Hello, I guess I lied, I'm just gonna post this chapter up right now…O yeah, on to the dedication….

WeHoldTheseTruths

Cools, thank you bunchs! I do realize that I screwed up a lot in the 2nd chapter, but give me a break please, I was really tired. I'm going to make sure I fix everything this time. This time I've decided to do both Ino and Shikamaru POVs. I have to; otherwise this chapter just wouldn't work.

On To the Next Chapter!!

Chapter 3: Battle of the Blondes

Shikamaru's POV

Temari turned back to Ino, this time Shikamaru turned to face them.

"So, do you plan on getting a boyfriend soon Ino, I already asked Sakura and she said she had her heart set on Sasuke coming back." Temari smirked a little, as Sakura's face turned red.

"TEMARI!!!!" Sakura yelled before Ino could answer the question.

"Come on, don't get all in a huff about it, it is just us girls here…..and Shikamaru" Temari's smirk got bigger.

'What is her deal, she keeps smirking….what is she up to? What ever it is, I'm sure it's troublesome.' Shikamaru thought to himself as he sat on the couch, and without realizing it, very intently waiting for Ino's answer on the boyfriend subject. Than Ino spoke.

"As a matter of fact I am." Ino said, now it was Ino's turn to smirk, for some reason, Shikamaru didn't have a clue to as why she smirked.

"O really….and who is the lucky guy?" Temari said watching Ino's smirk fade.

Ino's POV

Ino thought about this for a moment and then she decided to throw it back into Temari's face. Inner Ino laughed manically inside Ino's head. Then Ino pointed out the window.

"Look, it's Tsunade!!" Ino exclaimed, and when Sakura and Shikamaru's head turned, Ino grabbed Temari's chin and lower jaw and held Temari's head so it was facing Ino. Then Ino took her outstretched hand and pointed at Shikamaru. Temari stared at Ino with murderous eyes as she knocked Ino's hand off her chin. Ino starred back as her inner self roared.

'That's right! You Go Girl!' When her inner self began cheering Ino smirked. Then Ino spoke before Shikamaru and Sakura turned their heads back towards Ino.

"Oops, I thought I saw her, I must be tired." Ino said as Temari glared daggers at Ino, and Ino glared right back at her. Sakura noticed this.

Shikamaru's POV

'What was that all about? And why are Ino and Temari glaring at each other all of a sudden. ' Then Sakura whispered in his ear, breaking his chain of thought.

"Don't look now, but those two are fighting over you…..I can't believe that Ino is….you two are like best friends." Sakura said as she watched the two blondes glare-off

Shikamaru was stunned when Sakura said this. He just sat there for a few seconds, allowing it all to register. 'What? No way! Ino wants to be….my girlfriend..?'

"No way….your seeing things……I mean, Ino actually fighting with Temari over me, come on? Besides, why would either one of them want me?" Shikamaru whispered back. But before Sakura could say anything, Temari and Ino both did a hand sign, and in a puff of smoke they were gone.

"This isn't good." Sakura said as she grabbed her Kunai holster and tied it to her leg.

"How troublesome!" Shikamaru said as he got up from his spot on the couch and followed Sakura as she walked out the door.

Ino's POV

Ino and Temari had silently agreed to go to an old storage building on the other side of Konoha. They both stood in the middle of the building glaring at each other.

"So, you want Shikamaru too, huh?" Temari asked rather venomously.

"……Surprisingly….yes…" Ino said, hardly believing that she actually felt that way towards Shikamaru. Than Temari took out her fan and waved it through the air, making a huge amount of fierce wind that blew a surprised Ino into a huge crate, breaking the crate in two.

"You're not even strong enough to have Shikamaru." Temari said through an enormous grin. Suddenly the huge piece of wood laying on Ino was blown into tiny pieces, revealing a pist off Ino. Ino now had some gloves on, that have a special metal plate on the knuckles. This metal bends by using chakra.

"Speak for yourself." Ino said through clenched teeth. But the hit did hurt Ino, even though she didn't show it, her back was screaming in pain from being blown through that thick storage crate. Ino's Inner self was having a temper tantrum along with being Ino's cheering section.

'Yeah!!! You go girl!!! Kick her (SENSORED) all the way back to Shika-Stealer land!!!!! Knock that Mother (Censored) Whore, that can't even beet a (Censored, Censored, Censored, Censored)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! '

"Sorry Temari, but I think my head is telling me to smack you all around this building…" Ino smirked "…..lets see what about a years worth of training can do." Ino finished than began to unstrap some weights from her legs that had been covered up by her leg warmers. She had followed Lee's example and started wearing very heavy weights after the chunnin exams. She took them off and threw them onto the floor behind her, creating two small craters behind her.

"Maybe you should go out with big brows, looks like you two would make the per-" Before Temari could finish the sentence; Ino hit her across the face and then kicked her into a nearby wall. Ino could now move at about ¾ the speed of Rock Lee, when he wasn't wearing his weights. Ino was now more than a match for Temari, who lounged around the past year.

"What was that, something about me not being strong enough?" Ino said with a smile the size of Naruto's. Temari got up slowly, but when she did, she couldn't move anymore, neither could Ino. Both of their heads were turned to see Sakura and Shikamaru standing in the entrance of the building, two shadows's coming off of Shikamaru and connecting to both Temari and Ino.

Shikamaru's POV

"What are you two fighting about, it's really troublesome trying to find you two." Shikamaru said, even though he now knew what they were fighting about. He then let them go.

"We…sorta having a disagreement about…….Short hair vs. Long hair!" Ino lied, putting on a fake smile. Temari smirked.

"No we weren't, we were fighting over y-" Temari couldn't finish because she was punched in the side of the head hard, knocking her unconscious. Ino stood over the now knocked out Temari that she had hit.

Shikamaru and Sakura quickly grabbed Ino.

"What was that all about?" Sakura said, while tying Ino's arms together using chakra ropes.

Ino's POV

"She…I just don't like her OK?" Ino stood there as Shikamaru picked up Temari and carried her bridle style, which made Ino frown and glare at Sakura for not letting her pound Temari's face into the ground.

"Shikamaru…take Temari to the hospital and we'll meet you there…tell them that she fainted and fell off a rooftop." Sakura said to Shikamaru.

Shikamaru looked over her body and saw the bruises and her bleeding head.

"More like got hit by a Bull" Shikamaru said, smiling slightly. This made Ino smile/smirk.

Shikamaru than walked out of the building and began to run towards the hospital.

Then Ino realized something.

"Hey, how come you didn't just heal her?" Ino asked Sakura who was now undoing the chakra ropes.

"Because I wanted to talk to you alone." Sakura said as she got the last rope off.

"O, by the way, I just remembered, I came to your house to tell you that you can have Sasuke if he comes back." Ino said almost cheerfully, and then she turned to face Sakura.

"So, can we be friends again?" Ino asked sheepishly.

"Yes….besides, when you to were glaring at each other over Shikamaru, I kind of figured you didn't want Sasuke anymore." Ino's facial expression turned into one of shock.

"What makes you think we were fighting over Shika?" Ino asked, as if Sakura was wrong.

"Ino…..don't try and lie to me, I know you love Shikamaru." Sakura said in a matter-of-fact sorta tone.

"Who have you told?" Ino said now giving Sakura the If-you-told-anyone-I'm-gonna-have-ta-kill-you look.

"O, no one special, just that I told Shikamaru that you two were fighting over him." Ino just starred at Sakura for a moment as she let what she had said register. Then without hesitation, Ino used her mind transfer jutsu on Sakura allowing her real body to drop to the ground as she took over Sakura's body, but this time Ino had an inner self to take down Sakura's Inner self. So Ino had full control over Sakura's body. She then proceeded to make Sakura punch herself using her Super Strength. Ino had most recently developed her Mind Transfer so that no damage was done to her actual body, just the body of the person she was controlling, so once she got Sakura to the point of were she was about to fall unconscious, Ino released her own mind back into her own body.

"Oww!!" Sakura yelled as she began to feel pain all over her body.

"THAT'LL TEACH YA!!!" Ino yelled as she picked Sakura up by the collar.

"Now you better tell Shikamaru that you were wrong!" Ino said as she lifted Sakura up against the wall, and began to glare at her with the I'm-WARNING-YOU glare.

"Ok, just put me down…" Ino set Sakura on the ground, and amazingly Sakura stood up. "….Ok, I will, but you have to do one thing….help me walk..." Sakura said as she began to fall over. Ino caught her and pulled her up. They began to walk towards the hospital.

Yeah, I know, I suck at writing storys, but O well. I guess its because I'm not very descriptive, I think my ideas are good though. Jeez, we haven't even got to the mission part yet and people are fighting. REVIEW PLEASE!