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Within less than one week Ino had gotten into the cheerleading squad, full of confidence after speaking with Konan, who encouraged her to try out for cheerleading. "Stand up straighter," Ino told another cheerleader that was holding her up with her hands.

The cheerleader sucked her teeth and tilted to the side purposely; making the entire pyramid fall and Ino fell to the ground to the side, unlike the others that just fell on top of each other.

She stood up quickly, feeling a pain in her ankle and she fell back down again, trying her best to bear with the pain. Kurenai, her couch helped her up and sat her down on one of the benches, bandages already out.

"What happened?" she asked, and then began wrapping bandages around Ino's ankle. "It's broken; you'll have to wait a while before actually trying to do anymore stunts like that."

Ino bit her bottom lip and said, "I was being careless and I accidentally fell down."

Kurenai stood up and held a crutch out toward Ino. "Use this for the time being. Those cheerleaders could get nasty with new cheerleaders. If they do anything mean to you, let me know and I'll have a little talk with them." she helped Ino up onto the crutch. "Go on and take a break for today," she said.

The blonde nodded her head lightly and changed quickly before walking out of the gym, facing Sasuke, who said, "My brother wants to give you a ride home because the rest of your friends are staying after school." he didn't make mention of her condition. "Liar," he said a few minutes later, and then walked faster.

She struggled to catch up with him but eventually when she did they had already arrived toward the car Itachi drove. Ino slipped into one of the comfy seats, trying her best not to make it obvious of her state.

"What happened to your leg?" Itachi asked immediately, a small emotion of worry in his voice.

Ino shook her head. "Nothing." and she didn't answer any other questions he asked when they were driving to her house.

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Her front door was opened by a set of keys and Deidara opened the door, saying, "I heard your heard your leg from Itachi." and he turned around, closing the doors behind him before walking toward the living room, where he found Ino sitting there, struggling to stand up.

"No, no, I'll come to you." Deidara walked toward Ino and sat beside her, getting a hug as a greeting.

She waved, smiling. "Hi, so happy you're here." over the last weeks or so Deidara had arrived at Ino's house, helping her and acting a bit like her dad. "My Daddy is going to come back today, could you please help me clean up, and I want you to be here when he comes home. I'm going to introduce you, you did help a lot around the house while he wasn't around." she said, and then kissed his cheek.

Deidara smiled. "It's like having a little sister for once. Like having a family." he smirked and then kissed her cheek gently before putting her book bag onto the couch, what she was reaching for.

The female chewed on a potato chip and then pulled it away from her lips. "You never had a family before?" she asked.

He simply wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "I'm an orphan. Still am actually but they let me out for school days and I'm back in on weekends if I have nowhere to go. I'm not an adult yet so I guess that happens." he shrugged.

Ino was nearly crying tears out and she looked away from him, helping herself up. "I'll go up to get ready for Daddy's arrival." she slowly walked up the stairs.

Only after ten minutes later did Inoichi walk into the room, a set of keys in his hands as he entered. "You're not my baby girl," he said, looking into the living room to see Deidara. "Though you both are blondes with the same hairstyle …what have you done to my little princess?" Inoichi asked, taking dangerous steps toward Deidara.

"Daddy!" Ino shouted, and slowly began to walk down the stairs. "That's Deidara! He's been helping around the house while you were away," she said, smiling, and then hugged her father, embracing the hug, over his shoulder she noticed Deidara look away from them.

Inoichi smiled. "You replaced me with another man?" and he lightly rubbed his thumb against her cheek. He walked over toward Deidara, putting a hand out toward him, "Thank you for taking care of my daughter. I'll like to meet your parents though, just a little chat." he gave a kind smile, not knowing he had hit a spot.

Deidara looked up. "I don't have any parents. I'm an orphan," he leaned to the side of the couch and rested his head on the palm of his hand. "But I ran away from the orphanage so many times that they didn't care, so I'm free from them for now."

"It still won't be a problem to adopt you would it? You're already pretty much living here." Inoichi smiled, trusting Deidara already.

He basically shrugged. "I guess it won't hurt," he said, and then told Inoichi the small directions to the place. "It's not a good neighborhood," he said, and then followed Inoichi down to his car.

His daughter followed, locking up the house slowly. "Um …can we stop by the bank later on? I might have something to deposit." she slipped into the seat beside Deidara, smiling at him, and she noticed a small gleam of happiness in his pale blue eyes.

The moment they arrived a strong-looking man arrived, already angry to see Deidara behind Inoichi. "Did he cause you trouble, sir? I promise it would never happen again." He bent over and pulled Deidara out from Inoichi, shoving him behind himself.

Inoichi shook his head and grabbed Deidara's arm again, finding himself being tugged between two very strong men. "No, no, we're here to adopt him today," Inoichi said, and looked as his daughter wandered off slowly on her crutch.

The man stood narrowed his eyes and gave a strong tug to Deidara. "Are you sure you want him, sir? He bombed the storage up once just from rage. He had gotten into a fight with two fourteen year olds that were the children of our biggest donators and beat them up, nearly putting them to death. By then let's remember he was only seven years old." he then pointed at Deidara. "This teenage boy you have here can destroy your life single-handedly."

Inoichi shot his head at Deidara, wondering how Deidara had managed to fight and bomb up things at such a young age. He pointed at Deidara and said, "Of course that isn't possible, look at him! He's grown older!" Inoichi slapped one of his hands against Deidara's back, "strong too! He won't be doing things like that anymore. Now where are the papers to sign?" Inoichi raised an eyebrow.

The older man walked toward a table before looking through files before handing sheets of paper toward Inoichi, he quickly signed them, taking care of any other problems before resting his arm on top of Deidara's head, slightly messing up his ponytail. "I always wanted to do this to my son," he said, proud, "my little princess doesn't let me do that to her precious hair." he looked around, searching for her daughter to find her donating money toward the adoption center.

"Yay, Dei-kun! You're my brother!" Ino launched forward to hug him and tripped instead, finding herself in the arms of her new adopted brother, and she smiled. "Thanks that must have been at least the tenth catch today."

He helped him up and carried her toward her crutch still hanging to the side near the counter. "Let's go home, I don't feel so great in this place," he said, and then Inoichi nodded.

"Of course, you did live here a while before." he looked around and then slowly made their way back to their car outside. "Quickly would you? People easily get killed around this neighborhood and I can't risk having my princess hurt."

Deidara shook his head. "I better not get a nickname," he said, rubbing his temples and then helped Ino into the car slowly.

Inoichi smirked. "Want me to call you my little prince?" Deidara shook his head quickly. Ino smiled at both of them and then suddenly clapped her hands together.

Clapping her hands, Ino said, "Does this mean we get to go shopping with Dei-kun?" and then she laughed, slipping her hand into his pocket to leave some cash into it. "You can go by yourself, but you can always bring the best fashion advisor on the earth with you," she said, and then winked.

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Bit by bit over two days, Ino began walking on her ankle once again, being about to walk in slightly faster paces. Ino waited outside, sitting down on the grass and waited for Deidara while all the others members of Akatsuki around her.

Itachi sat in front of her and Ino was running her hand into his hair slowly as he read, he didn't mind too much. Looking up, he noticed Deidara walking back into their direction and he said, "Now that he's your brother, Ino, you should call him niisan, and he should call you imouto." he returned back to his book.

Ino giggled behind him, letting go of his hair for a while. "Uhm, I guess, but we're not blood sisters and brothers, I guess we can call each other that, if it doesn't hurt his pride too much anyway." she ran her hand once more time through his hair before tying his hair in a low ponytail once again. When she turned his face toward her to plant a kiss on his cheek he held up a hand.

"No kisses for me," he said, and then let his hand fall back to his book to turn the page. Ino smiled, fixing the hair around his face so it framed his and then stood up, still smiling to get a light wave from Deidara.

Ino held out a hand and slowly began walking toward a car, saying, "Come on, Nagato is here again, your house again, Itachi?" she asked behind her.

"Uhm…" he answered, patiently waiting for Kisame to pack up slowly before finally standing up. "I'll be behind you," he said, opening the book again.

Arriving at their destination, they all noticed another car there, noting to them to know that the other Uchiha was already home, maybe along with his other friends. Ino played with the ends of her hair and then looked down at her pale, silky tank top that was slightly covered by a fancy skirt. Ino fixed it slightly and then stood up straightly, feeling an arm around her shoulders she looked up to see Deidara, giving her a questioning look.

Everyone got out of the car, each of them making a different way in the big mansion. Some raided the kitchen while others just dumped their book bag down on the couch and walked up to their training room or so.

"Since you can't fight today, Ino. You may wander around the mansion if you please," Itachi said, and then walked up the stairs, following Kisame up the stairs slowly.

Deidara went toward the kitchen, obviously wanting food along with Hidan. Ino sat down on the couch, slowly placing her book bag in the middle of the pile, and then she sat down on an empty area on the couch, playing with the ends of her hair and then hummed a small tune.

Meanwhile, Sasuke walked through the halls of them mansion, his friends in another room while he walked around it, looking for something he wasn't quite sure what though.

A scent caught his nose and he looked into the room to see Ino. 'Of course,' he thought, only Ino would wear such a flowery scent that had a little something that made it ever so seductive. He turned away and walked the other way slowly, uncertain if he should intrude in her life after what he had done.

He met emerald eyes when he turned around. Sakura bent over, looking at the person in the room before making a face at Ino. "Let's go, Sasuke." she hooked her arm around Sasuke's and then slowly walked off.

Ino snapped her head toward the door when she heard the sound of light footsteps, taking small steps toward the door, and then peeked her head out the side, looking at the couple that was slowly walking away. Pressing her back against the wall she stared at them, wishing she was the person beside Sasuke and holding his arm.

Slowly, she walked into the kitchen, looking into it to find bags of chips on the counter and Deidara and Hidan happily munching on some of them, shoving several at a time.

"Stop eating so many chips," you're both going to get really fat soon," Ino said, and then she wrinkled her nose slightly, making a face. "Especially you, Deidara," she said, smiling slightly.

Deidara thumped a fist against his stomach. "I never get fat, it's all muscle."

Ino took a lollipop from a small can full of them and pulled the wrapping off, slipping it into her mouth before taking it out again, walking away from both of the teenagers that was immaturely eating.

Two other people rounded around the corner quickly and she fell down sharply, already making a guess who it was. She pulled herself up and kept her eyes on the floor as Sakura stopped walking, staring down on her.

"How weak and defenseless," she said, and then walked off, still wrapping her arm around Sasuke's.

She walked around Ino and toward the other rooms while Deidara helped Ino up, she angrily walked toward the trashcan, throwing the single lollipop into it and then looked toward the couple that was slowly walking off.

Her brother looked up, pointing two fingers at the pair walking off together. "What's your history with them?" he asked.

Taking a deep breath, Ino sat down on the counter and said, "Well, Sakura was my childhood friend but we got into a fight over Sasuke. After that happened Sasuke and I were friends secretly and we would sometimes meet each other at night to talk in private and so. I was eventually shipped off to private school so I never really saw them again…" she fixed the skirt she wore and looked back at Deidara's face as Hidan threw the last bag of chips into the garbage can, and walked off.

Putting his hand onto the palm of his hand he looked at Ino. "You like him don't you? Imouto likes Sasuke." he chuckled. "He's such a brat," he said later on.

Ino shrugged and jumped off the counter. "I guess …but he's nice when you're close to him when he was a child. He just got a littler colder…" she looked down at her cell phone beside her that began to ring a sweet tune.

Deidara walked out of the room slowly, toward the training rooms where Hidan had already headed toward the room; leaving all the trash behind on the counters he left the kitchen slowly.

Ino flipped her phone up, holding it against her ear she said, "Hello?"

Some static buzzed in the background and she looked at the caller to see that the number was blocked instead.

Holding it one more time against her ear she heard the line close and she placed the phone back beside her. 'Weird,' she thought, and then began cleaning up the trash that her brother and Hidan had left behind.

Sasuke was around the corner, Sakura was in the room and he placed his cell phone away into his pocket. Hearing Ino's voice made him regret the decision to start dating Sakura when he could have had the blonde beauty all the time.

'Too bad now she's always hanging around Akatsuki and she already knows how to fight well,' he thought, and then he turned around to see Sakura's eyes.

"Tell me what your history with Ino is," Sakura demanded her eyes full of rivalry and hatred.


You do not know how it feels to keep two chapters of my favorite stories hidden for a week! IT'S THE HARDEST THING IN MY LIFE!...well the hardest might be not eating candy so this would be the second.

=D Finally done with this, please review =D