Bad Day

Title: Bad Day

Authoress: SasuNaru723 (a.k.a. Aishiteru Koinu)

Anime: Naruto

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto or anything characters within the anime of Naruto –nor the manga. Only Kishimoto Masashi, the creator of Naruto owns him, the characters, and everything belonging to Naruto.

Pairings: SasuNaru; sort of InoNaru, but it’s only one-sided (meaning Ino’s got the hots for Naruto, but Naruto only thinks she’s crazy).

Rating: M (because of language and future smut for sure throughout additional chapters).

WARNINGS: Very minor Ino bashing but it’s hardly any (in my own opinion)

Summary: A new ‘replacement’ and a new captain to lead Team Kakashi or whatever was left of it. Not to mention his two stalkers now sleeping under the same roof as him just a few rooms away from his own room. No protection, nowhere to hide… it could only get worse for Uzumaki Naruto, now couldn’t it?

Chapter Title: The Wrath of the Warden

'…’ thoughts (usually in italics)

“…” talking



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Uzumaki Naruto was trapped, caught, and tied down to the bed of his most feared sexual predator, Yamanaka Ino. Worst of all given situations, Ino had a whip in her hands and from the look in her eyes, Naruto had no doubt she was going to be using that whip on his own body in a matter of minutes. Now that it all came down to was when Ino intended to have her way with Naruto.

“My, I’m surprised that you came here so soon and so willingly, Naruchan,” purred Ino with such a coy smile and flirtatious eyes fixated onto her tied up victim.

Naruto managed to find the strength in him to snort and roll his eyes at her while the muscles in his body were scarcely trembling. “Look, I came here faster than I intended too only because I assume you were hurt –and that is the only reason!”

Her deviant expression ebbed slowly into a confused frown, leather whip still held absently within the grasp of her two hands. “How did you assume I was hurt?”
A sense of dread crept its way through Naruto’s heart and replaced a tightening sensation in his chest. “You… You are injured… aren’t you?”

Still the frown worrying its way into Ino’s unhappy positioned eyebrows did not lesson but only grew. “Injured?” Then her eyebrows rose into surprise and thoughtfulness, “Ohhh! You mean that little cut I got just an hour ago from shaving?”

Now Naruto’s bright blue eye’s pupils were wide, his expression looking disturbed, “Shaving? Shaving what?!” He tightly closed his eyes for a moment, ‘Don’t ask! Don’t ask! You never ask!’

Ino’s lips curled up. Oh how she would have enjoyed picking and pulling at Naruto’s head just a little more and then some. It thrilled her to know she had the power in this position to rein over one of Konoha’s powerful shinobi of the young generation –her generation. Naruto was expecting the most sexual reply from his terrorists, but to his surprise got the opposite result instead.

“My legs, silly. I’m in every way a woman that loves to keep her feminine looks at their best and keeping my legs soft and smooth of any natural hair is a must. Do you shave at all, Naruto? I mean,” she lowers her eyes at the level of Naruto’s clothed crotch, “down there?”

The blonde haired male’s tanned cheeks flamed red due to his outrage and embarrassment over Ino’s personal question as well as indecent staring so shamelessly at his crotch. “You would know all about that now wouldn’t you –you goddamn night-prowling underwear thief that molests all naked flesh in sight! AND QUIT LOOKING AT MY DICK!!”

Ino’s pale blue eyes drew back up onto Naruto’s glaring darker ones, yet even she could tell he was scared shitless. “Hmm. I plan to keep that pair for souvenir purposes of my own if you’re wondering what I’ve done with your underwear that went missing last night. I would offer to buy you an extra pair, although they may not be the exact same type of underwear you prefer to wea-“

“No thank you!” quickly retorted Naruto, already having a vague idea what type of underwear Ino was referring to. The ones that hardly give you any coverage near the ass and don’t leave the mind to image what’s behind the fabric in the front manly vicinity appear to be bulging. Not that he hasn’t worn tight clothing before in that area. Hell, he jumped at the chance in his Genin years for that green get-up suit both Lee and Gai wear 24/7, which made Naruto wonder just how bad were the side effects of wearing such tight material around sensitive skin. Naruto lost his interest in wearing the suit as soon as Ino got wind of him having such exposing wear and planned to give Naruto a visit for old time sakes before he’d leave with Jiraiya to search for Tsunade.

You never make yourself and easy victim and that is just what Naruto was going to try his damn well best to avoid. Considering that he had already got himself caught and tied up now, the best chance he had was to talk his way of out being a victim. His first approach: aggression. Who honestly likes dealing with an aggressive and pissed of person anyways? Well, sadly Ino was one of few that delighted hard-to-get people. Naruto’s percentage chance of persuading Ino was maybe… 7% -if he was that lucky... Yeah, he’d rather take the bully head on and see what percent chance lies for him there.

“Ino,” Naruto growled dangerously as possible while still half terrified that he was restrained and laid out vulnerable to one of his most sick-minded stalkers. “So what the hell are you going to do to me?”

He really didn’t want to know… but supposing that he did learn of her intensions, he would at least then be able to prepare himself for the worst to come. As in he’d know when the best moment for him to black out would be, though Kyuubi just mighty throw Naruto back awake, so maybe blacking out would be in vein.

Of course Naruto wanted to black out now and hide somewhere in the deep dark shades of his unconscious mind just so that he didn’t have to feel so scared while Ino would do her torture thing on him. I mean… would you want to be conscious in a situation like this?? Hell no! Of course you wouldn’t!

Ino’s hungry blue eye’s pupils contracted as her grin rose. She moved the long leather whip in her hand to lightly drag across Naruto’s flexing and bare abdomen. Naruto could swear by the way her eyes were fixated on the spot the whip was touching him that Ino was starting to drool. A perverted stalker drooling and ogling over your bare flesh is never a good sign.

“Well,” she drawled out languidly that her voice purred, “First what I’ll do is introduce you to bondage; the magical lovely toys gifted by the gods. Mind you, Naruchan,” and her eyes moved to his coyly, “I’m half doing this in mind of Sasukekun –but of course mostly just out for my own enjoyment.”

Naruto’s eyelids slowly widened so as to make him self-look shocked and utterly confused. “Why? I mean – why for Sasuke? Why do you even think I like Sasu-“

The whip dropped back down onto the ground abruptly at Ino’s side with her hand still holding the thick handle. The loud sound from the heavy whip dropping to the floor startled Naruto, giving a quiet eep, and then dulled into immediate silence.

Ino leaned her body closer to him, “Because your body and the expression on your face tells me everything that you are trying poorly to hide. At first when I figured out your deep infatuation for Sasukekun, I was a little disappointed and jealous – disgusted as well I suppose –because you wanted someone that is the same gender as your own. I wasn’t sure if I should treat you like a rival in love or a perverted sick-o since it was then only to my knowledge that you had an attraction for Sasukekun, but I didn’t know if it was really love or if it was just lust. Were you only out to ravish and defile Sasukekun’s body or were you simply wanting his love? This I had to find out, so I took on the job in stalking you, but of course that was very difficult since you left Konoha for 2 ½ years without so as mentioning to me before hand.”

Naruto looked incredulous and upset, suddenly brave enough to try leaning his upper body more toward Ino and make a stance as best he could. “Well what the fuck did you expect? You had started stalking me like a rabid fangirl out to claim the last bit of innocence I had! I wanted to get myself the hell out of there as soon as possible –without you hearing of my departure beforehand! If this is how Sasuke felt with all of his rabid fangirls then I take back all the jealousy I ever had toward him –because you guys are just fucking crazy bitches in heat!”

Naruto failed to realize his mistake even before Ino’s eyelids narrowed so threateningly down at her prey. He had forgotten what kind of position he was in because his emotions had blinded his logical thinking and allowed his mouth to spill his guts out.

The whip lying dully on the floor moved across the cold wood by the pull of Ino’s hand. It’s heavy weight moving over the smooth wood in the part of the room they were in brought off the sounds of slithering; it could have been mistaken for the sound of snakes gliding on their flat silky bellies bellow Naruto’s lying form on the bed.

Unpleasant shivers goosed their way up his spine, across his neck, and down his arms, raising the blonde’s thin bodily hairs up in alarmed attention. The last time Naruto heard the slithering sounds of snakes wasn’t quite a pleasant memory to be left with. In fact the memory certainly didn’t bring him comfort to his current predicament.

“If I’m a bitch in heat as you claim Naruto, then you should know what I want,” hissed the pale blonde-haired kunoichi. Naruto mistook the vile tone in Ino’s voice as the snapping from a snake’s bare fanged mouth striking its venomous daggered-like teeth into its easy kill.

‘Know what she wants?’ he frantically thought.

Once it clicked, Naruto’s blue eyes bulged and he pressed his back down hard into the bed’s mattress to be as far away from the person before him as he possibly could. His back’s muscles were tense and his spine’s vertebras were locked in an unbreakable rod shape while his heels aimlessly dug into the bed to find leverage in order to push himself up higher to the headboard, nearly ripping the sheets at his feet in his attempts.

“No! You can’t have my body! I won’t allow it! Never!”

Ino looked shocked at Naruto’s break down, only his fear fueling this sudden adrenaline.

Naruto’s imprisoned wrists lashed against the leather of the belt, desperately trying to tear through the thick material and set himself free. Naruto and Kyuubi always had one very common thing; they disliked being caged and will never cease their attempts in breaking free for they can only be satisfied when living free –free from restrictions and those that maim to capture and throw them into captivity.

As part of the blonde-haired male’s body was trying to free himself or at least distance himself from Ino, the other half of Naruto wanted to bare down all arms, lock all hatchets, and take this bitch on full force. So what if he was tied like a pig ready for the evening roast? He sure as hell wasn’t going to open his mouth so willingly to the presented apple at his lips and call it quits. What would that make him (besides a tasty slab of meat)? He’s supposed to be getting stronger (and smarter) so that when he finally catches up to Sasuke, he can beat the cheeky bastard into any hard surface and drag him back home –hissing and clawing like one pissed-off black cat caught by its tail.

If Ino can capture him so easily, then how is he –Uzumaki Naruto –going to be able to keep himself safe from Akatsuki constantly out to get him? These times were just the same as it’s always been – the whole motto and laws of nature and of life – eat or be eaten. Only the strong would rise while the weak would fall. Naruto couldn’t afford to be among the weak –his life depended on staying strong, becoming stronger and stronger, dodging death here and there, and seeing how long he could keep on going like this. Living a life in fear; it was his utter nightmare.

“Stay the hell away from me, Ino! Don’t tangle with my patience a moment longer for your ass will be knocked down and you’ll be crying at my feet! Both you and that asshole Sai need to stop violating me! Neither you nor him can claim and possess me so easily! I’ve always had to fight in order to live! How about you, Ino? It’s not like you have a reputation of being targeted every fucking minute by the hour; not knowing if you’ll die this time or get lucky and live a few more weeks! What about you?”

The kunoichi’s facial expression had seemed to change at Naruto’s words. The pain, the abandonment, and the alarming horror in those wild blue eyes she saw starting right at her were screaming a war cry. This Naruto she had never seen before –this terrified, desperate, and disorderly Naruto. Sure she had pushed him and pushed him countless times before, trying to get a reaction out of the male. But this… this she hadn’t expected he’d turn out. She thought Naruto would say uncle or insult her and demand she get this whole deal started already so he could leave. Ino didn’t imagine Naruto would react as terrified and fanatical like this.

And she was having doubts due to this different Naruto before her. What did she want to prove from the start of this whole game she had schemed? It was like a blur in her head now, with the pictures blown up and the focus out of view.

Years before, Ino came upon an obsession. That obsession happened to be a person and someone she long before would never had imagined him to her liking. Through training and independent missions, Naruto had grown onto Ino. She had to admit that fact.

Soon she began to recognize and accept his presence and felt indifferent without him near her. Those smiles he’d make, that light ringing laughter and those endeared promises. It was as though Ino longed for this bright and cheery aura of Naruto’s to be constantly around her. She wanted Naruto to be beside her so much that she had a sudden desire to take him away from everyone and everything and keep him all to herself, then all those smiles, words, and everything that made Naruto who he was would be hers to be basked in.

It all would have been that easy and perfect to do… that is, if Naruto could only feel the same way as Ino. But he didn’t. Not one bit. Instead, he assumed Ino’s methods and logical thinking toward this obsession she had for him as truly fucked up and creepy.

So bottom of the line –Naruto wasn’t going to give into Ino willingly no matter how much she begged him. Ino tried other means in winning Naruto’s charm and affection, and that was by flirting outrageously with the blonde-haired male. Ino’s flirting style was similar to that of stalking someone, thus her advances on him only pushed him away from her that much further till he considered Ino a threat upon his well being.

Don’t get Naruto wrong, he still fancied the female populous and their deviant beauty… but Ino’s intentions for him were raw and sexual –of that Naruto assumed was absolutely true based off the way she comes onto him and also the way she has him tied up right now is saying a whole lot. Besides, Naruto didn’t like Ino as a lover nor a friend he’d want to have sexual benefits with.

The two constantly were in a game it seemed, where Ino would be the culprit and the kidnapper (which was really true in Naruto’s case) and Naruto was the victim and the runner –the one who’s always on the move to better distance himself from his culprit –aka Ino. And now, finally, Ino’s won the game and drawing it to a final end where she will claim her awaited prize. And Naruto feared that there was nowhere to run; he couldn’t see where there was an escape path or a way to get out.

‘No,’ thought Ino as a sly grin began to smear upon her lips, ‘I won’t let you escape me this time Naruto. No matter how much you squirm or squander, no matter how much you beg me with your words, voice, and eyes to release you – I will not give in and free you till I have what I’ve been hopelessly seeking to receive. And that, my pet, is your benevolent adoration and attention. All this time you’ve given those smiles to others. No longer do I receive those smiles. You’ve denied me them and I want them back because it is only fair! I deserve to be given the same treatment as those you hold dear to your heart –but better! It’s only fair that I do! It’s only fair!’

Ino’s hand holding the whip loosely at her side once again raised just high enough in front of her to present the length of the whip before the blonde male. Naruto’s eyes locked onto that whip and visions of what might come to be when that whip is used upon his body fluttered over his eyes and sent a violent cold chill to claw its way down his spinal cord.

“Don’t fear of yet, dear Naruto. I’ll start out slow and gentle, help you build up a tolerance and then learn to love the feel of leather flicking against your skin. It will be like a gift from heaven –an utter state of euphoric ecstasy,” assured Ino as she slowly advanced toward Naruto’s restrained body on the mattress.

This was a nightmare and he was soon going to wake up. It had to be a horrible nightmare because why would Naruto deserve this?

‘That’s right, this is a nightmare! It’s probably those damn vegetables I ate before when Sakura forced me to eat some. I told her I shouldn’t eat them and this is exactly why! Eating them gives me nightmares the same following night! I bet I’m still asleep in my bed inside Shikamaru’s room and groaning in my sleep. Why isn’t that lazy ass waking me up already? I don’t want to dream anymore! I want to wake up! Somebody please… WAKE ME THE FUCK UP FROM THIS NIGHTMAAAARE!’

In a matter of seconds, the door was flung brutally open that it split into itself right in the middle and ripped off the hinges to the wall, flying through the air so quickly in Naruto’s direction that it barely missed him and created a breeze to rush across his face.

“INO!” roared a veiled feminine voice that both two ninjas knew by heart whom that voice belonged to. There standing with shoulders hunched, lungs rising and falling quickly and heavily as fists were curled with so much strength and tension that you could see veins arising at the surface of the skin down her arms, was a very pissed off Haruno Sakura. Her blazing green eyes promised death to whoever she looked at and Ino was currently that particular victim.

“Sakurachan,” cried out Naruto joyously to see someone he knew who would save him from this hellish day gone awry.

Ino was surprised to see her rival had shown up. She thought for sure no one but she and Sai knew about Ino’s arranged “meeting” with Naruto. Obviously that bit of information was leaked out all too soon because now Ino wouldn’t be able to ravish Naruto and torture him like she had planned to.

“Sakura,” whispered Ino in soft astonishment.

The pink-haired kunoichi’s death glaring eyes narrowed as did her back stiffen up straight. “Don’t Sakura me so innocently at this very moment, Ino! What are you doing to Naruto?”

Ino slowly smirked at the other girl and raised up her eyebrows, “Doesn’t it look obvious?”

Naruto didn’t realize that Sakura had moved from the front door till he saw Sakura appear right there in front of the pale blonde-haired kunoichi and in that same moment Sakura threw her firm fist right into Ino’s face, hitting the female across the cheek. The force of the blow knocked Ino backwards and had her landing headily into the frame of the wall, knocking what air Ino had in her lungs.

As Sakura kept her eyes glaring holes into Ino sitting onto the ground and gasping for air, the pink haired kunoichi brushed off the top of her right fist, acting as though she had gotten dirt on her hand just by touching Ino.

Beside Sakura’s new standing position, Naruto’s eyes were held widely opened and staring in between the two females. To say the least, he was most surprised that Sakura hit Ino (he only thought Sakura would threaten Ino and curse at her and that’s it). Yet despite this new change, he was most relieved that his rescue came a lot sooner than what he had anticipated and had saved him from the mental scarring Ino’s molestation on his body would have caused him.

“You got it off easier than I would have liked this time, Ino,” spoke Sakura in chilling tones. “But I assure you the next time will be your last and I won’t hold myself back.”

‘Wait a fucking minute here! That right there was Sakurachan holding back? If that’s holding back, then what the hell would it look like when she’s not holding back??’ thought Naruto outrageously.

Naruto’s mind whirled back to the present as soon as he felt hands brushing up against his restrained wrists. Sakura was now standing right beside him and attending to free Naruto’s hands from the double looped leather belt hooked onto the headboard of the bed. He saw the anger in her face but also worry there too. Sakura must have been so terrified as soon as she realized Naruto was in danger of being molested and possibly raped by Ino.

‘Wait a second! Just how did Sakurachan find out I was being held captive by Ino in the first place? Was Sakurachan able to read through my lies that I fed her this morning down in the cafeteria? I thought I was hiding any hints from her well enough to where she wouldn’t have easily found out.’

With a violent pull at the tied belt, the material was torn off the headboard and broke off Naruto’s wrists in the process by Sakura’s monstrous strength. Naruto was about to mention his ankles were pinned down to the bed as well, but Sakura was already working her way onto the iron shackles. They too broke into metal pieces just from Sakura squeezing hard onto the shackles.

Naruto was finally physically free from anything once holding him down to the bed that he felt like frolicking all about the room in joy. He dismissed that right away as his memories of what Sakura did just then to Ino came back to him. Knowing Sakura’s temper right now, she most probably would rip one of his balls right off if Naruto dared to frolic or even grin up at her like a cheeky smartass.

The pink-haired kunoichi didn’t give Naruto time to make himself decent after she destroyed all restraints on him for she grabbed onto his arm and dragged him off the bed, pulling Naruto closer to her side for his protection as her glaring green eyes descended once more onto Ino.

“We’re leaving Naruto,” she darkly growled, allowing no air for a protest or a retort to make its way out of Naruto’s mouth. Ino was now staring up at Sakura, the pale blonde-haired girl stayed as perfectly still so as to not entice her rival to beat her up any further.

“Listen hear and listen well, you hussy. This here,” Sakura tugged harshly onto Naruto’s wrist, earning a surprised yelp from the blonde-haired male, “is not your play-thing. He is not a genii pig that you can test your theories on. And he is not by far meant to be tied up and used as some sex toy you can get your kicks out of. Do I make myself fucking clear, Ino?”

Both blonde-haired shinobi’s eyes grew wide up at Sakura, their bodies frozen in shock.

‘Did Sakura(chan) just…curse??’was what they were both thinking outrageously.

Sure Sakura was a healthy and moody individual such like the two of them, but she was by far the most modest, well-mannered, and conservative person among them. Sakura tried to stick true to the shinobi codes, one of which is to contain your emotions from others around you. Be firm, strong, and at the same time mask your true emotions and feelings even if you are opposed toward a mission, a person, or a plan. So for Sakura to openly curse harshly in front of them was like… saying outright to a lord/emperor that his dick is too small to even give pleasure to a woman (or worse you could say it’s too small to even enter into a woman let alone anything such as their hand).

“Well?”

Ino blinked out of her state of shock, then realizing she had yet to answer Sakura’s demand. “Y-Yes. I get your point.”

Still not trusting Ino’s answer and knowing the kunoichi has been a liar before in the past and still even in the present, Sakura tugs Naruto’s body close to her side so that they are both hip to hip (well almost hip to hip since Naruto is a few inches or so taller than Sakura). By doing this, Naruto’s eyes titled onto Sakura as a scarlet blush dusted across his cheeks and nose.

“Sakurachan,” he murmured shyly and stricken with nervousness. Why did Sakura want Naruto to be this close to her? It’s not as though Ino could jump Naruto in a matter of seconds without Sakura catching onto such an action and stopping the pale blonde-haired kunoichi before she could get her grubby hands onto Naruto again. Sakura wasn’t trying to come onto Naruto as well, was she? He was so sure their bond had formed into one of sincere friendship –such like a relationship you’d see between brother and sister.

‘Dear god –I hope that’s not the case because if Sakurachan really is coming onto me… then I’ve just gotten myself trapped between one nasty female war about to happen with me as their wining prize. Although Sakurachan did say to Ino I’m not seen to be a prize, so I guess that means Sakurachan would be defending me for other purposes. Maybe… just defend me in general? Or maybe it’s a kind of honor thi-EEENG!!’

Caught off by extreme surprise at feeling a hand slip behind him and reach over to grab onto his right hip, Naruto’s entire body went rigid all over. What the hell was going on?? Whose hand is that?? Is that… SAKURA’S hand??

All these frantic screaming questions amplified while Sakura maneuvered her arm belonging to the hand gripped on Naruto’s hip to snuggling wrap around his waist and keep Naruto’s body supported from falling. She tilted his body slightly forward and then in a swift motion, hauled Naruto off his feet and held him in mid air with the side of his waist pressed against her hip (like holding a large ball against your hip in a stance showing attitude yet exchange that large ball in place with an actual person).

Naruto felt so damn awkward. Here he was in the room of his stalker’s room, with his stalker partly defeated and sitting down on the ground. And then there was his protector and savior, holding him up off the ground by his waist against her hip like some sort of heavy luggage? If he was a girl, it may not be all too bad, but he was a guy and guys were prideful regardless if their personality portrays otherwise. This was really cramping his style and his humanity.

He observed his situation and tired wiggling around within Sakura’s grasp for means of an escape –at least so that Ino wouldn’t see him in such a vulnerable position and gossip about it later to everyone. She’d most probably claim to the public Naruto was Sakura’s bitch.

Naruto’s struggle within the embrace of her arm wrapped around his waist only made the pink-haired kunoichi draw her killing stare onto the person she was trying to protect. “Hold still,” she warned darkly in low tones. The creepy stare alone made Naruto’s entire body become paralyzed on the spot. He didn’t dare move his body or limbs –not even a mere inch in any direction or lift his ribs up more than a centimeter within every strained breath.

“Yes ma’am,” was all Naruto could manage to squeak out while swallowing his rather parched throat.

‘Please… if there is a god… let me get through this unscarred than I already am!!’

Giving one more challenging glance in Ino’s direction, Sakura shifted Naruto in a more comfortable position against her hip, causing Naruto to nearly rise up a vocal protest and flail some more. He bit down on his inner bottom lip and kept absolutely still, trying to pull off the impersonation of a rag doll.

“I suggest you stay out of my sight for a while,” were Sakura’s last words to the other kunoichi present. Finally leaving it all at that, Sakura took Naruto with her and walked out of the room.

Moments paced in an odd silence and Ino was still staring so widely at the spot Sakura had stood. Things had transpired so suddenly, it was like a blur of hazy smoke clogged up this room and now it had finally filtered out into the hallway.

The pale blonde-haired kunoichi rapidly blinked her eyes, washing away the bewildered phase she had been zoned into.

‘If I would have known better, I’d say Sakura was informed about my plan by someone I’ve been in contact with recently.’ Ino lightly frowned. ‘And there’s only one person that I’ve told my plan to.’

Angered and defeated, Ino slowly arose from off the ground and winced when a flash of pain echoed off at the center spot between her shoulder blades. “That damn Sakura can sure throw a punch. I’ll give her credit for that.” Ino examined her hands curiously, eyeing in the dark room for any forming bruises due to the way she had gotten her hands all scuffed when she had been thrown to the wall. She didn’t see any bruising splotches, but there were few small bleeding cuts visible to the eye.

Lowering her hands back down to her sides, Ino sighed out loud heavily. “Now I have to take a shower again. I’m a total mess! Being the only female in a team, I have to look my best else the boys will be considered to be more attractive than me. I can’t let something like that happen.”

Ino carefully walked toward the bathroom with still thoughts of what Naruto had said to her reoccurring in her head.

“I’ve always had to fight in order to live! How about you, Ino? It’s not like you have a reputation of being targeted every fucking minute by the hour; not knowing if you’ll die this time or get lucky and live a few more weeks! What about you?”

Eyes casted down to the floor, a solemn expression overcastted her crescent fallen face. ‘I didn’t realize you were this miserable, Naruto. I didn’t know someone like you could still fear danger, seeing that you’re always facing danger every waking moment it seems. You weren’t afraid to oppose Orochimaru or any extreme threat just to get to Sasuke. Why is that? What does that mean? Aren’t you afraid? Maybe you are… but you just hide it and not let anyone see how scared you really are. I guess that’s why I never knew that’s how you really felt. I thought you simply glared death in the eye, but really you’re like any one of us –just as scared as one of us.’

A smile slowly blossomed onto Ino’s lips, a true small smile. ‘There’s so much I must learn from you, Naruto and about you before I can assume and try to make you do something or be someone you’re not. I guess you’re just going to have to show me the way, ne?’

TBC…




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A.N. Side-notes:


Out of all chapters I’ve written of Bad Day, I’d have to say this one is my least favorite. I feel like I didn’t put enough effort into it, but I tried forcing myself. Inevitably, I guess it didn’t work out all too well –but the good news is I have another chapter completed and the story remains to continue. Those are most important parts, right?

Like I mentioned before at one point, I’m hunting down for a Beta that when matched up with my ideas and writing skills will be a perfect team. I want Bad Day to be a story of friendship, tragedy, heartache, hope, lingering love, jealousy, lust, compassion, and faith in one’s self. These values I hope to express at their best throughout the expanding process of the plot. I’ve already found many good choices so now I’m in the process of narrowing them down by reading their own material and seeing how their ideas and writing are different than mine. I love the process of elimination!!

Next chapter is going to explain how Sakura found out about Ino’s plan; it will also show the close friendship Naruto has with Sakura and others most dear to him. Soon after that chapter, the plot line will change as well as the scenery for they’ll be leaving the Inn to embark back on their quest to track Sasuke down. I did mention (don’t remember where, but in a place people would notice and read my note) that the storyline is going to have to be changed around just a little than what I originally said it was. That change will be Team Kakashi has already in the past encountered with Sasuke –exactly the same way as in the manga – but after Team Kakashi returns to Konoha they try to go after Sasuke again a month later after Naruto’s special training with Kakashi and Yamato. Team Kakashi has recently gotten word that Sasuke had killed Orochimaru and was on the move –his intentions besides tracking Itachi down are unknown. They try finding clues or at least picking up Sasuke’s trail once they find it (this part did not happen in the manga as does none of the events following afterward. I do intend to slightly follow to storyline in the manga, but I’ll mention in my note after a chapter what parts were what I made up and what parts –for those that have forgot or haven’t read the manga- are part of the original storyline of Naruto). I won’t give out any more information than that else I’ll be spoiling it for you guys.

I thank all of you for still having faith in me! I most appreciate your support and it’s what has made me continue to write chapters for Bad Day until the story is completed! ARIGATOU GOZAIMASHITA MINNASAN!! T-T

In fact, I have very good news! I have finally figured out the ending for Bad Day, so now that’s been decided, I still have to completed the few missing chapters and Chapter 12 is one of those incomplete ones. The entire plot of the story is lined out in notes, so my job now is to type those descriptive notes into actual story reading material. I am NOT discontinuing this story! Even if I don’t update in a long while, I’m not done with Bad Day when I already have it nearly completed! I just want to make sure you all know that and I know people say this all the time, but really, why would you quit a story if you have all this work typed up? That would be like doing a study for a whole year and then suddenly quitting. That’s plain stupidity.

Oh and another thing! I did read from LadyRonin’s comment asking if I was going to have Sakura still be in love with Sasuke. The answer is… drum roll…………………………………… HELL NO!!! Sorry, but I’m an anti SasuSaku fan, really I am. I can’t stand those two as a pairing; I can’t even see Sasuke daring to put himself in a love relationship with Sakura. Besides, in the manga Sakura really has fallen ‘out of love’ with Sasuke. Can anyone, anyone guess who her heart’s beating for now? Oh come on! It was never not obvious this sort of thing would happen. I saw it a mile away before the tail tale signs of love were in the air. The answer is she’s in love with Naruto, go figure. And if Kishimoto does decided to hook Naruto up with someone, then I really do hope it will be with Sakura. I know she can be pissy at times and use her enormous strength and wild pms as a way to vent and beat Naruto up (or Sai), but she’ll get over that real soon after this blood-bathed war is over with in Konoha. So if I had to choose someone of the opposite sex to be with Naruto, then I’d have to side with Sakura.

Yeah, so that’s my opinion out there in the open for anyone to chew up and pick apart if they’d like. In Bad Day, Sakura really is like Naruto’s warden if he ever had one, so if Sasuke tries doing any shit to hurt Naruto again, she intends to mangle Sasuke’s perfected face up royally (but despite Sasuke being such a bitch as he is now in the manga, I still like him and I really don’t know why. Maybe it’s his hottest I still drool over, or maybe I want to try to believe he has some good potential lingering inside of him. Like I told my best friend, it was kind of odd Sasuke would smile when seeing Naruto’s name on that bridge if he really didn’t still care for Naruto. Who the hell smiles in thoughts of someone who was so dear and close to them in the past without still having those same exact feelings for that certain person? Uchiha’s are so damn dramatic and confusing! They can drive a sane person mad and rabid. However, all will be shortly revealed in the manga so very. I just can’t wait!).

Mata kono tsugi made ne!

~SasuNaru723~

a.k.a Kariko