It was hard to sleep with him next door.
She wrest her dagger from her own hand and turned over.
It was time.
She pushed open Sasuke's door and laughed to herself.
There was a time when she wondered whether to kiss or kill this stranger, but another look at the reward poster made Sasuke into a corpse.
So, that is what she thought of him as, as he lay there with his coat pouring over his bed.
It was nothing personal.
"How long are you going to stand there?" said Sasuke.
She froze for a second and looked for the door. Her heart stopped beating for a moment.
What did she do wrong!? She made sure he was asleep!
"Pardon my intrusion," she said, putting aside the idea of fighting him.
He turned his head slowly and she could not help but notice how perfect his facial features were. His raven black hair was begging to be pulled.
Sasuke stood and teetered just once before unsheathing a long black sword.
She had to take the opportunity to strike first. Judging by their first encounter she only had one sec-
Too late.
His sword was already past her.
She blinked twice. Her eyes resigned slowly as she waited for the white hot pain to wash over her middle. But for some reason, he legs hadn't given up yet.
Sasuke withdrew his sword, covered in blood and opened his door.
The innkeeper was laying there, a dirty pistol in one hand and the wanted poster in the other. There was a pool of blood forming around him, welcoming him into the next world.
This sort of thing must have happened a lot. These assassination attempts.
Her eyes shifted downward, and then back at Sasuke's own.
"S-sorry," she said.
She hung her head for a moment as he gathered his things.
"More are coming soon," he said. "You should join them, lest they think you an ally."
He was right, and yet that was the furthest thing from her mind at the moment. "I'm going with you," she said.
"You 'ready tried to kill me. Twice." he said. "What makes you think-"
"Because you haven't killed me," said Ino, standing there.
It felt like the first true statement she had made in her entire life.