Done for the Naruto100 LJ community challenge: My not so happy ending
She was a woman of broken dreams.
When she was four, she wanted a knight on a white horse to come to her rescue, just like all the princesses in the books her father read to her at night.
There is no knight in shining armor. I only have myself.
When she was eight, she dreamt that she and her friend would be together forever.
Too large, too good, apparently.
When she was twelve, she dreamt that she would marry Uchiha Sasuke, and be the envy of everyone.
Traitor.
When she was thirteen, she felt destined to be a great kunoichi, and even thought maybe about being taught by the Hokage herself.
Not good enough. No where near good enough.
When she was fifteen, her former teammate stole her first kiss, and she thought that he would be the one for her. She would marry, retire, have children. It would be a nice happy ending.
Left me for someone else.
Eighteen finally saw something. She said yes to the question, and a year later, she changed families, and thought she would finally have something she wanted come true.
Widowed before our first anniversary.
That same year saw both of her former teammates gone. Her best friend followed soon after. She had a reputation of being unbreakable in spirit, but she was now broken completely; a woman made up of broken dreams. Unresponsive to her captors, the once proud Yamanaka Ino did nothing as it was finally deemed that she was no use to them.
As the life drained from her, the thought that passed through her mind was simple.
Maybe now I'll have my happy ending.