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a little WIP :3c i just discovered ino is my favorite to draw, yes

my rules for team 10 include: ino - purple, shikamaru - fishnet, choji - boots and huge fluff hair, all of which you will see in the finished product

This one was a long one. I’m not really a fan of Ino but after a little analysis, I think  I could understand her view point a little bit more. Thank you for the request and love. 

Headcannons of Ino’s show

If there was a show where Ino was the main character and story, we would see a different side to shinobi life and family. A show about Ino would center around girlhood and drama (no offense) as well as what it takes to be a female shinobi. Female shinobi have to learn to be a lot more cunning, agile, and crafty than their male counterparts. I’m not saying that they can’t have a powerful jutsu up their sleeve, but in respect to physiological differences between a man and a woman, men are typically stronger and faster. That being said, a woman in the Naruto realm, probably also has a smaller capacity of chakra storage. So, she could have a powerful jutsu but if not used right, she could wipe out her chakra reserves in one go.

Also, Ino is the heiress of a prominent clan. She has pressure from both her clan and outside observers to perform at her very best. She has a name to uphold as she represents in essence the best of the clan and what the Yamanaka are capable of. As a growing child, this pressure can be daunting and can feel slightly impossible to live up to. We would see self-doubt and frustration from Ino while she was practicing her clan’s jutsu. Her grades from the academy are reviewed heavily by her parents, along with the elders. She’s encouraged to perform to the best of her ability.

Sometimes all that pressure and stress can make a child get performance anxiety or give up to easily. Ino’s not a quitter, but I believe it was mentioned before, that Ino is essentially a jack of all trades because I believe she was afraid of failing one thing. That’s why she went to study healing jutsu when she didn’t want to try her family’s mind transmission jutsu. She has pristine chakra control like Sakura, and she has her clan’s mind transfer jutsu.

In a show about Ino, we would learn the technique and how much practice it takes to use the mind transfer jutsu. The first few attempts, Ino is able to leave her body, but is not able to sync with another body, so her experience would be floating in the void for a while. She’ll learn how draining and mentally exhausting the jutsu can be. When she succeeds, she’s so excited that she slipped into another person’s body, but soon felt undeniably uncomfortable. Her dad would have to help her to calm down enough to get her to release the jutsu so she could return to her own body. I believe Yamanaka’s practice on animals first before practicing on a humans when learning the mind transfer jutsu, because animals would have less mind/soul resistance than humans.

The side effects of learning the mind transfer jutsu was hard on Ino. After some attempts, she would pass out after returning to her body. Other times, she would throw up or had major headaches for the rest of the day. It’s not the easiest jutsu to learn. Also, after Ino slips into another person's body and can see her own limp body through their eyes, I feel like she would be super self-critical of herself, being like “is that how I really look to people?”

Another aspect on the mind transfer jutsu training, is that Ino probably had a family member (mostly likely her dad) slip into her body. This was probably done for demonstration as well as to help her build up mind barriers.

In the world of girlhood and growing up, we would see and experience Ino’s side of the story in regards to friendship. Ino is an only child but is super friendly and kind. She was popular and made friends easily. We would see her kindness in how she befriended Sakura and we would experience the heartbreak/betrayal of watching that friend turn their back on her for liking the same boy.

We would see how she had to grow a tough outer shell because she didn’t want to wear her emotions on her sleeve. Especially when she had a lot of eyes on her from her clan, her school popularity, her parents, and teachers. She couldn’t afford to be judged for having feelings and looking weak. So instead, she put on an act and made herself look confident. Although on the inside, she was always comparing her accomplishments to others.

Being assigned to Shikamaru and Choji on a team was not a surprised; even though, she hoped to be with Sasuke, her father told her about the Ino-Shika-Cho tradition. She had met Shikamaru and Choji often when they were kids and they had played together before on the playground. She was comfortable around them and saw them as her brothers. They could get on her nerves, but deep down she loved them like family.

Basically self-doubt, self-discovery, love, and friendship would be the main components of Ino’s show. She definitely had some ups and downs where she learned in the chunin exams she was not stronger than Sakura. She was rejected by Neji and Sasuke. She almost lost Choji and Shikamaru during the Sasuke retrieval mission. She learned how to perform healing jutsu and learned the mind transmission jutsu. She lost her dad in the 4th Great Ninja War. Went to save Sai and fell in love with him. Then she had kids.

Naruto was an anime that meant something important to my mom and me.

especially in its beginning when the characters were children. each of them was that special and always will be, I will always have a great love for each of them 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕