Welcome to the next chapter of my soap opera (as it has been called).

Ok, I have an editor person now, so if anyone has a complaint about my mistakes yell at her somehow.

PG-13

Ino's POV

(Not my chara)

(I will start adding other couplings now.)

Chapter 9
Someone pushed me off my cot, startling me awake. I sat up from the cold ground and saw Yondaime standing above me. "Sorry, I didn't mean to push you off, I just wanted to wake you." He laughed nervously. I yawned and moved over my cot to wake Sakura, but she wasn't there. I suddenly felt so alone and scared. Frantically, I scanned the room. Yondaime sensed my fear, and consoled me, "Ino, calm down. Sakura went to go wait for her mother and said she'd bring breakfast when her mother shows up."

My mouth opened slowly to speak. My words caught in my throat, causing me to make little choking sounds instead of speaking. A sharp pain jabbed into my ribs as it got harder to breathe. I earned a funny look from Yondaime. "Are you alright?" He inquired, nearing his face to mine. I nodded as my lungs finally got some air. I had no clue to whatever had happened, but all my worries escaped me when Sakura entered the room with a tray of delicious looking food. Yondaime left saying good-bye to Sakura and waving to me.

Sakura laughed when her eyes caught sight of me.

"Oh my Ino, you are in serious need of brushing your hair. Here lemme help you." I had no chance to stop her when she sat me down on the cot and set the tray next to me. "Here. Eat while I brush your hair." She pulled the hair band from my messy hair. I hadn't even noticed how all-over-the-place my hair had been. Sakura pulled a brush from her pocket, talking as she began to brush. "My mom brought this brush for me, but I didn't need it that much." Sakura brought the brush through my hair gently, not pulling or hurting me once. I sighed contently, feeling warm and safe. The food near me consisted of a blueberry muffin, bacon, and some French toast. Off to the side, was an unopened 'V8 Splash'. I picked childishly at the bacon. Light laughter behind me told me I was acting silly. I grabbed the morsel and nibbled slowly at it, all while Sakura chattered on and on about how great it will be to live together.

A tall, beautiful woman entered the room. Her strawberry-blonde hair tied up in a bun, and with the suit she wore she looked like a secretary or a business woman. Her eyes, though, did not match her beauty. They were filled with hate and urgency, "C'mon girls, you're going to miss school!"

A nurse entered behind her.

"Please ma'am, this is a hospital, do not yell." The woman glared at the nurse and turned on her heel out the door.

Sakura sighed, "You remember my mom, Ino." I nodded, my heart beating quickly in hatred I barely recognized. "Well, let's get leaving," said Sakura as she tied my hair up high in a ponytail, leaving a lock of my bangs hanging in front of my eyes. I finished what I could of the breakfast and offered it to Sakura, who gladly took it claiming to have forgotten to feed herself earlier.

In the car, Sakura said little.

"We left our stuff at school yesterday, so we don't have to stop at home to get it. I'll introduce you to everyone and I'll help you out with all our school stuff. Luckily, we have all our classes together, so no worries." And that was about it until we came to the school.

'Konoha High School' read the statue in the front of the school. I whispered the name slowly to myself and felt the familiarity of the name. The car stopped and Sakura opened the door for me. I finally managed to speak up for myself,

"Hey, you don't need to open doors for me. You're the one with crutches." Wide-eyed, Sakura closed her eyes and smiled sweetly.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." I smiled back and left the car. The very second I closed the door, Ms. Haruno zoomed off, as though she really wanted to be away from me. I shrugged off her emotions against me and took it step-by-step into the school.

The moment we entered the school, a lanky man wearing all black with black hair and sunglasses directed us to the office. Sakura told him I had lost my memory, he replied telling her he already knew. He told us to wait right there while he went to get the principal. Sakura turned to me.

"That was Ebisu, the vice-principal. But everyone thinks he's some sort of closet pervert." I laughed at Sakura's comment on the creepy man. "But the principal is a real perv. If you're careful, you'll catch him hitting on Tsunade, another teacher. It's actually quite funny counting how many times in one day a guy can get attacked by a woman." She said with a grin. Right on time, a tall, handsome male walked into the room. He greeted us with a smile. It felt weird to meet a man whose hair was longer than my own. I stared at the long, silvery ponytail that reached his thighs as he stood.

"Hello, Ino, I am Jiraiya. Or so some kids like to call me, Ero-sennin." He twitched as he said it, "Anyways, I've heard of your misfortune in losing your memory. Do you have anyone you know to help you out with school?" I pointed blandly to Sakura. He laughed, "Of course, your best friend, Sakura. Since you two got along so well before, I guess I'll allow it. Sakura, you have all the classes Ino does, correct?"

"Yes."

"Good then, tell me all your teachers so I can call them up and tell them of this incident," he said, then remembered something, "Oh, please tell me in order of classes." Sakura hesitated, remembering the order of her teachers I had forgotten.

"First is Iruka, then Kurenai, Sandaime, Tsunade, Gai, Kakashi, Orochimaru, and then Asuma." I watched Jiraiya's expression change for each name he heard. Especially Tsunade. I could've sworn I saw some drool appear at the corner of his mouth.

"Well, ok girls, go head off to Iruka. I'll tell him. Have a nice day."

We left the office, Sakura in a rush and me beside her.

The classroom was on the first floor, fortunately. Sakura entered the room first and was greeted by a man with a thick scar across his nose. He saw me and gestured for me to head over to him.

"Hey, Ino, I'm your homeroom teacher Iruka. Go take your seat while I begin calling role." Sakura was already seated and waiting for me. I took my seat right beside her and waited for role call. I didn't have to wait long, giving me the impression that Sakura and I were the last to get here.

"Chouji?" A portly boy stood up, hiding a bag of chips behind him.

"Here, Iruka."

"I know you have chips there. Hand 'em over, Chouji." A boy next to him mumbled,

"I told you so, Chouji."

"Shuddup," answered the fat boy and he gave Iruka the chips. Iruka continued.

"Gaara?" A shiver was sent down my spine for reasons unknown to me as I watched a gothic boy with fiery red hair raise his hand.

"Here," came the dark voice, sending shivers down everyone's spines.

"Haku?"

A pretty, frail girl, who was sitting behind me, stood. I noticed her chest was flat. A thought flickered in my mind of her being male, but I ignored it, thinking no way could someone so beautiful be male. I found myself wrong when I heard her voice.

"Yes, I'm here." That voice could've been either male or female. I was quite confused now.

Sakura nudged me in the side lightly.

"Yes, that's a boy," whispered Sakura. Wow. I was definitely surprised. Before the boy sat down, a dark haired boy next to him shouted while pointing at Haku.

"Is that a hickey!" Everyone turned to Haku, who blushed deeply.

"No, I can assure you, it's not." Haku replied, his blush furiously reddening his face as he sat. The boy next to him laughed.

"Yeah sure. You got it from that man who was following you yesterday, didn't you?" He sneered, "You homo." Haku turned in the other direction.

"One must always treasure their special someone." That shut up the boy next to him. I felt sorry for Haku in a way. Iruka sighed.

"Now that that's over, let's continue, shall we? Hinata?"

"H-here," came a childish voice from a young girl in the front. I raised my eyebrows. She didn't seem old enough to be here. Weird.

"Ino?"

I jumped up with a quick, "Here." And sat down, unintentionally earning a few snickers across the class.

"Kiba?" The rude boy who sat next to Haku stood.

"Yeah I'm here." I heard a couple people call him names that didn't faze him. Iruka sighed.

"Kimimaro?"

A slender pale boy stood. His voice deep and strong as he spoke the 'here' and sat.

"Lee?" I laughed when I saw this thick-eye-browed boy stand. He stood with his right hand on his forehead like he was in the army.

"I'm here, sensei." He said sharply and sat. I heard other kids laugh as well.

"Naruto?" Iruka's face held the expression something bad was about to happen. And he was correct.

Some clumsy blonde stood quickly at hearing his name. But the boy stood to quickly and went back down yelling out as he fell, "Here!"

Sakura shook her head.

"This never seems to get old." I barely heard her over the laughter of the class. Iruka held back his own laughter as the boy took his seat.

"Sakura?" Sakura stood.

"Here." And sat. Nothing more, nothing less.

"Sasuke?"

An extremely handsome boy stood and grunted a short, "Here." I watched in awe at the way he moved. But I had this feeling in my gut telling me he was a jerk and I should leave him alone.

The rest of the names went by with less interesting events. "Shikamaru?"

"Here."

"Shino?"

"Present."

"Tayuya?"

"Here," said a girl in the back, and she mumbled something unintelligible under her breath.

"And last but not least, Tenten?" No answer. "Tenten?" Still nothing. "Tenten, just because I can see you doesn't mean you can't claim you're here." I turned around and saw a girl with brown hair tied in buns on each side of her head. She seemed to be staring at someone just past me. I looked around for her target and saw that shy girl Hinata. Could this girl be staring at another girl? How weird. Sakura reached back and tapped Tenten with her pencil.

"Hey, wake up." The girl jumped up and stood quickly.

"I'm sorry, Iruka. Yes, I'm here, just zoning out."

"I saw," said Iruka, "Well let's continue with our lessons class. Open to page 18 in your workbooks and begin. Naruto, please read the intro paragraph aloud."

I sighed and stared out a window. I felt so alone, despite the fact Sakura sat near me. Something was missing, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

TBC…
Ok, I finished this a lot faster than I expected. I guess the next chapter will be out soon too.

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Spork ai: I'm sorry, but I do plan on some het in this ficcie. I see how you got the soap opera idea. Thank you for requesting to be my beta reader person. I'm not sure I have anything else to say, so yeah.

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