Ino bent over, stretching to touch her toes, ponytail falling across her neck.
Naruto stretched his neck, popping it loudly. "So how're we doing this, cause if it's anything goes, you don't stand a chance." He grinned broadly at her.
Arching her back, Ino rolled her eyes. "You've got bad luck, Uzumaki. I'm having a horrible day, and taking it out on you is gonna feel sooo good." She cracked her knuckles in response to his neck.
"You know," Naruto started, and unzipped his Jounin jacket, letting it slide off his arms and fall to the ground. He was wearing a skin tight black t-shirt, an orange swirl, his Uzumaki symbol, on the back. A sheathed katana hung from a strap, resting across the small of his back. "I think this is the first time you and I have actually fought like this."
"Does that makes this a special occasion?" Ino replied sarcastically.
"Naw, shouldn't be too special, considering how fast I'm gonna spank your ass," Naruto countered, stretching his legs.
"You'd like that, perv, unfortunately for you, I'm not one of your loser fan girls. I have no problem punching that smug face of yours."
"Pssh, you're gonna be scared of breaking a nail after all."
"The only thing I'm gonna break is your nose," Ino growled.
Naruto chuckled. "I'll tell you what. I won't even use Kage Bushin. Give you some kind of a fighting chance. Not much though."
He stood to his full height and Ino again couldn't help but marvel at all the changes the Jinchu-riki had gone through.
'If only he wasn't such an annoying idiot,' Ino thought, unable to avoid admiring his upper body physique.
Naruto pulled a kunai from his belt, and flipped it into the air. He grabbed it, then flung it at Ino.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, it belongs to Kishimoto. If I owned Naruto, I wouldn't be writing this fic.
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
- Mahatma Gandhi
A Mind Bending Inconvenience
A Naruto Story
By Hawk
A/N: This fic takes place after the Naruto series, after Akatsuki has been defeated, and Sasuke is back in Konoha. Characters that aren't dead in the Manga at Chapter 356 (when I started this) may or may not appear in this fic, even if they die in the very next chapter. The Rookie Nine are all in their early 20's in this fic. Thank you for your time and your reviews, they're greatly appreciated! I like to know what you readers are thinking!
P.S. It might get a bit confusing halfway through. You'll understand why, I suppose, and hopefully realize the change that's taken place. If you find yourself getting too confused, go to the A/N at the end of the chapter and it should clear things up.
Thanks kindly to Corwin, my far away friend, for helping again. You're input is greatly appreciated.
Chapter 1 - The Mind Is A Dangerous Tool
The kunai passed by her cheek, embedding itself deep into a tree behind her, up to its handle. "That was without my wind element."
Ino didn't bat an eye. "So? You're not actually going to use weapons on me. You don't have the balls," she said. "At least, you won't when I'm done with you." She dropped low to the ground and threw three shuriken.
The small weapons flew at him, and he simply sidestepped, allowing them to fly past his chest and face harmlessly. He sighed before tilting his head back, avoiding a fierce uppercut then ducked under a roundhouse kick. Stepping back, Naruto easily avoided another strike at his face.
He lashed out with his foot, hitting Ino in the side and knocking her back.
"Tsk, tsk, Ino-chan." Naruto smiled teasingly. "You really are trying to break my face, aren't you? You're gonna have to try much harder than that."
The kunoichi growled and charged again. Her knuckles brushed the tip of Naruto's nose, forcing him to step back. Free hand moving fast, Ino pulled a kunai from Naruto's belt and up his stomach.
Naruto grabbed her wrist, halting the kunai from disemboweling him. The girl glared up at him, and he grinned back. "Much better, Ino-chan!"
"Would you stop calling me that, idiot!" Ino yelled, freeing her wrist and swiping the kunai at Naruto's head.
He stepped back, avoiding the blade before kicking it out of her hand. His chest was kicked in return and as he stumbled, he swatted her leg away. Snorting incredulously, Naruto rubbed at his chest.
"Not so untouchable now, Naruto-kun!" Ino barked mockingly
He grinned mischievously at his opponent. "That your best shot? Hinata's hit me harder than that!" he retorted.
Ino responded by pulling out four more shuriken, two in each hand. She reared back, preparing to throw.
Shaking his head at the move, Naruto reached behind his back, unsheathing a pure white katana. "Come on now, Ino-chan, if there's one thing I'm good at outside of ninjutsu, it's using and countering weaponry." A thin film of wind surrounded the blade. He raised it and pointed the tip at the on-guard kunoichi.
Ino paused at the sight of the wind covered katana. It reminded her immediately of her first sensei, Asuma Sarutobi. It only made sense; Shikamaru had told her years ago that Asuma was the one that had taught Naruto about using his wind element in such a manner.
"You gonna use your Atsuta against cute, little me?" Ino mocked, fingers tensing around her shuriken. "Don't you think that's a bit much?" she joked.
Naruto's had named his white katana Atsuta soon after receiving it. He refused to tell anyone who had given it to him, and for that reason, no one appreciated it as anything other than a katana that was white. No one had seen Naruto do anything amazing with it, so no one believed it was anything special.
"Of course not. Only for defense," Naruto replied and the wind around the blade grew fiercer. "Were I to use Atsuta otherwise, you'd end up dead, Ino-chan. . ." He frowned when she shook her head in disbelief and laughed. "You sure you don't want to give up?"
To Naruto's surprise, a slim bit of wind surrounded her shuriken. "No, I'm still pissed off and your cockiness isn't making it any better," Ino grumbled before throwing the four stars.
Naruto easily swat them away with the side of Atsuta. He crouched low as Ino appeared behind him, and kicked over his back. Rolling forward, he avoided her leg as it dropped down. Two kunai stabbed into the ground behind him as he flipped back to his feet, and he spun around, just in time to deflect another with Atsuta.
"Not bad, Yamanaka, but still not good enough. Wind against wind does nothing, you should know that."
"By the end of this fight, I'll have you punching your own nuts, Uzumaki!" Ino shot back, clenching her fists.
Naruto tapped the side of his forehead with his free hand. "I'm not gonna be letting you use your mind tricks on me."
"We'll see about that," Ino stated and leapt into the air.
Naruto jumped back instinctively and easily sheathed his Atsuta. He didn't want to accidentally cut the girl in half. A kunai embedded into the ground at his feet, and he blinked as Ino's hands landed on his shoulders. Glancing up, Naruto looked right into Ino's pale blue eyes.
'Shit,' he thought before a force slammed into his brain. It felt like a ton of bricks, and he found himself falling, back slamming into the ground. He grunted as Ino's body collapsed onto his, her knees driving into his stomach. Naruto's eyes opened just in time to see her forehead smash into his.
'Ino, get out!'
'What's the matter, Naruto-kun? I thought you said you weren't going to let me playing any mind tricks on you!'
'This isn't a joke, Ino, I don't want you in here! Get out!'
'Make me!'
'You can't be here! I'm serious, Ino! GET OUT!'
'Forfeit and I will!'
'No! Just get. . . out. . . NOW!'
To anyone that happened to pass by, which, by chance, was no one, the two appeared like lovers, fallen asleep together in the middle of the grass. Ino's head lay nestled in the crook of Naruto's shoulder, her knees having slid off and rested on either side of his hips. Dainty hands clung to his shoulders, and his face was buried in her ponytail which had drape across it in the tumble.
On the inside it wasn't so sweet. The two minds wrestled with one another inside Naruto's, pushing and pulling, screaming mental obscenities only they could hear. Under Ino's hair, Naruto's face cringed, forehead furrowed. His head shook wildly as if suffering through some form of brutal torture, and his chest jerked upward.
And then he stilled, only the shallow rise and fall of their chests relayed the fact that they were still among the living.
She sat up slowly, groaning in a very unladylike manner. Weakly, her hand moved to her forehead, brushing the hair out of her eyes. "Ugh. . . can't believe I fell for that move," she muttered and glanced down . . .
Only to see herself. Or rather, who she should be. "What the fu-"
"Urgh," he mumbled and exhaled deeply. "That didn't go as well as I hoped." He looked up and saw himself, staring at his hands.
"Why are my hands so small?" she whispered. "Why are my hands so small? This isn't my voice. . . What the hell is going on?" She looked down at him. "What the hell did you do? Why do you look like me! Why am I different!"
"Wha-what?" he asked, baffled by seeing himself, leaning over him. "Am I seeing double or something? And wasn't I on top?"
"What did you do!" She grabbed his collar, shaking him roughly. "What the hell did you do! Why do I have breasts!"
His head hit the ground and he winced. "Would you stop it! Stop!" he shouted, catching hold of her arms and stopping her. "God! Would you change out of that henge, Naruto, it's weird looking at myself."
"I'm. . . not. . . IN A HENGE!" Naruto screamed furiously and stood up, albeit awkwardly, unused to her new body; Ino's body. "What did you do, Ino!"
"What're you talking about? Is this one of your stupid pranks?" Ino asked, sitting up and rubbing his forehead. He groaned softy as it throbbed. The yelling wasn't helping. "And why does my head feel like shit?"
"Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. . ." Naruto repeated, hands on her head. "I'm in your body, and you're in mine. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God."
Ino looked at his hands, noticing for the first time how much larger they were. "Ugh, my hands are so ugly and dirty!" he exclaimed. "What'd you do to them!"
"Hey! Those are my hands you're talking about!" Naruto shouted, putting her hands on her hips.
"What? What're you talking about? What the hell is going on?" Ino demanded, glaring up at his real body.
"Oh my God, Ino! Listen to me!" Naruto exclaimed and reached down to grab Ino's broad shoulders. "You switched us! You're in my body! I'm in yours!" She shook him forcefully, as if to knock the words into his head. "Look at me! I'm in your body!"
Ino grabbed Naruto's arms, stopping her.
"Look at yourself, Ino. You. Are in. My body," Naruto stated as calmly as she could.
Looking down, Ino's eyes widened at the sight of Naruto's black shirt and muscular chest. He jumped to his feet, releasing Naruto's arms, shocked and even more confused than before. "Where. . . are my breasts?"
"You mean THESE!" Naruto shouted, pointing at her chest. She grabbed them and squeezed. "They feel weird!" she complained bitterly.
Ino slapped her hands away. "Don't touch my chest!" He tried to grab her wrists but missed, fingers clenching around one of Naruto's breasts.
Naruto gaped at him, too confused and stunned to properly feel what was happening to her.
He mashed it in his palm, not quite realizing what he was doing. "So weird. . ."
Blinking in realization, Naruto pushed away her body's aggressive hand. "Ow! Ow! Stop! What the hell! Just. . . change us back! And quick, this is too weird. I don't feel right at all." Her hand started toward her crotch but stopped at seeing Ino, with her very own dark blue eyes, glare furiously at her. She grinned nervously and raised her arms away from her body. "Sorry, sorry. . . no more touching. It's just. . ."
"What?" Ino growled.
"It's not there. . ." Naruto whispered urgently, fearfully, then glared back at Ino who was looking down at her own crotch in wonder.
"You mean. . ." Ino muttered, and his hand started downward. "I think I feel it. If I flex-"
Naruto smacked his hand away. "No more touching. No more flexing. Change us back. Right now," she growled.
Ino raised his hands placidly. "Alright, alright, just. . . calm down, Naruto, and let me try."
"Try? Try? What do you mean, 'try'? There will be no 'trying', there will be doing! And you will be doing it! With me! Now!" the irate blonde woman demanded. She paused to think over her words before waving her arms frantically. "Not like that! Just fix this!"
"All right, all right!" Ino shouted, throwing his arms up, exasperated. "You think this is any easier for me?"
"Yes, I do, and I don't care, just fix this," Naruto ordered. "And then we'll never speak of this again."
"Sounds good to me," Ino nodded, shaggy hair shaking. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Naruto closed her eyes and waited.
His eyes opened slowly. . . only to still be looking at himself. "It didn't work," Ino muttered in disbelief. "Why didn't it work?"
Naruto opened her eyes. She inhaled deeply, and cracked her neck, growing angry. "Why didn't it work, Ino? Why am I still like this?" she asked, motioning to her body. She was finally starting to feel the effects of the switch. The weight on her chest from her breasts, the curves of her hips, the different muscles throughout her body. How light her arms felt compared to when she was male.
"God, my nipple!" She covered her breast protectively, wincing. She was finally feeling how roughly Ino had rubbed her breast. Making a fist, Naruto wondered at how small her hands had become compared to her previous ones. It was all way too weird.
He was a she. Far from any of her henge's, or Sexy-No-Jutsu this was completely real. She was a she.
Ino rubbed his forehead, trying to think. The Mind-Body Switch Jutsu hadn't worked, and he didn't understand why. He should be back in his body, not still lost in Naruto's larger, muscular one. He felt out of place. This wasn't the first, second or even third time she'd taken over a man's body, but it was completely different somehow. The loss of connection from her body made everything that much more present.
His arms felt too heavy, his chest too light. He was taller, and the shaggy, darker hair kept obstructing his sight. How did Naruto manage to fight with his hair constantly hanging in the way? He pursed his lips, tempted to find out what else was different when Naruto's lithe voice cut him off.
"So?"
"Is that what I really sound like?"
Naruto clenched her fists. "Yes, this is what you sound like. Annoying! Shrill! Brain tearing out of your head, melting out of your ears!" she cried. "Why can't you fix this!"
"You're in my body," Ino replied.
Naruto's shoulders slumped, baffled. "We've acknowledged that, Ino. Why can't you switch us back?"
"No, stupid! You're in my body!" Ino retorted, incredulous. "My body, my bloodline. My bloodline, my body. They go together. Get it? Since you're in my body, you have my bloodline. I don't have my connection to my body like I normally do. I can't just snap back to my body like I normally can."
Naruto sighed in relief. "Then all I have to do is use your Jutsu and switch us back," she replied, smiling happily.
Ino didn't respond, instead choosing to frown.
"What? What's wrong?"
"It took me three years to learn just the basics of the Mind-Body Switch Jutsu," Ino explained.
Naruto's pale blue eyes widened. "Th-three years?" she whimpered. She shook her head. "No problem! No problem! I'll just make a ton of Kage Bushin's and learn the Jutsu quick!" She snapped her fingers then blinked and admired them. "Cool snap."
"And what're we gonna do until then, huh? We need to sit down and think this out," Ino reasoned, scratching his head before brushing hair out of his face.
"It's not a problem! I'll learn your Jutsu in a matter of hours!" Naruto exclaimed and without a word, two Ino looking Kage Bushin appeared beside her. She blinked at them, and they blinked back. "What the hell?"
"What?" Ino asked, confused and surprised at suddenly seeing three of himself. And yet he wasn't himself.
"There should be more," Naruto explained. "I was trying to make more. There should be at least a hundred!" She turned on her clones, pointing accusingly. "Why are there only two of you!"
The clones stepped back and shrugged. "Don't ask us," they replied.
"Only two," Naruto muttered to herself. "Only two. . . why only two?"
"You don't have the stamina and chakra."
Naruto looked at Ino, stuck in her real body. "Huh?"
"You're in my body now, Naruto. My body doesn't have the stamina or chakra that yours does. Those two clones are. . . my max. . ." Ino explained sheepishly.
"Two? Two clones? Your max?" Naruto whispered, and glanced around, as if searching for an answer on the ground. The two clones behind her exploded into smoke, gone. "Only two. . . that'll take me forever. . ."
"We are in biiiiiiiiiiiig trouble," Ino mumbled, covering his face with his hands.
"Why're you so damn weak, Ino!" Naruto suddenly shouted and blew the hair out of her face in frustration. "This is all your fault!"
"My fault!"
"I told you to get out of my head! Look what happened!"
Ino marched up to Naruto, towering over his original body. "You still want to fight? This is your fault for trying to force me out of your head like you did!"
"Ugh!" Naruto threw her arms up, nearly smacking Ino in the face. She grimaced as her breasts jiggled uncomfortably under her shirt. "Ugh!" Her hands grabbed them, stilling them.
"Ahem. . ."
"What!" Naruto snapped, glaring up at Ino.
"Let go of the breasts. . ." Ino growled.
"Why, so you can feel me up again?" Naruto asked britterly. She removed her hands none-the-less. "You know what we have to do."
"What?"
"We have to talk to your dad."
Ino's eyes widened. "Are you NUTS?" he yelled, stepping back. "He'd kill us both! Especially you!"
"Why me? This is your fault!"
"Because you're in my body, idiot! You're. . . you're. . . in it! This is worse than him walking in on us-" he stopped himself from finishing the thought. "He'll consider you defiling my body just by being in it, and he'll kill you for it! You don't know how much trouble that would be. He'd never let me use the family Jutsu's again. He'd probably make me quit being a ninja."
"But, won't he have some reversal Jutsu? He can go into my mind and pull me out and put you in or something?" Naruto asked, eyes hopeful.
Ino shook his head, shaggy hair waving. "I don't know. If he can, he's never told me about it. He never told me that this type of situation was even possible." He scratched under his headband. "So either, we go there, and he can help us, and he kills us, or we go there, and he can't help us, and he kills us."
Naruto pursed her lips. "Hmm."
"What?"
"Cherry lip gloss?"
Ino smacked his forehead. "How about Tsunade-sama? We can go to her-"
"No!" Naruto cut in. "No, no, no! Too embarrassing! No way!"
"If we can get her to understand, then this could be a whole lot easier," Ino explained. "Lets go, Naruto."
Naruto grabbed Ino's muscular arm. "No, no, no!"
"All we have to do is get to Hokage's tower. Shouldn't be too hard." Ino tugged, nearly pulling Naruto off her feet. "Don't worry, I'm sure Tsunade-sama will be able to help us."
Naruto shook her head forcefully, ponytail wagging. "Please, no! She'll never let me live this down!"
Ino ignored her, marching away from the training grounds. He had to admit, he enjoyed the fact that he was strong enough to pull Naruto along. His real body was clinging to his arm, digging her heels into the dirt. The woman trapped in Naruto's body grinned.
"What're you smiling about!" Naruto shouted, and tugged on his arm. "This isn't funny!"
"Aw, what's the matter, Naruto-chan, don't like being all small and weak?" Ino teased.
Naruto stamped her foot. "Not at all, Ino-kun!" she retorted, sneering. "So manly, Ino-kun, with your broad chest and muscular arms! I think I see nose hairs, and is that bad smell coming from you?"
Ino stopped, and Naruto grinned. "Look at all that dirt under your fingernails!" she added.
"Uh. . ."
Blinking, Naruto looked up at his face suspiciously. "Uh what?"
"I need to go to the bathroom."
"Oh no! No, no, no, no, NO! No way! You are holding it! Holding it!" Naruto demanded, poking Ino's broad chest with her slim finger. "Don't you even think about it."
Ino blushed, embarrassed, and Naruto gaped at the sight of himself looking so red. "Don't do that either!" she shouted, pointing at Ino's burning cheeks.
"It's building up, alright!" Ino replied, squeezing his legs together in a girlish manner.
"I knew I should've gone before we fought," Naruto bemoaned.
"Well why didn't you?" Ino accused.
"Because the fight wasn't supposed to take long, and it sure wasn't supposed to turn out like this!" Naruto put her face in her hands, distraught. "Can't you hold it?"
"I'm not used to your body! It's feels all different down there! How do guys hold it? Is it anything like how women do?"
"Women can hold it?"
"Of course women can hold it, idiot! I just don't know how your thing works!" Ino exploded.
"That's because it's MY thing down there!" Naruto fired back, motioning to Ino's crotch. "And I don't want you going near it!"
Ino stuck his tongue out. "Ashamed, Naruto?"
She scoffed at the implication and crossed her arms over her chest. "Hardly. I'm rather proud of what I've got . . . you've got. My body's got."
"Then you shouldn't worry about me going to the bathroom," Ino replied with a wink.
"You'll burn it off by touching it or something," Naruto snorted. "Besides, you don't even know how to use it."
"Can't be that hard. Aim and shoot, right?" Ino grinned wide, and Naruto stared at him for a moment. "It's not like yours will be the first one I've ever seen, Naruto-chan."
Naruto ignored the barb, instead letting her eyes widen. She slowly glanced down at her own crotch. "Ow!" she uttered as Ino smacked the back of her head.
"I'm still a virgin, thank you very much," Ino muttered angrily, crossing his arms over his chest.
Naruto sighed in pure relief. "Wait, really? I mean, come on."
Glaring, Ino started back toward downtown Konoha. "That's it. I'm going to the bathroom."
"Just go in the forest!" Naruto cried. "It'll be less awkward!"
"Less awkward for you, maybe, but I'm not going out here."
Naruto jumped in front of Ino, pointing a finger up at his face. "Just you wait until I have to go to the bathroom! Then you'll know how I feel!"
Ino paused and brushed the hand away from his face, glaring daggers down at her. "Well. . . until then, I'm going to the bathroom."
Naruto grumbled.
"Huh, I never realized. . ."
"Realized what?" Naruto asked.
"How cute I am when I'm mad," Ino replied and smiled coyly.
Hanging her head to hide her burning cheeks, Naruto let out an audible growl. "Don't even, Ino. Let's just get this over with. And give me my katana," she demanded, pulling Atsuta off of Ino and quickly strapping it to herself.
"Don't you think people will think it's strange that I'm carrying around Atsuta?" Ino asked.
"Don't care, I'm not letting you handle my Atsuta," Naruto replied and adjusted the weapon across the small of her back.
"Protective much? It's not like it's that great of a katana."
"Lets just go," Naruto muttered.
Nodding his head, Ino and Naruto, the two mentally switched humans, made their way back into Konoha.
"Would you stop walking like such a girl?"
"I am one."
"Not in my body you're not!"
Naruto paced back and forth, frustration clear on her face. As she did, she continuously tripped over her own feet, still trying to adjust to Ino's legs and shoes. Her hands clutched desperately at her hair, and though overwhelmed by her frazzled nerves, she couldn't help but marvel at how smooth it felt against her small fingers. "How does she keep it so nice?" she muttered, tugging lightly on her ponytail.
A few men passing by stopped to stare at her.
Naruto blinked, then eyed them dangerously. "What're you looking at, huh?" she growled, lifting a small, clenched fist. "Never seen a girl wait outside a men's room before?"
The men hurried away, fearful of the beautiful, yet psycho looking kunoichi.
Ino had been in the men's restroom for over ten minutes. What guy took ten minutes to piss? Originally Ino had walked into the women's side of the public restroom, not even thinking about his body. He was chased out by an angry mob of women.
Naruto had buried her face in her hands, dismayed. Her image was being tarnished by Ino's lack of thinking. Now everyone would think Naruto Uzumaki was a restroom pervert. She had given Ino a light push in the right direction, toward the men's room.
Inhaling deeply, Naruto tried to calm herself. This was taking too damn long. People were starting to stare at her, and a few guys even looked like they wanted to come up and try their luck. If they did, she planned on hitting back with her fists. She exhaled and glared at them all, crossing her arms over her chest, suddenly feeling self-conscious.
It had been over thirty minutes since the change, and Naruto wasn't feeling any less uncomfortable. Her breasts were hot and felt restricted under her shirt and bra. She did have to admit that her panties, though not as loose as her usual boxers, were very snug and comfortable. At the same time, they were a constant reminder that she was missing something down below and everything was not right.
Her hands fell to her hips and she squeezed them. Glancing left, then right to see if anyone was watching, she slowly slid her hands toward her inner thighs.
The men's room door opened and Ino stepped out. He blinked at the sight of Naruto, arms raised in the air, trying to look innocent. "What were you doing?" he asked.
"What was I doing? What the hell were you doing!" Naruto shot back, hands on her hips. "Take long enough?"
"Well excuse me, but I don't know men's bathrooms like I do a women's. It was so dirty in there, I had to clean off the toilet before I could use it," Ino replied, grumpy at how hard it had been.
"Why didn't you just use a urinal?" Naruto growled quietly.
"Because I don't know how to use one of those," Ino countered knowingly.
"What happened to aim and shoot! Aim and shoot!" Naruto shouted.
"It's not that easy!"
"Yes it is! All you do is aim . . . and shoot!"
"Well, too late now." Ino shrugged and started down the street, forcing Naruto to catch up. "And by the way, I have to say, you have a really nice one."
Naruto smacked her face, blushing brightly. "This is SO not right. . ." she muttered under her breath before regaining herself and grinning wide up at Ino. "You know, I think I need to go to the bathroom now myself."
Ino stopped and turned to his real body. "You don't," he stated and grabbed Naruto's wrist, pulling her toward the Hokage's tower. "Come on, we're almost there."
Tsunade was having a good day. Well, after getting rid of Naruto it had become a good day. Things had quieted, it was a beautiful day, and there was very little paper work to deal with. Sakura and Shizune were taking care of all the problems at the hospital, leaving her alone and with the free time to enjoy a nice bottle of sake. Kakashi had even stopped in to talk, showing more interest in finally taking over as Hokage.
The Godaime Hokage sighed and sipped from her cup, enjoying the silence. Her doors burst open, and the cup jumped from her fingers, sake spilling down her front, into her cleavage. Left eye twitching, Tsunade gripped the edge of her desk, cracking it.
"Naruto," she hissed as he stormed into the room, dragging Ino behind him. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Do it, Naruto," the jinchu-riki stated, turning to look back at Ino.
Meekly, the girl stepped forward from behind Naruto and Tsunade's eyes narrowed, watching the two suspiciously. "Ino, why do you have Atsuta?"
"Ah. . . Tsunade-baa-chan. . ." the blonde girl started. "We have a problem."
Next Time: Chapter 2 - Troublesome Friends and Family
Now switched and with Tsunade's advice, Naruto and Ino must hide the truth from all their friends and family.
A/N: All right, much longer than the Prologue. I wrote this in a matter of 2 days, so yay for that. Hopefully this wasn't TOO confusing. Naruto is in Ino's body, Ino is in Naruto's body. Every 'she, her, hers' is referring to Naruto, every 'he, him, his' is referring to Ino. For example:
Ino looked at his hands, noticing for the first time how much larger they were. "Ugh, my hands are so ugly and dirty!" he exclaimed. "What'd you do to them!"
"Hey! Those are my hands you're talking about!" Naruto shouted, putting her hands on her hips.
Ino, in Naruto's body is looking at his hands. Naruto, in Ino's body, is putting her hands on her hips.
The Tsunade scene at the end, it's from Tsunade's POV, so she's seeing Naruto as Naruto and Ino as Ino when that's not the case. Honestly, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it myself and I wrote it. I hope if you were confused, you made it to this.
A/N and it cleared things up. Review and let me know what you think!