Temporal | Change

Ino love love loved her blonde hair. When she grew up she was going to keep it really really long like her daddy. Right now he thought she was too little to take care of long hair properly, which wasn't true but she didn't have a choice since her father was in charge.

She didn't like taijutsu and weapons because they made her sweaty and dirty and smelly and just gross in general. Her daddy was going to teach her some cool Yamanaka jutsus anyway so she could fight with them without getting dirty!

Until one day, Sasuke said something while Ino sat next to him and munched on a sandwich. "You should train harder and be strong so you can do whatever you want. Like get revenge." He'd mumbled the last bit, not meeting her eyes.

Then he had turned and looked at her in that intense way he had and her breath caught because he might be thinking she's so weak and she decided that from that day on, she was going to train as hard as she could to impress Sasuke! Because he was her friend and she was in love with him but he wasn't in love with her yet. It was only a matter of time though.

She worked hard, she trained endlessly, like she always saw Sasuke do. She would just have to bathe more and put more of her really nice soap that smelled like flowers.

And she simply didn't know what to do when she graduated top of the class with Sasuke, who nodded at her and congratulated her and she was speechless with happiness and pride.