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Rescuing Nanami Part Three

'Ruka hurry. Can't last much longer. So dizzy, so much pain...ngh. Help me...' Green eyes glazed over in pain, fluttered weakly. A hand started to stroke her limp dirty and disheveled hair, she leaned into the soft touch wanting the kindness to continue, "Why won't you tell us, tell me your name? All this pain you suffer needlessly I can make it all go away, just tell us, tell me your name." a soft voice spoke sweetly to her.

But it was not so, no matter how kind he sounded he meant nothing but harm to her and those she loved. She had to stay strong, otherwise she couldn't help Rue-chan and Hana-chan and her niece and nephews. No she would tell him. A gravelly voice answered, "I'm sorry but I can't do that. If you didn't mean me harm you would have asked nicely the first time, like before your ninja jumped me in the forest."

The hand tightened and wrenched her head up so she had no choice but to look him in the eyes, the soft voice hissed menacingly, "So be it. But you will break eventually. And when you do you'll wish you had answered sooner!"

Nanami laughed crazily, "Woohoo! If you break me, then I'll have nothing to say! Unless you like complete nonsense."she grinned up at him, "You know I could like you, hell I do like you, so I'll give you a tip...Give up while you are ahead. Your torture techniques leave something to be desired. Of course you must already know that, considering you can't do what some torturers do with ease, Get your captive's name! Ah haha! Go buy a book, Torture for Dummies, you sooo need it!"

The man yanked her hair and slapped her hard across the face. "Inject her again! Double the dose this time." he barked. Nanami felt the needle pierce her skin and she felt like she was being burned form the inside out. She screamed for hours. The pain never seemed to stop, her skin felt like it hand been skinned off, and the shackles bit into her wrists and ankles as she thrashed wildly. When the pain finally stopped, she hung chest heaving, as she sweated and shivered.

"So do I still need the book now, little girl?"

"Ha ha, yes! You know if you keep it up with the injections, I'll be immune eventually! Yay bright-side. So go ahead keep doing me a favor. I'll give you your reward when we meet again. Ha ha!" Nanami gasped to her captor, before she finally passed out.

"Pfftt as if you can do anything now." he said looking at the redhead passed out, and being held up by the very shackles that kept her attached to the wall. Kabato walked out of the room his glasses glinting. Orochimaru-sama would be displeased with his failure to extract information from the girl.

Base 12

Iruka shot up in bed and jerking forward grabbed a bedpost and twisted it and pulling up revealed a sword, which he then held up to Kurenai's neck. His eyes were glazed over. Kurenai and her team didn't move, and Iruka slowly focused and realized what he had almost done.

"Sorry. I...I well...bad memories." Iruka stuttered as he pulled the blade away and sat back on the bed.

"Iruka-sensei? Ano why did you pass out?" Hinata asked nervously poking her fingers together.

"Well, um chakra exhaustion. The tunnel system we used to get closed to base 12 requires a constant and precise amount of chakra to move at all, and if you increase the chakra you can increase the speed, but it has to be feed at a constant rate, amount and speed. You Hinata might have had the necessary control, but I wanted to be sure that you were well rested. We will need your eyes for this, and if we need to make a quick getaway its for the best if I'm the one exhausted. I know the area better, so I would by time."

Kurenai, hit him. "Baka! Chuunin or not we need you. Your the team leader. Plus no one is going to happy to teacher those monsters you call students if something happens to you. I'd be lynch!"

"She is right sensei. Of course all the other ninja would have to shut up, about you having an easy job." Shino spoke. Kiba and Hinata nodded furiously.

"Okay, okay. I should have told you." Iruka answered. Just then the screams started. Iruka went dead white, and blinked a few times before snapping out of it. "Kiba. I want you and Akamaru to find out where those screams are coming from. Stay inside the base though. When you find the area closest to the screams, I want Hinata to use her eyes to see through to the other side. If she can't see anything I'd like Shino to find a crack and send in his bugs. Okay?"

"Hai!" And off they went. Kiba and Akumaru tracked the screams to the very last room in the underground base, more specifically to the wall. Hinata then activated her eyes and looked at the wall. She gasped. "There's a woman shackled to this wall. There are three other men in the room with her. Ano I think one of them is Kabuto." Iruka motioned them to fallow him away from the room.

"Shit. She wasn't kidding when she told us that she was captured in an underground base near our base. Hell we share a wall."Iruka muttered a little louder, "Here are some scrolls, pack and seal everything in this base. Then we will..."Iruka paused taking off his flack vest and slit it open, revealing that instead of being stuffed with feathers, his jacket was stuffed with explosive notes. Iruka even took off his head band revealing more explosive note that had been pressed to his forhead. "Put these all over base twelve. Then when we grab Nanami we'll detonate the notes, which will cause this base to collapse and because we share a wall with the enemy base it will hopefully be enough to take them out as well. If not well we have a distraction."

Kurenai looked at the chuunin with a new light and she just had to ask, "Do you have those explosive notes on you at all times?"

"Hmm yes."

"Sensei that is messed up."Kiba said, Akamuru barked in agreement.

*And that's it for now! Yes our precious Iruka is a walking time bomb. Heehee I just love it!

*Ah please review! :)