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Fox in Wolf's clothing
"I'm so lucky!" Ino giggles as she and Sakura walk down a bustling street of Konoha.
Both Ino and Sakura had been assigned to an S rank mission not even a few hours ago, along with Shikamaru, Choji, and Temari. All five of them were to infiltrate the Sound village without being recognized, then steal back a scroll from one of the Sound's great libraries. Originally, the scroll had belonged to the Leaf village, and the Sound had stolen it. So, of course, the Leaf now had to take it back. As to what was contained on the scroll was a mystery.
"Lucky? How so?" Sakura asks, cocking her pink head to one side, questioning her tall, blond friend.
"You haven't guessed? This is the first mission in two years that all of team ten has been present on! And of course..." Ino says dreamily.
"That means Shikamaru," Sakura sighs wondering how her friend could be in love with such a lazy guy like him.
"Un," Ino grinned at her best friend, "Tsunade said the mission could last up to a month. You know what that means, ne, Sakura?"
"No. What?"
"It means that I'll have more time to be around him."
Sakura was surprised. She expected her friend to say something like, 'It means more time for me to seduce him,' or something. "You're not going to try and seduce him, then?"
"I never said that! Of course I'll try to get him to love me back, but... Just being around him's enough for me. It's like that for you and Naruto, ne?"
"Un... But- Ino- I guess it's just that it doesn't sound like you to not try and make a move on him. With all the other guys you've been with- well..." Sakura dropped off at the end of the sentence.
"But if I jump all over him like I did with the others... Well, we might not be friends anymore. You know what I mean?" Sakura nodded. "I'll just wait and let life take it's course. That's all I can really do."
"I guess you're right, Ino. Well, I'll see you tommorow!" Ino waved at her friend as she walked into her family's flower shop, the ring of the bell announcing her entrance.
"I'm home, Mom, Dad!" She yelled happily into the depths of the shop, back into where it adjoined her house. She waited a few seconds, then hung up her black bag on a hook behind the counter with the register on it. Then, she wandered back into her house to see if she could find her parents.
"Ah! Mom," Ino said cheerfully to her mother, who was sitting at their kitchen table reading a book, "I got a mission today, I leave tommorow."
Ino's mother looked up from her book, and into her daughters bright blue eyes. "That's great, honey! Who else is going?"
"The rest of team ten, Sakura, and Temari, that girl from the sand." Ino spit out the last name with contempt. She hated Temari. Not just because she spent too much time with Shikamaru, but because she was to overbearing, bossy, smart, stubborn, tall... Yup. In fact, the reason Ino hated Temari was because their personalities were almost exactly the same (and she was the only girl that was actually an inch taller than Ino, which maddened her to no end).
"Well that's great! It's the first mission team ten's been on all together for how long? Almost a year now," Ino's mom concluded, "Well, better get yourself ready. Dinner in half an hour, okay?"
"Un!" Ino hurried out of the dining room, through the living room, then up a flight of stairs, and finally into her room. She shed her clothes and hopped into the shower, turning on almost as hot as it could go, singing happily to herself as she washed her hair.
"Kitsune- shika- tanooki!" She chanted. It was something she made up for team Inoshikacho- As she saw them in animal form. Sure, people would have argued with her that Ino herself wasn't a fox, but a pig, while Shikamaru definitely wasn't a deer (a sloth, instead); but Ino was very sure of the fact that Shikamaru was a deer- not a sloth. Even his lineage and name thought so! As for Choji- the only thing she could think of him as was a cow or a tanooki. She definitely thought of him as a tanooki (not a cow. Choji might think she was calling him fat.)
Ino stepped out of the shower, wrapping her fluffy white towel around her tall, slim body. "Kitsune..." She sang softly, "Shika- tanooki!" Then remembering what her mother said, she hurriedly got dressed in a loose black tank top and a pair of loose sweats, then gathered up all of the things she might need for her mission tommorow- kunai, shuriken, explosives, a few mild painkillers, then set out her uniform.
'All ready', She thought happily, then ran out of her room and down the stairs so she could help her mother set the table for dinner.
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