Part 3

Chapter twelve

Not ready, not worth it, just bite me

Disclaimer: I might not own Naruto… But I want too! -cries-

The dust in the street spat up as Sakura stamped her foot in frustration. Why? Sakura thought as she clenched her fist trying to see through all of that dirt in the air, a quiet 'oomph' she heard followed by a ungraceful thump.

Forgive, sounds good.

Sakura took her moon hentai and tied it around her eyes, like the training technique she used in her past with Itachi… Itachi 3. (couldn't help myself loves)

Next she tore a piece of fabric from her black shirt and tied it over her nose and mouth, cleansing her breaths. Using her senses of chakra and hearing she felt her way over to where she heard that grunt and thump.

Forget I'm not sure I could.

Slyly she bent down and gathered what felt to be flowers in her hands, passing them over to the silky hands of, what she supposed to be, a girl.

"Thanks…" She heard a nice sneer. A familiar sneer.

They say time heals everything.

The pink haired maiden ripped the hentai from her eyes and the cloth from her mouth, seeing through the fog, and staring into deep blue eyes. She cast her green eyes forward, dangerously, and daringly, looking and watching as the blond widened her own orbs.

"Ugh, Forehead." Sakura dumped the last daisy onto Ino's pile as she nodded her head. "You look as ugly as ever."

…But I'm still waiting.

"I don't find point to this." She sighed, "We've been fighting over everything and I find no point anymore, it all began with Sasuke, and I don't want him anymore. I don't even know what were fighting over anymore." The girl, looked past the blond, staring into the beyond, somewhat waiting fro a reply. But nothing was heard.

I'm through with doubt.

A defeated sigh exited the rose petals lips as she began to brush by Ino.

"Wait!" The girl squalled, "Forehead." She quieted to an angry whisper. "DO you really want to know, big brow?"

There's nothing left for me to figure out.

Without hesitation the kunoichi's transparent pink hair whipped across her face, as she turned to face her.

"We're fighting over… life. Existence, like.. GAH! I don't know. Everything you have that I don't, everything!"

Sakura's lips parted, "You know nothing, your being ignorant, pig. Tell me, what do I have."

I've paid a price.

She growled, irritated at the questions, at the words, "You have strength, a bloodline. You have love. You have respect… family, friends, a boyfriend. A life. Skills, job, and brains and like kind of beauty…"

"Ino-pig stop." Sakura's hand rested on the hilt of her katana. "Do you know what this is." Her fingers danced over the intricate designs, of her sword.

Ino glared brightly at her, "Yes! IM not stupid. it's a Katana."

They just stared at each other, Sakura letting the silence cloud and calm her before she spoke, "No, and yes. This is a katana, but its more. it's a family heir loom, the last piece of my life here, the last piece of my parents left. I'm not going to reveal all of the secrets, your not ready to hear them and I'm not ready to tell them… but you are wrong." Sakura was talking in circles, not able to keep her thoughts straight. "This katana is everything and nothing the same. Ino, when I was twelve, the day after graduating from the academy my father died, that day I was a genin I also became an orphan. When he died my mother had already died. I had no time to worry about training outside of training, I had to work to pay the bills because I had no place to go and the last thing I was going to do was take pity from an orphanage, or work for the government as Naruto does."

…And Ill keep paying.

"I don't have family, and the strength I have I have sacrificed everything for, friends, my life here in Konoha, once love, the only thing I didn't loose was Tachi. And him I have to share with his work., The worst thing a person can do is out live loved ones, and I've done that a thousand times over… and I have to continue doing that… for me death is not an option."

Ino had sympathy in her eyes, tears locked away showing shininess in her cerulean orbs. Her eyes hardened.

I'm not ready to make nice.

"You say that as if your immortal, as if you cant die, like your to strong or something." Sakura smiled at the blond, she was smart… but clouded be stupidity and ignorance.

"I am… too strong I mean."

Ino entered the entryway, the door to her right to be exact, she set the flowers down in a blue glass vase and came back out to Sakura. She dug out a kunai and through it quickly, too quickly to the untrained eye.

The transparent haired girl stuck her pointer finger out, catching the shiny metal weapon in its handle ring. "You're going to kill a villager."

I'm not ready to back down

The blond sighed deeply, "You are so…. UGH! I mean your such a …. grawr!" Ino threw her hands up in the air and growled, a tear running down her red face in frustration, as her fist came down on the wall beside her.

I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time to go round and round and round. '"Ino," Sakura took the kunai that she caught from Ino's attack and placed the cold metal against the girls core, above her bellybutton. "What happened in the past, is the past. I realize that, but now… years later this is stupid." Sakura pressed the kunai in a little deeper, sinking down a centimeter into the girls flesh, once the cherry blossom saw her enemy protest her words. A trickle of blood ran down her torso. "We have fought and fought, and now were fighting over something I don't want anymore, and now that I don't want it, were fighting even more. The fighting stops now." Sakura flipped the kunai up, cutting a slit up Ino's bandaged shirt, twirling the weight around her finger and throwing it into the gravel ground.

Ino's eyes widened.

It's too late to make it right.

"Sakura." The words slipped out of her lips along with her second tear. "I cant stop now, fighting is all I have left… left of this. If our fighting stops Ill become weak. I'm not fighting over Sasuke anymore, sure I want him but… I'm fighting for everything, like I said. You are like everything now and I'm like not." Her hands opened and clenched again, repeating the pattern, "I fight now because I can be just as good as you. Fighting is my way to show you I'm not weak. My way of showing everyone."

Sakura laughed bitterly, "You're wrong. Don't you get it? Fighting is now a distraction from training, you'll be weak forever if you don't quit it and start training like everyone else. I wont give my past up for anything. My fighting got me to training and that made me strong, I found love along with enemies and strength came with … sacrifice. I wont trade my past for anything, but yours…. Its time you trade your present."

I probably wouldn't if I could

"Billboard brow." Ino offered a hand forward, it hanging there stiffly. "I don't know what you're saying… I think its kind of stupid… but right. I want a new relationship between us so I propose us as not enemies but friends," She offered a smile, "Friends till the end, what do you say? I can get stronger and you'll get the chance to see me grow up. Friends forever," She asked, her hand still held up "till death do us part?"

"No."

Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should

A/N IM done!!!!!!!!!!! Woot

This was kind of hard for me to write but I did it! Sorry if its choppy… and I'm glad if its good. Whichever it is…

No contest winners yet so if you want to keep one trying… refer to chapter 10's A/N for details love you all and a special thanks to the Dixie chicks 'not ready to make nice.' I don't own the song… and I don't even want too.