Friends

When Ino was a child and still in the Ninja Academy, Noriko would return from S-rank missions smelling like Death. Inoichi would pick Ino up from the Academy and smell like faint Death.
It was a comforting smell.
(It should not be comforting)

Ino knows the horrors of war.
She knows it's dark, bloody and unforgiving. She knows there's no honour in war.