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Onward with the fic

Chapter One

Recap: With no time left Sasuke had to make a decision. With out hesitating any longer he dived.

The sound of grass tearing filled Sakura's ears along with the impact of Sasuke's weight piling into her. As she flew through the air Sakura had one fleeting thought before her head connected solidly with a rock- Ino I'll miss you. Then she was thrown into a mixture of pain and darkness before she passed out.

Working quickly Shikamaru cast Ino into his shadow art jutsu and jumped as far back ward as he could and so did Ino but instead of jumping in the direction that he did she jumped away from Shikamaru. Running as fast as he could while skirting the clearing in case the enemy ninja were still there(although he was pretty sure they had scattered)Shikamaru ran to where Ino had landed. What he saw scared him more than any thing else. Shikamaru wasn't scared easily, he figured it was because he could usually figure a way to get out of what ever situation he was in. Until now the time that he had had to fight those jonin by himself was the scariest moment in his life. But now Ino, strong confident Ino was trembling at his feet. She sat up against a tree, knees pulled up, and her head in her hands.

"Ino...?"

She looked up at him and Shikamaru almost flinched, her large blue eyes were brimming with tears and full of misunderstanding. Unable to look at this Ino who was so unlike her normally loud cheery self he directed his gaze to her feet. Apparently he hadn't been fast enough in rescuing her as Ino's legs from the knees down were riddled with senbon, Shikamaru would have to get her to Sakura to make sure they weren't poisoned.

"Ino, I'm sorry really I-"but she cut him off in a voice so dull he had to make sure it really was her talking.

"He left me...He left me to die...? He hates me...he saved Sakura instead..."

"Ino, Ino no. Sasuke saved Sakura because she's his team mate. He's used to looking out for her."

In response Ino buried her face in her hands and moaned. Not knowing what else to do Shikamaru began to pull out the senbon needles that had hit Ino. When he was done he held out his hand to her.

"See if you can walk, if not I'll piggy back you there."

"...To Konoha...?"

"No to Sasuke and Sakura." That was the wrong thing to say. Ino shook her head and answered,

"No they hate me... they wanted me to die...just leave me here alright."

Shikamaru had had just about enough of Ino's self pity. She needed to be reminded of who she was. He grabbed her arm and pulled her up. Then voice escalating to just over a whisper he hissed,

"Ino I know what you just went through was traumatic but you need to get a hold of your self. Sitting here wallowing in self pity might be some thing I would do but you need to be yelling at me or calling me lazy or some thing...Ino please...your scaring me..." he finished softly.

He could almost see it clicking in Ino's mind. Her eyes flashed and she shoved his hand off her arm. "I can walk by my self." she told him taking a few wobbly steps and then falling down. Wordlessly Shikamaru hoisted her up until he was piggy backing her.

"Thanks" she whispered

"Any time Ino, any time." Any thing for you.

Meanwhile...

Sasuke propped Sakura's life less body up against the very rock that had rendered her unconscious. A rather large bump was swelling on the back of her head and from time to time she would whimper or moan in pain. Leaving her alone seemed like a really bad idea but Sasuke did need to find Ino's body for her parents.

Placing ring of exploding tags around the pink haired kunoichi he entered the clearing. Ino's body was no where to be found, maybe she was alive... Any more thoughts he might have had concerning the blonds welfare were interrupted by a loud scream coming from Sakura's direction. Racing back to where he had left her Sasuke found Sakura about to poke one of the exploding tags he had set.

"Stop! What do you think your doing?"

Startled she looked up at him

"Oh, I'm sorry are those yours? I didn't mean any harm."

Settling for a glare and his typical "hn" Sasuke set about collecting his tags. He noticed Sakura looking around, for Ino he guessed. She must not have remembered what had happened. How would he break the news to her? Best to tell her straight out he supposed, that way she would be able to tell the story to Tsunade and he could get away from her when she started to cry. Which she no doubt would, Sakura was probably the most emotionally unstable person he'd ever met.

"Sakura about Ino..." Sasuke trailed off when she didn't even look up at him. It was odd, usually she'd be hanging on to his every word like a love sick puppy.

"Hey are you talking about me? Don't worry Sasuke-kun, I'm fine!" Ino entered no longer being carried by Shikamaru but still leaning heavily on his shoulder.

"What are you doing here?" At first Ino looked offended but the as she realized Sasuke was talking to Shikamaru she chimed

"Hey yeah, what are you doing here?"

So much for gratitude, but he thought that's always how it is. When ever Sasuke was around he might as well be invisible.

"Hokage-sama sent me." he stated simply letting them know that if they wanted more information they could ask the Hokage themselves.

"Hey forehead girl, did'ja miss me" Ino grinned evilly as she sat next to Sakura on the rock, "Hey that's a huge bump you might want Hokage-sama to look at it."

Blinking at her Sakura stood up and began to walk away. Where was she going, Ino back to her usual self had to know.

"Sakura." No response, the pink haired kunoichi continued walking.

"Hey! I'm talking to you!" Ino was getting mad.

"I'm going home." Sakura said sounding a little unsure of her self.

"The village is the other way Sakura." Sasuke monotoned.

Whirling around Sakura walked up to him and yelled "Look I don't know why you keep calling me Sakura but stop ok! I'm not a tree you know! And I don't know who any of you think you are but stop pretending like you know me 'cause you don't!...or do you? Do any of you know who I am, because right now you seem like you do."

Every one's reactions were different, Ino sat on the rock mouth opening and closing, Sasuke was nodding like he suspected some thing all along and Shikamaru walked over to Sakura sat against the rock, closed Ino's mouth and began to ask questions.

"What's your name?"

"Sakura, I guess."

"How old are you."

"Uuuuum..."

"Where are you from?"

"Konoha, the Village Hidden in the Leaves."

"What's my name?"

"Sorry I don't know."

"What's his name?"(he was pointing to Sasuke)

"Bob? What it was just a guess!"

"And hers?"

"Um...pig comes to mind..."

Turning towards Sasuke and Ino Shikamaru said "Amnesia, she doesn't remember any thing but a few select things from her early child hood. Tsunade can cure it I'll bet."

As they set off for Konoha, Sakura following a few feet behind, sasuke had a sinking feeling that he was going to have to help Sakura in some way when Ino interrupted his thoughts.

"Ok who wants to tell Tsunade-sama that not only did we fail the mission and the FIVE ninja are still out there, but her apprentice has lost her memory."

"Who's apprentice?" Sakura asked sweetly.

Yes if Sasuke had to help her it was going to be horrible week indeed.

Hmmmm...maybe I lied this chapter doesn't seem much longer than the prologue but alas! Please review and I think I made a few mistakes in this chapter so if I did please let me know.

-Fumei