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Protection
Chapter 19
By: turtlechick
-Neji
It was late, we sent most of the crew off to get some sleep. It had been almost two days since any of us had gotten any type of rest besides a quick nap between helicopter flights. Some on the newer recruits were starting to slip up and this was a process that we couldn't have any of those. They could cost us the entire mission, and we weren't about to let that happen. The only people that were left, was Shikamaru and myself.
I was glad that it was just he and I. I hadn't gotten a chance to let down my collected visage in a long time, and I wanted to get something off of my chest.
His face was stuck in another mug shot book. We had almost gone through them all. It out things into perspective; Orochimaru's crew was so big, all of these men worked for one of the most vicious and evil men in the world. The fact that there were so many was a scary thing.
"Shikamaru?"
"Hmm?" He didn't lift his eyes from the book.
"I think I realized something, about Tenten." I kept my voice smooth, but it was hard.
"You don't have to tell me Neji. I'm not stupid." He said.
"What…?" It was also scary how well Shikamaru knew the inner workings of my mind, well I guess he knew almost everyone's mind.
"Neji is would take someone completely inept with the world to not see that you had feelings for Tenten." And who made me realize that I liked her? Oh yeah, Shino, someone inept to the world.
"And what about you Shikamaru? You can't tell me that you haven't found out something about yourself." His smart ass attitude was pissing me off.
"Yes I did, but it didn't take as long as you."
"Well when did you?" He finally stopped looking through the book.
He sighed. "I guess I figured it out when we saw the apartment, after they were…gone."
"Oh."
"This is just wasting time, get back to work Neji."
:::
-Shikamaru
That process took a lot longer than we had all anticipated. But now it was time to finish the job. We all split up into teams, so that we could get to all of the criminals without wasting any more time that we didn't have. I gave Neji and myself the most important people; Kidoumaru and Kabuto. If anyone had anything useful it would be those two. We decided that we should get Kidoumaru's interrogation done first and see what we could squeeze out of him.
On the way to the interrogation room Kidoumaru was in, was the waiting room, which Tenten and Temari's family would still be in. I doubt that they would leave, I know I wouldn't. We took a quick second to check inside.
Kankerou was asleep in a chair, with Gaara right beside him wide awake. It had been about four days now, they were missing a lot of school. Anko was near them sitting in silence, she combed her long hair with her fingers and leaned back and let out a sigh. Kakashi was standing in the corner on the phone. Even though his daughter was missing, he still had a job to do. The only person that was missing was Kouhei. I assumed he was in the bathroom, but when we turned around I was wrong. He stood there; a cup of coffee in his hands, his eyes had bags under them and it looked like he hadn't showered in days.
He looked as bad as we did.
No one said anything at first, just stood there, waiting for someone to say something.
"Have you found out anything new?" I wasn't expecting him to speak first but I guess he wanted to know more about the situation. Four days without knowing the details would have made me go crazy.
I knew Neji wasn't going to say anything, so I guess I was going to have to do it.
I looked him straight in the eyes. "So far, nothing." His face dropped. "But recently we obtained a few of Orochimaru's men that might be able to give us a clue. Neji and I are headed there now, we should know something by the end of the day."
"Oh, I see." He didn't sound so enthusiastic, but I wasn't either.
"We'll find them." Neji said all of a sudden. "I promise."
"You should get some rest sir." I advised.
He nodded. "I could say the same for you." Before he walked back into the room, he put a hand on my shoulder, and smiled. He was counting on us, along with the rest of people in that room.
:::
We stepped in without a word to the interrogation room. Neji stood near the door while, I sat down at the table with a folder in my hand, Kidoumaru's file. I was surprised that it was big, but I guess that's what happens to a person when he works for Orochimaru.
"You two again? I would have thought you would have sent some new meat in for me to play with." He let out a chuckle. If I was in position, I wouldn't be laughing, especially since Neji had been so violent recently.
"You aren't that lucky." Neji snapped.
I opened Kidoumaru's file, starting from his childhood, before he got in with Orochimaru.
"Fights at school, assault to an officer, drug dealing, and that's just in middle school. Would you like me to go on?"
He glared at me. "If you must."
"Look Kidoumaru, we could care less about this garbage, I don't care if you stole money from your grandma, but if you don't tell us what we need to know, then we'll make sure you pay for all of the things in your past. How is this going to go?"
"Who says I know what you're looking for?" He asked.
"Well Kidoumaru, that sucks for you, we're leaving here with information. I suggest you start talking." He crossed his arms over his chest.
"We'll start with an easy question. Where are those two girls that you were sent to kidnap?" I said.
"I don't know."
"Bullshit." Neji snapped.
"Next question, where are they?" I said calmly.
"That's the same question!" He raised his voice, Neji's comment had made him jump.
"So answer it." Neji said.
"I told you, I don't know."
"Well then tell us something. We're not leaving without something." I said again. "Let's start at the beginning, after you captured them, what were you supposed to do next?"
He rolled his eyes, "I don't know." He answered quickly and then began to drum his fingers on the table.
He was lying.
He might not know where they were, but he knew what he was supposed to do next.
Neji scoffed and pulled out the chair next to me roughly, and then looked Kidoumaru right in the eyes. "Did you know that there are seven signs to show that someone is lying? No? Then I'll explain."
I smiled inwardly, it was all over now, we were going to get what we wanted.
"The first sign that someone is lying is that they, lose eye contact." Kidoumaru rolled his eyes. "The second thing is that they, answer quickly after the question was given." Kidoumaru answered almost right away. "One other thing is that the person has a change in body language." Kidoumaru had his arms crossed but after the question, he began to drum his fingers on the table. Kidoumaru was lying, and he knew he was caught.
"I highly suggest you start talking Kidoumaru." I said, closing his file on the table.
"What if I don't wanna?"
Neji got up out of the chair and walked around to Kidoumaru. He picked him up by his shirt and slammed him into the wall. "Where were you supposed to take them?" Neji held him tightly to the wall. If Kidoumaru didn't answer the question, I was going to have to stop Neji.
"Where!?" He yelled again.
"Ok, ok, I'll tell you, just put me down." Neji let him go, and backed away. Kidoumaru let out a couple of pathetic coughs. "After I got them I was supposed to take them to Kabuto. That's all I know… I swear." He was telling the truth.
"Good, that's where we're headed next." Neji looked at me and nodded. I grabbed Kidoumaru's file and followed Neji out of the door.
"I should have known."
"We both should have." Neji said.
:::
-Neji
The walk to the next room was a quite a ways a way. Kabuto was being held in a completely different building than all the others. He and Orochimaru were both in the place where we put our worst criminals. Kabuto's knowledge of computers makes him extremely dangerous. A few hours and a good computer could get him access to the government computers, if he wanted.
He was going to be a lot harder to crack than Kidoumaru was, but atleast we had something.
We stepped into the room and took a seat across from Kabuto. He was calm, his face, had a small smirk, and his hands were intertwined on the table. He was going to be hard to read.
"Kabuto." I said.
"Neji, Shikamaru." His lips curved into a smile.
"Kabuto, we're going to make this easy for you. Tell us where they are and then you can go back to your cozy little cell and delicious prison food." Shikamaru said.
"They? You're going to have to be a little more specific than that." Kabuto said.
I opened the folder I had been dreading to open, inside were pictures of Temari and Tenten. It had been four days since I had seen either of their faces. I took them out and placed them on the table facing Kabuto. Shikamaru was going to have to take it from here.
"These girls Kabuto, look at them." Shikamaru said roughly. Kabuto looked down briefly, we might not be able to get him on sympathy but it might get us a little bit closer. Shikamaru pointed to Tenten's picture. "This one, Tenten, she liked to play tennis, she was a friend to everyone she met and she was an excellent cook." He went to Temari's next. "Here, Temari, she takes yoga classes because she has a temper, she's never afraid to speak her mind, she thinks of others before herself, even though it doesn't seem like it. She's loud, she's rude and she is the most troublesome woman I have ever met."
I don't know who was more shocked, me or Kabuto.
Shikamaru had just spilled his guts about Temari. He had kept it all bottled up, I guess it was going to come out sooner or later.
"Well? Where are they?"
Kabuto was speechless. All he could do was stare, stare at Shikamaru. They were both pretty smart, for Kabuto to see someone who bested him in intelligence this shaken up about one person must have confused him.
"I…"
"Damnit! Where are they!?" Shikamaru yelled slamming his hands onto the steel table.
Kabuto quickly regained his composure after Shikamaru's outburst. "What do I get? What do I get in return for telling you where they are?" He said.
"What do you get? You're lucky we don't come across that table and rip to shreds for making us wait this long." I said balling my fist up.
"Make this easy on yourself Kabuto, you're already going to be in jail for the rest of your life, why not save your conscience while your at it." Shikamaru said.
Across the table he tightened his jaw and squeezed his fingers until his knuckles turned white.
"Fine."
"What?"
"I'll only say this once." He took a deep breath. "They're at the southern base, where all of the transactions go down. That's where they are."
Before I said anything I looked Kabuto over, as far as I could tell he was telling the truth.
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