Finding a Bit of Trust

Title: Finding a Bit of Trust

Fandom: Naruto

Chapter: 20

Characters: Ibiki, several others

Word count: 1,194

AN: Some more information and next chapter will have the meeting! Hope you guys enjoy. *smoochies*

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Standing just outside of the council room, Ibiki sighed and rubbed at his head, feeling the scars and whorls that laid under the cloth over them. Taking a slow deep breath, he groaned and leaned against the wall behind him, arms and legs crossed as he glared at the door that mocked him.

 

Naruto had gone in just a scant 5 minutes ago and already he was twitchy. It was pathetic how paranoid he was about leaving the younger man alone, even knowing that he was a fully trained shinobi. He still didn’t trust Sakura not to pull something stupid and try to attack while the clan heads met finally to discuss what was going on with the young blond. He just hoped that they didn’t take insult to the fact that the small fox like male was wearing his hooded jacket, Hokages permission or not.

 

Letting his head thunk against the wall, Ibiki extended his senses, finding several ANBU at their stations around the building and the grounds that the tower sat. There were several Chunins running around in the lower levels while by the feel of her chakra, Tsunade was amused about something.

 

She was probably reading the courtship scroll that he had turned in earlier that afternoon, after facing down Iruka and getting his signature. After being threatened by castration by the dullest chakra scalpel he could create, the man had signed the scroll and told the man that he should expect to take Naruto out on quite a few dates.

He knew that fact already, wanting to prove his worth to Naruto, especially with the fact that he was a clan leader. Children weren’t really a concern, seeing as the blond already had several surrogates lined up for when he was ready to have a child should he marry a male or when he was just ready to care for one. Ibiki himself had several surrogates lined up for when he was ready to.

 

So children were no worry but making the relationship strong and last was. Ibiki wondered if he would be able to do this without fucking it up completely. He was a strong man, a very dangerous man, with many rough edges and very few people got his very twisted humor. Even fewer got his job and just what he saw on a near daily basis.

 

Naruto understood, which still surprised most people when they first met him. He was smart, but he lived without someone there to push and prod him into learning and growing for so long that he had been unsure as how to act when he did get someone to do that for him. It was surprising at how close they were in terms to their interactions with new people, despite what they showed to said people.

Ibiki showed a sociopathic torture expert, with some people calling him a psychopathic man, while Naruto showed a bubbly idiot with a too sharp grin. But under that show they were watching the person they had just met, figuring out their weaknesses, their personalities and their strengths. They were figuring out the fastest way to take the person out if they needed to, like all good nins did but to a very odd extreme of things.

 

They were profilers of the highest caliber and they could see that in each other. Naruto was also one of the people to see his softer side, the more protective side. But the blond never told anyone about it, which just validated Ibikis trust in the small blond.

 

Sighing, the scarred interrogation expert stood straight at the feeling of Choza Akimichi, one of the first clan heads that would soon be arriving. Standing straight, he nodded at the large man with a smirk dancing on his lips.

 

“Akimichi-san,” Ibiki drawled, the man smiling in return.

 

“I don’t suppose I’ll get out of you what is going on will I?” he asked in good humor, getting a shake of a head. “Fine, tease us,” he huffed before waving and walking into the council room, letting the door close behind him. Walking to one chair, he took his seat as Naruto played with several pages, hood drawn up and fingers on his other hand tapping on the table before him. “Calm down, Naruto-san. Nothing to bad will happen, especially with Tsunade-sama here and the jutus in place,” he said, his chair creaking.

 

Outside of the door, Itachi Uchiha and Hiashi Hyuuga were walking up. Hiashi was in a basic white kimono, the usual Hyuuga wear most of the time, brown hair pulled back and lean face set into a cool look as his pale lavender eyes glared before him. In contrast, Itachi was smirking smugly about something, red-black eyes flashing with his mirth and black hair pulled back into his usual pony tail.

 

“Stop teasing Hyuuga-san, Uchiha-san,” Ibiki grumped, getting a low laugh as Itachi opened the door and stepped into the room, followed by Hiashi. The next to arrive were Shibi Aburame, looking much like an older version of his son with his rather thick hair, glasses that sat over his eyes and the coat that covered his body the usual with him. Soon following after him was Hana Inzuka in place of her mother, smirking at Ibiki as she and Shibi disappeared into the council meeting room.

 

Shikaku Nara, in all of his slouching, goateed, bored glory was followed by Asuma Sarutobi, who squashed the cigarette under Ibikis glare as he muttered about already knowing what was going on. Inoichi Yamanaka just snickered and walked into the room, letting Asuma follow after, leaving Ibiki to shake his head and wonder when Tsunade would arrive.

 

She didn’t take long before she too was walking past him, smiling and nodding as she hefted the large box in her hands, walking into the room. Ibiki had to wonder just how well the meeting would go in the long run. He had no doubt that Naruto would present all of the needed information to the council and then Tsunade would probably explain what was going on, including Sakuras escape from her cell with the help of someone on the inside.

 

Twitching, the large man snarled as his mind remembered just what they had and hadn’t found when they had searched her cell. It was going to be a bitch to find her, just for the simple fact that there had been absolutely no chakra signature for them to follow, which meant it had been someone strong and very knowledgeable about chakra suppression. When he found them, Ibiki would show them just why you didn’t piss him off and take one of his prisoners.

 

You just didn’t.

 

Sighing softly, he looked around and frowned as an ANBU walked up to him with a piece of paper, handing it over. “Sir, we have a lead on her,” the crow masked ANBU stated, getting a hard nod as Ibiki put the piece of paper away with a frown.

 

“Good. I’ll see to it after the council meeting. Tell Deer and Parrot to meet me at my office,” he stated, the ANBU nodding and disappearing without a sound.