The rest of the school day dragged on, Itachi didn't see much of his Sasuke or even Ino. Come to think of it, he hadn't seen Ino since lunch. Even though her name got called out in one of his classes; but the teacher mentioned something under his breath about her never showing up. Itachi walked out of the school and found Sasuke hanging around with Hidan and Sasori by a tree. His eye roamed around the school yard in search for any sign of Ino but there was no luck. He did see Hidan wave at him.

"So, what's the plan for tonight, hunting like old times?" Hidan winked and then laughed loudly. Itachi nodded his head with a slight smirk on his face.

Itachi, Hidan and Sasori were all sitting outside of Itachi's house. Hidan was smoking a cigarette and going on about how he couldn't believe that Itachi lived right next to Ino.

"It's a good thing I found out of this, I was already starting to think who lived in this house." He added before a yell cut him off. They all stood up out of impulse and looked around the trying to find out where it came from. "Where the fuck did that come from?"

"I don't know but it sounded like Ino's yell." Sasori added, looking over to Ino's empty looking house. Itachi watched the house carefully, waiting to see if there was going to be another scream and sure enough there was. The three boys all looked at each before running off to Ino's house.

"God damn it Kiba, stop it! People are gonna think I'm getting killed!" They heard Ino yell out loud and then slowed down to a walk. Once they got into Ino's gate they found her, Kiba, Sakura and another boy sitting on her porch. Kiba had something in his hands and was trying to throw it onto Ino, which caused her screaming. She noticed the three boys standing in her yard, looking very confused. "Oh, hey guys." She called out, pushing Kiba away from her.

"Why the fuck were you screaming? We thought you were getting murder!" Hidan asked her walking up to her porch. Sasori and Itachi followed behind him, Ino greeted them all with a smile and then started laughing.

"Sorry guys that was my fault. I found this dead spider, and well Ino hates spiders." He grinned and Ino slapped his arm.

"Oh, Itachi! This guy right here, this is Naruto Uzumaki." Ino walked over to the blonde haired boy, and carefully watched Kiba as she passed him. "Naruto this is Itachi Uchiha. He and his younger brother moved next door." Naruto stood up and cleaned his hands on his pants before shaking Itachi's hand. He had a wide smile on his face and he looked very happy.

"Great to meet ya!" Naruto said cheerfully. Itachi greeted him with a likewise. Ino sat down back in her seat, pulling out a cigarette from a small metal case. Itachi watched as he put it to her lips and lit it, sucking in the smoke and exhaling. He would only ever see guys smoking cigarettes, he never knew it could look so attractive from a girl.

"So what were you guys doing?" Ino asked with her eyebrow raised.

"Making a plan to kill someone." Hidan joked seriously. Ino laughed and then looked down at her lap and jumped out of her seat, screaming in terror. She would have fallen off the porch if it wasn't for Itachi's quick reactions. She had dropped her cigarette while trying to wipe off the dead spider off her lap.

"What the fuck Kiba!?" She screamed at him, throwing a planter towards him. He dodged it and it hit the wall behind him instead.

"I saw the opportunity and I took it!" He laughed out. Sakura and Naruto were laughing loudly with Kiba and Ino shot them both a look. They both stopped but couldn't hold back their laughter and continued.

"I'm sorry Ino but it was pretty funny. You should have seen your face when you saw it!" Sakura told her, still laughing. Ino noticed that Itachi was still holding on to her and she blushed slightly before getting up and walking inside her house. "Hey, were are you going?" Sakura chased her inside, leaving all the boys outside.

"That was genius." Naruto patted Kiba on the back. "Using her own nicotine addiction against her was priceless." Kiba gave a very cocky grin and started laughing again, along with Naruto and Hidan.

"Stupid mutt, asshole, piece of shit." Ino angrily walked into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle from the counter. "I'll show him." She said when Sakura walked in. Her jaw dropped and she started laughing harder knowing what Ino was going to do to get back at Kiba. "I'll show him real good, that fucking mutt."

Sakura walked out of the house first, saying that Ino was looking for money to go buy a new pack of cigarettes because Kiba wasted her last one. He rolled his eyes and started laughing when Ino walked back outside. He could tell she had something hidden behind her back and he rose his eyebrow at her.

"Ino, what do you have behind your back?" He asked his tone a little worried. She started walking closer to him with a devilish smile on her face. "Ino, if you have what I think you have, I'm sorry. I thought it would have been funny!" Kiba pleaded.

"You don't fuck with me Inuzuka, you should know that by know."

"No, Ino please, I hate that thing!" Kiba stumbled up trying to get away from her but Sakura stood in the way. "Sakura you traitor." She smiled at him devilish and laughed.

"Sorry, but this is funnier than your prank." Kiba looked back at him and she had a newspaper rolled up in her hand. Kiba tried to run away like a dog but Ino pulled him back by his shirt. She hit him with the paper on the nose and on his paper, hard. Kiba yelped, fell to the ground and tried to crawl away.

"You want to act like a dog, then I'll treat you like one!" Ino told him hitting him harder with the paper.

"Damn it Ino that hurts!" Ino smacked his head one last time before she had enough with that. Kiba thought she was done, but he was far from being right. She pulled out a spray bottle and started squirting it in his face. Naruto and Sakura were laughing, along with Hidan and Sasori just had a smirk on his face but Itachi stood there confused while he watched Ino torment Kiba and him yelling for her to stop.

"Stop it that feels weird!" Kiba cried out. Ino shook her head and continued spraying water in his face until his hair was completely soaked. Kiba sat on the floor with his arms and legs crossed, pouting at Ino angrily. "Are you done?" Ino shook her head and then sprayed him once more with a smile.

"Don't mess with me mutt." Ino told him, tossing the paper and empty spray bottle to the side.

"That name hurts me a lot Ino." Kiba pretended to be sad but it didn't affect Ino.

"Then why do you let me call you that?" Ino asked him with an arch in her eyebrow. "You love it when I call you that. Everyone knows it." Ino smirked, catching Itachi's eyes on her. She smiled at him and patted on Kiba's old seat for him to sit down and he did. He was still confused on way Ino did those things to Kiba, she really did treat him like a dog; but then it suddenly hit him, could Kiba really be one? He thought to himself. "Hey, what are you and your brother doing tonight?" Ino asked him, breaking him out of his thoughts. "You guys should come over and have a drink with us." She touched his arm and Itachi looked down at it.

"I'm sorry but we have something very import-"

"I wasn't asking, I'm tell you to come over tonight." Ino cut him off. Her tone was sharp and demanding it shocked Itachi a little. He let out a sigh, Ino was the persistent kind, and she wasn't going to give up with unless Itachi said yes.

"Ino, Itachi really does have something important to do. Hidan, and I will not be able to make it either." Sasori said, trying to back up Itachi. Ino puffed out her cheeks and crossed her arms.

"Whatever, you guys just don't want to hang out with me, I get it. I mean, you guys are friends who haven't see each other in a really long time." Sasori sighed he hated it when Ino got like this. She was only trying to play the guilt trick on them.

Itachi looked at Ino and then at Sasori. He pinched the bridge in his nose and sighed.

"Ino, don't get like this." Sasori told her. Ino gaped at him and then stood up, walking towards him.

"Sasori, why are you being so mean?" She asked him, pouting out her bottom lip and batting her eyelashes at him. Ino felt Sasori tense when she touched his chest, and ran her hand down it. She looked at him for under her eyelashes and frowned. "I thought you cared about me Sasori. Why are you going to just leave me like that?" She placed her hand on his biceps. Sasori tried to keep his calm and cool composure but it was getting had with Ino being right there. There was a small blush forming on his face and looked away from Ino, trying to avoid her eyes that were piercing through his own. "Sasori?" The way she just said his name broke him. He let out a defeated sigh and looked up at Itachi, he face saying sorry. Ino grinned devilish, knowing she had just won. "So it's settled, you guys are going to stay right?" She clasped her hands together and happily walked back to her seat. "You're gonna have so much fun, more then what ever you had planned." She told Itachi grabbing his hands and holding it near her chest.

"Ino, leave them alone." A voice came from the gate of the fence. "If they have something planned then you can't keep them from doing what they have to do." Ino froze when she heard the guy's voice. Her expression changed from cheery to looks like she just saw a ghost. Her whole body had tensed, Itachi could feel from the way she was gripping onto his hand.

"Deidara, where the fuck have you been?" Hidan said, greeting him with a bro hug.

"I've been out of town." Deidara told him. Ino looked back at him and her heart sunk. She hadn't seen Deidara for almost six months. She tried to give him a smile but it somewhat failed. Her bottom lip was quivering and she had a lump in her throat. Deidara was Ino's ex, the only one she actually felt something for. Their past was what made Ino the way she is right now. When they broke up it emotional scared her and she swore of dating, anything emotional with anybody, she cut all that off. It had hit her hard when he left her, and then he just disappeared for half a year and now he's standing right in front of her, in her own yard. She wanted to scream, but being around him made her feel weak.

"It's nice to see you again, Ino."