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Sugar and Spice.

After introducing them to one another she could tell there was something about each other that put them off, she honestly figured it was the attitudes that they both held. Hinata sighed as she watched the two of them go at it once more. Ino had whipped Tobirama in the face with her hair with a snipe remark and Tobirama had yanked her long hair. It was childish and it was getting on her nerves. Madara sighed as he sat across the room with Hashirama while they tried to work things out with Hinata's approval. They were technically working on leadership issues and both Hinata and Hashirama were offering up ideas while their assistants, Ino and Tobirama, were bickering back and forth, which was normall an Izuna and Tobirama issue.

"Ino! Tobirama!" Both Hinata and Hashirama snapped together, which made the two of them look at one another, then back at their assistants. "Do you two have some things to work out?" Hashirama asked and Izuna chuckled from the corner earning him a swat to the back of the head by Madara. "Guys we are trying to be serious... if you can't be serious then go pass out the ballots or something for us. We are trying our best to get things settled in an orderly fashion and the two of you are making things hard." Hinata sighed with her head propped up on her hand.

Ino sighed and apologized to them and tried to distance herself from Tobirama, but Hinata noticed the swift grab of her hip to pull her closer as he whispered something in her ear, setting the blonde off once more. She swatted the hand that had grabbed her hip and turned her back to him, which made him smirk. Hinata sighed deeply and rubbed her brow as she looked between the two. "Tobirama, whatever you're doing stop it. You need to focus because this involves you too, now get over here." Hashirama scolded with a sigh and Tobirama did as he was told.

'Thank goodness.' Hinata thought softly as she looked over to her blonde friend who was currently adjusting the flower arrangement that behind Hashirama's desk. She smiled at her friend as she hummed and happily arranged the flowers, while Tobirama watched her carefully. She was definitely going to have a talk with Ino to see what was going on between those two because from the moment they met they were at each other's throats. Hinata couldn't understand why in the slightest.

She looked back to the task at hand and sighed, she was supposed to be one of three in charge, right under Hashirama or Madara. She knew it was still most likely going to be Hashirama, but Madara had prepared for that too, he was going to be right under Hashirama if that was the case, that way they all could have some form of control over the happenings of the village. She felt like it would be better this way seeing as no one felt left out of decisions. It would be that one of them would be the face of the trio.

She looked back to Tobirama who looked bored now. He quirked a brow at her and smirked seemed she had been caught staring to which Ino hit him with a flower like it was a dart, causing him to whirl on her and start yelling once more. She was giggling behind her hand while he had a flower sticking out of the side of his neck, a trick Ino was notorious for but usually with lethal flowers. They were yelling back and forth once more until Hashirama's overwhelming presence pressed down on all of them.

"I suppose we are done for the day." He grumbled and Hinata offered him a small smile and a nod. She stacked her paperwork up neatly, as did Madara and Hashirama. Ino folded her hands behind her back and tried to sneak out of the room, but Hinata's chakra began pressing down on her. Ino looked over to her with a sheepish smile, only to see the sinisterly sweet smile that Hinata had on her lips. "Come on Ino, we have to discuss some things." She said and looped her arm with her best friend's.

When they got out of the hokage tower Hinata looked over to her with a sigh. "What is going on with you?" Hinata asked and she crossed her arms over her chest softly and began rubbing her elbow. Hinata could tell something was bothering the blonde, but she wasn't sure as to what. "If you don't feel comfortable talking about it here, we can go somewhere else, I just need you to know it's important that we figure out what is going on so we can fix it." Hinata explained and Ino sighed with a sad look on her cheeks.

"I know Hinata... I'm sorry I was being annoying in there... or troublesome, as Shikamaru would say..." she laughed with a sad glint in her eyes. Hinata could tell the blonde was getting homesick, which she had been when she first arrived here as well. It was hard being in a new time with no one you know, but at least they had each other now. Hinata looked back to her sad friend and smiled softly. "You know you can always talk to me about anything and everything right?" she asked and Ino nodded with a slight pink tint to her cheeks.

Ino definitely had her pick of the men in this time, seeing as she already had a fan group. Hinata herself had one at first but once they saw Madara mean mugging everyone who even looked her direction wit that kind of intent that smothered itself out swiftly. Everyone seemed to have a thing for the beautiful and strong future girls, which was ok but not for Madara's sanity. She smiled at the thought of how jealous he had gotten someone had asked her if she was seeing anyone, it wasn't the jealousy that had made her smile, but more so the pride that he exuded when she told the man she was dating Madara. His whole ego had swelled to mass proportions. Which this made her feel good seeing as though she didn't think much of herself but clearly, he did.

She looked back over to her friend and noticed she was still looking down at her hand which was rubbing her elbow. "Come on, let's go get some barbeque..." Hinata offered and Ino seemed to perk up, at least there was something that could remind the girl of home in this time. They made their way down the dusty streets of the village and her mood seemed to brighten as they got closer to the barbeque stall. They entered the stall and the waitress happily showed them to a table.

It wasn't long before they brought over the meat and vegetables to put on the grill and in the hot pot. Hinata began stirring a random vegetable around in the hot pot and she looked over at Ino as she popped it in her mouth. "Spill." She said when she swallowed her bite. "Ok... So, why are you and Tobirama always pestering each other?" Hinata asked with a sigh as she set some of the pork on the grill. Ino just blushed and began attempting to place her beef on the grill. She was avoiding the topic of him altogether.

"Ino... do you like him?" she asked softly and Ino dropped her chopsticks and fumbled to re-grab them. The blonde looked up at her and the blush that had risen on her cheeks darkened. "You do... so why not tell him?" Hinata asked and Ino sighed as she crammed a piece of beef in her mouth while grumbling something. Hinata sighed and resisted the urge to roll her eyes, the blonde knew she couldn't understand her, so why was she being difficult?

"I said I've tried he's just an idiot." She grumbled once more and Hinata laughed lightly. "Well so is Madara but he caught the hint." Hinata said and Ino laughed lightly. "Don't let him hear you saying that, might get offended." She said and Hinata smiled at her friend. "He knows he is cause I kept trying to show him and all he wanted to do was flirt." She said as she took another bite and Ino laughed. "I can just imagine you two trying to flirt with each other and just looking like utter goofballs." Ino said and Hinata nodded.

"It's funny because no one could tell who I was actually in love with. Hashirama thought I was in love with Tobirama, but also was confused by Izuna and Madara. Izuna was the only one who thought I was in love with Madara while Tobirama thought I was in love with Izuna. Mito thought I may try and steal Hashirama from her. It was a whole situation until it all clicked and they all realized I was in love with Madara. So, seeing the way Tobirama treats you it might be a jealousy thing because you've been hanging out with Izuna." Hinata explained as she dunked yet another vegetable into the hot pot.

"You sure missed me huh? Cause that was sure some tea you had to spill." Ino said as she took another bite of the beef she had pulled from the grill. They sat there in silence for a moment before Hinata felt a familiar chakra wash over them and she couldn't help the smile that crossed her lips. Tobirama was looking for someone. He slipped into the shop and looked over at them, an irritated look crossing his face as he caught sight of Ino. Hinata blinked in confusion, only for Tobirama to hold out a hand to her, which she looked at disdainfully.

"Come on bimbo... I don't have all day." Hinata cringed at the look he got from her after that one. She knew there was going to be a punch landed after that comment, no matter how much he would try to avoid it there would be at least one. As soon as those two piled out she heard him cursing loudly. He earned that one. She looked to see three more piling into her booth with her and Hashirama grinned as he took over Ino's food, along with Izuna. Those two got along well enough thankfully.

She sighed as Madara began picking through her food and throwing things on the grill. She gave him a dirty look and he grinned at her with a mouth full of cooked pork hanging from his lips. She shook her head with a small smile and began wondering what on earth was going on between Ino and Tobirama.

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Ino glared at the man before her and crossed her arms over her chest as he continued to complain about her hitting him over the head. "If you're flirting you obviously don't know how to do it..." Hashirama said and Ino blushed darkly, thinking he was talking to her, but when she turned to see Tobirama blushing as well she realized he wasn't talking to her at all. "You two have spent the last four months going back and forth like this... it is exhausting. So please... go sort yourselves out in whatever form or fashion you need to, because even Hinata is getting sick of it." Hashirama sighed and their blushes darkened on their cheeks. Ino turned to see him hiding his blush by holding a hand over his cheeks.

He offered her his other hand once more and she took it gently this time, rather than letting him snatch her hand. He pulled her off behind him towards the village training grounds and she looked at him oddly as he fell into a taijutsu stance. Was he wanting to fight? She couldn't figure him out. She watched as he rushed towards her but she rolled her eyes and raised her hands in the all too familiar mind transfer technique hand sign and the moment her body dropped he stopped moving.

'What the hell?' she giggled in his mind and his eyes went wide as she made him sit down. "Get out of my head woman!" he snapped and she only laughed more. 'Should have thought about it before trying to fight someone with a style you don't know about.' She said in his mind and he huffed lightly. He tried to contain his thoughts but she continued to probe his mind, searching for anything that could tell her what he was really thinking about when he argued with her, but it seemed like he was good at hiding those thoughts from her. she huffed within his mind, eliciting a chuckle from him. She let him go and rolled to her feet, ignoring the pain in her rump from where she had collapsed.

"Couldn't find what you were looking for could you?" he asked and she rolled her eyes. "I just wanna know why you treat me so badly." She grumbled and this seemed to catch him off guard. "Do you want me to treat you differently?" he asked and she nodded as she crossed her arms over her chest. With a smirk he was in her face, only a mere centimeters away from her lips. "You want to see what I hide in my mind?" he asked and she nodded, the proximity between them making her blush once more.

She placed her fingers to his forehead and she slipped her eyes shut as he allowed her in. She rifled through his thoughts, seeing images of him watching her from the corner of his eyes. He was never dirty with how he watched her, just seemingly curious. She watched as he found any and all reasons to touch her, a light brush over the hip as he brushed past her and a slight swat of the hair as it got within his proximity. She had been so annoyed with him over all these simple touches and yet she never realized this was his way of flirting with her. His thoughts drifted verbal and she listened to him tell her she was beautiful and that he wanted her.

She released him and stepped back a bit and he had that dastardly smirk plastered on his lips still. He was unphased by her abilities, which he supposed Hinata had warned him of. He offered her a hand once more and she glared at him as she took it. "You could have just said something you know..." she grumbled and he laughed, it seemed genuine much to her surprise. "I tried, but you kept hitting me every time I tried." He said and she looked away with a huff.

"You never said anything." She grumbled and then her cheeks darkened as she remembered what he had said while they were in the hokage office. "I see you remember now." He said and once more he was edging closer to her, she didn't make any move to hit him for his vulgar comment from before, yet she watched him carefully as he reached and plucked a small flower from the ground and offered it to her. "Would you be willing to give me a chance?" he asked and her fingertips brushed over the small flower he offered to her. It was a little dandelion. She wasn't going to ruin his mood and point out that he had handed her a tiny weed, because she appreciated the small gesture.

Didn't mean she couldn't get on his nerves still. Before she could make a move to flirt with him, he grabbed her by the wrists and pulled her flush against him. She looked up at him in confusion but the moment her eyes met his he brushed the fringe out of her eye and pressed his lips against hers. Her eyes went wide and she almost dropped the small flower in her shock. Her eyes slipped shut and she began kissing him back, only for them to find themselves back up against a tree the rough bark rubbing against her back and pulling her hair. She slipped her hand between their mouths and smirked. "If you wanna keep kissing me I want a better place to go, as exciting as this is it's painful." She said and he chuckled from under her hand.

"I'm gonna have your hair knotted if we go to a more private place." He said the moment her hand left his mouth and a deep blush crossed her cheeks. She didn't know whether to take him up on that offer or wait for another time. A wicked smirk crossed her lips and she blew him a kiss and used her thumbs to hike her skirt up a little, only to take off running in the direction of the village. She sped past Hinata and Madara while laughing, only for Tobirama to be right on her heels. He wrapped his arm around her waist and tossed her up onto his shoulder and patted her on the rump as he began walking away.

She locked eyes with Hinata with a smirk on her lips. She sent her friend a wink and Hinata blushed deeply as she realized what was happening. She watched as Hinata grabbed Madara's hand and pulled him off in the opposite direction. Ino could only laugh as Hinata took off. "Are you going to put me down anytime soon?" she asked and he chuckled, she felt that sinister intent through her whole body. He made his way up the stairs to her home and shoved open the door with his foot.

He let her down and turned back to her as she sat down on her couch and smirked. Her fingers trailing up her thighs once more. He locked her front door and made his way over to her where she continued to tease him by unzipping the top half of her shirt. He offered her a hand once more and she took it, only to be pulled flush up against him once more she could feel every bit of him pressed against her thigh and she smirked at him. "Been waiting a minute for this have we?" she asked and he huffed and she found her fishnets all finding themselves in the floor. She blinked and her mouth fell open to say something but his lips pressed against her open mouth.

She wrapped her legs around his waist and he pressed them against an open space against the wall. In between kisses she began hiking up her skirt for him while he allowed his hands to wander her form. She buried her fingers in his hair and tightened her grip around his waist. Before they could get any further there was a knock at Ino's door and she was tempted to ignore it but he dropped her down and made his way over to the door, only checking to make sure she was decent before he opened the door.

"I need your help." Hashirama said and Tobirama slammed the door in his face with a stern "No." he then turned back to Ino, who was smirking once more. She ran at him and hopped into his arms once more only for the door to be forced open and Hashirama stood there with his arms crossed over his chest. Ino smiled at him from around Tobirama, but the irritated look didn't falter from his face. She sighed and slipped down off of Tobirama, only to readjust her skirt once more and hear Tobirama mutter the words, "Cock block," at his brother.

"Don't worry Tobi-kun, there's always later." She said as she yet again used her thumb to hike her skirt up the slightest bit, resulting in Hashirama to look away blushing while Tobirama attempted to shove his brother out of her home once more. "Go on Tobirama... he isn't going to go anywhere." She giggled and as she shoved him out the door and closed it behind him. She smiled to herself as she slipped onto her couch. Her initial thoughts about him were true...

Where there's sugar... theres always some spice too.