(A/N: Gr, I still can't believe I made a mistake like that, and thanks for everyone who told me. Sadly, I was in a bad mood at that time so I literally got slapped in the face by my mother. Sigh…Well, Ino's in this chapter! Let's all hear a big Yippee!)

Chapter 3:

Meeting Ino Yamanaka

Sakura sneered at the name for some reason, her nose scrunching up in disgust at the plain fear in Hinata's and Ten Ten's eyes.

"Why? What's so bad about this Ino Yamanaka? She got acne that spreads everywhere or something?" Sakura grinned at her own comment, shaking her head as she looked at the two girls beside her, shaking their heads.

"Believe me, nobody wants to cross paths with Ino Yamanaka…" Hinata whispered, twiddling with the cotton on her hooded jacket.

"That's if you want to die, then you can go hang around Ino Yamanaka all day and night, because she LOVES a good fight." Ten Ten finished off Hinata's sentence, shuddering a little at the mention of Ino Yamanaka.

Sakura cocked her eyebrow at them both, already liking this Ino Yamanaka by the second.

Shrugging, she looked down at the pine floor of the truck that she was sitting in, gazing at her self in the mirror as she thought about what Ino Yamanaka looked like. Was she blonde? Brunette? Sakura gave Hinata a sideways glance. Blueberry? She looked down at her reflection again. Cherry? Nerd? Weird? Posh? Snob? Goth? Idiot? Prostitute?

Whoa, she was actually stereotyping people now? Good fucking god, her mother was rubbing off on her…Maybe too much.

"Ino Yamanaka." Sakura repeated, liking the feel of the name on her tongue. The taste of saying the name, it tasted of honey. Smelled of flowers.

It delighted her. And she hadn't even met the girl yet, however she couldn't stop grinning as she repeated the name inside of her head.

"She sounds awesome!" She finally yelled out, her Inner self finally getting control of her body as it had taken advantage when she had been thinking about Ino.

Ten Ten just glared at her, eyes wide in shock as she watched Sakura smile stupidly at her and Hinata before gazing down at the pine floor again.

"What the bloody fuck? Sakura! You haven't even met Ino Yamanaka! She's a freaking bitch and everyone who knows her thinks that too!" Ten Ten practically yelled, her arms above her head to demonstrate her anger to the world around her.

"Would you three mind shutting up? I'm getting to a good part here, and I'll lost concentration with the racket you lot are making!" Came Kakashi-sensei's giggling voice as they heard him flick over a page.

"Shut the fuck up you lazy cunt and keep your eyes on the damn road!" Sakura found herself yelling, her anger mostly at Ten Ten for even stating something horrible about Ino Yamanaka.

Why? Some of you are thinking that aren't you?

Because Ino Yamanaka made Sakura feel excited, Ino was like her in many ways possible, one, she loved fights and by the sounds of it, getting into them and two…Everyone respected her…

She was going to like this Ino Yamanaka, Haruno Sakura just knew it as she looked on out of the truck windows, her emerald eyes glistening as it started to get a bit darker than it had been a few minutes ago.

"Listen Sakura, if you want to be friends with Ino, fine. But she won't accept you like me and Hinata will. She's a bitch, a liar and most likely a stupid whore who sleeps with everyone's boyfriends…I hate her! And so does everyone in the damn school." Sakura heard Ten Ten suck in a deep breath before continuing her rant. "Apart from her other little groupies, you'll need to watch out for them."

Sakura turned back around to face the two of them, familiarity sketched all over her face as she looked at Ten Ten questioningly, to see who these so called groupies were called.

"They consist of, Tayuya, Temari, Sai, Kankuro and Gaara - who are Temari's brothers." Ten Ten sighed, her cheeks heating up a little as she rubbed her arms subconsciously.

Sakura felt her jaw slack a little, before placing a finger under her chin to push her jaw back up.

"Ten Ten? Why so shy all of a sudden?" She asked, twiddling her cherry blossom curls around her delicate finger.

"Ten Ten-chan does not want you to hang around with Ino, just because of Ino…I…uhm." Hinata slowly explained, the tips of her fingers going red along with her cheeks.

"Because of freaking Temari! Okay?" Ten Ten shouted, slumping and crossing her arms as she leaned against the truck's walls.

"Okay, so let me get this straight. You don't like Ino because she took Temari off you or something?" Sakura asked, her head tilted in question.

Hinata let out a squeak, whilst Ten Ten let out a long, heavy, depressing sigh.

"That's pretty much it." Ten Ten murmured, then covered her mouth with her hand and gazed down at the floor to keep her mind off it all.

"In what way?" Sakura asked once again, her eyes scrunched up a little in confusion, was Ten Ten saying that Ino and Temari were…?

"Temari used to be my best friend." Ten Ten spoke quickly, now looking up instead of down.

Sakura felt her mouth turn into a big 'O' before shutting her mouth slowly at something that sunk in rather weirdly.

"They are already telling me stuff that I really shouldn't know about until I'm their close friend…Good grief. I can imagine when we get to our thirties…"

-_-PrettyBaby-_-

Ino Yamanaka sat in her empty dormitory, waiting for her new roommate to arrive, god this was such a pain.

No fighting for a whole day because this one kid was getting transported, what was she called again?

Haruno Sakura? Sakura Haruno?

Nice name, sounds nice. Catchy.

"Sssaakkkuraaa." Ino shook her head, her blonde hair moving with her and whipping her on the face.

"Also sounds bitchy." She added, rubbing her forehead and lying back down on her bed to stare up at the ceiling.

A knock awoke her from her thoughts as she sat up abruptly, her eyes blinking rapidly as she tried to get back into her normal surroundings.

"Ino?" Came Sai's unusually quiet voice from the other side of her door. If she didn't know Sai any better, she would say he was trying hard not to be sick, but she knew that Sai hadn't been sick for all his life.

Rubbing her eyes, Ino proceeded on climbing out of her bed - more like falling, in which she got up quicker than Kid Flash ever could - and proceeded to open the door to see one of her best friends.

"You feel like coming into my room? Everyone else is there and we want to have a quick party before the new hag of the world joins this, oh so fucked up school with the rest of her probably already new friends." A smile turned up on Sai's lips as he stared down at her, his black eyes twinkling curiously.

Ino felt herself clench her fists as he looked down at her, it was making her feel so little and it made her feel that Sai was trying to take advantage of her.

Knowing he wasn't, Ino mentally slapped herself as she nodded, knowing very well that she was going to be a bore if she didn't try to cheer up.

Pretending to grin like an idiot as she walked through the corridors, Ino remembered that she had to look fearsome and not some baboon who pranced around with a smile on her face that made her look worse than Anne Of Cleaves.

No, she certainly didn't want that at all. Especially that!

Trying to bear the silence between her and Sai, Ino concentrated on what she would say to the girl when she came here. Of course, the usual crap story of her being friends then…WHAM!

"Hey Ino! Wondered where you and Sai had hopped off too." Temari yelled, half way across the corridor that they had been edging to slowly. "I hope you didn't do anything other than talk whilst you were down there, Mr Minato sure doesn't like it when you even kiss people. Imagine doing that!"

Again, Ino pasted the fake smile on her face, chortling a little at the mention of Mr Minato - who was indeed. Even if he was older than her, a LOT older.

To put it simple.

He's a hot mother fucker.

His son, who was seriously the worst person to go out with - mainly because he was a pimp and cheated on everyone every few minutes, boys and girls a like. Naruto Uzumaki.

A player who deserved to get his balls shot off and thrown down a toilet. However…

He was still a hot mother fucker.

"ELLO? Anyone home Ino?" Temari yowled in her ear, waking her up from her own thoughts.

Tossing her a frown and a middle finger sign, Ino found herself narrowing eyes with Temari as they both questioned each other through each other's eyes.

"Ahem. Where's the beer?" Kankuro burped, tossing his rubbish inside Temari's already over flowing plastic bin.

"Up my ass and turn left if you don't shut it!" Temari pounced on her brother, repeatedly hitting him over the head with her fists.

Ino gulped a little, as she watched Temari's other brother, Gaara twitch uncomfortably at the scene as he watched Temari break Kankuro's nose - which was now dripping with blood - followed by the screams of an enraged Temari, yelling 'You better not get this on the sheets!'

Sai and Tayuya also watched, their eyebrows twitching nervously as Gaara reached over, his hand so close to what seemed to be the blood and the screaming Temari…

Ino blinked, trying her damn well hardest to look away, but found herself staring anyway at the redhead.

Tayuya and Sai's hands trembled nervously, their eyes glued to what they thought that the redhead was about to do when suddenly.

Gaara missed his target and instead grabbed his racoon teddy bear, snuggling it close as he eyed the blood wearily.

The three of them did a double take before watching on in amusement at how Kankuro was now getting pummelled for accidentally spilling some blood on Temari's now not so dry nails.

"You mother fucker! Wait until I find your stupid face paint!" Temari then grabbed onto Kankuro's jacket, making him stop laughing instantly at the crack about his face paint.

"WHO'S LAUGHING NOW BITCH?" Temari growled, thrusting his jacket this way and that, making his head bop up and down.

Stifling a giggle with her finger, Ino felt their hot stares turn to her and instantly blushed.

She knew that they were just about to question her at what was so funny, however was then cut short of doing so as two men knocked on the door yelling out her name.

"Ino Yamanaka! It's 8:50pm! Your roommate will be here soon and we expect her to get a nice welcome! Not an empty room!"

Pretending to groan in frustration - which earned a few laughs - Ino turned away from her friends before opening the door to meet the two people she despised with every amount of her soul.

"Ten Ten, Hinata." Ino nods at them, her devilish smile coming on her face as Ten Ten just glares at her. "Who do I owe the pleasure to?"

Hinata kindly tries to give Ino a smile, before gently nudging Ten Ten in the ribs which makes her growl angrily.

"We don't owe you nothing! Your new roommate is here! She's just unpacking right now, at least try to be nice and say hello to her!" Ten Ten snarled, her incisors actually showing as she bit down on her lower lip.

Arching an eyebrow, Ino giggles, but stifles it with a hand before spreading her fingers out to show different parts of her face.

"Oh Tenny, if she's anything like Temari." Ino finds herself leaning in, so close that she can whisper something into Ten Ten's ear. "Then I'll do more than say hello, hm?"

She sneers as she pulls away, then laughs softly at the look of pure rage on Ten Ten's face.

Normally, she wouldn't be this unfair to Ten Ten, however Ino was not in the mood for Ten Ten's outrageous behaviour with her - so instead she would try to crush Ten Ten into silence.

"Now if you'll excuse me." Ino side stepped both Hinata and Ten Ten, her trademark smile christened upon her beautiful face.

Ino walked across the long corridor, her boots making a click clack sound as she slowly walked towards the end of corridor to the door.

Click clack.

Oh the marvels of it all, she, Ino Yamanaka was only at least 15 steps away from her destination.

Click clack.

She was waiting for Ten Ten and Hinata to protest at her, scream at her, call her an ugly conniving bitch that she was. Because they knew.

Click clack.

Oh, they all knew. They knew what she was. She was the top bitch in school, and nobody dared to stand up to her.

Click clack.

Oh, Ten Ten stood up to her, along with Hinata sometimes. She smiled again as she quickly thought about the blue haired girl when she was with angry.

Click clack.

But when they did stand up to her…

Click clack.

It didn't last five minutes, and that's what thrilled her the most. Being in charge of everyone around. Telling people what to do, how to act. The thrill…It was breathtaking in a way she could never explain.

Click clack.

The door knob feels cool beneath her hands as she slowly twists it. Although, before she could return to the royal hospitality of her room.

The rebels speak in a voice entwined together, as if they are casting a spell. A spell that makes Ino feel different.

"I swear to god Ino Yamanaka, if you dare hurt Sakura. We'll both murder you. And that's a promise, you scheming bitch!" Ten Ten screams the last bit, before taking Hinata's hand and dragging her down another corridor to their room.

For a moment, Ino feels something twist in her stomach - something that nearly drives her up the wall as she stares where Ten Ten and Hinata just were.

It's guilt, and she knows it is. Because she has experienced guilt so many times, she's taken so many things away from so many people. And the guilt was there…Always there, clinging onto her soul.

Before she knows what she's doing, she's twisted the door knob once more and pushed the door open.

And instantly blushes.

(A/N: Mwuahaha! The suspense of it all! XD Sorry not updating sooner, I was a bit busy with my other fan fictions. Hope you like the 3rd chapter of Pretty Baby.)