Perfection

Ibiki's New Task

Ibiki stalked down corridor after corridor, the lights steadily dimming as he approached the interrogation rooms. He couldn't believe the situation he was in. He was the head of interrogation and torture dammit! He could bring a jonnin to his knees in less than a half an hour if needed to. So why, god why, was he on his way to the interrogation rooms so he could perform a psych evaluation on a toddler!?

Flashback-

He was in a good mood, or at least the best kind of mood he could get in. He had just had three consecutive torture sessions, all fairly easy, but they proved to be fun none the less. The only thing that could make this day better was a mission preferably one with lots of violence; which was what he was on his way to get. The Hokage had called him to his office just a few short minutes ago for what he said was an important mission.

"Good evening Ibiki-san, go right inside, the Hokage is expecting you." Ibiki did not know the secretary who had told him this, but nodded to her anyway as he walked through the large doors in front of him.

Sarutobi was, as always, sitting in his desk concentrating on the seemingly endless stream of paperwork in front of him. "Ibiki, hello!" Sarutobi put down his pen in favor of greeting the man who had just walked in. Hizuren was fully capable of multitasking, but he never could pass on an opportunity to ignore his mountains of paperwork.

"Greetings, Hokage-sama, you said you had an important mission for me to do?" Sarutobi sighed as Ibiki said this. Did that man always have to get straight to the point? At this rate Ibiki would be in and out of his office before Sarutobi's cramped hand had realized it had stopped writing.

"Yes, you are correct, but I need to know that you will accept it no matter what it? It is extremely important that you feel comfortable taking it." Ibiki sported a raised eyebrow at his leaders request, then smirked. This mission was a secret and secret meant important which usually meant violent, just what he needed.

"Yes of course Hokage-sama." If Ibiki hadn't been thinking of possible missions he could get he might have seen the flash of amusement on Sarutobi's face before it disappeared.

"Good, thank you Ibiki. Moving on to the mission, it is B ranked and to complete it you will report to the department of interrogation and torture, sound proof room 3C to be specific." The Hokage told him.

"Who is the man I will be interrogating sir?" Ibiki questioned

"Well it's not a man exactly—"

"Ahhh, a kunoichi then." Ibiki concluded

"Um, no," Ibiki's eyes narrowed slightly, if he didn't know any better he would have said the Hokage was nervous about something. Actually he was almost positive that's what it was, years of studying men's facial expressions could make one sensitive to things like that. But as far as he knew this was a normal mission, he would be interrogating someone of importance even if it wasn't a ninja. The Hokage continued speaking, "You will be doing a psych evaluation of the Hyuuga heiress, age four."

Silence...

More silence...

An eye twitch from Ibiki...

"Hokage-sama, are you trying to tell me that I will be performing a psych evaluation on a toddler?" Ibiki did not yell this, or scream it, or any variation of the former and yet… It was a simple intimidation technique that Ibiki knew had absolutely no effect on the Hokage, but it was the perfect way to show his outrage at the request. "If I may ask why Hokage-sama?"