Of Flowers and Love
Summary: Ino's personal journal that describes all of her friends in her own way… through flowers. Pairings?
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Chapter Four
Cherry On Top
Friday November 2nd
Training sucked, as usual. Asuma-sensei made me run thirty laps around the village with a hug rock on my back! God that was retarded, by the time I was done, I was so angry I threw the rock at him and went home. Oh well… I decided to look at my flowers for now I noticed I don't have Sakura on here.
I guess she's next.
Ino looked around the small café, Naruto jabbering away about training was annoying and Hinata nodding her head in amazement, Shikamaru complaining about something to someone and then there she was. Sakura Haruno.
Ino turned back to her journal.
It would probably make perfect sense to just call her a cheery blossom but I want to make her flower more special. She's talking to Tenten about something, not that I care, it's just I can't tell anything from her just sitting there…I'll join them I guess. Or probably Shikamaru to not look so suspicious…
Ino stood up from the small table she was at and silently sat down next to Shikamaru, whom had been talking to Neji it appeared, and made sure she had a clear view of Sakura.
"Ino? What're you doing here? I thought you had training?" Shikamaru asked lazily, not sure what to say to Ino's strange behavior.
"I took Asuma out, he'll be coming to consiousness in about three more hours," Ino said distantly, not receiving any of the usual laughs she got. The two genius boys stared at her as she watched Sakura.
Finally Ino snapped back to her journal and started writing, Shikamaru too tired to try to see what it was that she was writing.
She seems so normal… and yet she's so messed up. I swear that girl's cried who knows how many times and two days ago she completely fell apart. Maybe I made a mistake when I decided that Naruto was the Strawberry from the Indies… No. She's much different to Naruto. At least he has some life to him… not that I hate Sakura or anything, but she is acting so not like she did the other night.
I told you I was going to yell right? Well I went to Shikamaru and told him about it calmly and left without his opinion, not that I didn't know what that was. Then I went to talk to Sakura. She said she had no idea what in the name of the Hokage I was talking about…
That stupid girl…
Ino looked up but before she could write some more, a hand grabbed her own and she was being led out of the café, blue eyes meeting brown.
"What are you doing? I thought this whole thing was cleared up!" Shikamaru said, pulling her into an alley.
"I thought it was but…" Ino trailed off, looking at the ground.
"You can't keep hiding behind that little book of yours, Ino."
"I'm not hiding behind anything. I told her what I thought and she just told me I was crazy! I can't believe you actually thought I was trying to avoid talking to her!" Ino turned away but dropped her journal in her anger. Shikamaru paused and looked at the fallen diary. Ino had already been halfway down the street, ranting and raving to whomever passed her about the entire deal.
Reluctantly the lazy ninja bent down and picked it up.
Uh… Dear Ino's journal,
Sorry about the inconvenience but Ino is off causing mass destruction so I will be finishing an entry. This is stupid and I don't like it. Maybe you could let Ino know that she is a troublesome woman and needs to have and actual conversation with her friend. By the way, I didn't read any of the other pages, I just wanted to write this note.
-Shikamaru
Ino stared at the journal entry but smiled. She had come home cooled off but found the journal laying on her bed, brush and set with it.
"Hmm…"
Hey, I'm back. Remind me to thank Shikamaru later… It's about seven right now and the sun's gone, Sakura should be coming home soon. I see her pass by our training grounds every night on her way home. This way I can talk to her about Sasuke and figure out her flower.
Ah! Here she comes!
Ino set her journal down under a tree and ran to catch up with the pink Shinobi.
"Sakura…"
"Hey Ino… Uh… what's up?" Sakura asked but Ino paused. What had she wanted to talk about again?
"Uh… Sasuke!" Ino said loudly, looking behind Sakura. The pink haired girl froze, her eyes filled with fear and hate. She slowly turned around to see the cold block of ice walking toward them.
"Hello, Sasuke, how're you?" Ino asked, trying to not sound like she was still hurting from the other night. The boy looked up and then at Sakura.
"What do you want?"
"Just talking to Sakura about a new move I learned! It's call 'Hitting your sensei when he makes you run thirty laps around the village with a rock on your back' no juutsu!" Ino said, smiling brightly. Sakura's eyes moved to Ino and suddenly she started to laugh crazily.
"Uh… whatever…"
He left them, completely confused, but after a few moments he smiled, it was good to hear Sakura laugh.
"Oh Ino, you're too dumb for your own good," Sakura said, sighing and wiping her eyes of a few tears.
"Yeah… whatever… By the way, I know what you are now," Ino said, snapping her fingers. Sakura looked at her, completely confused.
"You're a… Oh! Never mind, I have to get going, I'll see you tomorrow!" Ino called, running and grabbing her journal before she took off, jumping over rooftops to reach her own and stopped to write.
I thought of one for Sakura. She's such a dork, but I'll give it to her, It's called Mezereon, it means a Desire to Please. She's always acting like she's so strong in front of everyone, and I know she wants to show Sasuke that she is the greatest there is. I know it for sure. So I'm going to stick with that. I guess that's all for tonight.
Hmm…tomorrow I might pick someone at random, I don't know. Just wait for it though.
Mezereon…
-Sorry for the long update, I just couldn't get to my computer. Thanks for the reviews and I will be sending out the pictures ASAP, my computer is not cool right now. But thanks for everyone reading this. I'm not sure how many chapters it's going to be, so I'll let you know when it gets close to the end. Thanks. Jya!
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