A Girl Worth Waiting For? An Ino Shika Love Story
Chapter 1
"Oh my gosh! I can't believe it! Naruto Kun, Sakura Chan, and Sasuke Kun are back for Anna Sama's place!" Ino yelled in the doorway of Shikamaru's room where he was in the bathroom getting dressed.
Oh great! The "oh so perfect Uchiha" is back, Shikamaru thought to him self, wondering why it mattered to him.
It always irritated him to have Ino and Sasuke Uchiha in the same room with him. She yelled again at him and he began to hurry getting his fish net undershirt on. He walked out, struggling with his now Jonin vest.
He saw her in her chunin vest and said, "Hey can you help me?"
Ino sighed, but never the less crossed the room to help him, "Ya know this vest is supposed to be exactly the same as your chunin one."
"Yea, but I got a chance to break it in before I really got a chance to struggle with it. Dunno why Tsunade Sama insisted that I get a new vest," he replied.
"Because it shows that you've moved up ranks Shika Kun. We were all so proud when we found out," she said with the smile that always made Shikamaru's heart go crazy on her face. She zipped up his jacket for him.
They hurried to the rendezvous point; Shikamaru noticed how they kept in perfect rhythm with each other when they ran together. He watched her as they ran, letting Ino handle watch out for enemies for a while, like she was always bugging him to do.
Why's he watching me? Ino thought to herself. Why do I feel so weird when I'm around him? It's annoying my heart to death.
Shikamaru started to remember what it was like without her to talk to. That was the week he and Temari had gone on a mission together, and he let Temari follow him around after the mission was over.
(Flashback dance! Woo! Copyrighted from InvaderChia lol)
It was when they were 17; they were young and foolish still back then. Shikamaru and Temari had just come home from a one day mission, and Temari was still following him around. Shikamaru and Temari neared the Konoha gates and Shikamaru expected Ino to be waiting for him there; and so she was, her face lit up like a child's face on Christmas. She then caught sight of Temari and her face went from deliriously happy to incredibly angry, she didn't throw her arms around him as usual after he came home from day missions and say I'm so glad you're home, like he expected and loved. She turned on her heel and left, her blonde ponytail swishing behind her. Shikamaru held a hand out almost going after her when Temari said, "What's her problem? I mean really, I've talked to her before, she thinks she's such a princess. Humph."
Shikamaru looked at her with stone cold eyes, "You've never met my teammate then, because she's incredibly selfless, and amazingly helpful, and unsuperfical contrary to a lot of people's beliefs."
Temari was baffled. They walked into the village in a silence that was extremely poisonous. He led her to Tsunade's office and while they were both focused on each other (Tsunade and Temari) and ignoring him; he left to go to a special place.
He lept silently up to a certain window, because he was covered by the darkness of night. He lept up into the window and sat down on the window sill one foot dangling into the room the other hanging out of the window. He watched as Ino slept, she mumbled in her troubled sleep and Shikamaru forgot why he had come to watch her.
(End of Flashback……………………hi.)
Shikamaru remembered the agony he felt not being able to talk to her those few days. He was the only one who knew her secret about Sasuke. She didn't like Sasuke she only pretended to so she could show Sakura, her sometimes enemy, that she could beat her in anything, even boys. Of course Shikamaru thought her troubles were useless because he knew Sakura was the kind of girl that when face with a challenge, she'd meet it every time, he also knew Ino was the kind of girl that when faced with a bigger challenge she meet it and crush it. So one of these days he had a feeling that Sakura chan was going to crack soon, from the pressure of Ino always being a step ahead of her. Ino had grown a lot since their fight and was incredibly stronger. Suddenly a kunai was thrown hard at them.
"Oh my gosh what the heck was that!!!!!!!!!!!!" Shikamaru yelled.
"Don't worry Shika Kun; it's only Kiba and Shino wanting to come with us to meet Kakashi Sensei, Sakura Chan, Sasuke Kun, and Naruto Kun at the gate," Ino smiled.
Sure enough Kiba and Shino hopped up on the tree branch Shikamaru and Ino were standing on. Kiba grinned at them.
"Hope I didn't scare you guys, Akamaru, here smelled you guys and I thought we could go meet them altogether."
"You didn't scare me but Shikamaru Sama was scared out of his wits!" Ino replied with a happy smile on her face.
Kiba grinned at Shikamaru and Shino remained silent as usual. They began to hurry, as they neared the Konoha gates, they saw everyone was already there. Hinata, Lee, Neji, TenTen, Choji, and the others, all there, all waiting for team seven.
Suddenly Hinata said, "Ahh! I see them!!!!"
Sure enough a group of people was barely seen over the horizon headed for the gates. Tsunade appeared in the crowd next to Shikamaru.
"So why's everyone here around the gates?" she asked.
"You should know Tsunade Sama, we're all waiting for Naruto and his team to return from Anna Sama's place," Shikamaru said.
(Author excerpt: You all are probably wondering who they are all talking about when they say "Anna Sama". Anna is my character she is incredibly strong and has every possible magical power you could think of, she is mostly emotionally unstable but this is where her demon [yes she has her own demon albino tiger is safely sealed in a clan tree on her clan's territory in France. She is an official Hidden Leaf kuniochi, and her contract with Tsunade says that she has to win every other war for the Hidden Leaf Village, she is the Hidden Leaf's secret weapon.)
"Ahh yes, Anna Sama told me she'd be bringing team seven home. She also wrote that team twelve is coming home too. She said that she'd be bringing some of her own guests too," Tsunade said, hearing Shizune huff and puff behind her because she had to hurry to catch up with Tsunade.
"Lady Tsunade! I hurried as fast as I could, Konohamaru and his team are coming as well," Shizune said with a huff.
As Shizune said so, Naruto and his group came up to the gates, while they all heard a distinctly low female yell, "Ah! Anna Sama! I told you they'd be at the gates for us!"
A voice they all recognized as Anna's voice replied, "Keva! I'm the one who told you they'd be there!"
(Another author excerpt: Ok before I go any farther, I have to explain about these new characters. First there's Keva Hitomi, Anna's almost sister [they grew up together, she is a full blooded Hitomi who has the traditional wolf spirit sealed inside her which gives her the same status as a demon [such as Naruto, and she has long wavy waist length black hair and navy blue eyes. Then there's Kitty Hitomi, Keva's real sister, she is a full-blooded Hitomi too but when she went with her mother to get the traditional wolf spirit sealed inside her, a mistake was made so a wolf cub's spirit was sealed inside Kitty instead of a full grown wolf, so Kitty has more feline qualities than Keva. Despite their complete differences to each other, they are perfect sisters, unlike Anna and her older [by five seconds sister, Alana, and exactly like Anna and her younger brother, who is a full blooded ninja, Inamaru. Next there is Jay Uchiha; she is Keva and Kitty's sensei, and Sasuke's cousin [she was nowhere to be found when Itachi killed the Uchiha clan, she is currently married to Kakashi and they have a son named Ichitamaru, she has the sharingan and short shoulder length hair and sharp black eyes identical to Sasuke's when they aren't in sharingan form. Then there's Chia Takahana, Keva and Anna's almost sister and the conscience of the three girls. She is a dragon demon and was heiress to her clan's demonic throne to where she once lived, but because she refused to eat humans as her clan decreed she was banished from her clan, she has silver shoulder blade length hair and lilac eyes. Then there's Vincent, Anna's true love, He's very tall and has black neck length hair. Lastly there's Seji, he's a half vampire with flaming red hair and a pedigree because he's part vampire royalty. Naruto is in love with Kitty and Kitty loves Naruto, Sasuke and Keva are in love, and so are Chia and Seji.)
Everyone embraced the hero's and let them inside the gates of Konoha. Shikamaru and Ino left together.
Ino said to Shikamaru,"Isn't it great that they're back Shika Kun?"
Shikamaru sighed, "Yea I guess so."
"Why so down?"
"Nothing really, I guess you'll be going back to pretending you like Sasuke now right? I mean, to show up Sakura and everything?"
"Oh heavens no Shika Kun, Sakura Chan gave up on Sasuke ever since he and Keva got together! Why does it bother you?"
He looked at her, wanting to say it's because I have feelings for you that even I don't understand but saying instead, "It's just annoying to hear Sakura yell at you and hear you talk about Sasuke all the time when we're around her."
"Oh………I'm sorry, I didn't know it bothered you that much. I guess now you won't have to worry about it anymore."
"Yeah……….."
They hurried back to their homes knowing their parents were worried about them, both of them with the other on their minds.