Most of the time Ino had only about enough tact to fit into a thumbnail. But when it came to people-who-she-wanted-to-fix Ino had mountains and mountains of it. So the hug was totally not a show, even if it was her real goal there.

"Nah, that'd probably just give them more ammo to wail about how we're awful-bad people, and even if we are that gets annoying." She settled in next to him, just close enough to touch, but not enough to make it look like she was being all weird hopefully, as she casually flipped open her notebook and tugged the pen in the coils of it out. And stared at the blank page for a moment. A beat.

"You any good at love notes?" Ino could so supply nonsense for him right now.