Hullo! It's chapter 2 of Six New Villages. The poll for who Ino catches in her net is still open and since I'm the authoress, I get two votes, here are the results, so far, with how much it's planned out:

KibaIno: 1 Halfway

KankIno: 2 Three fourths done

SaiIno: 0 Not yet begun

ShiIno: 0 Somewhat begun.

ShikaIno: 0 Hardly begun, and I'm started to think, since Unices (My first reviewer) likes ShikaTema, I'll head more towards Shika having a relationship with Temari

LeeIno: 0 Not yet begun

GaaIno: 0 Not yet begun

SomeoneIno: 0 Since I have no clue who, not yet begun

OCXIno: 0 Not yet begun

The Next Day:

One Uchiha-Uzumaki Rasen was sitting at a ramen stand, devouring bowls of ramen. Tori and the male ANBU who came with Ino, named Kosho, were watching in amazement as she devoured the bowls, the two guys talking about Naruto and how he used to be the best customer, but now he doesn't eat ramen that often, and if he did, he wouldn't eat that much.

Next to the pinkish purple haired girl, Kushina and Minato were eating, and watching as she stacked up bowl, after bowl, after bowl, after bowl, after bowl, after bowl, after bowl, after bowl, you can see where this is going, correct?

Tori commented to Kosho, "My sis…Is as bad as my cousin was when he first came to Uzu."

"My Kage was a fashion fanatic and fangirl."

"Poor you. Mine was an idiot who came out dead last in class."

"Mine broke the relationship with her best friend up over a boy."

"The Uzukage nearly got killed trying to drag back a traitor."

"The Tsukikage fangirled said traitor."

"Mine had no parents."

"Mine took care of a flower shop."

"Mine taught two Genin squads before taking the Kage spot."

"Mine hit head ANBU interrogator, led an ANBU squad, taught a Genin squad, taught at the academy, and helped out at the hospital."

"Drat. The Tsukikage wins." Little did the two ANBU know, their Kages were watching them. Naruto turned to Ino, and asked, "You truly did all of that?"

"Kosho might be exaggerating." She replied.

"By how much?"

"I helped out at the hospital for two days, and taught at the academy for a week."

"Ah." The duo turned back to watching their two male ANBUs. Now they were on the subject of how much Rasen was eating, Naruto was starting to see it as a challenge, so he, clothed in a black sweatshirt/hoodie, and blue jeans, sat down, and Rasen smiled, and said, "Fifteen."

"Hmm." He looked up and read the menu, "One beef, two miso, and a pork, please."

"Coming right up!" Neither Ayame nor Tuechi (A/N: Are these names correct?) could see who he was, nor hear it in his voice. As he had gotten older, his voice had cracked, and the hoodie covered his face. When the ramen came, he quickly ate it all, and he ordered again, "Two chicken, three miso, three beef, four pork." He ate it all in a rush, he turned to Rasen, "Sixteen."

"Hmph." The blue eyed girl said, "Five pork, two beef."

The sixteen year old future father ordered, "Six beef, two chicken and two miso." The two Ramen addicts, Naruto had become addicted again, ate quickly, then ordered again, Naruto order three beef, and two pork, Rasen ordered three chicken and three miso. Kosho started naming how many bowls, "Rasen has twenty eight, and her cousin leads with thirty-one." Soon a small crowd started gathering, Team Asuma, Team Kurenai, Team Kakashi, Team Gai and the Suna Siblings were all parts of it. Ino stood on a building's roof, Hinata was guarded by both of her ANBU, a young man in his late teens named Amai and an older woman, in her late thirties, Ureshi, and TenTen, Kiba and Lee were leaning against the stand.

Tori yelled, "Go, RASEN!"

Kiba yelled, "C'mon! You can beat her!"

"I'm cheering for you!" Hinata said quietly. Almost as if Naruto could hear her, he started eating faster, and a lot more, "Ten beef, and nine miso!" Kosho's comment, after Naruto downed all of that, "Fifty bowls, amazing!" Rasen threw in the towel when she heard the count, "I'm giving up. You win."

"Whoo yea!" Ino cheered from her perch on the rooftop, then yelled, "I thought you dropped your ramen addiction, oh, say, two and a half years ago?"

"Ino," he said, surprising everyone with the exception of all of Team Kakashi, Gai and an unknown person, "Ramen is good here, much better, though I'm not insulting Auntie's cooking, than the ramen at home." The platinum blonde leapt down, landing perfectly on her feet, "I'm gonna see if anyone holds a challenge for me."

Naruto said, "Anyone below the level of Jounin, I would not suggest trying to fight her. She's the one out of us who reached ANBU before she decided to become the Tsukikage."

"And it was very, very fun." A evil smile spread across the face of our favorite blonde.

"Oh, yea, she's also the ex-head ANBU interrogator for Taikai."



"Naruto-kun." Hinata walked forwards, Amai and Ureshi closely following, Amai's hand on the hilt of his katana, and Ureshi ten seconds from pulling her Kama if anything happened. Hinata raised her hand, as if telling the two captains to quit it, immediately they calmed down. Then the dark haired Kage put her hand on his chest, and he smiled as he put his arm around the pregnant woman's waist.

Kurenai looked at Hinata, and said, "You're pregnant."

"Triplets. We've been married for almost a year now. Ya know what? The legal age to marry in Uzu and Nami is whatever age, as long as the bride is over thirteen." Naruto kept his arms around Hinata.

"They are so lucky." TenTen commented, as Lee stood next to her, nodding, "But I've got a girl, so…" "You're lucky too." By the time TenTen finished her comment, the Taijutsu user was gone. Kiba came out from his hiding, "I'm going to make sure Ino doesn't do anything stupid. C'mon, Akamaru."

"I'm starting to wonder if Ino has already caught Kiba." Hinata commented, eyebrow raised.

"Who isn't?" Amai asked.

"Hasn't she also caught others? I mean, look at the pale guy." Naruto nodded his head in the way of the Sai, who was dripping small bits of killing intent, while keeping a fake smile on his face, while watching Kiba walk away.

"And that nin she dragged back, they dated a few times before he went back to his original village." Kosho commented, coming up behind the two.

"Who was that?" Naruto asked.

"She never disclosed his name." Kosho replied.

"Ah." Naruto commented, then Midori, the female ANBU that came with Ino, came over, "You guys don't know?"

"What?"

"Kiba and Ino, like, dated, for a whole year, 'til they, like, broke up, a year ago." (A/N: Yes, I'm sorry, Unices, but I got mentions of KibaIno. It'll be SaiIno?, and whenever I decide to end the triangle, I'll decide the pairing.)

"Ino and Kiba…Broke up?" Hinata asked.

"Yea," the green eyed girl nodded, "it was a, like, total surprise, they were, like, totally perfect for each other. But Ino, like, thought other ways."

"Valley girl much?" Tori asked Kosho, who nodded.

"Ino says she, like, loves this other guy, who she says is, like, totally hot. She also says his black eyes are, like, very mysterious, and she, like, loves his hobby."

"Which is what?" Naruto asked.

"Something artistic, I do believe she said." Midori replied.

"She talks to you?" Kosho asked.

"'Bout girly things, like crushes, loves, etc. etc."

"The trouble of paperwork."

"No, I don't think she, like, has talked to be about that."

"Something she and I usually confer on."

"Ah. So, you and her are, like, business companions?"

"I prefer the term comrades." He replied, his eye twitching.

"Ok! So you and her are, like, comrades, and other then, like, paperwork, what do you guys, like, talk about?"

"How much of a pain subordinates are, what being ANBU, or an ex-ANBU, feels like, the fun things of being able to torture Chuunins and Genins, planning the future of Taikai."

"Uh…"

"How, and why, did you make ANBU?" Amai asked. The girl turned to him, a scowl fixed on her face, "I did it 'cause it was my brother's dream, and he wanted someone in the family to hit ANBU, and I did it for his dream, to have it live on even after he joined Kami." Kosho's eyes turned soft and misty, he knew her brother, Hyozan Wakame had been very popular while he lived, with a sickness that made him weaker every day, it had pained everyone, including Ino, who had given a very touching speech about the boy, when he died.

Kosho thought of her speech, the day Wakame's funeral was held:

"We are greatly pained by the passing of Hyozan Wakame, a boy who held special kindness and hope in his heart. We shall miss him, his pros and his cons. My favorite part of him was his willingness to learn, to try and get see how many questions he got right on a quiz, he," she brushed a tear out of her eye, "always, always," she swallowed, "encouraged people's ninja careers, he," tears started rolling down her cheeks, "would always encourage me when I was having problems, give me good advice, I looked to him like a little sister looks to her older brother, he was always there. Many of the children in this village looked to the sixteen year old like an older brother, and the shinobi and kunoichi of the village look to him like a little brother, or older, considering age differences. The teenage boy died holding the headband he had always hoped for, prayed for. I had given it to him," she nearly broke down crying in front of everyone, "for his sixteenth birthday, just two days earlier. I had told him, he will always be a 

shinobi in my eyes, and in the eyes of everyone of the village. Most of you have noticed that the memorial statue is of him, and his name is the first one on the plates, that's because he was a shinobi killed in action, a shinobi of Taikai, sickness or not," she stood straighter, "he was a shinobi, one of us, I had awarded his hitai-ate to him for his courage, for his determination. Hyozan Wakame is, and always will be, a shinobi of Taikai!" The girl, who had then been fourteen, stood tall, and said, "He will never be forgotten, the children of our children will be told of Hyozan Wakame, the first downed Shinobi of Taikai, also the bravest, and strongest, for having survived the sickness for all of his sixteen years."

"Kosho? Kosho?" Midori kept waving her hand in front of his, "Huh? Yea?"

"Your eyes went out of focus and I've been waving for the past two minutes."

"I was just remembering something." Midori didn't even have to ask, the look in his eyes told her all of it, then both remembered, "The anniversary!"

"Of what?" Naruto asked.

"No time!" The duo dashed away, at speeds not even Lee could do, without his weights.

"I wonder if Taikai has been training their shinobi in speed, or if those two just need to get somewhere, fast." Rasen commented, her pinkish-purple eyebrow raised.

Ino wasn't training, nor fighting, and Kiba hadn't found her, for she was at the memorial stone, grieving every lost shinobi and kunoichi of Konoha. Her hand on the stone, tears slipping down her face, as the faces and names of lost shinobi and kunoichi of Taikai appeared in her mind.

An azure haired boy, 'Wakame…'

A black eyed girl, 'Zoge…'

A blond boy with green eyes, 'Shishi…'

A brilliantly haired girl, with mainly peach, 'Sango…'

Two girls, one with white hair, one with black, 'Shiro and Kuro…Why did you guys have to die? Was I not strong enough? Why did none of my healing jutsus work?' She was thrown out of her thoughts when she heard a sound in the bushes.

It's official, I am evil.

If you didn't catch it from Ino's speech, Wakame was a boy she thought of as an older brother and died from a sickness, which one, I'm not quite sure.



Ghostfur

PS. This is probably the fastest time I've got a second chapter up, so praise me!