Oh hey!... Me?... Why, I'm Yamanaka Ino!... What you haven't heard of me! I'm the most popular girl in Konoha High, the most beautiful girl to walk the hallways, I am one of the top students in my class and head captain of the girl's volleyball team!... What? You expected me to be a cheerleader? Please! That is so clique. I'll leave that to the wannabes! Listen I'm not done! My best friend is, Haruno Sakura, we've been friends since we were kiddies! Sakura happens to be going out with that elite quiet guy, what's his name?... Oh yeah, Sabaku No Gaara! They make a cute couple! Me? I'm not with anyone. I was going out with Uchiha Sasuke, but then he moved to the rival high school and started dating that Karin chick. The loser. Anyways, I'm the daughter of the Yamanaka Floweriest, I usually work for my parents after school. ... Oh look at the time, I'm going to be late for practice! Well, I'll see you around!

YAHOOO! GET OUT OF THE WAY!... Hey, you! What were you thinking standing in my path!... My name, Kiba!... You must be new if you don't know me! I'm the daredevil of this boring old high school. I've sabotaged the football teams uniforms, they had to play in ballerina suits when we went up against Sound High. Ha-ha! I've also beaten up the mascot guy, stole his costume, and messed up the cheer-losers routine!... That's nothing! You haven't even heard anything yet. Why, today I have a back to school trick planed out for one of the most popular kids of this school... I just don't know who... but I'll find my victim soon enough. Anyways, I'm from the Inuzuka Veterinarians. Yup, a guy like me loves animals. My best friend happens to be my dog, Akumaru but you better not think that's lame! Well talking to you is getting boring, hasta la nevers.

Yamanaka Ino was walking down the hallway, ready for volleyball practice.

"Hey, Inoooo!," came a voice from behind her. Ino turned to see who it was, it was Sakura.

"Hey, Sakura!," Ino said hugging her pink haired friend.

"Ready for the new year?'' Sakura asked.

"You beat! I have a feeling it'll be better then the last." Ino replied.

"Why's that?" Sakura asked.

"Well, I don't know but I can feel it!" Ino replied.

"Oh... well hey lets get to practice already!" Sakura said grabbing Ino's hand.

"Okay!" Ino replied and ran off with Sakura.

"Yo, Kiba!" came from a hyper-active blonde with birthmarks that looked like fox whiskers.

"Hey Knuckle-head," Kiba replied.

"The one and only!" Naruto beamed.

"Hey you got the paint?" Kiba asked.

"Oh boy, do I! Its permanent too!" Naruto chuckled.

"Sweet, well now the question is who to prank.." Kiba said in a serious tone.

"Well... how about that tomboy Tenten?" Naruto suggested.

"No. Not important enough," Kiba shrugged, "I want to prank someone well known and popular..."

"Well Sakura-chan's popular... but we could never prank her!" Naruto cried.

"Don't tell me you still have a crush on her." Kiba sighed.

"She's just so amazing." Naruto said in a dreamy voice.

"Whatever," Kiba said crossing his arms, "Give me more options."

"Well..." Naruto started, "What about Sakura-chan's best friend? I hear she's pretty popular and cool."

"Really? Who?" Kiba questioned.

"Yamanaka Ino," Naruto replied.

"Isn't that the girl that threw that Sweet 16 Sophomore year?" Kiba asked trying to recall the name.

"Yeah. The one we weren't invited to." Naruto grumbled.

Kiba smirked, "Well I guess we got our prime target!"

"Hey, Ino"

"Ino, sup?"

"Good to see you, Ino!" The main hall was buzzing with greetings.

"Hi, guys!" Ino would say with a smile.

"Good to be back, huh?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah! I missed everyone during the break!" Ino exclaimed.

"Yup. And controlling the school," Sakura beamed, "Who wouldn't miss that?"

Ino laughed, " Well defiantly not us!"

The girls giggled all the way into the gym. In the gym was about half of the volleyball team, already in practice uniform. Among them was Sabaku No Temari and Hyuga Hinata, they turned just as Ino and Sakura where walking up to the rest of the team.

"Well if it isn't Miss Thang and the girl inheriting the rest of the Sabaku fortune." Temari said in a playful tone.

"Hey, Sis-in-law!" Sakura said hugging Temari.

"Hey, Temari-chan." Ino smiled and hugged Temari.

"Hi, Hinata-chan!" Ino said turning to hug Hinata.

"Hello, Ino-chan," Hinata replied, "Hello to you too, Sakura-chan."

"Hey Hinata!" Sakura said hugging Hinata.

"I'm sorry about you flunking, Temari-chan." Hinata said, picking up the conversation she and Temari were having before Ino and

Sakura arrived.

"It's okay... it's not liked I wanted to pass." Temari said grumpily.

"Atleast we have you with us another year." Ino snorted.

"And this year your in our grade level!" Sakura comforted Temari.

"Yeah!" Temari said finally smiling.

Just then a tall, pale, handsome guy with crimson red, untamed hair walked in with another tall skinny guy, with black hair up in a spiky pony-tail, he was fairly handsome, both in leather-man jackets.

"Hey, Gaara!" Sakura yelled across the gym.

Gaara looked away from talking to Shikamaru to Sakura's location, his cold jade eyes resting on her. Sakura ran up to him.

"It's amazing how he's so affectionate with her." Ino said watching Garra pick Sakura up in a hug as she kissed his cheek.

"I know, I'm his sister and he's never hugged me." Temari said in an exaggerated tone.

Both Ino and Hinata laughed, knowing Temari was just kidding. Sakura, Gaara, and Shikamaru came walking back to Ino, Temari, and Hinata.

"Hi, Shika!" Temari beamed.

"Oh. Hey." Shikamaru blushed.

It was obvious that they liked each other, the whole school knew this, but Shikamaru never had the guts to ask Temari out since he was such good friends with Gaara, the overprotective brother. Most of the time, they played it off as if they couldn't stand each other, but it never fooled anybody.

"So do you guys think we'll make it to finals this year?" Hinata asked.

"Football or Volleyball?" Gaara asked.

"Well I'm pretty sure the football team is going to make championship this year, its so troublesome." Shikamaru said.

"Lazy bum." Temari mumbled.

"What do you think about the volleyball team?" Shikamaru asked, ignoring Temari's remark.

"That's a dumb question..." Sakura smirked.

"Where going to win the championship!" Ino cried.

All four girls high-fived each other.

"Women," Shikamaru shrugged.

Just then the gym doors slammed open. The jocks looked over to see two boys with spiky hair. One blonde and the other brunette. The blonde almost jumping all over the place, and the brunette walking a smirk on his face.

"Great. Here comes Naruto," Sakura said clenching her fist. Hinata stood up straight and went slightly red.

"Isn't that the kid that tried to sneak on our mansion?" Temari asked Gaara.

"Yeah," He replied.

"And the other guy?" Ino asked, eyeing him.

"That's Kiba" Hinata answered.

"Who?" Sakura asked.

"Some prankster. He's just like every other outcast." Shikamaru replied.

"Oh," Ino and Sakura said in unison, turning with the loss of interest.

"Look! There she is!" Naruto said jumping up and down.

"Who?" Kiba asked looking around.

"Sakura" Naruto said dreamily. "And that jerk, Gaara!" Naruto said angrily.

"Focus!" Kiba said slapping Naruto upside the head.

"Okay, okay!" Naruto said looking around, "There she is!'

"Where?" Kiba asked.

"The blonde next to Sakura-chan!" Naruto said with excitement.

Kiba's eyes landed on the blonde. She was pale like an angel, with long flowing bleach blonde hair, her eyes where like light blue crystal orbs. Her body was curvy and perfect, and her legs where tone and shaped.

"She's perfect." Kiba said in a trance.

"Yeah, the perfect sap for a practical joke!" Naruto grinned.

Kiba snapped back to his senses. "Yeah! Lets go set it up." Kiba and Naruto walked behind the bleachers.

"I wonder what they were doing here." Gaara said as Kiba and Naruto vanished out of sight.

"Maybe they were lost," Sakura mumbled.

"Seemed like they were looking for someone," Shikamaru sighed.

"Oh well," Sakura said, now being held by Gaara's strong, muscular arms.

At that time the warning bell rang; it class was starting already.

"Well we'll see you boys after practice," Ino said linking arms with Temari and Hinata.

"Later," Shikamaru said lazily to all four girls.

"Bye, Gaara," Sakura said hugging Gaara and kissing him goodbye.

Ino, Temari, and Hinata began to walk to the locker room.

"Hey wait up guys!" Sakura called after them, letting go of Gaara and running after them.

"Hey, Ino...?" Sakura called from the changing stalls.

"Yeah?" Ino called back.

"Can you go get my pink shorts out of my locker?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah. Let me just finish changing."

Ino was finished changing and walking out of the locker room.

There was a group of people skipping class on the bleachers. As soon as they saw her they all went crazy, cheering for her. Ino smiled and kept walking. She slowly made her way to the gym door.

Ino suddenly stopped, something didn't feel right. She shrugged and went on. As soon as Ino opened the gym doors, a can of orange paint fell all over her. Ino screamed at the top of her lungs. The group of people laughed at her hysterically.

The uproar made Kiba and Naruto jumped up form behind the bleachers.

"No way, she fell for it!" Kiba laughed.

"Talk about air head blonde!" Naruto said grabbing his side.

Ino wiped the paint out of her eyes to see the two outcasts form before laughing and pointing at her.

"You!" she growled at Kiba, "You did this to me!"

Kiba looked back at Ino, "Sorry doll, you can't prove that."

Ino could feel her perfect face go red. Ino clutched her fist, "Why, you little..."

"Ino, what happened?" Shikamaru came running to her.

Ino shook with anger, "That loser placed that can of paint on the gym door and set me up!"

Kiba laughed, "Who me? Can you believe that Naruto? She thinks I did it just because I'm not popular or a jock."

"That's harsh," Naruto said, trying to hold laughter back.

Shikamaru could see the look of embarrassment and frustration on Ino's face. He took the towel he was using handed it to Ino.

"You'll pay for this, punk!" he finally said cracking his knuckles.

Kiba grinned, "Is that a threat, though guy?"

Ino looked up at Shikamaru, "Don't Shika!", she grabbed his arm, "He'll pay for this some other way."

Shikamaru looked back at Ino, he said nothing and then finally said, "Okay, lets go get you clean."

"These where new shorts, too," Ino said with disappointment as she and Shikamaru walked back to the locker rooms.

By now everyone in the gym was making fun of Ino. Commenting on her hair, her outfit, her intellegence, and accusing her of over tanning.

Kiba high-fived Naruto.

"That was better then I expected!" Naruto cried.

"Yeah." Kiba said watching Ino disappear behind the locker room door.

The first thing Ino heard as she walked into the locker room was, "Ino, you took so long I decided to borrow Hinata's shorts... Oh my God! What happened to you!"

"Kiba" Ino hissed, "He's going to pay for this."

Sakura stared at Ino, "Okay. But... Orange is an okay color so don't worry!"

Ino rolled her eyes and went to the showers.

Kiba walked into physics. He looked around the full class room. It was an all senior class, which he liked since he hated the lower class men about as much as everybody else in his age group. Kiba looked around briefly and found no one he knew, so he walked all the way to the back of the class.

Ino sat in physics, running her fingers through her wet hair. Talk about bad hair day, she thought to herself. She looked up to see Kiba in the doorway, looking around the classroom. Ino clutched her fist, I will make you pay, she thought as she watched him make his way to the back.

Two minutes later, the biology teacher walks into the class room, and the class gets quiet. At the moment Kiba is throwing paper balls at Akimichi Chouji, still unaware of Ino's presence in the same room, and Ino is fixing her makeup in a compact mirror, using it to look back at Kiba every now and again.

"Hello, class." the teacher says into the now silent room, "I am, Mr. Asuma."

Ino looked up, she never expected to have her freshman year biology teacher teaching her again. Ino sat up to listen to him, she had a great amount of respect for him.

"Okay kids, I understand that you're comfortable with your seats but I'll have to give you assigned seats to learn who you are."

Asuma looked around , "Ah, I see I have one of my favorite pupils in here." He looked directly at Ino.

Ino smiled, "Hi Mr. Asuma!"

Kiba dropped the paper ball we was fixing to throw at Chouji's head. Ino! he instantly thought, as his eyes shot up and landed on Ino in the front of the class. When did she...? How? Man! all these thoughts swarmed in his head.

"Well," Asuma went on, "Let's see if I can get..." he looked at the roster. "If I can get Inuzuka Kiba to come and sit next to Miss Yamanaka."

Ino smirked. Her revenge would be easily accomplished now.

Kiba opened his eyes wide, "Are you sure?" he asked Asuma.

"Yes, I am," Asuma replied, "Can you please move now?"

"S-sure," Kiba answered. Kiba stood up, slowly making his way to the front. His eyes fixed on Ino's back. He didn't know why he was so nervous to go and sit next to her, let alone be in the same room as her, the same school as her, even the same world as someone as perfect as her.

Kiba finally reached the desk Ino was sitting in, he looked down at her. She was looking back at him, her eyes like a shallow river, pure and clean, but oh so cold and menacing.

Shit.