Chapter 17 : Love and Hate(3)

What if she had been right and Naruto really was in pain and just hiding it. The thought of the blonde hiding something like that didn't sit well with her. Sure he could be serious, and more then once he had even seemed a little scary, but not sad... never sad, she couldn't even picture what he would look like even if he was. Without realising it Raven pulled the taller boy closer to her, resting her head on his chest as they continued to dance to the music.

After another few minutes had passed Naruto pulled her away from the dance floor and lead her to an empty table. Sitting down with a huge smile on his face the blonde tilted his head towards the empty set next to him.

"So, what's your assessment? Can I dance or not?"

Taking the seat he had offered, Raven took on a thoughtful expression on her face before a small smirk graced her lips.

"You're ok... I guess."

"Ok...ok, how dare you say I'm only ok! I'll have you know there are many girls that love my dancing."

Trying not to laugh at the mortified look on the blondes face, Raven adapted a bored expression on her own face before answering.

"Then you should have asked one of them to dance."

They stared at each other for several minutes, neither saying anything. Then, unable to hold it back anymore, Naruto let a grin spread across his lips and laughed. After another few minutes he had calmed himself down and they fell into a comfortable silence.

Chuckling to himself, Naruto let a small smile cross his lips and sighed.

"So, you want to go see a movie sometime?"

The shocked look on Raven's face was possibly the funniest thing he had ever seen.

He had been thinking long and hard about him and Raven, along with a lot of other things, and after going over the good and the bad points had decided that it was worth it. He like Raven, she was beautiful, smart, and so many other things. He was in a new world, with people that know nothing about his past, why not live.

Naruto's smile only grew when he saw the blush spreading across the grey skinned teen's cheeks.

"S-sure, that sounds great."

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The moment they walked through the door into the warehouse carrying an unconscious Ino between them Sakura and Hinata were surrounded by the other Leaf-nin that had come with them to this world. After waving them off and moving Ino to a bed to lay down, they all gathered so the two girls could explain what had happened.

Not much had changed in the three years they ha been stranded in this world other then a few improvements to the warehouse.

After getting the necessary papers to live in this world they had started to raise money, Kakashi got a job as a taxi driver, it didn't pay much but it was good for information gathering, no one ever thought about the drive when they were talking. Sasuke, Shikamaru and Lee had opened a gym together after stealing enough money to buy a building and the equipment. Lee worked as a martial arts instructor while Sasuke was a personal trainer and Shikamaru handled the business.

Another thing that had changed was their clothes.

The silver haired Jonnin now wore a white button up shirt with blue jeans and a brown jacket. Over his left eye was a simple black eye patch and instead of the mask he used to ware to cover the bottom half of his face he now had a thick blue woollen scarf.

Lee now wore a dark green karate gi that had its sleeves cut ff at the elbow with white bandages wrapped around his ands and feet. Sasuke wore a dark red shirt, black jeans and a black leather jacket with the Uchiha clan symbol on he back. Last was Shikamaru, who now wore a grey T-shirt with a black jacket with the sleeves torn off at the shoulders and a pair of blue jeans with rips in the knees.

The one thing they all had in common was the Konoha headbands they used as belts.

They were all sat in what had been turned into the common room of the warehouse, consisting of two couches, an arm chair, a small coffee table a TV.

Leaning forward in the arm chair to look at the two kunoichi with his one visible eye, Kakashi spoke with a serious voice.

"What happened?"

Squeezing Sasuke's hand in hers, Sakura sighed.

"We saw Naruto"

For a moment nothing happened, it was completely silent. Then her words seemed to register in all their minds at the same time and they all started talking at once. Over the sound of all their voices overlapping Sasukes was the only one that could be heard clearly.

"Where is he? What happened? Did you talk to him? What did he say?"

After waiting for them all to calm down, Sakura continued, Hinata sat next to her on the couch with her head lowered, not meeting anyone's eyes.

"He was at the party we were invited to, the one for that hero kid Robin, we were sat at a table talking to the green guy when he walked over and sat at the table."

Holding his hands in the air to stop her talking, Shikamaru got a confused look on his face.

"He just walked right up to you?"

"Pretty much, he just sat down, sent the green guy away and started talking to us."

After taking a moment to think, Kakashi frowned.

"What can you tell us about the way he was acting, was he like that night three years ago?"

"... not exactly, he wasn't like that night but he wasn't like the usual Naruto either. He seemed more confident, in control, he didn't even shout or anything like he used to."

"I see, that still doesn't explain what happened that night though."

"I think I can explain that."

They all turned to the open doorway to find Ino leaning ageists the door frame, her skin pale and bags under her eyes. After Lee helped her to the couch they all looked at her with worry in there eyes.

"Ino you should be resting"

Rolling her eyes at her pinked haired friend, Ino leaned back in her seat and sighed.

"I know why he was acting so wired three years ago."

Seeing that she had their attention the blonde kunoichi continued.

"When I used my Mind Transfer Jutsu on him-"

"You what! Ino I warned you not to try and enter his mind."

"I know but-"

"Do you have any idea just ho dangerous and stupid that was, people had died from entering the mind of a Jinjuriki!"

"I know! Will you let me finish?"

Still frowning at what the girl had done, and sending more towards the other two kunoichi on his team, Kakashi nodded for her to go on.

"Naruto has Multiple Personality Disorder"

"... You're kidding, right."

"I wish I was, and it not just one. I ended up in his mindscape, which is basically what Konoha might look like in a thousand years, and got attacked by one of his personalities."

They all saw her body physically shiver at the thought before pulling herself back together.

"I don't know what it did to me, I think it was using killing intent, but not like any KI I've ever felt before. I don't know what would have happened if the other one didn't show up when it did."

"Other?"

What happened next confused them all as a large blush spread across Ino's face.

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