Hey Im back with an even longer story!!
ok THANK YOU REVIWERS!!!!!
I want to thank:
Haylin-chan
machi-tan
FUN!
EmoPrincess
Nekomimi XD
Gothic Queen
Taylor grey
emocuz97 ()
ARIGATO!!
Haylin-chan: Arigato and dont worry Ill be making the chapters longer. The last chapter I was kinda in a hurry, so I couldn't make it longer. Gomen. Really? Me to! Since there wasn't any stories of one I decided to make my own!
machi-tan: Arigato and you will!
FUN!: Arigato! I know but its just a story and I was kinda not really caring at the time. I read it, sounds weird! :p. Its ok ^^ Arigato again. Ino will train to get stronger! Face off with Sakura and win? I had not thought of that! It sounds genius!
EmoPrincess: Arigato! Of course you'll get more!
Nekomimi XD: *Gah! Dont break me in half!* I will update...O.O' yes very weird. Ok Ill update as much as I can! *Thank You, I needed air!* You'll know what happens! *GAH! Dont Panic!!!* Ok you'll know! *DONT PANIC MORE!!!* If I don't update, im probably busy or having writers block! *DONT HAVE A PANIC ATTACK!!!* !!!....O.O"..........Ermm.......O.O''....whao......Ok then?.....
Gothic Queen: Yes...so sad. Not to worry she'll take a whack at him in later chappys! Arigato!
Taylor grey: Thank you
emocuz97 (): Thank you very much!
Nya! Ok well sorry it took me a while to update! Now ON WITH THE STORY!!!
WARNING: There will be some OCs in the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto! I wish I did though...
Enjoy!! NO FLAME!
Ino closed her door and walked three yards to the flower shop. Not three blocks! Three yards! The flower shop is right next to her house.
Ino unlocked the glass door and pushed it open. She went to the side window and swiched the 'CLOSED' sign to 'OPEN'. Ino, even though she lived alone now, still kept the Yamanaka Flower Shop running and every two-three weeks, she get a few boxes of fresh new flowers. She would recieve various colours of roses, like red, yellow, pink, white, and sometimes blue, which were rare. She would also get different types of lilies, daisys, sunflowers, tulips, carnations, baby's breath(yes its a flower!), orchid, corol flowers, cherry blossoms, jazmin(not jasmine..i asked.), alstroemeria, amaryllis, anemone, anthurium, aster, birds of paradise, bouvardia, cushion chrysanthemum, standard chrysanthemum, daffodil, delphinium, freesia, gladiolus, heather, hyacinth, hydrangea, iris, larkspur, lilac, lisianthus, peony, king protea, queen annes lace, ranunculus, snapdragon, statice, stock, and sweet pea. These weren't the only flowers Ino would recieve, she would get others, but its takes about a month or two get them in a box and three days to deliver. But that didn't concern Ino because she has plenty of flowers to sell. And of course business is slow on week days, well sometimes, but one weekends she would sell quite alot, like that one time she had to leave the shop closed for three days because there weren't many flowers and Ino had to wait to get more.
Ino watered the delecate flowers, have to make sure they dont die.
She walked over to the counter and sat down on a chair she had incase she got tired of standing. She knew some people wouldn't come in a flower shop at eight-thirty in the morning. Who would? Altough she did know a few people that comes in around that time, but that only to surprise a friend or lover by getting them flowers.
And speaking of lovers.... The book in Ino's hands are about poems, love poems.
The book is called: Four Centuries of Great Love Poems
Ino had never been into poems and such, but for some reason she started reading love poems. She barely started reading it and she already liked most of it. Some she didn't understand much, but so far, she has a favorite. It goes something like this...
First Love
I ne'er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet,
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete.
My face turned pale as deadly pale,
My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked, what could I ail?
My life and all seemed turned to clay.
And then my blood rushed to my face
And took my eyesight quite away,
The trees and bushes round the place
Seemed midnight at noonday
I could not see a single thing,
Words from my eyes did start-
They spoke as chords do from the string,
nd blood burnt round my heart.
Are flowers the winter's choice?
Is love's bed always snow?
She seemed to hear my silent voice,
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling-place
And can return no more.
That small poem...Ino had loved it. She didn't know why, she just did. She even wondered if there were guys like that, when women take their hearts away. .....She wondered if she took someone's heart away. And no matter how much she denied it, she hoped that it was Shikamaru's, but that wasn't going to happen because she is no longer in his life.
She rolled her eyes at thought of it.
Ino put her attention back at the book, but the sound of a door being opened distracted her. Someone must have entered the shop.
Ino looked away from the book and looked at the person coming towards her.
It was a female with black hair the reached her shoulder-blades, eyes red, ivory/pale like skin, and wore ANBU clothes.
"Hey Ino-Baby!" The female ANBU said.
"Hey Harume-chan!" Harume is Ino's best friend. They always hang out whenever they have the time and always mess with each other, they flirt with each other for the fun of it and just to tease boys and see their reactions. They have almost alot in common.
Ino may be chuunin, but that doesn't stop her from hanging out with Harume when she has time.
Harume is always busy so she doesn't get to spend much time with Ino because she is ANBU. But not only is she ANBU, she is second in command, meaning when the head of ANBU is out, she is incharge untill the leader returns.
"So on my way to the Hokage Tower, I..kinda over...heard...you and...Shikamaru..." Harume said, a bit hesitant.
Ino just looked at her, "Ok so?"
"Huh? But you were..."
"Look, I don't care anymore. I mean if Shikamaru doesn't want me in his life anymore then that's just fine with me. I really couldn't give a damn." Ino said rolling her eyes.
"I see. And speak of the devil..." Harume stared out the glass door. Ino confused, followed her gaze and realized she meant that Shikamaru is walking past the flower shop.
"So I see he's with that sand chick again."
"Yea. Tsunade-sama said she was staying for a week when I returned from my mission with Chouji and him."
"Oh ok. .... So what are you gonna do?"
"Do what?"
"About him."
"Nothing."
"What!? Girl that ass just yelled at you saying you were weak and useless! Are you gonna take that!?"
"What can I do about it? Shikamaru is obviously stronger than me! Hell that bastard could think of two-hundread ways to beat me!"
"Girl if I were you I'd walked up to that ass and smack the shit out him for calling me weak and useless."
"Yeah well, I'm not you"
"You wish!"
"Do not!"
"Mmmhmm, yea, keep tellin' yourself that!"
Ino just rolled her eyes. If you noticed or had been paying attention at all, you would know that Ino keeps rolling her eyes.
"Keep rolling those eyes and they'll stay stuck that way. ..... See! You just did it again!"
They stood quiet for awhile, not really knowiing what to say. Then Harume thought of an idea. Yes an idea that is super genius and best plan that will make your head explode of excitement.
"Obviously stronger than you eh?"
"Huh?"
"How would you like me to train you?"
"What!?"
"Think about it. You only use mind jutsus and healing stuff, right?"
"Yeah."
"Well what if I told you that I can train you to do other then mind and healing jutsus."
"What!? Really!? You can!?"
"Yep."
"That'd be great! But wait, don't you have all that ANBU stuff to do, or whatever it is that you do in ANBU."
"Yeah but I can re-schedule everything, even though it would suck ass, but I'm willing to do that for you."
"Really!? Your the best!" Ino squeled and hugged her best friend.
"Yep. I am!" She said triumphly. "So today. Close the shop early and meet me in the training field by the waterfall at three-o'clock. Okay?"
"Yea sure."
"Alright cool. See then. Oh and make sure you change into your ninja outfit, don't want to train in that now do you." She smirked.
Ino looked at herself and remembered she wasn't wearing her purple ninja clothes. She blushed a bit. "Right, Ill remember that." She awkwardly smiled.
"Alright then, see you later Ino-Baby." With that she walked away and exist the shop.
(Shika POV)
I was walking down the street of Konoha with Temari. It was my job to escort her around the village while she stays and untill she leaves. Normally I would prefer walking alone and stay away from women and their loud abnoxious voices, but I can put up with Temari, she's not like other girls. Especially a certain platnum blonde!
And speaking of platnum.
I'm walking past her flower shop. I look over and see her talking to an ANBU, must be Harume, they are good friends and nothing can break them apart. I see Harume look over at me and stares at me with her blazing red eyes, she loooks at me with this look that can make you run away faster then ninja speed. The look sent shivers down my spine, even though Harume may be random or weird, she can be a very frightning woman and you never mess with her when she has that look on her face.
I quickly looked away. I can bare to see that frightning look.
I took Temari to Tsunade-sama to talk over some things. After that we went to eat and take a walk around town. We walked into the forest, but we continued to have good time and talk over some things that had happen or what we plan on doing the next day. I have to admit that I kinda have feelings for Temari, but I wouldn't tell her that yet, I'm waiting for the right moment to ask her out. As we continued to walk in the forest we spotted that annoying platnum blonde that's supposibly my teammate. Well, I think she's annoying, glad I pushed her out of my life. Though I don't know what Temari thinks of her, but I wouldn't bring it up because I most certainly do not want to talk about her.
We made our way out of the forest and talk some more and walked. We really do get along just fine, and I'm glad about that.
(Normal Pov)
Ino looked at the time and saw it was two-thirty. She decided it was time to close the shop.
She walked over to the window and swiched the 'OPEN' sign to 'CLOSED'. She made suer to lock the door once she was out. Then walked to her house to change into her ninja clothes. Yes, she did infact remember to change. She ran up stairs to her room and quickly threw off her clothes in her awesome purple top and skirt and fishnet clothing. After changing, she put her pouch behind her and tied her kunai pouch on her right thigh.
After putting on her ninja shoes, she looked at the time and saw it two-fourtyone.
Ino quickly ran out of her house and made sure she locked the door and had her keys, then she ran off to meet Harume.
She ran out of the town and in the forest. After runing for awhile she stopped, she decided to walk the rest since she was three minutes away. While walking, she noticed Shikamaru and Temari walking and smiling. She wanted to turn around and tell Shikamaru how much he had hurt her and the pain she was feeling right now, but no! Not no more! She won't shed tears for that damned jerk. That's a promise. Ino continued to walk as if they weren't there.
When Ino arrived at the training field, she already saw Harume by the waterfall waiting for her. She walked closer to her and was ready for anything that Harume had instore for her.
"So you finally came Ino? I was beginning to think that you wouldn't come at all." Harume teased.
"Oh I came, and I'm ready for whatever you have to throw at me." Ino said, her confidence rising up.
"That's good. You just got into some harsh traing and I won't be going easy on you." She said sternly. "You better not back down Ino and show the world and Shikamaru that your weak."
Ino just stood quiet, then said, "Hit me with your best shot."
Harume smirked. She was gonna enjoy this very much.
"Prepare yourself, Ino." With that she charged at Ino at full force.
Gah! I'm Done! Well Its not that long but long enough. I'll try and make it even longer when I have enough time!
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