Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the British TV drama Skins UK which inspired this.
WARNINGS: swearing, crack-ish, drug use, alcohol abuse, character death, multiple plot lines/pairings which includes one male/male pair later on, implicit sexual content, mild scenes of violence and sexual assult, some major OOC, full of drama and angsty stuff. CONTINUE READING AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Rollercoaster ~ The stories about the kids your parents always warned you to stay away from. High School AU. Multiple Pairings
Chapter Four: Ino
Ino's blue eyes blinked open approximately three seconds before her alarm went off. She smiled, sat up, and swiftly removed the covers from her body. She moved from the center of her full sized bed to sit at the edge and pulled open the blinds allowing the light from the rising sun to enter her room. Standing up, her arms stretched way above her head and proceeded to bend down to touch her toes. Walking towards her closet, the blonde pulled open the door examining all her clothes hanging neatly on hangers. She ran her fingers over the clothing examining them carefully before selecting a purple long sleeved crop top and a white ruffled skirt.
Taking a moment she shut the closet door and stared at herself for a moment in her full body mirror. Her eyes went to her stomach, she turned to the side and examined her body narrowing her eyes and shaking her head in disappointment. She nibbled on her lip, removing the pink shirt and matching pajama pants she wore to sleep before walking towards her bed and pulling out a scale from underneath it. She swallowed a lump in her throat and stood on the scale taking a breathe before looking down at the number and her eyes widened.
"Time for a diet…" she muttered softly and looked around her room at the posters of thin models she hung up for inspiration.
She grabbed her makeup bag, and towel as she exited her bedroom and made her way towards the only bathroom in the house she shared with her step-mom, dad, and unfortunately step-sister. After a while she had showered, dressed, combed her hair, and finally started her makeup when the bathroom door handle started to jiggle. Smirking at her reflection in the mirror, she was just about to apply lipstick when the person on the other side of the door groaned and began to bang violently on the door.
"Get the fuck out of the bathroom bitch!" Anko, her step sister, yelled. "It's every fucking morning, Ino! How long?"
The blonde placed her lipstick back into her makeup bag and set it under the sink turning towards the window by the tub. "Not long now." She called, sliding the window open and beginning to climb out of it.
She laughed softly to herself as she slid down the water pipe and jumped in front of the main entrance. She stepped inside of her house quickly, and walked into the kitchen greeting her step-mother who was cooking and her father who was seated at the table drinking coffee and reading the paper.
"Hey honey, want some eggs?" Her step-mother said as Ino shook her head.
"No thanks. I'm stopping by Sakura's this morning before school for breakfast." Ino looked in the fridge and pulled out a large water bottle, unscrewing the cap and taking a long drink.
The three heard Anko continuing to bang on the bathroom door, cursing at Ino to get out. The blonde held back a laugh as she heard the girl step down the stairs towards the kitchen at a rapid pace.
"Mom she's been in there for a fucking—." She stopped talking when she spotted Ino standing behind her father.
"I think that lock is broken again." Ino walked passed Anko with a large smile, her water bottle and book bag in her hands. "Drill is in dad's room, and you better hurry up, don't wanna be late for school."
Anko glared at the blonde as she stepped out of the house.
All the students had been gathered in the cafeteria of the school when Ino arrived. She rose an eyebrow, and walked towards the table her friends were seated at.
"What's going on?" Ino asked, taking a seat across from Temari, next to Gaara who was on his cellphone. Kiba and Naruto were sitting on the table sharing a large bag of chips, facing the doors talking about some of the girls from the cheerleading squad who stood there in their uniforms. Shikamaru had his head down, probably asleep and Sakura sat across from Gaara, painting her fingernails with a heavily scented nude polish.
"Not sure." Temari began, setting the book she was reading down beside her bag of green grapes and water bottle. "Gai-sensei just told us to come here."
Sakura blew on her nails to dry them shifting her eyes to look at the blonde girl. "I don't even think the teachers know what's going on."
Ino glanced around the cafeteria. She spotted Chouji eating a large sandwich sitting with TenTen and Lee who were sharing a cup of strawberries. Further down, Tayuya and her cheerleaders all sipped on green smoothies as they sat around their table waiting. Even further down she spotted the senior she had a crush on Deidara and other football guys throwing french fries at each other. She watched as some of the art students ate candies, some of the senior girls, her sister included, ate little snacks, and the teachers drinking their coffees as they gathered together.
"Ino!" Naruto's voice gained her attention and the blonde snapped her head towards him, confused. He grinned and offered her his bag of barbecue-cheddar potato chips. "Want some?"
She grinned and lightly pushed the bag back towards him, opening her water bottle. "Thanks but I ate a big breakfast at home. I'm still full."
"Suit yourself." Kiba shrugged and took the bag from Naruto. "Anyone else want some?"
The bag was snatched from Kiba's hand by Chouji who ran passed the two boys, stuffing the chips in his mouth as he escaped. The action seemed to gain lots of attention as students looked over and began to chuckle at the scene.
"Hey! You bastard!" Naruto yelled, jumping up and running after him.
"Give those back you prick." Kiba yelled, "I paid for those!"
Ino watched as Gaara rolled his eyes and moved to sit next to Sakura who smiled at him and leaned forwards to place a kiss on his cheek. His face remained emotionless, but he did rub the top of her head causing her to laugh softly. Naruto had almost caught up to Chouji, when suddenly he crashed into someone else and fell back knocking down Naruto and Kiba with him. Everyone froze when two women walked through the entrance of the cafeteria and presented with angered looks on their faces.
The older looking one bent down to grab the bag of chips that had fallen on the ground and looked to the woman behind her.
"Shizune, I'm thinking about adding a new rule." The woman looked to the three boys on the ground. "No running in my cafeteria."
"Your cafeteria?" Naruto stood up. "Who are you, grandma?"
"Why you little—" The woman sighed and unclenched her fist. "My name is Tsunade. I'm your new school director." The whole cafeteria fell silent as the woman stepped further into it. "It came to the school boards attention that this place, Konoha High School, has been lacking in all subjects, by the looks of the kind of students make up the body I can see why." She said, eyeing Naruto, Kiba, and Chouji. "I am here to restore this schools glory, and to do so, I will enforce my new rules and regulations."
Ino glanced back at Temari. "Student president? Did you know about this?" She whispered.
The sandy blonde shook her head and turned her attention back to Tsunade who continued to talk. "I'll make this easy for you all. Any of the following will get you expelled, smoking of any kind on school grounds, sexual intercourse of any kind on school grounds, graffiti of any kind on school grounds, consumption of drugs and alcohol of any kind on school grounds, loud music on school grounds, and starting tomorrow there will be a strict dress code you will be enforced to follow—…"
Sakura chuckled. "Good thing Hinata isn't here today."
"A dress code? She can't be fucking serious." Ino muttered.
"All after school activities that have no educational foundations will be shut down, and students playing sports must maintain a grade point average of 3.0 or higher." Tsunade smirked, "anyone who has a problem with following these rules will be removed from campus. Is that clear?"
Some students began to talk among themselves. Ino stood up from her seat and gained most of the students and teachers attentions.
"You're gonna make us wear a uniform, and take away our clubs? That's bullshit!" Ino yelled, "I'm not gonna just sit here and take that."
Tsunade rose an angered eyebrow and stepped towards Ino. "Like it or not this is my school now. I'm gonna forget this little outburst, but one more peep from you or anyone else will result in instant expulsion."
Ino narrowed her eyes angrily, picked up her backpack and stepped out of the cafeteria as the students began to head to class.
"I guess I won't be playing football for the rest of the year. A 3.0, who am I kidding?" Kiba said sadly as he picked out a pair of navy blue pants.
Many students had gone to the mall after school, to pick up their new uniforms, Ino and a few of her friends included. When they all entered Ino, Kiba and Temari broke away from the rest of the group and went to the largest department store in the building. Ino sat on a bench, one leg crossed over the other watching as Temari, and Kiba looked through the large selections of clothing.
"Oh come on," Temari looked to the boy who frowned back at her, "Getting those grades should not be too hard."
"Are you guys really just gonna be okay with this?!" Ino jumped up causing her two friends to turn around and look at her. "Uniforms? All these new rules. Besides white and navy blue? Those colors make me look like a whale!"
"A whale?" Kiba repeated, confused.
"There's not much we can do about it, Ino." Temari handed her a white button up shirt. "It's the new principals decision and I don't really feel like being expelled."
Ino rolled her blue eyes and took the shirt, "nice attitude student pres."
Kiba began to walk towards the register located at the front of the store with the two blondes following behind. "C'mon Ino. Uniforms aren't the end of the world, and I guess we can always go to Naruto's place to get drunk, I don't really mind the sex thing since I can't get any anyway… What was I talking about?"
Temari sighed, reaching the end of the line to pay for her items. "Look at the end of the day it's just easier to give into the rules alright."
Kiba threw his arm around the girl. "Yea, school is shit anyways." He poked his finger against her cheek with a grin. "How about I buy you an ice cream cone to cheer you up?"
Ino grinned and removed his arm from her. "Thanks but I totally forgot… I uh— I have to go have dinner with Hinata." She set the clothes she had in her arms down and ran out of the store without saying a word.
Once outside she gasped for air, reaching in her bag for her water bottle drinking the entire contents of it.
Ino walked into Naruto's apartment where all the lights had been turned off. She set the brown paper bag she had brought with her on the counter and looked to the living room area. The blonde boy was seated on his couch playing a video game on his PS4 with Shikamaru and Shino was seated on the single lounge chair smoking out of a bong. Naruto's apartment was a complete mess, and it was fairly small but she knew the boy usually lived alone.
"Well, aren't you guys gonna go get uniforms too?" Ino asked, taking off her shoes and approaching the boys.
"Nah fuck that." Naruto laughed. His eyes focused on the game. "Sakura chan said she'd get mine since she went with Gaara to get one."
Shikamaru was leaned back into the couch, lazily pushing the buttons on the controller. "Temari got mine too."
"Aren't you guys lucky." Ino muttered dryly, her face scrunching up when she noticed all the empty pizza boxes and beer cans laying around the apartment. "Naruto you know you can clean up around here right?"
"Eh." The blonde responded but he really was not paying attention to her, "Shikamaru wake your lazy ass up and start playing better!"
"Fuck off." The sleepy teenager muttered in reply.
The two began to suddenly focus their full attention on the game.
Ino looked to Shino and nodded her head towards the kitchen. He followed her pace and they both stepped inside.
"What is it you said you had?"
He pulled out a orange pill bottle from his coat and popped the cap off pouring a pill in one hand. "You said you needed concentration, these will give you that but the dosage is heavier than you might be used to."
The blonde took the pill in her hand and rose an eyebrow. "Side effects?"
Shino moved towards the fridge and pulled out a beer, "I wouldn't take it on an empty stomach, it supposed to help you with concentration but taken wrong you'll get really fucking trippy, start hallucinating and paranoid."
"Cool if I pay you tomorrow?"
"Sure thing." Shino took a sip of the beer.
Ino smiled and placed the pill in her mouth. "Let's see what this baby can do."
"It'll take a while to take effect."
Taking the bag she had set on the counter, she nodded, waved him off and walked towards the extra room Naruto had in his apartment.
"Hina? You in here?" She called, opening the wooden, painted green door slowly.
The room was dark but cleaner than the rest of Naruto's apartment. The girl was on the bed, her body buried under all of the covers with one cinnamon candle lit beside her. Ino sighed and set her bag on the ground walking towards the window. She pulled opened the drapes causing Hinata to groan and sit up, shielding her eyes, glaring at Ino. Holding back a giggle, Ino walked towards her best friend who sported one of Sasuke's rock band pullovers, fuzzy orange slippers, and very messy hair.
"That's n-not funny…" the long haired girl murmured removing the covers from her body.
"Someone's grumpy." Ino giggled, jumping onto the bed straddling Hinata. "But I guess I would be too if my boyfriend was in an insane asylum."
"That's not where he is." Hinata grumbled. "T-too s-soon… to make jokes."
"Alright alright I'm sorry." Ino apologized. "But really, you're not gonna feel any better about not having him around by staying locked inside all day."
Hinata reached over grabbing her silver flask and taking a drink of whatever had been poured in it. "It's working so far…" she put the drink down and sighed. "I think I'm depressed."
"You're not depressed, you just miss him." Ino crossed her arms above her chest, "But on second thought, it's better you missed school today. We got a new principal and that bitch is driving me crazy."
"More t-than your sister crazy?" Hinata quirked a curious brow.
Ino leaned towards her. "More than eighth grade Sakura crazy."
"Must be something." Hinata lit up a cigarette. "What happened?"
After explaining everything to her, Ino fell back onto the bed in frustration. Hinata had opened the bag Ino brought her and was sipping the noodle soup from the paper cup it was in. Both girls continued with random chatter when Ino´s eyes landed on a familiar figure leaning against the door frame.
"Well well." The senior she had a crush on, Deidara, smirked, arms crossed, as he looked to the girls. "What's going on ladies?"
"Deidara?" Ino rolled off the bed and Hinata looked to her with an eyebrow raised. The blonde groaned in pain as she stood up, a hand on the part of her head that she had bumped. "W-what's up?" She whispered, clearly in pain but attempted to act nonchalant.
He smirked. "Oh you know me, I smell a shindig I'm around."
"S-shindig?" Hinata questioned, getting out of the bed.
Both girls stepped out of the room and were faced with a living room full of teenagers. Ino looked to the ceiling where clouds of smoke were hovering above them. Laser lights began to shoot from corner to corner, as electronic music played from the stereo.
"What the fuck?" Ino mumbled, looking to the couch area where most of her friends were sitting. "What is this are we celebrating our lack of freedom at school?"
"You seem to care enough about it." Hinata said to her, exhaling a breath of smoke. "Do something."
Naruto walked over to Hinata laughing and pulling her into the kitchen with him along a very drunk Rock Lee who was following behind them. For some reason Lee was only in his underwear, and someone had graffitied his entire body.
"Ino." Sakura called, her voice mellow. The pink haired girl was seated on Gaara's lap, in the single lounge chair Naruto kept in his living room. She was smiling stupidly from ear to ear, her eyes barely open while Gaara sat calmly, expressionless as usual. "Have a drink with us…"
"I-I…" Ino's vision began to get fuzzy. She narrowed her eyes when Sakura became three, and Gaara started to change colors. Panting heavily, she shook her head and turned around to look at the people around her. Her eyes widened when she couldn't recognize anybody, and the music was beginning to be blocked out. She saw spots, and then many colors not sure where she even was anymore. "Hinata? Naruto?" She walked more into the crowd of people who now just looked like blobs. "Wait… who are these people?" She lifted her hands to rub her eyes, and when she pulled them down her eyes widened when she saw tiger paws instead of her own arms. "What- what the fuck?"
"Ino-chaaaan." A voice called to her. It sounded echoey, and very loud. "Ino-chan dance with me."
She looked up and she was no longer at the party, she was instead in a rainy forest and was face to face with a bear wearing a suit who was swaying around. He had a dozen red roses in his arms, and a pig seated on a log besides the bear played the violin beautifully.
"I'm really fucking tripping aren't I?" Ino mumbled to herself and she looked around.
Suddenly… everything went black.
When her eyes opened the next morning she was able to recognize her surroundings. Judging by the ninja posters on the orange wall and the collection of bongs on the dresser, there was no mistaking she was in Naruto's bedroom. She groaned when she felt a pounding in her head and reached over to remove the bed sheets when all of the sudden she realized she wasn't alone in the bed. Her eyes widened when she looked down to the ground in front of her and saw her top and skirt discarded along with her bra.
"Oh… fucking hell…" She whispered to herself and she turned slowly to look at the person who was asleep beside her cuddling her to his bare chest. "Lee you perverted little bastard!" She yelled, jumping out of the bed with the sheet covering her chest. "What the fuck? What the fuck?!"
Lee opened his eyes and looked to the girl surprised. She grabbed one of Naruto's random shoes and aimed it at the boy who sat up with his arms in the air in defense.
"Ino, wait please let me explain." He pleaded.
"Explain? Explain what?! How I was high and defenseless and you took advantage of me you son of a bitch!" Ino grabbed another shoe. "Ugh I should kill you! I mean what the fuck?! How could you do this to me—"
"Ino, I'm gay." Lee stated quickly causing the girl to shut up and drop the shoe she was gonna throw at the boy. "Last night you passed out and Hinata and I carried you in here. I stayed to make sure no one entered the room and well took advantage of you."
"Huh?" She smiled nervously and rubbed the back of her head before sighing and slumping her shoulders down. "That was… very sweet of you, Lee. Thank you…" She turned her head to the side and noticed Naruto's mirror. She looked up and down at her body, her brows furrowed in confusion. "Hey Lee?"
The boy was now awake, pulling his shirt on. "Yes?"
Ino looked back to him. "Why am I naked?"
"Last night you mentioned something to me about not feeling confident in your body." Lee began, standing up and pulling his pants on. "You started to take off your clothing and show me what you thought was wrong with it."
"I did?" Ino looked back to the mirror. "Oh crap."
"Ino. You are beautiful." Lee said to the girl offering her a smile. "And kind, and very brave. You are the kind of girl who can make a difference. That is the best thing about you, Ino. You stand up and you are passionate about things."
The blonde girl smiled at the boy who began to stretch. "Thanks."
"You don't need to hurt yourself, everyone has beauty within them." Her smile faded as he continued to speak. "You also told me last night how you haven't eaten all day."
"And he's not the only one you told." A voice from the corner of the room said. Ino turned quickly and gasped when she spotted her step sister seated on the love seat in the room.
"Anko? What the hell? What are you doing here?" Ino asked jumping back in surprise.
The older girl stood up, "Hey I'm a senior at your school. I get invited to parties you know." She walked towards Ino. "Your dad told me you struggled with an eating disorder after your mom left you… and even though you're completely annoying… you're still my sister."
"It's not that big of a deal…" Ino argued.
"Yes it is, Ino." Anko said angrily. "I know you think no one might care. But we do. And so will your friends. Let me help you."
Lee nodded from behind Anko. "Yes, we can help you get better, you need to take of yourself."
"You have to eat." Anko said, and held out an apple. Ino looked between the two of them and nodded slowly taking the apple in her hand. She lifted her arm and placed it in front of her mouth before looking at the two people in front of her with a smile.
"Hey if you guys really want to help me you'll help me figure out a way to stop this uniform thing at school."
"Of course we will. But first…" Anko crossed her arms over her chest and gave Ino a serious look. The blonde girl looked back to the red apple and took a bite.
"What's with the trench coat?" Hinata asked Ino as the girls entered the school. Ino had somehow managed to get her best friend up and dressed for school, and strangely enough, only teenagers from their friend group, excluding Anko, had spent the entire night at Naruto´s place.
"Just a cold day." Ino smiled while they continued to walk towards the cafeteria.
Hinata shrugged and they reached the table in which their friends were currently seated at when Naruto, who had just arrived as well, sat between the two girls.
"Well, these are definitely boring aren't they?" Naruto mumbled, looking around the cafeteria seeing the same clothing and colors on everyone.
Shikamaru rested his head on his fist, taking a sip of his coffee. "Yeah but at least now we don't have to put effort into what we wear to school anymore."
"Like you'd put effort into anything." Kiba laughed, playing a game on his phone.
Sakura sighed, "well I liked having the option to wear what I wanted."
"So did I." Lee said, "dancers clothing is just much more comfortable."
Temari looked to Ino who was seated quietly smiling at her friends. She quirked a confused brow. "You're awfully quiet. I thought you'd be starting your protest by now. You know gathering cheerleaders and burning down the school."
Ino nodded, "Someone told me that the best things about me are that I stand up for what I believe in." She glanced at Lee and smiled when he winked at her. "I know what to do."
"Should we be worried you´re gonna do something stupid on this new principal´s first day?" Shikamaru yawned. "Seems troublesome."
"Don´t you worry," Ino had a sparkle in her eye that made everyone uneasy. "I´m just gonna ask why?"
Just as she stopped talking, the new principal, Tsunade and her assistant Shizune walked into the cafeteria followed by a few of the staff members. All the students turned their attention back to them.
"I see you have all followed instruction, it is a good start." Tsunade began, "However there is still a lot to clean up in this place and..." She stopped mid-sentence when Ino raised her hand in the air. "What is it?"
"Principal Tsunade, I was just wondering, why do we need uniforms?" Ino stood up gaining the attention from all the students. "I mean honestly, does what I wear really affect my grades?"
"There are uniforms now because Lady Tsunade made it a rule!" Shizune answered. "are you challenging that rule, Ms. Yamanaka?"
"Not a challenge." Ino began to unbutton her trench coat. "I just want to know why wear a blue and white shirt will somehow make me a better student then… wearing this." The coat fell, and Ino was revealed in a tight, blue, short, sleeveless dress.
"What are you doing?" Temari hissed, while Naruto and Kiba laughed.
"Ms. Yamanaka? What is it you're trying to prove here?!" Tsunade yelled.
"I just don't understand why I can't get an answer." Ino smirked. "Our clothes aren't the problem."
"Whatever explanation we give you I'm sure you'll argue with it." Tsunade said.
"I just want a reason on why I should wear a uniform." Ino smiled. "Believe it or not we have some of the smartest kids in Japan at our school. Like Sakura for example, and he wears the most subtle yet sluttiest clothes out of everyone I know."
"Hey!" The pinkette yelled, then shrugged. "Actually that's true. I'm pretty sure she took that dress from my closet."
"Taking away our right to wear our own clothes is like taking away all of our rights together. This is our school! We've never had uniforms before and we shouldn't have them now!" Ino protested.
Tsunade growled. "Ino Yamanaka! I want you out of that dress immediately!"
"Fine!" The blonde yelled. "Pulling her dress off from the hem leaving her in only the lacy pink underwear she had decided to wear.
All of the students and teachers watched her in shock for a moment until the boys from the football team and other students began to cheer. Kiba whistled while Chouji fainted at the sight. Sakura and Temari both gasped, eyes wide and frozen white Hinata removed her sweater and covered her friend.
"You were right when you said I wouldn't regret coming to school today." Hinata laughed, hugging her best friend.
Ino exited the principal's office smirking proudly as she was greeted and congratulated by many students. She received a few high fives from some students and even a bouquet of flowers from a random tennis player.
"You really got some balls, Ino." Her crush said as he walked passed her with some other football players.
She ran into her sister who chuckled a bit as she walked towards her.
"How'd you escape alive with that one?" Anko asked while Ino shrugged her shoulders smugly.
"I was only doing what I was told. Can't get in trouble for that can I?"
"You're one crazy bitch, you know that?"
She threw her arm around her shoulder as they walked down the hall.
"All in all, I managed to convince her to revoke her uniform rule." Ino said proudly, stopping at the vending machine.
"How'd you manage that?"
"Well If Kiba and Naruto do better the whole school average will bump up. I agreed to start a tutoring club after school." Ino inserted her money into the machine. "We also have a few other comprises but those were sworn to secrecy."
Anko laughed. "Well look at us. Acting all sisterly now." She didn't notice when Ino shook up the bottle of soda she had just purchased and took it from her hands walking away. Opening it, Anko gasped when the bottle exploded and she heard Ino laughing from the end of the hallway.
The blonde winked at her sister before placing a grape in her mouth and walking away with a smile on her face as Anko swore revenge from the end of the hallway.
Still making it up as I go...
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