"I've... I've..." Ino stumbled a little, holding onto the side of a building for support as her stomach churned. Distorted by her mind's rampant thoughts the world around her spun, nothing felt right all of a sudden. Shizune, the real one, was with HIM, the one she was quickly realizing meant THAT much to her, and Ino knew that Naruto loved Shizune back too. 'lost?' Tears, painful hot stabbed through the haze running down her cheeks, almost a godsend in this numbness she had found herself enveloped in. A fist impacted with enough force to drive the numbness back and she looked to the clone with untold hatred as her tears poured forth still but with different reason. "itai."

"Hardly." Shizune remarked, the reply seemed two fold as if she had known what the younger girl was thinking. She also seemed a little put off by Ino's sudden bout of emotional instability. "I actually wanted to thank you."

"Why?" Before she was answered Ino was enveloped into a hug that made her squeak with the force of it. Okay she was all sorts of confused and the last girl to grab her wanted her to be her 'Onee-sama' so this was starting to creep the hell out of her.

"You brought him back, Ino. You brought my Naruto back."

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Fakers!
Chapter Eleven: YOURS!
By
Hibiki

"Where am I? Where is anyone, really? Some might say, The rights are in the Box.. with... fuck it that sucked as a joke i don't own anything people but my ocs and the freaking plot." -Hibiki

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"You know you've smiled more this last month than I have seen you smile in years, sweetheart?" Shizune moaned out as Naruto's right thumb stroked against her belly with a loving touch that sent waves of pleasure through her body, his strong chest supported her head as she laid her cheek against him. His heartbeat lulled her to rest against him as his other hand ran down her hair and over the skin behind her exposed ear and neck.

"I smile all the time, Shi-chan." He said, and she heard the laughter in his voice as her head followed his hand as he ran his thumb along her cheek.

"S'not what I meant." Her hands skimmed across his arm and leg with a sensuous feather touch. "Ino has made you smile in a way I haven't seen since..." She trailed off.

"You can say it." His hand cupped the scar on her belly, a reminder of his failed promise. "Since my Hotaru passed away."

"I use to not be able to Naruto. You would pull away from us, you'd smile, and laugh, but those of us who loved you watched as you'd cry inside, and it made us so sad, that we couldn't bring you out of it." Her hands gripped him. "Every time we tried you pulled further away, so I.. we waited, for you to come back to us. "

"I'm so sorry Shizune." She shook a little.

"You haven't called Shizune that since that night. Remember it, sweatheart? It was right here."

"How could I forget."

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Three and a half years ago:

Her anger, her tears, her pain. It was all he could see as she raged.

"I don't care if you think I am ugly, if you hate me for being fat and can't stand the sight of me do not miss out on your daughter's life because I am there! Don't hurt Iruka's feelings by running away when I draw near! He loves you! We love you! I'll go away if you want to see them." It hurt her terribly, in fact the man before had cut her down so brutally it was taking her entire nerve to remain there as he stood facing away from her unwilling to even look as her as she spilled her heart. But she refused to let Naruto hurt all of them because he couldn't stand her. "I'm... I'm sorry I disgust you, I'll leave you alone..." The words choked up in her throat as she forced them out. "G-goodbye Naruto." She turned only to find a hand had grabbed her's. Expecting anger, hatred even, she was not prepared to find a broken figure looking like he had been crying for hours.

"I... I could never hate you, Shizune. Never, EVER." His head shook with the vehemence of his words, so hard tears flew from his face. "I just...C-can't!"

"WHY? IF YOU DON'T HATE ME, THEN WHY? Why are you hurting me SO MUCH?" She screamed her vision blurred as fresh tears began flowing, and she slipped as she started for him. Into his arms as he caught her. If he hated her he wouldn't have caught her, god he was driving her mad! She banged her fists against his chest, begging him to answer her. Once again his response stunned her.

"I love you." She froze, not of his words, but the force in which he had said them. He had left her breathless, hands frozen against his heaving chest as he forced the words from his unwilling self. "I... I love you, and I shouldn't! I'm not fit to be around Hotaru or Iruka, and definitely not you. I'm a freak."

"Why would you even think of yourself as-"

"You're beautiful." Her heart raced as her cheeks flushed from his words. "You're probably the most beautiful person I have ever seen, and every time you smile when you feel your baby I find you more attractive. You're not fat, it's wonderful, you're wonderful. So wonderful someone so unnatural shouldn't even look upon you. I'm a horrible person."

"You're n-not!"

"I'm in love with the wife of one of the men I admire most, a woman who... who I greatly respect yet... A woman whose body is driving me insane just by being this close to me." Shizune's eyes widened as he spoke with such loathing at himself and such... oh god how long had he been holding this in?

"How... how long?"

"Since I pushed you into dating Iruka." Two years?

"Why did you not say anything?"

"Iruka liked you, you liked Iruka, I was just some brat that hung around you both, I wanted you happy. He makes you happy right?"

"He does." She said without hesitation, and it was true.

"Then I am happy." He smiled, but it didn't reach those beautiful eyes of his.

"No your not Naruto." He shook his head as tears began tracking down his face. "Tell me, please! I want to make you happy too."

"I'm not worth it." He was looking away again but stubbornly she grabbed him and she forced his eyes onto hers.

"Tell me what you want." His eyes closed, he took a deep breath, then opened them with such focus and intensity upon her she couldn't help but shiver, not in fear but in something she had thought only Iruka could cause.

"You." His whisper, so strong but pain filled was the moment she started loving him.

"I'm fat." She to this day wondered why she had not said married.

"Your beautiful." He insisted... and then began to explain why in such ways she couldn't help but blush in amazement. The way he talked about her, it was hard not to want to be loved by him. It was then she found his weakness.

"You think my belly is... sexy?" Even Iruka couldn't find it attractive all the time and here this man said:

"It's the most attractive thing I have ever seen. I know it's bizarre, I'm sorry but I think it's... arousing."

"Really?" He nodded, beyond humiliated. Pregnant women, as amazing and beautiful as they were, are classically known for extreme mood swings, and one hit the mother to be that would change their relationship forever. Her hand grabbed his and before he knew it it had slipped up under her shirt and against her swelling belly, just left of her navel. "So this makes you want me?" She asked as his hand twitched, but to her surprise he didn't move it away as she slide it around, her body tingling with pleasure as she found out just how arousing it was.

"Ye-yesss." He hissed his mind and body fighting. She moved up against him, her own mind thinking she had lost it, but without a shred of guilt pushed herself against his body feeling his arousal. She groaned at the firm, hard, length as it throbbed against her core. Something about his weakness to her body was intoxicating her to him as she placed his other hand in with it's brother on her stomach and let go. As she thought, he couldn't resist keeping his hands from her, and the power that gave her made something inside snap. She cried out, head back and her heavy, full, breasts bouncing deliciously hard, sending further sparks to her fire as her hips moved frantically against his. Her shaking arms held onto the bench he had been thrust against, as she road the crest of her orgasm. "Oh god, I love you Shi-chan!" Hearing his voice groan out as he rubbed himself against her, lost in the urges that had caught her made her lust stronger than ever and she couldn't resist pressing herself against his form again. All too soon she found that crest smashing against her again as she furiously rubbed against his discharging member. Two grown and fully clothes people, one of them pregnant and married, dry (Though Shizune would tell you nothing was dry about it) humping one another in some hidden little nook of the city, while utterly embarrassing neither truly felt sorry for doing it either. Once they had calmed themselves, allowed Shizune to stretch against him as he rubbed her tummy, the two almost lovers talked long into the night.

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"He and I were very close afterward, but there was never another incident like that again. I'm very sad to say." Ino, though blushing up a storm at the older woman's tale, assumed it was because of the clone jutsu, but had found most Kage Bushin's to be a little more outgoing or carefree than their creators. She, having been in the continued presence of a master of the jutsu, guessed it seemed like since the clones knew their precious moments of life were fragile always seemed a bit more... over the top. It seemed the clone Shizune was no exception. "Iruka knows about it, hell we have a real nice time recreating it from time to time, yet he has never gotten upset with me or Naruto for that moment of weakness. It just made me love him so much more for it." The clones eyes saddened. "When she died, the Naruto everyone knew and loved pulled away. Sure he still smiled and laughed, he carried on like it didn't matter it was obvious to me, that my Naruto was in such pain but he refused to let others share it, he didn't want people to know that he could be brought down. So many looked up to him, thinking he, the savior of the Shinobi world was beyond things like the loss of a single person that he just locked it up and kept going."

"I never noticed, and it worries me how I didn't see it." Until that moment in the club, that moment when he just snapped at her and the whole world changed she would never had thought that super strong idiot had anything more to his personality than what he showed. He had fooled almost the whole world with it.

"You never were suppose to Ino, he was going to carry that to his grave, alone. You slipped him up, and I cannot thank you enough. Because until then there is only one day when he would have let it out, and Iruka, Tsunade, Gaara and I have tried to be there for him. Because despite how strong he might be, there are moments when I know he thinks about going to the only girl who loved him unconditionally." The thought, the fear that was coupled with it that filtered though Shizune's voice just didn't seem to fit her picture of the man she had fallen for. "That first anniversary, I was still recovering from the attack and pregnancy, Iruka had his hands full with me and Keiichi, and Tsunade and Gaara had their own villages to worry about, he was left alone, all day. I was so worried I had Iruka take me to his apartment. When he returned home he wasn't the same as he was when he left, I don't know what happened but I know he made a pact, a promise. Every year since we have gone with him and he remakes that promise."

"That no other little girl would be hurt like his had." Ino said sadly and Shizune's eyes widened at hearing her say it. "Early in our... relationship, he and my dad had it out. My father almost killed him." Shizune looked highly alarmed. "I moved into the way and my dad stopped. After we explained Naruto was being his stupid noble self and tried to say I was better off without him. My father told him that I cared enough for him to save him from death and you should have seen his eyes. I thought I was either going to make him take me there in front of my father or cry from how much worry and fear he was showing for me. He yelled at my father until he was horse." Ino closed her eyes as she fought off the pain remembering how that strong man had broken. "After Daddy left I complained about my father and Naruto defended him. It was then Naruto began explaining what had started all this... that is my and his supposed relationship." She ignored the two other women and their stunned staring to continue. "How many had suffered because of him, utter lies. How much he loves YOU and how he had failed you. It was then, when I thought it was over... he told me about her." The other ladies were quiet, remembering their lost granddaughter and niece. "To be honest, I think I fell in love with him then."

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"She's a real special woman, Naruto."

"She can do better."

"She doesn't want better. She wants you." She knew it was coming but it stung all the same.

"I... I want her too. But I can't. I can't loose or hurt her too. I'm not as strong as Tsunade and the village thinks. I don't think I can go on if something were to happen to her, Shi-chan. Hell if something happened to you, Iruka, or Keiichi... I don't think I would want to go on."

"You could."

"I'd wouldn't want to. I love you all too much to want to." Shizune's eyes filled with tears and before she knew it her mouth was on his, kissing him with all she was worth. Desperate, hard, and wanting, just like she had wished too all those years ago. When they broke apart, tears were in his eyes too. "I love you Shi-chan."

"I love you too you fool." She hugged him. "I wish I was her for five minutes, I could do all that I want to without any regrets."

"Just five minutes Shi-chan? I do feel rather upset you think I would only last so long. You may be a beautiful woman but I'd hope my stamina was better than that, for both of our sakes." She laughed, kissed him again, this time soft and long, her hands in his hair as his roamed her back. She arches into his touch, moaning lewdly as her body heated up.

"If you keep this up I'll never be able to let her have you. I'll have to take you and force Iruka to deal with the fact I love and want you too." She realized they were in that same position they had been that moment she had fallen for him. She put grabbed the bench back on either side of his head as she slid herself back against him, loving the fact that he still found her desirable. Her back arched and her head rolled back as that spike of pleasure rubbed against her aching center as he watched her in awe. Her hands moved from their station only long enough to pull his hands under her shirt over her stomach and onto her breasts. "I'm yours for ten more minutes, my love. Let's make the best of it."

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Ino had been pushed down a path by Shizune's clone before the clone had dispelled warning her mistress of the approaching Yamanaka. Fear gripped her heart as she feared what she would find at the end of the leaf covered trail. Would she find the man she loved and the woman he had loved for years in the throes of passion? A shadow moved towards her making her pause. Shizune, the real one, appeared before her with a sad smile on her face.

"You are one lucky girl, you know that Ino?" Ino nodded, though her mind was racing. "I want you to do something for me okay? Promise me." Ino realized how desperate the other woman sounded and understood what Shizune was doing. Peace, for the first time she had felt in the presence of the woman before her since she had learned of the Shizune's and Naruto's relationship and it made the words she uttered a hundred times stronger than she felt capable.

"I promise." Shizune smiled a little brighter but it remained just as sad as it was moments before.

"You take that man, and you love him with all you have. Love him more than I'll ever be able to. Don't you DARE let him go. because if you stop, even for a moment, a even for a second I promise you, I won't be able to stop myself from taking him away. And that's a promise for a lifetime." With that, and in more dignity than Ino could ever hope to have in the same situation, Shizune headed to her master and her son leaving Ino only one path left to take.

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He looked a little guilty. From what she was sure, from Shizune's remarks, was a goodbye that the two would remember for a long time. Yet for some reason, it didn't bother her. Because HER man was waiting for her. She held her hand out for him, like he had at the start of this. She could forgive him easily.

"Naruto-baka. Let's go." He took her hand, it's warmth in her hand made all the fears and worries just fade for a moment leaving her smiling at him as he slowly smiled realizing she wasn't upset with him.

"Anywhere Hime. Gladly." Had this been a fluffy romantic fic the chapter would have ended there. Sadly for the couple this was a humorous romantic fic.

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"AW COME ON!" Ino screamed in frustration. She was tired of running, tired of being dragged in the dirt, tired of the emotional roller coaster the day had been, and insanely angry at her man's lothario (Even if it wasn't his fault) actions pulling her into this mess to begin with. Running down the main strip from what seemed like the entire horde of desperate horny sluts the Yamanaka could run no farther. "Naruto, I can't take anymore of this. If you can make them stop, I don't care how, I'll worship you forever." Before she even finished Naruto had turned around the most serious she had ever seen him it actually made a few of the women falter a little.

"Tajiu Orioke no jutsu! Ero-onna kou!" A pall of smoke enveloped the charging horde. What appeared from it would be written in many diaries, and spoken in awed whispers over the corners of cities across the world by women everywhere. A hundred barely modest, Naruto's stood. Oiled, thonged and eager to please they latched onto breasted masses with the force unheard of. The advance faltered then broke as sighs and moans erupted as the Aikage showed why he was the leader of Tanoshimigakure. Ino, her face redder than Hinata… speaking of which…

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Back at the 'starting line'.

Oi, Hinata-chan." [Poke Poke.] Kiba was amazed at sizable pool of red around her as he prodded her with a stick.

"She must be dead." Shino deadpanned. "No human body could release that much blood and still sustain itself."

They were proven wrong when she began writhing and moaning.

"mmmm Naruto-kun, it's so warm and big….it'll never fit hehehehehe" She rolled over. "Try anyway… mmmm"

[splurt]

"AHH! Her nose! Blood! Hinata snap out of it! Shino she won't stop, find help! Look at all the blood! HINATA!"

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Anyway Ino, red as she possibly could from the sounds and sights, had only one thing to say as she stood amazed at the 'killing field'.

"Foot rubs? Massages! How come I never got any?" Ino pouted as crocodile tears pooled at the sides of her eyes when she looked to the original. He blushed and looked ahead, embarrassed by his jutsu and her words.

"Hime, if we get home alive, I will massage anything you want me to." Ino's jealousy evaporated in an instant as she heard him unwittingly utter the word home. A smile rose to her face and she slid closer to him.

"I'll very much take that offer, Naruto-baka, when we're.. home." He took her hand, gave a squeeze then looked at his surroundings.

"Right! So let's get going. I think we should go right. Yeah, let's go this way, should be an alley over there." Ino smiled wrapping her arm around his and slid close. He had lead her on a wild tour of Konoha in the dark, where they had been attacked, hit on, molested, and saved countless times. But she wouldn't give it up for anything because of the word he had just mentioned.

And she just couldn't resist loving him all the more for resisting all those other women.

"Why didn't you use that at the start, baka?"

"I didn't want to upset you." Like watching him being enveloped in hordes of women wanting what was rightfully hers wasn't upsetting? Like him doing who knows what with a woman she couldn't compete with wasn't upsetting?

Idiot.

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And Ino admits it. But we all know Naruto is the hard headed one in this relationship. And Shizune gets a little Naruto lovin (I'll leave how much up to your imaginations) though don't expect her to not be huggy touchy feely with him just because she's given Ino her blessings. More serious than Yamaguchi and a few other OCs popping up in the running battle scenes but still finished up this arc of the story better than I would originally thought and though a more mature and serious note it took care of a few chapters later on I was hesitant to do. Now for some saucy fun! As my computer has a new and larger hard drive than before.

Next Chapter: Tension