She found out her hands and feet were tied. She was leaning up against a tree. Kabuto was sitting in front of her reading a map. Ayame struggled against her ropes to see if she could possibly escape. The ropes binding her got tighter causing her to gasp in pain.
“The more you struggle,” Kabuto said not taking his eyes off the map, “The tighter the ropes will get.”
She glared at him.
“You were talking in your sleep.”
Ayame’s face turned red.
“Yelling out for your parents, worrying about some monster and about how you had no where else to go. Then you started to talk about the leaf ninjas and talked about Rai a lot. You were screaming when you woke up.”
Ayame said nothing.
Kabuto looked up from the map, got up and walked over to Ayame and leaned in real close to her face.
“So, Ayame.... Where is it?”
“Where’s what?” she asked innocently.
“You know what.”
She gave him a puzzled look.
“The scroll!”
“Oh! Like I’d ever tell you!” she said spitting in his face.
He whipped off his face.
“You little brat!” he shouted slapping her across the face, leaving a red hand print on her right cheek, “I tired being nice at first by just asking, but I see I’ll have to go to more drastic measures.”
Ayame rolled her eyes.
Kabuto pulled out a small vile filled with a black, lumpy liquid like substance.
“What the heck is that?!”
He grinned as he uncorked the vile. What happened next happened so fast Ayame had no idea what hit her. Kabuto knocked her over onto her back and held her nose, forcing her mouth to open. He poured the substance in her mouth and forced her to swallow. Ayame choked and coughed as the lumpy liquid slid down her throat. It tasted horrible!
After Kabuto was sure all the black stuff was gone he sat her back up against the tree.
“What was that?” she asked.
“A fast acting truth serum I created. If I ask you a question you have to answer it truthfully.” he said grinning at his proud achievement, “For example: What’s your favorite color?”
“Purple.”
“Darn it!” she thought, “ There’s no getting around this....”
“It’s already working. Where’s the scroll?”
“There has to be someway out of this....”
Ayame then noticed a scroll sitting by Kabuto’s map.
“By your map.” she answered.
Kabuto turned around to see the small scroll sitting by his map.
“I guess I’ll have to be more specific...” Kabuto thought.
“Where is Lord Orochimaru’s red scroll that you stole from him?”
“I didn’t steal it. It belonged to my village, and as the only survivor the scroll belongs to me.”
“Ok, where is the red scroll that belongs to you that Orochimaru took from
your village that you took with you to the Hidden Leaf Village?”
“Crap.... There’s no getting around this very specific question...”
She bit her lips hard, trying not to let the words escape her mouth. She bit harder causing her lips to start to bleed. She couldn’t take it any longer, the pain of trying to stop the inevitable was too much. The words spilled out of her mouth.
“Tsunade-sama has it!” she shouted, tears pouring down her face.
“Where did Tsunade put your red scroll?”
“I don’t know.... She took it and put it in a safe place.”
“A safe place huh? Well now that I know who has the scroll it wont be to hard to figure out where it is...”
“I’ll need to be in two places at once.” Kabuto thought.
“Clone jutsu!”
Um... that's it for now!
