No recent wiki edits to this page.   Originally a great rival to
Sakura, Ino has had some fairly drastic character changes. She
works in a flower shop with her parents, she's a Ninja, and
she's blond. Aside from that she's taken a journey that has
completely changed her personality.  In the beginning Ino was
something of the Queen Bee in the School, very popular, pretty,
and charismatic. She and Sakura were good friends right up until
the time they started noticing Sasuke, and than they (like many
other of the girls) started plotting to date him. Up until that
point Ino was very encouraging to Sakura trying to break her out
of her shell, but after that point focusing on sabotaging her.
They both were quick to insult each other and belittle the
abilities of the other. This conflict didn't come to outright
blows however. At least not until the Chunin tournament.  Ino in
Action  At that point they both turned from generally nice girls
who happened to have a crush on the same guy to outright
warriors looking for