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The wind began to slow down until there was almost none in the area and Ino's cries began to turn into light sniffles and she pulled away from Sakura slowly, receiving a hankie from her.

Hinata looked down at the red roses, picking up a red wilted petal and then letting go of it, and the wind resumed, sweeping it out of everyone's sight. "Ino, we have a job for you. Sasuke isn't dead, he placed genjutsu on everyone and Naruto captured him in secrecy," she said, quietly and then noticed Ino's eyes grow wide.

"Interrogation," Shikamaru said, answering Ino's question, bring a cigarette to his mouth and as if it was a reflex, Ino's hand swung to swipe it out of his hands.

"Smoking is bad for you! You can die from it!" she shouted, her eyes still red, and Shikamaru immediately steered Ino toward the building.

Ino walked into the building, immediately pushed into a dark room and then locked. She peered inside the room, looking down at the person sitting in the middle of the room, Sasuke, alive and slightly beaten.

She stepped closer, pushing a finger against his bleeding lips to stop him from talking and then began to try healing him slowly. "We should tell Tsunade about this …about us." she pushed Sasuke's bangs back, taking a look at his handsome face.

"Go ahead …I have no objections to your idea…" his breath wasn't steady and he looked up at her. "This is still your job to interrogate me, go ahead." he bent down, his head ready for her to knock him out for a few hours to search through his mind.

Ino cupped his face and kissed a cheek. "No, just open your mouth and I'll slip a slight drug in. I don't want to injure you," she said sweetly, pressing her thumb slightly to his bottom lip and then slipping a white pill in.

His head hung over in a few second and Ino pressed a hand against it. After searching through his mind for a few minutes she leaned back, kissing his forehead and then running to the Hokage Tower to confess.

Barging in to find no one she said, "Sasuke came back to Konoha for me." a silence ran throughout the room as Shizune and Tsunade paid close attention to her. "We've been meeting each other for months and we've talk and such… even when he was a missing ninja." the stare from both of them became intense. "He's returned so he can be with me…" she looked away from both of them.

"Take Ino to the dungeons," Tsunade's voice said, sharply and Ino felt two strong arms drag her down, not caring about who she was. At the same time, Ino didn't resist, knowing all the time that it was going to happen anyway. She was prepared.

They both threw her roughly into the dungeon and she sat there, not caring and then she fidgeted with the pocket around her waist that kept specially made food pills. A few hours or so later the door banged open, and Ino's eyes snapped open.

Sasuke's body was hurled at her and she caught him, slightly banging her back against the walls since he was more weight than she could hold and she looked up at the person that had thrown him. Her very own father and Ibiki himself.

Her gentle hand of hers glowed green with chakra and she slightly hovered it over the bleeding wounds of Sasuke's. She heard the steps of both of her mentors beginning to walk away and she laid him down onto the floor, trying her best to heal him quickly.

At last, after healing the front she turned him over, scanning her blue worried eyes over his bloody back and she began her best to heal the huge large cut on his back. When she though she was done, she laid Sasuke down and placed his head on her lap, hoping him a good rest as she leaned back to also sleep.

Slight whispers woke her up and she leaned back into something comfy, only recognizing a few minutes later that Sasuke had changed their position when she was sleeping.

He had his legs slightly spread and she sat in the middle of them, his arms around her petite waist and his head buried through her hair and slightly poking out by the side.

Both of her hands laid over hers and she leaned back into his touch, a small smile on her face. When the creak of the steel bars moved she felt him snap out of his sleep and he moved away from his spot, looking at the people behind the bars, his eyes glaring.

There, behind the bars were their friends and they gave looks full of pity. Kiba sat down a tray of food down by their feet and then quickly walked out, closing the metal doors behind him.

"Don't eat it," Ino said, "They placed a drug in it." she stared at it before slipping her hand into the light pouch and then holding a dark pill toward Sasuke. "Eat this." and then she ran a finger on his bottom lip and then slowly slipped it in when he slightly parted his lips.

"Don't you need to eat?" he asked, his hand beginning to snake around her waist once again to pull her closer. One of his hands reached out toward the tray of food to flip it over to the side and throwing it up in the air to only hit it again so that it flung out between the steel bars and almost hitting Kiba. "I have a feeling we're going to stay here for a while."

Ino shook her head, closing her eyes. "I'm not hungry…" she leaned back against the wall and hugged her arms around his left, leaning onto his shoulder to once again fall back into a deep sleep.

The light footsteps signaled for her other friends to leave and Sasuke placed a kiss on Ino's cheek, hoping for her to wake up soon. The pain he had felt from the whip before was gone and he touched his back, feeling that the wound was gone. He pecked her lips instead the second time, thanking for her to heal him even in such a state.

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Sakura looked down at the floor, slightly ashamed. "Did you see how they looked at each other? Sasuke loves Ino, and she loves him back." she sighed. "We should have at least tried talking to them instead of just standing there." she looked around asking, "Where's Naruto?"

"He's still trying to be hokage with Tsunade," Choji said, answering the question for her before taking out a bag of chips to eat. "I have to go now my father wanted to talk to me earlier but I rushed out on him." he turned around and Shikamaru did the same, slightly slouching they both walked away together.

"It's about Ino, isn't it?" Hinata asked her voice not sluttering anymore. They stopped together for a few seconds before beginning to walk again. "It is…"

"They love each other so dearly that they'll do anything to be with each other…" Sakura slowly muttered under her breath and then intwined both of her hands together.

With the last sentence everyone excused themselves and slowly separated, unused to the topic of their friend. She thought back to the scene in the dungeon where Sasuke had been so caring to Ino and she had been so gentle and sweet to him. It was as if they loved each other for more than their lives.

Sasuke was never the type of person she would even guess would want to date at seventeen-years old but of course, how would he restore his clan then? She just never thought he would start so early in loving someone, and to be able to keep it a secret and actually visit Ino? He must love her a lot.


Thanks for the two reviews... I was actually expecting more cause ... I was really in a good mood in it XD...

^^ I was.. in an okay mood when I typed this so yeah... XD