Fox In The Leaf

Punishment from three sides

It had been some hours since the group that attacked Naruto had been captured and put into the Anbu headquarters prison cells which to the people outside only looks like a common storage warehouse located at the west side of the village.

Inoichi was walking past several observation windows with some things going through his head 'I won't have a lot of time to do this but for this, I won't need it, just do it and return before Kakashi can return from his report'

~Flashback~

After everyone was dropped off at the Anbu Prison Inoichi and Kakashi had arrived at the address that was given to them by the Hokage, that was located in one of the forests just outside the village "well this is the place so we should head inside" Kakashi said as he and Inoichi walked through the door of a small cottage with trees as a sort of barrier at the back of it.

As they entered they noticed several seals around the cottage and in the main room and saw Naruto sleeping on a coffee table with a small note next to him. Walking up to him and picking up the note, Inoichi read the note out loud "the both of you are to guard Naruto until I arrive in a few hours, Inu you are to check on the genjutsu and make sure that it remains after you are sure that it is still stable you are to report to me to discuss some things and Inoichi you are to remain with Naruto".

After hearing this, Kakashi looked at Naruto and pulled off his mask, revealing his dull-looking right eye while his other eye was covered by his Hitai-ate, which was slanted in order to cover it. He pulled up his Hitai-ate and examined Naruto "It seems that the genjutsu is still strong and will still remain. I will be going to the Hokage to report that we have apprehended everyone and they are sent to the Anbu Prison. Ibiki and Anko are set to go through them." After Kakashi said that he placed his Anbu mask back on and shunshined away.

Seeing that this might be the only chance he could get he made his move. Waiting for a few minutes, he walked to Naruto and picked him up 'time to get the request over and done with'. And with that, he placed the sleeping fox into his jackets inner pocket and shunshined to the prison building.

~Flashback end~

Inoichi kept walking through the halls until he saw Anko Mitarashi who was looking through an observation window of one of the interrogation rooms. Noticing a scowl on the woman's face he stopped next to her and looked into the room "So how many have you gone through?"

Not looking away from what was going on in the room she answered the man "This would be my fourth one and after another few more … 'sessions' with this one, I will move on to the next one and then come back to this one after thirty minutes." she gripped her jacket sleeve hard as she thought about how many of the citizens were found guilty for encouraging the behavior of the genin. True they were basically glorified mercenaries and that at one point they would have to kill in a mission but for genin to be so keen on killing one of their own just sickened her. It was the behavior of a bandit rather than a proud shinobi.

Inoichi would have felt bad for this citizen but after what they did, he held no sympathy. Looking into the room he said one more thing before heading to his destination "Give him a few more for the kid."

Hearing this Anko felt her anger rise even more and couldn't help but punch the window and was silently thankful for the window being too tough to break. Her breathing became heavy as she spoke with much anger "They should be glad they get to live to see it were up to me I would have them killed. They manipulated their own kids in taking their so-called 'revenge' on someone that didn't do anything wrong!" taking a deep breath and pressing her hand on a certain spot on her neck she continued softly "…..neither of us asked for our curses...or their hatred…."

Inoichi frowned at this when he heard it but he knew he had something that needed to be done so he left the woman to her own devices. He felt a bit of shifting in his jacket and thought to himself 'She's right, you didn't deserve this at all' he thought as he left.