NO THE CST TESTS ARE COMING NEXT WEEK!!! I AM SO DOOMED!!!!
Okay well enough of my whining/wailing/yelling!
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"You were right when you said they hated each other."
"That's why I requested those two for the mission."
"To make them make up?"
"Not really... Well kinda. When we were at the beach, I saw Shikamaru have hurt expression on his face when he saw Ino and Kiba having fun together in the water. Then he looked away, and when he looked back at them, I saw determination on his face. So I figured he wanted to have Ino back into his life."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"A while back, I was on my way over here to report to my mission, so I saw Shikamaru and Ino. So I thought 'Hey, its been awhile since i've seen them. I'll go say hi.' but when I was about call out to them, I heard Shikamaru yelling at Ino, saying that she was weak and useless, and always in the way. And I'll say that pissed me off, 'cuz im Ino's best friend and all, and then I heard Shikamaru telling Ino to stay out of his life. So to say I was shocked."
"He said that to her?"
"Yes. So after I reported my mission, I went to look for her, but I couldn't find her so I checked her house, and I found her asleep on her bed and figured I talk to her the next day."
"So what happened when you talked to her?"
"Well-"
"Tsunade-sama I brought your sake." Shizune walked in with a bottle of Sake.
"Ah thank you."
"Hi Harume. What are you doing here?"
"Just talking to Tsunade-sama since we both have nothing to do."
"Well she will have work to do later since papers are coming in."
"I'll be drunk by then." Tsunade said as she swallowed sake.
Harume laughed. "I'll be drunk with her!" She said and took out her own sake bottle. Both cheered and chugged down the sake. Shizune rolled her eyes and left the two.
"So, you were saying?"
"Right so, I went into Ino's flower shop-since it was open, and I talked to her, asked her if she was okay, and asked her what she was gonna do about him."
"What did she say?"
"She said she wan't going to do anything because Shikamaru was stronger than her and could think of 200 ways to beat her."
"What did you do."
"I asked if she wanted me to train her, and she said yes."
"Ya know I was wondering why Ino changed her appearance. I was shooked to see her having short hair, I thought she liked it long."
"Well she said she no longer needs to keep it long anymore."
"No longer?"
"She said she kept it long for Shika-Ino-Chou, but she said that her and Shikamaru aren't close anymore, nor are they friends and all."
"I see."
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When Ino woke and dressed, she was escorted by a maid to room that was full of food. Ino did not know if it was breakfast or not, but the food did look good, plus she was hungry.
She took a seat, and waited. A few minutes later, Shikamaru came in and sat next to Ino. They both were quiet and didn't say a word, but then Shikamaru remembered what Chouji told him. He was about to say something, but a door opened, and Prince Shinji came in.
"I hope you both had a night's rest, yes." Both Shikamaru and Ino nodded. "Good then. Please, let us eat, then we shall talk about my father's scroll."
And the three did. They in silence for the next few minutes, then they left to another room and spoke about the scroll.
"Prince Shinji, could you please tell us about your father's scroll." Shikamaru said.
"Yes. It is a scroll that gives information about money transportation. My father intended to use that scroll to build houses for the poor."
"Your father is a generous man." Ino said.
"Yes he is, and he is quite old, so I'll be taking the throne in about a year, and I need a queen." He said and looked at Ino, which in return, she blushed. Shikamaru saw this and was pissed off.
"Prince Shinji, could you telll us where this person is at." Shikamaru said, holding back his anger.
"Yes. From what I know, he is a rouge ninja and is heading toward the Land of Grass. He is meeting up with other rouge ninja. You can wait here, and I can send a message to Konoha and call reinforcements-"
"Please your highness, we can handle it ourselves." Ino said confidently.
"Well than, I bid you good luck. Send word if you need any help."
"We will." The three of the them stood up, and Ino and Shikamaru were escorted back to their rooms to retrieve their belongings. When they were outside, Shinji was waiting for them. He bid them farewell, and Ino and Shikamaru took off to the Lands of Grass.
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Shizune entered Tsunade's office with a stack of papers. When she opened the door, she sweat dropped. She found Tsunade and Harume on the floor- drunk.
"Y-You know I- *hiccup* know you lllike sssomeonnnne." Harume said in her drunk state.
"Whhaaat? *hiccup* I don't- *hiccup* I no like s-someonne." Tsunade drunkly said, shaking her head no.
"Yesss youuu dooo."
Shizune sighed and placed the papers on Tsunade's desk, and walked out, leaving the two drunks on the floor.
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Shikamaru and Ino hid behind a tree, making sure their chakra didn't leak out for them to be known. They both were listening to the rouge ningas they found not to long ago.
Shikamaru whispered to Ino that he was going to use his Shadow Posession Jutsu, and said that she should throw kunai at them. Ino didn't say anything, but she wasn't going to listen to his strategy, she was going to use her own. Ino stood up and walk to the side of the tree to make her presence known.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Shikamaru whispered. Ino ignored him and faked a cough to get the rouge nins' attention.
'Idiot! What are you doing?! Are you trying to get yourself killed?!' Shikamaru thought.
"Whadda you want?" Said a rouge nin. He looked at Ino up and down, and smirked, as well as his friends. Ino just looked at them with a blank face. She knew what they were thinking, but she wasn't going to let that bother her.
"You have the scroll that belonds to Prince Shinji."
"So what if we do?" Another said.
"Hand it over." Ino demanded. Shikamaru thought she was insane.
"And what if we don't? You'll what? Scratch us with your nails?" He laughed and smirked with his friends. Ino clenched her fist, she didn't like it when she was belittled.
"Hand it over. And I won't hurt you."
"You? Hurt us? Ha! Please little girl, you can't-" He was cut off when Ino threw a shuuriken at his head, but unfortunately, he dodged it. The rouge nin looked at the shuuriken thrown at him. It was so fast he didn't even see it. He looked back at Ino who merely had blank face still. He glared at her. "You bitch! Do you have death wish?" Ino shrugged. "I dunno." She merely stated.
The rouged nin was pissed at Ino's expressionless face, he grabbed the katana that was behind him and ran at Ino with full speed. He was only half way to Ino when he suddenly froze. He could not move his body. "W-What the hell!? I can't move!"
"Just what the hell do you think your going Ino?! Are you really trying to kill yourself!?" Shikamaru asked, almost yelled at her. Almost.
Ino just ignored him." I suggest you release your jutsu if you don't want to feel pain." Ino calmly said and began doing hand signs. Shikamara watched her with wide eyes and quickly undid his shadow posession.
"Earth Style: Ground Crusher." The ground opened up and the rouge ninja fell in. He tried to escape, but the ground closed, leaving the ninja underground and crushed. The other rouge ninjas were shocked to see one of their men killed. Shikamaru was completely shocked, he just witnessed a death, done by Ino. The weak and useless girl that he thought she was, just killed a rouge ninja with ease. Well shit, better not do anything stupid to get himself in that.
"You Wench! Your dead!" All of the ninjas came at full force on both Ino and Shikamaru. They both got into fighting stances, and attacked. One of the ninjas did a summoning, and Ino remembered what Harume taught her.
"I'm going to teach you a summoning jutsu." Harume said to Ino, and took out a scroll, and placed it on the floor.
"Wow really?! What is it?!" Ino asked excitedly.
"Your gonna summon the head of the pack, or leader, of wolves." Harume replied.
"Wolves? That's amazing!"
"Okay take it easy. Now, I want you to draw blood and write your name in this scroll, and have your fingerprints with blood also." Harume explained. Ino nodded and did exactly what she was told. When she finished, she looked back at Harume. "Now, I will show you the hand signs to summon the leader, Hakusoujaku." Ino nodded again and watched closely as Harume did the hand signs. In just one time Harume showed her, she already had it memorized.
"Okay now do the hand signs and place both your hands on the scroll of your name, and pump your chakra into it, keep it going untill it glows and yell, 'I, Yamanaka Ino, wish for the permission of Hakusoujaku.' now start." Harume instructed. Ino took a deep breath and did the hand signs, and placed her hands on the scroll.
She took a deep breath and yelled. "I, Yamanaka Ino, wish for the permission of Hakusoujaku!" The scroll began to glow, and there was a large poof, it almost covered the entire training field. Ino coughed and looked up too see a large, tall black wolf looking down at the two females.
"Harume, what is it that you need." The gigantic wolf said.
"I was not the one who summoned you Hakusoujaku." Harume said and then looked at Ino. The wolf looked at Ino and spoke in his deep voice.
"What is your name Girl?"
"Yamanaka Ino, Hakusoujaku-sama."
"You don't need to call him by sama Ino, just call him what I call him. Like Haku, or Souja, or Jaku, or-" Harume was pushed by the tail of Hakusoujaku, and fell to the ground.
"OWIE!! YOU MEANER!!" Hakusoujaku ignored Harume and focused his attention on Ino. "Yamanaka Ino. Why do you wish for the use of my pack?"
"I wish not to use them, but wish if they could help me."
"Are you going to abuse the power of summoning and treat my wolves lowly?"
"No! Of cousre not! Never in my life will I ever do that! I only wish for you to see me as a comrade, not someone who will mistreat one of your wolves and only thinks of them as a slave. I am not that type of person! And I will never be that way!" Ino said, practically yelling at him.
Harume was still on the floor, but sitting. She knew Hakusoujaku was a tough wolf to get through, but was amazed that Ino practically yelled at him! Now that takes a lot of guts for someone new at summoning a freakingly gigantic wolf, but it was never like that because when Harume summoned Hakusoujaku, he already knew what she was like just by looking at her, plus, in time, he got use to Harume that he didn't even care what she called him, nor by her being an idiot, in the most oddly times when she was in battle.
The leader of the wolves studied Ino. She stood up to him even when he looked at her with a frightning look. He had to admit the young woman was brave, and he knew from the start that she would not treat his pack so lowly.
"Very well then."
"What?" Ino asked, surprised by his answer.
"Yamanaka Ino. I give you permission to summon my wolves when needed. You may also summon me if you know that your in an inescapeable battle." And with that, the head of the wolves disappeared.
"You Girl, just got yourself a summon."
Ino quickly did hand signs. "Summoning Jutsu!"
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Shikamaru dodged the shuuriken that was thrown at him, but he and the ninja he was fighting stopped when someone yelled.
"Summoning Jutsu!" A puff of clouds blew all over the place, and when it cleared, everyone saw Ino next to a white fox.
"You called for me Lady Ino?"
"Yes Hakurou, that man over there summoned a reptile, quite big, would you help me get rid of it?" Ino asked
"Of course Lady Ino." Hakurou readied himself and charged at the reptile. Ino looked around and found a pond not to big and not to small, nad started making hand signs. "Water Style: Water Raging dragon!" Water shot up from the pond and formed an ice dragon. It was still at the moment, its blazing red eyes watching the enemy. Then, it attacked six ninja, two managed to escaped, but were left heavily injured.
Shikamaru watched this from the side, and was, again, shocked to see what Ino did. He quickly got rid of the other two ninja that attacked him and went after others. He glanced at the wolf fighting the reptile.
'A wolf? That's what Harume summoned the last time Team ten went on a mission with her, on our genin days. And Harume was already a jonin by then. Did she really teach Ino that? Or did Ino learn on her own?......Most likely Harume taught her..' Shikamaru thought.
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A few minutes later, Ino and Shikamaru had already been injured, but it really wasn't anything at all, just a few scratches here and there. However, after fighting for quite awhile, they both were getting tired.
Shikamaru finished his opponent- He already found the scroll that contained the information on the money. He looked off at Ino's direction and saw she was already going to be finished with her opponent. But something caught his eye, one enemy was about to attack Ino from behind. Without even thinking, Shikamaru ran towards Ino.
Ino was just about to kill her enemy when she sensed another chakra behind her, but she already it was to late for her to save herself. She closed her eyes and awaited for the pain to come, but it never came. She opened her eyes and gasped in shock. Shikamaru took the for her, and was stabbed in the abdoman by a kunai. Ino quickly stood up and killed the person who stabbed Shikamaru. She quickly took Shikamaru to a safe distance away from their battle field, and placed him down on the floor gently. She pulled out the kunai embedded into him, and tore off his chuunin vest. She lifted up his shirt and started to heal him with whatever chakra she had left, but she knew that once his wound completely healed, she would pass out right away. She thought that once she did pass out, she would only be weak in his eyes, and just the thought of it pained her heart. She felt like it was slowly breaking- For she thought that she was healing over the weeks she trained with Harume, but in truth, she was slowly breaking. She will no longer deny to herself, she was inlove with the boy who hurt her emotionally, but now she knew if he was happy with Temari....she would be happy for him, while she watch him be happy with Temari....while her heart be broken that no one will be ever to heal....but him....and only him. But she will not cry for him, ever again.
When she finished healing his wound, she passed out, but she landed safely in Shikamaru's arms.
He looked down at her face, she looked like she was emotionally pained, and he figured it was because of him. He lifted Ino into his arms and carried her by a tree to rest- He just needed a few minutes to regain his chakra, and then he can carry Ino back to the palace.
I am finished and I no i didn't take that long! SWEET!!
Okay my readers, I have some good and bad news. The bad news is, that the story is almost over, I no its so sad!!! But the good news is that im cutting the chapters so it could make the story longer! Like I did with this chapter, I would have wrote more, but thought it would be best if I cut the chapters to make the story longer.
So review please. Oh! And to make all of you happy, I will be writing a sequal!! ^^