Chapter Ten

Ino practically pulled Gaara onto her front step and kissed him fiercely as she fumbled with the keys at the door. She had restrained herself the entire walk over and nearly jumped him then and there. Gaara responded with another long kiss and then planted kisses along her neck. The door opened with a click and a jingling of keys.

Gaara hesitated momentarily trying to regain his composure but was then yanked inside by Ino who seemed determined to rid him of all decorum as she pinned her body firmly against him licking him in places he didn't even know he had senses.

He dropped his gourd by the door as she raked her nails through his red hair and bit his lip before kissing him senseless again.

It took every ounce of strength he had to pull her to arms length.

He caught his breath, "wait."

Ino in turn ignored him, and launched at him again taking an earlobe hostage as she did. His eyes bulged as her hands traveled down the backside of his pants. He pushed her gently away with both hands, "Ino, wait."

Gaara stopped her second attempt at ignoring him with another word, "please," he begged loudly.

Ino's face turned worried then hurt at his words. "I thought you wanted to…I mean we're alone…you don't want to?" she ended breathlessly.

"You hit your head," he breathed again regaining a bit of his composure back, "I don't think you know what you are doing to me."

Ino smiled, she knew exactly what she was doing to him. And what she wanted to do to him.

"No, you hit your head," he reasoned, "tomorrow you will regret this."

"BISCUSE ME?" Ino interrupted with a glare. "Don't you know how long I have waited for us to be alone together? Opportunities like this just don't fall in our lap, Gaara."

"You never call me Gaara," his eyes narrowed as if confirming his suspicions.

"We are never alone together, either," she pointed out moving closer and kissing him more tenderly.

"Are you sure?" Gaara's eyes held his doubts and uncertainty then bulged at her brazen roaming hands as if to confirm her answer.

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"Now, I'm not going to get fancy by using big words like 'acetylcholine inhibitor' for you two Neanderthals," she bunny eared the words as she paced around the coffee table, "so I will keep it simple by saying the word 'poison.'" Tenten rolled her eyes and straddled Kankuro delivering a rescue breath into him. She hopped off of him and then did the same for Shino.

"Now boys, that was your one freebee…you need to start using your chakra to move your diaphragm and make your hearts beat."

She tutted Shino as his bugs started to swarm. "Just so we don't have any doubts as to how serious I will be if you start to call them with what little ounce of chakra you are using instead of focusing on keeping your body alive," she licked her thumb and rubbed the makeup off of her deltoid revealing an Anbu tattoo, "they won't know where to begin looking for your body." she whispered the last part into his ear as she straddled Shino again and his bugs began to dissipate. She grabbed his chin and gently shook it. "Good boy."

"Now," she slipped in between the two ninja's stiff bodies and placed a hand on each one of their upper thighs with a small clap startling them both.

"You two are good friends, and I would personally hate to see me kill you both for doing something stupid in my house, agreed?"

The boys grunted an acknowledgement.

"Fabulous! You two are starting to get the hang of talking. This will be useful in a moment, let me finish," she squeezed their thighs tightly to remind them of her seriousness. "The truth is I am starting to be quite fond of both of you two. You can take that as serious or as lightly as you want, but note," she squeezed them just a little harder for emphasis, "if you start that macho bullshit within these walls, I'ma kill you and use you for fertilizer." She smiled politely at the two in turn.

"That is such a turn on," Kankuro managed to vocalize without sputtering.

Shino grunted with what appeared to be agreement.

"I am so glad to hear we are finally on the same page," Tenten clapped her hands with delight. "Now promise me that you will be on your very best behavior before I administer the antidote."

The two grunted incoherently. Tenten raised a hand to her ear, "What was that again?"

"Wearing a halo."

"Best behavior."

"Good." She got up quickly and came back with two syringes. "Now comes the fun part."