Ino sneaked up to the house, stealthy as a panther.

"Ino, what are you doing?"

"NYAAAA!" She whipped round, coming face to face with Sasuke. "Oh, Sasuke! I didn't hear you coming!" He smiled. Yet again!

"I wanted to talk to you." He wants to talk to me...!

"Oh, of course I'll talk to you!" Ino said, adjusting her hair. "What about? I'll talk about anything you want me to!" Surely, now was her chance. She grabbed his arm and began to snuggle up to him. Instinctively, Sasuke began to cringe away but then remembered that if he wanted to play this game, he would have to put up with stuff like this. So he stayed put, and tactfully asked her to let go.

"Ino, not to be rude but please could you let go of my arm? I hurt it on the mission yesterday and it's still a little sore." Ino let go immediately.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Sasuke! I didn't hurt you, did I?" Sasuke shook his head.

"It's OK. But," he smiled YET AGAIN, "maybe once it's better you can try that again... that would be quite nice..." A huge grin spread over Ino's face. Surely that was a sign that Sasuke liked her? She leaned in towards his face, lips pursed...

"I'll be off then now. Bye!" Sasuke hurriedly departed. Ino scowled. She had been so close! Maybe her breath smelt or something...

"Bye Sasuke! See you tomorrow!" she hollered.

Sasuke shivered at his narrow escape. He could cope with Ino smothering his arms, but a kiss... he shuddered. Plus, if Sakura had seen Ino kissing him that could have been the end of his whole game. They were right outside Sakura's house, after all. What was Ino doing there, anyway? Maybe she was going to do something to Sakura! That was much quicker than he had expected. Hopefully he would see the results tomorrow. Knowing Ino, it would probably be funny. Very funny.

"Ahhh," he murmured, smirking. "Such things a girl will do for love!"

Ino returned her attention to Sakura's house. First of all, she had to check if Sakura was in. She knocked the door and then quickly hid behind a bush. She waited a few minutes, but nobody answered. She was in luck! Stealthily, she headed towards the kitchen window, which was only a couple of centimetres off the ground, and always left open. Sure enough, it had been left wide open.

"Almost as if she wants me to come in!" laughed Ino, before climbing through the open window. Her laughter stopped as soon as she entered the house. One reason for this was that she heard singing. Very bad singing, at that. So, somebody must be inside the house. The second reason was that Ino was not alone in the kitchen.

"Whooaa, whooa yeah!" sang Sakura, bustling around the kitchen shaking her hips. "Oooohh yeahhhh!" She loved that song. Probably because of the high volume she was singing it at, she had not heard Ino knocking on the door. She had also not noticed Ino enter her kitchen because it was a large kitchen and she wasn't looking at the window.

Ino bit her lip. She could probably get past without Sakura noticing, but would she be able to get out once her job was done? Well, she'd just have to try. Quietly, she tiptoed towards the kitchen door, and then leaped straight up into the air as Sakura turned round.

Sakura frowned. I swear I just heard something! She looked around, then jumped as a pot of spice fell off the worktop behind her. Ino sighed in relief. Very, very quietly. She jumped off the cupboard she had been sitting on as Sakura turned round to investigate. Also very, very quietly. She took one last look at Sakura. Sakura began singing again, causing Ino to wince and run out of the room. Very, very quietly.

After that, Ino reached her destination without too much trouble. The bathroom. She picked up the bottle of shampoo that she knew Sakura used every night before going to bed, and emptied it down the sink. She then removed the bottle of bleach from her pocket, and poured the whole lot of it into the empty shampoo bottle. Let's see how Sasuke likes you with white hair, Sakura! She then crept into Sakura's bedroom, looking out of the window and judging the distance to the ground. She could jump that, couldn't she? Then, she realised two things. The singing had stopped, and there were footsteps coming up the stairs! Panicked, she jumped out the window, landing heavily on the ground.

"Oof!" All of the air was knocked out of her and she dropped the empty bottle of bleach but she ignored this, leaping to her feet and sprinting as fast as she could away from Sakura's house. Her job there was done. From the shadows of a nearby bush, Sasuke laughed. He strode forwards and picked up the empty bottle, reading the label. Bleach.

"Ino!" He laughed. "I didn't expect you to go that far. This is going to be hilarious!"