Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto...this would be canon, and not fanfiction.TT
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Of Primroses and Violets

From the age of 5, Yamanaka Ino has been helping out at her parents' flower shop. From the age of 10, she has known the meanings of over one hundred and fifty breeds of flower. From the age of 15, Yamanaka Ino has snickered over the clueless boys that wandered out of their shop with bouquets of yellow tulips, wondering what they would say if they knew the yellow tulip signified hopeless love. From the age of 20, Yamanaka Ino has attempted to forget all that she knew about flowers when she saw Uchiha Sasuke awkwardly tuck a small primrose bud behind Haruno Sakura's ear.

He couldn't know that the primrose says "I can't live without you." But with one look into his desperate dark eyes, Ino knew it was true, whether he knew it or not.

Yamanaka Ino is now 25 and she tells herself that she knows better than to trust in the ambiguous meanings of quickly-dead flowers. But when Nara Shikamaru shoves her a handful of blue and white hand-picked violets, she can't help but smile.

"Let's take a chance on happiness. I will always be true," they say.

Yamanaka Ino has always believed in flowers.

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AN: If I'm wrong about the flower meanings, I apologize. …I was lazy and just googled "flower meanings" haha As always, comments and criticisms are always appreciated. Thanks.