[ In some ways, Ino is hardened to this kind of thing. It's inevitable at some point or another in her line of work, for a group of kids who were born in the shadow of war, raised to do violence. She was taught how to slit a throat so that it doesn't spray blood, all the ways to dispose of a body so that it's never found again, how to systematically turn someone's own mind and body against them. She learned it with the expectation that she would use it someday, because these are the things you do when you want to protect your home and the people you love.
But in other ways, she does everything too fiercely for her own good—she feels too strongly, cares too deeply, loves too openly. The bush clover, symbol of her clan, stands for candid, uncomplicated love—that's also how she was raised.
(If this is a contradiction, then it's not an impossible one: it wasn't his death that affected her—it was the loss of his life, and that is a very different thing.)
Ino doesn't know much about Peter, other than his terrible fashion sense, something about spiders, and the fact that this isn't his first death. She also knows that there's power in hugs, even among tentative friends, and his silence tells her as much.
In spite of herself, Ino finds herself relaxing a little into his hold, her arms tightening around his neck and head bowing so that her nose presses into his shoulder. With his death, Sakura's transfer, and her move to Grey—maybe she needs a hug too.
Finally, she steps back—and punches him in the arm, enough to make him feel it. ]
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But in other ways, she does everything too fiercely for her own good—she feels too strongly, cares too deeply, loves too openly. The bush clover, symbol of her clan, stands for candid, uncomplicated love—that's also how she was raised.
(If this is a contradiction, then it's not an impossible one: it wasn't his death that affected her—it was the loss of his life, and that is a very different thing.)
Ino doesn't know much about Peter, other than his terrible fashion sense, something about spiders, and the fact that this isn't his first death. She also knows that there's power in hugs, even among tentative friends, and his silence tells her as much.
In spite of herself, Ino finds herself relaxing a little into his hold, her arms tightening around his neck and head bowing so that her nose presses into his shoulder. With his death, Sakura's transfer, and her move to Grey—maybe she needs a hug too.
Finally, she steps back—and punches him in the arm, enough to make him feel it. ]
Are you going to stop being a baby now?