Ino Yamanaka was not happy at all. While most girls Ino's age got to dress up as princesses, mermaids, cats, or other cute costumes for Halloween, Ino's parents had decided that she should go trick or treating as her namesake and with her father's friends kids. The only reason why Ino did not throw a fit, was because her father said that the three of them could trick or treat by themselves, if she promise to stay out of trouble. Ino sighed as she looked at her costume in her bedroom mirror and waited for the other two to come.
Ino was wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt with two pointed ears on top and a curly tail at the bottom. Over her shoes were boot covers that made it look like she had hooves. The last piece of Ino's costume was a pig nose. Ino was thinking about if she should put it on or not. Before she could make up her mind, Ino heard her Father calling her. So, with another sigh, Ino put on the nose and walked down stairs.
As Ino was walking down the stairs she could see the other kids by the door. One was wearing a brown bodysuit with a hood that had small deer horns and ears on top and he was wearing hooves cover over his shoes as well. The other one was chubby boy with red swirl tattoos on his cheeks and was wearing a black shirt and pants. On his back were a pair of big butterfly wings with different shades of blue on them and on his head were fuzzy antennas. As Ino finished walk down the stairs her Father turn around and said, "Ino I would like you to meet Shikamaru and Chouji." Shikamaru just nodded his head in hello.
As Chouji gave a wave of his hand, he said a small "Hi".
"All right kids. I want you to stay save and stay out of trouble." said Inoichi as he handed each one of them a bag. " One more thing," said Inoichi looking at Shikamaru and Chouji, " please keep my little girl safe." Both Shikamaru and Chouji answered with a "Yes sir!" as they walked out the door.
"Make sure you are back before dark." said Inoichi as the door shut. Once outside Ino turn to the two boys .
" So were are we going first?" asked Ino. Shikamaru just mumbled about how it was too troublesome to pick, so he would just follow them. Chouji, on the other hand, his face lit up.
" My Mother gave me a map with house on it that we should go to." said Chouji as he pulled out a folded piece of paper. Chouji unfolded it to and hold it out in front of him to show the others, "I cant read it that well though." said Chouji with a hint of embarrassment in his voice.
" I can!" said Ino taking the map away from Chouji.
" Are you sure you can read that?" asked Shikamaru as Ino look at the map closer.
" Of course I can." snapped Ino, putting her hands on her hips like she saw her mother do. Ino pointed a finger at Shikamaru. " Because I'm the only girl and most likely the smartest one here, that makes me the boss." said Ino in an authority like voice.
"Why?" asked Chouji tilting his head in confusion.
"Because girls are better then boys." answered Ino, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, before turning back to Shikamaru. " So that means, you two follow me and do what I say." finished Ino with a nod of her head. Shikamaru mumbled under his breath about how his dad was right, that girls are just troublesome. Ino ignored him as she took a quick look at the map. " We should go there." said Ino pointing down the street before taking off. Shikamaru and Chouji gave each other weird looks.
" Come on then." said Shikamaru with a sigh as he started to try and catch up to Ino with Chouji close by his side.