Running the interrogation unit in the village isn't really the easiest job around even though people think it just involves causing some enemy nin to beg mercy on your feet and sing all their secrets to you. Well, it is. The hard part is when the people we must torture are those we promised to protect.

"Let me go!" The old wench screamed as she struggled against the anbu.

I watched in cold fury at her screaming for mercy when she didn't give any to the child currently cradled in my arms. His soft baby cheeks, that had a blue tint to it as a bruise start to form, pressed up against my chest trustingly while his big blue eyes watched confused at the screaming woman in front of us.

"That demon should be killed!" She screamed out as she glared venomously at the little baby in my arms, "I was so close in making sure Konoha won't be destroyed again."

As if sensing the anger, the blonde baby whined with a pout before hiding his face in my chest, little fists curing around my black coat. Calmly I pet his diapered bum making sure that the bitch's anger doesn't affect him.

"Take her away and put her in a holding cell," Ibiki growled out in a deep voice, "Anko, make sure you play with her."

The purple haired teen grinned sadistically and slowly licked her lips. She quickly grabbed the woman's black locks and drag her screaming towards the holding cell, leaving the two anbu before trying to keep up with her. A happy Anko is a scary Anko.

Ibiki sighed as he stared at the scene before he felt something wet on his chest. Looking down he found the little toddler drooling all over his hand letting out excited coos every now and then. Once the big blue eyes met with his obsidian ones, the baby let out a cute squeal and placing the wet hand on his mask. Giving out a small smile, the cruellest man in Konoha gave a small smile before he sunshined away to the Hokage tower.

"Ah, Ibiki!" The old man called out to him with a grim face, "I am guessing the case have been handled."

"Yes Hokage-sama," Ibiki confirmed with a nod before placing the little blonde onto the floor, "Anko is playing with her now as we speak."

"Report!" Sarutobi said as he kept an eye at the wondering blond crawling on the floor of his office. He seemed to realise that Ibiki's eyes seems to be watching the toddler cautiously as well.

"Earlier this evening," Ibiki started out as he desperately tried to keep his eye on hi leader rather than the little jinchuriki currently babbling around the room, "We apprehended the matron of the orphanage after an anbu place on Naruto's watched witnessed her trying to drown the toddler in the bathtub. When the baby was short on breath, she let him go and started slapping him on the tiled floor of the bathroom. Anbu only intervened when she pulled out a small fruit knife and tried to stab him deep on the seal."

"Why did they only intervene when the knife was shown?" The Hokage growled out.

"They seemed to have received orders to stay hidden until the charge is threatened with death or in this case until Kyuubi could escape," Ibiki answered with a straight face as he saw the baby tried to stand up using a bookcase from the corner of his eyes.

"I did not order such things!" The older man gritted out as he slammed his fist onto the table, "The anbu was told clearly that the boy must be protected at all cost, no matter what the damage is. If they see anyone hurting the boy, they must act according to the law of treason!"

Sarutobi gave a slow exhale as he gripped onto his seat tightly to restrain himself from torturing the women down in the holding cell and finding out who is changing his orders and if he have some moles in his Anbus, but he couldn't help it when his KI leaked out. Both Ibiki and him are used to strong KIs but they forgot little Naruto was not used to it so both snapped up in shock when soft whimpers could be heard.

Naruto watched the Hokage with big, tearful eyes and a wobbling, pouty lip. Sarutobi can't help but feel guilty but coo internally at the cure little tyke and opened his arms for the usual hug the baby gives him.

To his shock, however, the baby crawled towards Ibiki babbling away as if to tell the big man of how scary the hokage was being and how it scared him. The orange clads one-year old sat his diapered but down before putting his hand up signalling that Ibiki should carry him. Of course, the larger male immediately complied carrying the child close to him.

"You seem to like him Ibiki?" The Hokage said in amusement as he watched the baby tried to pull on the mask Ibiki uses to cover his face that were covered in scars, "He seems to be clinging to you."

"I am sure it's because I was the first person he saw after the ordeal the wench made him go through," Ibiki grumbled out as he tried to keep his mask out of reach from Naruto's wandering hands, "What would you lime to do next sir? Should I put him back to the orpahange?"

The Hokage had a thoughtful expression on his face as he lit his pipe. The interrogator watched in silence as he waited for his leader to give him his next set of orders while keeping a strong hand on the wriggling blond.

"Do you think he deserve to be treated this way Ibiki?" Sarutobi's weary voice asked out as he kept looking out at the sleeping Konoha.

"No, I don't," Ibiki answered out with a bitter smile, "I believe he deserved so much more than now as he did save us all. He kept the Kyuubi from destroying the village and Minato wouldn't have wanted his son to be treated this way. At least, not by the villagers he protected."

He watched as the little boy in his arms gave a small yawn, before leaning in closer towards his chest and falling into a deep sleep that only innocent children can do. Ibiki doesn't understand why he felt so overprotective of Naruto, but he honestly doesn't care. He believes that Minato's son, their saviour's son, deserve to have so much more than unwarranted hatred from the villagers and mindless ninjas.

"Would you like to take him?" Sarutobi voiced out as he watched Ibiki looked at the smaller boy.

"What?" Ibiki softly questioned looking like ice water have been dumped on him.

"Would you like to adopt him, Ibiki?"

"The council will never allow- "

"But the Hokage will!"

The younger man stared down in silence as he thought it over.

Me! A father? Is that even possible? Ibiki thought as he softly watches the small chest of the toddler in his arms sleep. What if my face scares him?

"I don't think he will judge Ibiki," The hokage softly said to him as understanding show on his eyes, "A child as pure as him won't judge. Especially if he trusts you, no matter what you look like, Naruto will love you with all his heart. All this child can do is love."

The young man just nodded before clutching the little body closer. He smiled softly as he felt a small coo come out of the small body and nearly cried when a small sleepy smiled was directed at him. Looking up at the Hokage he gave a small smirk behind his mask, before nodding his head so slightly, and sunshin out of the tower into his apartment.

Back at the tower, before those fussy team mates of his and Danzo managed to figure out what he is doing, he wrote a classified adopted paper, signed it, thus making Ibiki the legal guardian of Naruto no matter what.