Cheerleader's Tutor: Chapter 6: Brawl In The Hall

The next day Ino stayed home. She didn’t want to come out. Not only were all of Sasuke’s stupid friends talking about her, but Rock Lee wouldn’t even look at her anymore. She actually wanted to be Lee’s friend, she liked how he was like a breath of fresh air. He was polite, unlike Sasuke, and she let Sasuke walk all over him.

            Her only resolution, was to go to school on Wednesday, brave the maddening crowd of gossip and people, and especially Sasuke and his friends.

            With Ino’s new resolution, she cried some more, hid under the covers, then eventually fell asleep. She was as ready to face the school day tomorrow as she would ever be, especially with her new findings of Sasuke.

           

            The next morning Ino awoke singing a different tune, she put on her brave face and she was ready to dress her best. She decided on curling her long blonde hair in little ringlets and feathering her bangs away from her face. She wore a purple v neck shirt, blue jean skinny jeans, and black ballet flats. She looked pretty, cute, and totally not flashy. She wanted to fly under the radar as much as possible.

           

            Ino walked boldly into school, only to be greeted by whispers and hushed giggles. But Ino trudged on, with her held head high and a new resolution in her heart to make everything right. Before Ino could get to her locker and put away her purple backpack however, she heard the snickering of the stupid group of boys again.

            Ino turned angrily to face the boys that she was so embarrassed of just two days ago. Once again, the group of idiots were together. Kiba, Shikamaru, Naruto, Neji, Kankuro and Sasuke were in a deadly group again.

            “Hey, I didn’t get that picture that I asked for,” Kiba called. Ino just glared at him. “You’ll give Sasuke a show, but you won’t give me a show. What a tease!” Kiba taunted. All of his goons laughed.

            Ino wanted to say something, but she didn’t have confidence enough to go up to them. So until she could muster up the confidence, she stood there glaring at them. From afar, Sakura saw this scene from afar and went to rescue her friend. But upon getting closer to come to her rescue, she noticed Kankuro in the group of buffoons. Sakura promptly texted Temari, then she approached the scene.

            “Are these guys giving you crap?” Sasuke asked as she stood by Ino and too shot glares at the group.

            Ino quickly nodded as the boys kept taking verbal jabs at her. Sakura nudged Ino and Ino looked at her. Sakura held out her phone to show her the text that she sent to Temari and Ino smiled with hope.

            As the insults wore on, Sakura knitted her eyebrows as a sign that she was upset. “Come on Ino, let’s go,” Sakura insisted as she grabbed Ino’s elbow and tried to pull her away.

            Ino writhed out of her grasp and she looked at Sakura. “No, Sakura, I will not go. I need to tell these guys off,” Ino declared as she began marching up to the group.

            The boys laughed at her adorable anger and made jokes at how they were going to “get it” and how they were “so scared”.

            “Sasuke!” Ino yelled in a loud shrill tone, attracting attention from a lot of people around. Sasuke ceased his laughing and he stared at Ino in shock as her angry tone.

            “You son of a bitch,” Ino spat. She took a step closer to Sasuke until she was in his personal space. Sasuke took a step back, this sudden advance on his space was unwelcome.

            “You hurt my friend Rock Lee, then you made out with me, and then I liked you, and this is what I get in the end,” Ino barked through clenched teeth. Sasuke stared down at her still with shock and he was uncertain of what to do.

            Sasuke’s friends immediately laughed and poked fun at Ino confessing to having feelings for him, this made Sasuke crack a smile and feel a little more relaxed. Ino looked around at the audience that had gathered, and in that audience was a very surprised and very pleased Rock Lee. After all, Sasuke had called Lee a loser and embarrassed him in front of the girl that he liked at last Friday night’s game.

            “I didn’t want to play this game,” Ino began again. The gathering audience quieted down, save for a few whispers, to hear her speech. “but you leave me no choice.” Ino threatened.

            She paused a minute to give Sasuke time to protest, or to wipe that cocky smile off of his face.

            “Everyone,” Ino turned to the audience for the first time, acknowledging their presence.  “I’m not the only one with dirty pictures floating around,” Ino teased in a sing song voice.

            She paused and smirked as gasps filled the hallway. Sasuke gulped and suddenly looked very uncomfortable. Ino turned to him and smiled a mischievous smile that he himself was so famous for.

            “Apparently, Sasuke screwed Mrs. Kurenai, and someone found out—or I’m assuming that they did because they provided me with proof—and they took pictures,” Ino mocked. All of Sasuke’s friends gaped at him and Sasuke looked to all of the disappointed faces surrounding him. He suddenly became very sweaty and he took a step back, almost running into the lockers behind him.

            “That baby is not Mr. Asuma’s is it?” Ino ominously whispered. Sasuke looked panicked at the audience, and that was all the proof that anyone needed.

            “She’s married dude,” Naruto softly said. Ino’s finding and the blinding proof in front of everyone was enough to make everyone disgusted with Sasuke. And as Ino whipped out her phone and sent the picture to everyone, clearly depicting Sasuke and Mrs. Kuranai’s face, even the non believers became believers.

            But before the crowd could disperse and treat Sasuke like the plague, Temari came tearing through the crowd. She was shoving people with all of her might to get to Ino in the middle of the crowd. Sakura followed closely behind, excited that the Calvary had finally come.

            “Kankuro!” Temari screeched. Kankuro winced at the octave of sound that she produced, and the impending doom that was about to be brought upon him.

            “What the hell did you do?! Some ass is about to be kicked!” Temari screamed, still keeping her same pitch and volume. She looked at the group of boys, who all seemed scared and surprised.

            “If no one will answer, then I’ll have to beat the crap out of all of you!” Temari told all of the boys.

            Shikamaru held up his hands and spoke, “Now, now Temari, let’s not do anything we’ll regret,” he advised.

            Temari turned her attention towards him, “I don’t care how many times we’ve had sex, you’re first!” Temari announced. Shikamaru blushed at her revealing the contents of their sex life publicly. This sparked more gasps and whispers from the crowd. Temari took one threatening step forward and clenched her fist, Shikamaru was pressed up against the lockers, still trying to calm her.

            For as much as Ino was enjoying the impending pain that was about to be brought upon these boys, she stepped in before Temari seriously injured them.

            “Temari, everything’s okay now. I told everyone that Sasuke had sex with Mrs. Kurenai and that it’s not Mr. Asuma’s baby that she has and everything is cool now,” Ino softly told her friend.

            Temari took a step back from Shikamaru and relaxed her fist. Shikamaru sighed in relief and mumbled something that was along the lines of “troublesome woman”.

            “Really?” Temari quietly asked. Ino nodded her head slowly, and then Temari turned her attention to Sasuke. “It’s a good thing that Ino ruined your reputation before I ruined your face!” she shouted, pointing an angry finger at him.

            The bell for school to began suddenly rang, stopping everyone in their tracks. All were late for class again, the crowd immediately dispersed and went to their corresponding classes and so did all of the people involved in the dispute.

            Well, everyone dispersed except for Rock Lee. He stood the same spot, smiling at Ino. Ino sighed and turned in the direction of Lee, not because she noticed him, but because her first period class was that way.

            Lee kept smiling at Ino and then he walked closer. Ino smiled right back at him and met him half way.

            “That was a pretty brave thing that you did there, Ino,” Rock Lee complimented. Ino blushed and batted her eyes to side, trying to cover her blush.

            “I think that I owe you an apology Rock Lee,” Ino softly said. She took a step closer to Lee and Lee started to grow uncomfortable, as was customary for nerds to feel uncomfortable near pretty girls.

            “T-there’s no need Ino, really. What you did there, in front of everyone, was an apology enough,” Rock Lee babbled on. Then he immediately kicked himself for saying something like that.

            “No, no,” Ino insisted. She took another step forward and Lee gulped. She was standing dangerously close to his mouth. Once Ino was sure that Rock Lee wasn’t going to back out on her sudden advances, she daintily pressed her lips to his. Rock Lee didn’t know what to do, but he sure liked being kissed by a pretty girl!