Gambler of Feelings:
Chapter Three
Sarada stood shocked when she noticed the same person, which was responsible for her destroyed smartphone. Although she was surprised, Sarada very quickly came back to using her calm demeanor. It was second time where she was cursing this day and her bad luck.
"I'm Sarada Uchiha and from today onwards I will be member of this club. Nice to meet you all..." she said in a very polite manner. She was looking at every person gathered in the clubroom, but at the same time avoiding an intense gaze of a certain blond guy. And that certain blond guy was the principal son. Exactly the same person, which she called an idiot earlier in her rare moments of anger.
"Uwawah! I'm Sumire Kakei, nice to m-meet you too!" said the only other girl present in this room. Sarada noted that Sumire had a great potential to be her friend, at least among the girls in this high school. Of course Chō-Chō would be always be her best friend, but what is the harm in getting to know new people? Especially since Sumire didn't made any sarcastic remarks in regards to her family name. What was rather rare in this place.
"Introductions are too much troublesome. I'm Shikadai Nara and my role in this club is being the strategist. Like you probably know, our club will be participating in upcoming game tournament ." Excluding his crazy pineapple black hair and the green tracksuit, Shikadai looked like a complete slacker, so Sarada had a many issues in believing he was the strategist of this club.
"I know it is hard to believe it, but Shikadai is amazing in that role. He is the best person for making sure that our group strategies will work, by the way I'm Mitsuki the vice president of this club. I heard many great things about you from Chō-Chō, Sarada. " Mitsuki golden eyes shifted from Sarada to Boruto like he was thinking about something complicated. Sarada compared to the Boruto didn't knew Mitsuki that well, but even she herself could tell it wasn't something good. And even if it was, it was something she wouldn't personally liked. Boruto, on the other hand knew Mitsuki better, so he was afraid of the things Mitsuki had planned. Mitsuki smile just showed for him, he should pray to survive this whole upcoming school year.
"I'm Boruto Uzumaki and I'm the president of this club. Nice to meet you Sarada ." She should know that luck wasn't on her side today. Although Boruto introduction seemed friendly, Sarada could tell he was hiding his irritation by her presence. She sighed. First that stupid rumours about her mom, second her smashed to pieces smartphone and now she must deal with the principal son. This day was definition of one of the worst days in her life. Sarada wasn't liking Boruto. He was arrogant, spoiled brat in her opinion. That is main reason why she was avoiding him in the first place. They went to different classes, so avoiding him was quite easy. She knew that Boruto was one of Chō-Chō friends, but she wasn't expecting he was a president of a club, where Chō-Chō was a member.
"I heard from Chō-Chō that you all meet here in order to play different types of games, so what game we will be playing today?" Sarada asked, at the same time ignoring Boruto smug grin. He was quite handsome when he smiled. Wait, handsome? No way! She never would admit it, but she was tiny bit attracted to that guy. Especially she liked his blue eyes, but being attractive isn't everything. She still considered him an arrogant, spoiled brat. At least that was her first impression when she saw him for the first time. Sarada honestly doubted that Boruto even noticed her during that time.
Boruto always had an amazing empathic skills, so he could easily tell when someone didn't liked him. He knew that Sarada was annoyed by his presence as well and that it was exactly what he wanted. Boruto very fast connected the latest rumours to the Sarada surname, but his small, personal grudge with every minute grew. This grudge grew so much that he wanted to see her regretting calling him an idiot in the first place. Without use of the stupid rumours or petty tricks. He even forgot to ask Shikadai about advice regarding her by that whole situation. It felt very cliché in his opinion. His focused gaze was completely on her heartless, beautiful onyx eyes, middle-lenghted, wavy black hair and the pale skin contrasting very nice with their high school uniform. He probably stared in her direction too long, because Mitsuki false cough started to get louder. Boruto would admit that Sarada was very pretty girl, but her character was making him easily annoyed. She represented everything he hated in other people.
"We are playing today in an old maid!" Sumire statement broke up uncomfortable silence between the group. She wanted to see Mitsuki amazing smile a litte bit longer, but at the same time she had enough of Boruto bad mood. Sometimes Sumire felt inferior to Chō-Chō. If she would be here, then both Mitsuki and Shikadai would take this meeting seriously. Sumire whished for Chō-Chō to develop feelings for Shikadai or some another guy, but not Mitsuki. She knew it was petty, but she couldn't deal with jealousy, especially when she saw how great they were looking with each other company. Sumire couldn't help, but think she was third-wheeling when they were spending time together as group.
"The old maid was a Victorian card game for two or more players probably deriving an ancient gambling game in which the loser pays for the drinks. Of course we won't start to pay for any alcoholic drinks, but we can bet who pays for today's dinner or something " explained amused with this whole situation Mitsuki. Partially since he felt that with Sumire reaction was something off, so he decided to play proposed by her game. Although the old maid wasn't his favourite one among so many games, but today Mitsuki wanted for Sumire to feel relaxed in the presence of a new girl.
"We can use retail cards for playing an old maid, but I prefer play with a regular deck of fifty-two cards." Sumire tone of voice sounded more confident than earlier. She even gathered courage to send to Sarada one of her best smiles. Sarada awkwardly tried to return her smile with her own, but it did not work well. Sarada Uchiha wasn't good with showing her feelings by using the facial expressions, but the girl with a purple hair at least could sense it.
"Ah, so are we adding a card to our game or removing one?" Sarada asked calmly.
"We can always add the joker. I hate removing cards, ya'll know!" shouted Boruto. He hated that suddenly the whole attention focused onto Sumire and Mitsuki. He was this club president for the God's sake!
"It's troublesome, so I'm out from playing an old maid" groaned unhappy Shikadai. He wanted go to sleep.
"I will shuffle the cards for game to be fair to every participant, even though it's trouble" he added suddenly. Sumire eyes lit up on his words, she loved to play in an old maid in comparision to the male members of this club.
"Rules of the old maid are very simple. After Shikadai will shuffle the cards each of us receive the cards. Some of us may have more cards than others, this is acceptable. After that we look at our cards and discard any pairs we have. We will start a game and take turns in selecting the card and adding it to our own cards. If person sees that taken card makes a pair with their original cards, then that person discard received pair as well. The main objective of the game is to continue to take cards, discarding pairs, until no more pairs can be made. In other words a person who ends up with joker will lose. That are the rules of an old maid!" Sumire explanation was very energetic, although unnecessary. Boruto looked very bored what made Sarada want to play in that card game even more.
"Let's make a bet. I together with Mitsuki will pair up against Sumire and Sarada, and the pair which will lose the game pays for today's dinner!" shouted Boruto surprising Mitsuki.
"Bring it on. I bet you lose, you idiot" said bluntly Sarada and Sumire stared at her in shock. She knew that the young Uzumaki hated being called an idiot. Sumire expected that Boruto would lose his composure, but to her surprise it didn't happened.
"I accept your challenge, you loser" he responded and smiled in her direction. It wasn't Boruto real smile, it was one of his fake smiles reserved for people, which he didn't liked at all.
He accepted Sarada's challenge just because he wanted to see her without that poker face and show that calling him an idiot was the biggest mistake in her life. And that's how it all began.
AN:
Hello, everyone!
I hope You all enjoyed reading this chapter and as well it doesn't contain to much mistakes. This chapter is focusing more on secondary characters like Sumire and Mitsuki, but contains BoruSara moment as well? x'DDD I don't know if insulting each other would be called their moment, but hey! Not every relationship start from good impressions. ^^ I included in this chapter some MitsuSumi as well, but mainly from Sumire perspective. I plan to include MitsuChō moments too, but since Chō-Chō is now on family trip these moments will happen in the future chapters. So question for today:
What is Your opinion about love triangles in the fanfictions?
Yours clumsy author - Karinrumi ;)