A/N- It's been awhile huh? Lol I've been busy. Actually, I just travelled to Canada and spent my time being lazy. :D Yup. It's awesome here. Weather is nothing but cold, well atleast now cuz of the season coming up, and that's how I like it. But I have come to realize I am so seperated from USA now that it makes me sad. Apperently there is a hurrican coming. The debate that I missed completely. voting is just about to start. Man oh man I miss home.
Anyway, I am very proud to announce that SOMEONE GOT THE THIRD CONSTANT RIGHT. yayayayayayayay ***Wolfie*** you commented as a guest, so I was unable to reach you and tell you that you had gotten it correct. BUT YOU ARE CORRECT. The answer was business ranking. 72 was repeated in every chapter D: omg finally.
Congratulations. Contact me as soon as you see this and we can start on your prize!
Thank you guys for entertaining me with this little game. I love you all.
DISCLAIMER - I do not own Naruto
***Wolfie*** please refer to the author note
"How long did you honestly think this was going to last?"
The mother was mumbling to the child as they silently drove a total different route today. They were taking unusual turns and sudden stops at lights as they made their way to a completely different place from the usual spot of grandmother's house.
"How long did you think you could continue this silent treatment until you regretted every last bit of it?"
"I do not regret a single thing I've done," the pink haired child replied softly as she watched the cars pass, "I do not feel as if my actions should have been retraced and redeveloped. I did what I felt was right."
"You stopped going to her house completely," the mother snapped back, but her voice was completely controlled and not above a whisper, "you ignored her and refused to help when her health fell."
"There was nothing I could have done." The child-
Why call her a child? No, this young girl who used to stumble and trip just to keep pace with her grandmother was no longer a child, but a young adult. Time had developed the once eager, stumbling, adolescent into a fine young student that attended Eastover High School, easily travelling up to the first of her class with excellent grades. Her future looked promising, for a freshman.
"There was plenty you could have done," the mother corrected with venom in her tone, "There still is plenty that you refuse to do."
"Stopping her from growing old is impossible, mother." The all-knowing mature teenager replied with a deep annoyed frown, "Stopping her from catching small illnesses left and right is a talent I have not yet acquired. The talents I will achieve, though, are those a business entails."
"You are not owning our business until you understand the value you have so recently lost to your stupidity and stubbornness. You will not receive ultimate understanding through studying and schooling, but listening to the more wise and sensible. Honestly, at the pace you are moving, you will never become the owner of anything."
Sakura narrowed her eyes and continued to look out the windows, "The studies are hard."
The mother did not bother with pity. "No. They aren't. You just refuse to get studies from the source, and those are the only type of studies that matter."
"But everything is not making sense. Nothing is making sense! All the things she promises in the future could very well be some mind mumbling nonsense that she has contracted from one of her many pending diseases."
With a crack of sound splitting the air, Sakura sat there, knowing that it was impossible to reason with any of the believing fools . So, she knew the sharp slap she received was nothing but her mother refusing to believe that her favorite childhood stories were infact just that; child stories. Nothing but nonsense that was told in such a creative, convincing, way that anyone who heard automatically believed it.
"Tell me." Her mother spoke after a moment, taking her keys out of the ignition as she opened the door to step out of the car, "How lost are you willing to become before you reason with yourself to come back? How much reasoning are you going to whisper in your mind, feeding your self-doubt, until you finally allow yourself to let go and start believing as you once did? What was your faithful question that suddenly made you shatter a world that your grandmother so delicately created for years; Because those of the past have had questions that suddenly forced them to become lost aswell. You are not the only one who started to not believe."
As her mother walked down the parking lot, Sakura stood there, frowning as she rubbed her cheek. Glancing at the tall building in front of her, she looked away and glared at the ground.
"The question?..." She mumbled to herself with so much anger and hate that it crackled the air around her. Taking a step, she followed the same direction her mother took, "If everything is true, then where is the woman grandmother so fondly spoke of if she isn't here with her?"
Above her the lights were radiantly spelling HOSPITAL, and the letters sat with no answer to give her.
Just like everyone else...
X
The tears seemed never ending. The sobs must have had some secret agenda to choke her when she was least expecting it, because her whole body would rack as she struggled to cough the choking sobs out of her unexpected throat.
Her eyes were too blinded with tears for her to see anything, so for that sole reason she decided it best to not eat breakfast with the rest and sit in her room instead. The maid, who held her for a full five minutes before motioning to Ino that she should go back to her room to have privacy, took the time to carefully walk her back. Once she was assured that Ino was securely in bed with the space, air, and privacy she needed to cry as hard and as long as she wanted, she promised to return with a tray of food for the crying girl if only to check up on her.
At the rate that Ino was going though, food was not something that was going to get attention. Instead, the comforts of bed and blankets surrounding her sounded a bit more appetizing then eggs with toast this morning. So, just to let the maid know when she got here with a tray of potentially spoiling food, she slid a note under the door informing that she was fine and she would rather be left alone.
Selfish, Ino knew, but she didn't want the presence of the maid she only so recently was clinging to. No, she wanted to be left alone to cry and sob and just stare up at the ceiling wall. She wanted to hold on to her blankets and randomly wipe her tears, then suddenly allow them to fall all the way to her ear and hair as she lay on her back. She only wished to have the company of solitude and loneliness, if only for a couple of hours, to allow her to not feel too guilty when she merely decided to sit there instead of sparking conversation.
That is what she wanted. She knew deep down that is what she craved for.
But there was something else. There was something tugging at the back of her throat as more tears came up and she sobbed; and at her heart strings, as she struggled to grow more control when random spurts of hard weeping came. There was something there, something that continuously repeated that she needed something more.
It was when the tears had randomly stopped and she was staring at the ceiling that she understood what her body and mind was so desperately trying to get her admit. With a sigh, she rolled over.
She wanted Sakura.
She wanted to be held and told she was too beautiful to be crying in the arms of the girl who had so recently romanced her way into Ino's heart. She wanted to be tugged closer when tears came, if only to be reminded that the famous Sakura with her smooth replies and oblivious taunts was still there. She wanted not to be alone if Sakura was an option, but alone if she wasn't a possibility.
Where was her so valiant knight now? If she was as brilliant as she always claimed to be with her actions and words, then Ino shouldn't be wishing Sakura was here, she should already be out the window.
Tears started to form again as another sobbing session made its way closer.
She is a phone call away, honestly. Only a phone call.
A choked sob came up as Ino ignored the thought of possibly calling and just continued to cry.
X
Hours later, Ino was churned awake by a sound. Eyes practically glued shut from tears, she struggled to open them only for two or three more tears to fall, trapped in her eyelids all this time. Shifting, she looked over to the window, which was already opened with the drapes fluttering as the wind and rain teased them.
She blinked, not remembering having it open. Still struggling to wake up, she shifted again, this time slightly sitting up as she tried to gather her surroundings.
That is when she saw her.
Wet at her head, shoulders, and the bottom of her pant legs, Sakura was there in her bedroom. She was already striding towards the door, locking it carefully before turning and looking at Ino, a deep frown on her face.
Ino sat there, watching Sakura with a small confused frown.
It was Sakura who decided to speak first, "Are you alright?" She asked with true concern, stepping forward to get a closer look over at Ino's sleepily form.
Not understanding the question, Ino simply nodded.
Sighing, Sakura ran her hand through her wet hair and glanced around, not knowing how to approach the situation in front of her. Noticing the window, she took two long strides and closed it, shutting the curtains slightly as well to keep something unknown out. Maybe it just seemed safer to have the curtains closed.
"Are you sure?" Sakura asked as she turned back to Ino, watching her carefully.
"Yes…" Ino croaked before clearing her throat, "I'm fine. Why?"
Sakura frowned even deeper, this time looking more angry than confused or concerned, "Because you have been crying. A lot." She accused, fury evident on her face, "Because I knew nothing of it before Anna called. Anna, Ino? Honestly, that's who had to call me so I could bee line back to your bedroom? Why didn't you call? Why didn't you at least try to contact me?"
"What would have been the point?" Ino asked, honestly confused at Sakura's sudden attitude and scolding tone, "It is not like you could have fixed the situation."
"Fix or not, I could have been here for you." Sakura replied, taking a step forward, "I could have held you and told you everything would be fine without even knowing the situation."
"And who said I wanted any of that?" Ino snapped, aggravated that she was awaken by someone she had been wanting to see, only to get a lecture from a distance she honestly wished was closed.
Snapping her mouth shut, Sakura angrily looked away. For a moment, she was silent before she regained some control and spoke in a strained soft tone, "Who said I cared? If we are going to be together, you need to tell me when these things happen."
"But we aren't together."
At that moment, Ino's heart hammered to a stop. She was only snapping because she was annoyed and frustrated with life, Naruto, and everything else that had been bugging her for the last couple of days. But the last thing she wanted to do was mess up the one true thing that was making her happy.
Sakura frowned, glancing back at Ino with a glare, "We are. Don't start pushing me away just because you are hurt. My grandmother taught me that you are merely supposed to pull the one who is pushing you away closer, but she never got around teaching me how to do it with patience. I do not care how angry you are about whatever that has happened; I should be the first you call to make things better."
Ino frowned and looked away, "I wanted to be left alone."
"Liar." Sakura replied an in even tone, "You wanted me here the moment you started crying."
Ino glared hard at her bed, tired of being treated like a child, "And what makes you so sure? Only after a couple of days you suddenly know me to the point of reading my mind?"
Sakura barked out a laugh, "A couple of days? Ino you have no idea."
With a furious glare up at Sakura, Ino snapped, "Oh, so you've known me for years then? You hardly know me at all! But yet you stand there acting like you have me figured out to the very last strand of my hair. You couldn't even begin to fathom what I want! What I'm feeling! You are only a fraud who is attempting to win my heart for the very reason everyone else is; power. You just seem to be doing better than them!"
The whole aura around Sakura changed. It even seemed like the weather was coordinating with her as her mood darkened ten shades. Thunder rumbled in the distance as Sakura took a step forward, her face contorted with pure anger.
"Fraud? Is that who you suddenly believe I am?" Her tone was soft, but the roar was something that didn't need to appear because the crackling air around the pink haired woman was as effective as any raised voice, "Is that someone you abruptly believe me to be? Fraud is the last thing I am, Ino. A couple of days and I know nothing of you? No. I know you for exactly who you are and what you appear to be. I know you for exactly how you feel and how you portray to be feeling. I know you for Ino Yamanaka, and you will come to experience that I know you better than anyone else."
Ino narrowed her eyes and tore her gaze away from the furious woman, instead settling her stare on the near wall. But that didn't stop Sakura from continuing.
"You needed me the very moment the tears began to fall from your eyes, but refused to call because you saw there would be no point. You desperately wanted me out the window and throwing rocks to grab your attention because you wouldn't have to feel so useless when calling me and begging me to come visit you while you were crying. What I am trying to get you to understand is that, for as long as you are with me and under my vast amount of love for you, you do not need to feel that way. What I am struggling to force you to believe is that, you don't need a single reason to call me, because I will appear on command no matter what."
Sakura took another step closer, glaring down at Ino with so much intensity that the girl was forced to slide her crystal blue eyes to the fierce emerald ones. With the connection made, Sakura said in a much softer tone, "Because you are mine. And I will protect you from those known and unknown that attempt to hurt you in any type of way. I will shield you from all that seek to destroy any small piece of you, whether it be your heart, soul, or strand of hair. For I am a knight, Emerald of all Servants, and I am I yours and yours alone, just as you are mine and mine alone."
Ino bit her lip and slid her eyes to the bed. She refused to look up as she felt a weight dip. She continued to refuse to look up as the shifting and dipping came closer. Not even when she felt the breath tickle her cheek as lips slid to her ear did she slide her eyes back up. Instead, she closed them and held her breath.
"I love you, with my entire being." The whisper so delicately breathed, forcing Ino to shiver. Shutting her eyes tighter, she allowed Sakura to slowly push her down into the bed, her body moving with Ino's retreating one, "I love you and wish you to only be mine. Only for my eyes, hands, and heart to hold. I want you to trap me- ruin me for all other women, even though they were never an option."
Ino breathed out with a shudder as she fell completely back onto the bed, hands gripping the near sheets as Sakura slowly crawled until she was hovering on top of her. Ino was very aware of the knee lightly pressing against her core as Sakura carefully slid down, moving with delicacy as she attempted to lie on Ino completely. Thigh pressed against Ino, she slowly slid it up and down, noting the way Ino shifted to press closer to her moving leg.
Kissing down Ino's jaw line, Sakura mumbled, "And I wish to have you under my protection forever, but only if you accept me. Only you deem me worthy to be yours, Ino."
Biting her chin, she moved to look at Ino's deep blue eyes. When they fluttered open, they nervously looked away. With a small smile, Sakura slid her hand up Ino's waist, scratching her skin softly as she whispered, "Don't hide from me, love."
A soft blush spread Ino's cheek as she kept her eyes away. The pressure from Sakura's thigh suddenly increased, forcing her to shut her eyes and struggle down her impulse groan. With a held breath, she felt Sakura's lips brush against her cheek, "I said don't hide, my beautiful queen."
The whisper was too seductive to ignore. Whimpering over something Ino couldn't logically explain, she shifted and tried to hide even more. The amount of control she only moments ago had was slipping through her tightly gripped fingers. Like sand, the reasoning of fighting was slowly losing it's sense. Why was she trying to keep away? Why was she being difficult?
"Stubborn." Sakura whispered as her teeth grazed against Ino's ear, "I knew you would be. But my dear queen, why do you fight? I do not wish to harm...much."
The blush of embarrassment that warmed Ino's cheek to a near firing heat was no longer there for such silly reasons. Instead that heat spread through her whole body for reasons Ino couldn't consciously pin point. And like fire, no other word could describe the spread, it raced through her body and it did so with inching persistence to an area that was too embarrassing to admit.
A hand slipped up her shirt. The fingers that commanded with such confident smooth delicacy cooled her heated skin. They dragged further up as silk smooth whispers said with a tone that demanded to be taken seriously, "Ino. Stop hiding from me."
Why was she being difficult? Why was she keeping away? The same questions she was so desperately trying to figure out returned, and with their return, she realized she hadn't made progress for answer, but only managed to whimper and shift closer to the ever presenting thigh that was doing such a skillful job at keeping Sakura in complete and utter control.
Bitting her lip, she gave up. Lips open as she fought for small breaths that sounded too loud in the rain tattered filled room, she turned her head and finally looked up at Sakura.
Emerald eyes stared down at her, and as her eyes made contact with them a smile slipped onto the sly girl's face. The smirk grew more cocky as she leaned forward and whispered, "Thank you... my queen."
Frustrated that she had given in so easily, Ino angrily looked away to the near wall. But with wide eyes, she felt a tongue slid up the rim of her ear, "You shouldn't feel so downhearted in giving in to me... I am you're servant after all."
"You tease far too much to be my servant." Ino angrily re trotted with full confidence, but melted into shivers and whimpers again as Sakura's thigh pressed hard and moved faster. Fluttering her eyes shut, she gripped the closest thing she could; Sakura's back.
"You don't say." Sakura mumbled as she carefully watched Ino's every reaction. Leaning down and nuzzling into Ino's exposed neck, she continued, "Well if you would only agree to being mine and mine alone, you could command me otherwise."
"I can't." Ino whispered out, but as she did the truth of her answer hit her with full force. She couldn't be with Sakura, not now when Naruto had chose otherwise."
"You can." Sakura persisted, hand slipping from under Ino's shirt to her delicate wrist. Carefully pulling it above her head, she gazed down at Ino and continued, "You must."
"But..." Ino struggled, looking up at Sakura with so much confusion and doubt in her mind and heart.
"You can." Sakura repeated, leaning forward as she tried to convince Ino. Keeping her hand on Ino's wrist, she kissed her lips carefully. Delicate at first, but Sakura slowly continued deeper, pressing more into Ino as she battled to keep control. Forcing herself to keep bay, she pulled away and breathed with obvious signs of struggle, "You must."
"Why?" Ino asked, equally breathless.
"Because," Sakura mumbled, watching the eyes of crashing waves stare up at her with obvious signs of haze that was beginning to glaze over, "I can not have you without you agreeing to be mine. And I want you," she desperately whispered as she leaned her head down onto Ino's forehead, "I want you badly."
"But..." Ino fought, glancing away with the conflict of knowing the truth and knowing what she truly wanted.
"Do you fear me?" Sakura asked with a fragile attempt to understand Ino's concern, "Do you believe I will break your heart?"
The cracked voice caused Ino to soften and turn back. But as she opened her mouth, she couldn't think of anything to tell her. What if she told Sakura the truth and that was the end of...everything.
"Because I won't."
The plea in the woman's voice was so heartbreaking that it was literally tearing Ino into two. She bit her lip and looked away. What if telling Sakura caused everything to suddenly disappear. What if it ruined everything that was so selfishly given to her. She didn't want to lose Sakura. She didn't want to lose anything.
"I will do nothing but protect you, and I refuse to be apart of those who will hurt you. Trust me Ino. Take a leap of faith, and I will prove to you that I am worthy of being trapped by you." Sakura continued to mumble as she dragged her teeth against Ino's skin.
"Trust me." She whispered desperately once more while pressing closer. Her hand tightened around Ino's wrist, the struggle of keeping control dropping with the evident sign of her weakening, "and I will be yours to command always."
Ino bit her lip, weighing her possible choices.
"Trust me." Sakura asked again urgently, her body shaking as she bit down on Ino's skin. With her free hand she gripped the sheets, battling to keep her hand from worming into the woman's pants and invading every part that Sakura had only dreamed about for years, "Trust me, and I promise to give you only bliss and happy memories. Memories we could tell our children. Our grandchildren. Memories we could tell of true love. Eternal love."
It was everything Ino wanted. Everything Ino dreamed of. It was the fairytail that she thought of as a child. Tails she knew she would never have, because she knew she would only be bargained off without love. Without choice. That's what Naruto did. That's what Naruto is doing.
"I..." Ino whispered out pathetically.
"Trust me." Sakura choked out as she slid her lips down to Ino's collarbone, "So I can officially take you as mine. Here and now."
Arching her back, Ino dug her nails into Sakura's shoulder as Sakura nipped from Ino's collarbone to her chest which was loosely covered by a nightgown. Control was lost by both as Sakura reached Ino's breast, which was sensitive to the delicate tongue that slithered out and invaded.
"Yes." Ino breathed out, closing her eyes and shivering at every touch she felt was Sakura's.
"Yes what?" Sakura demanded as she paused her assault only to bite at Ino's chest again, waiting for the answer she wanted to hear. Forcing herself to keep a moment of control, she bit down hard to keep her tongue from moving back to the breast she so desperately wanted to go back to.
Whines of pain escaped Ino as she tried to whither away. Gasping when the pain spiked even higher, she choked out, "Yes I will be yours. So make me yours. Please. Please Sakura."
Sakura released her hold.
And all was lost from there...
X
"You are mine now..." The voice said softly as Ino's body arched and twisted, dancing in the pure pleasure that was being received.
"You are mine." The voice continued as fingers invaded, causing Ino to let out a squeak of a moan, shivering when the fingers reached deeper levels.
"And no other will have you," The voice whispered her curse as Ino scratched at it's skin, struggling to keep her loud moans to whining whimpers as she was taken completely, "for I have ruined you for men and women alike. You will never be happy unless with me, and that is how I want it to be...forever..."
Ino felt the dangers, but also the pure pleasure of bliss rushing towards her. She couldn't think, couldn't breathe, she couldn't question herself if this was what she honestly wanted. Trapped by her? Trapped by Sakura? What if nothing worked out and she was still trapped.. forever... what if-
Ino gasped, choking on her own laboring breath as the bliss made it's way closer. Reasoning was through. All she wanted- All she cared about was reaching that point. That is what she had to have, desperately. She must have it. She needed it. If she didn't get to have it, she would break down.
"Do you understand?"
Ino gasped, struggling to think of what she was suppose to say. Her nails dug deeper as she tried to think.
"Tell me you understand, Ino. Tell me you agree."
Ino fluttered her eyes open, watching emerald ones stare down at her. They were shifting, changing to deep forest green. They were cursing her. Trapping her. Suffocating her into a dark forest until she answered correctly. Till she answered at all.
"Answer me."
A thundering boom rumbled through the background. And with whistling winds, the storm outside shifted to it's peak. Trees rocked and branches wheezed as they threatened to break. Ino saw the dangers. Ino saw the potential trouble. Ino saw... the trap.
"Yes." She breathed out, a deeper meaning reaching her as she answered solemnly even though the choking pleasures were breaking her in two. "Yes I understand, and I wish it to be no other way."
Fingers plunged deeper than before, causing an arch in Ino's back to almost reach it's breaking point. And as she got her crashing waves of pleasure, pulsing, radiating, shivers quaking through her body, in the distance the voice spoke- Sakura spoke- the truth they seemed to both be thinking.
Softly. Distantly. Not even above and mumbling breath she was said.
"You will come to regret this..."
Closing her eyes, Ino tried to push the obvious thought away. She should be happier than this. She got her pleasure, after all. She got Sakura as well.
"But I am happy you chose what you did..."
Heat prickled Ino's eyes.
"My dear Ino..."
Air tighened around her throat.
"My loving queen."
A scratching sob reached just to her lips.
"Maybe this once."
Eyes slowly closed as tears fell.
"We will succeed..."
***Wolfie*** please refer to the top author note.
Good chapter eh? Did you see what I did just there? I just gave you a splash of the Canadian life I have been living with. :D lmao. Don't like it? Me either. 'eh' keeps slipping into the end of my sentence and every time I'm just like "o.o *blink* i need to stop that."
Anyway, I know I promised research, but I felt this was necessary. And after such a long wait, I bet this is pretty good anyway. I mean. Look it all the sexual tension D: lol.
Please review. It was the 6 reviews I got in a row yesterday that had gotten me back on this laptop to write, and your reviews continue to push me to do better. And I would honestly love to know if it was too squishy or too overplayed or to over dramatic or too ANYTHING.
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