Disclaimer: Chapter 1 and I bet this is annoying now……

Italics means thoughts

Ino had jumped out of the way at the last minute. After all, she reasoned, if I jump too early then he'd just change direction. However she was mildly surprised that he could become "the tank", as Asuma had kindly dubbed it, so quickly. He must've been training extra hard to master it.

"Ino is right there. If I fake a roll to her I can turn back to normal and hit her by surprise"

Ino just had to suppress a giggle there. Chouji had no idea about her new ability. This was really just perfect. Chouji rolled to her quickly, she jumped to the left and Chouji, as sure as his plan said, turned back to normal and tried to punch her. Ino diverted the punch to one side and kicked at his stomach, winding him while she made eye contact with him. Then she concentrated, sending chakra through her eyes and into Chouji's, throwing him off balance. She threw her fist out to punch him but he caught it.

"Oh….."Ino said at a loss for words. Then Chouji threw her over his shoulder and onto the ground. Ino then kicked at his feet, knocking him down as well and jumped away from him.

"I'll use Akamaru to confuse her. She won't be able to tell which ones me!"

Ino took a moment to figure out that those we're Kiba's thoughts. During that time Chouji had gotten up and had taken something out of his kunai bag.

"Ino's gotten good. Hopefully this will trick her"

Chouji threw a spherical object at Ino. Ino moved to the left so it avoided her and charged at Chouji, who had started running towards her.

"I'll kick her behind the kneecaps, and then I'll grab her neck, throw her to the ground and press a kunai to it."

Ino thought about this while running and thought to herself how Chouji could kick behind her kneecaps. Then it came to her, Chouji had been the thing that "Chouji" had threw at her. With this realisation came a cunning plan.

Chouji was right behind her when she tripped. He didn't have time to stop so he decided to skip kicking her and grabbing her neck and go straight to the kunai thing. However when he got to her he heard a poof and saw smoke. He turned round and saw Ino preparing to kick. He punched her and she disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Realising what he had done, he quickly turned around and prepared to block.

Only to see thin air.

Ino had figured this out perfectly. She was lucky Chouji hadn't looked up when he turned around for the second time. So while she was somersaulting and preparing her genjutsu Chouji looked left and right for her. When her turned round she looked into his eyes and released it. While Chouji stood still – while looking dazed Ino noted happily- she kicked his legs from under his feet and punched his stomach again, causing him to hit the ground hard. She pressed a kunai to his throat and announced with a cheery tone "I win!"

Pity no-one had been watching that part. At all. Asuma had turned his attention to Shikamaru and Shino's fight at the point where she had been thrown on the ground and Kurenai had been watching Kiba and Hinata. This just made Ino more determined to beat Shikamaru and show Asuma that she could be just as good as the rest of her team. During their break she talked to Hinata.

"So how was your practise match?" Ino asked after telling Hinata, with excruciating detail, about her spar with Chouji

"I lost" Hinata sighed. "But at least I put up a good fight. Kiba just had more stamina than me."

"Wonder what happened in Shikamaru's match…" Ino question aloud.

"That was with Shino wasn't it?" Hinata asked. Ino nodded. " Well Shikamaru lost. Apparently he couldn't stop all the bugs that Shino had left around and after a while he had his chakra either eaten by the bugs or drained."

Ino had felt slightly deflated after that. Luckily for her Chouji and brought some of his fathers chakra pills. The pills, Chouji said ,with a hint of pride, replenished chakra back to maximum. He gave one toeach of his teammates.So, after ten minutes of break, Asuma and Kurenai told them their new sparring partners.

"Chouji, you'll be against Kiba" Asuma told him. "Shikamaru and Ino will be the ones who'll spar here." YEAAAAH! Ino screamed mentally. This was her time! Today, at this moment, would be the time that she proved to Asuma and the rest of her team-mates that she was as strong as them! She would prove her worth as a ninja and……

"Ino…….can we start now? I want to get this over with."

Ino just glared at Shikamaru, eyes hinting at a revenge with would include Shikamaru being in such pain that he'd wish he'd never been born.(Tee-hee…..you can imagine any revenge you want) She kept on sitting there, clearing her mind while finding out Shikamaru's plan. It was a very good plan as well. Using a newly acquired shadow illusion he would "summon" a shadow to do his bidding. The shadow would distract Ino long enough to trap her and win.

"I can wait for longer than you can you know " Shikamaru told Ino with impatience.

"Don't worry" Ino said while standing up and getting into her fighting stance. " I'm all ready now."

"Good" Shikamaru said, bringing a kunai across his palm to make him bleed. "Allow me to show you Lerone, the shadow demon"

Ino raised an eyebrow as the symbols flew from his hand "You named it?" she asked quizzically.

"…….." Shikamaru had just realised how sad that was. Not like her cared though.Thenthere was a poof and Lerone appeared. She was short with black curly hair and her face was grey. She had no eyes and her body was a jaggy mass of black. Not bad for an illusion Ino thought to herself.

"Lerone!" Shikamaru shouted. "Attack her!"

Lerone nodded and charged arms appearing at her sides as she threw a punch at Ino's way. Ino dodged it…not like she was in trouble. It being a fake illusion but she had to pretend she was afraid of being hit by it. She noticed Shikamaru running around her putting himself quite far behind Lerone. She cleared her mind and narrowly dodged a punch by the illusion. Then , without warning, Ino sidestepped it. Shikamaru smirked as she came closer.

"Good thing she hasn't figured out it was an illusion"

Ino stopped mid-run and quickly turned round. She saw a shadow stealthily slide along the ground. Quickly she jumped out of its way and it stopped.

"How did she figure it out?"

Ino kept her face straight, knowing that if she smiled she might reveal that she had been taught somethingextremely handy.Shikamaru was confused but he wouldn't let that get in the way of his strategy making. Ino looked behind her and saw the shadow "summon" still there. He must be keeping the illusion for something Ino thought.

"Ok. Now this strategy will work."

I must've missed that strategy. No matter. I'll just find out now Ino thought.

Fight scenes are hard to do….and I still have one and a bit more to do. Also Shikamaru's strategies are much cleverer than this one. I'm just trying to make them not as complicated enough as to make peoples heads explode…..Also a cookie to whoever can figure out where Lerone came from(It's obvious enough but I always liked thanking people like this)