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SSM 2018 Day 8: Flowers

RTN!SasuSaku/CharaSaku

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Sakura was stomping through the village her
parents had died to protect, returning the cheery greetings with a polite smile
that didn’t reach her stormy eyes. She heard the source of her irritation
before she saw him. The distant girlish giggles and squeals allowed her to
pinpoint the location of her annoying teammate.

Charasuke was leaning coolly against the
wall, surrounded by a circle of his rather loud female fans. He was soaking up
their attention like a sponge. One lucky girl he had an arm around was almost
hyperventilating from his closeness. If you squinted, you could almost see the
little hearts in her eyes.

The crease between Sakura’s brows became
more pronounced as she watched the same stupid show her teammate routinely
pulled off. Charasuke twirled a rose between his fingers like he was doing a
magic trick and presented it to the girl. Not to make his other fans jealous,
he started handing out more identical red roses. If Sakura didn’t know from Ino
that he was a regular customer at the flower shop, she’d have thought he
possessed some secret rose-conjuring jutsu. It didn’t hurt that as his teammate
she was privy to know that he also had a summoning seal on his wrist, which
normally would be used to store shuriken. But Charasuke was just that, a
flashy, shallow guy that would use a ninja technique for something as redundant
as this.

Sakura snorted a little too loudly and
Charasuke’s head snapped up, his gaze zeroing in on her. He looked like a hound
that just caught a whiff of a nice, juicy bone. Sakura quirked her brow at him,
turned on her heel and walked off.

“Sorry, ladies, I need to go. Duty calls.
See you later!” With a quick goodbye, Charasuke ran after his teammate to the
disappointment of his fangirls.

In a few bounds he caught up to Sakura and
walked next to her, matching her stride.

“Good morning!” Charasuke chirped.

“… Morning,” Sakura replied cautiously.
She studiously kept her eyes forward and away from him. She wasn’t going to let
him pull her into one of his little games.

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