Well this is chapter 2 people. Hope you like it! And I hope that even though this may be horrible, that you stick with me and help me along the way.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and I never will.

Chapter 2: The Academy

Years had passed and Ino and Naruto became good friends. They were now old enough to enter the academy. Naruto and Ino were inseparable like two toilet plungers stuck together. Naruto woke up and stretched his arms out as the sun shined into his bedroom through his open window. Today was a going to be a good day, he could feel it.

He jumped out of bed and went to the shower. After the shower he put on his favourite clothes. Ino bought him clothing because he never had anything else, asides from his black t-shirt with a orange swirl and a pair of grey shorts. Over the years Ino took him shopping often and she bought him some stuff he really loved. Ino bought him a white shirt with the Konoha symbol on the back and some blue shorts. They were normal attire, but it was the first pieces of clothing she had ever bought him, and they were precious to him. He quickly ate his breakfast and once again wrote a note thanking Kakashi. After that first day he met the ninja, Kakashi would constantly buy groceries for Naruto on a weekly basis. Naruto tried to tell the ninja that he didn't have to but Kakashi would quickly disappear after putting the food away.

Naruto ran out of his apartment and ran to the Yamanaka Flower Shop. He promised Ino that he would meet up with her and they would walk together to the academy. He finally reached the shop and walked in to see Ino in her purple outfit. Ino quickly gave her dad a hug and ran to hug Naruto. Naruto hugged back and waved to Inoichi.

"Bye kids, have fun and don't get into too much trouble on the first day!" yelled Inoichi.

"Okay!" they both exclaimed. They walked out and headed towards the academy. Naruto was so excited, he will become a great ninja to protect himself and Ino. Ino wanted to be a ninja just like her father. When she first told Naruto he was shocked. He knew there were plenty of female ninja but he never considered Ino would want to be one. She always seemed a bit girly Naruto thought, but he liked that about her.

"I can't wait to enter the academy!" screamed Ino while jumping up and down, her blonde pony tail grew tremendously over the past years and was now long enough to move up and down with her.

"I know! I've been waiting for this day for so long!" replied Naruto. He was too excited he wanted to get there as soon as possible," Hey Ino… race ya."

"You're on."

They both got into a ready position.

"Three, Two, One… GO" yelled Naruto. He broke off in a sprint and headed towards the academy. He looked back to see Ino not behind him. He thought he ran so fast he left her behind and snickered. He faced forward only to see the purple wearing blonde about 10 metres in front of him. No way was he going to let a girl beat him! He pushed harder and soon he was moving so fast it was hard to move out of people's way. He dodged a women by quickly dodging to the right, then another lady by dodging to the left. There was a cart of fruit in front of him and he skillfully jumped over it. He could hear the screams behind him but he ignored it. He had a race to win after all! He finally caught up to Ino. She looked at him in shock and gave him a quick blow kiss.

This caused him to trip and face plant onto the ground. She laughed and continued to sprint off. Naruto quickly got up and continued running.

I can't believe that made me lose focus! he thought. He picked up his pace once more and he finally saw the academy in view and pushed his hardest. He was still close to Ino. He pushed himself to his fullest and suddenly blew passed Ino. She was shocked as she saw a blur of yellow rush by her. Naruto reached a tree near the academy and smacked it with his hand. He yelled in triumph.

"I win!" shouted Naruto. He started jumping up and down with joy.

"Pfft…I wasn't trying," Ino said while panting. Naruto looked at her and snickered. He suddenly remembered that blow kiss she gave him.

"Cheater, you made me fall when you blew that kiss at me," said Naruto.

"Not my fault you got side tracked."

"Well I had to move out of the way before that kiss hit me," said Naruto while laughing. Suddenly he felt really scared. Ino was staring at him with killer eyes.

"You think that kiss I blew was that bad…?" said Ino rather coldly and eerily. She crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him.

"Umm…" Naruto began to back away before Ino tackled him to the ground…hard.

Ino looked like she was about to kill him, but instead poked him in the forehead and ran into the academy. Naruto wasn't sure why, but his heart was pounding when Ino jumped on top of him. Realizing he was late, he ran into the academy after Ino. He reached his classroom to see a room full of kids and Ino sitting in the back with a empty seat next to her. She smiled and patted the seat. Naruto smiled back and walked up and sat beside her grinning. Everyone was chit chatting but settled down soon after the instructor walked in.

"Hello class, I'm Iruka, your instructor for this year. You will want to learn everything you can here so…pay attention cause after this, you're going to be going into the real world." said Iruka. Some people were scared and gulped while others, like Naruto and Ino looked on with a determined expression upon their face.

The class ended and the students began to pack up and leave. Naruto and Ino already knew who the top students were just by the first class. And there weren't that many. There was Sasuke Uchiha. Obviously in the top because of him being an Uchiha. Then there was Shikamaru Nara, he acted like he was asleep the whole class but he answered every random question instantly while still trying to sleep. Chouji Akimichi was also a known ninja because of his size so he would be hard to beat. There weren't that many female ninja that stood out, only Sakura Haruno, who looked like she would be a whore for Sasuke if he asked her. Despite her being crazy over Sasuke she was intelligent and looked like she'd be a challenge to Ino. Then there was Hinata Hyuuga, the Hyuuga heiress. She was a shy girl but Naruto knew that if she was pushed hard enough, she would excel as a ninja.

Naruto and Ino were the last to leave the classroom and started to walk home. They walked through the entrance and took about ten steps when suddenly two boys from the class blocked their way.

"Look, the demon is actually in the academy! And he has a cute little play toy." said one of the boys.

"Fuck off Nouchi, we don't want to fight," said Naruto while standing in front of Ino protectively.

"Ooooh the demon is protecting his toy! Wonder what will happen if we try to take it away." said Youchi, Nouchi's twin brother. The twins were known as being the sons of the noble Makanouchi family. They are highly viewed from the civilians however, the ninja's know that they were scum. The family hated Naruto for being the container of the fox that destroyed half their fortunes. They stalked towards Naruto and Ino. Naruto stood in front of Ino still. Once the twins were closer he charged at Nouchi punching him in the face while jumping up and kicking Youchi in the stomach at the same time. Nouchi dropped back and held his bleeding nose while Youchi stood bent over. Naruto took the opportunity to run up and knee Youchi in the face…hard, knocking him out of the fight and in tremendous pain.

"Demon! You'll pay..." snarled Nouchi. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a kunai. Naruto was terrified, he had nothing but his fists to protect him and Ino. Naruto jumped back as he was slashed at by his torso. Naruto couldn't do anything but dodge the kunai quickly. He jumped, crouched, and tried to swing back but Nouchi grabbed his hand and slashed him across his stomach. It wasn't a deep cut, but it still cut him. Ino couldn't stand there and watch Naruto risk his life to save them both. She decided to do something. She quickly ran to Nouchi's back and tried to knock him out. Naruto saw her attempt and his eyes widened. She chopped at the back of Nouchi's neck thinking that she ended the fight. However, she missed the pressure point where she was suppose to hit for a knock out, instead, he turned around slowly to face her. He smirked a perverted smile.

"Mmm cutie, looks like you want to have some fun..." said Nouchi. He grabbed her by her hair and was about to hit her when suddenly he felt a huge amount of killer intent. He slowly turned around to see Naruto staring at him with a look of pure murder on his face.

"You. Will. Not. Touch her...Ever Again!" yelled Naruto. He charged at Nouchi and seemingly teleported right in front of him faster than the blink of an eye. Nouchi's eyes widened as he felt the punch the was delivered to his stomach. His eyes widened even more as he saw the fist that was coming to his face. The fist collided and Nouchi went flying into a tree, out cold. Naruto finally calmed down and realized what he did. He just beat up the two sons of the Makanouchi family. He was so dead.

"N-Naruto are you okay?" asked Ino worriedly. She ran to him and put his face between her hands so he would face her. He stared back into her eyes and she saw a fear that she saw when he was younger.

"Their family will order me killed! They hate me enough and now they will definitely kill me." said Naruto. He was terrified, he didn't want people to find a reason to finally kill him after all these years.

"Let's get out of here." said Ino. She took his hand in hers and lead him back to the shop. They reached the shop and they went up to her room. Naruto was still terrified, he hasn't been attacked in two years and he didn't want to give people a reason for them to hate him. But he just beat the crap out of the twins, he would surely feel their revenge.

"It was self defense, they can't do anything to you," said Ino reassuringly. Naruto sat on her bed while Ino went to go get a first aid kit.

"But we can't prove it..." said Naruto. Ino came back and Naruto took off his shirt. Normally Ino would be blushing at this however there was a serious wound that needed to be covered. He was now shirtless and Ino went to inspected the cut. It was gone. She looked at him in shock and bewilderment.

"It's gone." she said.

"What is?" asked Naruto.

"The cut…it's…not there." Ino said, even though the slash wasn't life threatening, it was still a slash from a kunai there had to be at least some mark. Naruto panicked more than he was surprised. He seemed to heal relatively fast, which he learned from his years of torment and abuse.

"Well that's just great, now we have no way to show that we were actually trying to defend ourselves from them." Naruto said quickly, that took Ino's mind off it and reminded her about what would happen. She thought deeply and remembered something that was so obvious to her. She smacked her self after realizing.

"Sure we do, I'm a Yamanaka remember? My family specializes in mind jutsu, we can easily see their memories if they accuse you of beating them up without a reason." Naruto smiled. He forgot about that! He hugged Ino who was lying down on her bed after inspecting Naruto and finding him to be fine. He practically jumped on her body and gave her a big hug.

"Thank you so much Ino!" said Naruto who continued to hug her. Ino was blushing like crazy. They were in a bed, with Naruto on top of her…and shirtless. If her dad walked in they'd be finished. Naruto continued to hug her and Ino felt like she was about to go nuts. However, Naruto finally let go of the blushing blonde. She was panting quickly. Naruto gave her an awkward look.

"Ino you okay?"

"Yeah of course! Why wouldn't I be!" said Ino quickly. Naruto laughed and gave her another quick hug, it was getting late and he had to go. He put on his shirt and told her that he should go. Ino walked him to the door and said goodbye and thanks for saving her. She closed the door behind him and sighed.

Oh dear, I'm falling for Naruto.

So..I re-read this chapter and realized that.. I rushed again! But I'm still deciding to post it because it is still apart of the story just could have been in more detail. I also think that I should write a bit from Ino's point of view. Not first person but I've been writing basically everything that Naruto was doing and feeling and not enough of Ino. I'll fix that for the next chapter and so on. Thanks for reading, please Rate and Review! Bye Inbox me if you wish to talk to me personally or if you want to beta my writing! =) Ez.