AN: Okay, so I was gonna post this last night but I got wrapped up in another fic that I'm trying to figure out... yeah. So be on the lookout for that sometime before Christmas!
3- Jolt!
Disclaimer: Yes... ever since last night I HAVE acquired the means to own Naruto... I'm not bluffing, I swear!
Normally when an average human thinks of a jolt, they think of a quick stop in a car, or a sudden, unexpected step on a flight of stairs. But the to-be genin of Konoha weren't average in any way, shape or form. And for a young Ino Yamanaka, the first jolt in her premature didn't posses any physical presence at all.
Ino had harbored a crush on her best guy-friend for as long as she could remember. Their fathers would visit each other and place her in a room with the only other child her age, being Shikamaru Nara. Ever since their first meeting as small children, Ino had been slightly annoyed by her counterpart's laziness and lack of motivation, but she ultimately looked up to him. The admiration she harbored had turned into a crush, one that the other girls could tease her about endlessly, so she quickly covered it up with a pseudo-crush on Sasuke. She knew she would never become close to him due to his many admirers… the perfect cover.
Unfortunately, she descended so deep into her cover that her original motives were forgotten.
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During the genin team announcements, as she absentmindedly doodled all over her paper, she heard her name and Shikamaru's spoken in swift recurrence, and she was met with the soft brown eyes that jolted her back into the reality of reason. When he responded to her quickly composed snide comment with a half amused and smug reply, she began to answer him in anger, but found herself lost for words. Suddenly she felt ashamed of herself. Suddenly she felt as though she had double-crossed everyone. And even through the fact that Shikamaru was on her genin team, she suddenly felt more alone then before.
Okay, the next two chapters are going through some work because I wrote them and I'm NOT happy with them, so I have to expand a bit more. It won't take any more than 4 days, I promise! I just don't want any of them getting OOC... so we'll see what happens.
Until next time, review!!