A/N: Thank you for all your good reviews and hope you enjoyed the first chapter of my story. Now if your confused about what happened with the whole Shikamaru/Ino and are disappointed about it, just keep reading, and enjoy the second chapter =]

Anticipation

The entire night, Ino tossed and turned on her bed with Shikamaru next to her, fast asleep, "Shika?" Ino asked, putting the back of her head on her pillow and looking up at the pitch black room, looking over to the window with the half moons white light shining trough, Ino felt a strange feeling to this.

Shikamaru didn't respond to her as he was fast asleep, Ino turned to her side and kept rereading the letter in her head, not believing what had happened this night. Just one hour ago, Shikamrau was deep inside her womanhood, celebrating their engagement earlier that night. Now she layed in her bed with her thoughts on cloud nine, should she go to the reunion? Or should she stay?

"Shikamaru" Temari gasped as she saw her boyfriend on the floor, naked under the sheets with a body next to him, "Shikamaru, how could-" Temari's eye's bulged out her head when she saw who was under the covers next to him, looking over at her with dazed eye's that quickly became enlarged as she saw who was standing over her, "Ino!" Temari yelled, narrowing her eye's and filling up the hurt with anger.

"Temari" Ino whispered up at her, wiping her eye's of sleep and fumbling with her bra and panties under the covers, "Temari, please. This isn't what it looks like" Ino looked next to her to see Shikamaru looking up at Temari with fear and sorrow, "Temari, he just came over and-" Ino got up to her knees, strapping on her bra and sliding up the rest to her panties, "We just kissed that's it" Ino told her, more like begging for the next words that came out of Temari's mouth.

"I cant believe you Ino" Temari's eye's were now glassy with tears, ready to spill out. "Thats why Naruto left your slutty ass!" Temari yelled at the top of her lungs and without a blink of a eye, Temari jumped after Ino, she should've known Temari's anger problems, and now she was going to get a lesson.

Ino continued to replay the letters words in her head and finally rolled over again to see the digital clock on the night stand, it read 1:34 a.m.,she closed her eye's tightly and told herself, "Sleep, sleep" Ino opened up her eye's once again and heard her fiance speak, her hear began to race as his hands ran down between her legs.

"Ino" Shikamaru moaned, rolling over to his side, "Why are you awake? Whats wrong?" Shika asked, leaning over and kissing her cheek softly. Ino stood in silent and moved his hands deeper between her legs, hoping this would remove the thoughts out of her head.

"No-" Ino stopped his hands as he was beginning to enter her panties, she wasn't in the mood for it no more for a strange reason. "I cant sleep, I don't know-" Ino moaned out loud as Shikamaru continued to press his fingers against her clit trough the fabric of her panties, she finally allowed it. Shikamaru kissed her cheek again and began to slide her panties off, running his fingers down her thighs, ready for round two.

Temari jumped on top of Ino's body and grabbed a fist full of hair with her left hand and slapped her face roughly with her right. Ino cried out trying to block all the hits but Temari kept them coming, "You dirty bitch!" Temari yelled again, slapping Ino's face harder and getting up to her feet and pulling Ino up to hers as well. Ino tried to break her attackers grip but it was locked, Shikamaru rolled over to the side while trying to put his boxers on and watching the scene with horror.

"Temari! Get off me! Please!" Ino shouted at Temari while holding her wrists but her strength was no use, Temari dragged her up and the slaps became punches to her forehead. Ino had finally had enough of this and with each blow, the blond became furious. Ino caught a chunk of Temari's hair and pulled her back but that was all she managed to do as Temari punched Ino straight on her right cheek.

The blond layed in bed for about half a hour after she was done making love with her fiance, "Shit"She thought as she heard Shikamaru's snores as he fell asleep instantly, "I thought this would work" Ino moaned out in a whisper, echoing around the pitch black room. Afraid of what she would see, Ino rolled over to her side to see the digital clock to see the time that was set on 2:08 a.m.

Ino closed her eye's and thought of everything she had done wrong in her life, wondering where she could've gone different and make it better. But this was reality, she had made choices to get to where she is now, laying next to Shikamaru. Somewhere around her thoughts, Ino had a idea and reached for the phone next to the digital clock, she slowly stood to her feet and wrapped her naked body with her robe on the floor.

As swiftly as a fox, Ino crept towards the door with the phone in her hand. She managed to get to the door and look back to hear Shikamaru's snores, she grabbed the doorknob and opened up the door, closing it behind her and dialing the person's number who she knew would soothe her torn heart.

Shikamaru managed to get his boxers on and grabbed Temari by the waist, pulling her over to the ground, "That's it Temari!" Shikamaru yelled as he secured Temari on the floor with his tight grip pinned down on her arms, "Relax Temari, I can explain. Please" Shikamaru tried to control her squirming body but to no avail, she managed to get free with a knee to the groin.

Temari stood up to her feet as she saw Shikamaru grab between his legs in pain, "You-" Temari moved closer to Ino who was down on her knees grabbing the back of her head in pain, "You see why right? You see why right?!" Temari roared around the house, almost in tears at the nightmare she was in. Ino fought back the tears but it all came out seeing exactly what se had done to her.

"Temari please, I was stupid, I didn't mean to let it get this far. Don't blame Shikamaru, it was all my fault" Ino cried and sobbed into her palms, hoping to have a bit of sympathy from Temari but she knew better. Once you were on her bad side, you didn't mean a thing to Temari, "Lets just talk this out Temari-"

"You dirty slut" Temari spat out, Ino widened her eye's at the comment and looked up at Temari, looking trough her eye's and going deeper into he soul. Ino knew this was a different Temari, she wasn't the same as the one that cried along her side the night Naruto left. "This is why he left you Ino" Those were her last words before a tear came down the warriors face, she had been betrayed and back-stabbed by the one she called her friend.

"Hey Mom, I know its late right now-but I have to talk to you about something" Ino quickly talked into the phone, not letting her mother even get a chance to say hello on the other line. Ino knew that if their was one person that could always understand her, that was her mother.

"Ino? Do you know what time is it?" Her mother answered into the phone with a groggy voice, annoyed in a way. "Give me a minute Ino" Ms. Yamanaka added in a more calm tone. Ino heard some movement around and finally heard her mother speak into the phone again, "Hello Ino, how have you been?" She asked with a peaceful noise, she had talked to her daughter a week ago.

"Mom, I have something to tell you-" Ino ignored her mothers question and prepared to tell her mother the breaking news she had been delivered by Shikamaru earlier that night, "Mom?" Ino asked when she felt the awkward silent between them as she walked down the steps to her house. She turned the living room's lights on and approached the couch, stretching her back out on it as she layed on top of it.

"Yes Ino, I'm here. What is it? Something happened to Shikamaru?" Ms. Yamanaka spoke into the phone with concern and fear in her voice. She had known ten years ago of the relationship between Ino and Shikamaru, she had worries about it at first thinking she was rushing into things since he had left her, but after some time she gave in and wished for the best between them.

"No Mom, he did something tonight-"

"Oh my goodness Ino, he hit you didn't he?! Call the cops Ino, call the damn cops-" Ms. Yamanaka began to freak out and raise her voice trough the phone, already thinking for the worse, "Ino answer me, what did that boy do to you?" Her mother asked with a demanding tone, even if Shikamaru was a grown man, she still called him boy.

"No Mom, he didn't hit me. If he ever tried that-" Ino shook her head imagining at the crazed thought of Shikamaru actually putting his hands on her, "Shikamaru proposed to me tonight" Ino broke the news to her, she heard a loud gasp on the other line, wondering whether or not that was a good sign.

"Ino, he proposed to you? Tonight?" Ms. Yamanaka gasped again, holding her chest as she layed on her bed in shock. "I'm so happy for you Ino, what did you tell him?" Her answer had surprised the hell out of Ino who put up a weak smile trough the phone, she had to tell her mother about the letter, "Ino, what did you say to him?" She asked again with fear she would hear the wrong answer.

"I said yes"

"Oh my goodness Ino! Your getting married!" Ms. Yamanaka, for her age, yelled trough the phone as she was a cheerleader in a high school team, "Whens the date?" She asked her daughter who put the phone a inch away from her ear at the loud tone her mother was using, "Well he just proposed tonight so scratch that question, who's planing everything? Should I start packing clothes to come over there? I've lost my sleep now Ino" Ino's mother chuckled, proud for her daughters move.

"It's OK Ino, its fine, she's gone now" Shikamaru got to one knee with his hand on her chin, his pain between his legs had healed minutes later after Temari had left Ino's house, "I'm here for you" Shikamaru held Ino into his arms as she cried into his shoulder.

"Didn't you hear her Shikamaru? I am a fucking slut, look at me" Ino sobbed, moving back and letting him see the long streams of tears coming down her eye's, "Just-just" Ino wrapped her arms around Shikamaru's waist and pulled him closer. Shikamaru kissed the side of her neck as he positioned Ino's legs around his waist as he sat on the soft carpet, "Just fuck me over and over Shikamaru" Her demand sounded desperate, but he was her drug now and she was addicted to him.

"No Ino, lets talk" Shikamaru kissed Ino's neck and lips, fumbling with her bra as he began to give in to her command. After all, he was only wearing boxers, "Ino, you don't need nobody. We don't need nobody, we have each other" Shikamaru's words were sincere at the time, only he didn't know he was going to marry her ten years later.

"Theres more Mom" Ino quickly buded in to her mothers long speech she was delivering, it was now or never. Ino waited for her mother to quite down as she did in seconds when she heard her daughters serious voice. "I got a letter today in the mail" She started.

"From who?"

"My high school" Ino said with no emotion, sorrow rushed her body as the blond stood up to retrieve the schools letter from the kitchens cabinet, "Its for my ten year reunion" Once again, her words hit her mother like a brick. It didn't take a genius to figure out that if her high school was having a reunion, the high school she met him, then he was bound to show up.

"Oh dear"

Ino's mom sounded worried, afraid of what might be the result in all of this, "Its in two weeks I think, and I don't know if I should go or not" Ino frowned when she found the letter in the kitchen, reading it over and over in her head while focusing on what her mother was saying, "What do you think?"

There was a long pause, Ino allowed the awkward silence for both of them to think on the decision. But she knew that in the end, it would be up to her weather she would go or not. A minute later, her mother broke the ice, "Its up to you Ino. There's good things that could come out of this and you know what I'm talking about, you left here on a bad note"

"I know Mom" Ino ran her hands trough her blond locks, torn between the two decicions. "But-"

"But what?"

"I just don't know actually, its just you know all my friends that were my friends will probably be there-" Ino bit the tip of her thumbs nail, "He's going to be there" Ino finally had to get to the point, she has never talked about him with anybody trough the ten years she had been with Shikamaru, afraid of falling for a man who was never going to be with her again.

"And your engaged to Shikamaru now-" Ms. Yamanaka was going to continue but was cut off when she heard a low cry on the other line, "Ino? Ino whats wrong?" Ms. Yamanaka began to get shaky and teary at the sound of her daughter crying, she hasn't heard the cry of her daughter since that day in front of there house.

"Nothing mom" Ino tried to cover up the low sobbing with coughs but she knew that her mother would hear right trough her phony act, "Mom, I'm with Shikamaru now. I'm afraid to see everyone again, afraid to see him again Mom. You think he has another girlfriend? Kids? A whole family" Ino cried into the phone and throughout her sobbing, she heard her mother cry as well.

"Ino, please. Your making this hard on both of us, do you want to go or not? Its up to you honey. Sleep on it tonight alright?" Ms. Yamanaka wiped the small tears away from the corner of both her eye's, wanting to get off the phone before she had a nervous breakdown, "OK honey?"

"OK Mom, I'll call you tomorrow to let you know what my decision is alright? I'll be fine tonight OK?" Ino smiled with her wet face as if her own mother could see her. Ino didn't want to break down into tears on the phone with her mother, she was at a age where her elderly heart couldn't take it.

"Fine Ino, goodnight. I love you honey"

"I love you too Mom, goodnight" Ino replied to her mother and clicked the end button. She stood frozen in silence for about five minutes in thought of what her final decision was going to be. To face your future, you must face your past. To die happily, you have to bury all your hate and problems. Ino had made her decision in the low amount of time, she was going to go to her high school reunion and face everyone she had left behind. Only this time she hoped she could face Naruto face to face just one more time.

Well this chapter might have been a bit boring but trust me, it will get WAAAYYY better later on. Now I'm not going to give any hints and what a crazy way of Temari whooping Ino but to all my fans and readers, please review =]