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Chapter 9:

Revenge, sweet revenge…

"I'm thinking…strangle her with the chains? Slash her face with the charms? What do you guys think?" Asuma asked the others, intentionally mocking Mina as she kicked to break free of his headlock. "Stop kicking, you! It's no use anyway!"

"Unhand me now you-" Asuma slapped his hand over Mina's mouth.

"Whoa now Mina! Language! We have children here." Asuma shook a disciplinary finger at her.

"Urrrgh…"

"Hi, Mina!" Tenten said sweetly as she strode up to where Asuma and her were tangling. "How are you doing?"

"I've been better…unph!!!!"

Tenten planted a hard punch, dead on into Mina's stomach, making her choke up blood.

"Well you're about to get a hell of a lot worse," Tenten whispered in Mina's ear.

"You…suck…" Mina whispered. Tenten chuckled at the lame comeback.

"Thank you," she replied, walking back to her friends.

It was now Kurenai's turn to get her vengeance. She walked up to them.

"Now, I won't be crude or violent, as for one, I don't want my baby witnessing such behavior, and two, I don't want to make like you," she said calmly to Mina. Mina sighed in relief.

"But that doesn't mean Marnie doesn't have anything to say for all your crap she's endured."

Mina was about to protest when Marnie started biting Mina's ear until it bled. (AN: She's a mini Mike Tyson!) Mina, being the potential coward she was, groaned in pain at the bite of an infant who barely even had her teeth in. Kurenai just laughed as Marnie released Mina's ear, coherently satisfied as you could see in her now bright expression.

"Oh, by the way," Kurenai said before walking away. "You can just forget about this." She held up the custody paper and tore it to shreds. Kurenai smiled, and walked away as Mina growled.

Kelisa walked up next.

"You disappoint me, Kelisa," Mina said in a slithering voice to Kelisa. Kelisa just closed her eyes.

"No, aunt Mina," she said. "It is you who disappoints me." After saying this, Kelisa took her long manicured thumbnail, and sliced it down Mina's already bruised arm. Mina shrieked a shrill scream of pain. Kelisa was unaffected. She simply smiled and walked away, feeling accomplished. She walked back.

Next up, Neji.

Neji didn't say much. His hard punch to Mina's face pretty much said it all. However, he did still have to say something to the woman who killed his parents.

"Just something to keep in mind while you're burning you days away in Hell," he said in his dangerous low voice. "This is Hyuuga. Neji Hyuuga…asshole."(AN: Ok, ok, that last sentence was from the movie "Constantine", but I just couldn't resist…but the first one was all me : )

Neji folded his arms stiffly over his chest and walked back to the group.

"Wow, you're pretty intimidating," Tenten teased, nudging Neji. Neji looked away and smirked.

"It's often what I aim for," he said without thinking. He turned quickly back to Tenten to cover up his mistake, but found himself lowering his lips upon hers.

Tenten's eyes widened in surprise at first, then slowly closed as she deepened the kiss. She put his arms around his neck, and could have laughed right then to discover that he got goose bumps. Even the most intimidating guys have their weaknesses.

Ino and Shikamaru just watched this happen.

"Remind you of some people?" Shikamaru asked softly, smiling. At this, Ino blushed.

"Yeah," she said, returning his smile with double the warmth. Then, she felt a hand upon her back, gently pushing her forward. It was Shikamaru's.

"Go on," he said. "Go get your revenge on that retard for having killed your parents. Out of all the people here…I think you need the satisfaction the most."

"I don't really find my satisfaction in vengeance," Ino said back. "Well, at least not all of it."

Shikamaru raised his eyebrows. "Then, wha-" Ino kissed him this time. As you can probably tell, this rejoice happened to bring out the teen's feelings for one another. Though they all could tell, they had never expressed it. And this time in particular seemed right.

When they released, Shikamaru looked happy, but confused. Ino giggled.

"Since you got to make the first move," she said. Shikamaru laughed.

"Right," he said.

"Now," Ino said, brushing dirt off her rags. While Asuma had been securing Mina in her headlock, Tenten and Kurenai had applied bandages to her wounds. She secured the bandage on one of her arms."I'm going to go get my vengeance."

"Good idea," he said back.

Ino walked towards Mina, a stern look on her face. She stopped and stared a solid, deadly stare at her. She slowly pulled her fist back and held it there.

"Go ahead," Asuma said. "Take a swing at her. She deserves it."

Ino just kept her fist drawn back. She thought through everything that had happened. From the night Mina cut her hair off, to the evidence files, to what was happening this second of this moment. Ino slid her other hand into her pocket and pulled out the hair she had tied together that one night. She tossed it up a bit and looked down at it. A tear dropped from her eyes to the angel strands, tear staining them. She slid the hair back into her pocket and looked back up at Mina furiously. Her first quivered.

Suddenly, for an odd reason, Ino's face seemed to loose its anger lines and went calm. She slowly dropped her fist. She looked back up at Mina confidently, and shook her head.

"Not even worth it," she said, turning her back to Mina. "…Not even worth it."

She walked back to her confused looking friends.

"Ino, what happened to vengeance?" Shikamaru reminded her.

"Caring about getting back at her would require me caring about her. And to me, she's doesn't even exist," Ino said, squinting. Shikamaru's confused face turned to understanding.

"I…I see," he said. He looked slowly back up at Mina. Then to the pained Ino. Then back at Mina. Then to the bruised up Tenten and Neji (AN: They have long since stopped making out, don't worry). Then back up at Mina. He got angry.

"I don't know, Ino," he said. "You may not care about getting back at her," he started forward toward Mina, picking up the knife on the side table as he walked. "But I do."

Ino looked back at Shikamaru. Her eyes widened at first in shock as her eyes found the knife in his hands, but then she calmed. She knew that if it wasn't her who was going to take vengeance out on Mina, it was going to be one of them.

Tenten and Neji smiled maliciously as they watched this. This was the moment they had been waiting for for years. That day felt like magic to them, in more ways than one.

Shikamaru planted his feet before Mina. Mina looked up at him, her face swelling and puffy.

"I always knew, deep inside me Shikamaru Nara, that you never had the makings of a real genius in you," she said in a low tone. Shikamaru grimaced.

"Please. Spare us all." He looked up at Asuma and nodded. Asuma smiled.

"At long last," he said happily, as he secured Mina more firmly for the last time. "Time to go down," he said to her. He threw her against a wall, and let Shikamaru take care of the rest.

"This," Shikamaru stabbed Mina's arm. "Is for hurting my friends."

He took a breath, but he still wasn't finished yet. Mina simply clutched her bloody arm.

"This," Shikamaru stabbed her other arm, disabling that one as well. "Is for killing my parents and my friend's parents."

Just when you thought it was done, Shikamaru still had one last word.

"And this," he hissed. "Is for hurting the girl I love."

Off that, he stabbed Mina dead center in her heart.

After this, Mina clutched her bleeding chest as she fell to her knees, then to her stomach. A few muffled sounds of pain were heard before they heard nothing. She was dead.

And as any normal person would be, the teens and three adults were overjoyed.

Tenten and Ino jumped giddily and hugged each other as Neji and Shikamaru slapped each other a boyish high-five. Kurenai swung her arm that wasn't supporting baby Marnie around Asuma's neck and planted a kiss on his lips. He kissed her back.

"I can't believe it," he said smiling, shaking his head. "I just can't."

"None of us can." Kurenai smiled back and hugged him again.

Shikamaru, Neji, Ino and Tenten walked up to the bleeding body of Mina. Neji kicked it.

"Yep," he concluded. "She's dead as a doornail."

"And thank God," Tenten said. Ino nodded in agreement.

Shikamaru looked down at the body coldly, then a smirk curled on his face as he thought deeper in to the outcome.

"This woman won't be handling anyone's kids. Ever again."

I hope you liked the chappie! It's not done yet though, I'm planning on one more chapter. I hope you guys look for it, thanks so much for reading, R and R!