A/N: Let me start of by saying thank you to all who read my previous story, Our Eye's Locked In Room 220, without all of you I would be nothing NOW LETS START OFF 2010 WITH MY THE SEQUEL TO OUR EYE'S LOCKED IN ROOM 220!! As promised, I was going to make a sequel to the story and this is the first chapter of the sequel called Remember How Our Love Used To Be. When we left off in the last chapter of Our Eye's Locked In Room 220, Naruto had moved do to his fathers job and left a very devastating letter for Ino who broke her heart in so many ways. This story is starting off 10 years later but will have flashbacks to what happened throughout the years. Now what will happen now? Find out as we go trough this LoveHatejourney of Ino's life, now if you didn't read the first story, you will not understand but if you did, here's the first chapter. Now enjoy =]


Time To Start Over, With Or Without You

The shining rays from the sun, beaming trough window of the large house awoke her as she tried to cover her face up with the soft blanket on top of her warm body, their warm body. Without defeat, she rolled over to her side where she was rewarded hisarm over her stomach, she ran the tip of her fingers along the top of his skin, making his hair on his arm jump straight up. "Good morning" The blond whispered with her back against his face.

"Morning Ino-chan" He whispered after a couple of seconds, every time he answered her, she always wondered how could she have done this to one of her best friends, that was nine years ago. Ex-friend now. "My back hurts" He whined, rolling around on his back, moving closer to the blond next to him.

"What time is it?" Ino asked him who was closer to the counter with the digital clock on top of it. She heard no reply and rolled over to face him, he was asleep. "Hmm" Ino smiled softly and kissed his cheeks so slightly, "Shikamaru?" Ino asked him who had his eye's closed shut and cracked them open a bit, leaning his head over to see her.

It was all to fast for Ino, everything was to fast for her, ten years ago she had her heart broken knowing it would never ever be able to heal no matter how much time went past. Naruto had left Ino the letter at her door telling her how he felt about her, telling her it was to late, telling her it was over. She didn't want to believe it was over between them, that he would be there holding her in his arms, that he did love her. The months past and she realized it truly was over between them.

"We have to get up and get ready Shikamaru, I don't want to sleep the whole day like we did last week" Ino kissed Shikamaru on his left cheek once more before moving her hands under the sheets and moving them around Shika's bare chest, "Wake up" Ino chuckled when she saw how he reacted by popping his eye's open while his nipples became erected.

"Got me up" Shikamaru gave Ino a warm smile, "Damn Ino" Shikamaru twisted his smile to a serious look, serious eye's staring up at Ino's blue pools, "You look more beautiful each morning I wake up next to you" Shikamaru saw the red cross Ino's face as she looked down at the comment with a half smile. It was a compliment to her, but something in the blond was hurting her hearing dose words coming from him, "Whats wrong Ino?" Shikamaru saw this and moved closer, wrapping a arm around her neck and leaning over to kiss her on her forehead.

"Oh, its nothing" Ino lied as she stood up and moved her legs around the bed, letting them hang down their king size bed with her cold toes touching the soft brown carpet. Her matching bra and panties weren't enough to protect her from the strange cold whether in the room, she grabbed her purple bathrobe on the floor and slid in it, "I'm going to take a shower, I'll leave the door unlocked for you if you come and join me" Ino winked at Shikamaru who had his arms behind his head with the sheets above his waist in deep thought, Ino saw this and closed the door behind her.

How could I have done this to her?

"Damn" Ino moved her foot away from the running hot water she had on in the shower, "Ugh" Ino jumped again when she tried to adjust the water to the right temperature but burned herself slightly once again. After minutes with struggling with the knobs of the shower, Ino slid out of her bathrobe and into the shower, letting the warm water run down her body.

I took him away from her, she loved him, I needed someone to heal my wounds.

"Mmm" Ino moaned and moved the knob labeled Hot to the left, turning the water to steamy hot. Recently she had awaken with such depression and loneliness, she wondered what it was that she needed, the answer was in front of her ten years ago but she couldn't realize it was there until it was gone. Now it was just a distanced memory in her head that she had managed to block out. She would never let it break her once more, not in this lifetime.

"Naruto-" Ino sobbed onto her friends shoulders, hearing Temari trying to control herself from continuing crying for her, "He left me you guys, I loved him Temari" Ino stood back and looked at Temari who's eye liner was running down her face with a serious look on, her eye's red as Ten Ten and Ino's eye's. "He left me, he's gone" Ino looked down and cried harder, she knew she was being dramatic, but how was she suppose to take this to her heart?

"What the hell is bothering me?" Ino thought as the water hit the back of her head and ran down her spine. She closed her eye's and pictured her childhood, something that cheered her up when she was feeling down, the good and rough times she had experienced as a young girl, "Daddy" Ino whispered out loud, thinking back to her parents situation. She was worrying about herself when her parents had it the worse, they were leaving each other.

"Its OK Ino-" Tenten stood to her feet and ran down the porch over to Ino's parents, "Ms. and Mrs. Yamanaka, can you please let us in the house with Ino?" Tenten didn't even have to finish what she was saying when the Yamanakas rushed over to her daughter. Her mother was on her knees next to her daughter telling her how much she loved her and how things were going to be perfect, a word Ino knew her life would never be after this.

"Come inside" Inoichi unlocked the door and bursted it open, stepping inside and waiting for the four females to rush past him. Ino ran up to her room ahead of everyone, followed by Tenten and Temari who were right behind her on her heels. Her mother cried herself into Inoichi's shoulder that night, as she to had been in the same situation many years ago but luckily found the man she was now next to her by her side.

As Ino was showering, she felt a pair of hands touch her waist, moving her back enough to feel something hard press up against her. Ino jumped in fear, loosing focus on her deep thoughts when she realized Shikamaru pressing his chest against her back, "I'm here" Shikamaru whispered into her ear, kissing below her earlobe.

"You scared me" Ino said in a low tone, closing her eye's again and feeling his soft lips go lower down her neck, "Mmm" Ino moaned for the first time today as he was about to take her to another world, a world of ecstasy she and he enjoyed exploring.

"Were here for you Ino" Temari cried softly seeing Ino curl up into a ball on her bed, burying her face into her pillow as Tenten crawled behind Ino wrapping her arm around Ino's shoulder, Temari walked over to them and layed on the opposite side of Tenten, kissing Ino on her forehead, "Goodnight Ino" Temari rolled over to the cabinet with the lamp on and switched the light off. She out of all people who cared about Ino, was the one who was going to be heartbroken do to the hands of her own friend.

A half hour later after their moment of loving in the bathtub, both Ino and Shikamaru got out the bathroom with Ino having a towel wrapped around her chest and lower body and Shikamaru having a towel around his waist, "That was good" Shikamaru moved his hands to her sides, making her and her cat jump again. She had never gotten over her sensitive spots.

"Yea-" Ino moved his hands off her discretely, he took notice of that. "What should I wear today?" Ino thought out loud, walking over to her walk in closet Shikamaru had built into there new house. They had been living in their new house for over a year now, but she still thought their was something missing.

"Close your eye's" Shikamaru replied with a soft tone, mystery behind it. Ino looked back at him with confusion in her eye's and wonder on her face, "Just close your eye's" Shikamaru waited a couple of more seconds until Ino finally shut her eye's closed, he walked over to the closet and slid both the doors open as he stared down at what he was going to give to her.

Ino was just laying on her couch, crawled into a tight ball, two days after she had read Naruto's letter. She was desperately trying to fall asleep that afternoon as the thought of loosing him was unbearable, almost as if he had died and left her completely. At least she had her memories. The blond was finally drifting into a warm sleep when she heard the house bell ring.

Her eye's quickly shot open, "Who is it?" Ino whispered in a soft manner to herself, it took all her strength to get to both her feet and look over at the door. "Who is it?" Ino asked in a somewhat louder tone, "Ugh" Ino wiped her wet eye's and around her small bags do to the two hard nights, "Who is it?" Ino asked loud enough when she was inches from the front door, when she looked into the peep hole she opened up the door and saw the familiar face looking back at her.

"OK, open up your eye's" Shikamaru ordered in a soft way, watching Ino open her eye's to reveal her blue pools. He watched her look of surprise and happiness on her face, mixed with another emotion he couldn't decipher, "You like it?"

"I love it!" Ino yelled when she saw the thin strapless black dress laying down across the bed with black strapped high heels on the carpet floor in her direction, "Its so beautiful, and its my size" Ino took the dress and pressed it against her wet naked wet body, "Damn I'm going to ruin, it. You picked it out?" Ino chuckled at the red crossing Shikamaru's face.

"My mom help me pick it out"

"Thats cute Shikamaru, tell your mom she has great taste" Ino smiled up at him then frowned, looking down at the bed. Ino began to walk over the dresser with her lotion bottles on it and looked at Shika in the reflection of the mirror of the dresser, "Thanks Shika" Ino forced a smile, the strange feeling coming back to mind, a bad feeling.

"Whats wrong Ino? You don't like the dress?" Shika asked, moving closer to Ino's body and wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her close, "You know I love you Ino" Shikamaru had said it to her before but something about the way he said it this one time, changed everything for Ino.

"Hey Shika" Ino forced a warm smile for the pointy haired male at her door standing there with a string of yellow flowers wrapped in a slick red ribbon, "Those are beautiful" Ino smiled when she eye'd the flowers, Shikamaru extended his arm out for her to retrieve them, "What are you doing?"

"There for you" Shikamaru handed her the flowers, Ino received them in her arms, admiring their beauty. "Me and Temari picked them out" Shikamaru blushed a bit when he saw her looking up at him trough her cried out eye's, "I think I should get goi-"

"You wanna come in?"

"Um, well-" Shikamaru scratched the back of his head, not seeing Ino for the past two days since there graduation, he really didn't know how stable she was by what had happened to her, "Me and Temari have a date in a hour but I guess five minutes wouldn't hurt" Shikamaru smiled and walked into the house, when he turned around he saw the blond in tears again, "Ino, whats wrong? You didn't like the flowers?" Shikamaru took the flowers from her hands and placed them on the living rooms coffee table, "Ino" Shikamaru saw Ino fall to one knee, he quickly grabbed her in his arms and ran over to her couch where he placed her body gently down, not taking time to think of the sin they were about to commit.

"How do I look?" Ino asked, flashing a bright smile across the room over to Shikamaru who had on a black tuxedo with a bow tie, "I think I look amazing, If I do say so myself" Ino chuckled, seeing herself in the mirror with the tight fitted dress up to her chest and down to her knees, hugging every part of her body. She click clacked her heels over to Shikamaru and kissed him on the lips passionately, feeling his hardness begin trough the fabric of his dress pants.

"You look beautiful Ino-chan" Shikamaru slapped her ass as she was walking over to the door, "Ready to go?" Shika saw Ino nod and exit the room with her long blond hair swinging down her back. Shikamaru was right behind her but checked his right pocket to make sure he had what was going to make this day perfect and left.

"Ino, are you OK? You want me to call Temari to get here?" Shikamaru heard the silent between them, seeing Ino look up at him whil he was on one knee looking down at him, "Ino?" Shikamaru asked again, looking deep into Ino's blue orbs with some fire burning between the look, "Don't cry no more" Shikamaru tilted her head up and wiped the wet tear on both the corner of her eye's.

Ino without thinking, moved in closer to Shikamaru and pressed her lips against his soft mouth. She grabbed the back of Shikamaru's head and moved him closer to her, he didn't resist as he began to grab the back of her head and move in closer to her, exploring her mouth with his tongue as she did to him. Shikamaru stood up and got on top of her body, kissing her neck down to her collar bone.

"Wait Ino, we cant do thi-" Shikamaru tried to break free from what they were doing, he knew she just needed someone to fill up her broken heart, but he didn't want to be the person to do that, he had Temari. "Ino we cant-" Shikamaru lost it when Ino pushed her lips against his mouth and kissed him more, "What the hell am I doing?" Was the last thing he thought before they began to slide each others clothes off.

"So where do you wanna go today? The day is all about you" Shikamaru smiled at Ino who was sitting in the passenger seat awaiting to leave there driveway, she looked over at him with a crazed look, "That's right, all about you" Shikamaru started up the car and pulled in reverse when Ino spotted a mailman approaching the front door of there house.

"Wait Shika the mail-"

"We'll get it when we come back" Shikamaru pulled out and drove away into the streets. "Now what do you want to do today?" Shika asked again, keeping his eye's ahead on the empty streets. Ino thought and thought of what could she possibly want and finally came up with a simple answer.

"How about we go to the park" Ino said seriously with sad eye's, looking out her window onto the rising bright sun. "Yea, lets go to the park. Just to walk around and talk" Ino thought maybe by talking, she would figure out what was the bad feeling she had in her head, "I know a park near our house, make a right" Ino ordered Shikamaru who turned as she said.

"Uh, Ino were going to go to the park dressed like this-"

"Uh, uh uh" Ino waved her finger around to him, "You said it was my day, and the queen want to go to the park dressed like this" Ino crossed her arms and chuckled at her comment, "Were going?" Ino asked in a little girls voice.

"Yea we are, is that it? Wow this park is like five minutes away from our house" Shikamaru shook his head at the place she wanted to go but still drove there. He saw the parking spot on the side of the entrance of the park and parked his small car in front of it. Shikamaru shut the engine off and got out the car to open up Ino's door.

"After you" Shikamaru laughed as Ino got out the car and took a deep breath of air, "That was a long drive" He said sarcastically, making Ino burst into laughter. "Lets go for a quick walk" Shikamaru took Ino's hand and walked into the entrance of the park, seeing the large river at the center of it all with grass surrounding it and a small concrete path around the entire park. Surprisingly not many people were there.

"Slow down" Ino ordered Shikamaru who was rushing her to walk up to get this over for his real plans. Shikmaru along with Ino walked around the park for about half a hour when Ino finally decided to break the ice, "Um Shikamaru, can I ask you something?"

"Sure Ino-chan" Shikamaru gripped Ino's hand tighter, massaging it against the side of his leg. A minute passed and once again they were in silence, "Are you going to ask me Ino? You could ask, ask it" Shikamaru would regret telling her to do so.

"Do you ever think about what happened with Temari?"

This question took Shikamaru off guard, Ino knowing it by the way his grip soften on her hand when she mentioned her name. It had been ten years exactly since either of them had mention her or anyone from high school, they both had lost contact with everyone after that day do to both Shika and Ino moving a two hours away from where they all used to live.

"Why do you ask Ino?" Shikamaru's tone told Ino he was furious at her question, but somewhere between his words, she knew he still had some pain and regret after all this time, as did she. He awaited her answer but never got it, "Yes Ino, I do think about what happened. But we cant do nothing about it" Shikamaru griped Ino's hand tighter again, "Were together now and that's what we got out of it, I'm happy with the outcome" Shikamaru told her seriously but he knew the feelings he had for Temari back then would always wonder around trough his soul.

Another hour passed and Shika found himself laying down on the grass with his arms around his head and Ino laying next to him. They hadn't talk since Ino's question which he had hoped didnt ruin his plans for later tonight. The fresh air blew trough both of their hair, feeling good against thir face. Ino got closer to Shikamaru and kissed him softly on the lips, "I love you" He responded to this, but never got a answer.

Shikamaru pulled Ino over his body and pressed against his groin, "Lets get out of here, its getting dark and I'm getting dirty for our reservations" Shikamaru awaited her respond but was busy looking at Ino's face who had a mysterious look on it.

"What you mean reservaions?"

"Well why you think were dressed up for? I'm taking you out to dinner Ino" Shikamaru kissed her and picked her off the ground with his arms, carrying her all the way back to the car and heading over to the restaurant he had chosen earlier that week. "Are you hungry? We missed breakfast and its almost six o clock" Shikamaru was surprised to read the time on the cars clock, how time went by so fast. How ten years went by so fast.

"Yes, where you planed these reservations at?" Ino asked curious to know where they were heading, even thought she could see the large restaurant at the corner of the street they were driving in, "Isn't this that new place where they just opened up? We should've ate here-" Ino's voice trailed off when the car was suddenly moving into the parking lot of the large restaurant, "Oh Shika! Were eating here?!" Ino yelled like a crazed fan, almost jumping out the car.

"The best for Ino" Shikamaru smiled at her and kissed her lips quickly before getting a parking spot near the entrance of the place, "C'mon I have a table ready for us" Shikamaru rushed out the car but not as fast as Ino who was standing outside already. She took his hand and on they went in, Ino looking up at the sky covered with white dots and smiled at the moon before disapearing into the sliding doors.

"Wow, Shika this place is so fancy" Ino admired the fine decor the restaurant had around the entire large room. The floor had peach colored marble floors with famous portraits around the walls with fine decorations on it, a giant chandelier stood in the middle of the room above a empty table with two chairs. Ino took notice of this and asked, "Shika, is that our table?" Ino asked seeing all the other people enjoying there time at the amazing restaurant.

"Sure is" Shika guided her over to the table with a white table cloth ontop of the wooden table with proper eating utensuls placed neatly on the right side of the table with a little plastic sign reading Reserved on it. A man with a uniform on was awaiting them at the table with a huge grin and a small notepad, "Hello, we got reservations at this table" Shika smiled at the waited who took the plastic sign off the table and moved the chairs out for both of them.

"Here's the bottle of champagne you asked for sir" The waiter moved out the way to reveal a medal can standing up on a metal stand up to the table with ice covering the inside of the can and a bottle of a golden drink in it. "Here you go ma'am" The waiter placed two fancy glass cups in front of Ino and the same for Shikamaru, he popped the champagne open and handed it to Shikamaru "Here you go sir" The waiter winked at him and proceeded to make small talk with Ino while Shikamaru filled her cup with champagne, taking out the small case he had in his pocket.

"Thank you, we'll tell you when were ready" Shikamaru gave the waiter a signal and he smiled in response then walked away to serve another couple. "Having a good night so far? Its only going to get better Ino" Shikamaru smiled as he raised his cup for a drink, he awaited Ino who did the same and hit both their cups together before she took a drink and noticed the shining object at the bottom of her cup.

Ino's eye's went wide with her heart running at a fast speed, "Shika" She swallowed her drink and reached into her drink with her fork, retrieving a a golden ring with a large diamond on the top of it, "Shika, oh my-" Ino's eye's landed on Shika who was proceeding to stand up and walk over to her, "Shikamaru" Ino looked at the golden ring closer as Shikamaru got on one knee and took the ring from her hand and grabbed her left hand, "Shika!" Ino shouted in excitement as she knew what was soon to happen, everyone around them had their eye's locked on the couple with large smiles on their faces.

"Ino, I love you. I loved you for all these years and now I think its time. You make me wanna do crazy things for you. I never want to live life knowing your not next to me. I never want to see you with another man at your side, I love you to much Ino. You complete me like a puzzle, you made me realize you were the right person for me, I just never knew it" Shikamaru knew what he was trying to tell her as she began to cry in joy with a smile to her face, "I want to spend the rest of my life with you Ino, I want you to. Will you marry me?" Shikamaru asked her with hope she would give him the answer he wanted.

Everything hit Ino at once, from when she first met him to the incident that had happend many years ago to make both of them realize they were right for eachother. It just took some hurt and pain to realize how it was suppose to be. Ino thought back to him and began to cry, wondering where and what he could've been doing all this time after breaking her heart to pieces. It was unbelievable how one question could make you think of something that was far far away from your mind yet you still managed to remember it.

"Ye-" Ino heard the loud "Yeses"around the restaurant and heard everyone clap in union when she finally said, "Yes Shikamaru, I will marry you" Ino smiled down at Shika who put the golden ring on her left ring finger. Everyone continued to clap as Shika stood up and kissed Ino on her lips, enjoying the moment that he thought would last forever and ever, the moment he thought he had actually found the one for him, the moment that would soon be hard to see fall to pieces.

"What-?" Shikamaru awoke next to a body he didn't recognize until he looked at Ino's face and noticed what they had done, "What the fuck did I do?!" Shikamaru slapped his forehead when he saw both their naked bodies laying next to each other on the carpeted floor, "What did I do?"

"Where the hell is Shikamaru?! Its been about two hours since I send im over to Ino's house" Temari crossed the street over to Ino's house where she saw the lights in the living room were turned on, "Let me call him to see if he's around" Temari took out her phone and dialed Shika's number. She awaited a minute for the ring before she heard Shika's phone ringing on the inside of Ino's house.

"Fuck!" Shikamaru jumped when his cell phone began to rang next to him, awakening Ino in shock. Shikamaru grabbed his phone and silenced it quickly and heard the turn of the doorknob being moved from the outside, "Shit!" Shikamaru yelled when he read Temari's number on the called ID.

Temari closed her phone and walked up Ino's porch slowly and knocked on it and heard a males yell on the other side of the door, Temari herd more movement and grabbed the doorknob, twisting it to find it unlocked. She turned the knob all the way and opened up the door slowly. Temari was nervous to see what she would find but once she saw what was on the other side of the door, she knew things would never be the same. She had been betrayed by her boyfriend and the girl she had called her freind.

"I love you Ino" Shikamaru drove the car with his right hand holding Ino's left hand as she kept looking down at her new diamond ring, "We need to plan wedding arrangements" Shikamaru turned to kiss Ino on the lips and looked back ahead on the driveway to there house, driving up into it.

"I cant believe you did all this Shika" Ino grinned at him with joy in her eye's, "Now you know were about to make some good rough loving right?" Ino laughed as she opened up the cars door and got out to meet up with Shika on the other side, "After the food digest thought, I'm soo full" Ino rubbed her stomach, holding hands with Shikamaru and walking up to the front door and picking up the small stack of envelopes and heading inside the house with Shika entering first and turning on the living rooms lights, just then a envelope fell from the pile.

Ino put the stack on the counter of the kitchen and walked back to the living room to pick up the envelope she had dropped. As Ino reached the envelope she heard Shika shout from the kitchen and she was about to know why was that. Ino bend over to pick up the envelope that read To Ino Yamanaka. Ino tore the envelope open and slid the paper out and opened it up, her jaw almost dropped when she read the following:

Dear Ino Yamanaka,

We here invite you to the Konoha High School ten year reunion. This will be optional for all our graduates from ten years ago but we recommend you come to see what all your classmates and teachers been up to since then. This letter is being sent from out High School principal herself, Tsunade. Please consider coming and seeing all the familiar faces you graduated with in your year. We plan to see you here in two weeks from now, until then, have a good day and expect to see you here.

As Ino finished reading the letter, her eye's were once again teary, not for joy this time. Ten years ago she had read a letter once and ended up heartbroken do to it, ten years later here she is reading a letter telling her she was invited to see all her classmates from that time again. Tenten, Sakura, Sasuke, Temari, but most importantly, Naruto. He came to mind as soon as she finished reading the letter. The simple thing for her was to not go, but how could she give up a opportunity to see him again. Shikamaru had just proposed to her, she had excepted, would that change if she saw him one last time? Tears were now rolling down Ino's face down to the letter she kept reading over and over again. Would he have already moved on? Will he still love her the way he said he would always will? Will ten years change the way they once felt about each other?


That's the first chapter of my sequel =] hope everyone like it. OK, if your confused then let me explain: The italics are flashbacks to what happened ten years ago and the normal text is the present time. Shikamaru and Ino are now engaged??? How did Temari take this and what did she do when she found them together? If Ino goes to the reunion will Naruto be there? Will NarIno's feelings towards each other ten years ago rekindle at the high school reunion??? Find out all later on in the story, please review.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!! =]]]]