Sakura still wonders sometimes.
She wonders whether Ino is a little girl (with her cruel jibes and angry glares) or a ninja-turning-into-kunoichi (who knows weaknesses need to be bleed out). Sakura thinks she is a bit of both when Ino demands her to explain what has happened.
Ino ostracizes ineptitude like a knight banishes evil.
The base of her neck still hurt even though she had stopped needing to crane her neck to look at Ino in the face. (A part of her wishes that Sasuke-kun isn't so good and leaves her with something darker and more colorful to explain the pain.)
