Title: Zinnia
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Ino, Sakura
Summary: Of high heels and lipstick and a bud that's yet to bloom. [InoSaku friendship fic]

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Summer
Here there are no boogeymen and no monsters; there is only the warm of Ino's hand on her own and the comfort of the bright blue sky above.

-o-

Power
Ino is all curves and maturity and sex appeal, but Sakura is filled to the brim with steadfast determination that Ino is secretly jealous of; she planted that seed of strength and now it has outstripped her own.

-o-

Enough
Sakura will never, ever thank Ino for everything she's done just as Ino will never, ever apologize for the things she hasn't.

-o-

Hero
"Hey Sakura! There's no point in sitting all by yourself; come sit with me!"

-o-

Completion
They are six and prancing around in their mothers' high heels and life is perfect; they are twenty and up to their elbows in enemy shinobi and life is right.

-o-

Hands
For once, Sakura is glad that she can teach her best friend and not the other way around.

Drive
Ino is more than willing to learn.

-o-

History
It takes years for them to get over feud but only seconds to make them friends again.

-o-

Nuance
Their rivalry is everything friends should be and everything enemies have to be rolled into one neat (if not violent) package; any way it's looked at, they make each other stronger.

-o-

Beginning
"You're my bestest friend in the whole world, Ino-chan!"

-o-

Whimsy
There has never been a limit to Ino's boldness; she presses an enthusiastic kiss to Sakura's forehead after the girl nails her first bull's-eye.

-o-

Change
Ino never tells her best friend that the only reason she helped her is because she felt it would be a waste for a flower to never bloom (she's always wanted to know if Sakura was really a hydrangea or an anemone).

Freedom
She would turn out to be a peony, if only to throw Ino off course.

-o-

Bonds
They borrow so much of each other's things that they don't even bother trying to sort it all out; there's no point in starting another fight over something pointless.

-o-

Sacred
Ino built Sakura's self-esteem up from the ground; Sakura brings Ino back from death more times than she can count (and even then, Sakura owes her best friend so much).


A/N: Flower Meanings:
Zinnia- thoughts of friends
Hydrangea- perseverance
Anemone- fragile
Peony- healing

Stacie was talking about Ino/Saku today. Despite the yuri goodness, this is what spawned form our conversation.