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Why did we lie about the beer?

I didn't want to get into anything else.

Too bad you already started something.

But I didn't understand how I could have. I wasn't angry about how she didn't tell anyone today, when she was suppose to. I wasn't angry about the fact she went off and got some portrait done, even though I should be pissed she skipped away with some guy. What I was angry about was how she completely blew me off, didn't even try to understand how I felt about her running off with some guy for the whole time we were there. She didn't bother to try to include me at all. And when I told her I didn't want her too, she flicked her hair and left.

That was pretty messed up.

I walked towards my car, my keys breaking the skin on my palm as I squeezed them with anger. And best believe if it were the other way around, if I skipped off with some girl or boy, she would be jealous or pissed or both. But all of the sudden, like always, I'm the bad guy! Getting angry over nothing. It's ridiculous. I got inside of my car and slammed the door shut, "UGH!" I yelled, letting my forehead fall on my steering wheel as I gripped it with my angry fists.

She must not understand. Maybe if we just explained-

No! I thought angrily, grinding my teeth together, I will not explain to her what she could have possibly done to piss me off. My patients is wearing thin and I refuse to stretch it even more just for her. She will figure it out herself, and come up to me and say sorry. I won't. I will not. Sit here and be the one to fix things first.

"Honestly," Said someone as they opened up my car door. I rolled my head over to the side to see it was Sasuke sitting down in the passenger seat, "It seems like you guys are always fighting."

I sighed, closing my eyes and letting my head roll back in the position it was in before, "It does seem like it."

"Do you want to talk about it?" Sasuke asked casually, leaning back in the seat.

I shook my head, breathing out and opening my eyes, "Not really, no."

"You know," Sasuke said in a bored drawl, "Keeping things in only makes you angrier."

"I'm sure I can handle it." I say, brushing him off but finally sitting straight up.

"I'm sure you could." Sasuke agreed, "But you tend to stay angry unless you talk about it."

"I don't want to talk about it." I groan, "It will only make me go off and have me having a fit." Proving my point, I groaned again, louder this time, "She aggravates me Sasuke! She AGGRA-VATES-ME!"

Sasuke only shook his head, chuckling, "Calm down sweet heart, what did she do?"

"Ran off with some random fucking guy and…" I stopped, blinking before pointing my finger at him, "Don't try that reverse bull crap on me!"

He held up his hands in surrender, smiling, "That was all you."

I waved him off, sighing again as I watched the waves and the ocean sunset, "Still, with all the fights we've had, we seem to be sticking together."

"Yeah," Sasuke said, murmuring, "It seems you guys won't give it all up so easily."

I glanced at him and noticed how he frowned. Which made me frown also, and made me think about yesterday. I suddenly felt bad for leaving him just a note. Now, I wish I would have woke him up and said goodbye properly. He was sleeping, looking so peaceful, and I didn't want to wake him. But, of course he wouldn't have mind if I wanted one last hug before I left. Or another comforting kiss on the cheek. Maybe him holding my hand on the way to the door.

I liked his brotherly love, his brotherly touch, his sibling closeness, his family protectiveness. I liked his gentle glances and comforting talks. He was like a family member I never had the experience of having, a close cousin of some sort. He comforted me, saw me when I was vulnerable, defenseless and helpless when I couldn't gain up the strength to be strong and tough.

Like last night…

"You still haven't told me what's wrong." I start softly, feeling slightly sad that he didn't trust me enough to talk to me about his problems, something I hardly had the privilege of hearing. Something about him, something about his thought process, made him think that speaking his problems was some sort of taboo. I couldn't, and can't, understand why.

He sighed, shaking his head, "Let it go Sakura, there isn't anything wrong with me."

I opened my mouth to press the situation, but that's when he decided to open the door and leave. I watched him go, a frown still on my face as he shut the door. And gave him a small smile when he ducked his head to the window and gave me a silly face before walking off.

Him not telling us…

Only makes me sad and makes me wish I was closer to him than I am now…

With a sigh, I opened the car door and slid out too only to see that everyone was preparing to leave. My eyes wandered around everyone standing there, laughing and smiling, talking and joking around. It made me want more days like this, no matter what the down side was of today. Days like these are what you remember, and I wanted to remember things like this when I was grown and old, working in an hospital being miserable.

It would give me something to smile about. I thought as I laughed at TenTen, who was yelling something to Lee. "Alright!" Naruto yelled, "We've got everyone, let's roll out."

He looked over at me and gave me a grin, I only rolled my eyes, hiding my smile, and slid back into my car.

X

Driving around town was exhausting. We had to drop off everyone, and they all lived in all separate directions. It was amazing how we were all still close when we lived so far apart. When we finally dropped off the last person, which was Kiba, I was left with Naruto sitting next to me in the passenger seat and Sasuke behind me in his jeep.

Despite the fact that it seemed like such a long day, it was still pretty early, just hitting 8 a'clock. Sasuke hopped out of his car and jogged to the window. I rolled it down as he was leaning down to speak, "Well, that's the last of em. Are we doing anything else tonight?"

"No," I said, shaking my head, "We still have school tomorrow, and I want to be there for the last day."

"That's when we take tons of pictures and have water gun fights!" Naruto said with a grin, "It's going to be fucking amazing."

Sasuke smiled while I rolled my eyes, "Well." Sasuke said with a shrug, "I guess we still do have school. So why don't you take Ino home and I take Naruto." Instantly I opened my mouth in protest, "She's closer to where you live, Sakura." He pointed out with a stern look, "It will be complicated for me to go driving her the very opposite direction of where I need to go."

I sighed, "Fine." I said reluctantly, looking forward to keep myself from bursting Sasuke into flames. It was part of his sneaky plan, I just knew it.

"Great" He said with a smile, then looked at Naruto, "Let's go dobe, moms already flipping that I missed dinner."

"You think I can have dinner at your place?" Naruto asked, undoing his seatbelt, "Your mom's cooking is amazing."

Sasuke just shrugged, "I'm sure she wouldn't care."

As Naruto wooped and hopped out the car, I dreaded the moments to come. Ino in the car. That couldn't go well.

Not unless you can stop yourself from doing something stupid.

"Not my fault she ran off with some guy." I mumbled, holding the steering wheel as I waited, "I clearly remember us having a good time up until then."

Everything would have been fine if you would have brushed the guy off.

"Everything would have been even better if she were just a bit more considerate." I growled in response, "I would have never done that to her."

In the middle of my argument with myself, Ino came and opened the door. She slid in silently and did her seat belt without a word. Taking it as a hint, I started the car, turned on the music, and drove in silence.

X

When we rolled up to her place, we were still mute. Neither of us bothering to start conversation the whole ride. It wasn't awkward because we could both feel each others radiating irritation towards one other, and just that heat alone made us comfortable enough not to speak.

Still, as I turned off the car and sat there, waiting for her to finally open the car to leave, I couldn't help but feeling a bit lonely without having her usual flirty self around. Far in the back of my mind, deep in the depths of my stomach, I almost wished she'd hurry and say sorry so I could just forgive her and move on. I wanted to hold her, needed to kiss her, yearned to feel the touch of her skin. A whole day without Ino was like some sort of withdraw, and the after effects were just now hitting me.

She was like my drug, and being this close without being able to actually take my daily dose was more than just torture, because now that I was thinking about, the withdraw was getting worse.

"Are you angry with me?" Ino asked finally.

I kept my eyes ahead, but sighed, "Just a bit."

"About me not telling people?" She asked bitterly.

But I only smiled, chuckling without humor, "If you don't know what I'm angry about Ino, then maybe we should have this conversation later."

"Stop pushing me away." She said, crossing her arms and looking out of the window, "I'm so tired of you walking off and trying to get rid of me."

That only made me laugh her away? That made no sense, "Let's not fight. Alright." Was all I mumbled when I finally settled down. I sighed, rubbing my eyes, "It's a bit too late for it and I'm not in the mood."

"Right. Because this all about you." Ino spat out, turning to glare at me, "Because I'm the one that's starting it and making everything difficult."

I rolled my eyes, "You kind of are, Ino. I haven't said anything."

"But I can tell when your angry!" Ino said, angrily moving her hands as she spoke, "I can tell when your upset or pissed! So how do you expect me to not say anything either, when if I just let it sit there your going to act like this for the next couple of days."

"Oh." I said glancing at her, "So this is you approaching the problem to get it out of the way?"

"So we can get back to normal, yes!" She said in aggravation. "I don't like it when your like this."

"Because it's only me with the problem, right?" I asked with a frown and a raised eyebrow.

"I don't have a problem Sakura, so it must be just you." She was doing everything to keep herself from yelling.

"Yes me, the girl you think that gets angry for no reason." I said with a sing song voice, "The girl who mysteriously gets upset."

"Would you stop." She said with a tired sigh, "Please?"

"Why Ino? If I mysteriously get angry, how do I stop being upset? Does that mysteriously happen too?"

"Because when your like this you turn into a bitch!" Ino finally yelled.

I blinked, surprised. Then I smiled, shaking my head and looking out my window with a sigh, "Goodnight, Ino."

"Why won't you just tell me what I did wrong, so I can apologize!" She groaned out, "Why do you have to keep acting like a complete ass, when you know it's going to cause us to fight! Whatever it was, I'm sorry."

"Fuck you Ino." I finally growled out, glaring at her, "Fuck you and your apology. Seriously. I don't want it. Not anymore."

"Then whatever I did must have not been that big of a deal." She said with a roll of her eyes.

My rage was reaching a boiling point.

I have had ENOUGH.

Calm down.

But I ignored the warning. I opened the car door and got out, slamming it behind me. I walked around the car and opened the door the passenger door. When Ino didn't move to get out, I leaned down and grabbed her wrist, "Get the fuck out of my car." I growled to her in a low tone.

She only looked at me, her eyes filled with nothing but an angry ocean blue, "Not until you accept my apology."

With all my strength, I tried not to break her wrist. Thinking it better, I moved away from her, my fingers running through my hair as I paced the sidewalk, "You are like some type of small child! Stupid and spoiled who always wants her way!"

"And you are like some type of hurtful bitch, who likes to tear her girlfriend to pieces!" She screamed back.

I just laughed, still pacing "Don't fucking start, Ino. Just don't. Don't guilt trip me when you know you're the one that's wrong! You're the one that started all of this bull shit! I told you to let it go, but you like to press everything, force everything!"

"I just wanted things to be better between us!" She yelled in protest.

"But the way your going about solving the fucking problem is all wrong!" I cried out, my chest heaving as I stopped to scowl at her, anger continuing to flow through me, "Why don't you try, in a different way, to find out what's wrong with me? Why don't you approach in an apologetic manner! Don't come at me with aggravation and irritation, as if I did something wrong, when you know you're the one to fucking blame!"

"Well what do you want me to say!" Ino asked, standing up from the car, "What do you want me to do! I am really sorry about whatever I did!"

"No, you aren't" I said with a growl, "You aren't sorry at all, or you wouldn't have said it like that. Your irritated."

"Because we're fighting!" She groaned out, rubbing her eyes, "Because we're yelling! Because we want to chop each others heads off! But I am really sorry."

"You can't be if you don't even know what I'm so upset about." I said, sighing out and running my hand through my hair.

"I can be sorry about making you feel this way." She mumbled out, looking at the ground.

I looked at her, my eyes narrowing in anger. I didn't want to give in, I didn't want to be the one to comfort her. The one to fix another problem. Sometimes, just sometimes.

You would like her to fix the problem.

But that wasn't going to happen. Not any time soon. She didn't know how to approach a problematic situation, let alone solve it. She didn't understand enough to do anything of the sort.

And that was aggravating.

But only mildly.

With a sigh, a cleansing breath, a letting go breath, I walked towards her, picking up her hand with mine and watching as my fingers laced with hers, "That sounded like you meant it." Was all I mumbled.

She merely nodded, sniffling slightly as she reached her face with her other hand, rubbing her eyes, "That's because I did."

I sighed, looking at her as she struggled not to cry. I shook my head, a small frown on my face as I stood there in front of her.

And she isn't anywhere near strong enough to solve any problem.

I thought as I took my finger and lifted up her chin carefully. She looked up at me with watery eyes, a sad face, and her lip poking out only slightly, making her look ridiculous. With a sigh, I shook my head again, murmuring in a low voice, "Don't cry. I hate when you cry."

She nodded in understanding, rubbing her eyes again as I let her chin fall. She sniffed hard, causing her whole body to jump, and I knew it was too late to stop her from crying. Sadly, I watched as I tear slid down her face. My heart tore slightly as I watched another fall. I lifted her face again, this time to carefully wipe the tears away with my thumb. She sniffed again, and one by one more fell.

I sighed, before leaning down and picking her up bridal style and walking towards her front door.

She held on to me, her arms around my neck as she buried her face into my shirt. The door was open, so I walked in and immediately headed up the stairs. I took them slowly, one by one, and listened to the heartbreaking sound of her sniffing. Each creak sounded like a sonic boom in the quiet house, and my shoes soft clunk on the floor only made things worse.

When I finally reached her room, the door screeched with it's creek before quietly clicking as I closed it shut with one hand caring Ino and the other on the knob. Carefully, I took of my shoes at the door before walking towards her bed, which was at the far right corner.

Gently, I laid her down, where she immediately curled into a ball with her back facing me. Smiling slightly, climbed into the bed and got comfortable next to her.

As soon as I stopped moving, she rolled over and laid her head on my shoulder, her face right below my neck. I could feel every breath she took, it made me shiver. For awhile, it was quiet, and neither of us spoke.

Ino, of course, was the first to break the silence, "You hate me, don't you?" She asked, sounding very pathetic.

I only smiled, looking up at the ceiling, "No."

"I'm the worse girlfriend ever." She continued to whine in her mumble, sounding completely broken, "You should hate me."

"Well, I don't." I say, leaning down to give her forehead a quick kiss.

"I'm really sorry." She mumbled, as if she were afraid to speak her apology again, "Really. I am."

I sighed, nodding, "Yeah, I know."

"Do you accept?" She asked childishly.

I smiled, "Yes, Ino. I accept."

"You aren't just accepting are you?"

I shook my head, "No Ino. I really do accept your apology."

"And I'm sorry I called you a bitch." She whispered.

I chuckled, "We both know I can be one."

She prepped herself up to her elbow to look at me, "But I can be one too, so that's ok."

I nodded, "Yup." She continued to down at me nervously for a moment, "What?" I asked, my eyebrow raised.

"Nothing." She said quickly before turning away and laying back down on my shoulder.

I laughed and moved my head to look at her, "What is it?"

"Nothinggg." She said, burying her face into my skin.

"Ino," I said sternly, lifting up her chin, "What is it?"

She pouted as she looked up at me, then nervously shifted her eyes to the right, "I want a kiss." The smile that slipped on my face was big. I couldn't help but laugh, even though she was glaring at me now, "Don't laugh me!" She whined childishly as she punched me lighting in my ribs, "It isn't funny!"

"No." I admit, smiling down at her, "It's cute."

"Whatever." She grumbled. But I only laughed.

After a moment, she spoke again, "So can I get one?"

"Mmm'" I hummed in mock thought, "Maybe. But we have to do it properly."

"And how do we do that?" She asked curiously, propping herself up again.

I looked up at her with a smile, "Well, first, you have to be straddling me."

She smiled slightly, "And why would that possibly be needed?"

I shrugged, "What if the kiss is so intense it brings some gust of wind. If that happens you'll get picked up by the wind and fly away! But that won't happened if your straddling me."

She giggled slightly, climbing on top of expertly with a kiss on my nose, "Very smart idea."

"I try." I say with a smile and a shrug.

"What's next?" She asked, looking down at me.

I turned my head, thinking carefully, "Well your shirt, that needs to come off."

She smirked at me, "Really? Why on earth would that be necessary?"

"Well just think. What if after the kiss a sudden heat flash passes through you, and you get ridiculous hot." I say, trying to make it sound horrifying, "Then you'll sweat, and you hate doing that! So, to stop that from happening, you can have you shirt off ahead of time."

"Clever." She mumbled as she slid her hands down to the hem of her shirt. Slowly, she lifted her shirt over her head and tossed it on the floor, "Like this?"

My eyes were already wandering her body. Her skin, even in the dark, looked flawless. Her flat stomach made me pulse with need. And her lacy purple bra was teasing me, making me unfocused. Still, I managed to nod, "Yeah." I mumbled, struggling to keep my hands to myself.

"Maybe my bra should go also, right?" She offered, biting her lips slightly as she looked down at me.

I nodded, my brain becoming fuzzy, "Yeah. Because…pirates and ninjas…and…" I didn't know what I was even saying anymore, I couldn't even say a simple sentence. Steady pulses were running through me as I watched her lean down to me, her face inches away from mine.

"Mhm." She mumbled, a small smile on her face, "So maybe…you should take it off for me?"

I was moving without thinking now, my hands jerking as it made it's way to Ino's bra. They undid them within two seconds, and I watch as the straps loosened and felt as Ino's breasts pressed against me. She sat up on top of me again, the lacy bra hardly hanging on anymore.

Agonizingly slow, she slipped it past her arms then tossed it to the floor. My eyes were glued on her perfect body, her toned skin and ripe breast.

The pulses were racing faster.

"Anything else I should take off?" I sat up also, her breast practically at my face. I stared at them as I lift my hand and grabbed one in my hand, feeling the heavenly cloud. She shifted on top of me, murmuring, "I wouldn't want the pirates to have their way with me or anything."

God. I could hardly take it. I kissed her chest, my hand still on her breast, as I mumbled, "I'll protect you from them, for a price."

"Mmm', what's the price then?" Ino asked, her soft moaning growing as I kissed lower.

"You'll have to let me have my way with your body." I say, my lips still moving closer to her beautiful mounds. Her breath sucked in at the sound of my proposal, which made me nip at her skin as I continued speak, "I'll be rough, and you will probably be screaming before I'm even done, but at least the pirates and ninjas won't get you."

Her hips were now moving, her crouch heating up my thighs, "How rough will you be?"

"You'll be begging me to stop." I whispered, stopping my nipping and kissing right before I got to her breasts, "You'll be pleading for someone to stop me from having my way with you."

Her moan was soft in my ear as she held me closely, still dry humping my thighs, "Please don't." She begged.

I smiled, leaning her back slowly, "Too late."

X

"So you forgave her?" Sasuke asked as we walked up to the front doors of our school.

I nodded with a sigh, "Yup. A huge fight and I didn't even get what I really wanted."

"And what was that, a real apology?" He asked, running his hand through his hair as he squinted ahead.

I shrugged, rubbing the sleep away from my eyes, "I don't really know. I guess I wanted her to realize what she did wrong, and to understand how she was inconsiderate. But I guess it's all to late now."

He glanced at me, "How do you figure?"

I looked at him with a slight smile, "Because I took the make up sex over the actual solving."

He blinked before chuckling lightly, "That wasn't your best move."

"Heat of the moment." I said with a shrug, looking back ahead, "I guess I shouldn't worry about it. I mean, maybe I'm expecting too much."

"Expecting Ino to realize her mistakes," He spoke seriously, "And to solve them isn't too much."

I gave him a weak smile, "With Ino, it's just a tad too much."

"That's ridiculous." Sasuke continued, mumbling now as he looked ahead, "I would realize my mistakes. I'd beg for your forgiveness, do something nice so you would forgive me."

"That's because your like my brother." I said with a shrug, "Of course you would do all of that just for me."

We were at the doors now. He held open one for me before swiftly entering right after me. I turned to smile at him, but stopped as I saw him frowning, hard, "Any normal human being that had any type of special connection with someone would do the same."

I frowned slightly at his tone, "Well. She doesn't quiet understand that."

"Of course not." Sasuke said, turning his gaze away from me as he walked past me to get further into the school, "She's only a child after all."

That was a tad rude.

"I mean, she has to be doing something right though, don't you think?" I say, struggling to keep up and also trying to protect Ino, "Seeing as I wouldn't trade her in for anything else."

He stopped mid stride, so abruptly that I almost ran into him. As he looked at me, his face was hard and his glare was fierce, "And that's incredible, considering the facts."

My eyebrows came together in confusion, I didn't understand why he was so angry or what he was saying, "What do you mean?"

He blinked then, and his face completely fell to normal. Then, it struggled between facial expressions. Between cool and collected, pure rage, and apologetic.

"Sakura!" Naruto yelled down the hallway, jogging towards us. I turned to see him grinning and waving, the other carrying a huge water gun, "Are you ready to get wet?"

When Naruto reached us, Sasuke turned and left without a word. I watched him, my eyebrows still together, as I listened to Naruto ramble on about the plans for today.

That was…

Weird.

I thought, my mind still trying to comprehend what actually happened.

X

Classes were cut short, lunch was a bore, and the best part of today was the flash mob the seniors pulled an hour before school was over. It was hectic, there was silly string, air horns, and confetti all over the place. It littered the hall ways, wet string and small 2011 pieces were at every turn. You could hear them from blocks away as they yelled and screamed, banging on classroom doors and doing flips down the hall way.

It was the greatest thing ever.

Besides that, us rising seniors did nothing but had a water gun fight right after school. Everyone was involved, and it was such a huge sport. Some sat and watched, while other played and crawled on the itchy grass and summersalted to different crouching positions. It showed the weak from the strong! The fearless from the frightened!

Ino = Weak and frightened.

I = Strong and fearless.

My hair was stuck to my face in wet clunks as I laughed with Naruto and Kiba, who were going over what happened. Their hair was matted to their heads as they grinned and told every detail.

Sasuke, to my disappointment, was no where to be seen.

He didn't show up for the fight, wasn't there as we ran out with the senior's flash mod, and wasn't here now. Even though I was laughing and smiling, in the back of my mind it was filled with nothing but Sasuke and where he could be. Why didn't he show up, and why was he so angry this morning? He was becoming more impatient lately, less friendly, and I wanted to know why. Whatever was bugging him was eating him alive, tearing him down back to his old self. His distant, cold self, back when we were all 5.

"Sakura!" Ino yelled, skipping towards me, "I'm hungry, can we go get something to eat?"

I turned from Kiba and Naruto, smiling as Ino came to a stop in front of me, "We just had lunch like two hours ago."

"It was a stupid bag with fruit and a sandwich!" She whined, practically stomping, "I want something unhealthy! Some grease burgers and fat fries!"

I chuckled, "That sounds completely disgusting, but alright. Just head to the car while I grab my stuff."

She grinned before skipping away. With a sigh and a shake of my head, I turned back to Naruto and Kiba, but the only one there was Naruto. He grinned with his wet hair, so I smiled slightly at him, "Hey uh." I started uncertainly, "Have you seen Sasuke?"

"Oh yeah. Yeah he left this morning after first." Naruto said as he scratched his head with a slight smile on, "He said he wasn't feeling well and soon as the bell rang, he left."

I frowned, "Seriously?" When he nodded I groaned.

"Why? Did you need him?" He asked, but I only shook his head, "Just wish he were here."

Before he could carry on the conversation, I turned around and left. My car was in the far right corner of the student parking lot, not that I didn't want anyone messing with it, but because I enjoyed the walk before heading into that death trap they called school. As I walked and weaved through cars, I saw everyone still in the parking lot, laughing and joking, maybe planning on the rest of their day. In the distance I saw Ino sitting on the hood of the car, looking around with her knees to her chest. I smiled slightly at the sight, and picked up my speed a bit.

But I slowed when I saw a guy walking towards her. They talked for a moment, the guy rubbing his head nervously, speaking his words with his free hand. When he finally stopped, Ino spoke and the guy started nodding immediately. Then, a second later, he walked off with his feet practically dragging.

Another turn down.

I nodded as I continued my pace. Surprisingly I wasn't upset about it, not to the least. I don't know how to explain it, but the longer I went out with Ino, the more patient I'm becoming. I don't know. Maybe it's always in the beginning where I wanted to rush things, hurry and tie her down to me so no one else would take her away. But after awhile, as time simply passed, I guess I've realized that it didn't exactly matter anymore, because she would always be tied down to me.

No one was going to steal her away, even if they didn't know the reason.

The thought was comforting.

As I came up to her view she smiled brightly, hopping off the car and running to me, tackling me with a hug. I laughed, holding her up as I twirled her around.

X

"Do you want to see a movie?" Ino asked as we drove down the road, our bellies full. I shook my head, steadily driving behind the car in front of me, "Maybe tomorrow. What I really want to do is go home and wash my hair, and my whole body for that fact, I feel like some wet dog."

"You do look like a dog sometimes," Ino said, and when I glared she only giggled, "Well fine, maybe tomorrow. Are you going to take me to dinner also?"

I glanced at her, "Uh…Sure. I mean, if you want dinner."

"I want a real date, that's what I want." Ino said with a cheeky smile, "Where we go to dinner and a movie and you take me home and wisp me away with all the romantic things you could do."

I blinked, that sounded like a lot of work, "And you expect me to come up with all of this by tomorrow night?"

"By tomorrow afternoon actually," She corrected as we pulled to a stop at her house. She unbuckled her seatbelt and slid out of the car, wiggling her fingers at me, "Talk to you later?"

I nodded with a smile, "Sure thing."

With a bright smile, she bounced to her door and disappeared inside of her house. Watching a second, making sure everything was fine, I finally pulled off and headed home.

"Kinda' glad we got through the day without a fight." I mumbled to myself with a smile, turning the corner and heading home.

Hours Later

My phone rang, waking me up from my nap. Groaning, and struggling to open my eyes, I rolled over and snatched the thing off my night stand. I swallowed, but everything in my mouth was dry. I clicked the talk button, anything to stop the phone from blaring, and croaked, "Hello?"

"Sakura…" A small voice mumbled on the phone. My mind instantly focused as I sat up, "Ino what's wrong?"

"I'm sorry." She said sadly, "About running off with Sai and not thinking about how you would feel."

My eyebrows came together, "Huh?" Was all I could think of.

"The beach yesterday. I'm sorry. I'm so stupid." A sob slipped her throat. My heart was pounding as I thought of a way to stop her from crying, "I wasn't thinking. I was actually pissed that you were acting like some jealous guy, I didn't even think about how you might have felt."

"It's alright!" I say quickly, and hopefully comforting her, "I was jealous, and didn't like the fact he was so friendly! It's fine, really! Don't cry, please." But all I heard was her sniffles on the phone, "Ino." I said softly.

"I know you think I'm sort of child and I don't understand anything," She continued, a choking sob escaping her as she spoke, "But it's just embarrassing when I fuck up and I have to say sorry-"

"And that's ok!" I cut her off, "You don't have to! I completely understand-"

"What's even more embarrassing, is that you think I can't realize my own mistakes." She continued, as if she didn't even hear me, "Like I can't possibly think of any way that I was at fault at all.

My heart was beating fast, and seemed to be pushing up my throat. I couldn't speak, couldn't even begin to think of what to say.

"I didn't want to say what I did wrong because I was afraid, so I thought maybe if I could just get you to tell me I could just say sorry. It seemed easier…" Ino sniffed, "But because I did that you think I'm some stupid idiot that completely doesn't understand anything."

"That's not-"

"Don't lie." She didn't have to raise her voice to stop me in the middle of my sentence, "He told me."

My mind suddenly went completely blank. Everything turned to white as rage slowly consumed me, "He who?" My voice trembled as I spoke, anger wavering it from it's usual composed vocal. I don't know why I asked.

If you already know the answer.

Maybe, just maybe it wasn't him. Please. Please let it not be him.

"Sasuke…"

White hot rage. That's all I could feel, hear, and think. It slowly devoured me as if I were some type of delicious feast.

Then she hung up.

And I sat there for a moment, letting the anger absorb my whole being.

But a second later I was out the door, heading towards my car, only thinking one thing.

He's going to die.

What the hell is Sasuke's problem!What was the point of meeting Pain! Is Ino going to be alright! Did Pain have any piercings! (He didn't just so you guys no. He looks way better that way.) Why am I voicing everyones questions?

Because I plan on answering everything!

Because I rock.

And that's what people who rock do. They get the job done.

Shycadet loves. Out :]