Chapter 039

Hanabi saw her older sister's cheek glow redder with embarrassment as her head lowered a little.

"I heard from father that Naruto-sama rescued you from some mighty strong ninjas."

"He did," Hinata said as she gestured to Hanabi to step inside, "Wanna hear about it?"

Shrugging, Hanabi stepped into her sister's room before Hinata related her encounter with the Akatsuki-nins

(At The Yamanaka Residence)

Inoichi was informed by Tsunade about how Ino was kidnapped by two S-level missing-nins and rescued and saved by none other than Naruto. Like Hiashi, Inoichi knew that his daughter was as good as dead if she had tried to fight against Itachi, but he was amazed to hear about Naruto's victory against Itachi. Inoichi was present in the council when Sandaime labeled Naruto as a born Hokage a few hours after Kyuubi and Yondaime were sealed away into Naruto. He saw how Naruto grew up as his own individual with some of Yondaime's attributes manifesting through him. Inoichi and his wife acknowledged that Naruto was destined to do great things for Konoha and many other people and they wanted their daughter there with Naruto at his side when those things happened. That much was certain.

(Meanwhile)

When Ino found out that her father Inoichi knew all along who Naruto's father was, she herself was left speechless. Like Hiashi, Ino knew how her father had encouraged and heartened her into forming a bond with Naruto. After meditating on the explanation Sandaime gave her earlier in regards to Naruto's heritage and Tsunade's involvement, and how he's both Yondaime and Godaime's heir, she had so many reasons say "thank you" a thousand times to her father for persuading her to befriend Naruto from the beginning. She wanted to tell Sakura so badly about Naruto's heritage, however she swore an oath of secrecy and she didn't want to violate that and offend Naruto and Sandaime. She didn't even tell her father that she now knew the secret.

While in her room, Ino thought about Naruto a lot. She saw just how little she knew about him. Like Hinata, Ino openly shed some tears upon hearing how Naruto's birth mother died and how Yondaime, as much as it wounded him to do it, used Naruto, his own flesh and blood, as a living sacrifice to seal away Kyuubi and save all of Konoha, stopping the Kyuubi from doing further damage and killing more people. It pained Ino deeply knowing that Naruto carries such a heavy burden without his consent, but was inspired at the fact that Naruto never allowed this to crush his spirit and character. And the fact that Tsunade willingly chose to adopt and raise Naruto as her own son made Ino respect Tsunade a lot more than before.

Soon thought Ino thought about what Sandaime said about Naruto being the last of the Namikaze clan and carries the responsibility of rebuilding his clan and making it stronger than before. Again, she saw how both Naruto and Sasuke were opposites who were alike. Both boys came from two of the three strongest clans in Konoha, both of which are near extinction for different reasons. With the Namikaze clan it was because they had many enemies outside Konoha who sought their destruction, whereas the Uchiha clan was self-destructive, with Itachi as the trigger.

Such is the life of the Shinobi, Ino sighed as she thought about how both Sasuke and Naruto had to re-establish their clans again. But of course this was to be no easy for both boys and something of that magnitude would much time and effort. Ino's mind drifted to the thoughts of being the one to help Koichi Uzumaki Naruto, or better yet, the very handsome Namikaze Naruto rebuild his clan. She giggled and blushed heavily on the idea, an idea that she decided in her heart that she was going to fulfill one day…

"Ino of the Namikaze clan, wife of Namikaze Naruto, sole heir of Yondaime Hokage and Godaime Hokage," Ino said to herself with a wide grin, "That has a nice ring to it…"

After a couple of minutes, Ino got up off her bed before running out of her room and out of her parents' house to the Haruno residence. Ino knew she couldn't talk about Naruto's heritage and dark secret with Sakura; however that didn't mean she couldn't brag about how Naruto fought Itachi and Kisame to rescue and save her and Hinata.

(Back At The Hyuuga Manor)

Hinata had just finish relating the story to Hanabi, minus the parts about Sandaime explaining Naruto's origins and his fox summoning contract. Hanabi was surprised at the story told to her.

"Naruto-sama is very brave neechan," Hanabi said, "Even though I find him to be weird at times."

"Why?"

"He's always wearing that stupid ninja mask as if it's part of his face. Doesn't he ever take it off or is it that he doesn't have a face underneath it," Hanabi asked.

"He does," Hinata said laughed.

"And how do know," Hanabi asked, "Have you ever seen under his mask."

"I've seen more than what's underneath his mask actually," Hinata thought out loud in an undertone.

"What's that supposed to mean," Hanabi asked suspiciously. Hinata blushed upon realizing her folly.

"…Nothing…just gibberish…," Hinata laughed nervously, "…I was just talking nonsense."

"Whatever," Hanabi said, "Naruto-sama is still weird in my opinion. But he and Neji-san don't seem to like each other."

"I know," Hinata agreed sadly, "Every time they look at each other they just wanna tear each other apart."

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