It had been two months since their experience inside each other's heads, and Naruto had learned to let go of some of his pain. He knew that his classmates were true friends of his.

Ino on the other hand had become fiercely protective of Naruto. She didn't understand how he had held all of his emotions in all the time. Naruto was emotional, which made it even harder for her, even having been in his head, to understand how he had held it all it in. She had cried for two days, her heart aching painfully from the experience of being in his head.

Now she hadn't left his side for more than a minute. She occasionally threw glares at different villagers, and on more than one occasion, Naruto had to physically stop her from attacking some of them.

Nuzzling her neck, Naruto smiled. "What's important is that we are a part of each other now."

Ino nodded as she relaxed a bit. She knew Naruto had realized that the jutsu she had used was not something to be used lightly. It affected the person, ingraining part of other other person into the user. On Naruto's part, he cared for Ino and had to know if it was real. The thoughts would have plagued him for the rest of his life. He wholeheartedly trusted her now.

Ino had already given into her love for Naruto and was more than willing to have part of him ingrained in her for the rest of her life.

Unfortunately for everyone in the village, one way Naruto had dealt with all his emotions that Ino had now felt as well were pranks.

It was now how Ino dealt with the turmoil in her heart. The fact that Naruto could repress all of his emotions like that was, first of all not healthy, as he clearly showed a few months ago, but also impressive. It had taken her a few weeks to stop breaking down in tears when one of the triggers he had in his head went off in hers. Like when they passed an alley that he had been lying in, bleeding when he was five. The only reason he hadn't died was the fox inside of him. It was odd thinking about it. He would have died of the fox hadn't been inside of him, but if the fox hadn't been inside of him it wouldn't have happened.

The waves of emotion were controllable now and she was happily dating Naruto Uzumaki. Everyone was happy now. Tsunade, Kakashi, and Iruka were all happy for Naruto, and Naruto and Ino were happily a couple.

Ino sighed as she thought of it. She wanted to marry him. She had decided three weeks ago that it was final. She would marry him. She wanted it and she would make it happen.

"Ow!" Ino yelped as she felt something hit her on the head.

Naruto looked down and picked up what had hit her. Looking up, he saw a woman in a window. She hadn't meant to hit Ino.

"Ino, I'll be right back."

Heading up to the room he saw the woman in, he knocked on the door.

"Excuse me miss, but are you sure you don't want this?" he asked holding the object up.

The woman sighed "Yeah, the guy was an asshole and gave one to four other woman as well. It's real, and I guess you can keep it for free. Was my own fault for throwing it out the window."

Ino came up the stairs and Naruto pocketed the object.

"It hit my girlfriend on the head. I can't thank you enough." Naruto replied, pulling out some money and giving it to the woman who gave him an odd look. He had been content, living with Ino and being her boyfriend, but this changed that.

Grabbing Ino, he ran out of the building. After reaching the top of the Hokage monument he stopped.

"Jeez Naruto, what's the rush?" Ino asked.

Falling to one knee, he held out the object. "I wouldn't have been able to wait any longer."

Tears started to fall as she nodded, unable to speak. Naruto smiled and slid the ring onto her finger.