"Ino, stay focused!" Her teammate Shikamaru yelled out to her, getting her attention just in time. As multiple senbon were launched towards her, she dodge them quickly and without any damage on her. She jumped from the tree branch to the side of her two teammates, Shikamaru and Choji. "What's with you lately, you haven't been very focused, it's not like you." She shook her head before dodging another attack from the enemy shinobi, she backed a few feet behind Choji and threw a kunai his way, just missing him by a hair and hitting the other shinobi on the arm. "What exactly do you guys want with the leaf?" Shikamaru asked one of the shinobi that got trapped in his shadow jutsu.

Ino watched as Shikamaru tried to interrogate the unknown shinobi, this is taking to long; she thought to herself. Suddenly a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist, trapping her arms as well, she let out a shrill scream. Shikamaru turned back, as well as Choji and took a stance, ready to attack. Ino tried to squirm out of the mans grip, kicking him in the groin in process. He cursed in pain and just held onto her tighter, squeezing the air out of her lungs.

"Hey, you let her go!" Choji yelled, running towards the man; but with Ino in his arms there was no way of attacking him. He stopped only a few feet away, "What is it that you guys want?" He asked.

"We came to steal a forbidden scroll, but since you bratty kids got in the way;" The man holding Ino reached to his side and took out a kunai and held it on Ino's throat. "You're going to have to kill you." Ino cursed under her breath, if she had been paying attention she would have never gotten herself in this dilemma. "But I think we can make an arrangement with you," The man spoke again. "We will spare you for this girl." Ino's blue eyes widened and she laughed.

"Like I would let you guys take me, I'd rather die!" She reached her hand into her kunai pouch and stabbed the man in the leg. He cried out and released her after falling to his knees, she made a run for it but he grabbed on to her ankle, pulling her back. She fell to the ground with a grunt, Shikamaru ran towards Choji, ready to attack to man only to be knocked away by another. Choji made a hand sign but was to slow, Ino screamed as she watched Choji get stabbed with a kunai in his stomach. Shit, they were in out numbered and Ino was in deep trouble.

"You little bitched." The man behind her hissed out, he stood up pulling her with him. She dangled in the air by her ankle. She gulped, maybe making that move wasn't such a good idea. "You'll regret ever pulling that shit." The man picked his arm up and threw Ino towards a tree, she closed her eyes and ready herself for the impact, expecting it to be rough and send a massive pain throughout her body, but it was to opposite; someone had caught her.

"Are you alright?" She looked up at her savior and nodded her head. She had seen him before, brown hair with eyes to match, he wore his hitai-ate like a bandanna with the leaf symbol on the back, and had a senbon in his mouth. He didn't wait for her to answer, placing her carefully on the ground he stood up and took a kunai out.

"Choji!" Ino spat out, running towards her wounded teammate. "I'm sorry Choji," She kneel down and turned him on his back. "Please shield me!" She yelled out to her savior, he didn't like her way but nodded his head. "I'll get you better Cho, don't worry." Before she began, she looked around to find Shikamaru but didn't find him.

"He chased after one of the guys." Choji spoke, struggling.

"Don't talk." Ino told him. She focused on trying to heal her friend, green chakra glowed from her hands. "It's a good thing he didn't hit anything important; but I need to get you out of here." Damn, where was Shikamaru when she needed him? She looked down at Choji, she had finished healing him somewhat, but he was still in no condition to keep fighting. "Damn it Choji, I'm sorry. This wouldn't have happened if I had been paying attention. I'm sorry."

"Hey, he's going to be fine!" Shikamaru's voice called out to her. "You duty isn't to be slacking off."

"He's right Ino, I'm fine."

"Watch out!" A man was running towards her and Choji, she quickly stood and grabbed a kunai out and held her stance in front if Choji. The man pulled out a sword and was coming straight for her, she let out a loud gasp when the sword didn't pierce trough her but her savior from before. Another ally ran towards them and kicked the man away. Ino's savior fell to his knees, holding the sword that was stuck in his gut.

"Genma!" The other mad called out to him. "Shit, we need to get out out of here and fast. Ino, please do something for right now." Ino nodded her head, running towards his side. Another person getting hurt because couldn't stay focused on what was around her.

Genma, groaned in pain getting Ino out of her thoughts. She sent chakra to her hands and placed them against his stomach, she was just trying to stop the bleed enough to take out the sword. Once that was done she laid him down quickly and carefully, picking up his shirt; she blushed when seeing his toned stomach and abs but quickly snapped herself out of it and began working at the wound. It was to much, she needed to get him back to the village and to the hospital, fast before the bleeding started again. She touched his stomach and he winched under her.

"Your hands are cold." He manged to say with a small chuckle and then coughed up blood. Ino continued to work at his wound but no matter what she did, he need to get to the hospital. Unlike Choji the sword actually hit some vital organs. Genma watched at the blonde concentrated on his wound, her brows furrowed and her lips pressed together tightly, the last thing he saw before blacking out, was her bright pale blue eyes; watering up.

Genma's eyes strained to open, the bright light of the hospital room was blinding to him. He groaned and tried to sit up causing a sharp pain to run through his body from his abdomen.

"Don't move, you'll just hurt yourself more." A female voice entered the room. "I'm glad to see you awake, how are you feeling?"

"Like I got stabbed in the gut." Genma said, getting a giggle from the girl. Ino entered his vision of sight, wearing a medical uniform and holding a clip board in her hands. She had a worried smile on her face. "How long was out for doc?" He turned his head and his eyes followed her as she walked in front of the bed.

"Two days, the medicine they gave you really knocked you out." She checked his chart and looked at him from under her eyelashes.

"What happened with those guys?" Ino sighed.

"After they got you and Choji out of there, we captured them, now they're under Ibiki's hands." Genma shivered at the name, he would have rather gotten killed then get sent to him. "You almost didn't make it, even with my help; the wound was to deep and it hit a vital organs." His eyebrow raised. "I'm sorry." There is was, Genma was waiting for her to say it. He let out a frustrated sigh.

"It wasn't your fault," He spoke as she was walking up next to him. "I was the one who decided to run in front of you, even though I saw that you could handle it." She checked his pulse and to see if he had a fever, all while she was listening to him.

"If you knew I could handle it, then why did you still do that?" She told him almost rudely. Genma shrugged his shoulders, it was just an instinct to do it. "Anyways, you can be released in a few days."

"How much is a 'few days'?" Ino held out her hand, all her fingers spread out showing him five. "Five days isn't a few days." He sighed. "So I'm going to pretty much be here for a week?" She nodded her head, why was she acting so rude to him now?

"I'm not acting rude, I'm acting like a professional." he blinked, of course she could hear his thoughts, he had forgotten she was a Yamanaka for crying out loud. He rolled his eyes and smirked. Ino's faced turned a bright red and she dropped her clip board, covering her mouth with her hands.

"Not so much of a professional now, huh?" He joked, he thought to himself again thinking of an image; if she could hear his thoughts he was more than sure she could see what he was thinking. She let out a little squeak and turned to him, her face red with anger now. "Was that to much?" He laughed but it hurt to much to keep going like he wanted. Ino rolled her eyes and bent down to pick up her clipboard. "Nice ass." She heard Genma thinking to himself, she wanted to turn around and slap him. "Hey, where are you going?" She started towards the door.

"I'm done with my shift, someone else will be taking care you." He pouted. She turned back to him once more, blushing when she saw his face, he looked so innocent with that pout on. She quickly walked out the door and sighed, this was going to be a long week for her.

The blonde walked into the room when one of the other nurses was helping Genma sit up on the bed, he said something that made the nurse blush deeply and giggle. Ino rolled her blues eyes and made her presence known by clearing her throat. They both looked her way; Genma smirked and the the nurse looked away shamefully. She walked over to Genma and handed him papers, he blinked and then took them from her, noticing that she was not in her medical uniform but her ninja outfit. Her short purple halter top, and short open purple skirt revealing another shorter black skirt and fishnets, showing off her toned stomach and smooth long legs but of course Genma couldn't help to stare at her.

"Hey, my face is up here." She snapped her fingers in front of his face.

"Well, you shouldn't wear it if you don't want anyone to stare." He shrugged his shoulders with a smirk. She ignored him and went on to talk to the nurse in the room before snatching the papers back from him after he signed them. "Say, why are you in your ninja uniform?" He asked her when the other nurse left.

"I was on a mission and I just got back, I thought I'd come to see if Sakura was working." She said, a light blush appearing on her face. It was a lie, she knew Sakura was working; she secretly wanted to see him before he was released. "And they asked if I could take your release papers for you to sign." Genma nodded his head and then stood up, stretching his muscles. Ino quickly turned around seeing that he was only in his underwear.

"Like what you see?" Genma chuckled. Ino walked over to one of the closets and handed him some clothes without making eye contact or looking anywhere near him. "What did these come from?" He questioned while taking them from her.

"Shikamaru brought them, he said for helping me out when he couldn't."

"He's really protective of you huh?" She nodded her head, still looking away from him. "Is he your boyfriend?" She started laughing, shaking her head.

"He isn't my boyfriend, if anything I think he has a relationship with that Suna girl, Temari." Now that Genma thought about it, he did see them together a lot when the girl would come for business. Ino was still laughing but stopped with a soft sigh. "He's more like a brother to me." She turned around to let him start changing. "Anyways, I gotta get going." She waved him a goodbye with the back of her hand.

"Wait, I'll walk with you out." She stopped at the door and he jogged towards her, opening to door for her. She stared at him, hesitated but she really did have to leave. "I mean, I feel like I owe you for putting up with me these past five days. Where are you going anyways?" He asked her when she was dropping off the papers to a nurse at the front desk.

"Outside the village to pick flowers." He made a noise, like if he was holding back his laugh. She looked at him from the corner of her eyes, her eyebrow raised in question, what was so funny about her picking flowers? Of course that wasn't the real reason she was going outside the village, but she couldn't tell him the truth. "What? My family owns a flower shop, remember?" She said, defending herself.

"Nothing, nothing. It's just a really girly thing to do." She crossed her arms over her chest and huffed, puffing out her cheeks. "I got a better idea." He stopped her in the middle of the street. "How about we get some lunch, on me." Ino shook her head, any other day she would have, who would pass on a free lunch? But she was supposed to be there after her mission, now it had been almost an hour since then, she just hopped that he would still be waiting for her.

"I can't, I really need to get this stuff out of the way." She turned to him with a smile on her face and her hands crossed behind her. "Maybe some other day." She took a step back and then turned around, walking away from him.

Genma stood in the street, alone. He had been rejected, Genma Shiranui never gets rejected.