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A tale of two girls


Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG. PIG!
That word to Ino became meaningless after a while. To her it was just a bundle of letters strung together and repeated over and over again by taunting kids. If you look really closely at the word 'pig' you realise it is just three letters in the alphabet and it suddenly turns into nonsense. That was what Ino felt and here she was…again.

"PIG! PIG! PIG!" The four boys yelled and sneered at Ino.
Ino looked down at the cement floor and concentrated on the black lumps where chewing gum used to be.
"PIG! PIG! PIG! PIG!"
"What are you?" The leader pushed Ino roughly into the brick wall of the school.
"A pig," Ino replied, eyes still downcast, she blinked back tears.
"Look me in the eye PIG! What are you!?" The boy shouted.
I don't know why he asks me what I am when he already knows the answer, Ino sighed.
The boy shook her and Ino's head slammed hard into the wall. She winced as hot, striking pain shot through her and she instinctively raised a hand to hold her wound. That was a mistake.
"Keep your hands down! Dirty pig! You didn't even answer me! You think your head hurts? Well you won't even notice it once we're through with you!" The boy then thew her to the ground and Ino curled into a ball as the gang started to beat her up. Ino groaned as a shoe hit her stomach and tears started to run down her face from the pain and shock of the moment.
"Please! Stop!" Ino begged.
But they didn't stop.
I'm going to die. I really am going to die.
Then somehow the beating went away, she heard a voice in the distance shout but for some reason she couldn't make sense of the words. Ino tried to lift her head but it just twitched limply and then she struggled to open her eyes, they were swollen and sore but she managed to catch a glimpse of a raven haired boy standing next to another boy with white hair.
Strange…
Ino thought before everything went black.


Three years later

"Hey, if it isn't the birthday girl. So how does it feel to be sixteen?" Sai called out from the steps as Ino shuffled into the back of the school.
Ino grimaced and slumped down next to him, "How do you think it feels?"
"Want to take something for the pain, I'm sure it-
"Shut up pot head," Ino snapped.
Sai and Suigetsu exchanged glances, something was up with Ino, she never acted this pissed unless…

Sakura yawned as she sat up in bed, she groaned as her parents began to sing happy birthday, she was sixteen now. Way to old for this; she eyed them wearily as they placed the tray laden with food in front of her. A cup of orange juice, coffee, tea, scrambled eggs, vegemite toast, porridge and fruit salad.
"Do you really think I need all this?" Sakura inspected the breakfast with her fork.
Both her parents shrugged and grinned, idiotically in Sakura's opinion.
"We want your big day to be perfect," Mrs Haruno crooned.
Sakura nodded distractedly as she stirred the steaming porridge, how she hated birthdays. All you did was meet relations, receive presents you would never want, get embarrassed by your parents and to top it all off you were treated just as if it was your fifth birthday when eleven years had passed since then. Sakura screwed up her nose at the thought of presents, which reminded her…what did her parents manage to find this year. Honestly, it's as if they dedicate their whole time searching for the gift you don't want to receive at all.
Sakura quickly bit into her toast and turned to her parents with an expectant air, she arched one pink eyebrow and stared at them. For a moment they just returned the gaze until realization hit them.
Mrs Haruno's mouth shaped an o and she nudged her husband, "Come on Kai, get Sakura her presents."
Sakura couldn't help but notice the use of a plural in her mother's sentence and for a moment she fervently hoped that this year would be the exception for her unfortunate history of gifts. Only for a moment, Sakura knew she was kidding herself, she had horrible bad luck and nothing ever seemed to go her way.
She was right, Sakura tried to hide her utter disgust as she tore open the wrapping to find a brown velvet jacket with gold embroidery on the back reading 'Preppy Royalty'.
"Oh, sweetheart, do you like it? Its Juicy Couture!" Mrs Haruno squealed with excitement.
Sakura nodded and forcefully pulled back the corner of her lips into a painful smile, "I love it mum, thanks dad!"
"I'm glad you liked it. Now for the next one," Mr Haruno reached for another package and Sakura braced herself for the onslaught.

Ino leaned back on the stairs and tried to block out the pungent smell of Suigetsu's joint. Really did he always have to smoke right in front of her? School was about to start…Ino mentally shrugged, school. So trivial, why should she care about her studies if her family didn't care what the hell she did with her life.
The blonde glanced around at the two boys sitting with her, Sai and Suigetsu. Sai was sprawled out with one hand behind his head; the other across his eyes and Suigetsu was just crouching with his newly sparked pot in his mouth. Ino smiled, her friends were idiots but she loved them all the same.
"Planning to go to classes today Sui?" Ino interrupted their moment of peaceful silence.
Suigetsu inhaled deeply and turned his head to her, Ino watched in distaste as he exhaled the smoke in front of her face.
"Well…seeing as it was your birthday and all…I've decided I'll skip just this once to celebrate the occasion," Suigetsu grinned, revealing his odd razor sharp teeth.
Ino just raised her eyebrow and turned to Sai. Before she could open her mouth to ask anything Sai already had an answer.
"I'm just gonna go to art this arvo."
Ino shivered slightly, Sai was freaky like that, and he always knew what was going on even when he appeared to be sleeping.
"What about you birthday girl?" Sai breathed.
Ino didn't reply straight away, for some bizarre reason she felt a strange urge to laugh at Sai's question. Why? Maybe because she couldn't feel less like a birthday girl, maybe it was because she was treated li-
Ino immediately stopped her train of thought, feeling sorry for yourself is stupid, "I think I'll do nothing all day. I like the sound of that."
Suigetsu and Sai both sighed in agreement as the three of them settled down for a day of nothingness.

Sakura tugged at her preppy jacket and moaned as her mother waved furiously from the car, seriously! Did they have no idea? Sakura glanced up at her school. It was a shit hole to put it nicely. The thing was that only druggos, delinquents and the bottom of society (or so Sakura thought) went there. She certainly did not belong, then why was she there? One, the school somehow was on the OC list and two, she got in, and that was it, why couldn't she have failed the test on purpose? Because she was an idiot that's why. Sakura shook her head as she headed to the steps and she lowered it as she came face to face with three teenagers. They were perfect examples of the people she had just mentioned, the one smoking was Suigetsu, he owned more illicit drugs than a police lab, the pale skinned one was a delinquent and the girl was the scum of society. Sakura wrinkled her nose delicately as she tried to step past them unnoticed. It didn't work.

"Well looky here, isn't it Haruno?" Sai called out from were he appeared to be sleeping.

"Isn't it the loser trio," Sakura sneered, "And their leader, the pig."

Ino rolled her eyes; she was not in the mood to deal with Sakura Haruno today, "Drop dead."

"Ooooh, I'm so scared, what are you going to do? Pay your mum to seduce my dad? Or maybe you might set your drunk father on me," Sakura feinted a scared look.

Ino reddened and she stood up and glared at Sakura, "Want to say that again?"

Sakura returned the glare, "Sorry, I have better things to do with my time than talk to scum."

She then turned and sauntered off, Ino continued to glare at Sakura's backs and if looks could kill Sakura would have died three times that morning.

"Nice jacket by the way," Sai called out.

Sakura flinched; she then continued to walk properly, "Freaks."


Not sure how this is going to go but…

We'll see

Crackfic.