Notes: Sooooo... I updated, huh? (: I got a review of someone telling me that something is lacking in the story, &about the boys being forced to love the girls & if it's really love. Well, you'll see, I told you this story is not even close to the end ;D Everything will be explained in the future, so you just have to keep reading it, okay? Just trust me :O (& thanks for the opinion :DD) Also, I realized I had some grammar msitakes in the other chapter D: That was because: 1. It was late when I was writing it & I was tired; I know I did wrong (if I'm gonna do something, I have to do it right) but I just wanted to update to make you guys know that I'M STILL ALIVE AND THIS STORY IS NOT ABANDONED. (: & 2. I've been writing in a Spanish a lot lately (I'm Hispanic :D) , but not too much in English, so I kinda lost practice. xD But don't worry, I'm getting better ;D Also, thank you for your reviews &for giving me your opinion; it makes me happy to know that you read what I write & you actually care. n,n
Disclaimer: There's a dude in Japan that owns these characters. &I'm not that dude. D:
Chapter 10
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Surprises
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The car stopped in front of the entrance of the school. There were no students outside, waiting for the classes to start, so Kim supposed she was already late. Well, it wasn't as if she cared, right? It was Ino's problems, not hers.
She tried to open the door, but it was locked. She turned her head to the right*, and told Ino's father to open it with her look. However, Ino's father did nothing; he just stared at her, without saying a word, frowning and with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Um, can you open the door, daddy?" she said, feeling kind of awkward calling a stranger 'daddy'. But she was Ino now, the spoiled little brat, and she had to pretend.
Ino's father shook his head, without taking his eyes off his daughter. Kim frowned.
"Why?" she asked angrily. Who did he think he was to lock her in a car…? Oh, right; he was her father – but just for now. Crap.
"I want you to tell me what's wrong," Ino's father said.
"What?" Kim was surprised. "There is nothing wrong, daddy. Look, just let me go, okay? Because I'm late already, and I don't want to have problems."
The man sighed tiredly, closing his eyes. "Ino," he murmured. "I'm you father, and a psychiatrist*. You cannot lie to me."
A psychiatrist? Kim thought. Wow, so that's why Ino has such a nice house, huh?
"But daddy, I don't understand," Kim insisted, trying really hard not to be annoyed. "There's nothing wrong. Why would you say that?"
"Well, I know that when you don't talk and talk," Ino's father explained, "Which is what you always do when your mood is okay, it means that you're upset." He reached for her hand and looked at her sweetly. "Princess, you can tell me everything, okay? You know I'll help you."
Kim couldn't believe how spoiled Ino really was. Princess? He called her princess? She didn't know what was going to happen to her parents when Ino gets married…
"Dad," Kim said seriously, gripping his hand tightly. "Really; there's nothing wrong with me. You have to understand that I'm growing up and as a teenager maybe I won't tell you a lot of things. But that's normal. Every girl stops being daddy's little girl someday."
Ino's dad blinked, looking clearly surprised. Kim could say it was predictable. Of course that if someone like Ino said such wise words just like she just did, people would be surprised.
"Are you saying that you don't want to talk about it with me, but you will talk about it with your friends?" he asked, looking now kind of hurt.
"Ahh, no!" Kim rolled her eyes. "I mean that there's nothing wrong with me now, but if you think I'm acting weird is because I'm growing up and changing. And you have to understand it and accept it."
"Oh, well, that's different." He smiled. "Explain yourself better next time."
Kim rolled her eyes again, but couldn't help but smiling to.
"Now, would you let me out?" she asked, raising an eyebrow at the blond man.
"Of course," he answered, pushing the button to unlock the doors. "Have a good day, prin – I mean, Ino."
Kim stepped out of the car and smiled at him before closing the door. She waved at him as the car left. When it was out of sight, Kim looked around her, checking there was no one watching her. Slowly, a smirk appeared in her face. It's time to have real fun, she thought.
Today was going to be a change of routine to Kim the fairy. She hadn't forgotten about the little stupid prank Temari did to her, with the Keeping Promise Spell. That day she had no fun, so this time she disserved the double, didn't she? That was just the fair thing.
Kim's plan was malicious, just as she loved to do her plans. She – well, Ino – wasn't going to assist to school today. Oh no, sir. Today Ino was going to be seen in the streets, acting like a little girl in a different and exotic place. Today Kim was really going to enjoy the sensations of being a human.
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The teacher arrived to the classroom and the class started. Most of the students were paying attention to his speech, but just three girls were completely ignoring the class and worrying about another thing.
Sakura was sitting at the back of the classroom, next to her boyfriend Sasuke (she wasn't going to leave him alone from now on, remember?). She was biting her nails nervously, and when Sasuke asked her what was wrong, she told him she was still upset about Hinata, which was a lie. The truth was that it was Ino who was worrying her now; well, to be more exact, it was Kim. The fairy inside Ino's body hadn't arrived to the school yet; she was skipping class. To do what? She didn't know, and that was what worried her, of course.
Suddenly, Sakura jumped when her backpack, which was resting on her lap, vibrated. The girl hurried to take out her cell phone and check secretly the message she just received.
Where the hell is Kim, dude??!! D: sent TenTen.
Sakura's fingers moved over the buttons as fast as she could, afraid to be seen by the teacher.
I don't know! She skipped class; I guess ¬¬ was the pink haired girl's answer.
Did you guys notice Ino/Kim isn't here yet? Temari sent them both later.
Yeah, Sakura sent to her friends, TenTen & I are freaking out about it already. D:
Well, we should, Temari replied. We don't know what she can be doing now…
Damn, thanks for making us feel better, Temari ¬¬ TenTen sent, speaking for Sakura too.
The bell rang and the teacher dismissed the class. The girls walked - well, ran out of the classroom and made their way to the girl's bathroom, the only place where they could talk with privacy.
Sakura and Temari went in and TenTen stayed in the door to tell a girl who was about to enter behind them: "I'm sorry, darling. My friend ate tacos yesterday and you wouldn't want to be here to help her, would you?" The girl made a face and walked away without protesting. TenTen smirked and closed the door behind her.
"Didn't you have another less disgusting excuse, TenTen?" Sakura murmured, shaking her head.
The brunette shrugged. "It worked perfectly, didn't it?"
"I guess so…" Sakura sighed. "Anyways, back to the topic. What the FUCK is Kim doing now?"
"She's obviously still angry about the Keeping Promise Spell," Temari said, staring at her feet and frowning thoughtfully.
"You mean this is like her revenge?" TenTen asked.
"Probably," Sakura nodded. "She wants to worry us, to keep us wondering what horrible things she could be doing now to Ino's body…"
TenTen gasped. "Is she going to, like, kill her?"
"No." Temari shook her head, and her friends turned to her, giving her confused looks. "I read in the book that Tsunade gave me that fairies can't kill or hurt humans. If Kim kills Ino being inside her body, she will die too, but if she manages to escape alive, the other fairies will kill her for breaking their golden rule. She may not kill her, but she can get a tattoo or a piercing or something like that."
"Oh." Sakura raised a pink eyebrow. "So you learned a lot about it, didn't you?"
The blonde shrugged and grinned. "It was interesting. By the way, I have to give the book back to you aunt."
"We'll do that later." Sakura put her hands in her waist. "Now we have to find that fairy and stop her before she does something."
TenTen's eyes widened. "Are we going to skip school?"
Sakura nodded. "We'll do it during lunch time."
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Kim tried to ignore her aching feet. She had never felt that kind of ache because of walking long distance as a fairy. Humans' bodies were so annoying.
She had walked and walked in random directions, looking at the people and the places and the plants around her. She smelled the fresh air and focused on the sounds of the traffic and the singing of the birds. She stopped in a store and bought with some Ino's money that thing she saw a little girl eating before, called ice cream; she ordered the pink one (it reminded her of Sakura) and, after staring at it for a while trying to discover if it wasn't poisoned or something, she licked it. After that, she bought two more of the same flavor. Now, she was officially addicted to strawberry ice cream.
Humans don't know how lucky they are, Kim told herself. They had so many things to enjoy, so much freedom. They didn't have to be slaves, to work every day and every hour of their lives making wishes. They could love or hate whoever they wanted, they could like or dislike whatever they wanted, they could eat and drink and see and feel anything the wanted, without someone there to stop them.
Kim was enjoying every second of it. Being a fairy sucked even more for her now.
After almost two hours of walking through the streets, her human body was already tired of so much fun. That was probably the only thing she hated about being a human: they needed to rest, to eat and to drink to survive. How annoying, really.
She founa a park and decided to take a break there. The park was almost deserted; she guessed that it was because most of kids were in school at that hour. But it was okay; she had more space to herself. She sat under the shade of a tall tree, with her back leaning against the trunk and her knees hugged to her chest.
She enjoyed the sensation of the fresh breeze hitting her skin and her hair tickling her eyes, the smell of the plants around her, the tickling of the spiky grass between her fingers, the sound of the breeze and the birds singing…
She didn't even notice when she fell asleep.
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"Crap, someone's coming!" Temari hissed, as she heard the footsteps coming closer.
"What?" Sakura looked down at her with panic. "Ugh, damn. Let's hurry!"
Temari nodded and pushed Sakura's feet up. Sakura popped her head around the small window and looked down at TenTen. The brunette nodded at her and stretched her arms to catch her.
"Don't be afraid," TenTen said. "It's going to be okay; just jump."
"Ugh, it's easy for you to say that," Sakura growled. "You're an extreme girl, unlike me."
"Hurry!" Temari hissed, tugging on Sakura's jeans.
Sakura took a deep breath and closed her eyes tightly. She pushed herself forward until half of her body was outside of the window.
"This is going to hurt," she told herself, gulping, and then she jumped down, falling to the ground.
"You okay?" TenTen asked her, kneeling down next to her.
"Ow," was all Sakura said as she stood up, rubbing her hurt arm. She was going to have a huge bruise there tomorrow.
"Okay, Temari, you're next!" TenTen hissed to her friend, standing up.
Inside, Temari looked around to make sure no one was near and the person who was coming was already gone. She jumped and took a hold of the window's frame. She pushed her feet against the wall until she was able to pop her head around the window. She looked down at Sakura and TenTen.
"What if I break a bone?" Temari asked, looking extremely nervous.
"I just got a bruise and she grazed her knee," Sakura said, pointing TenTen and shrugging. "If you got something worse, then it's just bad luck."
Temari raised an eyebrow. "Is that supposed to make me feel better?"
"Just jump, Temari!" TenTen hissed, motioning her to come down. "Be brave!"
The blonde girl rolled her eyes and held her breath. She jumped and at the next second she was lying on the ground over her back, growling of pain.
"Did you break a bone?" Sakura asked her.
"I don't know," Temari replied.
"Can you walk?" TenTen asked.
Temari nodded and grinned. Her friends helped her up, each one pulling one of her hands until she could stand up. Temari rubbed her back but nodded, telling them she was okay.
"Okay, now how are we going to find Kim?" TenTen asked Sakura as they walked to the exit of the school. There was no one there; the security guard was eating his lunch somewhere else. They were able to leave without being caught.
"It's going to take a while," Sakura said. "We'll go in random directions and we'll ask some people if they have seen Ino. I have a photo of her in my cell phone."
"Good idea," agreed Temari. "Besides, I don't think Kim went too far. She doesn't know the city, and besides, Ino's body is lazy."
"Yes, we have that advantage," replied Sakura, and they started with their search.
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Kim felt something cold and wet falling on the tip of her nose. She blinked slowly and remembered where she was. She raised her hand and touched her nose; she had a drop of water on it. Another drop fell on her left cheek and then on her forehead. Kim raised her head and looked up. From between the leaves of the tree above her, she saw the gray sky, and realized it was raining as the drops continued falling.
Kim stood up slowly and grabbed her backpack. The rain continued falling over her, and she felt that human sensation called coldness in her skin. She hugged her arms instinctively, and stayed there, with her back against the trunk.
She couldn't leave. She could get wetter and catch a cold, and she knew it wasn't okay to make sick or hurt a human. She had to wait until the rain calmed down.
She reached for Ino's cell phone in the right pocket of her jeans and glanced at the time. She remembered the last time she checked it and realized she was asleep for almost four hours.
Damn, what a lazy body, she thought, annoyed.
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TenTen, Temari and Sakura ran through the streets, trying to protect their heads from the rain with their arms. They stopped until they were under the roof outside a random local.
"Dammit," Sakura growled, taking off her wet sweater. "We had been searching for her for more than three fucking hours. We're tired, and now it rains? Does the world hate us or something?"
Temari sighed tiredly as she tried to dry her hair with her own sweater. "Probably," she muttered.
"Girls!" TenTen yelled suddenly. Her friends turned at her. She pointed at something in front of them. "Look over there!"
They did as she said and saw a park. "Right, TenTen. It's a park," Temari said.
"Agh, no!" The brunette rolled her eyes. "The tall tree in the middle! You see it?"
She pointed again. Temari and Sakura tried to look closer.
"Oh, yeah," Sakura said. "A person's there, under the tree, but what about it?"
Suddenly, Temari gasped. "Is that…?"
"It's Ino!" TenTen exclaimed happily. "Well, Kim, but – Well, it's her! We found her!"
Sakura's green eyes widened. She looked closer and realized that, indeed, it was the body of that blonde pretty girl she called best friend since they were six years old.
"What is she doing there?" Temari wondered out loud.
"We should go to her," TenTen proposed.
Sakura nodded. "Let's go."
The three girls crossed the street running, trying not to get too wet. They entered the park and ran to where Kim (inside Ino's body) was.
"Kim!" Sakura yelled as they approached her.
Kim noticed them walking to her. Her eyes widened slightly and she stood stiff. "What are you doing here?" she asked them as they stopped in front of her.
"We came for you," TenTen told her, glaring and crossing her arms over her chest.
"Why did you skip school?!" Temari demanded.
Kim rolled her eyes. "Have you forgotten about the dirty prank you did to me the last time, Temari?" she asked. "Well, this is my revenge." She smirked and raised her chin.
"But Ino has no fault!" Sakura argued. "What have you done to her body, huh?"
"I didn't do anything to her," Kim said, shaking her head and pouting. "I'm not that mean."
"Then what did you do this whole time?" TenTen said, confused.
"Well, I…" Kim blushed and looked away. Ino's blonde bangs hide her face as she answered. "I just... I just enjoyed humans' sensations, alright? That's all."
"Enjoyed humans' sensations?" Sakura snorted. "You expect us to believe that?"
Kim glared at her but blushed redder. "I don't care if you don't believe me! And that's just the truth."
"But why that?" TenTen asked still confused. She seemed to believe her, so Sakura stared at her with surprise.
"I told you before, in the beggining," Kim explained. "I just want to know how it feels like to be a human again."
"Again?" Sakura asked. "You were human before, Kim?"
"Of course, all fairies were." The fairy smiled sadly. "That's why we look like humans. I used to be a happy girl with a normal life, but one day…" She looked away. "Well, first of all, you have to know that I was kind of a bitch…"
"Kind of?" TenTen raised an eyebrow.
"YES, JUST A LITTLE!" Kim blushed. "Anyways, I had a car accident, and I was going to die. But the Lord of the Fairies came to me and offered me to be a fairy instead of dying. He chose me because of my personality and my story; he said I was perfect. I felt special when he told me that…" She paused and raised her head. Her face was emotionless. "So I accepted, and here I am."
"But you miss being a human," TenTen realized, staring at her with pity.
"Yes." Kim glared at them slightly. "You humans don't value what you have."
Before any of the girls could say other thing, it stopped raining suddenly, and the sun came back. They all looked up and admired the blur rainbow in the sky.
"We should go now," TenTen said, breaking the silence.
Sakura nodded and sighed tiredly. "What time is it?"
Temari raised her right hand and glanced at her watch. "School should be over by now."
"Let's go home," Sakura murmured, and she turned around to leave.
"You go," Kim said from behind. "I want to stay here."
"What?" Temari asked. "But Ino's parents are going to be worried if you're late!"
"Tell them Ino is with one of you," Kim replied. She looked at them pleadingly. "Girls, c'mon... Please."
The girls exchanged looks, and after a moment of thinking, Sakura sighed and nodded. "Fine," she said. "I'll call them and tell them you're in my house."
"Just go home before it gets dark," TenTen told the fairy, as she and her friends turned around and left her alone.
Kim smiled. So those humans can be nice sometimes, huh?
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Ino was desperate. It was already dark outside, and Kim hadn't come home yet. She wondered if she got lost, or if she got kidnapped… The uncertainty was killing her.
She heard the doorbell and she jumped from her bed to attend it, but then she remembered she was a ghost, and even thought she could touch things, she couldn't be seen by anyone but Kim, so if her mom or the maid see the door being opened by no one, they would freak out, and the last thing that Ino wanted right now was a priest coming to her house to scare away the 'ghosts'.
So she just ran downstairs and waited for the maid to open the door. When the maid came and opened it, she heard her say, "Oh, hello, Ino's friends. Ino's not here right now."
"Really?" Sakura sounded surprised. "Um, well, she's about to arrive, isn't she?"
"Yeah," the maid replied. "Hey, why don't you wait for her here?"
"Yes, that would be great," TenTen said.
Ino ran upstairs and waited for her friends in her room. They entered just a minute later, looking around and stretching their hands as if they wanted to touch something invisible.
"Ino, are you here?" Temari asked.
"Yeah, I'm here," Ino replied casually. "I'm sitting in my bed."
"Oh, okay," Sakura said, sitting at the edge of her bed. She smiled. "You know, it's weird to be talking to you but staring at nowhere."
Ino laughed. "Yeah, it is." Suddenly, she realized her fourth friend was missing. "Hey, where's Hinata?" Ino watched as a shadow casted over her friends' faces at the mention of the name. She frowned. "What's wrong?"
TenTen sighed, sitting down next to Sakura and staring at her lap. "She's in America," she started. "Remember that her dad picked her up yesterday? Well, he took her to meet his American new girlfriend. Hianta doesn't like her, but her dad is forcing her to stay there until she likes her. She's... We don't know if she's coming back soon."
Ino stared at the brunnete with wide eyes and open mouth. She didn't say anything. Sakura got worried; she frowned and asked, "Ino, are you still here?"
"Yes," the blonde said. "I just , I…" She shook her head. "I can't believe it... How's Naruto?"
"He's depressed," was all Sakura said.
"Poor guy…" Ino sighed. "Can I call her? Do you know her phone number?"
"She's not allowed to have any contact with us yet," Temari explained.
"WHAT?!" Ino's eyes widened again. "Her dad did that?! God, he's such an ass…"
Suddenly, the door opened and Kim (inside Ino's body) came in.
"What the hell happened to my hair?" was Ino's greeting to the fairy as she made a face.
"It got wet because of the rain," Kim said. She looked extremely tired. "Anyways, stand up, Ino. I'll give you back your lazy body."
Ino stood up. "Lazy body?" she asked.
"I got tired too quickly," Kim explained, putting her hands together and closing her eyes. "Don't you do any exercise?"
"I don't need it." Ino shrugged and smirked. "I told you I'm naturally beautiful."
Kim sighed again. At the next second, Ino's body was losing its balance and Kim (inside her own body) was standing where Ino as a ghost had been standing.
Ino (in her own body again) blinked as she gained balance. "Damn, that felt awesome," she murmured, smiling.
"Sakura, you're the next," Kim told the pink haired girl, and then she turned around, making her way to Ino's large window. "Goodbye, everyone."
"Bye!" the five girls said at the same time as Kim opened the window and jumped.
"We all skipped school today, you know?" TenTen commented, smirking.
Ino looked surprised. "Really? Why? You left Kim alone? WITH MY BOYFRIEND?!"
"Calm down, Ino-pig," Sakura said. "Kim skipped school too. Actually, we skipped school to find her."
"What?!"
"But it's okay," TenTen interrupted her. "She just wanted to enjoy how it feels like to be a human again."
"Again?" Ino asked, raising an eyebrow.
The other three girls exchanged looks and smiled.
"It's a long story," Temari explained. "But in resume, it seems like Kim isn't the heartless bitch she appears to be."
Notes: A lorger chapter! YAY! :DDD I thought it was going to be short, but listening to A Static Lullaby inspires me! ;) It's weekend! So the next chapter will be up before Monday, okay? Wait for it, because everything is getting better. Ü
*= Yes, right; remmeber they're in Japan, so the driver's seat is in the other side. :O
*= LOL. Can you see the irony?
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