"You just want the excuse to come back to Fandom," she teased, skipping around what he'd actually said.

"What 'bout the kids?" Ino asked. "There's gotta be some, people'd be sleeping 'round no matter what. Those kids ain't going to be tired. They're going to look 'round and go 'hey, I wanna live'."

Even in the ashes, embers burned. Closest thing to a religion that Ino got. Will of Fire. Her village's creed.