"Let's start off with the basics then shall we?" Ibiki crossed the room to stand on the opposite side of the desk.
Kimmy could only stare at the man before nodding curtly.
"Name,"
"Kimmy Sanchez"
"Date of birth,"
She paused for a moment wondering if that would be a problem before she answered.
"February 26, 19XX"
"Village affiliated with,"
She felt surprised that he didn't react to the year she mentioned. She had just assumed they were from some rural era. Maybe they live in the same timeline? Yet the word village and living amongst ninjas sounded like a different timeline to her.
"I wouldn't say village per say. More like country; the Free Country. Or The Land of The Free whichever you want to call it," she had remembered how Pein had mentioned the odd name of the country they found her in; the Fire Country. She figured she could use terms they could understand without seeming too crazy while still telling the truth.
She had just managed to school her face when his eyes sharpened on her.
"I haven't heard of such a country before."
... Truth, don't fail me now.
"Surprising, it's massive." She decided to continue hoping it wouldn't backfire on her probably slim chance but, eh, oh well.
"From California to the New York Island. The Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters. The Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone... I could go on really," Kimmy hoped she wasn't pushing it.
"And you can't put yourself to one of those places you mentioned?" He drawled.
"I could but it wouldn't matter. My home country is loved and envied by many. My country is broken up into states but even so they all stand together as one in the end. It's diverse in ethnicity like a melting pot and stands proudly before all other countries," she nodded to herself thinking proudly of her nation.
"Tch, big talk for a place I've never heard of before," He cocked an eyebrow up at her.
"So then you think I'm lying,"
It wasn't a question. Shit, she hoped he didn't take that as a sign to start with the torture he had promised earlier.
Ibiki held his trademark smirk as he eyed the young woman.
He had every right to believe she was lying. He knew the geographic landmarks quite well. To even think a place that held freedom for people like what the name had suggested and what she had just described to exist in the ninja world wasn't even plausible.
Though her attire did scream she wasn't from any of the five Great Nations.
Even so he's a master at detecting even the slightest whiff of lies being thrown at him no matter how convincing one sounded.
But there were some things that didn't sit right with him.
For one he couldn't detect her lying. Her body language didn't give anything away or her actions.
And another, from what the ninja informed him that had brought her in was that she had been kidnapped by the Akatsuki. He stated her actions had proved she hadn't gone willingly with them. It was backed up by her not fighting against him on their trip back to Konoha.
She acted, in a lot of ways, like a civilian.
What bothered Ibiki now as he observed her was how well she suppressed her chakra. No chakra suppressor had been placed on her yet he couldn't sense a single ounce of it on her. Civilians didn't know how to do that. He never heard of a civilian being able to lie so efficiently against a ninja interrogator before.
That disturbed him.
Another factor was how keen and observant she was in front of him.
Her eyes, he noticed, were calculating him. It seemed like she was trying to figure him out.
Just what type of woman did he have in front of him and why did the Akatsuki want to have her in their possession?
All of this had flown through the thoughts of Ibiki's mind as he analyzed the woman.
This woman couldn't possibly be a civilian. It just didn't add up. She must be a ninja trying to pull the guise of a civilian. But for what reason? Were the Akatsuki using her to be able to infiltrate Konoha?
"Let's cut straight to it. The one who brought you in informed me you had been kidnapped by the Akatsuki. Why would they take someone like you in?"
The woman started to open her mouth and immediately her mouth harshly clamped shut. He noted the surprise look that crossed her face before being replaced with a look of irritation.
"Damn. It really does work," she muttered.
Ibiki raised an eyebrow before she looked back to him.
"I really wish I could tell you. I'd sell those guys out in a heartbeat if I could."
Hmm, someone willing to sell the Akatsuki out so easily? But what's keeping her back?
Ibiki noted how her mouth had clamped shut before she was able to tell him anything. He placed a hand underneath his chin thinking before looking back to her.
"Open your mouth,"
"Eh?" She stared at him incredulously.
"But why?"
Ibiki wasn't going to let this opportunity slip by. Not by a long shot.
"Let me ask you this; was anything imprinted on the back of your tongue by them?" Ibiki narrowed his eyes thinking to use a different strategy if a cursed tongue eradication seal were placed on her to keep her from speaking.
Immediately her eyebrows arched up before sticking her tongue out. With swift movement he tilted her chin up to peer into her mouth.
Nothing...
He asked her to lift her tongue up as well only to end up with the same results.
He finally decided to ask her instead.
"What's not allowing you to speak freely then?"
He watched as she placed her bound hands on top of her head, awkwardly tapping at the center.
"There was this man named Itachi Uchiha that made these hand signs and muttered something I couldn't catch and placed his hand on top of my head. It felt like my brain was jostled around before it finally stopped. He said-" Kimmy stopped and felt goose bumps run across her arms when she focused on Ibiki again.
The expression on his face had tightened making him look scary.
From the way his brow creased when she stopped speaking made her think he thought that whatever seal was placed on her made her to stop speaking.
This time around Kimmy thought it was more the scary look on his face that made her to stop speaking.
Her eyes refocused in time to see Ibiki the Interrogator to stand straight and briskly start heading toward the door.
She couldn't get a single word out as he slammed the door shut behind him.
Great, Kimmy thought to herself as she placed her bound hands underneath her chin letting her head to lean on something. The seconds ticked by as she waited for whatever else they had planned for her.
What were they going to do with her? Was the universe playing some twisted game on her? In that case what did she have to do to get ahead of the game? It felt like instead of moving forward she was making all of the wrong choices and was going completely off course. She had to start making the right decisions and she had to start now.
One step at a time, she thought as the door creaked open with a new man entering the room.
By his looks alone she already disliked him. He was a good-looking middle aged man. Hot men in this world only seemed to cause her trouble so she immediately felt weary of him.
But he did have a kind smile on his face.
Damn it, her eye twitched.
Her eyes sharpened defiantly when he came walking in her direction.
He didn't say anything to her as the man walked across the room to stand in front of the desk before her.
"Kimmy San I presume?"
"Yes, that's me."
"Allow me to introduce myself. My name's Yamanaka, Inoichi. I heard you're willing to cooperate with us."
Kimmy sharply nodded her brunette head causing a few locks of hair to fall in front of her face.
Inoichi flicked his thumb and pointer finger at her head. "Yet they placed a seal on you so you wouldn't speak about them."
"Just about right,"
He started to snap his fingers and reached inside his black cloak to pull out a scroll opening it swiftly on the desk, placing a pen with a small ink bottle.
"Let's see if you can write any information on them."
She held her hands out to him.
"Can I, uh, get these off then?"
I shit you not; those things came off in a split second. Ninjas...
Kimmy blinked surprised at the sheer speed of how this man had swiftly removed her bounds without her feeling a thing.
She rubbed at her wrists consciously as Inoichi no doubt waited patiently. She glanced at him before glancing down at the scroll and then the pen. She picked the pen up, dipping it into the ink bottle before she began.
Her eyes widened in surprise as she began to write how many Akatsuki members she had encountered and their appearances.
Yes! The seal wasn't stopping her from writing about them! She could reveal everything she knew about them. Though it wasn't really much she could at least give coordination's from the place she had been in and the leaders' supposed plan on 'peace' and how he wanted to achieve it.
She felt so excited from this that she hadn't bothered to tell Inoichi about personal space when he had gone around the table to read over her shoulder.
"What's this?"
Kimmy stopped in sentence angling her face to see him. He was frowning down at her writing. She frowned back.
"What do you mean?"
"This," he waved his hand toward the scroll before picking it up. She bit her lower lip as annoyance seeped into her. Ok, so her calligraphy could use some work but he didn't have to complain about it. The words were still legible, gosh.
"Honestly, my penmanship isn't that atrocious. It's still readable." He looked up from the paper hearing the spike in the words. It seemed the woman could be easily provoked.
He shook his head letting the scroll slip back onto the table. "Well it would help if you hadn't written in such a foreign code. I've never seen anything of the like before." Her eyes widened when he said that. Then slowly the pen fell out of her palm. She collected her forehead into her hands before muttering incoherent words to herself.
To Inoichi the poor woman in front of him seemed distressed. He was guessing she hadn't noticed she wasn't writing in Kanji or Romaji. The gibberish on the paper probably seemed like actual words to her in her eyes. Of course, a sealing jutsu would prevail being done by the notorious Akatsuki and from what Ibiki had relayed to him it was Uchiha, Itachi no less.
That was the same exact reason why Ibiki had called for him. Now seeing it for himself, this sealing technique used was something he was going to have to deal with by looking into her mind.
He glanced at the woman with her face in between her hands. Whatever they had done to her she was willing to tell them anything about the dangerous group of ninjas. Whatever Intel she had he needed to get his hands on and relay it to the Hokage. This would help them immensely getting a step closer to understand the mysterious group. No one liked the idea of someone fishing into their mind though.
But still.
He was going to have to dig deeper.
"Kimmy San," at the mention of her name she lifted her head from her hands.
"I'm going to take a look into your mind-"
"What?!" She looked like she wanted to jump out of her seat but chose to grip the handles of the chair instead
He lifted his hands up trying to convey to her that he meant no harm.
She hadn't shown malice nor hostility to them. Showing her that he wasn't going to hurt her would hopefully help him to get her to comply with what he wanted to do. Perhaps he could reason with her so she would give in.
"You already realized you couldn't speak about them or give the information over writing. I don't doubt there won't be barriers in your mind either but there I can at least find a way how to get past all of that."
"My mind is my private life! I'll cooperate any other way but I'm not giving access there!" Her voice was vehemently strong but the way she edged away from him… She looked terrified.
Her hands were free now yet she made no move to attack him.
What was she planning? Inoichi wondered.
"I'll make a deal with you," Inoichi started.
Kimmy's eyes instantly narrowed. "What kind of deal?"
"A trade let's say," He continued.
"I'm going to search in your mind for the information you have on the Akatsuki and you can choose what you'd like to receive in return so long as it's reasonable."
Green eyes burned against sight of Aqua ones.
Give access to her mind and she could choose whatever she wanted in return so long as it's reasonable. Was that even fair? But would she have another chance like this? Is Fate giving her another opportunity in this twisted game to take the first step forward?
But what was the right choice in this matter? People in her world would do just about anything to know the thoughts of another yet she was being limited to what she could receive. So long as it's reasonable he says, she thought grimly.
Should she say no? She wanted to say no.
Even if she said yes what did she want in return?
She had averted her eyes to think then focused her eyes on her hands clasped on the chair.
But what if he was only giving her this option because she was cooperating earlier? What if he still went inside her mind even if she said no? Then she would lose the option he gave her and her mind would be invaded. A complete lose/lose for her. At least if she said yes she'd get something in return.
That's if he was telling the truth and kept his side of the bargain. Trusting strangers was not a smart move.
"How do I know you're telling the truth?" She finally asked.
"You don't,"
Well that wasn't convincing.