Gambler of Feelings:
Chapter Twelve
Shikadai ringed the doorbell waiting for Inojin or for his parents to open the door leading to Yamanaka household. It didn't helped that Mitsuki watched his actions like a newborn baby or a hawk. Mitsuki glares made Shikadai feel uncomfortable for a few reasons.
First of all Mitsuki didn't knew what Shikadai said to Sumire and that Mitsuki is partially responsible for the whole mess. Young Nara wasn't sure if his friend even knew about Sumire feelings towards him. Ha! He wasn't even sure what Mitsuki is feeling towards Sumire, not to mention what would he do if he knew the whole context of Sumire anger towards Shikadai.
"I didn't knew Inojin family was rich. This house seems very fancy" commented Mitsuki, since nobody responded to the ringing doorbell.
"It's troublesome, but his mom is the owner of the popular line of butiques and flower shops, while his dad is a famous artist" said bored with the subject Shikadai. He was more worried how to apologise Sumire than about Inojin family at the present moment. In the first place he came to visit Inojin to relax, ask about some things and forget about his problems.
"Is that so? His background seems completely different than mine, but you still calls us similar. I don't understand how we are similar if we have a different background, Shikadai." Mitsuki complained, even though he was aware that Shikadai wouldn't explain to him why he is similar to Inojin.
The black door to the Yamanaka household opened, but due to Shikadai surprise the one who welcomed them at the front door was Inojin mother, Ino Yamanaka.
"Hi, Shikadai I didn't see you here lately. Are you came here to visit, Inojin? And who is that handsome boy with a silver hair standing next to you?"
Shikadai sighed at aunt Ino words. Although she was really pretty women with long blonde hair tied in a ponytail, blue eyes, porcelain skin and had a good fashion taste... She was talking too much and that made her troublesome to deal with.
However it was better to deal with aunt Ino than her husband Sai. You can tell that aunt Ino husband had a very interesting way for interacting with people.
"Hello, auntie. The guy standing behind me is Mitsuki. He is one of my classmates in high school. Yeah, I came to visit Inojin." Shikadai answered in the most causal manner as usual. Inojin and Shikadai visting each other was their daily routine before both of them enrolled to different schools.
"In that case please come in. Inojin should come back from his additional art lessons in a minute or two" responded to him in a happy manner, Ino.
Both Shikadai and Mitsuki found themselves in the middle of the Yamanaka household living room. The tables, chairs and even red carpets with big sized TV were screaming that Inojin parents are very rich. Well it wasn't that surprising for Shikadai, but Mitsuki was completely different case.
"Rich modern houses are amazing." Summarised the whole decor atmoshpere, still shocked with how houses can be so big, Mitsuki.
"They are, aren't they?" Shikadai nodded more to himself than to his companion.
You could describe Inojin as definition of a pretty boy or in simpler terms a mini copy of the aunt Ino. Shikadai wouldn't be surprised if some people would mistake his friend for a girl if he would decide to wear a dress. That vision for some reason was very terryfing.
Just like aunt Ino said, Inojin came back very soon and although slightly annoyed with that Shikadai didn't informed him about the visit he still greeted him in a polite way...
"Oh, hello Shikadai! Your hair looks too much like a fruit as it always does and who is that silver hair dude? He looks like silver hair alien. That brings a question... Does aliens have a di-"
Shikadai poked Inojin before his words would make Mitsuki mad. Although young Nara realised that it is probably the most polite greeting ever!
The most polite greeting coming from Inojin mouth.
"Yo, Inojin that is Mitsuki, Mitsuki that is Inojin."
"Nice to meet you, I guess" muttered Inojin to Mitsuki.
"This is the part where I would tell 'nice to meet you too', but you started to question our relationship and it didn't even started yet. Shikadai, your friend is very rude." Mitsuki glared at Inojin in an unpleasant manner.
"What a drag... Mitsuki, you shouldn't take Inojin words seriously, since he likes messing with people" sighed Shikadai.
"Although subject about my hobbies would be more interesting I doubt you came to talk about them, right Shikadai?" Inojin sounded a little dissapointed, while asking this question.
"I came here to talk about certain 'troublesome' girl" ignoring Inojin comment, Shikadai steered the conversation into the right direction.
"Troublesome girl? I was thinking that in your life the only troublesome girl was your mother and Asa... Nevermind." Inojin averted his blue eyes feeling a little bt guility for mentioning Asami not knowing if that 'Mitsuki" knows about Shikadai feelings regarding her.
"Naahh, it isn't about my mother or her. The troublesome girl is Sumire this time." Mitsuki nodded like he knew that it will be theirs main discussion topic and pretended not to hear anything about some 'Asa..' girl. It looked like atomsphere was getting awkward just by mentioning her name.
"So Sumire avoids or ignores me like I'm a pebble after I said a few words too much and by that I can't even apologise her for my harsh words. It is such a drag, but I prefer to be with her on friendly terms."
Shikadai explained his problem and Mitsuki shook his head a little bit amused. He and Shikadai talked about every possible methods in how to apologise Sumire this entire week, so it started to be very a boring topic for him.
"Huh? So why you just don't go and apologise her? You can buy her flowers, sing a ballad or something like that. If she ignores you go to her, kneel and shout "I AM SORRY LADY SUMIRE, PLEASE FORGIVE ME AS I AM JUST A PEBBLE KNOWN AS SHIKADAI NARA." Inojin gave his advice, while stopping himself from laughing.
"I agree with him in terms of solving problems. When I had a problem with people asking too much about my parent gender I shouted for a while that he is a man, but woman at heart. After that they never asked me about Orochimaru gender ever again" Mitsuki agreed with Inojin idea.
"What a drag... You guys aren't helping me at all, but I think you both have a point and I should confront Sumire even if she ignores me." Although he said those words Shikadai planned to write to himself a little note that he shouldn't ask those two for advice, or help in the future. Especially in the case where he would have a more complicated problem. Well, at least he still can relax at Inojin house and forget about his problems for now.
Boruto, Sumire and Chō -Chō left Sarada house not too long ago. It mada Sarada feel very uncomfortable after she came back to sitting alone in her own room just as she originally planned.
Sarada liked silence, but it was the first time where the quiet atmoshpere of the house was bothering her in a different way than usual. Although she wouldn't admit it that unexcepted visit of the club members for some reason soothed her loneliness a little bit.
Though when they left she felt more lonely than usual. Sarada knew it, but still focused on reading her book until she heard a commotion in a living room.
"Sarada, I'm home!" shouted Sakura Uchiha or in other words her mom.
Sarada came out a little bit surprised that her mom is at home today. When she saw Sakura, she practically stopped herself from blinking due to shock.
Sarada took her time to see and remember how beautiful is her mother. Emerald catlike eyes, pale skin and middle lengthed pink hair combined with a red dress painted the unforgettable image of a beauty.
Beauty, which should be unforgettable if Sarada would see her more often. At least that was Sarada bitter thoughts when she saw her mother after they had a big argument last Saturday.
"Welcome home mom, but why are you here? I thought you were busy during this weekend." Sarada started conversation, but Sakura eyed her suspiciously.
"I sended to you a message from my phone. Don't tell me you didn't read it?" Sakura started to be worried about Sarada memory at this precise moment.
"Oh, I f-forgot to tell you mom... My phone is broken and can't be repaired due to certain incident at school." Sarada responded an tried to be calm, even if she still felt that her mother wasn't happy about her decision to join the club at all.
"..."
After this short discussion silence dawned upon them both. Theirs relationship was a little worse than in the past. However at that time grandma Tsunade was still alive. Tsunade Senju was a older, but very beautiful women. Sarada always admired her blonde hair tied into two ponytails, fierce brown eyes and how grandma looked better in a green clothes than Sarada herself.
Tsunade Senju was a person who started Sarada passion for gambling and games in the first place. Although she wasn't here with Sarada anymore, they shared a similar dream. Sarada just as her wanted to own a travelling casino. Travelling casino would work in a similar way to circus, but instead of the performers or the animals, inside would be a regular casino.
Sarada never remembered when she started to dream about her own travelling casino, but she knew that in honor of her grandma Tsunade death she would do everything to make this dream come true. No matter what.
However Sakura due to circumstances of Tsunade death was completely against the idea and tried to convince Sarada in pursuing a different dream. Maybe grandma death at that time affected her mother too much, since Sarada recalled that their relationship started to be more distant after they attended grandma funeral.
Maybe Sakura Uchiha didn't want for Sarada to travel and leave her alone just like her husband. Sarada wasn't planning asking her mother about that. Something was holding her back. She knew if she asked her mother all the questions about what was bothering her their relationship would improve or get much more worse. Why she didn't do it?
It's simple. Sarada hided her emotions near her mother too long to demand from Sakura the honest answers. It sounded stupid, but she was afraid to change their current relationship. Sarada was scared that the contact, which she have with her mother right now would dissapear if both of them would tell what they really feel.
"You should quit that club, Sarada. I cannot live through of losing someone dear to me again." Sakura told her after a few minutes of the awkward silence. Although it pained her to do it Sarada ignored her mother comment for the time being.
Shikadai met with Sumire at the park and started to be nervous by looking at her. It seemed that she was still mad and wasn't too happy about meeting with him right now.
"I'm sorry for my words at the former club meeting towards you. I wasn't too happy about you digging about my feelings for Asami. I'm not ready to tell everything to you yet, besides to tell you everything I will need Boruto constent. However me picking on your feelings towards Mitsuki was very uncalled for. Again, I'm really sorry." Shikadai apologised Sumire from the bottom of his heart.
"Apology is accepted under one condition" responded Sumire, but now she at least smiled and didn't looked like she wanted to kill him.
"And that condition is?"
"Answering my question. D-do you know by a-any chance if Chō-Chō has a crush on Mitsuki?
Sumire question left Shikadai speechles. That was her condition? He thought that she will demand something completely different. Though answering her question was less troublesome than what he had in mind.
"I don't know if Chō-Chō has crush on him to be honest. What interests me more is why you have crush on him in the first place?" Shikadai asked not being sure if he is now entering into the dangerous territory of their conversation.
"Hmm... I will tell you why I have crush on Mitsuki if you tell me about your past with Asami." Sumire answer was something he excepted, so he just nodded.
Unknown to them someone overheard theirs conversation by accident. Chō-Chō Akimich was behind one of the park trees, since she was waiting here for her next boyfriend or like Boruto says one of her 'poor victims'. Sumire and Shikadai talking about her feelings towards Mitsuki made her wondering if she really have crush on him.
Her mind and her heart started to be in a turmoil due to that thoughts.
AN:
Hey, hey everyone! Here is chapter twelve of GoF. This chapter lenght is kind of introduction for the next chapters lenght as well. x'DD As usual hope that I didn't do too much mistakes and you all enjoyed reading this chapter!
Yours clumsy author Karinrumi ;)