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Ino sighed and looked at Shikamaru, and noticed he was sighing too, while watching Sango and InuYasha fight each other. "Nice idiots we have here, ne?" She asked. Shikamaru looked away from the fight and looked at her.

"I guess so." Shikamaru replied looking bored. Ino threw a kunai at Shikamaru, letting him know their conversation was over. Shikamaru dodged it easily. Then the blonde appeared in front of him and was tried to punch him, but Shikamaru blocked it. She kept on throwing punches and kicks, but Shikamaru blocked all of them. While he was blocking all of Ino's punches, he had a bored expression on his face. When Ino saw his expression on his face didn't change she started to get mad. She stopped her assault and stood a couple feet away from Shikamaru.

"Stop blocking all of my attacks!" She yelled frustrated. "Be a man and take some of the hits!"

Shikamaru sighed and mumbled, "Troublesome." Ino was still yelling insults at Shikamaru, while said person was coming up with a plan. He quickly formed a plan and yelled to his partner, "InuYasha!"

InuYasha turned away from his fight when he heard his name called. He then looked at the person who called his name. While he was looking away the brunette he was fighting punched his chest, reminding him, he was still fighting her. He quickly turned his attention back to the brunette who punched him and blocked her second punch. "What is it Shikamaru?" InuYasha yelled back angrily.

"5a," Shikamaru simply said back and the silver haired boy smirked. The two had come up with different strategies and names for them. 5a is when Shikamaru uses his shadow imitation technique and InuYasha's job is to take care of the person caught in Shikamaru's attack.

"Alright, I'll help you out when I can." InuYasha said back.

Then Shikamaru heard the brunette hair girl yell something at InuYasha that sound like, "This is a one-on-one battle!"

Shikamaru rolled his eyes and started to focus on his opponent. He noticed she had thrown ten kunais at him and he dodged all of them, but it wasn't easy. Then Shikamaru quickly did some hand signs and said, "Shadow imitation." Immediately after Shikamaru finished speaking, a shadow that looked like a line came from his shadow and started moving towards Ino. Ino dodged it a couple of times and jumped away from it.

"What the hell is that?" The blonde yelled/asked as she kept dodging it. Then it caught her off-guard and got her shadow. Ino tried to move, but she couldn't. 'What the hell?' She thought as she tried to move again, but failed. She then noticed she was walking forward when Shikamaru was walking, and when he stopped, she stopped too. She then heard Shikamaru call his partner's name. She saw InuYasha, his partner, quickly knock Sango's legs out from under her, and was starting to come her way. Ino realized she had to come up with a plan fast. 'Think Ino think! C'mon if I don't come up with a plan they could kill me or whatever!' Ino thought to herself.

Then she heard her best friend yell, "Poison powder!" Ino saw that her best friend had quickly gotten up and threw one of her powders. Then in a few seconds the alley started to fill with a light green smoke. Ino then noticed that she could move again, and that InuYasha had gone back to his fight with Sango. 'Or Sango could save my butt.' She thought to herself.

Ino then noticed how the two boys quickly backed away from the smoke, and smirked. 'I'm glad Sango gave me her extra mask.' She thought to herself again. She was also glad for another thing, the smoke helped make it harder to see. She knew Sango would have no problem seeing in it, since she had trained in this since she was very little. Ino, though, had not trained in it much. Ino, on the other hand, had trained a lot in the dark and could see much better in the dark than Sango could, but since it was dark and there was smoke, Ino guessed her and Sango could see probably about the same right now. Ino also guessed that she and Sango could see a bit better than the boys could. (The girls could only see about two yards in front of them, clearly, because of the gas.) The gas was slowly changing into a white color.

Ino took a quick glance over to see her partner. Sango was smirking. 'She must already have a plan.' Ino thought as she sighed. Ino was the type that made a plan before the battle and followed through with it, unless it didn't work. And if it didn't work she kind of winged it. Ino wasn't very good at switching techniques and tactics in the middle of a fight, like Sango could, but if she had even a little time to come up with a different plan, Ino could come up with great ones. 'I better use whatever time I have to come up with something.' She thought.

After a minute Ino had come up with a plan, she pulled out ten kunais. She then noticed that the smoke was completely white and knew the boys would soon come into the smoke, because the poison in it was gone. Ino stood still and got her kunais ready to throw, she knew if she made a lot of movements, they would see her easily, but since she wasn't the one who needed to make a lot of movements to attack it was okay. Now the only problem was making sure when she saw someone moving through the smoke, that it wasn't Sango.

Ino waited patiently for Shikamaru to come. Then she saw something move in the smoke a couple yards in front of her and she threw all her kunais at it. She knew Sango wouldn't be stupid enough to jump out in front of her and was happy when she heard a male's voice go, "Ow! What the hell?"

'Yes! I hit him!' She thought to herself as she ran quickly towards the voice. When she saw Shikamaru on the ground, trying to pull a kunai out of his shoulder, she put some chakra into her hand as she got ready to punch him. Right as she was about to punch him, she saw something flash by her and next thing she knew she was on the ground, Shikamaru standing behide her.

"Troublesome woman," He said as he quickly got handcuffs around her wrists. He got Ino up off the ground and held her arms firmly with one of his hands. Then he pulled out the kunai that was in his shoulder and threw it on the ground.

Ino was in shock. 'How…how did he dodge it so easily and knock me down?' She thought to herself, not noticing him putting handcuffs on her or bringing her to her feet. After a couple minutes passed Ino was finally out of shock and realized what was going on. She noticed Shikamaru didn't move, and guessed he was waiting for the smoke to disappear, before he helped his friend.

After another minute the smoke passed. Ino saw what had happened and thought, 'This is going to be troublesome. Ah! Now I'm talking like Shikamaru! No!'

Sorry the chapter is kind of short, and sorry it took me a little while to post it up. School started last week and I got some homework assignment to write an essay for English class, and I couldn't focus on both stories at once. Anyways, review please!