Title: Good Intentions
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Ino, Sakura
Summary: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Drabble.
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In a bold, un-Sakura move, the pink-haired child laces her fingers with her best friend's. Ino is a sharp girl. She knows something is off, something, but she doesn't know what. So instead she looks from their chubby clasped hands to her best friend's smiling face. "Sakura?"
"I don't wanna forget."
Her statement is blunt and nonsensical. Ino frowns. "Forget what?"
Green eyes drift up to the sky and the passing clouds. "I don't wanna forget how this feels." She's still smiling. "I never want to forget how having a best friend feels."
Ino's frown fades. She doesn't look up at the sky, but at the girl sitting next to her. "As long as I'm around," Sakura is taken aback by the utter fierceness of Ino's declaration, "you won't have to."
They are young and their world is peaceful.
-o-
Sakura looks at Ino from across the area and her heart twinges. Somewhere along the way, everything had gone wrong. They had fallen apart; their perfect duo was no more.
Still, Sakura never forgot.
