Chapter 22: The Transformation of Ino Yamanaka
(Italics: Thoughts/Flashbacks/Dream sequence. Bold: Title and Kyubi's / Demon's / Inner Naruto's / Inner Sakura's Speech.)
Ino rose out of bed in a drowsy daze, after a long hot shower Ino took the scroll Tsunade had given her and unrolled it over her table.
After about twenty minutes of studying the scroll led her to one conclusion, she was not fit to be a medical Ninja like Sakura although the Taijutsu Style Tsunade had explained in the scroll alone was a reason to carry it with her but Ino had a feeling Taijutsu and weapon summoning training with Tenten would be enough to sharpen her skills.
Ino put away the scroll and looked at her clock, it was barely Ten in the morning and her training with Tenten didn't begin until One Thirty so she decided a quick bath at the hot springs was in order.
And with those finishing thoughts the young Kunoichi went speeding off in the direction of the Konoha Hot Springs.
Naruto wiped the sweat from his forehead from his training session as he began to walk back to his apartment. Naruto smiled and reflected on the past events since he returned with Jiraiya from his four year training session and realized that in the short time he's been back a lot has happened, a few more minutes of travel and Naruto's apartment complex came into view.
Naruto walked up the stairs and began to fumble around in his pocket looking for his key, after a few minutes of frustration he finally finds it and opens his door.
He closes and locks his door behind him as he walked into the bathroom and began to run the hot water to heat the shower up, Naruto undressed and after a few minutes stepped into the shower.
Naruto smiled and closed his eyes as he felt the hot water run over every one of his sore muscles. After his relaxing shower Naruto quickly got dressed and began to heat some water up on his electric stove and searched his storage for a decent flavor of ramen.
After a few minutes of searching he found the BBQ Pork flavored kind and blessed the ramen gods there was a box left, after a few minutes the water was hot and Naruto poured the water into his cup, stirring the noodles with an annoyed expression on his face as he mumbled:
"Damn five minutes.. Isn't it enough to wait for the water to heat up?"
After a few long and stressful few minutes Naruto broke out a pair of chopsticks and began to inhale his favorite meal, he was interrupted however as an audible knock was sounded on Naruto's door, Naruto swallowed the bite of food he was eating and opened the door and came face to face with Kakashi, Naruto smiled and said:
"What's up Kakashi?"
Kakashi smiled back and said: "Oh not too much Naruto, the Hokage sent me to come get you, she wants to see you."
Naruto walked up the long spiral staircase which led to Tsunade's Office, he stopped in front off the door and gave one audible knock.
He waited and when Tsunade's voice told him to enter he opened the door and walked inside, Tsunade was alone in her office and a smile appeared on the fifth Hokage's face as Naruto turned to her and asked:
"What's up Tsunade? You wanted to speak with me?" Tsunade kept the same smile on her face as she nodded her head and replied:
"Yes Naruto I have a mission for you, and because of your rank I can give you a B-Rank and the really good news is I can deploy you alone to complete the mission but it must be done as swiftly as possible, do you understand?"
Naruto nodded in response and nearly exploded from excitement but took a deep breath to recover himself as he looked at Tsunade with a determined look on his face and asked: "So what are the details of the mission?"
Ino sighed in relaxation as she soaked in the hot spring, after about ten minutes of silence the bath doors slid open and Sakura, and Tenten came out and slipped into the hot springs, Ino looked up and smiled and said:
"Hey Sakura, Tenten, how are you two?"
Tenten and Sakura smiled. Sakura turned her head to Ino and said: "We're fine Ino..."
Tenten grinned mischievously andasked: "So Ino I heard you and Naruto got together... Come Ino give us some dirt..."
Ino smirked at her friends curiosity and asked:
"Dirt huh? Just ask me and I'll answer you or I won't."
Tenten exchanged glances with Sakura and nodded as Tenten asked: "For one how is he in bed?"
Ino began to blushed slightly as the memory one their first night together played in her head, after careful consideration only one word came to mind and before she knew it she spoke it:
"Amazing."
Naruto jumped swiftly from tree branch to tree branch as he sped toward the direction of Suna, The Objective of his mission is to gather information on groups of bandits gathering on the outskirts of the desert that surrounded the village hidden within the sand of the Wind Country.
It seemed easy enough and if he got lucky he could beat up some Bandits too but seeing as how this mission requires the gathering of information his old direct approach wouldn't handle the situation very well.
Naruto was jumping from tree branch thinking to himself silently when all of the sudden it hit him, Naruto made a quick hand seal and split into his ego clones, as each of them jumped from tree branch to tree branch in sync Naruto said:
"Alright now our mission is to gather information on why bandits are gathering on the border of the Wind country, any bandits you encounter you have my permission to eliminate. Alright go!" And with those words Naruto and his Ego Clones split up in six different directions.
Ino left the hot springs with Tenten to go begin their training. They both walked out into a large open meadow. Tenten through down her backpack and pulled out various weapons and scrolls and grinned at Ino as she said: "Shall we begin?" Ino smiled and replied: "Yes, let's begin."
A/N: I'm probably not going to write in detail Ino's training but I will make references to her progress and demonstrations in her power but for now it's more like Level 2 Character development for her even if it's this far into the story, anyway I hoped you enjoyed my chapter, REVIEW if you care! Peace! - DemonicLove555