K.L.K- sorry for not updating, but I've been resting up. alrighty, here's chapter four!

TITLE: Eye Liner

SUMMARY: "hey! stay still! Eye Liner makes your glare WAYY scarier, Sakura!" "Ino! get the effing heck off me!" SakuIno/others unknown/multichap/in progress/plz read!

RATING: T

AUTHORESS'S NOTE: okay, can you please read "Jitters", my completed SakuIno fic, and then give me a bitchin' title for the sequel? Onegai? help the authoress, please? anywho, I'm updating this, and I'm sure all of you will positively love this chapter. I've had this planned out since I started this thing, so I hope it's good!! my Okaasan seems to think that we need to watch a movie EVERY FUCKING NIGHT, and so I have started hiding in my room during this time. eek. so, I'll update alot now, I hope. I'm still trying to get used to this damned laptop keyobard. Enjoy!

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DISCLAIMER: sorry, I don't own this anime/manga. if I did, do you really think I'd still be living with my parents, even at my young teenage age? HELL no. I don't even own my own effing living space, according to my Okaasan. (rolls eyes) and she thinks I have no rights. Baka no Okaasan. is it any wonder I get along better with my Tousan?

RING! RING! RING! RI--CRUNCH....

silence.

Ino opened her eyes to see Sakura cuddled into her stomach, and her cheap, old, half-broken alarm clock had taken it's last assault, and it was now in scattered remaines of plastic and metal. it gave a half-attempt at another beep but Sakura's fist shot out once more and smashed the speaker.

the blonde grinned as the pinkette was still asleep, even after smashing the alarm twice. incredible. she poked her on the forehead twice, and she merely muttered something and made a cooing noise, then nuzzled the Yamanaka's navel with her nose. Ino gasped slightly with the contact and blushed faintly, then got up. Sakura crashed to the floor, and was up in a flash.

"who-what-when-were-why!?" the Haruno sputtered.

Ino grinned. "wakey waaakeeey, forehead." Sakura turned to her.

"oh." she blinked. "forgot where I was." she blinked, then stretched and yawned. her eyes widened. "what time is it?" she asked cautiously.

Ino looked at her wall clock. "seven a.m."

Sakura relaxed visibly. "s-sorry, Ino... it's just when I used to get up after seven...they'd...they'd..." she made a choking noise, and she forced back tears. the blonde hugged her from behind.

"if you need to cry, Sakura, cry." she cooed softly to the tortured rosette and the Haruno fell to her knees, bringing Ino down with her, and she soon buried her face into Ino's shoulder. desperately searching for comfort. she cried for fifteen minutes, and then calmed down enough so that she could actually stop sobbing. "go take a shower, I'll help you get ready." the rosette hiccuped but smiled and dissapeared out the door and into the bathroom.

Ino got out her clothes and Sakura's, and dressed herself, thanking herself that she'd slipped away in the middle of the night for a nice shower. Sakura hadn't woken up, either. she also got out some makeup whilst her eyes twinkled mischeviously. Sakura came in soon after, running her hands through her hair. there was a faint hum of chakra, but then her pink locks were dried. she smiled at the blonde, who smiled back.

Sakura dressed in the blue-skull midriff shirt and the shorts with a buckled skirt. she put on her gear, and tied her hair back like she usually did with her hitiate, but it bugged her for some reason. "hey Ino, could you loosely braid the end of my hair?" she asked the blonde girl, who nodded.

soon it was done, and tied off with a black ribbon. Sakura grinned. THAT's what was missing! she put her forehead protector back.

Ino grinned evilly. "oh Sakuraaaa?"

the rosette, who was sitting on the bed looked over. "Hai, Ino?" she asked, looking the Yamanaka over warily.

"this'll complete your look!" Ino hopped onto the bed, unknowingly straddling Sakura, as Sakura layed down on the bed in shock. Ino twisted the eyeliner stick out until she could put the tip of it in her mouth, until it softened, and then startedto apply it around Sakura's eyes thickly.

"Ahh, what the heck!?" the pinkette gasped in shock.

the blue-eyed female was almost finished with the makeup. "Hey! stay still! Eye Liner makes your glare WAYY scarier, Sakura!"

Sakura wriggled even more. "Ino! get the effing heck off me!"

"ah, Sakura stop wiggling-!" the blonde was cut off as her lips smashed into Sakura's, the result of a bucking motion the pinkette had made in an attempt to get free.

"ah...umm..." Sakura cried out in shock, forgetting her lips were brushing her blonde best friends'.

the two separated, blushing madly.

"so...do you have mascara?" Sakura asked, distracting both of them from the...ahem incident.

"oh yeah! I do! oh, the eyeliner is waterproof. you have to take it off with chakra!" Ino smiled. "so it won't smear or go away until you want it to!"

the rosette Haruno grinned. "that's awesome!"

two hours later, it was time for them to meet thier teams, so Sakura and Ino said thier goodbyes.

Sakura was walking down the street, then saw Naruto with Konohamaru and his little buddies, and ran to catch up. "hey! Naruto!"

Naruto looked toward her, and his eyes bugged out. "Sa...Sakura-chan?" he asked as she skidded to a stop right in front of him. "what happened to you?"

she grinned. "I got a new look." she shrugged.

the two younger boys were looking at her with stars in thier eyes and blushes on thier cheeks. "is Sakura your name?!" the one with a booger hanging out of his nose stammered.

"Hai." she raised a pink eyebrow.

"Sakura-chan, you're so pretty!" Konohamaru complimented.

"thank you." she replied.

"ah! you midgets stop trying to steal Sakura-chan!" Naruto griped.

"why, is she your..." Konohamaru stuck out his pinkie. "girlfriend?" Naruto nodded.

the boys and the little girl there suddenly felt a dark arua.

"NARUTO..." Sakura boomed, and they started running.

"ah!" Konohamaru cried out as the person he ran into picked him up by the collar. "hey! lemme go! lemme go!!"

the others were frozen, except Sakura. her green eyes were narrowed. "put. him. down."

"oh yeah?" the boy in the black bodysuit laughed. "what will you do about it, Pinky?"

Sakura's eyes widened, and the pupils shrunk to tiny pinpoints. her entire body quivered.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto cried out, as he stepped in front of her, and tried to snap her out of it. "Sakura-chan! what's wrong! come on! say something, Sakura-chan!"

"what...what did I do!?" Kankuro asked, panic rising like bile in his throat.

Naruto turned his angry blue eyes to the man with the cattish hood on. "you idiot! her family abused her!" he hissed out, and turned back to try and revive his friend.

0o0-One Year Before-0o0

"hey, pinky!" Sakura's family grinned at her. they were all high and drunk.

she winced. "H-hai?"

she was then beaten. beaten so badly she limped for a week. and to make things worse, her mother spilled a vinegar and salt mixture into the deep wounds caused by her sister's fake nails, and she screamed.

0o0-Back In The Current Time-0o0

she twitched violently as her pupils went back to thier normal size.

"...-kura-chan! are you alright?!" Naruto's eyes broke through the darkness along with his voice, and she blinked as the black nothingness faded away.

"I...I-I'm fine, Naruto." her eyes turned steely. "I can't wait until those bastards die." her fist clenched at her side. she took a few deep breaths.

"are you alright? Oh, geez, I didn't mean to do that!" the black bodysuit boy sighed in relief.

"it's alright." the rosette shrugged. "who are you?" she asked, looking over the boy. and the girl standing slightly beside him. they looked tough. and about a year older than her.

"I'm Kankuro. this is my sister, Temari." he pointed tward the girl.

"oh. I'm Haruno Sakura. Suna-nin, huh? Chunin Examinations, right?" she raised her pink eyebrow.

"yeah." the boy rubbed the back of his head. "Umm... so, Sakura, right?" he asked, and she nodded.

"Hai." she nodded.

"well, I have to say that you look great--!" all of a sudden a rock hit the back of his head. "ow what the hell!?"

Sasuke was on the branch, crushing a- what looked to be a rock but was actually a clod of dirt- in his hand. "step off the teammate." he glared.

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Sasuke. quit it, I don't need protecting." her green-steel coloured eyes clashed with his, and he 'Hn'd.

"whatever. I wasn't the one who went into a trance earlier." he scoffed, and she stiffened.

"you have no idea of the hell I've been through. all your family wass killed off, oh sure, being alone all these years is not as bad as being beaten and abused!" she hissed after he came down, and he stared at her coldly.

"whatever, you're anno--"

"hey, you shut up-!" Kankuro made a move to jump at the Uchiha, but a cold voice stopped him.

"Kankuro. stop it. you're disgracing our village." then in a swirl of sand a redheaded and sea-green racoon-eyed gaze accompanied by a short pre-teen with the kanji 'Ai' on his forehead meterialized.

"G-Gaara!" Temari gasped out.

"O-oh, s-sorry Gaara." the boy with the purple paint on his face apologized stammeringly.

he looked the the pink-haired girl. he looked into her green eyes and saw the pain in them. "who are you, girl?" he asked as he re-materialized on the ground.

she looked him straight back into the eyes. "Haruno Sakura. nice to meet you." her face was blank, as she looked him over, especially the gourd on his back.

'it's made of sand...' she inwardly commented.

'wierd...' Inner muttered back.

'he's a Jinchuuriki.' another voice whispered.

'WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!' Inner screamed into her mind, as the outer flinched a bit.

"anything wrong, Sakura-chan?" the Uzumaki asked concernedly. "you're...uhh... 'episode' wasn't too long ago..."

she shook her head. "I'm fine, Naruto. just...thinking." she replied with a small smile. he nodded.

"alright then."

"Dobe, what episode?" Sasuke asked.

"oh, Kankuro over there called her a name you-know-who used to call her when they you-know-what'ed her, and she kinda spaced out for a few minutes." he said, hushing the 'you-know-who' and the 'you-know-what'ed' part.

"Sasuke. Naruto." she spoke quietly. "it's alright if you talk about my family and what they did around me. I'll get over it." her eyes ghosted over with sadness.

Naruto nodded. "Hai, Sakura-chan...but I don't want you to go into a trance like that again! you looked so...so sad..."

she gave him a grin. "Naruto, you don't have to worry about me. really, I'm fine."

Sasuke looked at her. "Tch, you are so--" she cut him off.

"you call me annoying and you'l find yourself castrated." she hissed.

he took a step back. "Hn." he eyed her carefully.

she smiled. "we'd better go then." she ushered her teammates out of the alleyway, and into the Academy building, where the Chunin Examinations were being held.

K.L.K- (sweatdrops) well, that was long.

Sakura- We...we...KISSED?! (blushes)

Ino- (hiding)

K.L.K- XD heheheheh. anyway, please review! and I'm sorry it's late. but how was the meeting with the Sand Sibs? good? bad? horrible? randomly typed? PLEASE REVIEW!