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Hi... this is my first fan fiction. I am new here. Hope you'll like my story.

I don't own Naruto and its characters.

Hospital

Thunder was roaring and lighting. It was raining outside with strong breeze. Everyone would've been fallen asleep and snuggled behind a warm blanket in this hour but not a 19-year-old blonde girl. She's still fully awake and doing her paperwork at the front desk in the hospital. Yamanaka Ino yawned and rubbed her eyes with her hands. She looked up and saw at the clock that said 1 o'clock. 'God, it's been 4 hours since I started this damn paperwork and yet it won't less!' she cursed at the pile of papers on the desk in front of her. 'Oh how I really miss Forehead at a time like this…' She and Sakura, her best friend, were usually doing their paperwork and filing them together but right now she's doing it alone since Sakura needed to rest due to her pregnancy. Ino couldn't help but excited knowing she would be aunt to her best friend's child. She smiled while imagined she and her future nephew ~ she's really sure that Sakura's baby would be a boy ~ spending the afternoon at the park and how cute he would be with a mop of silver hair and adorable green eyes.

Ino was too carried away into her own reverie and didn't realized someone have entered the hospital and called her until one of them whispered to her ear, "What are you thinking, Ino-chan?" Ino jumped and nearly fell from her seat. She looked up to see who dare to shocked her.

"Damn you Genma!" cursed Ino. "Don't scare me like that!"

"Well, if you didn't too distract with your own thought you would realize when I called you."

"What do you want, Genma?" Ino snapped at him. Genma just shrugged and pointed behind him over his shoulder. At that time Ino realized someone has been badly injured. She scowled at him, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Ino checked her new patient. He had a deep gash on his stomach and lost a lot of blood. "Lay him on that bed," she ordered and then looked up to Genma and said "Please call Akina in the nurse station! He lost so much blood and there's a poison on his wound. He won't make it if we took him to the emergency room right now. I need to heal him immediately." Genma nodded before running toward the nurse station at the left wing of the hospital. Ino began to examined her patient who happened to be Uchiha Shisui for further injuries. She recognized him when Raido laid him down on the bench. "Raido-senpai, please call Shizune-senpai. I'm not sure I can heal him by myself. There's a lot of damage than I think." Raido ran outside the hospital to the Hokage tower. He also needed to report about their mission to the Hokage.

Uchiha Itachi stood in front of Hokage's desk, gave his team's mission report when suddenly there's a knock on the door. Tsunade yelled, "Come in!"

Raido came to the office and reporting in, "Hokage-sama, we're being ambushed on the way back here and Shisui are badly wounded."

Itachi tensed at the name of his cousin being said. "How bad is he?"

Raido turn his head and looked to his side with grimace face and then said, "He's been poisoned and has a deep gash on his stomach. He's in critical condition." He turned his head toward Shizune who's been standing next to the Hokage, "Ino's healing him right now and she requests your presence."

"Shizune, go to the hospital now!" Tsunade ordered her assistant before turned her attention to the two shinobi in front of her. "Itachi, you can go home and rest"

Itachi nodded before he left Hokage's office. He didn't go home instead he went to Konoha Hospital to see his cousin. Shisui's one of Uchiha who survived the clan massacre years ago by Uchiha Madara. There are only a few member of the clan who still alive. When he arrived at the hospital, he slightly bemused at the sight in front him. The main lobby of the hospital was rather chaos than usual. Blood was spread on the floor, some nurses running back and forth to do what they've been told to, shouting of order could be heard came from a brown-haired woman. He finally could see his cousin's figure. From the look of him, he could tell how's bad his condition. He heard Shizune shouted that they could move him to a room after a moment later that felt like forever. But before they could begin to move, a slender medic who's been tended his cousin from beginning, lost her balance and slowly fell back. Itachi managed to catch her before her body hit the floor.

Itachi waited patiently outside Shisui's room. He sat on the bench in the hospital's hallway with a young blond-haired medic leaned on his side. He turned to his side when he felt she stirred on her sleep. He tensed when Ino snuggled closer and rest her head in the crook of his neck. He could feel her body's shiver slightly. Itachi sighed and put his left hand around her shoulder to keep her warm. He relaxed himself and closed his eyes. Lack of sleeps in a two weeks S-class mission began to take its toll. And what happened to Shisui was definitely not what he's been expecting to face when he'd just back from mission.

That's what Shizune saw when she was outside Shisui's room. She smiled at the two shinobi who'd fallen asleep and cuddling together on the hospital bench. 'They would make a cute couple', she thought. She asked one of the nurses who passed the hallway for a blanket. Itachi didn't even aware when she put the blanket around them. That's a sign how tired was he for letting his guard down. As a shinobi let alone ANBU Captain he never let his guard down even if he's in his own hometown.

A week later, Ino walked through the hospital hallway to her next patient's room. She knocked before entered the room.

"Ino-chan!" Ino frowned at the nickname. No one called her like that again since she grown up.

"Ohayo to you too, Shisui-kun!" She said sarcastically and walked to his bed. She reached for his chart and read it before she examined him.

"It seems you're fully healed Shisui-san. I guess I can discharge you today. But you still need to recover your body, so no mission nor training." She said while wrote down on his chart.

Suddenly, there's a knock on the door and it opened to reveal a young ANBU captain entering the room. Shisui's greeted him enthusiast, "Itachi!"

Ino froze on her place. Her hand stopped writing, her eyes went wide and blush appeared on her pale cheeks. A flash of what happened a week ago played on her head.

Sound of someone's giggling has woken up Itachi and Ino. Ino could still feel a pain on her head due to chakra exahaustion. Ino groaned inwardly, 'Ugh, guess I overused my chakra again last night.' Her eyes blurry and she couldn't quite tell who's been giggling. She still didn't realize that she still leaned on Itachi's shoulder.

"Okaa-san?" When she heard someone's speak right beside her that she realized she's not in her bed in her room. "Itachi-kun, I don't know that you have a girlfriend and a pretty one too." Ino gasped and suddenly sat straight facing a man beside her and blinked, "Uchiha-san?"

"You're awake."

"What… what happened last night?" Ino tilted her head confused. "Why are you here?"

But Itachi didn't answer instead he just stared at her. They involved in staring contest until realization dawn at Ino. Her eyes wide in shock and she covered her mouth. "You… I… We…" Ino trailed off too embarrassed to say what her mind told her about what might happen last night after she passed out.

"Ino!" Everyone looked to the voice. A weapon mistress came and looked rather distressed. Before everyone knew Ino's being dragged by her. "Tenten, doushita no?

"…no!"

"Ino!"

Ino snapped from her reverie. She looked up and saw that Shisui tried to get her attention, "Yes?"

"Really Ino, I try to call you a few times. You seem distracted. Are you okay?"

"Of course I'm fine!" Ino glared at him. "Now, let me finish your discharge paper so you can go home."

Shisui ignored her last comment and grinned mischievously, "Or are you nervous to see my cousin, Ino?"

Ino ignored his comment instead she said, "Well, I guess you can go home now Shisui-san." She gave him his discharge paper. "And remember what I said before. Don't stress your body yet."

"Thanks Ino-chan!" He beamed happily like a-five-years-old who received a candy. "Wait, where are you going?" Shisui called when Ino began to leave.

"Um… I need to check other patients." Ino said obviously.

"Oh come on Ino! You can check them later." Shisui's expression was full of mischievous. "Besides, don't you want to spend some time with Itachi here?"

"Shisui." Itachi gave him a-don't-mess-with-me-or-you'll-die tone while Ino just stared at him dumbfounded.

"Well…"

"Right." Ino said after she regained her composure. "I guess I owe you a thank you Uchiha-san, for your help the other day." Ino bowed slightly, "And I'm sorry for troubling you." She blush a little. But that didn't go unnoticed to Shisui.

"It's not a problem, Yamanaka-san." And with that said Ino left them alone.

After a pregnant silent that fell between the two Uchiha, Shisui said still looking at the door dreamily, "She's pretty. Don't you think so Itachi-chan?"

Itachi just merely stared at him. "If you don't want her, I'll gladly take her out on a date." He said again this time looking at his younger cousin. He swore he saw him tense a bit before he responded him in his usually stoic expression clearly ignoring his last comment, "I believe you should be ready to go home Shisui. I'll inform Kaa-san that you've been discharge today."

Ch, he's apathetic as usual but hey he didn't object either! Shisui grinned inwardly. Usually Itachi object every girl I offered to him to be his date when I dragged him out to have some fun. Hmm… I wonder why he didn't object this time with his I-don't-have-time-for-unnecessary-business-other-than-mission or if-you-want-to-why-don't-you-date-her-yourself. Ohh... does it mean…?

Itachi felt wary when he saw Shisui's eyes gleamed in amusement. He noted to himself not to let his guard down and fell to whatever evil plan his cousin thought in his head.

Thank you for reading my story. Please review!

- Rurippe -