I've decided that I'm not gonna do a sequel, mostly cause I have idea's for other fics that I wanna write. Speaking of other fics PLEASE check out my new fic Little Sister. It kinda seems like angst (I think) in the first chapter but I PROMISE it isn't. Oh and please review to it if you like it.

Chapter Fifteen

Naruto walked into the clearing one hand behind his head, smiling. Hinata followed him in glancing timidly at the six people still in shadows.

"Hey, Shikamaru bring them in!" Naruto shouted and almost instantly the Grass-nin crowded together and jumped down from the trees.

"Tie them up already. You have no idea how troublesome this is." Shikamaru grumbled from the shadows.

Tie them up? With what?

"Retreat." the leader called and two Grass-nin gathered their fallen and quickly left while the rest disappeared. The five genin in the clearing stood there in shock until Ino yelled,

"Shikamaru you idiot! You let them go?!"

Lazily he strolled into the clearing and raised an eyebrow,

"You were supposed to tie them up."

Sasuke and Sakura jumped into the trees to pursue the escapees and with a glance at Ino Shikamaru followed them. Grumbling Ino sat on the ground and began pulling at the grass and weeds around her.

"We should go after them." Hinata said in a manner that suggested that she really did not wish to follow her team mates at all.

"No, let them handle it on their own." Ino glared at the arrangement of wild flowers, weeds, and grasses she had made before stomping off in the direction of Konoha.

"Well we can't let her go off into the forest on her own..." Naruto said while Hinata gratefully nodded, "but, uh lets keep our distance okay?"

Ino stormed along aware that Hinata and that bumbling idiot were behind her. She was like this she realized some tiny thing would put her in a bad mood. And once she started to rise back into a good mood some thing could send her spiraling right back down.

Like the part Naruto and Hinata's conversation she had just heard.

"So, Hinata-chan, um, I realized that you always blush around me and uh, Sakura-chan does the same thing when she's around Sasuke and Sakura-chan likes Sasuke and so um, do you by any chance um, like me?"

Hinata was even redder than Ino thought was possible and she could only stutter incoherently. Naruto taking this as a no waved his hands in front of his face.

"But, but, if you don't then we could just be friends."

"I...like you...Naruto-kun." Hinata was poking her fingers together, had stopped walking, and delivered her message to the ground.

"Really? Th-then do you wanna get some ramen later?"

"Okay...Naruto-kun, is ramen good?" Astounded that she had never tried ramen before Naruto launched into his typical rant about the wonders of ramen. Last time Ino had looked at them they were holding hands, Hinata was blushing, and Naruto was still talking. It made her sick.

It wasn't that she was jealous, no nothing like that. Ino was happy for Hinata really she was, it just that she was...jealous. Not of Naruto but of the fact that she didn't have anyone like that, that she blushed around, or anything.

The little voice in the back of her head-You know the one that's almost always right but you never listen to it? Yeah that one.- was screaming Shikamaru's name but of course Ino ignored it. He didn't like her back no matter what her friends said. No she was NOT jealous, she wasn't, she wasn't, she wasn't.

"Hey Ino? We're going to get some ramen. See you later." Naruto called.

"What? Oh...yeah...see you around." ...She was so jealous.

"We chased them off." Sakura proudly reported to Ino when they reached the village gates, "Hey where are Naruto and Hinata?"

"They went to go get ramen. Like a date." Ino couldn't help but smile at Sakura's smile and Sasuke's disbelieving face.

"So, you want to get some ramen then?" Sasuke looked at Sakura who laughed,

"Sure."

"Ino, I'm-"

"Going to go sleep. I know." she cut him off, then stomped off into the village. Shikamaru stared after her in disbelief. He had been going to say that he was reporting to the Hokage but now that she mentioned it, a nap did sound pretty nice...

Okay I know, bad chapter, I couldn't think of any thing else and it kind of works. So remember, review this fic and then check out my other fic and review that too. lol! But seriously PLEASE do.

-Fumei