A/N: Thank you all for giving me 132 (well last time I checked) reviews and just by 15 chapters! I love you all! …Well not really but I really appreciate you!

Oh yeah, this will probably be my last chapter for the summer because my school starts at August 28 and since that's less then a month away… And hopefully I'll write during the school year but I'm not sure because I'm going to be a junior and I heard it's the hardest year…

Okay, so without further ado: here's chapter 16!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did then I would be rich instead of having one dollar in my wallet (really I only own one dollar… I shop a lot)

Chapter 16

Suffocation

"You're Ino, right?" A waitress with brown hair and black eyes asked. She looked about a year or so older then Ino and was obviously Japanese.

"…Yeah. Why?" Ino asked, scared that some stranger knew her name.

Actually Ino wouldn't call her a stranger. She knew the waitresses name, it was Aoi and Ino would consider her an enemy.

It's been about a week since Ino and Shikamaru official became a couple and about three days ago since Anne-Marie pointed Aoi out in a local cafÈ and said she was one of Temari's brother girlfriend.

It took Ino a little time to process the whole thing but she finally figured it out: Temari apparently has more then one brother and one of them has a girlfriend and the girlfriend worked as a waitresses in the local cafÈ… the cafÈ she and Shikamaru usually go too.

So Ino came to a conclusion: Aoi was an enemy. She looked like a quiet person and she spoke soft but those are the worst kind of enemy. You don't know what they're thinking about because they won't tell you anything. Actually Aoi wasn't just an enemy, Ino was thinking that she was also a spy.

Ever since Anne-Marie pointed Aoi out, Ino noticed that Aoi worked at the cafÈ all the time she and Shikamaru went there. And even if Ino went alone in the cafÈ (like she was today) Aoi was there. So Ino came to an other conclusion: Aoi was a spy for Temari.

Ino bet that Aoi was telling Temari all about her and Shikamaru's dates and about Ino in general. Why else would Aoi be working there all the time? Nothing! There's no other reason unless to watch Ino every moment when she goes to the cafÈ.

So now the spy was sitting down in front of Ino like she and Ino came together as friends. Ino stared at Aoi like she grew a third arm. Why would she be sitting with Ino? Aren't spies suppose to be silent and unnoticeable to the people they're spying on?

"I'm Aoi," Aoi introduced herself softly.

"How do you know me?" Ino asked, trying to play dumb. She wasn't suppose to know that Aoi knows her since she was a spy for Temari.

"Someone told me," Aoi said quietly. "Anyway, I noticed that you're with Shikamaru or at least hang out with him a lot and I want to tell you that—"

"—That you're a spying on us to tell Temari!?" Ino questioned, her voice getting louder (and angrier) with every word.

"No…" Aoi said, confused on how Temari got into the conversation. But she just shrugged it off. "Temari doesn't really have nothing to do with this. I wanted to tell you that you shouldn't really hang out with Shikamaru a lot because he might break it off and blame that you were suffocating him."

"…Really?" Ino said, giving into Aoi. Aoi didn't seem much of a bad person once she said Temari had nothing to do with her talking. And what she was saying sounded sort of like she wanted Shikamaru and her to be together.

"Yes," Aoi said, nodding. "He doesn't really like to go into relationships like that… or at least that's what I noticed. But you'll know he needs space when he says that you two will need a break."

"…Need a break?" Ino croaked. She hated those words if it off a boyfriend's lips. That was just telling her "we're done but I didn't really know how to tell you".

"Yes but he really just needs a break. He will still call you his girlfriend he just won't hang out with you for a while."

"Oh," Ino said, her voice sounded a little better but just a little.

"But by the time he talks to you again from your "break", he probably found someone else," Aoi said, ending it on a sad note.

It was silent for a while. Ino was to shocked to say anything and Aoi was probably done and waiting for Ino to talk.

"…Are you sure?" Ino asked softly. Her voice sounded so small.

Aoi nodded. "He always does that and he usually goes back to Temari when he says he needs a break with a girl and then—"

"—Temari?" Ino asked, confused.

'I thought Temari had nothing to do with this?' Ino asked herself.

"Yeah," Aoi said. "After he wants a break from his girlfriend he goes back to Temari and tells his girlfriend he has someone else and then the whole suffocation thing goes with Temari and they take a break—"

"—You said Temari had nothing to do with this," Ino interrupted Aoi.

"I said she doesn't really have nothing to do with this," Aoi pointed out. Her voice sounded like she was trying to help but Ino could see through Aoi's voice. "She doesn't really because she's just the girl that Shikamaru always goes back to after he feels suffocated from his current girlfriend."

"Then she does have something to do with this!" Ino snapped. "She has everything to do with this!"

"Not really…" Aoi said, confused again.

"Yes she does!" Ino exclaimed fiercely. She pointed at Aoi like she was accusing her with something. "I bet Temari probably told you to tell me all that! So you gain my trust and we become friends and then you tell Temari everything I tell you about Shikamaru so she can find a way to steal him back!"

'Wait does that make sense? Temari tells Aoi to become friends with me, she does it, then I tell her everything about Shikamaru, which Aoi will tell Temari so she can steal him back… yes that makes sense,' Ino summarized it in her head.

"I'm not doing that!" Aoi said defensively. Her voice was still soft but it was a bit louder then before. "I don't even like Temari that much!"

"Then why would you date one of her brothers!?"

"…Because I like one of them," Aoi pointed out like it was a no brainier.

"Listen: just because I'm blonde that doesn't mean I'm stupid and I could see right through you and your fake act!" Ino cried loudly. Ino had a lot of fake friends in high school and she didn't need to deal with another one.

"It's not a fake act. I'm telling you this because I want to help your relationship—"

"—I don't need help with my relationship!" Ino yelled in rage. It was lucky that there wasn't much people in the cafÈ or else people would be staring. She got up and started to storm off. But as she was halfway to the door she turned her head and looked straight at Aoi, who was starting at her in shock. Ino's face was as serious as it could ever be. "My relationship with Shikamaru is going great and I don't need someone to tell me it's not especially if the person is trying to make me break up with him."

And with that she left the cafÈ with Aoi shaking her head.

"She's going to fall into Temari's plan," Aoi said quietly before she got up and started to work again.

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"Hello Sakura?" Ino asked through the phone.

"…Inzo? Whaz you want?" Sakura asked sleepily through the other end of the phone.

Ino frowned when she looked at clock in her room: 2:24PM. It was 2:24AM where Sakura was… Ino hated different time zones.

"Sorry for calling you at night for you but right now I'm having a crisis!" Ino said.

"Whaz your crisis?" Sakura asked, her voice was still a little drowsy but Ino knew Sakura would still listen.

Ino told Sakura about Aoi and what she said and in the end Sakura didn't speak for a while.

"…Sakura?" Ino asked, getting mad. Did she just say the whole thing just for Sakura to sleep again!

"I'm thinking!" Sakura complained.

"Oh. Okay."

Ino waited for a few minutes, just tapping her fingers against the headboard of her bed until Sakura started to speak again.

"Listen to Aoi," Sakura said finally. Her voice sounded awake but Ino heard Sakura drinking something while she was talking so Ino guessed she drank coffee or something.

"You want me to trust her?!" Ino asked, half in disgust half in shock.

"Not to trust her, just listen to her. Take her advice: don't hang out with Shikamaru a lot," Sakura said. "Loosen your grip on Shikamaru."

"Why are you agreeing with the spy!" Ino complained. "It obvious she made that up to scare me away from Shikamaru!"

"No not really. Shikamaru seems like one of those guys who wouldn't want to be suffocated by a relationship."

"Well he's not!' Ino yelled to the phone. "Shikamaru and I are very happy and none of us feel suffocated!"

"…Then why did you call me at 2AM?"

"I wanted you to agree with me that Aoi was a spy and I SHOULDN'T listen to her!"

"Well I agree with Aoi."

"You're no help!" Ino shouted before she aggressively flipped her cell phone down and threw it at her bed.

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It's been three days since that whole thing happen and Belle did the exact opposite of what Aoi and Sakura said. She didn't loosen her grip on him, she gripped tighter. She clung to his arm every time they went out, she would go to his house a lot to talk, she would watch him and her uncle play Shogi whenever Shikamaru came over to play. And if Shikamaru didn't want to hang out with Ino… well that wasn't an option for him.

"Hey Shikamaru!" Ino greeted her boyfriend happily as he sat down at the edge of her bed.

Shikamaru sighed. "Ino we need to talk…"

"Okay!" Ino said, unfazed with the fact that Shikamaru sounded like it was going to be a hard talk.

'Damn…' Shikamaru cursed in his head. 'This is going to be troublesome…'

"We've been hanging out a lot lately and I sort of need my space…"

"Um… here," Ino said, backing away from Shikamaru a bit. "There's your space!"

Shikamaru could tell that Ino knew what was going on and that she was trying to seem like she doesn't.

"Ino, I'm being serious," Shikamaru said. "I think we need a break."

"But you'll know he needs space when he says that you two will need a break," Aoi voice came up in Ino's mind once Shikamaru said that to her.

'Was Aoi actually telling her the truth?' Ino asked herself.

"Um… okay," Ino said, trying hard not to sound hurt… it wasn't working at all.

"We're still together," Shikamaru added quickly. "I just need some time for myself."

"Yeah, okay," Ino said, trying her best to smile. "Take all the time you need."

"Okay," Shikamaru said, standing up. "Well bye."

"Bye…"

As Ino heard her door shut she turned around, grabbed her Piccacho stuff animal and hugged it tight as a tear came out of her eye and another thing that Aoi said to her echoed to her mind…

A/N: …NNNOO! What have I done!? I made them break up:starts to hide under a rock for doing that: And the chapter was only five pages! That's so short:hides under a heavier rock: I'm sorry!

Anyway, next chapter: For once I don't know… NNNOOO! I'm falling apart! But I promise it will be longer then this!

So please review but no flames! …Even though even I don't know what will happen next chapter…