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Ino jumped off the stairs happily and then wrapped each arm around Deidara's and her father's neck. "Yay, can we go shopping today!" naturally she was shorter than both of them and they had to slightly hunch to look at her happy face.
Her father hacked out a cough and smiled, tugging her arm out from behind his neck. "Of course, princess, but don't max the card like you did the other …three times." he gave a nervous look at Deidara and made a fast gesture as Ino ran out to the car.
Arriving at the mall in almost no time at all, Deidara sat in the front seat. "Why aren't you coming with me?" Ino asked, and she touched her ponytail slightly, leaning over to play with Deidara's slightly.
"You can go by yourself," he said, pulling at his small ponytail.
"No! You're coming with me!" she grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the car, only allowing him enough to pull the keys out and the slam the door shut with his foot.
He rolled his eyes at his younger sister. "You're extremely annoying when you're shopping." he looked at the store she had first entered. "I'm not going to get a haircut…" he muttered, looking at Ino as she talked to one of the women behind the counter, who stood up to take several bottles of a material and hand it to Ino, who in return gave her the credit card.
Ino smiled and turned around when she felt someone tap her shoulder. "Is your hair natural?" the teen gave her a snobbish look. "I mean you did a good job with hiding your roots." she rolled her eyes.
The blonde turned toward the person behind the counter. "Alright, Maria, I hate it when they ask if my hair color is natural or not, just tell them to stop asking, especially those teenagers," she said, and then crossed her fingers together, pleading to the person behind the counter.
Maria laughed her speech with accent and she told the teenager bothering Ino away.
As Ino ran pass Deidara, he lifted a finger, feel the silky waves of her hair before she turned around, dragging him behind her. "This really isn't necessary." Deidara placed a hand on Ino's hand as she entered one of her favorite stores, staring at the pink-haired teenager inside, in her view.
Knowing Ino well enough, he ran his hand through her ponytail, hoping that it would have the same affect as it did when her hair was down. That was when he noticed how soft it really was, how light it felt in his hand.
"Sasuke, how does this look on me?" Sakura spun around in front of Sasuke, who paid more attention to his cell phone rather than the girl.
As she looked to the side, she caught sight of Ino and she bent down lower, offering more of her chest out to Sasuke. "Sasuke, come on, how do I look in this?"
"Hn," he simply replied, ignoring all his "girlfriend" was doing.
Deidara shook his head, putting a hand to his forehead. "He has real skills if he could ignore a girl pushing their rack into his face." he looked at Ino, who immediately covered up her chest. "I'm not going to stare at yours, not now anyway," he joked, but Ino still moved away from him to search for more cloths.
He rolled his eyes. No one was amused by his humor anyway, if he had any.
Ino had brought the bags in earlier and then left it into her room while she took a long bath and fell into her bed, exhausted from all of the shopping. Inoichi stood by the doorway, looking at his daughter, seeing his wife in her so much. Deidara caught Inoichi and stared at the way Ino slept before continuing on.
Ino's finger's twisted in her blanket, gripping onto it tightly and Inoichi could see another man easily beside her, loving her just as he had loved her mother. Their personalities were similar, along with their looks, the beautiful long silky hair and the bright blue eyes that always stood up so much.
"Sasuke…" she muttered in her sleep, slightly tangling herself into the blankets even more, and then stayed still, keeping her breathing steady.
Inoichi stepped further into his princess' purple bedroom and a photograph immediately caught his eye, he never knew she had taken a photo with Sasuke, ever. He picked it up, looking at how Ino had stood behind Sasuke, wrapping her arms around his neck and nearly jumped on him. On Sasuke's face was simply just an unsure look, a small smile on his face nonetheless.
He placed it back into its spot, smiling at them before walking over to his only daughter's bed, kissing her forehead. Just from one small kiss, Ino's eyes fluttered open, "Daddy?" she said, and she wrapped her blankets around her even more. "It's late …you should be sleeping."
"I wanted to see my baby girl," he answered back, smiling, and he rubbed the top of her head while Ino reached an arm out to grab his sandy long ponytail. She brought it close to her face and inhaled the scent of it in.
At the moment, Deidara walked past, shoving the last bit of the bread he had in his hand into his mouth. "Why's everyone here?" he asked, and also entered the room, sitting on a chair next to Ino. "Are you hurt, little Imouto?"
The cell phone on her table began to suddenly ring, and Deidara pulled it off the counter by its dangling pig charm and handed it to Ino. She took it softly, yawning lightly and cutely before pressing a button and then saying, "Hello?" the single word was ever so gentle, calm, and somewhat caring even if it was a stranger on the other side.
Deidara muttered something under his breath that made Ino giggle into the cell phone and she closed it, she looked through the cell phone, turning on the small lamp. "What are you looking at?" he asked, pulling the cell phone out of her fingers.
"Hey! Give me that back!" he closed it slowly, petting Ino's soft bundle of blonde hair that was behind her and then simply stayed by her bed.
"Go to sleep, test tomorrow," he said, remembering her schedule.
All she simply did was make a light giggle, and then fell asleep, knowing that her father and her brother were beside her all the entire time.
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Sasuke placed his cell phone down on his desk suddenly, opening one of the draws to look at a picture of him and Ino before suddenly slamming it down, pushing the draw in.
"You should be sleeping, Sasuke," Mikoro said, her voice in a nagging tone. She looked into the room as Sasuke slammed the draw shut quickly. "Don't pretend like your studying, I've seen your books, you don't have a single thing resourceful in your books, and you never copy down notes. Now, what do you have in that draw?"
She stepped forward and when she had moved within a foot from the draw, Sasuke slammed his foot down on it, closing it from any access to his mother. "Oh," Mikoro said, raising an eyebrow, "I know what this means, it's about a girl! You've never act like this! It has to be a girl!" she turned around. "Fugaku!" her motions were full of glee.
By then, Sasuke had already taken the photograph out, hiding it secretly as his mother turned away and then he stood up. "I'm going to stay up later," he simply stated, and then walked out of his room, shoving past his father, who had arrived at the door quicker than he had expected.
Just rounding around the corner, Itachi was already there, his hair still in a low ponytail and he said, "Obviously it's Ino. She's the only one you try your best not to look at when she walks down the hall. We all know it." he held his cell phone up. "And Deidara just texted me, and you just called her even though you tried blocking your number." he pulled his cell phone back, mocking him.
"I'll see you tomorrow, little brother," he said, smiling, and then returned back into his room. Sasuke looked after him, angry that he would dare talk to him like that.
Fugaku was immediately sent toward him, obviously by his wife. "Now, Sasuke," he began, steering Sasuke far into another room. "Now that you're dating, I believe that you should know about continuing our family-" he was suddenly interrupted when Sasuke stood up from his chair, faking a yawn.
Suddenly, he said, his mind made up. "I believe I'm tired now, goodnight," he said, walking out of the room.
And Fugaku knew that he was not going to be back.
"Kurenai-sensei, I want to quit cheerleading," Ino said, smiling, hoping that her smile would make her say yes.
Kurenai looked over her desk, still paying attention to her work. "Why? You're the best and you just joined, you were going to be the star of the team this year. I know they can be a bit mean at times …but it's your choice, I know how your life was." she also gave a smile and made a fast gesture, saying, "dismissed."
Ino gave a small bow, walking out of the gym doors to immediately meet with two groups. Both of them stared at each other. Akatsuki stood to her right while her old friends stood to the other side, Sasuke with Sakura was just about to enter the gym and when they past, Ino felt Sasuke brush his hand against hers for a split second.
Deidara pulled her away, saying, "Itachi was thinking, winter party at his mansion? His parents' anniversary is this Friday, wondering if we should have a party?" he gave a smile when Ino finally nodded her head. "We're going to be staying over, just keep that in mind," he said, and then gave a small wink when the bell rang, Ino hurrying to her next class.
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Ino arrived at the mansion, her floral top fluttering as she walked, and she found herself face to face with her brother, who had gone to the mansion much earlier than she had.
Immediately, he wrapped an arm around her waist, giving her a small smile before they both began to dance, together. Just a few minutes later, she found herself being whisked away to Sasori, and then Itachi.
A light giggle caught someone's attention far away. Sakura, somehow invited, walked toward Sasuke, dragging him to the side. "I want to break up," both of them said at the same time. Sasuke rolled his eyes, knowing all the reasons why.
His ears blocked out all of the nagging and the reasons while his eyes glazed over to Ino's body in the party, accompanied by Itachi's and a jealousy grew in him. Itachi's eyes met with his and he smirked, knowing what was happening to Sasuke.
"Are you listening to me?" Sakura nearly screamed, but the loud pumping music made it seem much lower than it was.
Sasuke looked down at his now ex. "Hm?" he simply said, and she threw her hands up with frustration and then left. He looked up at his brother's direction to see that both of them were already gone, and he clenched his fist, walking up the stairs to his bedroom, thinking of just getting a good night sleep so he didn't need to see much more.
The party ended quickly, nothing unusual. "Ino, since everyone of the Akatsuki wanted their own room, I have to put you either on a couch or pair you up, don't scream at me with who I pair you up with," Itachi said, and then made a fast hand motion. "Up the stairs, left, and three doors down." he said it fast but Ino caught on quickly, remembering what he said.
Ino opened the door, studying the room quickly. Dark walls but several windows were placed into the room, letting some light in already. A laptop was placed on a wooden desk, the top closed. The bed in the center of the room was also a dark color, matching with the walls.
Ino sat down on the bed, staring down at the bundle and Itachi walked into the room, handing Ino a bundle of cloths without saying anything. She took the cloths and entered what was supposed to be the bathroom and took a long bath before walking back out in the tank top and sweatpants Itachi had handed to her.
As she walked out she didn't notice the other body form in the room until he looked at her and she looked at him. He was simply on the laptop set on the wooden desk and he slammed the draw near the laptop close quickly, sending only a loud bang throughout the room.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, his voice loosing its cold tone and more of its questioning instead. Sasuke sat on the chair, bare-chested and also in sweatpants. He reached stayed frozen there, only one person could have made him like that.
Ino flicked one of loose strands, and she leaned down, picking up the cloths she had wore earlier, all of her hair tumbling over her shoulders. "I'm sorry. The rest of Akatsuki has a room and he told me he was pairing me up with someone. I never thought it would be you." she stood back up, looking at the ground. "I can leave if you want me to." and she gave away to the blush she was holding back when she had first saw Sasuke bare-chested.
"No, you can stay," he said, and then pulled a t-shirt over his head. "I'll take out the sleeping bags, you can take my bed for tonight."
The blonde rushed toward the closet that Sasuke had already started to. "No, I'll get the sleeping bags for me! I should be sleeping in them!" she swung the door open and noticed the item she wanted was way up high above her head.
Sasuke behind her, surprisingly behind her, sucked his teeth and rolled his eyes at her stupidity. "If you have forgotten already, Ino. The last time you had come to my house, which was years back. The sleeping bags were always high up, above what you can reach." he rolled his eyes and reached a hand up to take the sleeping bag down, laying it down on the floor.
Ino bowed as Sasuke was done. "I'm sorry! I'm always so weak with things like these!" she looked up to see him looking back at her, his face emotionless as ever. Then she realized that her cell phone was making small beep noises, and she grabbed it hastily.
To: Ino Yamanaka
From: Deidara Yamanaka
Subject: That Molester.
I heard about Itachi putting you in Sasuke's room. If that molester lays ONE FINGER on you, I'LL KILL HIM FOR YOU!
Ino gave a nervous laugh, and then noticed Sasuke look at her, he stepped forward toward her, and just when they were only inches apart, he lifted his hands, and Ino's eyes followed it, just to find that it was to switch the lights off.
Soon he curled into the sleeping bag, throwing his t-shirt to the side when he was finally covered inside the bag.
'I thought he was going to kiss me for a moment there,' she thought, and then slept on Sasuke's bed, the special scent of him drifting her into a deep sleep.
Sasuke looked up as he saw the calm breathing of Ino become steady. 'I was going to kiss her …I love her…'
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