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Groggy and disoriented she shook her head, raising her arm to swipe the hair from her face she stopped and blinked and tried again. With a groan she looked down and pulled at her hands.
Tied, and it wasn't an amateurish job either. Her hands weren't tied behind her back where she could have possibly wriggled them free or worked on the knots; instead they were individually tied to the back of the chair. Her legs spread and ankles tied to the legs of the chair. Professional and tight, a good job, which was bad for her.
Vaguely hearing footsteps approach her, she gave into the inevitable.
"I'm dead."
"He's going to kill me!"
Hanging her head she shook it as the person before her spoke. "I'd be more worried about what's going to happen to you now."
Looking up at her captor she gave him a condescending smile. "Look I'm sure your scary and a good Shinobi but frankly-"
"I am Yui Roka you little brat and whoever the hell you're afraid of doesn't matter to me, your life is in my hands now."
Tilting her head to the side the girl looked him over, a bit over six foot his skin was pale, eyes a mucky brown and hair a strange shade of orange brushing past his shoulders. His clothes were loose, too loose, sure weapons could be hidden and movement slightly easier but when they were loose enough that they kept sliding down his ass they were a hindrance in battle, same with the hair. So either he was an idiot or he was very good, sadly for her she had a feeling it was the former. It was so embarrassing to actually be caught. He was going to kill her.
With a sigh and an indulging look she quipped. "On a scale of one to ten I'd give you a four, maybe a five for enthusiasm and effort but really?" She waited for a response, Roka's face flushing in anger before she explained. "Okay, first off you shouldn't give your name unless it's so well-known, like the Kazekage's or the Hokage's and causes fear in itself, as an interrogator you should never show weakness. My Dad says it's the first rule of interrogation whether you're the victim or the abuser – never show weakness, especially anger. Plus you have no idea who I'm talking about so you really can't make a valid comparison and kami save me." At this she rolled her eyes. "You do not threaten your victim with death first off, seriously, you should give them incentive for spilling their secrets. Actually on second thoughts I give you three but it might have been a five with some other than me."
She gave him a small smile as if to be encouraging but sighed as he pulled forward a tray from the corner giving her time to look around the room, noting the exit and catching a glimpse of two Shinobi standing guard outside. With that she obviously tested her bounds eyes widening in disbelief as her so called interrogator spoke.
"No point in trying to escape girl. Your fifteen metres below ground and so far in Sound country no one will find you. So now you're going to tell me everything you know about the slave ring and who tipped you off.
Roka lifted a sheet of paper off the top of the tray to revel a surgical tray containing various instruments. Eyes cataloguing each one the girl shook her head in disappointment.
"That's wiped the smirk off your face huh little brat." Roka crowed with a smug laugh.
"Whatever about my face those seriously need to wiped clean." The girl looked at him in disgust. "How on earth do you interrogate someone when your equipment is filthy, its neglect and it shows you don't take your craft seriously. My father would tear the skin off your body for something so stupid."
Roka raised his eyebrows in confusion, mouth opening to question the girl only to close it with a snap when she ploughed on.
"And are those thumbscrews? They look archaic. . . . actually they look like the set Aunt Anko gave me to play with when I was five."
Roka looked back at the door catching the eye of one of the Shinobi posted as guards, equally confused and slightly disturbed. "You were given thumbscrews when you were five?"
The girl smiled, Roka unconsciously noting that she would be gorgeous when she grew up – which she probably wouldn't get a chance to.
"Yeah, but they wouldn't let me use them probably until I became a Genin." For once she acted like the young teenage she was, nearly bouncing in her seat despite her bindings as she spoke. "But it didn't really matter, Dad had told me so many stories and explained so much that I already knew how to use them, Mom was kinda miffed when she found out I used them on Anna but she was a bitch, she never left me alone."
"You used them before you were a Genin?" Roka swallowed a feeling of unease running down his back. There was something very wrong at the idea of this girl before him using thumbscrews and it didn't go down as bravado to delay an interrogation.
The girl smiled happily. "Well yeah, my favourite present was the doll Uncle Gaara gave me as a baby but the academy teachers wouldn't let me bring her to school anymore and Anna was horrible and she kept giving me grief about Mom and Dad. Like the academy teachers would let an eight year old advance so much just because I was a Morino, so I made her say sorry."
Roka nearly fell to the ground one word slamming through his brain, the quiet laughter that filled the cell making him sweat as he meet laughing emerald eyes.
"I was wondering if you knew or what, one of the first protocols is to find out the name of your prisoner. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to have grown Shinobi run away from you because their afraid of your parents, it's why I took after Uncle Kakashi but considering you took it off I figured you knew?"
Tilting her head at her captor Kaida bit her lips to stop her laughter, shrugging her shoulders. "Yeah guess you wouldn't have captured me if you knew I was Morino Kaida, huh?"
The curses coming from the two guards at the door didn't help Kaida keep the amusement from her face in the slightest. The taller of the two guards trotting off leaving Kaida to give Roka an understanding smile.
"They called you Angel; you team mates at all times called you Angel!"
"Well yeah, I'm my Dad's little Angel, so . . . " Kaida trailed off, sighing at the slack look of horror on the man's face. " And right about now you're going through all the different rumours and stories about what he's done, you shouldn't forget my Mom though-"
Roka nearly panicked at the worried looked of the young Konoha girl before him. "What! What is it?"
"My Mom, she's going to kill me!" Kaida nearly cried, her parents were going to kill her. "They're going to ground me and keep me off the mission rosters for months. It's bad enough Uncle Naruto watches my missions and my teammates waited a year to make sure I could handle the Chunnin exams and now they're adamant that we can't take the Jounin exams until I'm fourteen but they're never going to let me live this down or go on another mission without at least an ANBU!"
Roka nearly choked, hands grabbing the tray and pushing it to the side. "Your parents are going to kill you"? What the fuck are they going to do to us?
Kaida gave a sheepish grin. "Well it depends, hunt you down and feed you to crocodiles, take your limbs one by one and skin you alive – though that was apparently Mom on her own-
"Shut up! Shut up!" Roka screamed reduced to a mumbling idiot, his question rhetorical but the answer sent him haywire.
"Kami calm down." Kaida rolled her eyes.
"Calm down! I'm not the only one who was hysterical." Roka bit out, turning to look to the door for some guidance.
"I'm eleven I'm allowed to get hysterical at my parents anger, you're a grown Shinobi you have no excuse." Kaida scowled, cursing herself for not listening more to her Mom when she tried to teach her Chakra Scalpels or the fact that while her Chakra control was really good it wasn't good enough to have her Mom's inhuman strength. But she was stronger than many grown Shinobi.
Just as Kaida tensed her muscles to try and break the bonds Roka turned back to her.
"Eleven? But your . . . and your teammates . . . "
Kaida hung her head in exasperation. "My Dad is six foot freaking eight and Mom is tall too, is it so hard to reason I'd be taller than most my age."
"Yui!"
Both Roka and Kaida turned to see the guard returning.
"The slaves are being moved to the second base, Shiro says to evacuate, Konoha Shinobi were spotted about an hour ago, now that he knows why he's moving too."
"And the girl?"
The guard gave Roka a 'are you mad' glare. "Leave her here – alive!"
With the guards running off Kaida looked up at the sweating Roka with a small smile. "Are you just going to let them tell you what to do?"
"Shiro's my commander."
"Yeah but he's leaving you here till last, a distraction or a mislead, how do you know he's even telling the truth?"
"My brother wouldn't leave me to Morino Ibiki."
Kaida watched as Roka left the room returning in a matter of seconds with a pack, quickly putting the instruments on the tray into it, panicking and stumbling as he did so.
"You trust him to be where he's says he'll be? Wow I'm impressed; I thought for sure you were the sacrificial lamb."
Roka ignored her for favour of tying his pack, Kaida frowning, with a hopeful look she advised him. "You forgot your map, it fell out."
Roka dropped his pack and turned around Kaida widening her eyes in disbelief as she head him mutter "What's the route to Cee.", with his back turned Kaida using as much strength as she could with how she was tied pulled her legs and body to slam the chair down. Thankfully it broke the legs of the chair freeing the bottom of body and as Roka turned around in shock she put her weight on her hands and kicked up, kicking him sharply in the head and sending him head first against the metal tray.
"Ouch." Kaida winced at the sight of blood pouring from his head, the corner of the tray catching him on the head and knocking him unconscious. Hearing the pounding of footsteps coming back down the hall Kaida cursed and struggled to release her hands, the idiots having done a good job - her wrists and elbows were actually tied to the back of the chair.
"Angel?"
Colour draining from her face Kaida looked up at the impassive face of the man looking down at her from the doorway, this scaring her more than anything else as she couldn't tell what mood he was in. "Uh, hi Dad."
It only took the work of minutes but Kaida found herself above ground watching as ANBU took Roka away, her team mates glaring at her from behind her Dad, who looked down at her expectantly, her Aunt Anko back from maternity leave by his side.
"You allowed yourself to be captured."
Kaida stopped herself from biting her lip as she looked up at her Dad, his arms crossed as the muscle in his neck twitched.
"It was part of the plan. I was bait." Kaida announced, ignoring the angry looks her team mates gave her, her focus entirely on her Dad.
"Bait." The growl from her Dad had Kaida straighten her back, quickly launching into an explanation.
"Exactly, we were outside the borders of Sound investigating bandits. But it was actually a slave ring lead by Yui Shiro, Yui Roka's brother – the guy I knocked unconscious and captured."
"I had to untie your hands." Ibiki stated black eyes glowering.
"I had to lure him into a false sense of security, how else was I to knock him unconscious and find out everything."
"The base is empty; it doesn't do much good now."
Kaida smiled at her Dad. "True but I know where they're going; village Cee and Yui Roka will know the locations of the other bases, his brother is very attached to him. We now have leverage. The slave ring would explain the disappearance of civilians and Shinobi on the borders for the last few months.
"You've been going through my files again." Ibiki said, nodding at one of the ANBU who started to rig the base with explosions ensuring its uselessness. Looking around Ibiki finally turned to his daughter. "Next time tell one of us you're going to act as bait Angel, Gaara nearly levelled the Suna Council building when he heard, and we won't mention what your Mom did." The last he said in a mutter, Anko losing her cool to give the girl before her a wink and grin, following her Commander as he went to get the report off his ANBU.
Looking over her shoulder Anko whispered. "Do you believe her?"
Ibiki chuckled before raising an eyebrow at his second in command. "She may be one of Konoha's youngest Chunnin since the Third Shinobi War but I know when my Angel is lying through her fucking teeth."
"And you're going to let it slide?"
"Guess the tales are true." Ibiki folded his arms and grinned. "Third pregnancy and the brain does go."
Fuming Anko reached for a kunai only to stop at Ibiki's chuckle and follow his gaze to the sight of Kaida wincing as Seko and Juca looked down at her, berating her stupidity and giving out that she had let herself be captured, the girl's explanation not washing with her teammates.
"She has to explain it to her teammates, and Hellcat."
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Dia Duit,
Well I hope you enjoyed this I was writing Appointments (Ibiki/Sakura) and this kind of grew. Lol and so funny to me I had to write it. The interconnected one shots of this story aren't really going to follow a timeline but hop from age to age, whatever comes to me instead of trying to make to stream line.
Hope you all enjoy and I can't wait to see what you thought. This chapter is for fiernynightangel- hope you're good.
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