[Fic] I Love The Sound of You Walking Away
While I was taking a (long, possibly permanent break) from my Loveless project, someone told me that I should do another NaruIno since I like it so much. But then someone else said that I should do femmeslash while I'm still on that kick, and then all the angry female singers I was listening to convinced me that slut!Ino is the way to go, so I
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I don't know how you manage, but I envy you greatly. Could I borrow your talent for just a hours, maybe a day? It would be awesome. You're a genius, know that? Congrats on yet another masterpiece.
I picked out the best parts...
1 - Ino pours more cream into her untouched coffee, watches the thread of off-white swirl like a vortex, and wishes she could wash every memory she has of their relationship down its current.
2 - She doesn't ask him who his ghost is, however, knowing he'll probably ask about hers.
3 - with the mutually implicit knowledge that two wrongs don't make a right.
4 - And that is how Ino knows the difference between a girl and a woman: the acknowledgement of the sacred law of no strings attached.
5 - "I'll burn it as long as I can hold it."
6 - Ino has the sudden, absurd wish for Temari to ask her out to dinner.
But that's not the way the game works.
7 - Tonight the club is busy, the dance floor crammed with sleek nubile bodies writhing to the heavy bass beats spilling from the club's sound system.
8 - Mouths 'What the fuck' to herself.
9 - "Don't kid yourself, Ino. You were born to burn the candle."
10 - All of a sudden, her heart is beating a fast tattoo against the walls of her ribcage. She has never been here before.
When Naruto laughs, the sound is like the tinkling bell of an ice-cream truck. "I know that too."
-xx- Nika-chan
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