He could say the way it started was a mistake, but that would be an absolute lie.

He could say when he watched her from her bedroom window at night for the first time, he, having been hidden in the forest area behind her house, it was merely to check up on her; to make sure she was first time it happened, that very well could have been why he had appeared. But now, watching her slowly remove her lilac-colored skirt with her back turned towards the window, black thong now on full display, he realized that's not at all why he stayed.


The summer was in full swing, beating down on Konoha like a heat wave almost relentlessly.

Team 7, minus the new Hokage, Kakashi, were sparring. This time, they chose to go to Training Grounds 3, with Sakura stating that if the heat got to be too much, they could just cool off by dipping their feet in the area of water around it. Sai had gotten the hang of his new Jutsu and had been honing in on it to make sure it would be battle ready when the time came, and Sakura and Naruto both had been practicing their taijutsu, minus the usage of the pink haired kunoichi's super strength and the blonde's hidden chakra. He didn't care for how loud the two were when they got together to fight, but as long as it kept his mind off of "other things" he would deal with it.

Mid afternoon came to them as did it's insufferable heat, and they were all about to get up and leave when they heard a group of people laughing. Sai was still gathering his supplies when he looked up and saw Sakura grinning and waving to the group, and he followed her eyes and immediately wished he hadn't.

Most of their friends were all together, wearing swimming gear and sandals. They all waved as they drew near.

"Fancy finding you all here. We were going to ask you if you wanted to come here and swim with us, but couldn't find you." Shikamaru Nara said with a bored look on his face.

He saw her immediately, but he wasn't going to give her the pleasure of knowing it. Her silky hair was not in her usual ponytail, instead it was cascading down her back like a platinum waterfall. Her makeup she usually wore was not on her person, and from the looks of it she never needed any in the first place. Her black bikini made his groin tighten and was so out of character for her that he had to wonder why she picked such a dark color in the first place. Ino was a colorful person, from the way she dressed to the way she spoke, and it's one of the things that drew Sai to her in the first place.

Her ample cleavage was spilling out slightly, and he got an eye full of the silky-smooth skin beneath it. The bottoms looked like they barely fit from what he could see in the front, and Sai had an overwhelming urge to take off his top and cover her in it. He narrowed his eyes and looked at her, wanting her to see his displeasure, wanting her to understand. But she wasn't looking at him, and that threw him off guard. She was quiet, almost reserved. She didn't talk to anyone, and seemed almost like an entirely different person. His pink haired teammate ran over to her and gave her a tight hug around her bare shoulders.

"I wish you would have found us sooner, we don't have anything to wear in the water!" the pinkette replied. The quiet blonde said nothing in return.

"We can still get in the water Sakura-Chan! It's so hot out, our clothes will probably dry right after getting out anyway." his blonde teammate exclaimed excitedly.

"Well, if you're coming come on, we aren't going to wait all day" the Nara exclaimed as he turned from them and started towards the water, everyone in tow. It seemed that Sakura and Naruto made up their minds and continued on with the group.

Sai was about to turn around and head back into the village until Ino turned around and he saw what exactly she was wearing on her ass. Sai's vision went red. Her backside was perfection. The rounded curves of her ass were in full view, the thong like bottoms that she was wearing only added slightly to the already perfect woman in front of him. It was obvious that she had no hair beneath them. He stared after her in shock, wondering what exactly possessed her to wear something like that in a public area. He quietly followed behind.


The large group of adults arrived at the lake and people immediately began to throw themselves into the water, desperate for some relief from the harsh sun.

The girls started giggling as they flicked water at one another and the boys seemed to be watching intently. At least, Shikamaru seemed to be watching a certain Sand Ninja intently, apparently having been in Konoha for relations between the two villages. Sai wasn't really focusing on them though. Ino wasn't interacting with everyone else, and that started to worry him.

The blonde woman was floating on her back a good thirty feet away from everybody else, seemingly soaking in the sun peacefully. Her eyes were closed, her face turned upwards, and Sai couldn't help but wish the others weren't there with them. As soon as he thought that he physically shook his head. This wasn't like him. He needed to lose this obsession. The insomnia he's been facing is enough to understand that.

While the group played in the water Sai had planted himself down on the grass at the edge of it and decided to merely dip his feet in.. The group ushered for him to come in and he cooly ignored them and they laughed and their attentions were drawn elsewhere.

He got the urge to get his drawing pad out and started mindlessly drawing, mind elsewhere and eyes still taking in the beauty of the water from the corners of his eyes, still swimming alone prettily.

Sai could see the group of females slowly making their way towards Ino's unsuspecting body and his full attention, along with the rest of the men, were very obviously turned to the mischievous girls. Ino kept floating peacefully, occasionally she would take her hand and swirl it around the top of the water, eyes still closed.

Sakura and Tenten closed in on her, and her eyes cracked open just before they pounced on her, her entire body being forced underneath the water. When the three women resurfaced they were all laughing together, and Sai couldn't help but take in the beauty that was Ino Yamanaka being completely soaking wet. The water made her hair cling to the back of her body. It ran down her eyelashes as they fluttered, and her baby blue eyes seem almost erotic.

Water dripping from her cleavage had him ripping his gaze off of her, and almost in a panic he realized he had been drawing her on his sketch pad absentmindedly. In his image her head was tilted back, her body floating on top of the water, her face in a state of euphoria. Sai quickly shut his book and emerged his feet from the water, collecting his supplies once again.

"Sai! Where are you going? We just got here man!" the Inuzuka shouted after him. He turned around to the group, all the attention now on him, and gave them a fake smile

"As much as I'd love to watch you all drown each other, I have better things I need to be doing, like honing in on my new Jutsu's." he replied. He heard some of them 'boo' after him as he walked away, and he tried to ignore the glare he had seen the Yamanaka giving him before he turned around.


The pale artist was laying in his bed as the day drew to a close. He had been tossing and turning, unable to find peace within himself and fall asleep. It's been like this for weeks now. Her eyes haunting him, her voice enchanting him. For being such a poetic man, Sai wasn't usually one for romance. He himself not having the emotions of a regular person already, it was a shock to feel the things he was now prone to feeling, and it got harder for him at night when the village was asleep and he himself wide awake.

He opened his sketch pad on his night table beside him, and started flipping through the papers absentmindedly. He stopped abruptly when he came to the picture he had drawn of her earlier in the day, her body floating on the water like some ethereal goddess. Her behavior had confused him today, and her narrowed eyes staring directly at him had him feeling a negative emotion he couldn't quite make out. He flipped to a new page.

He drew her, a rather tiny 'her.' He put her hair up into her usual elegant high ponytail, and decorated it with flower petals. He dressed her in a graceful gown, milky white in color with a flowy, full skirt, and tiny white slippers decorating her ornamental feet. Sai drew her eyes to perfection, already having memorized them long before. Before he knew exactly what he was doing he quickly sat up, made the proper hand signs, and brought his work to life. Glitter seemed to dance around his vision.

She was in front of him now, dancing beautifully, twirling herself around in her flowy gown over and over on the end of his bed, arms in the air and hair dancing about her body, a majestic smile on her face, utterly enchanting him. He laid down on his side and continued to watch her, a small smile appearing on his face when the tiny Ino almost fell off of his bed and waved her arms around only to fall onto her back on the bed. She picked herself up and skipped to different areas of his bed, flowery hair racing behind her as she ran in circles. The laughter in her eyes brought a feeling or relief to Sai, not liking the look of anger in the actual Yamanaka's eyes earlier in the day.

He reached his hand out and she danced her way onto it, her eyes staring into his as if she had a mind of her own, her tiny feet tickling his calluses. He smiled softly at it, not caring how real the smile looked, because he felt how real it was, and the pocket Ino reached her arms out and her face up, grabbed each side of his nose with her little hands, and kissed him on it.

Sai brought the paper up to his hand, and she hopped back onto the page dutifully, and he rolled it up and placed it in his scroll of jutsus by his bed. He had been asked non-stop by his teammates what 'new jutsu' he had been spending so much time on, wondering why he wouldn't show them. While he knew that he couldn't actually use this little pixie Ino scroll in battles, she was easily his new favorite. The dark haired man laid back down, arm over his eyes, and let out a deep sigh.


Sai realized, when four hours had gone by, that he was not going to be able to get any sleep, his insomnia at an all time high.

He got up from his bed and walked to his window. He quickly jumped out of it and onto his roof before making his way to where he knew she would be.

The raven haired male jumped tree to tree for ten minutes before stopping. He could see her house from here. There was a tree directly in front of one of the windows, and he quickly made his way over to it discreetly.

He had found her room. It was spacious and bright, organized and very.. floral. The walls decorated with a bright yellow color, bedspread a deep purple that wasn't at all surprising to him. She was laying on top of it, the clothing she typically wore in the daytime still on her body. He watched as her eyes opened slowly, as if she were aware of his presence. He made sure to mask his chakra just in case, but he was sure she wouldn't have been able to know he was there.

He watched her as she moved to get up from the bed, putting herself in a sitting position on the side, and then pulled herself up to her feet. She walked to the center of the room, right in the middle of where the window was, and leaned over, moving her hair over her shoulder in a coy fashion.

Sai's mouth went dry when he watched her bend over and unclasp her skirt from around her waist, and watched with an intensity as she shimmied slowly out of it, black thong coming into full view along with the breathtaking curves of her ass. She bent over even more, her skirt seemingly getting caught around her knees, and Sai found it hard to breathe.

She elegantly hopped out of the skirt and then started working on the top she had been wearing. Her small fingers danced over the zipper on her top and easily pulled it over her head, leaving Sai to take in the details of her well sculpted back. His eyes did what his fingers couldn't, running slowly down from her shoulder blades to the dip of her waist, wanting to do more than even touch at this moment.

'I want to taste her.' he thought, dizzy with his arousal. When she stretched her arms around her back to start unclasping the dark bra that was holding in the last peace of sanity Sai had left, he hurriedly drew to life an eagle and flew as far away from her he could get before he forced his way into her house and took her.

What Sai missed was the way Ino's eyes looked back at the tree he had been previously 'hidden' in, and the small smirk that had appeared on her face before she hopped back into her bed.