A/N: right um, This is meant as a Sakura Ino type of drabble. You know…at first Sakura was a main role in this, but then Ino kind of took over. ShikamaruxIno if you squint….really really hard.
At first, after Naruto returns without Sasuke, Sakura moves around robotically, mindlessly training with Tsunade until even Tsunade suggests she go home and rest for a while. Sakura protests, but she does not fight back when Tsunade steers her home and tells her to come back in a week.
Sakura lies on her bed for a few days, getting up only to go to the bathroom and to, when her stomach ached as much as her heart, to eat. After a while, she gets up to eat every few days. The week passes into a month. Tsunade, she muses, must be worried sick, but Sakura can't even gather the willpower to crawl out of bed.
When Ino bursts in and tears around her house, demanding that she go out and 'have fun', Sakura blinks slowly at her, and then shakes her head no. Then Ino spent some time pulling her out of bed, forcing her out of her house, and dragging her along to the local sushi place, cheerfully declaring how lovely the weather is, and oh, Sakura, aren't you glad you got out of that house?
But Ino understands when Sakura starts sobbing into her plate and can't stop for the next hour. And she understands when Sakura wouldn't get out of bed again the next day. But that doesn't stop her from dragging her out again, this time to the park. And then the river, and then several days after that, a shopping spree. Ino promises herself that Sakura would get over that loser Sasuke, and that is what propels Ino to drag Sakura out. That, and the fact that Ino knows what it's like to fall in love with a guy who doesn't love her back, whose heart belongs to another person.
One broken heart is enough, Ino thinks to herself as she forces Sakura into the nightclub, one broken heart is enough.
