Title: Flowers for You
Author: Muu
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: K (G)
C2: PLEASE note or e-mail me before adding any of my stories to a C2. I'd like to know where my stories go.
Warnings: None really. Slight fluff at the end, though.
Pairing: Itachi/Ino
Word Count: 412
Genre: ...General/Romance? xD;
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto D:
Summary: "Do you know the meanings of flowers?" he asked. "Of course."
Author's Notes: Well, this will be a collection of random Ino drabbles. She'll probably be paired up with every guy in the Narutoverse if I have my way xD. But, yeah. I decided i love Ino so much, I'd make a collection of drabbles I wrote, just for her. So, of course, they will all probably focus on Ino :D YAY!
Ten-year-old Ino Yamanaka sniffed, rubbing at her red eyes before continuing to stack up flower pots. She had been turned down by Uchiha Sasuke yesterday, and the incident still replayed itself over and over in her head, which pissed her off to no end.
'I do not have cooties!(1)' she wailed to herself as she slammed one pot into another. She glanced up from her work as she suddenly heard the bell on their door ring, signaling that they had a customer. Ino wiped her eyes one last time, quickly ran her fingers through her hair, and smoothed out her yellow apron before rushing to greet whoever had come in.
"Hi! Welcome to Yamana--" she stopped mid-sentence as she eyed Sasuke's older brother, Itachi. "...Welcome to Yamanaka Flower Shop," she muttered, "How may I help you?"
"...Flowers." she blinked at him.
"Excuse me?" At this, Itachi smiled sheepishly at her.
"I want some flowers." He paused, before, "Do you know the meanings of them?" he asked. Ino nodded, feeling slightly proud.
"Of course. I grew up with this flower shop, you know." Itachi nodded for a moment, paused, and then randomly pointed at some flowers.
"What do those mean?"
Ino hesitated as she looked at what he was pointing at before replying slowly, "Hatred..."
"And those?"
"Cruelty, grief, and jealousy."
"Those?" Ino smiled.
"Those mean 'you're adorable'." Itachi nodded slowly before lowering his hand.
"I'll take some of those," he muttered, and the girl thought she saw him blushing, but waved it off.
"Okay," she said, slowly, before delicately plucking up the flowers he had been looking at-- white camellia's. Once she had picked about 4, she headed towards the register, and rung up the price. As Itachi paid, she suddenly decided to talk to him before he left. "Hey, since these mean 'you're adorable', you must be giving them to someone you like, right?" she asked quietly, as she carefully wrapped the flowers up in plastic. Itachi nodded, before realizing she probably couldn't see his face as she was too concentrated on wrapping the flowers up perfectly.
"Yes." he replied curtly. When she was finally done, she handed it over to him with a slightly sad smile, memories from yesterday flashing in her mind.
"So, who's the lucky girl?" she joked, only to blink in confusion as she suddenly found a bunch of white flowers being pushed against her face.
"You," mumbled a blushing Itachi.
(1) I know, 10 year olds aren't usually that immature, but when I saw Sasuke in the flashbacks, he looked and acted really young for a 10 year old, so i was just like... "maybe Sasuke is a little slow?" Assuming he was 10 in the flashbacks... was he? i'm not sure /
...Yeah. I can't really remember how old everyone was before the Itachi went crazy, but I think he was like.. 14? and he's about 4 years older than Sasuke, who's as old as Ino, so I figured that she'd be ten before/during the massacre thingy. And, now that you've read it, you must...
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Julie♥♥