Here's chapter 4 everyone! Sorry for not updating, school is a bitch.
I am calling, calling now...Spirits rise and falling...
A few days after Ino's talk with the Kusakage she woke up and groaned, pulling the covers over her head and willing herself to fall back asleep.
"Kuso....Orochimaru is gonna be here today...and if he's here....Kabuto will be as well...WHY ME?!"
Ino let out a wail into her pillow and fell silent until a maid stripped the covers off of her.
"Time to get up Ino-sama. Go take a bath and when you are out I will have several kimono's laid out for you to choose from"
Ino sighed, knowing that she couldn't win this battle and rolled off the side of her bed and made her way to the bathroom.
About ten minutes later Ino came out of the bathroom with a bathrobe around her and drying her hair off with a towel.
"The kimono's are right there Ino-sama, I hope they are to your liking."
The maid bowed to her and stepped out of the room to give Ino some privacy.
Ino's eyes scanned all of the kimono's on the bed but one caught her eye.
'Hmmmm...orange? Kaa-san always said not to wear orange unless your feeling confident, which I am not. But she also said it was a good color to wear it if your trying to be confident....so yeah! This one will work!'
Ino picked up a deep orange kimono with silver sakura petals and golden leaves decorating the fabric and the obi was a deep crimson color with gold trimming.
After putting it on Ino slipped on a pair of geta and was out the door to the meeting.
"Two of my three least favorite people in this world just have to be here...."
Ino cursed her luck as she walked through the doors.
'It's not bad enough that Orochimaru is gonna be here but that pervert Kabuto too!'
Yes, Ino had met Kabuto before. It was right after the chunin exams and he had tried hitting on her! Yuck. To make matters worse whenever she was on a mission that involved Oto Kabuto just always ended being there.
"Pervy stalker..."
Ino checked her hair in a hanging mirror before going into the meeting room.
She was relived to find that Orochimaru wasn't there yet and neither was Kabuto. But many of the clan leaders of Kusa where there and talking to each other.
"INO-CHAN!!"
Suddenly Ino found herself squished into a woman's bosom while said woman squeezed the shit out of her.
"OOF!"
"Ino-chan! It's been much too long! You look so much like your Kaa-san now! And I bet your even stronger than your Oto-san!"
Ino finally managed to get out of the death hug to see who it was, and she smiled upon seeing it was one of her mothers friends, Pryde Kaneko.
"Ohayo Pryde-san."
The large woman in front of her let out a loud laugh and patted Ino's head.
"My dear! Please, it's just Kaneko! Pryde-san makes me feel too old. You know, my daughter just graduated from the academy! I'm sooooo proud of her! My little Kitty-kat!"
"I assume that she has then Kekki Genkai?"
"Oh but of course my dear! She quite talented with it to!"
Ino smiled and took her seat at the table next to Kaneko and chatted with her quietly while they waited.
After a while Ino stopped talking and curled her hands into fists. He was here, she could feel his chakra and it made her want to run away screaming but she didn't dare do that.
'I won't let some Anaconda reject intimidate me! HELL YA!!!'
The Kusakage took her seat at the end of the table and at that very moment Orochimaru entered the room followed by Kabuto and...
'SASUKE?!'
Sasuke was not happy. In fact he was pissed. While Orochimaru could be training him to be stronger he choose to go to Kusagakure to discuss business with there Kage.
'Great, now I'm stuck in this crap village with these stupid villagers for Kami-sama knows HOW long!'
Sasuke silently scowled at Orochimaru's back while they walked towards the Kusakage's tower, which caused Kabuto to glare at him and in turn Sasuke whacked Kabuto in the back of his head with the butt of his katana.
Kabuto pitched forward and almost fell flat on his face but caught himself before he could, cursing under his breath and rubbing the new lump on top of his head.
Sasuke smirked at Kabuto and fastened his katana on his back again.
'Che. That'll teach him.'
"If you two are done fighting, we're here."
It always creeped Sasuke out how Orochimaru seemed to have eyes in the back of his head.
"Whatever."
When they stepped into the meeting room Sasuke's eyes almost popped out of his head.
'INO?!'
Orochimaru's golden eyes narrowed slightly when he saw the Yamanaka heir sitting at the meeting table.
'Well well well....Yamanaks Ino....it would appear that she ran away from Konoha...it would appear so...'
He grinned creepily at Ino and was amused when he saw her form tense up, the movement was very slight but he still saw it.
'Trying to be brave Yamanaka? Heh....'
Kabuto was also shocked but after a few moments he winked at Ino and she shivered in disgust.
'So your here too Ino-chan. Konoha finally got to much for you eh?'
Ino clenched her hands so tight that her nails dug into her palms, ready to break the skin at any moment.
'Of course Sasuke's with him, he left Konoha to go to Orochimaru for power. Stupid Ino, stupid, stupid, stupid! No no no...calm down, deep breath, show no fear or nervousness.'
Orochimaru sat at the last open seat which unfortunately was right across from Ino so he kept staring at her, trying to intimidate her. After a few moments she didn't move and he frowned.
"Kusakage-san...I'm interested to know why a Konoha ninja would be here."
Ino decided to take this opportunity to speak up for herself.
"Former Konoha ninja. I defected from Konoha and came here to Kusa, I am now a Kusagakure nin and my complete loyalty resides with the Kusakage and the people of this village."
"It's true Otokage-san. Yamanaka-san is now apart of this village and has sworn her loyalty to us. I trusts that you have no problems with this?"
Orochimaru smirked again.
"Not at all. Please, let us start the meeting."
The next two hours were like Hell to Ino. It took every fiber in her being to not break down under Orochimaru's gaze and show him how frightened she was. The fact that he always asked her opinion of every single thing didn't help either.
After the meeting was over Orochimaru made an announcement that nearly had Ino lean over to try and strangle him.
"I think I shall be spending some time here, just to see how things are going. I am also curious about this years genin and chunin."
Sasuke looked ready to behead him with his katana.
When they were all dismissed Ino was the first one out the door, she wanted to go home and relax for two hours in the estates private hot springs. But as her luck would have it, someone stopped her.
"Ino-chan, what a plesent surprise to see you here."
The Yamanaka whirled around to find herself face to face with a smirking Kabuto, she instantly let out some of her nervous and frustrated feelings out on him.
"What the Hell do you want Kabuto?!"
Kabuto chuckled and pushed his glasses up.
"Now now, I don't think the Kusakage would be happy to hear that I got this kind of treatment."
"The Kusakage told me I couldn't be rude to Orochimaru, she never said anything about the person who bends over backwards to kiss his powdered ass."
Kabuto's face turned red from anger and he growled at her.
"Your lucky your cute Ino-chan."
"I'm more than cute. Unlike you I have my own brain, speaking of which, shouldn't you be running off to your master to see if he wants to plug in the 'Your my bitch and I'm gonna fuck you tonight' chip?"
Now Kabuto lost it.
"YOU WANNA GO YAMANAKA?!"
"BRING IT PILL STUFFER!!"
They both glared at each other and sparks flew.
"Kabuto, if your done being an idiot and picking fights we're leaving."
They're staring contest was broken apart when Sasuke came upon the scene.
"Yeah sure whatever. See you later Ino-chan."
He gave her a smirk as she walked past him and Sasuke, they briefly made eye contact.
"Uchiha"
"Yamanaka."
She made her way out to the streets and to the steps of her house before she fainted from the sheer stress of the day.
Wow! Lot's of tension! And it's about to get more and more interesting! By the way, my nickname for Kabuto is Pill stuffer. I have no idea why. lol And yes I know that Kusagakure, aka village hidden in the grass does not have a Kage but this be my story!
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