CHAPTER ONE-HURTING WORDS Intro
"Why don't you just give up, or learn how to be a lot stronger," she scoffed, "You're no use the way you are now."
"Ino, it's obvious that you're not as well-trained as your teammates, so you should start to train more in order to catch up."
"I can't put you on this mission Ino. You don't have the strength to handle it."
These were all kinds of comments she had heard. Ino never seemed to care about what other people think or say about her. All she cared about was what her teammates thought about her. They were her friends and they mattered to her. Everything seemed fine for Ino until she went on a mission that changed her thoughts about her team. She cared about Shikamaru the most. They've been friends for a long time and her feelings for him started to change throughout the years.
"You don't do anything important in this team," he continued, "Nothing you do is good enough. You wouldn't last one mission without either of us having to save your life."
Those words came directly from Shikamaru during their break from the last mission she went to. She never expected him to think of her like this. Now, everything mattered to her. The person she cared about the most thought of her as a useless & weak person. She was angered by this and wanted to prove a point. She is not useless. She is not weak. She is not what everybody thinks she is. She is strong, and she was gonna do something about it.