A/N: My second ShikaIno fanfic and I hope I improved at least a bit. Please, leave your reviews. Right now,I have some...free time. The next week, woo-hoo, no tests! And it's weekend! Although, on my last Maths test I got only C+ so I guess I should study a little... But, oh well. Anyways, please review- I love reading my reviews. Except for writing, it's the best thing here. Or maybe it's better than writing? And one more thing-please review also my other Fanfic Things that matter. For my last chapter I got only one review +pouts+ . So, I feel kinda unmotivated...enough my babbling, Enjoy this fic!

Disclaimer:I don't own Naruto

How do actually dreams work? One moment you lie in your bed, close your eyes and next thing you know it's morning. Sometimes you can't even remember anything you did in those few hours. Sometimes you have flashbacks of the creations of your imagination, but you forget them by the end of the day. Sometimes, your dream stays with you for a long time.

Why do people dream? And why can't they control their dreams? It's still a mystery to scientists. And that probably won't change for a long time.

Some people predict future using dreams. Depending on what you're dreaming of, bad or good things will happen to you. Those people just can't understand that...

Some things are better unknown.

Yamanaka Ino never believed in fortune-tellers or other mediums. She liked challenges and surprises; and what is more surprising and challenging than life?

She didn't know how a very long and unusual dream will affect her life. And even though it will change her future a lot, it won't help her to foresee what dares she will have to face. No, it will be a dream about her past.

It's strange. She already had memories from her past, why would she dream about it?

Maybe because she was so focused on the future that she didn't have time to stop for a moment, look around and think back on her life .

Even now, during her A-rank mission, she doesn't think about the past or her surroundings. She keeps wondering about her future.

"I can't wait to see how everyone reacts when I carry out this mission successfully!"

"I wonder how much will I get for it; Maybe I'll be able to buy myself..."

Her thoughts are stopped by a kunai, hitting her right in the middle of her back.

Ino is fast and has good reflex. The next five shurikens miss their target.

Being a jounin, it doesn't take her a lot of time to find her opponents; ten ninjas from Rock Country surround her, hidden in trees.

Ino rarely panics. Even now, when the situation seems very bad, she is able to think clearly. Ignoring her deep wounds, where three kunais left their marks, she dashes towards her team camp.

Her team was nearby, waiting for her to lead the enemy into the trap. It's a deadly one; Shino's poisonous bugs and Tenten's weapons made sure of it.

It was the newest addiction to Konoha's shinobis' trap equipment. Designed personally by one and only genius, Nara Shikamaru.

The ninja's who set the trap have to lead the enemy running right into it. There's a very thin and small path in the middle of it, where the one who leads the opponents right into mortal danger, can run unharmed. Only once and strictly obeying the lines of the path. One millimeter wrong, and the trap is activated.

Now we can see how important Ino's role is. It's a pity though, that she hadn't had a foreseeing dream before she agreed to do it. Maybe then, it wouldn't happen.

Or maybe it's a bliss that it happened? Maybe because of what happened, Ino's and everyone's life will change for better? Some people have to sacrifice themselves to make this world a better place.

So, when a shuriken hit her leg, moving it just a slight bit to the right-Ino had no idea what will happen.. all she was aware of were giant bugs, covering her from foot to her neck. All she saw were kunais and shurikens flying from everywhere and buring in her body. All she heard was Tenten and Shino voices, mixed with the Rock ninja's screams. All she felt was pain; so intense that she was blinded with it. And then, everything was black and even the pain didn't seem so strong...

Shikamaru was one of the most important shinobi's in the village. He carried out only the most important and urgent missions. The rest of the time he kept improving Konoha's weapon and trap equipment.

Being a special jounin Shikamaru was, had more advantages than that for the 19 year old lazy ninja. For example, he could be sure that all his requests were fulfilled and the hokage made sure of it. One of his first requests were to be the first informed when his former teammate, Yamanaka Ino, came back from a mission. He also wanted to know every detail about her tasks.

Right now, he had a two hour break, so he took his time to go through her latest mission once again. It was her most dangerous assignment ever and he felt even more nervous when he saw the trap he invented by himself, just recently. It was a very deadly and very efficient one. He was really proud of himself, as it proved useful every time it was used and none of the enemies could figure it out.

This time, Tenten and Shino were responsible for the poison and weapons. No none could do better. The trap with those two should be perfect. Ino was as a back up.

He frowned at the guy who had to lead the rock ninjas into it. Poor man. One wrong move and he's dead. And on top of it, he was running, perfectly visible, in front of the enemy.

Hitting him was a matter of time. He was lucky if his foot won't slip.

That was the only weak point of his trap. There was a great chance that one of the members of the team will die. Actually, no one who carried this role, survived.

Imagine his shock when the guy who was supposed to be killed by Shika's own invention, suddenly stood in front of him.

Shikamaru's first thought was that the guy was a ghost. He grimaced almost immediately. Ghosts don't exist. They were just an invention of adults, who can't accept the death of their close people.

Funny, the thought of a ghost made him shake head with disgust, but the information that the shinobi who carried out the mission, activated the trap, made his heart stop.

"Aren't you on a mission?"

"Nara-san, you requested to be informed about Yamanaka-san returns. Her team just came back."

That explained why he was here. But it still didn't explain why wasn't he at least a little bit injured.

"Weren't you with them?"

"Yes, but I was needed on another mission. Yamanaka-san replaced me."

That made him froze. Ino was most probably dead. If he was lucky, she was only injured a little. But he knew how low chances of that were...

His current work forgotten, Shika quickly performed a few hand seals and made his way to the hospital.

He never used chakra to run; he rarely ran.

But now, all his power was in his legs carrying him to the hospital, with his mind blank and frantically beating heart.

He met Shino and Tenten, just at the entrance. Just one look at them, confirmed his worst nightmare; Ino had indeed activated the trap.

Actually, he never had such nightmare. If he had, he wouldn't let her go on such trip. Better safe than sorry.

No, he had many nightmares, including Ino bleeding to death after one of her missions.

And now, he sat outside the operation room, where the best Konoha medics, including Sakura Haruno and Tsunade, disappeared for many hours.

"I'm sorry no one told you about the change; It happened really rapidly. You know Ino, often acting on impulse. She offered it herself. It all happened so quick. One moment she was running towards us, the other Shino was desperately trying to call off his bugs. I'm so sorry; I could do nothing about my weapons. It was too late...I'm sorry. It's partially my fault; I shouldn't prepare so many kunais when I knew that Ino's live was on line. Luckily, Shino managed to call his bugs off before the most deadly poison was given. All we could do for Ino was to bring her here as fast as possible and carry out our mission till the end. It's a success. Ino will be happy when she hears that. She was really excited about it...and she wanted to impress-"

Shikamaru didn't want to listen to more of her babbling. He'd wait until Tenten calmed down enough to give him a clear and sensible report.

Right now, all he could do was stare at the door, hoping that Ino could feel the energy he was trying to send her.

"Please, God or anyone, give me a sign. This is killing me. This anticipation is the worst; please, Ino...give me the smallest hint that you'll be alright...You can't go; there's so much things I want to do with you...so much things I need to do and tell you..."

If he looked through the window, he would see how dark clouds covered the bright sun.

"Tsunade-sama; what will we do now?"

"Sakura...there's nothing more we can do. It's over."

"She's...sh-she's my friend...I kne-kne-knew her since...since..."

"Shhhh...it'll be fine, Sakura. Go home, rest."

"Now...she's...she's...she..."

"Go home; you'll come back later."

That was the next thing Ino saw after the attack. she was never this confused; she recognized the operation room. She also noticed that there had been an operation and a serious one, recently. Why was she here? If she was the patient, why was she standing?

The answer came to her very quickly-she wasn't standing. She was lying. Or rather, her body was lying in the middle of a circle, made from strange signs, written by...

"Blood? What's going on? I didn't perform any of my family jutsu!"

She didn't perform, that's for sure. Then what happened, that she could see her body, being outside of it and not in other person's body at the same time? What happened that made Sakura cry? What happened that the medics were carrying out her body?

And why...why was she floating to the sky?

A/N-That's not the end! Or at least, I hope so...Review, please!