Gambler of Feelings

Chapter Seven

The ringing alarm was like usual annoying for Sarada. According to her 'gossiping' classmates, she was a morning person. Well, their source of information was totally wrong. Sarada Uchiha hated to wake up at early hours, but unlike some people, she had to take care of her good reputation.

"Hnn...", she mumbled turning off her loud clock and slowly getting up from the bed. As always at this hour Sarada was alone. It's nothing new, at that point, she considered this state of affairs as her daily routine.

Sarada's dad had work, which needed constant travelling, so she rarely was seeing him at home. And if her father was spending time with his family it was a strange miracle. Sakura Uchiha, although busy as main head of a 'Spring Haruno Hospital' was trying her best in taking care of their daughter. In other words, Sarada parents were usually not present at home, so she was spending the majority of her time alone.

Breakfast, shower, making a meal as well pack it into the lunchbox were her routine in daily life. However, this daily life was for Sarada too silent and boring. In the past, she always had her small dose of excitement during the gambling tournaments. She was called a 'Gambling Queen', been one of the best players, but she screwed it up.

'Rule number three:

If you have a goal to reach, so you reach it, no matter what others think about it. Ah, and never lose with someone else.'

It was the rule, which she had the hardest time to follow considering her past. If she would describe herself in a few honest words... She would tell that Sarada Uchiha at school is a mask full of lies. That was one of her reasons why she couldn't stand Boruto.

"Why I think about so much unnecessary things?" her soft whisper was the only sound, which somebody could hear at her house.

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Mornings at Uzumaki household were loud as usual. Boruto as morning person was in charge of waking up the whole family. Of course, the person which he went to wake up first was his dad, since hedeserved it. His mom and Himawari in contrast to the Naruto were treated by him more gently during the whole process.

Later on, they all, except dad were eating together breakfast, where Boruto was pretending to be a drama queen. He tried his best to not give any signs that yesterday he found a strange letter addressed to his dad. The young Uzumaki first needed some sort of proof that the initial sender or his father was suspicious. Lucky for him today during a club meeting he can confirm the whole situation with Sarada. He didn't like her that much, but it was her mom who wrote this message in the first place.

After his thoughts drifted to Sarada, Boruto scolded himself for forgetting that today is as well the day when they will be having a serious bet and he must think of some sort a game.

"I'm going out, kay!" he shouted and left every troubling thought for later. His daily life was a very happy one, even if there were some issues between him and Naruto.

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Lessons passed very fast for Sarada, but for Boruto they felt like eternal torture. Then later both of them went to the club meeting in different moods. Although they were not excepting to be in front of the club door at the exact same time. They both ignored good manners and just went into the clubroom in a sort of mutual understanding.

"O-hh, Sarada, Boruto, welcome!" said Sumire who was sitting further away from Shikadai. For some reason, the atmosphere between her and him gave of negative vibes.

"Did something happened between you two?" asked Boruto feeling a little bit uncomfortable. Especially since Sumire showing her anger wasn't a common occurrence.

"It's nothing" she responded, but she couldn't help in sending to poor Shikadai a lot of deadly glares.

"What a drag" mumbled Shikadai trying his best to ignore Sumire stares. Mitsuki wasn't here yet, so Boruto and Sarada decided to take care of their own business for now and focus on angry Sumire later.

"Let's make a bet." Sarada wasn't aware of this yet, that these words from Boruto mouth had for her deeper meaning than she would care to admit. Theirs lives were different, even if they had the same determination to be the winner of this little mind game.

"Bring it on" she replied sealing her fate.

Thank You All for around 1.1K reads, so here is the next chapter of GoF! :D I hope You all enjoyed reading this chapter and I didn't make some stupid grammar mistakes. x'DD Oh, and as well I hope that nobody has problem with pacing. I tend to sometimes drags some things too long during writing. This chapter is more slice of life thing, but include some things important for the future plot and character development. x'DD You all can expect some MitsuCho moments in the near future as well!

Your clumsy author Karinrumi ;)