Chapter 3: The Broken Seal
"What happened to her?"Konan asked, eyeing the blonde replica of Deidara. She was layed on the futon for when she woke up.
"She was fighting before we got to her, un."Deidara explained before sitting in a chair by the table.
"So What's Leader-sama gonna do to her, Konan-sama?"Tobi asked.
"He didn't say."Konan frowned before boiling some water.
"Is she gonna die?"Tobi asked. Deidara shook his head and Konan frowned even more and said,"I don't think so, but she does look kinda pale."
"You sure you got the right person, Deidara?"Zetsu asked, his head appearing through the floor.
"Yeah, why?"
"How do you even know, she's still wearing her mask!"Zetsu retorted.
"I just know, yeah."Deidara flatly replied. All eyes turned to Ino's pale body when a black aurora came upon her body.
'Where am I' She thought,'My neck is killing me.'
Ino's hand wobbly shot up and slowly pulled a senbon out of her neck. Then she pulled her mask off.
"She's awake,"Konan said into the hallway. Ino watched an orange-haired man walk into the room. Ino figured he was the leader, he had this certain presence about him.
"Yamanaka Ino."He said, it was more of a statement than a question. With a nod, she watched him beckon for her to follow....she couldn't..
(Audience you'll find out why...its a deadly secret she's hiding...)
Ino shook her head and drew up her knees to her chin. She suddenly felt him probe her mind. She stared at him instensely and pushed him outta her mind.
"Yup, you're a Yamanaka."He said.
"How do you know?"Ino asked, finding her voice.
"You forced me out of your mind with ease."The guy said.
Konan shook her head and said,"Let me get some fluids into her, she's dehydrated, Pein."
"Just bring her to me, later."He said, walking back out the kitchen.
"Wait Leader-sama!!"Tobi yelled running after him.
Konan sat a cup of green tea in front of Ino. Ino tooked a sip of it and put the pieces all together....she was kidnapped after she black out..now she was being held captive by the akatsuki...while she was looking for them, they were looking for her.
"Ino-chan!!!!"Tobi yelled, running into the room and hugging the startled Ino in a death defying hug. Ino shivered for a second before grabbing his arm and throwing him clear across the room.
"..wow..."Deidara said after seeing that.
"Aah!"Ino felt a sharp pain in her side and looked down and pulled a huge piece of glass out of her side.
(Oh the only people in the kitchen are Konan, Deidara, Tobi, and Ino...the others will come from the missions later.)
Tobi hopped after that and ran to his room, kinda sobbing alittle.
Ino finished her tea in silence. Pein suddenly came in and motioned for her again. Ino hesitated before following him. He brought her into a room that looked like the interrogation rooms at her office. She sat down and he sat down from across the table.
"Yamanaka Ino, we have brought you here because I need some information that only you can provide."Pein said.
"I'm not telling anything."Ino said, crossing her arms and looking away, stubbornly.
"You don't have to say anything, I'll find out on my own."Pein said, going into Ino's mind again. but this time Ino didn't shut him out, she closed up walls around important information and her deadly secrets.
"I'll find out no matter What. I have also learned that you have a power equal to Kyuubi's inside of your body."
"So?"
"If my statue accepts your power, you're going to die"Pein smirked,"You see, we Akatsuki plan to take over the world, and with the nine tailed beasts that's how we're gonna do it."
"..."Ino narrowed her eyes.
'I gotta get outta here.'Ino thought.'I hope Silence can help me get outta here.'
"I'll come back to you when you're willing to give me the information I'm looking for."Pein said, getting up. He vanished and appeared in front of Ino, who stood up. His fingers glowed purple and he jabbed them into Ino's stomach.
"GAH!!"Ino screamed as she doubled over in pain.
Pein left the room and went to the kitchen.
"Did you get What you wanted?"Konan asked.
"I kinda did and I kinda didn't."He said, sitting at the table.
"Leader-sama. I brought the scrolls you were looking for."Zetsu said, setting two scrolls on the table in front of the orange haired leader.
"Get the blonde girl, that's in the interrogation room."He ordered.
"Hai."Zetsu said, before sinking back down through the floor.
Konan's and Deidara's heads both perked up when they heard a huge crash, a grunt, some struggle, and finally saw Zetsu walk into the room. He was holding Ino by her wrist, and he held her in front of him like she was a disease.
"Let. Me. GO!"Ino yelled, kicking the plant dude in his stomach. He grunted and dropped her unceremoniously onto the floor. Ino stood up for a second, before doubling over.
"You! You broke the seal!!!"Ino yelled focusing on Pein, who sat at the table with his eyebrow quirked, it always did that when he was amused.
"I know. I wanna see What you really are."He said, resting his head on his hands, Tsunade styled.
"Well you're not!"Ino said before summoing her chakra,"Kuchiyose No Jutsu: The Art of Summoning!"
Smoke filled the room, as it faded everyone could see 8 ninja dogs sitting around each other.
"What's up, Ino-Danna?"The white and black dog that was slightly bigger than 7 of them.
"Silence! The seal is broken, seal it back!"Ino ordered as black chakra started pouring out of her body and formed a barrier around her skin, like Kyuubi did to Naruto's body.
"Everyone seal positions!!"The one called Silence yelled. Konan, Zetsu, Deidara, and Pein all watched as the ninja dogs all formed a circle around the blonde.
Silence's body started glowing orange, while all the other's body's glistened a red glow.
"Seal!!"All 8 dogs chorused all together. Their glows wrapped around Ino's body in a circle. After all the sealing chakra stopped the flow of black chakra pouring out of Ino's body, it forced itself into Ino's stomach. Ino dropped to her knees and panted after the sealing ritual was over.
"Thanks."Ino panted before slightly lifting her shirt to her belly button and watched the red seal turn black.
The dogs weren't even fatigued."No problem." And with that, 7 disappeared in with a boof, while Silence stayed behind.
He walked over to Ino and licked her face.
"You alright, why are those sealings periods coming closer and closer?"Silence joked.
"The seal is getting weaker and weaker. It won't be long until it disappears forever."Ino whispered to her dog.
"...What is that tailed beast, Pein?"Konan asked, breaking the silence among the Akatsuki members.
"It's Haku, Kyuubi's equal. It's a beast that was kept a secret by the Yamanaka clan, they past it generation to generation to the chosen one. Kyuuba can only respond to female Yamanakas minds, and so far no one has been able to control it completely. No one has ever succeeded in finding out which Yamanaka girl contains the beast."Pein explained.
"Wicked, yeah."Deidara said, with a smirked. He was proud he caught the right Yamanaka.
"Been doing some homework?"Ino smirked.
"Yeah I have, why do you keep sealing it? You can't control it if you keep sealing it."Pein asked the blonde look-a-like to Deidara.
"I tend to lose control whenever it isn't sealed,"Ino answered.
"I heard that one day the seal will come off completely. How many tails is it up to?"Pein said.
"I can only control 3 tails for right now. I can't try to control the fourth tail because I lose control after that. I almost killed my father trying to master it."Ino said, absentmindly and without thinking.
"Silence, how much longer until the seal comes off completely, I have to get a new one before then."Ino whispered to the dog, who sat next to her.
"You have a year until then, but if the seal keeps weakening like this, it'll be closer."Silence whispered back.
"Leader-sama, mission complete."An emotionless monotone rang threw the silence.
Ino and Silence looked over to the door to see, Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame. Ino remembered how school had stopped for 3 days when the Uchiha clan had been murdered by the one and only, Uchiha Itachi. She also heard about him when he and Kisame when to some town to get Naruto, who was staying with Jiraiya.
"Who's the guest, Leader-sama?"Kisame joked.
"The Haku container. So I trust there was no problems?"Leader asked, turning back to Itachi.
"That was fast, I expected it'd take longer to find her with you saying the family keeps her hidden."Kisame said.
"..."Ino looked around at the akatsuki members that filled the kitchen/living room. Half the kitchen was a living room while the other half was obviously the kitchen.
A sudden staticky sound filled the air. Ino looked up.
Static,"Dog-sensei!! Are you okay!!??" Yune's voice said over the wireless radio.
"Does that have GPS in it?"Pein asked, turning to Ino.
"I turned it off,"Ino said, taking the radio from his outstretched hand.
"Sensei!?"Deidara said, he couldn't believe that this beautiful, delicate was a sensei.
"Hai, I'm a sensei, I'm the head chief of the Interrogation and Torture Department,"Ino smiled wickedly before turning her focus back to the radio.
"I'm fine, Duck."Ino said.
Yune breathed out in relief and said,"Where are you?"
"I can't tell."Ino said.
"You don't know where you're at or you can't tell?"Yune asked, I can't tell has two meanings anyway...
"I can't tell you."Ino said, looking at the ground, she hates lying to her favorite student of all her squads. He was a mini Ino in the boy version. He was very good at catching emotions, knew some of her mind games, smart, and vicious at the same time.
"How are Cat and Mouse? Did any of you get injured?"
"Nope, we found Mouse on the ground, and me and Cat took care of all the other rogue ninjas."Yune said proudly,"Now when are you coming back? We still have a mission to complete..have you forgotten about tracking the Akatsuki down?!"
Ino got flustered after all the members started kinda staring at her, except Deidara. He just looked in awe.
"No I haven't forgotten, I don't know when I'll be back yet...go back to the village and I'll report to Hokage-sama when I get back. Don't let her wild out on you three. You know how Sayuri gets."Ino said, her gaze still on the ground.
"Dog, you can tell me anything. Just contact me if you need anything."Yune said.
"Okay get back to the village you three,"Ino smirked, she had heard Isumi and Sayuri come even thoug she wasn't there.
"...oh sensei, you never fail to surprise me."Isumi grinned.
"I know, Cat. Scatter!"Ino said. The connection ended and she held it out for Leader if he wanted it back.
He took it, but Kisame beat him to the sentence he was fixing to say."Konoha was looking for us, eh?"
Ino nodded, but Leader continued the questioning,"Why?"
Ino shrugged and said,"Hokage-sama just wanted us to check it out."
"Shouldn't we cut her arms off or something, after all she is the head chief of the Interrogation and Torture department. Plus she's a Yamanaka,"Kisame said.
"It's not necessary now."Pein said before getting up and leaving the room for his little office.
"What time is it?"Ino asked.
"About 11 pm! Deidara-sempai and Tobi got you here 7pm!"Tobi squealed, obviously proud of his little accomplishment.
"Thanks."Ino smiled...masking What she was really doing. If she left at 6am and it was 5pm when they got attacked, then it is took them about 2 hours to get here, from where they were which was the border of Takigakure.
Uchiha Itachi looked suspiciously at the blonde Yamnaka female. She asked What time it was and was deep in thought now...she's probably caluclating the distance from here to where she was before...smart...