Turmanarmo: Okay, I am back guys. Sorry about the long wait, I started it before the weekend started but I left about halfway through to spend time with my family and only brought my tablet home with me so the most writing I was willing to do was review responses. Plus the characters in this chapter refused to shut up.

Neji: Hey I take offense to that I wouldn't talk for that long unless I actually needed too.

Turmanarmo: Uhm, Neji sorry to break it to you but you're not in this chapter.

Neji: What, but you had clearly been doing the Geniuses first and so I am clearly the third person to tell. Who else did you do instead, I suppose you did Hinata-Sama or maybe the mutt Kiba. Or did you do one of those interlude chapters before getting to me.

Turmanarmo: Neji you can find out the same time as everyone else when you read the chapter. Though as a side note you look hilarious when you pout. It clashes with your normally refined personality.

Neji: Hmpf. Hyuuga's do not pout, and anyways I assume you called me here to do the disclaimer, so onwards. Turmanarmo does not own the Naruto Manga or the Anime. And despite the fact that I now believe you can change ones fate, I was obviously fated to be next but he changed it to spite both fate and me. Because of this I now question his ability to do this story justice and will warn you to leave while you still can.

Turmanarmo: Anywho, now that that is done Thanks to all of those who reviewed last chapter and those of you who followed/favorited my story. On with the story.

Naruto was wondering through town towards one of his favorite locations, Ichiraku Ramen. As he sat down he wondered if maybe he should tell a second person today given that his talk with Shino didn't take very long, however since he had yet to decide who to tell next he decided against it unless he ran into one of them today. After his hearty and early lunch he decided today was a good day for training since he hadn't done much for the last two days.

A few hours later saw Naruto laying on the ground panting. He hadn't realized how hot it was today until he started his vigorous training and since no one else was around he had ditched his jacket and shirt about an hour in. He lay there struggling to catch his breath and cool himself down until he nearly jumped out of shock when he heard someone wolf whistle at him from the edge of the clearing.

As he looked up he noticed Ino approaching from his left as she commented, "You know you are quite fit for someone who eats that much unhealthy food, I don't see an ounce of fat on your body. Also why in the world do you wear those baggy jumpsuits, sure they aren't as baggy as the one you wore as a kid, but they still don't show off your body, and you definitely have one to show off."

Naruto stuttered out a horrified "I-Ino!" as he got up to try and retrieve his jacket. However his embarrassed face turned to slight outrage when she snatched his jacket and proceeded to walk off with it towards the trees, leading him to shout, "Hey, Ino come back here with that."

As she reached the shade she put his jacket down in a pile and proceeded to plop down on it under the tree as she shouted, "You know Naruto if you are trying to cool off you should definitely come sit in the shade, and stop acting so embarrassed, haven't you ever been shirtless in front of a woman before."

Naruto muttered about his rude friend as he walked over and sat down near Ino before saying, "Well yeah, I have but they usually don't make fun of how I look."

Ino tilted her head as she said, "Make fun of? The only thing I made fun of was your jumpsuits for not being good at showing off your body, Take Lee for instance, he wears that spandex which from a fashion perspective is about as bad as you wearing bright orange" "Hey" "But from a showing off perspective it lets all of us ladies ogle his fit body. All I am saying is throw a tight shirt or two into your wardrobe and maybe you could get some girls to notice you. If you're hot there is nothing wrong with showing off a little." At this she posed lightly before giggling.

Naruto turned bright red as he responded, "O-oh, I thought you were making fun of me when you commented about my looks, sorry, no one has ever really said something like that to me before. Ero-sennin once commented about how skinny I was but he was making fun of me and trying to make a point about me being malnourished which made me scrawny and short."

Ino snorted, "For someone who is normally so brave and self-assured you sure are meek about the weirdest things. You have a nice toned body and if you were a little less loud and annoying you would totally be dateable material for those of us who don't already have our minds on someone else."

Naruto sighed and shook his head before saying, "No offense Ino but I don't really want to date anyone who just wants to date me because I look nice, and can I have my jacket back now, please."

Ino laughed as she responded, "I suppose you wouldn't would you, you always were a caring and nice person, even if you are annoyingly loud. And no, you can't because it is making you uncomfortable and I think it is hilarious to see you so flustered."

Naruto drooped his head and it looked like a cloud had formed over him as he said, "Why do you have to be so mean Ino?"

Ino smiled evilly before asking, "Anyways, why were you out here training on your day off? I know that Tsunade-sama gave all three of our year's teams the week off as well as Guy's team so why waste it training when you could spend it with your friends."

Naruto snorted before answering, "Training is never a waste of time if I want to get stronger and become Hokage some day, and I spent most of the day yesterday talking with Shikamaru and this morning talking with Shino, so it's not like I haven't been spending time with my friends. Which reminds me I need to talk to you too and since you are here I might as well get you out of the way now."

Ino raised her brow at this before responding, "Why were you talking with my lazy teammate and Shino, and why do you need to talk to me as well. Plus you could sound a little bit happier about talking with me, I am loads of fun to talk to."

Naruto cracked a smile as he pointed out, "Says the person who is intentionally trying to make me uncomfortable by making me sit around without my shirt. Plus it is less about who I am talking to and more to do with what I have to talk about, I am not really sure how you will react since you will be the first girl I have told about it and only like the third person who will know about this that wasn't told by someone else or already knew it."

Ino looked slightly worried as she asked, "What are you telling me Naruto. Are you coming out! Oh god no wonder you are so weirded out. Sigh, all the hot ones are gay, Hinata will be so disappointed."

Naruto choked as he said, "What! I'm not gay 'tebayo, I like Sakura-chan you know that, why would you think that! And why would Hinata be disappointed?"

Ino laughed as she said, "Oh sorry Naruto it just seemed like that was what you were trying to do, and for all I know you could be saying that as a cover, you could really be in love with Sasuke-kun or something since he is so dreamy. And if you still don't know about Hinata you are more hopeless than I thought."

Naruto made a gaging sound as he responded, "Ugh, why would you even think something like that, I don't want the Teme anywhere near me unless he is fully clothed. It was bad enough he ended up being my first kiss because of that stupid accident back at the academy, but that's just weird Ino. The Teme can be gay if he wants to, but I'm not sticking my dick in his ass."

Ino turned red from a combination of embarrassment and fury, "Why do you have to be so vulgar Naruto, and my Sasuke-kun isn't gay! And even if he was he would be the Seme not the Uke you baka!"

Naruto, huffed, "Please Ino his name is Sas-UKE, he may act aggressive in public but he would so be the Uke. And plus Ino, how is it that you think I am Gay when I clearly like Sakura-Chan but you don't think the Teme is Gay when he has never shown interest in any female ever and you have to admit you just finished saying 'all the hot ones are gay' and since you think he is hot too, then by your definition he should be gay."

Ino huffed, "Naruto, you are such a baka, I don't know why Forehead started to be friends with you instead of still hating you, I'm not sure if I could handle being on a team with you. But fine, I guess you might not be gay. Anyways, if that wasn't what you wanted to talk about, then what is so important that has you wierding out over there?"

Naruto closed his mouth and looked away thinking for a second before glancing back up, "Hmm thinking about it I wonder if showing you might be the easier way, first I will need to tell you some things before showing you the angry fuzzball, but then again introducing you may be a bad idea, I mean he is so annoying and I wouldn't put it past him to lie to you to try and scare you. Though I suppose you are smart enough to figure out if he is lying and as long as I fully explain it first you should be good."

Ino raised an eyebrow before responding with a laugh, "Naruto what in the world are you talking about, and nothing you are saying is making any sense. Plus fuzzball is a mean thing to call one of your friends and I thought I knew all of your friends?

Naruto looked mortified before he burst out laughing and had to wait till he calmed down before responding with, "Please, the fuzzball is not my friend, if anything he is one of the main reasons why my life was as bad as it was before I made my first friends." Naruto snorted as he thought, it would be nice if he wasn't so hostile though, and I reached Gaara so I might have to try that with him someday, but for now I have a task to get back to. At this Naruto swore he heard an indignant 'tsk' in the back of his head but ignored it since Ino hadn't done anything and he couldn't see anyone else around.

Ino looked confused for a bit as she said, "Bad? I know you were an orphan, but you have always seemed so happy to me, even back in the academy, before you … had … any … friends." Ino winced at this part before looking away slightly embarrassed.

Naruto sighed, "I suppose I can't expect all of you to be as observant as Shikamaru and Shino, even if neither of them really thought about it much either. And to your always happy thought, sure I always 'acted' happy but did you really think an orphan who was picked on by all the kids and hated by most of the village could be that happy. Sure I had some friends by that time, but they were all adults like Iruka-sensei, Hokage-Jiji, and the Ichirakus. I knew you obsessed over your precious Sasuke, but I would have hoped someone who works with the mind all the time would have realized that my happiness was a mask at least part of the time."

Ino looked up to notice the aura of doom hanging around Naruto before he slipped a smile on that for once she noticed was not reflected in his eyes before he carried on, "Anyways, back to what I was talking about. First, I know you can enter people's minds and control them, but can you enter my mindscape with me and talk with me there."

Ino looked shocked before she said, "You know about your mindscape, but my Dad always said very few people knew how to enter there mindscape and those were usually old farts who were very in tuned with themselves and meditated all the time. And no offense Naruto, but you don't really seem like the type to meditate all the time."

Naruto snorted as he said, "Normally you would be right but I am a bit of a special case and since I first entered my mind Ero-Sennin showed me how to meditate to enter it easier. Anyways, you didn't answer my question can you do that?"

Ino snorted before saying "Sure, with our family interrogation Jutsu I can enter your mind and if I choose I can have you with me. But why would I want to enter your mind it is probably filled with perverted things since you are a teenage boy and given who your Sensei is."

Naruto shouted, "Hey just because Ero-Sennin is my Sensei and Kakashi-sensei is just as much of a pervert does not automatically mean I am a pervert. Plus like I said I have been to my mindscape and most of my memories and thoughts are behind doors so even if there are any perverted thoughts they are inside those doors and I can see what is inside just by grabbing the handle, so you won't have to worry about it anyways."

Ino looked thoughtful and said, "I suppose that explains why Shikamaru and Choji acted so weird when I wanted to enter some of their memory rooms when I tested it on them, and here I just thought they didn't want to share with me. Anyways, sure I guess we could do this, here let me start then."

She formed some hand-seals before touching his head and as she was pushing her way in she swore she noticed a black mark swirl into life on Naruto's stomach but dismissed it quickly as she looked around at her new surroundings as Naruto materialized next to her. "Hey Naruto I know I have heard of peoples mind being in the gutter but this is the first time I have seen a sewer for a mindscape. I know you said you had a bad childhood but that is an understatement if this is what your brain looks like. My dad told me that the way a person's mind manifests before they learn to control it is a good measure of their mental state. I honestly expected your mind to be filled with Ramen, I mean Choji's had food everywhere and pictures of his friends floating around and Shikamaru's had clouds in the shape of his friends and a large Shogi board in the middle of it."

Naruto hummed before responding, "Well I do have a room where most of my memories are stored that is a bit nicer looking than this but this is where I always start in my mind, here why don't we head to my section instead of the prison."

As Ino started to ask what he meant by the prison she suddenly found herself shift and they were suddenly standing in front of a dull orange door which contrasted horribly with the dark, Green? She thought it might have been green once, corridor and as he opened the door it was strange to note that the water sat floating outside of the door almost like there was a force field holding it back. As she walked in she was thinking about how different this place looked, its color scheme got progressively happier as she left the entrance and she voiced her question, "I have some other things to ask in a bit, but first why is this room set up like this, it gets wider as you go farther back and the Orange paint on the walls gets brighter and more obnoxious as you go farther back. Also, it was impressive that we can just teleport here, usually you have to have pretty good mental control to do something like that."

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Thanks I guess. As to why the room is the way it is, I have noticed that the longer I live the longer the room gets and the color of the wall reflects my overall happiness at that point in my life, if I focus I can stretch the room out and the paint becomes more detailed. For instance it dulls out again when things like Jiji dying or Sasuke leaving occur but gets really bright whenever I add a new friend or meet someone that I can at least call a really good acquaintance. Also, you will notice that all my friends pictures are put up on the wall when I first became there friends, though Sasuke's won't stay on the wall no matter how hard I try to put it back up. See look, this is when you guys first started being my friends."

Ino looked slightly sad as she noticed that the pictures of the other two teams of the rookie 9 were only a little ways down from team sevens photos. She also noted that under each photo there was a door that had a special coloration and symbol for each person. For instance her door was purple and had flowers hanging on it, while Sakura's was bright pink with a Sakura tree on it, though under that there was the symbol of the medical core, which looked freshly added. She noted that a couple of the doors had slightly darker paint schemes than the others, she was impressed especially by the fact that Shikamaru's gray door seemed so bright even compared to her purple door. She figured the brightness of the paint had to do with the status of their friendship and she felt slightly hurt that her door was among the ones that were not too bright. In fact hers seemed to be similar in brightness to all of Naruto's same age friends except Sakura, Shikamaru, and Shino, though she did notice that Sasuke's door looked like it was scuffed up from overuse and was the dullest of them all except maybe that door on the end for the new member of Team seven, the guy named Sai, though she thought it was funny because that door was still under construction like Naruto was still building that friendship even if his mind had already decided that Sai belonged as one. She looked up and asked, "Why does Shikamaru's and Shino's doors look so bright even though they are dull colors like gray and that camo green color Shino wears, I figure the color brightness has something to do with how good of friends you are with them, so why them?"

Naruto looked like he was thinking hard so Ino decided to wait patiently for his answer before he said, "Well if I had to guess it is because they have accepted me despite what I told them and so I am surer about our friendship now. I mean look at Teme's door, he still is my friend even if he doesn't want to be right now and I am adding one for Sai because I want him to be my friend too, even if he is an insensitive Teme as well, but both of their doors are dull because I am unsure about our friendship at this point." At this Naruto Smirked and snorted before continuing, "I figure that many of these doors will get much brighter over the next few days if this conversation keeps going the way it has been. Anyways, we need to head to one of the memory doors instead of my friend's doors. However, as we walk I need to ask you something. Do you know anything about the Bijuu?"

Ino looked confused as she asked, "Bijuu, what do those have to do with anything?" At Naruto's pointed 'no questions' look she responded, "Well I guess if my memory is right they are big evil monsters from fairy tales that eat people who are naughty, though obviously they do exist since our village was attacked by the Kyuubi about 15 years ago. So I suppose since it is called the 'nine tails' there must be at least nine of them. I know that for something as important as the Kyuubi attack the Academy barely brings it up and all the adults get tense whenever it is brought up in conversation like they know something strange, but Daddy told me not to worry about it so I don't think about it much. Anyways, I know that the Yondaime defeated the Kyuubi at the cost of his own life, which is sad because based on the few pictures I have seen of him he looked like quite the hottie. Hmm, thinking about it you kind of look like him, though really only in the hair and eye department, your face doesn't look that similar and as far as I know he was never married so it must be a coincidence.

Naruto snorted, "You know Ero-Sennin said I look like him too, which is kind of cool given how awesome he was. Anyways, yes you are right, there are nine of the bijuu and they are far from fictional though as far as I know most of them are sealed away right now, though very few people know where. Also, the adults do know something about it that we didn't as kids so your dad was lying to you to protect you in a way. You see there was a law put in effect by the Hokage that said no one was allowed to tell anyone about what actually happened to the Kyuubi."

Ino looked slightly affronted about her dad lying to her though she did figure that if the Hokage felt it needed to be secret it was slightly okay. Then she asked, "What do you mean by 'what actually happened' didn't the Yondaime defeat it?"

Naruto nodded, "Yes he defeated it so you don't have to worry about it attacking again, but what has never been explained was how he defeated it. As you probably know Chakra cannot be destroyed so the Bijuu cannot either, therefore they must be sealed as I mentioned earlier. The Fuinjutsu that the Yondaime used was an exceptionally powerful one that he used to seal the Kyuubi into a Jinchuuriki."

Ino looked confused now, "Power of the Human Sacrifice, what in the world does that mean? And why wouldn't they want to tell at least the Shinobi where it was held, they could have told us once we graduated."

Naruto snorted, "Well they did tell all the Shinobi and apparently all the adult villagers found out about it from someone but the reason they didn't tell you about it was because Jiji was afraid about our generations reaction to finding out it was sealed inside of a person and at the time it would be hard to explain that the kid it was in was not the Kyuubi without sitting down for a long conversation to explain fuinjutsu to them and even then most of the adults in the village were dead set against the kid so it was more than likely that they would not have been willing to do more than tell their kids to avoid the child, which they did anyways, they just couldn't explain why because of the law."

Ino looked horrified, "But that's not fair to the kid, why would anyone be so mean to a poor kid just because he had a demon sealed in him, I get why they wouldn't tell the kids, but surely the adults know better and even the non-Shinobi could have it explained to them, how hard would it be to tell them how the fuinjutsu works."

Ino went from confused to upset as she looked up and saw Naruto's happily amused face, "What the hell are you finding so funny we are discussing the horrible childhood of someone who is probably our age or a little older and you look amused."

She growled at him which caused Naruto to laugh lightly and comment, "It's not that, I am just glad you feel that way now even though you always ignored how he was treated when he was younger. Aw screw it, I don't really feel like telling you and we are here anyways, I will show you the memory for the night I found out who it was and let Jiji explain it to you."

As Naruto opened the door they were in front of and smiled fondly she saw him disappear inside the shadows and followed him in. She was slightly excited as she entered since this would be one of the first memories outside of her father's head that she was going to see since Choji and Shikamaru would only let her probe their minds for practice, not see any memories. As she entered she noticed as usual that she was an apparition floating around in the memory and she could see Naruto from what looked like just after graduation since he had his headband on. As she entered she also noticed a massive wave of emotions, some pride but mostly despair and horror and she wondered why her Jutsu was not filtering the emotions properly so she figured either this was extremely emotional for Naruto, which was possible given that he was always an emotional person, or she was messing up on the Jutsu.

She also noted absentmindedly that Naruto looked pretty banged up like he had just come from a fight and he was, Crying? Oh that was strange. She looked up and saw the old Naruto also looked slightly sad and figured he was getting the full blast of the emotions so it must be even worse for him. Before anything else could go through her mind she heard the small voice of Naruto croak out, "How could you Jiji? How could you lie to me? I have asked so many times why the villagers hate me and I find out from Mizuki-teme that I am the Kyuubi, no wonder everyone hates me, I would hate me too, I mean I dest-"

Suddenly Ino fell to her knees as she felt a massive wave of Killer Intent wash over her and saw the boy pale considerably as Sandaime-Sama stood suddenly and said, "NO! You are not the Kyuubi, you Naruto-kun are its container, nothing more. Iruka said he already told you as much, so why do you still think that. I know I lied to you Naruto-kun, but you must understand I was worried you would not be able to handle the news, I was planning to tell you the night you graduated but since you failed the exam again I hadn't gotten to it yet."

As the Killer Intent left the room Ino finally got up and looked over her friend who she now understood was the very Jinchuuriki he had been talking about and she felt overwhelming pity for him before that changed to self-loathing as she realized that she had always ignored him as a child and that if she really thought about it she had occasionally noticed that some of the adults were mean to him as a kid though she had barely paid it any thought. Before her thoughts could get any darker the young Naruto asked, "So I'm not the k-Kyuubi, but then why do they all hate me Jiji, why didn't you tell them that, they all call me a demon and hate me, shouldn't they know!"

At this point Naruto was somewhere between sobbing and shouting his emotions were so torn. Anger at being lied to, and at the villagers for treating him this way. Sorrow that this had happened to him and that he was condemned to live without friends because of this.

As Ino looked at the Sandaime she noted that she had never seen him look so broken, he sighed before saying, "Naruto-kun, I know this is hard, and I did try to explain it to the village, I think most of the Shinobi understand but many of them cannot see past their grief unfortunately and so they figure since they can't harm Kyuubi directly they can harm you. And with the villagers, while some understand, many prefer to feign ignorance because it helps them sleep better if they think they are abusing the Kyuubi instead of a child. Honestly Naruto-kun, I am sorry this wasn't what Minato intended when he sealed Kyuubi inside you, he was always the optimist and like I did at one time, he always chose to see the best in people, but unfortunately the village ignored his dying wish that you be seen as the protector of the village that held the beast back. I am sorry that I did not do more and I see now that I should have found a way to pay more attention to you so I could have noticed what those like Mizuki were doing to you since sadly one kind teacher is not enough to properly train you and so you wound up as the dead last of your group with almost no actual training."

Ino was shocked when she looked over at the small Naruto and felt the overwhelming acceptance and determination smothering what was left of his self-pity and anger. As he looked up he said, "Hey that's alright, nothing has really changed. I just know why they hate me now, and I will still prove to them all that I am worth something and that I am not the fox. I will take that hat from you Jiji and then they will have to respect me, 'tebayo!"

Hiruzen chuckled as he said, "I am sure you will Naruto-kun, though now that you are a Ninja for real I feel I need to tell you something, You don't gain respect because you are Hokage, you become Hokage because you have everyone's respect and trust."

Naruto looked thoughtful before he said, "I suppose that makes sense Jiji, but that just means I have to show them how awesome I am and then I can take that hat so you can finally retire."

Hiruzen smiled fondly as he said, "I cannot wait for that day to come Naruto-kun, and then I can sit back and laugh as you have to do all my paperwork."

Naruto looked horrified for a second before they both started laughing as Naruto chocked out, "Well then Jiji I will just have to come up with some way to do all that paperwork better and faster than you by the time I take your hat, I mean I have to be better than all of you, even you 'Professor-Jiji'."

As the scene ended and Ino found herself outside the room she was dealing with the roller-coaster of emotions that she had both felt and been subjected to from the memory. As she looked up she noticed that Naruto looked exceptionally serious. And she wondered what he was thinking.

As he reigned in his own emotions he said, "Well there you go, sorry you had to see me like that but it is what it is. I hope you understand now why this was so hard for me to tell you and I hope this doesn't change our friendship any, though I will understand if you feel differently about me now."

He looked sad as he said this so Ino smirked lightly as she said, "Of course this changes things Baka." As Naruto looked down in sorrow she finished, "You just earned my respect, anyone that can endure all of that crap and still turn out as sweet and kind as you, despite your annoying tendencies, must be a pretty awesome person. If any of our friends end up turning on you because of this then they will have to face the wrath of the Ino-Shika-Cho."

At this Naruto tilted his head, "What do you mean Ino, I haven't even told Choji yet and Shikamaru is too lazy to do anything about it. Plus I wouldn't want you to do anything like that, I would understand if any of you guys freaked out about it, I know I value my friendships a lot more than you guys value me. I've come to accept that."

Ino shouted, "Baka, first off we are in your mind so you are even worse of a liar than usual so I can tell you would be deeply wounded by us betraying you. And while I admit that we have not always been the best of friends I feel that most of us treasure your friendship more than you know, like I said earlier, almost no one is as kind hearted and caring as you are, especially towards your friends. Plus if you think Shika wouldn't do anything then you don't know him as well as you think, sure he might not do anything physically himself, but he would be the one to plan our vengeance then Choji and I would carry it out. Plus we are talking about Choji here, probably the only person who has you matched in the kindness department, he is the most empathetic person I know, he will defiantly be there for you Baka."

Naruto smiled again as he said, "Thanks Ino, you have no idea how much this means to me."

Ino laughed as she noticed her door in the distance and saw a paintbrush magically appear in front of it and suddenly her door was painted a much more vibrant purple and she nodded as she said, "Two more things, First since we are here can I see the Kyuubi, I assume he is in the sewer since you called it the prison, also I can't believe you called the Kyuubi a fuzzball. Second, who all Knows about this and is in the group that doesn't care like the Baka adults that hate you for it?"

Naruto scratched his head, "Well I have told Shikamaru and Shino obviously as well as Sakura-chan since Bachan told her. Tsunade-Bachan, Ero-Sennin, Kakashi-Sensei, Iruka-Sensei, and the Ichirakus all know as far as adults. Sasuke-teme figured it out when we last saw him because he used his Sharingan to enter my mind. Gaara and his siblings know since Gaara is or rather was the Jinchuuriki of the Ichibi. Oh and Yamato-taichou Knows and I assume Sai knew before he joined our team since he wasn't surprised about it later, though I am not entirely sure if he is capable of surprise." At this Naruto snickered. "That is all I think, why did you want to know?"

Ino smirked before shrugging, "I just wanted to know who all I could talk to about it since I clearly can't gossip about it like most juicy secrets I hear."

Naruto sighed, "Oh, of course. Anyways, if you really want to I can show you the Kyuubi. But beware he is really grouchy and If you get to close to the cage he will try to destroy you."

Ino snorted before saying, "I can imagine and even though that would do little more to me than dispel my intrusion and give me a headache I will stay back from his cage."

As they left the room the walls blurred again before they wound up in front of a giant cage and a pair of red eyes showed up behind the bars to glare out at them. "So my container deigns to visit me, and look you brought me one of the two harpies who like the red eyed freak, how quaint."

Naruto snorted, "It's nice to see you to, and be nice to Ino, and she is a guest here, unlike the Teme who forced his way into my head."

The Kyuubi snorted before responding, "I am under no compulsion to be nice to you or any of your pathetic friends, I myself am not a guest here and I care little for you or your kind. Though I reserve a special place in my hatred for the Sharingan users, especially Madara and that masked man who had the nerve to control me, and of course you're Yondaime for sealing me into you after I had just escaped. Anyways, be gone pitiful humans I do not feel like talking to you today Naruto, unless of course you want to set me free."

As the Kyuubi smirked evilly Naruto snorted, "Not likely if you have that attitude. If you could mellow out and not be hell bent on trashing the world I would be fine with letting you free, though there would have to be a way to remove you without killing me for that to work unfortunately. Anyways, it was nice talking to you Kyuubi, see you later."

As Naruto faded out Ino released her Jutsu and as she re-entered her body she bent over and started panting. "Oh my, that was much more taxing then I thought, Staying inside your head took a lot of effort especially when we were in the sewer, I suppose that seal on your stomach had something to do with that."

Naruto looked down before blushing, "I forgot I was shirtless, yeah that is my seal, it is the physical manifestation of the fox's prison."

Ino smirked as she tossed him the shirt, "See showing me your muscles isn't so bad, you forgot about it till I reminded you. And now I must be off, even if time in a mindscape is hugely faster than it is in the real world I probably still wasted most of my lunch break harassing you, I am off to the flower shop to gather more gossip I can actually share and to tell all the girls that you look sexy with your shirt off, though I need to come up with some way to say it that sounds more insulting to you. Bye Naruto."

Naruto scoffed as he put on his shirt and jacket before calling out, "Bye Ino, I'm so glad I can be so entertaining for you."

He rolled his eyes as she called back, "I know right."

As Naruto wondered off to the main part of town again he looked up and realized Ino was right, since most of that conversation had taken place in his head only a few minutes had actually passed and it was at most two in the afternoon. Naruto sighed as he realized that meant he still had some time to tell one more of his friends today. Though he realized as he sniffed the air that he should probably go home and shower first since he reeked from his training. So with that in mind he wondered home and thought about who he should tell next.

Okay I have officially decided that Team Asuma has way to much screen/panel time in cannon compared to the rest of Naruto's friends, and infinitely more Fanfiction time than nearly everyone else in that group than maybe Hinata, and that is only really because of all the NaruHina Stories since she is often equally ignored in most of the fics that don't have that as a pairing. I spent much less of my time in this and the Shikamaru story questioning whether I was portraying them correctly, one quick read over their Narutopedia page and I was good, whereas Shino I kept falling back to it repeatedly to read his quotes and personality bit to double check.

Anyways with 6368 this is ten words over double my longest chapter (the one with Shikamaru) and for some reason this chapter just didn't want to stop having long descriptions and conversations. Sigh on with the writing of the next chapter, who to do next, hmm? Oh and before you leave Review dang it, I have to keep my review count above my favorite count, it just barely got back above that number, I wonder sometimes how you can put this story under your favorites (for me that is reserved only for the stories I really really liked). I mean come on, I have 10 Favorites and only two of those people have actually ever left a review *Grumble, Grumble* Oh well, I guess I used to be really bad about reviews in the past so I can't complain too much.

Oh and in case you were wondering, I chose Ino over Neji because I wanted to do a girl next and I was too afraid to do either Hinata or Tenten at this point. Bye guys see you next time.