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Ino woke up, seeing her mermaid dress on the chair right next to the bed. Sighing she gave a smile to the spot next to her on the bed, Sasuke missing and she heard the clatters of plates, forks, and other utensils. Sasuke, being the nice ass person that took care of her, gave her one of his t-shirts and told her to wear it instead if she didn't want to go back to her room to change, she could use his warm, soft, baggy t-shirt.

And that night, they slept, cuddled together with several soft pecks exchanged between them.

She got up, brushing those pretty teeth of hers before walking down the steps and to the kitchen, where she saw a shortage of chairs, several people sitting on other's laps or on the tables.

Hinata and Sakura were busy as hell in the kitchen, using up nearly all the food in the refrigerator to feed the entire group. Slowly Ino walked in and everyone turned toward her either taking a glace or going back to their food or just stared.

"Good morning," Ino said, smiling to the back of Sasuke's head, which never turned to look at her.

"Oh, here, Ino," Sakura said, shoving a plate of food toward her before turning back to the stove.

"Oh …thank you," she softly replied, picking up the fork to pick on the food.

"It's funny, I didn't hear any moaning yesterday," Kiba said, smirking slightly as he elbowed Sasuke, who shoved him away.

Ino moved toward the table to grab a napkin, patting it on her lips gently before looking up to see Kiba's eyes. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, was he good? Cause I heard nothing, maybe I've mistaken the great Uchiha for all of its abilities in bed," he replied, picking at his food.

Naruto elbowed him, a smile already on his face. "Why the hell do you want to know, that seems gay of you," said Naruto.

Kiba shoved a big chunk of food into his mouth before swallowing it all down. "Well, all the girls loooove Sasuke and since they were in the same bed yesterday but I didn't hear anything from the room, he might not be as good as everyone thought."

"You got a point there," Naruto muttered, studying Ino's form as she sat by the window, munching on the food and staring out at the ocean at the same time.

"We didn't do anything," Sasuke stated, standing up to put his plate in the sink before finally walking out of the kitchen. Hinata and Sakura finally sat down, digging into their food.

Shikamaru and Choji both filled the couch by themselves, having no intention of joining into their annoying conversation and offering their analysis of anything.

"Well it's obvious that Sasuke has feelings for Ino," Sakura stated, "They should really start dating."

"Let's pressure him to date her, we're just speeding up the process, we all know it's going to happen eventually," Kiba said, taking a bunch of meat onto the clean plate, standing up.

Shaking her head, Temari said, "You both just focus on making Sasuke suffer, don't you?"

"Apparently, I have nothing else to do," Naruto said.

"How about your girlfriend?"

Flushing red, Naruto replied, "Shut up."

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The entire group of teenagers walked through the mall, deciding on going to the mall instead of spending another scorching day at the beach. Rather than talking loudly and trying to over power each other, they were all separated into either pairs or in triples, talking moderately to each other.

Sasuke had Ino wrapped around his arm, a small smile displaying on his lips as she would sometimes drag him to a store to peer inside. Holding her out to Sakura, he said, "Take care of Ino, would you? I have to go get something."

Sakura wrapped an arm around Ino's smiling as she said, "So, do you like Sasuke? What do you like about him?"

"What do you mean?" Ino asked innocently, looking at the direction Sasuke had left with. "Why can't I go with him?"

"Here, have a lollipop, Ino." Sakura searched in her purse, pulling out a small one before handing it to the innocent blond, who stared at it for a few minutes before starting to peel off the wrapper.

Naruto sighed. "I don't know why people call me down when she's even more clueless than I am."

Kiba butted in immediately, "Yeah, but she's pretty so that covers up the clueless part."

"Fuckface," Naruto replied, looking away, a scowl on his face.

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"Can I sleep here tonight?" Ino asked, lying on the bed with ease as Sasuke walked out of the bathroom, pulling on a t-shirt. "I don't like my room, it's scary."

Sasuke sat on the bed, pulling Ino onto his lap the same way he had when they had finally gone back to that room. Ino turned around to see him, and his eyes turned toward hers, studying the way her eyelashes were a slight shade darker than her hair, curling naturally.

She leaned closer to him, their lips meeting.

"Ino!" Tenten shouted, pushing the door open to see both of them move away from each other, a soft blush on Ino's face. "I'm telling the girls!" she shouted, spinning and running down the hall.

"No!" Ino jumped off his bed, running out of the room, her hair flying behind her.

Sasuke chuckled slightly at both of them. "What are you laughing about?" a voice said, and his chuckling died down, turning around to see Inoichi and his wife emerging from all of the steam in the bathroom.

Both of them walked out in cloths that made them look like they were just on any average vacation to the beach, just a little more connected to the ocean. His wife's hair was tied up in a high ponytail, only wrapped around the rubber band several times before it was set loose.

The soft blue outfit she wore made her seem only a few years older than Ino. Inoichi also looked like he was only a few years older as well, exception of the scowl lines on his forehead.

"Now, where's my little princess?" Inoichi asked, looking around the room several times before noticing Sasuke. "Tell me where Ino is or else I'll kill you."

"Inoichi!"

"Honey, it's only a threat," Inoichi said, turning around to face his wife.

"No, Inoichi, I see Ino," his wife replied, and his attention snapped away from the standing Uchiha. Walking several feet away from the door before several guys stepped up from their rooms, all of them eyeing her before she softly said, "Ino?"

The chattering died down in the room before Ino poked her head out, spotting her mother's open arms before running out of the room, rushing into her mother's arm to nearly knock her over.

"Ino, my little angel, my sweet little princess, you don't know how sad we were when you left, we haven't been able to do anything!" She pulled away from her daughter before bursting out into a batch of fresh tears, hugging her daughter close.

"When is it my turn?" Inoichi asked, eager to hug his only daughter once again.

Her mother pushed Ino out of her arms as Inoichi hugged his daughter again, whispering into her ear, "If he ever does anything bad, because I know how humans are, remember, call my name and I will be there to slice him up, okay?"

Laughing, Ino nodded her head and turned around to see her mother grip her shoulders, pulling her into yet another hug. "So, are you ready to go home with us?"

"Go home? I want to stay here longer."

"Darling, here? Longer? Oh, you didn't…" Ino's mother brushed a stray strand behind her ear, leading her into Sasuke's room. "His skin didn't already touch yours, did it?" she whispered, far away from the others.

"It already touched mine," Ino responded.

Inoichi turned around to stare at Sasuke. "If you make any more people stay on land, I'm going to kill you, as a hint, don't touch any more mermaids."

"Mommy, I promise I'll visit you, but for the time being, can I stay on land, with Sasuke?" Ino walked toward him, hugging his left arm affectionately.

"Oh, fine! If it makes you happy," she said, wiping at the crystal tears.

Ino squealed with delight, looking up at Sasuke to see him slightly smile before grinning back in respond.


Short Chapter, Yes I know, but I did have the last chapter longer than this one!

I know about my super slow updates, and I'm really sorry about them!

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