AN: This chapter is especially for two groups of people.

The first group are those who desperately need an explanation for the end of chapter one. I promised I would so it's here. In fact, the whole thing is just one big frelling explanation.

The second group is obviously those who keep screwing at me (excuse the pun) for not having lemons in here. I did try to write it as a lemon, I really did, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

So here you go. ONE MASSIVE FRELLING LIME WARNING. That's all you get. Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha

It started out very differently I can assure you but I don't think it suffers too much. I was afraid of it getting angsty so if it doesn't make sense feel free to ask me to translate.

Lol.

2076 ridiculously exaggerated words in this chapter.

Back to Surreality

Chapter four- Let me help

FLASHBACK

Ino reached out a finger to the image on the screen and a tear began to falling down her face. There was Shikamaru, still sat on the floor, facing away from the camera, slumped not from laziness but from despair. His shoulders shook like he was crying and she felt her heart wrench uncontrollably.

Soon, the screen was blank, but she didn't look to see why. The only thing filling her head was that image and her overwhelming guilt at having caused it.

She couldn't control herself any longer. She turned and she ran, as fast as she physically could.

She didn't stop. Not when hands reached out to stop her leaving the room…

not when she thought she might have lost her way…

and not even when she ran straight into Kakashi as he left down the corridor.

She only came to a halt when she had her arms locked around him in comfort, wet cheek touching wet cheek.

She felt him try to pull her back from his torso and only tightened her hold. "Don't Shika. Never let go of me again"

"But… you said…" he rasped out, confused as to why the woman who just told him that she never wanted to see him again was now clamped around him, sobbing into his shoulder.

"I lied Shikamaru, none of it was true. I could never say those things to you. Please forgive me."

"What? Forgive you? You did nothing wrong Ino."

"I did. I told the most awful lie possible." She pulled back to look into his eyes "I made you cry. I… I didn't want to hurt you so badly, I just… I couldn't say it in here."

"Say what Ino?"

"Come with me. We'll go somewhere else and I'll tell you, just, not in here. Please?"

Within seconds, his hands had performed the sequence for the transportation jutsu and they landed outside, on top of their favorite spot.

Ino wiped off her tears and looked around. "This is so much better. It's exactly where I always wanted to tell you, even though I never realized it." She smiled at him and stroked the side of his face lovingly.

He didn't respond so she started to place butterfly kisses up his neck, speaking each phrase in between as she worked her way towards his mouth.

"I lied when I said I couldn't forgive you… the truth is that there was nothing to forgive… I just missed you so much… and I don't want to go back to how we were… I don't want you in ANBU… I want you with me… and I want more time with you… and I've loved these few days… just because you were there… it just felt right… and kissing you felt right… and I do love you… I love you so mu…"

This time she was cut off as she reached his mouth and he started kissing back, not letting her pull away again.

He held her tightly to him and let out everything into the kiss, just to let her know that he returned her sentiments completely and it took a long time before either of them withdrew.

Eventually, Ino gasped for air and pulled back, much to his relief. Then she continued her explanations. "I love you so much and I knew I couldn't tell you that when you wanted me to. That was all an act, everything I did in there, and I didn't want to tell you as an act, in a mission, I wanted to tell you right, when you could know for certain that I was being genuine. But also, you said that if I told you that, you would end the mission, and a huge part of me never wanted it to end. Shikamaru, you do realize that I hadn't talked to you since Christmas either, don't you? Eight months is a very long time to go without seeing your best friend, knowing that he's either locked up in a tower all day long or out getting himself killed while the rest of the team is stuck on bloody d-rank missions because no one wants a two ninja team that works best in a trio. I missed you. I need you. I love you."

"Ino… I had no idea you felt that way. Why didn't you say anything when I joined ANBU?"

"I did Shika. I begged Tsunade. I screamed at her until I lost my voice. She didn't listen though. You're too bloody clever, they couldn't survive without you."

"Why didn't you say anything to me?"

"I didn't want you to think I was weak. I didn't want you to feel that I was holding you back."

"Ino. You could never be the one to hold me back. You are the one thing that keeps me going. You are what I fight for, and what I survive for. I think we both really needed this mission to realize that. I promise that I will never leave you that long again. I missed you too. I need you too. I love you too."

Ino giggled "You are so cheesy."

He smirked back, running his fingers through her loose hair. "You love it"

For the second time that day, Ino lost complete control over herself as she tackled him to the ground, landing on top of him in a fit of laughter. "Now… where exactly did we leave off?"

"What?" he sat up slightly, bringing her with him "when?"

"Ah yes. Now I remember…" she slowly straddled him like she did a few days ago "Now I know why got this far… and then you started torturing me with sweet, pointless kisses so I…" here she took off her halter neck top like before, slowly and as sensually as possible, enjoying the look of surprise I his eyes as he began to catch on to what she was doing.

Almost to script, Shikamaru looked at her and said "what are you doing?"

Ino almost squealed with delight when she thought that he might be playing along, but instead she decided to give him a quick wink before saying "what do you think I'm doing?"

She then let the purple material fall to the grass softly leaving her in only her bra and skirt, seen as she never bothered to put her shoes back on anyway.

She didn't bother telling him to shut up because she didn't need to, choosing instead to skip right to the part where she pins him to the floor again.

She went straight back to kissing him passionately as his hands wandered possessively over the bare skin of her back.

It wasn't long before he turned her over, pushing her slender body beneath his own as she continued to lock her legs around his waist.

He paused to look down at her curiously as she began chewing on her bottom lip in anticipation. She thought she knew what was coming next… now he had to prove her wrong.

He leant down towards her, delighting in her dazed expression and whispered in her ear. "That's a really bad habit of yours. It's really un-ladylike to bite like that."

"Huh?"

"You should at least let me help" so he did. He moved over and took her bottom lip into his own mouth, biting slightly at the already swollen flesh.

She pushed him away and frowned "That isn't in the script."

"Yeah, well I didn't like that ending so much."

She snarled at him before pulling his shirt off by herself. "that's better" she sighed as she let her hands slide across the soft skin of his torso.

He bent down again and repeated his motion of moving kisses down the edge of her neck, biting and sucking as he went.

Once he reached that tender area between her neck and her shoulder, she gasped out her pleasure and arched against him, one of her hands snaking around his neck to pull him closer, holding him to that spot.

She turned her head to the side to allow him better access as he moved his actions further down, staying longer in that spot but determined not to stay there forever.

She also began to feel his hand moving tauntingly across her abdomen, just like before, in little circles of ecstasy that made her cry out. This is it Ino, uncharted territory. Anything could happen now.

Before she knew it, his second hand began to creep up her back, adding to her sensory euphoria for no reason except that it was another moving object on her skin.

She closed her eyes as she moaned out again, feeling his soft, warm mouth pulsating towards her chest, just as the little circles of satisfaction reached the area just below her bra.

She arched out again, stronger this time, and enough to make him groan as she rocketed straight into his growing erection. She opened her eyes to notice a slight flash of pain in his own eyes as he looked up at her sheepishly, but it was quickly followed by a glare of calculated deviancy.

She wondered what it was he was doing, until she remembered what his second hand was doing and barely had enough time to reach down and whisper "Fucking genius!" in a seductive tone before the clasp on her bra sprung open and she found the entire garment removed in seconds.

She was now open, bare to the world and he didn't waste any time in taking advantage of it. He leant up to her ear and whispered in a very similar, silky tone "Fucking gorgeous!"

To which she replied "I know you are, but not for long if you don't finish what you started."

He smirked at her, letting his hands begin to massage the skin at the edge of her breasts before his mouth began to move gradually down their valley.

She could help but to call out again, but tried to hold back as much as possible, increasingly aware now that someone could hear them and walk in on them to receive a full viewing of her upper torso.

She decided that he had had enough fun, despite the fact that her body was positively aching for release and began to reach one of her hands further down his torso, edging towards the waistband of his pants daringly.

She took her time, hoping that she could catch him out with equal skill as he did her, using the excuse of her constant arching as she continued to feel Shikamaru-induced waves of pure pleasure.

After a few seconds of her discreet movements, she had reached the area just above his fly and was about to celebrate her victory when Shikamaru stopped kissing her chest and brought his head back up to hers with a smirk. "Here, let me help"

Before she even had time to question him, he was completely naked, having removed his pants and all, and pulled her on top of him.

She gasped in delight and kissed him on the mouth, letting her tongue venture inside as preparation for what she knew was about to happen, re-adjusting herself on top of him and letting the hand that was close before get even closer.

She didn't hold back now in calling out so loudly half of Konoha could hear them, knowing that she wouldn't be the only one exposed.

She was feeling so turned on right now that a herd of elephants could have run passed and she wouldn't have noticed. She soon moved her own mouth to lick against his smooth torso lightly, in slow movements as she made her way down.

Shikamaru moaned himself as he felt the touch of her feminine fingers and looked down at her. "Ino, you really don't have to…"

"Shh…"she put a finger to his mouth to make him stop talking "I want to…"

END OF FLASHBACK

As they left the hill to follow Sakura to the hospital, Ino flashed her new lover a knowing grin and slowly detached her fingers from his. They were more than happy to let Sakura know that they were together, but nobody would ever know much more.

They vowed to stay together and to keep what happened between them a complete secret, but now they had much more important things to do…

They had a neglected team mate to yell at for being an idiot…

And some parents to scare the hell out of…

AN: I say again mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha cough wheeze

I bet you all hate me right now huh?

Well don't feel too bad.

It's not like I've just written over five hundred words worth of gold for a section in about 5 chapters time and have some very interesting things planned that you won't see for ages.

Oh wait…

Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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