Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Flip Side ❯ Flip Side ( Chapter 1 )

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Summary: Ino hates Sakura. She hates Sakura even more for dying for her.

 

Flip Side

 

Ino's wearing black today, black-not-pale-blue, a color that doesn't really suit her and managed to make her look like a bloodless doll, but she should do at least this for her former best friend, the former best friend she would choke if she could.

 

She's furious and clenching and unclenching her fists and whywhywhywhywhy. She sees red and black and it's not Sharingan because its grief and anger and questions and, always, whywhywhywhywhy?

 

She can still see it, every night in her dreams, and blood and pain and a shield of pink hair and pale skin and it should have been her.

 

There. She said it.

 

It should have been her because Sakura would have become Uchiha Sakura, and if not, then Hokage, the Godaime's heiress and successor, and what is Yamanaka Ino in the face of that?

 

So Ino is furious with Sakura (with herself), and every time she glances around (Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, Tsunade-sama, Shizune…) she only hates Sakura more (for leaving, leaving, dying, and leaving).

 

She turns and strides away stiffly (away from the beautiful, dead body), ignoring Shikamaru's concerned gaze and Chouji's pleading eyes.

 

If Haruno Sakura can't become Uchiha Sakura, she thinks, she can be neither Nara nor Akimichi Ino.

 

After all, hate is only the flip side of love.