Hello everyone! Yes it is I! Back from the dead and as you can see I deleted Who are you? Who am I? Because the inspiration for that story was....well dead. But! This story is chock full of inspiration...at least I hope so...just to say I do love Konoha and it would be the first village I would choose if I was a kunoichi in the Naruto universe, but it's government is DEFIANTLY corrupted. It makes me mad! Humph....anyways enjoy!
Angeli i demoni kruzhili nado mnoj....Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti....
"Shikamaru?"
"Yeah Ino?"
"Do you ever think about leaving Konoha?"
"Yeah, but it would be too troublesome..."
It wasn't a secret, now a days most of the Konoha chunin and genin wanted to defect from Konoha due to the corrupted government system. Although Tsunade was a great Hokage she still was beyond the power that the elders held over the village and it's shinobi.
Shikamaru glanced over at his blond haired team mate and sighed, Ino had defiantly changed since the death of her father, almost like something had died inside of her.
"Where would you go Ino if you left Konoha anyways? Suna probably wouldn't be good since they're in an alliance with us, Kumo, no we're not on good terms with them, same with Iwa. Kiri might be good. Yuki's out of the question since we also have an alliance with them, Ame wouldn't be a good choice, and Oto is out of the question....."
"Kusa."
Shikamaru gave Ino a lazy but shocked look.
"Why Kusa?"
Ino pulled her knees to her chest and a small, sad smile comes across her face.
"My Kaa-san was from Kusagakure."
Now all of the laziness was gone from Shikamaru, Ino never talked about her mother, NEVER! In fact the only things that the lazy genius knew about her was that she used to be a geisha and that she had been killed when Ino was 8.
"Hey guys!"
The two chunin turned looked behind them to see Chouji heading towards them and then sit down beside Shikamaru.
"Whatcha talking about?"
"Leaving Konoha."
Chouji's happy face turned solemn.
"Yeah...how long do you think it's gonna be before someone leaves?"
Shikamaru looked over at Ino and saw the broken, far away look in her eyes.
'I don't think it's gonna be to long Chouji....not long at all...'
"This is it....I'm leaving..."
Ino slowly packed up all of her belongings and wrote a letter to each of the rookie 9, her friends, and to the Hokage, Tsunade. She also put the key to the flower shop in Hinata's letter so she could continue to run the shop if she wanted to. Afterwords Ino locked the door to her house and pocketed the key. She then went to the willow tree outside of the Yamanaka compound and tied each letter to a tree branch. Ino just stood there and watched the breeze sway the letters from side to side, finally the last Yamanaka headed towards the graveyard.
"I'm so sorry Tou-san, I know that you would disapprove me leaving the village but I don't know what to do anymore...if I stay here a day longer I'm gonna kill myself...I can't take the abuse anymore..from Forehead, or the Hyuuga clan...minus Hinata and Neji, and of course...the Elders."
Ino spat the last word out like it was poison, yes the Elders. Ever since the massacre the pressure had really come down upon the three survivors. Ino had practically been forced to enter the Academy and her mother? Hell....they looked at her like she was dog shit. A geisha? What can a geisha do for a clan? Those and were the exact words, and others that Ino never knew, had almost sent Inoichi on a rampage, but thanks to her mothers calm words Inoichi had been saved from an execution. Not to mention that for the past few months they had been harassing her to get married and have children.
Inolit the incense by her parents graves.
"Kaa-san, I'm going to Kusa, after all you always said that if for some reason I had to leave Konoha they would welcome me with open arms."
Ino bowed her head and stood up, taking one last look at were her parents lay before taking off into the night.
"Lady Tsunade! Lady Tsunade!"
The current Hokage, Tsunade was jolted awake by the cries of a jonin.
"Wha?! What is it? What's going on?"
"Sorry to wake you Hokage-sama but we have just received word that Yamanaka Ino has left the village!"
Tsunade's face instantly gained a grave look to it.
'So it's finally happened, one of the Konoha 12 has left the village....I'm not surprised it was Ino though...Kami-sama that girl has gone through so much pain, loss, and abuse....'
"We're already sending ANBU after her, to bring her back to the village unharmed."
Tsunade wanted nothing more than to just let the Yamanaka go but she couldn't do anything about it.
'DAMN THEM!!!!'
"SHIZUNE!!! BRING ME A BOTTLE OF SAKE!!!"
Ino raced through the woods as she tried to avoid the ANBU that the village had sent after her.
'Shit! Stupid ANBU, I hate them!'
Ino came to a rest at a clearing were she was immediately surrounded by ANBU black ops.
"Yamanaka Ino, we have direct orders to bring you back to the village with minimum to no harm to your person."
Ino scowled, they where puppets, the whole lot of them!
"Screw you! I'm not going back to that village ever again!"
The leading ANBU let out a sigh.
"Yamanaka-san. If you return right now the Elders are willing to let this slide."
Ino let out a bitter cold laugh that sent chills down each and every one of the ANUBU's spines.
"The Elders? The Elders can all rot in the deepest pits of Hell for all I care! A group of lousy, selfish, bigots! They're heads are stuffed so far up they're asses that they can't see anything past their own problems! Don't you see? To them we're just puppets, disposable garbage that can easily be replaced, just cattle."
One ANBU lost his cool and headed toward Ino with the intent to kill.
"How dare you speak of the Elders that way you bitch!!"
As the ANBU headed toward her Ino remained cool and calm.
A few feet away from her Ino placed her hands into the sign of the dragon and spoke one word.
"Boom."
The shinobi in front of her blew up, literally. His remains splashed over his fellow ANBU officers as they looked at her in silent horror.
"Who's next?"
All of the ANBU rushed at her but the Yamanaka was to quick for them.
"Ninja art: Death by mind jutsu!"
All of the ANBU stopped in they're tracks and clutched they're heads in agony as their screams pierced the air. One by one they all dropped dead, on the outside it looked like nothing had happend at all but many hours from now medic ninja would discover that they're brains had exploded inside of they're heads.
Ino gave all of them a sad glance.
"May Kami-sama guide you safely to the after life."
Ino bowed in respect to her former fellow ninja and made her way again to Kusagakure.
-Laughs nervously- Hopefully this one will turn out better then the other...-Sweat drops- And sorry about the lame title....Ja ne!
Song Translation: Angeli i demoni kruzhili nado mnoj....Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti....=Angels and demons were circling above me....Swishing through the hardships and milky ways....
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