Part 2-Teenage rivalry

"…" Ino cocked her head, she gritted her teeth and clenched her fists. "SA-KU-RRA…" Her voice was intense and threatening without shouting, she rolled the r in Sakura's name and she cracked her knuckles, all tale-tale signs that Ino was about to do some serious damage.

"Uh-oh…" Chouji and Shikamaru looked at each other in worry, "Ino's scary when she gets like this, you'd better do something Shikamaru."

"Why me?"

"We don't have enough time for rock, paper, scissors at the moment."

"This is so bothersome…" Shikamaru got up and walked over to Ino, he decided that, as amusing as it would be, he should do something before Ino punched out Sakura, "Sakura, go and play with your imaginary boyfriend or something…" Shikamaru tried to move Ino from where she was standing.

"…" Sakura opened her mouth to argue but nothing came out, instead she gave Shikamaru an angry glare and walked out of the room.

Shikamaru guided Ino back to a desk only to have her turn around and throw a punch at him, which he luckily managed to catch in his palm thanks to unusually fast reflexes, "Woah, Ino, what was that for?"

Ino stared at him and pulled her fist back, she handed him back his Chuunin jacket and simply glared at him, "What did you stop me for?"

"Well sorry, but as amusing as seeing you punch out Sakura would have been, I don't like the idea of being interrogated by Asuma and probably Kakashi as to what happened." He threw his jacket back on, "oh great, it smells like flowers…"

"Well sorry for smelling nice." Ino threw her feet up on the desk

"You know Ino, for a girl, you're not very ladylike." Chouji commented in between mouthfuls of potato chips that he had found in his bag

"Yeah, I bet I could be more 'ladylike' than you," Shikamaru sat down and crossed his legs, like he had seen Ino do when she was trying to impress Sasuke, "this is uncomfortable, how do you girls sit like this? Doesn't it hurt?" Shikamaru uncrossed his legs and found he had a cramp

"It's in the hips, and the posture," Ino demonstrated the 'proper' way to sit for them and winked, "it's a girl thing."

"I don't understand you girls…" Shikamaru sighed

"You're not meant too," their sensei walked in, cigarette in mouth, as usual

"Asuma-sensei!" Ino shouted, "I kicked your ass in shougi yesterday!"

"No, you didn't."

"Asuma, losing to me is a given, losing to Chouji is bad, but how could you lose to her?" He pointed at Ino, who gave him the 'glare of death', "She barely knows how to play Shougi."

"Thanks for your support Shikamaru," She said sarcastically, great, one of the few times he can be bothered to insult someone properly and he insults everyone but himself…

"I did not lose to Ino!" Asuma tried to keep calm, stress is not a good thing when you're trying to cut down on your smoking

"I totally kicked his ass." Ino whispered behind her hand

"INO!" Asuma shouted, "You guys need to perfect your InoShikaCho formation."

"Why? I secure them with my shadow bind, Ino gets them with her mind switch, runs them in front of Chouji who gets them with his meat tank just after she releases her jutsu." In reality Shikamaru knew their technique needed a lot of work but he couldn't be bothered with training, he couldn't even be bothered to use the right names for their jutsus

***

He tried to walk home; it wasn't easy and took too much effort, as he was so sore from training. Getting hit by Chouji's meat tank wasn't fun; let's just say Ino could be very evil when you didn't expect it.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

A/N-please, bear with me! I promise, It'll get better from here!