"Ugh," The blonde groaned, reaching her hand over to her alarm clock. She turned over and her hand hit something hard, she slide it up the figure and her eyes shot up quickly, widen with shock and a little horror. 'Genma is in my bed.' she said mentally, trying to calm herself down. They didn't do anything, she wasn't that drunk, a fierce make out session and she had went to bed. She stepped off her bed, the cold floor sent a shiver throughout her body when he feet touched the floor. Making her way to the restroom and looked back at the sleeping man in her bad and couldn't help but smile; he looked to peaceful sleeping. "What am I doing?" She looked herself in the mirror, before stepping into the shower. "I want Itachi not Genma, this is all wrong."
Genma woke to the sound of running water, he stretched his muscles and yawned. He laid still on the bed, staring up at the ceiling. Last night filmed through his mind; Ino's innocent drunken state left her completely vulnerable to him, he, they could have done so much more; but he wasn't going to snoop to that level just because she was drunk. He thought about her sleeping, the way the moon shine on her face through the window, her head resting nicely on his chest, then he remembered her talking in her sleep, saying things that made no sense to him but it was just words not the full sentences. She spoke his name once or twice; she also spoke of another, Uchiha. Sasuke more than likely, there would be no way she would be dreaming about the other one.
The sun hadn't even come up and she was already awake at this hour. She did have a mission of course, a mission, with that Uchiha brat, that was going to last a few days, he didn't like the thought of Ino being around the guy; Genma didn't fully trust him. He rolled to the other side of the bed, and sat down searching the floor for his belongings. Once he was dressed he snuck out her balcony, not waiting for Ino to come out, fearing awkward mornings.
"So the mission itself is only going to last two days?" Ino grabbed onto Shikamaru's arm, getting his attention.
"Yeah, it'll take a day to get there, so we're gonna have to camp out. The next day is when we give them the scroll."
"Then we have the next day to ourselves?" Ino asked excitedly, she saw Sasuke roll his eyes; of course he would go back to normal after their date. "Aw, Lady Tsunade is such a great person!" She pulled down on Shikamaru's arm happily.
"Ah, Ino if you keep holding onto me like that I'm going to trip." Shikamaru pulled himself up, trying to regain his balance. The blonde tugged down on his arm with a sigh, she was already tired of walking, the sun was already setting and soon it was going to get to dark to keep going. "We should probably get started on setting up the campsite." Ino released the boy from her arms and looked around the forest.
"So, I hear you've been spending a lot of time with Genma?" Sakura joking nugged Ino's shoulder, they all sat around the fire eating a meal that Ino and Shikamaru cooked up. She blushed and looked away from her, getting curious looks from Shikamaru and Sasuke and a blank confused one from Naruto. "He's really older than you." She stated.
"Age is just a number." Ino replied, remembering that Itachi wasn't that far from Genma's age as well. "But nothing is going on with us!" She exclaimed in protest, Sakura gave her a look and then smirked.
"Eh, Ino are you going out with him?" Naruto leaned in next to her and whispered.
"She leads him on." Shikamaru said with a roll from his eyes
"That sounds like her," Sasuke added rudely.
"No, I don't! Well, I mean, I don't try too, he's just always around me." She fiddled with her fingers nervously, looking at her feet. "He's a kind, nice, really cute guy and well," she let her words trail off, not remembering what exactly she was trying to get at.
"So, you DO like him?" Sakura scooted closer, her eyes bright lit up with excitement. Ino groaned and stomped off to her tent.
"I don't like him." She mumbled to herself. "Do I?" She shook the thought out of her head and sighed. "I wish I knew where he is."
"Okay, this is how it's going to be settled," Shikamaru started to explain while the made their way into the small village. "Ino and I will be doing most of the talking, Sakura, you and Sasuke will be back up in case they ask a question we don't know, and Naruto," He looked back at the blond boy and sighed. "You just don't mess anything up, this is very important to the leaf, do you all got that?" The group nodded their head with understatement. "We still have an hour or so until we meet up with them, I'm going to check in to the inn." Ino turned around and realized who she was stuck with; Sakura was fine, until she started fighting with Naruto and throwing herself on Sasuke, Naruto was loud and annoying always trying to fight with the Uchiha boy and he, he was just rude. A sigh escaped her lips without realizing it.
"Hm, is something wrong Ino?" Sakura asked, her eyebrow raised in question.
"I'm fine," She laughed nervously. "I'm gonna go check around the village and see what they have." She waved them a bye while walking away. She could hear Naruto making a comment to Sasuke and then cry out in pain from Sakura hitting him. "My god, they sure haven't changed one bit." She walked aimlessly around the small town, stopping at a small cafe. She looked inside thinking that she had seen a glimpse of a black and red cloak. "I must be seeing things." Why would he be there anyways and out in the open like that? "Ah, I want dango." She whined to herself, looking around.
"There's a nice little tea shop around the corner that has some." Ino looked behind her and saw a nice looking young man, smirking at her. He had long loose dark hair and bright red eyes, tan skin and was tall. "Would you care to join me Ino?" She was taken back, debating on weather or not she should trust the guy.
"Ah, maybe another time." She chuckled nervously. Wait, did he say her name? "How do you know my name?" The man chuckled and grabbed onto her shoulder, dragging her around the corner to the tea shop he was talking about. He sat her down and sat across from her, ordering for both of them. Ino watched him in suspicion, something about him seem all to familiar to her. "Have we met before?"
"Come now Ino, we have." And then it hit her, the man sitting in from of her was Itachi. She smiled happily and wanted to jump across the table to hug him.
"What are you doing here?" She whispered in a squeal. "You can not be here right now." His eyebrow raised at her demand. The waitress soon came with their meal, Ino stared down at her dango and green tea and sighed. "I want to see the real you." Itachi frowned, this body was just a jutsu but Ino wasn't happy seeing that, she wanted to his face and his own smile.
"Kisame and I came here undercover, we can't let ourselves be seen by anyone." Ino concentrated on his new fake face, it was handsome but not like his own. "If he even saw me talking to you, he would start to ask questions."
"Where did she run off too?" Shikamaru asked in a sigh. "That troublesome woman."
"Hey, I found her!" Naruto called out, waving his hand and pointing into a tea shop. "She's with a guy." The curious group sped up their speed to see her. "Guys love her, don't they?"
"He's cute, I'm kind of jealous." Sakura giggled.
"Call her and lets go before we're late." Sasuke spatted out turning around and crossing his arms.
"So, you're on a mission with him?" Itachi pointed towards the entrance, Ino looked over and was surprised to see her teammates staring at her and then turn around once they all made eye contact. "Is that why you didn't want me here?" She nodded her head. "Hm, I see how that will cause up some trouble."
"I'm sorry, I have to go." She stood up and took out some money to pay for her meal. He stopped her, and shook his head; Ino blushed.
"I hope I get to see you again." She stood up along with her, placing enough money on the table for both meals. He had the urge to kiss her forehead like usual but didn't for her friends and his little brothers sake.
Ino watched him leave out the cafe, getting eyed up and down by her teammates. She walked towards them and stood in front of them, her hand placed on her hip giving them a look. "Were you guys spying on me?" She asked.
"He's cute Ino, where did you pick him up at?" Sakura asked jokingly. "He might be cuter than Genma." Ino punched Sakura on the arm, her cheeks tinted a light pink.
"Anyways, lets get going." Shikamaru ordered and they all nodded their heads, except Sasuke who was still eying Ino suspiciously.
Ino giggled sweetly at the mans joke, it wasn't funny but they need to get on his good side. "Well, aren't you a cute one?" He pointed at the blonde and she froze, she winked putting up an act and blew him a kiss. "Ah, I love young girls." The statement made Ino want to puke, she looked at Shikamaru from the corner of her eyes, giving him a look to save her.
"Sir, what do you say?" The mans attention shot from Ino's to Shikamaru's and he smiled.
"Of course! If the leaf has girls like her there then I will sign anything." Ino shiver when they man winked at her, this is so gross but it was for the sake of her village to keep them on their good side.
Sasuke watched as Ino and Shikamaru worked, now understanding why they were chosen for the man job, with Shikamaru's brain and Ino's looks they would get anything. He smirked to himself seeing the blonde completely hiding the fact that the man creeped her out to no extend.
"Poor Ino, it seems like she's always getting hit on by old creepy men." Naruto whispered quietly in Sasuke's ear, he nodded his head and pushed him away quickly. Ino walked up to the man and handed him the scroll with a smile plastered on her face, he patted down on his lap to sit down. Sasuke almost started laughing at Ino's hesitation and face. Naruto snickered behind him and Sakura punched him quietly on the arm.
Ino made eye contact with Sasuke who had a smirk on his face, oh what she would do get wipe it off his smug face. Her attention went back to the man and flirted nervously with him knowing that her teammates were watching her. Usual she wouldn't be nervous but that was only when Shikamaru and Choji were just around because they knew her; but knowing that Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke were watching as well made her nervous.
Shikamaru stood up carefully and walked towards the man and Ino, watching as he signed the papers. The man happily handed it back to him and smiled widely, wrapping his arm around Ino's waist, trapping her from leaving. Her blue eyes widen when she felt his dry rough hand slide down her skin towards her middle area, she whimpered quietly and looked up at Shikamaru.
"Thank you sir, now if you don't mind, we will get going now." He quickly grabbed Ino by her wrist and dragged her out the door, followed by Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura close behind. Naruto and Sakura were laughing as soon as they stepped out of the building.
"It's not funny!" Ino protested, stomping her foot on the ground in anger. "That was disgusting, ugh! I just want to shower for the rest of my life."
"You know you would have found it funny if it wasn't you Ino." Sakura playing poked at the blondes side.
"You should have seen the look on your face the entire time! It was hilarious!" Naruto held his stomach from all the laughing.
"Whatever," Ino grumbled to herself, crossing her arms over her chest. "What are you smirking at Uchiha?" The dark haired boy shrugged his shoulders and chuckled. "Seriously, I don't even want to stay here anymore because of that man."
"You won't even stay for that guy you met at the tea shop?" Sakura nugged Ino's shoulder. She looked around to where Sakura was pointing, finally noticing the boy, 'Itachi' sitting outside a tea shop by himself. "Go talk to him, he looks so lonely!" Sakura gave her a slight push and Ino smiled happily, fixing her outfit. She started towards him but stopped in her tracks when another girl ran towards him, giving him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
Ino's heart dropped, that was Itachi, right? It had to have been, but why did that other girl just kiss him? Her mouth was wide open when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She just couldn't believe her eyes, was Itachi really with someone else?