Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or fairytales -o-
Yamanaka Ino got up, washed her face, brushed her teeth, changed, and looked into the full length mirror standing beside the door of the walk-in closet of her room. Satisfied with the look, she smiled.
'Yosh! I'm sixteen, I'm beautiful, smart, likeable, and practically perfect! Well, I have a few faults... but those are absolutely necessary; they're merely attributes to further emphasize the good qualities I have,' she thought to herself, and gave another dazzling smile, just to act out the way she would greet her new classmates at the high school she was being transfered to.
Her father had gotten a promotion that required them to move back to her hometown, a classy surbuban area bordering a huge city. With the job and her usually outstanding grades, she had been accepted into an elite school, which she was sure was full of refined, brilliant people like herself.
She then pouted and sat back down on her queen-sized mattress. Could she find a boyfriend?
'Ah! It's not fair, no, don't say that! This is a new start, and for the first time of my sixteen years I'll get a boyfriend. And, of course, he'll have to be perfect -like I am!' she decided to herself.
Digging through the bookself, she grabbed a few manga series and laid them out in front of her. Each one of them had a simillar plot-line, despite the sometimes contrasting characters and places. There would be a girl, her age, that had an horrible life, childhood, past, whatever. The girl would then be thrown into an extravagant world full of bishounen and girls who said they were prettier than her. The main character had always been described as plain, but really wasn't at all. She frowned at the carbon-copy Cinderella-like plot of every book.
Sitting up straighter, she looked into the mirror from her spot on the huge, pale-cerulean covered bed. She wasn't poor like a lot of these girls from the shoujo mangas, but she was definately a hard-worker, and would do anything to get whatever she wanted.
She definately wasn't plain, she knew that. Unlike the main characters, she had a pretty high self-esteem and confidence that no one could waver. Yamanaka Ino wasnot about to change that, it was one of the better traits she liked about herself, there was nothing wrong about believing in yourself.
Innocence...yes, but soft-spoken...definitely not. If she meant something, she would say it. Seeing a cute guy didn't make her flustered and tongue-tied, and she definately wouldn't tell him that she hated him if she liked him.
Kindness? Well, yeah. She gazed back down at the books. Sure, there were times she would fight with and tease her friends, but who wouldn't?
Overall, she decided, she was really a great person. It was just the fact that her father's job required so much moving that she never settled down in once place long enough for people to recognize and acknowledge her.
Digging through the bookshelf beside her bed once again, she found her photo album. Sakura...Shikamaru...Chouji... she hadn't seen them in the longest time..
At first, when she started moving, they exchanged letter to keep in touch. After a while, though, the letters and packages couldn't keep up with the change of addresses, and they eventually stopped. Phone calls were the same. The first thing she would do after school today would be to track them down, they'd SO be surprised!
"INO! HURRY UP, OTHERWISE YOU'LL BE LATE! AT LEAST BE ON TIME ON YOUR FIRST DAY!"
Grabbing her bag she flung open the door and ran down the stairs. She had spent too much time reminessing, how embarrasing.
A/N: Who should I pair her up with? Hmm...Sasuke? Shikamaru? Random surprise crack pairing?