Hello ladies and gents. Before we get started, I'm going to simply give full disclosure of this story and what to expect. I started writing this for fun, out of the blue. I did no planning before I started; it was just an idea. I don't plan on outlining crap.

In that regard, this story will be uncensored. There will be a little to a lot of everything. Meaning if you're pc, easily offended, have very high morals, this story may not be for you. This story covers every spectrum from lighthearted comedy and romance to downright sadistic depravity. There will be many taboos and I have no inclination to downplay them in anyway.

If you're not running to smash the report button yet, buckle in and try to enjoy the ride.

Full Tilt

Little Monsters Arc

Chapter 1: Cast Off the Crutch That Kills The Pain

The sounds of battle had faded away long ago. Together, they sat back to back on top of a mountain of corpses. The smell of blood and the elements had mingled together into a smell that was neither good or bad. It was almost as if part of nature itself. By then, it most likely was. Something that they could never lose within their lives any longer.

Both blondes gave heavy sighs, their long hair all but tangled with each others. Though hers sprawled out around them near the bottom, his stopped just past his shoulders. They took time to let their breaths even out, not moving or speaking to one another. Their eyes gazed out in opposite directions, taking in the large wasteland covered in bodies and blood. The rivers around them were as scarlet as everything else.

The sound of footsteps climbing over bodies drew their attention to their side. A woman with long and deep indigo hair trudged slowly to the top of the corpse hill. Arrows and kunai stuck from numerous parts of her body, one of her eyes being shut. The way a large amount of blood sat under the eye, the two blondes knew the woman had lost it. Blood sat at the corner of her mouth as well, the eternal bleeding she was experiencing evident.

As the woman made it before the two, she tottered. Her one remaining eye was unfocused. As she began to fall forward, the two blondes moved to sit next to each other and caught the woman together. It was shown that the two blondes also had several blades sticking out of their torsos as well, but neither seemed as bad as the woman before them. At least, not on the outside.

"We...failed again..." The dark haired woman whispered, her voice barely coming out. She choked back blood that threatened to rise from her throat. The two blondes held her gently, hugging her with a warmth that pushed away at the cold of death that was gripping her. She could feel the same air about the two as well.

The blonde haired woman nodded slightly, the movement sending jolts of pain through her body. "Yep...but we were close this time..."

"Not close enough." The male blonde finally spoke as he gently stroked the dark haired woman's back. "We won't be able to try again for a long time." He coughed, finally showing that his wounds were indeed effecting him as well.

The trio fell into a silence as they knew what was coming. The breaths of the woman between them slowly began to fade. Before the last of her life ebbed away, she placed a chaste kiss onto the lips of both of the blondes that held her. "I'll see you guys...soon." She whispered before shutting her single eye shut for good.

As the two blondes held their deceased lover, they shed silent tears. Though they both had solemn smiles on their faces, this part always got to them. "Naruto-kun..." The blonde female whispered her counterparts name.

"Yes, Ino-hime?" The male responded.

"Let's fuck everything up next time..." She called before her eyes drifted shut as well.

"You know it." He called and moved to cradle both girls bodies. It would be a while longer before he could join them. So instead, he would hold them and revel in their fading warmth until the cold hand of death was ready to accept him again as well.

He awoke to a familiar dark and dirty ceiling. The sound of a ceiling fan clicking on bad screws made him sigh in contentment. "At least I'm back in my apartment and not in the middle of a battle this time." The blonde called to no one in particular.

He sat up and felt the night cap on his head. Looking around at his horribly messy room let him know he was back to when he was a genin. Or perhaps, it was even before then.

"Only one way to find out..." He mumbled and stood up. The whiskered boy stretched and yawned, feeling as if he had just awoken from a century long nap. Though it wasn't really too far from the truth, he didn't understand the workings of time after each time he and his ladies died.

He moved to his tiny living room and sat down in a meditative position. The memories of his past lives were there but he needed information on his current situation. The chakra he channeled into his center and brain began to collect energy from around him as well. Soon enough, the memories of this current life began to rush into him.

"How far back are we?" The booming voice of his literal inner demon echoed out with a yawn. It seemed Kurama had just recently awoken as well.

"Figuring it out now." Naruto echoed back within his mind. The Kyubi groaned.

"Well hurry it up. I need to know if I should start altering your body." He called with another yawn. Naruto scoffed at the demon.

"How can you be so impatient when we have all the time in the world?"

"Because unlike you, I'm trapped in a cage still. The sooner you can let me out, the better." Kurama rolled his eyes. They did this every time.

For as long as either one of them could remember, they had been forced to relive their lives over and over again. Neither remembered exactly when or why it started. All they did remember that it was only Naruto at first. Then after a while of getting used to the happenings of history, with the few changes that occurred each time, Ino Yamanaka began to experience the repeats as well. Soon after, Hinata Hyuga joined them and so for the past few millennia, the trio had been forced into a temporal time loop.

In the beginning, they all figured it was something they needed to do to stop the time loops. Maybe some villain they didn't stop in time or some actions that needed to be corrected in their lives. However, after several times of saving the shinobi nations and living peaceful lives into their old ages, the trio soon realized they were simply doomed to a sort of purgatory for all eternity.

Of course they had given in to despair at some points. They committed suicide on multiple occasions, blamed and killed each other, and sometimes just went off the deep end. None of them were sane in any sense of the word anymore. At least, not for one where mortality actually meant something. Soon they felt content with the repetitions and even began to enjoy them.

Until a real threat appeared.

They noticed that this threat did not exist within every loop they went through. Actually, the being only existed occasionally, probably every 1000 years or so. It had no definite form or shape from what they could tell. Even the tailed beast had said it was something far beyond their knowledge. The one time the trio had even gotten Madara, Obito, and even Kagura on their side, none knew of the being. And it had soundly defeated them with almost no effort.

The being was an all out force. When it wouldn't personally send the trio back into looping oblivion, it fucked enough of the world up to do it for them. The trio began to understand, to some degree, that whatever was causing them to loop was probably connected to the entity. They simply called the being Chaos.

Snapping back to his present reality, Naruto's eyes opened. He smirked a bit as the memories of that timeline finally settled within his psyche. "Alright, so the villagers hate me more than ever here. They've beat me in this timeline, a rarity if I do say so myself, and several have tried to kill me on multiple occasions. Hokage-ji loves me in this one and has dealt out capital punishment on several of the people he caught fucking with me."

"What part of time are we in?"

"Beginning the last year of the academy. Ino and Hinata seem to be the same as most often. I'm a lot more introverted because of the beatings and I don't go out of my way to be conspicuous. Sasuke's a super prick in this one. It's a shame. I like having him as a best friend sometimes." Naruto shrugged as he began to head to wash up and meet with his two lovers. After the first few thousand times he had killed Sasuke, it had gotten a bit boring. Seeing different ways he could change the self proclaimed avenger had become a fun past time for him. But in this timeline, it seemed as if Sasuke was a super ego fuck stick that would probably end up dead during the mission to wave.

"So how are you going to play it this time?" Kurama's curious gaze tickled Naruto's mind. He knew this was one of the foxes favorite parts. Next to being released from his confinement. And also being a girl. For some reason, Kurama loved being a female in some timelines.

"Like Ino-hime requested. We're going to fuck shit up. We've probably got another 1000 years before Chaos shows up again, so we're going to cause some chaos of our own."

"That's all I needed to hear." The fox laughed as it began to repair Naruto's body back to its prime physical condition before his previous death.

The assaulting smell of flowers and perfume made her sit up and gag. As many times as she had woken up within the room of her child hood self, the over abundance of cutesy things and the smells always overwhelmed her. The blonde quickly rushed over to her window and threw it open, letting some fresh air into her room. Almost immediately after, she went about putting all the perfumes, scented candles, and cutesy knickknacks into a bag for burning later. With a sigh, Ino plopped onto her bed and looked around her room.

"Okay, so I've still got the purple flower wall paper. Must still be in the academy." Confirming her thoughts, she looked in a mirror to find herself in cotton purple pajamas and her hair barely falling past her shoulders. "Yep. Still in the academy." She groaned.

She moved to sit on the floor and took a meditative position. Just as Naruto, she began to feel the chakra from the world around her give her knowledge. She focused mainly on her two lovers, trying to see what their relationship would be like in the current timeline. Much to her chagrin, she had been treating Naruto like crap and barely knew Hinata existed. With that confirmed she moved on to her own personal life.

Her mother and father were loving parents, like always, but her mother was not a fan of Naruto. It was by her words that Ino treated Naruto poorly. It was by her fathers words that she did not hate the boy though. She smiled a bit. She hated it when both her parents would hate Naruto, but when it was only her mother, things were a bit simpler. On the rare occasion they both liked Naruto, or even rarer occasion where one or both of them were dead, Naruto had a second home away from home.

Her friendship with Sakura was already gone as the Uchiha's ego was rubbing off on them both. Sakura was being pompous and had beaten her previous bully, Ami, in a one on one spar. She had also beaten Ino a few times and had developed a superiority complex because of it. Ino frowned. Whenever the timelines made Sakura and Sasuke like that, it always lead to trouble for Naruto, herself, and Hinata. Usually it meant the council and elders were on the Uchiha's side and they would end up dealing with a bunch of political non-sense as she and her lovers constantly made the duo look bad.

"Ino, breakfast will be ready in ten minutes. Hurry and get dressed!" The voice of her mother made Ino smile.

It had been a long time since she had killed her own mother. It would be refreshing to do it again after so long. Don't get her wrong, she loved her parents. She also loved Hinata and Naruto too. That didn't mean she didn't enjoy mixing things up with them once in a while either. They were used to it after all. They were probably clinically insane too, but that just made things fun. Besides, Naruto had promised her they would fuck things up in this run. Most likely meant they'd be lucky if they even made it to the Academy Graduation ceremony.

So with a sadistic smile, Ino began to dress while thinking of ways of making her mother have an 'accident'.

She awoke in a sitting position. Her eyes snapped open and she took in a deep gasp as the world appeared around her again. She had found herself in this position countless times before. Only rarely would she be graced with waking up in a bed of some sort. With a sigh, she looked at the other two people within the room, knowing what was about to happen.

"Are you so weak minded that even the act of meditating is too difficult for you now?" The voice of her father made her skin crawl. Hearing this man speaking anything other than begs and pleas of mercy always made her sick to her stomach.

"No, father." Was her terse reply. She didn't have time to figure out what part of time she was in, and didn't bother with a formality at the moment. Once she had her memories and met up with her lovers, she would know what demeanor she would take.

The tone his daughter used was lost on Hiashi as he was used to not caring what the girl had to say to begin with. Looking to his left, he was happy to see his youngest daughter still with her eyes closed and meditating peacefully. When he saw Hinata reenter her own meditative position, he quirked an eyebrow at the absolutely calm look upon her face. Again, not caring much for what the girl did, he was happy that she was properly meditating for once and returned to his own serene state.

On Hinata's end, she was doing her best not to take in any energy from the two beside her. As things stood, she already knew this timeline was going to be bull shit. It worked out fine for her. Just meant she would get to have some fun with certain people later. Depending on Naruto and Ino's moods, it would be sooner than later.

Soon, the memories of her timeline began to race into her being. It was just about the same as usual. Her mother was a loving and caring woman. Hiashi seemed to be a bit more cold than usual, not even showing his own wife much love at first. However, a changing point was the death of her mother. This happened on occasion, yet Hinata could not contain her rage every time she saw it. Hinata's mother did not die giving birth to Hanabi as were the usual. This time, Hiashi himself had killed his own wife in a fit of rage for not giving him the son he wanted twice in a row.

Hinata had seen it personally this time which is why Hiashi treated her worse than usual. He had threatened her with death if she were to tell anyone. It drove Hinata to be even meeker than usual and her sister had developed a hatred for her at an early age.

This would not do at all.

Usually she, Naruto, and Ino would agree to simply fall into their lives and let things continue until they were ready to start making big changes. However, she knew for a fact that she could not allow this time line to move on like that. Not after their previous loss to Chaos. She needed to blow off some steam and the timeline had given her the perfect scenario to do so.

Not like she wouldn't have enjoyed torturing her family even if they were loving this time around. Having a moral reason to do so was just icing on the cake.

She saw that she and Naruto were both meek in this timeline and Ino was a bit more egocentric than usual. That meant she and Naruto would draw the most attention when they changed. It was fine though. They would probably just end up fucking up the current timeline and moving on to the next one before deciding to spend time building lives. This would simply be fun.

Next to her, Hiashi suddenly got an unnerving chill down his back.

After finishing up with his morning, or in this case, new life routine, Naruto headed to the agreed upon meeting spot whenever they had come back to a point where they were all in the village; Ichiraku's Ramen stand. It was one of few places that the trio felt comfort in no matter what timeline they went to. Even the very rare few where the Ichiraku's hated Naruto didn't sour their mood for the place. The happening was almost as rare as their encounters with Chaos anyway.

As per usual, Naruto was the first to arrive.

"Good morning Naruto, what brings you here so early today?" A well spirited Teuchi greeted the blonde. He immediately noticed the tired look in the boys eyes but put it off as him not getting much sleep. "Didn't you start another year in the academy a few weeks back? What time does class start?"

"In an hour. I'm meeting some new friends here for breakfast Teuchi-ji! I was excited so I got here early." Naruto stayed in character for the moment. The old man in front of him was one of also a few people he didn't enjoy hurting. Though he did kill him a few times to see the reactions of the villagers and his daughter, Naruto loved the man and his daughter almost as much as he loved Ino and Hinata. The trio usually avoided hurting the small family if they could.

"That's great news Naruto! I'll let you and your friends have your first bowls on the house!" Teuchi went to start preparing the meals. He already knew what Naruto would order and began to work on the blondes meal first.

That moment brought a sense of comfort to Naruto. It was another reason they always went to Ichiraku's before anything else if they could help it. The warm welcome they usually got from the ramen chefs eased their pain of whatever had caused their previous deaths. It never completely brought them back down from their negative emotions but it was enough to get them started peacefully into their new life usually.

"Where's Ayame-nee?" Naruto asked, though he knew the girl simply hadn't awaken yet.

"Still sleep of course!" Teuchi laughed. "Sorry to say but I think you'll be in class before she wakes up."

"It's fine. Girls need their beauty sleep." Naruto joked, getting a small chuckle from the chef.

A few minutes of idle chat went by before the first of Naruto's guest showed up. The second blonde called out to Naruto as she jogged over to the stand.

"Morning Ino-hi...chan." Naruto corrected himself. A quick glance at the ramen chef let him know he had heard. Thankfully it just seemed as if the old man had come to the wrong conclusion…or maybe right conclusion looking at the situation.

"Morning Naruto-kun!" Ino called and jumped on the boy with a hug. The blush Naruto forced on his face confirmed Teuchi's suspicions as a knowing smile came on his face. Ino turned to the smiling man as she released Naruto and smiled brightly. "Good morning Ichiraku-san! My name's Ino Yamanaka! It's a pleasure to meet you!" Ino bowed to the man.

Teuchi was taken aback by not only the young girls manners and treatment of Naruto, but by her name as well. "So you're Inoichi and Kana's daughter? Nice to meet you as well!"

Ino had observed the two for a bit before showing up. She knew out of all three of them, Naruto preferred to take things slow. While she had no problem simply starting the day with arson or something equally as...hot, her counter part blonde had been in the loops a lot longer than herself and their last lover. Though it didn't make much of a difference by then. Still, they respected Naruto's wishes to simply not go off and start blowing stuff up every time they awoke after a defeat by Chaos.

Before the two could settle into a conversation with the ramen chef, their last companion showed up. The Hyuga heiress walked with an annoyed look on her young face. Also out of the three, Hinata was the one most likely to prematurely start the fireworks. They couldn't blame her though. Usually when they arrived too far back in time, she had to put up with the bull shit from her clan for a bit.

As she approached them, her expression brightened. Just as Ino, the starry eyed girl ran and jumped on Naruto with a hug. "Good morning Naruto-kun!"

"Morning to you too Hina-chan!" Naruto responded, gazing lovingly into her eyes.

This time Teuchi was a bit shocked. Not only had both girls greeted his favorite blonde with more affection than he had ever seen the boy receive, but he knew for a fact that this girl was the Hyuga heiress.

"Lady Hinata, it's an honor to have you here!"

Hinata frowned at Teuchi's words. "J-just Hinata is fine, Ichiraku-san." Seeing that the old man knew her, she threw in the stutter for good measure.

"Hey, Hinata! Forgetting someone?" Ino called with a mock pout. Hinata giggled at her second lovers antics. She would have joked with her but decided to keep up appearances for a bit longer. She gave the taller girl a warm embrace. It would simply look like a friendly hug to the ramen chef though.

"So what will you two lovely ladies be having for breakfast?" Ichiraku asked as he finished up Naruto's bowl.

"I ate breakfast, but a bowl of miso pork would be great for lunch!" Ino called, almost drooling at the look of Naruto's bowl. Of course after being with the blonde for so long, both girls developed a love for the dish almost as great as his own.

"I'll h-have the same, please. With egg."

Teuchi nodded and happily went to make the meals. Hinata took her spot on the other side of Ino, putting the platinum blonde in the middle. They waited until they were sure Ichiraku was focused on cooking and that no one else was around before all three went through a few hand signs. A waver of wind blew over them.

"Alright, so what's on you girls minds?" Naruto asked seriously.

The jutsu they had just used took a while for them to develop. It was like a cloaking jutsu. It allowed the trio a small pocket atmosphere around themselves where they could speak. Everyone else around them would hear a completely different conversation. This was done by syncing their chakras and minds through Ino, allowing them to almost communicate telepathically. They could do that as well, but until the girls could get their abilities back from previous timelines, this crude method was the best they had.

"Mom hates you but dad is neutral for the most part." Ino started. "Me and Sakura's friendship ended a while ago so no love lost there. She's going to be a thorn in my side if we play nice."

"Hiashi killed my mother in this timeline and Hanabi hates me because of him. Both the main and side branches see me as useless. He threatened to kill me if I reveal what I know of mother." Hinata reported. "Kurenai-sensei is useless here. She tries to be comforting but it comes off as patronizing a bit and all it leads to is me trying to endure the suffering. I don't have a crush on you, Naruto-kun, because I feel you're just as pathetic as me."

Naruto sweat dropped at her wording. The Hyuga heiress blushed and waved her hands. "It's not like that Naruto-kun! You know I love you!"

The blondes laughed at the flustered look on the Hyuga girls face. "It's fine, we know Hinata."

Ino turned to Naruto next. "So, what about you? We still going to fuck everything up?"

Naruto went into detail about his own memories of the timeline. He went into graphic detail of the beatings and the assassination attempts just to get the girls riled up a bit. It worked as both of his lovers were sporting almost sadistic grins.

"This is going to be marvelous!" Ino called, again drooling in anticipation.

"How soon can we start?" Hinata asked eagerly, almost bouncing in her seat.

Naruto hated to break it to them though. "Honestly, I wanted to spend a little time with jiji in this one. See how much he actually cares."

The crestfallen looks on the girls faces made his stomach coil.

"...I guess I can just wait for another loop though." The girls perked up immediately. "We can start whenever you two want. But I would like to at least see who we would be teamed with in this timeline."

"What? That's a whole year away!" Hinata protested.

"Come on, Naruto-kun! You just said we can start whenever we want!"

Naruto chuckled. "Alright, alright! But I still have to give you both your energy back. So we won't be doing anything in class today at least."

Both girls groaned at that. They knew they could probably surprise everyone with their new attitudes, but they didn't know how much stress their bodies would be able to handle if they decided to start knocking heads in class.

Naruto knew they wouldn't be satisfied with just that, but there wasn't much they could do at the moment. "How about working on your families first? I can get you both your energy back after class and then you can start at home."

"You're just stalling!" Ino cried out with a pout. Hinata nodded her agreement and huffed.

"Savor the moment!" Naruto argued. "It's not like we won't get another chance anyway!"

"Take your own advice!" Hinata called with a smirk. "We have all the time in the world, right?"

Naruto couldn't argue with that. He would relent this time and let the girls have their way. Besides, he honestly felt like letting off some steam after their previous defeat by Chaos as well.

"Here you all are! I packed a lunch for all three of you! Next time you kids stop by I want to know how you met this knucklehead! I can introduce you to my daughter as well!" Teuchi called as he set the bowls of ramen in front of the trio. Ino's was a bento and Teuchi had two other bento's waiting for Hinata and Naruto as well.

With the old man back, Naruto subtly dropped their jutsu and smiled brightly. "Thanks Teuchi-ji! You're the best!"

The old man rubbed his nose. "I know!"

After finishing their breakfast, the trio split up as to not arrive at school together. Ino and Hinata would listen to Naruto for now. Since neither had their power they would rather not cause too big of a scene. But then again, that also depended on how the class would react to them as well. Naruto knew if anyone got on Ino or Hinata's nerves too much, they could kiss the small time of peace goodbye.

Naruto himself knew the Hokage would be questioning him about his relationship with the two girls too. He knew the old Kage was usually watching things through his crystal ball and had most likely seen the breakfast he shared with the girls.

Even as he was lost in thought, Naruto sensed a boy attempting, terribly, to sneak up behind him. With a sigh, he simply let the person shove him hard, sending him forward a few feet and landing face first in the dirt. Laughter filled the air as Naruto began to sit up. Turning to his assailant with a glare, Naruto again sighed. He didn't know the kid. It was always some unimportant prick when in the academy. He had hoped it would at least be Kiba or something.

He saw Ino and Hinata trying to ignore the action, though Ino was fake laughing. He could see her clenched fists. It surprised him. Usually the girls would laugh too, seeing as something like this wasn't nearly as meaningful as it used to be. He chalked it up to them both being focused on getting through the day so that they could get home and really have some fun.

The bell rung that signified they were allowed to enter the school. Naruto stayed on the ground, wanting to be the last one in. He sensed around for any watching eyes and wasn't surprised to feel Mizuki and several anbu. Iruka seemed to have been in the class already meaning he hadn't seen what happened. Maybe Iruka was the same as usual this time…

"Good morning, class!" Iruka called cheerfully after all the students were seated and attendance had been taken.

Almost immediately the trio began to tune him out. Naruto finally began to feel what the others were feeling. This was going to be boring as shit. Suddenly starting the mayhem a little early didn't seem like such a bad thing. He would have liked to look in on the Hokage, which he still probably could, but there was no way he was going to let things keep on like this for a year.

He looked to Hinata in the back row and saw her already asleep. Looking to Ino found her almost gagging as she pretended to swoon over Sasuke with Sakura on the opposite side sending waves of hate her way. They were trying for his sake, he realized. He wouldn't make them suffer too long.

For the most of the day, lessons went on like any other timeline. Even his work was laced with genjutsu to make things harder, like always. Things went by smoothly with neither Ino or Hinata deviating from the timeline much at all. He almost found himself hoping one of the girls would do something to spice up the day.

During lunch, Naruto moved to the back of the room to eat in the same row as Hinata. As long as he didn't sit right next to her he figured it wouldn't draw too much attention to them.

"So...getting bored yet, Naruto-kun?" The girl whispered without making eye contact. He could still see the makings of a smirk tugging at the corners of her lips though.

"Yeah, yeah. I was wrong this time okay? I'm not used to coming back this far. No one's relationship is predominant enough for anything special to happen yet." He sighed as he began to dig into his ramen lunch.

"That's what we're here for."

"So what do you suggest, hime?"

Hinata shook her head. "I'm just going to watch you squirm for the rest of today. Not like me or Ino can do much right now anyway."

Naruto chuckled dryly. "My sadistic little princesses. You get off on watching me suffer..."

"I would but this body hasn't hit puberty yet. Hurry up and give me my energy so we can have some real fun!" Hinata whined and whispered at the same time somehow.

"After class." The blonde reassured her.

The two ate their lunches in silence afterward.

With Ino, the girl was happy that the current her still decided to take lunch with her surrogate brothers Chouji and Shikamaru. The two were the same as always as well. Chouji humble and always eating and Shikamaru lazy as all fuck. The three ate outside so that Shikamaru could lay about and watch the clouds for a bit before going back to class and falling asleep.

"What's the matter Ino?" Shikamaru called lazily a few minutes into their lunch. Ino froze, not sure if she had somehow done something differently already. She knew Shikamaru was a genius but she had gotten used to hiding things from the boy over the centuries.

"Wh-what do you mean?"

Shikamaru cracked one of his eyes to glare at the blonde with a 'really?' look. "You're eating ramen, for one. You hate the stuff. Plus you're not shouting about Sasuke right now. It's eerily peaceful."

"Oh wow, Miso Pork! I thought you hated pork Ino!" Chouji called with what she could sense was actually pride from the boy.

She chuckled nervously and scratched her head. "Uh, heheh, just thought I'd go for a change of pace with my diet! If we're going to be running around and such, I'd have more energy if I actually ate more than salad, right? And I don't talk about Sasuke all the time!"

Both boys rose eyebrows at her addressing Sasuke without -kun. She noticed her slip a bit too late though. This would be so much easier if she could just slit their throats then and there. But she didn't have it in her if they weren't being assholes. Just inquisitive.

"L-look, I'm trying to change okay? If I want Sasuke-kun," She almost vomited in her mouth. "to notice me, then I'd have a better chance if I take being a ninja seriously, right?"

Shikamaru and Chouji couldn't argue with that logic. The big boned boy let it go but Ino knew her smart brother wouldn't be so easily convinced. She also knew he was too lazy to pursue the matter anymore either.

"Whatever." He called with a yawn. "As long as you're not being annoying you can dye your hair pink for all I care."

Ino stifled a giggle at the jab on Sakura but kept up appearances by hitting the pineapple haired boy on the head. "Don't call me annoying, baka!"

The trio continued on as usual afterwards. Ino was happy to spend time with the two. She never knew when she'd end up in a timeline where the three of them didn't have the bond that they did. It happened rarely, but still often enough for her to appreciate the moments like these. With a content breath, she leaned back and continued to think about how to kill her mother.

If the ending seems abrupt, that's because it is. I randomly decided to end the chapter there. Makes it easier to put out chapters if they're between 5-7k words long.

Also so people don't think I'm the type of author who doesn't care what people think of what they write (I care, a little), I'm aware of the trio seeming almost inhumane.

Like, literally, there is almost no personality from the three in this chapter. That's how I wanted it to feel. The three can still be the same loving trio most fanfics show them as, but there are times like this timeline where they can hardly be considered human. That's why I didn't put much emphasis on their internal emotions outside of the sadistic 'Can we stab them now?' attitude.

This won't be in every arc. I'm only showing this now so people don't get surprised when they go on a genocidal killing spree that is in no way justified later.