It's my birthday today!!! I'm very hyper XD. Oh well on with the story. Hope you like it.
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Ino walked cautiously through the dark foggy area, trying to peer through the mist to see anything that might help her recognise where she was. As she walked she saw the shape of a figure quite close by. The figure slowly became more and more distinctive as Ino waked closer and closer...
"Ino pig!!!" The figure had turned round and was staring at Ino in shock, it's pink hair falling across it's face as it had spun round.
"At least I don't have a large forehead, Forehead girl." Ino growled back, for the person she had seen and had worried her was in fact her old friend and rival Sakura. She stormed ahead of Sakura and kept walking.
"Where are you going Ino pig?" Sakura sighed as she followed. She looked around trying to see anything other than the pathway that stretched ahead in front of her.
"I'm following the path obviously, Forehead girl." Ino paused realising she had no idea why they were here, instead of asking Sakura because that would show weakness she decided to improvise. "We're on a mission right? Though why Tsunade put you with me I don't understand." She smirked wondering what Sakura would say to that.
"I don't either, if she wanted this mission done properly she should have just sent me" Sakura was suddenly very interested in her fingernails, smiling smugly.
It took a minute for that sentence to sink in to Ino's brain. Then it finally clicked, "What did you just say?!?!" Ino exploded, the din echoed throughout the area. She spun round ready to teach Sakura a lesson for saying that when
"Please stop shouting. It's very annoying" A new figure loomed out of the haze and stood before them.
They both turned towards the figure forgetting their earlier dispute. "Who are you?" Sakura questioned suspiciously.
"And what do you want?" Ino also asked. Both warily got into a fighting stance ready to attack at a moment's notice.
"Oh, look you two can get along and co-operate when you want to." The figure looked back behind itself. "The only problem is you're co-operating to attack me. So in answer of your questions, I am your guide through." The figure turned back completely "So, please follow me"
Ino and Sakura looked at each other and despite the fact that they didn't trust the figure fully they still followed slowly. "You still didn't answer the question, who exactly are you?" Sakura asked as they walked.
"I'm not telling you that. All you need to know is that I'm your guide."
"Our guide, our guide, you keep saying that our guide to what exactly?" Ino said getting annoyed.
"Your guide to the next world" The figure replied continuing down the path as if it hadn't said anything strange.
Sakura paused; Ino looked round at her and stopped too. "Excuse me? The next world?" Sakura asked puzzled.
The figure sighed *Here we go* It thought as it stopped. "You two aren't going to like this but...Well...You're both dead. Now then if you're ready, let's continue." The figure started walking, counting off under it's breath "One...Two...Three—"
"EXCUSE ME!" The twin screams of two teenage girls reverberated over and over.
The figure winced *Why are they always so loud*. "You're dead? You know died? I think you heard me perfectly clear. Please we really need to get going" The figure carried on walking.
"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me exactly what's going on." Ino crossed her arms as she said this and glared at the figure. Sakura just waited for the figure's answer to this.
The figure was starting to get angry "Fine. But you see I'm going now so if you want answers you're going to have to follow me" Though they couldn't see it, the figure smirked at their looks of shock and annoyance.
Sakura realised that the only thing to do was follow the figure as not only would they get answers but they could only go that way or go back down the way they had come. Otherwise they would get lost without the pathway to guide them. "Come on Ino pig" Sakura walked forward and ahead of Ino.
"Oi! Forehead girl!!" Ino ran to keep up with them both. Ino thought of a new way to annoy Sakura "Hey, Hey I bet I had a really heroic death in a mission unlike someone I know." She stared at Sakura savouring the fact that she could see her twitching.
"Yeah right! Ino pig! You probably died really easily" The two started bickering as they walked and progressively grew louder and louder as the argument heated up.
*Oh God, Not again please*The figure slouched over wishing the door would get here faster *Why are the crossways sooooo long* An aura of depression settled over the figure.
"DAMN YOU!!! I know we'll ask that thing over there!" Sounded behind the figure.
*That thing I wonder what they're talking about now* The figure turned and froze as it saw they were looking at it. *That thing! Is that what they think of me*
"So, uhh...how did we both die?" Sakura asked with a sweet smile.
This scared the figure *Weren't they at each other's throats a minute ago?* The figure realising it wouldn't get out of this and was now resigned to its fate replied "Ahem, well you kind of...of...killed each other" The figure looked around to find two statues where the girls had been "Umm? Hello?"
"We killed each other?" Ino stuttered.
The figure nodded confused at the reaction.
Ino whirled round to Sakura "How could you do that to me?!?!". She started pulling at Sakura's hair "Hey? How could you?".
Sakura pulled herself away only to attack Ino back two seconds later "Me? I should be saying that to you" The fight was starting to get out of hand so the figure tried to step in and stop them before getting screamed at."Wait" They both stopped and looked at the figure "Did you have something to do with our deaths?"
The figure jumped "Don't look at me. It's not my fault you're dead, you two" It wasn't like they could actually physically hurt the figure but it would rather not have them try and attack.
Luckily the two girls realised the figure had nothing to do with it and just went back to their originally fight. The figure just gave up and just carefully pushed them in the right direction.
"...we're at the doorway by the way" The figure said glad to get rid of them.
The two girls paused finally noticing the large door that stood ahead of them. "So that's to the next life?" Ino asked. Sakura's question was "Is it nice there?" They both stood up as the door swiftly and silently opened.
The figure relaxed "It's the next life, yes. And it is nice there but why not find out for yourselves?" *Maybe, these girls aren't so bad after all*
"One last question" Ino turned back to the figure. "Which one of us died first?"
"Neither you both died at exactly the same moment" The figure replied.
"Well that sucks" Sakura turned to Ino smiling softly. "We never could beat each other. We were always on the same level."
Ino twisted back round to face the door "Yeah, it reminds me of the fight we had before when we knocked each other out, should we get going?".
An echo came through the doorway "SAAAKURAA-CHAAAAN".
Sakura startled looked closer through the doorway "Naruto? Naruto?!?! How could you die so stupidly?!?! Ramen? You idiot!!!" She stormed through the door.
"OI, OI, OI wait for me!!!" Ino ran through the door as well. The door slammed shut behind them.
"...Did I really just think they were alright? Nope, I didn't. I can't of. Why did I take this job? 'Meet new and exciting people' the description said. So why do I keep getting the annoying, mad idiots?" The figure grumbled as it walked off into the fog.
Throughout the area echoes of "Ino pig" and "Forehead girl" bounced around but the largest echo of all was the figure's "Why???".