Chapter 21: Ryoga Shinji
"Hey Jinta, how was your day?"Ino asked, with a smile on her face...she was actually anxious to hear how it went.
"It was fun! I've got new friends already!"He exclaimed before waving to another boy and girl his age...who seemed to be brother and sister.
"Well let's go home, now...Are you hungry?"
"Starving!"
They were still in town about to leave it when a voice called out....
"Yamanaka!"
Both turned around since it was both their last names. Ino's face instantly fell when she saw him.....
.........Shinji Ryoga......
"It can't be true...."She muttered.
"Who is he, mommy?"Jinta asked.
"Nobody you know, just keep walking."Ino instructed.
"Oh so you have a child? What happened to our love!? What happened!?"Ryoga yelled, getting upset already seeing a child with her.
Ino noticed Jinta did the hand signs to some jutsu but turned her attention back to Ryoga.
"It fizzled out when-!!"She yelled back.
"You know I had to"
"No you didn't! Now get out of my life and stay out of it!!"
"Who do you think you're talking to like that!"Ryoga yelled, he disappeared and reappeared in front of her and his hand shot out, grabbing a hold of her throat. In a second, he had Ino in a choke hold, just like Tobi had a few days ago.
"Go ahead, kill me. Render Jinta motherless like you did me."Ino retorted, not even trying to resist. She knew he wouldn't try and kill her if he still loved her. He looked away, and released her.
Ino breathed deeply, letting the sweet oxygen fill her lungs.
Ryoga glared at the child that was clinging to Ino's robe. Ino knew her throat would bruised and red from his choke hold.
"I can't believe you did this to me...you had a child with another man, that was suppose to be me!"Ryoga said, looking at the ground instead of Ino's face for a second.
"First off I'm not his biological mother. I'm his cousin, who adopted him when our family died. I hope your clan is happy! The Yamanaka clan is no more except for us!"Ino said, her voice cold and dark.
"Mommy....when are we gonna see Daddy."Jinta said, looking up to Ino. Jinta had slyly set up a recording system he had learned from Konan to record this whole dispute.
"In a few....Ryoga why are you here?"Ino asked, turning back to the raven haired man. He looked like Sasuke in many ways. They had the same facial structure, same onxy eyes, raven-colored hair.
"I came back for you."He said, with a smile.
"Well go back from wherever you came from. I'm not going back with you...Ever!"Ino yelled.
"And why the fuck not!!"
"You put your hands on me! Now you want me to go with you!? Hell nah!!"Ino yelled,"I have other things to do other than being you! You brought this on yourself."
"Ino, you know I had to do it."
"No you didn't. You didn't see me killing any of your family members. You could have defied it like I did, but you decided to go with the flow so no! Good bye Ryoga."Ino said, backing up a little. She scooping Jinta up into her arms and smirked at Ryoga's jealous glare.
"Ino-!"
"No! End of discussion!!"With that, she threw down a smoke bomb and Jinta closed his eyes. Ino had to get out of there fast, first the smoke wouldn't last forever. And second, Ryoga had gotten stronger than she did, so she couldn't take him on. She hopped into the trees under the smoke's cover and ran even faster than she ever did.
Causing them to be in base in about 15 seconds. Base wasn't that far from Amegakure. She quickly and reckless pumped chakra into the rock and ran down the hallway, stopping into the kitchen.
She walked over to Deidara, plopped Jinta in his lap and said,"I'll be back later."
"Mommy!"
Ino stopped and turned around to face the concerned child's face,"You're not gonna fight that man, are you!?"
"No, honey. I just need to think,"She said, before vanishing with her infamous ANBU speed.
"Again, she is fast."Kisame said, with everyone nodding in agreement.
"So Jinta, What's wrong with mommy? She's sure not in a good mood, yeah."Deidara said, looking down at the child.
"A weird man showed up and was yelling at mommy. See I'll show you."Jinta said, hopping off Deidara's lap and doing the same handsigns he did with Ino earlier.
"Who taught you that?"Itachi asked.
"Konan-sama."
"huh?"Konan said, walking into the kitchen and hearing her name.
"Congrats again."Kisame said with a smirked causing her to blush,"Thanks."
Everyone turned their attention back to Jinta when he finshed his handsigns and out of some scraps of paper, a visual of earlier's incident showed up.
After watching the whole thing, Deidara was about to say something when another voice beat him too it.
"ooooo"Silence said, coming out of nowhere...he had that habit of disappearing and showing up days later.
"Who is he, yeah?"Deidara asked.
"Shinji Ryoga...Ino's ex lover."Silence said, with a wince.
"What!?"
"Oooo...looks like you got some competition, you art freak!"Hidan snickered.
"Actually no. If you were truly watching it, you'd see that Ino hated him."Temari retorted with a giggle.
"So What's the story, un?"Deidara asked with a roll of his eyes from Hidan's statement.
"When Ino was 15, which was 4 years ago, her clan went to a meeting with another. They were suppose to make a treaty, but that didn't happen. but that didn't stop her from falling in love with Ryoga. They weren't suppose to be going out, but they didn't care.....Until Shinji was ordered to kill her mother. Which he did. Breaking Ino's heart forever. We thought we'd never see him again, but I guess not."Silence answered telling Ino's story like he usually did.
"Well I'ma need him to leave again, yeah."Deidara growled, standing up. He plopped Jinta on his shoulders and left the room.
"Are we going to get mommy?"Jinta asked, very curious to where he was going....
"Yeah."Deidara said, flatly. He wasn't angry or anything, he was just worried. Ino always had a knack for doing something daring that could in an instant take her away from him.
As soon as they got out the base, he set Jinta down, fed his mouth some clay and squeezed some chakra into it....making the giant bird he used to travel or fight with.
He put Jinta on and sat behind the little boy, grasped him around the waist so when they took off, he didn't fall off.
"Oh Yeah!!"Jinta said, when the bird took off for the sky. Deidara smiled at his child-like innocence and then focused on the ground and near the town. If that guy was near the town, Ino might be somewhere around there...fighting him.
but after a few minutes of searching, he still couldn't find her.
"Daddy!! Look! What's that!?"Jinta yelled over his shoulder, while pointing at a big, white dragon with greenish-yellowish hair that flew near the ground.
"Arigato, Jinta, yeah. I was looking for her."He smirked, and the children smirked at his little accomplishment.
The bird went lower and lower without Deidara even having to say anything. The little boy got even more smilier, before they finally flew up next to Ino. She looked over and stopped, so suddenly. She reverted back to her human form and sat down on a branch.
"What's the matter? Couldn't bare to be without me?"She snickered. Deidara and Jinta laughed before he answered.
"Yup. Now tell me, about this Shinji Ryoga guy, un?"He asked, bringing it up casually.
"Okay....Jinta there's a field right there you could play in."Ino said, before the boy ran into the field. She smiled at Jinta's playful figure before turning back to Deidara.
"He was my ex-boyfriend. I thought he'd do anything for me, but I was mistake. And I hate him."Ino growled, and Deidara noticed her clenching and unclenching her fist unconsciously. He stroked her cheek and said.
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Ryoga Shinji was hopping through the forest around Amegakure looking for Ino when his food slipped and he fell in a giant mud puddle....and that's not the most embarassing part....he was in front of a moving caravan...which carries a lot of people....who laughed at him.
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"Well he's in the past anyway. He's just jealous, yeah."Deidara joked, causing Ino to crack a smile. She giggled before it became a full blown laughter.
"What's so funny, un?"Deidara asked, turning to the laughing prone blonde girl.
"My Ryoga senses tell me that he's suffering right now."Ino said, giving one last laugh before panting, What her senses told her was hilarious.
"Well I'm gonna head back to camp now. You coming?"He asked, standing up and brushing some leaves off his robe.
"Nah. I'm gonna train for a while..."Ino said, standing up and becoming instantly "Regenerated" by the sun's rays.
"Okay. Im taking Jinta with me...he wanted to tell Konan-san and everyone about his first day of school."Deidara smirked. Ino giggled again and nodded. She watched Deidara call the boy back and go back up into the sky.
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"Wow...how long has Ino been gone, Deidara?"Kisame asked, and Itachi nodded his agreement.
"She said she was gonna train for a while."He answered without looking up from his clay scultpure he was molding.
They nodded and finally Deidara looked up and saw Ino limp in, with her body full of scratches, bruises, and cuts.
"What the hell happened to you Yamanaka?"Hidan asked, looking up from his curse word book.
(^.^ lol)
"Training. When I train, I don't play."Ino smirked, leaning against the wall,"Jinta, ready to learn another jutsu?"
"Yay!! Another jutsu!! Misuki-sensei was proud of me when I showed him my family jutsu! He said, that it was cool!!"Jinta giggled, before running and sitting in Ino's lap. She laughed just as he did causing Deidara, Kisame, and Hidan to laugh as well.
"I'm gonna show you how to do the Mind Destruction Jutsu."Ino whispered so nobody else could hear. Then she turned herself and Jinta away so they couldn't see the handsigns they were performing. She showed him and Jinta giggled when Hidan suddenly got up and started dancing.
"What. The. Fuck!!!"He yelled, trying to restrain himself from doing the Soulja Boy. Then he fell on the floor, trying to control his breathe. Kisame, Deidara, and Ino laughed silently with Jinta laughing out loud. Hidan looked up and glared at the giggling blonde who was female.
He lunged for her, unhooking his scythe and swinging it at Ino, who just happened to be sitting next to Jinta. She threw Jinta up into the air at Deidara who was surprised at first before his shinobi reflexes kicked in. He caught the boy just as Ino flung herself over the edge of the couch. Hidan continuted to swing at her as she ran around the couch and out the room.
The last thing Deidara saw before Ino disappeared was her hair flash brightly in the light before she vanished around the corner. Hidan swung back at Ino one last time before Ino managed to kick it making it stick into the wall. He pulled at it but it wouldn't come loose. Ino giggled before he clenched his fist and smirked as it connected with her jaw. She fell on her butt before having to quickly dodge a kick aimed for her gut.
Hidan's hand instantly flew up to his jaw as well when Ino sent an uppercut in his direction. He stumbled back and reeled from the force. but he got his guard back up when he saw Ino come at him again. He blocked her punch and took another swing at her. She ducked and kicked his legs from under him. Then Hidan rolled ontop of Ino and swatted at her face. She forced her weight up and was ontop of him. Ino snickered evilly as she choked the "life" out of him. but cmon not, since Hidan's Hidan...he's immortal and loves pain....
Itachi and Kisame peeked into the hallway seeing Ino and Hidan rolling around strangling each other.
"Alright already!! You're destroying my house!"Pein shouted, when they rolled past his office. They got up just to hear a shout from the money grubber yelling.
"I'M NOT PAYING FOR ANYTHING!!!"Kakuzu yelled, from his room, sticking his head in the doorway, so they could hear him.
"Fine. Don' t do that every again or it'll be the end of your life..."Hidan grumbled, before dusting himself off and slamming his room door.
Ino chuckled to herself and started to walk back to the kitchen. Pein looked up and opened his mouth to call her back.
"Ino."
"Hai?"She responded, walking into his office, which she never noticed before was blue and orange. She silently giggled and thought What it probably stood for. Pein and Konan; they're hair colors are blue and orange.
"I have a mission for you."Pein said, but was really thinking,'This mission will be perfect to get her out of the house, with Tobi around here, she'll be safe, somewhere else.'
"Doing What?"
"It's an escort mission. The Hidden Mist village needed an escort to take a woman and two guys to the Oracle, who lives here, in Amegakure. She's expecting them already. All you need to do is take them there. Then bring them back here. I must talk with them."Pein said, not even looking at Ino.
"Okay. When do I leave?"Ino asked, taking in the informaiton.
"You can leave now. When you get to the gate, just tell them you're there for the chosen ones and they'll know."Pein said, looking at her and using the style Tsunade using sat in. With his head in his hands which were under his chin.
"Hai."Ino said, nodding and leaving the room, for her stuff.
She packed her bags, and headed back to the kitchen.
"Where you going, mommy?"Jinta asked, from Deidara's lap.
"A mission. Jinta, I want you to be a good boy and practice your jutsus while I'm gone."Ino instructed.
"My missions tomorrow. We'll have fun, right Jinta, un?"Deidara whispered. Jinta nodded animatively and said.
"I have homework. I have to practice throwing my kunais and shurikens."Jinta said, taking them outta his pocket.
"I wanna help wih this one. Jinta throw each of your ninja tools at my doppelgangers."Itachi said, still sitting in his seat while, 5 of this doppelgangers stood in a line. Jinta nodded and started throwing them, he got a 5 out o 5.
"You know, you remind me of my old friend, Tenten. She was a weapons mistress and always hit her targets...except when she fought Temari-chan. Temari, you remember Tenten?"Ino asked, turning around to the spiky haired blonde who had just entered the kitchen.
"Ya. The girl who fought me in the chuunin exams and had everyone surprised when she couldn't hit me once?"Temari joked.
"Yup."Temari smirked, thinking about her win,"I also remember you tying with cotton candy, Sakura."
Ino flushed and Itachi looked over to her in a confused manner and said,"You lost to Sakura-san?"
"Technically no."Ino said.
"Then What happened?"
"It was a double knock out...but I only tied with her, because she's my best friend."Ino answered with an absent look.
"It was a good fight though. You're taijutsu was good even back then."Temari commented before taking a bottle and leaving the kitchen as fast as she had came.
"I wish I could have seen it...."Kisame said, he loved a good girl-on-girl fight. Especially when Temari said it was awesome.
"Oo! I know how. All I gotta do is project it into your minds."Ino smirked, with a conceited look in her eye. Conceited, no, it wasn't What was in her eye...it was somthing else.
"Ninja Art: Mind Projection Jutsu!"Ino said, sending the memory of the fight to everyone in the kitchen minds. Which was Itachi, Deidara, Jinta, and Kisame.
After a few minutes went by..Kisame laughed and smirked saying,"Whoa...awesome."
"Why didn't you punch her instead of slapping her though, yeah?"Deidara asked.
"She was my best friend. After seeing her face like that after I winded her, it made me remember What she was when we was younger."Ino said, going back to the memory of Sakura looking helpless after she was stunned from Ino's punch to the stomach.
"Makes sense.."Deidara trailed off after a second.
"Mommy why did you beat the crap out of her?"Jinta asked. Ino shocked that this good natured little boy said crap.
"It's not crap, say sense next time. I had to fight her because it was an exam. To see who would go to the next level and become a chuunin."Ino explained, after chatising the boy.
He nodded and went back to his homework.
"You failed this time but you passed the chuunin exam the next time, right?"Itachi asked, looking up from Jinta's homework.
"Yea...then a year later, I went for the jonin exams, passed and got recommended for the Interrogation and Torture Department. Then after a year, seeing I am a Yamanaka and my great mind abilities, I got promoted to Head Chief of the department under Morino Ibiki and next to Mitirashi Anko. You remember her, right Itachi-san?"
"Yea, spunky purple headed lady....I didn't really like her like that. She was always trying to rape me."Itachi said, being entirely serious.
"I believe you. I dressed up as a boy for Halloween and she tried to rape me. Not a pretty feeling...Scarred me for life."Ino shivered.
Kisame and Deidara laughed at first until Kisame pointed something out,"You know, Deidara, if she dressed up like a boy. I'm pretty sure she looked like you then."
"Ah Shaddup, un."Deidara scowled, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Well, I have a mission to do. Gimme a hug,"Ino said, and Jinta got up and ran into her arms. It was times like that that got Itachi smiling and having small tears well up into his eyes. He blinked them out, before Kisame was able to see them. Then he watched Ino, bend down to kiss Deidara, who was sitting on the couch.
"Hehee...."Kisame laughed, causing Ino to flip the bird at him.