AN: Hey there everyone. AlphaRYP here. Sorry for being late… I wanted more reviews for the past chapter. Pls review the chapters guys… I already said that ur reviews are my motivation.
And also, I wanted to clear a doubt.
Naruto will not get Rinnegan in my story…

Also I would like this chapter to be dedicated to some NaruIno and Sasusaku..
Now onto our next chapter.

Ino learns about Mangekyou

As they hopped on the rooftops in ninja-manner, both Ino and Naruto arrived to his apartment now, Naruto slowly opened his apartment as he slid his key into the apartment's door.

He then went inside as Ino walked in behind him.

"I will just get myself a shower Ino. I will be back. Make yourself comfortable." Said Naruto
He then used the most familiar hand sign Ino knew now. Just after that a clone appeared beside him.

"Hey buddy, can you cook something for Ino here, I am a bit tired." Said the original.

"Alright boss… shall I make some rice-balls and onigiri?" said the clone.

"That sounds good. What do you say Ino… would you like to have some rice balls with onigiri." Asked Original Naruto.

Ino was now a bit surprised. She only thought that shadow clones can only be used in ninja combat… to increase one's number and strength. But here she is seeing a certain blond ninja using it to cook.
she then slipped into a daze thinking of other uses of the shadow clones.

Naruto was now waving at her as he got closed to her to check she was ok.
"Hey Ino, are you alright?" Naruto asked her.
Ino then quickly got out of her daze to find a certain blond Ninja very close to here. Like very close. They were like only few inches away from each other. She could feel his breathing.

Ino now had turned as red as a tomato and was blushing bright red. She felt herself heat up. Yes, she was the attractive and a pretty kunoichi who is very bold. But never once had she found her very close… like this with a boy. So this reaction is expected.

Naruto was… Naruto. He was as oblivious as ever and was now noticing Ino get red.
He touched her forehead and asked, "is something wrong Ino? You are burning up. You have fever or something? Should we go to hospital?" Asked Naruto with lot of concern in his voice.

'Of course I am heating here.' Though Ino

"I-Its o-ok I- I am f-fine." Said Ino as she stuttered.
It was now Naruto backed away from her. Now he was in a safe distance.
"Well, you see… you were spacing out. So, I didn't understand what to do" said Naruto sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Ha look like my clone is already on the job ." Said Naruto as he pointed towards the clone that was now cooking in his kitchen.

"fine… I will just have a quick shower. Make yourself comfortable Ino." Said Naruto.

He then left his living room and went into take a shower. Ino was now actually feeling something different. She couldn't help but be angry on herself for blushing so hard like that. If it was any other person than Naruto they would have certainly teased her more.
Now thinking about the blonde she couldn't help but feel so pleasant. His presence itself makes things calm and warm around her. She always felt like a butterfly that can do whatever it wants when she was with him. Like when he asked her if she is ill or they should get her to hospital before, she didn't understand why he was so caring about her.
Maybe he was just being a good friend, or so she thought.

Ino started to take a look around his house now. Though she visited his house quite a few times, she never looked around much. Whenever she came here, It would be either for the purpose of mission or to call him and Naruto for training. Now that she was alone, she started to look around. As she moved around, she saw a photo on his stand. It was the photo they took on the day their team was formed.

She took the photo and absent-mindedly waked around the living room. She didn't pay attention to her surroundings and then bumped herself into the fridge, causing the photo to fall down and the frame to break apart from the photo.

"You ok Ino?" asked the clone Naruto.

"Ouch! That hurts…. Guess I need to pay much attention to my surroundings." Said Ino.

She then rubbed her head and then bent over to take the photo and the frame.
But she found something there. Beside their genin team photo was a scroll. Which probably looked like a sealing scroll. It was tied into a knot, by some sort of thread. It probably fell from the top of fridge or something Ino being Ino tried to open it. She tried a lot but couldn't budge that knot and open the scroll.

'What is there in this scroll?' was the thought of Ino.

She was broken from her thoughts when the clone talked to her.
"food is ready… you can have it." Said the clone.

"I will wait for Naruto to come so that we can eat together." Said Ino

'great I am talking to his clone and referring his name to himself to sit and eat with him… aah!' thought Ino.

"That sounds good" said the clone. He then poofed out of existence.

As she sat there in the living room, her thoughts went back to the scroll she was having now.
What is there so much secretive about it? Only Naruto knew about it. She was becoming curious more and more now. Her thoughts were broken by an all-familiar voice.

"Hey Ino. The food is going cold I guess we need to eat before it loses its taste." Said Naruto.
Ino then turned back to see Naruto sitting at his dining table as he motioned her to come and eat.

Ino then sat up from her position and sat along with him to eat.
"Sorry for being a bit late Ino… thanks for waiting for me." Said Naruto.

"Its not a big deal… hey actually I have something that has been bugging me for quite a while. Can you help me with it?" asked Ino.

"Sure… tell me what it is" said Naruto.

"You see I found that small scroll over there. I tried to open it but it won't … can you tell me what it is?" asked Ino curiously.

"Oh! it was given to me by Hokage jiji for my birthday when I was a kid. It had the first taijutsu stance I practiced when I was a kid." Said Naruto.

"But you should be able to open it, why couldn't you?" asked Naruto.

"I don't know…. But who cares I found the answer I need now I am feeling free. Lets eat our food shall we?" asked Ino in a cheery tone.

"Yeah sure…" said Naruto.

They then dug into their meal and filled their empty stomachs. Ino liked his cooking for some reason. It was not so delicious or so bad, but it was good.

"Naruto actually I wanted to ask you something?" said Ino as she felt embarrassed about the thing she was going to ask.

"Yeah… shoot it Ino." Said Naruto.

"Can you teach me how to cook?" asked Ino with some pink hue on her cheeks.

"Wait! You really wish me to teach you cooking?" asked Naruto.

"Yeah, I do… I need to learn how to cook right? I mean I am growing up too." Said Ino sheepishly.

"Sure Ino. I will teach you. I am more like a hands-on type rather than book reading type. So I guess you will be ok with that when I teach you?" said Naruto.

Ino nodded her head and felt happy to be finally able to learn how to cook. It wasn't like she couldn't learn cooking from her mom. But she felt it will be nice to have his company while she learns cooking from him.

Ask her why? Even she doesn't know.

"So I guess I need to reveal you about the things we were talking back there… "Said Naruto.

Ino nodded her head, she need to know what is going on.

Naruto then pumped chakra into his eyes. He then opened the eyes to reveal his 3 tomoe sharingan. Ino understood by now that Naruto has sharingan. After seeing him fight Zabuza in the wave country she understood that he possessed sharingan.

"Listen carefully Ino. What we are going to talk now should only be between us both.
After watching my fight with Zabuza of the mist you might have come to know that I am having sharingan. Don't ask me why I am having it if I am not an Uchiha. Even I don't know the reason behind it. Now watch my eyes closely." Said Naruto as he pumped more chakra into his eyes.

His tomoes started to spin wildly and the crimson red eyes were changing their appearance. It had black shuriken in the center and a circle around it in which the three tomoe lied.

Ino looked into Naruto eyes. They were different than any other sharingan. Of course, she doesn't know much about the Uchiha clan nor their Sharingan. She just saw some pictures of sharingan she read in the library. She only saw the three-Tomoe sharingan Naruto showed before. So she became curious about it. She already knew that sharingan is capable of copying jutsus and also they can cast genjutsu, but what she is seeing now is different.

"Umm… Naruto why is your sharingan so different? I don't know much about the sharingan, but I read about it in the books, but none of the images I saw had a sharingan like yours. "asked Ino while she said what she knew about the sharingan.

"This is called Mangekyou Sharingan Ino… This is the most powerful stage of the Sharingan. It grants me the ability to perform several things that Normal sharingan users, with 3 Tomoe can't do. I still don't know how to use it to its full potential yet… But after that fight I had back with Zabuza I need to learn about how to use it. Also, the more I use the Mangekyou the weaker my eyesight gets. If overuse I may get totally blind." Said Naruto a bit cautiously at the end.

"So I need to restrict its use to minimum and use it only if it calls a life and death situation." Said Naruto.

"And there is one more thing I need to say you Ino." Naruto said in a grim voice.

"What is it Naruto?" asked Ino.

Naruto quickly changed his eyes back into three-Tomoe sharingan. He then seriously looked into the eyes of Ino.

"Why are you staring at me like that?" asked Ino.

As soon as she asked that Ino found herself in a sewer and she was beside Naruto.

"Naruto where are we? Is this some sort of genjutsu?" asked Ino confused.

"This is my mindscape Ino. I brought you here for a reason." Said Naruto.

"Well tell what is it… why are you so serious about it?" Said Ino

Naruto gave his hand to her telling her to catch his. As soon as she caught his hand, they both ended in front of a cage that has a paper which had a kanji that said 'seal.' Behind the cage she saw a big orange fox with big whiskers on its mouth who was sleeping very peacefully.

It was a size of a mountain atleast. It had those big teeth that were sharp enough to tear away its prey into shreds. Seeing all of these, only one thing came to her mind. It was the giant demon fox know as Kyuubi that created havoc in their village 13 years ago. It was this fox that took away Yondaime Hokage's life when he killed it.

'This can't be the kyuubi right. No it can't be it was killed that night.' Thought Ino.

Seeing its feral and predatory features sent shivers down Ino's spine. She was afraid now. A lot.

"Naruto t-this is K-Kyuubi r-r-right? Why are we here? W-wasn't it Ki-killed that d-day?" asked Ino- stuttering because of fear.

"No Ino… Kurama is a huge source of chakra, with conscious… Even if it is obliterated it will gain its chakra back, and gain its normal form. It wasn't killed that day. It was sealed into a new born Baby, who is me. I am a prison to it who holds him from escaping technically. People like me are called Jichuriki. Since the kyuubi is sealed in me the adults in Konoha despise me, they saw me as the kyuubi reincarnate who took away their loved ones life … You have every right to hate me Ino. After listening this you most probably want to despise me like everyone else huh?." Said Naruto sadly as he hung his head low while saying the last part.

As he said that he brought her out of his mindscape. Kurama though slept, heard everything Naruto said. He could sense negative emotions like sadness and fear from the blond girl. He was now afraid that Ino would also start to despise Naruto like everyone.

Now both Naruto and Ino were back to normal world now.

'why Naruto, why did they do this to you…. Why did you have to carry your burdens all alone? Even after all of that happened, you never gave up… you kept going forward… even after all the ill-treatment you had you never lost the path of humanity, you were always kind and concerned about others.' Thought Ino as tears started to roll down her eyes. She sat there crying until Naruto noticed her.

He didn't understand if she was crying out of fear or anything else. He couldn't see her cry.
He slowly started to go near her hesitatingly.
'What if she is crying out of fear? What if she hates me now and doesn't want to see me?' thought Naruto. But he took the gamble.

He went near her. As soon as he got close to her he cupped her cheeks with his hands and wiped those tears of her face. Ino lifted her head up and saw him as soon as she felt his touch.

She then latched onto him and held him in a tight embrace. She was all over him now. She cried more now.

"Naruto I don't hate you, I can never do that. But why Naruto…. Why did they do this to you…. You shouldn't have suffered like that. Why did you keep your suffering to yourself all the time? Even after all the horrible things we…. I did to you; you are here now… to console me. I am really sorry I-I" Ino was cut off before she could talk by Naruto.

"Shh…. Calm down Ino-chan. Its not your fault. Besides I didn't suffer that long though. I had Sasuke, Iruka sensei, old man Teuchi, Ayame-neechan, Kakashi-sensei and now I am having you too. I am not alone anymore. You people are here for me. So don't worry anymore." Said Naruto as he tightened his embrace around her.

"But don't you feel bad about kyuubi being sealed in you. Aren't afraid that it will kill you someday and come out?" asked Ino as she laid in his embrace.

"Ino-chan… Kyuubi has a name you know; its Kurama. He might be looking so fearful and harsh, but he is good you know… He is gentle too. We are friends too. You don't have to be afraid of him Ino-chan. Even if he wants to free himself from me which he will not; I can use my Mangekyou Sharingan to control him. You shouldn't feel so afraid" said Naruto

Ino was now surprised. Naruto says that Kyuubi is his friend and he is a gentle guy when the world hails him as a being of fear, hatred and destruction. She was confused now. She quickly lifted herself up and was now seeing Naruto in the eyes.

"Naruto… Are you saying the truth? The nine-tails is a good guy? And you both are friends too?" asked Ino a bit confused and a bit surprised.

"Yes Ino-chan… do you trust me?" asked Naruto.

"yeah I trust you Naruto. Why did you ask?" asked Ino.

"Just hold my hand and look into my eyes." Said Naruto.

"Okay…" said Ino as she held Naruto's Hands and looked into his eyes.

"I will take you to Kurama now; how about you talk to him and get rid of your fear?" said Naruto with a smile on his face.

"Umm… ok but you will be there, right? With me?" Asked Ino.

"Of course." Said Naruto.

After that Ino held his hand and looked into his eyes. Naruto's eyes quickly turned crimson red showing his sharingan. Ino and Naruto were now in his mindscape again. In front of them was cage and behind it was Kurama.

"Oi Kurama… wake up." Said Naruto.

"What is it Naruto? I am sleeping here can't you see me." Said Kurama in his feral tone.

"How long will you sleep? You are always curled up inside those tails of yours and sleeping." Said Naruto.

"A powerful beast like me won't listen to a brat like you" said Kurama in an annoyed tone as he still slept.

"Well, I was thinking of to introduce you to someone here. Ino-chan came here to meet you." Said Naruto

"FINE!" Said Kurama as he got up and stood behind the cage.

To say Ino is surprised is an understatement. All she heard about the beast in front of her was it was a being of destruction and hatred. But here she is now seeing it converse with her fellow blond like a friend who is getting annoyed by his antics.

"So the blonde female here wished to meet me eh?" said Kyuubi.

"Ano…. I-I a-a-am." Stuttered Ino.

"I can understand you but you don't have to fear me little one… " said Kurama for the first time in a concerned tone.

"Really Kurama. You always speak with me very harsh. But when it comes to girls here you are a softy. Huh?" said Naruto.

"I am Ino Yamanaka… Nice to meet you" said Ino now firmly.

"Well, my name is Kurama… as much as I loathe humans around I like few of them. Now you are one of them too." Said Kurama with a smirk.

"Alright, I am going to sleep, but before going I would like to say something to you Naruto." Said Kurama in a secretive tone.

Naruto nodded his head and then towards Ino.

"umm Ino… You see, we are going to have some serious talk now… which you shouldn't be part of." Said Naruto.

Ino nodded herself and closed her eyes now. She respected his personal space.

She has now successfully established a psyche connection with Naruto now. Being a Yamanaka it made it more easier for her.

As she opened her eyes she came to the normal world and saw Naruto sitting infront of her. He still closed his eyes as he is talking to Kurama now.

With Kurama:

"Naruto…. I can help with the problem of your Mangekyou Sharingan. Use my chakra when you are using sharingan. It will rapidly heal your eyes simultaneously as you use it. But there is a catch to it. At present with the body you possess now you can handle only 3 tails of my chakra. As the tails increase the density of my chakra increases along with those tails. So there will be a time limit for using your Mangekyou now. I can say that you can use your Mangekyou's abilities continuously for 5-10 minutes maybe. But as we train, your body will slowly develop and will let you access more of my chakra. I wanted to say you that. According to me your Mangekyou is pretty different than other Uchiha I have seen." Said Kurama.

"Wait does that mean I am an Uchiha? I didn't know that." Asked Naruto confusedly.

"Yes Naruto Your chakra is similar to once the man controlled me. It is like an Uchiha's… The chakra you have now to contain me is as strong and as ominous as of Madara Uchiha the one who summoned and controlled me to fight Hashirama Senju." Stated Kurama

"As time passes and the rate at which you learn things you will be stronger than Madara. UMMPH! If there is any Uchiha whom I despise the most it will be him." Said Kurama.

"Wait What? Really I am an Uchiha? I never knew that. Then one of my parents must be an Uchiha right? Do you know them?" Asked Naruto.

"No Naruto I don't know who your parents are." Lied Kurama smoothly.

"OKK guess I don't get to know them today." Said Naruto.

"So when do we start our Training Kurama?" asked Naruto.

"Its up to you Naruto. I will be here only to guide you" said Kurama.

"OK…. We will start it tomorrow since we have a week off" said Naruto.

"fine by me" said Kurama.

Naruto then exited his mindscape and came back to the normal world.

Ino was now intently staring at him.

"So all good with Kurama." Asked Ino

"yeah everything is fine. Hey how about we both Hang out for today since the day is still lit?" asked Naruto.

"umm sure. Where shall we go?" asked Ino.

"leave it to me I know a perfect place to enjoy this day." Said Naruto.

Both of them then left his apartment and now headed to the ramen stand that Naruto is addicted to.

As they reached there Ino facepalmed.
'Knowing Naruto he will bring everyone to this place only… but nothing is there to complain. I am understanding why he calls ramen as food of gods now.' Though Ino as she chuckled to herself.

Ino was crying mere moments ago. But now she is laughing and is back to her cheer self. All because of a blond Uzumaki or an Uchiha. She likes his company a lot. Why do you think so?

She surely is going to enjoy today.

AN: Alright that's a wrap. I am proud that my story has so far reached 5000 views, all thanks to you guys. And pls revies this chapter. Though it is short, I wish to write longer ones but I am not finding time in between my part time jobs. And one more thing I need atleast 15 revies for this chaptr or else no new chapter.

Next chapter will be abt training and some sasusaku.

Until then

Farewell everyone.