From the Ashes

by raspbewwies

Canon, Post-war. Drabbles on Konoha's rebirth from the ashes. Multiple characters. Possible warning for spoilers from the manga. #20: "Through it all, hope will follow, in traces and faint whispers. For it is hope that remains as they journey through the infinite, hope that will resurrect. Hope that will birth them from the ashes."

8. 8: Nails

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Prompt #8: Nails

Ino's nails were always painted a light pink.

Nara Shikamaru thinks that it's a sweet colour, babyish and innocent. Not, of course, that he would really admit that. To her face, at any rate.

Still, it hadn't escaped his notice when they idly stared at the clouds on days where she didn't have to be at the shop and he was spared of his troublesome duties on the council. While she pointed out completely ludicrous shapes for things that were obviously just blobs of white cotton candy, he was acutely aware of her fingers, their nails painted a light pink.

Theirs is a kiss beneath cotton candy skies in colours of light pink and orange. Theirs was the first wedding after the war, an event almost half the populace is invited to and was inevitably a trainwreck. Naruto was completely drunk on sake as his "initiation to manhood", while Chouji was downing all the food within visible range in the middle of the ceremony. Chomp chomp is so bothersome.

As she twines her hand in his, he notices her nails are still pink. He decides hell with it, and kisses them.