Sibling Bonds (Naruto Fanfic)

Chapter 13 - Ibikis Kind Warning

 Chapter 13

Setsuna stared down at the paper laying on the desk before her. Everywhere around the room, resounding off each corner of every wall, was the sound of the other candidates scribbling down their answer.. which could, or could not be correct.

Setsuna, however, unlike everyone else, wasn't writing anything. Instead, she merely sat in her seat and stared down to the front of the room where Ibiki stood in an intimidating stance: arms crossed tightly over his chest and an impassive look plastered over his face. Said man, she noticed, had been looking at her from the corner of his eyes from the moment she went up to the front to collect her seat number. She knew he was doing this as she had previously caught him in the action. His eyes had widened considerately and he quickly turned the other way, making it so that his expression was back to being impassive.

Of course, Setsuna was used to having many people, adults and children alike, staring at her (although, probably, for different reasons) But she felt slightly uncomfortable under Ibiki's gaze. It was as if every time he was analysing her every move, although she was barely doing anything that could interest him so.

'Perhaps..' she pondered as a thought just popped into her mind. 'Perhaps that man told him what he saw in my mind..' Yes, she was sure of it now. Ibiki was merely interested in why she clouded her mind so. As to why she wouldn't let anyone in. To every unanswered questions Ibiki may have wanted to have answered, Setsuna's answer, in her mind, was always the same.

She wanted to be left alone. It was no ones business except for hers and she wanted to keep it that way. Although.. Sentaro she would allow in and perhaps Mayonaka if she got to know him more.

Setsuna gave a small shake of her head as she threw all those thoughts from her mind and turned back down to the clean paper in front of her. She couldn't decide whether to just answer the damn questions or not. They were all really easy and if she did answer them, she'd only be done a minute or so later..

Already 15 minutes had passed since the start of the first test and all Setsuna had been doing was staring off into space. Ibiki cou1ldn't quite understand this. She should have at least tried at them, or tried to cheat at least. He knew that she was smart for her age as well as talented and was sure that if she even tried at cheating, she would succeed.  So why wouldn't she?

Remembering back to what Inoichi had told them, he inwardly shuddered. Of course, Ibiki was a torture and interregation expert. But even he didn't like the sound of what his old time friend went through inside the young girls mind. He couldn't help but feel a shiver go up his spine at the mere thoughts.. it wasn't a very nice feeling. Feeling scared, even if only slightly.

Coming back out from his, kinda scary, thoughts, Ibiki sighed inwardly and glanced over the room. Many of the candidates had already been forced to leave for being caught cheating and many of the candidates had also not been caught cheating. Ibiki noticed that the ones who weren't caught were mostly the young rookies. This surprised him, though he didn't show it, but being a trained ninja meant that he had to expect the unexpected; which right now was very talented rookies.

Finishing writing down the answers to the questions, which were surprisingly easier than she first thought as she first glanced over them, Setsuna let out a sigh and stared out the window as she began to think about everything that's been happening lately. For some reason, after all this time of not feeling anything, she had began to experience weird things in certain situations. Both her brother and Mayonaka had told her that it was normal, but she couldn't help but feel as though she was becoming something she didn't want to be. After so long of feeling nothing, Setsuna wanted it to stay that way; she knew that it would be best if she stayed that way.