Check187: I'm pretty sure if we go at them with pitchforks and torches or guns and roses, then surely they'll let us keep the things we enjoy reading heheh.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this fic...
Getting ready for the chunin exams. (Unoriginal, I know.)
With Naruto and Sakura...
"Those sand guys from yesterday were weird huh Sakura," Naruto said walking with his hands behind his head.
"Yeah, but we got to find out about the chunin-exams. All-in-all, I think we should train," Sakura said.
"Wha-? Really? You wanna train?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah. We need to get stronger in case we take the exams," Sakura said.
"Well yeah. I know that. It's just that I didn't think you'd take my offer seriously and so soon," Naruto said scratching the back of his head.
"Are you saying you're taking it back?" Sakura asked.
"No, no, no ,no. I wouldn't go back on my word. SOOooo~... do we train now or later?" Naruto asked.
"Not now; we have to meet Kakashi at a bridge," Sakura said.
With Ino...
"Yes! Looks like we're gonna participate in the chunin-exams," Ino said throwing a fist in the air while holding her application slip in her other hand.
"Can you be any more annoying," Shikamaru said.
"What was that?" Ino asked in a frustrated tone.
"N-nothing," He said.
'That temper of hers might be the only thing we need for the chunin-exams. Man, what a drag,' Shikamaru thought.
"*Munch* I don't know, you guys. *Munch* I heard the chunin-exams are very hard *munch* and I bet the other ninjas are a lot stronger than we are," Choji said.
"Don't sweat it Choji. We can handle this. All we need is the proper motivation," Ino said yanking his chips away.
"HEY! Give those back!" Choji exclaimed.
"You're gonna have to catch me to get them," Ino said running off as fast as she could.
"Troublesome woman. Choji might just run her over. Doesn't she know that? Man, what a drag. Well at least she didn't make me run," Shikamaru said out loud.
"INOOoo!" Choji yelled running after Ino.
"Run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm... not sure where I was going with that," Ino said running around Shikamaru. Shikamaru's eyes widened because he knew that Choji would not let anything stand in his way to get to his food. Shikamaru began running when he saw Choji.
"No Choji! Wait!" Shikamaru said running slightly behind Ino.
"Heheh You didn't think I'd forget about you, did you?" Ino mocked as she looked behind her.
'Troublesome woman,' Shikamaru thought.
At night with team 7...
"So are you guys ok?" Sasuke asked since they had recently been attacked by some ninjas from another village.
"Yeah I'm fine," Sakura said.
"I'm ok and my chunin slip is ok too," Naruto said patting his pocket.
"Apparently, the chunin-exams are serious," Sasuke said.
'This might be worth it after all. I definitely want to face him,' Sasuke thought while the image of Gaara appeared in his mind.
"Yeah well we're serious too and we'll totally kick ass in the chunin-exams. Believe it," Naruto said throwing a fist in the air. (bet you miss that huh?)
"Hn," was the last sound Sasuke said before take his long lonely trek home. (LLOOOOOONNEEEERRR! wish I could actually say that to his face.)
"Well then shall we go train?" Sakura asked.
"Don't you think its getting late? The chunin exams are Tomorrow and we should be ready for them. If we train now, we'll only get tired," Naruto said.
"Yeah I guess you're right," Sakura said feeling more depressed than when Sasuke rejected her.
"We could train some other time. Besides I think I'm hungry," Naruto said holding his stomach.
"Oh well I guess I could grab a bite to eat too," Sakura said.
"Huh?" Naruto responded.
"Oh lets just go to Ichiraku's," Sakura said pulling Naruto's hand as she made her journey towards Ichiraku's ramen shop.
"Ok I guess," Naruto said while being dragged away.
With Ino...
Choji had finally gotten his chips back and Shikamaru was sitting on the floor completely tired. Ino, on the other hand, was holding a grin the entire time. She was content that her team was finally getting the exercise they needed. Her teammates were dead tired, yet she still wanted to continue training them.
"Alrighty then, who's up for some sit ups?" Ino said with a smile.
"Y-you're the devil," Shikamaru whispered.
"Excuse me?" Ino said.
"I said um... I'm a rebel?" Shikamaru tried.
"Oh ok then," She bought it.
'She bought it? She bought it! hahah, yes! I thought she was gonna chew my ass out for sure. Good thing she didn't hear me,' Shikamaru thought.
"Can we take a lunch break?" Choji asked.
"No," Ino said.
"Actually, I think it's dinner time at my place. Oh so sorry Ino, looks like I have to leave," Shikamaru said getting the idea from Choji. He ran away before he had to do any more work.
"Oh me too. I almost forgot heheh. Later Ino," Choji said running behind Shikamaru.
"Hey! Come back here. We need to train, aw man. They're gone," Ino said looking down to the floor with a sad expression.
"So you've been training Shikamaru and Choji?"
"Huh, Oh hey sensei," Ino said now noticing Asuma.
"How about I buy you something to eat for all your hard work? What do you say?" Asuma asked.
"Sensei, what would Kurenai-sensei say about you asking me on a date?" Ino teased.
"What! No, this isn't about-... I'm not in lo-... I wasn't trying to ask you ou-... uggh," Asuma stammered.
"Relax sensei. I'll just go by myself. Who knows? Maybe I'll meet someone cute," Ino said thinking about Naruto while her sensei slumped his shoulders.
"Is it really that obvious?" Ino heard Asuma from a distance and giggled.
With Naruto and Sakura...
"Oh man I can't wait for my ramen," Naruto said excitedly.
"*Sigh* Can't you be a little more quiet?" Sakura asked.
"Not when it comes to ramen heheh," Ayame said handing Naruto two bowls of ramen.
"Ho boy! Thank you Ayame-chan," Naruto said.
"No problem," Ayame said twirling her big spoon around her finger.
"You must really like ramen huh Naruto?" Sakura said.
"Yup," was his simple reply.
"D-do you like ramen more than m-,"
"Hey there Billboard brow, Naruto!" Ino greeted loudly surprising both Naruto and Sakura.
"Uggh what are you doing here Ino-pig?" Sakura asked rolling her eyes. She still thought Ino could be annoying sometimes.
"Oh nothing much. I just wanted to grab a bite to eat. What have you guys been doing?" Ino asked sitting down next to Naruto. Naruto watched her perplexedly.
'What are you up to Ino?' Naruto wondered. He grabbed his chopsticks and began eating his food while analyzing the situation in front of him.
"Well our team got ambushed and we each took care of it," Sakura said proudly. She had finally received her food, so she began eating.
"Hmm... That's cool I guess, but did you get one of these?" Ino said holding up her application slip proudly, but Naruto and Sakura weren't so impressed. They both took out their own slips, holding them in front of Ino's face with a nonchalant expression on their face while they continued to eat their delicious food.
"Uh... Oh," Ino said now feeling a bit pathetic. She would except this kind of attitude from Sakura, but not from Naruto.
"Hn," Naruto said, his eye's widening. Ino had placed her hands under the table.
"What's the matter Naruto?" Ayame asked.
"Mnh hothing," Naruto being muffled by the noodles in his mouth. Ino had been rubbing a lower region of his that just wouldn't calm down no matter how hard he tried.
*Bonk*
"Don't speak with your mouth full," Ayame said holding her spoon on the side of her hips. Meanwhile, Naruto wast tending to his injured head caused by the very same spoon. By then, Ino had pulled her hand away to cover her mouth while she giggled.
"That hurt," Naruto said.
"Well you should really learn your manners Naruto," Ino said giggling. Naruto sent a glare her way, but she just winked at him.
'This is really strange. Ino has never been this nice to Naruto,' Sakura thought.
'Cha, She's not gonna steal hi-,' Sakura had shaken her inner self's thoughts. She didn't want her to finish that sentence.
"You and I need to talk," Ino whispered into Naruto's ear. She had not forgotten that Naruto was with Sakura after their little fun was over and she was not about to let him off that easy.
Or maybe not
"Well I got to go. I'll see you later," Naruto said in a hurry. Ino's eye twitched. Her original plan was waiting until Naruto finished and they were both alone to talk, but he suddenly left.
"I guess I have to go too," Sakura said exhausted.
"Well looks like we're closing up for the night." Ayame said closing the ramen shop.
...
"Huh? Wait!" Ino said feeling abandoned.
...
A gust of wind passed by swaying her hair.
"What the hell? I didn't even get to eat," Ino screamed.
"Hoah, I'm so tired," Ino said walking back home. She shivered slightly from the cold breeze that passed by her. She was suddenly covered by a warm orange sweater.
"Hey Ino," Naruto greeted walking beside her. She looked down to him with her eyes a bit wide. Well it's only right for her to look down since she was slightly taller.
"You dummy," Ino said holding on to his arm.
"Um Ino-"
"Relax. No one is going to be out this late," Ino interrupted him snuggling deeper into him.
"If you say so," Naruto complied.
"So," She began in a serious tone of voice, "what exactly were you doing with Sakura that two days ago?"
"Huh?" was his clever response.
"You know, when you were eating Sakura's bento. What were you doing?" She said still walking with her arm around his shoulder.
"Oh well she was sad, so I wanted to cheer her up. That's all. I'm pretty sure Sasuke rejected her bento, so I took a bite. It was good and I liked it, so I kept eating. And then she disrespected ramen," Naruto said, but this was the part where everything started to make sense to Ino.
*Smack*
Ino had smacked her own face.
'So that's what happened. That's why they got into a little fight. I really had nothing to worry about. My idiot just got into another fight that's all. Yeah... my idiot,' Ino thought contently.
"That looked like it hurt," Naruto said before he tiptoed up and pecked her forehead.
"So what happened after," Ino said.
"Well I beat her and she apologized. Oh and then I went back to the training grounds to train a bit more, but I saw Sasuke there. I didn't wanna stay but the guy said he was better than me. We made a little competition and it ended up in a draw," Naruto explained.
"So you both hit all the targets?" Ino asked sincerely impressed.
"No I kinda threw an explosive kunai and we couldn't tell who won," Naruto said making her giggle.
"Only you would do something like that," Ino teased.
"Nuh uh, if you keep bullying me like that, then I'm not gonna go easy on you next time," Naruto said leaning towards her ear, his voice getting deeper and huskier towards the end. Her face had become completely red with excitement.
"Meh, Maybe next time. I'll see you Tomorrow," Naruto said running home.
"Ok he's getting better at that and I guess I deserved it," Ino said closing the orange sweater to warm her self even better while she walked home.
End... for now.
Check187: Hope you enjoyed that chap. I told my friend about this fic and he told me the only thing confusing about it was the review thing so here's me being a bit more specific-
The more reviews for the current chap than the previous chap the faster I update.
Don't worry about the whole being "expelled" from this site thing, if you guys personally send an email or start a petition or something, then they'll most likely take it back. Pleas include me in that petition, I'm too lazy to do it myself.
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