Six mouths have past since Kakashi and Aino made the deal. Salil had yet to show her face or anyone else on her team for that matter. The kiss was completely erased from Ainos mind along with the feelings she once felt for Kakashi.

Today was their day off and they were spending it training. For training, they were climbing a mountain with one hand tied behind their back.

"Kakashi wait up."

Aino yelled a bit annoyed. Kakashi had the lead by a few feet with Aino close behind muttering to herself

'damn Kakashi!'

when they got to the top Aino's right hand aching with pain and bleeding from all the shape rocks. Quickly banging her hand, she pulled a lunch she had pack for the both of them. Aino turned around see Kakashi start to pull his mask down. Aino had done this every time they ate she refused to see his face just to prove even more that she didn't have feelings.

While climbing back down Kakashi said,

"Aino would like to get some Ice cream when we're done."

"Yeah sure Ive been craving something sweet."

She replied trying not to sound to trilled about it.

They finished an hour later and got ice cream. Kakashi got triple dark chocolate with cookie dough and Aino got cream soda flavor with a cherry on top. They walk down a path, as the hot blazing sun seems to shine it sizzling heat only on them. Aino was just beginning to take a lick when she saw a little girl with light purple hair and silver eyes crying because her ice and fallen off her cone. With out even hesitating Aino walked over and said,

"Here you can have mine."

The little girl smile and was about to take it when

"but on one condition"

the girl stop in her tracks and looked at Aino with wide eyes

"you promise to stop crying over split ice cream. OK?"

the girl nodded her head eager to get the ice cream. With a smile, Aino hand her cone over to the little girl. As the girl ran way with her cone, she yelled

"Thank you nice lady"

and was gone. Aino got back on her feet and felt a hand on her right shoulder; she turned to see it was Kakashi.

"Here you can have the rest."

He said with a smile in his voice holding out his ice cream.

"Long as you promise to eat the rest."

With a smile, Aino took Kakashi cone and ate the rest.

They continued their walk when out of the corner of Ainos eye she saw salil stand on the roof of one of the buildings staring down at her. Aino blinked and Salil was gone. She could feel her heart pound and her hands started to shake.

"Aino are you all right."

She hears Kakashi say.

Aino tuned her pale face toward him.

"You didn't see?"

"See what."

"Oh never mind the heat must be getting to me thats all."

"Well the Hokage is having and emergency Jounin Meeting. Should I carry you home first?"

"No thats ok I can make, you just go on."

"You sure?"

"Yeah"

With that, Kakashi vanished. Aino started walking again.

'Kakashis been training hard but seeing salil just now I know he does not stand a chance not even the Hokage herself could defeat them. Kakashi said I could leave if I still felt that he would not stand a chance and he does not. I'll tell him tonight. He will understand, he promised. Right?'

Just then Aino heard the sound of punching coming from a near by forest she when in to see that it was sasuke punching, kicking and throwing Shuriken.

"Hey sasuke why you training dont you know its your day off."

She said popping out from behind a tree.

He just ignored her and continued what he was doing.

"SASUKE!"

she yelled knocking him off balance.

"Here"

she said holding out her hand. Sasuke smack it away and got up on his own.

"So are you going to tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

"Tell me why you are training on your day off."

"None of your business."

He said turning back to the now butchered tree.

"Come on tell me and I wont bug you about anything else."

Sasuke looked away from her.

"Are you training to become a great hokage some day like Naruto or even before him?"

"No, what Im training for is not a dream because I will make it happen. Im training to kill a certain someone."

"Who?"

"My Brother, Itachi."

Aino eyes widen.

'Is this what father meant when his said I would find that sasuke and I have in common?'

"He murdered the entire Uchiha Clan. I vowed to avenge my clan and restore it."

Sasukes fist griped tight as he punched the tree in front of him.

Aino fell to her knee unable to hold back the tears. Sasuke turned around hearing her try to hold the tears.

"What are you doing?"

he asks but the only answer he got was Aino wrapping her arms around him and crying on his shoulder.

"Im sorry"

"I dont need pity."

"I understand how you feel."

"How could you understand how I feel what I went through. How could you understand what is was like to always be weaker no matter how hard I trained even training with Orochimaru only got me an inch closer to his level"

"Because someone dear to me, hurt me too."

"What?"

Aino dried her eyes then got back on her feet.

"Never mind just forget it."

"Who was the person that was dear to you?"

"Never mind just forget it. Ok?"

with that, Aino left.

At Kakashi's, Aino was sitting on the couch pretending to be reading a book but really figuring out how to tell Kakashi.

The door open and Kakashi entered with an exhausted look in a flash, before he could sit down Aino ran up to him and hugged him tight with her face buried in his chest.

"Did you miss me?"

Kakashi said with a chuckle.

"I got to leave."

She mumbled in his shirt.

Kakashi lifted her head to look him straight in the eye.

"What?"

he said thinking he heard her wrong.

"You heard me Im leaving."

"When? Why?"

"Because I saw Salil today and shes a lot stronger that she was the last time I met her."

"Dont worry Ive gotten stronger to. What do you think we were training for?"

Aino pushes away from Kakashi. Tears started running down her face as she tried to convince Kakashi she had to leave.

"YOU DON'T GET IT! Shes stronger than you. It would be like you fighting a two year old without holding back. Shes that strong, DON'T YOU GET IT you can't..you can't win."

Kakashi pulled Aino into a loving embarrass.

"I dont care. Aino I-"

a sharp blow to his abdomen cut off Kakashis words.

Aino gently laid Him down on the couch.

"I know."

She slowly pulled down his mask and kissed him on the lips.

"I love you too."

With that, she left.

On the stony path out of the village, Aino heard Naruto yelling her name. She turned around and looked him staight in the eye.

"Aino where are you going?"

he said catching his breath.

"None of your business."

"Geez when did you go all sasuke on us, besides you shouldn't leave the village."

"I SAID NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS."

"Sasuke told us you were acting funny today."

Aino just stared at the ground.

"Youre to young to understand."

"You're wrong I know more than you think."

Sasuke and Sakura appeared beside Naruto

"You've made Kakashi life brighter and happier. We've never seen him this happy all the years we have known him. Aino, Kakashi loves you. He would give up everything for you."

Sakura yelled.

"I know, thats why I got to leave."

Aino vanished and appeared behind the three ninjas and knocked them out in a flash.

"You're the ones that are wrong, by me being in your lives I would just make it in to a nightmare."

Aino turns back towards the path and resumes walking.

Fifty miles away from the village Aino hears leafs rustling behind her.

"Kakashi come out I know your there."

Kakashi drops down from the treetops in front of her.

"Stop being so persistent, we had a deal now you follow through with your part and leave me the HELL alone!"

"When I said I dont care, I wasn't about to tell you "I love you." I was going to say I know what really happened at the last village. YOU DESTROYED IT!"

"What?"

"A villager from the village named Nobu was the only survivor and he said that a woman by the name Aino Misaki was the one responsible for the destruction."

"Nobu's alive."

Aino asked with joy and relief in her voice.

"He was, he died moments after relaying the info."

Aino joy turned in to sorrow.

"Aino tell me the truth tell me the whole truth."

Aino didn't answer him nor look at him and started walking past him. As Aino pasted him, Kakashi grabbed her wrist.

"Please Aino tell me."

Aino yanked her arm away from him.

"The truth isthe truth-"

"The truth is you all going to die."

Salil yelled swinging her sword toward Kakashi.

Aino tried to protect him but then Phoenix and Murali attacked her. Luckily, Kakashi blocked Salils sword with Kunai. Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto appeared and managed to get Phoenix and Murali off Aino. Aino rushed to help Kakashi but on her second step, her body refused to move, she was paralyzed. Everyone was paralyzed except for Murali Phoenix and Salil who were keeling down.

"Long time no see Aino,"

said Valda stepping out of the shadows.

"Mother"

Aino said with bottomless loathing in her voice.