Ino groaned as she awoke shivering on the cold and hard forest ground, her mouth incredibly dry. Rubbing her eyes and pulling some twigs out of her long platinum blond hair, she tried to remember exactly what happened.
Her day had been pretty normal. She had woke up at her apartment early, went to help out at her parent’s flower store, and then headed to her standard training ground for a quick workout and some kunai practice. Glancing around, she noticed that she was still at Training Ground 7, but the kunai she had thrown into the targets were gone. It was then that she finally remembered; mid-throw, Ino had felt something prick her in the neck. She had only had a few seconds to pull the dart out and examine it before the knock-out poison did its work.
As Ino stood and looked down at herself, she realized why she felt so cold. Her kunai were not the only thing her assailant had taken. Whoever had ambushed her had also stolen all of her clothes, including her underwear. They had stranded Ino fully nude in a public training ground. Worse, the reason for Ino’s dry mouth was also revealed by her inspection; a seal had been placed covering her mouth, effectively gagging her.
‘Shit this is bad. I’m uninjured, which means that this is probably some kind of prank. Most likely Forehead, so I should be careful. Her pranks usually have more than one level to them, so there’s probably something more.’
Ino attempted to channel some chakra to the seal to get it off her mouth, only for her chakra to not react at all. Ino swore through her gag; the seal was disrupting her chakra, and without chakra she had no way of removing it.
‘Okay, let’s think this through. I’m naked and chakra-less. It’s pretty dark, probably around 8pm. Which means that people will be on the streets but they won’t be packed, so I will have at least a chance to sneak home undetected. If I can get into my room and get some clothes on, I can find someone to get the seal off of me. Simple, at least as long as I make it back to my apartment.’
Deciding that now was a good as time as ever, Ino made her way to the edge of the training ground, using her hands to cover as much as her body as possible. Luckily for her, she had picked a training ground that was only a few blocks from her home, but without chakra she would have to go slow.
When she reached the treeline, Ino paused to look around the lit street to verify it was empty. After waiting for a couple of people to leave or go inside, Ino quickly streaked across the road into a dark alley way. As she ran, Ino prayed that no one peaked their heads out their door or came around the corner; being caught like this would be mortifying.
Luckily, she managed to enter the alley way undetected. However, when she had taken about four steps into the protective darkness, a previously invisible seal on the alley wall appeared and began to glow. After about a second, a loud alarm began blaring from the seal, easily audible from a distance away.
‘Crap, this must be a trap from Sakura. She’s trying to get me caught. Better keep moving.’
Despite all of the nervous energy coursing through Ino’s body telling her to rest for a moment, Ino willed herself to keep moving, making her way past the seal and down the alley way. As she approached the end of the alley, a second seal appeared and began blaring as well.
This time, Ino didn’t pause to check for people. Anyone on the street she was approaching would have stopped moving when the alarm started, and certainly would be about to check on it. So when she reached the end, Ino continued sprinting out into the street, trying to simply blitz by anyone that was there on her way into the next alley.
“Holy shit, did you see that?” Entering the new alleyway, Ino silently cursed at the sound of the drunken male voice.
“What are you talking about?”
“I swear I just saw a naked blond chick run by.”
“Man, you really need to lay off the sake from now on. Come on, let’s get you home you old drunk.”
Thanking fate, Ino relaxed for a second, hidden behind the dumpster she was crouched behind. The sound of the voices was receding, obviously headed in a different direction. She was slightly confused at the turn of events however.
‘It was like they hadn’t even heard the alarm seal. What’s going on?’
As Ino caught her breath and rubbed some warmth into her freezing arms, she finally figured it out. Sakura must have designed the seals so that only Ino would hear them. The blond had panicked and run at the sound of them, even though they had actually added no risk to her safety.
‘Damn Sakura, that’s clever. Got me jumping at my own shadow at this point.’
Resolved to be more careful from then on, Ino continued her naked trek, and after a few more close scares, finally reached the base of her building. Unfortunately, Sakura had stolen her key as well as her clothes, which meant Ino was going to have to go through her window.
Doubly unfortunate, Ino’s apartment was on the second floor.
‘Alright, I’m going to have to climb. While I’m up there, I’ll be totally exposed, so I need to wait for a good opportunity and then be as quick as possible if I don’t want to flash the neighbors.’
When her moment finally arrived, Ino sprinted full speed to the wall and began to climb. The wall was brick with plenty of handholds, and as a ninja Ino was trained to climb even without chakra. In less than twenty seconds, she had went from her hiding place in the alley to just below her own window.
For once, Ino was glad she had forgotten to the lock her window that morning. However, as she slid the window upwards and open, the lights in her room suddenly lit up, with the light spilling out of the room and illuminated her naked body!
Momentarily surprised by the sudden change in light, Ino failed to avoid the seals that appeared on the wall and sprayed some kind of slime over her hands. Instinctively she tried to pull her hands away, only to find them firmly stuck.
‘Oh shit, this is the stuff from that Sticky Syrup Trap jutsu I’ve seen. I should have been more careful. I can’t get out of this without chakra! ’
Worse, a second later two more seals appeared by her feet and covered them with adhesive the slime as well. To no avail, Ino struggled but each of limbs was definitely trapped. As if to be a cherry on top, another one of the alarm seals from early appeared directly next to Ino and began blaring. And judging by the sounds of nearby windows and doors opening, it wasn’t just Ino that could hear this one.
With a seal plastered across her mouth and all of her limbs firmly adhered to the wall, Ino had no way to cover her nude form or call for help as more and more people arrived to laugh at the humiliated kunoichi.
Nearly resigned to her fate at this point, Ino glanced into her well-lit room, hoping that by some miracle she could find some way to save herself. Instead she was treated to a chilling message written across the far wall in paint.
“I win this time, Ino-pig!”
For once, Ino couldn’t help agreeing with her pink-haired rival.
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