Chapter 2: Just a Dream

Mitsuki knocked 5 times exactly. He got no answer.

It was 7 am. Konohamaru and him were about to leave for their share of safeguarding the village. Mitsuki noticed his two teammates were not up for their shift and should be leaving the same time as them. Mitsuki looked over his shoulder at Konohamaru for a suggestion on what he should do when he was met with no answer to his 5th time around of knocking. His sensei just shrugged in reply. Mitsuki came to the conclusion to open the sliding door that secured their room and was presented with two sound sleeping ninja.

'If this was an attack, they'd have no chance.', Mitsuki noted to himself as he watched the two resting teens not flinch by his entering.

Mitsuki cleared his throat and started with a broad, firm "Good morning" to try and wake them up.

Successfully, Boruto and Sarada's eyes hazily opened at the same time to the annoyance. After their eyes adjusted, their drowsy eyes met, then wondered to the feeling of warmth they both held in their hands. They reddened at each other once they noticed their close proximity and their hands intertwined. Realizing they must have slept like that, they both shot away from each other, sitting up on their respective sides of the bed.

"Uh, Hey Mitsuki. What's up?", Boruto said, trying to mask the awkwardness as he fake stretched.

Of course, Mitsuki wasn't one that caught onto things so easily. He just tilted his head slightly at Boruto's abruptness and shrugged, "Sensei and I are leaving for the village. You two should be leaving soon as well." .

"Right, right.", Boruto said a little self-conscious, "We will leave soon! Thank you for waking us up.", Boruto said with a clumsy smile.

Mitsuki shut the door and left contently with Konohamaru.


Sarada had already made her way into the bathroom to brush her teeth during their conversation. Boruto got up to join her, but soon realized there was awkward air between them.

They stood wordless, watching themselves in the mirror while brushing their teeth, not daring to meet eyes.

Boruto couldn't handle the tension between them and he didn't know why there even was. Once he was done, he found an excuse and left the room hastily to make them breakfast while Sarada finished getting ready with her signature work out uniform and headband tied across her forehead.

Sarada watched as her lazy best friend allowed his floppy blonde hair to droop every which way, as his grey color schemed pajamas laid lazily across his body, and his lazy slumped posture as he leaned one hand on the counter with his legs crossed as he cooked them something on the stove.

She giggled a little at her site. His aesthetic was always lazy no matter if it was waking up or his usual wear. She had yet to see him clean up nice. Her giggle caught his attention, signifying she was in the room.

Shadowing his current theme going on, he sluggishly turned around to meet eyes with a beautiful, refreshed, dark haired figure. He offered her a raised eyebrow for why she was giggling which drew her closer.

She playfully flicked a piece of his floppy hair that lingered in front of his face. This resulted in her giggling even more as she sat on the counter next to the stove where he was cooking, "You're just so lazy looking all the time."

Boruto shot her a tired glare. He just woke up, what was she expecting, "Well, if you didn't take so long to get ready, I'd be more presentable, Miss SA-RA-DA.",

She glared evilly at him from the used nickname and he stiffened. That brought back memories of last night which he forgot about.

Did that really happen? He couldn't believe something like that could have happened, it must have been just a dream.

Sarada caught him blushing and tilted her head and raised an eyebrow at him. He was acting peculiar today.

He realized he had been caught and bitterly returned back to his task at the stove. It had to be just a dream.

He could feel her curious gaze examine him and he was starting to get uneasy. There was no way that last night actually happened, right? Then he remembered the kiss and his face lit up red rapidly. If that was a dream, it was an intense dream, but if it wasn't a dream then he had really kissed Sarada. His friend since child hood.

"Are you getting sick, Boruto? You seem like you're over heating?", Sarada positioned her delicate hand on his cheek to feel his reddened, hot face.

Boruto's memories were flooding with everything Sarada related. He remembered this morning when he woke up with her hand in his, if last night didn't happen then why did they wake up like that. It couldn't have been a coincidence.

"I AH!", he jumped at the touch of her agile, sweet, affectionate hands touching his cheek to feel his warmth, "I mean! I uh, I'm okay! Yeah, it's just from the stove, yup. It's getting hot over here, ya know. Hey, do you mind finishing breakfast while I go get ready? Thanks!", he rambled, shoving the spatula into her hand, "Oh and don't forget to take your headband off for today, we are supposed to be undercover.", He said with a traditional Boruto smile that lingered on his face when he thought of how natural she looked without a headband. She looked pretty badass with it on, but he liked seeing a more relaxed side it gave her with it off. He then scurried off to their room, trying to maintain his being as normal as possible.

Sarada was frozen with a spatula in her hand as she sat on the counter confused, "What just happened?", she whispered to herself, but then finished his work after taking her headband off.

Boruto splashed his face several times with cold water from the bathroom sink. Once drying his face off, he gazed at himself in the mirror in horror.

"If last night actually happened, then what are we now?", He said to himself in the mirror. How was he supposed to act? He's never even had a girlfriend before and he didn't even know if this meant she was his girlfriend now. He was internally freaking out. While he is fine with the thought of having a girlfriend, this is Sarada we are talking about. His friend since birth, his best friend, his teammate! Would it make their team weird now? Oh no, what has he done. He didn't think anything through.

He ran his hands hopelessly through his yellow mop of hair and tugged at it, "What does this mean!", he accidentally yelled too loud.

Sarada pushed through their bedroom door and put her head up against the bathroom door, "Boruto, are you okay?", She said concerned, trying to make her voice reach through the door. She heard him from the kitchen. He was usually a loud kid, but why was he yelling now in the bathroom?

"Yeah, Yeah, I'm good, sorry.", Boruto embarrassedly said, within his side of the door.

"Okay… Well, breakfast is ready.", Sarada's voice faded as she lifted herself from the door and left the room to set the table for them.

Boruto slid his back down the side of the door and huffed, "I gotta figure this out."


Once Boruto was dressed, he awkwardly met his teammate at the table to eat their breakfast. Sarada had everything ready, even his plate of food, and she was sitting there patiently waiting so they could eat together.

"Uh, Thanks for finishing up for me, Sarada.", he said in a nervous tone.

"Yeah, of course.", She stated with no emotion back, barely making eye contact with him. She didn't know how to act either, and Boruto's weird mood today wasn't helping.

They ate silently together, then left the hotel for their mission.


Their interval of investigating the village was tough. They hadn't said a word to each other since they left the hotel. Neither of them dared to start a conversation and settled for comfortable silence as they walked the village.

It wasn't a topic they were necessarily good with. Both of them were terrible with relationship subjects. Their friends usually left those topics to Cho-Cho or Inojin, but they didn't have either of those people to help them currently.

After a few hours of walking the village, they stopped for a water break on top of a roof and sat with their feet dangling.

Sarada couldn't put her finger on what was going on with Boruto's mood, but she couldn't find the courage to make him speak up.

After a few minutes into their break Boruto ruined their quietness.

"Uh hey Sarada?", he said uneasily.

"Hm?", Sarada hummed in mid drink of her water.

"Do… Do you remember last night?"

She choked on her water and coughed, "I do…", she said with a questionable tone. He regretted it, she was sure. That has to be what was bothering him today. This is why she didn't open up to people, it always turned sour on her.

"So that actually happened last night, then?", Boruto questioned with problem in his voice as he turned his head to look at her a little scared. It wasn't a dream. He actually kissed Sarada.

"It did.", She said frankly. She was starting to get angry. If he really had no emotion towards her, he should regret last night. She wasn't a toy he could just turn his feelings off and on for. She was irritated, she really thought they were going to have something special.

"Hey, why are you getting mad?", Boruto said giving her all of his attention. He was sitting as close as possible to her now and facing her with his stupid cute face which made it very hard for Sarada to stay mad.

"Look.", she stated with a release of breath, "I get that you regret it, you don't need to sugar coat things for me. You should know by now I can handle myself.", She spat as she shoved the water they shared into his chest and got up from sitting on the roof next to him.

He sat there dazed with the water bottle pressed into his chest.

'What just happened?', he tried to process.

He set the water bottle on the roof to get up and raced in front of her to stop her from leaving.

"Hey hey hey, slow down.", he said ushering two hands up, "Who said I regretted it?", he said with his puppy dog eyes gleaming down at her. If anything, he wanted last night to happen again, but he didn't want to put Sarada in any uncomfortable position.

"Was that not what you were implying?", she said fiercely, as she crossed her arms and popped a hip.

"No! oh gosh no! Sarada…" he took both her hands eagerly, "I was really hoping it happened. I was hoping it wasn't a dream!", he said with desire, shoving her into his chest for a tight reassuring hug. Her arms stiffened to her side and then released their tension. She really could never stay mad at him.

She finally hugged back and murmured, "Idiot".

"Hey, what was that for?", he said fake hurt.

"Because you're an idiot! That's why. Why were you acting so weird this morning if you didn't regret it?", she murmured, leaving her face to rest against his chest so she didn't have to look him in the eyes. She was hurt at the fact that he thought it wasn't real. He must have felt something last night, unless it just wasn't that significant to him. They confessed to each other, how could he not feel anything.

"Well...", he chuckled fretfully and scratched the back of his head with one hand, "I was just worried?"

"Worried for what?" she said with wide eyes as she leaned back to look at him. Leaning into his other arm that was still holding her against him.

"I mean, I was worried because… what does that make us now?", he confessed in a serious tone.

Sarada flushed and her brain stopped working, 'What does that make us now?' she replayed. They weren't dating, but she didn't know if she could still call them just friends after what happened.

So, what were they…?

The two were interrupted when the other part of their team appeared. They broke away from each other's embrace quickly to look as normal as possible.

"Hey Boruto, Sarada!", Konohamaru shouted with a wave as he hopped over roof tops with Mitsuki to catch up to them, "I have some news...", he said out of breath from finally finding them.

"Our mission is completed.", Mitsuki spoke first with the news.

"We are relieved early.", Konohamaru followed, "The guy we were looking for ended up getting drunk last night and was caught by the police. We are no longer needed. How funny, right?"

The two teens awkwardly laughed in response. They didn't know how to act normal anymore with each other, the team, or with anyone else now.

"…Anyways", Konohamaru cleared his throat from the dryness he gained from running and noted their awkwardness, but continued, "We need to report back to the leaf, and since it's only the afternoon I think we should be able to make it back to the village before dark. Now we will be able to make it back for the Festival in two days!"

The team agreed excitedly and hit the road back to the village after they grabbed their luggage from the hotel.

The whole walk back Mitsuki and Konohamaru were laughing and telling jokes about their time, while Boruto and Sarada were trying to laugh along, but they were stuck in their separate thoughts.

'What where they now?', they questioned themselves in unison as they briefly stole a glance at each other, blushed and turned away rapidly.

The two were very out of character, but the other two teammates decided to let it go.