A/N: Hey everyone! waves Here we go the first chapter! I think it's better than the prolog…

Chapter One

First day – in the morning

Anko stretched yawning in her bed when she suddenly felt someone was beside her. Instinctively she threw the first thing her hand could grab – which was her pillow – and hit the copy-ninja directly on the masked head. "I just wanted to wake you up…" He said scratching his head. "But if don't want me to I won't do it next time." He turned to leave their room while Anko blushed slightly. She called after him. The silver-haired jounin looking over his shoulder. "Sorry I didn't know it were you." Anko apologized on which Kakashi smirked saying. "You'd better get dressed." Anko looked down on her realizing her pyjama was half-open. Yet she found her kunais and threw them at Kakashi shouting "You blasted pervert, I'm going to kill you!"

Hearing Anko shout a few colorful curses and seeing Kakashi's smirk Kurenai decided to go and see what happened. Knocking at the door she saw kunais and shuriken sticking in it. Quickly she entered the room before Anko could get the idea that she was Kakashi and threw more knives. Then she closed the door behind her.

Asuma was in the kitchen preparing breakfast when Kakashi came in smirking. He raised an eyebrow. "What have you done that Anko is that mad at you?"

"Nothing"

"But she seems quite upset." Kakashi shrugged with an innocent smile on his face. "I was just in the room."

"Just in the room, eh? Anyway I guess she'll soon calm down." Asuma said shaking his head. Kakashi nodded. "She has to, otherwise one of us would have to share a room with Gai" Now Asuma nodded. "Even you – the master of ignoring Gai - couldn't survive a whole week with him." The moment Asuma said it Gai entered the room breaking the door shouting. "Good morning my youthful comrades! It's been an awfully long time since my last training so I think I'm going to run 2000 laps before breakfast!" With that he jumped out of the room through the closed window breaking it just like the door. Kakashi and Asuma both sighed in unison. "Talk of the devil and he will appear…"

They started to fix the door and the window when Kurenai and Anko came in. Anko actually seemed to have cooled down. After they ate breakfast Asuma was the first to speak. "Alright, you all remember what we were talking about yesterday?" Nods. "Okay then, let's begin!" Whit that they all disappeared.

Ino was sitting at the breakfast-table with Chouji, Kiba and Akamaru – Kiba insisted that Akamaru could eat there too though both had a lack of manners. After she had eaten her salad Ino wondered where Shikamaru was. He said he would get up in five minutes but that was thirty minutes ago. "Hey Shikamaru are you still sleeping?" She yelled to their room but received no answer. "Shikamaru, if I find you there still sleeping you're going to experience the true meaning of 'hell'!" She stormed into their room but found his bed empty. Then she searched in the whole bungalow but no Shikamaru. Looking outside the window Ino saw this fluffy white clouds. She smirked now knowing where he would be. The blonde quickly left the house and jumped on the roof. There he was lying most likely asleep or watching clouds. Slowly she came closer, knelt down beside him and… pricked him in the side. He moaned. She pricked him again. He moaned again. She pricked him again and again and… "Ino, stop it." She smirked. "You finally woke up, huh?"

"I was awake the whole time but it was too troublesome to respond." Ino sighed and shook her head. "C'mon Shikamaru, Asuma-sensei said we should meet at the big oak in about five minutes!" With that she dragged him away.

At the old oak were already the other teams and the jounins so that Ino and Shikamaru were the last to come. "Man, even Kakashi is there, we're really late Shikamaru." Ino whispered.

Anko cleared her throat. "Okay everyone listen!" Now all eyes were focused on her. She hold up a little piece of wood with the Konoha-emblem carved into it. "We've hidden many of those pieces in the forest around us. This is a competition and you'll work with your partner, the one you share the room with. The two of you with the most 'Konoha-emblems' will win a day in the attraction-park 'Vacation-Dreams'! Are there any questions?… No, okay then, the competition ends at five o'clock. Then let's start!" With that all teams were gone.

"C'mon Chouji, we will win!" Kiba shouted and Akamaru barked in agreement. "But if we run that fast we won't be able to detect the pieces!" Chouji whined but Kiba just pointed at his nose saying "The jounin touched them and so we can smell them, right Akamaru?"

"Warff, warff!"

"See, Akamaru already smells one!" They jumped ahead of the huffing Chouji completely ignoring his objections. Suddenly Kiba stopped so that the big-boned shinobi crashed into him. "Hey what's going on, why do you sto…" Chouji wanted to ask but Kiba gave him a sign to be quiet and pointed on something in front of him. A bear and between its paws a Konoha-emblem. Kiba whispered "I'll go catch its attention and while it's distracted you'll go and get the emblem." With that Kiba sneaked behind the bear and started making noise (which means he called it stupid bitch that is as dangerous as a teddy-bear…) The bear however was more interested in Choujis potato chips so it totally ignored Kiba and Akamaru and went to Chouji instead who now shouted "Don't you dare even thinking of eating MY potato chips!" With that he punched the bear directly in the face which was indeed a very bad idea. The bear growled in anger this time preferring to eat Chouji instead of his chips. "Aah!" Kiba shrugged and picked up the Konoha-emblem. "Good job, Chouji! Now stop playing around!"

"I'm not playing around!" He answered as the bear tried to tear his head of.

Meanwhile

"Hey Hinata, can you use those eyes of yours to search the Konoha-emblems?" the foxboy asked excited. She nodded slowly before activating her Byakugan. With Naruto pacing back and forth she had a hard time to concentrate but nevertheless she found what she had been looking for. "N-Naruto-kun, I've found one over there." Naruto's face beamed and grabbing her hand he ran into the mentioned direction. "Ha we're going to win this trip! This should be fun!" He exclaimed excited. When they were that close that even Naruto could find the emblem easily they were suddenly stopped by a kunai hitting the ground just centimeters away from where Naruto was standing. He looked up and saw a certain blonde girl standing at e tree. "Hey Ino what was that!" She glared at him threatening. "I just wanted to make sure that you don't steal our emblem."

"Your emblem? We saw it first!"

"Liar!"

"I'm not the one who's lying!"

"You are!"

Now Shikamaru came out of the shadows. "Er, Ino, I think he isn't lying. Hinata has used her Byakugan and so she saw it really before we did." At this point Ino was pissed off and stormed away. Shikamaru followed her sighing. "How troublesome…"

After Ino had cooled down a bit she sat on a rock looking at the sky. The white fluffy clouds from the morning were gone and now there were only big, dark clouds. She then looked at a tree with many branches when an idea came to her mind. "Hey Shikamaru, I've got an idea!" He raised an eyebrow. "If we split up we're able to find more emblems in less time so move your lazy butt and start searching!" He muttered a 'troublesome' and was about to go when Ino turned back. "And if I find you somewhere sleeping or cloud-watching you're dead! Got it?" With that she left the frustrated Shikamaru. He felt even more frustrated when it started raining. "Troublesome…"

Ino looked at the sky thinking 'Maybe I've been a bit to rude to Shikamaru…' but she shook the thought of quickly and concentrated on her search. Then she heard a drop hitting the ground and then another and another until it was pouring. Nevertheless the blonde decided to go up that hill to have a better view over the area. She looked around but due to the rain she couldn't see very far. The ground became wet and muddy so that she stumbled from time to time. 'Great my dress is ruined.' She thought sarcastically. Already dirty and with the increasing she decided to search somewhere else when all of the sudden the ground beneath her broke away and a mudslide came down pulling her down. Ino tried to jump away but her legs were to deep in the mud to do so and she sank even deeper with every heartbeat. With a last desperate attempt she tried to get out of it but failed. When her stone hit her head she lost her consciousness.

Half past five in front of the old oak

'Where the hell is Ino?' Shikamaru wondered. He was, just like the others, not only wet but totally soaking and was getting worried. Nobody would be worried if

Kakashi was late but Ino wasn't that kind of person plus even Kakashi was already there. Asuma clapped in his hands. "Ino had had enough time to show, we're going to search her. No matter whether you've found her or not we will meet here again at sunset. Now go!" Shikamaru headed to where he had left Ino and started to search for her. He went downhill scanning the area for any sign of Ino but he found nothing. He she had been here the rain had washed all tracks away. "Ino!" he called but received no answer. "Iinoo!" again there was nothing except the sound of the falling rain. Then he saw something in the mud what he hadn't noticed before. He picked the small object up. 'Ino's hair tie' he thought. Suddenly a wet Pakkun was in front of him. He sniffed at the hair tie then looked back over his shoulder. "That's all I can smell of her – the rain erases all scents." The copy-ninja appeared behind Pakkun asking Shikamaru if he had found her hair tie there and Shikamaru nodded. The jounin looked at the ground, then at the sky and at the area to the left. He looked serious. "A mudslide… and Ino's hair tie here, this looks bad." He went to inform the other jounins of their first track of Ino while Shikamaru kept on searching.

They had searched or the whole time and about sunset, when they met at the old oak, the rain had stopped but Ino was still missing. All ninjas were standing motionless in silence until Asuma started speaking. "We have reason to suppose that Ino got into a mudslide and …" he grew silent but then spoke again "and she might be dead." Some were gasping others were to shocked to realize what Asuma had said. Sakura began silently crying and sobbed into Sasuke's shoulder while he tried to comfort her. Asuma himself couldn't speak either so that Kakashi spoke instead. "We will - of course – continue the search tonight but all of you go to your rooms and rest." With that the jounins disappeared.

Back in his room Shikamaru slumped on his bed but he couldn't rest or even relax. He felt guilty for not going with Ino, if he had she might have not been lost. Although he knew that such thoughts were useless he couldn't get himself to think of anything different. He remembered how often she had called him lazy and tried to make him be a bit more active. Once she even tried to forbid him to say 'troublesome' though nothing she tried worked so that she had given up one day and let him be Shikamaru. He closed his eyes trying to shake this feelings of – Ino was dead and it was his fault. Suddenly an image of her fluttered through his mind: he saw her lying somewhere in the dark, wet, left alone and motionless. That was enough for Shikamaru, he couldn't wait until she was eventually found, this would just drive him insane, he had to search for her by himself. Not wanting to be noticed by Kiba or Chouji he jumped out of the window and headed to where he had found her hair tie. This time he started to search uphill. He looked for any sign of Ino when his leg suddenly broke through the ground. He realized that there was an air hole and started digging.

Earlier

Ino slowly opened her eyes but her surroundings stayed as dark as they had been when Ino had her eyes closed. She felt wet, cold, dirty and with the time passing by her body grew numb, in one word: she felt miserable. She tried to move to get out of wherever she was but soon discovered that she was to weak to free herself. Images came back to her mind but it took herself several minutes until she realized what had happened to her: There had been a mudslide, she had been knocked out and then she woke up in this cave or something. A drop fell on her, then another and slowly her dark prison began to fill with ice cold water taking the left warmth away from her body. Her last thought was that she should have apologized to Shikamaru.

She didn't know how long she had stayed like this but somewhere before the tunnel with this light at the end she felt being lifted by two arms, warm arms. And a familiar voice called her name. Slowly she opened a blue eye seeing a familiar faces. Before falling asleep again she whispered his name.

Shikamaru dug in the ground as fast as he could knowing who was lying down there. When he pulled Ino out of the hole he was shocked how cold she was. Instinctively he knew Ino was suffering from exposure. He called her name. "Ino, Ino! Can you hear me?" she opened one eye but only half and whispered something, he thought he had heard 'Shika' before she passed out. Shikamaru picked her up running back to their house to take her somewhere warm when he felt being lifted and looked up. He was dumbfounded to see Asuma carrying them both and being faster than Shikamaru was alone, only carrying Ino. "You've found her." Asuma said with a relieved smile.

Back in Shikamaru's and Ino's room they put her down on the bed wrapping her in many blankets to keep her warm. Shikamaru watched her while Kurenai came and made Ino drink a kind of tea. He still watched Ino sleep when Kurenai and Asuma were gone and he was alone with her. He watched her sleeping until he too fell asleep sitting in the chair but before falling asleep he decided that he would never let something like this happen again.

TBC

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