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Okay, so I've finally brought out the next chapter for this and I'm quite pleased with myself you know! I never thought that I would be able to do that! Yeah, well thisis not a popular story what so ever because I've only had 2 reviews! Not to worry, I write for fun (and when I get bored!)
Yeah, so this is another long and boring chapter, so some things might NOT be clear. I hope it will be...
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Facades
Chapter 2
Naruto was sitting at his favourite place in the whole village-the Hokage monument on top of his father's head. It gave him time to think and a sense of security as though his father really was there. He stared out over the village, a village that he would soon be able protect with his whole life. "Hey, dad? I was just wondering if there were times where you felt scared for mum; even though you knew she would still be fine. How did you deal with it?" Naruto paused and let the gentle breeze blow through his hair. "You see, there's this girl that I've liked for a while now and she's hurt pretty badly. I KNOW that she would be okay, but I still doubt that. How do I deal with it?"
Naruto knew that it was a mad thing to do, talk to the statue of a dead great man a.k.a his dad, but to him it was the most normal thing in the world. He felt at peace with himself. He shut his eyes and waited for an answer to flood in his mind. When he thought of something, as though there was a little voice talking to him in his head, he smiled. "Thanks dad." With a golden flash, he was gone.
~x~
Her breathing was still heavy and her chest was going up and down at a slow rate and you could hear that it was a lot of effort to breathe. Sakura was doing all she could to keep her friend alive, even by taking extra shifts. Everyone had come in at their own time, trying to talk to her or leaving her favourite flowers. Inoichi, her father had stood by her bedside emotionless. She had used the forbidden Yamanaka jutsu that wasn't an S-rank secret for nothing. She had tried to take her life and she wasn't even back at her own home village. Sakura left the man alone with his unconscious daughter.
The man sighed and tried to look everywhere but at his changed daughter. Her appearance was putting him off, but he knew that deep down inside, his daughter was still there. "Ino-hime, just what have you been doing? Don't you know that it's every parent's nightmare to bury their children? And you used the Sutashiru: eien no kokoro wa konagona ni! Even I don't know how to perform that jutsu! I should be proud that you've surpassed me but..." His voice trailed off when he saw Naruto standing at the door. He nodded at the young man as though it was okay for him to enter.
"Yamanaka-san, I'm sor-" Inoichi raised his hand at him. "She's not dead yet my boy. I'm quite angry with her actually." Naruto raised an eyebrow and Inoichi continued. "For her to perform such a jutsu on herself, I don't even wish for that with my enemies! It's too risky and not only could it hurt you, it could give you brain poisoning. We only use it on genjutsu masters who are too tough to crack, but even then it could seriously affect you, make you go mad..." They both stared at the figure in the bed. "And now Ino has done that to herself huh?" The older man nodded hesitantly. Naruto then remembered what Kurama had told him. "I have a feeling that she would be fine though." The man stared down at his daughter and a small smile played at his lips. "Why would you say that?" Naruto stared down at her too, tracing at the dragon with eyes. "I don't want to scare you here, but it would seem that Ino has five different chakra from five different bijus and they could aid her in healing. I'm sorry."
The man closed his eyes. "So that was what she meant by 'I'll come back changed.' If it was to save the village, then I don't mind." Naruto's head snapped up to look at the man. "But Ino has..." Inoichi started laughing gently. "I know what she has Naruto. Just for the record, I never hated you but it would seem that every time I tried to approach you, you scared right out of your mind! Eventually, the only thing that I could do was get my mother to cook homemade meals for you which she left at the door. That was before she died mind you. I think that jinchuriki's are heroes that should not be hated, but praised." He turned his head to smile at the man next to him. Naruto looked as though he was deep in thought. "So it was you that always left me the food outside." He seemed to be talking to himself and not the older man.
The man nodded anyway. He bent down to give his daughter a kiss on the cheek. On his way out, he patted Naruto on his shoulder. "Thanks Naruto." Before he could open his mouth, the man was already gone and Naruto was left with a puzzled look. Thanks for what? Without giving it a second thought, he placed some flowers on the side of her bed. It was Ino's favourite and Naruto was the only one who knew that. She had acted as though he like roses, but one day Naruto was passing by and saw Ino. His mind floated back to that day...
Naruto had finished his training for the day and was on his way to Ichiraku's like he always was. With a smile on his face, he took the way of the lake and through an unknown way, or so he thought. As he ducked through the tree branches, he came across a little field with a stream that must have lead to the lake. He stared around him surprised that he had never seen this place before. As he kept on staring, something bright caught his eye. He strained his eyes even further and saw Sakura's best friend in the distance. It was Ino and for once she wasn't in her ninja gear. Instead, she wore plain black combat shorts and a plain orange t-shirt. She seemed to just lay there staring up at the clouds, doing what her teammate usually did.
Naruto moved closer to her but quietly. She was holding a bouquet of flowers in her hands that lay on her chest. Naruto could hear her talking as though she knew he was there, but he knew she was talking to herself. "What could be better than Lily of the valley? It's funny because although it's poisonous, it's the sign of sweetness and humility. I know that if dad catches me with this, he would have my hair!" Naruto watched as she sat up staring down at the flowers. "He says that they were my mum's favourite, but it's not like I know that. I never knew my mum, though I probably did once in my life... I wish that people just didn't look at the outside, but people on the inside. A Yamanaka huh? I guess that I should really start understanding the mind then."
Before she could move, Naruto rushed away quickly before she could notice him.
Naruto chuckled at the thought. "I hope you like them Ino. I just about found them on my last mission. They made me think of you even though you weren't back yet. I hope you wake up soon. It would be nice to see you again, with a smile on your face." He placed the bouquet in a vase and walked out, looking back over his shoulders.
A month had passed and Ino was still in the hospital. Naruto had finished all of his Hokage training and Tsunade was pushing him to become the Hokage already. "Come on Naruto! You want to protect this village right? Become the Hokage already!" Naruto shook his head defiantly. "You're only rushing me because you want to be rid of paperwork!" Tsunade shook her head, but when she saw Naruto staring at her with a hard look, she backed down. "Okay, yes! I still don't get what you mean by the secret though." Naruto snorted. Were they really great men and women of the village? "You know that I'm still waiting baa-chan." Tsunade's eyes softened. "Yeah, you are aren't you? I'm trying Naruto, I really am but even this is out of my hands! I'll keep trying though."
Naruto gave her a grateful look. "Thanks for understanding. I just want my friends there-" "But Ino is more than a friend so you want her to be there the most right?" Naruto stared at the elder blond and then blushed while Tsunade laughed. "What you thought I wouldn't notice? Naruto, I might be old but that just means that I've got more experience in things. When someone loves another, I can sense it from a mile away!" The blush on his face subsidised and Naruto sighed. "Why are you so...troublesome?" Tsunade waved a finger at him. "Now now, you are a Namikaze, don't go stealing catchphrases from the Nara."
Naruto grinned. "If that's it for today, I'm going now." Tsunade nodded. "Tell me if anything happens okay?" The male blond nodded and left in a swirl of leaves. Tsunade looked pissed. "THAT'S NOT TO BE USED INSIDE GAKI!"
~x~
Ino was panting heavily. All the things that she never thought she had seen in her life came as a reality right before her very eyes. Nightmares, horror it was as though her life was a book but very real. "How much...more...to...go?" Ino almost collapsed, but she knew that she had to stay strong if she wanted to stay awake. Only Kami knows how long she'd been here. Matatabi looked down. "You've been in here for a month and you have one more piece to go." Ino sighed as she got her breath back. Right. One more piece to go meaning one more terror to go.
"So far, we've found out that you've unlocked your ancient bloodline and that you were somewhere down the line given those eyes. What hopeless information!" Isobu huffed from its cage not feeling impressed. After all that time, Ino still found shitty information. Gyuki rolled his eyes. "Maybe the rest will be told in this one then. I mean, look at Nagato. In what way is he related to the Senju's that he gained the Rinnengan? I'm guessing that it just pops up whenever it likes." All the beasts nodded their heads and Ino sighed again. "Okay okay! I get it! I'll see what I can do." She walked off into the darkness only to see one more piece of shattered glass laying there on the floor. Taking a deep breath, she picked it up and forced some chakra into making her vision go black...
Memory state
"Get away from here you cursed child!" "We don't need you here!" "My poor baby! Don't make friends with that thing!" It seemed that wherever Ino went, she was just a lonely kid. With only her family to be there, Ino was a loner. The little girl felt a presence behind her and when she whirled round she saw a glint in the air signalling that a kunai was going for her head. Another attempt to kill her. Before it could land on her, she kicked the man in his most sensitive place and ran away before he had a chance to recover.
Most of the villagers had seen what happened and chased after her. "That devil child! What gave her the right to do that? Let's kill her!" Little Ino picked up the pace and ran away screaming for her mum and dad, but she was too far away from the house. They were now hot on her tail, throwing kunais and shurikens at her. They grazed at her cheek, cut at her arms and a senbon jabbed itself right into her arms. She hissed at the pain but kept on running. Running into the forest, they didn't seem to stop. Deciding that she had had enough, she turned round with red eyes. They all stopped in fear.
"WHAT DID I DO TO YOU? I'M A CHILD LEAVE ME ALONE!" Everyone went into a state of shock as the wind came rushing from nowhere and blew them. Dropping all of their weapons, everyone went back screaming bloody murder. Feeling scarred for herself, little Ino went running back to her parents. As soon as they took one look at her eyes, they packed up their things. Ino's mum crouched down to her height. "Ino my little treasure. We're going to move from this horrible village okay? There are more Yamanaka's in a village called Konoha. You'll be safe there."
Ino was crying into her mother's shoulder and nodding.
Everything happened so fast. More villagers came and even shinobi's were among them. Somewhere along the line, Ino's mother had thrown little Ino to her father and used a jutsu to seal them off. "Inoichi, you have to go! Take Ino and get out of here!" Inoichi tried to come back but his wife's jutsu was too strong. "Miyuki, don't do it!" A sad smile played at her lips. "It's for Ino. Run, run now. But please Inoichi, I want you to seal off all memories about this village. Don't let her remember." She kissed Ino on the head and gave her husband a passionate kiss, signaling that it would be the last time they would see each other. She watched as her husband and child ran on. Miyuki turned back to the village and scowled at them all. "If I'm going to die, then I'll take you all with me!"
Her hands moved so fast that no one would be able to top that. No sharingan would even be able to copy it. As though she was doing a summoning jutsu, she slammed her hand into the ground where it all lit up in a red colour. People stopped running and turned back, but it was too late. Miyuki Yamanaka had just done a suicide jutsu. "Eien no nensho!" The ground was on fire and lightning cackled out of it, even through her body. It was the last thing that Ino saw before her mother and the whole village went up in a big bang...
End of memory state
Ino was choking at the memory. Her mother, her poor mother had died trying to save her. Feeling her mind ease up a bit, she walked back to where the cages were. They looked at her expectantly and she gave them a faint smile. "I've done it." They all sighed. Chomei stretched out her wings. "So I guess this means that we get to heal you now." Almost immediately did they all start healing her with their chakra. Feeling energized, they nodded at her. "Time to wake up, Ino."
Once she felt fine, her eyes snapped open and everything was still blurry to her. Feeling a little drowsy, she turned her head to the side. Bright blue eyes blinked at her and she blinked back feeling a little confused and also feeling a massive headache coming up. The figure rubbed their eyes with their hands and looked at her again. She just blinked back. It then smiled and once they spoke, Ino knew who it was. "Ino, you're awake!" She could see an ear splitting grin rest on his face and Ino shifted awkwardly on the bed. Reaching weakly for the oxygen mask to pull it away, she spoke up. "Na-ru-to."
He stopped her and grabbed her a drink of water. "Hey, no time for talking now! You've just woken up!" She gave the man a puzzled look. "Why are- you here?" The blond male feigned hurt. "I guess I'm not good enough for you then." Ino gave him a panicked look wondering if would leave her here like this and he laughed softly. "Relax, I'm only joking. I promised that I would be the first person that you see and here I am!" Her tinted purple eyes started to well up with tears. Naruto started to panic this time, not knowing what he had done to the platinum blond.
"Hey Ino, don't cry! I'm sorry for playing that little joke on you!" Ino shook her head helplessly feeling a little strength coming back to her. "It's not that! It's just that you kept your promise to me." Naruto stopped worrying suddenly and instead he looked embarrassed. "You heard that?" Ino nodded and tried to sit up, using some help from Naruto. Does that mean that she felt the kiss? Naru helped Ino to sit up with a sigh and she looked back up at Naruto. "Why did you make such a stupid promise?" Naruto flopped into the chair next to her bed.
"Hey! It wasn't stupid! You're one of my closest friends, why wouldn't I promise something like that? It's not stupid if you ask me." Ino turned her head away from him to look at the ceiling while a small smile graced her lips. "Well, then I guess I better say thank you. It's been five years since I've been in the village, somehow everything seems a little nostalgia to me. I thought that maybe...I could just forget everything..." She trailed off to turn and look at Naruto thinking that he would just explode with anger, but surprisingly he didn't. He just stared at her even more. "Why is that? I mean, just what have you got to run from in the village? I've always wanted to leave, but I sorta love this village."
Ino smiled a bit brighter. "So when do you become the Hokage then? I thought you would have been at that level by now." Naruto grinned. "I'm supposed to be the Hokage since like two weeks ago, but I've been waking for you to wake up." Ino blinked at him. "You've been waiting for me to wake up? But I could congratulate you when I wake up! You shouldn't pass up the opportunity just because of me." Naruto scratched the back of his head in a sheepish way as though there was something more. Ino leaned her head forward as though to get a better look at him. "Naruto, I'm a Yamanaka I read body language and minds well. Can't you just tell me?" Naruto was shaking on the inside. He'd never felt this way before when he liked Sakura. He would've been up in her face trying to get a date from her!
"It's nothing okay?" Ino looked at him with hard eyes then gave up, suddenly feeling very tired. She sighed. "Okay then, if you say so. Not to be rude or anything, but I'm really tired. Thank you, Naruto." Her eyes drifted shut. Naruto sat there for a while and Ino just lay there with her closed. After about ten minutes, Ino was about to drift into a deep sleep when she heard Naruto get up. "Bye Ino."
As he left, he could've sworn he saw a smile on her sleeping face. He walked out of the hospital room with a smile on his own face.
~x~
"BAA-CHAN! I'M READY!" Tsunade jumped violently as her whole pile of paperwork went flying all over the room. Shizune herself was shocked too. Tsunade looked over to the window ever so slowly and saw the orange loving man perched on her windowsill smiling at her. It was more of a smirk than smile, as though he knew what he had just done. "You little fucktard! You did that on purpose didn't you?" Naruto shrugged with the smirk still in place and jumped off of the window. "And if I did? It's really funny to see you jump like that. Don't worry, I'm here to take you off from your post!" Shizune sighed as she bent down to pick up all the paper that her master dropped knowing that she won't pick them up. Tsunade sat there looking like a fish with her mouth opening and closing all the time. "Wait," she said finally. "I thought you said that you were waiting for Ino to wake up. What changed your mind all of a sudden?"
Naruto rolled his eyes. "I don't know, maybe the fact that Ino woke up?" Tsunade blinked and scowled at the obvious sarcasm. "Well so-rry Naruto, but it seemed a bit weird how were talking about it today and she just so happens to wake up!" The older woman's eyes then widened. "So she's awake now? I need to go and see her then!" The woman bolted from her seat leaving her assistant and the young jounin in her office. Naruto just shook his head at her speed. "Either she's too drunk or Baa-chan is really slow at moving." Shizune snickered and Naruto just smiled at the woman he thought of as an older sister. "Sorry for the mess Shizune-nee-chan." She only shook her head. "It's alright. I'm used to it now."
Naruto looked out of the window. He better go and find Shikamaru, Choji and Inoichi. They would want to hear about this. Then he remembered something. "Wait, Ino's taking a nap!" Shizune sighed at the man. "Better go and run after her then." Naruto did just that.
Tsunade was already in the room looking at the younger blond female in the room. She must have felt the Hokage's presence because she started stirring as soon as she got to her bedside. Staring at the older woman, Ino clutched her side as she sat up "Tsunade-sama, ugh!" A jolt of pain ran right through her right side and Tsunade quickly gripped onto her and made her sit up gently. "How are you feeling other than that pain?" The Hokage asked gently. Ino tried to give her a smile even through the pain as though to show that she shouldn't worry about her. "I'm good. Don't worry."
Tsunade sighed. "Why shouldn't I worry? You've been out for a month and you're saying I shouldn't worry." Ino looked ashamed. "Tsunade-sama, I'm sorry." Her hazel eyes widened and Ino continued. "I'm sorry for how I shouted at you that night when I came back. I'm sorry that even against your wishes I took ALL of the no ranked missions. I'm sorry that I haven't been back here in ages. I'm sorry that I blamed you for Jiraiya's death. I'm sor-" She was soon cut off when Tsunade grabbed her into a hug. "It's okay, it really is Ino! Sometimes, when I look at you, it's as though I see a bit of myself in you. I've already lost my brother, the love of my life and now even Jiraiya. I just don't want to lose Naruto and you too."
Ino's eyes widened. Tsunade pulled out of the hug to straighten herself. "What you said was true though. I'm the Hokage and there should be no reason why I'm picking favourites. Naruto is just like the son I never had. I sometimes feel as though I need to protect him everything even though I know he would hate that if he found out what I was doing."
Ino looked down as she listened to the Hokage talking. She felt bad that she had accused her that night, but then again she wasn't in her right mind that night. That was when Tsunade decided to read her mind. "So erm, how are you feeling erm, mentally?" Ino's head snapped at the question. It was still quite a sore subject for her. Tsunade noticed her actions and decided to wait till when she was ready to talk.
"Well I would say that I'm fine seeing as I spent that last month trying to piece my mind together, I would say that I'm fine, but I need some adjustments. Time to get myself together you know?" Tsunade nodded and stared at the younger woman in front of her. Her appearance was very off putting to her and it didn't sit well with her. "Ino?" She waited for her to face her and when her purple blue eyes landed on her, the Princess continued. "Why do you look like that?" Her look didn't go with her personality.
"I knew you would ask me that. Well, I don't feel like repeating myself so whenever everyone is here, I can explain it to you." Tsunade nodded feeling a little disappointed that she wouldn't get to know, until her luck changed and the rest of the rookie nine plus Gai's team came barging in through the door. "Ino!" The woman was taken back by the amount of people that had called out her name as they came barrelling through trying to see who would get to her first. Surprisingly it was Shikamaru who made it through first.
"Ino, you're awake!" The young Yamanaka nodded her head in bewilderment. It was as though Tsunade knew they were coming in! She looked at the elder blond and saw that she was equally surprised. As everyone was crowding around her asking if she was alright, Naruto stood back with the Hokage smiling as they all said their 'hellos'. "She forgave me you know." Naruto looked up at the woman as she gave him a sad smile. "That night, when she came in, she blew her top with me. Even though she wasn't in her right state of mind, I knew that she still meant it."
Naruto nodded his head. "What did she say?" Tsunade told him and by the end of it, Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Wow, harsh words." Tsunade soon left his side and walked up to the bed. "Well, seeing as they're all here, I would like for you to explain why you look like that." Everyone inwardly sighed. They had all been too scared to ask. Ino sighed and sat up straighter.
"It's a long story. As you all know, Jiraiya-sensei was the one who took me as his apprentice later on and he made sure that I took control of his spy network. He told me about the no ranked missions-missions that are so hard don't have ranks- and seeing as no one had done those sort of missions since the time of the second Hokage, I decided to do them all at once.
"There were about 25, not to mention the 50 S-ranked missions that I took." Tsunade growled and Ino shrank where she lay. "I always did wonder why there were less S-ranked missions after you left. Didn't know that you took them!" She was ready to clobber the girl when her eyes started to glow a deep purple which put her off. They suddenly when back to lilac and everyone gasped.
"It took me about 3 years to complete the missions and finally, through my spy network I found out about another group called Akumu. They are exactly like the Akatsuki, only they are worse. One point in time, Tobi and the leader of Akumu had a disagreement, and it was said that Tobi killed him, only it turns out he was hiding the whole time, planning for the day that we would think that there is peace.
"As for why I look like this, that's because I acted as though I was helpless and let myself get captured along with a whole bunch of other people. They were performing experiments to make people Jinchuurikis without using the beast. A little bit like Sora." Everyone grumbled at the name Sora, not liking how he had acted when he came to their Village. Ino continued.
"While we were locked up, some man told me that he predict little things of the future and said that out of all of the people who were abducted, I would be the one to help some remaining people get out of the hell hole. I told him that there was no way that I would let everyone else die, but eventually, I saw that he was right. 200 people had been taken from their homes to be part of their experiment and by the time I realised it, 50 people were already dead. I saw their power and knew that if I was going to destroy, I would have to get stronger. The old man decided to teach me a few of his jutsus in private and even gave me a contract. That leads us to the dragon. I am now the only dragon summoner and this is what shows that you are." Silence fell upon the whole room as everyone's jaws dropped on the floor.
"As for my hair and eyes that because when it came to my turn for the experiments, 190 people had died. The old man died right before my turn and I couldn't even do anything about it. They used 5 different chakras from 5 different tailed beasts on me and they saw that I was strong enough. They thought that they could brainwash me, but they didn't know that I was a Yamanaka and that I could resist. It was a shame that the beats couldn't. I almost killed the remaining 10 people because of it and I saw that the only way to break it was to shatter my mind by using an S-ranked jutsu from my clan. Usually it is only used on enemies and not on the user, but it has side effects on the user too. It is essential that every clan head knows about it, but some clan heads didn't bother learning it, like my father.
"Because of all the mixed chakra in my body, it messed with my hair and it messed with my eyes. The scar was from my training with the old man. Turns out he was related to my mother and she was from a clan that I don't want to tell you about." Ino's face saddened at the memory of her mother dying just so that she could save her and her father.
Sasuke spoke up in the time of silence. "So what happened to Akumu then? Did you dispose of them?" Ino nodded her head. "Err, yeah I did. It should be alright now, but I can't guarantee that it's 100% safe out there, especially for you Naruto." Everyone faced the blonde who looked flummoxed. "Why me?" It then clicked in Shikamaru's head. "I'm guessing that because the remaining chakra was given to Sora, they don't have any chakra on the Kyuubi and seeing as all of what was in Sora has now gone to Naruto, they might want all of it, or just some of it."
Ino blinked at her teammate. "Wow, that was perfect Shika! I see you're still as smart as ever." He snorted as though it were quite obvious that he was. Kiba was standing a little bit back from everyone else and Ino noticed. "Kiba are you okay?" The boy almost fainted at how nice Ino was being. "I'm fine! It's just that because my nose is stronger than before, you smell weird with six different chakra running through you. No offence." Ino waved it off. "Nah, none taken. Tsunade-Sama, when can I leave?" The woman in green stepped forward. "I would like for you to stay for another week because I just have to run a few tests on you."
The whole place went silent as Ino started to shake violently. No one knew what was going on with her, but they soon saw a change.
The word 'tests' set Ino right off. Her eyes went deep purple and her hair seemed to glow lilac too. Everyone backed away from her. "No! No more tests! You can't make me! I won't let you put anything thing inside me anymore! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Tsunade realised that Ino was still putting off more than what she had told them. Ino wasn't angry. She was scared. Her eyes danced around wildly as though she were looking for a way to escape. "I need to get out of here!" She moved so quickly that no one was able to catch her, except for Naruto who anticipated her moves. He knew she would aim for the window.
"No! Naruto, get off of me! Please, don't make me go through it again! It was hell! They injected me, they made me kill! They kept on TESTING me!" Naruto kept a strong grip on her and soon enough, Shikamaru, Choji, Sasuke, Neji, Kiba and Lee helped Naruto, grabbed Ino and pinned her down on the bed. "Let me GO! Get off!" Tsunade looked towards her own apprentice. "Sakura, not too hard, but not too soft." The pink haired girl nodded sadly and walked over to the bed. "I'm sorry Ino." Before she could shout, 'BAM!'
Everyone cringed at the contact as Sakura chakra infused fist slammed right into Ino's forehead. The males slowly let go of her as though they were afraid that she would wake up and jump off again, but she didn't. Shino looked out from under his hood. "What was that all about?" Tsunade felt a headache coming. "I need some sake. I can't wait till Naruto takes over from me." "As Ino said before, she shattered her mind. She apparently spent the last month trying to pick up her shattered mind and put it back together. It would seem that although she seems fine now, one word from her traumatic experience and it would set her right off."
Naruto turned to his teammate. "So, that punch, how long do you think she'll be out for?" Sakura shrugged. "Four hours tops. It wasn't all that hard." They all sweat dropped except for Tsunade who nodded in agreement. "Actually Sakura, you need to work on your punches. You need to be able to that sort of punch without using chakra." Everyone blanched as Sakura nodded. "Hai, Shisou." Tsunade nodded and turned to Naruto. "Gaki, you're in charge of looking after Ino and making sure she doesn't do anything mad. Shikamaru, Choji you are to tell her father of what is happening. Sakura and Hinata, I want you to go and get a stretcher while the rest of you go and look for Shizune. I need her here now."
They all nodded "Hai!"
Ino sat up feeling groggy and tired. She looked around the room and noticed that it was not the same room as before. She knew what the place was though. It was a high guarded lockdown on patients who were too sick or patients like Ino. Mad people.
The lilac eyed girl flopped back in a lying position and stared at the white walls. "No wonder Naruto would try and break out of here. It's enough to make you lose your mind entirely!" She heard her door creak open and she couldn't help but look at who would have been mad enough to come in. Of course, it was the one and only hyperactive citizen of Konoha, Naruto. Ino sat up and watched him as he made his way to her. There was something about him. Something about the way he held himself, the way he smiled, they way he always knew what to say when you were down. His presence alone was enough to make you die with happiness.
"Naruto, where is everyone? Why am I here?" His blue eyes bore into her once blue eyed orbs. "Everyone is around doing errands and you know, after what you did, Tsunade thought that maybe visiting time was over." Naruto had known that she would ask him that question, so the whole time she was asleep, Naruto had tried to find the right words. Ino looked at him in confusion. "What I did? What did I do?" Naruto gulped softly. "She can't remember." He walked up to the side of her bed and stared down at her. "Well, Tsunade said a particular word and it made you remember what happened to you back at the Akumu base. It was sort of a hairline trigger. You went beserk and you had this look of fear in your eyes as you tried to jump out of the window."
Ino's eyes widened with realisation as the memory came flooding back to her. She looked down ashamed. "I-I'm sorry Naruto. I shouldn't have done that it was unnecessary and uncalled for. I know that you were waiting for me to wake up so that you could be the Hokage, but now I'm locked in here." She turned her head away from him as the tears started spilling out of her eyes. Naruto had waited a month so that she could wake up and join in the celebration with the rest of them, but now that had all gone to waste all because of one word.
The blue eyed male gave her a sad smile before bringing his arms around her small frame. Ino started to sob at the nice gesture that Naruto had done. After five years of not being around anyone and just hearing people die all around you, it seems to mess you up after a while. "Naruto, I'm sorry!" The said man brought his right hand to her head and stroked her hair so gently. "Hey, it's okay! I could wait some more, or I could even ask Baa-chan to let you out for a bit and you can still enjoy the celebration. No need to cry!"
Ino clung onto his shirt as though she were a child and she sobbed into his shirt. Naruto waited for her to calm down and when she finally did, she didn't feel like moving. If it were before, Ino would have made sure that Naruto would have been uncomfortable with their positioning by teasing him, but for over five years, it was almost as though that Ino was dead. "Naruto, you should just forget about me, ne? I don't want to ruin your special day okay?" Before Naruto could protest, Ino spoke again. "If you won't listen, then I want you to promise to me then. Promise me that even if I don't get better within month or so, that you will still go on with it okay?"
She looked up at him just as he looked down at her. Her eyes were pleading, telling him that he should just agree. Her eyes slipped away from his gaze. "Please Naruto..." She heard him sigh and felt as his chest heaved up heavily and went down just as fast. "Ino, you know I don't want to. I want all of my friends there. This might be the one time I might make a promise and break it...I'm sorry, but I can't promise you this." Ino's heart broke into tiny pieces. No one would even want to make a promise for her. Was she really this worthless now? Naruto went on talking. "I'll try my best though, I will. That's just a promise that it too painful to keep."
Ino's eyes widened as she looked back up at him. "Naruto..." She released her grip on his shirt and reluctantly pulled away from his warmth. "I don't deserve him anyway. He's too good for me." She looked back at him with sadness in her eyes. "So what are you doing here? I didn't think a mad person would be able to get visitors on the first day they get chucked in here. Not that I don't like your company or anything." Naruto chuckled and Ino felt a little more at rest. "Baa-chan said that she needed someone to watch over you, and I guess that person is me! Don't feel bad or anything!"
He knew that if he hadn't said that, Ino would have gone back to her depressing state. They must have been really strong to break down all of Ino's spirit just like that. He knew that by now, Ino would have tried to find a way to tease him about their positioning before, but without her doing that, it felt weird. He had really felt like screaming 'HIDE YOUR GOATS AND CHICKENS!' but he refrained from doing that.
They both sat in the room in total silence, but they were both thinking some serious thoughts. Naruto was the first to be pulled out of his thinking and he soon tried to strike up a conversation with Ino. "Ino, I might not be into the mind and all that stuff like you and your clan are, but I think that I might have a way to help you." Her lilac eyes stared at him for a minute with complete confusion before she nodded her head. "Go on," she replied slowly.
"Well, why I don't just say a bunch of words that make you remember what happened back there and from there, we just have to work on things that will make you feel better so that when you do hear the word, you won't feel the urge to jump out of every window you see." A ghost smile flickered across Ino's face before she turned her head. "Okay then Naruto. Yeah, it might work. I just don't to bring attention to myself though. I know that the nurses will hear me. It's heavily guarded here."
Naruto pouted. "Are you telling me! Here is a prison!" He sat on the bed next to Ino and she looked at him. His cerulean orbs stared directly into her soul and Ino shivered. She felt so open with his eyes looking at her like that. "Okay, the first word we'll start off with is the one that set you off today. Tests."
Almost immediately after saying that word did Ino's eyes glow and her hair changed colour. She started twitching nervously and Naruto quickly placed a seal on the room so that no one would be able to hear her screaming and shrieking. Ino looked into her purple eyes and saw fear. It was the same look as before, a look that didn't go well on Ino's face.
"I-I need to get out of here..." Before she could move, Naruto enveloped her into a hug and started stroking her hair. "You're home now, no one will hurt you. With me here, I'll kill anyone who will try to hurt you." If Ino had been struggling out of Naruto's grasp, she would not have heard the slight change and edge in Naruto's voice. She knew that he had used the Kyuubi to say those words, but when they came from him, Ino felt relieved.
"I-I think that I-I can get o-over this Naruto. Thank you." She started to take a few deep breaths to calm herself and she tried to think of happy thoughts. The only happy thoughts that she could think of that happened in the last five years was the old man who was a relative of hers from her mother's side. She thought back to her days with team ten and when her father trained with her. She then thought about the man who was still hugging her and how he was to soon be known as the Rokudaime Hokage. Soon enough, her lilac hair returned back to its blond form with lilac highlights and her eyes went back to lilac, only with more blue in her eyes this time.
Feeling happy with herself, she wrapped her arms around Naruto's neck and buried her face into his chest. "Thank you Naruto, thank you so much!" Naruto carried on stroking her hair. "They really messed with you back there didn't they?" Ino nodded and Naruto sighed. "If you hadn't killed them, I would have gone to do it myself. No one hurts my friends and gets away with it." Just then, Naruto reached into his pocket for something and Ino watched with curiosity.
He pulled out a bracelet and handed it over to her. "I want you to have this. It was once my mother's and it's a good luck charm. It also tells me when you're in trouble, so I'll be there no matter what." He gave her a foxy smile and Ino couldn't help but give him her own small smile. She looked down at the silver bracelet that had bits of red stones sticking on it in a pattern. "Naruto, are you sure? I mean, it's your mum's-" Naruto waved it off.
"I know that it was my mum's, but I'm not a girl, so I want you to have it. Trust me Ino." At the words 'trust me,' Ino couldn't help but believe him. "Thank you then. I'll never let it out of my sight." After a while, Ino started feeling droopy. "I'm sorry Naruto, but right now, I'm so tired. Will you come tomorrow?" She got under the covers to her hospital bed and stared up at the young man with tired eyes. "Of course Ino-chan! I'll come by tomorrow and I think that baa-chan might want to come too!" Ino nodded with a smile and shut her eyes. "I'll see you later Ino-chan." As gently as possible, Naruto leaned down and kissed Ino's forehead before walking out of the empty room.
The lab was destroyed. Everything was left in tatters and there could be nothing that remained there. It was completely dilapidated and with the kind of violent attack that Ino had brought down on the place, surely nothing could have been saved.
Nothing of the experiments was left and it seemed like even the 190 people that had died had been given a proper burial when really, they had just been dumped in a room. Nothing could be saved from this mess...
"Ah, here it is!" The man bent down to pick up whatever he had found. It was a medical kit, old and battered and inside lay the Sharingan and Rinnengan of Tobi. The man chuckled as though he had just won the lottery. "Oh Tobi, old fool. You thought that these hopeless eyes would have given you ultimate power for your moon plan? These pitiful eyes are nothing comparison to the Juubi's eyes."
He tucked the medical kit within his cloak and began to find his way out of the building. Akumu had fallen a get fall, but no matter. He was always stronger than Tobi, so he doesn't even need the organization anymore. "Mark my words, I WILL have those eyes, Ino Akuma."
Sutāshīru: Eien no kokoro wa konagona ni=Star Seal: Eternal mind shattering
Eien no nenshō= Eternal burning
This was all from Google translator. Sorry if it's wrong!
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