Third person's view:

"....And then these three guys came out of nowhere and tried to attack me. So me, being the strong cool guy I am, I beat all them up single handedly but to at least make them proud that they fought the great Boruto Uzumaki, I let them get one hit on me."

Boruto just got finished explaining his oh so great story of how he got a black eye and from the look of all his friends faces; they wasn't buying it.

"Yeah," Chochou said popping some weird flavor chip in her mouth. "And I wanted the limited edition barbecue and ranch flavored potato chips." A lone anime tear slide down Chochou's face as she said this.

"Moral of the story is; IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!" Boruto slumped down in his seat and grumbled. "It did to happen." Chochou rolled her eyes and turned her attention to Sarada. "Since it's obvious that the idiot over there won't explain to us what happened, how about you tell us?"

Suddenly all eyes were on Sarada as they eagerly waited to hear what happened. "Okay to make a long story short, let's just say Boruto said something to my father and well you can guess what happened next."

As soon as Sarada said this the whole table got quiet, which confused some of the students sitting at the other tables because they're usually the most talkative.

Then without warning the group erupted in laughter so loud that it made everyone in the cafeteria turn their heads in their direction.

After about 5 minutes of the gang cracking up they finally composed their self enough to talk. Inojin was the one to speak first.

"Wait—so-so you mean to tell me that you got beat up by a dude with ONE ARM!"

"Correction: a 30 something year old man with one arm." Shikadai added. This caused the group to laugh again but much quieter than before.

"What did you even say anyways? My father doesn't get angry fast." Sarada asked. Now all eyes were on Boruto.

"Well.." A flustered Boruto started as he rubbed the back of his neck. "After we was done talking about whatever I started to make really bad jokes about him having one arm. But in my defense, I didn't know he would take them to heart. He probably got tired of hearing them or something like that."

Everyone in the group mentally and physically facepalmed. Of course Boruto would do something as stupid as that.

"Man, I dunno how you can date an idiot like that." Chochou said to Sarada.

"I don't know eit- hey wait!" Sarada didn't even get to finish her sentence before Boruto grabbed her wrist and dragged her outside the cafeteria in the hallway.

"Boruto I swear to kami if you do that again I will-

"Sorry for that again but I have 2 urgent things to tell you." Sarada quirked a brow, silently ushering him to continue.

"One: why in the living hell would you tell them that! I thought you swore to secrecy!" Sarada scoffed and folded her arms in a X formation. "I did no such thing, plus we can't have our little dobe slacking off on his idiocy, now can we?" She ruffled his hair to which he pushed her hand away.

He then pulled out his phone and after some tapping and scrolling he showed the Uchiha what he was exactly talking about. On the screen was a text message between Boruto and Sarada. What the text message said was:

Boruto
Yo Sarada could you maybe not tell the group about what happened this evening? They'll never let me live this down if you tell them.

Sarada
Fine whatever. But you're the one who's gonna have to make up a believable story.

Sarada giggled and grinned. "Whoopsies, guess I forgot. Sorry not sorry. Now will you let me go a girl is hungry over here." A now impatient Sarada said.

"Okay okay jeez, woman these days." Boruto mumbled the last part but Sarada's sharp hearing picked it up. She's gonna have to beat him up later for that.

He put his hands behind his head and smiled his cheeky grin, one that Sarada adores so much but she'll never admit to it. "I have another plaaannn."

Sarada cast her eyes down on the floor and sighed. If Boruto wasn't so hellbent on getting back Sumire he just might've noticed the tinge of sadness on Sarada's face.

"Go on. What is your fool proof plan now?" Truth be told, Sarada is hoping for Boruto to snap out whatever daze Sumire put him in and face reality. But of course boys will be boys.

"Okay so since the carnival is here for another week I'm thinking we can invite Sumire and the others to go. Then there's something called the 'tunnel of love' and Sumire and I can go through it tog-"

Sarada had zoned out through half of the conversation, for she had her thoughts to dwell on right now. A small voice in the back of Sarada's head told her to stop him and speak up, saying: how about to stop chasing after someone who is toxic in your life and have someone like me. Someone who will be there for you through thick and thin. Someone who can be your lover and best friend at the same time. Someone who'll never shatter you heart into a million pieces.

She never would say that though, knowing that no matter how hard she tries Sumire will always have the gold while she has to stick with the silver plaque. At times like this she wonders how she can still love a fool like this even though he doesn't a damn about her feelings. Sometimes she wonders can she go back in time to her 12 yr old self and make her not fall in love with him, for he is a idiot who will always see you as a best friend, nothing more than that.

"Uhm hellooo? Sarada are you in there?" Sarada was snapped out of her thoughts by a hand moving in front of her face. She gently swatted it away and turned back to her normal expression.

"Hm? Oh yeah I was listening." She was so not listening. This time Boruto quirked a brow and leaned forward so that their noses were almost touching.

"Oh reallyyyy? Okay then. What was I talking about then." Uh oh. Sarada was now in some deep shit. She backed up a little bit as she could feel a heat rise up to her cheeks from the closeness. She cleared her throat and twiddled with her hair.

"W-well you was talking about the carnival a-and something about the tunnel of love annddd.." Boruto smirked and watched her intently waiting on her to continue.

As if kami had heard her silent plea of help the bell rang, signaling the students to go to 4th period.

"Oh will you look at the time. I gotta go to Iruka sensei's class now, you know how he is with tardiness and stuff. I'll text you later. Bye!" As quickly as it came out, Sarada was now gone in a flash.

"Wait! You forgot your.... stuff." Knowing that she could not hear him anymore he dismissed the idea of running after her and giving her her books. Oh well I can just give it to her at the end of the day, he thought as he strolled back into the cafeteria.

❥time skip// Sarada's home❥

"Mom! Dad! I'm home!" Sarada called out as she entered her house. She took her shoes off at the doormat and neatly set them in corner before shrugging off her bookbag and plopping on the couch.

Quick recap of her day: since Sarada didn't have her books for 4th period she flunked whatever assignment Iruka sensei had given them. After retrieving her books for Boruto she then had to drive him and Chochou home since he got his car taken away. Yeah, I know. Rich people problems.

Then the whole car ride home she had to listen to Chochou and Bolt argue on whether water is wet or not. This was already aggravating her since she had heard this topic all around her damn school. She was finally relieved when she dropped them both off at their respective houses.

So now a very tired Sarada lay exhausted on the couch. She laid there for about 3 minutes till she realized something. Neither her mom or dad has responded to her. Sarada was pretty used to not hearing nothing from her mother since she was usually at work, but since her father had taken a week off he should be home.

She got up from the couch and went to go see if he was sleep or doing something where he couldn't hear her.

She checked in her parents room. Nope.

The basement. Not there.

Her room. Not there either.

The kitchen. Nein.

Outside. Nada.

When she was about to give up and call her mother she noticed a white piece of paper folded on the dining room table. How did I miss this? She thought.

The note even had a label on it which said:

To Sarada
From Mom

She unfolded the note and began to read it. The note read:

Hey sweetie!
By the time your reading this you'll probably be wondering where you father is. Well he is currently with Naruto shopping for some new clothes or something like that. He should be home around 6 since he and Naruto also had something else to do.

As for me, I'm going to be running a little late since there's a big emergency at the hospital. There's some ramen noodles at the top of the refrigerator if you get hungry and there's some fruit in the fridge.

I've gotta go now. Bye honey! I love you! Xoxo.

A wave a relief hit Sarada as she read the note. The thing that she feared the most was that he would leave again without telling nobody and possibly not come back.

She then crumbled up the paper and threw it in the trash. Realizing that she was a little hungry, she decided on eating an apple since Boruto basically made her hate ramen.

After eating and discarding the apple stem, Sarada relaxed for the bit before getting up to do her daily chores and homework.

After doing that she went up to her room and changed out of her school clothes to her pajamas before falling face first onto her soft pillow. Right now all she was thinking about was drifting off into the world of dreams but it seems that fate had a different idea in store.

Just as Sarada began to close her eyes, she heard the faint buzz of her phone from across the room. At first she wanted to ignore it, thinking Chouchou was texting her something irrelevant at the time. So she tried that. The first few seconds were fine until her phone started buzzing nonstop.

After a loud groan and some cursing, Sarada reluctantly got up and trudged her way over to her desktop. She roughly picked up her phone and was about to give whoever was spamming her a piece of her mind.

The person who was texting her was Chouchou but what she texted made Sarada's whole demeanor change. The text(s)  read:

Chouchou 👭🍡
Sarada! I need your help!

It's an emergency!

I'm at the park right now and I'm in fear for my life!

Don't ask questions I need you to get here ASAP!

Sarada!?????

Without a second thought Sarada threw on a jacket and slipped on some slippers before rushing downstairs and out the front door.

As she raced down the street towards the park the only thing running through her head was if Chouchou was okay or not.

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That's the end of this chapter. Uhm if someone is actually still reading my book then you're a real one cauussssee I been gone for like 666 years 😂💀.

Anyways, this book will still kinda be on slow updates. I'm still thinking through the plot of this book soo yah stay tuned for that.

I also noticed that my book has gotten 6k+ reads on it anddd I just wanna say thank ya for the reads ily all 🤗✨

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Date published: January 7, 2017

Word count: 2083