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Drabble Collection – For better or for worse, no matter what, my girl will always come first. (Ino/Temari) (Friendship)
Like all of my work this is just something that happened to float through the empty void inside my head. Like it or hate it please R and R as honest opinions are always welcomed, as are random acts of worship.
Lamb: I gave Shika a really raw deal a chapter or so back and I thought that to be fair it would only be right for Sasuke to end up on the receiving end of the wrath of our blonde duo too. Also please check out my latest poll, I really need the input.
Muse: It's not a good end to be on. Thank you to Coco-Minu, WolfFlowerz, AkemiYumikov, Yoruichi 'Ino', kiwi4m4, and shadowphoenix101, who all reviewed that last chapter.
Dedi: This drabble is dedicated to Coco-Minu
Lamb: As always sorry for any bad spelling and if you feel the need to throw things at me please wait until I've hidden behind the sofa kay!?
Muse: On with the fic!
State the obvious, I didn't get my perfect fantasy,
I realise you love yourself more than you could ever love me,
So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy,
That's fine I'll tell mine you're gay,
Friends: Will comfort you when he brakes up with you.
Best Friends: Will tell anyone that will listen that it's because he is really gay.
Temari suppressed a snigger and continued flooding her laptop with instructions. It was true what people said payback was a bitch and so was she. Another few clicks of the mouse and her wicked grin almost split her face in two. The person who had come up with Photo Shop was a bleeding genius in her opinion, though they had probably never intended their program to be used in her plot to get revenge.
And what a perfectly bitchy piece of revenge it was going to be. A punishment that perfectly fitted the crime.
She glanced over her shoulder at her friend who, after almost two hours of crying, had finally fallen into a deep sleep. Overwrought, emotional and with her hormones out of whack to boot, Yamanaka Ino had exhausted herself and would in all likely hood sleep through the night and well into the next day. Good thing that tomorrow was Saturday.
A good thing for Ino and a good thing for Temari, but a bad thing for a certain dark haired boy.
Despite her harsh and often abrasive personality Sabaku no Temari was a fairly easy going sort of person. She didn't get involved with the problems of people outside of her small group of friends and even with them would think twice before getting involved. She put some of it down to the influence of her own lazy assed boyfriend, but mostly it was just because it was not in her nature to get tangled up in other peoples issues.
She looked over at her sleeping best friend once more and her expression was something between a smirk and a snarl. Normally she just let everyone get on with their own shit and stayed out of it as best she could. But not this time. The Yamanaka was her best friend, in truth they were more like sisters, but even with that bond Temari might have left things alone if....
Ino's love life was her own business, and normally Temari didn't really care who or what she did. Like a true friend she would always help pick up the pieces, but that was it. But not this time. Because this time Yamanaka Ino hadn't just been dumped. This time the slimy little snake that had dared to call himself the blonde's boyfriend had publicly humiliated her in front of almost the enter school and he'd done out of pure spite.
This time she couldn't pick up the pieces because there were too many and they were small enough to pass through the eye of a needle. No, this time Ino hadn't been broken she'd literally shattered like so much spun glass. This time it wasn't possible for her to just sit back and let things to take their own course, this time Temari would get involved.
Teal eyes glittered with triumph as she saved the freshly altered photo and started in on reshaping the third and final one. She had the whole weekend to lay the groundwork for her plan, which would come to fruition around midday on Monday.
Uchiha Sasuke would rue the day he decided to mess with the heart of Yamanaka Ino; she would make sure of that.
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The whispers and hushed conversations started to follow the Uchiha down the corridors of Konoha High first thing on Monday morning. People would watch him intently and then turn away quickly when he faced them. Students would point and mummer things he could not catch before being hushed by their companions. Even his friends were giving him strange looks that he couldn't quite work out the meaning behind.
True there had been all that business with his very public brake up on Friday and he already knew first hand what the high school gossip mill was like. In truth he hadn't handled the whole thing very well, but Yamanaka Ino had the rare gift of being able to drive him completely insane. Ok so he maybe had over reacted a little but the girl had driven him to it.
Yes, that must be it, he decided.
"Hey Sasuke," The voice interrupted his musings and he turned to see one Uzumaki Naruto standing just behind him. "Look man I think what you did to Ino was really harsh but at least now I understand why you did it. And while I still think you're a bastard and the world's biggest git, I'm here if you need a friend. But just a friend."
The guy was gone before the dark haired teen could ask him what in the name of hell he was talking about. Sasuke just shook it off as the blond being his normal brain dead, seme-delusional self. But by the time lunch rolled around no less than five other people had come up to him and made similar statements and there were only a few explanations he could come up with.
Group hallucination was highly improbably, so he had ruled that one out almost before the thought had finished forming in his mind.
Hallucinogenic drugs were also sort of a none starter since one of the people who had come up to him was Rock Lee who had a whole 'My body is a temple' deal going on and wouldn't even touch caffeine let along mushrooms of the magic kind.
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Temari smirked as she saw the object of her plan walking down the hallway towards her, apparently lost in thought. It was all too perfect, she thought, the pieces of her plan were falling into place better than she could have ever dreamed.
"Ok Ten," The dark blonde spoke into her mobile phone. "Now."
Five floors above the brunet gave the thumbs up to the indigo haired girl standing on the opposite side of the landing and the pair started to throw the photos that they had in hand into space. They watched with child like glee as they floated like autumn leaves to the ground floor far bellow. Students screamed and pointed and arms reached out and grabbed the things as they fluttered passed on they way to the ground floor.
Sabaku no Temari leaned against the wall and could not hold back a grin of pure malice as one photo floated down and came to rest face up directly in the path of the Uchiha. The time she had had to spend in the library photocopying her three little creations was worth it just to see the look on his face. A red flush seemed to burn along his cheeks and his eyes almost bugged out of his head making him look like a goldfish that had just been strangled.
She had done her job well and no one would ever be able to identify the three females, one of whom was Ino, who had been in the photos originally. But it was clear to see that it was Uchiha Sasuke who was shoving his tongue down the throats of three unknown males.
"So I take it you've finally decided to come out, Sasuke-kun?" Her voice was sweet, far too sweet to be genuine and her eyes were dancing with mirth.
"You," Sasuke hissed, storming over to her, visibly shaking with rage. "You did this, didn't you?"
"I'm sure I don't know what you mean." Her smile widened at the look of impudent fury on his face. "But just supposing I did, what would you do? Start a cat fight?"
"You… you…." The enraged Uchiha shook with the force of his feeling as he struggled to find an expletive that would aptly describe the teal-eyed blonde. "You bitch!"
"Takes one to know one." Temari deliberately rammed her shoulder into his as she shoved past him. "And if you ever come sniffing round Ino again you'll see just how much of a bitch I can really be."
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Lamanth