Who Ino really wants is - ch 09

Ino woke up by her alarm, it was Thursday.
"Deidara is coming home tomorrow and Sasori is moving out…" was the first the thing that came to her mind. She turned off the alarm and changed her clothes. She made breakfast and ate a little. "It's nice that Dei moves home, but…"
"Morning." Sasori said and sat down on chair, he began to eat.
"Morning…" she answered. "I'm taking the bus to school today too."
"Is something wrong? You've taken the bus the whole week."
"It's nothing. Since I think Deidara won't drive his car for a while, I want to get used with riding the bus."
"I'll send you two to school until Deidara is able to drive the car again, you know brat." Sasori said and sighed.
"Whatever." Ino left the kitchen.

Ino got off the bus and walked to the school that was 100 meters from the bus stop. She walked to the classroom and began to read a medical book, they were going to have a test.
"Good morning, Ino." Sakura said when she noticed Ino in a corner, reading.
"Morning, are you ready for the test?"
"I guess, I'm very smart you know."
"Thank your forehead for that." Ino smirked.
"Thank you so much Ino." Sakura sighed and began to laugh.
"Oh, look the teacher is here. Let's go and do our best! The one that gets the lowest score has to pay for the movie we're going to the day after tomorrow."
"We're going to watch a movie? How come I didn't know that?"
"Because I just came up with it." Ino smirked.
"Well whatever, let's do that. Don't have anything to do anyway." They walked to the classroom.

"What are we going to do if we both get the same score?" Sakura asked during lunch.
"Well, we let teacher ask some question and the one that answers wrong have to pay. We'll write the answer on a paper so the other one doesn't answer the same thing because the other one answered that."
"Well it sounds good to me." Sakura said and ate a piece of chicken.
"Well then we say that. The settling day is tomorrow, since the teacher is giving back the tests at the lesson tomorrow." Ino poked at her food and decided not to eat, she didn't feel like eating.
"Brat, how will you get home? By bus?" Sasori glared at her.
"Yes, by bus. As I said this morning I'm going to get used to ride the bus. I say this in case if you have forgotten, I have work after school today."
"I remember." He walked away.
"So, what are you doing this afternoon?" Ino looked at Sakura.
"I don't know… something. Maybe read."
"I see. You want to go buy ice cream after school? Since I still have time before the work starts. I'll pay."
"That sounds good to me. I never say no to free ice cream." Sakura said with a smile.

They went to the shopping centre after the last lesson and ate their ice cream.
"So tomorrow is the day your brother is allowed to move home?"
"Yes, it is." Ino smiled a little and licked on her strawberry ice cream with white chocolate topping.
"I guess you're happy about that?"
"Of course I am…" Ino said but didn't mean it completely.
"Well it's time for me to go, and besides you begin in 10 minutes." Sakura left.
"What the hell is wrong with me?!" Ino thought and went to the shop. She thought about it the whole time. After work she rode the bus home.
"I'm home…"
"What is it for dinner, brat?"
"We're eating noodle soup with chicken." She went to the kitchen and began with dinner. She did some homework after they had eaten and then she went to bed.

The next day she woke up by herself.
"Dei will move in and Sasori out". She thought, it was two hours before the alarm were supposed to begin. Ino sighed and sat up in the bed. She took her iPod that was already in the bed since she listened to it before going to bed yesterday. She turned it on and began listening to it. She just stared at the wall until the alarm ringed and as soon as it did, she turned it off and went to the kitchen. She began to make breakfast but burned the eggs she planned to have for breakfast, since she thought about something completely else. "Darn it" she screamed as she burned the third one. Sasori came into the kitchen.
"Something wrong?" he looked at the eggs. "Are you sick?"
"No, I'm fine… It's just that I can't concentrate…"
"Then I'll take care of breakfast today, I can fry eggs without making them taste awful at least." He said with a smirk. He began frying eggs while Ino sat at a chair by the table and muttered. Ino went to her room to change clothes after they had eaten. She went out of her room and walked to the hall. She went out.
"I'm driving you today." Sasori already sat in the car.
"But…"
"No buts, just get in." he said and looked at her, he was tired of Ino taking the bus. Ino sighed and sat down in the car. He drove to the school.
"Thanks for the drive…"
"I'll get you after school too, since we're picking Deidara up."
"Sure…" Ino mumbled and walked to her classroom. During the first lesson she found out that she had won over Sakura, which made her smirk while Sakura sighed and thought about her money.

Ino and Sasori drove to the hospital right after school was over.
"Hello guys!" Deidara said with a happy smile.
"Hi Dei…" Ino said with an absent smile.
"Hello Deidara, you ready to move home again?" Sasori asked.
"I was born ready." Deidara said. "The hospital food is horrible and it's so damn boring here, un." He whispered.
"Of course it is. It's the hospital."
"You got a point there…" Deidara smirked.
"So… how long are we just going to stand here…?" Ino asked.
"Ah, until now. Let's go." Deidara said. They walked to Sasori's car.

Sasori left after they had been home for a few hours.
"I really missed much, didn't I?" Deidara said.
"You did…" Ino said absently. "Well I'm heading to bed now, I'm tired. Don't stay up too late." Ino said and went to her room. When she finally was in bed she just sat there and sighed. It was lonely already, since she had gotten too used to live with Sasori. She didn't even get why she thought about it so much.

The next Wednesday during lunch she talked to Sakura. She still felt lonely and missed Sasori. They hadn't talked much at all.
"What's wrong? You've been depressed since Deidara got home." Sakura asked.
"No, it's nothing. I'm just tired…" Ino noticed that Sasori was on the way to the school cafeteria and looked away immediately. "That's all… Nothing else…"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, of course I am. Well, I'm done now. So I'll leave first." Ino put her things away and walked to the classroom she was going to be in next. She could see the cafeteria from there, she noticed that she could see Akatsuki's table and that she could see Sasori perfectly. So she just sat there and watched, pretending to read a book. After a while she sighed and looked down at the ground, she really missed him. She suddenly felt that someone was watching her and looked up. She noticed that Sasori was looking her way but turned away his face as soon as he noticed that she had noticed him. She blushed. Why would he have watched her? Then suddenly she realized it. She didn't see him as a friend or hated him. She…
"Hi, pig." Deidara said. She suddenly realized that Deidara and Sasori stood there.
"Um, hi…" she said and didn't know what to do.
"What are you reading, un?" he looked at Ino's book. "A book about trains? Who are you, un? Where is my real sister?" he looked at her in shook.
"I… just took something from the school library…" Ino said nervously.
"Is it interesting, brat?" Sasori asked.
"Not really…" she put it away and stared down on the floor.
"You alright?" he asked and sat down right in front of her. He looked concerned.
"Yes!" she was about to blush and got the feeling that she wanted to hug him. "Don't you have any lessons to go to?"
"Yes, we have. Let's go, Sasori." Deidara dragged Sasori away. Ino stared after them and began to blush.