If You Walk Away I'll Walk Away

Lovely Outing and A Nervous Ino

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"Thinking"

"Inner Sakura or Shukaku"

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So here I am on this bench looking back behind me only to find the girl who had been my most hated enemy, Ino Yamanaka. Now, I can assure that I was less than thrilled at the thought of walking around town with her all day. I mean, if you just hear how annoying her voice was. . . Uhh, it sent a pain to my head.

"Well?" She said in that high-pitched whine impatiently. She tapped her foot a little and said, "Come on Sakura, don't be so stuck up."

I snapped out of my thoughts of strangling the life out of her and said "Sure." in a bored monotone voice.

She smiled that weird way that she used to smile when she was about to do something bad to me and said, "Well, lets go to the Ramen Shop. Everyone hangs out there."

So I stood up, stretched my legs and followed her.

While we walked she kept on looking back at me, steeling glances. Now, I'm not one to brag but while I had been training with Dante I had gotten into good shape, and I had grown into my forehead.

I really didn't care about looks but I knew that I was prettier than Ino was.

She had grown her hair long again and, besides that, she look the same as she did four years ago. But me... Well that's another story.

These days I took to wearing my bangs long and parted down the middle, slightly hanging in front of my face, and the rest of my hair just a little longer. My hair all together went about to my shoulder blades.

I had grown tall and thin, but not like model thin. I was always training and doing missions so I had all muscle, but not like over bulky muscles. Just the kind that give you a nice body is all. I was proud of that fact.

So anyway here we are walking down the street, me just staring blankly ahead and her trying to be all sneaky snake and look at me without me noticing.

When we finally get to the Ramen Shop all I can see is an empty booth. I glance over at Ino and see her biting her lip. "Th- they'll be her soon." She stuttered nervously.

"What was all that about?" I asked myself. "Yeah, why is she acting so weird?" My inner self answered in a perplexed voice. I decided to just shrug it off for the moment while we waited.

So about ten minutes later we're still standing there, waiting for "them" to show up when suddenly Ino says, "So Sakura how have you been?" She looked scared and nervous and she spoke fast as though the words burned her lips.

I shrugged and looked to the sky. "I've been okay I guess." I said in a thoughtful tone. The truth was I had been through hell training with Dante.

Dante was a masochistic woman who liked to torture me just so she could hear the scream and see my pain. She always sent me on missions that would put me through the wringer physically and mentally. I had become close to crazy in those four years that I trained with her.

I grimaced slightly at the thought of my recent training. Looking over at Ino from the corner of my eyes I asked, "What's been going on with you since I left?"

Her eyes bulged and she said, "W-well I've been okay. Nothing bad has happened since. . ." She trailed off.

"Since the Chunin Exams." I finished for her. She put her head down and nodded.

"What is wrong with her?!" I yelled inside my head. "Maybe she ran into Dante on her way to get you for this oh so lovely outing." My inner self mused. I snorted and shook my head.

I looked over at her again to ask another question when I heard a familiar voice behind me.

"Hey Sakura long time no see. . ."

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So yeah that's the end of yet anther short chapter. I hope you all enjoy it.