9 Months Before Kyubii Attack

Ibiki Morino, a recently promoted tokubetsu jonin of Konoha's special Torture and Interrogation Department, was having a very disturbing day. 2 years ago on this very day, one of his closest friends, one Kushina Uzumaki, was secretly married to the now Hokage, one Minato Namikaze. Now, he didn't know Minato personally but what he did know, was two VERY important things about him. One: NEVER, EVER, under NO circumstances AT ALL, mess with someone he cares for. Iwa found that out when Minato and Kushina were dating.

Flashback:3 years before Kyubii Attack

Ibiki was having a great day. Not a good day, not a mediocre day. No a great day. Why? He actually lucked out on something good. He almost NEVER lucked out, he always had to fight to his breaking point and then some just to get anything positive. And man would he fight, he would fight tooth and nail, he would bite, scratch, punch, kick and sling jutsu like his life depended on it if he wanted something bad enough. Anyways, he, Ibiki Morino, probably the only person with the worse luck than the Legendary Sanin, Tsunade, the notorious Legendary Sucker. But today, he actually convinced a girl he was dating to finally be his girlfriend. And it wasn't easy, at least with his recently acquired nickname, "The Maiden Slayer". Somehow, rumor spread about his last girlfriend along with just how elaborate he used his "toys" with her. OH, there were pictures and everything, and the rumors just kept getting wilder and wilder. Somewhere down the line, this crazy idea that he sodomized her womb with a hot iron. I mean, yeah he was a bit sadistic and traitors really brought that out in him. But sodomization? Really? That was Anko. NOT him. Anko was into the whole sodomizing victims, usually with snakes of varying sizes. In the back of Ibiki's mind, there was this irritating voice that kept saying "Just wait for it." And sure enough, not 5 minutes, FIVE MINUTES after Ibiki felt like nothing could go wrong, his whole world nearly shattered. Kushina, the legendary Bloody Habanero, also known as Hummingbird in the ANBU world (Yes, She was in ANBU. How do you think Minato and Kushina met? Answer: Minato asked for help and "Hummingbird" was sent as reinforcements. While on the mission, her mask was knocked off and instead of messing with his memory, they started dating.), was asking for immediate assistance. She took on an espionage mission outside of ANBU and took Anko just to get her out of the village. Anko's blood fetish was acting up and she needed to get out and kill something. Spending hours upon hours inside the village without doing anything helpful while there was a war raging really irked her the wrong way. But the espionage mission went sideways before she even left Fire Country. Iwa set up a trap for her and Anko got seriously hurt. And with most of the forces fighting Kumo and Kiri on that front, since Iwa was already taken out of the war, Konoha was low on shinobi of sufficient caliber. Ibiki rushed to the Hokage's office.

"Sir, Who's my team and where exactly is Kushina?" Ibiki demanded as he slammed the Hokage's office door wide open.

"Ibiki, You're aren't team leader, Minato is. And as for your teammates, here is Tsume Inuzuka and Shibi Aburame" Sarutobi stated plainly while looking out his window. "As for Kushina, she went towards our northeastern border. Your mission is to rescue her and Anko from the Iwa forces."

"Iwa? But I thought we were finished with them after the smack down we put on them? Tsume asked while her hair visibly shook in anger while Kuromaru growled. Those two were also captured by Iwa but instead of torturing Tsume for information, they went after Kuromaru, hence the eye patch.

"Sadly, they went for Kushina specifically. Now, GO!" Hiruzen shouted while dramatically turning around.

"Always with the dramatics." Ibiki stated while the recue team jumped out of the window and were Hirashined to the Northern Gate. As they traveled, Minato only said a few words. Everyone knew he and Kushina but due to the lack of shinobi, he was picked for this team. Besides, he was considered one of the fastest shinobi even without the Hirashin.

This team was meant for speed and tracking along with the wild card. No one really knew what Ibiki was capable of, outside T and I. A shinobi was secretive by nature, never showing his full deck of cards unless he absolutely needed to. Hence why whenever he went on a mission outside the village, people knew him as Unknown Ibiki. Heck, just when they thought Ibiki was out of tricks, he would pull just the right one out for his bandana and resolved the situation. As they approached Kushina's reported position, everyone saw something they wished they hadn't. Kushina was stripped of everything and hanging by her hands on a tree. Over 300 Iwa shinobi were gathered around her laughing as the Commander was just getting undressed. Everyone was angry and pissed but no one was more angry than Minato and Ibiki.

Ibiki shushined to Kushina's Side and shouted, "Summoning Jutsu: Iron Maiden." Everyone knew this jutsu as he used it not only for field interrogation but also for mobile protection. VERY few could penetrate Ibiki's Iron Maiden. An iron cheshire cat rose from the ground and surrounded Kushina's naked form. It might not be warm but it was private and she could keep some of what little modesty she still had. A Hirashin kunai embedded itself inside the Commander's neck as Minato shoved a rasengon into his head, completely destroying it, flying brain matter and skull fragments going everywhere. Minato rose from the ground where the Commander's body now lay, blood and gore all over his body. All he did was throw the very kunai from the commander's neck high in the air. Just as it reached it's peak, Minato finished hand signing.

"Kunai Shadow Clone Jutsu" could be heard around the encampment as the single kunai became 20, then 60, then over 100 kunai descended around the Iwa shinobi. In the next 5 minutes, all anyone could see was a bright yellow flash and blood being splattered from dead Iwa shinobi from multiple types of injuries. From the drill like Rasengan to kunai piercings and even the occasional Wind Style: Air Bullets, every injury Minato could cause, he did. Finally, no one was left standing besides the rescue team and Kushina. The only Iwa nin to be ALIVE was a single genin. He managed to survive by instinctly hardening his skin with Earth Chakra and ended up only receiving some mild internal bleeding and the wind knocked out of him. He hid himself under one of his fellow nin's cold corpse and just lied there as his entire battalion was taken out by what he would could only describe as a constant yellow flash.

End of Flashback

Anyways, back on track. Ibiki had a confusing day. So confusing, he went to one place he NEVER thought he would enter. That would be the Yamanaka Flower Shop. While Inoichi practically lived the T&I, he did have a very lovely wife who was wise when it came to matters of the shinobi life. And she also just so happened to be a secret confidant for anyone in T&I. She knew not everything was rainbow and sunshine and kiss ass shit. No, the shinobi world was full of blood and sorrow and pain. Now, she never did get to speak to Ibiki. He always left before she showed up or was too "busy" to talk to her. She saw him in the market district or walking somewhere, but the public didn't need to know that if you pinch a certain pressure point, the subject felt immense pain and could die from a heart attack. Or how some entrails fell a wrong way and happened to pull out a lung or even constrict the windpipe. Not the best conversation to have in public at all. But here was Ibiki walking into HER flower shop half covered in blood and some other bodily fluids. And that in itself was unusual. Ibiki was known for psychological torture while Anko was the physiological. Yes, Anko joined T&I after Orochimaru left the village under suspicious circumstances. Lets not get into THAT shit storm.

Ibiki just stared at her for a second then just said three words. "Close the Store"

Noriko did just that with a hurried ease and gestured to the back door. That was their stock room as well as a "Resting Place for the Mind" that consisted of a large couch and a love seat. The "room" was a calming blue and had a small shower in the far corner for when blood and entrails happened to cling to her "clients", which wasn't as unusual as you would think. Ibiki used the shower and then laid down as Noriko produced some jasmine tea and a couple of cups.