I'm back from LA and I'm ready to post, here's chapter four, so enjoy. I hope you like it, I think it's a pretty good chapter and I like the way it turned out. So read and review if you liked it!

Dance is Life: Fainting Lead to What?

Ino woke up that morning feeling a little strange, but she got ready none-the-less.

"Honey, are you okay?" her mother asked, eyeing her daughter as she scooped up cereal in her spoon but failed to bring it to her mouth. "You don't look so good." There was no answer. "Ino!" her mother yelled in worry.

"Huh? What?" Ino jolted out of the partial sleep she was in. "Yeah, I'm fine. I'm wonderful, just peachy keen!" She smiled, fake if nothing else.

"Alright," her mother said, somewhat unconvinced.

Ino glanced up at the clock and then down at her half eaten cereal, "I gotta go!" her delayed reaction further influenced her mom to believe that something was wrong. "Bye mom, bye daddy," she kissed her father on the cheek as she grabbed her backpack and ran out the door. Suddenly she came back in. "I need you to drive me." She remembered as she looked at her father. Her mom just got more concerned by the moment.

Ino got to school feeling significantly worse than when she woke up. She got out of the car and had a minor head rush even though she had been sitting up perfectly straight. When she finally made it to her locker, after many wrong turns, she only had ten minutes left to get to class (she had come twenty-five minutes early.) When she stumbled into English class two minutes before the bell rang she found her seat and gratefully sank down into it. She let out a big sigh and opened up her book bag and took out her English book and last night's homework. It was miraculously the right homework which she then let out a second sigh, of relief this time.

"Bad morning?" A voice next to her questioned.

She looked beside her to find none other than Shikamaru. "Yeah," Ino smiled, "really bad."

"You don't look so good. Are you okay?" Shikamaru reached out and put his hand on her forehead, checking her temperature. Ino blushed lightly, his slightly cold hand felt nice and she closed her eyes. "You seem a little warm, but okay, I guess," his answer to his own question snapped Ino back to reality and she opened her eyes.

"I guess your right," she smiled nervously and blushed. Shikamaru then abruptly turned to his text book as the teacher began. Temari watched the scene from her seat in the back row, jealousy rising in her.

"Okay, I really don't feel like talking to you guys that much so, copy down the notes on the board. When everyone's done I'll tell you what to do next, and if you don't have a book, find something to do other than terrorize me and your classmates when you're done," Kakashi said as he lifted up the over head screen to reveal a white board crammed with notes, the students began.

"Ugh," Ino emitted the sound when she reached her locker (which was conveniently located next to Sakura's.)

"You okay?" Sakura asked nervously.

"Shikamaru said so," she laughed.

"What? What did you allow him to say to you after lunch yesterday?" Sakura laughed. "You were so mad at him because he didn't want you." She made a fake sad face.

"Haha, I wasn't mad, I like Sasuke so it doesn't matter if he wants me or not, forehead," Ino stated, sticking out her tongue like Sakura had done a few days ago.

"Whatever, what class do you have next?" Sakura inquired.

"Umm," Ino paused pulling out her schedule, "biology, what about you."

"Oh," Sakura sighed, "another class we don't have together. Jeez, last year we had everything the same!"

"It doesn't matter, I'll see you at lunch, kay? Bye!" Ino said as she left.

Ino found a seat in biology; she was finally early for a class. She sat down and began reading her book. Bizarrely enough, Ino enjoyed reading, though you probably wouldn't know it unless you knew her.

"Fancy meeting you here," a now familiar voice said.

Ino glanced up from her book, and then went back. "Hi," she said mindlessly.

"Did you enjoy English class?" Shikamaru questioned her, trying to strike up a conversation. Why? He himself didn't know, shouldn't he rather be sleeping than talking to this troublesome girl?

"Not particularly," Ino replied still looking at her book.

"It's rude not to look at people when you talk to them," the pineapple haired boy stated.

The blonde turned her head swiftly, "I'm sorry," she then immediately turned back to her book.

Shikamaru sighed, "Whatever," he muttered, not knowing why he cared so much.

Ino slowly lifted her face from her book, looked down slightly and then turned to Shikamaru, "Sorry," the girl with dazzling blue eyes said, and this time she meant it.

"It's okay," the boy assured, he then leaned back and closed his eyes.

"I don't care if you look at me, but you can still talk, other wise I'm going to read my book," Ino told him.

"Do you like to read?" he asked, surprised.

"In fact, I do, it's one of my favorite things besides dance and soccer," Ino informed him.

"That and chasing after Sasuke," Shikamaru realized his mistake only after his statement, she went silent.

"That's none of your business, okay?" Ino pursed her lips.

"Yeah, sorry," he apologized.

"Hmm," was all she mustered.

The two stayed silent until the rest of the class flooded in. Some of their classmates gave them questioning looks, wondering why they were both there early. Shikamaru didn't mind, seeing as his eyes were closed anyway, pondering why it made him almost miserable that the blonde was sad. Ino disregarded them; well some of them, most of the time she was staring off into space wondering why it hurt so much that he had said that.

Ino walked out of class feeling worse then when she got to her locker, which was worse than when she got out of the car, which was worse than when her mother asked her what was wrong, which was worse than when she woke up. So you can assume she was feeling pretty crappy. She had just turned the corner and Shikamaru decided to follow. Just as he came around the turn, Ino fainted and fell into his arms. He dropped his books in order to catch her and decided that he should take her to the nurse. Shikamaru picked her up bridal style, her head resting on his chest. He liked this, but tried to convince himself that he didn't.

When he got to the nurses office he placed Ino delicately on the couch, as if she were a fragile flower that would break any moment. Shikamaru then spoke to the nurse telling her that Ino had fainted. The nurse assured him that she would wake up after a little while and that it was no big deal. As long as she hadn't hit her head while falling she should be fine.

When Ino finally woke up Shikamaru was still there. She wondered why he had come, or stayed, either one, it was sweet. No, no it's not sweet it's just Shikamaru. Ino told herself.

"Okay, you seriously have to do something about this whole 'falling on me' thing," he smiled and laughed lightly. Something like do it more often. His mind offered. What?! NO! He denied it.

Ino smiled back and laughed as well. "I really am sorry," she looked down and blushed. "Hey, why are you here?"

It was Shikamaru's turn to blush. "Free period," he stated. "And I figured I should make sure you were okay, after I caught you I took you here." He smiled.

"You caught me?" Ino smiled brilliantly. "Thanks, really, that was a very," she allowed herself time to think of the right word, "gentlemanly thing to do." She giggled a little.

"What's funny?" Shikamaru smirked.

"Nothing, really, I just laugh at everything," Ino smiled and laughed again. "See?"

Shikamaru liked her laugh, wait no he didn't, yes he did. He did, he decided. He then began to laugh with her and they went on a laughing spree. Shikamaru fell to the floor with laughter, Ino followed soon after. The laughter stopped.

"Sorry," she blushed insanely, "I'll get off you." Ino began to get up but Shikamaru grabbed her and brought her down. He kissed her on the lips and she kissed back, not knowing what she was doing, but she enjoyed it. They both pulled away, Ino realized what had just happened and got up quickly. She ran out the door and into the hallway.

She ran for what seemed like hours, but it wasn't of course. She then promptly collapsed against the lockers near her, breathing hard. She sat and touched her lips; they still tingled with the sensation of his lips on hers. She couldn't believe what happened but she knew it did when she felt her lips. Ino had loved every moment of the kiss and she knew that she couldn't deny it anymore: she liked Shikamaru. She had tried the whole week to convince herself that the obvious wasn't true, but it was no longer possible. The only thing left was to tell her friends, uh-oh.

Okay, so, DRAMA! Oh noes, and awkwardness, how much would that suck to be in that situation. And how is she going to tell her friends?!?!?! Especially Tenten because she'd be all "I told you so:P", but yeah, I hope you liked it, I certainly enjoyed writing it so… yeah. Please review if you liked it! Even if you didn't! XD

Preview:

"Ugh!" Ino yelled in frustration.

"Are you okay?" Sakura asked worried. "That's the seventh time you've tried that step."

"Thanks for the info," Ino snapped at her.