FINALLY. Now, I can get on with some more… out of the loop… stuff.
Okay, first things first… I've always, ALWAYS planned this to wind up with Naruto and Ino together. Just… along with Tayuya, Kin, and anyone else I decide to stick him with. (Those three are pretty much it though…)
I also know that this fic is categorized as centered around Naruto and Tayuya. I plan for there to be enough Naru/Tayu stuff for this to remain accurate. However, it will be heavy on Naru/Ino as well.
Ino stirred, her eyes slowly forcing themselves open to see a bunk above her, and looked over to see legs dangling over the edge of the bed above hers, and a red haired girl by the door. They were talking…
"I don't see why he'd order everyone not to kill this fucking bitch…" The red-head said coldly. "Keeping her alive is just going to bring up a fuckload of problems we don't fucking need…"
"Come on, Tayuya, you know how Naruto gets…" The person on the bed above hers said, apparently it was a girl also. "He won't let anyone hurt a girl if he can stop it…"
"He's just a fucking wuss…" Tayuya muttered. "Hey, the bitch is up."
Ino's eyes shot open as she realized she'd been staring at Tayuya. Backing into the wall, she realized several factors; one, she wasn't quite sure what she was wearing, because it wasn't standard medical issue, and she knew damn well it wasn't hers. And two, her arm was shackled to the bedpost. "W-who are you? Where am I?" She asked wearily.
"A; I ain't givin' my name to a fucking bitch like you. B; No fucking way am I answering any questions from you. C; ask anything else, and I'll rip out your fucking tongue. Are we clear?" The red-haired girl Ino was now sure was some sort of demon incarnate said as she strolled over, leaning down to glare at the blonde.
"Come on Tayuya, Naruto asked us to be nice to her…" The other girl said, hopping down from the other bunk, and turning to her. "Hi, I'm Kin, and this is Tayuya. I can't tell you where you are for security reasons, but I can tell you you're a prisoner here, and are going to remain so whether you like it or not…"
Ino started shivering when she heard this, tears starting to form in her eyes. "Oh great… another fucking-"
"Tayuya, be nice!" Kin scolded before turning back to Ino as she sat down on the edge of the bed. "Please don't cry… it's not such a bad thing… what's your name?"
"Tch… for fuck's sake, of course it's a bad thing… the only fucking reason we're here is because Naruto didn't want any of his 'men' to fuck her." Tayuya said, now causing Ino's tears to spill out over her cheeks as she began to sob.
"Damn it, Tayuya! Get out!" Kin yelled, pointing towards the door. The violent red-head grunted and complied. "I'm sorry about her… nothing bad is going to happen to you…"
"W-why am I h-here?" Ino asked between sobs.
Kin sighed. "You found out some things you weren't supposed to. So you were kidnapped and brought here." Kin smiled. "Now, are you going to tell me your name?"
"Y-Yamanaka… Ino…" She answered, sniffling between the words.
"Okay, Ino…" Kin said, thinking for a moment before finishing. "Okay, I'm not so good at this…"
"Good at what?" Ino asked, glaring at her. "Kidnapping!?"
Kin seemed hurt by Ino's words. "No… I've done kidnapping before. We never expect the people we kidnap to live more than a month or so…" She said solemnly. "To be honest… I don't really have many friends. Tayuya is pretty much the only girl my age that would spend any time with me. If it weren't for Naruto, I probably wouldn't have anyone…"
Ino's tears stopped as she looked at the girl. She was shocked the 'enemy' was opening up to her so easily. "So… you just… want me to be your friend?" Ino asked.
"Well… sort of… Naruto wanted me to try and be your friend…" Kin said, her words both irking and confusing the young Yamanaka. "There's a good chance you… may never go home… so I've been assigned to make your stay here as comfortable as possible without letting you escape…"
Ino saw Kin smile at this, and couldn't help but smirk herself while wiping the tears from her eyes. "So, are you my new bunkmate or something?" Ino asked, pointing up to the bed above hers.
Kin chuckled. "If you want me to be, I mean, I can spend a few nights here…"
"Why's that?"
"Well… me and my boyfriend, Naruto… we can get pretty loud when we… you know…" Kin said, blushing, but at the confused look on Ino's face, she sighed. "…have sex…"
Ino flushed red as she covered her mouth. "Are you kidding me?"
"Why would I be kidding about something like that?" Kin asked.
Ino thought for a moment. "I don't know…" She responded. The two sat in silence for several minutes until Ino's stomach began to growl loudly. The young blonde was embarrassed to say the least, but the other girl simply laughed.
"So then you're hungry? I guess it's understandable… I'll go get you some food." Kin said, rising to walk out the door before Ino grabbed her hand.
"You're not going to leave me… alone here, are you?" She asked.
"Don't worry…" Kin said quietly. "I'm one of the only three people who have keys to this room, including Tayuya and Naruto. I trust them both with my life, so I have no doubt you should do the same…" Ino finally released the girl, who walked over to the door, opened it, and before closing it, added; "I'll be back in a little while…" latching the door with a soft 'click'.
And thus, Ino was alone again. Sighing, she pulled her knees to her chest, and rested in a comforting ball. Then she smelled something… it wasn't from the room, now that her head was resting on her knees, she could tell it was from her clothes. She was wearing a long-sleeved black shirt, and massive black cargo pants, and a makeshift rope-belt. Obviously, either they hadn't been washed, or whoever owned them did a piss-poor job washing them… she could smell dirt, dust, sweat, blood, a slight musk and… wildflowers? Whoever owned these clothes smells like wildflowers? She clutched at her chest, taking in a handful of the fabric only to realize one thing in shock. Her bra was gone. Shifting slightly to confirm her suspicions, she felt slightly violated… she wasn't wearing any underwear…
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As Kin walked through the hallway, she heard an unfamiliar voice screaming profanities from the direction of the other 'prisoner's room. When she peeked inside, she saw Naruto leaning up against the wall, somewhere between confused and amused as he watched Tayuya continually prod the Uchiha with a sharp stick while chuckling maliciously.
"Naruto?" Kin called; the blonde glancing over to the door before leaving the spectacle to speak with her.
"Yes?" Naruto asked.
"She's awake…" Kin answered, before continuing down the hallway to find the food she'd promised to bring.
Naruto was standing outside Ino's door about five seconds later. (Half a second to figure out what Kin meant, half a second to get into the hallway, and four to sprint here) After unlocking the door, Naruto glanced in on the blonde girl, fully expecting her to throw something at him before he realized there was nothing in the room to throw at him.
"Uhhm… hi?" Naruto asked.
"You must be this 'Naruto' everyone's so keen on…" Ino said sarcastically.
"…Yeah, that's me…" Naruto said, chuckling halfheartedly.
Ino glared at Naruto. Naruto knew this glare. He also knew to RUN if a woman gave you this glare. It meant she felt defiled, violated, or otherwise wronged in some perverse fashion. Of course, he knew this glare from experience…
"What's wrong?" Naruto asked. After the initial shock of the glare wore down, he stepped inside as he remembered that she was bound to the bed, and couldn't rip him apart if he stayed near the door…
"I'm naked under these rags." She stated coldly. "I'm guessing it was you who put these on me, and I'm wondering just what all you DID TO ME while I was unconscious!!!" As she said this, her tone steadily grew from a calm rant to a bellowing shriek not unlike that of a banshee…
"Actually, I had Tayuya and Kin get you out of the medical thing I brought you here in, and put you in some decent clothing…" Naruto said, comically cleaning out his ear. "I thought they'd stick you in something of theirs. Never thought they'd raid my closet…" He added, noting what she was wearing.
"This… this is yours?" She asked.
"Erm… well, yeah." Naruto said, adding; "We are wearing the exact same thing…"
Upon further notice, she saw that they did in fact have identical outfits, save the fact that Naruto wore an actual belt, and the pants she wore were tied around her waist with rope. She also noticed that the shirts that were almost skintight on him were almost baggy on her, showing just how small she was in comparison to him. Strange how you never notice big details like that unless you have a small detail like this as reference…
"If you want, I can get you something else to wear… I'll even leave the room so you can change." Naruto said, a smile flowing over his features as he stepped closer.
"No, no… it's fine… it's not like I have much say as the prisoner anyway…"
"Don't talk like that…" Naruto said, sitting down next to her as he placed a hand under her chin to raise her eyes to his own. "You never know… if you behave, I might be able to convince some people to let you roam around the halls…"
"But…" She started, honestly confused.
"I mean, if you tried to escape, you'd be killed… not much I can do about that…" Naruto sighed as he stood. "Oh well… if there's anything you want or need, just tell me or the girls, and we'll see what we can do, okay?"
"N-Naruto, right?" She asked, at his nod, she continued; "Why do your clothes… smell like wildflowers?"
The blonde boy was slightly taken aback at this. Pulling his collar up to his nose to confirm her claims, he glanced down at the girl. "Huh… I guess they do…" I thought I was the only one who could smell it… he thought, leaning up against the wall casually. "There's this field nearby… covered in wildflowers. I go there when I'm not training, or spending time with the girls… whenever I just need to think." Naruto smiled. "I like to lie in the field and watch the clouds go by…"
She started at him with a look akin to awe. He's more complicated than I thought…
"Why do you ask?"
"Well… wildflowers… are my favorites…" Ino said with a slight blush.
For a split second, a look of shock and realization came over him, replaced once more by his warm smile. "Okay then… Kin said something about getting you some food, so she should be back soon. You might want to get some rest, after all, you weren't in a hospital for nothing…"
As Naruto left the room, Kin arrived carrying a tray with an assortment of rolls, fruit, dried meat, and a glass of water. "Hey Naruto… is she doing okay?" Kin asked.
"She'll be fine eventually…" Naruto said, placing a comforting hand on Kin's shoulder. "I'll still need you to take care of her though."
Kin nodded as she walked past and into Ino's room. Naruto continued on down the hallway, chuckling as he walked past the room where the Uchiha was being held to see him screaming in pain while Tayuya straddled him, the cause of his pain hidden by her form. Given Naruto knew the male anatomy as well as Tayuya did, he cringed at the thought of what she could think to do to him in that position. Then again, maybe he was just gay, and feared all women to such an extent… In either case, her pants were still on, so Naruto didn't care…
Naruto continued his trek, only to be stopped again by Zaku and Dosu, who'd just returned from Konoha. "NARUTO! You're still in man!" Zaku yelled as he ran up and punched Naruto's shoulder. "The bitch dropped first, so you won by default!"
"Okay…" Naruto muttered. "Tell me about all that later, I've got something to go do…"
After saying his goodbyes to his teammates, he soon (As in about twenty minutes of navigating tunnels and passageways) found himself in a relatively large entrance chamber with two support pillars in the center. A familiar 'kukuku' could be heard as Naruto walked between the columns. Looking to his right, he sighed as he watched his teacher and 'creepy uncle' figure flip a page in a familiar orange book. As far as Orochimaru was concerned, if there was one thing Jiraiya knew, it was literature. Frankly, the fact that Orochimaru read those books was the sole reason Naruto knew the old snake wasn't completely devoid of sexual intent. Either way, it simply made him seem all the creepier…
"Ne, Naruto… where are you going?" The Sannin asked, not even bothering to look up from his book.
"Out…" Naruto stated simply, before unbarring the doors and stepping through them.
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Dosu and Zaku eventually found Kin and Ino, and relayed the results of the preliminaries. Once Kin introduced them to her new 'girlfriend' (Zaku immediately began spouting lecherous innuendo at the use of the term, costing him dearly as Kin smashed her knee into his crotch) the three departed, dragging Zaku's collapsed form out of the room, in order to let Ino have the rest Naruto had suggested.
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Kin arrived early the next morning to bring Ino breakfast, and upon waking Ino, said; "Hey… I think you have an admirer…"
When Ino looked around the room, she saw only one change. In the corner across from her bunk, there stood a small table. The table was bare except for a small vase, filled with wildflowers. "Yeah, I guess so…" She replied.
For all you broken records out there, just reposting the same review over and over… shut up. Okay? I'm okay with suggestions, and that sort of thing, and reposting simple 'great chapter!!!' shit, but, honestly… I'm starting to see long-ish reviews that are just carbon copies of each other…
My point; if you're going to review, try to make it unique, ne? (Not so boring to go over them all then. And yes, I take the time to read them all, although I may not REPLY to them all)
Also, I'd like to officially request that everyone stop asking me to write longer chapters. I've tried. I can't. Not those MASSIVE chapters I'm sure you're all used to. I mean, I like those too, I just can't seem to write them myself…
So, this chapter is probably good as far as what to expect from my longest chapters in this fic…
Oh, and before you say anything about me using 'lie' instead of 'lay', there was a green squiggly line under it when I typed 'lay', so I double checked, and lie is right. (I like to lie in the field and watch the clouds go by…)
This fic may not update for a while, as I've neglected my other fic, and I seriously want to finish chapter three. (Although I have to admit, this fic IS more interesting, it's probably going to be the SHORTER of the two as well)
(If this or any of my AWs (Afterword – what these footnotes are technically called) don't make sense, all the little paragraphs were written in different parts of the chapter's development. Sorry for the confusion…)