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midnightdiddleI'm desperate for good fanfiction. Desperate. Very desperate. If you know of any great fics, please tell me? And I'll love you forever. Hmm... Extra points for fics about Ino, Jiraiya, or Shino. Preferably long fics, too. Good, long, engaging reads. Ah, that'd be nice.
In other news, I'm alive and well. I'm beginning to feel better! Yay! In more other news, the Shino's-family-is-evil fic I was writing was put on hold, for the Yondaime fic, which was put on hold for the KakaSaku, which was put on hold for two Ino ficlets, one of which I've finished, and put up here for you.
And I love Lee. So I'm now watching Naruto, bit by little bit, and I've hit the chuunin exams. I about died when I heard Lee's voice. Love. Much love. *glomp on Lee* It's official, I'm a Lee and Gai fangirl. But more Lee than Gai, because I didn't really like Gai's voice. And Lee's awesome when he fights! But enough blabbering.
Losing Ino
Out of all the ANBU, Ino was a favorite. She got the higher assassinations, the ones that would inevitably be looked into, because Ino was Ino. She was perfect in work, just like she was perfect in the rest of her life.
She stared between the box her fingers made, focusing on the body on the bed. A touch of chakra, and she pulled herself into the man’s body, wrenching his mind away from him. His body was large, clumsy, fat with age and a too opulent life. When she moved off the bed, his feet creaked on the floorboards, and she could feel his flesh weighing her down. She walked him across the room, ignoring her limp body in the far corner.
A knife was easy to find. A bejeweled and shining letter opener, lying carelessly on a table in the next room, next to piles of letters and papers. She leafed through the papers quickly, then grabbed the knife. It was dull from ripping open envelopes, but it would work. She touched the end of the blade to the side of the man’s neck, beneath his heavy jowls, and ripped.
Falling out of a dying mind felt a little bit like drowning. She never did get used to it, the way she lost herself, scattered and torn apart, or the way she had to push and pull so much just to get back into her own body. It was tiring and disorientating, and when she finally hooked herself back into her own body, she always had to lie still, waiting for her heart to work the right way, and for her mind to calm down and figure out where things went, and how things worked.
She rolled over, shoving her head against the cool floorboards. She was dizzy, out of control, and she needed to get out. She stumbled from the room, scrambling through the shadows until she was out of the mansion, and past the iron gates. When she was in the forest she ran, tripping and falling and running again, until she fell halfway into a stream. She tore off her mask, shoving her head under the water, and when she finally pulled it back out, gasping for breath, her wet hair stuck to her cheeks.
The forest was dark and cold, barely lit by the stars and sliver of a moon, and when she looked around, she felt small. There was something there, just on the edge of her sight, and on the edge of her mind, and on the edge of her reason, but she couldn’t reach it, no matter how hard she reached, or how fast she turned. And, this time, like every time since she’d said yes and they gave her that damn mask and she ran from a dead body, she wondered just how much she’d lost.
Because, you see, Ino would rock at assassinations, because she could make them look like suicides. See? See? Ain't it brillaint?
In other news, I'm alive and well. I'm beginning to feel better! Yay! In more other news, the Shino's-family-is-evil fic I was writing was put on hold, for the Yondaime fic, which was put on hold for the KakaSaku, which was put on hold for two Ino ficlets, one of which I've finished, and put up here for you.
And I love Lee. So I'm now watching Naruto, bit by little bit, and I've hit the chuunin exams. I about died when I heard Lee's voice. Love. Much love. *glomp on Lee* It's official, I'm a Lee and Gai fangirl. But more Lee than Gai, because I didn't really like Gai's voice. And Lee's awesome when he fights! But enough blabbering.
Losing Ino
Out of all the ANBU, Ino was a favorite. She got the higher assassinations, the ones that would inevitably be looked into, because Ino was Ino. She was perfect in work, just like she was perfect in the rest of her life.
She stared between the box her fingers made, focusing on the body on the bed. A touch of chakra, and she pulled herself into the man’s body, wrenching his mind away from him. His body was large, clumsy, fat with age and a too opulent life. When she moved off the bed, his feet creaked on the floorboards, and she could feel his flesh weighing her down. She walked him across the room, ignoring her limp body in the far corner.
A knife was easy to find. A bejeweled and shining letter opener, lying carelessly on a table in the next room, next to piles of letters and papers. She leafed through the papers quickly, then grabbed the knife. It was dull from ripping open envelopes, but it would work. She touched the end of the blade to the side of the man’s neck, beneath his heavy jowls, and ripped.
Falling out of a dying mind felt a little bit like drowning. She never did get used to it, the way she lost herself, scattered and torn apart, or the way she had to push and pull so much just to get back into her own body. It was tiring and disorientating, and when she finally hooked herself back into her own body, she always had to lie still, waiting for her heart to work the right way, and for her mind to calm down and figure out where things went, and how things worked.
She rolled over, shoving her head against the cool floorboards. She was dizzy, out of control, and she needed to get out. She stumbled from the room, scrambling through the shadows until she was out of the mansion, and past the iron gates. When she was in the forest she ran, tripping and falling and running again, until she fell halfway into a stream. She tore off her mask, shoving her head under the water, and when she finally pulled it back out, gasping for breath, her wet hair stuck to her cheeks.
The forest was dark and cold, barely lit by the stars and sliver of a moon, and when she looked around, she felt small. There was something there, just on the edge of her sight, and on the edge of her mind, and on the edge of her reason, but she couldn’t reach it, no matter how hard she reached, or how fast she turned. And, this time, like every time since she’d said yes and they gave her that damn mask and she ran from a dead body, she wondered just how much she’d lost.
Because, you see, Ino would rock at assassinations, because she could make them look like suicides. See? See? Ain't it brillaint?
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Date: 2005-07-10 05:20 pm (UTC)Well, let's see. First of all, when she's still a genin, she's noted as being exceptional amongst kunoichi. She's not stupid, she's not airheaded, she's not weak. The only time she acts her age, really, is when Sasuke is involved. Other than that, she's brilliant.
She knows how to fight, and when to fight. Also, she was raised to be a ninja. We don't know much about Sakura's parents, but I always get the feeling that her parents aren't ninja. Ino, on the other hand: her father is a jounin, and he's part of the Ino-Shika-Chou trio. I mean, being a ninja is practically in Ino's blood.
And when she fights Sakura in the chuunin preliminaries? Sakura's smart, we all know that. Sakura's one of the smartest rookies. But, Ino still outsmarts her, with the hair, to hold her in place. If Sakura didn't have Inner Sakura, she would have lost then and there. That just shows, Ino can think quickly and calmly under pressure. In that regard, she really quite a bit like Shikamaru. No matter how ditzy she may act, it's all really just an act.
But yeah. Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. And the ironic thing is, this idea's been in my head long before I read that story. How minds think alike...
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Date: 2005-07-11 12:53 am (UTC)I had forgotten about that ... >___<;;;
I also think Sakura's parents are " normal " . =P
I mean , she just doesn't seem to come from a nin family like Ino , just like you said ...
but , we'll have to wait and see . ^_____^
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Date: 2005-07-11 10:00 am (UTC)(Sorry, Kiki, I hate Ino with a passion, but that's a very interesting look at what she could potentially be. I don't think she'd last long sane if she had to do that regularly.)