Turmanarmo: Welcome to another chapter of Secret Inside Me sorry again for the delayed posting but hopefully this one turned out well.

Choji: Yeah, it's nice to see this up again, I hope whoever he tells this time is understanding, *munch munch*

Turmanarmo: Yeah, you will just have to wait and see though Choji, but anywho, thanks to all of you awesome people who review/favorite/follow and without further ado, on with the disclaimer.

Choji: *puts away chip bag* Thanks for coming, I hope you enjoy this story even if it isn't part of the official release, which you should support by the way. I hope you all brought snacks because reading while snacking is the best way to read. *Pulls out bag of chips before smiling and proffering bag* Chip?

As Naruto walked down the streets of the business district of Konoha he couldn't help but notice how everyone around him was for the most part trying to ignore him. He snorted to himself thinking about how that was their way of coping with the fact that the child they had hated all those years had actually become something in the village. He snorted again thinking about how weird it must have been in Suna once Gaara came back from the Chuunin exams and stopped killing people for no reason. Everyone in the village must have been confused and suspicious for quite some time.

Naruto kept walking as he considered the fact that the villagers opinion of him seemed to matter less than usual. Sure he rarely cared what they thought anymore, but that didn't mean he wasn't affected by it. However, since he started to tell his friends and realize that they would not abandon him his need for the villager's approval was waning. Sure he would always want to eventually turn them around, but now it just seemed so much less important when he had the approval of so many precious people.

As he approached the Shinobi portion of the shopping area he began looking in various windows to see if he could find his friend, plus window shopping was so much fun. He continued to wander around and noticed the various groups moving about, young academy kids with their parents going to buy supplies, what looked like Genin and Chuunin going to stock up on ninja tools. Interestingly enough there were not a lot of Jonin or Anbu that he could see, though maybe they had their own area to resupply, he wasn't sure.

By the time he had gone through the area three times some people were beginning to look at him strange and so he decided to give up looking for his friend in this area and headed away. However, as he was leaving the area he suddenly jumped in fright when someone appeared behind him and said, "Hey Naruto!"

When Naruto turned around he was greeted with a chuckling Tenten who seemed very proud of the fact that she had managed to freak out her friend. As Naruto pouted and said, "Tenten that wasn't very nice of you, why did you feel the need to sneak up on me 'tebayo."

Tenten snorted and pointed out, "Well since you are a Shinobi you really ought to be able to detect me sneaking up on you, but then again you are just a Genin." At this she smirked as Naruto's pout deepened.

After a few seconds she finally decided to let him go and asked, "So Naruto, why were you wondering around the shopping district. If you are looking for something in particular I might be able to help you out."

At this Naruto looked up and responded, "Well to be honest I was only window shopping, I wasn't really looking for a weapon or something, I was trying to find you."

Tenten looked puzzled at this before responding, "Me, why were you looking for me?"

Naruto simply replied, "I wanted to talk to you for a bit if you were free. Though if you are busy I would understand."

Tenten snorted as she said, "No I'm not really busy today, I was just heading to my favorite weapons shop to stock up on some supplies, and if you want to tag along we can talk while I get my stuff."

Naruto scratched the back of his neck as he said, "Well I don't mind tagging along, but what I want to talk about kind of has to be done in private, it being a village secret and all that."

Tenten looked over at him with a questioning look as she said, "What kind of village secret would they entrust to a loud mouthed Genin, and if it is so secret why tell me?"

Naruto began pouting again as he said, "Again with the cruelty, it's not my fault I was out of the village for the last few years and wasn't promoted, plus I technically learned this secret the same day I became a genin so there. And I was kind of ordered to tell you by Baachan."

Tenten looked even more confused as she asked, "How can you be kind of ordered to do something, either you are ordered or you aren't, Right?"

Naruto snorted, "Well let's put it this way there is technically only one person allowed to either tell or give permission to tell this secret based on a law by Sandaime-Jiji and that person is me Dattebayo. However, Baachan is the Hokage so she can remove the law if she wants to and she told me to tell my friends the secret myself or she would do just that."

Tenten looked even more confused as she said, "Fine, I can't figure out what sort of secret would fall into that sort of situation, but you obviously won't give me any more details until we go somewhere private, so why don't you pick somewhere to go while I get my stuff and when I get back we can head there."

Naruto nodded and thought for a moment before Tenten disappeared into one of the shops. As he thought he was glancing around the village before his eyes landed on somewhere in particular so he decided that would work as the place.

After a bit he began to fidget nervously partly due to what he had to do soon and partly because people were giving him strange looks as he stood around in the street after having been there so long. As he finally noticed Tenten exiting the store with a few new scrolls in hand he quickly ran up to her and blurted, "Okay, let's go."

As he took off down the street and hopped up to the rooftops she blinked a few times before chasing after him shouting, "Hey wait up baka, where are we going."

Naruto laughed madly as he shouted back, "Follow me and you will find out 'tebayo."

Tenten growled as she chased after her errant friend before catching up to him once he stopped on top of the Hokage monument. Once she was beside him she grabbed him by his collar and lifted him up as she said, "Honestly, Naruto, why do you have to be so childish, we could have walked here like normal people or at least taken a more direct route than circling the village." However she dropped him and 'Hmpfed' when he started chuckling at her antics.

Naruto continued to chuckle as he stood up and walked over to the Yondaime's head and proceeded to settle down amidst the spikes of stone hair. As he leaned back on his favorite spike which had a spectacular view of the village he sighed. He glanced over at Tenten and said, "I like to come up here and think sometimes and this is a really quiet and secluded place. Plus it has the best view of the village from here. But please come sit with me so we can get this talk underway."

Tenten walked over to the head and gracefully sat down with her back against a spike a little to the left of the space in front of Naruto, allowing her to look at him without impeding his line of sight to the village. As she sat she noticed the serene look on Naruto's face and was surprised by how calm he seemed despite the fact that he seemed slightly nervous earlier.

However, before she could voice her question he said, "I always enjoy coming up here, it helps to keep me grounded and reminds me of my promise to protect the village with everything I've got. Before we get started, I was thinking about something. When I was talking to Bushy Brows the other day he mentioned you knew something about Fuinjutsu, I was wondering what you know about seals designed to hold or store things inside them?"

Tenten looked confused by this before her face broke out in a grin as she proudly replied, "Well I don't know much about sealing but most of what I do know relates to storage seals since I wanted to be able to make my own special ones for my use."

Tenten adopted a thoughtful look before continuing, "I know that to create and then seal something requires an equal amount of energy as the thing being sealed, assuming the sealer has perfect Chakra control. Obviously inanimate objects usually have very little relative energy so it takes almost no chakra to use them. If the thing you are sealing is quite large then it will take a bit more chakra to create the seal though once again the sealing and releasing of the item itself will take far less if it is also inanimate."

Tenten paused before continuing, "If for whatever reason you need to seal an organism that contains chakra it will take even more to make and also more to use. Since it is still relative to the amount of energy the item contains sealing a dead body or an organism that doesn't have Ninja level chakra or higher would obviously take less than sealing something with larger chakra pools."

She was quiet for a bit before saying, "Oh, and I almost forgot, there was a bit in the book that talked about higher level seals that said if you wanted to seal something living that was more complex than say a simple plant then you would need a much more complex seal to keep it alive, this requiring more Chakra to create and use."

Naruto nodded, "That makes sense, so for instance if you wanted to seal a large chakra filled entity and keep it alive you would need a ridiculous amount of Chakra and probably very good control."

Tenten looked thoughtful before saying, "Yeah that would be correct, though from my understanding of the Chakra requirements, for something that complicated you would likely need help to seal it just to meet the chakra requirements. I suppose you could also do it if you had similar amounts of Chakra to what the Shodai Hokage and his wife were said to have. Also for anything more than permanent storage I can't imagine a use for such a seal since it would still nearly wipe most Jonin out just to seal or release the contents. Honestly such a seal would likely be quite impressive even if it had limited uses due to its cost for creation and use."

Naruto hummed before responding, "Anyways, on with what I came to talk to you about. What do you know about the Bijuu?"

Tenten snorted before saying, "You have the most random topic changes, well I don't know much about them except the fact that the Kyuubi is one of them that attacked our village 15 years ago and that the Shodai was said to have the ability to suppress them so I assume that means there are more than just Kyuubi. I know they are massive constructs of Chakra that appear to take on animal form based on the Kyuubi."

Naruto nodded, "Yeah from what I know the Kyuubi is a Kitsune, the Ichibi is a Tanuki and the Nanabi is apparently sort of giant insect according to Shino. So yeah I assume the others are animals as well. Also the bit about the Shodai is true as well since he was able to do so with his Mokuton abilities, which is really cool by the way."

Tenten perked up at this before interrupting, "Wait, how do you know the Mokuton is cool, only the Shodai could use it so you would have never been able to see it in action. Hey why are you laughing?"

Naruto's laughter died away at the slightly menacing aura Tenten was giving off before responding, "Well on our last mission Kakashi was in the hospital so we had a replacement Taichou named Yamato who can use the ability somehow. It was really awesome he could just fade into trees or grow wood out of his arms. I saw him build a house using his abilities too, it's what he calls camping Dattebayo."

Tenten raised her brow at this wondering why someone who had the Mokuton abilities was not more well-known but decided it was probably kept secret for a reason so decided to not comment about it.

Naruto continued, "Anyways, as you also mentioned they are made of pure Chakra and so they unfortunately cannot be destroyed in the traditional sense. If they are defeated in combat they will simply disperse and reform at a later date. To prevent this they had to come up with other ways of dealing with them. As you mentioned earlier sealing something that is large, living and full of chakra would be incredibly difficult and from what I was told it is even worse with something like the Bijuu since their corrosive chakra degrades whatever container they are placed inside."

Tenten nodded as she said, I suppose that makes sense, so if I were to seal one into a scroll its chakra would leak out through the seal slightly and over time it would destroy the scroll. The only way to prevent that would be to create a seal with absolutely no chance of leaking which would be rather difficult, or to find a superior container. Probably one that is either resistant to this corrosive Chakra or would be capable of regenerating itself."

Naruto agreed as he continued, "Yeah that sounds about right. Obviously the best container would be something living but there could be other options I suppose."

Tenten gasped as she said, "But to seal it into something living would be cruel. Whatever you put it in would still be degraded by its chakra leakage which I imagine would be incredibly painful. I suppose if you did it in a Shinobi that had a sufficiently large Chakra pool that it would be highly diluted it might not be as bad."

While Tenten was caught in her thoughts about this she missed Naruto's wince as he thought about just how painful it was. Though he had mostly developed an immunity to it by now, large quantities still burned like no other. After getting his thoughts back in order Naruto said, "Yes you are correct for this to work best it would need to be done in a human, preferably one who was going to be a Shinobi."

Naruto leaned forward as he said, "Though as you can imagine, in the quest for power someone eventually considered what you first mentioned about how impractical it was to use these seals. I mean unleashing a Bijuu inside your enemy's' village or on the battlefield would be a great strategy for defeating your enemy, unfortunately it was hard to seal and unseal them and there was no way to control them unless you had very specific powers like the Shodai."

Tenten nodded in agreement as Naruto continued, "To compensate for this they eventually came up with another idea, if they could make a seal that would allow the Shinobi carrying the Bijuu to access its Chakra then you could have a version of the power with less difficulty and you might even be able to control it. Sadly this was not possible at first for a number of reasons. Apparently early versions of these seals were insanely weak and despite their best efforts almost anyone who tried to access the power ended up being possessed by the beast and it was suddenly set free."

Tenten's shocked face grew solemn as he also said, "Another issue was that with the weakness of the seal to allow the use of Chakra so much was leaked naturally that many Shinobi simply burned up from the Chakra overload. The solutions to these problems were twofold, first they needed a better seal that would still allow relatively easy access to the Chakra with less chances of overload or control by the beast. Second, to help limit the number of deaths by burnout it was preferable to use someone with a malleable Chakra system, so a child was best, and the younger the better."

At this Tenten looked horrified before she blurted out, "But that would be horrible, you're telling me they sealed them into young kids and infants. Even if our systems at a young age are more flexible due to their undeveloped nature, they are still susceptible to trauma and it would still hurt like hell until it adjusted to the new size most likely."

Naruto's grim face told her everything as he nodded before saying, "Yeah, unfortunately that is the case. As a side note though there was also an unintended side effect that came along with this that they could never quite work out a counter to apparently. Namely how to separate the consciousness of the Bijuu from its Chakra. Apparently some of the better ones have ways to limit the amount of contact the Bijuu has with the host but I don't know much about that."

Naruto sighed as he pointed out, "Unfortunately the reverse is also possible, some seals even today are just so shoddy that they allow the Bijuu near unlimited access to the hosts Chakra system as well as contact with their mind. For someone with this type of seal to remain sane they must have insane amounts of willpower to suppress the Bijuu manually, which is quite difficult."

Tenten looked thoughtful before she couldn't help but ask, "This is terrifyingly insightful and all but what does this have to do with anything, and for that matter why do you know so much about this."

Naruto snorted as he replied, "Well I mostly learned this stuff from Ero-Sennin and some of it from Chiyo-Baachan on the mission to rescue Gaara. As to why I know, I am getting to that. I suppose I can stop talking about the kinds of seals now and jump to the next part. From what we have covered you now know that these sorts of insanely complex and difficult to make seals are put on Shinobi, usually as near to their birth as possible. Also you know that sealing is really the only surefire way of stopping a Bijuu, so I ask you Tenten, what happened to the Kyuubi?"

Tenten looked confused as she mechanically replied, "Well it was defeated by the Yondaime you baka. … Oh, I see. I heard the Yondaime was a seal master, so it makes sense that would be how he defeated it, and given the requirements unless he had assistance it makes sense why it would have taken his life to do it. So wait."

Naruto held up his hand as he added, "Before you ask your next question I might as well answer both it and your previous one at once, I know all of this because I was the child it was sealed in."

As Naruto sat there he began to get worried as Tenten's face seemed to plow through all sorts of emotions at ridiculous speeds. Eventually it settled down and flicked between absolute horror and sorrow. Naruto cringed a bit fearing what her thoughts seemed to be headed towards before her face finally picked horror as she shouted out. "How could they do something like that to a baby, I know we were just talking about it, but it seems so much more real now that you say it."

Suddenly Tenten's face morphed to one of rage as she stood and growled out, "And now Lee babbling about you being mistreated makes so much more sense, at the time Neji and I just shrugged it off since all we noticed was people ignoring you, but Lee kept insisting that something was wrong with the way they looked at you that only an orphan would notice. And here we thought he was just being his usual crazy self, I can't believe we didn't believe him, why would he lie about something like that."

Naruto wasn't sure how to react as she suddenly switched gears again to a confused face, "But wait, why does everyone treat you differently if this is a secret?"

Naruto snorted as he said, "My status as the Jinchuuriki is probably the most widely known secret of the leaf. The only people it is a secret from are those who were two young to remember the event of the Kyuubi attack. Apparently shortly after I was born the information got out to the whole village somehow and based on the reactions many of the villagers had to me even existing, Jiji decided to make it illegal to reveal it to anyone who didn't already know."

Naruto suddenly found himself being hugged as Tenten seemed to be torn between how to feel about this newest revelation that the villagers ignoring him was apparently on the light end of the spectrum since early on they wanted him dead. She kept hugging as she said, "You definitely have my respect now baka, anyone who can be as strong as you are despite all that is pretty amazing in my book.

Suddenly Naruto was confused as Tenten pulled back and slapped him as she said, "But I can't believe you didn't tell us about this sooner, I understand waiting a bit, but after all the time we have spent together since the Chuunin exams I feel like we would have understood. Plus now I feel like an Ass for how we ignored Lee's concern for you and by extension, you."

Naruto looked sheepish as he scratched his neck while saying, "Sorry about that, until about two days ago I was absolutely convinced that if you guys knew you would end up being like the villagers and I would have to win back your respect. I am sorry I didn't have more faith in you guys, I just feel the need to protect all of my bonds and so I try and avoid anything that has the chance to weaken them."

Tenten sighed as she leaned back into her original spot as she said, "I suppose that makes sense, and like I said, it's not like we were the best at doing anything that would instil confidence in you about how much we care."

Naruto snorted at that, "Please I know all of you guys care, I can see that much easily enough, I just wasn't sure if you guys cared enough to overlook the giant beast of destruction that was sealed in me."

Tenten perked up at this, "Oh that reminds me, can I see the seal please, unless it's located somewhere private."

At this they both blushed bright crimson before Naruto managed to stutter out, "N-no it shows up on my stomach so I just need to ditch my jacket if that is fine with you."

Tenten nodded and giggled slightly as she noted how embarrassed Naruto seemed when she leaned in to investigate his stomach once he pulled off his jacket. However she frowned as she looked up at him and said, "Hey I don't see anything, where is it?"

Naruto raised his hands in the ram seal before channeling a bit of Chakra before the seal swirled to life around his middle. Tenten leaned back in to examine it further as she muttered to herself about all the different parts she could recognize. As she was finding them she would occasionally point at them or trace bits before she noticed Naruto shudder slightly before laughing lightly himself as he said, "T-Tenten that tickles stop poking me, and could you please back away a bit, having your face that close to me is kind of wierding me out."

At this Tenten bolted upright before turning bright red herself as she realized how weird it must have looked with her busy studying his abdomen up close like that.

Naruto laughed awkwardly as he quickly threw on his jacket again as he said, "Anyways, back to what we were talking about, in case you haven't guessed yet Gaara was the Jinchuuriki for the Ichibi, and yes according to Ero-Sennin his seal was possibly the worst Jinchuuriki seal he has seen in a long time. Also that is why the Akatsuki attacked him, to get the beast he contained, which also means they will be after me as well. That was a large part of the reason Baachan wanted me to tell all of you guys about this. So that she could make plans for the Akatsuki without worrying about accidently exposing me to one of you without proper explanation."

Naruto looked surprised when Tenten suddenly stood up and said, "I know we haven't always been there for you in the past but I know for a fact that Team Guy will be with you when Akatsuki comes for you. Speaking of us who all have you told, please don't tell me I am the last, I know we don't know each other well, but I hate being the last to know something."

Naruto chuckled at her before saying, "Well thanks for the promise, and no you aren't the last of my friends to find out. I still have to tell Kiba, Neji, and Hinata. I am kind of terrified of telling Hinata since she always faints around me for some reason and I don't want to have to deal with that while trying to hold this conversation."

At this Tenten cheered since she wasn't last before muttering Baka at the comment about Hinata fainting.

Naruto sighed and leaned back into his spike before noticing it was now probably around one in the afternoon and so his stomach decided to remind him that he hadn't eaten since his early breakfast with Choji so he looked over at Tenten and asked, "Hey do you want to go get some lunch, I'm starving."

Tenten looked up and decided to have a bit of fun with her clueless friend as she smirked before saying, "Are you asking me out on a date, my, you are bold."

Naruto turned bright red before trying to stutter out a defensive response before he stopped when she suddenly started laughing madly on the ground at him. He proceeded to huff as he said, "Fine make fun of me 'tebayo, I don't care, I am going to Ichiraku Ramen if you want to join me you can, see you later."

At this he dashed off leaving a confused Tenten in his wake before she proceeded to chase him to the restaurant. After a nice conversation largely centered around how he could eat so much ramen and still stay as fit as he was they bid each other farewell before Naruto wondered off to the outskirts of the village once again since all of his remaining friends lived out there. As he walked he considered who to get out of the way next before lightly wondering if his sensei was still somewhere around watching him tell his friends or if he had abandoned that pursuit. At this he shrugged since it mattered little in reality before walking onwards to the next residence.

Okay that was strange, once again I just didn't want to write this. Though this time it stemmed largely from a lack of confidence in my ability to portray Tenten since she is rarely in any episodes/chapters of cannon and when she is in a story she is either not there for long or she seems to be mainly there as a pairing for Neji or Naruto which makes it slightly difficult to discern how she acts. For a bit I considered taking advantage of a comment on the wiki that says 'according to the databooks she loves to investigate' but I decided against it since in my mind that type of thing would have spanned more characters than just Tenten and so I dropped the idea.

Anyways with 4550 words it is longer than my normal reveal chapters but still not quite to Ino length, sigh. Once again please review, my favorite count just went above my review count, which makes no sense to me, even if you don't review every chapter individually just one review when you add it to follow or favorite would be awesome. Oh well, on to writing the next chapter, who to tell, who to tell.