Title:
Regrettably Yours
Fandom/Community:
Naruto/naruto-contest
Characters:
Ino, Shikamaru
Pairing:
onesided ShikaIno
Rating:
PG
Disclaimer:
Kishimoto-sensei owns Naruto
Week
1:
Control
Word
Count:
293
Author Notes: These will be various drabbles, including anyone within Naruto, as well as any pairing, genre, or rating.
She had been so sure that things would work out. She'd never given it a second thought.
But it was in the moments when she'd watched as Naruto began returning those looks Hinata had always sent his way. It was when she'd first noticed that when Neji walked alongside Tenten their hands were entwined. When Sakura had suddenly been the one walking around with a hand that shimmered in the sunlight.
She was too busy watching the lives of everyone else come together that she didn't notice when her own fell apart.
She corners him on his way out. "A goddamn good-bye letter? Is that all I'm worth?"
He doesn't even glance at her. "I didn't want to make a big deal. It's not a big deal."
"I thought you said you'd always be there for me?"
Shikamaru stops walking, glances over his shoulder and shrugs; the same bored, untroubled look on his face. "I was always there for you, Ino," he says in all seriousness, and for once, he doesn't comfort her when the tears come. "You were too busy to notice."
"This wasn't the way that things were supposed to work out!" Her throat hurts but she can't stop screaming. "You were supposed to be mine, damn it!"
"I'm sorry, Ino."
He doesn't mean it, she can tell. Years of her screaming at him, threatening him, ordering him around have hardened his heart to her and she can see it on his face. "You're not." She says and means it. She wants to cry, but laughs instead. "I can see it on your face."
He shrugs and starts walking again. Walking out of her life. "There are some things you just can't control."
She'd always been too damn sure of herself.