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After what Ino had seen there was no way she was not getting some answers from Naruto. The first time she had seen Sakura after that mission to Suna, she was acting similar to how she did just now. Near that lake where Naruto fought the three tails. From what she saw at the time guessed that was before her consciousness was fully awaken. However that clearly was not the case so why had she reverted back to that state and kicked her out the room. For what reason did that happen as Naruto must be aware of this but had not told them anything about it while they were talking earlier.
Going through the castle she searched out where Naruto was at the moment since they had all gone there separate ways after the meeting. What she did not expect was to find him search through various books in the castle's shocking vast library.
He was seeing if any information here could be cross reference with Kurama's knowledge to learn more about Aeon. Going up against them again would require far more planning then what he did last time. Really Naruto was glad that no one else was around to see just how epically that he fail in his first attempt to attack Aeon.
When he noticed that Ino was looking at him as he knew she was coming in his direction but was paying it much mind until he was sure that he was the where her attention lied.
"Something you want?" he asked her
Ino place her hand down on the very book that he was currently reading and just looked him in the eyes. This was something she was going to get to the bottom of as she had already lost about six years in rivalry over Sasuke. For which she did not even know why she even liked him as she stopped almost immediately after they were assigned to teams.
"Is there some reason you are interrupting me while I am reading?" Naruto asked.
"You know something do not you. Far more then you have told us, Ryo, Rin, Sakura, or anyone else for that matter" Ino said looking at him
"Ino, there are things I am busy with right now" he told her easily moving her hand off the book.
"I saw something again that I have only seen twice from Sakura since she had gone missing and every single time it happened. Naruto you apparently had something to do with it in some way shape or form" she stated.
Just then Ino found herself within Naruto's room with the door closed and locked before she was even aware that she had been moved in the first place.
"What did you see?" Naruto inquired eying her carefully.
"Naru…." Ino asked.
He then flick Ino on her forehead causing the seal on her scalp to light up for a second.
"What the hell are you doing!" the blond chunin yelled holding her head "I have short hair now because of this seal"
"This is important I had to check the strength of that seal as your mind had apparently been comprised once…without your knowledge of course. I would not want the same thing to happen again as that seal should prove to be good for now" Naruto told her.
"What do you mean for now as this is eventually going to come off eventually right" Ino said
"It was placed on your scalp directly after they shaved your head. This is not coming off…ever. At best the only things you be able to do of your family's justu are the ones that do not require you leaving your body" he told her.
She was now a Yamanaka that could not use a bulk of her family abilities. Is that why her father told he had something important to talk to her about whenever she got back to Konoha.
"How would you know all….no changing the subject but tell me more about this later. Right now I want to know about Sakura and what is going on with her" the Yamanaka told him.
"I was not as this is not something I do not want getting out there. I am not even sure Sakura could handle this information at the moment" Naruto said as he the placed a seal on the door.
Ino was then informed that what she was about to be told was to be kept between the two of them as he trusted her since she was Sakura's best friend even when they view the other as their enemy and rival for about six years.
"You are kidding right a flabbergasted" Ino said as she managed pick up her jaw from the ground.
"Nope, I am not as that the truth of the matter. We were very lucky that Sakura is who she is" Naruto replied.
"Then that other self that take over her body from time to time….her memory loss….what happened just now and any other times you might have seen this" her best friend said.
"All things her own mind has done to protect her. It has deemed her unable to handle the information thus its keeping it away from her at all cost" Naruto said.
"How is it possible that her own mind can do something like this without her knowledge?" Ino asked.
"Its very possible as Sakura has the remnants of a bloodline limit that has died off an enormously long time ago. It amazes even me that this what happens to bloodline limit that one step away from no longer existence. It has diminish to the point where its merely a function that has purpose but it was a pointless one….until that fateful day" Naruto explained.
"How do you know that though?" Ino said.
"Kurama is very old demon that existed long before what we consider ninja ever did. He has memories of what Sakura's ancient ancestors were capable of and merely be able to use the tiniest of tiny fractions of that is what saved her" he said.
Going on to explain that Sakura once had three personas within her. They were not split personas but more like different versions or to be more precise layers of the same one. Deeply connected to each other but not fully merged together either. This is why Sakura was able to resist being controlled by Ino during the first Chunin Exam. What Ino took over was what Naruto was calling Outer Sakura and he had awaken not just Inner Sakura but the third and most important persona…Core Sakura.
This was the persona that most capsulized who Sakura was a person at her core. Outer Sakura was how she acted normally around people while Inner Sakura was how she really felt but did not want to reveal. However there were still not showing things she kept close to her heart. Over time the difference between Outer and Inner started to vanish by it was still there. Luckily when Sasori captured her and went about the process of converting her into a human puppet. Normally the process itself not only forever alters the body but the mind as well. In many case it just outright destroys most people leaving them nothing behind. However there are other that have some form of consciousness that survive though it extremely basic. Thinking that with Sakura, her Outer self was flat out destroyed and Inner was critically damaged by survived.
"Wait….if the Sakura that we are able to talk to now is the Core self then what was the one that kicked me out just now" Ino demanded.
"Probably what is left of Inner Sakura and it seems that they are ones that blocking Sakura's memories and take over at various times as well" Naruto said.
Of course this pissed off the short hair blonde demanding why Naruto was not telling Sakura these things.
The obvious answer was obvious when come to why would anyone want to try remind Sakura of whatever she went through to become what she is now. However what Ino had just before coming to confront Naruto. It was seem that Sakura apparently not wanting to deal with some deeper feeling she harbored beyond just what had happened with Sasori alone.
