Suffering to protect (naruhina, sasusaku, saiIno, Nejiten)

Chapter 8

Ino POV

We made it back to our house safely. Sai put me down and opened the door. I began to walk inside for the first time in 3 years, I began tearing up a bit. I'm finally home. I then walked through the whole house with our bedroom being the last place. Nothing to drastically had changed. I walked over to the pictures that were on the dresser. The first one was when we started dating. The second one was of our wedding day. In this photo, you could see Sai trying and accomplishing to show emotions. The next one was of Sai and me being pregnant of 7 months. It looked like I was about to pop right there with how big my belly was. The third one was when Inojin was just born with me being a sweaty mess. I looked over at the last one. It was a photo of me, Sai and a 2 year old Inojin playing. I started bawling. Sai came running.

"What happened Ino?" asked Sai. I turned around to face him with my tears still flowing, and he quickly rushed over to my side. "Hey. What's wrong?"

"T-he pho-tos ju-st re-mind me of a-ll t-he hap-py ti-mes we h-ad wi-th ea-ch oth-er an-d no-w y-ou did-n't ha-ve an-y go-od mem-ories be-cause yo-u we-re sad an-d de-pressed ca-use yo-u thou-ght I w-as dead." He pulled me into a hug.

"Shhh. It's Ok Ino. No on is blaming you." "B-b-but, I st-ole you-rs an-d Ino-jin's happ-iness by no-t be-ing he-re."

"Yes. I was really sad and depressed when you weren't here. I was sad and mad that I couldn't protect you. I would always blame myself because of it. Whenever I looked at Inojin, I would always be reminded of you. I would always get sad when Inojin would ask where his mommy was. It took a while but eventually I somehow learned how to live with the memories we shared. But when you came back, I was so happy you don't even know. It felt like things were looking good for me now that you were back in my life again. If you think I blame you for this, I don't. I don't resent you in any way. Ino Yamanaka you make me the happiest man alive and I will forever and always love you no matter what. So I ask you Ino. Will you do me the honor of continuing being my wife again?" I cried harder by what he said and without skipping beat, I immediately said yes. "Yes. Yes. I will be your wife again. And thank you for everything you said. It really means a lot." "No problem Ino. Just wanted to remind you that you are the only one worthy of me."

I parted from Sai and looked him dead in the eyes. "Sai." I said in a dark tone. "Yes honey?" I could tell he was getting uneasy.

"What time is dinner gonna be ready. Cause I'm starving. And having all that hospital food was not good either." Sai didn't answer. "Sai?" All of a sudden he started laughing. Not giggling, but laughing. That was a huge surprise cause Sai never laughs. "Oh, honey. I thought it was going to be something serious with the way your face looked like." "Well. Sorry that my face looks funny to you." I began walking to the night stand to get my hair tie when a pair of arms trapped me against the wall. "Sai. What are you doing. I have food to make for all of you guys since Inojin should also be coming back from spending time with Kakashi-sensei. Sai?" No response.

Suddenly he began coming closer. "Sai. Really stop. I need you to let me go now. He didn't listen and before I knew it his lips were on my cheek and going down to my neck. "Sai. Please don't do this. Leave me." He wasn't listening. At this point I was having a panic attack. I still had a no touch policy after what happened to me and the girls. Same with the girls. And I guess Sai felt me trembling and sweating uncontrollable cause he took his arms away from the wall and let me pass. I pushed him away and I bolted right out of there and into the kitchen to clear my head and not remember those nasty memories.

It had been about an hour later, give or take and I had finally calmed down enough so I could start making dinner. I had just begun making dinner when I heard the door open and Kakashi-sensei and Inojin entering. I went to the door and waved at Kakashi and hugged Inojin while giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Ne Mama, where's Papa?" "He's upstairs hon. Why don't you go up and greet him." He went upstairs and started finding Sai who I presumed was still in our bedroom. I felt really bad for pushing him away, but I just could not handle something like that so early on. I decided I was going to apologize to him.