Important: These will not be in chronological order of events, just little snapshots of Itachi and Ino's relationship. Also writing these stories as if literally none of the events in Naruto ever happened.

Prompts taken from chatterboxrose on tumblr

10. Evasion

Sasuke had went and told Itachi of her insane crush on him in revenge for graduating 2nd in their class, one above him. She was was mad, angry and upset. Most of all she was scared, that Itachi would think she was just a weird little girl with a weird little crush on him.

She couldn't stand to think of him making fun of her, so she just decided that she would avoid him completely. She already knew she'd get rejected by the 16 year old, she was only 12, not even a teenager yet.

She sulked around her room, upset that all the time she spent crushing on him in secret was gone. He was already an ANBU agent, she just graduated the academy. How pathetic.

At least it would be easier for her to avoid him while he was out on his missions.

She would only work at the flower shop while he was out on a mission, knowing it would be the first place he would find her when he wasn't.

She tried to evade him by sitting in on Shikamaru and Asuma's shogi matches or going to eat with Choji, but she was so bored doing either of those things.

She would hang out with Sakura but if Sasuke was mad at her, Sakura probably was to. She had no idea how Sakura could side with Sasuke at a time like this, seeing as she was Sakura's very first friend. She considered herself lucky to have stopped crushing on Sasuke when she did, lord only knows how bad her friendship with Sakura would be if she did.

The next week rolled by and Itachi walked into the flower shop wearing his ANBU uniform, she cursed to herself, he was supposed to get done in 2 days, not now!

"Hello Ino-san, is there any particular reason you've been avoiding me?"

"I don't know what you're talking about I haven't been avoiding you, I've just been busy." She tried to play it cool.

"I have to ask, is what Sasuke told me true?" There it was, the big question she had hoped to go the rest of her life without hearing.

"Of course not! I do not have a huge crush on you." she laughed nervously, maybe he'd buy it?

"Oh." Sasuke had only told him that she graduated 2nd in the class, well amid complaining that he was only 3rd because of her. Sasuke probably threatened to tell him about her crush on him, that he could already clearly tell she had.

At least her evasion of him made sense now.