Hey, guys! I know I took a while to update and I won't make excuses. I messed up and as a result, I had to go back and start re-writing quite a few chapters and will be doing so for a while. Don't worry, chapters 1-3 don't have any problems and are just fine. However, because of this and some other personal things (which I won't get into), I will be going at a slower pace than when I started. I won't make any promises, but going this long without an update shouldn't happen very often if at all.

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Chapter 4: Enter Team 7

"Alright then, now that you are all here, why don't you tell me all about yourselves?" Kakashi suggested. The three genin looked at him, not quite getting what he wants them to say.

Sakura spoke up, "What do you mean, sensei?"

"I mean what are your likes, dislikes, hobbies, goals, dreams, and so on." Kakashi answered while still reading his orange book.

"Why don't you go first and show us how it's done?"

Kakashi closed his book and put it away. "My name is Kakashi Hatake. I like some things and I dislike other things. My dream...don't really feel like telling you that. As for hobbies...I have lots of hobbies."

Sakura sweat-dropped at the jonin's "example". 'All we learned was his name...which we already knew.'

Naruto had his eyes closed, but a noticeable twitch in his right eye could be seen. 'Hebi-sensei was right...he's even too lazy to tell us about himself.'

Ino, who also looked slightly annoyed, simply voiced what was on her mind, "Wow...what a resume." she deadpanned.

Kakashi eye-smirked. 'At least one of them speaks their mind...although I have to admit that I thought it would be Naruto. Oh well...'

"Just for that little crack, you get to go first, blondie."

Ino sighed, but did what the jonin said. Better not to give a bad impression to the person that will be teaching you for years.

"My name is Ino Yamanaka. I like flowers, my family and friends, shopping, sports, chocolate and..." she paused for a moment before quickly glancing towards Naruto. Kakashi picks up on the gesture, but decides not to comment on it for now. "I dislike sashimi, cruel people, and most recently..." Her face went dark for a moment before looking up with a cold look on her face. "...Sasuke Uchiha." She said, causing Sakura to look at her in shock. She was about to ask her childhood friend why, but Kakashi beat her to it.

"From what I gather, you're one of his biggest supporters. Did he turn you down or something?"

"Was one of his biggest supporters, sensei. No...that wasn't it at all. That bastard is nothing more than a shit stain who prefers to take the easy why out."

"That's understandable. I admit that I'm not very high on him after taking part in that incident. Anyway, what about the rest of yourself, like your dreams or goals in life?" Kakashi urged.

"My dream...is to surpass Tsunade of the sannin and become one of the strongest kunoichi in the world." Ino finished.

'Hmm...I honestly didn't expect much out of this one, but it looks like she has moved pass her fangirl stage and decided to focus on becoming a real ninja. She needs some physical training and she needs to quit the dieting, but she has potential.' Kakashi mused, giving Ino a nod. Ino wasn't rail-thin by any means, but the rigorous training done by ninjas won't allow her to be on a diet that focuses on less eating. In fact, even eating as much as the average civilian wouldn't be enough.

"Ok pinky, you're next." Kakashi pointed to Sakura.

Sakura lightly glared at the cyclops, but decided to let it go. It wasn't that bad of a nickname. "My name is Sakura Haruno. I also like flowers, studying, and my mom."

"Hmm...aren't you leaving out a certain person?" Kakashi asked.

Sakura was silent for a moment before finally answering the copy ninja's question, "I'm...not sure. I've always thought that Sasuke was a strong and honorable person. However, after today, I can't look at him the same way again. I don't know if I hate him per-say...but I'm certain that I don't like him anymore, either."

Kakashi nodded. It wasn't a pleasant experience to find out that the person you like the most turns out to be a fraud in some respects. "What about your dreams?"

"My dream is to become a good medical ninja and have a family...although I honestly don't know with whom anymore."

"And your dislikes?"

"Naruto. He's so annoying, loud, and stupid. He keeps bugging me for a date even though I keep saying 'no'. For once, I wish he would just leave me alone!" Sakura said in an aggravated tone.

Naruto couldn't keep the look of hurt off of his face. Ino saw the look and couldn't help but feel bad for him. 'Did he always look like this when we scolded him for talking to us?'

Inner Sakura was highly aggravated, but with her outer self – not Naruto. 'That's IT! It's time that she learned the whole truth, possible insanity be damned...and who REALLY saved her from those damn bullies!'

Kakashi shook his head in disappointment. 'If she only knew that most of the things she said weren't true.'

Kakashi then notices that Ino looked tempted to reach out and give the boy a hug, which surprised him. 'Wait...she actually feels sorry for him. At least he's got one ally for now. If Sakura doesn't wake up soon, she could end up being alienated by not just her teammates, but most of the rookies as well since, from what Hokage-sama told me earlier, he seems to have a great relationship with them.'

Not wanting the uncomfortable silence to continue, Kakashi decided to move on. He would have a talk with the pinkette later. "Alright then whiskers, you're up – and please...tell us about the real you."

'Huh? What did he mean by that?' Ino and Sakura thought in confusion. They looked over and saw that Naruto had his eyes closed as if he was thinking it over.

FLASHBACK

"Naruto-kun," Tsunade began. "Up until now, I, along with Jiraiya, have told you that it was imperative you keep your real name and personality a secret."

"Yes Baa-chan, you did. Why bring this up now?" Naruto asked.

"Because, despite the advantage that this grants you, it won't last forever."

"But I thought that you said that I shouldn't reveil my secrets or the council will try and remove me from the clan."

"Yes, that's true. However, the only reason they can do something is because you are currently a civilian." Tsunade stated. "Remember, only the civilian council despises you. The shinobi council already knows of your secret and have no intentions of telling those empty-headed fools that you have a family...at least not yet, anyway."

Tsunade then gave the whiskered boy a knowing smirk. "And with you genin exam coming up in a week..."

Naruto eyes widened at what his surrogate mother was implying. "You mean..."

"Yes, Naruto-kun..."

END FLASHBACK

Naruto stood up and opened his eyes. "Kakashi-sensei...you're right. I think that it's time that I began telling everyone who I really am."

Kakashi smiled at the boy. 'Here we go. I just hope it goes over well enough. It's bad enough that he has to put up with so much from the civilians. He doesn't need people other than Sasuke Uchiha despising him.'

"Everyone knows me as Naruto Uzumaki. However...that's not my entire name." Naruto began. He saw that both girls were looking at him with confused expressions. Naruto sighed. This was going to be a system shocker. "My full name is Naruto Uzumaki...Shinsei."

Both Ino and Sakura's eyes widened in complete shock. For several minutes, nobody said anything. Ino and Sakura expected something fairly big...but not THIS big. The boy that they had considered to be an annoying, stupid, average-talent, no-clan loser, turned out to be a member of one of the village's youngest, but powerful and wealthiest clans. Granted, Ino had already realized that Naruto wasn't stupid nor was he just average; but him belonging to a clan, period, was a major surprise – let alone a super power clan. Sakura, on the other hand, was ill-prepared for such news and nearly passed out. Inner Sakura sweat-dropped at her outer self. 'I wonder how she's going to react when I teach her THAT jutsu and finds out everything about him on her own...'

"Look, I know that it doesn't make sense-" Naruto began, but was cut off.

"Actually, it makes plenty of sense. I've long figured out that you weren't some kind of moron and that you have far more than average talent, but why didn't you ever use your clan name while in the academy?" Ino inquired.

"...because...the civilian council would either try to disband the clan or forcefully remove me from it." Naruto answered, his voice obviously giving off a sad tone.

"Kit, you may have said too much. You know she's going to look into that..." Kyubi gently warned.

'She's going to find out anyway since she is a Yamanaka and the heiress to said clan. Remember, she is a natural mind walker and will eventually come across that information...one way or another. ' Naruto responded.

"...Point taken. Still, be careful how you word things from here on out. The Yamanaka girl and MAYBE the Haruno girl may be able to understand the circumstances behind my attack of your village, but some people are so blinded by hate that they don't care who's really behind it. Then there are some who hold the Uchiha clan in such high regard, that they will refuse to believe that those jutsu thieves willed the partial destruction of the village."

'Agreed.'

Ino was confused by the boy's answer. To her, it seemed like someone on the civilian council was out to get him for some unknown reason.

"You're getting warm." came a voice inside her head. Ino was about to shout 'what the hell', but was cut off by the same voice.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. You don't want your teammates to think that you are some kind of nut, now do you?" the voice responded. Ino thought for a second before remembering something and decided to test it.

'...who are you...and why do you sound like me?' Ino sent a mental reply.

"My, my, you are a smart one if you figured out how to communicate with me that quickly. As for your questions, let's wait until you are away from your teammates. We have much to discuss." the voice explained. Ino silently agreed with the voice and made a note to find an "out-of-the-way" spot to mentally talk with the voice without interruption.

Kakashi decided once more to keep things on track to help Naruto avoid answering questions he wasn't ready to give the answers to. "What are your likes, dislikes, dreams and so on, Naruto?"

Naruto seemed to snap out of his sad state and put on a somewhat genuine smile. "I like my family and friends – just like Ino-chan, ramen, football [AN: In this fic, the term 'football' will refer to the american style game], finding and creating new jutsus and seals, and reading."

'Naruto...likes to read?' Kakashi mentally gapped. He knew the boy COULD read, but he never thought that the blond LIKED to read as a hobby.

'He's...been creating his own jutsus AND seals?' thought a surprised Ino. 'That sort of thing requires some serious creativity and brain power, especially seals.' It was then that she finally understood: Naruto had been hiding nearly every true thing about himself; the only things that seemed to connect the mask and the real mccoy was his friendly attitude, his appetite for ramen, and his pranking nature. He was never truly the dead-last at any point. It did, however, beg the question, 'Then why were his grades so horrible during the first half of his academy career?'

Sakura looked down. 'He added a 'chan' at the end of Ino-pig's name...but he didn't even mention me.' For some reason, that last part hurt.

The two genin and one-eyed jonin were brought out of their thoughts when they heard Naruto continue, "My dislikes are selfish people, most of the Uchiha clan..." his facial expression then turned cold and said the last part in a low, but icy voice, "...and traitors."

That sent shivers down everyone's back. They had never seen the boy like this before. While the two kunoichi were wondering why he said the last part with such disdain, Kakashi knew exactly why his view was so hateful towards traitors. 'I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Naruto does see the hokage as a grandfather figure. The fact that Mizuki willfully took advantage of the hokage's magnanimous attitude towards ninja under his command must have caused him to have zero tolerance for traitors. Somehow...I get the feeling that Mizuki may end up being the only traitor to survive Naruto's wrath from here on out.'

"My dream is to become strong and become hokage...and maybe find someone who will see me for who I am as a person." Naruto nearly whispered the last part, but everyone heard it nevertheless.

Kakashi smiled at Naruto, indicating that he and the boy were going to get along just fine. "Now that the introductions are over, let's discuss what you three will be doing, provided that you pass the genin examination two days from now." That got the three genin's attention.

"Sensei, we already took the genin exam yesterday." Sakura spoke up. She immediately got an uneasy feeling when the lazy jonin eye-smiled mischievously.

"What you passed yesterday was a genin preliminary qualification exam. In other words, that exam is designed to determine who is eligible to possibly become genin. The test you will be taking in two days will decide if you are ready for life as a ninja...or if you need more seasoning."

"Umm, sensei?" Ino spoke up. Kakashi turned his attention to the blond mindwalker and nodded his head, motioning for her to continue. "Why are you holding the test in two days instead of tomorrow? Does the test take that much time to set up?"

'Well now, she's a smart one, too. In fact, my whole team is smart now that I think about it. Still, I won't be able to tell her everything...' - "That's very perceptive of you, Ino. The hokage has ordered a meeting and the ninja council members and some ninja, myself included, are required to attend. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what it's about it since what will more than likely be discussed will be S-ranked." Kakashi answered.

"Please don't tell me, Kakashi-sensei..." Naruto groaned.

"I'm afraid so, Naruto. You will be required to attend since you are the only candidate to succeed Tsunade as clan head of the Shinsei clan."

"Sensei, I thought that the clan head had to be at least a chunin to become clan head." Ino pointed out.

"In most cases, yes. However, there are a few exceptions to that rule. However, we are getting off topic here. In two days, I will be giving you three your genin test. The only thing that I will tell you about this test is that should you fail it, you will be sent back to the academy for one semester before you can try again with the same team or another of the hokage's choosing. I will see you three at 8 AM sharp. Oh, and I would suggest not eating anything the mourning of your exam – you just might throw it right back up." Kakashi eye-smile before 'poofing' away.

While Sakura and Ino stared in comical horror at the last part of Kakashi's speech, Naruto was instantly suspicious. 'Why the hell would he say that? Kaa-chan told me once that not eating before doing any kind of strenuous activity could have unwanted consequences...' Deciding that to file the thought away for later, he walked over to his new teammates.

"Hey Sakura-chan, Ino-chan, you want to go get something to eat?" He offered.

"I can't. I've got some things to do." Sakura said, a little too fast and took off towards her home. Naruto felt a little hurt that his pink crush turned down a chance to for some team bonding. He turned to Ino and was about to ask the same thing, but stopped when Ino shook her head.

"Sorry Naruto...but I need to go and think some things over." Ino said. She immediately regretted saying so when she saw the look of heartbreak on his face. She actually did want to go and have lunch with him, even if half the reason was to try and figure him out, but she also needed to find out what that voice in her head was and what it wanted to talk to her about.

'It's ok - go ahead and tell him. He revealed things about himself. The best way to establish trust is to reveal things about you in return.' the voice encouraged. Ino felt somewhat nervous about telling the boy about a voice in his head, but something inside her, besides the voice, was telling her that Naruto can be trusted.

"Naruto...please don't think that I don't want to get to know you. In fact, I really did want to go to lunch with you...but something came up while we were introducing ourselves..." Ino began. Seeing that the boy's facial expression changed to one of confusion, she continued, "...I know this is going to sound...strange, but I literally had a voice telling me that it had things to discuss. I have to find out what this is about, because quite frankly, I'm scared of the possibility of 'losing it'. I promise you that once I figure out what's going on, I'll tell you. I don't want to head into this test with both you and Sakura thinking that I'm going insane." Ino said, fidgeting the whole time.

Naruto's eyes slightly widened, but not for the reasons most would think. '...Is it possible? Does she have...?'

"She just might, kit. The Yamanaka clan isn't known to have THAT ability, but the possibility was always there. I have a few theories on the matter kit, but for now, let her sort it out on her own. If my theory is correct, then we need to have a talk...ALL of us." Kyubi informed him.

'What do you mean by 'ALL of us'?' Naruto responded.

"I'm sorry kit, but that will have to wait. I want to be sure about this before I tell you more."

Deciding to let the matter drop for the time being, Naruto turned his attention back to Ino, who had a concerned look on her face. 'At least Ino-chan actually wants to get to know me.'

"Don't be so quick to give up on the pinky yet, kit. Somehow, I get the feeling that she is going to come around soon enough."

"Naruto?" came Ino's concerned voice. Naruto gave her a small smile.

"I understand, Ino-chan. I think I may have an idea of what that is about, but if I'm correct, then it's not my place to tell you. The only thing that I can say is don't let anyone else other than me, Kakashi-sensei, or even Sakura-chan know about this. A good ninja doesn't reveal their secrets when they don't have to."

"Naruto, one more thing...why did Inabi call you a 'demon brat'?"

Naruto mentally cursed. He had completely forgotten about his little showdown with the jonin Uchiha. "...I can't really tell you...yet. But I promise to tell you when I feel the time is right. When I do tell you, please...keep an open mind." Naruto gave her a sad smile and took off towards his favorite place to eat, Ichiraku ramen.

As she watched him leave, Ino couldn't help but mentally ask herself, 'What did he mean by that?' The voice decided to answer that question.

'I have an idea of what he's talking about, but that isn't something that I will directly talk about. That said, I have a feeling that you will find out very soon. Now, go find a place where we won't be disturbed. This is going to take a while.'

XXXXX

30 minutes later – Haruno main household

As Sakura arrived home after her team's first meeting, she noticed that her mother, Somei Haruno, seemed a bit aggravated. This caused the pink-haired teen to frown a bit, having an idea of why her mother was in such a mood.

"It's him, isn't it?" Sakura asked in a disgusted tone. Somei turned to see her daughter standing in the doorway of the family room.

The jonin mother simply sighed, "Yes, honey, it's about your stepfather." Akogi Haruno, Sakura's stepfather, was a civilian – but he wasn't just any civilian. He was a civilian council member. It was no secret among the ninja population that Somei did not marry Akogi by choice. Her parents, despite being Harunos, weren't ninjas and didn't approve Somei becoming one. In the Haruno family, most of the ninjas and the civilians didn't get along with each other. When she was younger, Somei managed to convince her parents to let her become a kunoichi.

Although her parents eventually relented, they told her that they reserved the right to marry her off to anyone of their choosing. Believing that the trade-off would be fair, she accepted. Unfortunately, her parents had a lapse in judgement and married her off to one of the village's sexists men, Akogi. The only reason he had changed his name was because Somei belonged to a clan. He used his status as a council member to get what he wanted when he could. Granted, he couldn't do very much to her since she was a kunoichi, but since Sakura was technically a civilian for most of her life up until now, he made her do all of the chores and treated her like a 2nd class citizen. Whenever Somei tried to intervene, he would threaten to sell her into slavery. Unfortunately, money allowed him to do a lot of things.

One day after another incident involving a group of kids teasing the pinkette about her forehead, Sakura had told her mother that she wanted to become a ninja. At first, Somei was happy that Sakura wanted to follow in her foot steps, but realized that Akogi would never allow such a thing, seeing as he would lose a lot of control over her. Thankfully, the Sandaime knew of the situation and when the sexist council member forbad her from entering the academy, Sarutobi immediately told him that since at least one of her parents was a ninja of Konoha; by law, Sakura was allowed the opportunity to enter the academy.

Akogi had no choice but to obey, but it didn't end there. On Sakura's first day at the academy, she immediately became the target of Ami and her two friends. Somei decided to follow her daughter to school for that first day without anyone else knowing, including Sakura. She discovered that Ami's father was Ijimekko, another civilian council member who just happen to be good friends with her husband. She wondered why Ami would choose her daughter as a target, but got her answer when Sakura came home that night with Akogi waiting for her with a fake smile on his face while asking her how her first day at the academy was. From that point on, she knew that Akogi was indirectly responsible Sakura's low self-esteem. Because of this, most of the boys weren't interested in her since she was viewed as a weakling.

Despite all that, Sakura managed to bring home good grades, much to the dismay of Akogi. To add insult to injury, there was one boy who was attracted to her: Naruto Uzumaki. While Somei knew better and didn't see the boy as the Kyubi, Akogi, like every member of the civilian council, hated the boy, but not for the same reasons. No, he hated the boy simply because as long as there was someone his age trying to give Sakura confidence in herself, she wouldn't break like he wanted. However, Somei's heart sank as Sasuke Uchiha arrived on the scene, leaving nearly all of the girls in the class star-struck, including Sakura. Akogi seemed quite happy since it distracted Sakura from becoming a good kunoichi and was even better since the girl was unknowingly treating her only other savior like dirt.

That is, until yesterday. When Sakura graduated, Akogi was furious. Because Sakura graduated and became a genin, she was no longer under the civilian council's control. Coming back to the present, it was obvious that Akogi found out who was on Sakura's team. It was obvious to Somei that Ami was the one to let loose that information to her father, who in turn, informed Akogi. The bastard had demanded that Somei go to the hokage and force him to change the teams. When Somei refused, he threatened to kick her and Sakura out onto the street, but Somei didn't by it at all. She was still angry with her parents, but she at least knew that if Akogi tried such a thing without a valid reason, they would banish him from the Haruno clan. Granted, the Haruno clan in general didn't particularly like Naruto, they also didn't hate him either.

"Why do we have to put up with him, mom? He's done nothing but make our life miserable...and since last year, he makes me...uncomfortable whenever he looks at me." Sakura said with a bit of fear. Somei's facial expression darkened. Around the beginning of her 3rd year, she, at times, had caught Akogi eye's...'wondering' whenever Sakura walked passed him. In other words, he was staring at her ass, one of the pinkette's features that even Ino was jealous of, which was saying something since one boy had describe the blond's ass as a 'ripe piece of fruit'. Said boy ended up in the hospital for a week.

"I know, sweetheart, I know." Somei softly said. "It's difficult, but now that you are a ninja, at least you don't have to worry about most of his threats. Still, be on your guard and be wary of him and anyone on the civilian council. Jiraiya-sama told me that he found something ...disturbing involving at least some of them, if not all."

"Don't worry mom, I will." Sakura assured her. Then she remembered what she needed to do from earlier today during her team's first meeting. "Mom, I need to go to the..." Sakura stopped short of saying. She didn't know if her mom would let her, even if she just became a ninja.

"...I see. Did...she...tell you that it's time?" Somei asked. Sakura slowly nodded, not knowing how else to respond. Somei stayed silent for a moment before opening her eyes to give her daughter a serious look. At first Sakura thought that her mother was going to tell her that she wasn't ready to visit that place. She was wrong.

"Then it is time, Sakura-chan, my daughter. It is time for you to fully learn our clan's kekkei genkai. It is time...for you to learn about the Mind Pool."

XXXXX

2 hours after team 7's first meeting – Yamanaka Clan Library

"This place should do." Ino said, mostly to herself. At first, she thought about going back home to the flowershop, but with her parents there, she might not get the time needed to try and understand what was going on in her head. Besides, she had heard stories about a few people in her clan's history that had gone insane. She shivered at that. If her cousin, Newazashi[1], found out that about this, he would use it to his advantage to win himself the title of Yamanaka clan head, even if she was considered by most to be the favorite to become clan leader when her father stepped down.

Newazashi maybe her cousin, but she despised him. Many people, inside and outside of the Yamanaka clan, knew about his Machiavellian-like nature. He liked to bully people into getting what he wanted. Nearly all the people in her age group were at best hesitant to deal with him or at worst, were downright afraid of him. The only ones in his group not afraid of him were team 9 which consisted of Rock Lee, Tenten, and Neji Hyuga. Her age group was only slightly better, but she now suspected that had something to do with a certain whiskered blond. She remembered seeing him bully the others while she was in her 2nd year at the academy. Then one day, he stopped messing with most of his class. While she never found out exactly what had happened, she did noticed that he would go out of his way to avoid Naruto like the plague.

Ino's thoughts were broken up when everything went black. When Ino came to, she noticed that she was in a field filled with beautiful flowers of every color that seemed to stretch for miles. The sky was a strange, but beautiful mix of light blue and light purple. "Ah, there you are." came a voice from behind. Ino spun around to see...a version of herself, who looked exactly like her except that she wore black instead of purple.

"Ok, who are you and what is this place?" Ino asked, wanting to get straight to the point.

"This place is your mind. What you see is a representation of your mental status. As you can see, the flowers everywhere mean that your mind is at peace. The light purple sky means "The sky's the limit" for you. In other words, you believe that you can do anything you put your mind to. As for who I am...I'm your inner self."

"...I knew it. I'm going insane." Ino said in a gloomily comical way.

"(sighs) No, you're not you, girl. Your friend Sakura already told you about her clan's kekkei genkei." That caused Ino to freeze. How could she have the pinkette's family bloodline? She wasn't related to her...was she?

"Although scholars from both clans have been studying things like this, nobody ever found any evidence of the two of you be related by blood and I doubt they ever will. As to how you could have your best friend's bloodline, that too, is a mystery although there seems to be more evidence to support a few theories that are floating around out there, but that is a discussion for much later. For now, there are some things that you need to know about your teammates."

"If you're talking about that disgusting pervert of a stepfather, than yeah I know about that. Me and Sakura aren't on great terms right now, but I still see her as a friend even is she doesn't. I swear if that bastard touches her, I WILL rip his throat out...if Naruto doesn't do it first." Ino said coldly.

"Well, at least you know that much. It saves time and allows us to talk about your other teammate." Inner Ino continued.

"Naruto..." Ino whispered.

"Yes, Naruto-kun." Inner Ino confirmed.

"Naruto-kun?"

"Oh come off it girl, you know you're starting to like him."

"Wh-what are t-talking about?" Inner stuttered. In the real world, she was blushing like crazy.

"Please. It started the instant he was prepared to kill a full-fledged jonin for you. You know damn well that selfish prick Sasuke won't ever do that for anyone."

"Alright all ready! Okay, I admit that he's interesting, but I'm not ready to admit that a thing for him." '...yet.' Ino thought the last part. Inner Ino heard it, but decided to drop it...for now. There were more important things to talk about.

"Fine. I'll let it slid...for now."

"Thank you. You said that there was something that I needed to know about Naruto..."

"Yes..." Inner Ino responded, becoming serious. "Before I say anything else, I need you to answer something for me." Ino nodded, silently urging her inner self to continue. Inner Ino produced two items that Ino easily recognized out of thin air. "Now then, what are these?"

It seemed strange to answer such an easy question, but the blonde figured that there was a purpose behind her inner self asking, so she decide to go ahead and humor her. "That's a scroll..." Ino said, pointing to the cylinder object. "...and that's a kunai." she finished after pointing to the weapon that ninjas see and use in their everyday lives. Inner Ino nods and begins to open the scroll. She then places the kunai on top of the scroll before pumping a small amount of chakra into the scroll. The kunai disappears, but Ino notices that the kanji "Kunai" now shows up the scroll.

"What is it now?"

"Uh, still a scroll..." Ino deadpanned as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Very good. You pass my test." Inner Ino grinned.

"Test?" Inquired a confused Ino.

"You'll understand in time. Now then, let's talk..." Inner Ino said seriously.

Ino saw this and wondered just what this was about exactly. She would find out soon...and it would change her life in more ways than one.