Unpredicted Romance

Summary: AU. Love is unforeseen. She was asked by Sasuke to pretend as if she is his girlfriend so Sakura, his arranged fiancée, would leave him alone. However, everything unexpected has happened.

Chapter 3: The Guy She Loved

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It was lunch break, as usual, they were together. It was part of the plan, being sweet was a big part of the plan. She was sitting with him on a bench while he was holding her hand. He reached for her head and put it onto his shoulder and of course, they could hear people talking about them.

"Sasuke," she called, about to cry. "I want to go home now."

"Don't worry," he whispered. "Everything will be fine."

"I don't want to cry," she said as she held back her tears. "I really don't."

"…Just cry," he held her hand tighter. "I'm here."

"S-Sasuke," she couldn't hold her tears any longer, with that she started crying. "I-I'm h-hurt… I really am…"

"Ino, tell me what happened," Sasuke pulled out a hanky from his pocket and wiped Ino's tears. "What happened before I got there?"

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(Flashbacks)

The bell just rang, indicating that it was already lunch. As usual, Ino and Sasuke were the last people to go outside. Sasuke was waiting for Ino to finish fixing her bag.

"Sasuke, you can go ahead to the cafeteria… I am gonna go to the restroom first," Ino said as she smiled at him. "I won't take too long, I promised."

Sasuke nodded as he walked off. Ino headed to the ladies' restroom. Like a normal lunch, there were too much people in the restroom. Girls were glaring at her for one reason alone, they were Sasuke's fan-girls. After a few minutes, she was done using the restroom and went out. Outside, she saw her ex-boyfriend, Shikamaru, the good for nothing cheater that hurt her so bad.

"Ino," he started. "We have to talk."

"I don't think so," retorted Ino; just looking at him, her blood boiled. "Jerk."

"I broke up with you," he said. "Because…"

"Because you found another girl," Ino clenched her fist. "Another girl… who is better than me, is that it?"

They broke up almost 8 months ago. It was quite long enough but she could not forget the fact that she was so in love with him and worse, they were each other's first love. She was happy with him but unexpectedly, she saw him screwing her best friend, Temari, whom she thought would never hurt her. He couldn't deny it because it happened to be that she saw them in the bed together, naked. And what made her even madder was the fact Shikamaru and her were dating for almost a year and half nothing even happened to them that involved anything farther than kissing.

"That's not it," he objected. "Ino, stop being troublesome, I just thought that you should find someone better than me."

"What a pathetic excuse," Ino wanted to slap him real bad but she couldn't. "Tell me, why it had to be my best friend?"

He looked down and said, "Ino, I just want to say sorry."

"Well, I happen to think that your apologizing is not even close to enough," with that, the tears fell down from her eyes and the people were looking to them. "Take your sorry with you and shove it up into your ass and to hers."

"Why are you so pissed about?" Shikamaru asked as he raised his voice. "Isn't it like you haven't found a new love life; you have Uchiha now, don't you?"

"So you're telling me that I should fucking forget every pain you two had caused me because I have a new boyfriend?" she questioned. "Did you really think that I would forgive you or that slut?"

"Don't call her that," defended Shikamaru. "She is not a slut."

"So what the heck do you want me to call her? An angel? A saint? A good best friend?" her tears were kept running down on her face. She was hurt,utterly hurt. "Defend her, Shikamaru… defend her as if I were not the victim."

"Ino, you were not the only one who was hurt!" he exclaimed. "We too were hurt."

"I was hurt the most!" she replied. "I was hurt more than you two… I hate you! I hate you a lot! I hate you two! I wish both of you will rot in hell! I want you two to die now!"

She broke down on her knees, crying harder. this was too painful to handle for her. It was not easy for her to forget or to forgive.

"I came here to talk to you because I thought everything was okay now since it's been 8 months and you already have a new boyfriend… it looks like I thought wrong."

"Ino!" someone shouted behind her. Ino turn her head over her shoulder, it was Sasuke.

"You okay?" Sasuke helped her to stand up and he gave Shikamaru a death glare.

Ino wiped her tears away and nodded. They walked out from him, and then decided to look for a bench they could seat on. She stopped crying but Sasuke could see the loath and hate in her eyes. She was just staring at the ground, not blinking.

"Here," Sasuke gave him the sandwich he bought for her. "You should eat."

She just shook her head and Sasuke held her hand.

(End of Flashbacks)

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Sasuke let go of her hand, and then he stood up. Ino looked him, she was confused why he stood up all of a sudden. She could tell that he was angry but she had no idea why. After all, she should be the angry one after all the shit that went down minutes ago.

"Ino," he called her, his voice was cold. "Stand up."

"W-why?"

"Just stand up," he insisted. "Hurry up."

"S-sure," she stood up in front of him, wavering. "W-what now?"

He walked towards her, about a step, and then he hugged her tightly. She was shocked, why did he hug her? She was unsure why but it felt good because for the first time in eight months she felt that there was someone actually cared about her. Sure, she got friends who were with her during tough times but this was absolutely different.

Finally, she hugged him back.

"Why?" Ino whispered to him. "Why… why are you doing this for me?"

"…Returning a favor," he replied as he hugged her tighter. "This is the only thing I can do for you."

"You don't have to do this," she said as she buried her face in his shoulder. "You really don't."

"Do you feel better?" he asked, they were still hugging; people were staring at them but they did not care. "At least a bit better?"

"Yeah," she answered. "Thank you, Sasuke."

"Hey, you two!" they heard someone's voice as they pulled out from the embrace and looked at the person who called them. "Get a room, will ya!"

"Shut the hell up, Kiba," Ino frowned. "How 'bout get some girl and just mind your own business? How' bout that?"

"Ino," Sasuke called as he held her hand. "The bell will ring in a minute, let's go now."

And with that, they walked off, leaving Kiba behind.

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