Boy, it's been a while! Sorry for the long wait, I've had standardized tests
and allot of homework and reading to do! Well, here's the next chapter, I had to go back and
re-edit the first four pages, but it's finally here so I hope you enjoy this little adventure!
*Hands out brownies*
The Thin Line
Chapter 4:
"Hey, Mom, I'm home!" Ino yelled into her, seemingly, empty house. Her mother scurried to the door.
"You're early, what about Cram School?"
"Good news! It was canceled today. A chemistry experiment gone wrong wreaked havoc on half the school, I'm free for the next week or two," she slipped off her black air force.
"Interesting. Well, now we can leave early!"
"Leave early?"
"Didn't your father tell you? We're going to dinner with his bosses, they may promote him! I'll go tell him to get dressed, we need to go out and find him another pair of sacks!" her mother scurried off.
Ino walked to the living room where her father was sitting on their khaki, suede couch watching TV. Ino plopped down next to him.
'Whatcha watchin'?" she asked, freaked out by the women tied to some weird thing on the screen, clad only in her underwear.
"Criminal Minds, it's a Western show."
"What the hell is going on?"
"They're tracking down a serial killer, who just so happens to be the elderly man on the screen."
The man began shocking the woman that was tied up and she screamed terribly. Ino laid back.
"You are one strange, old man if you're watching this."
"Hey, the Americans are the strange ones for comin' up with this." Ino thought of Seed of Chucky and twitched a bit.
"I heard that, old man," she replied and high-fived her father.
She watched the rest of the show with her father. The second hostage the man had was saved by a bunch of SWAT kind of people and was lectured for being in that situation, apparently she was a cop. The woman being shocked ended up dead. Another episode of the same show began with two strange men invading a house and killing a family of four. When the show cut to commercial Ino spoke.
"Hey, Dad, can I go out with my friends tomorrow?" the man looked at her.
"Depends on where?"
"I think we're going to Okinawa for the day."
"Hokkaido? That's a whiles away."
"Yea, I have to go meet them at 4 in the morning."
Her father paused then laughed, "if you can even wake up that early you can go. Just wake me up before you leave so I know you're gone, okay?"
"No problem."
"I didn't even know you had friends."
"And I didn't know how many gray hairs were in your beard."
"Midget."
"Blondie."
"Weird kid."
"Old man."
And, with that, the show began playing once more.
BOOM!
Ino screamed and fell off her bed.
"What the-!" she looked at her clock, it was three.
"Why do I use a bomb sound as my alarm?" Because it gets my ass out of bed.
Ino, too tired to stand up, crawled to the bathroom and took a hot shower, which successfully woke her up. She decided to wear her blue, white and red floral print bikini. She wore a black crop t-shirt with the words 'This is what awesome looks like' in white letters with a pair of blue jean shorts.
Ino walked into the kitchen, remembering Itachi had said to bring something to eat. She turned on the light and saw a large, cube shaped navy blue bento on the counter. On the top was a bright yellow sticky note. Ino picked it up and read it aloud.
"'Dear Ino, your father told me you were going out with your friends today! So I packed something for you all to eat, I hope it's enough, I don't know many of your friends will be there! You're so popular! Love, Mom.' Aww, Mom, you're so sweet," Ino smiled. Her mother really was sweet, and she loved her for it. She got her black backpack from her room and put the bento inside. She then got a large towel and grabbed a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt from her drawer then stuffed it in the bag as well. She checked the time.
"3:50? How does the time pass by so quickly..."
"It's probably your half hour showers," came a voice from the dark hallway, making Ino jump.
"Dad? What are you doing up?"
"I'm thirsty, so sew me. Are you really going out like that?" Ino looked down at herself.
"Yes, Okinawa equals swimming, Dad."
"Yea, yea, yea..." Her father walked to the fridge and picked out a bottle of water. "Well, have fun, short stuff, I'll see you later."
"Sleep well, old man."
After her father went back to bed she ran to her room to brush her hair, deciding to leave it down. She decided to bring the brush, shoving it in to her bag, and then she fixed it onto her back. When she saw the clock hit 4 she walked out her door. She took a deep breath, letting the fresh air fill her lungs. It was still pitch black out, the sun didn't usually come up until 6:30 or 7. She strolled down her walkway and, upon reaching the end, saw Itachi sitting in his usual spot.
He was leaning on his bike, wearing a semi tight black t-shirt that easily showed off his toned upper body. His pants were baggy black cargo shorts coming well below his knees and he still had his goggle like sunglasses on. He was illuminated by the street light above him and Ino sighed, I got a real hottie!
Ino walked over to Itachi, who leaned off of his bike a bit. When she reached him he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her flush against him. Ino giggle and blushed a bit, but still slid her arms around Itachi's neck and gave him a light kiss.
"How are you always on time?" she asked.
"It's the way I was born." He stood up straight and handed Ino a helmet. She put it on and got on the bike behind Itachi. Their long, nearly half an hour ride brought them to a forest like place at the base of a mountain. The only inhabitant of the large, empty space before the forest was a big, electric blue Chevrolet Avalanche with four people sitting in the back, their heads and faces illuminated by four flash lights. It was still only 4:30 in the morning. One of the boys looked back.
"Yo, Itachi, you made it!" Diedara yelled.
Itachi slowed the bike to a stop parallel to the truck. Ino took off her helmet and got off and Itachi soon followed after, setting his custom alarm on his bike.
"Hey, Ino, give me the helmet, we can put it in the truck."
Ino walked to the back of the truck and handed Kisame the helmet. Itachi walked up behind her, sliding his sunglasses into his pocket.
"Ready to go?" Sasori asked, tossing a flashlight at both Ino and Itachi. All four of their boys put on their backpacks and jumped out of the truck. Sasori passed Itachi a backpack.
"Wait... Where are we going?" Ino asked.
Deidara was the last to jump out, "in there!"
The blonde pointed in the direction of the dark, quiet forest before them.
"Okay, so... Are we waiting until daylight then?' Ino checked her watch, it was 4:35.
"Nope!" Hidan answered, "we're going in RIGHT NOW," Hidan shined the light on his face, "scared much?"
Ino walked over to Hidan and hit him in the back of the head with her flashlight, "like hell!"
"Then let's go in!" Deidara said, leading the group into the dark forest.
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Diedara ran into the forest and Ino followed him, "don't you think you should wait for us?" she yelled, going after him. She stopped and looked back, she was only a few yards into the forest but the intense darkness made by the trees was already apparent. She saw lights behind her, probably from the boys, which reminded her of the flash light in her hand. She looked back in the direction Deidara had ran in. His flash light was bouncing madly around the forest, sliding off trees and illuminating his bright, blonde hair.
"Hey are you guys there?" Ino heard Sasori yell. Before she could answer Deidara's laughter echoed throughout the forest for a few seconds then suddenly stopped, only the clink of his flash light hitting the ground could be heard. Ino froze, unsure of what happened.
"Hey, you okay?" Kisame asked Ino when the four boys caught up to her. Ino slowly turned to them.
"Deidara? Did he… I don't know, fall down a ditch or something?"
Hidan flashed his light in his face, "what the hell are you talking about?"
"I think he's gone! Look, his flashlight! Come on!" Ino ran in the direction of the grounded flashlight and the four others followed her, confused and sure that there was something wrong with her. They reached the flash light and looked around; no Deidara.
"See! He's gone!"
"Well maybe he's… just… hiding…?" Kisame stopped, seeing a raindrop hit the ground in front of the flash light. "That's weird," he stated, crouching down, "I didn't smell any rain…" he swiped two fingers over the raindrop and looked at them in the light. "Fuck!" he flinched and sprang up, backing away from the flash light, which now had a spot of red on the corner.
"Kisame, what the-" a few gusts of wind blew some leaves onto her face and she brushed them away. She flashed her light back towards the boys to find two missing. "What the-? Where's Kisame and Hidan?" Itachi and Sasori looked around.
"Damn…" Sasori muttered, Itachi shrugged. "I knew we shouldn't have come here…" the red head stated. Ino looked at him.
"What do you mean? Where are we?"
Sasori looked up, his face frighteningly serious, "Aokigahara."
"Aokigahara?"
"The Forest of Death." Ino's breath caught in her throat. She finally managed to stutter.
"Forest… of… DEATH?" she nearly yelled, Sasori nodded.
"They say the trees move, that there are spirits and demons that prey on all the humans that are stupid enough to enter… But that's just a myth," Sasori shrugged.
Itachi looked around, he'd heard of the legends of Aokigahara but never thought he'd experience them first hand. He sighed as he noticed Ino's expression. His knowledge of her emotions helped him realize that the blonde was completely freaking out, like there was a small, nuclear bomb going off in her head. Sasori, eventually noticed it too.
"Hey, it's just legend, okay? We'll find them, they're probably just trying to play a trick on us," he ran his sleeve over his mouth and quickly swung a hand into the darkness, a motion that was supposed to mean 'they're around here somewhere', when the red head flinched, his eyes suddenly sprang wide open. He made a painful sound, causing Ino to jump.
"Sasori, are you okay?"
Sasori threw his head down. Ino finally noticed Sasori's hand and half of his forearm in the darkness, the rest of his arm being pulled painfully taunt. He threw his head back up and coughed, sputtering up blood. As some of the drops landed on Ino's wrists and arms the boy was violently pulled into the darkness. After a few moments of total silence Ino let out a blood curling scream. She dropped to her knees, eyes filled with tears, she was scared so far out of her mind she could see into another dimension.
"What… What… WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? Itachi, did you see that? What the fuck's going on?" she looked up at the young man who's face was hidden by a long curtain of his black hair. He lifted his head up slightly, his face shown a dark, almost sinister grin. He smoothed his hair back with his hand to reveal blood red eyes with black, cross like slits for pupils. Ino felt her blood run ice cold.
"Itachi…?" he laughed, forcing Ino's, now cold, blood to nearly stop running all together. He jutted his chin up, pointing to the tree behind her, then turned around and slowly walked away.
"Itachi? Wait, Itachi! Wait!" the slight cackle echoed through the woods and the darkness took his form. Ino was not only scared, she was sure she'd lost her mind. While combing her thoughts for any memories of drug use she was quickly distracted by a loud thud behind her. She suddenly remembered Itachi's last gesture before being eaten by the, oh-so-thickening, darkness. She looked behind her and released a scream similar to the one before. She jumped back, falling back on her hands. It was Deidara, his eyes and mouth slightly open, his body limp and blood soaking his orange shirt and the ends of his hair. His wrists and neck were dark with blood and the stains on his shirt concentrated around his stomach.
The tears welling up in Ino's eyes spilled out and rain down her cheeks. She tried to scream but she couldn't find her voice. Soon everything went dark and she passed out on the cold, forest floor…
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"Hello? Hellooooo?"
"Come on, wake up."
"Maybe she's dead."
"Shut up, maybe your dead."
"Both of you shut up, she's awake."
Ino slowly opened her eyes, the bright light in her face burning them. "Get that out my face!" Ino sat up and immediately froze. She looked around to find five boys, all their faces illuminated by flash lights.
"What the-? You guys… You guys are…!"
"It's okay!" Deidara said cheerily, now wearing a clean, neon green shirt, blood still dry on his skin. Ino jumped up and away from the dead-but-alive looking teen.
"What the fuck? YOU'RE WALKING DEAD PEOPLE!" The boys burst out laughing which caused Ino's frustration level to rise dramatically. "Wait… You fucking people… Played… A joke… On me?" the boys nodded and were surprised to see Ino join them on the floor and begin laughing too. She pulled her knees up and relaxed her arms on them. "Wow, you guys are good at that stuff! How'd you pull it off?" Deidara swiped his thumb on the bottom of his nose.
"Lots of food coloring, effort, and big ass branches," he stated proudly. Ino looked to Itachi.
"What about your eyes?"
He looked to her, slightly confused, before remembering exactly what she was talking about. The young man searched with his flashlight for his bag and, upon finding it, pulled out a small, white case from the front pocket, "contacts." Ino nodded.
"So… big ass branches? What were those for?"
"The gust of wind you felt? And the leaves? It was two birds with one stone." Ino nodded again.
"Cool. So… Can I see them?"
"Sure!" Deidara stood up and picked up his flash light. Everyone followed him to where he'd hidden the large tree branches. When Ino saw them she grinned, "wow, they are big! But I thought they would have been over there…" Ino squinted in the opposite direction, which all five boys looked in. When they turned away, Ino, with only slight difficulty, picked up the incredibly large, and heavy, tree branch and swung it toward the boys who were, conveniently, standing in a straight line. However, Itachi and Sasori, who'd sensed something wrong with Ino's unexplainably calm behavior, and who were at the end of the line, ducked out of the way. Deidara, Kisame and Hidan, whom didn't think anything was the matter, were bludgeoned with the branch and flew into a nearby tree.
Sasori and Itachi, hearing the small cracks and groans from the three boys, couldn't help but fall on the ground laughing. This was the first time Itachi had done something other then snicker or smirk. So, knowing that this might never happen again, Ino fell down and laughed with the two.
The injured boys detached themselves from each other and the tree and brushed themselves off, stretching their sides and backs, resulting in more cracking and popping sounds.
"Is our pain funny to you?" Hidan asked, white lights shining on the faces of his friends whom were, currently, dying of laughter. Sasori wiped a forming tear from his eye.
"Frankly, yes" he managed to choke out between violent giggle fits. The white haired boy attempted to kick the red head, but missed completely and slipped on a pile of leaves, falling on his back.
"Oh!" yelled Ino, Kisame, and Deidara and unison. Hidan coughed and sat up.
"God Damnitt!
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After picking up the pieces of the broken Hidan, the group hiked up the, so-called, trail to a slightly open field. They settled down a few yards from a small river and made a fire. Sasori constantly insisted that Deidara make it smaller but the pyro refused. They set their bags down in a pile and gathered around the campfire.
"We're pretty far in," Kisame stated, "so we shouldn't get any sunlight for another hour and a half or so.
"Really? That… Long…? Deidara did Ino hit you in the neck with that tree branch?" Everyone looked at Deidara, then to Hidan, then back to Deidara.
"What do you mean, Hidan? I thought I hit you guys in the side, not the neck…"
"Then what's up with the bruise?"
Deidara moved his hand to the purple spot on his neck and chuckled a bit. Ino's eyes widened.
"Deidara, is that a hickey?"
The boy nodded.
"Sweet!" Hidan leaned forward to hi-five the blonde boy, "who was it?"
Deidara hesitated for a moment before saying "Toru." Everyone was silent for a moment.
"Toru?" Kisame asked, "You mean the little sophomore with the big tits?" he asked. Deidara nodded.
"She fuckin' ambushed me! But… She ain't too bad…"
Ino knew Toru; they were in the same Gym class. The girl was pretty small and, as for her boobs, the blonde was always worried the other girl would knock herself out with those things.
"She's pounced on me before as well, the girl's an animal," Sasori stated, pulling out a bottle of water from his bag and taking a sip.
"Wow, is she really that bad? She always acts so sweet in class…" Ino muttered. Sasori nodded.
"She is sweet; however, her hormones seem to take control of her brain sometimes after school. She should get that checked," the red head stated casually, taking another sip of his water.
Ino never really knew how it felt to have her hormones take over… Until she met Itachi, but she was proud to say she could still keep control.
"So, Dei," Hidan started, "Toru the only girl you've been having fun with recently?"
"Yea," Deidara stated, "unlike you, Hidan, I prefer to switch every few weeks, not every few days-"
"More like hours," Itachi cut in, swiftly swiping the bottle of water from Sasori and taking a sip.
"Like you can talk much, Itachi. Weren't there three different girls this week? Or maybe four?"
Ino looked at Itachi, feeling a crack in her heart. That can't be true, right? I'm mean, they're just joking… right?
Itachi felt the girl's gaze on him and shifted a bit. He scratched the back of his head before saying "just three."
Ino thought her chest exploded, feeling her heart shatter. Itachi was cheating on her? And he just ADMITTED IT? Did he forget she was right there! The boys eventually noticed the distraught look on her face then Deidara shouted "get the sleeping bags! Time to go to sleep!" The blonde boy jumped up and went to the pile of backpacks and pulled out five sleeping bags. He threw one to each boy. Ino managed to break out of her heartbroken state.
"What? But it's five in the morning and I'm not even tired."
"Hey, scaring the shit out of you is tiring so too bad!" Kisame told her. Ino massaged her temples, these guys were giving her a headache.
"You guys should have told me we were going to sleep here; I didn't bring a sleeping bag."
"Oh, I passed you one!" Deidara quickly stated before slipping into his own sleeping bag and zipping it up over his head. Ino looked around for said sleeping bag but she couldn't find it.
"Hey, no you didn't!"
"Yes I did, I passed it to Itachi!" Ino looked at Itachi.
"But he only has one!"
"Exactly!"
Ino looked back at Itachi, who shrugged. "Looks like we're sharing," he said.
Ino thought about sleeping on the bare forest floor but gave up the thought after she remembered how much she hates bugs. She, unhappily, crawled into the sleeping bag with Itachi, whom zipped it up when both of them were inside.
The fire the group had made was slowly burning out as, one by one, the boys drifted off to sleep. Ino was the only one left awake and, being such, was left to her own thoughts. Ino was contemplating revenge on the boy sleeping next to her. How dare he cheat on her? What the hell was he thinking? She looked over at him; his hands were placed comfortably under his head, his body facing the stars. She looked at his sleeping face and scooted a bit closer, resting her head on his arm. Tears began welling up in her eyes.
"How could you do this to me?" she whispered.
"Do what?"
The girl jumped at the whispered reply. Itachi turned his face towards her.
"I thought you were asleep…" Ino replied. Itachi looked back up.
"My eyes were closed."
"I realized…" Ino muttered.
"So, what did I do?" Itachi asked again, sitting up to turn on his side, supporting the weight of his head on his hand. Ino sighed.
"If you don't know already then you're not going to know," Ino turned around, feeling her chest heat up in anger. She suddenly felt strong arms sliding around her waist, then she was pulled flush into Itachi's body.
"You're cute when you're angry," Itachi whispered into the girl's ear and she blushed. Ino immediately began tugging at his arms.
"Don't do that! I'm pissed at you!" she whispered angrily as she struggled vainly at Itachi's hold on her. He chuckled.
"We both know you love when I hold you like this," he whispered tauntingly. "And," he started, ghosting his lips down the blonde's neck, "you love when I kiss you here," he gently pressed his lips to the skin a little over an inch above the juncture of Ino's neck and shoulder. "It sends a spark down your spine. And when I kiss you here," this time he dipped a little lower to kiss the juncture directly, "it makes your toes go numb. Then when I kiss you here…" Itachi kissed the nape of her neck and Ino gasped, "You start to tingle right… here." Itachi slid his hand between Ino's legs, causing a slight moan to escape her lips.
"Damnitt, stop touching me…"
Itachi massaged Ino's womanhood roughly, causing another moan to escape her. She quickly brought her hands up to her mouth to quiet herself. "You know, saying stop loses its affect when you press into my hand like that," he whispered and kissed the nape of her neck again. Itachi swiftly unbuttoned her shorts and reached his hand in, massaging her firmly through her bathing suit. He then felt for her entrance with his middle finger and pressed on it through the cloth, causing the blonde to jump.
"Good thing you're wearing a bikini, it'll dry faster if you come…" and, once again, he kissed the nape of her neck, however this time it sent a kind of spark to her private and made her moan. Itachi slipped a hand into her bikini and pressed his middle finger more firmly to her entrance, slipping it in.
Ino yelped and covered her mouth again. This was one thing the blonde both loved and hated about Itachi. She was furious with him, he'd admitted to being with three other girls just THIS WEEK. She was supposed to be hitting him and yelling at him! But, instead, she'd become putty in his hands. Wet, moaning putty. Said boy's forgotten hand unwrapped from around Ino and pulled one of her hands from her mouth and to his groin, he was hard.
"I want you. Question is if you think you can handle me?"
"Were you really with three other girls this week?" Ino managed weakly.
"That's not an answer-"
"Were you?" Ino asked angrily.
"Yes. But I wasn't asking if you think they could handle me."
"How could you do that?"
"Do what?"
Ino closed her eyes, preventing her tears from falling, "how could… you cheat on me?"
Itachi paused for a moment, then chuckled. "That's impossible, I can't cheat on you." Ino opened her eyes. So he didn't do it? So he really does- "We're not together so it's not possible for me to cheat on you." Ino's eyes widened.
"What?"
Itachi slipped two fingers into Ino, quickly moving them in and out. The girl moaned loudly and bit her lip. The bastard!
Itachi pressed himself against Ino and kissed her neck, "so, are you ready?"
Before even the girl had realized she was moving, she pulled herself out of the sleeping bag and ran, half jumping and half falling into the calm river they'd set up camp beside. All five of the boys looked at the river, hearing the splash. Everyone sat up in their sleeping bag as the soaking wet blonde walked back over to them.
"So, got bored and decided to go for a swim?" Deidara asked innocently.
"Or was it getting to hot in that sleeping bag?" Hidan asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Obviously choice two," Sasori said, "Ino just can't keep her moans to herself." Ino blushed a bit.
"You're cool, Sasori, please don't make me kill you," Ino commented. Itachi chuckled; he always enjoyed Ino's reactions to these types of situations. The girl sat on a rock waiting for two things; for the sun to come up and for her clothes to dry.
Thank God she was wearing a bathing suit.
TBC
Author's Notes: For those of you that suggested some stuff or improvements (in your opinion), I'm sorry I couldn't add any of them! A great deal of this story is already written and I don't decide allot of things, I merely bring my best friend's fanfiction dreams to life. Still, I hope you enjoyed it, review ad stay tuned for the next chapter.
SEE YA! =D