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Thinking
Biju, etc. speaking
Biju, etc. thinking
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Ino stroked Sai's pale cheek as she snuggled even closer to his naked form. They'd had a wonderful reunion in Forehead's office. She sighed happily and gave her lover a squeeze around his muscular chest, wondering if their lovemaking had ever been so incredibly passionate and angry. "Would you accompany me to see my father, Darling?"
Sai froze before taking a deep breath. "Ino-chan, we need to talk."
Uh-oh… It took nearly an hour to only partially convince Sai that she had and would always remain true to him, and would never break his heart again. As much as Ino had missed him, and hurt without his presence in her life over these last months, it was obvious to Ino now that the separation just as difficult or maybe even harder for him. Maybe I should sneak into his mind and see what he's been up to…
Sai looked at her with aggravation as if he knew exactly what she was thinking. "Ino, there's only one thing I can presently think of that could ensure my trust in you once again."
"Anything, Darling: anything," she promised, sitting up and giving Sai a good view.
Sai stood up from the single bed and ignored his partner's whispered praises of his body. He pulled a newer sketchbook from his backpack on the floor and sat down next to her. Ino paused and felt even more guilty as Sai quickly flipped through page after page that all detailed her face with one expression after another.
He really missed me…
Finally, he turned a final page and proceeded to hide it from her against his chest. "Ino-chan: if I show you this, you may not speak of it to anyone." Stopping her questions before she even began, he held up his hand. "What I have recreated in my drawing could be incredibly valuable, but it's also incredibly dangerous, considering the subject." Yes, he really had her interest now: my little gossip-monger. "If you were to speak of this, I cannot promise what will happen. As much as I love you and love being with you…"
"You're scaring me, Sai! What in the world did you see? And why draw something so…" Ino began.
"You know better than anyone that art helps me process emotions," he said robotically. Ino grimaced and began to run her fingers through his dark hair, trying to offer solace in the first way she could. Sai sighed heavily. "I, I will show you this as an offer of trust; I may even eventually give it to you - but I admit, Ino-chan: this is a test."
What in the world has he seen? It must be terrible! Ino probably would've been angry over having her love "tested" but she was terribly worried about her fiance. With determination to aid him, she nodded her head. Sai pulled the sketchbook away from his chest as he looked fiercely into her eyes.
Ino felt her eyes pop out of her head before shrieking, "IS THAT KAKASHI-SENSEI? Kami! What's with that FACE?" She howled with laughter and bent over holding her stomach and could barely keep herself on the bed. It was hard to even occasionally steal a glance at her still serious-looking partner as she forced her eyes open. Ino had tears running down her face from laughing so hard, and couldn't stop looking at what Sai had drawn: it was just too bizarre and hilarious! She supposed Kakashi-sensei - er, Hokage-sama was handsome, but what the hell was he doing to make that expression? She was overtaken by laughter again but managed to brokenly ask Sai that very question.
Sai closed his sketchbook, making his favorite blonde pout, and eventually wipe away her tears. Once he was sure he fully had her attention, he spoke. "Hokage-sama… How can I describe it?"
"Just tell me!"
The ebony-haired man nodded his head. I can do this - especially as he now had Ino-chan beside him. "This may be hard to hear, Ino-chan, but… Demo, Senpai was screwing a woman." Ino's mouth dropped all the way open, and her shoulders began shaking. "Ino-chan! This is serious! The woman," he groaned, "was henged to look almost exactly like Naruto-kun." He watched his fiance's pupil-less eyes widened nearly comically but didn't understand at all when she again burst out in a fit of giggles.
As he began to criticize her reaction to his pain at seeing Dickless' face on a woman being banged hard, Ino slapped a hand over his mouth. She finally calmed down and shook her head. "Sai-kun. That woman wasn't a henge of Naruto. That WAS Naruto: Naruto-CHAN..."
Sakura walked into the back room of her office only to see her at least half-naked lifelong best friend in the bed she mostly reserved for patients with a giant smile on her face, along with her male teammate's pale bare ass bent over as he was struggling to get his pants on. Of all the things to walk into. The smell of sex was in the air and Sakura felt her eye twitch so hard she could barely see out of it. "You… IDIOTS!"
Sai turned immediately toward her with a terrible scowl on his face. "Did you know? Did you know, too?!"
That question and Sai's genuinely angry expression made her forget all about putting her comrades through the wall. She looked to Ino, who mouthed the word, "Naruto," and blanched. She closed her eyes and finally nodded. Sai walked past her quickly while pulling a shirt over his head, slamming the door behind him without saying another word.
Sakura winced and looked back at Ino who was up out of bed, bare-ass naked and putting one thing after another in Sai's backpack. Kami: for him to leave without the majority of his jutsus' supplies was bad! "Get dressed, Ino-chan. I need your help with Naru: she's got a migraine or something but I'm worried it's more than that."
The last thing Ino placed in Sai's pack was his sketchbook. Kami, this is hard! Everyone knew that her best friend and Forehead's entire team had desperately wanted to know if their sensei was as supposedly unattractive as they had imagined for over a decade. Although no one wants to see their sensei doing that! Well, maybe Naruto... She let out a dark chuckle as Sakura told her what secured room Naruto was in as an outpatient. Nodding her head at the pink-haired woman, she turned on the shower, making Sakura bitch at her harshly. "I'll be down once I'm fresh, Forehead! Gotta look good for Naruto, ne?" She laughed and stepped into the warm water as Sakura cursed her and stomped out of the room.
As Ino walked into what Sakura had told her was Naruto's room, she felt so glad to be back in the village! Things were always interesting here, to say the least. And she'd certainly walked into a more-than-interesting situation.
Sakura's mouth was open in horror and a white-haired frog was standing beside her on the window frame, smiling widely. Inside a wooden cage was an ink-covered Kakashi-sensei, who was holding on for dear life while being shaken silly by Yamato-Taicho who looked furious. Sai was scowling, and quietly cheering on his senpai darkly, while Naruto was lying in the bed with an old purple-haired frog lady holding its flipper hands over her eyes. "Ohayo," Ino greeted. Hmm. I guess Sai took the ink with him?
"Damn you, Tenzo! Let me out of here you brats," the Hokage ordered, before landing smack on his belly again due to the shaking of the mokuton cage that was being pounded into the floor and ceiling irregularly. He couldn't get a foothold!
"Aa. You're a Yamanaka! Come help me now, child," directed the purple-haired toad.
"Ano, what do you want me to do? I was planning to take a look at her," Ino began.
"Yamanaka-chan! I'm over eight centuries old: do you really think I've never worked with a mind walker before? Now get behind Naruto-chan's head and focus your chakra on her temples."
Ino made herself comfortable behind Naruto's head and loudly ordered silence from the idiotic men in the room. Looking down at her, Ino couldn't help herself: Naruto was actually very pretty as a female! Lady Shima took her flippers away from the other blonde's eyes and gave her a nod, seeming to know exactly what she was thinking. Naruto's face contorted in pain before what's her name? That's right: Shima-sama placed her flippers - er, hands - whatever they were back on her eyes. Ino noted that the lady frog - er, toad seemed to be emitting a slightly different form of iryo-ninjutsu into Naru-chan's head.
"Naru-chan:" that will take some getting used to, Ino thought as she began to scan the woman's mind. She's really in pain… Finally, she dove in, hoping to see what the problem was.
"Naruto -er, Naru-chan?" Ino asked warily. Naruto - female Naruto, that is - was sitting on the extremely wet ground in front of her; there was enough water or maybe it was some kind of drainage to be at least a few inches high. What the hell? The other thing that was unusual is that she wasn't seeing memories or visions of any type. The only thing present was Naruto, who had her fingers in her ears with her eyes tightly closed. Ino approached her slowly, ignoring the weird black things that resembled dead black trees and maybe paper or some other material. She jumped as she touched her.
"About fucking time!"
Ino nearly fell down at hearing THAT deep call. She knew it well: who could forget the demanding voice of the Kyuubi? As soon as she let go of Naruto's shoulder, though, the noise and bit of heat she'd felt momentarily disappeared. Feeling rather terrified, she gently grasped Naruto's shoulder to shake her again.
"Dumbass here doesn't believe I'm real!"
Ino took in a deep breath. What. The. Absolute. FUCK IS THIS?! Ino had been assured last night by Forehead that the Nine-tails was gone! There's no way in hell she'd ever consider entering the mind of a jinchuuriki - especially after she got smart with Naruto when tipsy that time... He'd warned her that if she ever tried to "fuck with (his) head," Kurama wouldn't like it and she'd be lucky to get out without her brain being split into at least nine pieces. No thank you!
"DON'T YOU EVEN CONSIDER LEAVING ME HERE IN THESE CONDITIONS, YAMANAKA INO!"
"You - You know my name?" Ino then noticed that Naruto was sitting on the ground, singing louder now as she rocked a bit. Dear gods, she's badly rhyming things from Icha-Icha Tactics… Kurama was muttering something angrily, she only heard a few of his words, as she looked around to see where in the world he was. His voice was echoing in Naruto's, er- Naru's mindscape.
"Dealing with another blonde flesh bags is always such a hassle…" The great fox muttered.
"Oi! That's not nice!"
"Neither am I! And of course I know you, monkey! Now get me out of here!"
Ino's face scrunched up in anger. "Where are you? I thought… And wait a minute! How do I know you won't hurt me?! Naruto said that…"
"Naruto's full of shit - well, at times." Kurama began growling a bit, but Ino felt the water surrounding her feet and ankles cool. Oddly enough, Naruto -er, -chan, didn't even seem to notice the water at all. "Alright, how about this? I swear by Father's name that I will bring you no harm, Mind Walker."
Ino tapped her chin. Is that really good enough? She needed to be extra-careful: she just got back with Sai! "And what is your father's name?"
"YOU DARE?! Otsutsuki Hagoramo, you blonde ditz! I know for a fact that Naruto made sure that everyone knows this!"
The fox - wherever he was - continued to mumble angrily, but Ino was sure that she heard him say that if the "Yellow-haired Banshee Number 2," didn't help, he'd find a way to jump out and eat her.
Ino stood glowering and began shaking: Kurama was a bully! How in the world did Naruto ever put up with this nonsense? Feeling beyond irritated and with a building rage, she began ripping the mindscape apart.
Layer after layer of black paper-like stuff tore under her gaze. She even ripped out a fossilized tree by its roots with a groan and shout. Reaching to whatever was next, her eyes took in what was beyond the mess. "Oh… My… Kami!" The fox was scowling back at her. "KUWAII!"
