In the previous chapters I made a mistake with calling Kunoichi Shinobi sorry for that! I'm also sorry for the infrequent updating, I have a lot on my mind lately.
4. Clouds and Leaves
Ino didn't say much to her students when they walked towards Tsunade's office. The idea of working with Ninja's from the Clouds village still didn't comfort her.
"Ino-sensei, can you tell us a little more about Ninja's from the Clouds village?"
"I don't know much about them." she lied. She knew pretty much about them but wasn't in the mood to tell.
Nayuki noticed there was something strange about her Sensei. "Sensei, something wrong?" she asked.
"No, why?" Ino replied.
"You're so quiet and walking very fast."
She stopped, Nayuki was right, she was walking at a speed many people would consider running.
"I'm sorry, I just got a lot on my head."
When they arrived at Tsunade's office the other Jounins with their teams were also there.
"Ino!" yelled a voice.
Ino turned around to face Tsunade and saw that she was guiding a brown-haired woman and three children about Nayuki's age.
"This is Makoto, and this are her three students."
"Hello, it's so nice to meet other Ninja's!" Makoto replied happily.
"Yeah." replied Ino. The woman seemed nice but she was still a Cloud.
Nayuki, Keiichi and Yuuichi didn't have that problem and enthusiastic started talking with the other kids.
"Well have fun." said Tsunade and walked back to the others.
"So how's life in Konoha?" asked Makoto curious.
'Well lonely.' thought Ino, "Nice, very peaceful."
"Please show us around! I want to know everything!"
'That woman is sure a pain in the neck' thought Ino. "Course follow me."
"Wait let us introduce ourselves first, I'm Makoto, that's Kitagawa, the girl is Kaori and this her sis Shiori."
They all said hello and continued taking with Nayuki, Keiichi and Yuuichi.
After Ino showed them the village they decided to train in the forest.
Makoto didn't stop talking and Ino started to get annoyed of her.
The weather was also turning against them. Dark rain clouds started to cover the sky and Ino was sure that it would rain soon.
"Ino-sensei, are you going to challenge Makoto-sensei?" asked Nayuki.
The last thing Ino wanted was to fight against Makoto.
"What a nice idea!" said Makoto before Ino could complain. Ino didn't like that Makoto was bossy, normally she was the one who made other people change their minds.
"Ok." replied Ino. She would finish it quickly with the Shintenshin or Shinranshin no jutsu.
Ino walked towards her position, waiting for Nayuki to give the sign that she could start.
She studied her surroundings just like Shikamaru had taught her. There were pretty much hiding spaces because they were in a forest.
"Let the match begin!" yelled Nayuki.
Makoto ran towards her with a kunai in her hand, Ino dodged her without problems. Ino secured that Makoto couldn't see her and used the Kage Bunshin no justsu. She hid herself in a tree and let the Bunshin attack Makoto.
She observed her for a while and decided to end it quickly with the ShinranShin. Suddenly her plans were disrupted by the sound of the Bunshin vanishing.
'Damn' thought Ino. She revealed her hiding space to Makoto and prepared for an attack. A kunai flew towards her with deadly accuracy, and Ino dodged it with the kunai sneering beside her. She didn't noticed that she lost her necklace and continued fighting.
Makoto approached and an impressive hand-to-hand combat followed. Ino was getting really annoyed by the match and really wanted to end it quickly, so she made a fake movement to the left, which startled Makoto. Ino now hit Makoto in her neck which would paralyze her for a minute or 2. Makoto fell on the ground, and when she noticed she couldn't move she admitted defeat.
"That was fun!" said Makoto after she was able to move again.
"Well done Sensei!" yelled Nayuki.
Her happiness turned into surprise when she noticed her Sensei's necklace was gone.
"Sensei where's your necklace?"
Ino's hand immediately reached for her neck, a sad and dreadful feeling hit her like a rock when she noticed her precious necklace was gone.
"Damn'it!" she yelled with the emotion clearly hearable in her voice. She considered the necklace as her most precious item and no other could replace it.
Ino couldn't help it, tears started to stream over her face uncontrollable. Her students were astonished by their emotional Sensei who'd normally didn't show her emotions.
"What's this?" Ino heard Makoto say. She turned around to face her and saw she found her necklace. A great relief went through her entire body.
She started walking towards Makoto, who was opening it. Just when Ino wanted to say something a great shock on Makoto's face appeared, just for 5 seconds and then it was gone.
"Something wrong?" asked Ino.
"No nothing." Makoto replied and handed Ino the necklace. Ino could in her eyes she was lying, and something deep inside her told Ino that Makoto was hiding something from her.
"No, something's wrong I can see it in your eyes."
Suddenly her face turned from friendly to very serious.
"This is not the place to talk, meet me at Ichiraku's at seven." she said soft so none of the student would hear it.
"Well I think that was enough for today!" said Makoto like nothing happened.
Ino waved her students good-bye and walked home, her mind filled with thoughts.
'Why was Makoto so shocked by the photo, and why didn't she tell her instantly?' she thought.
She looked at her watch, none of these questions would be answered before seven o'clock.
I'm sorry that the chapter was so short, I promise the next ones will be better.