Turmanarmo: Ugh, why is writing you so much easier than writing the others, honestly I am lost for what I am going to do for some of the Konoha 11, sure a few of them have obvious responses, but how the *insert random bad word here* am I supposed to do someone like TenTen or one of the people who will be quiet the whole time, Naruto cannot singlehandedly carry this conversation.

Shikamaru: Troublesome author, just stop moaning and get on with presenting this chapter, and if you find this task so troublesome why not just do what I would do and forfeit the endeavor, maybe go watch some clouds.

Turmanarmo: NO, I refuse to be one of those who just abandons my fic, I will find a way to do this, I must for the readers, and for Naruto.

Shikamaru: I fail to see how this affects Naruto, but just to limit how long I have to stay here let's get on with this, for all of you troublesome lawyers out there, no this baka doesn't own Naruto or anything of worth probably so it wouldn't really be worth your time to sue him. Bye

Turmanarmo: Sigh, oh well, Thanks my two reviewers for talking to me and to the crap ton of people who have read this, why you know drop a review, tell me it was good, tell me it was trash, say hi, anything, just don't leave me hanging.

As Naruto strolled through Konoha, he thought about how things had been going, two short days ago he started this emotional rollercoaster with a plummet into despair and anger just thinking about how his friends might react to his tale. Then with the help of Kakashi-sensei he leveled out before slightly rising with his Sensei's kind words before he fell back a bit during the evening and during the early parts of his day with Shikamaru. Then after he and Shikamaru talked Naruto was back on his way to high spirits but it leveled out a bit when he remembered that he still had more people to tell and not all of them were as analytical and logical as Shikamaru except maybe Shino or Neji.

Anyways, he was now walking through the outskirts of town where the Clans who felt the need to distance themselves from the village for whatever reason lived. The Nara's lived out here so they could tend to their deer and be nearer to their sacred forests. The Inuzuka lived here so their ninken had more room to run and so they could have the space to run their veterinary clinic. The Hyuuga also had their estate out here so they wouldn't have to deal with people worrying about their privacy being invaded by the Byakugan. And of course there was the Aburame clan who lived out here so they could make a habitat for their insects and avoid having to deal with the villagers who were bothered by them.

In the end Naruto found himself standing outside of a compound which seemed to contain several large greenhouse like structures that appeared to have different worlds inside. There was one that looked like a desert, another which looked like a jungle, and several more strange environments that weren't natural to this part of the Land of Fire. As he walked up to the front door a low buzzing sound began before a man wearing a high collared jacket and sunglasses appeared in front of him.

"Why are you here?"

Naruto raised his eyebrow, "Hello to you too. I was looking for one of my friends, I think he lives here, his name is Shino, do you know him?"

Shibi remained stoic even if he was slightly surprised to find out this boy considered his son a friend. "Yes I know him, why you ask, because he is my son. If you will follow me I will show you to him."

Naruto chuckled softly at how similar his friend was to his father before following the man. As they walked Naruto noticed they were heading to the back of the compound and as he looked he saw Shino (or at lease someone wearing Shino's jacket) meditating at the back of the field with several insects flying about him.

Once his bugs alerted him that the peculiar chakra signature that belonged to Naruto was following his Father towards him Shino Turned to greet them.

Shino's eyebrow quirked as he asked, "Naruto? I am surprised to see you here, why you ask, because I have never seen you around my house before and did not invite you over. Why did you come?"

Naruto responded, "I know you are still mad at me over not being able to identify you when I first saw you when I came back but is that any reason why I shouldn't be able to talk with one of my friends? The reason I am here is because I need to talk to you about something and I was wondering if you were busy today."

Shino sighed, "I suppose I should forget about that instance even if it hurt being forgotten. And yes I am free today as Tsunade-sama gave all of my teammates the week off for some reason and so I was simply meditating to increase my bond with my allies, though I suppose I could increase my bond with my comrades instead."

As Shibi left Naruto sat across from Shino and was about to speak when Shino surprisingly interrupted him and asked, "Naruto, I have a question before we begin talking, I have often noticed when you are around me that my insects react strangely too you."

"What do you mean Shino?"

"Well whenever you are around my insects immediately take note of your chakra like you are some sort of bright beacon and they like to fly around you because you virtually leak chakra when you are not actively trying to suppress it but whenever they come back they have a strange response to you."

Naruto seemed faintly amused as he asked, "Oh and what might that be?"

Shino continued, "Well they enjoy how your chakra 'tastes' but when they are done eating it they also seem to have trouble digesting all of it and it makes some of them sick sometimes."

Naruto thought about this for a moment before stating, "Well I suppose they could be reacting to 'his' chakra since it is rather potent, here let me try something Shino."

Naruto fell silent for a moment before suddenly a slightly darker presence seemed to appear and Naruto opened his eyes and Shino noted that while his right eye was its normal blue, his left eye was now silted and red. Shino was very intrigued by this as Naruto spoke again saying, "Wow separating my Chakra was a bit harder than I thought it would be. I am going to mold some of my chakra into my right and left palms, send a few insects to eat some of it out of each and tell me what they think."

Shino nodded before a few black specks flew over to Naruto's glowing palms and then flew back." Shino was even more surprised when they came back because the ones that went to the right palm seemed really happy and showed no sign of illness and the ones from the left palm reported that they were afraid to eat that chakra as it looked poisonous. Shino looked up and reported this to Naruto before he asked, "do you have some sort of Kekkei Genkai that makes your Chakra poisonous and why is your eye red on the side with the poison chakra."

Naruto 'hmmed' before stating, "Well that confirms my theory, they like my chakra, which is weirdly flattering by the way, and are hurt by 'his' chakra. Shino, I think it would be best if we move onto the thing I needed to talk to you about before I answer your question, sorry."

Shino nodded though he was still curious and allowed Naruto to continue, "Well I suppose I should start the same way I did with Shikamaru, Shino what do you know about the Bijuu?"

Shino actually showed a slight amount of surprise on his face before he answered, "I do not know much about them outside of the fact that there are nine of them and that they are beings of malevolent chakra, why? Because that is all we were taught about them in the academy. Obviously I know that one of them, the Kyuubi, attacked our village 15 years ago and that a very long time ago my Clan had a slight fascination with the Nanabi since it took the form of an insect though we never were able to do anything before the Shodai Hokage captured them and they disappeared. I am curious though, why is this pertinent to our conversation?"

Naruto raised an eyebrow before saying, "Nanabi is an insect, that is interesting, the only ones I knew about where the fox Kyuubi and the tanuki Ichibi. Anyways, the important part of that information is the fact that they are made out of chakra, now what do you know about chakra conservation?"

Shino hummed before responding, "Well Chakra cannot be created or destroyed only converted from one form to another, such as when my insects eat another's chakra and convert it to energy they can use."

Naruto nodded before saying, "Correct, so imagine if you could contain the Bijuu inside of something, you could use it as a sort of battery to energize whatever you put it in near infinitely, though you would need some way to suppress the consciousness of the Bijuu or it would just take over the object and somehow make it turn on you."

Shino nodded, "Your best bet would be to use another consciousness and to design a seal that would only allow the Bijuu any chance at control when its chakra was being actively used."

Naruto frowned and nodded, "Yes that is true, and in order for the being to have any chance of controlling the bijuu it would almost definitely have to be a human and a very determined one as well. Now imagine that you are still not satisfied with creating a Ninja that will never run out of energy, you are looking to create the ultimate weapon so you make it so that the 'host' can call on more than just a trickle of the power, though this by extension will also mean more of its influence as well. The side effect of this would be that the Bijuu would also have a chance of taking control more easily, especially when the host calls on their powers out of desperation, for instance when they are near death or emotionally unstable."

Shino's eyebrow raised once more, "Well that seems unnecessarily dangerous for the host and those around them. I am curious where this conversation is headed, why? Because a hypothetical scenario like this would only be brought up if either you were looking to do something like this, or someone has already done it."

Naruto sighed and looked away which only served to confuse and intrigue Shino further before he looked back with determination, "It is called a Jinchuuriki."

Shino tilted his head as he questioned, "Human Sacrifice? That is a morbid word, what do you mean it is called a Jinchuuriki."

Naruto snorted, "Morbid? Well there is an apt description if I ever heard one. A Jinchuuriki is a human who has 'sacrificed" their own safety to gain this power at least that is what it first meant. From what I was told shortly after they started experimenting with the idea they found out that sealing it inside a child was the best way to minimize that chance of the chakra from just frying its host and being released again and they also soon realized the sooner the better since it increased the chance of the host developing resonance with and immunity to the potency of the chakra. Unfortunately for some the seals used were not well designed which allowed the Bijuu further control over their host."

Shino interrupted, "That is terrible, but I am curious that I have never heard of such a being, why you ask, because something like that would likely be used as a weapon of great effect and thus should be warned about in the chance we meet one of these Jinchuuriki."

Naruto shook his head as he said, "You would think that but I suppose since it is not a time of war most of these hosts rarely need their power so you could meet one and not necessarily know about it. Though you have in fact met two Jinchuuriki Shino."

Shino twitched slightly as he said, "Oh? Who are these Jinchuuriki?"

Naruto shifted uncomfortably, "Well the first, and probably most obvious to you would be Gaara, the Jinchuuriki of the Ichibi. He is one of the ones suffering from a weaker seal, though now that his burden has been removed he no longer has to deal with that. And honestly if the last three years have been any indicator, the main issue for a Jinchuuriki is less about seal strength and more about will. Unfortunately when you grow up as a Jinchuuriki you are not always treated the best and Gaara had it about as bad as he could get. Besides everyone young and old in the village hating him, his own father tried to murder him, it is barely any surprise his will to suppress the Ichibi and protect his village was low."

Shino nodded, "That explains why he acted so strange during the chuunin exams and why there were stories about him turning into a giant monster during his fight with you. Though that still leaves the question of who the other Jinchuuriki is."

Naruto snorted, "You caught that did you, and honestly I am surprised you have not worked it out yet. Well let's move back a bit then, as we discussed earlier Chakra cannot be created or destroyed so there is no way the Yondaime could have killed the Kyuubi, and since he was a master of Fuinjutsu he defeated it by sealing it into our village's Jinchuuriki."

Shino nodded slowly, "That makes sense though who is this Jinchuuriki I apparently know, based on what you said earlier he would most likely be around our age or slightly older but I also wish to know, why was this hidden from us?"

Naruto nodded as well before pointing out, "Well you are right about the age, and as to why it was hidden that would likely be due to the fact that Jiji wished to hide the fact from as many of our village as possible but somehow everyone ended up knowing about it anyway and so in an effort to prevent the children of our generation being poisoned against the child due to the fear of knowing that the Kyuubi lived inside of them it was made a law that the status of the child could not be revealed to anyone who did not already know about it."

Shino tilted his head to show his genuine confusion, "Then is this conversation not illegal, why because of this same law you just mentioned."

Naruto snorted before he started laughing, "Wait you are moments away from knowing who the fox is and you are concerned about breaking a law, that is rich."

Shino's aura darkened a bit as he said, "First off they would be the fox no more than I am an insect, sure we both contain these things, but we would both still be human, and second how can you take a law created by the Sandaime who you loved so much so lightly."

Naruto looked shocked at what Shino said before smiling fondly and saying, "Thanks Shino, and the reason I can take the law so lightly is because it does not apply to me, I can share my status as the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki with whomever I wish."

Silence fell over the clearing before an angry buzzing emanated from Shino as he began to mutter to himself. Naruto, not expecting this reaction backed away slightly and for a second almost thought Shino was angry with him before Shino looked up and stated. "Well the villagers are even less logical than I thought."

Naruto burst out laughing and barely struggled out a, "How so?" Between his gasps for air.

Shino patiently waited for his friend to stop laughing before he said, "Well given what you said earlier about how Jinchuuriki grow up I assume that explains the strange behavior the adults of the village displayed around you. Even though for the villagers it could be blamed on ignorance, surely the Shinobi must realize that you growing up shunned could lead to you being mentally unstable and thus a danger to us all, so why were they just as bad about hating you."

"For a short time I assumed that you were similar to me in that you contained something that disturbed them but then I noticed that while the looks towards our clan were mostly from them being grossed out and the looks of disgust sent towards you seemed to be utter hatred I dismissed it at the time."

"Now I see that we were similar in a way, though I should have used it as an opportunity to reach out to you instead of turning my back on it and you."

After a short silence Naruto swore he heard Shino chuckle before he said, "You know Naruto, you really are the most illogical person I know. Why you ask, because any logical person would either hold a grudge against the villagers for how they treated you or at least give up on the quest to gain their respect. But you keep going no matter what and strive to earn their respect and eventually to become Hokage and then to ironically be the protector of those who would wish you dead."

Naruto looked up towards the sky as he responded, "You know Shino, maybe that is why you logical people never seem to have as much fun. Sure trying to do the impossible is hard and illogical, but if I didn't do that I wouldn't have you guys as my friends I would probably have turned out like Sasuke and left the village to either get more power to destroy it or just to escape the hatred. Honestly I can't imagine any happiness coming from that life, sure it was hard to begin with but the rewards are already well worth the work and I am not even Hokage yet."

As he glanced over to his friend he had to agree, the idea of an evil Naruto just didn't sit right for some reason and for once he had to agree with Naruto, the illogical choice was much better, for everyone. And he could only think, that given how much he cherished his friends, maybe one day Naruto would achieve his dream and become the greatest Hokage ever, and then the villagers would see how lucky they are.

At the same time Naruto was musing silently about how Shino had said they were similar in some ways and even though he hadn't meant it that way, he had to wonder what it would be like to have a symbiotic relationship with Kyuubi, but he would worry about that at another time.

This one felt much worse than Shikamaru's section and I am not surprised given how little Shino makes it into both the actual cannon and people's fanfics (at least the ones I have read). Hopefully he is not too ooc and hopefully Naruto wasn't too smart. Seriously balancing Naruto's brains is harder than I would have thought, I hate it when he is the know nothing dunce he often is in the real story but making him too smart is just as jarring unless he is supposed to be that way.

Anywho Story is 3014 words this time and I felt like I was struggling to close this one off properly since I wanted to avoid this becoming a copy of the Shikamaru story with Shinoized responses thrown in, and I am now wondering how I am going to come up with 8 more ways to tell this story. I feel like just skipping the talk would shorten the story/impact too much but I also don't want to do any full team/multi people telling's either for some reason, sigh.