Ino raised her head, and Naruto was surprised to see her eyes full of sadness.
"Some of these people have seen some seriously messed up shit," Ino said as all the memories flashed before her eyes. "One of the people I did a mind walk on was a little boy, he couldn't have been more than eight.
The doctors explained to me that he hasn't talked in over a year, and they told me he often screams and cries in his sleep. When the doctors went to get him, he was sitting on his bed rocking back and forth. His eyes were lifeless and glazed over."
Ino took a shaky breath before she continued.
"They brought him into that room I was just in, and I performed a mind walk on him. After searching around, I finally found a memory that was most likely the cause of his trauma." Ino said but before she could continue talking tears started to fall uncontrollably from her eyes.
Naruto quickly stood up and hugged Ino to his chest. Ino's sobs started to fill the room, as she cried into Naruto's chest.
"Ssh it's alright Ino, you don't have to tell me if it's too painful you don't have to tell me." Naruto said soothingly as he stroked Ino' head.
Ino sniffled a few times before she wiped her tears away.
"No, no it's fine. It will be good for me to talk about what I saw." Ino said as she took another shaky breath. "The memory couldn't have been more than a year and a half ago. The kid was out playing with his friends, in the small village he lived in.
After playing all day the kid started to walk home. But when the kid neared his house he noticed smoke rising up ahead, so he ran the rest of the way home. When he got to his house he hid in the bushes and watched, as three rogue shinobi murdered his family."
Naruto's eyes went wide when he heard this.
"The rogue shinobi were upset, because the kids family wouldn't hide them. So...so...they...Kami it was so terrible, Naruto."
Naruto pulled Ino closer as he continued to comfort her. After a few moments, Ino started speaking again.
"N-Naruto, those men burned that kids family alive," Ino said making Naruto gasp. "He had to listen their screams of agony, and watch as their skin burned to crisp." At this point Ino started to gag, as the images started to flood her mind again.
Naruto was sick to his stomach as well.
"What the hell is wrong with people?" Naruto thought as hr clutched a hand to his churning stomach.
"Then that guy I just worked on had it just as bad." Ino said as she regained composure. "He was forced to watch as his wife and daughter were raped, then murdered right in front of him. I mean these thugs just burst into this guy's home, and beat the shit out of him.
Then they force him to watch as they torture and rape his family for hours. Then after that they just slit the wife and daughter's throats, and walked out of the house as if nothing had happened. All, because the man didn't pay the thug's boss on time."
Again Ino started to gag as the memories started to fill her head.
"Alright Ino that's enough, please no more." Naruto said with tears flowing from his eyes.
"Kami what is wrong with this world?" Ino cried into Naruto's shoulder.
"I don't know, but I'll do my best to change this world." Naruto said as he held Ino tightly.
They stayed like this for a while, Naruto just simply held Ino close as she sobbed into his chest.
"You should rest before you do this anymore." Naruto said causing Ino to nod against his chest. "I'm gonna go check up the rest of the team. You stay here and rest, and try not to dwell on the things you saw."
Ino simply nodded and rested her head in arms, as she laid her head on the table. When Naruto exited the room he spotted Choji walking towards him with a cup of coffee.
"Hey Choji, I'm heading out to check on the rest of team." Naruto said earning a quick nod from Choji. But before the Akimichi could walk past, Naruto quickly grabbed his arm. "Please watch over Ino carefully, she's not in good shape right now.
She saw some real messed up shit in those people's heads. So try to comfort her or something, get her anything she needs."
"Sure thing Naruto, Ino's one of my best friendsso I'm happy to help her." Choji said in a soft voice.
"Thanks Choji." Naruto said as he gave Choji a quick pat on the shoulder before he walked out of trauma center.
After the incident with Ino, Naruto went in search of Konan, Ryuuzetsu, Tenten, and Sai. He eventually found them not to far from the building Orochimaru and Anko were in.
They were in what appeared to be an old playground. Instead of running in, Naruto opted to sit on a nearby rooftop and watch his team entertain the children.
There was a much larger group of children than before, there was at least over a dozen kids crowded around Naruto's teammates.
Konan was making intricate origami figures for the children to play with. She made animal, dolls, shuriken, swords, or anything the children asked for.
Every time a child ran up to her, Konan would simply smile and form whatever the child requested. Naruto smiled as he watched the children run around and play with Konan's paper creations.
Naruto then turned his head to see Ryuuzetsu weaving hand signs. Suddenly several balls of fire appeared around Ryuuzetsu.
The children watched in awe as the fire flew through the air around the white haired kunoichi. After a few moments the fire balls started to form shapes and patterns in the sky, causing the children to clap and cheer.