Chapter 27: A Heroine's Resolve! Part 2

(Italics: Thoughts/Flashbacks/Dream sequence. Bold: Title and Kyubi's / Demon's / Inner Naruto's / Inner Sakura's Speech. Underline: Time Skips

Within the darkness a sinister looking figure sat in the corner of a cell, making another mark on the four walls of his cell to count the days he had been there, his silence was interrupted by the creaking of a cell door opening as an ANBU appeared in the Gateway of his cell.

The prisoner who knew the way things worked in his imprisonment merely nodded and stood up and followed the ANBU guard. The prisoner glared at the ANBU guard with an overwhelming level of death intent radiating from him. The guard immediately drew his sword in case anything were to happen, the prisoner merely smiled darkly as he allowed to guard to take him wherever he was being taken, as much as the prisoner wanted freedom, his life was all he had of value, for now anyway...

Naruto, Tsunade, Shizune, and Jiraiya all waited impatiently for Ino to get back, she said something about dropping by Tenten's place and picking up a new weapon and then just took off without giving any further details.

After another ten minutes went by Tsunade finally broke the silence: "So any idea on what this new weapon could be Naruto?"

Naruto merely sighed and shrugged his shoulders as he replied: "As if I would know I've only seen her since this morning, and the subject of conversation was focused was focused on more important matters..." He ended with a smirk.

"What kind of matters?" Jiraiya asked out of interest. Naruto flashed his sensei his trademark fox-like grin as he replied: "Kind of matters that you would pay money to know..."

"Enough!" Tsunade's voice immediately silenced the two males present while Shizune giggled in the background.

As if on cue Ino came running from the distance, with a burst of speed she joined the group of eager shinobi within five seconds. She immediately dropped to her knees and breathed heavily from exhaustion as she muttered: "Sorry for making everyone wait..."

Naruto looked at Ino with a grin as he said: "That's fine just tell me what that weapon is, you seemed very excited about it."

Ino grinned at her lover's curiosity as she said with a wink: "It's a surprise."

The prisoner was led to a large open meadow and while two ANBU restrained him a third guard released the prisoner's hand cuffs.

The prisoner looked confused and the ANBU guard nodded toward his teammate who held out a sword and handed it to the prisoner and said: "Your death sentence will begin shortly, with this weapon you have a right to defend yourself, if you attempt to escape you will be captured, you will be monitored by us, oh and please try not to die too quickly... We like to be entertained..."

And with those words the ANBU guards vanished into various surrounding trees to act as spectators and would step in if the prisoner somehow managed to gain the upper hand on the Leaf Ninja that was ordered to perform the spar execution.

The prisoner sighed and twirled the blade in his hand and slides the blade into the ground and sat down. He leaned his back against a tree and waited for his executioner as he thought:

Better than a firing squad... At least I can have a little fun before I go...

Naruto, Jiraiya, Shizune and Tsunade were all walking with Ino toward the battlefield that the spar execution would take place in.

Ino walked into the large clearing as the spectators retreated to the safety of the tree tops.

The Prisoner stood up and pulled the blade from the earth as he asked: "Are you my executioner?"

Ino nodded and glared at her enemy. The prisoner began to laugh as he said:

"There's no way a little girl like you could ever be considered my executioner!"

Ino smirked and unraveled two lengths of chains coming from the sleeve of her shirt, Ino's eyes began to glow blue as she performed a series of hand signs and said:

"Chakra manipulation Jutsu!"

Her misty blue chakra began to flow through the chains and they immediately became animate, the two long chains rising into the air like snakes.

The prisoner held his blade in front of him in fear as Ino slid a Kunai down each chain, Ino roared with all of her might as the two living lengths of chain shot forward at their target, Kunai pointing forward off the tips.

One of the chains shot straight through the poisoner's side, narrowly avoiding a vital organ. The other chain passed through the prisoner's leg, pinning him to the ground.

The prisoner dropped down onto his undamaged knee and coughed up a small pool of blood as he thought: Fuck this bitch is really going to kill me...

Ino pulled her enormous scroll from her back and opened it, she threw it and performed a fast, precise series of hand signs that caused the scroll to twirl around it's intended target like a tornado. Ino gathered chakra and performed another series of hand signs as she called out:

"Weapon Summoning Jutsu!"

An endless barrage of Kunai and many other assortment of exotic blades went flying into the prisoner all at once. After the dust cleared there was a bloody mess that used to belong to a corpse with so many weapons in the ground the only way to describe the fight would be the prisoner being used as a living pincushion.

Ino smirked and performed another series of hand signs that caused all the Kunai to pull out of the ground and fly toward the scroll as if a magnetic force was drawing it, Ino quickly sealed every weapon she had back in her scroll with a sigh as she thought:

Damn it now all my new Kunai are stained in blood...

Naruto was immensely impressed and felt privileged to know a Kunoichi so strong where as Jiraiya and Tsunade were left speechless, the progress of Ino over the past six months is off the charts, although she was still very impressed on how she channeled her chakra through lengths of chains to control them.

Ino retracted her chains back into her sleeves of her shirt and put away her Kunai, then she walked up to Tsunade with a smile as said: "So do I pass?"

Naruto was confused about what Tsunade had said as he said: "You mean this was a test?"

Tsunade nodded. Naruto then asked: "Well did she pass?"

Tsunade smiled as she said: "With flying colors."

Naruto then asked: "Well what did she get if she passed?" Tsunade smirked and said:

"A Promotion to Jounin Rank."

Tsunade then cleared her throat and turned to Naruto and Ino and said: "Naruto Uzumaki, and Ino Yamanaka, you have both proven yourselves worthy of the title of a true Shinobi, and from this day forward you will be known as Team Zero."

A/N: As im sure most of you guessed because on how close this scenario is to the beginning of Naruto Shippuden I am putting Naruto and Ino together on a team. I decided to call them team Zero because the team never existed until now if that makes sense. Anyway I hope everybody is satisfied on Ino's demonstration of her abilities even if it is a bit short. REVIEW if you care! Peace! - DemonicLove555

P.S. Here's a quick explaination of Ino's new technique:

Ino generates her chakra in the form of electricity and uses it to magneticially control the chains and metal weapons as a combination of her own technique combined with Tenten's weapon mastery trait Ino has acquired.

I have to say I feel satisfied with Ino's level of abilities and think her and Naruto are on equal terms when it comes to mission operations and of course long-range support for Naruto.