A/N: Well thank you all for the reviews, special shout outs to everyone who stayed with me this far. Enjoy this chapter =]
For the most part, Ino remained in her room over the weekend and the following week crying her eye's out for her father. Yes she was going to see him again but how long would that take? What killed her inside was the thought of him crying over his daughter that didn't even have the time to say goodbye to him.
Her friends tried talking to her at school but it was no use, Ino was going trough depression with her father and most importantly the guy who she thought was amazing in her life, Naruto. She haven't bothered looking for him at school when she had the chance. At lunch she would just eat outside alone on the field or not eat at all. This couldn't be easy for anyone, living with only one of your two parents. She wanted to see her father just one more time before he was gone, to see her father tuck her in at night like he used to when she was younger. "Goodnight daddy" Ino would tell her father. What was next to leave Ino?
It was about a two days before the prom that Ino got the shock of her life. She knew things would change after this. Her father leaving temporarily made Ino think of what could be next in her life if she never got to say what she was always holding back, "Take a chance" Naruto always told her, but Ino didn't have it in her to do so. Ino was in her room laying down on her bed thinking many thoughts when she decided to go to the one place she knew would make her happy.
"Mom?" Ino walked down the steps into the living room where she saw her mother reading a book, time had changed her as well and she was dealing with Inoichi's leaving a bit better, "Can I go out for a hour or two? I need to clear my head" Ino saw her mother look up at her and shake her head yes, "I'll be back soon" Ino grabbed her keys on the counter and walked out the house.
The sky was begining to darken as clouds took control of the shining sun, "This sucks" Ino shook her head at the small thunder echoing from the west side of Konoha, she knew she had to be home in time before it started pouring down. She started walking the direction where her father had caught her and Naruto having sex at, the park with the beautiful sun set.
Ten minutes later, Ino made her way up the small hill where the giant tree stood over the lake. Ino's eye's wondered trough the grass when they came across the glassy lake that had the cloud's reflection laying on top of it, "Even when its cloudy its still nice" Ino smiled a bit and walked over to the tree where she sat with her back against it, eye's straight forward at the glassy water.
"Ino" The blond heard someone say next to her, she looked over to see nothing but leaves rustling around her, "Naruto" She let out a deep breath, thinking back to all the good times they had and for the most part, the bad times. It seemed like the farther apart they were, the more good thoughts came. The more they were close to each other, the negativity developed.
"Prom" Ino came across that in her mind, "Its only a week away-"She looked down at the clean fresh grass moving with the rhythm of the winds, "I wonder if he's going" Ino shook the bad thought of Naruto going to prom with Sakura and decided to close her eye's and lay her head back on the bark of the tree.
Feeling lonely, Ino decided to go back home where she would read something she wrote the first time she ever met Naruto. On her way back to her house she saw the light to Naruto's room turned on, "Wonder what's he doing" Ino wanted to climb his window and see what he was up to or who was he with but she managed to look away. Just when Ino was at her front door opening it up, she decided to look back at his window one more time to see Naruto staring right back at her.
Ino rushed inside her door, slamming it behind her while holding her fast beating heart with her palm. "Hey honey, whats wrong? Seems like you just seen a ghost" Ms. Yamanaka who was still reading on the couch, stood up, "Is everything OK?"
"Yea, every things fine mom. I just did some running outside" Ino smiled over at her mom who sat back down, still looking over at her with concern, "I'll be upstairs if you need me mom" Ino proceeded up the steps to her room when her mom stopped her in her tracks.
"Ino, are you going to the prom?"
"Um, I don't think so mom" Ino continued up the steps hoping not to get questioned further about the topic.
"Why honey? Don't you want to go with your friends and have fun? This is the last prom night of your life Ino, you don't want to regret going to it do you?" The word regret was something Ino had a lot of trouble comprehending. She did regret not telling Naruto how sorry she was for everything she's done, most importantly about Sasuke.
The tears were coming back to Ino's eye's once again, she managed to retain them, "No mom, I'm sure I don't want to go to prom OK?" Ino ran up the steps and into her room, closing the door and holding back the millions of tears about to come out her eye's.
Ino walked slowly over to her bed and knelled down in front of it, she bended over to search the contents underneath where she came across a book. She grasped the book and pulled it under her bed, blowing away the bit of dust on it, "My diary" Ino half smiled down at the furry purple book and placed it on the bed where she layed next to it.
The platnum blond rolled over onto her side and opened up her book to the page where she last wrote in, "Figures" Ino smiled and playfully rolled her eye's down at what she had written. The last time she had ever written in her diary was the day she met Naruto, he had changed her life completely from that day and it wasn't going back to how it ever was. The page she wrote in read:
Dear Diary,
Today our school got a new student. His name is Naruto Uzumaki and he's real cute. He sits in class, behind me of course and today asked me for a pencil. He touched my sensitive sides and boy did it feel good! I wish I had the entire courage to talk to him like a normal person but I just cant, Sakura's already going after him. Naruto seems different from other guys, something about him turns me on. I think I got my first crush on him, last person I had a crush on was Sasuke and he doesn't even compare to Naruto's status. Even though I just met him today, I feel we've known each other for years. Naruto made me think of him the whole way back home and before I started writing now.I hope me and Naruto get to be close friends later on in the year and hopefully I'll have the right to call him my boyfriend one day and he can call me his girlfriend, until then diary, the next time I write in you, me and Naruto will be together and in love.
By the time Ino was done reading everything she had once written down herself, her tear drops were dripping down on the pages and dissolving trough the paper. What she had once written in her diary was now staring right back at her. "Where did we go wrong?" Ino shook her head slowly when she heard her cell phone ringing from her pocket.
"Hello?" Ino answered the phone, wiping away her bits of wet tears. She heard a familiar voice coming from the other line, "Oh hey Tenten. Prom? No, I'm not going to that this year. I'm not in the mood with my dad leaving and all" Ino put up her dad as a excuse when it was really Naruto hurting her, "Yea, I'll let you know if I go or not OK? Bye Tenten" Ino closed her phone and placed it on the night table along with her diary. She layed back on her bed and thought should she go or should she not, would she regret it if she did?
The next morning Ino awoke with a bright sun shining down in her window, "Nice day" Ino smiled out the window, stretching and trying not to look on his side of the window. It was Friday, the day they had off to get ready for Prom Night later that night. Ino knew she didn't have no time to get ready so why bother playing with the chances of going? So with that she went into the bathroom to brush her teeth and hair.
"Good morning mom" Ino smiled at her mom who was in the kitchen while she was walking down the steps slowly, "Whatya making?" Ino walked over to her mother who was making something on the stove, "Pancakes? My favorite!" Ino's strange behavior was blocking out the thought of Prom Night, she wished she was ready to go but she knew the entire night she was going to spend in her room thinking about what everyone's fun.
Ino nearly choked on the pancakes her mother had served out for her when her mother asked, "Honey, are you sure you don't want to go to prom?" Ms. Yamanaka put a hand on Ino's shoulder and looked down at her daughter's eye's with concern, "You might regret it Ino if you don't go. I met your father at prom night and look at us now" Her mother smiled at the memory and placed a hand on her heart. Ms. Yamanaka was walking towards the exit of their house when she turned back to her, "And you might find your lucky someone if you went" She blew a kiss to her daughter before heading out to the flower shop.
Ino stood their in her seat wondering what her mother meant by her words, "You might find your lucky someone if you went" In repeated the words in her head wondering if her mother actually knew what was happening in her life, but what were the chances?
"I wish Ino was going with us to prom tonight" Tenten frowned, drying her hair off at the beauty salon her and Temari were at, "You think she'll go? I know its Naruto who is holding her from going, I wish she would forget about him. It was pretty messed up from what we saw last week" Tenten shook her head slowly and looked in the mirror of the salon, pleased with her hair on moved on one side and being braided from the base of her hair.
"I know what you mean, but we cant change her mind" Temari "I cant believe we really graduate high school tomorrow, tonight's going to be a night to remember. It feels like just yesterday Ino was whooping Sakura's ass" Temari and Tenten busted into laughter, "No but seriously, we cant let the year end like this. A hour before we go to prom, we'll stop by Ino's house and ask her to come with us one last time. Shika wont mind anyway because he payed the driver of the limousine. If she dose not want to come, then we cant do nothing about it" Temari didn't know how the school year would end, but one thing was for sure, it was going to end the way she never saw it coming.
"Damn, how long was I out for?" Ino stood up from the leather couch in her living room and looked out the window behind it, the sun slowly coming down and nightfall slowly creeping up. "What time is it?" Ino asked out loud, searching for her phone next to the couch on the floor, 7:24. After eating dose pancakes earlier, Ino read magazines the rest of the evening and fell asleep reading a uninteresting article.
"Prom should be starting soon" Ino looked out her window where she saw two black limos drive by with students heads sticking out the windows, screaming and having fun but most importantly, spending the last night together as they may never see each other again after high school.
At that moment Ino's phone rang loudly echoing around the empty house, "Hello?" Ino flipped her phone open and heard the voice of screaming people in the background, "Um, you are?" Ino walked back over to the door and unlocked it, closing her phone as she saw the long white limo standing in front of them with the doors opening up.
"Hey Ino!" Tenten shouted, wearing a long beautiful light blue dress with matching high heels. The dimaonds in her earings sparkled as she made her way out the limo with a stash wrapped around her arms and a corsage with blue flowers wrapped around her wrist.
Temari stepped out behind her wearing a dark strapless green dress that was down to her knees while one side fell lower then the other. The dress came up to her breast where it rested, her high heels strapped to her ankles. Her hair was in a fat bun on the back of her head and she had on green sparkling earring dangling down her earlobes.
"Hey Tenten and Temari, where's Shika?" Ino asked to late as the lazyness of Konoha was now stepping out behind Temari wearing a pitch black tuxedo with a tie around his neck the same color as Temari's dress, in his hand was a bottle of liqour, "Oh, hey Shika" Ino laughed at Shika who was 'break dancing' on her porch.
The three girls laughed at Shika's 80's moves of the running man, "You three look real nice tonight" Ino crossed her arms feeling the breze hit her warm body, "How much the limo cost?" Ino asked Shika who had stopped to get a drink of his bottle.
"A lot" Tenten joked, "C'mon Ino, get ready and come with us. The limo has a lot of space for us, just get ready" Tenten pleaded with puppy dog eye's, "We'll help you with your dress and stuff, we'll find a way" Tenten began walking up the steps to her porch when Ino stopped her.
"No you guys, I just don't want to go OK?" Ino stepped back, watching Tenten's look of hurt on her face, "I'm sorry, I just don't want to OK? Go on without me, I'll see you three tomorrow at graduation on the field, have fun" By the time Ino was done talking, she was inside the house with the door closed, laying against it.
"I told you Tenten she didn't want to go. We mide as well go" Temari shook her head slowly turning around with Shika while Tenten stood there looking up at the door hoping Ino would come back out, "Lets go Tenten"
Ino closed her eye's and was about to walk back up the steps when she heard another knock to the door, "Tenten, I said I don't wanna-" Ino swung open the door to find her mother on the other side of the door smiling back at her, "Oh, mom. I thought it was-"
"Tenten" Her mother walked into the house and closed the door behind her, "Ino, dear" Ms. Yamanaka walked over to Ino who was looking down at the floor, "Look at me" She put her hand to her chin, aligning her eye's to lock with hers, "You want to go to that prom your friends are going to, don't you?" Her mother asked, already knowing the answer.
"Mom, I told you this already-" Ino tried to look somewhere else but her mother kept her chin in place, "Mom" Ino looked her mother dead in the eye and knowing she wasn't going to let her free unless she answered honestly, "Yes mom, I do want to go. But its to late" Ino's eye's became glassy knowing she had once against regretted doing something.
"Then what are you waiting for?"
"Mom, are you kidding me? I don't have a dress, I don't have shoes, my hair's a mess" Ino was stopped when her mother put a finger to her lips, "Mom what are you doing?" She saw her mother walking up the steps towards her room.
"Going to get you ready, come with me" Ino followed her mother to her room where she lead her to her giant closet, "I knew you would want to go to the prom so I bought this for a emergency" Ms. Yamanaka opened up her closet door to reveal a long skinny baby-blue dress wrapped around in a plastic fabric neatly, "Tada" Ms. Yamanaka moved out the way for her daughter to take it all in.
"Mom-" Ino stepped closer in awe, feeling the fabric of the plastic surrounding the dress, "Its so beautiful mom, I didn't know you got me this" Ino's eye's began getting water once again like its been happening the past weeks, "Thank you mom" Ino wrapped her arms around her mothers back, squeezing her close.
"Your welcome honey, lets get you ready alright. I got shoes to match" Ms. Yamanaka took the dress off the hook and took it with her into Ino's room to get her dressed up perfectly for the night. A half hour later, her mother was almost done with everything, "Ino, come down when your done with the finishing touches alright?" Her mother stepped out the room and walked down stairs, awaiting her daughter with a small camera.
Minutes later, Ino's door to her room opened up and out came the Queen of The Night. Ino came down slowly with her hand moving down the railing of the stairs, the baby-blue dress fitted Ino perfectly just like her mother had guessed, exposing all the right places with the opening down the middle of the dress that went down to her ankles. Her baby-blue high heels, identical to Temari's, were click clacking as she stepped down each step. Her long blond hair was straightened gently down her back with a small blue rose in her hair. A corsage on her right wrist matching her dress and nothing more or less, a huge smile on Ino's face.
"Ino-chan, you look amazing tonight. All the guys are going to want to dance with you tonight" Ms. Yamanaka laughed as Ino blushed and chuckled silently, Ino knew their was only one guy she wanted to dance with and that guy had to be Naruto, "Pose for the camera honey" Ino posed for the camera by putting her hands on her hips and smiling for the camera, a couple of flashes later her mother was to go, "Alright Ino, I know its not a limo or anything but I'm going to drive you to the school OK?" Her mother frowned at her.
"Its alright mom, you already made my night perfect with the dress, lets go" Ino and her mother walked out the house like two Queens going to a kingdom. Ms. Yamanaka started up the car while Ino got in the passenger seat.
"You think you friends are going to be surprised when they see you there?" Her mother started small conversation while Ino stood stiff trying not to mess anything up for her big entrance in the school.
"I hope so" Ino smiled as the car was slowing down onto the sidewalk, "Well mom, were here. That was fast. Thank you mom for everything you've done tonight, I really appreciate it" Ino smiled at her mom while opening the car door and seeing all the other students run in the main entrance of the school after getting out the limos.
Ms. Yamanaka stepped out her car and ran over to Ino and gave her a warm hug whispering in her ear, "I love you Ino, have fun because this might the best night of your life" She kissed her daughter on the cheek and ran back over to the drivers side, before getting in she looked over at Ino again, "Go get him Ino" She said before she got in the car and drove off slowly out the parking lot.
"Hope she's right" Ino said a little prayer as she was walking towards the entrance of the school that had a long red carpet rolled out to the parking lot. Lights were flashing everywhere and she didn't recognize anyone around as they ran passed her with their boyfriends or girlfriends in hand, she wishing it could be the same for Naruto. Speaking of which she was wondering if he was even here, either way she was bound to find out. The way Ino saw it was she had two choices of leaving the prom tonight, with her heart still in place or in pieces, she hoped this would be a night to remember.
Well Prom Night's here ladies and gents! What will happen inside the school?? Will Ino come out with her heart in place or in pieces? And most importantly what will happen if Naruto and Sakura and Sasuke show up???? Find out all later on, two chapters left until the ending I think and theirs so many secrets to be released. Please Review!!
P.s: I accidentally posted a chp 30 I'm sorry
