Gambler of Feelings

Chapter Nine

Shikadai, Boruto and Sarada were sitting on the club chairs next to each other in uncomfortable silence. They started to do their mandatory club activities, but without Sumire, the whole atmosphere was lacking something. Although it could be possible that it was because all three of them weren't in the best mood for different reasons.

Shikadai said a few words too much. He was painfully aware of it and tried to think about a way to apologise Sumire for his harsh words. Considering how angry she got it won't be easy to resolve that issue with a simple apology. At the same time, he wasn't willing to tell her too much about his past and private life. Sumire was prying today too much in that subject. No... She was probably prying into it from the moment where the girl, which he loved hurt both his and Boruto feelings.

What a drag. That was his primary thought when he came to that conclusion analysing Sumire anger. Miss Kakei was indeed a very troublesome woman in her own way. It's just she doesn't know about it or does she? Sometimes it wasn't that obvious what Sumire Kakei was thinking or feeling. Eh, he never seriously thought about her feelings in the past. She was just a Mitsuki fangirl who joined the club to get into his pants. However, it was initially his first as the well-mistaken impression, since Sumire turned out to be a good female friend. Though he was hesitant to admit it to someone else, he screwed up by making her angry.  Shikadai Nara scattered thoughts resulted in him being unusually quiet, so the tension between his childhood friend and this Uchiha stuck-up lady would be more disturbing for an innocent passerby. 

When Sarada and Boruto finished talking about their bet the bad tension between them grew.  It was an understandable silence. They needed to think about their strategy in order to learn more information from the note, which Sakura Uchiha sent to Naruto Uzumaki. First of all both Sarada and Boruto wanted to win this bet for personal reasons, but at the same time know what's really going on between their parents.  

They could gather from the Sakura Uchiha message that it wasn't the first time when she was meeting Naruto Uzumaki. In the end, the words in it said:

'Meet me today at our usual place. Don't let Hinata or anybody know about it, you know what I mean, right? Anyway, I'm counting on you!'

So it meant that they both at least were meeting with each other regularly. Though both Sarada and Boruto didn't know where these regular meetings are taking place.  The most worrying part of this whole situation was that Sarada mother didn't want to let Hinata Uzumaki know about these meetings for some mysterious reasons.

Sarada bit corner of her lips, struggling to process this shocking information about her mother. Her doubts about the rumours, which she tried to deny didn't fade away. In fact, it made them more valid with this type of development. She should calm down. It was just one stupid piece of paper. Nothing more. 

Yeah, it was just one stupid paper with a vague information, but she could be sure that this note was written by her mother. That handwriting was too much similar to handwriting of Sakura Uchiha for it to be a mistake.