A series of drabbles from dif Naruto characters points of views when they were kids about Naruto.

….. What are you staring at me for? You think that I'd write fanfics if I owned the actual story?

Ino – The Little Red Market

Every day when I was little my mom would take me around the shopping center with her since I was to young to stay at the shop alone. She would go about all of her errands and I would busy myself looking around. I remember all the red sales signs and red banners that used to hang everywhere. I started calling it the Little Red Market because at that point it was my whole world.

When I was five my dad bought me a beautiful red dress that I wore for Sakura's birthday party but not before my mom took me around all the shops and in each one I would declare "I'm a princess!" and they would all reply "That you are." Daddy always called me his little princess.

After that day, whenever I would go around the market stalls with my parents or without them by the time I was seven (as long as I only went to shops we knew the owner of and stayed out of people's ways) they would all great me "Hello Little Red Princess! What can I do for you today?" And on that street I was a princess. As I got older they just started calling me Ino-hime and when I graduated from the academy all the store owners I was friendly with (which was basically all of them at that point) gave me a little something from their shop.

But this story starts before that. When I had just turned seven and was making my now daily trip over to the fruit stand for my daily afternoon snack I noticed this dirty looking boy looking around a corner onto the street. I thought he was just dirty because he was a boy and was glad he didn't come over there. It was my kingdom after all! I couldn't have him dirtying it up.

When I was almost done with my snack (I don't remember what fruit I had that day) I saw him come around the corner and try to stay next to the wall. He edged over to Haruka-nee-chan's bread stand and tugged on her skirt. I was appalled; my parents had always told me not to do that since it was very rude and I listened. 'Who did he think he was?' I wasn't even thinking about why his parents had never taught him that back then. I thought he was just being rude.

Haruka-nee-chan looked down at him and I saw him try to hand her something. She whacked his hand away and started yelling a bit. I couldn't make out what she was saying from where I was but now I think I can guess. The dirty boy ran into the street trying to chase whatever had been knocked out of his hand and was getting in everyone's way! Now that was against the rules and since this was my domain I indignantly rose to my feet and marched over to him. I don't remember exactly what I said but I remember putting my hands on my hips and trying to make myself look real important. It was something along the lines of 'You're disturbing the peace!' and 'Never come back to this street or I'll punish you as the Little Red Princess.'

Whatever I said must have worked because he took off running away and I saw it was a few coins he had been trying to grab but I ignored that since the whole Little Red Market started congratulating me! My dad even bought me an extra large ice cream from the shop around the corner and since the shop owner had heard too I got an extra topping. I chose gum balls. That was the day I made my final decision that I wanted to be a ninja. I wanted to have everyone cheer for me again and I wanted to protect all of Konoha like I could the Little Red Market. I was so proud that every time after that I never let Naruto onto the street and I helped all the shop keepers keep him off.

Now I just wonder if being a ninja was worth kicking Naruto off the street and probably out of his meal that week and an extra large bowl of ice cream and all the praise. I'm not praised as a ninja but Naruto still isn't allowed into the Little Red Market.

And I made it that way.

I - had a dream. And this, was it. I thought it was kinda sweet. Don't have real ideas for others but I'm sure I can think of lots. Poor Naru-chan…

P.S. I hope it sounds like Ino would be.