dream | [canon update]
Konoha.
There's no doubt that it's her beloved village... to her, at least. When you've lived in a place for your entire life--when you've walked the streets, memorizing each and every dip and turn--you come to know a place... even when said place has been reduced to a pile of rubble.
Ino is kneeling in the rubble, leaning over the body of a woman and weeping quietly; across from her sits Shikamaru, watching the scene with a pained expression on his face and yet saying nothing at all. The woman is, after all, obviously dead. There is nothing to be done.
And yet....
"H-Huh?"
The woman--who had clearly been dead only a second before--slowly tries to sit up, raising a hand to her head. The girl watches with a shocked expression on her face, the boy across from her doing the same. From somewhere down the street, there are shouts, all of which are clearly overjoyed.
"He did it! Naruto did it!"
The scene then abruptly changes. Two men make their way through the forest, eventually coming to the outskirts of the village... and there stands the entire village, it seems, cheering wildly and rushing forward to greet them. Among them stand Ino, Shikamaru, and their other teammate, Chouji, watching the scene and smiling fondly at their village's hero.
Everything was going to be fine.
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[she wakes almost instantly, gasping for air and jerking upright; it's almost as if she's awoken from a nightmare, although she most certainly has not. she remains like that for a moment, not even caring that her stupid dreamberry is broadcasting the whole stupid scene.]
...T-They... everyone is... safe? Even Shizune-san and Chouji....
[a hint of a smile graces her lips before she swallows, takes a deep breath... and bursts into tears, lmfao. shut up, man, this is an emotional time]
[ooc: CANON UPDATE TIME. aw yeah.]