Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If you don't believe me then blush thank you!

Hey people of the world! I just want to say that I'm also a part of the 3 fanficateers! Not only is this our first challenge but this is my first story so don't be mean. Anyway, this challenge is between me, Kirri Kitty, and Lone Devil. The challenge is to each come up with a Gaara/Ino plot of our own.

Kirri Kitty's- Switch

Lone Devil's- That night

And drum role

Mine- Amnesia

Chapter one: Friendship; The accident

"Shika, hurry up and come on out!" Ino called loudly. Chouji and Sakura were right behind her.

"Alright you troublesome girl, I'm leaving." Shikamaru sighed. It was hard for him to follow the directions of TWO troublesome girls at the same time. There was Ino, rushing him to hurry up to hang out and there was his mother, telling him he can't leave until he finishes his food, and he's a slow eater.

When Shikamaru finally came out, he walked in the middle of Chouji. Ino and Shikamaru were in the middle while Chouji was next to Shikamaru and Sakura was next to Ino.

Ino was the best friend of all the girls but mostly Sakura. Even when they were strictly rivals, they would always protect each other with their lives. Ino would do the same for her teammates, as well as they would for her.

They all watched as Chouji ate his chips nonstop. He accidentally missed his mouth and it went inside his nose. Everyone laughed, they thought with all his practice he'd never miss.

Ino stopped laughing 'What would my life be like without Chouji?'

Chouji ate a whole BBQ stick with one swipe.

Ino laughed lightly. 'I'd probably still be shallow and against fat people. I wouldn't be a very good ninja because I would starve myself to only drink water and eat ice. His power taught me that to gain energy I'd have to eat, even if it was a little bit.'

Shikamaru sighed and lay down turning away from the group.

Ino lowered her shoulders. 'He's so lazy, but what would my life be like without him?'

Not even a second after Shikamaru hit the ground he started snoring.

Ino laughed in her head. 'I'd still be very ignorant and always want to be the leader. He also helped me increase my brain cells in Shouji. I hated it but that was his favorite game so we played over and over again, I never one though. I beat Sakura almost all the time.'

"Okay guys, I'm going home now." Sakura announced wiping the invisible dirt from her dress.

Chouji got up as well. "I'm going to go to Ichiraku, I'm still hungry."

Ino nodded at them and stared at the stars. 'Sakura, I wouldn't be me without her.'

Sakura looked down at Ino. "Are you sure you don't want me to keep you company since Shikamaru is asleep?"

Ino smiled a bright smile. "It's okay Sakura, you can go home, and besides, Shika needs me to watch over his lazy ass."

Sakura nodded and walked away. "Without her I wouldn't be as strong as I am now, when Asuma sensei died she let me train with her and she begged Tsunade to help me too. I'm still not as good a medic as her but I'm still very good.'

Shikamaru stared at Ino. 'What is Ino doing?'

Ino didn't even notice his hand moving in front of her face. 'Over the next years will I ever forget them? Or will they forget me? No it's Ino-Shika-Chou forever! Where does that leave Sakura? In my heart, if I can etch all of them in my minds, they'll be with me forever.'

Shikamaru for once was the one annoyed. "Hey Ino, I'm going home!"

Ino snapped out of her 'daydream'. "Huh, okay."

Shikamaru stood up and jammed his hands in his pockets. "Do you want me to walk you home?"

Ino shook her head. She still wanted to stay here. "No, but you can take the blanket and basket home."

Shikamaru groaned. "I didn't agree to take them."

"Too bad, I need your strength. You wouldn't let a pretty girl walk home with a blanket now would you?" Ino asked folding the blanket.

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow. "Yeah if I don't want to carry it, and I don't."

Ino made her eyes watery and a shinier blue. "S-Shika, if you send a pretty girl like me out at night with a blanket, men might take it the wrong way and try to rape me."

Shikamaru thought about it. 'Ino's a ninja. She can take care of herself. Then again if for some reason something happened to her dad would hack me to pieces.'

Ino put the blanket in his hands. "Okay, go."

Shikamaru grumbled a 'troublesome' and left.

……………

"It's been a long time since we've been to Konoha." Temari stated happily.

Kankuro elbowed Gaara. "She's so excited to see her lazy pineapple-head."

Temari sent Kankuro a death glare and cracked her knuckles. "At least I'm happy to see someone!"

Gaara shook his head.

"Well I'm happy to see pinky the brain and Blondie the vane." Kankuro shot back.

"If you were excited to see them you would at least know their names, Sakura and Ino, teammates of Naruto and Shikamaru." Temari answered smartly.

Kankuro grinned. "If you know their names, you must be excited to see them. I like Yuri."

Gaara blinked when Temari hit his brother to the floor with her fan.

…...

After about an hour of reminiscing about her past with her friends, Ino stood up and left.

She was about a block away from her street.

"Watch out!" a man's voice yelled.

Ino looked in his direction. A wagon was coming, very fast. Ino tried to jump but oil from the wagon covered the street and she couldn't move.

Ino was about to use her 'super human strength' Tsunade taught her but before she could the heavy wagon hit her.

The last thing she remembered were the names of her closest friends… Shikamaru… Chouji… and Sakura. Not their looks, their personalities. Just their names and the fact that they were friends.

………………

"Watch out!" A man yelled.

A loud crash was heard.

"Oh my god, someone was hit!" A lady yelled.

"Call the ambulance!" A man yelled.

"It's Ino, Ino Yamanaka!" A customer of the flower shop yelled.

"You hear that?" Temari asked seriously. "It's the girl Kankuro's excited to see."

"Let's go look" the two boys said running to the noise.

"It's the Kazekage, move!" A civilian yelled.

Temari and Kankuro bent over to the bloody blonde's side. Gaara just stood with his arms crossed.

Ino opened her eyes slightly. "Sakura, Chouji, Shikamaru, you guys came."

Temari's eyes widened. "We aren't them!"

"What are you talking about Sakura?" Ino asked before her eyes closed.

"She has amnesia." Gaara said plainly.

"We better take her to the hospital ourselves. You know how long they take." Temari suggested.

"She's going on your back." Kankuro said to Temari.

……………

When they reached the hospital the ambulance was just about to leave.

They all waited in the waiting room, which was soon filled with people. She wasn't aloud visitors yet.

Gaara didn't want to be there but Temari begged him to stay. He didn't know if it was because she wanted Ino to know her saviors or because Shikamaru was there. He doubted it was the second reason because it would be inappropriate to flirt with someone whose friend is hurt or might die.

A nurse came out. "Ino's mom and dad, you are the first ones she can see."

When they came back out, Inoichi gave the sand siblings a hand shake while Ino's mom hugged them. When she was about to hug Gaara, he glared at her and she redirected her hug to her husband.

"Okay the people who saved Ino can see her now." The nurse called.

"Come on let's go." Temari said entering the emergency room. The two brothers followed.

"It's a good thing they came when they did." Her mother said.

"So how's Ino?" Shikamaru asked.

"She has a type of amnesia." Inoichi answered.

"What kind of amnesia?" Sakura asked.

"Well we don't know the kind but, she can't remember some things." Her mother answered this time.

Chouji looked down shamefully. "If only I didn't go to Ichiraku, Ino and I would still be sitting there, and this wouldn't have happened."

Shikamaru put a hand on Chouji's shoulder. "No, if it's anyone's fault it's mine. I was the last person to see her."

"It's nobody's fault." Inoichi said strictly.

……………..

Ino sat on the bed glaring at the bottom of the bed. She heard the door open again and Shikamaru, Chouji and Sakura were there. (Really sand siblings)

"Hey Ino are you alright?" Temari asked worriedly.

"Yeah, thanks for saving me." Ino said happily.

"Do you think she knows that we aren't her friends?" Kankuro asked out loud.

Ino started to tear up. "You're not my friend anymore Chouji, why? It's Ino-Shika-Chou forever!"

Kankuro sighed loudly. "I'm not Chouji!"

"Yeah, we aren't Shikamaru, Chouji and Sakura." Temari said. "I'm Temari, he's Kankuro and he's Gaara, the Kazekage."

Ino raised an eyebrow. "What kind of joke are you playing?

"We aren't joking." Gaara said seriously.

"Shikamaru, what are you talking about?" Ino asked.

"Maybe tomorrow she'll remember her friends." Temari whispered to her brothers. "Well Ino, we're leaving, you rest up once the visitors are gone."

When they left the room, Kankuro walked past Ino's true friends and muttered "Your friend is crazy."

Sakura, Chouji and Shikamaru ran into the room.

"Hey Ino, do you remember us?!" Sakura yelled. 'Please say yes. Please say yes.'

"Uh, no who are you guys?" Ino asked.

All their eyes widened and thought similar thoughts. 'No how can this be happening?'

"Ino it's us, don't you remember me? I'm Sakura." Sakura asked hopefully.

"No you're not. Sakura was just here." Ino said angrily.

"Huh, that girl was Temari." Shikamaru said.

'That was what Sakura said.' Ino glared at him. "Oh and let me guess, you're Chouji."

Shikamaru's shoulders slumped slightly. "No I'm Shikamaru."

Chouji decided to give his name as well. "Oh, I'm Chouji."

Ino knew she was confused but she was certain that these people were not Shikamaru, Chouji and Sakura.

"Maybe she'll remember us tomorrow." Shikamaru whispered to them.

"No, I don't want to leave Ino here!" Sakura cried.

Now Ino knew she wasn't Sakura. The real Sakura calls her 'Ino-pig'. Well before she would but Ino knew that Sakura was smart enough to know that if she wanted her to know that she was the real Sakura she would call Ino 'Ino-pig'.

Then the rest of the rookie nine and Gai's team came in. She didn't remember any of them when they identified themselves, she belived all of them. Since their names kind of suited their looks and personalities.

Ta-Da short, I know, but I'm done. Please read and review. Yeah, I'm not sure, but I think out of the 3 fanficateers stories, mine is probably the shortest.