"You're seriously thinking about doing that? You know I was joking about that, right?" Tenten said to me as she raised an eyebrow. I moved my head in a circle to stretch my neck.
"Yes, but the sooner Sakura gets over sir emo, the faster she'll get over this shit." I cursed, clenching my fist in anger at her petty reason to trash our friendship.
"Yeah, or she'll never forgive you and forever be your enemy." Tenten countered as her eyebrows went downward as I looked out of the bottom corner of my eye.
"Ok, but Sasuke will never fall for anyone else because they just are typical fangirls." Yeah, she had a huge point, but I just want to get it over with.
"Alright, first thing I would do is trade the skinny jeans and hoodie for a tank top and skirt." Tenten said as my eye twitched.
"No way in fucking hell will I ever wearing a skirt!" I yelled, but cover my mouth with my hand as I heard a loud 'crash' from the kitchen.
"Keep it down!" I heard my brother yell exasperated. I dropped my head.
"Sorry!" I called back.
"I should make you clean this!" Was his muffled added statement.
"Not like you haven't done worse with your sad excuses of art." I barley heard Sasori's comment, but it made me cough out a laugh. The statement was painfully true.
"Hey! Why you lit-" I shut the door so I couldn't hear their bickering and rolled my eyes with a smirk.
"And again, I am not wearing a skirt or a tank top." I said with a determined face crossing my arms, causing my gray and dark blue 'Konoha High' hoodie to wrinkle as I did.
"Look Ino, if you want anyone to look your way you need to show your actual body." She said doing a sad excuse of an imaginary doted line of what the female body (My body) should look like. "And besides, you are naturally hour glass shape anyway." The Chinese brunette added.
"But wouldn't my sudden change of style show?" I questioned putting a hand on my hip.
Tenten huffed thoughtfully. "True." She thought for a moment. "But you should change your hair." She said pointing to my spiky side ponytail.
"Aww, why," I whined, "it was a pain in the ass to flatten my hair and it looks cool spiked!" I tugged on it a little as if trying to flatten it, it didn't work so well and popped back up to the awesome spiked from before. Tenten ran into my bathroom before I could realize she did. My eyes widening, I dove under my bed to hide and peeked out to see Tenten walking out with a can of hairspray and a straightener. She sighed before i saw her feet walk out the door. My eyebrows furrowed a little in confusion as my eyes narrowed. I waited moments, until I saw another pair of feet which I discovered as my brothers (Oh god no). I gulped a little nervous, that is until I saw something roll under the bed.
"Damn…" I murmured as a small but smoke filled bomb went off. Coughing and jumping out my eye twitched as I realized I looked like I was barbecued. My eyes flat-lined as I looked at my broil-like haired covered in smoke.
"Deidara…" I said lowly, his grin faded as I reached in my pocket and pulled out my ultimate weapon against all manhood.
Lipstick.
Of course I NEVER use it, but I keep it for emergencies. Before I could move, Deidara already left the room and locked us in from the outside using a dining room chair (What the fuck? That bastard came prepared! NO FAIR!)
"I'M SO GOING TO KILL HIM!" I yelled rubbing smoke out of my face with my hoodie sleeve.
"Eh-eh-eh, first." She said lifting up a straightener. I jumped over Tenten and started banging on my own bedroom door.
"Deidara you stupid twit if you don't save me from this I'm hiding all of your clay and stuffing it in your face while you sleep!" I threatened banging on the door (Of coarse I didn't know where his clay was hidden, but I know how to fib) I waited a couple of moments just to find no answer.
Damn, he knew.
"Ino, come on, lets just get this over with." Tenten whined. "Plus we have trig. Homework remember?" Ah, shit- I forgot about that.
"Fine, but your doing mine since you are making me use…that." I said over dramatically pointing at it. Tenten rolled her eyes and agreed as I sadly slumped over to the bed. Tenten get on the bed and sat on her knees to get a better angle.
Goodbye my lovely spiky ponytail.
After a gruesome decade (4 minuets) later, my hair was all straight and soft, my lip quivered.
It was un-spiky!
Like- like, the opposite of spiky!
"Alright, now to get started on the homework, you do whatever." Tenten said waving airily before opening and going back and fourth between math-books. I went to get two more sodas when I realized something.
We where still locked in.
"Damn it!"
Beep, beep, beep…beep, be-
"I heard you damn it!" I said taking my alarm clock and throwing it across the room, causing Tenten to jump up and reach for her pocket-knife necklace (Yes, a pocket knife as a piece of jewelry, how do they allow that in school you ask? I think Tenten 'showed' them it personally).
"Time to wake up." I groaned, hating this upcoming day before it started. Sitting up and trudging out the door (I blackmailed Sasori into doing it. Heehee, I told him I know where his puppet collection was.) I went into Deidara's room- where he was off the bed in a cocoon of blankets, as usual. I walked over, flipped the empty mattress on him and walked out. Going back to my room I pulled out a Ocean City black hoodie that had neon paint splatters and pulled out white skinny jeans and black sneakers (As I said earlier, no way in hell am I wearing I skirt.) And went to the bathroom to see my new straight hair (Which I resisted the urge to cry as I started to put it up).
"Oh god don't be so dramatic." Tenten rolled her eyes as she re-did her shoulder length hair in buns with her simple gray t-shirt, leather jacket and jeans. I glared the best I could manage in the morning, which was like I was dazed by pot sort of look.
"Don't be so stupid as to put that thought of the plan in my brain when you know I am a natural blond." I countered with a yawn as I put my face in the ice cold sink.
"COLD!" I said now fully awake and blinking multiple times.
"Heehee, I don't see why you just don't put music in your ears." Tenten said gesturing to the headphones she had in (How come I never noticed that?).
"Because ice water tightens your skin." I made up an excuse.
"Yeah…right." (A/N: It actually does though.) Since we where running late, I ran into my brother room to yell at him, just to find him in his boxers (JUST his boxers. Yeah…scarring)
"OH MY GOD!" I yelled falling back as I shuttered.
"That's why you just don't walk into my room!" He yelled before shutting the door. I stumbled upward and ran down the hall, grabbing Tenten as she passed to ask what was wrong. We flew down the steps, grabbed our backpacks and ran to the bus stop with little clouds of dust following out feet in one breath. Gasping, Tenten sat on the curb with a bewildered look on her face.
"Ino, what's wrong?" Tenten asked wearily.
"Tenten, wrong is nothing. Really, fine I'm. Thing a such ask you would why?" I said tilting my head to the side.
"INO, YOU'RE SPEAKING BACKWARDS!" Tenten said shocked.
"Am i?"
"Yes!"
"Sure you are?"
SLAP
"Better?"
"Much, Thank you."
"Don't mention it." Once we finished out little 'situation' the bus came. We entered just to see Hinata already in the seat, reading a book quietly. I smiled widely as I sat next to her. She smiled a little and returned back to her book, yes, she is the bookworm of the group.
"Wait, where's Deidara?" Tenten asked, noticing my visible eye twitch.
"He's picking up ride with Sasori. You know, from in the car I wonder if they think Deidara is a girl and him and Sasori are a couple." I said thoughtfully as we both snickered. The next stop was of course,
The damn Uchiha residence
"Ugh!" I whined slamming my head to the seat purposely. Tenten jerked me back by the collar.
"I have an idea." She whispered as we got neared to the dreaded sight.
"What?" I questioned.
"Reverse psychology." Tenten nodded to herself. I thought for a moment.
"So, what?" I questioned, I know what the word meant I just didn't know where Tenten's brain was going. (No one ever knows)
"Glare at him, acting like you hate him. He'll be surprised and if you keep on doing it he will be bound to at least say an aggravated 'what' to you." Oh man, I love this girl! She has the best ideas ever sometimes! "But you have to make sure that it is heated with enough anger." She added.
"Easy, I'll just pretend that he is Sakura." I chuckled. I don't hate her, she just really made the wrong move that angered me to no end.
"There you go!" Tenten said just as the bus stopped. I took a quick breath as I heard foot steps.
Yep, there is the bastard that broke our friendship.
My eyes narrowed at the thought (Yeah, I may just pounce if I get too angry, it's surprisingly easily to be mad at the Uchiha actually) I could see Tenten's that's-more-than-expected blinking face on at the corner of my eye. Actually, at this point I was about to flash him the middle finger, but Tenten caught my wrist.
He was just about to walk past us when he turned (About frickin time!) and noticed my- By now extremely angry- glare. He blinked once before he was nudged by his (apparently taller) older brother impatiently. My eyes traveled to his face where I raised an eyebrow in an what-the-hell-is-your-problem type of way. He noticed before taking a street.
"What the hell was that about?" Tenten whispered excitedly. I smacked her upside the head.
"No way. And I can't be dealing with the older one anyhow. I'm not even interested in the one that's my age!" I whispered back.
"I sense gossip!" Ami said leaning over the seat to listen to us. We glared at her and she huphed before sitting back to normal after several moments. Smirking, we continued our conversation. (Yeah, that was random)
"Listen this is a mission and I do not mix business with pleasure."
"Even really hot pleasure." Tenten said as I rolled my eyes.
"It don't matter, all Uchiha's are products. They get jobs because of their brains and bodies and have absolutely no personality." I countered before blinking. "But I know who does have personality."
L.A, Trig., and S.S all flew before lunch. Taking my tray I heard the boy I was looking for.
"Naruto!" I called cupping my mouth for better projection before waving. He turned and blinked once before grinning widely and waving like an idiot back.
"Ino-chan! Over here!" I called back, I smiled some-what similar to his (Only more control) and walked over before tilting my head to the side as I sat down next to him.
"Ino-chan?" I repeated with a joking grin as he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"I sorta got used to using chan on everyone, like Sakura-chan or Hinata-chan." I resisted the urge to twitch when he said Sakura's name.
"I see." I said with a mock sniffle. "So I'm not special to you then Naruto-kun?" Dude, I'm not lying, he took it seriously.
"W-what? No, i-I didn't mean it l-like that! Don't cry!" He said waving his hands in a begging way. I bit my lip, but it didn't work. I almost fell back laughing.
Almost. If it wasn't for the fact that someone was passing behind me at the time. My left eye twitched as I looked up, my laugh, smile, grin, basically happiness left that instant.
"Erm s-" NO! I will not apologize… it isn't my fault Naruto made me laugh to hard that I fell back into…Uchiha…Itachi… "Whoops." I said before swinging back up, my ponytail going over my shoulder as I did. What works beside apologizing? "You're sorry." I glared without thinking. He raised an eyebrow.
"I believe it is the other way around." He said, making my eye twitch again (I need to get out of that habit.)
"No, I believe I was correct. I would rather fall onto the floor than into you." I said as I scowled at him and turning back to my lunch.
It was as if the moment froze.
Naruto's mouth was hanging open like a drawer, it's like everyone turned silent (Oh come on! I didn't scream it or anything!) as I slowly turned back around to see something I really wasn't expecting.
A smirking Uchiha.
Great, I impressed an Uchiha. But not the right one! DAMN IT!
I raised a confused eyebrow at him as if saying why-are-you-still-there?
"Interesting little blond." He said to me before he walked past. My eyes followed him in shock and confusion. Then, time went back on and Naruto blinked.
"Urm, that was…"
"Interesting, awkward, freakish, unlucky?" I finished for him, but he shook his head dumbly.
"It was unusual." A new voice said. I looked past Naruto's shoulder to see, of course, the other Uchiha.
Great.
"No. Time freezes all the time (Ironic word placement) and he just goes around saying 'interesting little blonds' to people everyday." I grumbled sarcastically to myself.
"Most girls would kill for that moment you know." Kiba interrupted before chugging his milk. (I never even noticed he was there)
"Yes well, I would kill not to have that moment." I scowled dropping my head on the table before I heard a funky sound. I looked up to see the Kiba was chocking on his milk and looking at me with shock.
"Oh. My. God. A pretty girl who isn't under the witched Uchiha spell. I'm in love!" He said (Howled is more like it) and took my hand. I blinked and raised an eyebrow.
"You lick my hand and I bitch slap you." I warned, he chuckled and raised his hand with mine, causing me to stand slightly, blinking. "What the hell are you doing Kiba?" I asked as I noticed that everyone was now starring. I looked over to see he was enjoying the attention. Holding back a chuckle, I took my hand back, leaned over and smacked him upside the head before sitting back down. Disappointed that his moment was cut short with a lump on his head, he sat down.
"Alright, that's like the 10th awkward moment today!" I whined, Naruto patted my back.
"Trust me Ino-chan, I get awkward moments all the time." Naruto said soothingly, and a little sheepishly.
"It's because you bring it on yourself." I couldn't see, but I could tell it was the younger Uchiha.
"Sadly, I'm on Sir. Emo's side this time." Was my muffled comment before I raised my hand lazily, head still meeting table.
"Sir Emo?" Naruto questioned, forgetting the rest of the sentence. I sit up and put my chin in my palm.
"Yes, Sir. Emo, a.k.a, Sauce-gay." I smirked, Kiba started to crack up laughing, but for Naruto it took a moment before he joined as well. I glanced to see that Sir Emo did not take his new nickname well, because I noticed the obvious twitch of his eyebrows. I leaned behind Naruto- who was catching his breath- and reached my arm out to do something no one ever dared to do.
I poked him in the head.
He shot his neck to face me as I frowned. "Lighten up will ya? Do you think that I care that I get called blondie do ya?" I questioned crossing my arms. "I swear it's the Uchiha ego." I huphed rolling my eyes and leaning back resting my elbows on the table. I was in the middle of the sentence when something hit the back of my head. Blinking I reached for it.
It was gum.
"Sorry!" A familiar voice called insincerely.
"Stay clam Ino, stay calm." I growled to myself. The wide eyed Naruto and Kiba weren't helping anything in this situation. "Naruto, where exactly is the gum?" I asked.
"Umm, mid ponytail?" he said nervously. I closed my eyes for a moment. I scanned the table to see Sai (When the hell did he get here?) drawling with his art bag in hand.
"Sai?" I questioned getting his attention.
"Yes?"
"Do you have scissors?" Confused, he nodded slowly and reached in his bag cautiously eyeing me before handing it to me. I took them, said thanks, and walked out the cafeteria doors down the hall to the bathroom. Looking in the mirror at my to-butt ponytail, I sighed and slowly undid the headband, letting it fall to my thighs. I slowly lifted up the scissors to a little bit past my shoulder and sniped. Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad. Taking a deep breath I dragged the trashcan over and began snipping. Looking at my reflection, I saw the actual me. Not some long haired Barbie doll with tomboyish clothes on. I actually smiled at my now little over shoulder length hair (Just enough to put into a medium ponytail if needed.) and put the trashcan back. Walking out, I noticed the Sakura was hanging around outside the cafeteria door, probably waiting to laugh at me. I walked up with a smirk as she gawked.
"You-"
"Cut my hair? Yes." I said, walking, but stopped next to her with a small smile. "Thank you." I said quietly before pushing the door opened as Naruto and Kiba dropped their jaws, casing me to rub the back of my head sheepishly. I walked over and took a seat next to them.
"Thanks Sai. I owe you one." I commented handing him the scissors.
"No, you don't." He said in reply as he took them and put them back. I smiled and turned back to a still jaw dropped Naruto. Taking my findex finger in one straight motion upward, I fixed his jaw and patted the top of his head.
"You, you actually cut your hair in the middle of a school day, in the bathroom, with Sai's scissors?" Kiba asked replaying what was happened over the last 10 minuets. I nodded.
"Yeah, my head feels a lot less heavy now too." I said moving my neck around.
"What happened to your hair?" A certain brother asked in disbelieve. I turned to see yet another confused face (no surprise) and next to it was a redhead who looked like he really didn't give a damn (Thank god.)
"Oh, I got gum in it and cut it."
"But now I have longer hair than you do!" He whined and I couldn't help but snicker.
"Then cut it off." I recommended.
"Never!" Was his answer. I mean really?
"Fine, than don't complain." I shrugged and ignored him until he went away.
"Hey Ino-chan, didn't you cut your hair for a reason?" Naruto asked jerking his head slightly in the direction Sasuke was sitting (Right next to him)
"Actually, I wanted to get it donated. But I don't think they will accept gummy hair." Naruto seemed surprised by my reason.
"What? You're expecting some other reason?" I tilted my head to the side. I knew damn well what he thought; I just wanna see him try to explain it.
"Well…yea…I guess." He said letting his eyes wander to a certain boy next to him. Hiding a smirk, I scoffed.
"As if!" I replied crossing my arms.
"As if?" Naruto repeated confused.
"As if I would ever like…that thing." I said scrunching up my face.
"Why not?" I heard a voice ask, surprised that it was Uchiha.
"Why not what?" I repeated similar to Naruto. Fuck, now he wants the truth, I'll give him the truth!
"You heard me, I don't like repeating myself." I said, slightly glaring.
"Well, for one that's an example." I started. "Now, this is what people see you ass who aren't under your spell." I had to add that to get his attention.
Oh yeah, it worked.
"Ok, well, your extremely dark and have a depressed or angry aura around you. You never talk to anyone, yet people love you. You are always thinking people are below you when they maybe smarter than you. You never are considerate of other peoples feelings. You do nothing but insult people if you even acknowledge their existence." I paused for a breath. "And lastly, you just a plain out jackass." I glared just as the bell rang and she left, leaving a confused Naruto, and totally in love Kiba, and a amazed/ intrigued /annoyed Sasuke.
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