bubblegum princess

chapter twenty eight

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the beginning:
I SEE MY REFLECTION
IN YOUR EYES.
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DISTRACTING Seiren from what happened earlier was pretty easy for Boruto. He took her to various stores, strolled around the neighborhood, and pretty much ignored the hospital building, internally apologizing to the unconscious mother; yet little did they know that Sakura fled after her sister after knowing Sarada had left with ChoCho.

Across the land, Kaizen groaned loudly, his palms frustratedly holding his jaw to his cheeks, eyes twitching in anticipation and anger while glaring at both men sitting across him. Naruto smiled awkwardly yet tension lingered on his shoulder whereas Sasuke looked away, closing his eyes, and refused to look at Kaizen in the eye.

"So you're telling me. Two men. TWO—!" Kaizen raised two of his fingertips in front of them with an enraged expression, Naruto backed away with a look of a child being scolded by an adult "Who Brought two kids! And lost Sakura to a freaking suicidal maniac who thinks highly of himself!" he banged his fist onto the table.

"What is wrong with you!" Kaizen screeched, running his fingertips onto his hair and holding it in frustration "UGH!"

"Kaizen-sama?" a soft knock on the door saved Naruto from an eerie tension between two men in the same room as him. A young woman held a tray of tea as she waltzed into the room with a soft expression, her red burgundy hair was tied in a bun with two bangs parted, framing her face with her identical red eyes questioning the sudden silence around the room.

Naruto smiled as he exclaimed "Ai-chan!"

The woman nodded "Lord Seventh," her eyes turned to Sasuke who sat silently "Sasuke-san." she greeted, setting the tray down on the table and beginning to pour tea onto Kaizen's cup who was still fuming silently on the side. "Mind telling me what's this all about?" she asks Naruto and Sasuke before handing the teacup to Kaizen whose eyes slightly beamed at the offer and took it from her hands gently.

"Shin. He kidnapped Sakura and went somewhere far that I can't even sense her chakra." Naruto said, looking down at the table and a bit saddened before he felt a hand on his shoulder. "Sakura-san isn't a woman who gives up easily! In fact, maybe she might be handling that man quite nicely." Ai reassured before gently offering the tea "Here's your tea."

"Thank you."

As Naruto was about to reach for his tea, a sudden loud crash interrupted the conversation among the adults. "Damn it," he muttered dejectedly as he stood up from his seat, his eyes instantly following Ai as she bolted from the room upon hearing the noise from the other room.

"This is definitely your fault," Sasuke interrupted the silence and Kaizen choked on his tea, coughing and pounding his chest to recover and eventually regaining his composure after, glaring at the man across him "Excuse me?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes "You could have stopped Naruto from bringing the girls. You know he's an idiot!" he snarled, Kaizen narrowed his eyes, placing the teacup down and crossed his arms "Hey, don't blame me for being shitty. It ain't my fault that Sarada has inherited your overthinking habits." he points out.

The man let out an exasperated sigh, and Kaizen responded by rolling his eyes. "Good, you're not denying it," Kaizen remarked. Sasuke responded with a growl, "Shut up."