9 Chapter-9 : Introspection

Ino and Hinata listened carefully as Hiro describes a few of his 'adventures' outside of konoha.

Since both of them were ninjas, almost every time they went outside of the village was for missions or some ninja business, they never went out just for travel.

That was a luxury that only few possessed in this dangerous world, thankfully Hiro was one of them.

"Wow Hiro, you know so much about the outer world, all we shinobi's know, or have been told is that there are four enemy nations that will try to kill us from the moment we are out of the village" Ino said with a slightly sad expression on her face.

She was a free spirit, altough she wanted to be a strong shinobi, she also wanted to be free of all her connection and be able to just wander out into the nature one day.

She wanted to experience this world, and not just her many people in the shinobi world felt the same shackles of responsibility restricting them from doing just that.

"Well, it was good having lunch with you Hiro San, I would have to take my leave, I have some work pending that I would have to take care of now." Ino said as she said her goodbye amd left.

Seeing the leaving Ino, Hinata turned her head towards me as she said "Now, let's continue our training Hiro-kun, we are already running behind the schedule"

Hiro sweat dropped at that, Hinata has been extremely strict in his training schedule, each and every extra minute he had of free time, she coerced him into training somehow.

Not that it he didn't like it, the feeling of getting strong was almost as addictive as having sex.

Hiro got into the pushup position as Hinata placed restrictive seals on his body and sat on top of his back.

He continued doing Push-ups as he could feel his muscles tear up and get sore but as the same time, a green hue came out of Hinata's hand and travelled through his sore muscles and healed them instantly.

This training method was theorised by Hiro quite some time ago but put into practice since yesterday when he got to know that hinata knew basics of medic ninjutsu.

At first Hinata looked at him like he was a mad man, but when she saw that his physical strength developed at almost 10 times the normal pace using this method, she didn't place any objections.

Hiro changed his position once again as he got into squat position and hinata place even more restrictive seals and weights on him.

She continued to heal him while he continued to destroy his body using extreme exercises.

## Hokage Tower ##

Inside Tsunade's office, Ino stood in a Kunoichi uniform as she submitted her report.

Unknown to Hiro and Hinata, Ino just hadn't come to his mansion for the work she had to do.

She had been tasked by Tsunade to create a psyche evaluation of Hiro.

Tsunade had placed and used large amounts of resources and connections for their deals in foreign nations, if Hiro's personality turned out to be of someone like Gato, she would have to take actions before losing too much.

Plus, they were talking about billions of ryo's of profits each month, that much amount of money could corrupt someone easily.

She needed to know what kind of person he truly was, if he was putting up some kind of mask up or not.

As such she had tasked the prodigy of Yamanaka once she got to know they took up a work in his mansion.

"So, he's just a normal guy that likes to just enjoy around, huh, quite contrary to what I thought, I thought he'd be more cunning and greedy type, turns out he's the ideal type of guy for this deal" Tsunade said as she turned over pages of the report created by Ino.

Altough her intuition was never wrong in judging people of their character, she couldn't be taking any chances here.

"Thanks Ino for your work, take a few days off" Tsunade said as she dismissed Ino.

Ino on the other hand was going through many things and complex emotions.

First that she had to betray the trust Hiro had placed in her.

She felt worse and worse as the days continued, she could see that Hiro placed even more and more trust in her as time went on, even leaving his mansion in her care when he went out for meetings he had in plan.

She felt even worse knowing that she used that as an opportunity to snoop around in his study and take a look at things he was working on.

Altough it was for the village as Tsunade said, she didn't feel good as she was supposed to being a good kunoichi.

Plus, in the last few days, she had grown more attached towards Hiro than she would like to agree.

His antics, his enigmatic style of explaining things, his personality that radiated a warm aura all had been very attractive to her.

And not only that, but he was Handsome, he was extremely rich, he took out time for even the smallest of things and the best, he always had a smile while talking.

The imaginary man of her dreams that she dreamt about finally had a face.

If, if only he wasn't a civillian, in only he belonged to a shinobi family, if only he was also a shinobi, it would have been perfect.

Altough Yamanaka family didn't place many restrictions on her, the biggest one was that her partner at least needed to be as strong as a jonin, it was needed so that the main branch of the family doesn't get weakened.

Ino cursed out the shinobi customs as she thought about how good it would be to spend her life with Hiro.

He was a very caring person in her opinion, she wouldn't mind spending thr rest of her life with him.