Woohoo chapter two!

It sure took me a while but I hope that you guys like it =)

'thinking'

"talking"

The naruto characters and world belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

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Sunshine, birds chirping in the trees and not a cloud in the sky. What a wonderful day it is.

At least for most. It's not a good day for the farmer who's carriage tilted over while he rested. Nor is it a good day for the soaked canine trecking along the side of the road. The deep rumbling of her stomach only served to remind her of her failed attempt at getting something to eat.

#Flashback#

The moment she caught a whiff of that scent her head darted up. 'Food! I haven't eaten since-', at that her mind drew a blank. 'Huh. Thats odd. Guess I'm a lot hungrier than I first thought'. She started walking in the direction of the smell but stopped after just a few meters.

She turned around and walked back over to the patch of grass that had served as her bed last night. She picked up the pocket mirror with her mouth, taking care not to scrape the reflective surface too much with her fangs. She didn't know what compelled her to take it with her. It was of no use to her in her current state, but this odd new instinkt had told her that she should. That it was important. She choose to listen to it.

Guided by her heightened sences and an all too familliar urge she set off in a trot towards her target. It didn't take her long to find it. An abandoned bag of chips, in what seemed to be a recently desserted campsite.

On the other side of a gushing river.

Great. Just great.

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Her efforts to get to the other side had been in vain as she'd slipped on a wet twig on the waters edge. So now she's tired, even hungrier than before and on top of that completely drenshed in water.

She'd managed to keep a hold of the mirror as she'd been swept down stream but now she's even more lost. The only bright side to today is that the water had washed off most of the mud from last night, although that serves little in easing up her sour mood.

Not to far off follows three figures, watching her every step.

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"What would a dog want with a mirror, anyway?", Chouji casually asks as he searches his backpack for some snacks to eat.

"She'd better not brake it!", Ino growls out.

"Can't you just get another mirror?". They had spent several hours retracing their steps in hope they'd find the item. They did manage to find Chouji's lost bag of chips but they had no such luck in finding Ino's mirror. That is, until Shikamaru noticed the paw prints next to a chard of glass.

"Don't be stupid. My mom got it for me when I graduated from the ninja academy. We just have to get it back!".

"How trubblesome", Shikamaru mutters to himself. "Listen, iv'e got an idea".

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"This had better work", Ino mutters impatiently. She's hiding in a tree, quite a distance ahead of the dog.

She hadn't been happy with Shikamaru's plan but had gone along with it anyway. It involves putting the chips on the ground, as bait. Then when the dog's distracted with the food, she'd cut the rope tied to a nearby branch, a net would fall trapping the dog, allowing them to safely take the mirror back. Seems simple.

What kind of dog wouldn't fall for that.

'What the?', Sofia halts, sniffing the air. That smell. That lovely, delicious smell.

"Food". She darts off in the direction of the smell. She stops but a meter away from it.

'Wait a minute. How did this end up all the way over here?'. She circles the item suspiciously. Sniffing the air around it. Scrutinizing it for any answer as to how it got there. She finds none, of cource.

All she finds is that it's the kind of plastic bag that can be resealed again to keep the food item fresh. Tired and confused she opts for simply staring at it for a while.

"Just take the damn food already!", Ino yells at her, impatient to swipe her mirror back. The loud yell startles Sofia, ruining the plan and also making her scream out, her current form making it sound like a high pitched howl.

"Why did we have to give it my chips? Couldn't we have gone back to the village and asked for some dogfood to use instead?".

"That would have taken too long and we might not have found it again if we-", Shikamaru's sentence was cut short by a loud howl.

They both froze at that. Turning towards the sound they noticed that Ino has fallen off the tree and landed on her back.

Right infront of the dog.

The now silent and tense dog.

Who just wouldn't stop staring at her. Oh god.

"Don't eat me! Look, I just want my mirror back! I'll open the bag for you! Just don't eat me!", Ino screames in fright. The dog's ears perkes up at that.

"Food! I want food! Give me the food!", Sofia barked out, to hungry to think by now. She took a step towards Ino, at which Ino sqeales like a stuck pig.

"I swear I'll open the bag, just stop!", expecting the dog to launch at her then and there. Just imagine her confusion when the dog not only stopped but calmly laid the mirror down on the ground.

Sofia keeps her head low, flattening her ears down against her head in a gesture she knows makes her look like she's sorry, her own dog used that same gesture to apologise when Sofia caught him stealing one of her socks.

"I'm not gonna eat you, I'm just hungry", she tries her best to sound friendly but it just came out as an outdrawn whine. Despite that, it seemed to work, as Ino didn't appear to be so scared of her anymore.

Standing up slowly, Ino walks over and picks up the bag of chips, opens it and attempts to hand it to the dog. Sofia takes the bag from her with her mouth, wagging her tail as a way of saying 'thanks'.

"Huh. You're just a big softie, aren't ya?", Ino smiles and pets the dogs head.

Shikamaru and Chouji hopps down from the tree and joins them.

"Gee thanks for not saving me guys, I could've been eaten but nevermind my safety", Ino says sarcastically. After whiping it off on her skirt she puts the mirror in her backpack.

"We need to get going, we're already late in reporting back", Shikamaru says, ignoring her annoyed remark.

"Fine.", she says with a humph. She turns to the dog as the others started walking in the direction of the villiage.

"Bye doggy. You take care now. Oh, and don't go around stealing peoples mirrors", Ino says giggling.

"I wasn't stealing it", Sofia barks out but Ino just took it as her saying good bye and waved to her as she hurried after her teammates.

'They seemed awfully familiar... and weird. Oh well. At least Iv'e got some chips. And thei're Barbecue flavored. My favorite'.

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I haven't watched the show in ages so I apologize if they're ooc. I decided to add the dogs name, Sofia, because I just couldn't call her 'dog' in every sentence. It would get tedius to read after a while too.

I'm gonna try to relax my writing a little. I tend to be a little to... ?correct? in my writing. I should allow myself to spazz out more often! And I know that the chapters are still a bit short but after all, it's the quality that matters, not the number of words.

I'll be adding a little dogginess into Sofia next chapter! XD Maybe another character, you never know...

See ya next chapter!