A/N - Great. Two story updates within a few hours. Perf. Just perf.

Here you go kiddies. Sorry it's short. But I actually personally liked this chapter.

So I hope you enjoy it too!

DISCLAIMER - I do not own Naruto

Song used for this chapter - Crywolf - Slow Burn

The next morning, as always, my head was throbbing. My throat felt dry and my tongue heavy with the pounding aftertaste of alcohol and thick paste like sour candy. Even as I was desperate to swallow to give my throat some relief, the taste in my mouth was too sickening to try. I could only guess the cause was from the cough syrup.

The bed I was laying in wasn't mine, I knew the second I drifted into consciousness. The positioning of the light shinning into my closed eyelids not only tipped me off that I wasn't in my room, but in Ino's. And I could only pray, only hope, that I hadn't became so passed out drunk last night that I imagined Ino the entire time I was with some other girl.

Because the body pressed against me had my chest pounding with worry. I've done some pretty fucked up shit in the past, but fucking another girl in Ino's bed would have been on an entirely different level.

Swallowing out of pure nervousness, I forced my eyes to slip open and face whatever would undoubtedly be apart of my long list of mistakes.

But I'm not sure what was worse. Not seeing a random girl.

Or watching Ino's peaceful sleeping face as she laid next to me completely naked.

My eyes shut in pain.

Fuck.

Why couldn't I ever keep myself from diving deeper in my already suffocating hole.

Taking a slow shaky breath, I unwrapped my arm from her waist slowly as I began to pull away. I had no idea where I could run to, my car was at home and it wasn't like I could walk there. But I didn't care. I need to get out of the room. To breathe and clear my already fogging brain as I strained to remember what exactly happened last night.

To figure out how exactly had I managed to fuck up this bad.

My heart was hammering as I sat up, the punching in my gut twisting in panic. Quickly, before Ino stirred from her drunken sleep, I swung my legs out of bed and snatched what I knew was my sports bra. And while my shorts were within sight, I had no clue where my shirt was.

Settling for what I found, because I was two seconds from just walking out naked, I shoved everything on before walking out and rushing to the bathroom.

I turned on the light and gave myself a judging look in the mirror. My eyes were heavy, but widened when I noticed my half naked chest and torso. And without my permission, a throb pounded through me as a groan almost slipped past my lips.

My skin was lined with bright red marks all over. My waist, stomach, and even my shoulders. They traveled up to my neck, and as I tilted my head to my side I saw they continued until disappearing behind my shoulder. I made the mistake of turning around and awkwardly angling my line of sight to see the marks trailing down parallel to my spin mere inches away.

Fuck. She clawed the hell out of me.

"Christ," I muttered to myself, diving for the sink to run cold water. Splashing a few handfuls on my face, I took in short breaths and gripped the sink hard, glancing up at the mirror again only to find a hickey hidden just below the crook of my jaw.

Gripping the sink harder, I shut my eyes tight and continued to breathe as steadily as I could. But I struggled.

Because I wanted to go in there and force myself to remember every single thing that happened last night by reenacting it all.

Swallowing again, I almost gagged at the taste in my mouth and settled for brushing my teeth as a step towards the right direction. Afterwards, I simply sat there at the edge of the tub and stared at the tile. Still not having a clue on what I should do.

No matter how hard I tried, the last thing I could remember was Ino kissing me. No not even the last thing, practically the only thing. Digging for my phone, I went through my messages in hope of finding something that would help. But the messages from Sasuke and Naruto were vague. Asking where me and Ino were and wondering if we were ready to go.

Desperate, I clicked on me and Ino's conversation. And God I felt like I was making the same mistake of expecting my back.

Sakura…

Hm?

Stay the night.

…You thought you were going to get rid of me?

I thought maybe you wouldn't want to…

And what if I didn't? Are you going to give me a reason to stay?

If I said I was wet, would that be enough of a reason?

I snatched my eyes away from the phone instantly and groaned.

Fuckkk.

No wonder I fucking stayed. Jesus Christ. Even now I felt my skin crawling and fingers inching to be on her again.

My head shot up as I heard a noise from just the other side of the wall. Heart hammering, I wondered if Ino was awake. Fuck I needed more time to compose myself, I was no where near ready to deal with her yet. But my heart was searing with guilt, I didn't want her to wake up thinking she was alone. It was such a prick move and I always felt like trash when other girls did it to me.

So swallowing, I forced myself to stand. And before I could even psych myself out I walked out and opened the door to her room hoping for a little mercy and a small miracle of her still being passed out.

But of course, I didn't get miracles. I never had.

Ino sat in her bed with her hair tossed, blanket wrapped around her, and cellphone in her hand. My heart nearly stopped as I wondered if she was going through the same messages I was reading. But the second I walked in, her eyes shot to mine.

And I wished they hadn't.

Yeah… miracles didn't happen for me.

I've seen that look before, that worried one with a twinge of fear sparking from the eyes of someone who was realizing they made a mistake. And how already they were thinking of ways to forget.

My thoughts, which had been rushing through my head a mile per minute came to a full on halt. The hammering in my chest, the punching feeling in my gut, the itching in my fingers. It all suddenly disappeared with that one look from her.

And in turn, I forced a small smile to my lips as I watched her. "Morning… rough night huh?"

She bit her lip and looked away, "Yeah… I have a killer headache."

"I'll grab some pills for you," I replied, turning it leave. I heard her soft thank you before I closed the door and just when I was out of sight my hands tightened into fists as I set my jaw.

I don't know what I was expecting, but it hadn't mattered. Just because I made a mistake didn't mean she had to deal with it. From that point on, I understood.

I understood I would have to pretend nothing happened for her sake.

Funny thing is… it felt like we pretended 'nothing happened' all that summer.

xXx

The few days afterwards were quiet. When I finally got home that night, I drank alone in my room. With four walls surrounding me, and the house being completely empty, I let out my frustration. The utter helplessness of it all caused a completely different itching through my fingers. They snatched and found whatever they could, the rage built in me hurling any object towards the ground or towards the walls that felt more like a cage.

The morning after that, I woke up to broken glass and my room being completely trashed.

I spent that day cleaning it all up miserably.

Monday came around, and when it was time for practice Temari had all but given up talking to me. At first she jabbed and complained about how I fucked her over that weekend, even went as far as attempting to chastise the fact that I decided to go to a party instead of coming to the game when she found out I never left, but soon after she realized there was something up.

It wasn't hard to tip her off, because I had all but given up trying to cover it up. I smiled when I could, and did try to hold the conversation, but it was no use. I wasn't in the mood. I needed a few more days to completely reset.

Yet when those couple of days passed by, it was like every time I thought I could just get over it the mere mention of Ino caused my mood to plummet all over again.

A full week past until I got that phone call from her. She had been texting me here and there, but they were short simple messages that offended me more than her just going completely ghost. Not only had we fucked around, I was now lowered in the pool of one word text messages? It just pissed me off.

So when I answered that phone call, I did it with a tone. I knew I said I would try to pretend nothing happened, but it was getting harder the more time past, which was a complete joke. Of course everything had to be completely backwards for me. Of course I couldn't just take it as nothing and simply walk off with the idea.

Nah, I had to be sensitive about it like a little fucking prissy.

"We're having a game night at Temari's place," Ino said in a soft careful tone. She paused before adding hopefully, "Are you going to come?"

"No," I answered immediately. Because no way in hell was I going to put myself through that torture for what seemed to be no apparent reason.

"Why not?"

"I don't want to play any fucking games," I replied with a shake of my head. "If anything, I want to get some sleep tonight for this game tomorrow."

"Well Temari was saying we could all crash there and go to the game together in the morning," she explained, as if the idea alone would coax me into agreeing. But it did the opposite. Now I was annoyed she was going to show up to the game to begin with. A week of this bull shit, and now she wanted to show some sort of support?

Christ I needed to stop. Seriously. Now I was just bitching to bitch.

Taking a heavy breath, I said as carefully as I could without a tone of any sort, "I don't know if I'm feeling it, Ino."

"Please Sakura..."

My fingers tightened around the phone at her beg, and a flare of irritation immediately followed the constricting feeling in my chest I felt at the sound. Shutting my eyes tight, I bit out, "Why does it matter Ino?"

"I just... want you there."

Christ.

Couldn't I get a break?

Couldn't I have some mercy?

Why the fuck did I have to be subjected to this shit, I just couldn't fucking comprehend.

But you know, the more I thought about it, the more it all made sense. I was fucking stupid enough to make the one fucking mistake I had been bent on avoiding. And the more I lingered near it, the more I was this close to all my faults and delusions, the more all of this shit would keep popping up.

As long as I was right here, in this steep ass ditch I always felt I was in, I would never stop feeling like it was all inevitable.

So you know what?

I stood there, rubbed my eyes, and muttered fine. That I would show up. I took her quiet thank you as it was and hung up after, sitting there in silence. And for a long time there, I just stared at the wall my vanity mirror was supposed to be if I hadn't shattered it that night of my drunken rage.

But for the first time, I think I honestly thought about my options.

That's when I went down stairs to talk to my dad. Sat down and had a long conversation until Temari called asking me where I was. I told her I would be right there, but sat and spoke to my dad for another half hour after that. It only dragged on that long because he kept asking me if I was sure. But I had never been so sure about anything right then. At that very moment, I feel like I had reached a limit.

So he took my answer with a sigh, but smiled and said he was proud that I finally made a decision...

Of going to the college that offered me a scholarship the furthest away from here.

First of all. I would like to wish my best friend a VERRYYYYY HAPPPPYYYY BIRTHDAYYYYY!

If you didn't know, it was yesterday! If you haven't yettt, you should spam Kat Happy birthday! And possibly start thinking of donating your kidney to her. Because she's been lit. So precious.

Now.

Like I was saying, even though this was short I did like it. I think what I like the most is the beginning of it. The reaction was natural. And that's from someone who was struggling to figure out how the hell this post sex confrontation was going to go. So yeah, I feel like I pulled it off well!

Hope you enjoyed it! Two story updates all within a couple of hours. Just to make up for the fact that I have been obessing over pokemon for some reason.

Bruh, did I mention I caught a Shiny Eevee on Alpha Sapphire. Oh my god I was too hype.

Anyway read review, tell me what you think!

Shycadet wants to be the very best. Out.