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Chapter 3: The Unexpected Pairing

Ino and Hinata looked around the crowd to see their sensei's plus Kakashi sensei all in a huddle. By the looks of it, it looked like they were planning something. Ino and Hinata look to each other giving off 'what the' looks and walk to there team. When Ino reached her team Choji as usual was eating and Shikamaru looked bored as heck.

"Aw man, it seems like they have been talking for hours!" Ino turned around to see Shikamaru standing up by her with his usual annoyed as heck look on his face. Ino wondered how long they had been talking cause the bell barely rang. She could hear Choji in the background munching on his 'so called food' which in Ino case looked like junk.

"You think there going to switch our teams around Shikamaru?" Choji had talked with his mouth all stuffed and Ino couldn't stand that. She spun around on one foot faced Choji, put one hand under his chin and jerked his chin upwards. "Choji don't be stupid. Of course they wouldn't switch our teams around, and chew with your mouth closed! How many times do I have to tell you that!" She said in a really annoyed voice which left Choji and shikamaru dumbfounded. Ino turned around to face her sensei she was determined to find out what they were talking about.

Five minutes had passed and she had started to become inpatient. She glanced around to see Sasuke and Sakura. Sakura was all over him, who in Ino case she could not stand but she stuck to her word, she was going to stop chasing Sasuke. Even if it meant watching Sakura cling to him. Shikamaru had noticed Ino glancing over there and nudged Choji. They both stared at Ino's non-yelling face as Sakura clung all over Sasuke like glue. They were both VERY shocked that she hadn't exploded yet.

"Oi Ino, aren't you going to DO or SAY anything to that one over there?" Shikamaru said moving his hands behind his head and nodding his chin in Sakura's direction. Ino just turned her head back to her sensei's direction and then over to Hinata who was blushing a deep red. Ino smiled, seeing her best friend happy meant a lot to her, which made her, happy about what she was was going to say. "Nope. I'm not going to do a single thing about it."

Shikamaru smirked at what Ino had said, and Choji was just praying she didn't take it out on him since she wasn't going to yell at Sakura. Ino smiled proudly at what she had just said. She thought that maybe now she should just pay attention to the important things like becoming a better ninja, other then drooling over a hot guy.

"YO!"

Ino recognized the 'Yo!' it was Kakashi sensei's voice but it had caught her off guard that it scared her right out of her thoughts. She looked around to see all the senses walking back to their teams. It was about time they came back to tell them what was going on. Ino folded her arms across her chest and leaned back a little before noticing something in Asuma sensei's hand. She eyed it; maybe she could make out the writing on it before he had go there so she would know what to expect. Asuma sensei stopped right in front of Ino, he dropped his cigarette on the floor and Ino stepped in it.

Asuma smirked at Ino; to him she was the best girl ninja. He knew she had what it took to be a ninja. He noticed her trying to figure out what the paper he had in his hand was. Ino reached for it but before she could get to it Asuma sensei pulled it up leaving Ino glancing at him, he smiled at her and began to talk. "Me an all the other sensei's came up with a way to get you kids better trained," He said smiling, he could tell by the look on Ino's face she had already figured that part out just that she couldn't figure if there was a catch or not. "Aw great, just what I need, more training."

Shikamaru said falling to the floor, sitting. Choji could car less he was to busy munching on his food. "So go on..." Ino said still giving him that gaze that, if he didn't know her, he'd be run a extra mile just to get away from her gaze. "Well here's the deal," He went on sticking another cigarette in his mouth and lighting it. "All three of you will be searching for this jewel for three week's straight. Sounds easy right? Wrong, first you need to find out who has the stone and what they want for it, and even sometimes there are challenges on the information on who has what."

Ino wasn't very pleased by this training, it seemed easy, and what were they thinking a jewel. For what? Ino had noticed he had never opened the paper even once to read it. She knew there was a catch to this. Shikamaru looked at his teammates and sighed. "This will be easy. We have Ino she could just scare them into giving us the information." Choji laughed at that and Ino turned around facing shikamaru who was now flashing a big smile across his face. "What Ino? Don't like my plan?"

Ino frowned and then smirked right back at him. "...Figures someone lazy like you would make a GIRL do all the work for you, eh? Shika Chan?" Shikamaru's smirk went to a frown; Ino really knew how to tick people off and was pretty darn good at it. "No, you're not going to be on your team." Asuma unfolded the paper and looked at it up and down. Ino, choji, a shikamaru turned around a faced Asuma. "What are you talking about! Asuma sensei you know pretty darn well that I work good with Shikamaru being that he has the shadow jutsu and me with my shintenshin! You DO know this right?!"

Ino said all shocked about what he just had said. "Yes Ino...I am very aware of that but," He glanced over the paper to see Ino now fuming; he quickly took his eyes back to the paper. "If Shikamaru isn't their Ino and you have to work with other people, you can't be useless and not do anything; you know what I mean Ino Chan?" Ino was now fumed; she pulled the paper down and pulled the cigarette out of his mouth tossed it on the ground and stepped on it all hard glaring at him. "Don't 'Chan' me Asuma sensei!"

This startled Asuma; he just smiled and sighed. He looked at the paper to see whom Ino was with. He thought 'this might make her happy'. "Okay now to tell you who got paired with whom," Asuma read the list out loud. " First team is Shikamaru and Kiba" Asuma glanced over at Shikamaru who was making the most annoyed face he had ever seen him make. Ino tried to hold in laughter while looking at Shikamaru's newly developed face. "AWWW MAN!! This is going to suck!"

Shikamaru said now laying instead of sitting on the ground looking up to the sky. Ino didn't think getting paired with Kiba was to bad, but for shikamaru it was. "Second team is Choji and Shino." Shikamaru and Ino both glanced up at Choji who seemed to be stuffing his mouth faster and faster. "Why do I get the creepy bug guy!" Asuma smiled and went back to reading the list. "The last to pairings are team three Ino and....."Asuma stopped and glanced at Ino, she seemed to be waiting forever for her name to be called because as soon as she heard it she jumped up and her eyes got all big.

"Who am I with! Please tell me I got Hinata Chan! Please don't tell me I got paired with Sakura!" Asuma smiled at this and shook his head no to both the suggestions Ino made. Ino raised on eyebrow and looked around putting her index finger on her lips. "Not Hinata Chan or Sakura...so who is Asuma sensei?" Asuma smiled and went on the next team skipping Ino. "Fourth teams Hinata, Naruto and Sakura, leaving you Ino with...?" Ino thought for a moment then heard Sakura scream.

"Eh!! I'm put in a group of three, and to top this all off Ino gets to be in a team with SASUKE KUN!!" Shikamaru's head jerked upwards and Choji stopped stuffing his mouth for the time being. Ino felt her jaw drop, she could of sworn it dropped all the way to the ground and back up. Why now, why was she pairing up with him now out of all times! Ino glanced over at Sasuke who had his no expression on his face and Sakura arguing with Kakashi who was trying to calm her down.

Ino's head turned back to Hinata and they caught each other's glances. Hinata shock her head in a 'I cant believe this' way. Ino could tell she was as shocked as she was. Ino stomped her foot on the ground and turned to Asuma. "EHHHH!!! Sasuke and me! How can this be! Why now! SENSEI!!!" Asuma jumped backwards and thought to himself, 'Jezz, I thought she would be happy being that she likes him and all' He sighed and stared into Ino's not so friendly glare. Right now he had wished he wouldn't of known Ino so he could actually run the extra mile away from her.

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