Ino’s eyes slowly opened as she slightly groggily woke up to find herself lying on a bed. As her half-awake mind processed what she was seeing around her, Ino mumbled to herself, “What? Where am I?” Looking around the room she was in, Ino noticed that the room was quite plain. Ino then looked down at her self and yelled at the top of her lungs as she clutched her sheets closer to her, “Why the hell am I naked!”
Ino then started to look around the room for anything to better cover her modesty with then the sheets in her hands. Finally she found what she was looking for in some cloths that were folded in a pile at the foot of her bed. It was as she was getting off the bed that Ino had the next big surprise of the morning. When she tried to get off the bed she nearly tripped over herself and had to brace herself with the bedpost. Looking down at herself Ino almost tripped again in shock. She was about 6 inches taller than she remembered and her assets, well, they had made a FAR bigger return than she had ever expected. On both accounts it wasn’t unmanageable, but it was definitely unimaginable.
As Ino walked over to the cloths she muttered to herself, “Can this day get any weirder?” It took a few minutes for Ino to get properly dressed due to having to re-learn her balance and the fact that some articles of clothing were too tight in some areas and too large in others. Obviously whoever had set out her clothes was trying to help her, but they either didn’t have her size clothes on hand or they hadn’t taken a decent look at her to find out her sizes. She was really hoping that it was because of the latter then the former. Unless it was Naruto, which for some strange reason the idea made her smile and feel like something was pleasantly fluttering inside.
When Ino had put on her last sock she then noticed something on the lower half of her left arm. Looking closer Ino saw that it looked like some sort of tattoo. It was a fiery spiral wrapped around and descending her arm in a counter-clockwise motion. The spiral ended in her palm where it formed a head like that of an eagle. There was a single ‘eye’ on the bird tattoo were the kanji for ‘Queen’ written in red. It tattoo seemed to pulse with the raiment of an immense power that felt both unfamiliar and very well known to Ino.
Suddenly Ino let out a gasp as memories of the battle came rushing back to her. She remembered her fear and pain as death started to claim her, knowing that she would never be able to tell Naruto how much he meant to her. As her vision had left her she remembered seeing Naruto let out the immense energy. The last memory she had before waking up in the bed was the feeling of that immense energy surrounding her. The energy had done more than surround her; it had, for lack of a better word, saturated her very being. Even now, an ember of that same energy could be felt within the tattoo soothing her like a lover’s caress. Ino would have contemplated this thought more if a stray question hadn’t entered her mind, “Where’s Naruto?”
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