Title: Blind Love

By: dilluminated

Pairing: Shikamaru Nara & Ino Yamanaka

World: AU

Summary: Ino, tired of guys just liking her for her stunningly good looks, decides to give Sakura a chance to give her a blind date. However, this isn't just any blind date. 'Cause this time, she actually is blinded!

Chapter 1 – The Fate of her Love Life.

"So, what do you say we go back to my place for a bit?" the blonde attractive man in front of her said in a very low seductive voice into her ear.

She tensed up and pushed her date away from her. She gave him a small forced smile as she politely declined, "No Thanks Ken."

Instead of taking the message that a "no" was a no, he instead took it as a motivation to try and persuade her more. Moving closer to her and invading her personal space, he wrapped his arm around her pale shoulder and whispered in her delectable ear, "Aw Come On. You know you want to." To emphasize his point, he gave her ear a little sensual lick.

She jumped out of her chair in surprise, and immediately slapped his attractively boyish face. Hard. He staggered and glared at her dangerously with his bright green eyes. "What the heck was that for?" he nearly screamed at her.

She pointed her finger at him, clearly pissed. "Don't go near me, you perverted son of a-"

He grabbed her slender arm and pulled her to him roughly as he said lowly, "You can't get away from me. I want You."

She kicked him where she knew would hurt him the most and grinned to herself when she felt him let go of her. She picked up her bag, took one last look at him and walked away without another look back.

"Ino. You've been at this for…" a Pink haired girl said as she took a quick glance at the clock, "2 hours."

The said girl whined, "But Sakura, I have to make sure I get every atom of his germs off my ear!"

Sakura sighed. "You've washed that enough…" she mumbled incomprehensively. She knew Ino wouldn't listen to her anyway so there was no need to say it loud enough for Ino to hear, or comprehend. She walked around Ino's surprisingly green room and started looking through Ino's new pictures. Ino loved to change the pictures in her photo frames, except one picture—A little blond girl and a dark haired guy. Sakura didn't know who the guy was, even though she tried to yank it out of Ino. All she knew that Ino had a very special place in her heart for this guy. Whoever he is.

She sighed as she went to look at the other pictures. "Oh! You put it up already?" Sakura exclaimed once seeing their recent picture together. It was a simple picture taken at the beach just a few days ago.

"Of course!" Ino said, back from the bathroom and is now sitting on her bed combing her long blond hair.

Sakura turned and looked at Ino. "Hey, was your date really bad?"

Ino stopped her brushing, "… yeah." She looked at her hands. "Sakura, I'm tired."

"Of?"

"Dating shallow guys. Heck, maybe even guys in general."

"Ino…"

"I'm tired of them just wanting me for my body Sakura! I mean, I know I`m pretty to look at and all but I don't want to just simply have sex with every guy or something! I don't want to end up as a one-night stand or a trophy girl or …"

Sakura rolled her eyes at Ino's comment about herself being pretty and sat down next to the frustrated Ino. "Want me to do something?" she said softly.

Ino scoffed. "What can you possibly do Forehead?"

"I`m the one who has a boyfriend."

The blond looked away. "Sorry."

"Exactly. So as I was saying, do you want me to find someone for you?"

Ino stared at her blankly. "What?"

Her friend put up her hands in her defense, "Well you haven't found anyone worthy enough or decent enough so I thought I'd give it a try. Ino, you always end up with the handsome jerks that don't deserve you. I might as well pair you up with someone I know who I know is decent. Besides, I'm your best friend; I won't ever set you up with a complete jerk…"

Ino bit her lip. There wasn't anything to lose. And quite frankly, she's tired of having to be asked out by lecherous losers. And there was no way she was going to ask a guy out.

She knew she was literally giving the fate of her love life to her best friend when she uttered the word that would seal the deal, "Sure."

Sakura smiled brightly and said, "Don't worry Pig, I`m sure there's someone out there that will love you for who you are on the inside. And I'll find him." She winked. "Who knows, maybe I'll find the guy who's in that beloved picture of yours."

Ino playfully pushed Sakura to the other side. "You wish Forehead."

Sakura laughed, "No Ino. You Wish."

A/N: It's been awhile since I've written a Shikamaru & Ino Fanfic (I wrote in a different penname) . And I haven't really written anything on them that's AU. So probably my first time writing a AU fic. Sorry if they're a bit Out of Character. If they are, please tell me! I'll make sure to try and make them more in character. I've been outdated with my love for ShikaIno but today for some odd reason I wanted to write something on them and this came up. I was going to make this a one-shot but I figured, why not make it a short fanfiction? So this will be a couple of chapters. Hope you enjoy my first fanfic in awhile :]

With love,

Dilluminated