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Together, as one
Chapter 11
"hey. . . Tsuyoshi" she said the moment he stopped walking.
"Don't come any closer." He warned. Ino was confused on what he had said but remained in her position.
"Why?" she asked, but right when she was about to extend her hand for him; a loud bang was heard and both of them were dragged downwards.
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Ino woke up from the pain she felt on her left leg; she tried her hardest to stand up and look for her companions but all she saw was the raven haired man that was still unconscious. She walked her way to him difficultly, right when she was about to shook his shoulders- blue eyes met the bloody red eyes due to sharingan.
"What are you doing in here Ino?" the man asked her, she was surprised to see those red eyes of his. Her eyes began to water upon coming to conclusion that the man in front of her was indeed Sasuke Uchiha, "Ino"
"I knew from the start that you're Sasuke! I just hope you will recognize me soon!" she cried as she hugged him tightly, clutching his shirt. The man was confused on the blond's action towards him that made him pull her away so that he can see her face.
"What are you saying?" he asked in confusion. "Of course I know you." Ino was taken aback on what he had said.
"y-you. . . Sasuke, do you know who I am?" she asked just as confuse as he was. Sasuke just gave her a puzzled look before nodding his head. Ino then gave off her famous wide grin before hugging him one more time and gave him a loving kiss on the lips; just as Sasuke was about to kiss her back; realization sank on her and she immediately pull away. "I'm sorry. I should have done that." Sasuke gave her again a baffled look before cupping her face in his hands, his eyes looking directly at her baby blue ones, searching for answers on his unspoken question. Ino took a deep sigh before giving him an answer "you don't remember Sasuke" she said in a low tone. "I am now m. . ."
"Don't even say that cause I do remember Ino," Sasuke replied with his cold tone. "I-I think we need to know first why we're here." He said to avoid the topic that was arising. Ino tried to stand up once again, upon seeing her having difficulty in moving, he immediately stood up and gave her assistance which she gladly accept.
"Thank you." She said, Sasuke gave her his warm smile- the one she remembered when they were still together. "I don't know how to explain to you why we're here but I think you would understand this in no time." She said while they were looking up to sense if there was someone up there.
"I'll let you speak later; we should get out of here first." Sasuke replied, his back was facing Ino as he scanned the area around. "I sense no one up there, let's hurry" Sasuke said as he offered his back for Ino to hopped on.
"Sasuke" Ino said while Sasuke crawled on the wall; she received an 'hn' from the raven-haired. "I'm glad your memories came back" once they were on the palace ground, Sasuke looked at her with questioning eyes; the Yamanaka heiress just smiled at him before hugging him once again. She was rewarded by a chaste kiss on the lips; though guilty, she still kissed the raven-haired back. I know I'm committing a sin to Shikamaru but Kami~ I just love this man. She thought as she hugged him more.
"Ino!" Naruto ran towards them with a worried expression on his face. "I'm so worried about you! What happened?" he asked "Tsuyoshi, what happened to Ino?"
"Tsuyoshi?" Sasuke asked "dobe, names Sasuke." He said with his signature smirk.
"You do remember us?" Naruto asked, he looked over Ino who was smiling at him as she nodded her head in agreement.
"I guess you both owe me a story." Sasuke said to the blonds. "But we'll chat later, let's get this done" he added as he activated his sharingan just in time; a bunch of shurikens were thrown at their direction and a masked man in black cloak appeared from the ceiling and attacked them with another batch of shurikens. Sasuke covered the two blonds and dodge all the attacks. He uses his chidori and launched it to the masked man as Naruto covered Ino who was healing herself. It only takes a few seconds and the enemy dropped dead on the floor as Sasuke's chidori disappeared.
"As expected from the mighty Uchiha, it was no sweat!" Naruto exclaimed as he half teased the obsidian-eyed male. He was just replied by a smirk which caused the blond man to growl from irritation "arrogant bastard!" he yelled. Sasuke paid him no attention as he walked towards the only female in the trio; Ino gave him a smile and thumbs up.
"Are you alright now? Or do you need someone to assist you walk?" he asked; concern was evident on his voice, Ino shook her head.
"I'm fine Sasuke. I already healed my injury" she said. "We've been detected." She changed topic, both male was now standing in front of her; eyes were now serious as they waited for the enemies that were coming in their way.
"Ino, you just stay at the back; we can handle this." Sasuke commanded and Naruto winked at her. She nodded and stayed back; just like before, the enemies wore a mask and a black cloak and armed with different types of weapons. Both Naruto and Sasuke prepared for their little battle and waited for the men to attacked first, and just like before they defeated them one by one without the use of their chakra needed technique.
"Thought you'll use your chidori again teme~!" Naruto said as he punched his enemy directly in the face
"Not until you use your rasengan dobe~" Sasuke replied with much cockiness and gave his enemy his Lion Combo. The two finished all the enemies in no time, Ino who was currently watching the fight between her comrades shed a tear as she remembered the old Sasuke and Naruto. When she was about to ran towards the two, someone appeared and attacked her from behind; being quick she easily dodged the attack and threw a kunai on her assailant; the two turned their heads to see Ino fighting and hurriedly went to her aid, Sasuke activated again his sharingan and already launching an attack to the man when he heard Ino pleaded not to kill the man.
"but Ino~" Naruto intervene to the blond girl. "If you show mercy on this man, he will surely kill you."
"you don't understand." Ino hissed as she performed hand seals that was new to Naruto. "ne, ushi, inu; ninpo, kage no tanken" Ino muttered under her breath and her technique was executed.
"argh!" a loud voice was heard from the ceiling and revealed another masked man that was covered with its own blood. The two male in the trio was surprised when several shadows in a form of daggers came rushing to Ino; the other man who attacked the Yamanaka heiress suddenly lost consciousness and fell on the ground. Sasuke went to her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders.
"That was one epic technique Ino!" Naruto chimed, Ino smiled at him cockily after she released her technique.
"It was one of the few techniques I developed over the years. Thanks to Shikam. . ." Ino suddenly stopped on her tracks the moment Sasuke left her and walked towards the unconscious man; wanting to kill the emerging tension Naruto walked over the other man that fell from the ceiling, making it sure that he was dead while Ino followed Sasuke and walked towards the one who lost consciousness.
"I can't believe we didn't notice his presence" Naruto commented just to break the ice around them and he also walked where the two was; shocked was evident on his face when Sasuke pulled out the mask from unconscious man. "Ino he is"
"Just as I thought" Ino cut him out, Sasuke looked over Ino then on Naruto who exchanged glances. "We better get out of this place. Sasuke-kun, can you please carry this man?" she asked; Sasuke just shrugged and got the man from the ground and hopped it on his shoulder and began walking, leaving the two blonds behind.
"let's just go" Naruto said to Ino and followed the sharingan user out of the palace.
A/N: it's obvious that the kage no tanken that was used by Ino in this chapter was just my creation. =p
i used the hand seals Ne (OX), Ushi (RAT) and Inu (DOG) that were using in Naruto to execute the said technique. because
1 the OX, were one of the hand signs the Yamanakas used in performing their technique and the RAT by the Naras (it's a SHADOW dagger) and the hand sign for RAT was what they were using for their special shadow technique
2 i put DOG because, the hand seal for dog was just cool xD
DON'T KILL ME PEOPLE because of this. :
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