-1A New Beginning

Beep………..Beep………….Beep The alarm clock screamed early in the morning. Chouji awoke from his sleep.

'Ugh, another Monday.' Chouji thought as he pulled his body out of bed to get ready for work.

'Today's the day Ino is supposed to come apply. I hope she takes my offer.' Chouji thought as he stepped into the shower.

He turned on the water and the cold water shot out, sending him into a mild shock but awaking him from his drowsy state. The water quickly heated up and Chouji turned the water head on his head to wash his hair. As the water drenched his head he began to think about Saturday night. How she was so sad and seemed so helpless, it made him feel good that he was helping her.

Chouji finished his shower and began to get ready for work.

'I wonder what Naruto and the guys did over the weekend. I hope they like Ino, after all we might all be working together.'

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"Mommy wake up!" Moshi yelled.

"Hmm what is it?" Ino lifted her head from her pillow.

"It's time to take me to school!" Moshi smiled.

"Oh No!" Ino hopped quickly out the bed and began going through her closet to find something to wear.

"Mommy I'm ready see?" Moshi had her clothes on and her lunch packed.

Ino smiled. "That's nice Moshi, go watch some cartoons while I get ready."

"You need me to help?" Moshi smiled.

"No I'll be fine. Now go."

Moshi ran out the room and into the living room. Ino ran into the bathroom an turned on the water to let it get warm, she ran back into her room and began looking for some clothes to wear. She finally chose a dress shirt and a business skirt. She was applying for a new job so she had to look her best.

'I really hope I get this job. Moshi and I need this.' Ino thought as she situated everything for the day.

'Now time to get ready.' Ino ran to the bathroom and hopped in the shower.

The water was warm and inviting as it caressed her body. She thought about Saturday it really was a life changing day. She got fired and really didn't have any other options, until he came offering a fresh start. Ino felt blessed that he would give her a job and help her in her crisis.

'I really have to thank Chouji when I see him again.' Ino thought as she finished her shower. She hopped out and quickly dried off because she was really in a hurry.

"Mommy why are you so slow today?" Moshi asked.

"Mommy not slow its just that she doesn't like getting up in the mornings." Ino replied.

"Well maybe you should start and stop being like a vampire." Moshi laughed.

"Yeah ok whatever you say. Make sure you have everything for school." Ino said as she ironed her clothes.

Ino finished getting ready and looked herself over in the mirror. She made sure there were no loose ends.

"Moshi how do I look?" Ino asked.

Moshi ran into the room and looked her mom over. "You look pretty mommy. Why are you dressed up?"
"Mommy is applying for a job as a waitress at a restaurant."

"Well your gonna be late for applying if you don't hurry. Lets go." Moshi ordered.

"Ok Ok." Ino laughed.

Ino grabbed her keys and they left the apartment.

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Ino arrived at Moshi's school a few minutes before the first bell.

"Alright now hurry you don't want to be late for class." Ino told Moshi.

"No mommy don't you be late." Moshi smiled.

"Grandma is coming to pick you up so ill see you later." Ino gave Moshi a kiss.

"Bye Mommy." Moshi hopped out the car and ran to the school building.

'I might as well go and apply now.' Ino pulled away from the school and made her way to the Resturant.

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"Chouji table 2 ordered two scrambled eggs with a side of bacon and the pancake special and table 5 ordered 4 pancakes, and a steak biscuit. Hurry up its getting to be a drag out there." Shikamaru told Chouji.

"Yeah yeah I'm going as fast as I can." Chouji replied going from stove to stove doing all the orders at one time.

Usually he could do this in no time with his eyes close, but today his mind was diverted.

'I wonder if she's gonna show up.' Chouji thought as he ran back and forth.

"Were short waitresses today and the breakfast rush is killing me." Naruto said as he stretched.

"Well were just gonna have to suck it up and do our best." Kankuro replied.

"I know but we could use some extra help." Kiba told them.

'Well isn't that ironic we need help and I have someone possibly coming. They'll have to hire her now.' Chouji smiled.

"What are you smiling at? Get your ass in gear and finish these orders!" Kiba yelled.

"Don't worry about me. Go bust some tables boy."

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Ino pulled into the parking lot of The Red Waves Resturant.

'Wow there's more people here than at the club.' Ino thought as she watched the mass groups of people enter and exit.

'I hope I do good on the interview.' Ino got out of the car and walked into the Resturant.

When she got there it was a line of people waiting to be seated.

'I might as well go ahead and ask for him.' Ino walked to the front of the line.

Ino saw that the man working on seating people was kind of lazy.

"Excuse me?" Ino said to get the mans attention.

"Yeah what is it lady?" Shikamaru replied.

"Is a Chouji working today?"

"Yeah why?" Shikamaru raised an eyebrow.

"Well he said I could come here to apply for a job as a waitress and I wanted to talk to him real quick."

"Well he's busy at the moment."

"Could you please get him I really need to talk to him."

"Ugh I guess so." Shikamaru walked back to the kitchen.

"Chouji?" Shikamaru yelled.

"Yeah Shik?" Chouji replied.

"There's some girl here to see you. Says you said that she could apply for a job."

"Tell her ill be there in a minute."

"Alright." Shikamaru walked back to the main entrance.

"Well?" Ino asked.

"He'll be out in a minute."

"Thank you."

"Eh, sure."

After a few minutes Chouji exited the kitchen and went to front. Ino was sitting in a chair.

"Ino?"

"Chouji. How are you?" Ino got up and gave him a hug.

"Fine. I'm glad you showed. Are you ready for the interview."

"Yeah I really hope I get it."

"Don't worry you will. Were short some waiters so they'll have to hire you. That guy that was in the front is doing your interview."

"Thank you for helping me Chouji I really appreciate this."

"No problem go ahead and sit at an empty table I'll have him come over to start the interview."

"Alright."

Ino went to an empty table. She watched as Chouji went back over and told Shika to go do the interview. Shika reached under his stand and grabbed an application. He made his way over to Ino.

"Hi I'm Shikamaru and I will be interviewing you today." Shika said in a lazy tone.

"Hello I'm Ino, nice to meet you."

'This is that stripper. I don't know why I didn't see it before.' Shikamaru thought.

"Well here fill out this application." Shika handed her the application and a pen.

"Ok." Ino began filling it out.

'Alright, name, age, sex…………..' Ino went carefully on the application to not make any mistakes.

After a few minutes she was finally done.

"Done." Ino handed the application back to Shikamaru.

Shikamaru looked from the application to Ino.

"Alright you're hired. When can you start?" Shika asked.

"I can start as soon as possible." Ino replied.

"Alright get to work." Shika got up.

"What?" Ino was confused.

"Your on the clock as of now get to work."

A/N: Finished finally. Well I hope you all enjoy it. Untold desires will be updated soon so look out for that. Plz Review.

Chubby