in for the kill
note1: So I'm starting the second arc now, and it is going to be different. Lots different. As in, I'm gonna focus on other people now, cuz I can. Okay? Okay.
note2: I reformatted! Booyah!
arc two: we are connected
chapter: diamonds
Ino liked lots of things. She liked clothes and coffee and boys (Ino really liked boys) and rainbow glitter. She loved her friends, like winter-pretty Hinata who didn't want to hurt anybody and Tenten the Magnificent and procurer (ooh, Ino liked that word. Procure. Such a fun word.) of alcohol. Chouji was her almost-brother and so was Shika, even though she might have his babies one day. Maybe. Because she might have Kiba's instead because he was funny and sexy and snuck into her room sometimes and gave her very nice kisses.
(She might be in love with Kiba or Shikamaru, or maybe both. She didn't know. She wasn't good with decisions.)
She loved herself too, because duh, she was Ino. With her spun platinum-gold hair and blue bottle eyes and fairy-ness. She was the only fairy she knew, that was for sure. (Well, Sakura and Hinata might be fairies too, but that didn't matter right now.)
Ino really, really loved Sakura though. Because she was so pretty, pretty like a pixie girl who danced in the springtime, and so very silly. Sakura was always cheering her up even though it was Sakura who was falling apart into little bitty pieces. She was like diamonds. She was sparkly and beautiful yet she could cut you apart in the blink of an eye and not feel any remorse. So cold and beautiful and perfect. Ino thought she might marry Sakura one day, save them both all of the stupid problems that came with boys. (Even though they're super pretty and Ino sometimes wanted to bake cookies on them.)
She loved when she and Sakura were on a team together, because after all that Sasu-bitch bullshit she and Sakura worked together beautifully. Together they were unstoppable, and no idiot rogue shinobi or power-hungry warlord could break them apart. They shared a heartbeat, she told Sakura, they were sisters. When Sakura was hurt, so was Ino. When Ino was confused out of her mind on what to do or who to pick Sakura would know and be there to pick her up and bring her ice-cream. (Because ice-cream solved everything.)
Ino hoped she would see her again, sometime. She felt kinda, sorta, a lot empty when she was gone. She wondered what would happen if Sakura never came back. Would she learn to live with half a heart? (Because that's what Sakura was. Her heart. One of her boys, she didn't know which yet, was her soulmate, but Sakura was her heart.) Or would she wither away into a ghost or herself, half here and half a world away?
Ino knew she was way, way too drunk and would probably regret this when she was hungover in the morning and didn't have anyone to hold her hair back while she lost her stomach, but that was okay right now because Sakura was dumb and Not Here and Ino really, really missed her best friend.
note3: Ino is coping. Because I like Ino-in-my-head Ino, so she gets a chapter.
note4: Idk. More Florence + The Machine, I guess.