Ino woke up in a cold sweat, her breath was fast and shallow. Her body started to shake as she looked at her surrounds, where was she? Her room? That's right, she's been sleeping for almost two days?! "That dream, why do I keep having that dream?" She muttered to herself. "Don't understand what it means, maybe I should ask Shikamaru." She stepped into her living, shocked to find a sleeping figure on her sofa. Taking a closer look she noticed his brown hair and senbon tossed on the floor, Genma but why was he in her house and sleeping on her sofa? "Hey," She gave him a nudge. "Genma, wake up. What are you doing here?" He turned to her, his eyes fighting to stay open. His hand reached out for her, grabbing her elbow and then pulled her down on the sofa.

Ino let out a small gasp when he body landed on top of the sleeping man and he held onto her tiredly. She let him hold her for a few more minutes, taking in his handsome sleeping face. But then remembered why she was stuck in her house, alone and still sleeping.

"Aw, Genma wake up please." Ino begged him.

"You've been asleep since you got him two days ago." His sleepy voice sent a chill down her spine as he buried his face in the crook of her neck.

"Were you worried about me?" She grinned coyly with a laugh. His head move up and down slightly and her cheeks turned a light red. "Hm, get up. I'll make us some breakfast."

"That Uchiha boy brought you home, I had passed by when I saw him carrying you. So I followed him but he noticed me." Genma laughed weakly. "He told me that you had passed out when you got into the village, I took you off of his hands but he didn't seem to like that." Ino turned to him and placed a plate of eggs in front of him. "I haven't left since I brought you inside, I thought you were never gonna wake up."

"I don't remember anything from when we finished the mission." A loud crash of thundered scared the blonde, causing her to drop her plate of food. She looked out her balcony door when a bright flash of lighting , lighted the sky. She hadn't even noticed that I was dark outside.

"Are you okay?" Genma bent down to help Ino pick up the broken pieces of the plate off the ground.

"I'm fine, I just got scared is all." She let out a sigh, Genma's hand stopped her before she could pick up a piece of plate. She heard him say her name and her eyes met his. Genma's face lowered closer to hers. His warm breath made up for the cold air that the rain brought into her house. His lips grazed hers but she shamefully moved her head. "Genma," He didn't let her speak, grabbing her face, he placed his lips against hers. His kiss was hot and full of lust but Ino didn't fight it. A deep part of her did want to kiss him back but she couldn't. Itachi kept creeping into the back of her head and she couldn't focus on anything else.

He bit down on her lip to gain access to the inside of her mouth. Ino moaned from the bite and Genma's tongue explored her mouth. She let out a small whimper that caused him to pull away from her. "Someone's coming." She told him quickly. Her blue eyes flashed towards her room, sending Genma in there. Ino sighed, and watched the door until there was a knock. Her heart was pumping fast; the chakra signature she sensed could only mean two people; but why were they both together. She opened the door with slight confusion on her face. "Sasuke, Shikamaru?" She moved aside and let them in. "What are you doing here?" She invited them both in, stealing a look at her room, Genma wasn't stupid he wouldn't step out of there.

"Lady Hokage sent us to check on you," Shikamaru walked to her living room and sat down on the sofa.

"How kind of her, but I don't think she would have sent the both of you." Ino pushed Sasuke to the living, trying to get him away from the door of her room.

"Yeah, we have a mission." He told her bluntly, sitting down on the chair opposite of the sofa. His eyes noticed the lone senbon tossed on the floor and his eyebrow rose in suspicion.

The blonde saw his eyes move to the floor and his eyebrow raise, she bite her lip and looked away. She needed them to leave so she could get Genma out of her room without any questions asked and she needed them out quickly.

"A mission?" She quickly stood up and placed her hands on her hips. "Well, I'll get ready, you know I haven't showered in like two days, I really need it!" She laughed nervously and walked towards her door. I'll meet you guys by the gate." She swung open her door.

"Ino, we need to leave immediately." Shikamaru muttered 'troublesome woman' under his breath before standing up.

"One more thing Blondie," Sasuke turned to her before walking out the door. "Shiranui is also in our team." He pointed at the senbon on the floor and then walked away. Ino looked away from Shikamaru's questioning gaze and then shook her head, closing the door.

"You can come out Genma," She sighed out. "Did you hear all that?" She asked him picking up the senbon off the floor and then throwing it at her wall, letting it stick out.

"Why would they need me?" The blonde's shoulders went up and down in a shrug. "I'm going to speak with the Hokage, I'll see you soon." He put senbon in his mouth and stuffed one hand in his pocket and walked out of her door.

Ino stared at his back as he walked away and then sighed. Why would Tsunade want Genma to join them on a mission? He was a bodyguard for her, unless- what exactly was this mission going to be about?

"That old man from the other day!?" Ino felt sick in her stomach, "He wants me to what again?"

"He requested you to go back and see him. He really took a liking to you." Sakura giggled, making fun of Ino.

"Why should I have to do this?" She protested, stomping her foot on the ground. "I won't do this, that guys was a totally disgusting creep!" She shivered at the thought of him touching her again.

"Ino, you have too." Shikamaru sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. "I told the Hokage about the first time that's why,"

"That's why she wanted me to join you." Genma walked up to them coolly with a smirk on his face. "My job in this mission is to protect you if that man decides to do anything you don't want."

"I don't want to see him, can you protect me from that?" Ino pouted, crossing her arms over her chest and looking away from everyone. "Ah, this is going to be horrible." She told herself as everyone started walking. "But wait, if this mission is for me, then why are you guys here?"

"And miss the chance of seeing you going on a date with some old man?" Sakura spoke for Shikamaru and Sasuke although they didn't want to admit it.

"I wanted to make sure for myself that this guys isn't going to try anything funny." Shikamaru avoid Ino's eyes.

"I needed something to do while Naruto is away."

"You're a terrible lair Sasuke." Ino pointed out, making a slight blush appear on the Uchiha's stone cold face.

Genma watched silently as the blonde girl hung onto Shikamaru's arm as they walked. She giggled over something he said which was hard for him to believe, Nara seemed like a really boring guy who couldn't make a joke to save his life. Then he noticed the strange look coming from the pink haired girl next to the Uchiha boy. She had a goofy grin on her face as she walked slower to be next to him.

"Is there something I can help you with?" He asked her.

"Are you getting jealous?" He blushed with her sudden question. "Because you shouldn't be. They've known each other since they were in dippers."

"That's great to know." He said statistically with a roll of his eyes.

"Besides, Shikamaru and the girl from the sand have something going on, he just won't admit it to anyone." That little bit of information made Genma feel a little bit better, but since they left the village Ino hasn't even looked his way. He saw her stop dead in her tracks and was ready to attack with a kunai in his hand.

"We're being followed." Ino stated and looked back at Sasuke.

"I noticed them too." He said, activating his sharingan.

"Above us!" Sakura shouted. They all scattered as a group of ninja's fell from the trees. "Where's Ino?" She landed next to Shikamaru and he shook his head. "She's not next to Sasuke, Genma is missing too."

"Don't worry, his part of the mission is to keep her safe."

"Do you think it was okay for us to lie to her about the mission?"

"Yes, she would have never agreed if we told her the truth. Split up and find Sasuke, I'll look for Ino and Genma."

"Dammit," Genma cursed under his breath as two unknown ninja's attack him. His eyes searched around for any sight of Ino. "Where is she?" A girly scream filled the forest and he took off full speed in search for the god damn scream.

"Shiranui!"

"Genma, wait!" Ino's voice cause him to freeze, turning his head he found her sprinting towards him along with the Uchiha boy. "Gen, it's a trap!" He began towards her relieved to find out she was okay. But he had spoke to soon, a kunai was thrown in between them with another ambush of ninja's.

"What's going on here!?" Ino screamed as she fought off two of the ninja's that ran after her. "Where's Shikamaru and Sakura anyways?"

"Ino, behind you!" A man with a katana ran towards the blonde but then quickly froze. Ino let out her breath when she saw the long black shadow attached to him.

"Shika!" A hand snaked over Ino's chest and stomach pinning her arms to her side. "Help!" She cried out trying to wiggle her way out of the man's arms.

"Oh, not this again." Genma said under his breath. He saw a hint of pink fall from the trees above Ino and then land a strong punch on the man.

"Ah, Sakura! Watch out!" Ino turned her back on Sakura's and made a quickly hand sign. "Shinranshin no Jutsu!" Genma watched amused with the blonde's technique, how easily it was for her to be able to control another person's mind.

"What the fuck was all that about?" Ino walked around the camp furiously. "Who the fuck were those people and why did they attack us?!"

"Ino calm down, troublesome woman."

"Calm down?!" Ino let out a small angry gasp when she noticed everyone's expressions. "You're hiding something from me," When no one spoke she let out a frustrated groan and stomped away from the camp. She knew she could the information out of them easily but if all of them were keeping something from her then it mustn't be good for her to know at all but still; she hated lairs.

"Ino,"

"Genma, I don't want to talk right now." She hugged herself to keep warm from the cold night wind. "I want to be alone, okay?"

"Ino," Closing her eyes, she let out a tired sigh and then turned to him.

"Genma, look" Her eyes opened, shocked to find Genma's face only a breath away from hers. Her eyes hooded, his warm breath on her face made her blush. "Genma," She said dreamily. "Please, I want to be alone."

"Ino," His hand cupped her chin pulling her face closer to his, brushing their lips together. "Why must you be so cruel to me?" He pulled her face roughly on his, their lips crashing together and her heart dropped.

"Where could she had ran off too?" Sakura sighed out. "Man, I hate when Ino gets like this."

"Man, what a drag. We should have just told her from the beginning what was going on."

"Say's the man that convinced the Hokage to keep it a secret from her."

"What are you trying to say Sasuke?" Shikamaru stopped and stared lazily at Sasuke.

"All of this could have been avoided if you had told her the truth." Sasuke walked faster to be father away from the 'genius man'.

"I don't think now's the time to be fighting with each other."

"Genma's right guys, we need to find Ino before someone else does."