Ten Reasons Ino is Scared of Tenten: Truth

I.

Ino has no idea that Shikamaru was just trying to freak her out or that Lee and Tenten were actually assigned to destroy the place later that day. Or that their team was there because the place was going out of business and was having a last hoorah.

II.

Tenten is pissed because she feels that she shouldn't be assigned to do the medical training solely because she is a female. Neji has way better chakra control and is more suited for the work.

Tenten does use tourniquets against enemy ninja, but only when sanctioned by the Hokage.

III.

Several ninja with minor medical training do the same work as Tenten, but it is Tenten that brought the idea to the Hokage's attention.

The Hokage didn't like the idea and figured that the foreign villages would get pissed, but Tenten managed to successfully use the excuse that she 'had very little training' and cripple four foreign shinobi.

The Hokage pulled her from the medical classes on the basis that she had the basics down and it really would be beneficial if they had a legitimate excuse if foreign villages came to her with complaints about her medical personel.

IV.

The client that Ino and Team Gai escort is actually a jerk. Three times he tries to touch Tenten inappropriately, but Tenten sticks close to him because Ino is a pretty little girl and figures that Ino probably doesn't have experience dealing with this sort of guy.

Tenten really is sorry about the corpses flying at Ino. Neji and Lee actually both laugh about it later, and even Gai admits that Ino "appeared as though the youth were sucked from her youthful body," but Tenten tells them not to be cruel. Tenten figures that Ino's never actually had to kill anyone.

V.

The next mission Tenten purposefully tries to make the kill as quiet and bloodless as possible. Gai isn't really neat when it comes to assassinations; he tends to do scary things like twist people's heads around.

She smiles at Ino to try to show that everything is alright and that killing is part of the job.

VI.

Tenten greets everyone on the street because she is just a happy person. She remembers names because she hates that people always forget hers, no matter how simple it is.

Tenten could and would kill these people if she were ordered to do so, but she really wouldn't want to anymore than Ino.

VII.

Tenten did destroy the arm of that guy from Mist. She smiled at him after apologizing and saying that he was going to probably lose the arm. He was fairly old, so he wasn't too angry, and he thanked Tenten since she was saving his life.

He actually didn't lose his arm, but he retired since he wanted to have a family before being a ninja killed him.

VIII.

Sakura knows about the little tourniquet work that several ninja have started to do for the Hokage. She can't tell Ino though.

Sakura doesn't think that Tenten is a sociopath, as she's seen her psych file at the office.

Sakure and Tenten rarely cross paths and it's just pure coincidence that Ino sees her talking to the bun-haired girl.

IX.

Tenten had just returned from a particularly difficult mission the day that Ino jumped into her head.

She was working on autopilot the whole time and was dead tired.

She really wasn't disturbed by the killings on the mission, but good shinobi don't allow their emotions to rule their lives.

Tenten is a good shinobi.

X.

Shikamaru likes lying to Ino, especially whenever it makes her scared. Shikamaru is a genius with an IQ over 200 and knows that Ino is petrified of Tenten.

When Ino comes to him asking about Tenten, he lies. When Ino's scared she always wants to sleep next to him on missions. He's a guy and enjoys the attention.