CHAPTER THREE! W00T! I have been having writers...er typing block lately and well

here is what insperation conked me in the head with! ENJOY


Faint Confession

"What happened?"

Ino said lifting her body up noticing the white room and a bubblegum pink haired girl standing beside her.

"Don't move Ino, you are safe here."

"Billboard brow? What are you doing here?"

The bubblegum haired girl shrugged off the annoying comment her best friend just made and continued writing on the wooden clipboard she had in front of her.

"For your information I work for Tsunade now, remember I used to train with her when I was 13?"

"Oh right…" Ino remembered Sakura doing something with the hokage long ago but just ignored it.

"Ino please lay back down, you have a visitor waiting outside to see if you are living." Sakura winked,

"….who is- wait, how long have I been asleep?"

"About one to two days."

"WHAT!" Ino screeched making Sakura drop her clipboard and pen making a loud crack as it hit the floor.

"Ino calm down!" Sakura said picking her clipboard back up and glancing at the door to see if he was going to come in.

"I CAN'T CALM DOWN! I LOOK LIKE A MESS! THERE IS NO WAY A GUY IS GOING TO COME I HERE TO SEE ME LIKE THIS!"

Sakura just shook her head and calmed Ino down and lied her back on the bed,

"INO!" Sakura screeched to make the blonde shut up, "First how do you know it's a guy? Second, you look FINE! Now shut the hell up that way I can bring your little visitor in here ok?"

The blonde nodded and leaned against the fluffy white hospital pillow awaiting what visitor would come in to see her.

Outside IN THE WAITING ROOM Shikamaru heard the screams about not looking good and thought 'Troublesome woman, making racket…'

Sakura's black stilettos were clicking down the hallway on the marble white floor as she came around to the waiting room.

"SHIKAMARU?" Sakura called looking for the pineapple-haired ninja.

"Over here!" Shikamaru said holding up a hand to show where he was in the mess of people waiting for the news of what happened to their own people.

Sakura stepped past a crying girl in her fathers arms, the father seemed upset but Sakura wasn't to worry about that.

"Shikamaru, Ino as you probably heard is currently awake and is awaiting your arrival, please follow me to see her."

Sakura said bowing and waiting until the lazy ass got his but up.

"Sakura," Shikamaru said getting up putting his hands in his pockets, making his 'trademark' pose,

"No need for formalities, just lead me to the troublesome woman."

Sakura nodded and walked down the hallway Shikamaru in tow,

"Busy life here, huh Sakura?"

"Yeah it gets SO annoying when tons of people are waiting for you and a parent of a child is arguing with you about how their child's temperature is 'not right', WELL DUH! They are sick I mean come on! It's fine with me though I mean it is the patients we are talking about here." Sakura said standing in front of Ino's door.

The bubblegum haired kunoichi popped her head in Ino's room to see if she was ready, "Ready?"

The blonde nodded and sat up in the white bed as the door creaked open to see a pineapple haired ninja standing in his 'pose' again.

"Ino? You ok?" Shikamaru asked walking inside the quiet room,

The blonde saw the ninja and remembered the past of her telling him about her family….

"Oh," Ino said, "I'm fine…."

Shikamaru pulled up one of those chairs that was really uncomfortable to sit in,

"I'll just leave you two alone ok." Sakura said bowing out of the room discretely, which wasn't possible thanks to the stupid stilettos that clicked and the door that creaked but it was a close as she was going to get.

"Ino, do you remember anything that happened?"

Ino just looked away her blue crystal eyes shedding sadness,

"Ino you can't be mad at me, I was the one who ran here for you, troublesome woman…"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Ino yelled looking at the ninja whipping her head around to see his face inches from her face.

"I said troublesome woman, 'gonna do anything about it?" Shikamaru teased.

Ino just glared at him and pouted as she normally does when this happens on missions for team Asuma, back in the day.

'Just like always' Shikamaru thought,

"Shikamaru, what do you want." Ino said not daring to look into the ninja's tan face.

Shikamaru just shook his head, 'Always doing this…'

"Ino if you don't want me here then I'll just leave."

Shikamaru started to stand up but was then grabbed by the wrist of his hand and pulled down.

"Stay here." Ino firmly said, letting go of his wrist,

(Listen to the Titanic song when you are reading this next part)

"I am not mad at you, why would I be. Shikamaru, I don't want you to be angry with me. Please don't…I'd hoped you would come for me and tell me everything will be ok, I never believed that it would come to this…"

Shikamaru's attention was COMPLETELY focused on Ino, 'What is she talking about?'

"Shikamaru-kun, I'm sorry." Ino was sitting upright in her bed and looked into Shikamaru's face. Ino never really noticed this before, but he was caring about her.

'I hope he won't get mad…'

Shikamaru noticed that her crystal eyes were now tearing and she looked out the window,

"Shikamaru, I…"


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