After an hour long session of passionate lovemaking Ino sits there glancing between her spiky haired bedmate and the clock on the wall. ‘3 a.m.’ she notices that the clock reads ‘I wonder if he will stay tonight’ she contemplates, as if on queue his cell phone rings. Her lazy sexual partner springs from his slumber and answers the phone sounding somewhere between tired and rested “Hello” he says. Through the phone can be heard an exhausted woman’s tone “Are you coming home tonight Shikamaru?” with an exasperated sigh he replies “yes Temari, I am leaving now”. With those words Ino knows her unspoken prayer weren’t answered that night. Shikamaru gets out of bed and puts on his remaining clothes, glances back at Ino and says “I’ll be back soon”. Just as he turned to leave Ino grabs his arm and he turns around to find Ino with tears welling up in her eyes, she mutters past the sobs “please don’t leave I’m begging you, stay with me Maru don’t go” he sees the sincerity in her eyes and realizes she says this while wearing her heart on her sleeve. Shikamaru repeats “I will come back Ino I promise” the tears forming in her ocean blue eyes slowly escape their confines and she starts to yell “it’s like a million years until you come back, stay; I’m tired of being lonely”. Turning away from her tearful face Shikamaru says almost cold and distant “you know I have to go home to Temari, she is my wife”, still angry at the fact he is leaving she screams “but don’t I give you what you need”. As he turns the knob to the door he says quietly “she called Ino I have to go, there is nothing I can do about it”, realizing he’s right she states her most impassioned plea while her tears are flowing freely “hey, there is one thing you should know” he walks out and closes the door before she finishes and mumbles “how troublesome” so she walks over to the door leans against it and says “we don’t have to live this way, why don’t you stay?” then she collapses against the door into a puddle of tears.
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