She tensed her arm around his neck and yanked him off of her. Ino should have figured he would bring her with him. They tumbled towards the bathroom with the Kazekage somehow breaking free from her and pushing her to roll another couple feet until she hit the wall. Wildly pushing off she scrambled to him just as Gaara couched directly in front of her, shouting something just as the bundle of explosive tags went off.

A scream wanted to tear from her throat but Ino clamped that business down as she became aware of several things at once. Her shoulder had been sliced open by a the kunai that went though the window. Gaara had been been applying pressure on it earlier but it now bleed freely down her arm and side. The rumbling had been sand as Gaara made a partial wall in front of them.

Just as she saw this the sand was dropping before rapidly forming into a semi dome in front of her; blocking her view completely. Letting out a frustrating growl, Ino glanced around and spotted Gaara's shirt lying in the open door way of the bathroom. Grabbing it and the skirt she had been wearing earlier; Ino whipped them on before trying to move past the sand.

As soon as she darted around the barrier, it broke down and swirled up into the air and joined the small cloud that was hovering around Gaara. Even shirtless and in 'jamies he looked composed and scary as all hell, facing four masked shinobi like it was everyday people come busting through his window.

Which was gone along with the half and roof attached to that wall.

Behind Gaara was the rest of her team, Temari and she thought she could hear Kankuro shouting something to others that were out in the hall. Suddenly she was grateful she had been able to get clothes on. Birthday suit fighting wasn't a top priority ever but she wanted the list of those to see it to be limited to like..zero.

"Ino!"

An explosive tag came zipping towards her face, but before she could even do something cool to avoid it, a wall of sand surrounded it and all she could hear was a soft pop before the sand shot outward before freezing and making its way back towards its master.

Gaara's face was murderous.

Feeling the better part of survival was to get moving, she sprinted towards the hallway where Shikamaru and Chouji were running towards her. They met just behind the Kazekage, who didn't pause in his defensive maneuvers to speak to them.

"Get her out of here. Now."

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Temari held her fan at the ready, watching as Team Eight ignored the Kazekage and launched their own attack. Chouji sent an enlarged fist towards two, she guessed Sound or rogue, while Ino grabbed the remaining lantern and threw it onto the remaining pile of pillows and blankets while simultaneously avoiding a shrunken thrown at her. The debris quickly caught, flames burning bright.

The blonde backflipped away from one of the ninja, landing next to a crouching Shikamaru who was holding his hands out in a sign as the ninja landing in a stuttered movement. He muttered something to the the woman who growled something back.

The smirk shikamaru held was lazy as he moved the flickering shadows up the mans neck. A moment later the body fell down as Ino helped Shikamaru up before they turned together.

Gaara had been holding off two of them while Chouji was fighting the remaining one. Temari was going to start forward to try and separate one from Gaara, who really didn't need help but she was afraid he would forget to keep them alive, when Ino slid under a wave of Gaara's sand to a stop in front of one of them. Shikamaru moved towards his other teammate.

Sighing in a little frustration at not being able to help Temari, settled to monitor just in case as she listened to Kankuro ordering for a ground search.

The tall blonde had found a kunai somewhere and was using it well as she dodged and weaved gracefully between the two enemies. All the while sand was twirling, retreating and attacking, any space between Ino and the other two shinobi. The sand was a thick ribbon that seemed to be dancing in time with the woman. Swirling around her legs to protect from hits before snapping out to land one of its own. At one point the taller shinobi had an opening of her neck when the sand was a complete wall around her.

Temari saw Ino shove a hand through it towards her younger brother; middle finger straight up.

It had looked like he gave a half grin before dropping the barrier as she burst through; a fast kick to the back of one shinobi's head dropping him like a rock.

Then things got crazy.

Temari leapt forward as soon as she saw the tags of explosives the remaining shinobi threw, just to get yanked back by an arm of steel before an enlarged arm blocked them from view.

"Shit!"

Temari caught Ino shout, a flash of the floor slick with blood give away and Ino's face angry as she began to fall - arms reaching for a floor that was crumbling, before Shikamaru shoved her stumbling out into the hallway. An expression of thunder he shouted Chouji's name.

Through the broken doorway she saw Chouji's face scrunched in effort as he reached out just as Ino dropped out of sight. It didn't matter, Temari shouted just as Gaara disappeared after her.

"Move!"

The three raced out of the building. At some point Kankuro joined them, exchanging a worried look with Temari.

Reaching the point of destruction, Temari let out a loud sigh.

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Ino wasn't a big fan of that weightless stomach feeling she got when she was free falling, especially when it was an unexpected fall. Here she was though, reaching for a floor that was following her, and pissed about it all.

She didn't think it would take a long time to hit the ground, but those thoughts didn't get a long life because she was once again - almost irritatingly- surrounded by sand and then Gaara was there being totally chill about the whole thing as he caught her like some kind of stupid princess.

If his hands were shaking a little when the sand settled them on the ground she didn't mention it; only pressed a small kiss to the side of his neck before the wall around them dropped to reveal his siblings and her team running towards them. She noted Kankuro and Shikamaru deviate at the last minute and disappeared around a building.

Ino took a look at their faces and decided to wiggle closer to Gaara's chest instead of demanding to get down. He shot her a look before meeting the others.

"You guys okay?"

Ino sighed loudly and brought a hand to her forehead before answering Chouji's concern.

"They destroyed our seduction room!"

Temari's face went through several expression before she leaned on her fan and raised a brow.

"Is that why you aren't wearing any undies?"

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A/N: So chapters 37-39 were suppose to be all in one go but it wouldn't let me upload it all together so that will probably...hopefully explain any weird pacing...maybe...-.-''