Done for the LJ naruto100 community. The challenge being 'Three is a magic number'.
When she was just learning how to love as a woman should, she would never have guessed she could be in love with two men at the same time.
One was her lover. The other, her best friend. They often switched out the roles as she or they needed. One or the other would eventually become her husband, and that would be the one she would have a family with. Whoever didn't fill that role would simply be there when she needed whatever he could offer.
There was never competition between them. With others, yes. Oh, they were remarkably stingy and possessive, but for some reason, they didn't mind the other's presence. She never cheated on them. It just simply happened. It was an arrangement that they all agreed on… somehow. Maybe it was just because of their lives, she didn't know. All she knew was she was in love with two men, and those men were in love with her, and didn't mind sharing her. And sometimes that sharing happened simultaneously.
They were currently holding her in their usual way, almost as if it was an unspoken agreement between them. Kiba was curled up against her back, unconsciously nuzzling her bare shoulder. Shikamaru was using her bosom for a pillow, snoring lightly. The three of them were a tangle of naked flesh and limbs under a sheet, and Ino, as she watched a few rays of the morning sun peek through the open window, never felt as loved as she did then.
With a sigh born of pure contentment, she leaned down to kiss Shikamaru's forehead, and then reach behind her to give Kiba a scratch behind his ears. Chuckling quietly as both of them cuddled closer to her, she allowed herself fall into a light slumber.