Title: Same Mistake

Summery: InoxNaru Ino isn't going to make the same mistake three times.

Author: Nimacu

Disclaimer: I don't it. I can't tell it what do. I can't tell it what to see.

A/N Thought I should be able to contribute something to my own C2 group.

It took five minutes when she was seven years old to fall in love with Sasuke. She spent the next five years chasing after him, the whole time he never learned her name.

It had taken a near death experience to show her how much she cared about Shikamaru…unfortunately for her by then someone else had realized that he wasn't as bothersome as he appeared.

She was tired of pining.

She didn't want to be sitting at a party with people she already knew waiting to surprise someone she barely remembered. Yes, all her friends were glad that he was back. But really? All this fuss for a fifteen-year-old Genin? She had to admit that two and half years of training with one of the legendary Sennin was impressive. But still a Genin was just a Genin.

The look-out motioned for all of them to hide. The group jumped up as he walked through the door. "Welcome Home!" they shouted.

Ino stopped dead in her tracks. He was taller and thinner, and more than that every step he took into the room was full of confidence. Not the false bravado of a child, but the walk of a shinobi of the leaf.

This was it. He was it. IT was like of those old folk-tales, where the prince and princess meet across the crowded room and know that it's love.

Well except for the part where he hadn't even looked at her yet.

But he was going to look, she'd make sure of it. Uzumaki Naruto would acknowledge her.