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Chapter 4: Temari Is a Horrible Skank!
Ino was running blindly out of that place back to kami knows where. She didnt even want to go back to her own place. She could barely see through her own stupid tears. Damn that Shikamaru! Did he have to be so cruel to her?! I know I fucked up! But that doesnt mean he has to make me feel so stupid for it! What the fuck happened to her? She never even smoked before she started dating Sai! She barely recognized herself. That wasn't even the half of her troubled relationship with Sai! Wait till he finds out about the other women Sai brought into their relationship. All I want is for someone to love me! Is that too much to ask for?! She cried bitterly. Whatever. She just needed to get high.
She found herself at Sai's house at 3 in the morning. She knew he wouldn't be asleep yet. He was definetly on another bender. She didn't have to knock. He had cameras. His front door opened and out came Sai with a skimpily dressed Temari on his arm.
"What are you doing here?"
He asked her monotone.
"I just need to get high. That's all."
Sai raised an eyebrow, skeptical. Usually, she was crazy jealous when he had another female over. He stepped aside, letting her in. Temari winked at Ino. "Sure that's all you came for?" Ino tried not to look at the skank.
"Yes." Ino said flatly. Ino smoked with Sai and Temari, cross legged on the floor.
"M?" Temari asked.
"H." Ino replied.
Temari whistled. "Aren't you a fun girl?" She smacked Ino's bicep in a flirtacious way. "I like her more than Tenten! Sai can she stay tonight?" Temari questioned Sai.
Ino fought the urge to gag. Is this what l was like when I was with Sai? Desperate and without any sexual boundaries or self respect about her own body?
"Aren't you Nara's wind up doll?"
"No."
"Oh then he's available?"
Temari's sage eyes lit up eagerly.
"NO." Ino practically screamed at the woman. Sai ignored Temari's antics and gave a couple stamp bags to Ino and sent her on her way. Cold bastard. Ino sulked. Sai had called a cab for Ino to get home. Albeit to cozy up to his new girlfriend, Temari no less.
Ino was about to open the door, when a shadow moved from the corner of her eye.
"There you are." A familiar shadow user said.
"Go way." Ino slurred. Shikamaru closed the distance between them, hugging her. Ino's heart pounded at his proximity. "You're high." Shikamaru stated. Ino nodded her head. "Tsk. Troublesome. After I went through all that trouble to lecture you." He let go of Ino to take a drag of his cigarette. "Give it here, Ino." He put his hand out expectantly. Ino felt the nauseous pull of the H taking effect on her. But other than that she felt at complete peace. The euphoria she needed after a day from hell. She tries to evade Shikamaru, but he just reaches into her pocket and takes the stamp bags from her in one fluid motion. "This will not happen again." Shikamaru told her then scooped her up into his arms and carried her to her apartment. "Im not leaving until I know you went to sleep." Ino groaned and tried to hone in on her digital clock. 4:36 in the morning? At some point she fell into a warm and dreamless sleep.
The next few days consisted of brutal withdrawal. Each morning Ino would run to the toilet and vomit her breakfast up. Her skin cold and clammy; fingertips and lips blue. Shikamaru was there each morning when she woke up. It was at Ino's insistance that he help her through the withdrawal since she refused to go to rehab. She didnt want to bring shame to the Yamanaka name.
"I'm done throwing up. You can come in now." She was sitting on the toilet.
"I see that you're done puking. What about pooping?" Shikamaru asked.
"Very funny, Shikamaru. I don't have to poop. Can you just turn on the cold water. It's hot as fuck in here." She started stripping down to nothing right in front of Shikamaru. He turned around quickly.
"Have some self awareness! I'm still in here!" Shikamaru said.
Ino scoffs at him."It's nothing we havent seen already. We're team 10, remember?" Ino treads slowly into the cold shower and crouches down to her knees. I can't do this. I need to get high. The withdrawal was driving her insane. She was plotting of ways to sneak to Sai and get another hit.
I heard that you know.
Fuck you. She swore back at Shikamaru. You don't know how hard this shit is.
Shikamaru started to recall something,but then stopped the memory before Ino could see it. What was that Shika? Ino asked him telepathically. The wall was up again. She didn't know how he did it, but sometimes he could put a wall up that she couldn't penetrate. Very few shinobi Ino encountered had the mental will power to do that. Sakura ironically was one of those few capable of said feat. Ino recoiled from the memory of when they were kids. Ino tried to read Sakura's mind and got the shit kicked out of her. Ino was quite literally kicked out of her own jutsu. And that was just Mind Transfer jutsu. She wasn't sure what kind of effect Telepathy Transfer jutsu would have on her boneheaded bff, but she suspected she would be at the mercy of Sakura's iron will again. There was so much of her Telepathy Transfer jutsu she didn't understand yet. Like how to get through Shikamaru's mental wall. The more she did the jutsu, the better Shikamaru seemed to be getting at concealing his thoughts from her. Ino stood up in the shower after getting her footing. She let the cold shower soak deep into her bones. At least it was good for her skin. An image of Ino naked and moaning spread eagle on her bed popped up in her head.
Shikamaru! Stop thinking about that day!
I know that thought came from you! The mental wall was up again. Was he fantasizing of her? Ino forced herself not to think of his glistening body above her, as he stroked himself over her. She shook her head again. She released herself from Telepathy Transfer jutsu. He doesn't need to see that! "Oi! That wasnt apart of the agreement, Ino!" Shikamaru complained from outside the curtain. Ino wrapped herself in a soft purple towel and stomped out. "It's fine now. I'm ready to start my day. So I ended the jutsu."
Shikamaru looked at her, his expression unreadable. "Alright. Well Sakura is downstairs waiting for you." Ino stepped into a milky white sundress and silver sandals, discarding of her towel in the dirty linen. "Where are you going?" Ino asked him. Why do I sound so desperate? I know he is training his genin.
"Off to train my genin, Ino. You know that."
"Right. I forgot." Ino lied. "See you, Shika."
"See you."
Ino bit her lip after he left. He just got here though, her mind whined. She wrung her hands together, trying to shake off her nerves. She fixed her hair and makeup before trotting down the stairwell where Choji waited in the living room. He was sitting on the couch, watching Baby Reindeer on Netflix. "Man.. This Donny chad does not know how to set boundaries." Choji shook his head at the protagonist. Ino told Shikamaru not to tell Choji she was detoxing. At least she knew Shikamaru could keep a secret. She was still pissed at Choji for spilling the beans about Sai to Shikamaru. As far as Choji was concerned, Ino was recovering from her terrible trauma bond to serial narcississt Sai Washi.
Choji patted the sage sofa, noticing Ino's presence, he beckoned her to sit down. Ino sat next to him and watched the protagonist struggle to free himself from his stalker, Martha. Sometime later, Sakura plopped down next to Ino, drinking an iced raspberry matcha with pink foam. Whenever Shikamaru wasn't supervising her, then it was Sakura and Choji. Sakura specifically because she could see through genjutsu. Sakura nudged Ino silently, not to disturb Choji, but eyeing Ino with a knowing gaze in her jade orbs. Ino heaved a sigh and made the motion for Telepathy Transfer jutsu to be cast on first herself and then Sakura. It still remained a unknown to Ino and she was working out the kinks of the Forbidden jutsu. She still had so many questions. First and foremost, why was it forbidden to begin with? So far she was able figure out that it was to be cast first on the user and then the "victim." In this case, Sakura, to operate effectively. Mostly. Being in Sakura's mind was nothing like Shikamaru's mind.
CHA! WHAT DID YOU SAY, PIG?!
Sakura's alter ego, Fuyu, challenged her. Ino had named her split personality, Fuyu, which means winter, the opposite season of when the sakura flower bloomed.
Ino didn't mean it that way, right Ino?
Yeah. Yeah.
SHES LYING. THAT LYING TWO TIMING SLUT. DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW YOU WON'T FUCK SASUKE AS SOON AS I TAKE MY EYES OFF OF HIM!
Fuyu! That's enough! Ino would never do such a thing to Sasuke! What's come over you?
Ino was subjected to this for the rest of the day. She didnt understand how Sakura could take it.
Alot of will power.
Sakura answered her, she heard someone at the front door. "There's Shikamaru!" Sakura hurried off. "Sorry Ino! Sasuke-kun texted me! Later, kay?" She leaped from the rooftops off into the evening. Ino rolled her eyes. Fine, I'll just go get high then! Ino thought sarcastically. Really? Shikamaru here so early? Did he have a half day with the kids today? Ino went to answer the door, unsure if it was Shikamaru. Instead, it was a wild Naruto at her doorstep.
"Naruto? What are you doing here?"
Naruto rocked and forth back on his heels. He was dressed in his signature black and orange tracksuit and usual yellow spike hairdo.
"Hi, Ino-chan. Can I come in?"
"Yeah, just a sec."
Ino closed the door and quickly assessed the damage in her living room. There was dozens of protein bar wrappers and unused military ration pellets splashed around the room. Choji had left it in the living room. He may have lost the weight, but now he replaced potato chips with protein bars; and Ramune with habanero mango electrolyte flavored water. Ino sighed as she bent over to collect all of the debris, depositing them in the kitchen trash. In her light blue kitchen, she found various scrolls that Sakura must have been reading. One of them caught her eye, "The Forbidden Art of Genjutsu."
Why was Sakura reading that? It didn't seem like her regular reading material. As a medic-nin, Sakura would commonly be found with scrolls about herbal remedies, nutritional supplements or even gardening. Whatever. Either way, she stuffed the curious scroll in her bookshelf. On second thought, I should hide it just in case. I really want to read it. Ino folds it up and places it within her hard copy of "The Archetypes and The Collective Unconcious" written by Carl Jung. She then cast a Hide Me jutsu on it, concealing it's chakra network. That may have been a little extreme, she thought to herself. Not even a byakugan user would be able to find it now.
That could be of use to her. Maybe Naruto coming over wasnt such a bad idea. She could practice her Telepathy Transfer on an unsuspecting subject. Hopefully, she could figure out how to take down those mental walls Shikamaru kept erecting in his head. Ino surveyed the room one final time, pleased it was presentable. Appearances were very important to her. She let Naruto in her apartment.
"Want to hang out in the living room?"
Ino asked.
"Sure." Naruto agreed, striding over to the sage sofa set, making himself at home.
"So what brings you here?" Ino asked him.
Naruto seemed nervous and fidgety. This piqued her interest. What could make Naruto so nervous? She found herself leaning in toward him.
"It's about Hinata!" Naruto blurted out.
Oh. Hinata. Was Naruto seeing her or something? Ino nodded her head as if to say go on. Naruto opened his mouth like a river rushing full stream ahead.
"Ithinktheguy seeingisabadinfluenceonhershesbeencomingtotomyjobpracticallyeverynightbutdoesntstayandjustloitersinthebathroomforalongtimewhenherboyfriendgetsthere!"
Ino had no idea what he said. "Whoa. Slow down, Naruto. All I heard was job, bathroom and boyfriend? Just start again from the top, but slower. Take a breath this time."
Naruto inhaled and took a big breath. I didn't meant to take an actual breath, dobe. Ino found herself smiling at his antics. He could be kind of cute sometimes.
"I said I think the guy Hinata is seeing is a bad influence on her." Ino cocked her head in confusion. "Why's that?" So he's not dating Hinata? They seem like an odd pair anyway. Not that Ino would ever tell him to his face.
"She's just been coming to my job every night. She doesn't stay long. She waits for someone to meet her there and they're a different person every time. Then after they arrive Hinata excuses herself to the bathroom for a long time. But when she comes back, she doesnt act like herself."
"Job? Oh, you mean the speakeasy you work at? I thought you got fired from there?"
Naruto shook his head. "No, I wasnt fired. The owner told me it's been taken care of the night that it happened... you know when you... broke the bar." Naruto whispered the last part, hoping not to poke the beast again.
"Oh right. Okay... so then after that Hinata started showing up everyday with strange men?"
Naruto shook his head. "Not just men. Sometimes women."
Huh? Hinata didnt seem like the type. Was she bisexual? Polyamorous? No. That cant be. She's a Hyuuga. She could never bring disgrace to the Hyuuga name. Especially, not with Neiji breathing down her nape, making sure she didnt fuck their bloodline up.
"Who were the women?" She asked.
Naruto scratched his head as if trying to remember. "One of them was a dirty blonde that looked really chesty. She was very touchy with Hinata. And the other one looked like a brunette with space buns from a distance but I couldn't tell because how far away they were from me. She looked pretty flat though. They were sitting beneath the alcove for the private room."
Uh oh. Private room. Dirty blonde that was chesty and brunette space buns that was flat chested? Ino had a sinking feeling she knew what was going on.
"The blonde. Did she look like she was from Konoha?"
Naruto eyes locked onto Ino's. "No! Actually she looked like that Suna sibling of Gaara's! What was her name again... Tina.. Temara?"
Ino cringed, revealing her name, "Temari."
"What? Temari? That's right!" Naruto grinned, as he hugged Ino. "Thank you so much, Ino!"
Ino was still reeling from this horrific revelation. Was Hinata with Sai now? Does Neiji know about this? "Hold on, Naruto! This is terrible!"
Naruto released Ino. "Terrible? How can this be terrible? Hinata's in good hands with Gaara's sister!"
Ino face palmed. How could Naruto be so stupid. If Gaara was the sand demon, Temari was Beelzebub herself. Why was Naruto so dense? He actually believed there was humanity in that blood thirsty sand demon. Yes, they were both jinchūriki but that was where their similarities ended. Team 10 witnessed the sand demon kill his own brother in cold blood.
"Temari is a horrible skank that fucked my boyfriend."
Naruto's eyes grew wide as cat milk filled saucers. "Temari fucked Shikamaru?!" Naruto cried out."
Shikamaru is not my boyfriend! Im talking about Sai! Sai is my ex! Not Shikamaru! Shikamaru is my boyf- I mean ex!"
"Uh? Okay. But how does this have to do with Hinata?" Naruto asked, not following.
Ino sighed. "This is terrible because Sai is a Akatsuki member that hooks girls onto drugs. Then forces them to sleep with insufferable skanks like Tenten and Shikamaru! NOT SHIKAMARU DAMMIT TEMARI!"
Why the fuck cant she get Shikamaru out of her brain?!
"Wow. I didnt realize I was an insufferable skank." Shikamaru waltzed in as if he owned the place, squeezing himself in between Naruto and Ino. He turned on the television.
"S-shikamaru? What are you doing in here?!" She screeched at him.
Shikamaru covered his ears, trying to block out the high pitch noise.
"Im done working. Where's Sakura by the way?"
"She left this afternoon." Ino replied, trying to calm her crazy heart rate. What was wrong with her pulse? She cant be having heart attacks just from seeing her team mate!
"Really?" Shikamaru said, annoyed.
"She can't even wait until I get out of work before slutting around."
"Hey! Dont talk about Sakura-chan like that!" Naruto made a Shadow Clone and tried to punch Shikamaru. Shikamaru's Shadow Jutsu killed it before it could even form the motion for rasengan.
"Naruto dont rasengan in my house you idiot!" Ino yelled at him.
"Sorry Ino-chan."
"Thanks for watching Ino-chaaan. But I'll take it from here." Shikamaru snarkily dragged out the "chan" as if he were mocking her. What the hell was his problem? Was he mad Naruto called her Ino-chan?
"Do I need to come every night now? I already come every morning!" Shikamaru glared at Ino. Naruto quickly escaped after sensing the growing tension between them, and with his luck he'd probably get crushed up like the last graham cracker at the bottom of the box, if he didnt leave now. He didnt know what was going on with those two. He couldnt tell if they loved or hated eachother. What did Shikamaru mean by "cum every night" and "cum every morning"? Naruto blushed.