Chapter 123: A Fake Prisoner Exchange
In the wars between ninja villages, the vast majority of ninja would rather commit suicide with an Explosive Tag than be captured.
Capture meant facing brutal torture.
Every village had a Torture and Interrogation Force, and the ninja running them would show prisoners the true meaning of sadism.
While the Anbu employed dark methods and chased dark objectives, the Torture and Interrogation Force was darkness itself.
Konoha had interrogation ninja from the Yamanaka Clan who could directly read information from a person's mind, making their methods seem somewhat gentle by comparison.
Other ninja villages rarely possessed such techniques; their torture lacked finesse and relied entirely on brute force.
An interrogation department would squeeze out every last drop of a prisoner's blood and spirit. They would either pour the intelligence out of the captive's brain, or pour the brain out entirely.
Compared to being taken alive, suicide was a mercy.
Four Hidden Sand Village prisoners had already been handed over to Orochimaru.