"Hello, Akira"

"Ino, what are you doing here?"

"I'm a Jounin, missions on command, I was told to deliver these to children around the village."

"Aunt Kurenai, she delivers them every year."

"Aunt Kurenai is with her family, or with just uncle Asuma." She shook her head to get rid of those thoughts, "You never know, five always was his favorite number, he's at four, one more wouldn't hurt to bad."

"Excuse me?"

"They have four kids all born in late September."

"Oh."

"Yep, now if you'll excuse me, Hade! Is there someone here named Hade?"

"Me." A four year old girl walked over and gladly took the hair ties.

"Want me to braid your hair?"

"Okay!" the girl's eyes lit up brighter then Kaji's did.

"One or two?"

"One."

"Alright." Ino smiled as she began to brush the girl's hair.

"You have a way with kids," Akira started again.

"Kinda like you and that girl outside my apartment?"

"You saw that?"

"Yep." She put the tie in the girl's hair. "All done"

"Hey, big sister, look!" Hade ran away to go show off.

"Mind if I walk with you?"

"Yes I do," Ino said as she walked to the door. "Merry Christmas everyone!" she noticed Kaji struggling, "May I?" He nodded, and she threw a perfect bulls eye.

"Wow!"

"Yeah, my friend Tenten taught me, like this?"

"Tenten Hyuuga?"

"Is that what she's going by now?"

"Yeah, she stops by sometimes."

"They're not married yet, but she doesn't have a surname, so I guess that makes sense." Kaji threw a perfect shot.

"I did it!"

"Yeah, next time Tenten comes in have her show you how to throw them perfect, maybe then you could be a weapons master like her."

"She's a weapons mistress."

"Same thing."

"Oh."

"Bye!" As she said that the girls all crowded around her knees.

"Come back soon?" the chorused

"I'll try; I should have plenty of free time"

"Yay!' they all let go and hurried to tell the boys.

"So I was thinking, maybe we could, you know, get back together?"

"Akira, I said get lost!"

"Come on, Ino." He slid his arms around her waist.

"No, get lost."

"Come on."

"No, get off of me!"

'Ino," he whispered in her ear, one of his arms had moved up to her shoulder blades, so that without weapons, she couldn't escape.

"Let go of me now!" he strengthened his grip on them, pulling them closer, "Akira, if you love me, them you'll want me to be happy, my happiness isn't with you, let go of me please." Their faces were now less then two inches apart, so she turned her head, so that her hair covered her neck, her chest, everything, so that all he could see was her hair.

"Hey, don't be like that." He lifted his arm off her shoulder blades, and turned her head by the back so she still couldn't leave. "I really need to stop dating ANBU and people stronger then me." "A kiss for the road?" He leaned in and she tried her hardest to wiggle free, but was unsuccessful.

"Help! Rapist! Help!" She began to thrash harder, she just felt his lip brush her bottom lip, when it slid to the left, and she fell backwards.

"Are you okay?" She had hit the floor and because of either impact or thrashing where his hand was, she was knocked out. "Akira, Tsunade-sama will know about this, and you will be demoted, you know that, correct?"

"Oh yeah, and how's a Jounin going to make that happen?"

"We're close, you could say, I may be a Jounin, but I am the village's best strategist, so I guess that may earn me some points." He picked up the unconscious Ino and her Santa bag. "Bye-bye." He disappeared in a poof of smoke.

TBC

okaym woa, another chapter up, and still minimal reviews! R&R please!