We're Tied Together by Our Souls

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"Blabla" Saki speaking when Sakura is awake

"Blabla" Minato speaking when Sakura is awake

Chapter 10

Sakura and Tsunade went to the interrogation department where Inouchi and Ibiki were interrogating Sakura's parents. Sakura and Tsunade needed answers, and Sakura's 'parents' would give them answers.

Sakura was getting a headache, and you didn't need to be a genius to see who gave it to her.

Minato and Saki were still arguing, however, at least what they were arguing about was kind of amusing.

Nicknames.

They were arguing about nicknames for each other, which was amusing, seeing that Minato was around his late twenties, and hearing him argue with Saki about what kinds of nicknames they should have for each other was rather childish.

Anyways, while those two were having their arguments, she had other things to do.

They arrived and saw Inouchi coming out from a room.

"Tsunade-sama, I was about to meet up with you. We are about to start the interrogation with the two now. If you want to see the interrogation, you can go in here, they won't see or hear you in here." Inouchi opened a door and let them go in. Sakura saw her parents sitting in two chairs. Ibiki was there with them, staring them down with his cold, hard calculating look.

Usually civil people were afraid of him, but neither Mari nor Takeshi showed any fear which was weird.

"Something is definitely going on here. They should be terrified right now, but they have yet to show fear, just like trained shinobi." Inouchi said, frowning. He looked at Sakura, "You sure those two haven't been shinobi?"

"Not that I know of, however, I wouldn't be surprised if they were. I wouldn't put it behind them if they were or still are. They had lied to me my whole life in pretending to be my parents, so I wouldn't be so surprised." Sakura said bitterly.

She glared at them through the window.

"Why are we here? I demand that you release us, we have done nothing wrong!"

"You're wrong there, miss Mari, unfortunately for you. You and your husband, have been lying not only to your so called daughter, but also to the Hokage. You also have none of the respect which you should have. The way you acted in front of the Hokage can cost you a trip to the prison you know. Now let's get started. Mari Haruno, is Sakura Haruno your biological daughter?"

"H-hai..."

Ibiki narrowed his eyes, walking slowly around Mari, his eyes never leaving her.

Suddenly, he moved his hand and Mari whimpered, moaning in pain. Ibiki stopped, and she gasped for air.

"Let's try again, is Sakura your daughter?"

"No." she whimpered.

"Is Takeshi her father?"

Mari shook her head quickly.

"Who are her parents?"

"Her mother was my sister, but neither she nor her husband are alive…"

"How did they die?"

Mari shut her eyes tight, refusing to speak, but one move from Ibiki made her scream in pain again.

Ibiki turned to Takeshi and smirked.

"Maybe you will tell me the answer of that question?"

Takeshi glared at Ibiki, but just like he had done to Mari, Ibiki used his interrogation jutsu on him as well.

He gasped in pain, but refused to scream. However, Ibiki was more stubborn than him.

"Stop…I will tell…we killed them…"

"Why?"

"Because of Sakura's gift. We thought we could use her gift for our own benefit, but we wrong and so we got her gift sealed."

"Who sealed her gift?"

Takeshi shook his head.

"I can't tell you, he will kill us. We promised to hand Sakura over to him once her training with Tsunade was finished."

"Oh, one of you will tell me who it is, I have all time in the world, for I am a patient man." Ibiki grinned an evil grin.

Sakura decided that she had seen enough, she didn't want to see this for any longer.

Tsunade turned to Inouchi, "Report when you find out who sealed away her gift, got it?"

"Hai, Tsunade-sama."

Tsunade followed Sakura out, she had a feeling Sakura needed her right now.

Tsunade found Sakura sitting on a bench outside. The sun was shining brightly on the blue, cloud free sky.

"Sakura, how are you doing?" Tsunade asked once she had sat down beside her apprentice.

Sakura sighed, "I don't know. I mean, those two have been lying to me all my life. They killed my real parents. I feel so lost."

Tsunade wrapped an arm around her shoulders and held her tightly against her body.

"You're not alone, I'll be here with you. You are like a daughter to me and I won't let them hurt you anymore."

Sakura looked up at Tsunade, nodding, "Thank you, Tsunade-sama."

"Well, you can at least let me out of here so I can kick their asses for you."

"Now Saki, you should calm down, there is no need for you throwing a fit. That's the last thing Sakura needs right now."

"Well Blondie, you must admit that you also want to kick their asses for her, come on you must admit that!"

"How long are you two going to argue?"

"Aw… Sakura don't be so mean, we care about your well being, isn't that enough?"

"Don't say such things Saki."

Sakura rolled her eyes, Saki could be so childish sometimes. However, Tsunade brought her out of her thoughts.

"Come on Sakura, let's get something to eat, you need something else to think about." Tsunade stood up and pulled Sakura with her.

They went to a sushi bar and got something to eat. Tsunade knew how to get Sakura to think about other thoughts. They discussed and planned for their next training session.

And of course, Saki and Minato decided to join that discussion.

"So Blondie, now that Sakura is all right, awake and all, you will start working with her, right? With her training and all?"

"I was thinking about that, I just wanted to hear what Tsunade had planned for her."

Sakura was about to take another bite of sushi when Inouchi arrived and walked up to their table.

"Tsunade-sama. Sakura. I'm sorry for disturbing you in the middle of lunch, but we managed to get them to reveal who sealed Sakura's gift."

Tsunade frowned and stood up. She put down some money on the table.

"Let's take this discussion to my office. Come on, Sakura."

Sakura and Inouchi followed Tsunade back to her office. Sakura had a bad feeling about this. Whoever had sealed her gift when she was younger, was probably in Konoha. It would be someone who has knowledge about her family, but who would even have that knowledge?

"Let's make a bet, I bet it's someone in the council."

"What makes you say that?"

"Because they are a group of annoying bastards, especially those two older hags and that Danzo guy. I get the creeps just seeing him."

Now that was something that Sakura could agree with her on.

They came to the office and Tsunade took her seat behind the desk and Sakura stood by the window, waiting for Inouchi to reveal what they had gotten from those two.

"Tsunade-sama, I want to ensure you that we double checked the information they gave us. I went into their minds and saw the memory of the event and saw the man who sealed away Sakura's gift when she was younger, I would guess she was around three years old.

"Who was it?"

Inouchi met Tsunade's eyes.

"It was Danzo."

Sakura froze, hearing the name of the man who she and Tsunade disliked just as much.

"Are you certain, Inouchi?" Tsunade asked with her eyes narrowed.

"Hai."

Tsunade leaned back in her chair.

"You're dismissed, Inouchi. Thank you, tell Ibiki to keep those two."

"Are we going to find out more? Like if they had revealed any information related to the village?"

"You're going to find out if they have in anyway betrayed this village, and if they have, there will be consequences for them."

Inouchi nodded and left the two women alone in the office.

Sakura leaned against the wall behind her, as she looked out through the window.

"Sakura?"

Sakura looked over to Tsunade who had a concerned look on her face.

"Are you all right?"

Sakura crossed her arms over her chest.

"I don't know, I am confused. I thought they were my parents, and now I am finding out that they aren't, and that they killed my real parents and let Danzo seal my gift. They were planning to let him use me?! I'm not sure what I should be feeling, Shishou!"

Sakura walked to the coach and sat down. She looked at Tsunade.

"What now? What will happen now? I mean, Danzo wouldn't admit to this crime just like that."

"No, you are right Sakura, and to be honest, there is something troublesome. Danzo was here yesterday, asking about you. Which is strange, why would he care about you unless he was concerned that he would lose your gift."

"But why seal it?"

"It's probably because your aunt and uncle weren't able to use your gift for their own benefit, and to make sure Sarutobi-sensei wouldn't notice your gift, he sealed it. Knowing Sarutobi-sensei, he would stop Danzo from getting to you no matter what. Sarutobi knew better than to let a child with a kekkei genkai be handed over to Danzo who uses children and brainwashes them and makes them into weapons."

Sakura nodded, she somewhat understood that. But it didn't help her now.

"I knew that bastard would be causing trouble, I hate that creepy man. You better be on your guard from now on, Sakura."

"I think she knows that."

"Oh? Someone sounds bitter, care to share what's troubling you?"

"Nothing"

"Sakura, you better come in here and have a chat with this Blondie, he sounds rather bitter."

"Saki, how about you let him be for now, if he wants to talk he will do that when he is ready, so stop pushing him. It doesn't help him, you know."

"Thank you Sakura."

Sakura glanced up and saw Tsunade coming towards her.

"Sakura, what do you say we get some of this stress out of our system? Let's go to the training grounds, I think you need to release some of that frustration you have right now."

Sakura nodded and got up from the coach. Together they left the office and headed towards the training grounds.

Meanwhile

Danzo glared at the report, Mari and Takeshi had failed him. They had been revealed to the Hokage, and now he was sure Tsunade would watch every single move he did.

"Damn them, I should have taken the girl when she was younger while I still had the chance. Now it's going to be harder to get her gift. But it doesn't matter, I will get my hands on her, I don't care who I have to take care of in order to get her gift, I will have her in ROOT.

To be continued

Chapter ten is finished. I hope you like it. Now did anyone guess that it was Danzo? But then again, I think it wasn't that hard to figure out. Minato doesn't seem so happy, wonder what's going on his mind, more about that in the next chapter, I promise you that. So R&R people. You'll get the next chapter soon.

Westwindwaker helped me with the story, and GoddessOFDeaths helped me with ideas for the story.