Mind Games
Chapter One: In mind everything is possible
"Listen Ino, this clan jutsu is only useable, if one of your teammates is besides you. If you get stronger and understand the depths of this jutsu, I am sure you will be able to use it without losing consciousness.", Inoichi explained and rubbed his head.
As he noticed that his dear daughter didn´t hear a single word, because her thoughts were occupied with her freshly made nails, Inoichi let out a small sight. Seriously sometimes he wanted to cry at his daughters behavior.
"Ino! Stop gawking at your nails and pay attention to lesson.", the blond haired man growled, getting slightly annoyed.
"Dad? Can´t you make it quick? I am going to meet up with Sakura and the others for shopping.", the girl replied, wishing the time to pass quicker.
Inoichi stood up, grabbed some tea from the kitchen of their small flat, and joined his daughter again.
"Just one last thing, but Ino, this is really important. And it´s the only thing I want you to swear upon your life. You see this is not only a question, but an order."
Ino looked at her father indifferently, yet she was quite nervous.
What was making her fearless dad so restless.
Before Inoichi started to speak again, he gulped the rest of the steaming hot tea down his throat, just not to have a sore throat during his speech.
"There are only four people you absolutely cannot use the mind control jutsu on.", Inoichi stated and played with his cup, while keeping the stern look on his face.
"If you ever encounter those four, then no matter what, never use this jutsu. Ino, promise it to me."
Biting her lower lip, Ino tried to figure out what her dad was talking about.
"There are some people who have a sick mind. If you were to enter those, your mind surely will be infected. And believe me, it´s much more painful than death.", Inoichi set his eyes on his blonde girl.
The little speech triggered Inos interest.
Who could be possibly so mad to even scare he dad?
"And? Who are these madmen?", she asked, trying to sound bored.
"Ino! Take it seriously!"
"Yes, I am totally serious.", the twelve year old girl shot back and stroke her long hair.
"Okay, then the first one is Orochimaru, the former student of the Sandaime and current S-ranked missing nin and kno-", Inoichi was interrupted by the blond girl.
"I heard about him in the academy. He was banned from Konoha, because he did experiments on orphaned children.", Ino stated, remembering the lesson from two weeks prior.
"Right. I think you know, why you shouldn´t enter his mind. Well, the second one you should not enter is Itachi Uchiha. All in all Uchihas like to keep their things private. And as you may not know, Itachi almost murdered his whole clan except for his brother Sasuke and his best friend Shisui."
At the mention of her Sasuke, Ino let out a small squeak, causing her father to roll his eyes.
"The third one is Shisui Uchiha. Although he is a prodigy, an elite ninja, he lost himself and got partly consumed by the sharingan. As long as he doesn´t use it, he quite the nice guy to get along, but he is a monster as soon as he uses the sharingan."
"Eh? That´s creepy. And this guys really related to Sasuke-kun?", Ino exclaimed.
"That´s not the point here, princess. Just don´t go at him with your mind walking jutsu or anything
else. ", Inoichi told his daughter.
"Okay and what´s up with the last person? This guy has to be a real sicko right? But I don´t think this guy could be more insane than the previous ones.",Ino stated, while her face slightly frowned.
"The last one is a little bit different, than the others. Actually, he had no control about it. His sick mind is probably not even his own.", Inoichi spoke is riddles.
"And who is it? That crazy snake lady from your workplace?", Ino was getting impatient. In a few minutes she had to prepare herself for the shopping trip.
"No, Anko might be a...little bit special, but it´s not her.", the Yamanaka tried to hide his laugh.
"Before you tell me, I want to ask you something. All shinobi should have dark mind, since they are killing all the time, so what make them different from these so called infected minds?"
"Well the their mind scapes are also mirrors of their soul. So a dark mind scape indicates a dark soul. Every Shinobi, civilian or animal has some dark parts of their soul, influenced by their surroundings and people who shape them. Shinobis dance with the dead on a constant matter, so their souls are tainted, mirrored in their mind scapes. The special factor about the mentioned Shinobi, is that they were exposed to extreme darkness, much more than any other human being, causing them to fall mentally ill."
Ino shuddered at the thought of that. What would have happened to her if she were to be engulfed in darkness?
"And? Who is it?", Ino looked at the watch. Only four minutes left, until Sakura would come and fetch her and she still wasn´t ready yet.
"Ino, this is really serious and I want you to stay calm, okay."
The girl silently nodded.
"The fourth one is none other than your classmate Naruto Uzumaki."
"He really said that? How stupid. The only thing that Naruto has in his mind is the color orange and his stupid ramen. I mean this is a without a doubt a serious illness, but nothing dark and all mysterious, let alone dangerous.", Sakura exclaimed and briefly combed her pink hair with her hand.
"I agree to that part but Daddy looked so serious and, if I didn´t knew better, also a little bit scared.", Ino stated before picking a lilac shirt from the counter. "What do you think about it, Hina-chan?"
The shy Hyuuga girl slightly shifted her jacket, felling quite uneasy.
"I-i think th-that N-n-aruto-kun is not the idiot you think he is. H-his thoughts are deep. At least my f-father told me that."
"I was not talking about Naruto anymore, but even so he is an idiot. But love makes blind, doesn´t it, Hina-chan. Now what about this shirt?", Ino chuckeld, while Sakura hid her smile behind her hand.
"Oh...t-the s-shirt is c-cute, I-ino-chan.", Hinata anwered, her head as red as a tomato.
"Why the hell are we talking about Naruto, this dork? Sasuke is a much better topic, right Ino?", Sakura said and went ahead to grab some new shoes.
"You´re so right, Sakura.", Ino admitted and followed her friend along with Hinata.
"So Hina-chan, what do like about Naruto? After all you are such a cute girl and yet you fell in love with someone who is a stupid as his hair color. ( No offense, kay. I am blonde too..)
"H-he protected m-me.", Hinata stated vehemently. "And I know that he would only love the one girl, never betray you, carry you on his arm and you would definitely be the only girl he would look at. Practically he is the ideal guy, because once he likes you nothing else matters. Whether you are rich, poor, ugly or beautiful, you are only you in front of him. You don´t need to act as if you were some else."
Along her speech she forgot to stutter, defending her loved one with passion.
"Wow Hina-chan. I never knew you were this aggressive.",Sakura said in disbelieve.
Her shy friend normally only talked, when she was asked to or it was really needed.
Hinata blushed once again and started to bite her lips. She was actually really embarrassed but at the same time she was somewhat proud at herself.
"I still think Sasuke is much better. He is probably this type of man who are have a hard shell, but a soft inside." Ino said and looked at the sale department with widened eyes.
"Yeah right. Sasuke is an asshole, nothing more or less.", Hinata muttered to herself, but Sakura heard her barely.
"What about Sasuke?", she asked?
Hinata felt a little bit ashamed to talk like that about her fellow comerade.
"Ah nothing. I just said that Sasuke does get along with Naruto even though they are so different."
"Hmm, yeah it´s really surprising, that Sasukes is so close to him.", Sakura admitted and her thinking pose showed up.
Ino, who was currently trying some new shoes on, looked at them curiously.
"Dad told me that they are really close to each other because they have a similar mind sets. The difference between lays in the heaviness of their contaminated minds. Sasuke is not considered as sick yet, but Naruto is."
Dramatically Sakura waved around with her hand. "There you go again. Sickos and Psychos. Are you sure you don´t want to join the interrogation department in the future, but the Medic-nins department? Besides that, there is no way either of them has a mental illness, except Narutos Ramen addiction."
"If you think so. Well I stay with the Medic-nins for now. I like it much better since I can help people, not make them completely insane.",Ino said and stood up, she decided to buy the two high heels and the cute lilac shirt.
"Well then, let´s go. I heard Tanaka is selling their special diet ice cream again."
Around the evening Ino was up to a meeting with her team. Shikamaru and Choji were her childhood friends and, even though she would never admit it, they were like her siblings. Of course she liked to
nag at the two lazy bastard, but at the same time she couldn´t help to smile.
"Hey boys, do you know what Asuma wants?", she greeted them, while the two silently nodded, before Chouji raised his voice.
"I hope we are going to eat at Musume. They recently added new dish I want to try."
Ino shook her head. This was so like Chouji.
As she laid down next to her teammates, Shikamaru troubled himself to voice his opinion.
"I thought you wanted to eat it with Naruto?"
Choji gulped down the remaining Potato chips before he started talking.
"Yeah, but he is currently at a last minute mission outside of Konoha and probably won´t return this week. And even if he were not, Sasuke would tag along and you know that I don´t particularly like this guy."
Ino sighed. Ever since Sasuke told Choji, he was unfit to become a ninja, because he was simply to fat, they were kind of in a constant war.
"Team 7 is at a mission? But I went shopping with Sakura today.", Ino wondered.
A small cloud covered the sky.
"As far as Shino told me, Naruto went alone with some old white haired dude.", Choji stated and reached for the next bag of chips.
"Oh, and when will Naruto come back?", Ino asked.
Without Naruto her plan would not take action and to be honest she hated waiting.
"Why are you this concerned about Naruto? Normally you would screech in disgust as soon as he is mentioned.", Shikamaru mumbled tired as if he was about to fall asleep.
Ino didn´t know what to answer. Shikamaru was to perceptive to fool him.
And for some reason she was hesitant about telling the truth. After all, Shikamaru and Choji were pretty close to the local idiot.
"It´s probably about the things your father told you about Naruto right?", Shikamaru commented and shifted to the side, so he could look at Inos oblivious face.
"How do you know about it?", Ino asked in disbelieve.
"Well, you father asked mine and Chojis for advice, how to tell you without you going around and telling everybody in Konoha that Naruto is a psychopath."
Instantly a horrible feeling ran through her body, at the same time she felt awful.
"But it´s just nonsense anyway, right? I mean look at him. Naruto is a dork. No matter what the odds that out of all people Naruto Uzumaki could be possibly a psycho are somewhere close to zero.", Ino exclaimed, glaring at her teammate.
Shikamaru sighed.
"Troublesome.", he muttered."Look, Inoichi is not exactly the man to fool around and pull silly jokes like that. Naruto is hiding something crucial. This is certain. Everybody of our group is aware of it. The only one who possibly know about his secret is Sasuke. So no matter what, do not use any mind jutsus on him."
Shikamaru looked serious. This was no laughing matter.
"Whatever. I´ll get to know what he is hiding and I´ll definitely prove dad that Naruto is no threat for my mind." Ino whispered, when Asuma-sensei finally arrived.
So this is the first chapter of Mind games. I am not sure if its going to be a dark fiction or not but we will see what happens in the future. As you probably noticed this will be a NaruXIno.
And yes I know that she is still a little bit superficial, but It will vanish in the future. At least until Naruto is back.
But what to you think? Will she meet the kyuubi or something completely different?
In Love Buddycomplex
P.S. Days of Neon Gray is still my english main work and I will release a new chapter as soon as possible.
If there is a yaoi fan among my readers.: I want to translate one of my german works in english.
You can chose between three.
1: Broken Inside:
Eight years ago my brother was abducted and left nothing more but fragment of a happy family.
A shattered family. My life without him was hard, but it went on. Even tough mum got addicted to alcohol and dad died, my life went on. On and on.
And now he was here, but he was not my brother anymore. My brother was dead. Naruto was just Naruto. But no one would have thought, that I would fall in love with him. (MenmaxNaruto)
Before you flame me, I did not write this because I am completely obsessed with incest or anything like that. I just wanted to show how cruel love can be. And this would be my first choice since it´s kind of my masterpiece.
2. Down to hell and destruction
Hope? Don´t be ridiculous. Something like this does not exist here. Either you will be killed by your so called "friends" or this place will kill you.
But what is more horrible?
A prison full of demons. One way to get away from this horror.
They are supposed to kill each other, but a joker exists. The only human amongst the demons.
He is the ticket to freedom. Is Naruto able to cope with his new situation, since everybody is after him? But Sasuke is there. He will help him.
(Horror and excessive gore. First boyxgirl, later boyxboy)
Ther german original is not finished yet, so it will take quite a while to get the new top of that the chapters are freaking long. Around ten pages.
Note
Naruto did it. With he sweet seventeen years he managed to become a popular author, who lives and dies for his books. He is constantly skipping school, annoys the shit out of his brothers and lives happily his live. Until he meets his greatest criticizer. Sasuke Uchiha is from their first encounter Narutos worst enemy, yet he is attracted to him.
This causes trouble inside the Uzumaki family. What´s wrong with Menma?
The same problem with Down to hell and destruction, but the updates would be faster since the chapters are not that long and it will finish soon.
I will make a poll on my profile so vote there until the next week.
Over and out XD
