Until Tomorrow
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
A/N: Thanks to all the reviewers.
Chapter 3: The Next Road
"It's all-." She started to say but ended up coughing like no tomorrow. 'What the hell was that about?' she wondered to herself. "Shikamaru, just kiss me." She said boldly.
Shikamaru blinked. "Excuse me?" he asked surprised.
"Just do it." She said as she placed her lips on his.
Shikamaru's eyes widened a bit, but he got used to it very quickly and started kissing Ino back.
Ino pulled away and looked at Shikamaru dead in the face. "Do you think you could love me?" she asked him out of all seriousness.
"We're only fourteen years old, Ino. We have a long way ahead of us in life." Shikamaru stated. "We will meet new people, fall in love with people, get rejected and get over it and repeat that cycle. We're still very young. You just have to test the road out a couple of times." He said. "And maybe will end up together in the end, who knows." He said.
Ino's face fell. "I see." She said darkly. "Could you redo my bandages for me?" she asked lady-like.
Shikamaru looked surprised. "Okay." He said as he started redoing her bandages neatly. While being oblivious to her tone and emotion, which was not like him at all. Ino sat there calmly waiting patiently for Shikamaru to finish redoing it for her. "Okay, it's all done." He told her.
Ino got up and grabbed all her belongings. "Thanks, Shikamaru. I'm going to go, okay?" she said and waved to him. Then sprinted off to her house. 'Everyone leads a nice life except for me!' Ino thought to herself while running back to the Yamanaka Flower shop where she resided. She stepped inside the store in a hurry.
"Ino, it's about time you got back! I have to do some grocery shopping and then I'm going off to have tea with Sakura's mother, so cover the store for me." Ino's mother exclaimed.
"Yes, mother." Ino stated dully as she put her bags behind the cash register. 'When did mom start having tea with Sakura's mother?' she asked herself. Her mother walked out of the store and into the streets. Ino sighed. She patted her painful stomach. 'My life just got ten times more complicated and Shikamaru didn't even help it a bit. And I thought I could count on him.' She thought to herself agitated. "Fuck, Kabuto. It's all his fault." She muttered.
"Gee, I didn't know you wanted to do me that badly." A male voice stated from the corner where the pansies were.
Ino was startled a bit but then rolled her eyes. "What are you doing here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be with your Sound-nin buddies." She asked him sarcastically.
"Now, now. Why do you have to be so mean to me? What have I ever done to you, princess?" Kabuto asked mockingly.
Ino clenched her fists tight. 'Grr, who does this boy think he is?' she asked herself. She went up to where he was and stood right in front of him. "I don't know what kind of girls you know, but I'm not like them. I don't like to be disrespected at all. You have absolutely no right to do so. You don't even belong here. Go back to the Sound. They are the only people that will accept you." She said to him fiercely hoping that he would actually be offended and go away.
He grabbed her hand suddenly. "But you want me to be here, and stay here. I can read your thoughts. You are insecure. You need a man that will be with you and stay by yourself." He said.
Ino's eyes widened. "I don't want you!" she shrieked. "I want-."
"Sasuke, right. Just like every other girl, I hear. Word gets around quickly." He said. "That's how you know that I betrayed Konoha and blah, blah, blah. Right?" he asked her.
"Right." She said rolling her eyes. "At least he's gorgeous, smart, strong and so mysterious!" she gushed quickly. "Now do me a favor and can you please let go of me." She said looking at her hand.
"Of course." He drawled letting it go slowly.
She pulled away quickly. "I have a business to take care of. Now go on and get out of here." She said fixing up the roses neatly.
"No, I think I'll stay here for awhile. Orochimaru-sama likes flowers. He's kind of feminine." Kabuto said looking at the tulips that were beside him.
'What the hell is wrong with this guy?' Ino asked herself. 'I hope he doesn't actually get the idea that I want him to be here.' She thought as she poured the unnecessary water out of the pot onto the streets. She walked back in and closed the door behind her.
Kabuto looked as if he were lost in a very deep thought.
Ino snickered. "Look!" she yelled loudly.
He merely looked up. "Yes, may I help you?" he asked calmly, giving her the why are you bothering me right now I'm trying to think look.
Ino narrowed her eyes. "What are you still doing here, didn't I tell you to get out of here?" she asked him putting her hands on her hip.
Kabuto shrugged. "Yea, I guess you did. But I'm still thinking. So I'll need a few more long moments, if you don't mind." He said.
Ino rolled her eyes. "Of course I mind! Get the hell out of here. Go back to your freaking Sound Village. I don't want here in my store. Go bother someone else. Like Naruto." She said.
"Oh? But I don't want to be with Naruto. I want to be with you." He said. "I may look like I swing that way. But I actually swing both ways. But mostly swinging straight." He said chuckling.
Ino looked confused at what he had just said. 'What the hell does Naruto have to do with anything or in this case anyone.' She thought. "Whatever, I don't care which way you go. Just leave my freaking store." She said getting a bit hot tempered.
"Chillax, Sugar. No need to get all worked up about me. You can save it for the bedroom or wherever you want to do it." He said.
Ino smacked him across the face. "I'm not a dirty slut, thank you very much." She said. "And for the last time get it through your thick skull that I do not like you at all!" she said hotly and walked over to him and attempted to pull him out of the store.
He stopped the force by pushing her slightly backwards. Then he leaned onto the wall making sure that the door was locked. So that no one could get in or out without a certain amount of force or if Kabuto opened it with a special seal that he had created just for this special occasion.
Ino glared at him. 'What the hell was this guy's problem. She had never been a threat to him. A potential one, maybe she could pull it off. But she has done nothing to make him come after her.' She thought to herself. "Why can't you go bother some other girl or guy for that matter." She asked him.
Kabuto smirked. "That's because I like you." He said not telling her the whole reason of why he had to get her. He was supposed to get Ino and deliver her to his master, Orochimaru. For what reason, even he had no idea. But when Orochimaru forces you to do something you must obey. That is what Kabuto was doing, obeying his master.
Ino rolled her eyes. This was starting to really annoy her. "What do you really want for me?" she asked him.
Kabuto grabbed her by her wrist and pushed her onto a wall as Ino struggled to break free. "I can make you stronger." He whispered sort of seductively to her. "You want to be powerful like Tsunade or better yet. Be stronger than her, I can make that happen." He said.
Ino's eyes widened. She couldn't take that offer no matter how good it sounded. She could win Sasuke's heart if she were stronger. Ino knew that Kabuto worked with Sasuke. So if he went along with Kabuto she could be with Sasuke. But if she did go, she too would be considered a traitor of Konoha, all her friends would hate her. Which would obviously include her teammates, Sakura and the other students of her year. 'I can't do this.' Ino thought to herself. 'But I want too.' She continued. Was her love for Sasuke that strong. That she was willing to ruin her whole life just to be with him? But she had to do this because she had to beat Sakura. Sakura was always one step ahead of her in the battle of Sasuke. But it seems that Sakura gave up so Ino had all the chances of the world to get him. And she was going to get him. "So when are we leaving?" she asked Kabuto.
Kabuto smiled. "Now." He said. "Get packed." He said as he let go of her.
She ran up to her room and grabbed all her 'necessities' threw them into a bag, and zipped her bag up and ran back down stairs. "I'm ready." She said as she wrote a note to her parents telling them she was going away.
He put his hand on her shoulder and they drifted into the ground and slowly teleported to the Land of the Sound.
End of chapter 3..-