Nightshift 38: East Wing, Hall A

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Soubi was certain he knew the way now. He'd come along here with Ritsuka, alone....teasing the boy with that can. Oh yes. He'd enjoyed that, though they'd had discussions about things Soubi would rather have hidden from. But you can't win them all.

Finding the door, he gave the handle a twist and a push but, like last time, it was a job for his shoulder. He stepped back before forcing his weight into it. The door opened and he shone the light in from the torch, checking for monsters.

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Jiraiya shook his head at the questions, then quirked a small smile. "Naruto is Naruto. That alone makes him very unique."

He grew serious after that, frowning in thought. "... There are reasons why they'd be interested in him, but..." Jiraiya had to think about how to phrase it. "... His eyes wouldn't be the most interesting thing, if they were experimenting on what most people would go after."

"If it was that--" He gave her an apologetic look to say that he couldn't tell her what that was, not to mention that part of him felt bad for practically giving Renamon a dissertation, but he did some of his best thinking around her, when he had someone to bounce ideas off of, even if she wasn't saying anything. "--then they would have implanted a device either in his heart or close to his stomach. So if it's not after power, then..."

Jiraiya paused for a moment, considering, before he continued, "It'd have to be his personality. Something about him--Naruto's not your average kid. He doesn't give up when everyone else in the world would, when there shouldn't be any rational chance he could succeed--and then he does. And he can instill that sense of confidence in others, to renew their hope, and change them. That's why we have a true alliance with one of the other villages, now; Naruto helped their leader, Gaara, see--"

He froze for a moment, thoughts colliding, and then he frowned deeper, almost angry. "... See a different path. It's. It must be something about the way he sees things that they're after. He sees things differently than others. That's why Naruto can overcome just about any physical hardship they throw at him, but emotionally--he's been alone for too long--it. Certain things could break him, very easily, and even if he could recover from those things...."

But that wouldn't explain why that was a bad thing to Renamon, why emotionally it was more dangerous for Naruto to be hurt. Jiraiya had to go at it from another angle.

"Strong emotions define Naruto," Jiraiya stated, shaking his head, then glancing at Renamon, "His presence can fill a room when he's excited. But it's when he's hurting and silent that his presence is the most deafening. He's been alone for too long--Naruto tends to bottle his pain behind a smile, and has done it for so long that when it's unleashed...."

And now he was scowling, visibly angry, "... If they use emotionally energy to keep us here, the amount pouring out of him would make it easy for them to trap others and keep those already here bound."

The anger left him after a moment, fast enough that it even surprised him, and it was replaced with a sense of weariness. ".. being restrained in order to do that procedure would have already started the process, not to mention meeting his 'parents' for the first time in his life... But that wouldn't be enough to break him--it'd have to be something much bigger than that. It's just a matter of how they plan on attempting that with whatever they did to his eyes that worries me..."

Jiraiya trailed off, not wanting to explore the idea farther than that for the time being.

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