A/N: these are bits and pieces of fanfictions I'm never going to post. Some scenes (in my opinion) were too good to be buried under the word files on my computer, so I decided to post them.
These scenes are from Underneath the Underneath / Double Lives and are about Ino (as the chapter name says). The setting is a bit similar to my other fic, Behind Closed Doors.
Allowance
"Do I have to go?" the tall blonde asked while eating her cereals. Her mother had already gone to work an hour ago, so that left her alone with her father.
She didn't like her father.
"Don't go if you don't want to. Don't be surprised when you find yourself homeless and without a job. Happy rest of your life, Ino" was the comment of her father's. He didn't even look up from the newspaper. Which, of course, annoyed the young woman even more. It took her all her willpower not to yell at his face.
"Fine, see if I care. Sakura will marry Sasuke and I'll just lay in some mudpit when they exchange wows – " she started in a whiny voice, knowing how to make him move.
"Have you packed yet? We'll be leaving in a minute", Inochi was up in a minute and running around the house. Needless to say, he desperately wanted the great Uchiha Sasuke as his son-in-law.
"What, you won't miss me at all during the whole year?" Ino asked, faking dissapointment.
Every year she got better and better at this. Her father didn't suspect a thing.. truth to be told, all of her friends fell for her act. Every time. That made her.. sad, somehow. The fact that no one knew her well enough to see the real her.
Inochi stopped so suddenly that any normal person would have fallen over. But he stayed still, pondering if Ino really meant what she said, or if she just wanted some allowance..
"Obviously not. Sorry to bother you. I'll get my stuff into the car.." Ino sighed and walked upstairs to her room. She left the door slightly ajar and pretended to drag her suitcases from the other side of the room to her door. Instead, she was intently listening to any sounds that came from downstairs.
She heard nothing.
Dissapointed, she dragged her stuff down the stairs when she saw her father standing in front of her with a lump of notes in his hand.
Ino blinked, as any good, innocent girl with no plots in her head should. She looked up to Inochi's face and.. saw it redden?
"You know I won't be able to visit you, so.. Take this and have some fun with your friends. Treat them to a lunch or something. Okay?" A bright smile graced Ino's lips. She so succeeded!
"Thanks father! It's not as good as spending time with you, but.." a dark look passed the man's face. 'Shit, did I go too far?'.
"I'm sorry, you know that. Just keep the money. We'll se what we can do about the spending time together, okay? Load your stuff into the car, we're off".
Yamanaka Ino arrived at the Konoha gates at 12.37 with a huge smile on her face and a lot more of allowance in her purse.
Cry
Ino wanted to cry.
Yes, she had enough money (thanks to her father) to buy the cutest skirt she had just seen on her way to the school. Yes, everyone still thought her to be the same bitchy bitch. Yes, Sakura still though her as number one competitor over Sasuke.
Yes, she had just completely made a fool out of herself in front of the guy she really liked.
She thanked gods that her roommate wasn't in the room yet. A single tear was able to escape from under her closed eyelids. She so hoped that her roommate wouldn't be Sakura. Speaking of the devil, guess who was the one who had embarrassed her just in time for the mystery man to see? Sakura. The damn bitch.
A lone tear fell.
She curled up under the bed covers. She wanted to disappear from the Earth. The look on his face had been one of amusement.
He was never amused!
Maybe she was too clownish? Maybe she had looked ridiculous, covered in red paint that Sakura had somehow obtained out of the thin air? No, the damn thing had been planned by the pink-haired witch. The only comforting thing was that Sasuke, who had happened to see all this, told Sakura that she was a real bitch. But how the hell would that please Ino? She didn't even like the obnoxious boy!
The door opened with a bang. Ino almost shot out from under the covers but then remembered that she still had some paint on her face – she hadn't been able to remove it all. She stayed still, her breathing the only thing – if you didn't count the from of lump that was her – proving that the newcomer wasn't the only one in the two-bed room.
"Hello?"
Shit, Ino cursed inwardly, she had forgotted the rooms were coed (A/N: girls and boys were mixed). The voice was definitely a male one. She shuddered in distress. The worst couldn't be happening. It couldn't be him!
"May I ask why you are under the covers?" the voice asked, nearing her bed. Ino slightly calmed down: the voice wasn't his. Still she didn't want to show herself. What would people think of her!
So absorbed in her thoughts she didn't notice the boy grabbing the covers until it was too late.
"Hello there, I'm Rock Lee! I'm your new room- what happened to you?" Ino silently sat up, not looking at him. She had changed and was now wearing the school uniform. Together with the paint stains that she hadn't been able to scrub off and her bloodshot eyes, she probably looked like a young school girl who had been beaten up pretty badly.
That probably was Lee's first thought, because in a second he was running to the nurse's office with her in his arms. Ino blinked. How had she gotten out of the bed, their room – the dormitory?! In no more that fifteen seconds she was sitting in the nurse's office, with the person clad in green standing next to her.
"Wha-what happened?" she asked. The boy looked at her worriedly, then saw the stains more clearly. He blinked. "That isn't blood", he stated to himself. Ino could have laughed if the boy hadn't been so concerned as to get her to the hospital wing so fast.
"Thank you for your concern, Lee-san.." she said, looking down at her hands. She knew she had seen the boy somewhere before, but couldn't remember where..
"What is going on?" the nurse, Shizune, came from her personal office only to see a blonde with red stains on her sking and a boy wearing only green. Outwardly she didn't see any injuries, so she wondered why the pair was here.
"I'm sorry Shizune-san, it was my mistake! At the sight of the red stains, I automatically assumed that it was blood –" Lee started but was cut off by someone else stepping in. Ino glanced at the door and paled.
It was Hyuuga Neji.
"Earlier someone dumped red paint on her", the Hyuuga prodigy explined, "I believe she is called Haruno Sakura, Shizune-sensei". Before their eyes could make contact, Ino quickly turned her head to the nurse. 'I'm dead. So dead', she panicked. The fact that her crush had witnessed everything and now was here, explaining it to Shizune-sensei..
Ino wanted to cry.