Hello readers and welcome to the next chapter. Now I am hoping that people are enjoying this story as I am somewhat coming to the end of the story. Course while I am going to try my best to make the fights decent I really don't know how it'll go seeing as there are so many sections of people to worry about in the fight. How I am gonna do that…well I don't know at the moment but it will be what I think is my best at the moment. Course you guys will have to wait and see…and ill probably have to edit it a few times in the future as well. Though ya'll really don't care all that much about the background stuff so I will just get to the show (aka the chapter)….but I don't own Naruto. Just in case you somehow thought that.

Chapter 86

+ Dinner in Konoha +

Ino, Hinata, Haku, and Ayame all were sitting around a table with light meals in front of them. For even though they truly didn't have to all the girl's wanted to keep on good terms with each other if they weren't able to be friends. So, part of that involved them talking it out without Naruto around to see what they are and aren't ok with and what is going on overall. Basically, it could be what one would call a girl's day out.

"So, what did you call us out for today Ayame? Couldn't get enough of us?" Ino asked with a smirk.

"I wish; but unfortunately, I have to discuss something kind of important today." Ayame tells her blandly.

"What seems to be the problem Ayame-san?" Haku asks calmly while sipping her drink.

"…I will never understand how you can remain so refined and proper no matter what. Even at training you act like you don't have a worry at all." Ino grumbles feeling a bit jealous of her ability to do so.

"Like I told you before when you are a wandering ninja if you show your hand you don't last long. So, I learned the skill fast. But you should work on it if you can't. In any case you should work on it if you aren't good at hiding stuff…in our profession it could mean life or death." Haku tells her simply.

"Yeah but it is just soo hard to do." Ino told her with a frown.

"Anyways what is it you wanted to talk about?" Hinata asks curiously.

"Well you know the whole reason we had to go to Shizuka for?" Ayame asked getting nods from the rest of the girls.

"…well Tsunade came to me and told about exactly why their village wanted the child to be formed…and told me that Konoha mostly would have to do the same soon enough." She explained making Ino slam her hands down.

"Oh no. She ain't taking our Ayame-chan from us and putting her with some random guy! I won't allow that to happen." Ino growled out in annoyance.

"Actually, you are only half right. You see it isn't some random guy…its Naruto." Ayame tells them with a blush.

"Dang our blonde is really ramping up production…I guess we better be worried." Ino joke as the rest of them look on.

"…I guess I should prepare myself." Haku mutters making the rest of the girls look at her.

"I get Hinata being forward by now but I didn't expect it to come from you." Ino tells her surprised.

"Well if he truly is trying to impregnate us then as his servant I have to expect needing to tend to his desires." Haku tells them with a neutral tone.

"….You do realize that you AREN'T truly his slave….why you even feel the need to pretend to be so I will never understand." Ayame tells her concerned with her friend's mental health.

*sigh* "Don't worry Ayame Haku just enjoys being submissive…for some reason." Ino tells her; after all she was able to 'glance' at mental health check results among other things.

"…ok well anyways I just wanted to let you know about this decision before I caused any issues with our group." Ayame told them choosing to leave the strange conversation alone. She also made sure to glance over and check how Hinata was handling the news. After all she reacted so negatively the first time.

AN: So before people dislike this too much even though I didn't mean for it to be anything too drastic. Haku is NOT mental damaged by her time as a 'missing' ninja…at least not in this way. She simply chose to be submissive and found herself rather liking the master/servant relationship she created for Naruto when she first came in. YES she WAS treated as nothing but a tool (kind of) when they found her so when they first brought her in she would most likely keep that mentality. But hopefully the life in Konoha would break down that mentality and allow her to realize that she is a capable ninja/person all by herself. You could call her master/servant relationship more as her fetish for lack of better words at the moment. She enjoys being submissive AND the fact that it bugs Naruto in some cases. Meanwhile Naruto DOES NOT want/force her to have this mentality but rather would fully support her changing her ways if she decided to do so. I would also like to note that mental health problems even those created by situations are NO joke. People with those issues should seek the help they need/deserve and should NOT be treated as "that's just how they are". Also all the women in my story I would like to say I try to write the women in this story with independence (there own personalities and wishes) and strengths being shown. I merely use the perverseness Hinata has in this story as comedic relief just as Jiraiya was used in various times.

Course Hinata was calmly eating her food and looked back at her in confusion.

"What?" Hinata asked.

"Well I sort of thought you would be at least a bit upset about this." Ayame admitted.

"Hmm? Oh well while I am still a bit upset about having firsts being taken from me you aren't the one doing it. If I couldn't handle Naruto being with other girls and having other kids then I wouldn't have put myself in this predicament in the first place…I just want to get the firsts that should belong to me seeing as I WAS the first." Hinata told her with a small smile.

"Well I am glad that wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be." Ayame mutters in relief.

"Heh, you gotta stop worrying so much about what we think girl. Just because you aren't a ninja doesn't mean you have any less of a standing in our weird relationship jumble." Ino tells Ayame with a warm smile as she wrapped an arm around the ramen chef.

"Thank you Ino-san" Ayame told her with a small happy smile.

+Meanwhile; Yamanaka compound~

While the girls were enjoying their group meeting Naruto was in the middle of a meeting with Ino's father.

"…so that is the plan. Will you help me?" Inoichi asked Naruto. For while he disliked Naruto a bit due to him actually dating his daughter this time, he actually needed help.

"Are you sure you want to do this? I mean YOU especially know just how dangerous it can be." Naruto told him completely serious.

"Yes there is a risk…but she has reached a point where she can handle it. Plus, with both of us present the risk is dramatically lower."

"…ok BUT if things go south; I am pulling the plug immediately"

"That's fine I don't want things to go too bad either. But this is the only way she will reach the next level."

And with that being said Naruto left the room and went on his way.

+Later on that day+

After finishing her meal/meeting with the other girls Ino spent some time wandering through Konoha before finally going back home. What she didn't expect was for the gate guards to immediately tell her that her father wanted to speak with her.

"Huh I wonder what dad wants? He doesn't usually ask for me to see him during the day…I mean we still see each other basically every night seeing as I haven't bothered to move out yet. Come to think of it I probably should I mean I make enough money now….but it's still nice not having to worry about cooking a lot…" Ino thought letting her thoughts wander as she walked to her father's office. As soon as she reached said room she happily opened the door and saw her father working through some paperwork.

"Hey dad you wanted to see me?" Ino asked sitting in one of the chairs without a care.

"Yes. You see you have been working hard on your training for quite a while now and truly are showing to be quite the skilled mind walker.

"Heh thanks. I am glad I can keep the family proud." Ino tells him with a smile. Afterall ever sense she got out of her fangirl phase she has been working hard to use what she had available to her to become a competent kunoichi. Not to mention just like her father she took shifts in the T&I buildings on occasion.

"Yes and you definitely are" Inoichi tells her with a proud smile but quickly got serious again. "But I think it is time for you to reach what could be called the next level." He explains and quickly see his daughter light up with excitement.

"You mean it?...wait what do you mean?" Ino asks first in excitement then in confusion.

"What I mean is that you are more than competent in normal minds and the dangers they could bring. But I think with your skill you will be able to push our clans' abilities to a level that very few can manage and handle more…challenging situations." Inoichi explains.

"More challenging? How does it get more challenging? I have been gotten information out of even people that knew how to guard their minds just fine." Ino asked confused.

"Yes you have…but what you don't understand is that there are minds that are much worse than that…they are rare but they do exist. You see there are several situations where people can develop their mind either purposely or accidentally to be something that would challenge even the most skilled mind walker. Those people like the truly wicked or demented, those that enlighten themselves, those that truly become strong, and those that have things sealed inside of them. Now these are the only things that cause it but they are exsamples." Inoichi explains.

"Huh ok I get those that are enlightened seeing as they supposedly become 'one' with themselves so they must have some sort of a mental change but what about the rest of them? I mean I have been in the minds of murders and such before."

"Yes you have but I mean the truly wicked people. Thankfully these people are few and far beyond but if one becomes something that seems too demented even for a ninja's standards. For these minds they usually are so twisted that they have more danger than the regular maniac. As for enlightenment you are correct. Those people tend to be able to form a mental form of themselves and as such could combat you in their mind. As for strength being a factor…well let's just say it doesn't happen much at all. For if one was to be able to be what is considered S rank they simply have more power and will power than average ninjas…most the time. Finally, for those that have things that are sealed in them…well you saw what that can be like." He explains reminding her of her past mistakes. Course when he saw her mood drop, he quickly continued to the point.

"But enough about the explaining stuff like this for now. I will go into detail later on with you. All you need to know right now is that you have to meet me in the hospital lobby tomorrow morning to start your training." Inoichi told her then noticed she still seemed down and gently handed her over a bit of money. "Now how about you go out and have some fun…I think your mother has been asking to go shopping with someone for a while." He told her and quickly watched her face light up at the idea.

"Oh really! Well I will see you tomorrow pops." She says now much happier and left to find her mother for a shopping spree with her new money in hand.

*sigh* "I really am weak when it comes to my girls...but I can't help it. Her and her mother know exactly how to get what they want from me somehow." Inoichi thinks knowing his wife and daughter had him wrapped around their fingers…but he couldn't find himself caring seeing as he truly loved both of them. Just in different ways.

~Hospital next day~

Right on time Ino was happily waiting in the main entrance of the hospital for her practical training. Now she SHOULD have had some preliminary conversations with her dad but due to her excitement she forced the information out of her last night so they could get right into the practical part of the training. So, when she saw her dad finally appear in the entrance though instead of coming from the actual door, he appeared coming down his stairs.

"Yes finally! Let's get this started." Ino tells him with a smile on her face.

"Now now calm down. While I know it is exciting to better yourself you also have to remember that this does have some danger involved in it…even if I found a way to minimize it." Her father told her clearly not actually upset with her.

"Ok well let's go then." Ino orders impatient. After all becoming one of the few capable of something sounded amazing to her. Still instead of talking more she had to follow after her father who started to walk back up the stairs until they finally were in a room that only contained a few chair.

"What is this place?" Ino asked confused.

"Well normally this room is revamped for use in something else for the hospital but it is built to be a room we can do more risky mental evaluations/scans. Mainly seeing as there is medical staff on hand only a few meters away. But anyways you can come in now." Inoichi tells her first then calls out to no one. Course after he said this a familiar face walked into the room from the other side.

"Naruto you are helping today?" Ino asks confused looking at him to her dad.

"Well as you know Naruto's special…problem leads to him having quite the dangerous mind. Not to mention through the years of mental health checks he has a fairly good idea how to both protect his mind and protect his mind walker. Now this doesn't remove the danger but lowers it significantly while keeping you challenged." Inoichi explains as Naruto calmly sits in a chair.

AN: with Naruto's trauma anyone would wonder why they wouldn't check to see if he was sane if it was just to make sure he didn't go after them. Though through these he has seen/felt the jutsu enough to be able to figure out how to resist them. For as a child anything can be made into a game. Even trying to keep those that want to peek out of your head. But he always protected them from the Kyuubi's chakra.

"Now your job here is to break through into Naruto's memories. Now you DO NOT need to actually get information. Only the fact that you broke through is what matters. Now of course we will start of slowly and gradually get harder and harder. Now…any questions?"

"Umm ya. First why did Naruto need check ups anyways he has always been a happy guy that is loyal to a tee. Second isn't it a bit rude to enter someone's mind that doesn't hold any threat to the village?"

"Heh well all I will say about the first part is that the protocols were set up more for precaution rather than worry about him defecting Second as for the information Naruto has already given you permission to hear whatever may come through during this…but please be respectful and keep the information you gain from this to yourself." Her father tells her seriously.

"Sure…but are you sure Naruto-kun?" Ino asks a bit surprised. After all everyone has their own personal secrets…some they wouldn't even want those closest to them to know.

"Heh, its no problem Ino-chan just focus on your training" Naruto tells her happily. And with that being said Ino sits in front of Naruto and begins to train. Just as her father stated they started off rather easy and gradually made it more difficult for her to enter his mind. Course even without meaning to do so she always got to hear or see a tidbit of memory before leaving her boyfriends mind.

"…why won't any of the kids play with me" a young Naruto thinks while sitting on a swing.

"…you monster!" the orphan master calls out as she chases Naruto out.

"…feel free to enjoy your ramen Naruto-kun" a familiar chef states with a smile.

A young Hinata being bullied before stepping in front of her

A large monster hidden in the shadow except for its eyes and teeth

A happy Hinata as she ate cinnamon buns on Naruto's lap

A random test paper being filled out.

And many other things Ino saw/heard as she continued her training. It seemed that there was no rhyme or reason to what she saw and it was a toss-up whether the scene would be nice, neutral, or bad. No matter what after slowly learning said tid bits Ino was feeling worse and worse for Naruto's past…even though she caused some parts of it while she had no clue. Still she tried her best to push these thoughts to the side for now and just focused on her training…though she was sure she would need some time and maybe even help going through her own thoughts after all of these memories. But eventually she reached a stage where she couldn't actually manage to break through to Naruto's memory bank. Something her father nodded to after prodding at the resistance himself.

"Good. Very good for your first time. Don't worry we will get you even more use to it and further on our next session." Inoichi tells her with a nod while Ino's face dropped a little bit.

"There is more than one session of this?" Ino asks not truly looking forward to the dark thoughts in her boyfriend's brain.

"Well of course. Before you can reach your rank; you need to actually have mastered your mental attacks to a point where you can handle a wall at least fifty percent stronger than that one. But that is for another time. Now we must do the worst part of your training." Inoichi muttered with a frown.

"What could be worse than this?" Ino mutters under her breath before refocusing on her father.

"Ok please lower your barriers Naruto. And as for you daughter we will meet inside of Naruto's head." Inoichi states moving a chair over and quickly preforms his jutsu. Though after seeing this, it took Ino a full minute before she finally refocused and follower her father into Naruto's head. When she woke up though Ino found herself in front of a large cage again which brought back the fear she felt when she first entered his head.

"Calm down the beast is stuck on the other side of the cage. While it still poses danger to us with Naruto around, we are relatively safe." Inoichi told her making her look over and see both males beside her.

"Ok…but how are you so calm dad? I mean THAT is a demon." Ino asked for while she knew that both of the two with her were trying to keep their group as safe as possible she still couldn't help but fear what she knew was hidden in the darkness that lied behind the bars.

"Trust me I am still nervous about being in Naruto's mind…but seeing as I have been doing this for a while now I have been able to somewhat desensitize myself from the danger." Inoichi tells her with a shrug. "Plus Naruto has always been helpful in blocking anything the fox tries…so just trust him and in some ways me to keep you safe." He adds seeing as even as a kid Naruto would shield the older mind walker from many waves of demonic energy and various other attempts at him.

"Ya don't worry about the fluffy bastard you WILL be safe. I am going to make sure of that." Naruto told her determined.

"Thanks Naru-kun" Ino tells him with a small smile as a lot of her stress disappeared. Though not all seeing as they were standing in front of a beast that wants nothing more but to tear them to shreds.

*cough* "Anyways let's get started. So Ino we worked on having you pierce defenses but now we will be starting on your defensive techniques." Inoichi starts to explain making her gulp in fear. "Now like I said this is something that you likely won't encounter that often if at all…but there are still some times when we need information or to wrestle control from a dangerous mind. But don't worry just like with your offensive training we will be starting off small and going from there." Inoichi tells her then looks to Naruto who nods his head and suddenly in a sewer path that was behind them a bunch of various timed crushing walls appeared with a white orb behind them. "Just as before your goal is to get to the memories that you need and get out. Now as you know this is just training and we are making sure you stay mostly safe but that DOES NOT mean that this is a joke. In real life this would be a life and death situation. If you die in the mental world you truly don't 'die' per say in real life but you will be nothing more than a husk seeing as your mind died. So, I guess you could consider what we are right now to be our souls or something." Inoichi tells her watching his daughter go from surprise to horror to finally determination. "Good. Now let's get started." He told her and Ino ran through the course that was set up for her.

+Several hours later+

Ino was training throughout the day with the group only taking breaks for said girl to rest and recover some chakra. For while the Yamanaka mind walking technique was not very chakra sucking it still did take some leaving the girl who had the least reserves of the group needing to rest least she suffer from chakra exhaustion. Still she made a lot of progress in her training until her father decided that they did enough for one day as they all stood in Naruto's mind world again.

"Ok Ino you have done well so far but we will close after this last lesson. Now don't think that just because you got decent at the offensive training that it is done in one day either. We will be revisiting and refining your ability even further with that as well."

"What!? But you said I got to be good at it already." Ino angrily told him making the man nod.

"That I did but don't you think if it could be done in one day many of our clan would be able to reach the 'next level'? We can not accept good at this point we have to push you past your limits until you can get through next to any mind defense. Remember this training isn't for normal minds but for you to have the ability to withstand special minds where you will have to expect anything and everything to try and stop you from completing your mission." Inoichi told her then quickly looked away to not see his daughter's disappointed look. "Anyways the last thing we have for today is something that I truly don't want to do…but in order for you to be safe it has to be done" he told her getting back to being serious. "In these dangerous minds you WILL get injured. Now thankfully most mental damage heals relatively quickly with rest but that is only if you can manage to get yourself out. Working under pain to complete your goal in the mental world is a whole different monster than physical injuries….you have to basically start from square one with your pain resistance." Inoichi told her feeling bad to see the fear in her eyes.

*sigh* "Yes as you have guessed the final task we have for each of these training sessions is to get your resistance up….but I promise the first time is the worst. It will be easier next time." Inoichi told her.

"I-I have to do this multiple times to?" Ino asks clearly a bit afraid.

"…I want you to be as strong and proud as you can be Ino-chan. But don't worry no one, not even me and your father will look down on you for not wanting to go any further. I am sure your clan will respect you enough for getting through all the training but pain resistance" Naruto told her trying to comfort her while giving her a choice. For while he wanted her to be as strong kunoichi he felt that she has already made herself be just that…not to mention the path Inoichi wanted to take wasn't something he truly wanted to do.

With both men finishing what they wanted to say they simply stood there quietly as the young woman made up her own choice. Neither wished to force her seeing as in the end it was her life that she was deciding; they had no right/wish to force her to do something she didn't want to do with it.

"..No I will do it. I want to be someone that you can proudly call the daughter of the Yamanaka's clan head." Ino told them determined.

"Very well" Inoichi told her before looking at Naruto who steeled his emotions and nodded his head. "Now we will start slowly. Naruto if you would please." Inoichi told him who quickly created an orb in his hand that had a faint purple color to it.

"Huh you are making Naruto do this?" Ino asked surprised only to see her father nod his head with a frown.

"I don't like him doing this to you much either…but we are very limited on people capable of actually forming mental attacks. You see while we do specialize in entering minds and collecting information that does NOT mean that we are truly attacking the mind. Our 'offensive attack' is truly just trying to force our 'soul' through the will power a person has. Hence why people don't truly feel any pain when we break through their mental wall. BUT in this case Naruto will be hitting you with something that will cause real damage to your mental image."

"Ok I get that we aren't truly doing attacks on people's minds but why can Naruto?" Ino asks making her father sigh.

"As I told you Naruto is one of the very few people that have gained the recognition of having a dangerous mind. It goes without saying that the traps that he lays in his mind can and will hurt your mental image so it goes without saying that he will in turn be able to do it with his own mental image as well. BUT thankfully it is truly rare for someone to have their mental image being able to move and attack even among those with dangerous minds. Naruto just happened to be the best of the options we have in the village. For Tsunade-sama has too much on her plate and too much private information and I don't even want to know if Jiraiya has control over his mental image….even if he did you would be NEVER allowed ANYWHERE near that man in the mess he calls a mind. Now prepare yourself." Inoichi told her.

Ino then shook off her confusion and after a minute or two refocused herself and nodded to the males with her. And with her being ready Naruto walks over to her and holds the orb of energy to her and allows it to touch her arm where it was quickly absorbed.

Course anything else that Ino would have noticed from the orb was replaced instead by the large amount of pain that she felt launching through her body. Pain that was so intense that she could help but let out a yell of pain even though she tried her best to keep it contained.

"…as I told you the first time is the worst. Right now, your mental body has never felt pain and due to it being more of an image rather than an actual body the pain spreads through the entire 'body'. Eventually as you become able to work under this pain you will mentally picture it only being pain in a certain part of your body. At that point you will be able to 'see' the damage shown there." Inoichi tells her while tense seeing as he was holding himself back from comforting his little girl. They then were quite as Ino eventually felt the pain leave her letting herself refocus on the world around her.

"T-that was intense." Ino told them truly not having expected so much pain.

"Yes….now with this portion of the training YOU will be the one telling us how far to go. I will only stop you if I feel you will permanently injure your mental body in some way. Feel free to make this part of the training go as long or quick as you feel you are capable of doing." Inoichi told her.

After hearing this Ino took a few deep breaths before looking over at Naruto. "Ok hit me again." She told Naruto.

"Are you sure?" Naruto asked clearly sad to be doing this but wanted to help his girlfriend out no matter what he felt. So, when he got a nod from the girl he created another orb that was the same size and strength and touched her other arm with it.

This continued a few times with Ino gaining a small amount of resistance but still was unable to be able to focus enough to have the pain only be in one part of her body. But she decided at that point to quit for the day and the three of them quickly found themselves out in the real world again.

"You did very good Ino-chan you must be well on your way to the next level." Naruto told her with a smile that didn't reach his eyes. After all the last bit of training was far from pleasant for him either.

"Ya I guess." Ino muttered not feeling like she made much progress with her resistance but then had her thoughts go to other topics. "Oh! There is one thing that I truly don't understand." Ino told the two males she was with after a little bit of thinking.

"What's up?" Naruto asked.

"Well when I first entered your mind all those years ago you took a large wave of energy but didn't make a peep or even look like it bothered you. But yet father said that the demon's chakra is very dangerous to humans so how is that possible?" Ino asks.

"Hmm well I guess I just went through this training when I was a baby and couldn't really remember it. Now I sort of have a resistance to the bastards chakra where it will only affect me if I draw out too much." Naruto told her with a shrug.

*sigh* "That is partially correct." Inoichi told both of them. "The reason the kyuubi and the other tailed beasts are put into children is that their chakra coils are still developing. So, when the beast's chakra is added the kid's coils get use to its presence to a point seeing as there always is some demonic chakra flowing through their body. But that chakra is still very dangerous to humans. So, if Naruto draws out the power then it will start doing damage to his body itself but not his coils." Inoichi explains getting a look from understanding from Naruto and a look of horror from Ino.

"Wait so each time he uses his power he is constantly taking damage!?" Ino asks in shock only to feel a hand on her shoulder.

"Heh, don't worry Ino-chan its not like I use the demon's chakra all that often. Plus as long as I don't go more than a couple of tails the damage is nothing more than a tingly feeling." Naruto tells her with a fake smile again trying to make her feel better. Course what he didn't expect was for Ino to latch on to him and give him a comforting hug…or at least what started off as a comforting hug but began to last a rather long time. So, Naruto eventually began to rub the girls back trying to comfort the blond girl instead.

*cough* both young adults heard and made them look to see a rather displeased Inoichi. "I think there is quite enough hugging for the day from you two." He tells them clearly not too happy about his daughter clinging tightly to Naruto.

"hehehe sorry papa." Ino tells him releasing Naruto and giving him a small hug. "But we will be talking about your health further later on." Ino tells Naruto clearly leaving no room for arguments.

*sigh* "Well that is gonna be a 'fun' talk….but anyways let's get out of here. The smell of a hospital is making me wanna hurl." Naruto told the group getting a slightly confused look from his girlfriend and a look of amusement from her father.

And that is where I am going to end this chapter. Now I will admit that this chapter at first was going to have one possibly two lemons in it…but I decided that I like it without the lemons enough to not wanna rush into making them seeing as they are just 'fluff' filler anyways. Though I did go into Ino's training MUCH further than I expected to do so at first but found myself enjoying writing it. Not to mention the blond has been treated as basically a side character for so long in this story that its about time for her to get some decent screen time. Plus I wanted to think about what would make sense for the 'next level' of mind walkers and the challenges they could face. Basically I am quite happy with being able to explain the training…but will most likely only have another segment or two about it seeing as eventually its gonna be boring filler for people anyways. But for now Ja Ne.