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LEMON WARNING IN LATER CHAPTERS
[Strong Ino]
Prologue
(Naruto/Ino age: 8)
Naruto was just sitting in his seat in his classroom watching all the girls (Except Hinata) trying to get with Sasuke.
"Are you okay Naruto-Kun?" Hinata asked Naruto.
"Yeah of course, why do you ask?" Naruto asked with confusion plastered on his face (Naruto did save Hinata in the Forrest, and did end up beating the bullies via Taijutsu only, but they both took it as a reason to become best friends instead of lovers).
"You just seem a bit down."
"Nah, I'm fine don't worry. I just wonder, what do girls see in Sasuke?" Naruto asked.
"I honestly don't know" Hinata genuinely said.
"Ehh whatever, I'm just glad I'm finally in The Academy. Now I can practice what Hokage Jiji taught me, when we get the chance of course" Naruto said with a smile
"Right on" Hinata said with a smile of her own.
And so they waited for their instructor to talk to them about what they need to know. And sure enough their Sensei did just that.
"Hello everyone, my name is Iruka Umino, but you can just call me Iruka Sensei" announced Iruka.'So that's his name?" Naruto thought.
"Let's just get right into business kids" Iruka said before flipping open a book and reading it aloud.
After two hours, Iruka was done with his educational book and told them all to meet him in the court. After they all did just that, Iruka said
"Alright sparring sessions, we'll have a tournament for each gender in order to see who the number one for each gender is."
The Sasuke fan girls got excited at being able to see their precious Sasuke-Kun fight and win.
Iruka then called out
"Naruto Uzumaki vs Sasuke Uchiha."The Sasuke fan girls were squealing in excitement. Due to being able to see their Sasuke-Kun beat up someone who they described as a loser.
"Get into your stances" said Iruka.
Both did just that and the fan girl's started shouting stuff like "Get him good Sasuke-Kun!" Or "No mercy Sasuke-Kun!" Or "Put the loser in his place!"
But Hinata knew she had to cheer on her Best Friend, so she shouted out
"Get him Naruto-Kun!"
Iruka then told them to
"Begin!"
Naruto decided to you with Sasuke by letting Sasuke come to him, but dodge every single one of Sasuke's hit with his arms crossed, and it worked. Sasuke couldn't land one hit on Naruto no matter how hard he tried.
"Way to go Naruto-Kun!" Hinata shouted.
But the fan girls certainly weren't happy in the least. In fact most wanted to hurt Hinata for not cheering Sasuke on. But with their Sensei right there, they knew that it was a bad idea (They didn't know how dangerous the Hyuga are). So they waited until their own tournament.
'I don't understand what's good about the loser, I mean I never let him live it down before we even started going to the Academy' thought a certain blonde haired girl.
After a bit of dodging and Sasuke getting tired, Naruto decided to end it, and he did, with one punch to the stomach. After Naruto delivered that punch, Sasuke was down and out.
"Winner is Naruto Uzumaki" Iruka said calmly (Because the squealing of the fan girls was over, so there was no need to yell).
The fan girls were so upset that they couldn't speak, until finally all the fan girls yelled out
"WHAT!?"
A certain pink haired girl said
"He cheated, there's no way he could've beat Sasuke-Kun!"
Naruto simply ignored that girl
'Banshee" Naruto thought.
"Alright up next for the girls, Hinata Hyuga Vs Sakura Haruno."
Hinata did the same thing as Naruto and just avoided Sakura's hits, untill deciding to end it when Sakura got to tired (Both Naruto and Hinata could've ended their fight quickly, but instead chose to toy with these two and evey other opponent they had).
"Winner is Hinata Hyuga" Iruka called out.
And this continued on until both Naruto and Hinata were labeled top fighters.
"Alright let's go back to class kids" Iruka said.
All the kids of course followed instructions.
(End of The Academy Day)
As everyone was making their way out of the Academy, Naruto and Hinata decided to push each other in the swing. But after a while they decided that they to should go, so they bid farewell and went their own ways.
Naruto of course went to train with his Jiji until it became night time. Once it did Naruto started walking back to his Apartment. On his way to his Apartment he ran into a familiar sight.
'This is the same Forrest I saved Hinata in' thought Naruto. He was about a turn back and leave, until he saw something on the ground. Naruto turned around completely and looked down, only to notice that it was blonde hair. Naruto thought the worst possible scenario
'Someone is in trouble!'
And so he very quietly (So as to not alert anybody of his presence) walked into the Forest.
After a bit of sneaking inside the Forrest, Naruto saw that he was right. There was a little blonde girl strapped to the back of an Iwa Ninja.
'Ino, damn, I know about how much Iwa hates The Leaf, but I didn't think that they would still do this' Naruto thought. 'Either way, I need to help.'
Naruto then decided to use something he learned from his Jiji, Guerilla Warfare. So Naruto jumped from a bush closely and punched one of The Iwa Ninja in the the back of the head.
"What the hell!?" The one that got hit yelled.
"What happened?" Asked the other one that was carrying Ino in his back.
"Someone's here, I just got punched in the back of the head."
Ino immediately gained hope. Someone followed her trail of her own Blonde Hair.
'Yes, somebody is coming to save me! Sasuke is that you?'
"Where are you!?" Yelled both Iwa Ninja.
Naruto saw that one brought out a Kunai and thought of a quick way to kill them both. But he didn't wanna traumatize Ino any further than she already was, so he brushed it off and continued with his assault.
Eventually both Iwa Ninja were down. Naruto knew that Ino was still tied so he cut her out of the strap she was tied to with a Kunai from One of the Iwa Ninja's. Ino didn't see his face because he put on an Anbu mask that one of the Ninja were wearing (Fodder Anbu) and he took off his orange jumpsuit which showed him in his mesh armor underneath.
Ino realized that this person had to be her age, from his height and weight.
"What's your name" Ino asked.
No response.
Naruto managed to finally cut off all the rope that binded her to the down man.
Once Ino was free she asked him
"Can I at least hear your voice or see your face?"
Naruto once again said nothing, but was rudely interrupted by both Iwa Ninja who tried to attack him at the same time.
Naruto grabbed Ino and jumped forward. He then put her down, acted as a wall in front of her, then yelled
"I won't let you hurt Ino, She's a comrade and I won't let her suffer!"
'He knows my name?' thought Ino. 'And he does sound familiar."
"Don't worry kid, she'll be in good hands with us" One of The Iwa Ninja smugly said. "Plus why are you even saving her in the first place?"
"Honestly, I don't know, when it's a comrade your body just kinda reacts." Said Naruto
"Whatever, time for you to die, and her to come with us" one of The Iwa Ninja said.
"Ino run away, I'll deal with these two" Naruto told her.
"No I'm not gonna leave you!" Ino shouted.
"If you stay you'll only get in my way!" Naruto loudly replied.
It was harsh but Ino knew it was the truth. So she ran away but not before looking at her saviour one last time, thanking him, and realizing that this person was another blonde (The mask only covers the front).
"Hey get!" An Iwa Ninja started but was interrupted by a punch to the face from Naruto.
"Let's dance" Naruto said, taking off his mask, and then cracking his knuckles.
Naduto was just toying with these Anbu.
'Really Iwa, sending these peices of fodder to kidnap a kid? They must be lacking actually force if this is what can be classified as Anbu."
Naruto kept dodging over and over again, but eventually he got bored and decided to hit them with light jabs here amd there.
After about Ten minutes of this *fight* The Anbu were completely down and out. Which didn't bother Naruto since he still had plenty more stamina. But then others appeared in a swirl of leaves.
"Hokage Jiji and who are they?" Naruto said/asked.
"They Naruto, are the Ino-Shika-Cho Trio. Inoichi Yamanaka, Shikaku Nada, and Chouza Akimichi" Hiruzen explained.
"Oh, I assume Ino alerted you of what was happening with these fodder Iwa Anbu" Naruto said.
"Of course" replied Hiruzen.
"So you saved my daughter?" Asked Inoichi.
"Yeah and if you don't mind I would rather you not tell Ino I saved her" Naruto asked.
Everyone (Except Shikaku) was confused.
"Why?" Asked Inoichi.
"Because he feels like if you do, she'll just act like nothing happened knowing that it was him, the same boy she would always ridicule. And it would be best to not waste anyone's time explaining something that he believes she won't accept. So pretty much he doesn't want you to tell her and get a reaction from her that he thinks is already guaranteed to happen" answered Shikaku.
"Is he right Naruto-Kun?" Asked Hiruzen.
"He's right" Naruto answered before turning back to Inoichi. "So can you not tell her?"
"Sure" answered Inoichi.
"Good" after this was said, Naruto ran back to his Apartment.
"Iwa actually told me about a kidnapping thay gonna happen to an Heiress of The Village before it happened. And now I'm wondering, why did they warn me and why did they send those fodder Anbu as told to us by Naruto?" Wondered Hiruzen
Shikaku looked at the bodies, discovered something , and widened his eyes. So he nudged Hiruzen and while pointing at one of the down Anbu, told him
"Look right there."
Hiruzen did just that and his eyes widened in shock.
"Th-that badge"Hiruzen stammered.
Chouza and Inoichi looked at what Shikaku was pointing at and they too widened their eyes.
"They're Elites!?" All four of the shouted in surprise.
(The Next Day, Academy)
Naruto was in his regular seat with Hinata and of course Ino was still fan girling over Sasuke.
Naruto turned to Hinata and asked her
"Why can't all girls be like you Hinata?"
"I was wondering kinda the same thing about boys and you" Hinata said.
They both smiled at each other and looked at thr front of Class.
Ino walked up to them both and yelled
"Naruto!"
'Please don't tell me her old man didn't keep the promise' Naruto said with a head between both arms.
"What?" Naruto begrudgingly asked.
"How dare you harm Sasuke-Kun so much Yesterday!"
'Okay good, he didn't' Naruto thought before speaking "It was a sparring match, what did you expect, geinus?"
"It doesn't matter Naruto" chimed in Sakura across from Ino. "What makes us so mad is why would Sasuke-Kun let someone like you beat him?"
"Yeah'!" Yelled out all the other fan girls in the room ad they formed a circle around Naruto.
'Great now I have to deal with more fan girls' Naruto thought before grabbing the knods of his orange hoodie and pulling on them, not wanting to hear or look at the fan girls any longer.
"Hey, leave Naruto-Kun alone! Sasuke didn't let him win and even if he did, then why are you taking your frustrations out on Naruto-Kun instead of Sasuke!?" Hinata yelled back at the two fan girls that wouldn't leave her best friend alone. "And if you don't leave him alone right now, I'm gonna beat the both of you, just like in the Tournament!"
All the girl's froze in fear, because from the tone of Hinata's voice and the look on her face, they knew she was being dead serious. It didn't take long for the girls to run back to their own seats.
Naruto let go of his knods and turned to smile at Hinata while saying
"Thanks Hinata."
"Of course, you would've done the same for me" Hinata responded.
"I guess you're right about that" Naruto said with the smile still on his face.
They both turned to the front of the Classroom and were given more and more lessons by Iruka. With Naruro, Sasuke, and Hinata being the ones to explain all of them.
Naruto was getting bored quickly, Hinata was fine, and Sasuke didn't care.
After getting called to answer a question one last time, Naruto was asked
"Naruto do you understand the importance of this short story?
"Of course" Naruto said.
"Well can you explain it?"
"The importance of this text is that comrades are important. If you really do see someone as a comrade, doesn't have to be a friend and can't be an enemy, you would try your best to protect them and you don't ever know why, because your body just kinda reacts" Naruto answered.
Ino's eyes lit up after hearing Naruto's final words.
'The way he said it, along with his voice, and hair, it's gotta be him. No it can't be him because he hate me, doesn't he?' Ino thought. It's not that she didn't want it to be him, actually the opposite since he was actually so nice. It's just she had a hard time believing that the boy she had essentially been bullying for a long time, would save her.
Naruto went back to his seat without another word.
Meanwhile, Ino didn't know what to believe. She decides to toss the idea of her savior being Naruto out of the question though, since she was very confident that he hated her. She also decided not to search for her saviour since she doubted that she would ever meet that stranger in the same type of scenario again.
The Bell rang and Iruka while waving, said
"Alright, class dismissed see you again soon."
(Night, With Naruto)
Naruto was cooling down after his training session with his Jiji. Once he got home he was going to lay down in his bed and rest, but then he did some thinking.
'Why did Ino keep looking at me that way? It wasn't the same glare I see from every grown villager every day, it was different. Doesn't matter, I doubt she will keep doing that, I'm sure she'll grow out of it in due time.'
After this thought Naruto went to sleep.
(Night, With Ino)
Ino was trying to go to sleep but she couldn't stop thinking of Naruto.
'Could it really be him, could he be my savior? No, no way! He hates me, I'm sure of it. Even if he was my savior, I doubt that he did it because he likes me. Wait what if he does? No no!'
After this thought, Ino went to sleep.
To Be Continued...
Author's Note
Sorry if you don't like the Hinata and Naruto becoming best friends instead of lovers, but I'll try to do whatever I can in this story to make up for it.