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Shikamaru's POV

When Ino started screaming I jumped so badly my drink spilled down my front and made me look like I had wet myself. I turned to face her but she didn't seem to notice, she was just screaming and shaking as she leaned over like she was being sick. Her hair falling down to hide her face, everyone was looking up to stare at us now. Inoichi was handing Makoto over to Hitomi and rushing over.

"INO! What's wrong?" I shouted, kneeling down beside of her.

Choji and Asuma stepped away for a moment before running to Ino's side. They tried to talk to her but her screams just drowned there words out. After a long moment she took in a deep breath and began to scream again, only louder if that was possible, almost breaking my ear drums apart.

I took a step back as Inoichi appeared by her side and grabbed his daughters shoulders. He shook her lightly, trying to get her attention on him and make her stop screaming, all the while he repeatedly asked her what was wrong but I doubt she could hear over the screams.

"INO!" Inoichi shouted and Ino reached up, scratching his cheek with her nails so hard that she drew a little bit of blood. She stumbled backwards into the drink table behind of us, knocking some chips and sake down onto the ground with a large and loud crash, still screaming as loudly as her lungs could, I could hear her voice beginning to strain. Then she stood and gasped for breath and let tthe defening silence ring out.

"Ino?" Choji asked quietly.

Now everyone was staring at her. Her blue eyes wide, almost as if she couldn't believe she had just done that, and slowly filling with tears. Inoichi stared at his daughter in shock, a small cut from her nails on his cheek was starting to drip lightly with blood, making a trail all the way down to his chin. He moved forward, probably meaning to hug her or comfort her but he never got the chance. Ino seemed to lose it by his movement.

She turned and ran passed everyone towards the door. No one tried to stop her, everyone stepped away as if she had caught the plague and stared after her in shock. We could just hear her crying as she slammed through the doors.

"INO!" Inoichi went to follow when Asuma stopped him.

"Let us" Asuma said, nodding.

Inoichi swallowed hard as Asuma, Choji and I all dashed from the room after Ino. Moving as fast as our feet could take us. He probably wanted to come with, but I had a feeling he knew as well as anyone he had not been paying as much attention to his daughter as he should have. Best let friends, who are close to her, find and bring her back. Then he could find out what on Earth was wrong with her!

Sakura's POV

As soon as Team Asuma had ran out the door (and I regained controll of my body) I followed them. I think Naruto and Sasuke may have followed but I couldn't be sure, my eyes were focussed on what was ahead of me rather than behind.

There was something big wrong with Ino. That was obvious as day! She just screamed and ran from her brothers party. We all knew there had been something wrong with Ino for a long time. But we all just assumed it was stuff she had to sort through on her own. Like jealousy over her little brother. Wanting to meet her mum again. Getting a crush on other boys. Just generally going through some horemones. We never thought it would be anything big or dangerous

Outside I just saw Choji run down around the corner to my left. Turning I raced after them. I tried to keep up as best as I could but they were too far ahead of me and they were making so many turns that I lost them quiet quickly.

Turning I saw that Naruto and Sasuke had followed, they were just behind of me and were just as lost as I was. A pang of jealousy hit hard but I pushed it back down and away for now. This was not about me. This was about Ino.

"What now?" Naruto gasped

"I dunno" I whimpered "We have to find her but..."

Naruto put an awkward but comforting arm over my shoulders "Don't worry, I'm sure Asuma and Shikamaru will find her and everything will be OK".

I don't think he believed that, but I pretended to and nodded. We turned and went back to the party, maybe we could be of some help in getting it all calm again. I'm sure Ino left everyone in a state.

No POV

Ino was just ahead of them. She was running as fast as she could, her hands pointed behind of her as she moved. Shikamaru was ahead of Asuma and seemed to be closing in on Ino, he was squinting ahead and concentrating hard. Asuma and Choji just behind of him.

Ino had no real idea of where she was going, just that she needed to get away from everyone now. And when she finally realized where she was, she was so shocked that she just stopped.

Shikamaru almost ran into her, he stopped just in time and blinked with Asuma and Choji stopping just behind of him.

"Oh god..." Ino whimpered, looking around at the trees, the exact spot where she had been raped. No matter how much she fought she always somehow ended up back here. "Oh my god" she covered her face and began to cry, dropping down to her knees and howling into her palms.

"Ino..." Shikamaru whispered, he stepped forward to grab her shoulders but she screamed, jumping up and taking a leap forwards.

"Stay away from me!" Ino shrieked, backing up to the tree "I don't want to be touched!"

"OK! Calm down!" Choji said quickly "We won't touch you!"

"I can't handle this anymore!" Ino sobbed "I can't! I just can't!"

"Handle what?" Asuma said "Ino talk to us"

"No! Leave me alone! Damn it! Leave me alone!" Ino shouted, throwing her fists around in the air with tears streaming softly and gently down her cheeks.

None of them approached her. They wanted to but Ino was not acting like herself and they were afraid if they went up to her she might do something stupid.

Instead they waited for her to calm down.

When she did calm down (or as calm as she was going to get), Shikamaru stepped forward, hands raised in a "I come in peace" sign.

"You better now?" Shikamaru asked.

"Better?" she whispered then screamed "BETTER? Oh my GOD! Shikamaru if you knew what has been happening to me you'd realize how completely and UTTERLY stupid that question really is!"

"Well then why don't you tell us" Asuma said carefully and calmly "Come on, can't be as bad as you think."

From the look on her face he assumed it was. It was complete shock. Like she couldn't believe he had just said that. She began to stumble over her words, unable to form sentences. Then she just started to stand there and cry again. She just stood there, tears streaming down her cheeks and dropping down to the ground softly by her feet.

"Ino. Would you please talk to us?" Shikamaru sighed.

Ino looked up, crying, she stared at them before reaching up and wiping her eyes on the back of her sleeve, she sniffed and shivered slightly "I'm sorry" she whispered "I didn't want to hurt you so I kept quiet but... But... I'm sorry!"

"Sorry for what? Ino!" Choji stepped forward.

"I am just so sorry" Ino whimpered, staring down at her feet, the tears had finally stopped... for now.

"Look... Ino... Whatever it is... It can't be that bad" Asuma sighed

"Stop saying that!" Ino shouted

"OK, calm down" Choji said quickly.

"How can I calm down?" Ino shrieked.

"Uh..." Choji had no answer.

"You don't know! So don't pretend you do!" Ino growled like a wild dog.

"OK, we don't know. So why don't you tell us and we can help." Shikamaru suggested, sighing in frustraition.

"How are you supposed to help me?" Ino sobbed, honestly asking them.

"We don't know, tell us what is wrong and..." Choji began.

"You want to know? You really want to know?" Ino stepped forward and screamed as loudly as she could "I WAS RAPED!" The scream ripped through her throat, finally free from her chest where it had been locked away for so long. The huge weigh inside of her exploded at once and Ino took in a deep breath, actually feeling like a real breath for the first time in months. She took a deep breath and stared at them, no longer crying before she repeated it "I was raped... here... when Makoto was born... I was raped..."

Then, suddenly, she started to laugh. Pure relief rushed througher her body and she just burst into hysterical laughter, staring at Shikamaru and Choji's faces. Asuma was staring at her too, trying to work out if she was joking. The laughter said she was but... The way she was acting... And rape was not something to joke about.

Ino was not sure when her laughter turned into tears, she leaned against a tree, laughing and crying at the same time. Her hand covered her mouth and nose as tears freely ran down her cheeks as she stared at the others. She began to cough and choke but just stood there.

"Ino... Are you serious?" Choji whispered.

"Serious?" Ino shrieked with laughter, wiping away tears "Am I serious?"

"Uh..." Shikamaru stepped back.

"Of course I am seriou!" Ino screamed "You think I would make this up? Hell I have been quiet for months! Ever since Makoto was born I have been quiet! And now! Now I tell you and you don't believe me! Oh this is great! Just fricken great!"

"We do believe!" Shikamaru said steppeding forward "We do, Ino. Come on, we'll go to Lady Tsunade-"

"No! She can't DO anything! It has been too long! It is too late!" Ino sobbed, still half in giggles.

"She can." Shikamaru insisted "She can help you emotionally."

"I think it is a little too late for that!" Ino laughed, slipping down against the tree and onto the ground, crying as she whimpered "I can't forget it..."

"And you never will" Choji nodded "But Tsuande can help you... We can help you..."

"Really?" Ino whispered, looking up at Choji through tears, glistening in her eyes.

"Really" Shikamaru nodded.

Asuma crouched down beside Ino and held his hand out "Come on, let's get you out of the woods."

Ino stared up at him for a moment before sniffing and wiping her nose on the back of her wrist. Then she took his hand and allowed him to pull her up to her feet. Then she let Shikamaru gently put his arm over her shoulders, though she flinched and let her head drop, staring down at her feet with concentration.

"Choji, run ahead and tell Tsuande thay we are coming and what has happened" Asuma commanded.

"Yes sir" Choji glanced at Ino one last time before he was off.

Ino stared after him for a moment before she let Asuma drag her towards the trees, walking her slowly, as if she might break if he rushed her. But it was the oposite. Ino had never felt more releaved in her life. She had let it out, she had thrown all of the pressure off of her and she was able to walk up straight with her head high, even if there were a few tears slipping down her cheeks every now and then. She let off a giggle every now and then but each just turned into a small sob.

Ino sniffed, she had never felt this light since the day her brother was born.

Ino's POV

Tsunade was harder than I thought she would be. She sat me down and questioned me for hours. I cried for most of them, quite often just refused to answer her, tried to run. Asuma stopped me each time, calming me down and convincing me to stay. I might have ignore him and run out already, just keep running like before, if it had not been such a relief to let it out before. I was scared, but it was helping me.

Inoichi heard I was here and he had left Hitomi and Makoto to the party. I heard him as he tried to come in but Asuma kept him out, saying that I needed to talk to Tsunade before he could see me. I felt sorry for him. He had no idea what was going on...

When Tsunade was done she asked, she sat back and sighed. Then said that I would need to identify the two men that did this to me and then, if I could, to go to the hospital and get checked over, she knew it was too late to tell but they wanted to try anyway.

"No" I scowled instantly.

"What do you mean, "no"?" Tsuande blinked, not expecting that.

"I don't want to" I whispered, I felt like crying but I pushed it back "I want to go home now..."

"Ino. I know you're scared..." Tsunade began.

"No. You don't know." I whispered "So please. Just let me go home". I didn't want to have people proking and prodding me for no reason. And I didn't want to have to tell her who did it either. I would love for the men to get in trouble for what they did to me, but there was still that knawing feeling in the back of my skull telling me that no one would believe me. Not when those men were kind and nice under the alcohol. I nearly killed them. For now, that is enough for me.

She must have felt sorry for me, because, after watching me for a few moments, she then called for Asuma to take me home, even offering to tell my parents what I had told them instead of making me go through it again.

"No" I smiled a weak and strained smile that probably looked more like a grimace "Thank you. But I kind of need to do it."

"Are you sure?" Tsunade pressed.

No. I didn't want to. I would love to leave it for Lady Tsunade. But it was something I needed to do. The pressure lifted off me when I told Shikamaru and the others, so I needed to keep lifting off that pressure and I was afraid that if I wasn't the one who told them, then it would stay with me forever and weigh me down.

Inoichi was waiting for me, he was tapping his foot impatiently with his arms crossed over his chest. He looked up and ran over to me when the door opened and Asuma escourted me out. Threw his arms around me in a hug and didn't let go.

"Ino. I was worried. What is going on? What happened to you in there?" Inoichi said, pushing me back to look at my face.

The worry in his eyes, the way he cupped my cheek, the way he was holding me. It was too much. I burst into tears and threw myself against him, burrying my face in his shoulder and wrapping my arms around his neck. I tried to tell him. But my voice was so thick with tears that I knew he couldn't hear me. Instead he rocked me from side to side and rubbed my back, picking me up and carrying me home...

Three Months Later.

Inoichi did not take the news well. He was screaming blue murder. At first he demanded to know who it was but I didn't tell him. I still hadn't told anyone who had done it yet. Then he grew mad at me, for a horrible second I thought he hated me but Hitomi jumped in. She slapped him! Right across the face! Told him to snap out of it. He couldn't stop apologising and telling me it was not my fault after that. He was as confused and scared as I was. People do silly things when they're scared or confused. So I don't blame him.

It seemed Hitomi took the news best, she sat with me while we talked it out, let me sleep in bed for ages, brought me food and drinks every few minutes. She was always prying as to WHO did it, everyone was, but I just gave a weak smile and shook my head. Though I was slowly coming around. Maybe I should tell Hitomi...

The first few days, as news spread, it was hard to leave my house. I felt eyes on my constantly. People staring and whispering to one another. Sometimes my legs grew heavy and I wanted to collapse right there in the street but I knew if I did then I would be swarmed by people from every side. So I kept walking. And I kept my head high. And I tried to ignore the stares.

Shikamaru and Choji were acting weird around me. They seemed afraid to touch me in case I broke down, and they always spoke slowly and carefully, chosing there words like the wrong one might make me cry. Sooner or later, if they didn't stop, I was going to snap and scream at them. At least Asuma acted normal (well as normal as he could) around me. Patting my shoulder to show the two it was OK and treating me like everything was normal again. That was what I wanted after all, but I knew it would be a long time before things really returned to normal.

Sakura and Shizuka seem to get on OK. I've forgive Sakura, in fact I can't even remember why I was mad at her. Those two have probably been my lifeline in these three months. Shizuka keeps me busy at the pet shop as well as taking me shopping. Sakura comes around and we act like little girls again, giggling over boys that pass my window and doing each others make up in styles that are way over the top.

I haven't spoken to Naturo OR Sasuke yet. Maybe later, when I am slightly older and know more of what I want. I can pick one of them and try again. But for now... A relationship with anyone wouldn't help me.

People that say time heals all is only half right. Time will only heal you, when you have family and friends beside of you to help pass that time. Otherwise the wounds knaw you from the inside out until you're a wreck... And so, only now have I began to heal.

The next day I heard a knock on the door. I picked up Makoto, whom I happened to be babysitting while dad and mum go out. (I finally feel truly comfortable referring to them both as my parents in my head as well as out. Hitomi may not be my real mum, but she is better!).

I went to the door with Makoto on my shoulder, whispering to him in baby words and grinning when he gurgled some back to me. I reached over and opened the door only for my eyes to widen to see the familiar face of one of the boys that liked me...

"Hi." he whispered.

"... Hi" I said, wetting my lips and staring at him, holding Makoto closer for comfort.

"Ino. Please. Can I have one more chance?"

Well... Maybe being in a relationship might help after all.

THE END!

I hope I ended it to satisify both NarutoIno and SasukeIno shippers. This way you can imagine you're favourite guy to be the one to show up on Ino's doorstep.

Have to say, personally, I dislike this ending. It could have been done so much better! But I couldn't really think and I didn't want to hold everyone in suspense any longer. So please review this last chapter and thank you for reading! Everyone!