"If I wanted to see someone skate I would go to a race!" my coach Itachi yelled. "Why don't you?" I yelled. I was tired, annoyed and my feet were killing me. "Take it from the top," he said spinning his finger in a circle. "No! I'm done!" I yelled. He sighed and shook his head. I skated up to him. We stared into each other's eyes. "This is why I don't like coaching girls!" he said. I didn't answer him. I had been practicing for almost six hours now. He had been here the last two commenting on everything I did wrong. "I was doing fine before you came!" I screamed back. "That's because you had no one to point out what you were doing wrong." I hated him. "I mean before you ever came."

My ice-skating partner, Sasuke had ditched me last season. I and my old coach had spent the summer looking for a new one. We had a strong school team, but just about only females. Shikamaru and Sasori, Sasuke had quit right before the Nationals so I couldn't go. I was still mad at him, and had every reason to. Shikamaru used to be my partner, but I outgrew him. Still his partner with Hinata, every team has an Asian girl, right? Not being racist or anything. Hinata was, or is as good as me. Sasori is partner with Sakura. I hate her, it's that simple. We had a few solo girls as well, Temari, Konan and Karin. We also had a junior team, they weren't important.

My old teacher had been able to find me a partner, I missed him, Azuma. He quit his job because his wife was pregnant and my new partner wouldn't come if he couldn't bring his coach. That's how I ended up with Itachi. Nothing was ever good enough for him; he contradicted himself all the time! If I want to see ice-skating I'll go to a race, if I want to see dancing I'll go to a ballet, this isn't a funeral, entertain! This isn't a fucking Las Vegas show, gosh! And so the list goes on.

Even my partner hated him. Yeah, Deidara hated Itachi, and Itachi hated everyone.

So why Itachi just had to be our coach was a mystery to me.

Over to my new partner, Deidara. I didn't know what about him annoyed me the most, that he looked better than me, that he refused to cut his hair or put it up in a ponytail, that he was better than me and had to rub it in my face all the time or maybe it was just the fact that he was a self-obsessed, vain, egocentrically, only cared about himself and was downright mean to me. Our first practice I had started crying and he mocked me for it for months. It was the worst practice I have ever had! We skated for hours, my feet were bleeding, I was exhausted, and I threw up several times so when he threw me and I landed wrong and fell on my hip right on the bone I started crying.

I think I had every right to cry, he didn't agree. If I wanted to be his partner I had to be able to "deal with a little pain, this was a simple practice, a simple trick I should have been able to do since I was five." He was so annoying, but he had moved across the country for me. Why I didn't know. He could have gotten any partner he wanted, almost. So why me, what had I ever done to deserve this?

"Both of you'll practice together, tomorrow, and I don't think he'll take kindly on you giving up so easy. You need to learn how to land." I had gone over to the bench taking off my skates. "Yeah, run and tell him that I only practiced for six hours!" I was so mad; I was in so much pain. "There are two of you, and you'll be pulling him down. It's selfish of you not to practice hard." He always took Deidara's side. Never mine, I had never practiced this much for Sasuke and we were among the best. I went home; mad, to do some homework. Most of all I wanted some painkillers, some food and sleep.

Deidara walked up to me at school the next day. "How did your practice go?" he asked me. I took some books out of my locker and looked at him. "Fine, thank you!" I said through my teeth. He nodded. "But I'm sure you got the report, so why ask?" He leaned against some lockers blowing a bobble with his gum. "I wanted to see if you wanted to go out and get some pizza or something on Friday." He smiled. Why he wanted to spend time with me I didn't know. We were constantly arguing. "Pizza isn't in my diet."

I went to my class, leaving him there. I hated him, him and his smugness!

Itachi and Deidara were already waiting when I came to the skating rink. Excuse me for having a life! "Can we start now, un? I've been waiting! You can at least show me enough respect to show up in time!" Ah! Another annoying thing about him, he started saying, un all the time when he was mad. "Sorry that I have a life when I take of my skates!" Itachi started smiling… Well, as much as Itachi could smile. I think he liked it when we fought, that sick bastard.

Deidara skated out to the middle starting spinning. He did that just to annoy me, to tell me that he was better than me, he made the rules. His hair was spinning all over the place, it distracted me. It was like nails on a chalkboard to me. "Get out and warm up now," Itachi said. I nodded and went out. I could feel Deidara looking at me a few times. I was enjoying it because I was ignoring him. He hated being ignored. He craved all the attention the world could give him. "Ino!" he yelled. "You're going too fast, you'll tire yourself you too fast. I'm not up for your breaks." Always wanting to be better than me, he was going way faster than me. Itachi was just writing in his notepad. "Why don't we try the Curve Lift?" He asked. Deidara didn't like that, I knew it. He complained about my weight. I had to lose 5 pounds.

I slowly got up on his skates. Arching my back I waited to fall, drop to the ground. All I could feel was his warm hands on my hips. I opened my eyes. Itachi was nodding writing some more in his book. Time flew by and suddenly Konan showed up for her single practice. Deidara smiled at me. The bastard had hardly broken a sweat, I was panting for my life. "You need that pizza, you're too light." I hate contradictions, I hate that guy.