Hina-chan: Yes, this is a new story. No this isn't a yaoi one-shot this time ;)
Kanna: Finally a different pairing.
Natsume: This isn't...Naruto and Sasuke?
Tatsuya: Aw...oh well, who is it?
Hina-chan: Guys ask most of the questions...it's a NarutoXIno ONE-SHOT. But I might add more if ppl request it.
Pairing: InoXNaruto.
The ages...well this is before the manga of where Kakashi dies. GOT IT?
Summary: Naruto is sent on a mission with Ino to figure out where Sasuke and Orochimaru are, since Tsunade is busy with Sakura's training and Kakashi is busy training Sai. Shikamaru and Choji were sent to the Suna village with Asuma. While on the mission....Not telling ^^
Warning: Contains a death scene. If you hate violence, I suggest you leave.
Disclaimer: Sadly, I've been saying this ever since I started typing up these crazy ideas.
The wind howled as two figures ran swiftly through the bare meadow-like land. The stars seemed to guide the two shinobi as they headed toward the same place that their beloved friend once stood, fighting against them with new powers before Orochimaru stopped him. Both of them raced faster to the last hide out that Orochimaru had been in.
"Was this the place, Naruto?" The young shinobi looked toward where the girl was pointing.
"Yeah...it is" The blond male made his way over to the spot where he had been standing ten months ago.
He placed his right hand on the cold and colourless ground that stood beneath them, gazing and remembered the details of what happened back then. He lowered his eyes and went into deep thought about it before the girl snapped him out of his small trance.
"Naruto, where was Sasuke-kun standing when you faced him?" He looked up into her eyes and saw bravery and courage in her eyes.
"Ino...are one hundred percent sure this will work?" Ino gave him a small nod and took out a scroll that had writings all over it and placed it on to the ground with grace.
Before they could do any hand signals for the scroll, a loud explosion went off a few feet away from them, causing them to go flying. Ino coughed a bit as she sat up to see the attacker. She gasped when she saw the smooth and black hair that she knew from so long ago. Her heart jumped a bit as she realized the new attire he was wearing.
"S-Sasuke!" Ino exclaimed as she stood on both her feet and dusted of the dust that covered her lower half.
She looked around quickly, looking for Naruto. She found him lieing under a piece of rock and she rushed over quickly to help him. Without thinking she tried to push the rather large boulder off of his unmoving body. She was so focused on the boulder that she didn't realize that Sasuke had disappeared and was no in the air, headed straight for Naruto and the boulder, with a large amount of chakra in his left hand.
The Chidori that Kakashi had taught him so long ago had now been neglected and had been mutated into a larger ball of lightning that brightened the dark night with its blue lights. Sasuke rammed his fist through the boulder and straight into Naruto's unconscious body. The effect of the Chidori sent Ino backward and caused the boulder to split in two. Sasuke pulled his hand out of the ground that lied underneath Naruto's body and shook off the blood that remained on his hand.
His black eyes stared at the motionless body that lied pitifully in front of him, tempting him to do more than just Chidori. But he didn't. Instead he looked over at Ino, letting her wipe the dust from her eyes.
"My universe was not meant to be tainted" Was all that he would tell her before leaving in the blink of an eye.
'Universe?' Ino thought to herself before she rushed to Naruto's side.
"NARUTO" The said man opened his eyes a little and smiled up at her.
"You...don't have to shout...my...inner universe is tired, Ino" Ino's eyes began to water.
She shook away her tears and concentrated on focusing chakra to her hands for healing. Naruto sighed and put his hand over hers and shook his head. Ino looked at him with a confused look.
"You can't give up, Sasuke was right there, you could have-"
"And do what, the jerk is already ahead of me in everything and I feel...very tired of all the chasing that I did. Tell Sakura and Sai...that I was wrong...the only universe I was meant to be in was my inner body"
"What the hell are you talking about, you sound stupid, who's going to bring me a smile?"
"Ino, why would you need me...you have Sai-"
"No I don't! Sai...Sai belongs to Sakura now...Shikamaru belongs to Temari, everyone has someone to be with but I'll be lonely if you leave me....I liked you...Naruto...you hated what I did to you yet you ignored me. You got along just great with your team mates and made me jealous, I began to wish that I was in your group, that I could have fun too, like Sakura, and even Hinata seems to be getting along great...but I...I don't know what my real wish is anymore...that's why...you have to be with me Naruto!"
Naruto only smiled at her and closed his eyes.
"My...universe is calling...I...liked you too, Ino" Ino looked at him with tears in her eyes and held his hand.
"Why do you keep talking about a universe, what is it?"
"A dieing shinobi once told me...nobody was born for a reason and that we actually come from several different universes. Universes that don't exist in the villages or scrolls that contain forbidden techniques...Sasuke's heard of it too...he was right...his universe wasn't meant to be tainted by something like me...I'm a beast not meant to be loved..."
"THAT'S NOT TRUE, I LOVE YOU!" Ino breathed in heavily and began panting.
"I...ung..love you...Ino..." And with that said, Naruto's spirit drained away from his body as well as the color in his face.
Ino clutched at Naruto's dead body and cried until she could cry no more. Her tears hit the sweater that Naruto was wearing as well as the ground. She yelled up at the stars above.
"I WANT HIS UNIVERSE BACK, GIVE HIM BACK TO ME, PLEASE!" She paused for a bit in her crying, waiting for a reply from the sky above her.
"Why...why can't you give him back...."
Death...a fate no one can escape...
But now there is hope for a new thing that happens once in a lifetime...
You may only have one life, You might have five...
the universe is up to you...
Will you die so easily?
A/n: I know, cheesy ending and Ino acting uncharacteristic was uncalled for but...well this was all that was in my head. Apparently, the universe can give you one life or five lives. If you get five, you will be born into a new body every time you die...and if you get one...your loss. Tell me honestly how I did =/