After Ino read the note, she suddenly blushed. Her heart felt like weeds were tied into knots that couldn’t be separated and sorted out.

"Who would show such an expression!" she retorted.

She put the bracelet on her hand, raised it and looked at it seven or eight times through the light coming through the window. She blinked again and again, then threw herself into the bed and rolled back and forth.

"He clearly knew that he must have deliberately played tricks on me at night."

Inexplicably sulking for a while, Ino recalled the sudden hug that made her wake up instantly, and her body suddenly softened again.

Covering the quilt, he added in a low voice, "Happy New Year."

On the way, he saw Yamanaka Haiichi from a distance, who had returned from overtime work. He looked a little tired. He was just followed by a few subordinates, and the direction he was going didn't look like the Yamanaka Flower Shop.

"Strange, is the Hokage Building so busy during the New Year?"

He stood there and watched for a while, but he had no intention of asking Tsunade just after the New Year. The people in the Hokage Building were busy, what did it have to do with him.

This person didn't have the slightest sense of being a high-level person, so he walked around in the cold wind and went back directly.

The New Year Festival lasted for several days, and no one was seen. Naruto simply stayed at home. It was not until three days later that Sakura asked him out.

"So you stayed at home during the New Year?" Sakura asked.

"What else?"

"Inona, or Hinata."

"You don't have much time, after all, the big family is very busy." Naruto said, "Under normal circumstances, no girls will come to my house."

"After all, we are not children anymore, so we have to avoid suspicion."

Having said this, he paused and glanced at Black Sakura.

"How is your health?"

The two of them were sitting at the snack bar. Sakura had a smile on her face and asked while biting her straw.

"Are you worried about me?"

"Yeah."

Naruto's clean admission made Sakura stunned for a moment, and then she resumed her smile that made it difficult to see what she was thinking, habitually hiding her emotions.

"It's basically nothing serious. I got a lot better after that day. Anyway, I won't disappear even if I'm not up or down."

"What do you mean neither up nor down?" He glanced at Sakura and asked.

"I may be like this, and I will never get better in my life." Sakura looked at him deeply, her eyes were suppressed, forbearing, and restrained, and she whispered in a low voice.

"I also thought about getting rid of the current situation, but I failed, so...it's good to be like this now."

"Aren't you always in charge of the body?" Naruto glanced down at the mottled wooden table, "So what's the situation now? Take turns to dominate the body?"

"Of course I took the lead." Sakura replied, "But Sasuke's incident had a great impact on her and became an obsession."

"Sasuke can't come back, and I have no intention of looking for Sasuke." Naruto rubbed his eyebrows and turned his eyes to the window, "You also know that everything in this world cannot go as you wish."

"I have no obsession with Sasuke." Kuro Sakura leaned forward, but it was a thick cotton coat. "You know me, I usually just have a weak sense of personality."

"It's like a person who only knows how to stare at an electronic screen, watching every move in the protagonist's life, or forced viewing."

"Now that I have finally come out, how can I have nothing to do to make trouble? So, you don't have to worry about that kind of thing."

Naruto put down the drink in his hand, frowned slightly, and was about to speak. By chance, the owner of the snack bar came over with food, and left with a message of "please use it slowly."

The steaming mist blurred the distance between the two, and Sakura saw a pair of bright eyes, as if they were soaked in deep lake water.

"Do you remember what I said before?"

"You asked me not to pester you." Sakura curled her lips.

"Not this."

He didn't remember saying this, but it didn't matter. Whether he was angry or lying, there was no need to correct him at the moment. Because...

"Let me be normal and don't say strange things suddenly." Sakura said in detail, clasping her fingers.

"No."

"Huh? What is that? Do you want me not to have a ****?" Sakura tilted her head and asked.

"Ahem, haven't you changed yet?"

"It doesn't matter, only Naruto-kun can hear it." Her eyes curved, "If it's Naruto-kun, you can do it anytime!"

Hearing this, Naruto was still leaning lazily on the chair with a casual expression. His eyes showed no emotion, and he just stared at her coldly.

Sakura couldn't stand being stared at anymore, so she sighed softly and begged.

"I was wrong."

"What's wrong?"

He slowly picked up the chopsticks and plunged them into the hot pot, letting the heat roll. He didn't even look at Sakura, and when he raised the chopsticks, he closed his eyelids and glanced at her.

"Shouldn't say..." She didn't dare to be rude anymore and stopped talking.

Sakura felt a little uneasy in her heart. According to her assumption, Naruto would have to step into the abyss between Hinata and Ino anyway. She would be unburdened by the fall anyway...

At worst, secretly, her thoughts are not entirely on love anyway. In fact, she has no concept of love at all, and almost equates the word with an immoral RPG with Naruto.

In addition, she also has other things to do to kill time, so her life is not boring. And she knows that if she doesn't practice hard, she might be disliked.

In this way, a year passed without realizing it.

Although occasionally, even once, the crazy idea of ​​wanting to be Naruto's lover would pop up in her heart. But she was soon convinced by herself that that kind of thing didn't matter.

Even if it’s not glorious, as long as it’s exciting.

But things were different from what she imagined. Since then, Naruto has not avoided her much. He has no reaction to her various tricks, and sometimes he will talk to her.

But every time she was stared at by him with such cold eyes, Sakura could not help but give in.

"That's not what I'm talking about. You seem to have forgotten something." Naruto said casually, "I never found you troublesome, and there was no need to change the subject deliberately."

"Sasuke's situation is indeed troublesome. I have no reason to spend so much effort to help her, but I can help you."

Sakura was stunned for a while, the smile on her face disappeared, and she frowned and said.

"You don't have to do that, I was just joking."

"Anyway, Sasuke has disappeared. As long as she doesn't appear in front of her, she won't be able to wake up. Besides, didn't you say last time that Sasuke disowned his relatives?"

"Yeah." He nodded, "Sooner or later we will run into each other in the future. Besides, I can't just leave you alone."

"Do you have any good ideas now?" Sakura asked.

"No." He said honestly, "Not yet, but there is plenty of time. I should be able to find a solution in the future."

"We don't have to wait until later." Sakura stood up, moved from the seat opposite Naruto to his side, and whispered in her ear, "I have a good idea now."

"What can I do?" He felt his ears itching.

"Replace." She whispered, almost leaning on Naruto through the thick cotton jacket.

"Replace? Replace what?"

"Of course she replaced Sasuke's obsession in her heart." Sakura let go of Naruto with a smile, her eyes full of smiles, "I like Naruto-kun very much."

"Oh."

"The response is still really cold." Sakura curled her lips and said with some dissatisfaction.
Chapter completed!