Me: Okay, Okay... this came out slow... I know. It was only because I started
RPing (btw, I would love to do a Naruto rp with anyone! ^^) a lot again and
pounding schoolwork again. I've been listening to the newest theme song to
Naruto for a bit. It's so cool!
Ino: O.o *cough* a BIT? Just for.... A BIT... huh?
Me: okay... fine... a touch longer than that, I guess...
Ino: -_- You call more than 7 HOURS worth of replay... A BIT!!! That song won't get out of my head!
Me: *holds up lyrics* Ino, you have volunteered yourself to help me memorize the song then so I can sing it in public...
Ino: I... don't... you... *shifts away*
Me: *hyperactively smile and then drags Ino by the collar* Oh come one now... it won't be... so... bad... *snicker*
Ino: If someone is out there... SAVE ME!!! *cries*
*****
"Ino... Earth to Ino... Ino...." I heard those words vaguely coming to me as a blank expression laid across my face. I was so utterly in shock that I must have been sitting there for about 5 minutes, without moving an inch.
"INO!" The voice rang in my ears loudly as I jumped startled to see Tenten there.
"Neh?" Was my elegant, well thought out response. I must have been out of it for so long that it gave Tenten enough material to say,
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!" She was as energetic as ever and she was in no mood to wait around for me to figure out exactly what had happened. Almost monotonously, lifelessly I replied,
"Shikamaru and I fought... and he won." It wasn't until I said that he won that Tenten could tell this was not normal. She knew pretty much my relationship with my team.
"Wow." Was all she could manage, putting a hand on my shoulder, "What would have set him off to do that? I know you know better than I do what he's like, but it just doesn't seem like him... at all..." I became nervous about the topic, so right away I came to my defense, subject-changing skills.
"How are things going with Neji?" I replied, turning my head up towards her. Her face was looking out to the trees now and she was silent for the moment, "I'm sorry... you don't have to answer if you don't want to." She then laughed and shook her head, turning to me,
"I wish I could tell him. You have such confidence... maybe even too much around Sasuke; it's almost amazing that you can like a guy like that. It's really hard for me... but I don't think he'd take me to the dance anyway..."
"Don't wallow in self pity. You might as well ask. After all, you will never know unless you do it. And if it screws up, you could easier find a better guy, just remember, I still owe you a shopping day." I winked slightly and we both giggled. It was amazing how much of a hypocrite I was. I was far from having courage, that I was sure of.
"Tenten, we have to get to the first event." A deep voice came from behind her as she turned around quickly.
"Sorry Neji." She smiled awkwardly, "Umm... Neji?" She looked towards her feet slowly.
"Yes?" He added with a raised eyebrow. His eyes always scared me, but I never told Tenten that. She paused and I could see her nervousness increase by the seconds. Was it really that hard to be able to tell a guy that you truly like how you feel?
"N...never mind... it's not really that important... we should go..." She stuttered and after Neji looked at her cluelessly, like a typical guy, they walked off as she waved back to me. It was at that point that Chouji came back onto the scene from wherever he was and Shikamaru appeared with Asuma- sensei. I, for the first time felt truly, openly nervous. Why did I care so much that Shikamaru and I fought? What was wrong with me?
"Ino, you okay?" I could sense that Asuma-sensei also felt Shikamaru's changed stature, but at the moment I guess the look on my face gave away my confusion.
"I'm fine, really." I waved my hands in front of my face, and quickly got up with a forced bounce. Our group made it over to a large field with a cliff residing above us. I looked over to the Hokage who was now calling for everyone's attention. There was a pretty large group of people!
"The first activity is that your group of three are tied together by a rope and you are allowed to get up the cliff in anyway possible, everyone has to be attached the whole time, and you cannot interfere with other group's performance." She boomed loudly over the crowds of ninja. I looked to my teammates as smirked, yet no return of a smirk from either Shikamaru or Chouji. This was going to be hard.
"Can't we just have an eating contest?" Chouji groaned, as I tilted my head towards my fellow teammates,
"Com'on guys, just like it implies we are team 10, we're InoShikaCho! We may be the worst, but we can still... manage." I looked up the rocky cliff and sighed. What were we going to do? Luckily, Shikamaru and I were pretty good at balancing our chakra, but Chouji on the other hand... well...
"Like walking on the trees, right?" He answered slowly, and Shikamaru simply shook his head,
"No... These rocks are Chakra resistant... we have to only use tools and minds..." He added simply, paving his hand over the stones. WHAT? Chakra resistant stones... now that was a first.
"Mendokusaina... we should just give up... we're obviously not going to win." I growled and answered stiffly,
"Fine, if you're going to be pessimistic, I'll try myself!" I grabbed onto the wall, holding onto a kunai and stabbing it into the stone. The problem was that my legs couldn't get a grip. Forgetting that we were now tied together, Shikamaru tried walking the other way and I fell from the wall, smack onto him, Chouji being pulled off his chair onto the ground.
"What was that for?" Shikamaru grumbled, as I stared at him, I noticed him staring away from me, was he blushing? At the time I didn't think much of it.
"God! Even Naruto would be better than you would be better! Sasuke's going to be able to drag the whole team up the mountain and at least Naruto is WILLING to do something!" I shook my fists angrily to and fro, and I could see that my comment pissed Shikamaru off even more.
"Ino... you could have waited for me to come up with a strategy..." He mumbled , his eyes looking up to the sky.
"You sure didn't act like you were going to... I bet if I didn't do something, we'd be-" I started to get up with a sigh, and before I could finish, Shikamaru decided to.
"Right where we are now except more bruised." He groaned lazily. Since when was team 10 the most dysfunctional team? We seemed to be the only ones bickering as everyone else managed to do something, even if it was not successful.
*** Me: *waves to everyone randomly while walking through the school*
Ino: What are you doing?
Me: Waving ^.^
Ino: Baka.... Oh wait... oh... *rolls eyes* I know why...
Me: Oro?
Ino: *pokes hand* What's that.... The sign of the Wind country... *glare*
Me: *sweatdrop* Well, yeah... about that... my friends and I made all the signs of the different villages on each of our hands... I got sand! *pets hand*
Ino: You. Are. Sad.
Me: *ignores Ino's comment and continues to prance around the room showing off her hand*
Ino: *sweatdrop*
Ino: O.o *cough* a BIT? Just for.... A BIT... huh?
Me: okay... fine... a touch longer than that, I guess...
Ino: -_- You call more than 7 HOURS worth of replay... A BIT!!! That song won't get out of my head!
Me: *holds up lyrics* Ino, you have volunteered yourself to help me memorize the song then so I can sing it in public...
Ino: I... don't... you... *shifts away*
Me: *hyperactively smile and then drags Ino by the collar* Oh come one now... it won't be... so... bad... *snicker*
Ino: If someone is out there... SAVE ME!!! *cries*
*****
"Ino... Earth to Ino... Ino...." I heard those words vaguely coming to me as a blank expression laid across my face. I was so utterly in shock that I must have been sitting there for about 5 minutes, without moving an inch.
"INO!" The voice rang in my ears loudly as I jumped startled to see Tenten there.
"Neh?" Was my elegant, well thought out response. I must have been out of it for so long that it gave Tenten enough material to say,
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!" She was as energetic as ever and she was in no mood to wait around for me to figure out exactly what had happened. Almost monotonously, lifelessly I replied,
"Shikamaru and I fought... and he won." It wasn't until I said that he won that Tenten could tell this was not normal. She knew pretty much my relationship with my team.
"Wow." Was all she could manage, putting a hand on my shoulder, "What would have set him off to do that? I know you know better than I do what he's like, but it just doesn't seem like him... at all..." I became nervous about the topic, so right away I came to my defense, subject-changing skills.
"How are things going with Neji?" I replied, turning my head up towards her. Her face was looking out to the trees now and she was silent for the moment, "I'm sorry... you don't have to answer if you don't want to." She then laughed and shook her head, turning to me,
"I wish I could tell him. You have such confidence... maybe even too much around Sasuke; it's almost amazing that you can like a guy like that. It's really hard for me... but I don't think he'd take me to the dance anyway..."
"Don't wallow in self pity. You might as well ask. After all, you will never know unless you do it. And if it screws up, you could easier find a better guy, just remember, I still owe you a shopping day." I winked slightly and we both giggled. It was amazing how much of a hypocrite I was. I was far from having courage, that I was sure of.
"Tenten, we have to get to the first event." A deep voice came from behind her as she turned around quickly.
"Sorry Neji." She smiled awkwardly, "Umm... Neji?" She looked towards her feet slowly.
"Yes?" He added with a raised eyebrow. His eyes always scared me, but I never told Tenten that. She paused and I could see her nervousness increase by the seconds. Was it really that hard to be able to tell a guy that you truly like how you feel?
"N...never mind... it's not really that important... we should go..." She stuttered and after Neji looked at her cluelessly, like a typical guy, they walked off as she waved back to me. It was at that point that Chouji came back onto the scene from wherever he was and Shikamaru appeared with Asuma- sensei. I, for the first time felt truly, openly nervous. Why did I care so much that Shikamaru and I fought? What was wrong with me?
"Ino, you okay?" I could sense that Asuma-sensei also felt Shikamaru's changed stature, but at the moment I guess the look on my face gave away my confusion.
"I'm fine, really." I waved my hands in front of my face, and quickly got up with a forced bounce. Our group made it over to a large field with a cliff residing above us. I looked over to the Hokage who was now calling for everyone's attention. There was a pretty large group of people!
"The first activity is that your group of three are tied together by a rope and you are allowed to get up the cliff in anyway possible, everyone has to be attached the whole time, and you cannot interfere with other group's performance." She boomed loudly over the crowds of ninja. I looked to my teammates as smirked, yet no return of a smirk from either Shikamaru or Chouji. This was going to be hard.
"Can't we just have an eating contest?" Chouji groaned, as I tilted my head towards my fellow teammates,
"Com'on guys, just like it implies we are team 10, we're InoShikaCho! We may be the worst, but we can still... manage." I looked up the rocky cliff and sighed. What were we going to do? Luckily, Shikamaru and I were pretty good at balancing our chakra, but Chouji on the other hand... well...
"Like walking on the trees, right?" He answered slowly, and Shikamaru simply shook his head,
"No... These rocks are Chakra resistant... we have to only use tools and minds..." He added simply, paving his hand over the stones. WHAT? Chakra resistant stones... now that was a first.
"Mendokusaina... we should just give up... we're obviously not going to win." I growled and answered stiffly,
"Fine, if you're going to be pessimistic, I'll try myself!" I grabbed onto the wall, holding onto a kunai and stabbing it into the stone. The problem was that my legs couldn't get a grip. Forgetting that we were now tied together, Shikamaru tried walking the other way and I fell from the wall, smack onto him, Chouji being pulled off his chair onto the ground.
"What was that for?" Shikamaru grumbled, as I stared at him, I noticed him staring away from me, was he blushing? At the time I didn't think much of it.
"God! Even Naruto would be better than you would be better! Sasuke's going to be able to drag the whole team up the mountain and at least Naruto is WILLING to do something!" I shook my fists angrily to and fro, and I could see that my comment pissed Shikamaru off even more.
"Ino... you could have waited for me to come up with a strategy..." He mumbled , his eyes looking up to the sky.
"You sure didn't act like you were going to... I bet if I didn't do something, we'd be-" I started to get up with a sigh, and before I could finish, Shikamaru decided to.
"Right where we are now except more bruised." He groaned lazily. Since when was team 10 the most dysfunctional team? We seemed to be the only ones bickering as everyone else managed to do something, even if it was not successful.
*** Me: *waves to everyone randomly while walking through the school*
Ino: What are you doing?
Me: Waving ^.^
Ino: Baka.... Oh wait... oh... *rolls eyes* I know why...
Me: Oro?
Ino: *pokes hand* What's that.... The sign of the Wind country... *glare*
Me: *sweatdrop* Well, yeah... about that... my friends and I made all the signs of the different villages on each of our hands... I got sand! *pets hand*
Ino: You. Are. Sad.
Me: *ignores Ino's comment and continues to prance around the room showing off her hand*
Ino: *sweatdrop*