Chapter 4: Scared and Lonely

A/N: Hey! Thanks for the reviews so far, you do realize we're getting close to the halfway point? Well once I submit chapter 5, I'll see what your reviews said, and I might submit a new story. Or we can wait till halfway point which is chapter 7. Filler approaching, so far Sasuke getting high on Ramen is winning.

Now on to the story!

Naruto raised his head, looking into the sky. He hoped that Ino wouldn't laugh at his dream and hoped that she wouldn't agree to it.

Ino seriously wanted to know what Naruto's dream or so say 'nightmare' was. She just couldn't stand the thought of him in pain and acting so cold. She wanted him to feel comfortable with her. Ino wanted a stronger relationship, a stronger friendship. She wanted to be able to be there for him in his time of need. Ino wanted, so much for him to be more open.

"It all started," he began to say breaking Ino from her train of thought. "It all started when I was five," he sighed, "it was always the same dream over and over again. I did my best to forget it, getting used to the daggers of eyes, and becoming friends with Iruka-sensei later reminded me that I wasn't alone."

"Naruto-kun, what exactly was your dream?" she asked again interrupting his loud thoughts.

"As I said, it started when I was five. My dream was me standing in the middle of a huge crowd. I was five then and was very intimidated by their glares. So then after that they started taunting me. Some raising knifes and shinobi raising kunai and such. They also called me names like, 'demon boy', 'bastard', 'kyuubi' and 'freak'."

Ino saw the sadness increase in his eyes. Tears even began to form and fall from his eyes. She also noticed one or two coming out of her own."I told myself that I'd grow up to become hokage to prove myself and gain the respect I've always wanted. But that increased the length of the dream. I then pictured myself in front of a blazing Konoha with blood on my hands. I'd scream and clutch my head within my hands. Suddenly a villager would appear saying, 'This was all you doing Naruto, or shall I say demon!' they'd then turn into a huge monster and then consume me."

By that time, Naruto was shaking and sweat dripped down his face. Ino seeing this went ahead and placed her arms around him. She kept herself in that position holding him tightly in place. He then leaned on her, crying into her shoulder.

After moments of crying he continued, "As I grew older, the person I cherished the most was the one who engulfed me in the end," he sniffled and wrapped his own arms around her waist, "Sorry for looking like a total wimp crying my heart out on you."

She took one hand and smacked him on the head lightly, "Baka, only those who are strong would be so open like this," she patted him on the back, "You'd be a wimp if you hid from me the whole mission."

They stayed in that position for a while. Ino couldn't help but cry a bit too, seeing the pain in Naruto's eyes. All these years of seeing him act without a care in the world, when underneath it all he was a scared and lonely child. She regretted not being by his side then. But now she could make things up.

Naruto then looked directly into her eyes, a small smile crossed his mouth. Ino wiped her tears with the help of Naruto and smiled, "So, how do you feel about those villagers now?"

"I…I don't know…I used my pranks to get their attention, but they hated me a bit more for that but still it was a little funny," he cracked a laugh as they parted. He kept one of his hands and held one of hers, "I used to be so scared and lonely, but then I had the old geezer and Iruka-sensei take care of me. Then there was Kakashi-sensei and my teammates. Then it slowly became you guys, you Ino, Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Shikamaru, Chouji, Lee, Neji kind of, and Tenten. You know what even the sand siblings."

Ino squeezed his hand, "You know, if you think about it, you shouldn't be so scared and lonely, you have us, and kyuubi and Hikari."

"Yeah, but my dream won't go away until the villagers accepted me…" he squeezed her hand back, "But now, when I came back, they were actually happy about it for some reason," he sighed, "But I bet it's just because I came back and they didn't want to be so mean."

"Sorry to break up your little moment Naruto-nii-san," a harsh voice said from the trees, "But I'm going to have to kill you now."

Ino and Naruto looked up in surprise as the person described for the mission came down from a tree, "Noratu?" Naruto said.

"Yes nii-san, I am Noratu, and guess what? I've always wanted to meet you, I always wanted to fight someone like you my strong nii-san," he smirked as two snaked cmae flying out of his bandaged arms.

Ino and Naruto separated, going in two different ways trying to dodge the snake. Naruto found no problem until it sped up a bit. He was forced to use his favorite move, "KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" and ten different copies of him appeared throwing hundreds of kunai making the snake back away.

Ino didn't have much of a problem either, she remembered from training that this was like dodging Shikamaru's shadow. Since it was attached, it would have its limits soon. Now over the years, not only has she increased in power, but in speed too. She smirked and she flipped backwards and it froze. She threw a poisonous kunai and it went back to its masters.

"You evil people! Why do you hurt my pets?" Noratu's eyes glowed, "Now I know it's early, but I might as well finish you off now!" he smirked again as he was engulfed by a black chakra.

"What's happening?" Ino asked.

"I don't know, but you poisoned his arm right?"

"Yeah, but it only retreated, it seemed it had no affect," she frowned, "This guy seems powerful…"

"I have a plan," Naruto declared clenching his fist, "I will knock him out by facing him one on one, you then get into his mind and see…"

"See what Naruto-kun?""He might have a tortured soul within him.""What do you mean?"

"Well, on my travels with Jiraiya, or shall I say ero-sennin, we encountered Orochimaru countless times before we actually killed him. There were many freaky henchmen with different powers and stuff that he used humans for. We all realized that they had a tortured human soul within.""But this guy, he was made from yours and Orochimaru's DNA, he isn't exactly a human."

"Ino-chan," he glared at her, "Everyone is a human, it depends on their actions.""But this guy! He killed people Naruto, he killed them!""I know, but so did the kaima remember?""Oh…"

"Onee-chan, she was turned into that, I don't know how but she turned into a monster. We were able to break through to her."

"Okay, but this guy doesn't seem like a push-over. More like the stubborn ass you are," she laughed and he frowned.

"Meany!" he smiled, "Well let's get this thing started!"

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"Yo! Hikari-chan!" Naruto called out within the corridors of his mind.

"Yes Naruto-nii-san?"

"I need some of your chakra!"

"Yo, kit, what about me?"

"I'll ask when I seriously need it. We don't have a need for that yet, we just need to tap into his powers. Then if he's more powerful, I'll need to do what I did to defeat Orochimaru."

"But I thought that you were going to see if he was a nice boy nii-san?"

"Yes Hikari, I'm not going to use the attack with the intention to kill, I'm just going to knock some sense into him!"

"Aww, don't tell me you're going to blab about that…er stuff you always blab about to those other guys?"

"Sorry Kyuubi, but it's the only way," he smirked, "It is a little funny, you whining."

"Whatever kit, just get this thing over with."

"The pleasure is mine, ready Hikari-chan?"

The little girl nodded and the two began to glow.

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In the real world Naruto did his hand signals as Noratu emerged from the black chakra. He glared at his with pure black eyes and a grey chakra surrounding him. Noratu's appearance changed slightly, his eyes were pure black, hints of black were in his hair and it was longer. His bandages were off revealing scaly skin and he had fangs with two tails on his butt.

Naruto, as already seen was with his platinum blonde hair, wings and such. Now he had some sort of blade made of chakra attached to his back.

"Naruto-nii-san, I always knew you were special, just like me!" he then released his two snakes which looked a bit different and were much stronger. Ino from behind helped fend them off while Naruto tried to get close.

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Polls: (so far)

What should the filler be? (I decided to put only one for halfway the story o vote quickly!)

-Sasuke getting high on ramen (humor/general) 2 votes

-Disaster down at Hokage office (humor/general)

-Shikamaru's mission at Suna (Shika/Tema, romance/humor) 1 vote

-Lee gets drunk…again (Ten/Neji, romance/humor)

-New—An amazing dance-off! 1 vote

Also I have another idea for an Ino/Naruto it's a Romance/Tragedy. No one dies, just…er rated M for reasons.

Summary: Ino is Sasuke's boyfriend. After weeks of getting to his warm side, she had no idea what she had in store moving in with him. Rated M for abuse, swearing, and Sasuke evilness. Naruto finds her alone next to a river, "What's wrong Ino?"----goes from there.

Now the poll is, when should I submit it?

-Right Away?

-Wait till half way?

-five chapters? 1 vote

-Wait till this story is done? 2 votes

Till next time my readers! Ja ne!