"Still not ready to talk eh?" asked the Volt officer as he grabbed another pin.
Kotake's eyes widened as the man grabbed another pin, each time one was stuck in him it seemed to increase the pain by several fold. The man was just about to stick another one in him when," Alright! I'll tell you!"
The scarred man pulled the needle back, "Well?"
"I did sell out both Demons to Akatsuki, they offered to pay me a lot of money and I was more than happy to do it," Kotake started. "but that's not all I was also asked to- GGGRRAAAHHHH!" they had stopped mid speech and let loose a torrential scream, none of the people watching knew what was going on until they saw a seal begin to light up on the man's forehead.
Naruto instantly recognized it as some kind of dead man switch, most were usually placed around the heart and were designed to kill someone instantly with a hand sign; it was actually this seal which had created the bird cage seal. This one was obviously a modified version of that, "Shit!" Naruto cursed as he and the other two people rushed out of the room and into the interrogation chamber. "Hold him still!" Naruto shouted as Kotake began to bleed through his eyes, ears, nose and pores as he started to spasm. The scarred interrogations expert grabbed the convulsing man as Naruto ran up to him, after inspecting the man he forced Kotake's mouth open and for just a moment saw a seal on the man's tongue before it disappeared. As it did Kotake's convulsing stopped, checking the man's pulse he confirmed that Kotake had died. "He's dead," Naruto announced, "it looks like a modified version of a dead man's switch, I'll have to take a look at it later to figure out what it was exactly. Damn!" Naruto cursed a he punched his open palm, "he barely gave out any information!"
"That's true;" the Raikage said, "but what we do have is quite valuable and if I heard right he was going to sell out Bee too!"
"Yeah but since he's dead that does not really help the situation," Naruto gave a sigh as he ran a hand through his hair. "I'm going to study the seal designs I saw and see what I can make of them, I'll return with the info sometime today or tomorrow."
"Ok, I appreciated you doing this," The Raikage said.
Naruto waved it off, "not at all, Yugi-chan is important to me so anyone or anything that threatens her is my enemy."
Yugito blushed at the comment, while the Raikage laugh and the scarred interrogator merely looked amused.
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A day later Naruto found himself knocking on the door to the Raikage's office.
"Come in!"
Opening the door Naruto entered to find A lifting weights like he always does when at work, "I have the information on the seals."
The Raikage dropped his weight as he sat up and put his hands on the desk, "excellent, what have you found out?"
Naruto unrolled a scroll and put it on the Raikage's desk, on it showed two seals. The Raikage was able to recognize the seal on the left as the one that appeared on Kotake's head when he died, the second one however he did not recognize. "The first seal I'm sure you recognize," Naruto began without preamble as he pulled up a seat. "It's the dead man's switch and is normally specifically designed to stop the heart through the use of a hand sign, this one however has been heavily modified. Where the other was designed to stop the heart in one go, this seal's function was to not only stop the brain from functioning but also destroy the entire brain starting at the frontal lobe."
"That would confirm what the autopsy on Kotake showed," A said as he confirmed Naruto's theory. When the morticians had gone over Kotake's body they had claimed that the entire brain had been liquidated.
Naruto gave a nod of acknowledgement before continuing, "however the seal was also linked." here Naruto pointed over to the other seal, "to this one, whose main purpose was to activate the dead man's switch, whenever Kotake began to talk about a specific subject. We can assume that since he had been about to give us information on Akatsuki, that they were the ones who put the seals on him; though he did not seem to know that."
What Naruto didn't mention about all this was that the kind of work required to modify and link the two seals together was impossible for many people to do. When the blond had first heard about Kotake taking away Nibi's power from Yugito, he had immediately recognized that the disgusting excuse for a man must have used some kind of seal similar to the Gogyo Fuiin (Five Elemental Seal) that Orochimaru had used to cut him off from Kyuubi during the chunin exams several years ago. He himself had several seals that were based off of that one which he and Jiraiya had made in case Kyuubi's chakra overtook him and there was no one who could stop him from going on a rampage, but he and Jiraiya were seal masters. So Naruto had to wonder where the man could have gotten such a thing, especially since seals were an extremely difficult and obscure art to learn. Very few people ever became proficient with seals and even fewer mastered them. So for that man to have a seal designed to cut off a Jinchurikki from their tenant's chakra meant that he had someone who had been working for him, or the more likely case that he had been working for someone that gave it to him. While the seals used to seal of Nibi's chakra could be done by anyone who was proficient enough in seals, the fact that Kotake had an extremely powerful and complex seal on him that was designed to kill him told Naruto that there was a seal master at work. The blond wished he had his spy network back then so he could find out who had given him the seals. However he knew it was a mute point right now, and that he would have to look into it later.
"aruto… Naruto!"
Naruto was snapped out of his thoughts and focused his attention on A, "sorry I was thinking about something… erm what were you saying again?"
The Raikage shook his head for a moment before speaking, "I was just asking if you think there may be any more spies in the council?"
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