Ino woke the next morning slowly, her eyes opening and mind slowly creeping to functionality. The first thing she noticed was that she was in Sakura's bedroom, the next thing she noticed was that there was a familiar warmth at her back. It wasn't the first time since Sakura's breakdown that she's woken up with Sakura hugging her from behind. It was a comfort thing, some nights Sakura would have nightmares and need someone to hold onto. Ino slipped out of Sakura's arms carefully, knowing that she'd need a good breakfast after the bad night that she had.

Slipping out of the room quietly, she began digging out eggs, turkey sausages, and hash brown patties. It wasn't the best of meals, but it was healthy and all that Sakura had. Straining the yolk out of her own eggs, she dumped them into Sakura's scrambled eggs, and started frying them up with the sausages done, and the hash browns in the toaster. It wasn't Sakura's favorite style of eggs, but it did make convincing her to eat them a lot easier.

Piling the two plates full, Ino set them down on the table, just as Sakura arrived, sleep blurring her eyes, and her hair mussed up in its pixie cut. Ino smirked as she thought how cute Sakura looked waking up, before her strong woman front was put up. Slipping the fork Sakura's hand was searching for under the questing fingers, she nearly laughed as Sakura mumbled a thanks, and tried to eat with the wrong end. She might have to hunt down some coffee soon to wake the pink haired woman, or she'd end up hurting herself.

"We still on for visiting Naruto today?" Ino asked after Sakura had downed a few bites of breakfast, getting a grunt to the affirmative in response, causing her smile. "Still going with the plan from last night?" Another grunt and a mumble had her up and pouring both of them a glass of orange juice. "Did you sleep better after your nightmare?"

This had an odd effect on Sakura. Normally, she's just nod her head with a sullen grunt, unlike today's complete freeze up and suddenly alert look to Sakura's eyes. The last thing she expected however, was Sakura first full words for the day. "Ino, I... I want you to move in... I... I need you here."

Ino took a moment to get herself back under control before she reached over the table and took Sakura's hand in her own, giving it a gentle squeeze. "Sakura... it's alright to need someone once in a while, I'm just glad I can help you out right now, after all I'm your best friend. Someone's has to keep you going."

"Any idea how we're going to tell Naruto we want to help?" Ino asked curiously, after a moment, while scooping up some of her eggs.

"We'll think of something," Sakura assured Ino while sipping her orange juice. "We're both smart young women, it won't be hard."

An hour, one dishes no jutsu, and a pair of showers later found the girls standing outside of Naruto and Hinata's home, looking at each other questioningly. "'We'll think of something,' she says... 'It won't be hard' she says... Well, I don't know about you, but I don't have an idea on how to make it casual, what about you?"

Sakura looked at Ino with a sheepish look. "Well... how about we just ask if he needs the help? I mean the worst he could do is say no... right?"

"Well... let's just jinx it some more and say nothing can go wrong..." Ino droned coldly as she gave Sakura a dry look.

The pair were surprised when a familiar scratchy voice spoke up from behind them. "Who could say what?" Naruto asked curiously as he walked up to the pair in front of his house.

"Nothing!" the pair squeaked out, before Sakura recovered herself enough to respond. "We were coming over to see if you needed help unpacking..."

Naruto blinked for a moment before shrugging and giving his trademark foxy grin. "Sure, come on in, sorry if you've been waiting long. I was out getting breakfast with Hinata before dropping her off at the main house." Slipping past the two, he unlocked the door with a trickle of chakra and disabled the traps.

Ino held back for a moment before letting out a sigh of relief. She had almost suggested busting in if Naruto had been out, but the chakra traces she could feel told her that breaking in would have been close to suicide at best.

"Thanks for coming over to help," Naruto told them as he guided them into the room that most of the boxes and odds and ends were stacked up in. "I honestly have to say that I don't know where to put most of them... Hinata told me to put them where I want... but I've never been good with that arrangement stuff..."

"Don't worry, we'll help," Ino replied cheerfully, going towards the first box and opening it, to her dismay it wasn't the pictures, but the blackmail potential was epic. "Naruto... Why do you have stuffed foxes, and dolls?"

"What are you talking about? I don't have any..." Naruto started, turning to look at the box in question before chuckling. "Oh, that's one of Hinata's, Hiashi asked me to sneak these over to surprise her. The display shelves are over in that corner..." he finished while waving towards the far corner.

"Okay, then let's move onto another box... until we get to the shelves," Ino decided while gently sliding the box over to the clear wall, opening another box, while Sakura took her own boxes. This process went on a few hours, leaving Naruto with five boxes in the corner, which he said he'd get to on his own.

It was at this moment that Ino and Sakura knew that the box of pictures had to be in those five, if it was anywhere in here. Sakura stood up and asked Naruto to help her to find a place for a last item, a small clock which he had inherited from Jiraiya. It was a tame one considering the previous owner, a simple porcelain frog with a clock face inside it's mouth.

Naruto took Sakura out of the room, never suspecting Ino's ulterior motives in remaining behind. It took Ino all of five seconds to pounce on the remaining five boxes, and tore into one. Finding underwear, she quickly closed it and moved onto the next. The next box yielded only a few mementos from Naruto's travels, including what looked to be a pile of love letters from all over the elemental nations, cologne, and a beautiful diamond necklace set in silver forming the Konoha leaf symbol. Closing the box she smiled, thinking how much Hinata would love to get that necklace. The third box revealed a pile of female clothing, holding them up Ino would almost guess that they were for Naruto's female form, but he hadn't used that in years, had he?

Putting aside the mental picture of the buxom blond showing off her form in a mirror wearing a formal kimono, or a ball gown, Ino closed the box again, and reached for the fourth box, smiling as she finds a locked book inside, on top of a pile of other pictures. This was the gold that she was digging for, and now that she had it... she had to hurry up, since the footsteps and voices were coming back. Pulling out a handful of pictures at random she tucked them into her shirt for later viewing, before closing up the box again and getting back to where she had been resting.

She made it just in time, as Naruto opened the door, allowing him and Sakura inside. She faked having nodded off, rubbing her eyes as she looked up at the two. "Hey, sorry about that."

"It's alright Ino-san, Sakura-chan and I were gone for a while," Naruto cut in with a huge smile and a laugh. "Thanks for all your help though! How about I treat you both to some lunch? I think that sushi place you guys like will be nearly empty right now..."

"Could we meet up with you there? I'd kinda like to go home and clean up, if it's all the same with you..." Ino objected, slipping Sakura hand signs to agree behind her back.

"Yeah, we're all a little grimy Naruto, let's meet up there in a half hour, ok?" Sakura backed Ino up, while helping her stand. "Besides we might need your help later."

"Oh? Ino's finally moving in with you or something?" Naruto joked, laughing nervously as he backed away slightly.

"How'd you know?" Ino asked in honest surprise, "We only decided this morning..."

"He didn't know, until you told him Ino..." Sakura explained while Naruto gaped in surprise. "But yes Naruto, we decided that it'd be best for her to just move in with me."

"Oh, that's cool! I always thought you two would be great roomies," Naruto answered, looking serious and nodding. "You two were always great friends, especially once you stopped fighting over Sas... uke..." Naruto caught himself, forcing his grin to stay in place as the feelings of pain, anger, guilt, and betrayal washed over him. Ino and Sakura didn't buy it for a second, but didn't push the matter because they knew that he suffered worse than Sakura at times over it. Sasuke for all his faults had been the first person to recognize Naruto, the first to befriend him, Naruto's rival, and the closest Naruto ever had to a brother. Sometimes Hinata would admit to Naruto staying up late at night, staring up at the moon and crying silently over the traitorous bastard.

After a few minutes, Sakura cleared her throat. "Well... we'll be going Naruto... could you keep it quiet about Ino moving in? We haven't even mentioned it to her parents yet..."

"Sure, no problem Sakura-chan!" Naruto exclaimed as he led them towards the main door, "Hina-chan might be done with her training, so she could be joining us, if that's alright. I mean, I'd understand not wanting her if you're keeping Ino moving in a secret..."

"That's fine Naruto, we'd love to talk with her some more," Ino answered with a smile as she patted Naruto's shoulder comfortingly. "We'll see you later then."

A short farewell and trip later, the pair returned to the apartment. Sakura collapsed on the couch with a sigh, before looking up at Ino. "So... did you find anything?"

Ino's response was to smirk and pull out the pictures, the action for some reason causing Sakura to blush. Missing the blush in her moment of pride, Ino laid out the pictures with a good deal of flourish. "Here they are, the pictures we were after," Ino proclaimed, not even looking at the pictures.

Sakura looked down for a moment, paused and cleared her throat. "Uh... Ino? You might want to look at them..."

Ino looked down, and there was something she hadn't expected at all. For there, in all their glory was six pictures, each one housing an image of Kiba. In the first was Kiba hiking his leg in front of a tree, while Akamaru mirrored him on the other side, the golden streams from their crotches made it clear what they were doing. The second was five year old Kiba cuddling a stuffed puppy, wearing a cute little purple footy pajamas, with dog ears, and the bottom flap open on one side. The third was a mirror image, save that Kiba was now about fifteen years old. The fourth picture was of Kiba the day no one remembered, his hand on Sasuke's thigh, nose nuzzling into Sasuke's neck. The fifth picture was Kiba drooling over a smoke blurred form, blond hair peeking out from the top. The sixth was Kiba's shocked face, when Naruto walked out of the smoke laughing.

Ino and Sakura looked at the pictures for a few minutes before breaking out in gales of laughter. It wasn't what they were looking for, but now they had a target for the next group, and enough material to ensure that Kiba would do anything for them, just to keep the pictures hidden.

Once the laughter had settled down, Ino and Sakura took turns in the bathroom, hid the pictures for later, and left to grab some lunch with Naruto and Hinata. Lunch was a pleasant, if awkward affair, Hinata was gushing over how thoughtful Naruto was to set up her dolls in the room, and how thankful she was to Ino and Sakura for helping him out. Sakura brought up some joke that Tsunade had told her, getting a laugh out of everyone, except Naruto, who seemed to be the butt of the joke. After a few minutes though, he joined in the laughter.

Naruto had to leave after a while to go help Iruka-sensei at the academy, he was going to show off some of his tamer jutsus, and his sage mode to the pre-genins, to show them what was possible if they kept training hard enough. After he got out of hearing distance, the girls leaned in close together, to figure out the next step.

"We need to get the group together," Ino whispered quietly as she looked around, "We found the box, but I only got one picture of Kiba groping Sasuke as viable proof."

Hinata's blush at the picture's description would have been worth all the ryos she ever made during missions, in Ino's opinion, she couldn't put it into words, but the blush was priceless. Sakura sighed and leaned against the table. "We should have everyone over today... maybe after dinner?"

"Sounds good, and before then, you can tell Ino's parents about her moving in with you," Hinata said, wiping her mouth as she passed over the money that Naruto had left to cover the bill. There was the briefest of thoughts about exactly the nature of the stunned pairs relationship, before she let it passed and smiled. "Have you two even let Tsunade know? She has to give you the files to verify the change of address."

Sakura hung her head with a whimper, causing Ino to look over nervously, "Uh... do I even want to know?"

"Do you remember that three inch pile of papers I was working on about two years ago?" Sakura asked cautiously, as she shivered at the memory. "That was just the requisition forms for the forms to change an address."

Ino's eyes widened to the point that Sakura and Hinata were ready to swear that they were going to pop clean out of her skull before they finally broke down in giggles. After a moment of giggling, Ino realized she was the butt of a joke, and that's when the swearing started.

Sakura got clear of be door before Ino started chasing after her, Hinata merely walked out calmly.

Later that night, Kiba was running late. It wasn't really his fault, his mom told him to help clean out the kennels, and he couldn't get away without getting in deep, so he got done as fast as possible. His arrival at the meeting place was met with an odd silence. After a few minutes, a snort was heard, followed by a giggle, and soon the entire room was laughing loudly.

Kiba blinked at the laughing group, trying to figure out what was so funny, until finally curiosity got the better of him, and he just had to ask. "What's so funny?"

Kiba's question was answered by Shino, who was the only one restraining himself from busting a gut. The bug user simply held out some pictures, and with just a look, Kiba made a sudden decision. "I am going to kill him... slowly and painfully."

Ino walked over and took the two pictures of Kiba cuddling a stuffed puppy, and the one of him groping Sasuke from the irate dog user with a smirk. "No... you won't... at least, not until we get to the bottom of the pictures from the day we don't remember..."

"She has a point, troublesome as it is... these two have confirmed our suspicions of Naruto having pictures of the day," Shikamaru interrupted, sliding between Kiba and Ino. "From your actions, I think you're willing to go next..."

"Damn right I am," Kiba growled, eyes locked on Ino.

"Then I'll tell you right now," Ino countered, "These aren't all the ones we have of you... just the least embarrassing. If you hurt Naruto at all, we will show every ninja in Konoha and our allies. I think you'll love some of them in particular..."

Kiba snarled at Ino, his fangs barred. "Fine... I'll have Akamaru distract Naruto with a wild goose chase, and just sneak in to get the goods."

"I wouldn't recommend that," Sakura said as she cleared her throat. "There is an entire series of traps and snares, that are keyed to Hinata and Naruto's chakra. Going in there without either of them is suicide."

Kiba sighed and sat down to think about a new plan. And so he thought, and he thought, and he thought some more. The gathered people could swear they saw smoke pouring out of his ears, and heard rusted gears grinding away into oblivion. Until finally, hours later, Kiba shout woke Shikamaru, and made Ino and Sakura look up from a late night dish of ice cream. "I'll get him to show me it, by reminding him about our pranking days!"

And that, was how Kiba decided to go after Naruto.