Chapter 15: Rival In Heat

Naruto Shippuden: The Rise of Armpits Village

One hot and sunny day, Tsunade held a sudden seminar for the village's ninja techniques. The seminar was specific only for Leaf kunoichis, and the academy was filled with different characters.

There were 3 proctors, Tsunade, Kurenai, and Anko. This was also the first kunoichi seminar held with the no sleeves rule. Some kunoichis are obviously self-conscious of their new attire, while most paid it no mind. Most of them try to ignore talking about it, since it was an embarassing and awkward subject, and not all kunoichis are proud and have beautiful armpits.

Sakura and Ino was assigned in the same room with Tsunade as their speaker while Hinata is currently on a different room with her own sensei as her room's speaker. Ino and two of her friends arrived 15 minutes early and was seen chatting just outside of the classroom door.

"Hey Ino, what do you think of the new outfit restriction rule by the Hokage? Don't you think it's a bit much? I mean, why sleeveless tops out of all things?"

"Didn't Tsunade think about some kunoichis who aren't confident or you know... have body odor problems? haha!" said Ino's childhood friend as she chuckled.

"Yeah, and wearing sleeveless makes me feel conscious especially during long missions and training. I have to be extra sure that they look and smell good or I will be the laughing stock of my team." said the other friend.

"Why are you two numbskulls asking me that? I have been wearing sleeveless ever since you guys saw me and I never had any problems with it. Besides, I feel much more comfortable in a sleeveless outfit, I don't see why having exposed armpits is such a big deal at all." said Ino.

"Hmph, that's easy for you to say, Ino." pouted Ino's friend.

The three continued to talk for a minute then Sakura arrived. As usual, Sakura reeked of sweat as she had the bad habit of just grabbing a piece of cloth and wiping off the sweat on her body, even on her underarms. She never bothered to use deodorant or any skin care stuff as she thought that the only people who needed to use deodorant are the ones who has a BO problem, in which she obviously has.

But, in her mind, she continued to tell herself that naturally an armpit would smell bad, and that she doesn't smell that 'bad'. Little did she know that Naruto never bothered to tell her because Naruto has a fetish for her armpits. And the other people who knew her just did not bother to tell her since it was an awkward topic.

As Ino was about to greet Sakura, her nose was greeted by a nasty sour and sweaty smell which obviously came from Sakura's armpits. The odor was offensive and Ino decided to embarrass Sakura to make her realize her hygiene problem.

"Speaking of armpits, can you girls smell that? Looks like someone forgot to use deodorant today. Quite brave considering of this new sleeveless rule that we have.." Ino blurted out as she raised her arms and pretended to sniff her own armpit to piss off Sakura.

The two friends looked at Ino and began to worry, as they raised their arms a little and shamefully sniffed their own armpits.

"What are you talking about Ino, we don't smell and we certainly never forgot to use deodorant today.." the other friend angrily said while blushing.

"Oh nevermind, it looks like it came from Sakura here. Don't worry guys." Ino smiled while leaning on the wall with her hands behind her head.

Sakura saw what Ino was doing and was surprised and got mad immediately. "E-Ehh!?"

The other two friends looked behind and saw a fuming mad Sakura and started laughing.

"Hey! I don't smell, Ino pig! And stop showing off those disgusting armpits of yours, I bet that is where the smell is coming from!" Sakura said.

"Hmmm, I'm not so sure about that, why don't we have an armpit sniff-off? Put your armpits up and let Yuki and Mina here sniff both of our armpits so they can decide which of us really stinks around here.." Ino dared.

Sakura already knew she would lose and said, "That is just ridiculous, Ino. No way am I falling for that!"

"C'mon, Sakura.. prove to us that the smell isn't coming from you.. cause it's certainly not coming from me..." Ino teased with her face just beside her exposed armpit.

Sakura momentarily blushed and could not think of anything more to say. She had enough and decided to enter the room.

"Ughh.. Whatever, I'm outta here!" she yelled angrily and slammed the door shut going inside the room.

As she went inside, she heard Ino and her friends laughing. Sakura then proceeded to her seat angrily.

A few minutes later, the room was filled with mostly young kunoichis, all feeling a bit happy since the hokage was their speaker. A few moments later, Shizune came into the classroom carrying a papersheet and several presentation files containing the things that would be presented at the seminar.

"Alright, time for attendance. Everyone, please raise your hand high after your name is called." Shizune said while looking at a sheet of attendance paper.

The room had a circular seat pattern, where the speaker was standing in the middle and all the students circled around the person in the middle so all of the students can see each other.

As Shizune began calling the names, the kunoichis raised their hands. Some shy kunoichis consciously raised their arm, ashamed as everyone's attention goes to the name of the person called. If ever Shizune notices a kunoichi not fully raising her arm, she would call on their name again and only acknowledge their presence if they raised their hands high enough.

Most other kunoichis did not feel conscious, since it has been common sense that they use deodorant if they do not want to be embarassed, and another reason is some of them had nice armpits.

Then Shizune called out, "Sakura Haruno."

Sakura then started to feel a little bit of panic considering that she knew the people sitting close to her will notice her armpit smell if she put her hands up.

"U-Uhmm.." said Sakura as she only raised half of her arm, making sure that her armpits weren't exposed.

Shizune was directly infront of Sakura and noticed that she was being shy so she called her name again.

"Sakura Haruno, can you please raise your hand high so I can see your presence?" Shizune shouted as she looked at Sakura.

The other students noticed Sakura was being conscious and barely lifting up her arms so they started to giggle.

"Everyone keep quiet! Now Sakura Haruno, please raise your hands up." Shizune said.

Sakura was surprised to see Shizune acting so different.

Sakura gulped and decided to face the shame, "Whatever.. Present!" then raised her right arm up high.

As soon as she raised her arms, a gust of wind came in from the windows and the nasty smell of her armpits wafted in the air around the room.

The other kunoichis sitting near Sakura including Ino and her two friends caught the bad odor. They all looked at Sakura's armpit, then started to smile progressing to laughter.

"For the last time, Keep Quiet! Now, Shina Harui!" Shizune shouted as she continued on the attendance poll.

"Sakura smells like the one we used to tease 'armpit kid' in middle school. Hahaha.." one kunoichi gossiped quietly.

"Yeah seriously, how can she reach this age and still not manage basic hygiene? Her armpits are white but damn, they smell nasty.." the other one gossiped back.

Ino heard the gossips about Sakura and couldn't help but feel a little bit sorry for her friend.

"God, this is so embarassing! Ever since Master Tsunade implemented this rule, almost every aspect of my life consists of these armpits nonsense.." Sakura thought as she sat down blushing and ashamed.

The name calling and hand raising went on.

Then, "Ino Yamanaka" Shizune called.

Ino was pretty popular amongst the kunoichis so almost all of the class's attention were on her. As soon as her name was called, she raised her right hand confidently, almost flaunting her white armpits.

"Present!" said Ino.

The other kunoichis whispered among each other, "Wow, I wish I had confidence to show my armpits like Ino does,"

"Yeah, she has such nice armpits, I'm getting a bit jealous.." said another one.

Then finally Shizune said,

"Alright, Looks like everyone is here."

Everyone was silent while looking at Shizune intensely which made Shizune feel so nervous.

"Uhmm.. Please, don't think that I'm a serious person, I was just playing you know hehe... How was my firm acting ? Is it good ?" said Shizune while scratching her head.

"Grr.. I knew it." thought Sakura with a flat face.

After that, Tsunade arrived in the room. The kunoichis stood up and greeted her while bowing forward at the same time.

"Good morning, Lady Tsunade!"

"Good morning, everyone." Tsunade smiled as she greeted back the participants.

"Alright, since Lady Tsunade is here, you can all sit down and listen to the material that will be delivered, have fun!" said Shizune as she left the room.

Time passed on and the seminar began. Tsunade took off her green robe and explained about why she implemented the new sleeveless rule and how to adapt and adjust to it. Not only that, she also demonstrated and explained a simple jutsu along with chakra management.

After that, she asked for a volunteer from the participants to perform it. Ino raised her right hand as she wanted to volunteer and went in the middle. After heading to the middle, she managed to perform the jutsu successfully. Then all of a sudden, a jonin knocked on the door and asked to talk to Tsunade for a moment.

"Excuse me, Lady Hokage, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Oh, sure." said Tsunade.

She then turned around and said to her students, "Listen girls, please don't make any noise, we don't want to disturb the students in the next room."

Then they answered in unison "Okay, Lady Tsunade!"

While Tsunade was on the door talking to the jonin, the other kunoichi's attention were briefly focused on Ino since she was in the middle.

Ino noticed that most of the class were looking at her.

"Hmm, Now that Lady Tsunade isn't looking, I wonder what kind of fun I can do..?" Ino thought to herself.

While looking around the classroom, Ino saw Sakura and smiled. She immediately thought of a funny joke she can pull on Sakura.

"Hey Sakura!" Ino called to her.

"Hmmm?" said Sakura as she turned her head.

As soon as Sakura heard her and looked, Ino proceeded to tease Sakura by shamelessly sniffing her own armpit in front of the whole class while looking and smiling directly at Sakura, implying to everyone that Sakura's armpit smelled bad.

"WHAT THE !?" shouted Sakura completely shocked after she saw what Ino just did.

The whole class saw this, looked at Ino then Sakura, and bust out laughing. Sakura was very embarassed and mad at Ino for doing these kinds of shameful things. She shouted and pointed her fingers to everyone around her with her face red with anger.

"HEY! There was nothing funny about that! You all are so damn weird and you should know that! Especially you Ino!"

Sakura's outburst made everyone quiet for a little while, but soon they were laughing again. Sakura was very mad and whispered in her mind while glancing at Ino.

"Ughh..! That cocky armpit obsessed freak! First accusing Naruto of perverted thoughts, then rubbing mayonnaise on her disgusting armpits and now humiliating me in front of the whole class? The nerve of that pig…!"

"Alright, that's enough! I turn around for a little while and you make all this noise! God, you're worse than the guys!" Tsunade said as she finished talking to the jonin and went back to the middle.

Nothing eventful happened for the rest of the seminar, and it ended at 1 pm in the afternoon.

"Okay, that's it for today. I hope you girls learned something and remember to always follow the implemented rules, got it ?" said Tsunade as she ended the class.

"Yes, Lady Tsunade!"

The class disbanded, and some of the girls went home while some of them are having a conversation at the corridor. Ino finished chatting with some of the other kunoichis and as they left the room, she noticed Sakura and felt a little sorry for humiliating her in front of the class.

"Hey Sakura, sorry for poking fun at you before. I'm your friend and I care about you so here.." Ino said as she grabbed her deodorant in her pocket and handed it to Sakura.

"Here, use mine. It's cherry blossom scented so I think you will like it." Ino said as she smiled kindly to Sakura.

However, Sakura was still mad at Ino and still believed that she doesn't need to put anything on her armpits.

"Seriously? You're apologizing while lending me YOUR deodorant? Are you trying to insult me or what!?"

"H-Hey.. No, Sakura! I'm just—"

"Enough! I'm done with you! Get away from me, you armpit freak! I don't need to put anything on my armpits, they smell just fine." Sakura replied.

"Grrr.. What do you mean you smell just fine? Have you smelled yourself? You stink like rotten eggs! I'm here offering some help and this is how you call me?" Ino blurted and paused.

"You out of all people I know should be the one using deodorant! And what the hell do you mean by armpit freak?" Ino asked angrily.

"Heyy, I'm not the one claiming that some guy (Naruto) imagined on fucking her armpits and then rubbed mayonnaise on them afterwards. And besides, I have some decency and decide not to parade my armpits just so everyone can see them.." Sakura retaliated.

"H-Hey, that mayonnaise stuff was an accident! I didn't mean it.. I guess.."

"And what about Naruto?.. Fucking your armpit—Ughh.. Yuck! Only a freak like you would enjoy disgusting things like that! Thinking back on it will only make me throw up again!"

"Oh my god, Sakura.. How many times do I have to tell you that I am not lying! I'm only saying what I saw on his mind and nothing more!" Ino replied angrily.

"Whatever you say, armpit freak. I don't wanna talk about it and I don't need whatever it is your sticking up your armpit. I have had enough of these nonsense armpits talk for a day and I just want to go home already." Sakura said as she walked away.

But Ino still hasn't given up on convincing Sakura so she devised of a plan to make her realize her problem.

"Fine, if you don't want to use deodorant, I'll make sure that you never leave your house without using one again." Ino thought.

Then as Sakura was a bit of a distance away, Ino sat down on a bench and pointed a hand symbol to Sakura to use the mind transfer technique on her friend as she wanted to take control of Sakura's body for her plan.

A few moments later, Sakura stopped as she felt something strange on her body, "H-Huh? What's this weird feeling ?"

"Mind transfer success!" Ino said.

As Ino made it into Sakura's mind, she noticed that Sakura had two inner psyches.

"Well, hello there Sakura. I seemed to have forgotten that you had an inner spirit when I used this jutsu on you during our chunin fight 4 years ago."

"WHAT THE..!? The hell are you doing with my body Ino!? Grrr.. get off me this instant!" shouted Sakura.

"Hmm.. sorry Sakura, you cannot cast me out since this is an advanced form of my jutsu. I have been practicing this for years you know."

"HUUUH!? What do I care? And why are you here anyway?" Sakura asked Ino.

"Look, since I'm your friend, I don't want our other friends to judge you, so I will make you realize that you really need to use deodorant!" Ino said.

"Oh not this again! What is with you and armpits anyway? Unlike you, I don't have an obsession over armpits! Honestly, you are such a weirdo!" Sakura said.

"Hmph, say whatever you want, I'm the one in control now." Ino grumbled as she made Sakura put both her hands behind her head while walking on the busy streets of Konoha.

Some of the kunoichi participants walking home and some of the villagers noticed Sakura. Some villagers were staring at her and the participants were whispering to each other.

"Ugh, hey! What are you doing Ino!? Stop it, this is embarassing!" Sakura begged.

"Hmmm, I thought you said your armpits smells just fine? And your armpits are as white as mine so what's to be ashamed about?" Ino teased.

"I don't like showing off my armpits you pervert! I know they look nice but…" Sakura stuttered.

"But what? Hmmm.. Let me guess, smelly?" asked Ino.

As soon as Sakura was about to say something, She found herself walking in a crowded library with her armpits still exposed. The moment she entered the library, all eyes were on her and some of the other senior ninjas was wondering what is going on, while some of the young male ninjas were looking at her lustfully.

Ino kept making Sakura walk around the library with the shameful armpit pose.

"What the hell are you thinking! I swear you're dead, you're totally dead when I get out of here!" Sakura said.

Suddenly, one of the library staff finally confronted her and shouted.

"Hey young lady! Please, stop this lewd behavior and leave. It's bothering most of the people here and the smell... Also, no offense but.. you really shouldn't even be thinking about raising your arms if it smells like 'that'. Now please leave…"

Hearing that from a random stranger made Sakura's embarassment finally reach its peak. Feeling defeated, she finally decided to consider Ino's advice.

Then, Ino made Sakura go outside and finally lowered her arms.

"See what I mean? Now do you still believe that you smell just 'fine'?" said Ino as she finally rested her hand on her waist after it has been up for a long time.

Sakura went quiet for a while then said a minute later,

"You didn't have to embarrass me like that just to prove a point." said Sakura.

"I don't have any other option! Besides, it's really fun humiliating you, Haha.." Ino answered as she smiled happily.

Then Sakura fell silent again as she started shedding tears while staring at Ino's eyes.

"I hate you..."

Ino who saw the sad look on Sakura's face immediately felt guilty and realized that what she had done to her was too much.

"E-Ehh!? Okay, Look.. I'm sorry for what I've done, I know that what I did was wrong and came across as exaggerating. It's just... Sakura, I did all of this because I care for you, and I don't want to see you regret your mistakes later... Like, me.." said Ino.

After that, Sakura looked down which made Ino feel worried.

"S-Sakura.."

After that, Sakura looked up again with an annoyed expression and somehow realized that all this time it turned out that she really needed deodorant.

"Ughh.. You know what, Ino !? Fine! I'll use that stupid roll-on deodorant of yours. Where is it.. Hand it over now!" Sakura said giving in.

"Geez, now you're the one rushing me for it? And you do know that roll-ons are personal belongings right? Ughh.. but since you're my friend, sure. I'll meet you at the village gate then." Ino said as she released Sakura and returned her consciousness to her own body.