Fascination: Sequel

Fascination: Sequel: Part 5

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Fascination: Sequel

Part 5

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The second Oriko’s pen had finished scribbling the kanji for her name, the piece of paper was whipped out from underneath her as Ibiki threw it into an envelope and in turn, tossed it back onto the table; Oriko saw that it too had her name printed on. 

The Jounin the pulled out a small scroll, and as he held it out over the table, the shinobi let go of it as soon as possible; 

“Oriko, please write down the answer to the following question,” He paused barely long enough for Oriko grip the pen again and open the scroll, finding it completely blank; Ibiki turned his back to her and stepped forward four large paces, “What is your full name?” Oriko immediately placed down the kanji for her name – instinctively only writing the three kanji down for her name,

“May I remind you, that if any of the information on this scroll is found to be inaccurate, you will be heavily penalized,” Shit, Oriko though for a moment, although I do possess another *name*, I haven’t used it for the entire time I’ve been in this world...as a matter of fact there is only one person who is aware that I have another name...kuso!

But then again, he is away on a mission and nigh-on unreachable...and it’s not like I ever explicitly stated, even to Kakashi, that my first name is what he thinks it to be...ah, screw it, he can’t prove anything either way, and conjecture means nothing, I trust my tongue to turn silvery enough when-“Oriko...I spoke to Kakashi before you returned, he knows what your given name is, doesn’t he?”

“-” Oriko opened her mouth to speak, but Ibiki cut right across, not giving a damn even for her to confirm what he already knew;

“He refused, point blank I might add, to disclose just exactly what your first name is, but after some prodding he did tell me that you do have a given name...so when I get that scroll from you and find only ‘Oriko’ written down, I will know that you lied after explicit instruction not to do so and I will fail you,”

Ibiki, looked over his shoulder to catch her eyes, “And I despise have to test someone twice...as far as I’m concerned, a first time fail doesn’t deserve another try and to date, no one who failed the first time around, for whatever reason, ever even made it past my preliminary exam for the second time,”

Although Ibiki was trying to be scary and intimidating, if there was one thing Oriko guarded with an intensity to rival Lee after a stint in the hospital –where he was chained to the bed to prevent him from exercising and nullifying his recovery no less – it was Oriko’s given name. 

She had told no one what it was, only Kakashi through his unnaturally acquired eye had managed to catch her off guard with it (an incident that Oriko was still undecided who to be more irrationally angry at: herself for slipping a moment’s concentration or him for having that blasted eye to read her disobedient lips).  Shaking her head, she decided on a question;

“I could very well write down any old name, how could you possible check that it was my name?”

“If I suspect it to be false, and have sufficient reason to believe so, then I am prepared to go so far as to use some of my more persuasive techniques on you to force the truth out of you – even after I have failed you.” Oriko was at a loss...the very fact that they wanted this bit of information means that Ibiki must be pretty confident or have good reason to believe that he will have access to it at a later date...