with me at all, I had a lot of fun though." She said lightly, grinning impishly up at the infuriated women. "About three days ago Naruto-kun was even begging me to kill him. He couldn't take the pain anymore." The women said from her position on the floor. A foot slammed down harshly on the white haired womens throat the moment those words escaped.
"Tsunade! If you kill her we may never find him!" Ibiki called, pulling the blonde women away. Tsunade brushed her hair out of her face, eyes glaring with hatred at the gasping women on the floor. "I'll... I'll tell you where... he is... if you... cough... if you talk to me alone without... anbu." The women said through a bloody grin. Ibiki shook his head at his Hokage. "Give me a few hours and I'll have her begging for mercy." Ibiki whispered. Apparently not quietly enough though.
"Except there's a memory seal on my body. Whether I have chakra or not I can activate it, and all of my memories will be gone, including Naruto's location." The women stated simply. Tsunade hesitated for only a moment before silently raising her arm. The anbu instantly dissapeared. Ibiki hesitated, giving his Hokage a stern glare, before the women spoke again. "Bring one person you trust with Naruto-kuns life. Our deal will need two people." The women whispered. Tsunade considered it and nodded.
"Ibiki, bring me Kakashi, and tell him to make it quick." Tsunade said loudly. Ibiki too faded out to obey.
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When Kakashi entered the room he had to restrain himself from butchering the women. Ten days ago. Ten long days Naruto had been missing and to be mere feet from the women who caused and not be able to do anything was unbelievably frustrating. At some point Tsunade had yanked the women's chair back up and into position, the women herself in the center of the room, directly in front of the criminal. "He's here." Tsunade snapped. "So what is this deal?" The women smiled softly.
"Simple really. Freedom for freedom. You two will wear microphones around your neck; one of you will go with me to the edge of the fire nation border while the other will be directed to Naruto's location. There are four seal doors to an underground chamber to get to Naruto while there are five chakra chains on me. The closer I get to the border the closer you get to Naruto. We will sign it in blood so that if one foresakes the other in this deal the three of us, and by extention four of us, will die. I don't know about the rest of you, but I certainly want to live. Is this acceptable?" The white haired women asked. Kakashi met Tsunade's eyes and nodded.
"Tell me something first. How do we know that Naruto isn't dead?" Kakashi asked, eyes cold. The women smirked at him. "I was part of a smaller division of Konoha anbu so we both know Naruto isn't dead. The reason I didn't consider it and the reason I tortured him the way i did was in order to keep the fox from reacting. As long as Naruto's LIFE isn't in danger, meaning wounded or dying, then the fox refuses to help Naruto. An interesting and dire weakness for a Jinchuuriki who has a creative enemy. Naruto is alive and I will tell you exactly what I've done to him, but first you must sign to secure my life. Afterward you hear what I've done you probably will be far less willing to make this deal." The white haired women said softly. Both Tsunade and Kakashi's eyes narrowed at the women, fingers twitching to snap her neck at the mere implication of what she might mean, before stilling it with the sombering thought that Naruto's life was in their hands.
Tsunade quickly drew up the blood contract in a matter of minutes, allowing the lowly criminal to inspect it to her hearts desire, before the three of them signed it. The criminals hands, that were now untied due to the need to sign in her own blood and signature, lay in her lap in a peaceful way that drove both Tsunade and Kakashi to clench their own hands. "I would like you to look at it from my point of view." The white haired women began. "I could not kill him nor wound him for fear of Kyuubi reacting and alerting you. I am incapable of using genjutsu or mind jutsus so harming his mentality was strictly impossible. So how do you cause a person a great deal of horrible pain without wounding them physically or emotionally? It was quite a dilemma for some time. What pain could I inflict on him horrible enough to make it impossible to move or escape without the option of actually threatening their life? I'll admit that my technique brought Naruto close to death nearly every night..." At this Kakashi growled angrily, wanting to throttle the women, and beside him Tsunade was in just as bad shape. "However, I found a way to do it without alarming the fox. You see the fox is a being made out of chakra whose only concern over his body is physical wounds. He doens't need food or water to keep him alive and thus doens't understand nor care about the suject enough to interfere in any way with his Jinchuuriki in this area." The women said triumphantly. Kakashi really didn't understand where the women was getting with all of this, but Tsunade seemed to have a light of understanding, there was still confusion there though.
"So the fox doesn't understand the concept of starvation," Tsunade said quietly, her face paling. The womens laughter was as loud as thunder in Kakashi's ears. Still, he coudlnt' help but feel a tiny drop of relief. He'd read the thirds description of Naruto's childhood and knew Naruto was very much used to starvation. It was still a horrible thing that infuriated him and he would no doubt crush anyone in his way to save his student, but he knew Naruto could recover from something like this. The smile though, the smile on the women's face seemed to be laughing at them.
"Tsunade, what type of body would you say Naruto has?" The criminal asked.
"Small, he's the smallest of all our genin." Tsunade answered wearily. The smile grew.
"Tell me, what fun would starving an already obviosu starved child be?" The criminal asked, grin widening. And then Kakashi's leader did something that he never thought she'd do in front of the enemy. She vomited... a lot. Tsunade's legs gave out beneath her and Kakashi swiftly caught the women before all her dignity was out the window. Her hands were shaking horribly. Kakashi was terrified now. What had the women done to Naruto that would send a Kage into such a state at the mere thought?
"You..." Tsuande whispered, completely horrified, "You force fed him?" The criminals smile became positively insane. Kakashi choked back on his own bile. His little Naruto had been force fed? To near death? It was one of the worst tortures imaginable. To have your body feel as if it was tearing itself out from the inside and to have food still being shoved down your throat was a torture rarely used because of the sheer inhumanity of it.
"It was so much fun to watch him kick and fight against me, to see him scream and sob and then beg for death, and to still keep on going. What an entertaining person to fatten up. It really woudlnt' have been nearly as entertaining if the kid hadn't been practically starving." The criminal said with a laugh. Tsunade nearly attacked the woman, but Kakashi managed to just keep the deadly fist out of reach. Barely. He felt incredibly sick himself. Tsunade turned her head away, visibly trying to collect herself before nodding to Kakashi to show that she was alright.
"How... how much did you... force him to gain?" Tsunade asked quietly, her medical part of her brain insisting she needed to know. The woman giggle and suddenly Kakashi found himself not wanting to know. She held up her hand and spread out her fingers so that all ten of them were showing.
"I had ten days with the boy Tsunade, and I drove him to near death every... single... night, he packed on a lot." She said through fits of giggles. Kakashi coudlnt' hear any more, he walked to the corner and vomited, before slowly wiping his mouth. 'Oh god, Naruto!' Kakashi thought in horror.
"How much?" Tsunade gritted out. Tears were fighting to pour from her eyes as she mentally went through the horror his body had endured through this ten day force feeding. Naruto's body was small and to add weight like she was suggesting she'd done meant Naruto's body was badly damaged by it. Depending on how much she'd forced him to eat and how much weight he'd gained from it Naruto woudln't be able to walk until the damage was fixed. The women laughed hysterically, filling the chamber with her loud, insane noise.
"I forced Naruto to gain sixty-six pounds," The white haired woman yelled. Kakashi vomited again. Tsunade fell to her knees in shocked horror. The damage would be tremedous to the boy's body. Naruto simply wasn't meant to have a body that heavy. They would be lucky if Naruto could 'stand' for a while much less 'walk.' Kakashi glared at the women still sitting in the chair with hatred. 'If I ever see you again after this day you will die a slow painful death.' Kakashi vowed.
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Kakashi followed the instructions he was given through the radio relayed by Tsunade as he moved further underground. It had been twenty five miles from Konoha, but still within the mountains. At the moment he was in one of them, listening in as he made his way through the first three sealed doors, and into a dungeon like area with dozens of locked cells. Kakashi counted down the numbers, as instructed, until he found himself in front of a large door labeled fifteen. "I'm in front of the fourth seal door now and awaiting further instructions." Kakashi relayed over the radio.
Kakashi heard the sound of feet shuffling and murmurs from the other end. "She says that its a combination seal. You must press your hands up to the door, channel chakre through it, and then twist the seal rings in a certain order. Are you ready for me to relay the order?" Tsunade asked quietly. Naruto was behind this door, they were both tense, and filled with deadly hope that Naruto was alright. "Yes." Kakashi replied back calmly. First ring turn left three times... second ring turn left two times... third ring turn right once... fourth ring turn left three times... press your hand firmly into the center circle. It should be open now..." Kakashi opened the prison door wide and stepped inside, the bulb was broken, the cell cast in darkness. "Is he there?" Tsunade's voice asked, obviously tense with fear.
"Naruto?" Kakashi gently called. A figure leaning against the wall on the opposite side shifted and moaned.
"Ka... Kakashi?" Naruto's voice spoke out of the darkness in a hoarse, broken whisper.
"I'm here Naruto." Kakashi said as he rushed over. Naruto began to sob.
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