Hello all! Okay, so this is my second story. Similar to the first but I like where this is going more than I liked the first. I actually plan to finish this one though :P. If you have any suggestions as to the changing of the plot, feel free to comment. Any critisicm is also cool. The chapters are slightly short but updates will be constant. I feel the chapters need to remain short because they stop at crucial points to the development of the story. I have NOT finished it but I have done around the first four chapters.

That's all!

:P

I don't own Naruto.

I wish.

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When Ino disappeared I was not too surprised. She was that type. Free. Unbound. She had run off before, so nobody was as worried as they should have been when she did it again. And it wasn't like there was anybody LEFT to worry (she had moved out at the age of 14).

Except me. I knew Ino. It was weird that we were friends- we were so different. I still remember the first day of high school. We were roomed together and the first thing she did was to snarl at me to stay out of her way.

Of course, over the next few months that changed and now we were inseparable. Well…we used to be.

A couple of months ago she began hanging out with what you would call "the wrong crowd". Notorious for crime, gang fights and what not, they were trouble. I told her to get out of it and instead of laughing it off, as she usually would she just whispered one sentence. "I don't know if I can. It's too late." Then, after avoiding me for almost a week she disappeared. To where…I did not know. With whom…I did not know. I knew nothing.

Until that night…almost exactly a month after she left I got a breathy call near midnight. I usually wouldn't have picked up the phone, knowing that the only people that called at this time were pranksters or perverts.

But for some reason, I did.

And I guess it was the best thing I ever did-and the worst.

"Hello?" I said groggily

"Sorana?" a hushed voice murmured

I bolted awake, "Is that you, Ino?"

"Yes." She said sounding exhausted

"Is everything ok? Where'd you go?" I asked worriedly

"I need your help. And fast." She said sounded stressed

"What?" I said, not asking for an explanation

"Ok," she said, taking a deep breath "Write this down."

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