I can update this as fast as you guys want! reviews numbers will decide, so this is really my first InoShika I'm really serious about as in not typed to get over a block so I hope you like

"DOES IT MATTER?" Ino hollered as loud as she could at Akira. Then it happened, the tears stung her eyes, and it didn't matter, that she wasn't a crier, what did matter is that she was crying now. "It's December 23rd, and you're dumping me, I'm going to spend Christmas alone, and probably the New Year."

"Ino, look if you want met to come over to your house on Christmas, I will, will that make things better, if I do that will you let me get on with my life?"

"W-What?" She must have misheard; "Get on with your life, like I was ever stopping you!" She stormed off.

"Ino!"

"Shut up, and go away, I never want to hear from you again, Akira!"

"It's not Akira…"

She sat there all alone recalling two days ago, she knew that Akira was miserable, but she also thought that it served him correctly, so she felt no pity. However…

"Shika-kun"

"What happened to you? Are you hurt? Who did this?"

"It's nothing."

"You don't cry over nothing."

"Akira…" He put his finger to her lips

"Say no more."

"He never cared."

"I know, I know. I just wish I didn't have to see you like this." He pulled her into his chest.

"No 'I told you so's'!"

"None, you don't need them do you?"

"Thank you Shika-kun" she cried into his chest

She stared at the tree in the living room; the lights were sparkling, and began to twist with her tears. "Shika…" she trailed off, and got some coffee, she curled up to read her book. The focus wasn't there in her apartment; it was in the Nara boy's.

"I've never felt this before, what is it?'

"That's for your heart to decide, not me 200 only gets you so far."

"Shika, I-I-I feel that this is all I ever need to do just be here… with you."

"Ino, I hate to tell you, but I can't be here, you know that, I especially can't be in your apartment, with you against me like this."

"Right Temari… ummm… you should go, you know, get her something, I know that you probably haven't."

"You're right. But what should I get her?"

"It doesn't matter, Shika, it's the heart, behind it."

"And this is coming from Miss Credit Card?"

"Shika!" She threw a pillow above her head where his face was.

"I better go."

"Yeah… bye Shika, merry Christmas

She stripped down out of her pajamas and changed into jeans, and a violet turtle neck, a black trench coat, with a black hat, and gloves, completed the outfit. She grabbed the cookies she had made yesterday, and set off for his apartment on the other side of the village.

"Shika!"

"Ino."

"Stop it!"

"Fine." He had somehow found some non-frozen water in the fountain and flicked it at her face it became instantly cold. They were walking in the park together, coffee in hand. "Merry Christmas Eve, Shika-kun"

"Huh?"

"Christmas Eve, I know you have to be at Temari's in an hour so I'll let you go get her something, because knowing you, you still don't have something."

"You're correct." He chuckled a bit, and drank more coffee. "Merry Christmas Eve, Ino."

"Merry Christmas Eve, Shika-kun," she whispered to the wind a few minutes after he had left.

"Hello?"

"Shika?"

"Ino?" the door unlocked, and the chain slid, the door opened up momentarily. "Hi."

TBC