Ino rolled up a scroll with a huge smile on her face. "Perfect." She had accidently stumbled upon a scroll that had forbidden jutsu of the Yamanaka Clan written in it. There was one jutsu that stuck out in her mind. It sounded wonderful, so wonderful she didn't know why it was forbidden. It seemed easy enough to cast and very useful. A jutsu that would make the victim fall in love with the caster. The scroll detailed the person would not want to leave your side. They would do whatever you asked of them.

Ino thought about all the mission in which this nifty jutsu would come in handy. Gathering information would be a breeze if they were willing to spill their guts to the one they loved. Getting close to someone you needed to assassinate would be a breeze. She saw no draw backs to this jutsu. First she would need to practice the jutsu. If there was one man she wanted to make fall in love with her. "Sasuke."

Her heart started to race, " Yes Sasuke!" maybe if she used this jutsu on him, he would be willing to come back to the village to be with her. The scroll said the victim didn't want to leave the casters side. She could have the man she loved and rub is in Sakura's face. "Yamanaka Ino, the girl who brought back Sasuke." She smiled widely. Only she would need to test this jutsu out on someone else first to make sure she can do it correctly. She fought the thoughts of approaching Sasuke and possibly being killed by him.

It took only three weeks before she was confident enough to find a test subject. Rather than a person she casted the jutsu on animals started with a fish. Her dad noted it odd a dead fish showed up on their front doorstep one morning. Ino had gathered the fish had flopped all the way from the river to her front door. It had died after some time without oxygen. Not too long after that she casted on bird a bit to her annoyance. The bird would sing outside her window every morning. Her mother commented on its songs. By the end of the 6th week Ino had a new pet cat.

She felt rather lucky her parents didn't find it to odd. The cat followed her around everywhere. Shikamaru on the other hand he noticed. Ino just proclaimed to have a new found love for cats. Cats are "Even better then dogs." She proclaimed to Kiba. Although rather odd everyone seemed to believe the cat just was really fond of her for no reason at all. Thanks to Akamaru she could also point out it wasn't that strange for animals to go everywhere with you.

After two more weeks Ino started to keep the cat at the house and luckily for her the cat didn't try to escape to find her. She figured that was a good sign as long as she saw the cat daily it didn't seem to deprived from her to go looking. This isn't to say the cat didn't meet her at the front door whenever she got home. The cat always greeted her, and always lay at the end of her bed when she was in her room. The bird had stopped its nonsense singing, thank the gods. Although it was only due to the fact the cat had ate the bird.

That night Ino lay in her bed confident in her ability. "I need to cast it on a human now." But who. Someone she saw often, Shikamaru, Chouji? "ew.." or perhaps someone else she wouldn't mind seeing often. "Sai." She wondered. It didn't make up her mind until the next day. Ino preferred to cast on someone she would like to spend more time with. BUT it would be less suspicious if it was Shikamaru. Her mind was set and she had asked Shikamaru to meet her later that day.

She was starting to feel more nervous the closer and closer it got to the meeting time. "Sunset at the training fields." She recalled. When she got their all fear faded away instantly. It was just Shikamaru after all. She found him lying in the grass looking to be taking a nap. Quietly she walked over to him, sneaky. His eyes flew open and she let out a little squeak.

"I see you." He said simply.

"I thought you were sleeping." She replied. He learned up slowly avoiding a head rush. She sat down next to him in the grass. A few minutes passed and no one spoke.

"Ino?" he asked.

"Mhm?"

"Did you need something, I mean you did ask me to meet you here." He pointed out.

"Oh nothing gets past you, genius Shikamaru." She smiled. He rolled his eyes in response. "But your right, I need a favor of sorts."

"It's either a favor or it's not."

"Well I've been having trouble casting, body mind transfers for some reason." She lied. She turned to face him with pleading eyes. She read the closer to the victim you can be, for best results. "You wouldn't mind if I just tested it on you a couple times, would you?"

"I guess not, but maybe you should have asked your father. See if this has ever happened to him before."

"No need." She said as she started to make the signs needed for the jutsu.

"Ino that's not the hand sign for-" He fell silent. She observed him closely; it looked as if the mind body transfer had been used. He moved rather suddenly scaring her. She looked at him waiting for him to speak almost as if fear had frozen her. Waiting to see its effect, if any.

Shikamaru placed his hand on her cheek softly. He looked deeply into her eyes. "Ino.." he said learning in closer and closer to her lips. She still felt frozen and unable to move, if she didn't know better she'd think he'd used a shadow jutsu. Their lips met for a moment.

Until she found herself and pushed him back away from her.. "Shikamaru, what the hell!" She hissed. She wasn't expecting this, she wasn't expecting this at all. . .