Slowly Naruto came too, groaning at the throbbing pain on the left side of his skull. The last thing he remembered was getting up to pee in the middle of the night, pain and then nothing.

Blinking his eyes slowly Naruto made out the figure of someone in the low light of the room he was now in. The room that wasn't his bathroom or even bedroom. In fact he didn't recognize this room at all.

Panic starting to settle in, Naruto hesitantly called out "H-hey! Where am I?" and made to get up, only to realize he was restrained to a chair.

The figure straightened up and began to turn around. Naruto could make out the flash of metal in their hand and suddenly felt his heart skyrocket. What if this was one of those crazy murderers he had read about in those stupid suspense books Shikamaru tricked him into reading to scare him. Which hadn't scared him, obviously!

He sucked in a panicked breath, getting ready to scream if they were a crazy, knife-wielding murderer when platinum blonde hair swished into view with the figure's forward movements.

"Ino?" Naruto asked stunned, completely not expecting that. Maybe she had been captured too and had just escaped to come get him?

"Hello Naruto." Ino said, coming to a stop in front of him. Naruto shivered.

That couldn't be Ino... Ino's voice never sounded flat like that. She never, ever had given off an aura like that either. "I-Ino... wha-".

"Nice night were having, isn't it?" She asked, her voice still unnaturally flat. It unnerved Naruto and he wriggled in his restraints. "Uhm... sure. What's going on Ino? Why am I here! Did you bring me here, Ino!" Naruto nervously responded with, getting louder as he went on.

"Oh, I just wanted to ask you a few questions, Naruto... make sure of your intentions." She replied calmly, dragged a chair from somewhere, Naruto wasn't quite sure where, out of the darkness, set it in front of Naruto and took a seat.

"My... intentions? For what?" Naruto asked, confused and a bit scared. Whatever was going on with Ino was really starting to get too him. She was unnaturally still and her eyes were icy.

"Don't play dumb, Naruto..." She said back, twirling the kunai in her hand and pinning him with her eyes. "Look, Ino, I really have no idea wha-" Naruto was cut off as the kunai flashed and was suddenly buried in the chair, positioned between his legs and uncomfortably near his crotch.

"I said to not play dumb, Naruto." She hissed, her eyes narrowing. Naruto squeaked and shook his head rapidly "I'm not play dumb! I SWEAR! I don't know what you're talking about! Intentions for what!?" He replied rapidly, a cold sweat breaking out on his skin.

Ino watched him for what felt like hours but was only a minute. She sighed and plucked the kunai out from where it had been buried. "Your intentions for Shikamaru, Naruto. Do keep up." She said slightly condescending.

"My intentions... for... Shikamaru?" He parroted back to her, feeling a bit less panicked since the kunai had been removed from so close to his person. Confusion lined his every word and he tried to think of what she could possibly mean.

"What about my intent- oh... OH!" It clicked in his head and Naruto's eyes widened. "You mean about us going on that mission soon... r-right?" He asked.

"No. What are your intentions with him." Ino responded and picked at her nails with the kunai, never removing her eyes from his.

"I don't... really understand what you mean, I-Ino... heheh. But uhm... I guessbefriends?" Naruto responded, his voice raising in pitch when Ino leaned in dangerously close.

"Is that all?" She asked flatly, her eyes narrowed as if searching for something.

Despite the scary situation Naruto found himself in, he felt his heart race for a different reason than fear. Is that all... that was a question that Naruto asked himself constantly lately.

"Y-yes..." Naruto said and lowered his eyes. He glanced up at Ino when she didn't say anything.

"Naruto... Is. That. All." She said, each word like ice creeping across his skin. Naruto stared up at her. How did she want him to respond? Why was she doing this? What was going on and was this even Ino? It had to be, it felt like her even if she wasn't acting Ino-like at all.

"NO!" He shouted, unable to stop himself. "Is that what you wanted to hear! THAT I WANT TO BE MORE THAN JUST FRIENDS?!" He struggled against his restraints. He was scared, his head hurt and feelings that were still raw were being picked at.

Abruptly Ino nodded to herself, smiled and leaned back. "You have permission to date him then.".

"What..." Naruto said completely thrown by the sudden one-eighty in Ino.

"You have permission to date Shikamaru, Naruto." She said with a frown and looked at him with what he had classified as Ino's 'This Person is Dumb' look twelve.

"I'm... I don't understand...and even if I did understand you right now... Shikamaru doesn't like me like that!" Naruto replied, desperately trying to grasp for what Ino was getting at. Permission to date Shikamaru? What the hell.

This made Ino laugh lightly. "Naruto... I'm one of Shikamaru's closest and best friends. We're practically family. I may act like a ditz, like I don't notice how others feel half-time but trust me when I say I do notice. I always notice." She leaned in and smirked " And I've noticed for a long time that Shikamaru likes someone... that someone is you.".

Naruto stared at her wide-eyed.

I've never written Ino before and honestly I'm not sure how she'd be in interrogations.

But considering her clan's jutsu, that her father was the head interrogator for T&I and did train her, I figured she'd be actually pretty damn scary.

This was going to be longer but I lost the steam for it and honestly didn't feel comfortable writing Ino since I don't have a good enough feel for her. THe next oneshots will be a couple of requests I got.