Ino ran into a familiar area. It was Sakura and Ino's old school, back when they had first met. 'Why would she come here?' Ino thought looking around, the odd mist that they had seen in the forest when Itachi had stolen Sakura from all of them, was hanging around what seemed to be the entire village. She wandered through the flower hill searching for the where about of her friend. She turned the corner of the building and just as she did she felt something touch the back of her neck "Eh?" She said picking it off the back of her collar. It was a flower petal.
"Ya know…" Ino looked up almost immediately. Sakura was on the roof picking petals off of a flower tossing them away carelessly "I always found it funny that I stopped being your friend because some loser boy and now look at me…" She stood up staring off in the distance "I hate him and I love his brother…Its like loving him was for no use…a waste of a piece of my heart that was just waiting to be torn out and thrown away like a worthless piece of paper with a cheesy love poem written on it that was never cared for…" She looked down "And all along…there was someone who really cared for me"
"Sakura…" Ino said holding back tears "How do you know he even loves you? He might be using you to get to Sasuke so that he can kill the remaining member of the Uchiha clan, you never know…" She started to shake "He doesn't love you…Sasuke loves you…Gaara loves you…your friends love you!!! We're the ones who really care about you!! And we want you back!" Sakura said nothing; she didn't even look at her "Every one would except you back gladly! We all miss you!"
"I'm sorry Ino…" Sakura said taking off her gloves that kept her from burning any one with her chakra. She clenched her fist tightly "That can't be done…" Sakura jumped off the roof sending her fist at Ino, Ino quickly dodged putting her arms up in a defensive position. She pulled out a pair of shurikun and slashed at Ino quickly ducked under and jumped backwards away from them but Sakura was so fast that Ino could feel the stingy wind wisp past her face and arms she even saw some of her blonde hair fly thru the pastel colored air. She jumped into the air as Sakura tried to kick her under the legs, and this triggered a memory in Ino's mind. She gasped: This was the same way Sakura fought in their battle except Ino was only protecting herself so as not to hurt her confused friend.
'I have to remember what she did completely in the last battle and change my style only to knock her out so that I can bring her back…' She felt a kick hit her right in the stomach flinging her thru the bushes and into a tree 'DAMN IT!' She thought trying to bring her head back up, blood coming out of her mouth, 'She's way to fast! Where did she get such incredible speed?!'
Sakura stepped over the bushes (Quick fact: Her robe is much less long than the other Akitsuki it almost resembles a dress) She walked over to Ino and just stared at her for a bit; Ino looked back into Sakura's eyes not sure what was going on. A feeling of fear fled into her, Sakura's eyes seemed to be telling her that she was pathetic, not worth her time. Ino couldn't even get her legs to move… "What…what happened to you?" Ino whispered shaking slightly.
Sakura kept silent for a few moments but after a bit walked over to Ino and picked her up by the front of the shirt "I found strength," She smacked her fist right into Ino jaw and right than let go of Ino's shirt letting her fly and smash into the ground and roll. Sakura cracked her knuckles "Real strength…"
Well it's probably the shortest chapter I've ever put in a fan fiction in my life…