This is AU… I don't own Naruto…. Happy holidays to everyone! This took me about 2 months to write cause I didn't had ANY free time. Works sucks. This is rated T cause even though it has a slight mention of sex, there is no lemon …sorry =/
Any way… enjoy!
Theme 26.
Tears.
He couldn't take it anymore. It was always the same. couldn't she see he wasn't the one for her.
She never believe him when he told her about all the things Sasuke did behind her back. All the girls he took home every other day. But he saw it. And heard it too.
Their friendship had never been as rocky as it was now. And it was all because of that stupid Uchiha.
Naruto once again had to turn the volume of his stereo up to keep the pants and groans from next door from interfering with his studies.
He didn't know why the fucker did it. He had me most gorgeous girl as his girlfriend but he still did the dirty with every girl that threw their selves at his feet.
But as he went to close the curtains he saw something that made him pause.
Pink… hair?
He blinked, and blinked again. Yep his mind wasn't playing tricks on him. Sakura was there, in bed with Sasuke. And he… didn't know she… could bend that way… wow… erm anyway. This was it. His ticket to make Ino broke up with the bastard and then he would… no, he really wouldn't do anything,
He hated when she cried. It made his heart twist painfully inside his chest just thinking how broken she would be when she knows her best friend is fucking his boyfriend.
With a sigh he walked back to his desk and began his studies.
Not five minutes later a knock was heard on his door.
He closed his eyes, really? How difficult was to study in this house?.
"What is it?" he yelled as he turned down the volume of the radio.
"Ino is here!" yelled his mom from downstairs.
Oooh shit… what do I do? What do I do?… she can't come in here, she'll see them and then…
As he was rambling inside his head, he saw his door open by non other than his best friend. He swallowed thickly.
"Hey, I thought you could use some help with the test coming up, so here I am" she said with a brilliant smile, the same one he secretly adored. It always made her glow and he loved to see her happy.
He gave her a quick once over. black miniskirt, a white t-shirt that showed her curvaceous body, her purple school bag perched on her shoulder. Blond hair out of it's usual ponytail, she was beautiful as always.
"Ok, but why don't we go downstairs it's more conf…" he didn't get a chance to finish that thought because he saw her approaching his window and opening the closed curtains and froze there.
"Ino?" he softly asked, knowing exactly what was about to happen.
She didn't move and inch. All her attention was on the room across form his window. So he tried again to call out to her to get her out of whatever spell she was under.
He sighed. Stupid Uchiha, stupid Sakura, why was he always stuck in this situations? Why did Ino had to get her sight on such a stupid moron? When she could have… no, why did he kept punishing himself with those thought. She would never see him as more than a friend. But looking at her now, frozen and wide eyed looking at those two roll around the teme's bed, he couldn't help the twist in his chest.
He got up and walked next to her. Somber look crossing his always cheerful face.
"How… How long has this been happening?" she asked. Her voice death. Devoid of emotion, not giving away the pain and grief that was swimming inside her. But he knew. Because he was her best friend. He'd always known her moods. She's like and open book, but only he is able to read her that way. Just like she can read him easily, well mostly, otherwise she wouldn't have started dating the stupid Uchiha.
He sighed. But said in the same unaffected tone "a while".
"oh" was her replay. Her eyes never leaving the two naked bodies moving in sync across the window.
Both of them stood there watching Sakura cry out for Sasuke as she came.
"I think I'm going home" said the beautiful girl beside him. And he only nodded. Obviously giving her time to process what she had witnessed. She needed to be alone right now. And he understood the silent message.
He walked her to the door and watched her walk back to her own house down the block. He closed his own door as he saw her enter her home, clenching his fist once she was out of sight.
He wanted to go next door and punch and kick the asshole until he couldn't move for a week. But he calmed down. He really wanted to though.
His mom got out of kitchen plates in her hands. "Did Ino-chan leave already?" she asked
"Yeah" he said.
"Oh, I was hoping she stayed for dinner" the read head said frowning at his son. "Did you two had a fight or something?"
"No. she just didn't feel well, that's all" he said as he turned around go to back to his room. He still had to study for the freaking test Iruka-sensei was going to make the next day.
"why are you going upstairs for, I'm setting the table for dinner, your father will be here in ten minutes" she asked as she started to set the table.
"I'm not hungry, and I need to study I have a test tomorrow"
"Oh well. OK I'll make you a sandwich later then, I guess"
"Ok".
Naruto groaned. It was a really hard test. Well, for him at least, it was a six question test, and you had to write you opinion and mix it with the things Iruka-sensei said in class. He really hated it when the teachers gave you three books to read and all he'd question about was about what he had said in class, it was such a waist of his time. He could have just read the notes he took in class. Not that they were very accurate to what Iruka had said, but it was something.
He hoped that at least all the reading he had done yesterday would make him get a good enough mark to let him pass the course, because all he wrote down on his paper was just pure and utter bullshit, really.
He groaned again and scanned the crowd, not one single hair of Ino was seen in school. He was really worried about his friend. But he couldn't skip school. His mom would kill him, and probably hide his body so well not even worms will be able to find it to feed off his corpse.
And so he went out and sat down in one of the benches outside. Put out his phone and texted Ino to see if she was still alive, if she didn't responded he would find a way to ditch school and go see her.
After finishing his message he pressed send and waited.
And waited.
And… waited.
It was really frustrating, and as he looked up from the message-less phone he saw them.
Sakura was obviously flirting with Sasuke, bating her eyelashes cutely and licking her lips sensually, but trying not to be so obvious but not succeeding at her attempt at all. Sasuke just brooded as always, but he still saw her out of the corner of his eyes. Silently eyeing her up and down and undressing her with his eyes.
It wasn't obvious for everybody, but for the blond boy it was. And it was making his blood boil to the point that he was actually thinking on going there and give them a piece of his mind, or fist… whichever came first. But as he started to put back his phone in his pants pockets it started to ring.
'Desperate for changing Starving for truth I'm closer to where I started Chasing after you I'm falling even more in love with you '
He sighed and pull it out once again, he now at least wouldn't suffer under his mom wrath for ditching school. He opened the message sent by Ino. He knew it was from her. Her ring tone was different than all others. And he always thought the song fitted them. Well at least for him.
"I'm fine ruto, I just overslept, I'll talk 2 sensei 2morrow"
He didn't believe her for one second but he was still worried and until he saw with his own eyes that she was fine he would worry anyway. "Fine but I'm coming over after school" he texted back.
The rest of the classes were practically torture for the blond boy. He was anxious and worried and the freaking clock could actually move any slower?. every time he checked his phone it seem that way.
By the time the final bell rang Naruto was out of the door faster than the eye could see. The people on the street only saw a orange, yellow, white and gray blur pass them, the wind whipping their hair wildly once the hurricane Uzumaki passed by them. A few school girls had to hold their skirts down as the wind made them flutter around giving perverts a nice view of their underwear.
All Naruto thought about was going faster as he rounded the corner of their street did he slowed down to a jog. His breathing was labored and he was sweating and his cheeks tinted red from the run.
He tried to control his breathing as he knocked on her door. A few minutes later he found himself leaning against the door for support and almost stumble upon her as she opened the door to let him in.
"Hey" she said as she widened the entry for him get in.
"Hey, are you alright?" he asked taking in her appearance.
She was wearing her pink pj's with clouds all around it. Her hair was uncombed and her eyes were red and puffy, probably from crying herself silly last night and probably this morning too.
He shifted and gave a awkward chuckle. Stupid question really. Of course she wasn't ok. She had just seen her boyfriend in bed with her best female friend. He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"what do you want?" she asked.
"I wanted to check up on you. I knew you wanted to be alone that's why I didn't made you stay last night. But you miss a test Ino. I couldn't let you drown yourself in pity for what happened yesterday"
"what do you know? You didn't saw your boyfriend fucking your best friend to the mattress, but I did. And it hurt Naruto, it hurt so much you don't even know" she yelled at him. Blue eyes shining with unshed tears. His heart gave a painful twist inside his chest.
"I know. And I shouldn't probably say this, but I told you Sasuke was bad news from the start but you didn't listen to me. But I'm not gonna keep seeing that bastard destroy you anymore. I care for you Ino. More than you'll ever know, but you have to let him go. He's not good enough for you"
"and who is Naruto? Who is good enough for me huh?"
"I… I don't know" he really wanted to say it to her. How much he loved her. How much it hurt him to see her like this, how he would never make her cry, he would kill himself before he hurt her. But she was hurting right now, so he had to suck it up and be just her friend, nothing more, just her friend.
"you know what Naruto. I don't need this shit from you! I thought you were my friend, how could you not tell me Sasuke was cheating on me with Sakura!" tears freely falling from her eyes.
"Don't…" he said his voice laced with a dangerous edge to it "Don't say I don't care because I do"
"yeah well. Way to show it. Throwing it in my face. I know I didn't listen to you then but I thought you were just jealous of him. You're always fighting with him so I thought you were just saying things… but you knew, all this time you knew exactly what he was doing. You had first seats for the show!" she yelled back digging her finger on my chest with every word. Every accusation. What could he say to her? Yes I knew, and I knew if I told you, you wouldn't believe me. But that was just another hit on her bruised ego and heart. He couldn't do that to her so he kept quiet.
"I cant believe you Naruto! You have nothing to say huh?. And here I thought you were my best friend" she said shaking her head.
"I am!" he said looking down at his feet.
Why was she trying to push him away? Why was she yelling at him for? Sasuke deserved her anger not him. He really did cared for her. But he also knew she was hurting, and didn't really mean it, but it hurt him. It was like a knife was going through his chest and Ino was twisting it with every word she said.
"Leave… I don't want to talk to you right now" she said turning around and going back to her room.
"Ino I wont leave, you have to believe me, I am your friend and I care about you I really do, you shouldn't be yelling at me, you should be yelling at Sasuke he was the one who cheated on you not me!" he said as he walked right behind her.
"get out!" she said as she entered her bedroom and tried to close her door on him.
"No I wont!" he yelled back. They had never ever fought like this before and Naruto was panicking inside. He couldn't lose her, not like this, not when it wasn't even his fault. He wouldn't let her push him away this time. He gave her the space she needed yesterday but now she had to face it, not run away from this.
"Yes… get out!" she yelled once again, forcing her door to close, but Naruto was also pushing back not letting her get away.
"Ino… Ino please listen to me"
"I don't want to! Get out!"
"No! Ino, stop it. I know your hurt I know. And I want to make you feel better ok. don't shut me out. If you wanna cry, then cry, if you wanna punch something then punch me, but don't push me away. Please Ino" he whispered the last part. The fighting leaving him for a moment. His heart was breaking for her. couldn't she see it? He loved her. But she was just too blind and engrossed with Sasuke to noticed it.
"Ino. Please… just don't shut me out, please. I'm your best friend and I love you, please just let me take care of you" he let his head rest on the door. Willing his own tears from falling. Not a sound was coming from the other side of the door. And he let out a shaky breath.
Fine he would give her some space and he would try again tomorrow. "Alright. If you want to me leave then I will. But Ino, please, think about it, is he worth all your tears?" he lifted his head, and gave one last look at the white door, with another shaky breath he left and didn't looked back because if did. He would have seen the hurt and broken expression on her face as he closed the front door.
Ino was at a lost for what to do. She knew she was being unreasonable, but she was hurt. She had just been cheated for who knows how long. She was actually kind of excited because she going to tell her best friend that she was going to go for the weekend with Sasuke to the beach. The two of them alone and she was going to give herself completely to the raven haired boy that night.
She had heard Naruto's stereo blasting with music from the sidewalk as she went to tell him the news and to help him study for the test they had the next morning. But it had all gone wrong.
She had opened up the curtains to get more light in his room. But she saw them.
Her black haired boyfriend and her pink haired friend naked and interlinked in a mass of limbs, moans, groans, mewls, caresses and kisses and she suddenly went cold. She couldn't take her eyes away from their moving bodies. From Sasuke's hips jerking back and forth, back and forth as he fucked her friend. How Sakura's nails racked his back, leaving red angry marks on his pale flesh. She felt bile rise up in her throat.
She couldn't… he wouldn't…. but they were… and she had prime view of their show.
Ino felt her best friend stand beside her and all she could ask was how long?… how long has this asshole been cheating on her?.
The replay made her see red. A while? A fucking while? Could you be anymore vague!
She was fuming. She couldn't think she couldn't keep seeing this. She had to leave. She had to get away. She wanted to scream and punch and kick someone's ass. Be it Sasuke, Sakura or the freaking pope she didn't care. She was angry and hurt and she wanted to stop thinking. To stop feeling. Just for life to stop and take a break.
She felt moisture gather under her eyes making her vision blurry. "Oh" was her response to his earlier statement. A while my ass. But as the pink haired bitch cried out for the raven as she orgasm a tear fell.
"I think I'm going home" she tried to say it without any emotion, she really did, but she hope she could fool Naruto for a little while. She knew he could see right through her. But she didn't care at the moment. All her thought where "go home. Go home, don't let them fall, stupid tears don't fall. he's not worth it. Go home!"
She practically run from his house to hers. That evening was a blur to her. She couldn't remember how she got to her bed, if she locked the door. Anything.
Next day she was woken up by a buzzing in her ear.
She read the text and almost smiled. Naruto. He was obviously concerned and worried. It made her feel warm inside to know that at least she had him beside her.
And so she texted him back saying that she was fine and that she had overslept, which wasn't a lie. She had.
A few minutes later her phone buzzed again and she did smile this time.
Her best friend was the best. They'd known each other practically all their lives. Their fathers got along great when they first move here from another town. Ino was five and so was Naruto. Though she was older for just two months she love to make the boy feel little. It was so cute to see his face all red and his cheeks puff out as he pouted cutely and blew a raspberry at her.
But now that cute little boy had gown up and was all man now. He didn't even knew he was a heartbreaker. He just thought all girls were really nice and that they were all very friendly. He was really dense in the romantic aspect. But that was fine with her. That way no harpy was taking away her blond from her.
She was actually worried about losing him when they'd been thirteen and he started to like Sakura. But that quickly went down the hill and she knew that her friend no longer thought about the pink haired girl in that way.
Could it be because he'd saw her spread her legs for the Uchiha? She really didn't want to think about that asshole anymore. But every time she walked by a window her eyes would travel on their own to his house. The splendid and well kept white house with the beautiful traditional Japanese garden.
She's only been inside his house once or twice since they became a couple and all those times it was because his mother had made him take her there. Not because he wanted to. And it had hurt more than anything. Because that meant he didn't think of a future for them besides dating and having fun. Dragging her around like a fucking prize he'd won.
Because she was Yamanaka Ino. Best looking girl in all of Konoha High. Queen of the school.
But when he'd asked her to go to the beach with him, he'd seemed so sincere, so in loved. she could see the affection rolling off of him in waves and it made her dizzy and giddy. He was a man, because wasn't just a boy, no he was all man. That wanted her, he wanted to take their relationship more seriously and make her girlfriend for all the world to see she was his. He'd even asked her dad for permission.
It would never be though.
Because he'd fucked Sakura instead.
Ino didn't know how long she just stood looking at his house, but knew it was a long time because the front door bell was ringing and that meant only one thing Naruto was here.
She let a small smile grace her face, but felt something slide down her cheek. She put her hand there and felt moisture.
When had she started to cry again?, no matter she couldn't let Naruto see her like his. She quickly dried her tears and went to open the door.
He was panting and flushed, had he run here all the way from school? she mentally shook her head, leave it to her idiot to do something like that.
She greeted him with a small amused smile he didn't seem to catch, but seeing him there made her once again feel warm inside. Her best friend was here concerned about her. But as the conversation turn towards the black haired cheater her temper flared. Who was he to think and say something like that to her. Drown herself in pity? Pity! Really? didn't he knew she was hurt? Heartbroken?
She went into self defense mode. She knew he was only worried and had told her that Sasuke was bad news, but hey! A little support here! She had just been cheated… CHEATED by her boyfriend and friend! She had every right to feel pity for herself.
Did they stop to think about her feeling? NO.
Do they hate their selves for what they did? NO.
Did she want to go over a hole and die so she could stop feeling like this? YES. But she didn't, she just stayed home one day! ONE FREAKING DAY! And here was he already on her case.
She knew she'd miss the test but she didn't give a flying ass about it. She was hurt. She wanted to cry, and never see those two again in her life.
But Naruto didn't want to let it go. To leave her alone in her misery. So she did the only thing she did when she felt cornered she attacked him. She said thing she really didn't mean to. But said them anyways.
When she told him to go she knew he would follow her and fight her until she surrendered and admitted that she was wrong and that she had to move on with her life. She knew that but she just needed more time. didn't he get that?
Then she'd heard a thump. Had she hurt him? Did he passed out or something? But then she heard him. It was almost a whisper. But the plea was ringing clear in her ears.
Was Sasuke really worth it?
She felt her legs give under her, tears still streaming down her face. A sob escape her lips.
No he was not. But she loved him. Sasuke was all she'd ever thought about since they turned eleven. She was fascinated with the quiet boy. He was so handsome and always so polite in the couple of conversations he'd had with the rest of the class or with a teacher.
But what caught her eyes, and made her fall for the black haired boy was the warm smile he only ever grace his mother with. Until that terrible accident three years ago. When he became an orphan, his older brother the only living relative he had.
Sasuke had being in school at the time. His family just coming home from some award ceremony for his older brother when a drunk hit the car making it spin and crash against a barrier on the highway.
Itachi was the only survivor. His father died in the crash instantly, her mother agonized for hours, until she died in the O.R as the medics tried to remove the pieces glass from her body. But she lost too much blood, and she finally died. The morning after.
Sasuke was never the same after that. He started to hate his brother with fervor. And he shut out from the world until hormones started to kick inside him. And then he was known as a playboy in the rumor mill, but it was never confirmed.
Then just last summer he asked her to go on a date with him and she agreed.
And she fell. So deeply for the bastard that she didn't even heard the warnings. The signs. Everything everyone said about Sasuke in a bad way she just forgot it. Never noticed. Brushed aside.
Even when Naruto told her to leave him. To not go out with him. She did it anyway. And look where it got her.
She opened the door as she heard him shuffle outside her door. He was leaving? He was leaving her alone? He didn't even turned around as she looked at his back walking away. And it hurt. It hurt more than it hurt watching Sasuke and Sakura together. It hurt because he's always been there for her.
He opened the door and closed it behind himself and she sobbed. Trying to muffle the sound with her hand on her lips.
But she couldn't contain it more. The wail escape free. And so she cried… until there where no more tears. And she told herself 'I will be okay. Everything will be okay. Because I'm strong. And even though I don't have my rock next to me right now. I know he is there for me.
Because Naruto can read me like a book… and so can I'.
The next day Ino woke up early, earlier than most days. She went about her morning routine. Shower, dressing, brushing her hair. Putting on make-up to cover up the redness and puffiness from her eyes. And made breakfast for her and Naruto.
After she was done she grabbed her backpack and approached the colorful house that was the Uzumaki residence. The walls were painted bright yellow. The roof was a luscious red and the curtains a breathtaking shade of dark blue.
She smiled as she saw Naruto's dad lifting the newspaper from the ground and wave at him, he looked up and a familiar foxy grin made it's way to the handsome blond man that was one Namikaze Minato
"Good morning my beautiful lost daughter!" he said as he hugged her tight, like they haven't see each other in a decade or something like that.
"Good morning to you too my handsome lost father, is Naruto up yet?" Ino asked as she hug him back just as fiercely, if only to feel more of the gorgeous man in front of her.
Get your head out of the gutter you guys, Minato is like a father to me, but damn how lucky is aunty Kushina for having that hot piece of man all to herself. We have a very weird relationship. My father always calls Naruto the son he never had. And I'm Minato's fake daughter. And Kushina is like a second mom to me, she kind of took over that role after my mom died when I was six. Naruto's house is my second home actually, when we were little I would stay over for weeks when my dad had to travel because of work. I even have my own room in here.
"No" he laughed " you know how lazy that son of mine is. Why? I heard that you left the other day without eating diner with us? What happened? Did you two had a fight or something?" he asked as we walked to the house.
"No. I just didn't felt very well" I lied, not stuttering in the least, it was always hard to lie to Minato because he was like a freaking walking lying detector.
"Are you sure?" he asked skeptically a blond eyebrow raised and I just nodded back, I couldn't talk. I would totally get caught and I didn't want him to know… to know how utterly shattered I'm inside.
"I'm going to go wake Naruto up" I said as I darted to the stairs and to the blond boys room.
Minato just chuckled as he walked back to the kitchen.
"Who was that Minato?" asked the red head as she laid out the fresh made pancakes on the table for them.
"Ino, and she's gone to get Naruto up. And I think I smelled food on her, so maybe they wont come down to eat with us" he said as he opened the politic section of the paper in his hand.
"Hmm… do you think they'll be ok?"
"I think so… " he sighed as he looked at his gorgeous wife. She had once again tied her hair in a bun. And he just pull out the chopsticks that were keeping it together and let his fingers stroke and travel through the silky sea of red.
"Hmm" sighed Kushina as her husband played with her hair.
Ino was a little nervous as she approached Naruto's bedroom. What if he was really angry at her and didn't want to see her? What if he actually thought that what she had said yesterday was true and left her alone forever?.
No he would never do that to her. She was only second guessing herself. She was going in, and apologize to her best friend and they would eat her breakfast and everything would be ok. Or so she hoped.
She took a deep breath and let it out slowly, stilling her nerves and her resolve to get her best friend back she opened the door.
As she entered she put the food she'd prepared on his desk and approached his bed. He was mumbling something on his sleep. He was so cute when he did that.
When they were little, and a bad storm was hitting the town. Naruto would crawl out of his bed and go to hers. He would climb inside and whimpered under the covers and she would roll over and put her arms around the blond boy to try and calm him down. After a little bit he would snuggle close to her and mumble thing in his sleep about flowers, pretty and purple.
And now she couldn't help but snickered at the grown boy tossing in his sleep still saying those three words.
Flowers, pretty and purple.
She sat down on his bed. And gently shook his covered frame. A mop of bright unruly golden locks picked up from under the orange covers. A slightly daze blue orb blinked away the remains of sleep from Naruto's eyes and mind as he tried to wake up.
"Good Morning, I'm really sorry about yesterday. I overreacted and I shouldn't have said those things to you" she said as Naruto pull himself to a sitting position.
"Ino, slow down… I need a minute to wake up" he said rubbing his hand over his eyes.
"Sorry" she blushed. Really it wasn't so hot for him to just sleep in his boxers right?.
Ino knew her best friend was hot, too bad they were like siblings. Or at least that's what Ino thought. Naruto on the other hand was trying to let his morning problem not be obvious to the girl in front of him.
He'd been having one of those dreams again. The ones were Ino would come one night to his bedroom and would ask to sleep with him just like they did when they were little, and as she snuggled up against his frame she would start to kiss him and lick him and they would do many other things that he really shouldn't be thinking about right now if he was willing away his morning erection.
Ino oblivious to Naruto's problem averted her eyes to the side. The embarrassed blush still covering her cheeks pink.
Naruto sniffed his room as a sweet aroma hit his nose.
"It's that what I think it is?"
"Yes, I came to apologize for yelling and saying those things to you, I know you were worried about me and I appreciated it, but I needed to be alone, and I know what I said hurt you, and I'm really sorry" she said bowing her head in shame. A few tiers escaping her eyes. And leaving a darker orange spot as they landed on his bed.
Naruto seeing her like this wrapped his arms around her. "It's ok Ino, I'm not mad. I just don't like to see you cry, you know that right?" he was rocking her a little and petting her hair.
"yeah I know, but I still feel bad" she mumbled into his naked and defined chest. His voice deep from sleep made something stir in her, but she was definitely feeling better.
"Don't be" he said next to her ear. Brushing his nose to her neck.
Ino looked up to see him with his eyes closed and craned her neck to peck on his cheek. At the same time Naruto move to the side to see what she was about to do and the movement made their lips brush.
Their eyes widen. Ino the first one to react blushed and was about to move away but was caught off guard when Naruto lean in again to firmly place his lips against hers once again. His mind screaming at him to stop, to not let her know. But his body was craving more, he had to taste her, to feel more of her. But after a few seconds his body caught up to his mind and he back away. Apology in the tip of his tong.
But the silence was defiling.
Naruto was still frozen. Why had he done that?. Now Ino would really hate him. He was mentally kicking himself and cursing his stupid teenage hormones.
Ino on the hand was speechless. Did Naruto… really… Kiss her?. The first one was an accident, but the second one? Did he?. No? they were like brother and sister!. They were best friends. Why hadn't Ino seen this before?.
Ino was shacking her head. No this couldn't possibly be happing to her. Her boyfriend had cheated on her with Sakura and now her only source of comfort had kiss her. Naruto. Blond boy who would sneak at night too scared to sleep alone. Naruto. Who had always made her feel better and was always there for her.
Naruto who had never had a girlfriend because… because… why hadn't he ever had a girlfriend?. Was it because he… No. no. no. no. no. no. no….
Head shacking, her fingertips touching her lips, blue eyes wide as she mentally shook those thoughts out. "No. No. No" she began chanting.
A pained look cross the blond teen in front of her and she knew… she knew she was right.
"I'm…" he didn't finished the sentence as she bolted from the bed to the door.
Naruto hung his head in shame.
How could he be so stupid as to do something like that. How could he kiss her, when she had just found out she had been cheated by the boy she loved. The boy who she thought was her everything. Her soul mate.
The boy closed his eyes and hurt and pain twisted his heart.
She had come to ask for forgiveness, to make up. And he had to ruin it by kissing her. But damn it. He couldn't help himself. He loved her. He had fantasized so many night about them being together. His mind making up scenarios. Imagining him in Sasuke's place as she looked at him with those loving eyes, as she wrapped her arms around his neck and stood on her toes to kiss him. The content smile they would share afterwards. All the things she did with Sasuke. Naruto imagined them directed at him. And it hurt.
It hurt to see them when all he wanted was to rip Sasuke a need one. But he couldn't and he had to swallow all his jealousy and pretend to be happy for her. It was always about her.
And now he'd shattered it. She wouldn't want to see him ever again.
His heart twisted again. His breath quickened and shook his head as a few stubborn tears fell from his closed eyes.
He'd lost her.
It's been a week and Ino cant stop thinking about what happened that day.
She, if she tried hard enough, could still recall the feel of his lips on hers. And she recalls it often enough to know that that kiss was so much better then the ones she's had with Sasuke.
Sasuke's kisses were greedy and cold. There was too much force and Ino felt she was being suffocated as his tong enterer her parted lips. She only smiled afterwards because she didn't want anyone to think that she didn't like Sasuke, because she did. She was his and he was hers. Well that's what she thought until she saw that the bastard was cheating on her.
She'd let the loser go and told them they were through. And all he did was smile and then leave. But as she got to school the next day. She heard the rumors and whispers. The raven asshole had spread the rumor that she was easy as fuck. That she loved to "Suck cock" as he so nicely put it. Sakura not far behind saying other stuff behind her back.
And as she walked through the hallways of school she could hear them whisper all the lies those two had spread. She walked with her head held high. But as she closed herself in an alone bathroom stool she let the few stubborn tears fall.
She couldn't believe what the bastard had spread around. And what hurt the most was that she was ready to actually sleep with him, and for him to make her his. She thank god that that hadn't happened.
She was at a lost for what to do. She knew that her façade was crumbling. She was trying to keep her dignity in check, but the way the people looked at her and whispered about her, made it all the more difficult. She had once being proud and giddy about the gossips they spread around her, the talking girls saying how lucky she was for being Sasuke's girl. How envious they were. How they wish they could be her. She had actually basked in their attention and word. She had felt like the queen of the world. But now looking back on it. She wasn't so sure how great being Sasuke's girl felt like. He was a bastard who played with her heart. And it was making her really angry and sad. Angry because he had cheated on her. Sad because she hadn't seen the great and loving boy she had oversee because of him.
Naruto was such a great guy. Why hadn't she seen that he was in love with her. He had always being there for her. Always making her laugh and he made her happy.
But now she had probably ruined it, by bolting and running away and practically avoid him like the plague.
She hadn't seen him in school or in the classes they had together. But that would change, she needed her sunshine. She needed to apologize once again for being stupid and running.
She wiped her tears and with a deep breath she was opening the door when she heard some girls talking outside.
"Yes he actually punch him, they were fighting on the parking lot. And they had to call an ambulance because Sasuke was unconscious. Thank god they expelled him. He was such a nuance"
"poor Sasuke-kun"
"yes I know. And it was all because of that …" she didn't get to finish that sentence because Ino bolted from the bathroom.
"no, no, no… please don't let it be true". she chanted in her mind as she run to Naruto's house. She really hoped that he was there. It was the first place that she thought of her friend could be.
As she rounded their street she saw the blonds mother outside on the porch .
"Auntie Kushina!" she yelled.
The redhead looked up the sound of her name being yelled. "Ino-Chan, aren't you supposed to be in school?".
"yeah, but I heard that there was a fight and I haven't seen Naruto and I had to talk to him, where is he?"
"Inside, come in". she said and gave her a wink.
Ino looked at her strangely. Did she knew about her sons feeling for her?. She shook her head and went inside, run up the stairs and opened the blonds door. What she saw made her heart almost stop.
Naruto was in front of his mirror examining the purple under his eye, probably where Sasuke punch him. He had bandages on his hands and his right cheek.
"Naruto" she called out to him softly to let him know she was there.
He stiffen at the sound of his name. he dropped his gaze to the floor. She had probably come here to yell at him for kicking the Uchiha's ass.
"Did… did you fight with Sasuke?" she asked.
His shoulders drop, defeated. She had came to yell at him it seems. And so he breathe deeply and answered her with a simple and short "yes".
She gasped. That meant that he… that he… got expelled.
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you fought him?"
"Why did I fought him? Why not. He's an asshole. He cheated on you, and made you cry. He's not worth it. Beside he was saying awful things about you and I couldn't take it anymore". as he finish saying those things he turns around to face her. He knows what's coming. She would kick him and she would walk out on him for good. But as a few minutes passed and no punch had come his way, he lifted his gaze from the floor to look at her and he notices the tears running down her cheeks.
"Ino?"
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry Naruto" she says as she tries to conceal her tears. Why is she always crying these days. She doesn't know really. She's always being so strong, but now look at her. A mess.
Naruto wordlessly approach her and wraps his arms around her. She stops crying and hugs him tighter. She doesn't want to leave him. She doesn't want him to leave her.
"Please don't go"
"what?"
"Please don't leave me, don't go."
He chuckles and rest his head on hers. He doesn't want to leave but he has to. His dad arrange with his godfather that he had to leave for three years abroad. And there's nothing he can do about it.
"We'll see each other again. I promise"
"You mean it?"
"When have I ever broken a promise before?"
She smiles and looks up at him. He's right, he's never broken a promise to her before, so she could take his word.
"Does it hurt?" she asked as she gently press in swollen cheek.
"No"
"Good" she says and she leans in on him. Planting her lips on his for a chaste kiss.
Naruto's brain short-circuited. She kissed him… she kissed him. he closes his eyes and mentally kicks himself. It must be a dream. She couldn't… she wouldn't…
Ino feels he's not responding to her kiss. And so she separates from him and takes a breath and goes for another one. But before she can he stops her with a question.
"What are you doing?"
"Kissing you"
"Don't"
"Why?"
"Because, even though I'm glad you forgave me and everything, I don't want to hurt you Ino. You're my best friend, and I would hunt down anyone who hurt you, just like Sasuke did. And I know if I kiss you right now, tomorrow you'll be hurt"
"Why? What happens tomorrow?"
"I'm leaving"
"WHAT? Where? Why?"
"Cause I was kick out of school, and my dad's making me go live with Jiraiya for the next three years" he doesn't look at her. He doesn't want to see the pain in her eyes.
"I don't care" she says as she tries to kiss him once again "I don't care… I'll wait for you, just as you did for me"
"Ino"
"No, please… I know you wont believe me, but I love you. And if it takes three more years for us to finally be together, then I'll wait".
He finally kisses her with all his pent up feelings, and it's amazing, more so than he had ever imagined. Ino's lips and soft and she taste of strawberry and mint. Probably her lipstick. But he likes it, and he presses her against him. If he's dreaming he really doesn't want to wake up.
Ino is in heaven. Naruto is so warm, and gentle and the kiss makes her stomach flutter with butterflies. And loves every minute that they explore each other mouths. She never thought that a kiss could feel this way. To made her toes curl and mind fuzzy. She doesn't want him to leave, not really, if she could go with him she would in a heart beat.
But now she has a memory that will forever be with her, and it'll help in the lonely hours when he's gone. She would recall the fell of his lips. Of his arms around her, his scent, his taste.
With a deep breath the both broke apart, but never leaving their embrace.
"Did you know how long I've dream of this moment?" he whispered in her ear
"No, but I can imagine… I'm sorry I made you wait for so long"
"It's ok. As long as you were happy, I was too". he said as he nuzzled against her neck.
"You're so cheesy Naruto". she smiled up at him.
"I know, I think I got it from my dad"
"Ha ha that's probably true".
"Love you Ino."
"Love you too. Scared-illy cat"
THE END
AN: Happy new year everyone!