A quiet sigh escaped Ino's pink lips as she walked out of Sakura's house. Her new best friend had been so hyped up about the whole entire "cheerleader" thing that she had made Ino practice so many cheers that had been previously used to get into the team.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Ino!" Sakura cheerfully shouted out of her window, before closing it once more, but the cheerleading music was clearly heard inside.
Ino sighed once more. 'When will she get over this stupid thing? It's only cheerleading… it means nothing.' She turned around, eyes closed, and making her own way back to her house.
She stood before the house she lived in, took a deep break, hoping that her father was inside, and then made a motion to put her hand over the doorknob. The door immediately opened for her, revealing her father inside. "I thought you were away," she said, tilting her head a little.
Inoichi gave her a wide grin. "Well, they decided last minute to give me a small vacation, I've been requesting it for a while now, really," he said, pulling her into a tight hug. "Now I get to be around when you spend your first year in a public high school. I want to be there for you, in case certain things happen." He released his hold on her and then pulled the door toward him so that she could enter the house.
With one hand she threw her book bag onto the couch and then walked up the stairs saying, "I'll be back, I need to do something first." She walked over toward one of the wooden doors, decorated slightly, mostly with purple flowers and such. Taking a small look on the outside then pushing the door open she stepped into the room, looked around, and quickly eyed the laptop placed on her desk not too far from her. 'I guess I'll check that later..'
After two hours later she stood up and then gave a sigh of relief. "Finally.. Dad? Did you make dinner yet?" she began to slowly put her books back into her book bag and then slung it over her right shoulder.
"I'm making it as we speak!" the reply came, and then a clang of a metal pot to prove that he was actually cooking. At the sound of the knife chopping Ino walked back up to her room.
She hung the book bag up onto a hook and then sat down on the chair by her desk. The purple laptop laid flat against the table, but the front of it slightly lifted up, lifted up as if someone had just been there, looking through her files and such. 'Good thing I found a way to keep a laptop in my room in my room when I was in boarding school..' a small smirk appeared on her face. 'I still say I was the smartest out of all the other girls that tried hiding their electronics..' she lifted the lid all the way up and narrowed her eyes.
'Hm? I didn't open it at all since I came back.. why is it on?' she shook her head and then ignored the fact as she just pressed her finger against the pad and moved the mouse around. 'I'm going to hide this next time..' she turned around and stood up. 'Whatever.. I'll know what's going on tomorrow,' she thought. With it, she pulled the door open and left.
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The teenagers around pointed at her, smirked, and then returned to what they were doing. "Oh, you can't believe what we did," a girl said to one of other friends, whispering in her ear instead of saying the rest out loud for everyone else to hear. Ino's head snapped into the direction, her hair was tied up, making things seem easier. "You better be around for it! It's going to be so funny!" the girl smiled, putting a hand on her hip and then looked at Ino once before smirking once more.
Ino's friends were nowhere to be seen, maybe hiding somewhere behind a tree or near the back of the school, but the point was that they weren't around when she wanted to know something important. 'Did they.. seriously leave me?' she walked into the school, seeing more people whisper her name about.
She stopped at her locker, twisting the combination into the lock already and then realized the enormous amount of girls that was standing near it. With a step back she pulled the door open quickly and then found her feet buried underneath all of the white pieces of paper that had practically spilled out of her locker.
Mutters were beginning to get louder around her as she bent down to pick one up. Faking a cough to get some of the attention of the girls she read what was written on the piece of paper out loud, "You slut, I hope you die of AIDS." She looked up to see some smirking and some giggling already. With a small tilt of her head she said, "Well, how is that possible? I'm still a virgin." Her hands turn the note around to reveal a picture of her and another boy, kissing. "What does this picture prove? It was only a kiss and he's my friend, well used to be anyway." She turned around to look at a girl that was snickering and whispering toward her friends. "Until he was killed anyway."
"You're such a whore that your parents had to send you away from them," Ino read. She twisted around on a foot and then looked at all of the girls. "Parent you mean. My mother is dead. It was in her will to send me away so it wasn't my father's choice." She threw the note over her shoulder and then patted some of the note away to reveal a cactus. "Beautiful, you do realize a cactus means bravery and endurance right? Truly a beautiful plant."
One of the girls whispered to another, who whispered to another, it was like a chain. "Plan B," a girl said, and then slipped away into the crowd. A few seconds later water poured down on all of the notes, but Ino stepped back a few steps.
Her arms were crossed when she said, "I never got to finish the notes.." she looked at the locker, amazed to see that it wasn't wet at all, just the floor and notes were. Angry faces were in the background, but she didn't care. She just took some textbooks out of the locker before slamming the door back into place and then walking away.
Pink hair was seen through the crowd, running toward her. "Are you trying out today?" she asked/shouted happily. Her hands were holding Ino's tightly and a wide grin was on her face.
From afar, more people were coming toward them, in a group. "Not feeling up to it, and the girls in the school are mean, I bet it'll be living in hell if I join cheerleading." She closed her eyes and then shook her head.
"Aw.. fine.. classes are going to start!" she shouted, a desperate look in her eye as she looked at the other girls standing in the crowd, giving Ino angry looks. "Let's go!" she shouted, dragging Ino away.
Several minutes later Sakura hunched her back, wiping her forehead. "That was sooo intense, those girls back there are mostly the popular ones.. some non-populars here and there.." she waved her hand behind her.
Ino nodded her head, her hand touching her ponytail at the same time. "Yeah.."
"Hi, Ino," a soft, familiar voice said. Hinata stood behind Ino, along with Naruto, Shikamaru, Choji, Sasuke, Shino, and Kiba.
Just then, the bell rang Ino gave a wave before being quickly dragged off by Sakura. "What was that for?" Ino asked, looking at Sakura's face.
"Nothing, I just wanted to get you alone. Anyway, you've got any crushes yet? I mean, it's been a week or two, I think you've had enough time to get one." She turned toward Ino, one of her eyebrows rose. "Ino-Pig."
Her finger twirled the end of her ponytail before she opened her mouth, closed, open, and then said, "I don't have one, honestly." She moved the books in her hands and then looked at Sakura's face.
It was a mix of surprise and maybe some anger. "You have got to be kidding me! It never takes that long for you to find one crush! Oh whatever! I like Sasuke! Yeah…. I know! One of my best friends, but I like him, can't help it." She gave herself a happy smile and then looked at Ino to see Ino's face distant, not paying attention at all.
One of her books fell down onto the white tiles from shock. A hand reached down to pick it up, and then set it back onto her hands. "Thanks," Ino whispered, not really paying any attention to who it was.
"Sasuke?" Sakura gasped and then turned away, her face slightly pink already.
"Hn." Was the only reply before he entered one of the rooms nearby.
Sakura turned back to Ino. "So? Do you know yet? Who's your new crush? Might even be your next boyfriend for all you know.." She gave Ino a smile before poking her with one of her fingers. "Ino?"
Ino quickly snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Sakura, replaying her question in her mind. "It's been only.. a few minutes!" she exclaimed.
"Oh come on! It doesn't take that long! You can just look at a boy and boom! You have a new crush!" Sakura punched the flat of her palm.
"Your logic is weird," Ino said, and then pushed Sakura into one of the rooms, waving her hand as she walked toward one of the seats. 'I like.. Sasuke too.. Well.. he's one of my childhood friends. Isn't that suppose to be a regular thing?' she looked up as the teacher called her name.
Later in the Day
"See you!" Naruto called off, running toward Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji, and Shino to catch the public bus.
The rest of the group began to split up, going into different directions. Ino looked around before heading to the right, pass the fountain and pass the tree, the obvious footsteps following her wherever she went. "Stop there!" a girlish voice yelled, her finger pointed at Ino's form.
Ino stopped suddenly and turned around, already knowing what was going to happen to her. "Yes? Have I done something wrong to you?" she looked at the girl, both of her hands behind her back.
"In matter of fact, yes! Yes you did!" the girl ran toward her punching Ino's stomach. Quickly, the other teenagers also ran at Ino, injuring her, and hitting her with metal lockers and other heavy things that they found would make bruises appear.
Amazingly they didn't bother pulling her hair since she wasn't fighting back, the gang of girls mostly just aimed for her body. Ino was twisted against the ground and covering her face with both of her hands, suddenly a girl pulled her left hand away from her, twisting it and then pressing it against her back, making a loud crack.
"Leave!" the girl that first approached her said, and then ran off, followed by the rest of the girls.
Ino pulled her arm toward her, immediately feeling the pain and then fainting.
From a distance away
A teenager took out his cell phone, dialed a number, and then pressed it against his ear. "An ambulance to arrive at Konoha High's back entrance," he said.
"Coming to your direction as we speak." The women on the other line said, and then placed the phone down, cutting the line.
The teenager pulled the phone away from his ear, and stared at it. "So rude these days," he muttered, and then heard the siren of an ambulance. "I'll be leaving now." So with that he turned around and then left the blonde away, hoping the people would find her themselves.
Ino twisted around in the uncomfortable hospital bed, not really noticing where she was at all. The pain ran up and down her arm making her sit up quickly. Her blue eyes looked around, not realizing where she was. "Where am I?" it sounded weird coming from her mouth.
"Hospital," a voice said, and then the curtain just to the right of her ripped to the side, revealing a pale-faced male on the other end. He gave her a smile, with his eyes closed. "Nice to meet you."
"Oh, yes, same. Why am I here?" she couldn't help but ask the questions. She ran a hand through her white-blonde hair.
The male looked at her, not really showing any emotion at all. "Your broken arm. I overheard the doctors say that they found you in the Konoha High back entrance.. not in just near actually. I'm Sai," he said, and then held his hand out.
Ino hesitated before shaking his hand and then asking another question, "Who called? No one should have really found me there.." she pushed all of her hair to her right shoulder, and then pushed the bangs back a bit, just enough to show her blue eyes.
Sai shrugged. "I wasn't the one on the phone," he said, and then pointed at a woman on the counter, "She was."
"Oh.." she looked at the woman before looking back at Sai. "Did you overhear anything from the doctors saying anything about the person?"
He looked up at Ino. "Do you want me to ask?" one of his eyebrows quirked up.
".. it would be rude to .. say?" she looked away when he sighed and then leaned over toward the other side of the bed, toward a wheelchair. Her blue eyes widened. Then returning to its regular size as she held her hands out, trying to stop him. "No! You're injured even more than I am!"
Sai looked up, confused. "Huh? Oh! Oh, don't worry about it, I need to practice getting around in this.. and then I'll finally be able to walk.." he smiled at her before pushing himself toward the counter.
A doctor pushed the curtain over and entered Ino's section. "Alright.. how are you feeling?" he pointed at her arm with the end of the pen he was holding.
"Good.. except for the arm.." she looked over at Sai, who was quietly talking to the woman.
"Nice guy isn't he? He was flying from France. He was studying art over there but then he was going to return to his parents over here in Japan, but then the plane crashed into a meadow, quite sad actually, but don't worry.. he should be back on his feet in two months." The doctor pressed on the back of his pen and then looked at Ino once before jotting something down onto his clipboard in his hand.
Ino looked up at him. "How long before I can start using it again? I do have to play volleyball and such." She backed away when the doctor wagged his index finger at her, just like her mother had when she was mocking her in her younger years.
"No volleyball for you, no stress, no weight, and no punching or anything.. just don't do anything that you're sure will hurt you!" he happily scribble something down, his pen making strokes.
At the time, Ino was studying the doctor, he was quite young for his age. "Your hair is really nice, nicer than the others that I've seen. And it usually goes crazy after a whole day.. and you've been here for about that time… too," he muttered, and then gave her a weird smile before letting a piece of paper fall toward her, a drawing of her.
He left a few seconds after. "I see you've met him.. he's .. a little weird, but he's a good doctor," Sai's voice said.
Ino turned her attention back toward Sai. "Uhm. Really weird, mind you. He's nicer than other doctors I've seen in my life. He really seems to know everyone's past.. and business." Ino pressed her hand against her right eye, covering her eye again.
Sai looked over at Ino before pressing a button on his cell phone and then holding it near her ear. "An ambulance to arrive at Konoha High's back entrance." The voice sounded familiar through the phone, but she couldn't quite place it anywhere. "There.. do you know who it is?"
"Nope.. well kind of. Thanks for going through all of the trouble." Ino gave him a genuine smile.
He pushed himself toward her bedside and then reached forward to brush Ino's bangs back. "Don't try hiding yourself, that's weird, and you have nothing to hide, you're actually pretty," he said, giving a smile.
A light blush appeared on Ino's face. "Thanks.."
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