Chapter 225: Prisoner
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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
-Author notes-
Chapter 225: Prisoner
Ino opened her eyes with difficulty and immediately felt a sharp, painful sensation wash over her body.
"Urgh…" The pain almost made her fall from the bed she was on. Only then did she realize that she was no longer in her own room but in a small cell instead.
Her last memories rushed back to the front of her mind.
The last thing she remembered was getting into her bed and falling asleep.
She had been woken up when she felt someone's presence right next to her, and when she looked up, there were two masked individuals inside her room. They wore black cloaks and white masks.
Ino reacted as fast as she could and tried to fend the intruders off. One of them appeared to be injured, and she was able to stop his attempt to stab her with a poisoned needle and push him away.
But the other one joined in immediately and attacked her.
Her memories after that were a bit fuzzy. She recalled summoning some water jutsu that destroyed part of her room and sent her crashing against a wall.
'That explains all the bruises…' She passed her hand across her legs and ribs.
She had hoped that her stunt would attract enough attention from the surrounding area, but help must not have arrived fast enough, since she was locked in here.
The last thing she knew was that one of the masked ninjas had managed to get behind her and stabbed her with something.
She touched the back of her neck and noticed a small puncture wound. Likely from another steel needle with a sedative.
'Those masked ninjas… the one who looked injured was very familiar.' She couldn't see their faces, but she saw the hair of one of them when his cloak moved aside.
He had the same black hair as the ninja they had encountered the other day.
'And those masks… they looked like ANBU. Was I kidnapped by ninjas from Konoha?' This situation made no sense to her.
She hadn't committed any crimes. And even if she had, they wouldn't have dragged her from her room in the middle of the night. This was all very suspicious.
Her eyes scanned the room she was in for any clues that could indicate where she was or who had taken her.
The entire cell was made of stone. Her bed was just a plank of wood that had been attached to one of the walls.
A wooden bucket was left in a corner, and she hoped to never have to use that thing.
The door to the cell seemed to be completely made of metal and had a small slit in the middle that could only be opened from the other side.
The only conclusion she could reach was that this was a high-security cell, and it was not one of the Torture and Interrogation Department's.
She was familiar with those, as she had visited her father at work many times before and had seen those cells with her own eyes.
She approached the door and pressed her ear against it. Ino could hear faint noises on the other side, so there were clearly people there.
'I don't know what they're saying, though…' She looked down at herself.
She was still wearing her pajamas, so it didn't seem like they had bothered undressing her before tossing her into the cell.
'Small mercies.'
She still had no weapons or any of her gear.
"Ouch…" Ino flinched as she tried to turn her body around.
'At least one broken rib…'
She lifted her shirt and placed one hand over the wound.
Her chakra began to circulate, and she felt immediate relief as she mended herself.
This also made her realize that her captors hadn't taken any precautions to prevent her from using chakra.
'They don't consider me a threat, or they don't expect to keep me here for long,' Ino concluded.
While her shirt was lifted, Ino examined her belly.
Above her belly button, several symbols had been engraved with special black ink.
'I can call him now….' Naruto had told her and Hinata that if they were ever in trouble, all they had to do was inject chakra into that formation, and he would immediately come to help them.
'But if I do that, he'll become trapped in this cell with me.' She knew very little about how the Flying Thunder God jutsu worked. Naruto was not one for long explanations, except when it came to cultivation.
She had just a basic understanding of how it worked, based on what was written about the Fourth Hokage.
Just as she was contemplating this, the door to her cell made some metallic noises and began to open slowly.
Ino's eyes sharpened, and she adopted a fighting posture, ready to strike at the first person she saw.
"Don't even think about using a jutsu from there, Miss Yamanaka."
An elderly male voice came from the other side of the door as it opened.
"If you do that… you will die. There are fuuinjutsu formations in these walls. Any offensive jutsu that you use will bounce back to you."
This made her hesitate. That would explain why they hadn't bothered to shackle her.
The door opened, and she finally saw her captors' faces.
Her eyes opened wide with shock. "Elder Shimura?!"
Ino was fairly familiar with the three Konoha Elders. They had visited the Hokage's office very regularly, and she had even been allowed to stay for some of their least important meetings.
She must have served tea to this man a dozen times at least.
"Why?..." she asked.
Danzo was standing a few feet away from the door. Several masked ninjas were around him.
"I will explain my motives in a moment, Miss Yamanaka. Now… come closer." Danzo lifted the bandage covering his right eye… revealing the Sharingan underneath.
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