Pablo: I think I feel a good chapter coming

Duck: ooh, yea.

Pablo: please R&R!

Disclaimer: never have, never will.

Chapter 21: I Saw Him

Lindsay West had managed to corner our favorite lazy shinobi at the corner. "Shikamaru, if you don't agree to go out with me, I will pull this trigger." The blonde schoolgirl held a gun to her head.

"You do know that you are holding a water gun," Shikamaru replied, raising an eyebrow.

Lindsay sighed, "I just straitened my hair. Don't you get it? I am risking my hair for you!"

"I told you Lindsay," Ino appeared, breaking up the awkward moment, "Shika is very committed to his girlfriend, Blair."

"You know," Lindsay forgot about the feud she and Ino had experienced, "if you two weren't related, you would make the perfect couple."

Ino and Shikamaru exchanged weird glances, until Lindsay left, and Ino broke the silence, "What do you say we cut classes today, and have Sakura tell the teacher I got sick, and go home. I am feeling really dizzy, and I cannot stand up strait." The lazy shinobi wrapped his arms around his girl, supporting her weight so she didn't fall. "Take me to the bathroom first, I am not feeling so good." It was too late, Ino had barfed, narrowly missing her boyfriends shoes."

Shikamaru placed a hand on Ino's forehead, "Ino you have a fever, I need to take you home, Neji and Tenten will understand. I will write letter to Tsunade-sama and see what she thinks."

"Your always so worried," Ino slurred, smiling as best as she could. "I will be fine."

Shikamaru went to give her a kiss on the cheek when he spotted a cut on her neck. "Ino, what is that?"

Ino got a panic stricken look on her pale face, then burst out in tears, "Shika, it was awful. I saw him. He's here."

"Who, Ino," Shikamaru panicked, "Who did you see? You have to tell me! We have to get you home, and talk to Tenten and Neji, and maybe they can go get the others out of school so we can figure all of this out. Is this why you wanted to go home?"

Ino just looked at him. He was extremely worried, "Ino, answer me?"

The lazy shinobi gave up, and ran full speed home, trying not to be seen by any Americans. He barged in the door, walking in on Neji and Tenten making out, Neji forgot to take off his pink cooking apron. "I'm not even gonna ask, but we have bigger problems."

Tenten pulled away from the Hyuuga, "Why aren't you in school?"

"Neji, you need to go get the others out of school now," Shikamaru ordered, "tell them they had a family emergency."

Neji left the house, forgetting to take off his apron. Tenten spoke, "Now what exactly is wrong."

"Ino saw someone."

"Who was it?"

"Good Luck getting it out of her."

The loudspeaker came on throughout the school, "Please excuse the interruption. Could we please have Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame, Lee Rock, and Chouji Akimichi to the office, your father is here to pick you up." All the ninja immediately wondered why Neji would be coming to pick them up in the middle of he day.

"Okay Neji, if you don't have a good excuse I will beat you up. Believe it! I was kicking butt in soccer during gym. Now my team will probably lose." The over excited ninja lectured.

"Why did you pull us out of school?" Sakura questioned with puzzled look on her face.

"If I knew, I would tell you," a very confused Neji spoke, "something is wrong with Ino. Shikamaru just told me to come and pick you up. We have to get back so we can figure it out.

Ino was shaking; she had lived the worst moment of her life again. Now she can't seem to wipe the scary images out of her mind. She can feel someone holding her, but had no clue who it was. Whoever they were, they were warm. "Ino, Ino can you hear me."

"Yes," she mumbled, "he is evil. I saw it again!" the blonde kunoichi eye's fill up with tears all over again. "No one can stop him. He will kill everyone."

Knock knock knock

"Come in!" Tenten yelled to the knocking door. She didn't think that it was Neji; he wouldn't have knocked. Before she could think any further she saw a short blonde standing at the center of the hallway, "Who are you?"

"My name is Lindsay," she told Tenten, "Ino ran off, then everyone went home, I just wanted to make sure that everything was okay."

Pablo: so yeah.

Duck: hey, we should post this.

Pablo: ya think Sherlock?

Duck: you wanna go

Pablo: NO!!!!! You will kill me!

Duck: HA! I always have a back-up plan.

Pablo: wait, you hurt your finger, I have a chance

Duck: shoot.

Pablo: please R&R if you want Duck's finger to feel better.