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5 Years Before Kyubii Attack
13 year old Ibiki Morino was having a VERY bad day. Oh...Bad day wasn't even close to what he was feeling. Ibiki was so pissed off EVERY shinobi within Konoha could feel his KI. Many were wondering what made Ibiki so angry. He was usually a very stoic ninja and not many could tell what he was feeling. In fact, that number was 5 to be exact. Inoichi Yamanaka, Second in Command of ANBU and Head Interrogator of the T and I Department and Ibiki's mentor, Shikaku Nara, Master Tactician and known "accomplice" of Inoichi. Shikaku was known in the T and I Department as the Information Decrypter. While Inoichi was a master of Information Retrieval, he had a tendency of collecting too much data. Shikaku solved this problem by accompanying Inoichi in his mind walks so that Inoichi could focus on scanning their "volunteer's" mind while Shikaku would review the data gathered and find any relevant information. The third person among the Team, and one of the only people to read Ibiki, was Choza Akamichi. Known as simply "The Cleaner" among his department, Choza specialized in "Prisoner Cleanup". This entailed killing the prisoner if needed, as well as body disposal, usually through a fire justu after a thorough autopsy, and cleaning the room itself, as mind walks were time consuming and physical and emotional torture worked better, however much messier. Choza was considered a miracle worker, cleaning the rooms in record times and even the hardest clean ups weren't a problem for him. If he couldn't clean the room, no one could. Then again, Choza was known for just demolishing rooms and rebuilding them using earth jutsu. It saved time and in their world, time could be VERY essential. The only other two who could read Ibiki were his only two friends, with only one being known to anyone not close to him. One Kushina Uzumaki, age 19. She was seen multiple times either helping Ibiki with a certain technique , whether it being for the T and I Dept. or something entirely different. She also was seen just hanging around the T and I Dept. just watching as Ibiki trained with Inoichi. His final friend which nearly no one knew about was Anko Mitarashi. Being the personal assistant/ apprentice of Orochimaru, she sometimes needed help in certain areas such as difficult ninjutsu and even her taijustu. Ibiki would sometimes help her work on projects and was even a confident for the girl, who needed it. Working with Orochimaru was not only stressful, but also border morally immoral. Ibiki was someone who wouldn't judge what she signed on to do, and even gave some advice on what she should do. Heck, he was the only person, besides the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze, one of the only seal masters still in Konoha, about her new curse seal. Jiraiya was too inconsistent with his visits to be relied upon, and some visits weren't even heard about, guess he wasn't a spy master for nothing. Minato was sure he could remove it and was researching a way. Ibiki though, was her emotional support. The curse seal was VERY addictive when it was first applied, constantly tempting the "wearer" to use it. If she didn't use it on a regular basis, it screwed with her chakra control making anything above a B-Class ninjutsu impossible to wield and was notorious for either restricting or over expanding her chakra flow when she actually used chakra. Ibiki helped her though it all, rarely leaving her side and neither being seen other than one Itachi Uchiha seeing them enter Training Ground 44. Now, Why was 13 year old Ibiki Morino beyond pissed? Simple. His girlfriend and lover of over 2 years, just after he graduated from the acadamy, was a Iwa spy. Ibiki himself found her out when she was trying to leave Konoha with the battle plans for a major operation, One that would cripple Iwa's advances into Konoha's territory and possibly be Iwa's downfall and eventual defeat. After all, this was war. The Third Shinobi War to be exact. After her capture, the Iwa Spy claimed Ibiki as her accomplice and as proof he wasn't, Inoichi forced Ibiki to retrieve any and all information from her. After two years of them being together, Ibiki not only gathered the information, but also made sure she would never get another chance to trick another shinobi into spying for her. He skipped over the physiological and emotional part of the torture and went straight to physical torture. And that was what it was. Pure, messy, bloody torture. Anko wanted to watch to maybe help Ibiki either emotionally after or during the actual interrogation. However, after the interrogation, she was nothing more than a hot and sweaty mess. Even at 11, Anko was into blood to the point that she had multiple orgasms during the torture. Ibiki just sighed and took her to Kushina. Being in a near comatose state in the middle of a cold Watch Chamber was not a smart or healthy thing. But yes, after nearly 6 hours of torture, she was ready to tell him who was her contact inside the Hokage's office. She was just about to tell, when the worst thing happened, her heart gave out. And nothing they did revived her. He was so close, too close only for the whole thing to be ripped from his grasp. Heck, she even mouthed his name but with her head down, he couldn't see it. And man was he pissed. The only consolations he got were the fact that there WAS a traitor within the Hokage's office, which he was headed to now, and he more than proved himself loyal to Konoha. Only someone who was both a bit sadistic and fiercely loyal to Konoha could have done what he did. As Ibiki entered the Office, EVERY shinobi stopped. Not just the Genin there to help file and send papers; No, Chunin who permanently worked there and were used to KI being thrown about and even Jonin, who used KI on the battlefield and was used to being on the receiving end of some very malicious KI, stopped and looked at him, and what they saw was hell itself. Ibiki had a look of rage and hatred born from the very depths of Hell itself plastered on his face. If looks could kill, everyone in the WORLD would be dead with how mad Ibiki looked. Just as he was about to enter the Hokage's personal office, 6 ANBU agents came out of the woodworks and tried to restrain Ibiki. Kodachi swords at his throat, Two agents trying to hold his arms behind his back, and two more making hand signs so that if all else fails, they WOULD stop him. Ibiki didn't even notice. He knocked the kodachi swords away with his arm bracers, not even caring that his bracers were nearly cut clean through, and threw off the two ANBU trying to restrain his arms. One ANBU finished his hand? signs and let loose a notoriously large fireball straight at Ibiki. All Ibiki did was do a simple yet effective series of hand signs and called out "Water Style: Water Shield" Water from the pitcher plants leapt from their homes and made a simple shield of water in front of Ibiki as he continued to move forward. Now usually, Fire would win against water however, Ibiki was putting so much chakra into the jutsu, the fireball just fizzled out like a candle being blown out. He just reached the door and opened the door then he heard another jutsu being called out. One he really hated. It was the one jutsu Inoichi used for his speed training.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu" roared right by his head as he seemed to just simply phase through him, like he wasn't even there.
"Darkness Style: Intangibility Jutsu" Ibiki said quietly. Everyone was shocked. The Hokage was just getting paperwork done when he felt a massive amount of KI coming into the Office, and with the amount of chakra being used, assumed he was under attack. But to his surprise, he sees a chunin, one he recently promoted too, open his door and just phase out of several fireballs. Everyone else was surprised to the point of shock that not only a mere chunin just beat off 6 Elite ANBU without a scratch, but only used two jutsu. Ibiki just strode forward and after, slammed the door shut making cracks appear along the frame. The ANBU were terrified. Here was a possible hostile inside the second most secure room WITH the HOKAGE. They were supposed to STOP ALL threats, whether they be from a civilian of Konoha or the Tsuchikage and Raikage themselves. And here was a hostile who just knocked them around like a bunch of genin! It was inexcusable. They tried to enter just as they saw a flash of blue light. That blue light was the Hokage's personal security and secrecy barrier. Once it was erected, not many could break it down and it was nigh impossible to enter while it was up.
Inside the Hokage's office, Ibiki just asked for the secrecy barrier to be erected and waited. Not sure what to do, Sarutobi complied asking what this was all about.
"Sir, I believe there is a traitor within this office. We recently captured a Iwa sleeper spy and was given information that she received vital intelligence from someone in this office. Unfortunately, she passed away before we could get a name out of her." Ibiki stated with no emotion in his voice. Sarutobi heard about the captured Iwa agent and that she named the very man before her as her accomplice.
"And pray tell, why should I believe you? You WERE named her accomplice after all." Sarutobi questioned.
"I believe this proves my loyalty to Konoha as well as my abilities as an interrogator. You can see the body if you want as well." Ibiki stated pulling a yellow manila folder labeled "TOP SECRET" in red on top as well as Inoichi's and Shikaku's signatures underneath it. What was inside the folder were pictured during and after the session so gruesome, Sarutobi nearly threw up right there. Sarutobi quickly passed over the photos and read the report with both Ibiki's and Shikaku's signatures at the bottom.
"Very well. Thank you for the information. And next time, try to be cleaner. I'm sure Choza will not be happy with how you ruined his prized room." Sarutobi remarked while burning the report with a low powered fire jutsu.
"I tried to but she was very tough to crack." Ibiki merely shrugged while finally calming down. "Now, if that is all, I believe I should be returning to T and I Sir." Ibiki said while turning on his heels and headed for the door. The blue flash appeared again and Ibiki walked out like it was a Sunday and he hadn't a care in the world, which was his usual look.
"Sir, are you alright?" The head ANBU asked worriedly.
"Hai, I'm fine, just disturbed from some troubling news." Sarutobi sighed while getting back to his paperwork. Why did there have to be a war going on? War created more paperwork than he ever had to deal with. Mission reports being sent in and out by the dozens, civilians asking for random request from simple protection missions to assassin missions. The council constantly asking him for updates about the war and then there was the near daily war meeting. Sarutobi could just feel the head ache coming on.
