Prologue

(Little Kids)

"What's wrong Ino?" Sakura asks shyly not sure how to deal seeing Ino looking much less cheerful than usual.

"I'm alright, I just heard from my dad my uncle died, so I'm the last of this generation of the Yamanaka Clan because he hadn't had any kids yet. No pressure right?" Ino smiles. Sakura looks at Ino worriedly and Ino notices. "Do you really care that much?"

"Of course I do... You are my best friend."

"Well if that's the case then you have to make a deal with me."

"A deal?"

"Well in this life of a ninja you never know what might happen to you, I'm okay with becoming a ninja even dying early but I want a chance to have a family first or maybe just my own soulmate." Ino looks at Sakura, "If I haven't found the person I want to marry by the time I'm 16, you marry me."

Sakura blushed and looked in shocked of what she had just asked, "Ino..."

"I guess it is kind of my dying wish, do you decline."

Sakura bucked up, "Of course not." Sakura stands up and takes out purple flower hair clip and holds it to Ino, "if you trust me with your heart now then I will give you mine too."

Ino takes it and smiles placing it in her hair, "Thanks Sakura, I feel a lot better now."

Though Sakura wasn't sure if she was truly serious about it, she was happy just to see Ino smile again.

(Pre-Time Skip)

Sakura wakes up after recalling that dream of the past again, she shrugs it off and prepares for school and as usual thinks of a way to use her charm to get near Sasuke before Ino got in the way. She looked at herself in the mirror and thought back to when they were younger, they promised the first day after they were given their squads they would eat lunch together alone, Sakura doubted she would remember something from so long ago especially after the incident that would soon follow...

Sakura thinking only of getting to the academy would walk out forgetting her lunch, continuing on through the walk she would run into Ino racing her to school to get to Sasuke first. After Sakura was placed into Team 7 and Ino in a different squad. She was happy to be in a squad with Sasuke, lunch break came along and she had remembered that she had forgotten her lunch. She felt stupid but began to walk to the exact spot near the lake she said they would meet, "What am I doing even coming this way? Do I really think she'll be here? Maybe my stomach is eating my brain cells."

Sakura comes from behind the tree to see nothing around the lake, she sighed losing all of the false hope she had. Her stomach growled embarrassingly loud. "And here I thought you weren't going to show up." Sakura turns around startled to see Ino standing there with a bagged lunch in her hands. She was shocked she hadn't forgotten, Ino went over to the lake and laid the sheet for them to sit on and they did. Ino opened it to see all of the mouth watering food she had in there, including Sakura's favorites she didn't know Ino even knew.

Sakura looked and noticed something, "Wait Ino there are only 1 pair of chop sticks here."

"Oops, guess I must have accidently only put in 2 in a rush." Ino says and smiles. Sakura gives her a questionable look when she knows she has a jar with them, she would have to count 2 in order to actually take them out, her excuse was invalid.

Ino takes some of the rice, "Open."

"Seriously?" Sakura blushes.

"You're more hungry than me, open wide."

"I can feed myself..."

"Shut that big forehead of yours up and eat it." Ino says, Sakura relunctantly opens as Ino begins feeding her. As lunch was coming to an end as she fed her Ino spoke to Sakura again, "I made 3 very special things for dessert, you have to close your eyes then you tell me which you like the most."

Sakura rolls her eyes not wanting to argue again because she knows Ino is too stubborn to quit, Sakura closes them. Ino first places the first which Sakura likes, and the 2nd she liked even more. Ino takes the third one and corresses it across Sakura's lips, Ino taken by her feeling leans in close and softly kisses Sakura's lips, the touch felt perfect like they were puzzle pieces made to fit together. After Sakura's quick jump from the surprise she slowly kisses her back and moments later Ino jumps back.

"I... we... I gotta go, get back to Shikamaru and Choji." Ino gets up takes the stuff without looking back at Sakura and leaves quickly as she could without running. Sakura sat for a moment puzzled by how quickly she ran away and felt hurt and foolish at the same time. Later Sakura tried to talk to Ino after school but she said she wouldn't speak to her, Sakura was very angry with Ino at this point so she refused to speak to her. A week would go by without Sakura even mentioning Ino's name and would focus on winning Sasuke for herself.

Sakura would return home one day after a small errand with Team 7 and be asked by her mom to go to the flower shop and pick up their order. Sakura relunctantly agrees and says to herself she will get the order and leave, no exchanging words, she hoped maybe Ino's mother would be there today. She would prefer to see Ino than her father, she felt sick just thinking about what happened before, it haunted her dreams because she had been just a child when it happened.

Sakura went to the flower shop to see Ino there at the register, she goes up to her without looking at her and closes her eyes showing order. "I need this order filled for my parents anniversary."

Ino tries to speak but words don't come out so she takes it and gets the flowers for her and gives them to her. As Sakura is on her way out Ino forces the words, "Sakura wait!" She goes to her before she leaves.

"What?"

"I'm so sorry about before, I shouldn't have done that..."

Sakura froaned, "I get it already, you shouldn't have kissed me, I get it."

"No not that, I shouldn't have left you like that and burdened you, I shouldn't have did that, I was just afraid, you know how it is here in the village. It's small and you know how people frown so hard upon thing. But I don't care what they think... I shouldn't, I'm not lying, I really do love you."

Sakura looks to the side not sure if she believes her or not, Ino goes up to Sakura to try her hardest to make her believe it and kisses Sakura with all the passion she can bring and makes Sakura drop the flowers to the ground as Ino kisses Sakura to the wall. She brushes her hair back and presses her body against Sakura's. Ino begins kissing Sakura neck and giving her a hicky while lifting her leg then goes back to kissing adding her tongue to it. At that moment they hear the door close and they both look and Ino jumps off.

"Oh my God, that was a big mistake." Ino says then realizes what she says but before she has time to say a thing.

"I don't have time for your games Ino," Sakura picks up the flowers, "If you can't accept me for other people there is no point in this." Sakura walks out.

Ino drops her knees as Sakura leaves, "Sakura please wait..." Sakura was already gone but they kept coming, "I;m sorry Sakura... I'm sorry." Drowning in her own sorrow Ino knew she had to find out who saw them before they told her father.