Naruto: Ino/Sasuke: Chariots of Fire [ch.1]
Title: Chariots of Fire
Author: Never-chan
Fandom: Naruto
Ship: Ino/Sasuke
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto own any of the characters.
Cross posted: _sasuino_, ino_collection
Summary: Sasuke's had it with Ino griping about lost love, and will go to any lengths to shut her up.
The silence was as thick and lasted well into the night, neither Ino nor Sasuke moved or spoke intent on outdoing the other - on what; well neither was exactly quite sure. Only that their hatred for another was the only thing driving them at the moment, and at some point had locked them into a glaring contest.
The sun had long ago set. Its warming rays that heated all of Suna dipped below the sand dunes, as stars sprinkled across the night sky. The loss of light, as well as heat was replaced by the eerie moonlit glow that splashed between the two ninjas; the drastic change of temperature was also the cause of spooking goose bumps up and down Ino’s bare arms. (Seeing she, unlike Sasuke - wasn’t insane and dressed normally when in the desert. And for god sakes, definitely not all in black.)
“Give up yet?” mocked the Uchiha, his customary smirk in place - one that irked Ino as it just screamed that he thought himself her better. (Which wasn’t true, mind you.)
“As if, no my dear Sasuke-kun it will be you facing defeat against me,” spat Ino, as a spark spread between them. [:: anime style lightening death glare.]
If it was one thing that the two of them could always agree upon, it was that each held a passionate loathing for another.
“Tomorrow we met the Kazekage to go over the mission again - you sure you don’t want to get your beauty sleep?” Sasuke taunted, hoping to be rid of this foolish contest they’d engaged in - but yet not wanting to lose either. (Seriously he thought his childish rivalry with Naruto was bad!)
“I could say the same thing to you,” A sneer deformed her pretty face.
“You’re really starting to get on my nerves, you know that right?” It wasn’t really a question, just another jab to irritate her.
“I’m just starting?” mockery.
“Yeah that’s right,” sarcasm.
“Urgh - just go commit seppuku or something!” snapped Ino finally having enough as she flung Sasuke’s arm off of her and sat up in the blink of an eye, her partner too shocked was rolled off the bed by the sudden force. Curse Tsunade for giving her strength lessons as well.
“What did I tell you about shrieking?!” growled Sasuke as he picked himself up, resting his arms on the side of the bed - Ino just glared at him.
“I don’t care anymore - I’ll blow the entire mission if I have to, I’d rather do desk work for the rest of my life then be here with you any longer...” Her rants were cut off as Ino was suddenly tackled, pinned to the ground with little hope of escape - with Sasuke hovering on top of her with a menacing scowl.
“You might not, but I do,” he bitterly spoke, as if the words killed him. After all, Ino Yamanaka’s company made him want to scratch his own eyes out - to say that was better than paper work was pretty low.
-
Looking down at the blonde, he expected her to resort with that sharp tongue of hers - but for once she was silent. In the reflection of her eyes - they mirrored his own, his sharingan on.
He mentally cursed.
Since he had come back to Konoha he was given a chakra eater to make sure he couldn’t escape. It was only released the day of their mission, but even then he hadn’t used his bloodline. Mainly because it reminded so many of his betrayal, and seeing Sakura and Naruto’s torn faces once was enough to last him a life time. He was always careful of what skills he chose to use - especially around Ino seeing she had seen inside his head and knew mostly what the origin of those attacks did to innocent people.
But she just made him so angry.
“Ino I -“
“Get off me pervert!” screeched the blonde as she brought her knee up to sack him, upon impact Sasuke crumpled to the floor hands flying to his genitals.
Never once had Ino seen a look of sheer pain on the teen’s face - she decided she liked it. Smirking superiorly she stood up brushing her attire off, “Heh - you actually believed I would give up that easily. Ignorant male.”
Smiling, Ino formed a jutsu to bind Sasuke (taught by the ANBU elite themselves incase the Uchiha ever got out of hand) before happily crawling into bed. “Night Sasuke.”
“Hn”
Morning came, and after a shower and an all star breakfast delivered to the young couple’s love suite - Ino disguised as a young hopeful bride-to-be, that wouldn’t by any means be a ninja, regrettably released Sasuke from his bindings and the two (after much bitching) had made their way to the Kazekage’s office.
So here they were - Ino had temporarily stopped glaring at Sasuke to watch Shikamaru longingly. Not that the lazy nin noticed, as he was too engaged at making eyes with Temari.
Sasuke had to admit, he did pity Ino when it came to her love life - as revolting as it made him feel, the girl had no luck with men.
All that stopped though, when the door opened and in waltzed the Kazekage and his elder brother, Kankuro. Both Ino and Sasuke stood straight as a board, waiting for them to be noticed as Gaara casually took his seat.
“You can be seated,” spoke Kankuro eyeing the two leaf nin, his eyes briefly darting over to Shikamaru - while he stood to his brother’s right.
It was silent as Sasuke choose to lean against the wall, watching in disinterest as Temari entwined her hands with Nara’s coyly. In return, the shadow user whispered something in her ear that made her attempt to stifle her giggles. It made the Uchiha question when his partner would loose her cool...
It wasn’t long.
Slamming her palms on the desk angrily, Ino sent a scathing look towards the couple in the corner.
“Could you get a room already - we’re trying to have debriefing here!” she shrieked, as Kankuro stepped back - seeing the chakra that had unintentionally been sent to her hands had cracked and splintered the desk’s surface.
Sasuke was rather proud, that Ino hadn’t taken a kunai out and slit Temari’s throat open right there.
“Excuse me?” drawled the wind user finally turning her attention towards Ino, a frown overtaking her features
“Heh - what’s wrong with you Ino?” asked Shikamaru worriedly, his chocolate eyes gazing at her in concern. It was eating away at Ino’s barriers being in the same room as him.
“Don’t pretend you care now - I just ate damnit and I don’t want to vomit it all back up by your sickening displays of affection!” snapped Ino heatedly, as both Temari and Shikamaru sent her confused looks
“Um, are you alright?” asked Temari sharing her boyfriend’s concern as Ino twitched. Sasuke was indeed finding this all too amusing to take - now all they needed was for one of them to say something along the lines of...
“But I thought you and that guy over there were together?” questioned Kankuro innocently.
Sasuke snorted.
And Ino - she threw the desk at the ninja. How she got the super human strength to pull that off, Sasuke once again blamed it on the Godaime.
“God damnit why does everyone think that?!”
As the blonde’s wrath was unleashed upon the Kazekage’s office, everyone hid - well save Gaara who still sat in his chair with a blank expression on his face, watching as Ino destroyed object after object.
“How troublesome,” muttered Shikamaru as he picked apart debris with the Uchiha and his brother-law to be.
They’d been going at it for a couple hours now - after Ino had finally calmed down, she had returned to her hotel room for a well needed rest. Gaara decided that the next debriefing would be held after his office had been fixed, in which Sasuke could fill Ino in on the details later. Part of him was tempted to make Ino’s role as miserable as possible (revenge for making him do unnecessary manual labor) but then again, he didn’t want her going psycho on him again... (the city of Suna might be in danger.)
And for Temari, she was the lucky one who had to deal with Ino... she would have been right here with them helping them cleaning up but was in the hospital getting healed at the moment (how else do you think Ino had calmed down? A duel with her greatest rival in love - as she saw it, lucky Gaara had stepped in.)
“Crazy bitch - she’s always being a thorn in my side,” griped Sasuke as Shikamaru glanced at him from the corner of his eye.
“You really think that Uchiha?”
“Why else wouldn’t I?” snapped the dark haired male, after all it was mostly Shikamaru’s fault everything that happened (relating to Ino of course) to him did. Or that’s how he saw it.
Shikamaru shrugged pausing in his tride to stare at the gaping hold in the ceiling. “Ino’s... she’s not always like that. Took me a while to find out - but she’s got a sweet and caring side deep down, she just doesn’t show it to anybody. Heh, actually I think me and Chouji are the only ones alive now to have seen it.”
Sasuke scoffed, there was no way in hell he would believe that.
She sighed as she fell back on the bed, blonde locks cascading around her - her arm draped over her face in an attempt to hide it.
“What am I doing here?” mumbled Ino, miserably her other hand left by her side, clenching the bed sheets.
“Godaime knows - about me and Shika... but she still made me go on this stupid mission. Damnit, and that Uchiha bastard - Konoha pisses me off,” griped the kunoichi through clenched teeth.
She had never wanted to go on this mission. She had never wanted to be Sasuke’s partner. But most of all, she didn’t want to see Shikamaru no matter how much she claimed to love him. She knew she had lost his heart a long time ago, maybe before she even realized she wanted it in the first place.
No, she just wanted to be in the ANBU headquarters kicking the crap out of no good traitors, in order to release that pent up anger. But sadly, that wasn’t so.
She was in Suna, seeing Shikamaru’s face everyday (filled with happiness, despite the fact she’s not even in his life) and worst of all she was with Sasuke Uchiha.
Now she didn’t always despise the Uchiha - in fact there once was a time she thought she loved him too, heck she was obsessed with him. But like many, his betrayal cut deep - so deep, she wasn’t sure if she would ever recover. But she somehow did, by filling that wound with anger. So every time she saw the male, it would rip open wide bleeding and aching and she would lash out at poor Sasuke.
“Poor Sasuke my ass,” bit Ino bitterly. Rolling over to throw the pillow at the door, just as it was opening - her ‘partner’ caught it, as expected and tossed it measly on the floor.
“You’re a lot of trouble you know that?” drawled Sasuke closing the door behind him. Ino didn’t make a noise, instead faced the opposite side of the wall. “Did you really have to go that far?”
“I wanted to make sure they didn’t forget,” mumbled Ino stubbornly, resulting in a sigh from the Uchiha as he headed towards the balcony.
“Our mission starts tomorrow - Gaara’s already provided us with the equipment we’ll need and his ninja will stay out of our way. Mushiro is staying in a hotel in the next part of the city, we’ll meet up with him by noon for our first appointment,” explained Sasuke dutifully, turning back to eye the blonde.
As he expected, she was sulking. (He found, after Ino brashly does something on impulse - after calming down, she’ll mope about it as regret settles in.)
“Typical Yamanaka.”
“What did you say?” demanded Ino harshly, whipping around to face him as Sasuke shrugged before casually sauntering through the French doors.
“Go to sleep - then you won’t know when I crawl in,” taunted the Uchiha. His sights already set on the setting sun before him. Telling Ino he wasn’t willing to fight with her tonight, and frankly, neither was she.
“Stupid Sasuke-kun,” grumbled the blonde, despite doing as told, as she slipped under the covers and closed her eyes.
-
Looking over his shoulder one last time, Sasuke snorted. Ino was already out cold; what a stubborn woman.
“Hn, looking so innocent - doesn’t even know she’ll be the death of me one day.”
-
(Phase 02 // Complete)
Author: Never-chan
Fandom: Naruto
Ship: Ino/Sasuke
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto own any of the characters.
Cross posted: _sasuino_, ino_collection
Summary: Sasuke's had it with Ino griping about lost love, and will go to any lengths to shut her up.
The silence was as thick and lasted well into the night, neither Ino nor Sasuke moved or spoke intent on outdoing the other - on what; well neither was exactly quite sure. Only that their hatred for another was the only thing driving them at the moment, and at some point had locked them into a glaring contest.
The sun had long ago set. Its warming rays that heated all of Suna dipped below the sand dunes, as stars sprinkled across the night sky. The loss of light, as well as heat was replaced by the eerie moonlit glow that splashed between the two ninjas; the drastic change of temperature was also the cause of spooking goose bumps up and down Ino’s bare arms. (Seeing she, unlike Sasuke - wasn’t insane and dressed normally when in the desert. And for god sakes, definitely not all in black.)
“Give up yet?” mocked the Uchiha, his customary smirk in place - one that irked Ino as it just screamed that he thought himself her better. (Which wasn’t true, mind you.)
“As if, no my dear Sasuke-kun it will be you facing defeat against me,” spat Ino, as a spark spread between them. [:: anime style lightening death glare.]
If it was one thing that the two of them could always agree upon, it was that each held a passionate loathing for another.
“Tomorrow we met the Kazekage to go over the mission again - you sure you don’t want to get your beauty sleep?” Sasuke taunted, hoping to be rid of this foolish contest they’d engaged in - but yet not wanting to lose either. (Seriously he thought his childish rivalry with Naruto was bad!)
“I could say the same thing to you,” A sneer deformed her pretty face.
“You’re really starting to get on my nerves, you know that right?” It wasn’t really a question, just another jab to irritate her.
“I’m just starting?” mockery.
“Yeah that’s right,” sarcasm.
“Urgh - just go commit seppuku or something!” snapped Ino finally having enough as she flung Sasuke’s arm off of her and sat up in the blink of an eye, her partner too shocked was rolled off the bed by the sudden force. Curse Tsunade for giving her strength lessons as well.
“What did I tell you about shrieking?!” growled Sasuke as he picked himself up, resting his arms on the side of the bed - Ino just glared at him.
“I don’t care anymore - I’ll blow the entire mission if I have to, I’d rather do desk work for the rest of my life then be here with you any longer...” Her rants were cut off as Ino was suddenly tackled, pinned to the ground with little hope of escape - with Sasuke hovering on top of her with a menacing scowl.
“You might not, but I do,” he bitterly spoke, as if the words killed him. After all, Ino Yamanaka’s company made him want to scratch his own eyes out - to say that was better than paper work was pretty low.
-
Looking down at the blonde, he expected her to resort with that sharp tongue of hers - but for once she was silent. In the reflection of her eyes - they mirrored his own, his sharingan on.
He mentally cursed.
Since he had come back to Konoha he was given a chakra eater to make sure he couldn’t escape. It was only released the day of their mission, but even then he hadn’t used his bloodline. Mainly because it reminded so many of his betrayal, and seeing Sakura and Naruto’s torn faces once was enough to last him a life time. He was always careful of what skills he chose to use - especially around Ino seeing she had seen inside his head and knew mostly what the origin of those attacks did to innocent people.
But she just made him so angry.
“Ino I -“
“Get off me pervert!” screeched the blonde as she brought her knee up to sack him, upon impact Sasuke crumpled to the floor hands flying to his genitals.
Never once had Ino seen a look of sheer pain on the teen’s face - she decided she liked it. Smirking superiorly she stood up brushing her attire off, “Heh - you actually believed I would give up that easily. Ignorant male.”
Smiling, Ino formed a jutsu to bind Sasuke (taught by the ANBU elite themselves incase the Uchiha ever got out of hand) before happily crawling into bed. “Night Sasuke.”
“Hn”
Morning came, and after a shower and an all star breakfast delivered to the young couple’s love suite - Ino disguised as a young hopeful bride-to-be, that wouldn’t by any means be a ninja, regrettably released Sasuke from his bindings and the two (after much bitching) had made their way to the Kazekage’s office.
So here they were - Ino had temporarily stopped glaring at Sasuke to watch Shikamaru longingly. Not that the lazy nin noticed, as he was too engaged at making eyes with Temari.
Sasuke had to admit, he did pity Ino when it came to her love life - as revolting as it made him feel, the girl had no luck with men.
All that stopped though, when the door opened and in waltzed the Kazekage and his elder brother, Kankuro. Both Ino and Sasuke stood straight as a board, waiting for them to be noticed as Gaara casually took his seat.
“You can be seated,” spoke Kankuro eyeing the two leaf nin, his eyes briefly darting over to Shikamaru - while he stood to his brother’s right.
It was silent as Sasuke choose to lean against the wall, watching in disinterest as Temari entwined her hands with Nara’s coyly. In return, the shadow user whispered something in her ear that made her attempt to stifle her giggles. It made the Uchiha question when his partner would loose her cool...
It wasn’t long.
Slamming her palms on the desk angrily, Ino sent a scathing look towards the couple in the corner.
“Could you get a room already - we’re trying to have debriefing here!” she shrieked, as Kankuro stepped back - seeing the chakra that had unintentionally been sent to her hands had cracked and splintered the desk’s surface.
Sasuke was rather proud, that Ino hadn’t taken a kunai out and slit Temari’s throat open right there.
“Excuse me?” drawled the wind user finally turning her attention towards Ino, a frown overtaking her features
“Heh - what’s wrong with you Ino?” asked Shikamaru worriedly, his chocolate eyes gazing at her in concern. It was eating away at Ino’s barriers being in the same room as him.
“Don’t pretend you care now - I just ate damnit and I don’t want to vomit it all back up by your sickening displays of affection!” snapped Ino heatedly, as both Temari and Shikamaru sent her confused looks
“Um, are you alright?” asked Temari sharing her boyfriend’s concern as Ino twitched. Sasuke was indeed finding this all too amusing to take - now all they needed was for one of them to say something along the lines of...
“But I thought you and that guy over there were together?” questioned Kankuro innocently.
Sasuke snorted.
And Ino - she threw the desk at the ninja. How she got the super human strength to pull that off, Sasuke once again blamed it on the Godaime.
“God damnit why does everyone think that?!”
As the blonde’s wrath was unleashed upon the Kazekage’s office, everyone hid - well save Gaara who still sat in his chair with a blank expression on his face, watching as Ino destroyed object after object.
“How troublesome,” muttered Shikamaru as he picked apart debris with the Uchiha and his brother-law to be.
They’d been going at it for a couple hours now - after Ino had finally calmed down, she had returned to her hotel room for a well needed rest. Gaara decided that the next debriefing would be held after his office had been fixed, in which Sasuke could fill Ino in on the details later. Part of him was tempted to make Ino’s role as miserable as possible (revenge for making him do unnecessary manual labor) but then again, he didn’t want her going psycho on him again... (the city of Suna might be in danger.)
And for Temari, she was the lucky one who had to deal with Ino... she would have been right here with them helping them cleaning up but was in the hospital getting healed at the moment (how else do you think Ino had calmed down? A duel with her greatest rival in love - as she saw it, lucky Gaara had stepped in.)
“Crazy bitch - she’s always being a thorn in my side,” griped Sasuke as Shikamaru glanced at him from the corner of his eye.
“You really think that Uchiha?”
“Why else wouldn’t I?” snapped the dark haired male, after all it was mostly Shikamaru’s fault everything that happened (relating to Ino of course) to him did. Or that’s how he saw it.
Shikamaru shrugged pausing in his tride to stare at the gaping hold in the ceiling. “Ino’s... she’s not always like that. Took me a while to find out - but she’s got a sweet and caring side deep down, she just doesn’t show it to anybody. Heh, actually I think me and Chouji are the only ones alive now to have seen it.”
Sasuke scoffed, there was no way in hell he would believe that.
She sighed as she fell back on the bed, blonde locks cascading around her - her arm draped over her face in an attempt to hide it.
“What am I doing here?” mumbled Ino, miserably her other hand left by her side, clenching the bed sheets.
“Godaime knows - about me and Shika... but she still made me go on this stupid mission. Damnit, and that Uchiha bastard - Konoha pisses me off,” griped the kunoichi through clenched teeth.
She had never wanted to go on this mission. She had never wanted to be Sasuke’s partner. But most of all, she didn’t want to see Shikamaru no matter how much she claimed to love him. She knew she had lost his heart a long time ago, maybe before she even realized she wanted it in the first place.
No, she just wanted to be in the ANBU headquarters kicking the crap out of no good traitors, in order to release that pent up anger. But sadly, that wasn’t so.
She was in Suna, seeing Shikamaru’s face everyday (filled with happiness, despite the fact she’s not even in his life) and worst of all she was with Sasuke Uchiha.
Now she didn’t always despise the Uchiha - in fact there once was a time she thought she loved him too, heck she was obsessed with him. But like many, his betrayal cut deep - so deep, she wasn’t sure if she would ever recover. But she somehow did, by filling that wound with anger. So every time she saw the male, it would rip open wide bleeding and aching and she would lash out at poor Sasuke.
“Poor Sasuke my ass,” bit Ino bitterly. Rolling over to throw the pillow at the door, just as it was opening - her ‘partner’ caught it, as expected and tossed it measly on the floor.
“You’re a lot of trouble you know that?” drawled Sasuke closing the door behind him. Ino didn’t make a noise, instead faced the opposite side of the wall. “Did you really have to go that far?”
“I wanted to make sure they didn’t forget,” mumbled Ino stubbornly, resulting in a sigh from the Uchiha as he headed towards the balcony.
“Our mission starts tomorrow - Gaara’s already provided us with the equipment we’ll need and his ninja will stay out of our way. Mushiro is staying in a hotel in the next part of the city, we’ll meet up with him by noon for our first appointment,” explained Sasuke dutifully, turning back to eye the blonde.
As he expected, she was sulking. (He found, after Ino brashly does something on impulse - after calming down, she’ll mope about it as regret settles in.)
“Typical Yamanaka.”
“What did you say?” demanded Ino harshly, whipping around to face him as Sasuke shrugged before casually sauntering through the French doors.
“Go to sleep - then you won’t know when I crawl in,” taunted the Uchiha. His sights already set on the setting sun before him. Telling Ino he wasn’t willing to fight with her tonight, and frankly, neither was she.
“Stupid Sasuke-kun,” grumbled the blonde, despite doing as told, as she slipped under the covers and closed her eyes.
-
Looking over his shoulder one last time, Sasuke snorted. Ino was already out cold; what a stubborn woman.
“Hn, looking so innocent - doesn’t even know she’ll be the death of me one day.”
-
(Phase 02 // Complete)