Title:
Summer Sunshine.
By: Kaara.
Prompt: Idea taken
from LJ community, 1sentence, set Delta.
Disclaimer:
Naruto is owned by Kishimoto, so you might want to garrotte him for
screwing up the show.
Rating: R, because of language and
sexual/as well as other things implications.
Note: I've
claimed this pairing for quite some time and I didn't have the
inspiration to do finish it until today. There will be quite a few
spoiler (meh, only for Asuma's death and I'm quite sure everyone
knows that already) and… weirdness. Feel free to laugh/cry/curse
away. Feedbacks are very much welcomed, appreciated and cherished, as
always.
xxx
Summer Sunshine (NaruIno in 1Sentence)
xxx
#01 –
Air
-
She feels like falling and drowning and dying, floating and
flying and soaring when he kneels in front of her and (awkward
as ever) tells her to please, won't you take this ring and uh…
marry me or something?
#02 – Apples
- The
orchard is cool during the hottest of summer days, and Naruto likes
going there to lounge around whenever his hectic schedule allows him
to – the plus point is that he can always find Ino there, attending
to the trees and smiling more than she does when everyone else is
around.
#03 – Beginning
- It doesn't take
much, really – a chance meeting, a quiet conversation, a heated
argument and swapped invitations to dinner are all it takes for two
blondes to find their way into each other's lives.
#04 –
Bugs
- When Shino approaches Naruto, and starts
threatening death by insects in very, very uncomfortable places (in
that creepy silent way of his) if Naruto ever hurts Ino, Naruto
figures belatedly that Ino should really start telling him about her
past relationships to prepare him for future threats.
#05 –
Coffee
- He prefers green tea over her inky black coffee,
but when she hands him a cup of the accursed beverage, Naruto drains
it without complaining and watches Ino putters around the kitchen,
making breakfast for three – Asuma had liked coming to her place
for breakfast.
#06 – Dark
- Ino slaps Naruto's
eager hands away and, nodding at their three-year old daughter,
hisses, "Not with the kid around, idiot."
#07 –
Despair
- The biting chill makes her whole body shiver –
he can hear the telltale chatter of her teeth – but he still stands
quietly behind her and the white block of the cenotaph, knowing
without asking the names she is staring at.
#08 –
Doors
- One of the many things that irritates Ino about
Naruto is his tendency to follow the traditional (and thus,
socially-inappropriate) rules of being a ninja, which means that she
would often find him standing outside her bedroom window, tapping the
glass, instead of doing what other normal boyfriends would do –
ring the freakin' doorbell.
#09 – Drink
-
Kakashi-sensei once gave him a (rare) good advice – never drink
more than you can remember – and as Naruto wakes up with one hell
of a hangover and a pissed Ino on his bed, he vows to buy his
ex-sensei a drink; as soon as Ino stops trying to permanently deafen
him from her hysterical screams of obscenities.
#10 –
Duty
- "What the hell do you mean you have to
marry your target?!"
#11 – Earth
-
She doesn't exactly believes in ghosts or spirits or apparitions,
but on the day of her wedding to one raucous Uzumaki Naruto, she
recognises the faint figure of Asuma behind the crowd, smoking lazily
and smiling his approval at his ex-student's choice.
#12
– End
- He's losing himself to the Demon inside, bits
by bits by bits, and he tries to keep the tremor out of his voice as
he hands over a sealing scroll to a crying Ino (don't cry,
please don't cry) and says, "Either the sealing successful or
not, kill me."
#13 – Fall
- "I love
you."
#14 – Fire
- They fights a lot,
usually for a long stretch of time because both are stubborn to the
bones, but once the anger simmers down, it's only a matter of
seconds before they find themselves exchanging apologetic smiles and
playful banters.
#15 – Flexible
- Ino punches
him into unconsciousness when Naruto asks her if she can bend
like the heroines in Kakashi's Icha Icha Paradise books.
#16
– Flying
- The first time she finds out that her
juvenile husband is secretly trying to teach their only son the
'Super Secret Assassination Technique' (or commonly known to the
population of Konoha as the 'Thousand Years of Pain'), she takes
the trouble to demonstrate that particular technique, using said
husband as a target.
#17 – Food
- "Naruto,
stop pillaging my fridge and get out of my house!"
#18 –
Foot
- Naruto's face twists into a grimace when Ino
deliberately sits on his leg, the one in the cast, ("You
should've told me you're going on that mission… oh my, your
leg's broken? Sorry, sorry.") and he curses the day Kyuubi
and the demon's ever-so-helpful healing ability disappear for
good.
#19 – Grave
- Ino slams the door close
when Sakura shows up on her doorstep from Team Seven's last
mission, eyes puffy from crying and cradling Naruto's forehead
protector to her chest.
#20 – Green
- The
wedding invitation arrives during dinner and Ino has to physically
tie her husband to his chair to stop him from accomplishing his
threat to "mutilate that spandex-wearing bastard if he ever hurt
Sakura-chan!"
#21 – Head
- When their
daughter comes back from her first B Class mission, with
blood-stained clothes and tears in her eyes and frantic mutters of
how she slaughtered a man with her own two hands and oh
Kami, I can't wash the blood away, Ican'twashitawayhelpmehelpme,
mother, Ino sits her down and mentally tries to reach to her
husband, hoping that Naruto feels up to rationalising the gritty
aspects of their chosen profession to the hysterical girl.
#22
– Hollow
- "You'll have to move on; he won't be
coming back, you know."
#23 – Honor
- They
teach their children how to kill soundlessly, how to avoid spilling
too much blood, how to silence deafening guilt, how to sleep at
night, how to smile the next day… ironically, they never managed to
get all the lessons right themselves.
#24 – Hope
-
She scrutinises him for a few minutes, shakes her head grimly and
says, "Naruto, now that you're Rokudaime, don't you think that
it's time to change that ugly robe with something more…
modern?"
#25 – Light
- It's easy to
succumb to the darkness, to succumb to promises of revenge and
acceptance, but Naruto thinks that as long as there are people whom
he can return to after a hard day – like Iruka-sensei,
Tsunade-baachan, and now, Ino - he doesn't mind resisting
the temptation for a little while.
#26 – Lost
-
"I'm sorry, Yamanaka-san, but we still haven't discovered any
trace of Uzumaki-san since Squadron Six was dispatched…
Yamanaka-san, wait!"
#27 – Metal
- Ino
bitches loudly when she finds a batch of blood-rusted kunai in the
kitchen sink, and promptly stalks to where her jounin husband is
lounging, intent on showing him (through the many forms of domestic
violence) the finer point of cleaning one's weapons right after
finishing the mission.
#28 – New
- Naruto
starts sweating when Ino parades around in a knee-length black dress,
dreading the inevitable part when she would ask his opinion on said
dress – the last time he attempted to say something (and it wasn't
even a negative comment!), he ended up with a black eye and slept on
the couch for a week.
#29 – Old
- Hinata
shakes her head in fond exasperation when Kiba hyperventilates as
soon as he finds out that Uzumaki Naruto and Yamanaka Ino are dating
– it's really quite old news, after all.
#30 –
Peace
- Tsunade sighs and rubs her forehead, wondering why
the hell did she agreed to put Naruto and Ino in one department as
she pores over yet another stack of reports on property damage and
transfer applications.
#31 – Poison
- It's
something in his veins, something in his blood and heart and mind,
and he can't help but think that infatuation over someone like
Yamanaka Ino would eventually kill him if he's not careful.
#32
– Pretty
- He places one last kiss on her cold forehead,
running his fingers through her vivid platinum hair as pain lances
through his heart, and wonders how she can look so beautiful, even in
death.
#33 – Rain
- She just stands there,
quiet and cold and dripping blood all over, and he thinks that she
looks like a phantom – perfect pale skin, almost translucent
– one born from revenge and pain and remorse.
#34 –
Regret
- He volunteers to break the report of the failed
mission to her, even though he hates being the bearer of bad news,
because he knows that she's much too proud to cry in the presence
of anyone else.
#35 – Roses
- The flower shop
is Ino's personal haven, and when she invites him into her private
garden (a patch of land overflowing with colourful vegetations), he
knows without asking that she is inviting him into her world.
#36
– Secret
- Their lips press together; urgent, deep,
primal, and as rough bricks dig into his back and their hot
breath mingles into a whirlwind of hormones and needs, Naruto wonders
when he starts wanting more than these back-alleys-and-dark-nights
rendezvous.
#37 – Snakes
- Naruto has always
known that it would be hard to say goodbye, but he doesn't think
that he would be able to leave Ino behind to pursue Orochimaru and
his pathetic lackeys when the time finally comes for him to do so.
#38 – Snow
- They use the winter as an excuse
to stay inside, huddled underneath a ton of blankets and do
activities that encourage the act of sharing body warmth.
#39
– Solid
- She touches him tentatively, touches him like
he's a bird that would take flight if she prods too hard – he
grasps her shaking hand and tells her that it's not a dream;
Uzumaki Naruto is back.
#40 – Spring
-
Spring is the season for love and romance, they say, but Naruto is
geared up to argue that point, because for the umpteenth times that
week alone, Ino has decided to dump him in order to go
flowers-harvesting.
#41 – Stable
- Their
relationship is just something convenient – a night spent together,
a shared meal, meeting once or twice a week to discuss the weather –
and Ino wonders if they'll ever have that special something that
Hinata and Kiba share together.
#42 – Strange
-
Sakura finds it odd that Naruto's daily declaration of love towards
her has decreased (by a whooping 73 percent!) and when she finds him
(more often than not) hanging around the Yamanaka Flower Shop,
picking fights with Ino, it surprises her more than she'd like to
admit.
#43 – Summer
- "Woo… Ino-chan,
that's a really nice bikini you got there!"
#44
– Taboo
- They don't talk about Sasuke, not anymore –
especially not in front of the cenotaph and Haruno Sakura's carved
name.
#45 – Ugly
- "Either that ghastly
orange mutation you wear goes, or me."
#46 – War
-
It is inevitable, yet he wishes that he can stop it, can say
something that will change everything, because blood and filth and
dirt and grime and guilt should not be so beautiful of an
ornament on Ino.
#47 – Water
- A half-naked
Naruto grins lewdly and gestures at their newly-installed bathtub as
Ino shakes her head in amusement and attempts to resist her husband's
'seduction'.
#48 – Welcome
- Ino smiles at
his apparent astonishment, spreads out her arms in greeting, and
said, "Welcome home, Naruto."
#49 – Winter
-
Ino knits a scarf every winter for her sensei and team mates – one
colour a year, and she's running out of option – but during the
first winter without Asuma, her hand shakes so bad it's impossible
to hold the needles anymore; Naruto sits next to her, and gently
covers her hands with his, guiding them to create an intricate
pattern of abstract smoky grey swirls on a white background.
#50
– Wood
- Naruto groans as Ino drags him towards a
tackily-decorated small boat at the beginning of something called
'The Love Tunnel' (it's a dark, foreboding-looking cave-wannabe
– Naruto has no idea how people associate those attributes with
love), cursing the day Tsunade decided to allow weird westerners to
build weirder amusement parks in Konoha.
END
