Guardian Mates

A/N-Here is chapter eight, enjoy it. I know it is the same as it will be in chapter 9 and maybe chapter 10 when Sakura wakes up again. I would like to say thank you to my beta reader IcySapphire15 for doing chapter 1 to 8 and will continued on doing the rest of this story. Thank you!

As always, beta read by Icy Sapphires 15. *waves to the nice reviewers*

Chapter Eight: Waking Up p Part 3

...Ino...

Ino woke up to see the ceiling with some lights on it, she looked towards the light to see a desk with the cinnamon colored head male with a ponytail reading a book while sitting on a chair near the bed. Her mind went back to what had happened. She was felt mad at him and scared to be with him, so she slowly stood up from the bed. until The male spoke" I know you are up, and before you think you can leave this room, please sit and listen to me."

"Why I should?" Ino asked as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Please, ." Shikamaru pleaded with her.

Ino went back to the bed and sat on it. "So why am I here?"

"My name is Shikamaru Nara. I'm from an old and ancient clan of earth guardians. You might have heard legends about us. When an earth guardian turns eighteen, he needs to mate within six months or he would die. I'm seventeen now but my eighteen birthday is in six weeks. Usually the guardian has dreams about his mate when he hit fourteen, so he can start courting her." Shikamaru told Ino.

"You are an earth guardian from the legends? Then I'm your mate?" Ino questioned as she started feeling very faint able now.

"Yes, and you are my mate or will hopefully be my mate," Shikamaru replied.

"No, you kidnapped me on the way to school., second Where is Sakura? I need to get to her now," Ino commanded him. "She must be so scared now."

'Sorry, but Sakura is with her mate and so are of the rest of your friends. Tell me what happened to Sakura to make you so protective over her?" Shikamaru questioned.

"Why?" Ino questioned him while shining blue eyes that narrowed with distrust.

"To help my friend, Sasuke," Shikamaru answered.

"No," Ino told him.

'Please." Shikamaru pleaded with her.

Ino looked at him and sighed. "Sit." Ino sat down again and while he followed her.

"I have been friends with Sakura since grade 1. Hinata and Tenten have been with Sakura since grades 2 and grade 3. It was when Sakura was in grade 9 when she meet this "great guy". She told us about him. So she started to dated that man..." Ino told him calmly, but her body language was getting madder as she spoke.

Shikamaru stated" That is okay."

"His name was Sai. She dated him for just about six months, when she started to change. She was always on time before, but she wasn't now. She came late limping or flinching when we gave her hugs. That was when we understood what was going on. She was getting physical abused. Sakura was never a clumsy person in her life, so when the bruises came on her, we tried to talk to ell her about this," Ino told him. ' "Sakura turned against us about nine months into the dating him."

"She turned against you? How?" Shikamaru asked, while in the back of his mind, he though 'I was right about this situation, that pink haired girl was hurt.'

"She stops talking to us, hanging out with us. She changed her cell phone and home phone numbers. Sai was controlling her, what friends she could have or couldn't have. Something must have happened, because Sakura restarted to talk with us and do things with us again. When I asked, she told me" "Sai was gone," but what she didn't know was he had his friends looking over her,." Ino recalled with tears coming down her face.

Shikamaru stood up and sat down beside Ino. He placed his arms around her stomach and brought her to him. He gave her a hugs as a sign to continue with her story. His heart was going out to Sakura.

"He came back, and beat her up again more times. Then she started to fight back when he told her that he hurt her mother. Sakura's mother is in the hospital in a coma, she has been in coma since Sakura was seven. Sai is older- by lots. I believe he was ten years old then Sakura. When Sakura heard that, she used her karate skills on him."' Ino stated.

"Don't ask me, why she didn't fight back at first," Ino told him as she sighed within his arms.

Shikamaru took all this in and looked at Ino to continue. "Well, Sai wasn't happy about this, he knocked her out as he placed her in his room and no, he didn't rape her. He just starved her for two weeks and all, he beat her up, and he also had one of his friends that were a doctor and a gang member helping him out. He did artificially insemination to her. Sakura lost the baby after Sai almost killed her,." Ino told him with tears within her eyes.

Shikamaru's eyes widen at this and he growled under his breath. "Then what happened? Where was her father?"

"Sakura's father is a very rich business man and he lets her do things on her own. He didn't even know what was happening until we told him over the phone. Well he got a restraining order against him, but that didn't work. Sai went after Sakura again, but this time Sakura had all the help she needed. This was about seven months later- she got the help from her friends and family, including the professional help. She was attacked again very badly, but never did Sai rape her., Sakura killed him, it was self defensive. And she got away with it since as many others came up to the court and told them about their stories," Ino continued with as she had tears coming out from her eyes. "She was finally free from him; I don't want her to feel like that never again. I would kill myself."

Shikamaru's eyes widen again at her words." Ino, please don't talks about death like that. It kills me to hear you say that."

Ino looked up at him and smiled. "But now you know how I feel about my best friend; Sakura, I won't let that male named Sasuke hurt her."

' "Sasuke would never warm or hurt his mate or future to be mate. It would kill him, literally," ' Shikamaru stated to her. "Ino, where did you all live before coming to Konoha?"

Ino looked at him. "Mist. , Sakura needed to get away from the city and all, so she decide to move to Konoha. , h Her father brought the house, Sakura asked us to live with her, we agreed and moved here."

"I'm glad you came to live in Konoha." Ino's stomach growled loudly." " "Would you like to eat something?" Shikamaru asked. "I'm glad you came to live in Konoha" I added something to make the food question flow a bit better. Otherwise, it came from left field.

"Hai, I'm hungry." Ino told him shyly.

"Come with me." Shikamaru replied as he let her go. all this time he still was holding he around her waist.

They got up and walked towards the door, when Ino remembered something. "Shikamaru, you said you only have six weeks to live, right?."

"Hai That I did," Shikamaru told her.

"Then you better court me fast, so you don't die. And to tell you, you're too cute to die, ." Ino said, while she at him.

Shikamaru smiled at her, "Hai, I will properly court you, but first let's get something to eat. What would you like?"

"Waffles with cherries and whipped cream," Ino answered him.

Shikamaru nodded his head at that and smiled at her, as he held out his hand for her to take. Ino placed her hand within his as they walked out of the room. Ino looked more or less surprised to see three another rooms, each with an odd item near them. One door had a bowl of water; the room next to it had was a small flaming candle. She turned to the last door on her right side to see a living tree, but the room next to that had was nothing.

Shikamaru looked at his soon-to-be mate and smiled at her. He could tell she was looking at the items near their doors.

"They're there to open the doors. Each of us is guardians. I'm an earth guardian. The one with Sakura is Sasuke, he is a fire guardian. Hinata is with Naruto, he is the water guardian and Tenten is with Neji, he is an air guardian.." Shikamaru told her.

Ino nodded her head at him and followed him more down the stairs while she looked at some old, odd item along the way.

A/N-Here is this chapter, I hope you like it all again. One more time chapter with Hinata and then Sakura… well she might or might not tell her story. She might get Tenten or one of the other girls to tell Sasuke. Oh I would like to have six reviews to get the next chapter up. Bye~