Whaz up ladies, gents an' other! We're gonna see Ino's progress to reachin' Sage Mode with Naruto an' Mars' 'assistance'-MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! *I start coughin' after I notice a length of platinum blonde hair is impaled through my left lung* I'm unable to breath alluva sudden...Wheeeewwww...
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He reached them at the rendezvous point: the highest tower of natural stone in the village. Once he got there, he was met with a clawed, red foot to towards the collar bone which he dodged from quick reflexes. "Nice to see you're still a hostile bitch, Mars." Said carbuncle answered the snark in kind, "Nice to see you're still an unlikable prick, Naruto." They glared at each other, their old rivaling personalities becoming more obvious than before for the Yamanaka heiress.
"Hey, behave you two! I thought this was to train me so I could use Sage Mode?" Naruto and Mars turned to her at that and said as one, "Shut up/up!" They smashed their heels on her head, knocking her to the moss-covered stone with a grunt of pain. "Ow..." The nature spirit and Kitsunin's heads were now butting, their killer intent circulating around their bodies in a visible coloring of evergreen and sun-spot orange.
"You wanna go, Cow-tits?!" His derogatory nickname for her made her return the bard words, "Fuck it! Let's go, Hanyou!" Taking a jump back, they charged at each other and smashed their fists to each other's face, locking them in place from the power behind the strike. Ino rose now, strolling towards them and separating their fists from their faces, "Let's all calm down now and talk this out like intelligent, reasonable adults, okay?"
The two groaned as their fists were removed from the other's face, "Fine. Let's get you started on Sage Mode training. Naruto," Said redhead looked to the red-pink furred spirit curiously now. "Teach her what you can while I go back home and talk to the others about methods to make it our own-" "Wait, don't leave me alone wi-" "Ja ne!" And Mars was gone, leaving Naruto to growl out loudly his disapproval. He turned to Ino with all of his face shadowed over except for his left eyes which was glowing a strange violet. Ino gulped in fear, making Naruto grow a Cheshire Cat smile that was glowing violet as well, a ghostly sound escaping his mouth in the process.
(Cue: My Darkest Days-Save Yourself/TFK-Down/Avril Lavigne-Hello Kitty) Moving to take a step, he appeared in front of her as he grabbed Ino by her face and slammed her into the tree adorning the stone pillar they stood upon. "Figure out how to gather Shizen Chakra...or DIE!" He then withdrew his arm, and in turn her, from the tree's side and then threw her into a random direction of the village. She encountered several buildings, a few people and one or two birds. After meeting the short side of a building she was flying through the building's roof shingles before bouncing down to ground level off of cart and stall parasols. The moment she touched ground, she forced herself to crawl into a nearby pile of rubble her flight had created, intent on hiding in there to begin healing her wounds and working on figuring out what to do.
Naruto-kun's no doubt come up with the idea of hurting me so bad I have to heal myself, meaning I'll have to stay put with how much damage I sustained. I have to hurry this up without raising my chakra levels above normal otherwise he'll find me for sure...C'mon, think! What was it he said the other day?! 'Remember Ino-chan, gathering Shizen Chakra takes patience, a heart devoid of irrational fear, and stillness alone in form. Remember that, or you won't make it...' Her eyes widened in realization, That son of a bitch! He's trying to throw me off his trail! Well I see through your game, Naruto-kun, I see through it all too well! Now, just to heal my-Wait...Shizen Chakra heals wounds when in combat so that means I-
A roar of excitement interrupted her thoughts. "That's not far away, I'd better hurry up." She crossed her legs and placed her hands into the window seal normally used by her clan for their mind jutsus, in front of her chest as she took a few deep breaths and let her senses branch out. I'm a sensor-type, so I should have a slight head start over him. Okay, feel around for the chakra. It's natural, so that means it's no doubt coming from the earth itself. But how do I gather chakra from something else?
Suddenly, Naruto ripped apart her shelter, making her eyes widen in surprise as her pupilless orbs met his now slitted, piercing violet one-with-blue-specks. "'Ello Poppet!" He then licked his lips as he ogled her, making her blush as the chakra vines surrounded her and formed that fist that swatted him away from her across the village. The sound of him shouting was all she heard, "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME!" He became nothing but a twinkle in the sky before landing in the roof of the Kage Box, struggling only worsened his situation until his niece said with a grin, "I'll get you outta there, hold on." She then punched him, sending him flying to the center of the village.
Ino, seeing Naruto's flying form, ran and hid in a nearby burnt building. The walls were mostly intact with no one in it, meaning she was mostly safe. Okay, I need to clear my mind and gather the chakra of the earth itself. But that just begs the question: how do I do that? I should just shut everything else out of my mind, just forget about the homicidal, kitsune-hearted, handsome man... Realizing what she just called Naruto she blushed and started clapping her hands to her face, nononononononNO! I'm not doing this right now! I have to focus or I'm dead. Feel the chakra around me, find a way to bring it within myself...But how?!
Wait a minute! An image of her large, chakra vine-created arm swiping at Naruto appeared in her mind. In that image, she saw the vines coming from the ground and winding around until they formed the ribs and arm. THAT'S IT! She retook her earlier position with the window seal at her chest and her legs crossed, channeling her chakra into the ribcage that protected her body, when she changed the form with the vines entering her body.
She grunted, her body beginning to feel like it would burst. The vines became solid, making her grab one and try to rip it, only making her scream in pain! Suddenly, her body started to grow leaf-like fur, making her eyes widen in fear when Naruto landed in front of her with a stern look on his face. With his nails like claws and youki flowing through his hands, he clawed away the vines quickly, Ino screaming the whole while. Once he was done, he looked to her with a glare, his now blue-speckled violet eyes meeting her tear stricken face. "What did you think you were doing?" He asked too evenly, rage hidden in his eyes and barely audible in his voice.
"I-I-I...I was trying-" "YOU COULD'VE DIED!" He interrupted with a yell, his concern shocking her. "I didn't watch you grow for the past seventeen years just to watch you kill yourself! 'Don't be reckless', you once said to me. 'Don't kill yourself', you told me. Well look what you're doing! Trying to end your existence early? I DON'T THINK SO! AGH!" Out of nowhere he gripped his side and grunted as he fell to the ground, making Ino come to his side out of concern which only received her a snarl of anger from her longtime former-guardian. "JUST 'CAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, DOESN'T MEAN IT IS! DO YOU'VE ANY IDEA HOW MANY TIMES PEOPLE HAVE DIED 'CAUSE THEY TRIED A STUNT LIKE THAT?! TOO MANY!"
His voice rose, darkening until it was the frightening demonic voice he used so often now. "I'VE KNOWN TOO MANY WHO WENT OUT TRYING TO ATTAIN SAGE MODE AND I'M NOT LETTING ANYMORE-ANY OF YOU-BECOME CASUALTIES BECAUSE OF IT! SO DON'T YOU EVER TRY THAT SHIT AGAIN, YOU HEAR ME?!" He gasped and coughed up blood that sizzled as it touched the ground, evaporating instantly, "ANSWER M-AGHCK!" His sounds of pain only made Ino feel even more worry for him before he slammed his clawed hand into the ground and pulled out a rock, a rock that started to glow in his hands before becoming nothing but separate slices of the same piece of sediment.
"That's the power of youki...and it's stronger than chakra...if I'm holding this back and I can kill someone by healing them with youki, than what makes you think you can take Shizen Chakra directly into your coils?! ANSWER ME DAMN IT! ACK!" Ino was backed up against a burnt wall, her eyes wide with fear of what he was saying. "You don't take Shizen Chakra directly into your coils unless you wanna meet an early death!" Randomly, he wrapped his arms around her as he said sternly as a threat, "Try something like that again and I'll make your life a living Hell. And you of all people understand how well I can do that..." She was stock still, fear overriding her better instincts as the chakra vines gathered around her into the ribcage and arm. The large arm slammed him into the ground, making his bones crack and his joints pop.
"Naruto-kun/kun!" Came the unified voices of both Ino and a now there Hinata. Both ran over to him, seeing as Ino's chakra-vine-arm was about fourteen feet long they didn't take long. Hinata wrapped her arms around her crush, completely forgetting all of the things he'd done earlier and glared at Ino, making the Yamanaka heiress stop with a confused look on her face before she saw that Naruto was nestled between the blunette's large breasts. (I almost said larger-*I'm then cut up with the platinum blonde hair again, making me whimper painfully*)
Sparks left their eyes and met in between them both, making Naruto smirk mischievously. All this time and Ruru-purehurehu finally grows some ovaries to show her strength, at least she's grown a bit among other things. His thoughts made him nestle closer to the 'lightly' blushing-yet-glaring girl's buxom chest, making Hinata moan at the heat he generated naturally. "Ruru-purehurehu-chan..." Naruto muttered 'in his sleep', making Ino glare at him for his earlier thoughts while Hinata's blush deepened. He's using a nickname for me...aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh... Hinata thought with a sigh escaping her lips as she brought her crush closer to her body, stroking his head tenderly while playing with his red hair. She stuck her tongue out at Ino, one eye closed as if to say, 'Score one for me'.
Ino was still glaring at the buxom blunette when the sound of Sakura calling interrupted, "Niisan, where are you?! Niisan!" The pinkette then caught sight of the other two girls Naruto had helped care for being very affectionate to her brother figure, making her freeze in place with a smile of good-natured sweetness. "What are you two doing to Niisan?" She asked sweetly, getting Hinata to wrap her arms tighter around her crush. "I'm protecting Naruto-kun from Ino-san's destructive advances!"
"SHANNARO! THEY'D BETTER TAKE THEIR HANDS OFF HIM!" Inner screamed with fervor, her feelings for Naruto skewed by the revelation of who he was for herself and her counterpart. All she knew was she felt strongly attached to him, her own chakra interlacing with Sakura's, making a shadow seem to cover half of said pinkette's form as she charged at the two 'holding him hostage'. The three of them saw two young women charging at them at the same time, their fists close enough together to be the same as they charged side-by-side.
Naruto, reacting as quick as usual, rolled out of Hinata's hold and appeared in front of the double vision of Sakura and caught both fists; ethereal and material. He grunted in pain, the power behind her strength driving him down into the ground a little bit before he raised a foot and lightly stamped on the ground, forcing them onto the top of a nearby building. "Damn it, that hurts! Now Inner, Beri-chan, relax...I'm fine, see? Or at least I won't be if you two keep trying to drill through me with your fists-Urgh!"
His words got the two kunoichi whose fist he held to look at him in surprise before they exchanged a look between each other and removed their fists from his hands. "I need to ask him something, Bitch. Lend me control for a moment..." The seriousness in Inner's voice drove home how important this was as Sakura internally stepped aside and let her colorless counterpart drive.
"Naruto," Inner said seriously, her voice somewhat warbled enough for him to differentiate her from his former charge. "Why did you eat those shinobi when you were a Genin and Chuunin? I've been wanting to ask you this since the first time I saw you eat another human being, and I want an answer. Don't beat around the bush like you did back at Konoha with Sakura's question about you laughing in Tsunade-sama's office." The Kitsunin looked to her, his breathing calm but his eyes full of fear.
Images flashed before his eyes at what he'd done when he was younger, making him groan in irritation. With a sigh he said loud enough for the other two girls to hear him, "I ate them because they tasted good. Nothing more than that, got it?" His tone was of finality, making Sakura and Inner glare at him before he glared back with those blue-speckled, piercing violet eyes. "Your eyes...They're different now, why? Why?! WHY DO YOU KEEP CHANGING EVERY TIME OUR EYES LEAVE YOU?!"
"Because," He said testily as he strolled down the wall of the building while stopping to look over his shoulder, glaring at Inner to stop while she was ahead. "Every time you stop looking at me I allow myself to experience more than you're able to live with. Now drop it, before we both do something we'll regret!" His words were laced with malice, dark rage intertwining his words together and eyes full of bottled up memories he shouldn't have hidden away. Inner, Sakura, Hinata and Ino all heard his warning and made the decision to leave the subject be until he was ready to spill the beans.
Out of the blue, a green carbuncle came out of nowhere and kicked Naruto off the side of the building. He landed in the market, a heavy thud resound as his body made a semi-shallow hole in a small crater, a groan escaping his lungs as he rose slowly from the dirt and pavement. "I'll take it that you're tired of hiding in plain sight, Earthshine?!" He said loudly, making the flying/hovering carbuncle to call down in a familiar voice, "DAMN RIGHT I AM, 'MARO-CHAN'!"
Naruto chuckled at that, having fallen back into his self-insertion in the ground, he got back up while dirt fell out of his light coat of fur on his torso. "Very well, Earthshine, at least tell Ino-chan who you are!" He called up to the green carbuncle. This carbuncle was also female, her figure similar to Mars' but less bust-more ass. On her back were two sets of what appeared to be wings, although furred. (If ya've seen the winged cat videos, an' not the ones that are photo-shopped or well edited, than ya've got a good idea of what they look like only larger an' animate.) She landed on the ground, her eyes full of life and pride, her wings folding to modesty's demands, her pawsteps deliberate and self-conscious while retaining regal self-assuredness, and her ears held at a half slant back to show her irritation with her appearance remaining like that of a normal carbuncle.
She reached the kneeling Ino, her three tails swishing behind her and around to her sides at times, "You must be the summoner Mars spoke about, am I wrong?" Was her calm question, her voice heavy with seriousness and her eyes critically analyzing every little detail of Ino as if she were livestock she was contemplating on buying. "Yes..." Ino got out hesitantly, nervousness in her entire being. Mars hadn't been around that often except for recently, so she hadn't haad enough exposure to her to even approach getting an idea of how carbuncle acted as a general fact, so she felt self-conscious around this new carbuncle. "I am the Bird of Hermes, I have eaten my own wings to make myself tame...I," She said dangerously.
"Am," She slowed down as she neared Ino, "The Green Carbuncle Earthshine, one of the Council governing my race and, perhaps, your trainer if you are worthy of my time..." Kneeling in front of the frightened girl, she let her see into her wizened, ancient eyes and let them shimmer with darkened memories. "What say you, mortal-misfit, lost child, warrior, kunoichi, killer, mother!" It's like she can read my soul!
"Earthshine, that's enough! Don't traumatize the poor brat, not like you did to the last one..." "Do not trifle in the affairs of other races, Fox! I must gauge her strength, her potential, her dedication, her heart, her soul. Do not tell me what to do!" A wave of killer intent exuded from her, crushing the entire village, making Naruto grit his teeth as he fell to his knees, breathing roughly and heavily. Punching the ground without strength, he forced himself to stand and glare the green-furred nature spirit in the eye as he raised his head and released his own killer intent with a human cry, "aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He then lurched, his back hunched and his front overshadowed as his own killer intent was almost forcing him down!
Earthshine's four wings fell, their tufts touching the ground and her tails were flattened to the dirt, making her grit her teeth as she strode forward stutteringly. Her movements were blocky, slow as were Naruto's as they met in the middle, gaining speed as they neared each other and relieved all of their killer intent.
They suddenly removed all of the killer intent, rocketing them both towards each other, making their fists collide with the other's face. Naruto, roared in that demonic voice, sending Earthshine a good distance while he gathered youki into his open right palm, clawing at air as an orb of energy formed. "The second original jutsu of the Yondaime Hokage, Uzukaze Minato. Husband, father, protector, leader and war hero. Feel the power, feel his power, feel my power!"
While he was making the ball of power, Earthshine was getting her self straight. Flapping her smaller pair of wings until she was situated again and then started flapping her larger wings, sending her towards the Kyuubi jinchuuriki. The emerald at the very center of her forehead began to glow, as did the smaller two, one on each side of it like Mars. As soon as she reached him, she was done. Naruto flipped into the air and smashed the spinning orb into her face, sending her flying into Ino before Naruto outstretched his arm and turned it into an extended chakra claw that held her down as she thrashed atop the Yamanaka Heiress.
Said platinum blonde wrapped her arms around the winged feline/leporine, keeping her still as her expression changed from angered to shocked. "What...What are you doing?!" Ino answered kindly, "Hugging you." "Why?!" "Be-" "Because, Bird of Hermes, not everyone's terrified of what you are or what you're capable of, nor is everyone aware of said things. But I need to ask a favor of you..." The winged nature spirit, Ino, Hinata and a now calmed Sakura/Inner were looking to him now in confusion. "What kind of favor?" Naruto-
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THAT'S A FUCKIN' WRAP LADIES, GENTS AN' OTHER! HAHAHAHAHAH-SCISCISCISCISCISCISCISCISCISCISCISCI! I TOLD YA'LL LAST CHAPTER I WANTED TO TORTURE YA SOME, SO I'M MAKIN' UP FOR LOST TIME! SCISCISCISCISCISCI! NO QUESTIONS, JUST MY LAUGHTER! *I die laughin', leavin' ya'll unknowin' of what I'd write next had I survived* As always; R&R, no flamin' my ass, constructive criticism, an' SEE YA-G'NIGHT!