Leo

Salad Saturday

"They are going to get ruined tomorrow..."

"Of course they will, but isn't this a pretty color?"

Chouchou laid on her bed together with Sarada while she painted her nails in a coral pink shade. Both of them have been dead busy lately, to the point they met just to lay around and do nothing. Sarada looked at her nails which were now nice and neat with droopy, sad eyes

"It's a shame, really. They look cute this way."

"If you like I can do your face too."

Chouchou winked at Sarada when she said that. Sarada smirked awkwardly and said

"It's not my style, you know that."

"Aww..."

"You are so pretty anyways, Sarada."

"Look who's talking."

Chouchou put her hands on her cheeks trying to look cute and asked

"Really, you meant it?"

While Sarada displayed a preachy look

"Yes, I meant it Chouchou."

"AWWWW"

Chouchou fell on the mattress with her hands on her cheeks with a big lovable smile. An exaggerated gesture but Sarada was never bothered by these things, she felt happier when she was with her friend. It was like Chouchou recharged her with positive energy.

"Man... Sarada I'm dead beat."

She was now looking at the ceiling with tired eyes. Sarada had to agree

"I know... But if this gets me closer to become the Hokage then..."

Chouchou narrowed her eyes

"It sounds very tiring... But whatever you choose, I will support you."

She thumbs upped her friend while she laid lazily on the mattress. Sarada exasperatedly fixed her glasses and preached

"Come on, Chouchou! Be more serious about your future!"

"Wait a minute, what does this have to do with me?"

Sarada sighed

"I'm worried for real, you are always this uninterested about ninja things."

She shrugged

"I must have born at the wrong time..."

Sarada wanted to reproach even more, why was her friend like this? She was not any other civilian, she was the heir of one of the noble clans of Konoha. Weren't everyone with this kind of background more proud of their heritage and careful with their responsibilities? She scratched her cheek tiredly looking at her friend who had her eyes half-closed. If only she was able to shake some sense in Chouchou...

Sarada blinked twice when she noticed something

"Hey... I never saw you wearing that hairclip before."

Chouchou sat on her bed quickly, displaying a surprised face as if she was caught redhanded. She said while looking to the side

"Oh, it was a present..."

Sarada wouldn't have asked further if Chouchou's previous  reaction wasn't that suspicious

"From who?"

Chouchou fixed her hair not looking at Sarada directly into her eyes

"...Mitsuki."

The spectacle girl looked at her friend blankly not understanding a thing. She felt like she had skipped the first chapter of a book and jumped directly into the middle of it.