Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, Ino would be the main character.

Main pairing: Ino and Gaara. Yeah that's right! If you don't like it then push back.

Author note:

This story is created for a challenge between me, Lonedevil and Kilulu. The challege is for all three of us to come up with our own Ino/Gaara plots. Well it started as Kilulu wanted to write her own story and asked us if we knew a plot, while Lonedevil was thinking of one, she came up with one she wanted. Then they both thought of a story to write. Me, being stupid, wanted in on the action so I thought of one too. XD… well this is mine.

Anyway, I know I'm not the first one of us to write the first chapter but whatever, lol have fun reading!

Dedicated: The three fanficateers! (Wow I sound like a loser)

Story notes:

Rookie nine and Gaara: 16

Gai's team: 17

Kankuro: 18

Temari: 19

Chapter 1: The jutsu

It was a beautiful bright day in Konoha. The air was fresh, and the streets were peaceful… unless you happened to be in the same area as Naruto and the raging Ino.

"Naruto, get your ass over here or else!" Ino shouted. "That's my family's scroll, with the jutsu I have to learn!"

"Ahahah, come on Ino, if I give it back to you will you let me TRY to use one of your jutsu?!" Naruto asked pouting his bottom lip further than it already was.

Ino raised her fist up to her face and her eyebrow twitched. "NO, it's a family jutsu!"

Naruto stuck his tongue out. "Then I won't give it back, tebayo!"

"Naruto you idiot, when I catch up to I'm going to KILL you!" Ino screamed in furry.

Naruto noticed she was moving in on him faster. He was already running his fastest. He knew that he would regret this deeply later. VERY deeply, but he had to do what he had to do. "Hey Ino, I'm not even running at my full pace, before you could have easily caught me! Are you getting fatter?!"

Ino's reaction was just as expected. She halted, her eyes were wide and her pupils were dilated and beads of sweat were rolling down face. "W-what, this can't be happening!"

Naruto snickered and ran at a slower pace. "Yeah Ino, lay off the pudding!"

Ino stood there in a hypnotized state. Then she ran home to check the scale.

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Naruto snickered again leaning against a tree. He knew that would slow her down. Friends or not, he had to go for her weakest point.

Naruto has been asking her for a jutsu for a long time now. It didn't matter which jutsu, or from who. He just wanted it as soon as possible.

Team 8 was on a mission. Lee was training with Gai. He couldn't use Chouji's jutsu because he didn't have access body fat. Shikamaru was still on the mission to bring the sand siblings here. Shikamaru would be coming soon, he'd ask him but when he comes back he'll have the sand siblings, and Naruto wrote a letter to Gaara saying he learned a cool new jutsu. Sakura's jutsu were all healing… so that left Ino.

Naruto slowly opened the scroll and memorized the jutsu. Before he could learn the reverse or the name of the jutsu it was swiped out of his hands by a raging Ino.

"Naruto, I'm going to KILL you!" Ino snapped. "I ran back home to check my weight, I weigh the same!"

Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Hehe you must've lost the weight running after me."

Ino bonked his head and 'humphed'

When Ino was out of sight, Naruto grinned widely. 'I'll test the jutsu tomorrow.'

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"That dumb Naruto! What did he think he was doing when he stole my scroll?!" Ino asked herself, as she stomped to her house. This was a jutsu that her father told her 'She wasn't ready for' and Naruto just stole it.

Ino knew she wasn't aloud to look inside but it was so tempting to do something that you weren't aloud to do, or in this case, read.

Ino jolted her head left, right, up, and down. Nobody was there, or more clearly, no father of hers was there. She aloud herself to slowly roll the scroll open. It was a mind switch jutsu, you use it on two people and they switch. The only way to turn them back to normal is to… before she finished reading her father caught her in the act.

"Young lady, I thought I made it clear that you aren't ready to learn this jutsu!" Inoichi scolded.

Ino made the most innocent face and watery blue eyes she's ever made. "I was just checking to see if it was a fake scroll daddy. Naruto stole it."

Inoichi, again, fell for his daughters well known puppy pout. 97 chance of success… in her experience. "Oh well that's okay. I'll teach that Naruto for stealing a scroll from a Yamanaka!"

When he left to go pound on Naruto, Ino giggled and skipped in her house.

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The sand siblings and Shikamaru were all quietly sitting in the back of the wagon with all their belongings.

Temari yawned loudly. "So why do we have to go to Konoha again?"

Shikamaru didn't feel like moving his mouth to talk right now so he just ignored her.

Kankuro laughed inside his head. 'Big mistake, that guy is too lazy for his own good.'

Temari scolded and flapped a small fold of her fan open. "Are you going to tell me or what?"

Shikamaru let out a loud sigh. "Woman, you are too troublesome. Gaara has some business to attend to.

Temari smiled cockily. "Why did they send you of all people?"

Shikamaru ignored her.

"Finally, we're almost there!" Kankuro exclaimed. "You know what I like better about Konoha? The pretty girls! They're all over!"

Shikamaru and Temari sweat dropped.

Temari smirked playfully. "Why, isn't that just a reminder that you can't get any of them?"

Kankuro glared at her. "Shut up."

Temari crossed her legs in a different angle and sighed. "I don't want to."

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It was late, really late. Naruto had to force himself to stay awake so Ino could be sleeping when he would give her the note.

His plan was to meet her somewhere and test the jutsu on her. If it was cool then SUCCESS, if not he'd tell Gaara that his special jutsu is his sexy jutsu except with animals.

When he jumped on her window sill, he peeked inside the dark room to see that Ino was already asleep.

He placed the note on her dresser and ran out. Not because she might wake up, but because he heard footsteps.

He was so excited to try this jutsu. Not only to show off to Gaara, but maybe with a new jutsu he could bring Sasuke back.

Sasuke killed Orochimaru and became the leader of the sound. The leaf village still wasn't sure whether or not it's because when he killed Orochimaru, half of his power and mind slipped into Sasuke, or if Sasuke just turned evil.

No matter what it was Naruto promised himself, Sakura, Ino, and Kakashi, that he'd bring Sasuke back.

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Ino woke up to the birds chirping. She yawned and stretched, looking at her dresser mirror. There was a note. Thinking it was from her mom or dad she smiled and got up and read it.

Ino,

Meet me at the training grounds at 9.

Naruto

Ino clenched the note. 'Naruto came in my room?!'

She groaned aggravated, 'What the hell does he want now?'

She looked at the clock; she had an hour and a half to get ready. So she got her clothes ready and turned on the warm water for her shower.

When she was finally ready, the clock read, 8: 30.

She picked up her bagel and left her house.

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Naruto was sitting on a tree stump, the same one Kakashi tied him to six years ago. He stared at the spot where Sasuke was sitting when he said that they were one. What happened? The whole team just broke apart.

"Hey Naruto, what did you want?" Ino asked, her voice sounded annoyed.

When Naruto looked up at her, her foot was tapping and her eyebrows were furrowed. "Why are you mad?"

Ino rolled her eyes. "You went in my room! You really are becoming like Jiraija. Did you call me here to show me pictures of myself while I was sleeping?"

Naruto sweat dropped. "I am not becoming like that pervy sage! Only in power, in fact, I think I'm surpassing him." Naruto said the last part happily.

"You surpassed him in perverseness as well, when you were 12!" Ino yelled while laughing.

"Ah whatever, I called you here because I learned a new jutsu, Tebayo!" Naruto yelled making a kind of 'Gai pose'.

"Wow you learned a new jutsu?! What is it?" Ino asked excitedly.

"Well, I kind of need you to test it. It's the jutsu in the scroll I stole yesterday." Naruto said rubbing the back of his neck.

Ino's smile faded into a frown. "You read the scroll, without my or my father's permission?!"

"Uh, yeah, fine, since I took one of your jutsus I'll give you one of mine. Which one do you want?" Naruto asked. "If you want I can teach you my sexy jutsu."

Ino glared at Naruto. "You may have come up with it but anyone who knows how to transform can do it. Either way, I don't want that one, I want Rasengan."

Naruto rolled on the floor laughing. "Y-You don't even have enough much tapped chakra to do it twice!"

"Then I'll tap into some more." Ino snarled.

"Are you sure you don't want another jutsu?" Naruto asked he took out a hand-written scroll with a list of his jutsus and what they do.

Ino pointed at one and he gave her directions to how to do it.

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"You just HAD to open your fan and attack Shikamaru, eh, Temari!" Kankuro accused.

Temari shot him an icy glare. "Yeah, he wouldn't answer me."

"Well you didn't have to blow the whole wagon away. Now we have to walk to Konoha." Kankuro scolded.

"Well you can use the exercise." Temari smirked.

"No, I'm all muscle!" Kankuro said defending his body.

"Muscle, HA, that's a big lie!" Temari snickered.

"Like you would know, you don't even know what muscles look like." Kankuro yelled.

"I know what muscles look like! All I have to do is make sure not to look at you." Temari said sticking her tongue out.

"Oh come on stop fighting already. It's too troublesome." Shikamaru sighed lazily.

"Stay out of this lazy boy." Temari snapped.

"Yeah, you're the reason we're fighting, Nara." Kankuro said a matter-a-factly.

"All three of you shut up!" Gaara said angrily. "Act your own age."

"Okay Gaara." Temari sighed, 'He matured too fast.'

"So what time do you think we'll get there?" Kankuro asked.

"If you stop whining we'll get there a little before midnight." Gaara answered.

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Ino was lying on the grass. Naruto was sitting on the tree stump again. Ino was tired from trying to learn that new jutsu. "Thanks for the jutsu, Naruto."

"Your welcome, now come on I think they'll be here soon so I have to try the jutsu!" Naruto exclaimed hoisting her up to her feet.

Ino groaned. "Fine but make this quick, by the way, what does this jutsu do? Will it kill me?"

Naruto blushed. "Well I know it won't kill you but I forgot what it does."

Ino gave a look of horror. "If you don't know what it does, I don't want to be a part of it."

"Oh come on!" Naruto whined. "You owe me I taught you one of my jutsu!"

Ino flashed a small smile then turned around. "Then I just won't use it."

Naruto glared at her back and frowned. This was unacceptable. He made the hand signs. "Hey Ino, turn around."

When Ino looked back Naruto had a hand sign pointed at her. "AH, Naruto I said no!" after a few seconds, they were in the same position, Naruto was still holding up his hand signs and Ino had her head in her arms. She lifted her head up, was she hurt, dead, in his body? What happened?

"Uh nothing happened?" Naruto said disappointedly. 'Maybe it only works on boys or something.'

"Naruto you loser, I told you only a Yamanaka has the skill to do this jutsu." Ino said proudly, as she walked away.

Naruto frowned, 'Eh, I'll try it on Gaara when he gets here.'

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It was already 11:45, the sand siblings and Shikamaru could already see the main gates so Temari and Kankuro picked up the pace each of them trying to take bigger steps than the other.

Temari was the first one in followed by Kankuro. Gaara was behind them and Shikamaru was walking like an old man further back.

When Gaara was about to enter the gate, he saw Naruto charging at him.

"Hey Gaara, over here, I'm over here!" Naruto yelled excitedly.

Gaara didn't even have to walk faster to get to Naruto because he already sped in front of him. "Hi Naruto, are you going to show me this new jutsu? You sent me so many letters, it better be good."

"Yeah, it's awesome! Here I'll try it on you!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly, making the hand sign.

"No you fool!" Gaara yelled, putting his around himself just in case something would shoot out.

A few minutes later Naruto still stood there with the hand sign up. Gaara blinked and just stood there seriously.

"Uh, it only works in daytime!" Naruto explained rubbing the back of his neck embarrassedly.

"You don't have a jutsu, do you?" Gaara asked emotionally.

Naruto looked down. "I just learned this one; I guess I haven't mastered it yet."

Gaara put a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "You will, just don't practice it on people. Something could happen."

Naruto nodded and they went their separate ways.

11:59pm

Gaara was sitting on the roof of the rented apartment. He didn't sleep often but he felt sleepy today for some reason, even without Shukaku, he was still scared to sleep.

He decided to sleep on his bed. He slept on his side facing the opposite side of the window.

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After training a bit, Ino finally decided to go to sleep. She slept facing the window, so she could look at the stars before falling asleep.

12:00am

Gaara turned to face the window with a dreamy smile on his face.

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Ino turned away from the window with a frown on her face.

Hi, so do you guys like it so far? Anyway, the next chapter is where the story really starts muahahahaha!! Just kidding, lol