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I'm back! Japan was amazing and I love going back to it every time, we were quite lucky that we went while it was considerably warm (as it still is winter) as well.
Lots of love to everyone who is reading PTL (and leaving signed reviews!), I look forward to reading everybody's views on where the story may be going each time I update (and I applaud each of you that manages to guess what happens next).
track 5.
The words remain unsaid
Our incomplete story,
ended without a beginning
We were never just friends
Just say good bye, bye
Naruto sang the song - Promise, they named it - for the first time two weeks after they brought Sakura to the session. Sakura had cooed and clapped about how pretty the name sound when they initially performed it for her.
The lyrics only had two lines written in week one. 'Two shitty lines' were the words Neji had chosen to describe them, but the song was magically completed within three days in week two. Needless to say, the members were impressed by Naruto's unexpected surprise extreme growth as a lyricist.
Not one of the members doubted whether it was really Naruto that completed it. After all, why would you not take credit for your own work? It wasn't as if the song was subject to any controversial topic either.
Which is why Uchiha Sasuke found himself in such a dilemma when he saw a text from Naruto to Sakura containing ideas for lyrics still unwritten, asking for her to work with them - in what was supposed to be the group chat for Team 7's (their class assignment group) PowerPoint presentation.
Sakura, hadn't yet replied, or saw the message for that matter - if the unchecked status was anything to go by - but when she would check her phone, Sasuke was sure his own 'seen message' ticks would have appeared by then.
He wasn't as surprised as he ought to be, but the situation is still strange enough for him to lose sleep over. The only problem was the fact that he couldn't unravel why he felt so uncomfortable. Ghost writers were not an anomaly when it came to music, but the way it was presented felt wrong.
Like he was an outsider to some weird connection Naruto and Sakura shared.
He was the one Naruto always confided in no matter how stupid the problem was. And he was the one that Sakura shared secrets with.
He rolled, the blankets folding neatly with him. He was the one she messaged when she arrived at school, they ate lunch together, she walked home with him. She didn't have many friends apart from his own. There wasn't anything they did apart - so when did she find the time to fit Naruto in?
At school, Sakura ever only looked at him. Never at anyone else.
That was what was bothering him.