Ino's arms shake as she struggles to stay in the Yoga pose that Hinata flows into so easily. The pose was called something like "three legged dog" or something stupid along those lines.

"Okay. T-this move i-is a bit more ch-challenging. It's called c-crow." Hinata says as she looks over at Ino.

Ino feels a drop of sweat drip from her forehead. She and Hinata had been at this for hours, since the sun came up, the heat of Konoha had engulfed them two hours ago. The sequences that Hinata was teaching her were growing harder and harder as Hinata made her hold her poses a little longer each time.

Hinata jumps forwards her two feet landing lightly between her arms that were still planted firmly on her mat. Then placing her knees on the outside of her arms, the Hyuuga girl leans forward until her feet hover 6 inches above the ground, her body a graceful line.

Ino's sapphire eyes widen. 'You've got to be fucking kidding me.'

"I-Ino, give it a try." Hinata says still in the pose.

Ino mimicks Hinata's movements and immediately falls to the ground.

Hinata places her feet back on the ground and sits on her mat. "That w-was a g-good try. D-don't be a-afraid to fall d-down." she gives Ino an encouraging smile. Ino couldn't help but notice how beautiful and gentle Hinata's smile was, 'No wonder her name means 'A Sunny Place', I feel like the sun is shining.'

"That's fucking hard." a thought suddenly came to her. "Hinata can you do the one pose that goes from Crow into a handstand?" Ino had always wanted to see someone do that.

Hinata blushed. "I h—h- have been p-practicing. I'm n-not sure."

"Well you saw me fall down a lot today. It might make me feel better if you mess up too." Ino teases.

Hinata gives her another one of those sunshine like smiles. "Okay."

Ino watches as Hinata repeats the yoga sequence that leads into Crow before the dark haired beauty exhales deeply and begins to lean forwards more and more, her arms straightening, and legs soon extended above her, toes pointed at the blue sky.

'Holy shit. Hinata is such a badass!'

She looks up just in time to see the shadow of Neji Hyuuga loom above her. "Hinata-sama" he spoke sternly.

Hinata lost her concentration and fell ungracefully back onto her yoga mat. "N-Neji." she greets in surprise.

"What are you doing, teaching the Yamanaka girl our clan sequences?" he demands.

"T-these are y-yoga moves t-that anyone can can l-learn" Hinata replies meekly.

"She's right. And she is fucking amazing at them, I have seen them in the Kunochi Weekly magazine." Ino quickly jumps to Hinata's defense.

Neji turns his icy glare onto Ino. "Of course you would know this, Yamanaka. Always knowing the latest trends and village secrets" he mocks.

Ino stands and meets his glare with one of her own. How could such a jerk be related to Hinata? Hinata is the sweetest, kindest person I know.

"It's time to go, Hinata." Neji said, his glare never leaving Ino's.

Hinata stands and rolls up her yoga mat. "Y-yes, N-neji" she turns her attention to Ino and the blonde broke her glaring contest with Neji, "Y-you c-can u-use my e-extra mat to practice."

"Thanks Hinata, that's really nice of you." Ino replies as she turns away from Neji to roll up her mat.

"Let's go." Neji said as he turns to stalk away.

Hinata quickly bows to Ino before chasing after her cousin.

"That fucking asshole." Ino mutters as she beats the training dummy. She had drawn a sloppy picture of Neji Hyuuga, complete with the angry pale eyes and a frowning face. She had to admit that it was a pretty terrible picture, something that an elementary school aged student would make for his mother during art time. But that was beside the point, she was taking all of her anger out on the Hyuuga as she kicks and punches the dummy again and again and again.

She feels Sakura's chakara approach from behind and doesn't bother to turn around.

"Wow." Sakura said as she stops behind Ino.

"What?" Ino demands as she gave the dummy a satisfying kick to the face, crumpling her drawing.

"I forgot how much you sucked at drawing. Is that Neji Hyuuga?"

"Yes." Ino spat

"What did he do to earn such a punishment? It takes a lot to end up on your training dummy, I don't even think I've made it."

"Oh you've made it." Ino chuckles.

Sakura narrows her green eyes at her.

"He is just such a jerk. He came and interrupted my yoga lesson with Hinata. He treats her so terribly despite the fact that she finally stood up to him during the Chunnin exams."

Sakura's glare disappears, Ino really did have a heart. Especially when it came to people being bullied. She remembered when she and Ino were kids and blonde chased away the girls who picked on her for her big forehead.

"Hinata needs to become more confident. She is such a badass, you should see her do yoga, it's amazing! I wish she would stand up to her douchebag cousin more. She is so strong and powerful, she just doesn't know it yet."

Sakura nods in agreement, she too had been amazed at Hinata's courage during the chunnin exams

A silence fell between the two frenemies. "So. Do you want to go get dinner?"

Ino looked around, only to realize that her shadow had grown long on the ground. "Shit it's that late?

"Why?"

"I lost track of time. I wish I could, but Asuma has the three of us doing a night training scenario. I am going to go home and get a nap in before he makes us show up"

"A what?" Sakura asks in confusion.

"You know…a fake mission at night? It's a way for us to work on search and rescue as well as do some more practice with the Ino-Shika-Cho move. Especially if Shikamaru has limited shadows."

"Wow. You guys are getting pretty intense." Sakura said a tinge of jealously in her voice. Ino couldn't help but smirk, looked like she was doing something that Sakura had never done before.

"Well, I guess I'll see you around then." Sakura said turning away.

Ino felt a tinge of guilt, Sakura was lonely. Her teammates and Ino were really the only friends that the pink haired girl had. "Wait. I'll walk with you."