Naruto and Tsunade walked through the prisoner corridors of Anbu Headquarters. Naruto had been summoned by Tsunade during his leave from active duty and was asked to accompany Tsunade and Shizune to Anbu HQ to check out a prisoner. All Naruto was going to do was train in the Forest of Death that day anyway, so he didn't really have any problems with being called out by Tsunade, but he was somewhat confused on what he was doing there.
Picking out his ear as he followed Tsunade and Shizune, Naruto finally questioned his purpose in their presence, "Uh not that it really matters to me or anything, but what am I doing here? Why do you need me to see a prisoner?"
Shizune turned back with a smile and gave him his answer, "A captured enemy ninja is for some reason far too weak for us to interrogate by normal means and they happen to be too high profile to just go ahead with anyway, the info they might have could be vital to us, too vital for us to lose due to negligence Naruto-kun."
That answered part of his question but opened up a few more, "So why the hell am I here again? If their body is weak, get a Yamanaka to go into their mind or something. What do you expect me to do that no one else can? I don't interrogate people, I kill people." Tsunade, Shizune, and even Tonton sweat-dropped at Naruto's cavalier description of his own on-the-job-skills. Tsunade got over it first, "Because brat, you seem to have a knack for pulling things off when it's really necessary. We can't go into her head for some reason, attempting it injured Inoichi when he attempted to do so. Also, you do need to get some kind of paycheck don't you? Or are the Suna genin reimbursing you for all of the things they're using in your house?"
Naruto face-fell but swiftly pulled himself back in line with the others, "Okay. So who is this prisoner? Are they dangerous?"
Tsunade shook her head, "Not really, since as I've already said, she's very weak right now. Besides, she's totally disarmed and you've already defeated her once already." Naruto narrowed his eyes, "I've only fought one person that could still be alive and possibly be imprisoned right now. What, pray tell, is the real reason you're sending me in to do this for, just so I know?"
Shizune smiled back at him, "Tsunade-sama thinks you have quite a convincing air about you Naruto-kun. If anyone could get this girl to talk without resorting to force, we think it could be you."
Naruto sighed, "Fine… But if she spits at me or does something stupid I'm leaving right after she catches a backhand from yours truly, I swear to Kami. I should have proved my point by how I kicked her ass the last time though so I could just be paranoid."
Tsunade gave him a dry look as they made their way to the holding cells, "Violent much brat?"
Naruto pointed to the hitae-ate on his belt, "My entire job revolves around varying degrees of violence baa-chan. If I wasn't violent, I wouldn't be so damn good at what I do." The group came across the cell that housed Naruto's mark for the day, "All right. Will a guard let me out when I'm done?" The two women and pig nodded, "All right, I'll see you guys when I'm done then."
Tsunade nodded as Tonton oinked and Shizune waved goodbye after opening the door for him. Naruto sighed before slapping himself and putting on his game face before slinking into the cell and shutting the door behind him. He looked across the cell and ended up locking eyes with the red-haired girl sitting on a bed in the corner. Her brown eyes looked at him in curiosity, then changed to anger, and then to fear. Naruto held up his hands in a placating manner as he walked in to let her know he wasn't there to hurt her.
As he looked at her appearance she looked pale, paler than should have been healthy. Her eyes had bags underneath them, probably stemming from some kind of exhaustion, and she did look very weak, spot on with Tsunade's explanation of her condition.
Naruto pulled a chair from a corner and propped it in the middle of the room, taking a seat. He looked over at her, curled up on her bed as she warily looked him over. Seeing that she wasn't going to say a word to him whatsoever, Naruto decided to get the ball rolling, "Hello there Tayuya. I haven't seen you since I knocked you out. I assume Konoha's prison system is treating you well enough." Tayuya simply kept on looking at him somewhat blankly. Naruto sighed, this was going to be a long day, he could see it already. Naruto cleared his throat, unintentionally getting her attention, "So I guess you know by now that all of your team is dead. Unfortunately, Sasuke still got away, but everyone that went after him from my village is still alive." Naruto saw that that little bit of news brought a smirk to her face, "Ah, so that got a little something out of you didn't it?"
Tayuya finally spoke, "I should have known you were just for show. Kimimaro must have torn your ass a new one when you chased after him huh?"
Naruto chuckled, drawing a confused look from her, "Actually I ended up fighting him until he just flat out died. I was kicking his ass if I do say so myself, I just couldn't finish him." Her eyes widened at the knowledge that Kimimaro was dead, "None of your little squad made it back, and you're the only one that survived. You can thank me whenever you'd like."
Tayuya glared at him, "You think I should thank you shithead? I'm as good as dead you fucking moron! You should have just killed me on the battlefield, that would have been better than rotting away in a fucking detention cell waiting to be interrogated!" She stood up from her bed suddenly, "Orochimaru, the fucking snake, he pulled the plug on the cursed seal, I just know it. That's why I'm so weak for no reason right now. I'm dead to him now, worthless..."
Naruto noticed a dark bruise on her neck where the cursed seal used to be, "You're going through some kind of withdrawal from the seal's power aren't you? That must be painful…"
Tayuya laughed bitterly, "It fucking sucks shithead… I feel like death right now. I guess I knew it would end like this somehow anyway… All that snake had on your village was an element of secrecy and a shitload of pawns like me to move around. I don't see how he got everyone else in that fucking place to believe they can actually take out the strongest hidden village, I knew we were fucked back during the invasion."
Naruto quirked his eyebrow, "You're being awfully forthcoming with the information here. What changed from before to now? You weren't talking to anyone before this."
Tayuya chuckled, "Sure, if you call those misanthropic motherfuckers coming in here asking me questions that I didn't know or that I thought were too stupid to answer, 'talking', then no I wasn't talking." She shook her head pitifully, "After all of the probing shit they asked me stuff like what Orochimaru wanted with the Uchiha kid."
Naruto cut in, "They should know what. Hell, I know what he wants, that is a stupid question."
She started listing things, "They asked me where the main base in Ta no Kuni was…"
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