Beauty and the Beast

There's not enough Gai love out there. Here's a little something that I wrote. I know that I still haven't updated War of the Worlds but I've been having major writer's block with the chapter. It's almost complete but it's missing something and I won't put up anything that I'm not satisfied with. In the meantime please enjoy this story. Oh I don't own Naruto blah blah blah no profit involved.

Obsession

Years had gone by since she considered herself a little girl. She had gone through many experiences that most normal girls would never experience, but then again she wasn't a normal girl. She was a kunoichi, a damn good one if she did say so herself. She had a feared skill set and she was one of the youngest to ever have been recruited into T&I. She had lived through a war. She had nerves of steel and yet whenever she came across him she would be at a loss as to how to react. Ordering another round of green tea, she continued to eat her mild curry as she spied her target from across the street.

"What am I doing?" she whispered to herself before scooping more curry onto her spoon. I must be going crazy, she thought to herself. She didn't understand how this…morbid fascination had even begun. Thanking the waitress for bringing her the tea she groaned to herself before rubbing her forehead in frustration. Looking across the street she stared, looking to the entire world like a complete creeper, before downing her tea. Slamming some money on the table, leaving a big tip for being allowed to basically stalk someone, she got up and left. She made her way through the streets intent on getting to her apartment. She had moved out of her parents' house when she first got the job with T&I and she loved the feeling of being independent. Entering her decent sized apartment she began to pace. Think woman think, she yelled to herself, when did this crazy shit begin to happen?

"It must have been when I saw him at the hospital." She said lowly to herself. It all made sense she hadn't seen him before that day nearly three months ago. "But why dammit, this doesn't make any sense!"

She couldn't understand why her eyes were drawn to him whenever she caught a glimpse of him. She didn't understand why she would find herself staring at him for minutes on end like a deranged psycho. She didn't understand, but by God she was going to.

xXx

She was officially going mad. Almost half a year gone and she was still no closer to understanding her obsession. Sitting at the bar she gulped down her fifth shot of sake before signaling for another. How the fuck does shit like this happen to her? She stared down at her drink before downing it. She needed to talk to someone…but who? Sakura…hell no she thought. There was no way in hell that she was going to tell her. Her body gave a shiver and the hair on her arms rose. Oh no, she thought as her body froze, he's here. Why was he here? He's never here her mind screamed as she calmly signaled for another shot. This was her safe zone dammit, not even waiting for the shot glass to touch the table she raised it to her lips and drunk. Slamming it onto the counter loudly she closed her eyes and gauged her level of sobriety. Not that bad, she thought, a nice warm buzz perfect. Paying her tab she slowly stood and made her way out the bar before anyone would notice her; unfortunately luck was in a spiteful mood because it wasn't with her.

"Hey! Thank God you're here please keep me company!" Tenten whispered to her as her hand clamped on, like iron shackles, on her arm.

Pretending to glance behind her she said, "Looks like your well accompanied." She didn't want to risk looking at him and turning into a staring moron.

"Please don't leave me with the guys, they'll talk about training, more training, tits, and let's not forget more training." Tenten gave a small desperate smile, "Please stay with me for a while, they seem to forget that I'm not a male. And Anko doesn't count, she's in a class of her own."

No wonder they think your one of the guys, she thought to herself, you dress like a fucking nun and always tag along with them everywhere. Sighing she made her way back to the bar and immediately ordered a pint of beer. If she was going to stay here better to slowly drink the night away. Hearing Tenten settle herself next to her she let herself be pulled into small talk. Before she knew it she had already downed 4 pints and was nursing a fifth before a very drunk Tenten turned to her smiling like a clown. Squinting at the clock she saw that it was close to three in the morning, "Well fuck time sure does fly." She said to no one before chugging her beer and placing more money on the counter. This time when she stood she had to hold onto the wooden counter to make sure she didn't fall on her face. Taking deep breaths she slowly opened her eyes, grabbed Tenten and made her way out into the cool night. She knows she had too much to drink because she can't quite feel her fingers. How much did she drink, "Too fucking much that's what." She answered herself before snorting.

Looking at Tenten who looked at her dumbly, she felt a sudden rush to unleash all her conflicting emotions, her being drunk as a skunk was also a major contributing factor. "Tenten…these past months I haven't been myself." She said slowly, taking a second too long on every word. "I know weird right but it's true. The whole shit is fucking insane. I don't even know why this is happening to me. At first I thought maybe it's because I saw him at the hospital for once without that eye-searing jumpsuit on, and that's why I couldn't stop thinking about him, but then I couldn't stop noticing him. I stalked him you know. Followed him like a shadow." At this Tenten looked at her and laughed and murmured that she was crazy. "I know I'm fucking insane. I stalked him like a crazy woman, and no matter how many times I told myself to stop I couldn't." Looking up at the stars she swayed dangerously before gripping onto Tenten, who was fastily becoming dead weight. "Here's the kicker, you ready for it," after getting a grunt she continued, "I started noticing things. I start to sweat when I see him, my heart starts to pound, my nerves come alive, I get horny as fuck and I swear it feels like I'm having a fucking heart attack. It's not that I like him, how can I? I don't even know him like that, I don't know his hobbies, his dislikes or you know whatever else. Not to mention that damn jumpsuit. I…I think it's more primal than that. I just want to rub myself all over him and devour him. I want him to fucking dominate me, to take me and not apologize. I want to fuck him like an animal." She said her voice dipping low into a husky growl.

"Who…who the fuck ya talking 'bout again?" Tenten managed to ask just as they reached her apartment door.

"I'm talking about Gai…Fucking Maito Gai, the fucking Green Beast himself." She said biting her lip as images of him flashed before her eyes.

"Ino…your fucking crazy ya know that right?" Tenten said as she leaned against the doorframe. She rolled her head and gave a wide eyed stare at her friend.

Ino looked at her drunk friend and gave a small smile, "Yeah but still doesn't change the fact that I want him. Months I stalked him, watching him and it doesn't go away…I think it's getting stronger and one of these days my restraint is going to snap and I think I'll do something embarrassing."

"Like what?"

"I don't know but it'll be something big, I promise you that. I might kidnap him and tie him to my bed so I can have my way with him." Ino said with a sloppy smirk.

Tenten looked at her with glazed eyes, "You're fucking insane Ino, now open the door I'm too drunk to be talking' 'bout how you wanna get it in with my teacher."

"Ex-teacher…" Opening her door the two stumbled in and barely made it to Ino's bedroom before collapsing on the bed.

Neither of the two noticed the frozen figures perched on a nearby tree, who heard every word.

xXx

The next morning Ino woke up to the sound of Tenten throwing up in her bathroom, she opened her eyes before rolling off the bed from the blinding light that was creeping through her window. "Lovely…just lovely," she said to herself before closing her eyes again, "Tenten you alive in there? I'm too hung-over to drag your carcass through the village if your not."

"Barely…Fuck I'm never drinking again." Tenten groaned as she held onto the toilet for dear life.

"Lies, pure lies."

"I'm serious this time I feel like I'm throwing up my entire stomach. I feel like death warmed over." She managed to say before she heaved. "Disgusting."

"God my head feels like I rammed into a concrete wall."

"Bet you wished you rammed into something else." Tenten said as she chuckled.

Ino tensed and slowly opened her eyes, "What are you talking about?"

"Oh please don't act innocent, I know I was smashed last night but you forget, I can drink with the best of them, I remember what you told me last night." Tenten managed to lift her head from the toilet to give a dark smirk, "You remember…I want to fuck him like an animal, does that ring any bells?" Tenten began to giggle before Ino suddenly appeared in front of her, "Fuck Ino do you want me to throw up on your face?!"

Ino ignored her and grabbed her face in between her hands before leaning into her face so close that their noses were touching. "You have to swear on your life that you will tell no one. I swear if I hear that you told someone I will have you dragged into T&I and they'll never find your body."

Tenten glared, as much as someone could glare as their face was squished together, at her friend. "Otay jus lemme go."

"Not until I have your word Tenten." Ino said as she backed away from the toilet.

"You have my word that I will not tell a soul about you wanting Gai." Leaning her head on the cool ceramic of the toilet Tenten laughed, "This is so crazy."

"I know."

"I mean its Gai…I've know him since I was twelve."

"Please stop."

"I mean he wears a green jumpsuit with orange warmers," Tenten lifted her head and gave Ino a serious look, "Orange warmers Ino…think about that."

"You think I haven't?" Ino said as she leaned back on the wall. "I've been doing nothing but thinking on this madness. I mean I'm Ino Yamanaka, do you know what that means?"

"It means that you're a fashion obsessed shallow bitch, but I wouldn't love you if you were any different."

Giving Tenten a glare she continued, "It means that I have a type, a certain type. Gai doesn't exactly fit into my the hell does this happen to me?"

"I don't know so you better start from the beginning," Tenten said before heaving into the toilet, "and don't skimp on the details unless you want my vomit all over you."

Giving Tenten a disgusted look she began her tale. "It was six months ago, you guys had come back from a two-week long mission remember?"

"Oh yeah Gai came back with broken ribs I think, and Lee ended up carrying him."

"Yeah well I was walking out, I had just gotten a physical done when I walked by his room. His nurse hadn't closed it all the way so I was able to see him but he wouldn't notice me unless he looked. All he was doing was stretching, just stretching, nothing special or provocative and yet…I couldn't tear my eyes away. He didn't have his jumpsuit on, thank God, he just had on those thin hospital pants on. They way he looked was…pure male. All that muscle just coming to attention by him merely stretching, it was beautiful. His skin, his muscles, those tattoos-"

"Oh you saw them."

"Yeah I did. I didn't know that he had tattoos. Well with that jumpsuit how could anyone…wait," Ino said as she glared at Tenten, "how do you know?"

Tenten gave Ino a look as if she was the stupidest person on the face of earth, "He was my teacher for years. We went on countless missions together; I've seen his tattoos you freak."

Ino gave her one last glare before speaking again, "I just couldn't believe it…how could have known that under all that wrongness was a body that was sheer perfection?" Looking at Tenten who was looking at her with a weird look on her face she pressed on, "After that every time I saw him I wouldn't see the green, the orange or even the youth-ness…I would see that body of his and that dark line of hair going down from his navel into his pants."

"Amazing and completely mind-blowing weird, you talk about him like no one ever has, or at least no one that I know. To me he's always been Gai-sensei you know, the weird teacher that has a heart of gold but is completely embarrassing."

"I know...imagine if people knew Tenten?"

Tenten frowned, "Ino you seriously are that embarrassed about having an attraction to Gai? I mean I know he's not 'normal' but he's an amazing person."

"I know he is Tenten, remember I'm the girl that has been stalking him for half a year. That doesn't mean I know him but I think it's safe to say that I know him better than most." Ino thumped her head against the wall, "I just don't want people to know because I don't want to be publicly rejected and I know I won't be able to put up with everyone's crap about it. I van just hear them now 'Oh look Ino wants master fuzzy brows' and shit." Looking to the side at her friend she looked like the picture of despair, "What do I do Tenten? I've been wanting him for months now and I don't even know if he's into women or not."

"Ino he's not gay."

"Well how am I supposed to know that? He's always up Kakashi's ass."

Tenten felt safe to leave the toilet and crawled her way to Ino, who looked like she was going to cry. "Trust me he's not gay, he's just best friends with Kakashi that's it." Rubbing Ino's arm she laid her head on her shoulder, "I don't know sweetheart…if it was me I would confront him, but I know it's not that easy. I mean he's Gai, he's not exactly the definition of discretion is he?" She said with affection, "But I can promise you that whatever you decide Gai would never make you feel horrible for feeling what you do. He doesn't have it in him to be cruel."

"How do you know that Tenten, all you've ever seen him as is your teacher. All I've ever seen him as is my friend's weird teacher, and more recently a man; no one knows how he really is."

"That may be true but after all these years don't you think someone would have said something about him? You know shinobi are horrible gossips."

Laughing they fell silent as they lost themselves in thought. "It really smells in here Tenten."

"Yeah I haven't flushed the toilet yet."

"You disgusting whore go and flush the toilet." Ino said as she stood up.

"Yeah well you don't exactly smell like roses yourself."

Flushing the toilet Tenten turned around and looked at Ino. Ino was beautiful; no one could deny that she was beautiful. Her attitude wasn't precisely easy to get along with but she had a wicked sense of humor that she appreciated. "You know in all my years with Gai I've never once noticed him with a woman. Sure he's had one-night stands but never a long standing relationship. The times we've gone to his house, which is a lot since he calls his house the youth headquarters, we've never seen any shred of evidence that shows that a woman's been there. So if you do decide to go after him you won't have to worry about competition."

"Please as if anyone could compete with me."

Tenten rolled her eyes at Ino's arrogance before slowly making her to the kitchen. "Do you have any aspirin? I think I need a whole bottle."

"Top cabinet," she said as she stared at herself in the mirror, "Tenten not having him isn't an option. I need him, maybe if I do whatever this thing that I have for him will go away."

"Ino as much as I want to help you, I'm not going to let you make Gai another knot on your bed post. He doesn't deserve that, he doesn't deserve to be used like a sex toy."

Ino looked over her shoulder at her friend and slowly nodded, "Don't worry I won't steal his virtue, much. It was just a thought anyway I want him too much for it to be a one-time deal."

Stripping down she took a quick shower. Ino thought about what Tenten had said. Did she just want Gai for the hell of it, because he was unattainable? She snorted; as if it were that simple. No he awoke some hunger in her that won't go away until she had him. Walking out of the bathroom she told Tenten that it was her turn and went to find clothes. Today was her day off from work, she felt as if she needed to do something other than being cooped up in her apartment. Brushing her hair she pulled it up in a pony tail and decided to wear sweat pants and a plain t-shirt today. She felt lazy and it showed as she sprawled out on her bed waiting for the weapons master to come out of the bathroom. Waiting nearly an hour she heard Tenten finally come out, "I thought you had drowned in there."

"The hot water was like a dream," Tenten said as she dried off and pulled out sweats and a t-shirt from Ino's drawer, "I hate going commando."

"Yeah well next time carry spare panties with you. You never when you'll get lucky." Ino said with a smirk as she dodged a shoe. "So what's the plan today?"

"Nothing really, I don't have any missions and I'm not training today. How about we just walk about the village like the civis?" Hearing the blondes grunt of approval they made their way out onto the street. Tenten sensed someone following them, someone very familiar and barely managed to restrain a smirk. Looking to the side with a sly look Tenten said innocently, "You know there's this new store that just opened on the south side of the shopping district. I heard their stuff is great."

"Really I haven't heard about it."

"I'm not surprised, it's new and hasn't caught on with the crowd yet but it's great. It's just up your alley, you'll love it, especially with your new found…tastes."

"Tenten," Ino whispered, "Be careful with that shit you never know who's listening." She said as she looked around her, seeing no one she breathed a sigh of relief, "Cool let's go then."

Containing a laugh Tenten led the way, knowing that the three oblivious followers would get a shock. Passing shop after shop she finally saw the little black door and smiled a dark smile, "Here we are."

Ino looked at the door and frowned, "What's so special about this place? It looks so unassuming and plain." Looking at it more closely she just barely made out the name "Simply Sinful?" Seeing Tenten go in she shrugged her shoulders and walked in, what she saw made her stop in her tracks. On the walls were leather corsets, whips, crops and ropes. On the tables was everything from collars to vibrators. The store had everything and anything that you could ever want for sexual satisfaction. "Holy Mother of God." Walking in deeper into the store, that was dimly light, she didn't notice the door opening a third time. She moved through the rows of naughty toys before picking up a rhinestone encrusted collar, turning it around on her hands she placed it on her neck.

"Looks good on you." Tenten teasingly said from behind her.

"It feels nice…" Ino said slowly as she touched it softly. "You know I was never into rough sex or anything…I liked it I guess regular….but when I think about Gai all I can imagine is hot rough sex and you have no idea how much that turns me on. For him to talk dirty to me, to just…own me." Her body gave a shudder, "I swear I feel like he's watching me right now and it excites me," she gave Tenten a haunted look, "I'm like a woman starved Tenten and Gai is a tall cold glass of water and I just want to swallow him up. I'm obsessing over him and it's tearing me up inside, I don't obsess about anyone Tenten. I don't know how to handle this…this thing."

"Just accept it Ino, and plan what you're going to do. As long as you keep fighting it you'll stay feeling like that. Just take a chance you never know what could happen but unless you do you'll forever regret that you didn't try." Tenten lifted up a collar and a leash, "Besides I bet your just aching to have this on you with Gai pulling on the leash." She chuckled, "I can't believe I'm in a sex store helping you of all people, with your sexual attraction to my teacher."

"If I had that on I would have no problems crawling to him and licking my way up." At Tenten's disgusted look she laughed, "Hey you started it." Ino looked at her before taking off the collar, "This store is amazing Tenten…I can get lost in here for hours just imaging things."

"I bet." She laughed.

"Come one I saw this wicked looking vibrator, if I can't get the real thing then I'm getting the closet thing to it, because my fingers just can't cut it anymore." With that the two women went off to the sex toy section giggling like school girls. They didn't notice the figures that were following them backing away silently towards the exit and leaving.

xXx

Parting ways with Tenten Ino made her way to T&I, short for Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force. The director was, in her opinion, the toughest man to ever live. Ibiki Morino stroke fear into the hearts of people just by his name alone, he is the most frightening man alive, and he was the best boss she ever had. He was direct with everything he did, and didn't put up any bullshit. He could sniff out any lie, any discomfort any whiff of anything wrong in seconds and put the fear of God in you. She loved working with him because she never had to second guess his motives. She once asked him why he had never made a pass at her, or looked at her the way others do and he simply said, "Your not my type Yamanaka now stop wasting my time with stupid shit and get back to work before I put you on front desk duty for the rest of your life."

Walking into the gray unmarked building she waved and sent a mischievous smile to Mozuku, who was on front desk duty for pulling a prank on Hijiri, who was Vice Director of T&I. Ibiki only gave him a month of front desk duty, the smallest amount of time given by him. Mozuku apparently broke into Hjiri's apartment drained his shampoo with bright pink hair dye. The next day Hijiri tried to sneak into his office with a wrap around his hair but Ibiki, who somehow had a radar that alerted to him to any irregularities, stopped him and forced him to take off the wrap on pain of death. When he did it was the beginning of the end for him. The only reason why Mozuku was found out was because he had told Ino without checking to make sure no one was listening in. Hijiri demanded blood but Ibiki reasoned that if he was so careless as to not feel Mozuku when he broke into his apartment than he deserved the pink hair. Mozuku was then given front desk duty because in Ibiki's words, "You just wasted a day of my life with this."

Pressing her hand on scanner she waited for the system to clear her before the wall slid sideways to let her into the department. She remembered the day when Ibiki came to her with the proposition of working in T&I. She doing her rounds at the hospital, she had originally trained to be a medic nin, when Ibiki appeared out of nowhere behind her.

"Yamanaka I need to speak with you."

Ino thanked God that she resisted the urge to shriek, she suspected that he wouldn't have appreciated nor tolerated it one bit. She nodded and led him into an empty exam room. Looking around the room she bit her lip and forced herself to meet his eyes. She must have done the right thing because she could barely make out approval from his dark eyes.

"I don't know if your father has told you but he's retiring from T&I."

Ino frowned, "Yeah he did say something like that at dinner the other day but we thought he was just joking."

"Well he wasn't. Now I'm here because I need a talented Mind walker on my team and I've seen through the records that your one of the best in your clan." Narrowing his eyes he leaned down to look at her more closely, "I'm not going to beat around the bush Yamanaka, I want you and I will have you. I don't care that your Inoichi's daughter, or that your barely twenty. You have too much skill to be just a medic nin. Not that there's nothing wrong with being one but with your skills you don't belong here." Leaning back he dug in his black trench coat and pulled out a card, "Follow these instructions to the letter Yamanaka." Seeing her grab the card he gave her a nod and left her alone in the exam room feeling dazed and confused.

She went to the interview because frankly she was too terrified to find out what Ibiki what do to her if she didn't show up. She had to beg Sakura to cover for her making up a excuse about having to baby-sit a cousin. She told no one about her going to T&I, not even her parents. So when she arrived her father was understandably upset. He tried to argue that she was too young but Ibiki just glared at him and that was that. She passed the exam with flying colors and graciously accepted the position that her father once held for so many years.

Her father didn't speak to her for weeks following that day, but her mother understood that Ino was her own woman now and helped her move her things out of the house and into her apartment. After two months of silence her father went to her house and gave her a hug.

"I just wanted you to be my little girl a little bit longer."

"I know but after everything I can't be a little girl. Morino was right I was wasting my skills at the hospital, this is what I'm good at Dad." Hugging him tighter she whispered, "I'll always be your little girl Daddy but you have to trust me to make my own decisions."

Half a year gone and she was steady making her own mark in T&I. There was no mind she couldn't crack and she was going strong. Walking to her office she watered her flowers that she had hanging low from the ceiling to catch the sun's rays from the small window that was placed across her desk. Checking her messages she organized some files on her desk and was out the door before the hour was up. She passed Ibiki and gave him a smile, which he returned with a stiff nod.

Life was great, she thought to herself as she walked out the building and into the warm sun light. Lifting her face to the sky, she closed her eyes and just soaked in the sun rays. And it was in that peaceful moment that she made her decision.

"You're going to be mine Maito Gai." Working under Ibiki taught her that if you wanted something you had to fight for it and never let anything, or anyone stand in your way. Smirking darkly she laughed a wicked laugh, "Let the games begin."