Chapter 34: Suspicious Character

Ino was tired. It had been a long week and for once she was glad to not be having a sleepover with Sakura. The last three nights running Sakura’s nightmares had come back with a vengeance. Not that they’d ever really gone away, but they hadn’t been so… awful for a while. She’d dreamt about weird creatures that could transform into other people, and impersonate them, and that these creatures had started killing all their friends while disguised as their friends. Ino shivered. Where did she come up with this stuff?

Ino shook her head. No sense thinking about that right now. She tried to focus on her test. Question 5: List as many chakra types as you can think of. Ino listed air, earth, fire, water, lightning, yin, yang, and then wrote “the one that the first Hokage had? Wood?” Question 6: Where does chakra come from…

Ino finished her test first, as she always did (Sakura always double and triple checked every question, and nobody else could write very fast), and for once didn’t feel like waiting for anybody else. She just wanted to have some peace and quiet. After giving Iruka her test she left the classroom and returned to her brooding. 

The problem was that many of Sakura’s dreams were unnervingly accurate, for whatever reason, and the provable counterexamples were few and far between. Ino didn’t care about all the “Sakura is a ninja god” dreams, those were clearly childish fancy, but some of these childhood ones were worrisome. A classmate losing an eye to a careless shuriken, a few uncomfortable dreams showcasing Mizuki-sensei’s bad side. And almost never any dreams about Ino. If only—

Movement caught Ino’s eye and she looked up the hallway to her right to see a brown-haired girl hesitate before darting down a hallway. The hallways were otherwise deserted, and Ino hadn’t expected to see anyone else, unless another class happened to be doing a test that day and that girl had also finished incredibly quickly. 

I just want to sleep! A hot bath, and a nice dinner with my parents and sleep. Ino growled at herself as her curiosity forced her feet, against her will, towards the hallway the girl had gone down. By the time Ino got to the next intersection the girl was nowhere to be seen. But there are only two doors down that hallway… ugh! 

Ino looked around again to see if she was alone, starting to feel a bit nervous about the whole ordeal, and out of the corner of her eye saw something behind her. Except when she turned around there was nothing. A small battle of wills broke out before Ino finally made up her mind and started moving purposefully down the hallway. Both doors were marked “Teachers Only”, with a helpful red ‘x’ overlaid on top of a child icon beneath the words. There was no way the girl Ino had seen was a teacher. She was too young, and Ino recognized all the teachers besides, which meant she must have gone through one of these against the rules, right? 

I could go find a teacher... But what would she do? Barge into their classroom and interrupt them and say I saw a girl in the hallways and I think she went in a room we’re not supposed to go into? If I wasn’t a seven year old girl they might listen. Grimacing, Ino tried the door on the left. Locked. She tried the door on the right. The handle turned. Ino realized suddenly that her heart was pounding. One last look down the corridor and Ino pulled the door open, wincing as it made a drawn out creaking sound. The sound of scrambling and commotion greeted her ears as she took a deep breath and walked in. As she stepped into the room her eyes could only catch the tail end of movement outside a conspicuously open window, especially considering the “Lock windows when leaving room unsupervised” sign next to it. 

Ino looked around. It looked to be some sort of storage area. Near her there were dozens of desks and chairs stacked neatly against the walls. Then there were bookshelves with lots of textbooks and scrolls, and behind all of that, a fancy looking door that had some complicated words she didn’t know as well as the kind of patterned writing that her mom had made when her parents had been teaching her about seals and the importance of writing. 

“Huh…” Ino murmured as she turned around and walked straight into the ninja standing right behind her. An involuntary “eep!” escaped her as she fell back on her behind, and looked up at the tense figure towering above her. Hard eyes were staring down at her; eyes that said I don’t care if you’re a child, a rulebreaker is a rulebrea—wait is he smoking?

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