This is the end! Glad to have it all finished. I must admit it does bring more spice and understanding to the story with the lemons in my opinion. I liked writing this one. Short and sweet. Thank you all for keeping up and reading this! Can't believe Vengeance is all wrapped up now!


"Don't say it."

Ino gave Shikamaru a sharp look as she wore the green flight vest and traditional black ninja pants, they were getting dressed to prepare to report to their units and this was the first time Shikamaru saw her wearing the uniform. She looked like a Konoha kunoichi again.

"Don't say what?" He grinned at her.

"You know what."

"Now why would I not comment on how nice you look in uniform. Seeing you in black all the time reminded me too much of gothic." Ino rolled her eyes at his remark and looked at herself in the mirror. "Shika, if things played out differently and I was in Konoha instead of with Orochimaru, what rank do you think I'd be in right now?" She smiled and gave an airy laugh when Shikamaru hugged her from behind and turned her away from the mirror in her bedroom. She was caught off guard when he leaned in for a long impressionable kiss, when he made to unzip her vest she pulled back and gave him a mock shocked look.

"Nara Shikamaru, are we not to report to our units right now?" Shikamaru succeeded in unzipping her vest and continued to her pants, "Ha, we're going to fight for our lives and to possibly save the world or die trying and you think that I'm concerned over being on time to report to that?"

Ino laughed at this, she was game for possibly the last love session between the two before they met death. She felt that Shikamaru needed to get his mind off the stress anyways. He was an important piece to the village right now and she was sure he had a lot on his plate. She wouldn't be in his unit, she'd in Headquarters along with his father, and that annoyed her somewhat, but she felt okay with knowing that Asuma would be with Shikamaru. Besides, she was taking a position her father would have taken, so she was doing this in his honor.

She would tease him endlessly about the fact the sand kunoichi would be around him closely and he could tell that was another way of her voicing her insecurities, which he addressed and smoothed out as soon as she vocalized it. Ino was a physical person, vocally telling her something wasn't good enough, he always had to show her.

Troublesome as always, but she was his pain in the ass.

A full year has come and passed since Hinata and Ino had come back to the village and shocked everyone that they weren't held captive anymore or dead. It had been six months steady of Hinata and Ino being in the village receiving psychological rehabilitation and training to face Akatsuki and Kabuto.

During this time Shikamaru learned a great deal about the different Ino. She still liked the color purple, she was a good cook but horrible baker, she now thought diets were ridiculous (He was sure this was due to her being starved numerous times by Orochimaru). Her along with Hinata were fixated on working out and training, reason why rehabilitation was always something that bothered them for it was time consuming. Ino still loved flowers and since coming back took over caring for the flowers at the flower shop, still not ready to greet and sell to customers though, which was fine considering a lot of places were closed until further notice due to the war. Ino was still bossy, loud and annoying when she wanted to, but typically she was sarcastic and calculating, less loud and more deadly.

Very, very calculating, so, mix that with her skills and anger issues and you had yourself a real problem when she was upset with you. The worse combination was getting Hinata and Ino together in the same area as Haruno Sakura, too much estrogen in one room for him. While Hinata, would in her annoying nonchalant manner, say she had no problem with Sakura, she also at the same time wouldn't stop Ino from stepping towards the emerald eyed female.

That was a fight Shikamaru wouldn't want to be around for, everything would be ruined.

Ino and Sakura are loud, bold fighters. Firecrackers. Even though the Nara and Yamanaka's were not bred to be smoldering, hard hitting, physical fighters, Ino somehow made it her goal to be one. She still dominated in her family Jutsu lineage, but she picked up in many other different fields also, so he felt when it came to physical strength Sakura might very well have met her perfect opponent. Reason why he felt Ino so often challenged her former green-eyed friend.

Coming back to the beautiful woman in front of him he smirked, "Being a couple of hours late won't hurt them."

"A couple of hours?!"

LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON LEMON

Ino was already breathing vigorously and laid on her bed looking up at him in pure bliss. They were already 45 minutes behind schedule, and he didn't care the slightest, another round wouldn't hurt them. They were facing life or death, so people could wait if they wanted to get their rocks off for possibly the last time.

All he could think about was how much he wanted to have her forever. She was so…Ino. Loud, bossy, forceful, bitchy Ino. She was fun to mess with. He enjoyed being around her, even though he rarely showed it. Ino was one of the smartest people he knew when she put her mind to it, and she was a force to be reckon with when she actually tried.

Ino was his. All his and he loved her.

He crawled upon her and claimed her lips in an enduring kiss that made them both dizzy. Having her fully naked against him, making love with him were some of the best moments in his life he concluded.

Ino's legs immediately wrapped around him and gave him no room to tease her. Shikamaru pulled away from her cherry lips just a little to laugh at her, "Always in a rush for the best part Ino."

Ino gave him a big pearly smile. Her cheeks were rosy from their love making and she was in complete bliss right at the moment. "Well I love it, just like I love you."

The two stared at one another before Shikamaru gave a hearty laugh followed by Ino. She still held him tight with her legs and he used his arms to hold himself up. "That's rich. Way to squeeze in how you feel about me Ino."

Ino's arms started to rub his back in a soothing manner and she kissed his Adams apple, "Well I had to get it out some way. It was going to be corny coming from me either way. I don't exactly scream passionate anymore."

Shikamaru let Ino work him over with her soothing kisses over his neck and chest along with her soft hands on rubbing his back. He closed his eyes and groaned at the feeling. Definitely what he needed before going off to their units. Ino always took the edge off.

"So you think. You're still the same lovey dovey gushy Ino. The girl who still wants me to tell her what each flower stands for. The girl that needs to know that I look at no other girl the same as you. Also the girl that wants to make sure her bra and underwear is just right when she knows we're about to have sex. Red when you're feeling like anal, white when you want it slow and intimate, purple for a long night and green when you want to dominate me."

Ino blushed at this and bit her lip. Stupid, smart, observant bastard. Right now she was wearing white.

Shikamaru gave her that smug signature grin of his before he kissed her chin and trailed it up to her ear, "I know everything about you Ino. From the moment we were born."

Ino moaned at this and arched into him. Shikamaru lowered himself so he was resting on his elbows and one of his hands ran through Ino's currently free hair. "Plus you know everything about me because you love me too."

He inwardly rolled his eyes, "Yes Ino. You should KNOW that I love you."

He pulled her into another kiss and wasted no time in lifting one of her legs and burying himself deep within her sweet, wet core. Ino gasped into the kiss and her hands moved to his neck as she basked in the feeling of being filled again. She loved when he first fills her when they start making love, it was the best part for her.

As for Shikamaru, he was a voyeur for sure. She had her suspicions when they were younger because he was so DAMN observant. Fast forward to when they had that interesting dinner night with Naruto and Hinata and she was for sure he liked to watch at that point.

So she was never surprised during them making out that if she opened her eyes even just a little she would see him staring at her. She was sure he got off watching how much she was into it. On certain nights when he was pounding her she would catch him with crazed lustful eyes as he drank in her facial expressions before she burst and came on him.

Speaking of said voyeur, Shikamaru lifted himself up to his knees, lifting her up a little as well, while he was still deep inside her and his fingers played with her fingers for a little while before he placed her hands on her breast.

"Give me a little show."

Ino blinked up at him for a moment before she caught on to what he wanted. Shikamaru gave her another cocky grin before his thumb went down to play with her clit. Ino's eyebrows scrunched up and she gave him a look that screamed she was internally calling him an asshole.

Either way it got him what he wanted, and she started to massage her breast slowly because she knew how he liked it. He started to rock into her in a nice slow pace and he knew that this just killed Ino. He held her thighs still so she wouldn't move to get more and watched her wither beneath him.

"Fuck Shikamaru! You're being such an asshole!"

He gave her a grin that looked so sinister, "You still love me?"

Ino briefly thought about how twisted Hinata could be and she started to think maybe her, and Naruto were attracted to crazy psychos because Shikamaru was proving to be no different than her female best friend. "I'd be crazy not to. Only you can work me over like this Shika."

Shikamaru watched as she flicked her nipples and arched her back from the feeling, "I'm happy you got that through your thick skull Ino." He gripped her thighs tighter and pulled her flush into him and started drilling into her faster. He'd let her have it her way this round.

Ino closed her eyes and threw her head back as a she let out a deep moan, "YES! YES!" She gripped her breast harder and pinched them between her thumbs and index fingers.

She didn't have to look at him to know that he was staring at her. That he was engraving this memory in his mind and that he would probably replay this memory when she got on his very last nerve just to tune her out.

Well than she'd give him something to remember.

One of her hands left her breast and traveled down to her unattended clit and he watched as she worked herself over. Her moans grew louder and she cried his name over and over. "Fuck Ino…you're so fucking hot babe."

Shikamaru kept his pace and couldn't stop watching Ino. He watched her face change into several different phases of ecstasy, memorizing each one and categorizing which ones were his favorite. He watched her two fingers work over her clit and how it just kept getting wetter and wetter with her fluids. He'd memorize how she moved her fingers so he could do it some day and see if he'd get the same reaction, the same face expressions.

He felt her flutter around him and knew she was right there to her peak, which was fine because he was just about to bust. "Cum with me Ino."

The reply that he got back was her freezing as her orgasm hit her and she gave out a loud moan. He watched her face as he pushed in deep into her and couldn't hang on any longer and came in her. "Damn Ino." He leaned over and buried his face into her neck as they rode out their orgasm together.

Shikamaru was the first to recover and he slowly pulled out and laid on the bed beside Ino, "This kind of blows. We can't go to sleep now."

Ino laughed at this, "I hate to admit this, but you're right. I could definitely go for a nap." She looked at the clock on her dresser and groaned in frustration, "We're over an hour and a half late though."

Shikamaru threw an arm lazily over her before he closed his eyes, "We'll report in two more hours. I told Asuma and Choji earlier that we might need a little cover story anyways."

Ino gave him a tired smile and kissed his cheek before cuddling up next to him. "Hmm, hey you."

Shikamaru gave a grunt as a reply to her, "You…take care of yourself okay. Don't try to be a hero Shikamaru, that's our motto remember."

He smiled at this, little memories of Ino-Shika-Cho when they were Genin and how they would usually try their best to avoid anything too complicated. "Hn. You worry too much Ino. I should be the one telling you that. Don't let my dad overwork you either."

He leaned over to her ear and whispered a soft 'I love you' before resting his head on the pillow and giving in to sleep. Ino not to far behind him.

He decided against asking her just yet to be with him forever. He decided that he wouldn't propose to her until the war was over. Until he was sure that she was fine and that they made it out alive. So the ring in the small velvet black case in his uniform pants that laid on the floor will just have to sit there for a couple more days.


Thanks everyone for reading! Fin.