sorry to whoever the someone might be, i havent read the site rules, at least not all of it. but i will and i'll watch out for that. anyways, sorry i got harsh but this is online so yeah, it ticked me off.
i decided to continue. sorry for the wait ^.^;;
Chapter 11: Meant To Be.
words between [[ ]] are from chapter 10
[[=Meanwhile=
'I should go talk things out. Say sorry and move out. k, i got this.' Shikamaru was almost to Ino's house. But during the time he was walking, his conscience was pulling him back. But he knew he had to so he forced himself to go. There it is. Shikamaru was now a couple of feet away from the entrance. Before he took another step..
"Where is this place?" Ino asked as she took a step out of the shop. Tai was a couple of steps ahead of her, still holding her hand. As she took few more steps she turned her head to her right to see the owner of the shadow she was stepping on. She froze in her place, even though Tai was still walking, holding her hand. She let go of it slowly and when Tai realized she did. He stopped too and turned around to see two faces facing each other.]]
"Ino." Tai said as he slowly turned around towards her. The other face was non other than the neighborhood stray cat which soon walked away. Although, Ino's eyes werent on the cat's attention, she was just staring in thin air. "Ino, what's up?" Tai asked. He felt something was wrong and weird. For a moment Ino just searched something, she looked around to look for that something, but found nothing. Tai was still waiting for her. Ino realizing that it was nothing turned her direction to Tai. "Well? Is anything wrong?" He asked again. Ino shook her head but she knew something was wrong. Tai found no smile on her face so decided to cheer her up. "Let's go, cmon. It's going to be fun." They started to walk and something was still on Ino's mind. 'What in the world was that? There was something! I should of looked harder..' Ino thought now regretting. She turned to look around once more. She just knew it was there but she couldn't back it up because she saw nothing that she was looking for. She sadly, turned her head back to the road.. and to Tai. He was just walking by her side, still holding onto her hand.
He watched them walk away. Luckily for him, he hid behind some electricity pole. If it wasn't for his quickness, it would of been him instead of the cat facing Ino. That would of been too troublesome. Shikamaru sighed as he did watch them. Then plumped his back against the cement wall. He thought, maybe it was meant to be, maybe i should just go back to being girlfriendlless, just go back to being the lazy me.
He was thinking of this but inside it hurt bad. Shikamaru did really like her. 'She seems happy. She's always with him. Yeah, it was meant to be.' He thought and picked himself together. Shikamaru then walked back to his house with his hands in his pockets, his mind on nothing, and his heart hurting.
It's been days and weeks.. Ino started to see less of Shikamaru and more of everyone else. She thought that it was because they had a time out, But she knew that he was avoiding her. Maybe he didn't care. That was the typical Shikamaru, unmotivated.
=The Day Before Valentines=
'You know what? i have to talk to him. He's just been ignoring me all week and days before that.' Ino was in front of her mirror again, and she was happy. Because tomorrow she planned to spend the whole day with Shikamaru. She knew their time off was up and she just knew that they were going to work out fine. But were they? 'Of course, we'll work out just fine.' Ino thought with confidence. She had feelings for Shikamaru dearly and nothing was going to get in the way. She was humming to herself and thinking about her perfect valentines day when something came up. She suddenly heard a knock. She turned to the door. Her parents were out and the shop was closed since tomorrow would be a busy day.