Breaking Bonds of the Past

"Zzzzzzzz…" Ino's cell phone rang.

She didn't want to look at the name because she knew who it was. Ino laid in the bed and waited for the phone to stop ringing before she checked it. Today he left her a message.

"Hey Ino, It's Chouji again. I was just calling to see how you and Moshi was doing. I really miss the both of you. I would really like to talk to you…to see how your doing. Whenever you get this…call me…bye."

Tears formed in Ino's eyes as she listened to the message.

'I can't…as much as I would like to talk…Chouji…" Ino buried her head into her pillow.

Chouji had been calling Ino at the same time for the past four weeks. Every time she saw that he was calling she wanted to answer but Neji and his influence stopped her.

Ino tried to get the tears to stop but they continued to flow.

"Mommy…why are you crying?" Ino sat up to see Moshi standing there.

Ino quickly wiped away her tears.

"Oh mommy is just not feeling well…I think I might be sick." Ino replied trying to hold her tears in.

"Where's bear at? He can come and make it all better. I know he can." Moshi climbed into bed with her mom and rubbed her head.

"Yes he can…but…he's been too busy to come around." Ino lied.

"Well you should call him mommy if you tell him your sick he'll come right over and make it all better."

Ino moved closer to Moshi and hugged her as tight as she could.

"Oh Moshi…" Tears started to roll down her face again.

'If it were only that easy.' Ino thought.

-X-

'I wish she would answer my call…' Chouji thought as he looked at his phone with dismay.

Chouji had cleaned up his apartment in the past couple weeks to restore it to the way it was before.

'Shikamaru was right…I can't just lay here and feel sorry for myself…' Chouji thought as he cleaned the last of the beer out of his carpet.

Chouji thought about Ino and how she was doing. He thought about Moshi, wondering what his absence has done to her.

'I need to find some answers to why this happened.' Chouji grabbed his keys and left the apartment.

-X-

Chouji arrived at their apartment building. Before he stormed off in a rage not wanting to hear them but now he needed answers.

He went to their apartment door and knock. He heard loud thuds on the other side signaling someone was coming.

"Who the fuck-" Kiba stopped when he saw it was Chouji.

"Oh, hey Chouji…" Kiba said as nice as he could.

"Hey Kiba…can I come in?" Chouji asked.

Kiba nodded went into the apartment leaving the door open to Chouji. As Chouji stepped in this apartment was in worse condition than his was. There was empty bottles of liquor laying on the floor and a line of empty bottles on the shelves of the apartment. Kiba and Naruto called it "decorating." they had a couch and a love seat in their living room. The couch was occupied by Shino who was currently passed out.

"Naruto come out here!" Kiba yelled.

Naruto threw open the door to his room.

"What the fuck is it?" Naruto replied loudly as he wiped his eyes.

When he managed to regain his sight and saw that Chouji was standing in the living room he changed his tone quickly.

"Oh…uh, hey Chouji."

"What's up Naruto? Listen I need to talk to you two." Chouji said.

"Okay." Kiba replied as he motion for Chouji to sit.

Naruto jumped over the top of the love seat and landed directly in the seat. He laid in the seat lazily not making room for Kiba. Kiba decided to drop his body on the floor when he saw Naruto had no intention of moving.

"Listen guys, I know I was kind of an asshole a few weeks ago…but I want to know your side of the story." Chouji told them.

"Well we arrived-" Naruto started.

-X-

Flashback

"This is great!" Kiba said as they left the club with the photos in hand.

"I don't know Kiba…this suddenly doesn't feel right." Naruto replied.

"Are you worried about what Shika said? Fuck him he wont do anything."

"No it's not that Kiba…it's just that Chouji's been happy lately with Ino." Naruto said a serious look on his face.

"You know she's just playing him. We have to do this for our friend." Kiba replied with determination.

"Look I'm all for helping our friend but…maybe he doesn't need help. He seems pretty fine now. This girl has done something we were never able to do…break him out of that barrier he put up in front of everyone. You see he's interacting with people more, he isn't afraid to speak, his confidence has risen a lot. Ino has had a real good effect on him. I don't think we should do this anymore."

"Are you crazy? First Shika and now you? I thought we were all for putting this bitch in her place now you want to back out?" Kiba was beginning to get aggravated.

"I'm not crazy I just think we should stay out of Chouji's personal life. He seems pretty happy with his life and if we bring this up then it might hurt him more than help him."

Kiba looked hard at the packet of photos in his hand.

"Damn it! I hate it when your right." Kiba took the photos and threw them in the trash.

"You will see Kiba. This is the best for Chouji if these photos never see the light of day." Naruto assured him.

End Flashback

-X-

"So we didn't put them pictures in the restaurant that day and we have no clue how they got there." Naruto said.

"Now that I think about it…when we were leaving I think I saw a bum looking guy going through the same trash bin that I threw the pictures in, but I didn't think nothing of it. Sorry we were trying to break you guys up Chouji it was an asshole thing to do." Kiba added.

Chouji sat and looked at the two for a while absorbing all the information before making a comment.

"You guys…" Chouji paused.

Kiba and Naruto looked at Chouji with concern curious to what he had to say.

"…Are my best friends. I'm glad you two wanted to look out for me." Chouji finished.

Chouji stood up and went over to them giving them both a hug.

"You don't know how sorry we are." Kiba said.

"I wish we can make it up to you." Naruto added.

"I think I know what I have to do." Chouji said.

"What's that?" Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Thanks for helping." Chouji left the apartment.

A confused Naruto and Kiba sat there trying to figure out their friend's plan.

-X-

'It's been so long…I wonder if she will still talk to me?' Ino thought as she looked at the house.

Ino took a deep breath. She finally worked of the courage to ring the door bell. After a moment, the door was answered.

"Sakura…come in dear." Ino's mother motioned her daughter inside.

They went and sat on the couch in the living room.

"How have you been mom?" Ino asked.

"I been just fine…I haven't heard from you in a while how have you been?" Ishi replied.

"I been…alright." Ino lied not wanting to meet her mother's eyes.

"Ino…how is that nice young man you brought over here doing?"

"We are not together anymore…" Ino fought to push her tears back.

"You two were so nice together. What happened?" Ishi asked her daughter voice full of concern.

"My past caught back up with me…and my life was starting to go on the right path…" A tear slid down her cheek.

Ino couldn't hold back her tears. Ishi rubbed Ino's back trying to soothe her child.

"Listen to me. You can never escape from your past. We all have done things that we regret but we can't let those things affect how we live today." Ishi lifted Ino's head so that their eyes met.

"You are a strong, beautiful, woman and anything you did in your past doesn't have to affect the people you meet today. The way I see it is that you love that boy…and you should go be with him…I'm sure that he feels the same way about you." Ishi wiped the tears out of her daughter's eyes.

"I have to go get ready for work tonight…thanks for the advice mom." Ino hugged her mother.

"No problem dear. Things will work out for you don't worry."

-X-

Ino's mind was clouded with thoughts as she sat outside the club watching the neon lights flash. She was broke from her trance when there was a knock on her window.

"You gonna sit here or come and make some money?" Temari asked.

"I'm coming just give me a minute." Ino replied.

She got out of the car and walked into the club. As she was about to go into the dressing room she was stopped by Jiraiya.

"What is it Jiraiya?" Ino asked.

"There's a customer in a private room and he asked for your services." Jiraiya replied.

'It must be Neji…I don't know how much more of this I can handle…' Ino thought.

"Thanks Jiraiya." Ino said as she walked past him into the dressing room.

When she was done getting dressed she looked in the mirror at herself.

'Well…here I go.' Ino left the dressing room and went to the VIP rooms.

When she got to the room that the customer was in she took a deep breath. She opened the door and when in, as she got inside the room it was dark. She clicked on one of the lights and it was a dim light that barely lit the room. She could see the customers legs on the couch but couldn't make out the face.

"Welcome to Hidden Leaf XXX. Here to make your desires come true." Ino said in a seductive tone.

"My only desire…is for you to stop doing this." The customer replied.

Ino recognized the voice.

'It can't be.' Ino thought.

She went over and cut on the rest of the lights to illuminate the rest of the room.

Ino gasped at who it was.

"Chouji…" Ino was at a lost for words.

"Ino…you don't have to do this anymore." Chouji started.

"You need to leave." Ino replied.

"Why? I'm here because I care about you." Chouji went over to Ino.

"You shouldn't have come…" Ino turned towards the door not wanting to face him.

"I had to see you…I missed you some much." Chouji wrapped his arms around her waist and began kissing down her neck.

A surprised Ino did not resist or pull away from him. She needed him as much as he needed her.

"Chouji…" Ino moaned as she was in love with the way he touched her.

"Ino…why?" Chouji turned her so that they were face to face.

"Chouji…I…" Ino's voice trailed off.

"Who's making you do this?"

"I came back on my own…I couldn't get used to the life you live…this life fits me…"

"I know you…and you never wanted this life…at least that's what you told me."

Ino pushed Chouji onto the couch.

"Ino what are you doing?" A confused look on Chouji's face.

"My job." Ino straddled Chouji and began kissing him on his neck.

As much as Chouji loved her kisses he didn't like seeing her doing it this way.

"Ino stop..." Chouji said trying to push her off.

"You know you love this." Ino threw her hair back and began taking off her top.

"Enough!" Chouji yelled.

Chouji threw Ino onto the vacant spot on the couch. Ino looked at him with disbelief.

"Chouji…"

"You are not the Ino I fell in love with all those months ago…"

"Chouji…I'm…" Ino couldn't find the right words to say.

"How do you think your daughter would feel if she saw you like this?"

Ino looked down at herself thinking what it would be like if Moshi saw her "working".

"This isn't you Ino…Your better than this…at least I thought you were…I came here to get you back…but I guess your not here…" Chouji turned to leave.

"Chouji wait…" Ino said.

Chouji turned into Ino running into his arms. Ino wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his chest.

"Chouji I'm sorry. Your right I don't want to do this anymore. I want to be with you…I love you…please get me out of here…" Chouji could feel Ino's tears on his chest.

Chouji tilted Ino's head so that his eyes met hers.

"Ino…I love you too…lets get out of here." Chouji's lip met Ino's in a rush of passion.

Ino and Chouji left the room.

"Chouji ill meet you by my car out back ok?" Ino planted a kiss on Chouji's cheek.

"Ok…my angel…" Chouji replied as they parted ways.

Ino quickly got dressed out of her stripper clothes and hurried out of the club. When she got to the back door of the club her phone began to vibrate. She looked to see who it was.

'No…' Ino thought.

She flipped her phone open.

"What took you so long to answer my angel?" Neji said.

"What do you want?" Ino replied.

"I just wanted to let you know I'm back in town and I was coming to see you at the club tonight."

Ino's heart started to beat out of her chest. She couldn't leave now. If Neji were to come and she wasn't there he would release those pictures for sure. Ino took that thought from her mind as she remembered what her mother told her.

"Well too bad I wont be here when you do get here."

"Why is that?"

"I'm done with this Neji…I don't want anything to do with this club anymore."

"We saw what happened when you left the first time and you don't think it will happen again?" Neji snapped back.

"Well I mean it this time I don't want you to call me anymore I want you to stay out of my life I'm done with this."

"What about the pictures I have? Or did you forget?"

"You can shove those picture up your ass…I'm not letting you blackmail me anymore…have a nice life asshole." Ino hit the end button on her cell phone.

Ino felt a new sense of pride after standing up for herself. She continued out the club and met up with Chouji.

"Everything alright Ino? What took so long?" Chouji asked.

"I just had to take care of something. Lets go home." Ino replied.

-X-

Neji continued to talk until looked at his phone to see that the called ended. In a rage he threw the phone out the window of his car.

'My angel wants to leave me again…no this won't happen again…I'll make sure of it this time…' Neji thought as he turned the car around.

-X-

Sorry for the Late late late late late update…I have been going through a really bad case of writers block…but now im back J and I'll be updating more and putting up new stories up so be on the look out…plz review.

~Chubby~