Chapter 20 –Grow Stronger
A/N: Sorry for the overly late chapter, kill me if you must, I'm really sorry…
I want to up the ratingsince…I guess it's needed so please give me advices if I will do so or not.
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Ino found herself vomiting in her bathroom, so now she knows how difficult it is to clean up, it was her first S-class mission as an ANBU, and her squad tracked down some bandits in the rogue country. It wasn't really hard since there are terrific members in her squad, but one cannot avoid having separated can it. Well it did happen to her, her squad had been split in six pairs her partner was one of those sadistic-I want-to-see-blood-kind, oh how lucky she was, haha…sarcasm. He just had to overkill the bandits and leave the desecrated corpses for her to clean up, that freak psycho even with the porcelain mask on her cold face and the chilliness of the night she was sweating buckets.
Still, she had to consider herself lucky her partner did the killing for she knew she couldn't do it, stealing someone's life is never a good thing, but if it was for Konoha they had to reconsider. She washed her face and scolded herself for acting like such a kid, killing, blood, corpses and those kind of things are part of being a ninja if she can't take it, she just had to back out but if she did, never will she ever remember that winter. What's so interesting about that winter you ask? Nobody really knows except herself, for her that winter had some sort of sentimental value. This made her weak, memories don't make anybody a strong ninja, and emotions don't make a strong ninja. Why did want to become a ninja in the first place? To protect the ones she loved.
Love is an emotion, it is a strong emotion
She tried to sleep but she just couldn't she was still disturbed by the desecrated corpses, so she decided she'd take a walk.
She walked around Konoha enjoying the silence of the surroundings, the sound of the wind rustling against the trees. Then she saw him again, she saw Uchiha Itachi again.
She threw a kunai at him to let him know she knew he was there, he caught the kunai. He jumped down and they stared at each other for a long time, Itachi then disappeared and then appeared behind her.
"You're slow..." He stated.
Ino's eyes widened she looked at her back he appeared in front of her, she tried to kick him but he caught her.
"…Pathetically weak too." He finished.
She looked at his eyes; there was something in them you would never see in anybody else's. She hesitated at first, then she kicked with her other leg, he blocked it with his free hand. He then attacked her pinning her against a tree. He used his eyes on her, he never intended to let her know anything about 4 years ago and he wants her to stop pursuing those memories as well, it was hard to believe an individual Uchiha Itachi, the one who had slain his own clan and family without second thoughts or even regret about it cares on a certain, blonde kunoichi who is pathetically weak and technically useless.
He had her see and feel, a part of that winter, maybe after she feels the torture of it she'd stop trying to look for it and afterwards she'd forget ever knowing anything about Akatsuki. Yamanaka Ino wasn't like that; she'd take on anything head on as long as she believed it was the right thing, as long as she knew she's on the right track she won't back off.
Her eyes widened, that time…the Akatsuki leader, experiment 5, that very same sharingan, the insane feelings. It didn't last long Itachi quickly caught her when she fell unconscious, and he brought her back home in her bedroom.
He looked at her unconscious form for a long time, she deserves a better treatment than she's getting. He was about to jump out of the window, when her small hands stopped him.
"Stay here for a while please…"She pleaded, of course naturally our prince would have denied the favor, but he did…he did stay with her for a while.
She was falling in her oblivion and he watched, at the glimpse of him staying there for a while, Ino smiled.
"Get stronger, be more powerful…" He murmured at her ears before he left.
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A/N: I'm sorry again, this is a short and late chapter…but I still hope you like it