Author's Note: SPRING BREAK IS HERE! And Chapter Twenty-Five is here! Sorry, I guess I have poor humor, I can be funny; it's just at the wrong place and wrong time right now. Anyhow, I admit that I have poor management skills. I'm juggling SAT classes, homework, piano lessons, and writing all at once, and trust me, sometimes you burn out, and that's not good. Well, as I told you, the next few chapters are just going to focus on a few characters, solely on them, to give you a bit more background on each character's struggles and obstacles.
For those of you who read this, I forewarn you and will give you a warning that in this story, it will contain some inappropriate scenes, vulgar language, some crude humor, and sex innuendo. Just to let you all know, so I won't be blamed, because according to the First Amendment, I reserve the right to write whatever I want except for libel and I am not a person who likes to desecrate people in my writing.
There will be at some times that will contain lemons, and drug scenes, and violent gory events too.
As you can see, in Dangerously Sixteen (hence the title), the reason why I am writing this story is to exploit my knowledge that every teenager face everyday. From suicide, gangs, cutting, teenage pregnancies, rape, and many more, you will definitely find in this story.
I apologize for offending you, however I feel that everyone should know about all these stuff because I've gone through life knowing at least one person who has cut, gotten pregnant, or even joined a gang. Maybe you do, too.
Well, I hope you'll enjoy this chapter. Happy reading!
Previously on Dangerously Sixteen: After the trials, Kaiya is put away in jail and asylum, and locked away. Kaede is having Kaiya withdrawals and Neji faces his parents in an argument at his house during dinner. Returning to her home, Sakura finds herself in her pool with Sasuke in the middle of the night. Much to their dismay, Mr. Haruno finds them and tells Sasuke to go home. Later, he tells Sakura that he does not want Sasuke near her.
Disclaimer: I have no sole ownership of the copyrighted characters of Naruto, however, I do own the characters that you have never heard of.
Title: Chapter 25
"Daddy!" Ino cried out to the man as if she was a little girl.
"Daddy!" Tears streamed from her face. When she reached him, his warm arms wrapped around Ino, and she stood still and wept.
"You're home, daddy! You're finally home…" Ino whispered as her father ran his hands through her hair and hugged her tight.
"I'm finally home," he answered as the paramedics brought out Ino's mom who was unconscious on the stretcher.
Ino was happy.
Her father was finally…home.
NOTE: Throughout this chapter, there will be flashbacks.
It was a bright and sunny day. The weather was moderate and a few oak trees stood near the road. Birds propped open their beaks and sang sweet singsong tunes as people passed by.
"Honey, did you get the bags? I'm in the living room!" Mrs. Yamanaka held an infant in her arms, as she called out to her husband.
"Yeah, I got the groceries," her husband carried four bags of food and greeted his wife with a kiss. In her arms, the infant's eyes lit up with joy and giggled.
"Hello there, baby," Mr. Yamanaka put down his groceries and retrieved the baby from Mrs. Yamanaka's arms and cuddled with it, as his wife put the bags away into the kitchen.
The blonde infant gurgled and clapped her hands in enjoyment as Mr. Yamanaka held her in the air.
"You're the most darling thing I've ever seen," his sapphire blue eyes shimmered as he gazed into his daughter's eyes. He held her close to his chest and cradled her in his arms.
The family had recently moved in, and they had just come back from their first grocery shopping in the area. Their green van was in the driveway, and their home was a two-story.
The adobe tint of the building shone bright during the day, and its tall glass windows reflected against the sunlight around the building, from each of the rooms. There were a few bushes near the driveway, and a nice green lawn in the front yard.
It was perfect. Just perfect.
"I love you, Ino," he whispered to the infant as he gently caressed her face, as Ino drifted off to sleep.
From behind, Mrs. Yamanaka groomed herself.
"Honey, could you help me unpack some of the luggage? Some of our neighbors are going to visit us," Mrs. Yamanaka pulled out her hair band and her luscious wavy blonde hair fell below her shoulders in curly waves that accented her emerald eyes.
"Shh, I finally got her to sleep," her husband murmured softly. He turned around and showed his wife their daughter, in his arms, asleep.
With a smile of her face, Mrs. Yamanaka slowly walked over and touched her husband's arm.
"She's a beautiful angel, isn't she?" she asked him.
Mr. Yamanaka nodded in agreement. His long blonde hair was near his shoulders and he held Ino in his broad arms.
"She is, indeed," he answered.
While she was in an embrace with her father, Ino looked up into her father's blue eyes.
"Are you staying?" her voice quivered.
Her full sky blue eyes gleamed in the sunlight.
Caressing her face, her father bent down six inches and laid a kiss on her forehead.
The fresh smell of orange juice permeated through the air. A blanket was laid on the fresh cut grass and children as young as six were running freely in the fields.Laughs and giggles came from their mouths as they played tag and played in the sand.
Young Ino was in her blue tank top and white shorts that was garnished with a green sash that went around her waist. Her hair was held up in a ponytail with her bangs hanging over her forehead.
"You can't catch me!" Ino sprinted to the grass.
"Wait for me! Ino, wait for me!" her friend ran after her.
"Come on Sakura, run faster!" Ino giggled as she stopped to take a few breaths.
Sakura arrived by her side in a pink frilly dress. Her light pink hair was trimmed short below her ears, and there was a red pin that went above her ear to hold her long bangs up.
From a distance, Ino and Sakura's parents called out to the girls for their picnic lunch.
"I'll race you!" Sakura's small round eyes lit up as she started to run, and Ino followed her.
When the two girls arrived, Mrs. Haruno pulled out napkins for them and placed some crackers with some red sauce and vegetables pasted on top. Mr. Haruno was busy reading the daily newspaper, and Ino's parents were sitting together in each other's arms gazing at Ino.
Ino picked up a cracker and placed it beneath her nose to sniff it.
She looked to her side and saw Sakura eating the crackers. Sakura turned her head and placed the whole-wheat thin cookie into her mouth and smiled.
The blonde bit a piece and felt the smooth texture of the sauce and vegetables stroke against her taste buds.
"Do you want some orange juice with that, Ino?" Mrs. Haruno looked up at Ino as she poured Sakura some juice in a small cup.
Ino nodded and held out her cup to her.
"Ino, don't drink the juice, finish your crackers first," Mrs. Yamanaka said.
Ino's dad answered, "It's all right. Try Auntie's drink, it's good."
Their daughter swayed her face from each other and stared at her cup.
"Ok," Ino beamed at her father.
Mrs. Haruno poured some orange juice for Ino to drink.
"Sir, ma'am, could you please step aside?" one of the paramedics cautioned Ino and her father.
The paramedics went into the ambulance and honked the horn to alert some of the neighbors that were approaching the streets to find out what was going on.
Ino looked up to her father's face. She knew what was on his mind.
It was in the afternoon, the sun was bright, and the winds were blowing softly against Ino's bedroom window.
Trying to attempt at her math problem for homework, she was distracted by her parents who were speaking loudly downstairs.
"…x2 -3x + 96 ," Ino muttered to herself as she wrote down the problem from her textbook.
"…have any idea what this means?" her mother's scream reached Ino's bedroom.
Ino tried to ignore her parents and continued to solve the problem. After all, her parents always argue every night.
"…(x-12)(x+9)…" the twelve-year-old adolescent held her pencil and wrote onto her notebook.
"…just stop it, she can hear us from upstairs, can we just settle this calmly?" Ino heard her father trying to comfort his wife.
"I don't need your help!" Mrs. Yamanaka scolded at her husband.
Ino closed her textbook and walked out of her bedroom and went on her knees and crawled near the balcony that had a view of downstairs near the staircase.
She saw her parents in the living room. Her father was sitting calmly on the couch while her mother was pacing in the room with her hands in her hair.
Ino sighed and peered from upstairs and watched her parents.
Mr. Yamanaka stood up and walked over to his wife and placed his arms around her.
"Shh, it's ok. Everything will be all right, you know that. Let's just forget the whole thing and move on, ok?" he consoled his wife with his comforting words.
In his hold, Mrs. Yamanaka began to weep.
Ino's dad turned his wife toward him and looked into her eyes and soothed her.
"I love you, you know that," he smiled.
"I know but…" his wife answered in protest, but her husband interrupted her.
"I married you honey, for better or for worse…" he held his wife's hand up to his face and kissed it.
He leaned toward her and embraced her and held her for a while.
"Shh, don't worry about it. You and I have the rest of our lives to fix this," Mr. Yamanaka replied.
From above, Ino moved back toward her room and smiled. She knew her father is good at problem solving. Ino got up and quietly closed her door.
Shikamaru walked a few steps toward Ino and when he reached eye contact with her father, he nodded his head in acknowledgement and Ino's father smiled in response.
Ino saw Shikamaru and slightly blushed.
"Oh, daddy, I forgot. Shikamaru, this is my dad, and dad this is…" Ino was cut off by her father.
"So, I've finally met you Mr. Nara, how are you?" Mr. Yamanaka held out his hand and shook hands with Shikamaru.
"I'm fine," Shikamaru replied with respect.
A few minutes, Mr. Yamanaka dismissed himself from his daughter and went over to the ambulance.
"Come on Ino! You can do it!" Naruto cheered for Ino from behind the stage. Ino took a few deep breaths. She was dressed in her black tank top and stretchy black pants.
"I'm nervous, what if I suck?" Ino used her hand and pulled the curtain from the wall in a few inches. She bent her head and looked at the audience. The room was almost packed.
"You won't! You made it this far! I've seen your routines and moves since like forever, even Sakura and everyone are getting sick of it! You'll do fine!" Naruto gave his friend words of encouragement.
"And next up we have Yamanaka Ino performing a solo dance to Jane French's Breathe," the announcer announced to the audience.
Ino appeared from the stage and walked to the center. The crowd went still and Ino's eyes searched the front row seats to find her parents. She saw her mother, but there was an empty seat beside her.
The music began, and Ino held up her hands in the air and slowly shifted to the groove of the music and gracefully spun herself with her left foot and moved across the stage, trying to sneak a glimpse of her father in the room.
He was not there.
When the song was over, Ino went backstage and to the dressing room. She appeared before her mirror and wiped off her makeup. When she put her hair down, she saw her mother entering the room.
"You did great out there honey!" her mother showed a self-satisfied smile.
"Thanks," Ino got out a compact and placed it into her purse and got out a tissue and wet it with water and started to wipe the mascara from her eyes.
There was silence between the two.
Music began for the next act and other girls were entering the dressing room to get ready for their next performance.
"I know that your dad wasn't here tonight, he couldn't attend your dance show," Mrs. Yamanaka slowly informed her daughter.
Ino washed her hands and grabbed her jacket and ignored her mother.
"I know, no biggie," Ino exited the dressing room and her mother went behind her.
Ino and her father arrived at the hospital, arm in arm. Ino was disappointed but understood that Shikamaru had to leave to go to his mom. His mother would go nuts if she didn't see him home since his new curfew after the Principal conference.
The two arrived at the reception desk where three nurses were there at the computers. A phone rang and a nurse who seemed to be new at the job, sweetly answered the phone.
Another nurse was busily searching through some files and sorting them in alphabetical order.
"Excuse me, could you tell us where the emergency room is?" Ino's father asked one of the nurses who was available.
"Name, please?" she kindly asked.
"Yamanaka," Mr. Yamanaka answered.
Looking through her computer, the nurse looked up and told Ino and her father that she is in the third floor in room 205.
The two thanked the nurse, and went up the elevator to visit.
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST 22 YEARS OF OUR MARRIAGE?" Mrs. Yamanaka screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Calm down, there is no reason for us to fight, just sit down," Mr. Yamanaka motioned his wife to sit beside him.
From her room, Ino listened into their conversation.
"I've cooked, I've maintained this house and kept it clean, I get the mail everyday, I drive Ino to school and drive her to her dance shows and recently I drove her to her cheerleading tryouts, and what about you? You've been out of the house, and late at night, you would come home smelling like alcohol," tears streamed from Mrs. Yamanaka's eyes.
"I told you for the fiftieth time, I had a last minute business meeting, and the guys gave us some drinks. Trust me, it was only Barcadi, nothing more," he honestly told his wife.
"I'm tired, I'm very tired. I don't know how we can go on like this anymore," Mrs. Yamanaka's voice quivered in tears.
"Don't say that, how about this. Ino's spring break is coming up. I'll take you two to a nice vacation out of this place. How about Europe? We haven't been there," he held his wife's hands.
"No, I can't do this anymore," she got up and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" her husband got up.
"Dinner is on the table, tell Ino to come downstairs to eat. I'll be back around 11," Mrs. Yamanaka grabbed her keys and left the house.
Ino went downstairs in her pajamas and called out to her dad.
"Daddy?" she asked.
Turning around, Mr. Yamanaka put up a welcoming smile and led her to the dining room.
"Mommy will be back soon, she just needed to get some fresh air and some groceries," Mr. Yamanaka headed to the kitchen, "let's see what mommy made for us," he answered in the kitchen.
Mr. Yamanaka pressed the button 3 on the wall of the elevator. Ino went in with him and they were the only ones in the small square area.
There was silence among the two.
It was at night, Ino was talking on the phone with Neji.
"No way! Your cousin is coming back this summer?" she asked Neji.
"Yeah, she's coming back for our junior year. You know her," Neji answered on the other line.
There was loud yelling that was muffled against Ino's bedroom door.
"Hey, can I call you at another time?" Ino asked.
"Yeah, I'll see ya," Neji hung up.
Ino placed the phone back onto her desk and headed for her bedroom door.
"I don't know what to do, I seriously do not know," Mrs. Yamanaka said.
"What did you do that could possibly ruin everything? I know you, you're not capable of that," Mr. Yamanaka held his wife by her shoulders.
There was a look of doubt in her face, and Mr. Yamanaka pulled back.
"Is there something you haven't told me?" he whispered.
His wife began to weep and pulled back her hair behind her ears.
"There's something you don't know…and I've been meaning to tell you this…" Mrs. Yamanaka's voice was trailed off and Ino couldn't hear because the phone rang.
"Hello?" Ino answered the phone.
"Don't hang up. You've been selected as one of our finalists in our sweepstakes for a free vacation this month, please call…" Ino hung up on the telemarketer and resumed to listen to her parent's conversation.
"Damn it," she whispered. She missed what her mother was going to say, the phone rang and she kept on talking and Ino didn't get the chance to find out.
"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! HOW COULD YOU?" Mr. Yamanaka raised his voice.
"I'm sorry! Please listen to me!" Mrs. Yamanaka went on her knees and begged her husband for forgiveness.
"Did our vows mean anything to you? DID IT?" Mr. Yamanaka couldn't believe his ears. After all these years in their marriage, his wife has deceived him.
"I didn't mean to, I'm so sorry. Everything just went so fast; I didn't have any time to think. Oh, honey, please forgive me!"
"I…I need to go out for a walk," Mr. Yamanaka left the house.
Ino got up and ran down the stairs to get her father.
He was gone.
Don't worry; she thought to herself, Daddy will come back.
And he did.
"I know why you left, Daddy," Ino said.
Mr. Yamanaka looked down to his daughter, and he stood still. He was speechless.
Ino walked up to her house and opened the door and stopped in her tracks. The many suitcases that were in the living room dumbfounded her.
She saw her father coming down the stairs with one more suitcase in his hand. Ino saw her mother coming down after him begging him to stay.
"Please give us one more chance," she pleaded her husband.
"Too late, you had 22 years to fix it," Mr. Yamanaka ignored his wife and when he reached the door, he stopped.
Ino and her father exchanged eye contact.
"Daddy?" Ino couldn't believe it.
"Hey, Angel," Mr. Yamanaka smiled as he put down his luggage. He went over to hug his daughter, and Ino gripped him hard and buried her face in his chest.
"Those…those luggage are for your business trip right?" Ino asked. She hoped the reason of the luggage was not what she was thinking. Ino wished it was just a business trip, just a business trip.
"I never meant for you to be involved between this argument with your mother and me," Mr. Yamanaka sighed.
Ino held her father's hand and smiled.
"No, I understand. And to be honest, I don't blame you for what you did, but…you didn't have to leave me," Ino's eyes welled up.
Mr. Yamanaka's face softened up and he bent down toward his daughter.
"Oh, Angel, don't cry. You're daddy's little girl, don't cry," Mr. Yamanaka placed his hand on her head and leaned in for a hug.
Ino left trails of tears on her father's new coat.
"You didn't have to leave me, but why? Why did you have to leave me" Ino repeated the question she had always wanted to ask her father.
"Shh, Angel, I didn't want to leave you. I'm sorry I hurt you," Mr. Yamanaka consoled his daughter.
"Don't leave me, daddy! Please, don't!" Ino wept.
Mr. Yamanaka tiled Ino's face up to see him. His sapphire blue eyes glistened and he kissed her on the forehead.
"Daddy will never leave you, Angel. Never," he whispered as the elevator doors opened on the third floor.
"I'll never leave you," he spoke softly in Ino's ears.
"No, Angel, I don't have a business trip. Daddy just has to go away for a while. Mommy will take care of you for now, I'll come back soon, don't worry Angel," Mr. Yamanaka pulled away from Ino and went over to get his luggage.
Behind Ino, a taxi pulled up against the sidewalk.
Horrified, Ino stopped her father from going out of the door.
"Don't go! Daddy, please don't leave!" Ino cried out loud.
"Ino, please, step aside," Mrs. Yamanaka went up to Ino pulled her aside.
"LET GO OF ME!" Ino jerked her arm away from her mother and stood in front of her father.
"Don't walk out on me! I didn't do anything! Why are you leaving me?" Ino ran to her father and started to beat against his chest.
"WHY?" Ino cried, "WHY?" Ino wept.
Mr. Yamanaka grabbed his daughter's hands and placed them beside her waist and grabbed his luggage and walked out of the door. He went over to the cab and the driver assisted him to place the suitcases in the trunk.
As Mr. Yamanaka went into the passenger seat, Ino ran to his side and tried to pull him away from the vehicle.
"DON'T GO! DADDY, DON'T GO!" Ino's face was blotched with tears.
Mr. Yamanaka turned to his daughter and bent on his knees so he could see face to face.
He tried to smile.
"Ino, you're 14 years old. You have a whole life ahead of you for you to live. Mommy will take care of you for now ok? I'll be back as soon as I can, I promise," he told Ino.
"NO! DADDY! DON'T LEAVE ME!" Ino shook her head, she didn't want to listen to him.
"Angel, be good when I'm gone. Don't cause your mother any trouble now, you hear? Be a good little girl. Oh, Angel, don't cry. Remember, you're daddy's little girl. I love you very much," Mr. Yamanaka cupped his hands around Ino's wet face.
"Daddy…" Ino shook her head.
"Be good, Angel, be a good girl," Mr. Yamanaka closed his eyes and kissed Ino on the cheek. When he got up, Ino didn't want to let go.
Mr. Yamanaka went into the car and closed the door.
The vehicle drove off into the street.
"DADDY! DADDY! DON'T LEAVE ME! PLEASE! DON'T LEAVE ME! DADDY!" Ino ran after the taxi.
"DADDY!" Ino called out to him.
Mr. Yamanaka turned around and gazed at his daughter one last time, and turned around.
"DADDY!" Ino fell onto the ground and beads of tears dropped onto the street.
He was gone.
"Don't worry Ino, Daddy will always come back, you know that!" Ino said to herself as she wept.
Ino looked up.
Her daddy was gone.
And he did not come home.
Author's Note: Wow, that was an intense chapter. I hope you liked it! I saw Sin City and the movie was awesome. I hope you liked the chapter, please review!