Finding a Bit of Trust

Title: Finding a Bit of Trust

Fandom: Naruto

Chapter/Part: 13

World: Finding

Characters: Ibiki, some Anko

For: TrulyWikid

Word Count: 857

AN: Two more to repost after this chapter. Remember, I'm on chapter 21 for the rewriting right now.

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Getting Naruto to head out for the evening to relax, Ibiki watched as his house guest smiled and left with Iruka before he turned to the window, staring at the cloudy sky as it pressed against the glass. His mind was already busy, distracting from the work that was waiting for him to finally get around to signing it.

So far it was looking as if Naruto’s friends and allies all seemed accepting, if not surprised of what Sakura had done to him, which was good. It said a lot to Ibiki about the mental state that she had been in for the last six months. It also made him wonder just why reports of worry about her had never once crossed his or the Hokage’s desk during the last year at the least.

He looked away from the window when his door was knocked on, an ANBU in a snake mask stepping in and interrupting his thoughts, a single file box in his hands.

“Sir, it seems as if Haruno has been trying to mess with filed complaints about her, along with a few others. She also tried for any complaints that had been filed and connected to mission reports,” Snake said, holding up the box. He froze at the rather dark look that passed over Ibiki’s face at that bit of news.

“Who filed the reports?” Ibiki asked him, his voice cold as Snake moved to place the box down.

“Quite a few were from Nara Shikamaru, Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke,” he said, looking down. “At least from the basic glance that I had done. It looks as if it was just small complaints about her refusing to give them basic medical supplies when they went in. But there are others from other people,” he continued, getting a sharp nod.

“Very good finding those. I’ll have to go through them in a few. I want you to tell the current shift to write up basic reports about what they found and head out once the next shift arrives,” Ibiki ordered. Snake nodded his head, bowing, before he turned on his heel and left the office to fulfill his new orders. He knew that the next shift would be arriving soon enough and they would need the reports of what had been learned.

Sighing, Ibiki opened the box, unsurprised to find it filled with the complaint forms and pleased at the fact that they had been separated out according to who had posted what complaint. He found that most had indeed been filed by Shikamaru, Naruto, and Sasuke, but there were some that came from Sai and Ino, two of the four that she worked with often.

Shuffling through the files, he found that most of the complaints against her was about her going on sudden and violent rants whenever her perceived authority was questioned or she had to do what she considered menial labor work.

It was starting to look as if he was going to have to speak with Shizune and the other medical nins and staff at the hospital to check on her actions there.

Writing down a reminder to himself, along with one to speak with Tsunade about her student, the interrogation expert looked out of the window once again. He found that the clouds had moved further in over the village and were heavier, making the work around them almost dusk like in the darkness.

The sight of the incoming storm helped to soothe his frazzled nerves that had started to fray the moment he had gotten the summons from Tsunade to work the investigation against Haruno.

His peace was quickly shattered when Anko burst through his office door, looking ruffled, in a lot of pain, and pissed off bad enough to kill someone with a spoon.

Eyeing her, he amended that into a rusty spoon.

“The little cock sucking bitch somehow got out of our cells!” Anko screeched as an ANBU medic nin snarled as she came sliding in. She looked as if she had been running after Anko, trying to get her to stop for ten seconds to be checked over.

Standing up from his chair, Ibiki stalked around the desk, ordering her to get fixed before he left his office, snarling.

By the time that Ibiki got away from work to get some rest, it looked as if Naruto had cleaned his home, top to bottom, made lunches for the next day, and was crashed out on the couch. A book on seals by Jiraiya was laying on the floor under his hand that hung off of the couch.

Feeling his day melt away with the lingering scents of fresh cooking and a clean home, Ibiki sat down on the chair that sat near his couch and watched as his companion slept. He decided that he should wait to tell Naruto about Sakura’s amazing escape with a new, surprise ally.

He looked to peaceful at the moment to tell him that once more his life was most likely in danger from a woman who had supposedly been his friend for many years.