♡ The Only Player SasuSaku ♡

♡ Part 20: lonely ♡

sakura: want some?

sasuke looked at it and then looked back in front of him

sasuke: n-no i'm okay

sakura: alright

she almost took a bite until she saw the face sasuke had. she chuckled and gave one half of her lunch to him. his eyes lightened up while looking at the basic sandwich

sakura: take it

sasuke lightly smiled and took one half of the sandwich. as he ate the sandwich,  his eyebrows went up

sasuke: it's good, did you make it

sakura: nope, kakashi made it for me

sasuke: that damn sensei

they chuckled and ate their food together. they talked and joked around a lot. it felt nice for the both of them to have this time together.... it almost felt like they needed it.

TO SHIKAMARU

there he sat between temari and naruto. he could feel his heart beat get a little faster knowing that temari sat beside him, but it wasn't the same when he would sit with sakura. although he knew that nothing could get them together. he would never betray a friend... or actually friends. naruto and most likely sasuke like her and so it would just be troublesome if he liked her too. he got up and felt the gaze of someone, but he didn't care much and he went outside. 

he took out a cigarette and the lighter that his uncle Asuma gave to him. he light it up and started smoking. he never thought he would be the type to smoke, but here he is. although it was his escape route out of all these troublesome feelings. 

he sighed and put out the cigarette and went back inside. although it occurred to him that no one came out to see him.... it just made him feel lonelier but he went back inside anyways. 

AFTER SCHOOL

they all headed to the skating arena.

shikamaru walked alone until he heard sasuke call out to him. he turned around and saw the pinkette beside him smiling. a small smile appeared onto his lips and walked over to them

sasuke: don't be a loser, walk with us

shikamaru: even though that sound pretty mean, i think that's the nicest you've ever been

sakura chuckled at his joke and he looked down knowing that he could do that more often but he can't because he didn't want to be an unloyal friend.

they got to the arena and changed into their gear. they went onto the rink and sasori skated towards sakura

sasori: it's been awhile since i skated

sakura smiled and they ended up skating together until the practice started. 

'not him too'

shikamaru shrugged off all this thoughts and got ready to play some hockey. hockey..... it was practically what he lived for at this point. there wasn't that many other stuff that he had to live for, but hockey was the main reason why he was still standing. 

kakashi explained the game and they finally started. as they played, he noticed that sasuke and sasori kept bumping into each other, and knowing how good kakashi was at picking things up, he still put them on separate teams.

'dammit sensei'

he continued playing and let all his thoughts out

TO SAKURA 

this time she was on sasuke's team. they were playing and she noticed that sasori and sasuke were doing exactly what her and sasuke were doing a week ago. but then, sasori body checked sasuke an this wasn't an ordinary one..... it was a lot more powerful. she quickly skated to the raven haired boy who sat on on the floor.

sasori:.....

sakura: sasuke!

she kneeled down and put her hand over his hand

sakura: are you okay?

she looked at him and then at sasori

sakura: c'mon sasori... you're better than this

naruto kneelled down as well and helped sasuke get out of the rink. 

kakashi: sit out for a bit, sakura can you help him

she nodded her head and went along with sasuke and naruto. she knows that her and sasuke do these kind of things to each other, but not hard enough to where someone gets this hurt. sasuke sat down and sakura got the medical kit.

naruto: i'll stay here too

sasuke: naruto... go play, sakura is here

naruto: .....okay teme

he pat his shoulder and went back out to play

sakura: where does it hurt most

sasuke: my wrist

sakura shook her head in disappointment and began treating him. 

sakura: please be careful sasuke

sasuke: ...

once again, all he could do is watch her. ever since he became friends with her, he felt a lot of his loneliness and despair leave him. but once this tomato head came.... he didn't know what the right word was... but an unpleasant feeling ha come to him, and it's a strong feeling

sasuke: thank you pinky

she looked at him oddly and smiled

sakura: pinky?

sasuke chuckled

sasuke: that's your contact name on my phone

she smiled brightly

sakura: you're 'mean boy' on mine

she finally finished and stood up

sakura: you should sit out for a bit

sasuke: it's just my wrist... ow

sakura: i mean it sasuke....  sit out for a bit

sasuke gave up and stopped trying to convince her

sasuke: then you go play

sakura: are you sure

he nodded and she left to play. she continued the game and her mind was on the body check that sasori gave him. it seemed odd and she would know because she's done that before. after the game, they all changed and got ready to leave

shikamaru walked up to sasuke who was ready to leave

shikamaru: sasuke.... are you okay

sasuke: yeah.... but uh nevermind

shikamaru looked at sasuke oddly. he knew his best friend had to say something but wouldn't say it

sasuke: did it look like he did it on purpose

shikamaru: this is really a drag y'know.... but yeah it did

sasuke nodded his head and looked down. this felt odd. it felt like there was some type of..... weird connection. no, it felt like some type of rivalry but he didn't even know what they were fighting for

shikamaru: don't over do it.... you might lose her while you're at it

sasuke looked up at the lazy boy and noticed that shikamaru looked a bit worried for him. but he then gave a peace sign to the raven haired boy and almost walked away until sasuke grabbed his wrist.

sasuke: you've been kind of distant today.... chill with us

shikamaru realized that he was acting a little bit more moody today but he didn't want anyone to know why and so he smiled and stayed with his best friend. it's just that, it's nothing against anyone, he just feels more lonelier than usual and he just doesn't want to make a big deal of it

 sasuke stared at his best friend. and he didn't know what to think of what he said. he shrugged it off as he saw sakura and sasori talking, although it didn't seem like a normal conversation because naruto, who was standing in between them seemed very nervous. 

he walked a little closer to see what was going on and dragged shikamaru with him.

sakura: .....no