~Niyo's POV~

The top floor was empty of people and the staircase leading to it was just as deserted. I looked and felt around for traps and Tobirama set up traps where there were none, for our escape or to hinder the culprit's escape. The room had just one person in it and that was our target. It seemed like a trap but at this moment, I didn't care even if it was.

"Don't do anything to jeopardize the mission. Our job is to only take the person in custody." I was warned.

"That's your job. Mine is on-spot interrogation." I didn't give him time to respond and ascended the stairs, securing one side of the door while Tobirama secured the other. Our plan was just to bind the movements of the person, well that was the Senju's plan.

I pinpointed the location of the chakra in the room and signaled Tobirama that we would be barging in, in three seconds.

Three.

I took out my kunai that had strings attached to them.

Two.

I was on my feet.

One.

We kicked open the door and I sent my kunai flying in the direction of the chakra. They had Tobirama's hiraiishin marking so the moment the tip of the first kunai reached the chakra, Tobirama was there to personally restrict any movement of the person. It was over in an instant – to apprehend someone who is not a ninja is an easy job.

"That went well and fast." I commented, approaching the Senju, who started tying the person with the strings on my kunai. I produced a chair out from my scrolls and yanked the person from Tobirama's hands, literally throwing the person on the chair and binding them with my chakra. I put my hands on the person's forehead, grabbed the hair and pulled them back to raise the head and when the eye contact was maintained, just my menacing eyes were enough to stop the struggle this person was making from the beginning. "Now then, let's have a talk, Kyouya."

"Someone you know?" Tobirama asked, letting go of his transformation.

I let go of the person's hair and stepped aside, "Take a closer look. Seems familiar, no?" For a moment the Senju was in thought, then it clicked. The person we had tied up had brown hair and similar eyes.

"Similar to the kid back in the forest."

"Exactly."

Kyouya was one of the Morinome, she had the job of the lookout which I now have and attained because she was married off. She was the oldest when she married and also the strongest. This was beginning to be the source of unease for me because right in front of my eyes was a Kyouya who passively let herself be captured and tied up. I knew this was a trap, that something was not right, and it started being obvious now.

"Ah, it's Niyo...by the voice." The woman said and raised her head to look at me and it was then that I noticed, she was blind. I was stunned for a moment or two, just at the realization of this. "If you are here, then... wasn't Morinome destroyed?"

"It won't be as long as I am alive." I answered calmly.

"Hmm, I knew as much."

A few moments of silence passed.

"Why did you do it Kyouya?"

"Revenge...maybe." I clenched my fists at the answer.

"For what?"

"FOR WHAT THAT OLD HAG PUT ME THROUGH! SHE MARRIED ME TO SUCH AN ABOMINATION OF A PERSON WHO BLINDED ME WHEN A GIRL WAS BORN INSTEAD OF A BOY!! I HATE HER FOR THAT!!"

"You..." I took a breath before continuing, so as to not punch the woman dead. "You could have ended the marriage. You were stronger than me, why didn't you end it? And don't blame bacchan because the decision of a yes or no ultimately falls on us! Don't you dare-"

"Oh you are someone special Niyo! Nobody is like you to break so many marriages and become a burden on the old lady! Nobody wants to be dead weight like you! Endurance is the way...yes...endurance..."

"Then why did you take revenge on the forest?"

She started laughing. "Because I couldn't bear the presence of the child that caused me suffering."

"So you...you turned your own child into a bomb...?"

"SHE DESERVED THAT-" I didn't let her finish and punched her across the face so hard that the chair fell a few paces to the side. I was very much in control of my anger, trying not to let it loose but this woman...she thinks of a human life as so little, so...her own child, she did that to her own child. What a monster.

"Don't fuck around with me. Don't-"

"Stop." I glared back at Tobirama. "We need her alive."

"Not necessarily."

"Ne, Niyo." Kyouya started, from her position on the ground. I looked at her. "Didn't you wonder why I let myself be captured so easily?"

"You're a trap of course." I replied, nonchalantly.

"But for who?"

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