When they were certain it was all clear, Naruto told her to get back to Shika at her fastest speed. She took off, then looked back to see why the others weren't following her. It was a bad move, as her tree jumping wasn't perfect by any means, and she missed her next perch. Or maybe it was a good move, because somehow Sasuke came out of nowhere and caught her before she had a hard landing. In what seemed like a second Sakura and Naruto were there also, and Sakura was boiling mad.
"That's low Ino, doing the damsel in distress; we're supposed to be all business today. Sasuke-kun, you have to resist your better instincts, with hot bitches like this around!"
Naruto interrupted her: "Hey, hey, we're all on the same team for right now, Sasuke made a fair catch. And he's not holding her anywhere I wouldn't anyway."
The girl wasn't satisfied: "But we all know what a pervert you are anyway, Naruto, so that isn't much comfort."
Before Sasuke put her down, Ino checked exactly where his hands were. Unfortunately he wasn't holding onto anywhere particularly intimate, and therefore more annoying to Sakura. Ino decided that Sakura was straight after all. "You're just jealous because Sasuke-kun took advantage of his chance to feel me up, and I've never let you get that far!" At that the blond took off back to Tazuna's house at top speed, with Sakura following her and throwing pinecones with considerable accuracy at her.
Naruto turned to Sasuke: "So, did you?"
The bewildered reply came back:"No, never even thought of it at the time."
"Really wasting your opportunities, there."
Mournfully Sasuke replied: "I didn't have time to think!"
"Well, as Sensei always says, 'Timing is everything, in perversion as well as assassination'"
"She does?"
"Well, she will, when she hears about this."
"Probably," Sasuke said in depressed agreement.