𝐒𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐀𝐊𝐔 || 𝙇𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙨

ice

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Sakura:

I reply to him, taken off guard by his show of his concern. I carefully choose my words, "Yeah... I'm, fine." ..

"Thanks-"

I suddenly stop talking, my eyes beginning to adjust, is that.. Ino? I see her shape appear fast with caution.

"Oh my god, Sakura" she says between heavy breaths, "are you okay, do you need an ice pack?" She blurts out.

I know it's not her fault by this point, so it's funny seeing her flustered like this, "It's okay Ino, I'm fine. Really." I confirm while squeezing her hands tightly.

"Sasuke is the one who broke the impact, you should be consulting him." I admit, laughing it off.

She then blinks, not realizing Sasuke was there, too busy worrying for me. She turns her head to him:

"Oh, are you alright Sasuke?"

he doesn't open his eyes to look at her, he just nods his head with drowsiness as if he didn't feel like talking to her. Was he always this grumpy?

Naruto suddenly appears looking worried, despite whatever's going on between the two, his face always tells on his true feelings. He hesitates, then goes up to Sasuke as he grabs his arm, helping to lift him up.

"Let's go. I'll buy you two Ice packs." Naruto insists.

"I'll help pay for it too" Ino volunteers, feeling guilty for earlier.

———

Me and Sasuke sit outside of the convenience store, resting on the chairs. I glance after sitting down, seeing him rub his head in pain.

Should I say anything?

My head decided now's the best time to replay the event that happened earlier, making me embarrassed. I felt like an inconvenience all of a sudden.

I open my mouth but, before I can even utter a word, he began to talk:

"you always fall randomly like that?"
He questions exasperatedly.

His question sounded somehow rude. I shifted my gaze away from him in annoyance.

"Did you think I fell off a skateboard to get saved by you on purpose?"

Is he dumb? On top of that, isn't he the one who got himself beat up a few days ago?

He acknowledges my response as he leans back, folding his arms.

"Just be glad you didn't hit your head." He replies with one eye open in my direction, mockingly pointing to his head. He seems too full of himself for merely saving me from a fall.

"Just be glad you didn't get beat up harder the other day." I muttered quickly without thinking.

Silence overwhelms the air.
oops..

I take a peek at him and see his eyes closed, but his right eyebrow reveals his annoyance, being slightly furrowed. My stomach churns as I feel slight remorse, until he reveals an almost unnoticeable smirk.

"didn't know you had a sense of humor." I said blankly.

"Who said that was funny?" He replies, concealing his smirk as fast as it came.

I can hear footsteps walking up to me, I raise my head and find Hinata and Kiba coming to me.

"Sakura?" Hinatas light voice whispers in curiosity.

I look up in awe,
"Hinata? Hey"

Her presence seems in tune with Kiba, encouraging her by letting out her confidence.

She smiles, "I just found out we were invited here, though we are an hour late."

Kibas face is confused "why're you guys waiting outside the store? We were on our way to the park."

I look up at them, "Oh, Naruto and Ino are buying us ice packs, long story."

Hinatas face shifted into a deep shade in color when I mentioned the name "Naruto", confusing me further.

"n- naruto's here?"

Just then, the door swings open as Ino and Naruto walk out happily, holding a bag of ice and various types of drinks.

"Yo!" he waves out to me and Sasuke, his eyes widening as he looks at the newly arrived pair:

His face contorts into surprise "Oh! Hinata? Kiba?" His face lights up, "This is perfect, let's go get hotpot right now!" He shouts happily.

Hinata hides her face into the scarf Kiba gave her. Seriously, I'm lost over here.

Nevertheless, I turn my attention to Naruto with a blank expression, featuring a raise of my eyebrow.

"Oh, you guys first. Here's your ice" he says with no remorse in his voice, handing it over.

I pick up a piece of ice from the bag and press it up to the bruise on my arm, already seeing it slowly forming into a yellow patch from the fall. im grateful Sasuke protected my head, the rest of my body wasn't so lucky.

I hiss quietly, barely audible as the ice burns my skin with its temperature.

Naruto immediately perks up his head at the noise, and starts to walk over. He looks at me, grabbing the ice from my hand without asking.

"Let me do it."
and before I could finish, he gently held my arm out and iced my bruises for me.

"Thanks" I mumble.

I could see Hinata peeking through the side of Kiba's figure, her gaze steady on his hand. Sasuke seemed to cross his arms once again, waiting for the ice bag.

Naruto turns to Sasuke with a grin,

"would you like me to ice your wounds too?" Holding his ice bag.

Sasuke :
"You mean with the hand you washed 5 years ago? I'm good.", grabbing the bag as always as he settles it on his bruise.

I hid my giggle, though hinata began laughing with me,

"Why you.."  Naruto mutters under his breath.

the tension from earlier was already dissipating along with the wind.

Though Sasuke decided to leave early,
The banter echoed around us as we gather everything and head over to the hot pot place Naruto insisted on going to.