Sorry everyone it took soooooo long xX just to make sure everyone knows, this IS an AU! so don't go bitching about discrepancies from the actual manga/anime!

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"…" Speech

"…" Kyuubi speech

"…" thought

"…" JUTSU

Summary of Last Chapter: Read it for more detail – Naruto meets Ino

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"…ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred." A pink academy student thought as she was counting how many times her hair was pampered.

She got up and walked over to her dresser and slipped out of her bed wear and picked out her normal pink outfit and her black bicycle shorts.

Looking at the ribbon Ino gave her a few months ago, she thought.

"Seeing as how Ino became more buddy, buddy with that guy yesterday it just means one less person competing for Sasuke-kun!"

"SAKURA! Hurry up or you'll be late for school!"

"I'm done," Sakura yelled back, and with that she rushed through the door picking up a small biscuit to nibble on and ran to the academy.

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"Naruto!" Ino yelled in a sing-song voice with a very mischievous grin on her face.

Naruto looked up from the swing that he was sitting on a plastic bag on the ground nearby.

"Oh, Hi Ino!"

"Did you bring your stuff?"

"Yeeuup! Did you remember to bring your stuff?"

"Who do you think I am?" Ino said in a bossy voice.

Naruto cringed a little and hesitated before speaking again, fearing to anger Ino again.

"I just wanted to make sure," he said in a whisper.

"Anyways, c'mon! you gotta meet lazy bum and tubby!"

"Who are they?"

"That's why you have to come with me and meet them! They're my friends, and including you, most likely my only real friends" Ino said, while whispering the last part to herself, as she thought about her pink haired childhood playmate.

"It all happened so suddenly…well maybe not but I don't get why I couldn't see it coming." Ino thought.

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Ino and another group of girls sat at the place they would meet for kunoichi class. Ino sat there picking up flowers and arranging them quickly.

"Kuso…how could I forget about doing my hw!" Ino thought as she scrambled around picking flowers and arranging them to a beautiful pattern.

Just as she finished her flower arrangement she saw Sakura run up the hill to the meeting place. She looked down to make sure her flowers were arranged well enough to pass. She was confused to why she would pick out yellow tulips, lavenders and orange wildflowers. When she was about to contemplate it Sakura ran up to her and started chatting.

"Ino-chan!"

"Oh, hi Sakura!" Ino stated as she was broken out of her thought.

"Guess what!" Sakura said with joyous glee.

"Hmm?"

"I have someone I like…" Sakura looked down and poked her fingers together and blushed profusely.

"…its…"

"Let me guess," a rude voice interrupted, "Sasuke."

"What's your problem Ami?" Ino shouted as Sakura stood behind her.

"Well everyone likes him and its not like a girl like her will be able to get his attention."

"Why you!" Ino shouted as she ran in and charged at Ami.

Ami, being about a half year older than Ino, as well as being trained by her parents from a much earlier age, outclassed Ino in taijutsu and started to rain blows down on Ino. Ino could dodge some of the blows but had to receive a few. Ami jumped back and raised her fist. She started running as fast as she could just to give the final blow to knock Ino out and she hoped that she could also give her a concussion. Just as she got a bit closer she saw a boy jump down and catch her fist. She could tell that he was using much of his energy to stop her from finishing her blow. Ino looked up and saw the boy push Ami over.

"stop it" were the only words that were decipherable from the little boy.

Ino looked at him briefly and said, "Thanks."

The kunoichi class teacher was walking up the path and saw the boy.

"GET OUT OF HERE YOU DEMON!" She yelled and ran after with her folder.

The boy ran out of the area as fast as he could, not even looking at anyone in his path, just running in between them.

Ino noticed teardrops that shimmered as they fell following the path that the boy had taken.

-The Next Day-

Ino ran up the hill. "Kuso…why did I have to oversleep…must have been from thinking about that boy from yesterday…"

When she got up to the hill she noticed that she had just made it to class. The class had started not moments after she got there. She had no choice to talk with anyone until the class was over. Even lunch was hectic as they were required to learn to cook simple foods.

After class, Ino walked up to Sakura.

"Hi Sakura" Ino stated happily.

"Hi Ino…let me ask you a question…" Sakura said hesitatingly with a slightly emotionless voice.

"Umm…sure" Ino said, her face starting to show fear and confusion.

"What do you think about that boy that defended you yesterday?"

"I want to know who he is! Do you know who he is?" Ino said, her eagerness shown deeply in her voice.

"My mom says he's a demon and that we shouldn't talk with him or be around him."

"…what?" Ino said with a cracked voice, her emotions seemingly shattered, "no…no…No…NO…That can't be true! IT CAN'T BE! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! GO AWAY!"

With that Sakura was disheartened. Her best friend and defender crumbled before her eyes and just left her. She fell down and wept. She wept for her lost friendship and how she couldn't be friends with someone that was friends with a demon. Her ignorance became her downfall.

Ino ran home as tears fell down her face as she ran home. She ran through the streets not caring about anyone that saw her. She went as fast as she could to find comfort in someone she could trust. She wanted the answers for her question. She didn't want the answer Sakura gave her to be the truth. She ran and ran into the house and ran into the boutique. She quickly clung to her mother's legs and cried into the long dress that her mother was wearing.

Kimiko stood there and put her left hand on Ino's head and comforted her with her touch as she watched stoically at the figure walking towards the boutique. The powerful dark blond ex-kuniochi stared, no, glared at the pink haired woman as she entered the shop.

Ino couldn't concentrate on what the mothers were yelling about. But the last thing she heard before she fell asleep from exhaustion was: "Keep your demon-loving daughter away from my daughter and you stay away from my family…or I'll have the Hokage exile you."

"You wish you had that kind of power you dumbass ignorant bitch, now get out of my house!"

When Ino woke up the next morning she walked out and saw an unusual scene. Her father was sitting at the table reading the newspaper and eating, but she couldn't see her mother anywhere.

"Ino-chan, come eat your breakfast, its getting cold" Inochi said, not looking up from the paper.

"Hai…where's 'kaa-san?" she said meekly.

"Oh," Inochi looked up from his paper, "She went out to talk to your self-proclaimed savior."

"Eh? Why didn't she take me with her?"

"Because its time for you to eat your breakfast, not get a boyfriend" Inochi said with a smirk and winked at his little girl.

"I DON'T LIKE HIM LIKE THAT!" Ino yelled at her father.

"Goddamn Inochi…troublesome neighbors…"

-At the last day of Kunoichi class-

Ino could remember the event clearly even though it had been only a few weeks earlier.

She had tried to talk to Sakura, but with each attempt, she was shot down. Sakura just turned and walked away. Ino knew it had something to do with the little blond boy but she couldn't see what was wrong. She only saw the fact that he saved them from becoming seriously injured by Ami, who was held back from the rest of their class.

Their graduation ceremony occurred and Ino stood there at the end of the line.

"If she doesn't want to talk to me then I won't talk to her and we won't be friends any longer." Was what Ino had reached as a conclusion after giving up trying to talk to her stubborn mother-influenced friend.

-That Night-

Kimiko and Inochi had finished the small celebration they had for Ino and her graduation. Kimiko sat with Sakuya Nara, and Hikeru Akamachi and chatted about the little gossip that ran around the village, their husbands had went out to the nearby bar to talk and bond, after they made sure their children were asleep.

Kimiko suddenly heard Ino scream as if she was in pain. Sakuya and Hikeru sprinted up the stairs with their friend to see what was going on, the men were just returning from the bar and quickly ran into the house to their wives. They opened the door to Ino's bedroom and saw her clutching her head.

Her body had changed. She had a slimmer lithe figure, her fingers a little longer and tipped off with medium sized nails. Her eyes were more catlike than human, she was hissing with her teeth clenched, her fangs being very prominent. They watched as she shrieked and hissed, until two cat ears protruded out of her head and two tails appeared swishing madly.

Moments after the Sandaime-Hokage appeared in the room next to Kimiko.

"I see."

"What is it Saratobi-sama?" The adults of the Nara and Akamichi clan had asked.

"What I am about to tell you must not leave this room," Kimiko stated, "Inochi and I are not from this land as you know, but we have never told you where we came from nor have you persisted in knowing. I must tell you that we came from Kumogakure. I was the kage when I was there. I left because of the reason that my family would have been discriminated. Discriminated like Naruto-kun. When my daughter was born she was born on the day of Nibi-chan, the day when villagers would walk down to the nearby cave and pay their respects to Nibi. But that year, a group of newly promoted chunin decided that it would be nice to try and capture Nibi-chan. She was enraged and lashed out and wiped the chunin and the visitors to flesh covering her cave. Nearby shinobis tried to stop her aggressively and she decided to destroy the village."

Kimiko stopped momentarily to hold the aggravated form of Ino/nibi against her body.

"Kimiko, why do you speak of Nibi so affectionately?" Sakuya asked.

"I'll get to that, but continuing on, Nibi came and attacked the village similarly to how the Kyubii attacked. We had lost many shinobi in the war and even though we could hold out against Nibi, we knew we would soon fall if something didn't happen soon." Kimiko started to sniffle as tears fell down her face. "That night Ino was born, and my sister, the best sealer in Kumo, attempted to seal Nibi. She would not have died if she had used a different seal. She performed the seal and sealed Nibi into Ino and soon passed away. I tried to get the village to understand the heroic task that occurred but they reacted the same way to Ino as they did to Naruto. With this I resigned and left Kumogakure, and remembered that Saratobi-oji-sama, who was very close friends with my father, the previous kage of Kumo. He let me in after convincing Minato-san. That is why we're here and why Ino is like this. Sakuya, I speak of the nibi as Nibi-chan because she hold no grudge against my family. We talk to her through the family jutsu that Inochi and I have learned. She understands that she was acting foolishly and not listening to reason, but she is a nice shy girl, being only a few thousand years old, which is young for a bijuu. You just don't want to piss her off."

The rest of the adults stifled their laughter at the thought of a nice shy bijuu. They were interrupted when they heard another scream radiating from the other end of the village.

"It's time, bring Ino." Saratobi stated firmly.

"Hai" The adults quickly moved.

They all quickly ran to the Hokage's Tower and went to the roof. There they were met by the face of two men, Kakashi in his Anbu outfit and Jiraya.

They saw the small boy they were tolerant of, Naruto, on the floor having nine tails behind him, having a more muscular shape and fox ears out of his head, his whiskers more defined and a harder outline of his eyes. He was lying on a small bed covered in ink and runes.

"Put Ino next to him" Jiraya stated quickly, "We want to do this quick, before they wake up and find out."

Inochi quickly brought Ino to the middle of the tower and put her down next to Naruto, a little hesitantly and got outside of the runes.

The adults watched as the Hokage and Jiraya peformed seals in a synchronized fashion and then ended the sequence with a light prod to the two young children's naval with two fingers.

The sight was amazing, they saw the two men's cloaks flutter as power surged under them in the ink and runes. The letter on the floor was glowing and shimmering moments before it started running up the ground and bed to where the older men had poked the kids. After it was all done, the adults moved in to look at the two children, the saw the same seal on both Naruto and Ino's back. There was a swirl of two tails in the middle and on the outer edge a spread of nine tails, equally spread around the swirl.

"Wait, doesn't this mean that he and my little girl are…" Inochi stated with a look of horror on his face.

"Yes, they are bound for life, whether they know it or not, they're lives will keep intercrossing, they can choose what they want to do, but no matter what they will keep crossing paths."

"The seals serves three purposes," Jiraya started out, "One is the fact that if one of them dies, the other's seal will weaken and the bijuu inside will slowly kill the other painfully over the span of 5 years. The second purpose is to see how much power they have mastered from the bijuu. As they master more and more, the tail will start to change colors, yellow meaning they mastered one third of the power, orange, mastering two thirds of the power, and red, complete mastery of that tail. The last purpose is to be in total resonance with each other, which means that if they learn to meditate they can speak with each other and their respective bijuus from anyplace in the world, as they get closer to each other they will not even need to meditate to talk with each other in shorter distances, about up to 5 miles, but that really is just an estimation, they can probably exceed that amount."

"Is that all Jiraya?"

"Yep, now I will be getting to my research."

"What DID YOU SAY?" Kimiko growled.

"Umm…." Jiraya muttered unsensibly.

"RUN FOOL RUN!" Inochi said hastily.

"I'LL DEAL WITH YOU LATER, GET BACK HERE YOU OLD ASS PERV!"

"Go Jiraya! I'll hold her off!" Saratobi stated.

Jiraya bolted out of the room and out of Konoha as quickly as hey could. That night everyone in the park could see beautiful sparks in the sky as the Hokage and the previous kage of Kumo fight all over the city.

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So thats chapter 3...Senior Year and all...so iono when the next one is gonna come out but i'll keep writing! please Review! Any suggestions are welcomed xD