Chapter 229
After Karin suspiciously mentioned how tired she felt, Naruto made a shadow clone to escort her home. Sakura, Ino, and Naruto continued their walk for another twenty minutes, even running into Kiba and his sister. At the sight of the blonds holding hands, Kiba surprisingly didn't challenge him. After making certain Naruto knew he was going to win the tournament, he along with his sister, Hana, and their canine partners left.
After Ino has a quick word Naruto couldn't hear with Sakura, his teammate felt tired and left soon after with a clone as well. With a comfortable pace, Ino leads them to an unspecified destination, all the while they talk about mundane things like pranking, being a leader, and how she's lived as the heiress of one of the honored clans. He was so engrossed, he was mildly surprised to be in front of his old apartment complex.
His old home was never beautiful to look at, however, it may as well have been a palace compared to what it looks like now. Windows are broken, there appears to be fire damage, it's dirty, and worst of all, it's surrounded by hoodlums. Cracking their knuckles, Naruto and Ino work their way up to the fourth floor, effortlessly decimating the large and armed group of gangsters, and before Naruto enters his old apartment, he creates several clones to go room-by-room to make sure all the thugs were gone.
"Well that was exciting," Ino huffs.
Walking up behind her, Naruto wraps his arms around her midsection, relaying, "I can think of something much more exciting than that."
Inhaling deeply to remain calm, Ino is dazed by how effortlessly his body seems to warm her entire being up as if switching on the light. Her arms wrap over his as she leans back into his buzzing presence. She's only shocked out of her arousing stupor when she hears him whisper by her ear, "will you be my girlfriend?"
She felt her womanhood quiver and grow moist while her heart hammered with excitement. "I'd love to," she answers, however, her mind reminded her of her mission. Of her character, and what it dictates she must do for the person she loves. "But I have to tell you something first," she whispers, feeling her fingers shake.
"It can wait," Naruto happily sings, turning her around to look him.
"Sorry," Ino responds, using the opportunity to step away. The move clearly confused him as she says, "but it can't. What I have to say might… will make you change your mind about me."
"Uh, I doubt that," he laughs as he takes a step toward her. When she takes a step back, he's further perplexed, asking, " Ino…"
"What I have to say will be hard enough," she voices, stomping down on the urge to put more distance between them. She reminds herself, 'I'm not a coward,' before she voices, "but please let me finish."
To his surprise, she kneels, placing her forehead to the floor and triangle-shaped palms on the floor above her crown as well. He abruptly takes a step forward, asserting, "you don't have to kneel-"
"Please," Ino calls loudly, hating how weak she feels about what she must do, however, if she looks at him, she knows his adorably trusting face would make her not want to say it. 'And he deserves the truth,' her mind declares as her voice bids, "let me say it like this, or I won't be able to."
"… okay," he hesitates to agree.
Exhaling a lung-full, Ino speaks. "Before that day that bound us together, I lived in this world I created; second-best kunoichi in our class, most beautiful, smart, confident, in love with the best man, with designs to be his wife one day. In that box I created, everything made sense, and the world was right. After what happened to me with Chōji's dango… the world I had created blew apart. I wasn't the same girl because so much of what made me was gone. I don't want to make excuses but I felt mutated, ugly, and I was so so angry and I couldn't do anything about it because I didn't understand what had happened."
"I'm sorry, Ino," Naruto regretfully admits. "I get that you didn't actually want to do that with me. Had I known, I would've stopped it. I was stupid and but it's different now."
"It is," Ino agrees. "For both of us. That's why I have to be completely honest with you. You deserve to know how horrible I can be-"
"You're not horrible," Naruto interjects, shifting forward. "No more than I am-"
"I raped Sakura," Ino flatly confesses, silencing Naruto down to his breathing. "At my worst, it wasn't so much her words that I couldn't take, but the new reality behind them. I felt like I had lost everything and I let my anger take over. I used my jutsu on her and took compromising photos of her. Then I blackmailed her for the photos by making her…" "ahem, by making her have sex with me and… and even making her have s-sex with you. I've long since learned what I did was horrible, and wrong, and evil, and there's no excuse for it. I understand if you never want to see me again, but you should know I will always cherish you and the times we shared."
Naruto's mind struggles to make sense of the meaning behind her words. They just don't connect with the girl before her in any way as he tries to vocalize the thing that doesn't make sense. "I don't- You couldn't- Ino, tell me- But Sakura's your-"
"I'm so, so, so, sorry, Naruto," Ino interjects, pressing her forehead as hard as she can into the board of the floor. She wants the pain, she needs the pain to get through it as she apologizes. "I won't ever stop being sorry. Till I die, this will be the worst shame of my life."
Naruto takes her hand and pulls her up to see her face. Her face would surely tell the truth, but she looks away, ashamed. "You're lying," he yells with hope that she is. "You couldn't do that!"
Weak in his grip, Ino uses all her strength to look in his beautiful eyes as she affirms, "I wish I were lying… but it's the truth."
Letting her go, Naruto steps back, mouthing, "I don't believe it. I can't! Not of you!"
Smiling with red-rimmed eyes refusing to cry, Ino asserts with confidence, "I have no doubt I would've fallen in love you before long." She back-steps toward the door, leaving him with, "your trust, love, and warmth altered my world for the better, Naruto, and I'll always be grateful to you. I'm sorry," she finishes, exiting the shell of his old apartment and leaving him to his betrayed thoughts.
SAKURA
When Sakura finally hears Ino enter her bedroom, the pink-haired kunoichi grips the instant-photo tightly in her grasp and walks out of her room. Though Ino wanted them to share rooms, Sakura reminded her blond sister that she will be doing a lot of studying and needs peace to fully concentrate. Sliding the last photo she hadn't destroyed in her nighty's pocket, Sakura couldn't believe how blatant Ino was being with her affections toward Naruto.
'They held hands in public,' Sakura's mind screams yet again, as her blushing body feels electric. 'Even Kiba saw them!'
After leaving Naruto and Ino earlier, all Sakura could think about on her walk back to the Yamanaka compound was her night with Naruto, and how Ino would eventually feel the same elation she had felt. Sakura couldn't explain why Ino starting a relationship with a boy she's had sex with excited her so much. She fantasized about it every night since and has already masturbated three times to the last photo of herself giving Naruto's erupting cock one long lick.
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