In The Leaves | A 'Naruto' fan story | SasuNaru

Losing him to love her (Sakuhina)

(A/N: I wanted to write a short chapter for those who didn't want Sakura to be with Ino in the main story. Sasuke and Naruto will be mentioned though. Just not as the main couple. I hope you'll like it.)

(P.S. (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠;⁠) I'm doing this by memory because I'm too lazy to re-read my fanfic. If I miss anything, please understand that I couldn't remember it at the time. Thanks.)

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Would you believe if I said that I was made fun of as a kid? My forehead was the main attraction to those who knew me, and although I knew they were joking harmlessly, those jokes made me self-conscious and I started to cover my forehead as days passed.

I hid my real personality to be seen as attractive or amongst the crowd. I didn't know what I was truly aiming for as a kid. I just knew I wanted to stay away from being made fun of.

Yet, I didn't know I was committing hypocrisy when I was the one who kept joining the group. The group of kids looked at the blonde kid in disgust or curiosity to know why a nuisance was around.

Kids always said stupid things they didn't mean because to them, everything was a joke or a harmless chain of words to repeat. They bullied others ruthlessly thinking it could hide their insecurities and spouted nonsense to vent out their thoughts about themselves without realizing it.

People hated those who did these regardless of age. If a toddler did this, they received a pass. But once a kid started to go to school, they were hated by the crowd. I didn't understand that.

Ironically, I was still making fun of him despite my situation. I didn't understand anything about that blonde kid, yet I made fun of him for being the way he depicted himself to Konoha.

I might have also used that advantage of making fun of him to hide my own pain. I was the worst and I didn't know how harmful my actions were as a kid. I was naive and dense since my parents didn't teach me null.

Then a beautiful Uchiha entered the picture and suddenly friendships were torn to have him. He was the cool kid with coal-black eyes and all the girls wanted to be friends with him. Stupidly, I wanted to compete with Ino to be with him.

The competition lasted until the entire class saw Shikamaru bump into Naruto, the blonde kid, and caused him to kiss Sasuke. They looked shocked, repulsed, or something along the lines of that.

I thought it was a simple mistake after I stopped shouting at Naruto for taking Sasuke's first kiss. There was no way they would've liked it. Rivals stayed rivals through the very end. They never liked anything mutually besides an end goal.

But when I saw them blush, I felt my first rush of heartbreak. I was twelve and I thought of taking my frustration on Naruto more than ever for some reason. He was the bad kid in the class, he refused to try hard to graduate, and he painted on the Hokage faces.

To all of us, he was bad news. That was what we saw as we grew up to become genin.

I wanted Sasuke to reciprocate my feelings, but as I continued to be a part of Team 7, I was starting to deny what I was witnessing. I was in a state of denial even after I saw Sasuke initiate a goodbye kiss to Naruto.

I thought I saw it wrong and wanted to get stronger for him. I thought that if I became an asset for Team 7, Sasuke would see me instead of Naruto.

But I couldn't handle it and started to talk to someone who also felt the same as me. Hinata Hyuga. She was as infatuated with Naruto as I was with Sasuke. I didn't understand her feelings for Naruto and subtly made fun of her for feeling that way for a troublesome kid.