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Ino gripped the sheets and then threw them to the side as she searched the office for her cell phone, immediately finding it and then dialing Sasuke's number, to only find that he had blocked her phone number. She threw the cell phone down onto her bed and heard the door open.

"Ino, I'll take Shinshiro to his lessons now," Deidara said, closing the door and then leaving once again.

Thinking about the idea popping up in her mind, she bit her bottom lip hard and resisted the urge to cry about her decision. 'But,' she thought, 'he might love me again.' she turned around to look out of the window before grabbing her coat and then running out of the office, out of the building.

She sat in her car, pushing her tears back and she placed a hand on her stomach as if she was feeling the baby that would be born. Ino started up the car and drove onto a road, feeling her head feeling light. Her vision became fuzzy and she felt her body grown limp, her head falling toward the steering wheel.

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A warmth covered over her hand lightly and she slowly opened her eyes, feeling a sudden brightness before it was gone. "Mom!" the voice was familiar, it was worried. She easily made out two forms in front of her, almost hovering, and other forms surrounding the area.

The hand gave hers a squeeze and she could swear that she felt the hand almost pulling her wedding ring off. "Shinshiro?" she questioned, opening her eyes fully to see his face.

Her son moved forward to hug her tightly and then someone grabbed him off her and she found herself hugging Sakura instead. "You scared me!" and she bent down lower. "It's gone," she whispered, and then walked back, disappearing in her crowd of friends.

Neji immediately grabbed her hands, being the closest to her. "What happened? They found you in your car, fainted."

The moment was interrupted when the doctor walked in, surprised to see that she had so many visitors. "Sorry, Mrs. Yamanaka. You lost it, you've lost your child." he looked down at the ground. "A miscarriage," he said before leaving the room to let the room fill with shock.

"You had a child? Was it Sasuke's?" was the question that was already thrown at her.

Ino looked down at her hands, ignoring everyone. Then something dawned to her and she said, "Where's Sasuke?" she was only responded by several shrugs, or some mutters of no. She felt like crying and she covered her voice. 'Why is he always so cold-hearted?' she buried her head into the pillow and her friends took it as a sign for them to leave, except for Shinshiro, who stayed by her side.

At the end of the day, she was released and immediately drove home by Neji while he ordered someone to tow her car back to her house.

Shinshiro had inherited some of Sasuke's behavior and feelings but when he noticed that his mother was sad, he comforted her when she sat down on the couch, crying about the fact of her husband not being around, and for the lost baby.

Dreadfully she made the dinner, sitting at the table and looking at one of the chairs that won't be filled in for that night by her very own husband. With each passing day she returned back to the company, a little more tired and depressed at the same time. Ino would try stopping Sasuke to talk to him, but he was must stronger and he left her every time.

The blonde sat in her office, not really doing anything since Mikoto hadn't asked for her when she really needed help. With the help of Sasuke, Mikoto didn't need her help at all, at least not when it came to socializing with the government or things like that. Sasuke was better off working alone with things that didn't require any talking and just brain.

She spun around in her office chair and then stood up to look at several photos of herself and Sasuke back in her teenage years, before she was pregnant. Her hand ran over the picture of Sasuke and she placed it back down onto the table when the door opened, a hand reaching inside to grab the handle off the hook and then leave at once.

On that night she was drove home once again, without Sasuke and only her son, which Neji had offered to take in for a few days. Ino accepted the offer and went to bed that night, tired and slowly crying tears silently.

It continued for three whole nights, not a single sight of him at all and she felt her heart fall to the ground. Just when she was beginning to love him, he neglected her.

On the fourth night, something new happened. The door slammed open and Ino's heart skipped a beat, only one person slammed doors that hard, Sasuke.

Sasuke entered the room, his cloths reeking of the scent of alcohol. He rushed to the bathroom, closing the door behind him and he opened it a few seconds later, the toilet flushing and then after making a fast decision he returned to the bathroom for ten minutes before coming back out once more.

Not minding her in the room, he turned to the side and threw the jacket off, followed by his t-shirt underneath it and changed all of his cloths before crashing down onto the bed, slightly still reeking of alcohol. The bed slightly shook and Ino slightly sat up, beginning to say, "Sasu-" and one of his raised to silence her.

"Shut up," he said, the cold, harsh words cutting through her heart. His hand landed back beside him and carried out quiet throughout the entire night. Ino stayed sitting up, her robe on and she slowly wrapped her graceful arms underneath her, hugging her legs close to her. She stayed in that position for the entire night.

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That following morning, she found herself laying down on the bed, her robe taken off for her. She was certain Sasuke had done this himself, but he was still too hurt to even talk to her, but he just didn't say so.

The words still broke her heart when she felt like it was still echoing in her mind. She walked downstairs to already see that a small letter was placed down on the kitchen table, near the seat he would sit. For the next few minutes, she longed for him to be there.

No, it was false. It wasn't a letter, just a blank piece of paper he had placed on the table, maybe suggesting to himself to say something, but he didn't. On that day, she didn't leave the house at all.

Ino picked the cloths Sasuke had thrown he had thrown at the ground last night with fury. It still reeked of the smell but she hugged it close to her heart, just delighted that he had returned last night. She quickly cleaned them, folded them neatly and stacked down in his wardrobe, hoping that he would appreciate it.

Ino stepped back toward her bed, laying down on it and smiling. Her eyes began to fall and she found herself falling down into a deep sleep, where she found herself dreaming…

Dream….

Ino sat on the corner of a roof, facing the campus of the amazing, talented, school she attended to. A voice immediately said, "It's dangerous to sit there. Anyone can push you off and you can die." Ino smiled at the concerned voice.

"No one would really try that, would they?" she swung her legs lightly, looking down at the pool just a few stories below and she smiled once more. "No they won't…"

A hand creep up to her back and it pushed her off her small spot. As she fell she closed her eyes tight, and felt a hand grab around her waist, pulling her on top of the person just before they fell into the pool beneath her, water brushing her skin and she took a deep gasp for hair when she arrived at the surface of the water, someone scooping her up and then carrying her to a ladder.

Ino, still closing her eyes began to cough loudly and she looked up to see her savior, Sasuke Uchiha, and she immediately felt heat running up to her cheeks, but it was all cut off when she let out a small sneeze.

Sasuke looked over at the blonde beside her. Her hair was wet, sticking to her back, the dress she wore stuck to her skin, revealing all her curves, and surprisingly, the slight color and shape of her bra. The wet sweater he wore, it was immediately taken off and placed onto her shoulders.

"Why are you giving me this? It's only going to get me even more cold!" she shook and then threw a sleeve at him.

He strictly threw one of her hands into the sleeves. "So no one would see you." He draped it over her shoulders and steered her to the nurses' office. By the time she had arrived, she had already sneezed twelve times and Sasuke had only shivered slightly.

Shizune pointed at her. "Take her home, get her clean, and give her warmth. Today is a half-day anyway." she cast her hand aside and Ino and Sasuke slowly made their way to Sasuke's house.

Ino gaped, wide-eyed at the mansion she was directed to, and then she sneezed once more again. Mikoto stood at the door way, delighted to already see her son, and her smile disappeared when he noticed how he was dripping wet.

She opened her mouth to say something but when her eyes crossed over toward the blonde beside him, she slapped a smile on her face and welcomed her in. "Come in, Sasuke dear, oh, whose this visitor?" She opened the door wider for them both, earning no response.

Her facial expression changed when he intentionally seated her down on an expensive chair and took the sweater off her body, revealing more of the body since the sweater had stuck to her too.

The blue eyes and the platinum-blonde hair, along with her beauty struck Mikoto and she nearly bowed to the younger teenager. "Oh, yes, of course. Ino Yamanaka. The heritress of the Yamanaka Company." She smiled and then looked at Sasuke. "Take her keys and go to her house with a suitcase. She has a fever so pack up all you can," she said as she looked at Ino, feeling her forehead with the palm of her hand.

"I'm a male," Sasuke simply stated, hoping to get out of the order his mother had enforced on him. With the same result he grabbed a small suitcase, making his way to Ino's house with the set of keys Mikoto had dug out of Ino's pockets.

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By the time Sasuke had returned, Mikoto had already pulled the sundress off Ino and replaced it with one of Sasuke's baggier t-shirts, hoping that it would cover all it could. "Why couldn't you give her one of your shirts?" he placed the small suitcase down on the floor.

Mikoto brushed a hand through Ino's hair and across her damp forehead before saying, "She's a little more developed. Very beautiful though." She stood up and walked away. "I'll bring something up later for her fever." and then she left.

Sasuke looked at the blonde before lifting his dark blanket slightly to see her body just beneath his t-shirt. Ino's eyes fluttered open and she touched her hair, feeling that it was already clean, and then she looked up tiredly at his face.

She tried sitting up and when she did, with a lot of help from Sasuke she crossed her legs, saying, "I'm sorry for causing you all of this trouble. I'm …can easily get sick." she looked behind to see his laptop already set up, the webcam on.

The blonde laid down on the bed, grabbing his hand when he was able to leave and held it close to her so that the back of his hand touched her soft cheek. "Stay with me…" she muttered lightly, still holding tightly on it as if she was scared he would leave her alone for a second.

For the next several day, her fever climbed up and down several times, and he was eventually forced to call to the school to tell them of her condition. Every night he would sit there, Ino holding his hand and Sasuke unable to release from her clutches.

One afternoon, the toilet flushed and Ino walked out, one of her hands gently touching her hair and she plopped down on the seat next to Sasuke, not noticing his webcam on, she wrapped a hand around his arm, gently leaning onto it with her eyes closed.

Sasuke didn't mind it at first when he was only chatting with Neji, but when Naruto, Kiba, Choji, Shino, and Shikamaru came into few, Kiba immediately pointed at Ino beside him. "The hot Yamanaka? Why's she at your house?" his eyes were narrow.

"She's sick," Sasuke replied, gently leaning Ino onto the back of the chair but when she laid there, her body limp. He gently placed a hand on her forehead, sharply taking it back and then dialed a fast number onto the cell phone.

Within ten minutes, she was simply rolled away on a hospital bed, her fever still burning, and Sasuke followed her out, along with Mikoto.

For the following days after that, Sasuke found himself becoming attached to the blonde and hoping to see her everyday after school, and that was how their love sparked.

Ino woke up one day, the doctor telling her they had found that something had made it to her stomach, which was assumable in the water that she had fallen into, but Sasuke had known he was falling into the pool, and Ino didn't. The pool was already shut down by then but they hadn't warn any of the students in anyway.

Her friends visited, her father visited for a short period of time before leaving, only to return a few days later to comfort her. The person she thanked the most was Sasuke and his mother, Mikoto for caring for her when she desperately needed help.

Sasuke walked up to Ino one day, holding the T-shirt that she had mostly wore the period of time she had stayed at his mansion, putting it in the suitcase along with the rest of her belongings.

"For something for your to remember when you're home and I'm busy," he said, approaching her and lightly putting a hand under her chin. He regretted not just doing it the first time they met; he always had a doubt in his heart about his feelings about her when they met. "After all of this, I …I think I love you," he said, uncertain of his words, taking her mouth to his and gently kissing it.

All the while, Mikoto stood behind the door, mentally making the decision in her mind to make her the future wife of her son.

"I love you, too…" the voice of Ino's made it certain and Mikoto nodded her head silently, making it official.

~Dream Ends…~

Ino gasped for air and she looked at herself, her cloths were drenched in sweat and her eyes were wide, wide from the fact that she had remembered the memory so clearly.

Her cell phone on the table beside her vibrated loudly and she took it in her hand, looking at the person that had sent her the text message.

From: Sasuke Uchiha

To: Ino Yamanaka

Subject: *no subject*

Apathy.

Ino stared at it, staring at how the single word could mean so many things and then she realized. Sasuke had meant apathy to the unborn baby that was in her womb. The single word sent small quivers through her spine and she found herself wanting to cry once more and there was another vibrate.

From: Sasuke Uchiha

To: Ino Yamanaka

Subject: *no subject*

To You.

Her eyes stared at the message, surprised. Apathy to her. Sasuke didn't care a bit about how much suffering she went through and how hurt she was when the baby was destroyed.

He was cold.

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