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ATTENTION:

I got rid of Sakura's second Inner. So she only has one. Just want to get that out in the clear so no one is confused.

This= An Inner.

This= Thinking.

This= Ino speaking THROUGH Sakura's body.

This= Ino's telepathy.

This= Normal.


Chapter 3: Sakura vs. Ino: Rematch

Sai POV

Hm… If I remember right, Ugly told me that this fight ended in a draw. Too bad. I was hoping that Beautiful win, I sort of like her better. Ugly suspects that I have a "crush" on her. I don't know though. I wonder…

Tenten POV

I hope they're going to put up a more interesting fight this time. Not that the first time wasn't, but still. Hold on! Wait a second…

Oh crap. Neji vs. Hinata and me vs. Temari is coming up soon. Damnit! My back…

Temari POV

Perfect. My brothers are already suspicious of me. Are they really that paranoid? Then again, Gaara says my aura is...lighter. Weirdo. The real problem is how I'm going to keep Gaara as sane as possible, keep my brothers less suspicious of me, and keep Gaara from killing me. Damnit! The others have it better off!

Sakura POV

"I have been waiting so long for this pig! It's too bad I can't go all out, if you know what I mean." I taunted.

"Same here, but I might as well give them a good show, right?" She motioned her head to the rails.

"Right." We slowly circling each other, and I had three kunai in my left hand.

"By the way, I have news. Guys, you might want to hear this!" Ino announced, talking to her team.

"I, Ino Yamanaka," started Ino. "Am officially over Sasuke Uchiha. I have no romantic interest in him whatsoever. Period. Alright! Now, Forehead, let's do this!" And with that, she charged at me, throwing 3 kunai and my head.

As I dodged them, I allowed myself a second to gouge everyone's reactions.

Chouji had dropped his last bag of chips and was choking on the ones in his mouth; Asuma-sensei-it's so weird to see him alive - barely managed to keep his cigarette in his mouth and was trying to help Chouji stop choking; Shikamaru's mouth was open with his eyes wide, looking at Ino as if she had 3 heads; Naruto was slapping himself- to "wake himself up", I assume- and Kakashi had his one visible eye wide. Sai was just confused. That's normal.
As for Team Gai, Tenten already knew; Neji had his eyebrow raised in curiousity; and Lee seemed as if he didn't hear her, or didn't really care. He was watching our fight. Rooting for me of course.

While heading for Ino, I took off my headband and threw it to the side while pulling 4 senbon from my weapons' pouch. As we neared each other, I threw them at her, and she ducked and flipped, catching them. After that, we basically started a hand-to-hand, close-combat fight; throwing hard punches and swift kicks, trying to tire the other out. It was working, but we got tired of it.

"Ino-pig, let's spice things up a bit. This is getting ridiculous." As I said this, I was gathering my chakra, healing small injuries slowly in the process, so the spectators didn't notice.

"Agreed. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" 2 clones appeared beside her and they ran at me; one jumping above me, the other sliding across the floor to me; and the real Ino just flat out charging again.

I flipped backwards, and when my feet were within distance of the clone that went above me, and kicked it, hard, causing it to disappear in a cloud of smoke.

What is she planning? She didn't do this last time.

Are you going to shut up so I can think up a plan or something?

Sure.

Suddenly, I felt a nick on my left leg. (I had already landed on the ground and gotten rid of the second clone)

I looked up from my leg, which had a small cut on it, and looked up. There, Ino was grinning, holding up the kunai that she nicked me with.

Shit! We forgot about the original Ino!

Trying to run toward her, attempting to throw a punch at her, I realized that I couldn't move my entire left leg. Feeling another prick, I looked down to my other leg, fearing the worst.

She got me again.

Because of the lack of mobility, I collapsed onto my chest, gasping when I hit the concrete.

"Wondering why you can't move? I used a paralysis poison; something I'm sure you're familiar with. Now that you're immobile, I can use this!" Ino-pig performed the hand-signs for her family's signature technique; Shintenshin no Jutsu, then collapsed a few seconds after.

(a/n: was that the Japanese term for it?)

Shit! Come on body, move! Not.
You do realize I can take over and move, right?
Duh! I just didn't want to cuz I want to get this over with, and let Ino use her jutsu.
But why?
Old times' sake, and we're running out of chakra. I'm tired and-

"Hey, Forehead, Forehead's Inner. What up?"
Uhh…hi?
Is your Inner in your body pretending to be unconscious?

(A/n: Ino developed one later on. It didn't show up much, but she still got one.)

(A/n: for this part, the underline with italics is Ino speaking to Sakura's Inner or Sakura, and just italics is Sakura like for the rest of the story. Not Inner!Sakura but just Sakura. Bold w/ italics is Inner Sakura, and non-italics with underlines is Ino speaking FROM Sakura's body to the outside world. )

Yup. Now I'm going to make you raise your hand and try to get you to say you to quit, but you guys are going to stop me (or Naruto) before I could finish. Then we'll be dramatic in your process of throwing me out of your mind. Got it?
Roger.
Got it.

"I, Sakura Haruno," 'Sakura' spoke, raising her hand. "Would like to with-"

"NO!" shouted Naruto. "Sakura, what are you doing?"

"Idiot," drawled Shikamaru. "That's not Sakura; it's Ino. Her clan's jutsu allows her soul to inhabit another's body and take control of it. I already explained that."

"I know, but-"

By then I stopped listening since I had to fake a struggle in my brain.

"No…Sakura…ahhh!"
"Get…out…of..my…head..PIG!" and with that, I yelled due to the effort to get her out, and fell to my knees, panting.

Ino, in her own body was getting up, shakily. When she looked up, she had a frightened look on her face, slowly walking back as if I was a hungry lion she needed to get away from.

"W-w-what a-are y-you? There's 2 of you in there! You can't have an extra soul! Are you even human?" she shrieked, effectively getting the others to believe her and to look at me, with variations of fear, amusement, curiosity, and interest.

I smirked. "Is that all you got? I told you before and I'll tell you again. That jutsu won't work on me, hun. My head is off limits, and I mean it. Nothing but me and the other me you found in there. Just for you guys up there, the other me is who I call, 'Inner Sakura.' Naruto, she comes out half the time I beat on you." At that Naruto got it and nodded his understanding. Kakashi also understood. And Sasuke, who I just noticed had been there for our entire fight just looked indifferent. Maybe he recovered sooner from sealing the Curse Seal and came to watch the matches.

Maybe.

"*pant**pant* You know what, Billboard Brow? Let's just end this in one move, we're both exhausted and nearly out of chakra." Ino had already gotten over the "fear-stricken shock" and was walking toward me.

I also panted, facing her. Then, I picked up my head band and placed it around my forehead, symbolizing that I acknowledge myself as a true kunoichi now. Ino saw me and did the same.

"One move," I got out. "One more move and it's over. Got it."

Then, we ran at each other, each having a fist up to punch the other with. Just like last time, we hit each other at the same time and were both sent backwards; Ino farther than me as I had sent a little chakra in my punch. Also like last name, we both tried getting up, and fell unconscious.

My last thought was, Hoped they liked our little performance.

Normal POV

Hayate went over to Ino and Sakura's bodies, naming them both unconscious and the match a draw. Naruto jumped over to retrieve Sakura, and Sai had to restrain himself from getting Ino.

I'm not supposed to know them already. Damn! (Was that the correct curse word to use in this situation? Better ask Temari...) This mission is going to be harder than it looks, he thought.

Instead, Asuma retrieved Ino's body. By the time the set the girls down, they were waking up, just in time to hear Hayate announce the next match; Tenten vs. Temari.


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