A/N: Thanks for the reviews on my last chapter, poor Sakura is what I can say at this point and sorry if this story has been overlapping with Drama, is just somethings we have to get trough before the good stuff, but here's chapter 9, enjoy.

Ino went to sleep with a lot of guilt on her conscious that night, Sakura didn't deserve that no matter how she was acting with her over some guy she met, it wasn't called for but it happened. She tossed and turned, trying to find a right and comfortable spot to fall asleep on her bed but the thought of what was to come the next day was trapped in her head, eventually she fell asleep thinking about it.

The next day she awoke to birds on a nearby tree in their nest chirping their small beaks away, her eye's slowly opened to the Sun's daylight, realizing it was time to go to school she dragged herself of her bed and into the bathroom to get ready for what she had in store today, when she came out the bathroom in her light blue, cotton robe, she searched her closet and found her typical outfit of the day and got dressed.

"Morning Mom" Ino walked down the stairs and saw her mom coming opposite direction of her, she seamed to be stressed and tired, the bags under her eye's showed it all. "What's for breakfast"Ino searched the fridge in her kitchen, seeing nothing she liked, she walked out and grabbed her books on a table next to the door and headed out the door, she didn't bother saying bye to her mother as if she probably went back to sleep anyway.

Walking alone on the concrete sidewalk, Ino noticed the bright white clouds and the huge yellow ball above her, if it wasn't a good day at school, at least she can say it was a nice day outside and she wasn't planing on it to get messed up, no matter the situation with Sakura, but then again, maybe someone could make her day perfect.

Her thoughts were interrupted when she felt a pair of hands touch her gently on her sides, making her moan unixpected and drop her books, she regained her composure, and saw the new blond with orange sweat pants, and a plain white t-shirt, showing off his muscular arms, his feet were covered by a pair of clean white sneakers.

"Oh, sorry I didn't mean to scare you" Naruto replied, holding her hip with his right hand for a second before letting it fall next to him, he then got on one knee to pick up her books and held them in his arms as if they weigh as much as a feather.

"You didn't, and its OK, I can carry them, their not heavy" She lied to him, she was struggling a little bit but didnt want to seem as if she wasn't strong enough for them.

"I insist Ino, I made you drop them anyway, so was up?" Naruto smiled at her, not getting to a good start with her, but managed to start again.

"Just walking to school, you live around here?" Ino avoided eye contact, if she didn't, it probably show on her face that she was blushing, cute guys always made her blush when they talked to her.

"Yea, my family and I live in a house nearby around the corner, I was walking home yesterday after that problem at school and saw a woman that looked just like you in the house next to me, that's strange" Naruto remembered when he saw Ino's looks more up close and knew he wasn't seeing things.

"Don't tell me he lives-"

"Was the house she at yellow? With flowers around it?" Ino questioned, knowing if he answered right, they were neighbors, answer wrong and, well let's just say a certain blond was hoping that wouldn't be the case.

"Yea, that's it?" His eye brows raised.

"I live in that house" Ino kept her smile hidden and looked away, feeling his eyes on her again.

"Oh so were neighbors I guess" Naruto chuckled, blushing along with the blond beside him, "We should walk home together sometime", the words making Ino blush even more.

"Yea" Ino nodded not knowing what else to add to her words, but many ideas came to her head, thoughts that girls did with when their parents were away and sneaked over to their boyfriends house and fool around together, she tried to remove the thought out her head before she started getting hot, it was already hard enough talking to Naruto.

"And what was with you and that girl yesterday?" Naruto remembered the hair pulling as if had happen the same day, the question made Ino feel as if she had made a bad impression on him, yet he wouldn't be talking to her if that was the case.

"Oh, eh?" Ino quickly formed something to tell him for now, she knew eventually everything would come out but at least not now.

"She's been having guy trouble with someone and I just said something that made it worst" Ino looked forward and forgot about her books but soon realized that Naruto had been carrying them.

"What kind of trouble?", he threw his question at her, "Dam"was the word that popped in to her head, "Just normal things, she doesn't like to really talk about it with me"she lied, Sakura did tell her many times before, Naruto was her man.

"Oh" Naruto smiled and scratched the back of his fury blond head with his free hand, seeing the school ahead.

"Why you ask?" It was time he felt the pressure on him, Ino looked at his eyes for the first time that morning and raised a eyebrow, "Those he like her?"

"Oh, eh, just asking" Naruto took his left hand and moved it closer to Ino, stopping her and looking at what he was doing, he placed his hand on her bang and pushed it back against her ear.

"You look nicer when your hair isn't covering your eyes" Naruto smiled and continued walking, Ino did the same and felt her body heat go up once more, no other guy had ever made her feel like this before, she just couldnt find a word to put it in.

"Thanks" Ino replied to his comment and smiled, that comment had made her day and no one, not even Sakura and her bull can ruin it maybe

"Let's see"

"Naruto" tugged on his shirt, making him stop and move back to her, "Yea?" he raised a brow, Ino thought it was sexy when he did that, her hand moved closer to his face and he just smiled at her actions.

Ino pushed Naruto's hair away from above his eyes and replied "You look nicer when your hair isn't covering your eyes" Ino continued walking with a smirk on her face, she had left him in thought.

"He's not the only one that can make a move"

Naruto coughed up to Ino again and the rest of the walk was silence up to when they reached the school, both blonds noticed everyones eyes on them, whispering bad remarks as usual, no one could be seen in this school together or it was "She's sleeping with him" or "I heard she's cheating on him"The list went on and at this point Ino didn't care about their opinions, besides, she liked attention.

Ino guided Naruto to her locker, she slowly moved the combination so she wouldn't get mixed numbers,"Thanks Naruto" Naruto handed her the books and she put some of them in her locker and held the rest.

"See you first period" Naruto winked at her and walked away, "See...you" Ino watched him until she was interupted by two of her friends, Ten Ten and Temari both standing their with a smile on their faces and eye brows raised.

"Oh! Hey guys" Ino blushed knowing the reason for their smiles, they had watch her stare at Naruto as he left, now she had to think of something to say and quick.

"Don't oh hey guys us, we saw you two together, and that stare you were giving him when he walked away" Temari continued smiling, knowing Ino had something to hide.

"Yea Ino, almost needed a bib, you were about to start drooling" Ten Ten and Temari laughed making Ino blush even more and hide her face in her locker.

"Come out with it Ino, what you and that new kid have going on?" Temari asked, her face expression becoming serious but couldn't stop the smile that kept creeping up to her face.

"Nothing, really, but I found out he lives next to me" Ino drooped the news to them and both females dropped their mouths as well.

"How do you know that?" Ten asked, the smile disappearing from her face, same for Temari.

"He said he saw a woman that looked like me and I described my house and he told me he moved next to that house, that's how I know" Ino noticed a familiar face about to head in the school.

"Oh dear Ino, now you can go visit him, and you know" Ten meowed making Temari laugh, Ino joined in as well, the joke was funny even if it was tors her.

"You know who is coming in" Temari looked over at the entrance of the door and saw the pink on top of the girls head, knowing it was Sakura the smiles on all three of their faces disappeared.

Sakura walked into the school with one book on her left hand, her pink hair flowing next to her neck, the facial expression she had on her face had Don't Mess With Me written all over it.

As Sakura walked by Ino's locker without greeting any of them, Temari noticed Sakura roll her eyes at them and wasn't going to hold anything back at her.

"Psycho" Temari said loud enough for her to hear, she did and turned to her, glaring her green eyes at Temari with anger for what happened last night.

Ten Ten stepped in front of Temari, just in case either one of them threw a punch at each other, Sakura stepped closer to the three, Ino closed her locker quickly and turned back around to see her narrowed eyes.

"I cant believe you Ino" Sakura started, Ino stood her ground, not wanting to show fear but she was dealing with Sakura here, their was a reason to have fear.

"Your a bitch for doing what you did last night, and you two" Sakura pointed at Ten and Temari, Temari was half a second from just biting her finger but couldn't, "Were no longer friends, you three are bitches for talking behind my back" Sakura looked back at Ino.

Temari's anger was growing higher inside her, soon she would snap if she threw another comment as she did tors them again.

"Look Sakura, you cant just come up to us calling us bitches, your one yourself you know" Ino spat but just when Sakura was prepared for battle again, Temari moved Ten out the way, throwing a punch but missed, Ten tried to grab Temari but she was moving around trying to get to Sakura's face, Ino held her back from doing it to.

"Let her go Ten Ten, all she's good at anyway is fucking that dumbass Shikamaru" Sakura smirked and from this point on, Ino felt Sakura turn into a different person.

Temari's eyes went wide when she said those words, she pushed Ino out the way and threw a fist, this time hiting Sakura in the lip, making it bleed.

Ino and Ten grabbed Temari will full grasp and watched Sakura smile while whipping the blood of her lip, Temari's breathing was hard and now her morning was messed up because of her.

Sakura chuckled a bit before she turned around and walked away.

Everyone around the scene was watching like if it was some kind of entertaining, they all rushed out the hallways when they heard the first bell ring, indicating they had about a minute or two to get to first period.

"Let's go guys, she's not worth dealing with now" Ten said and wrapped her arm around Temari, "This isn't over Ten, she had this coming since that day at lunch" Temari replied, Ino stayed silence, she was hoping this was a dream, but it was far from that.

The three girls walked into the class, Tsunade taking attendance as usual, Sasuke in his seat with a angry look to his face, Neji and Lee goofing off as usual, Shika half asleep, and Naruto smiling up at Ino when she walked in.

Everyone took their seat, Sakura walked into class last with a smile on her face and walked to her seat, sitting next to Ino, pretending as if she was the only one their, Temari looked over at her, ready to go at it again.

"Good morning class, I have some news for you" Tsunade announced, observing the classroom closely.

"The test I had for you tomorrow will be canceled, since some people cant tell me the truth, instead only four of you will get graded" Tsunade referred to the test she had made when Naruto first came, the test was to spar against another person and with the right moves, beat them, earning you a A.

"Who are the four?" Shika blurted out, his eye's drooping down, almost closing.

"I'm getting to that, Ino, you will go against Sakura" Tsunade dropped the bomb on both girls, Ino looked surprised with her eyes bulging out her socket, Sakura just chuckled again.

"And Sasuke, you will go up against Naruto, I think he'll teach you some new moves" Tsunade smirked at him but he didn't react.

Naruto made a fist and cupped it with his other hand, looking at Sasuke and smiling at the same time, all four had been chosen because of yesterdays fight in detention, Tsunade was very clever for that but knew it would be amusing for her as well.

"When is it?"

"The first fight will start, now, everyone out to the sparing field" Tsunade ordered and everyone got up and walked out the door.

"Give it to her good" Temari said, looking at Sakura walke ahead of them.

"This should be good to see guys" Shika smiled at Lee and Neji.

The sun was down on the field and the tension could be cut between all four, Tsunade walked up ahead and looked at the class standing before her.

"Sakura and Ino, take you places" Tsunade ordered, Sakura walked over on the the huge platform and noticed a large white circle surrounding the cement.

"Good luck" Naruto smiled at Ino as she walked on the platform and faced Sakura, they were about twenty inches away from each other.

Tsunade smiled at the amazing fight that was about to start in under seconds.

"Ready?"

Both girls nodded and raised their fist, both about to give everything they had in them once again, the first time they had battled a long time ago was much different from now, Ino knew some of Sakura's weaknesses as so did she.

"Fight!"

Good chapter I say myself, sorry for the readers who don't like the drama in this story but hey, thats High School, but on the romantic side..Ino now knows Naruto is her neighbor, what twists will this bring? And what is Sakura's problem you say? Don't worry, she'll turn better later on in the chapters and the fights between them as well, in the next chapter Sakura and Ino go at it one last time to show who really is the better fighter..please review.